Yup! Took me five tries and a hell of a lot of gathering for health and restrain potions to actually beat him the first time. Now I've got a habit of keeping at least 10 health potions in my inventory.
Much easier for RPG nerds. I used "South Park Boars strategy". Just got 25 lvl on the swamp before doing anything further. And any fight now is a piece of cake xD
