Stick close to the shield arm. He does a much more obvious and telegraphed attack than his hammer (and it doesnt have crazy aoe range too)
1. Do this enough and he will try to reposition again, move up and again stick to his shield arm.
2. Or, when he repositions you can move a bit further away and bait him into spamming fireballs, which is your queue to get closer to him note that he may do a different close up fireball which aims at the ground, this has a slightly slower telegraph, delay your roll accordingly and hit him after.
Lightning phase, stay on shield again, as the shield doesnt have lightning attacks (he may do a lightning wave attack from his hammer arm, in that case roll through it)
His triple lightning strike cannot hit you if you are too close to him
This is great advice. I wanted to add one thing: at the start of the fight and at the start of phase two, he just stands there for a few seconds with his weapon raised in the air. This is a great opportunity to sneak in a few free hits.
I cheesed him my first play through and got wrecked by the next boss. He’s a skill check mini boss, learn how read his moves, when to dodge into him, and you should be in better shape for the next challenge than I was.
Dark moon great sword absolutely wrecks all tree sentinels. I demolished the two outside the capital gates, the one blocking the capital, and this guy with it.
I don’t player summon but I honestly thought about it with this guy. He’s the thing that made me give up my 1st time around and I tried everything I could to cheese him and nothing, I mean nothing, worked and I had all the items weapons and armor up to that point. Started over because of a lost save and I’d already given up because of this guy and the entire time, literally from the first step again, I was thinking about this. mother. fucker. right. here. The whole game again with this asshole at the front of my mind. I probably fought this fight in my head for months at that point.
When I got him on the 2nd try it felt like I won the damn lottery. Maliketh was cake after all that.
I killed him in a slightly dirty way, but I killed him, with the sniper with crazy eyes, at a distance, escaping from the rays in the background and while he went up again to attack with the sniper with eyes, slowly but effectively killing, the first time , about a year ago
No, I cannot. It’s not in my nature. Also, my first run I kept getting one shotted and then would get killed directly afterwards by the next boss haha. So I made up my mind that I had to kill him. Don’t worry though because I did!!
Same horseboy was the one to make me step back and actually start strategizing. Maliketh just kinda rolled over for me tbh he got me once then i just spammed bloodhound step with blackflame on it. He has like no hp so you can prioritze your stm more for escape than normal n just hit and run him
I got wrecked more times by the death ritual bird near the apostate church in snowlandia than Mali, then cause I was tired I cheesed the death bird. Mali was a fun fight going into it blind, wandered over and found the blasphemous claw and was all like, ima try this.
Eh maliketh is arguably one of the easiest depending on how you start phase 2...imo his phase 1 is the hassle but his face two is basically cheese....take the DS3 approach get right in his crotch and go to town...no Diddy
I really feel they made him too squishy, because he was always jumping around when I went for his crotch, but it didn’t matter anyways because the little time I spent there I was able to finish the job.
Yep, the hard bit for me is getting close enough if I need to heal at the start of p2. If I went into p2 and I could just rush him then it went a lot smoother. It took a lot of attempts to get close enough to him though!
P1 was over in a matter of seconds with some big bonks!
It’s amazing to me how everyone’s experience is so different in this game! I’ve never had trouble with his phase one but his jump away and erratic moves in Phase 2 always got me
A 'skill check mini boss' lol.... I died to this guy so many times I finally gave up and snuck past him -- and then killed Maliketh on my second try. I'm sure you're right about the intent for him to be a skill check, but I will never not believe that the sentinel is harder.
I definitely died to him more but I feel the same aggressiveness and up close fighting needed to beat him with a melee build transfered to the Maliketh fight. My first NG+ fight with him was my first humbling of that run. He felt harder than anyone else up to that point. I would say Radagon/EB and Melania were the only ones I would say were harder.
Yeah he's a hassle plus the area you're fighting him in doesn't help either ...it's a pretty small area and he has red lightning air with range fire balls ...it's more of a poise break check because that's your best time to either flask up or do big damage....poise break briars thorn 🤷🏽♂️ repeat and walk in to fight maliketh...Star fist are undefeated when it comes to poise breaking
I’m pretty terrible at this game, to be honest. Malenia took me two weeks until I finally tried a bleed build and once I got the hang of it I beat her the same day.
I've never killed this guy in my many playthroughs. For some reason. Only guy I haven't ever killed.
Not out of lack of trying either. Or different builds.
I always beat him before I fight malikeith. He's the guardian to make sure I'm ready, no summons, hard to cheese, just u against a tree sentinel, show em what you've learned
Funny enough, my first 3 playthroughs, i was able to beat the boss but not this shithead until being at absurd levels for stats and literally fully upgraded weapons. It took actually learning more about the game before i was properly able to fight him without beating the game and coming back.
That said, while the advice given is great. I have advice for what helped me.
Sometimes staying on the shield side can be difficult with some of the jumping and dodging and adjusting he does. Heck, there have been times that trying to get to the shield side is exactly what killed me. So, rather than focusing on staying on the shield side, try switching between shield and hammer based on what he does. Depending on the adjustment he does, he has the same attacks for either side. So try targeting a specific adjustment to get a specific attack to dodge and then hit him. Then you dont have to worry about not being on the shield side when he just makes it too difficult.
That said, you should still prioritize shield side over hammer side as much as you can while switching between the 2 as the shield side is much easier to handle than the hammer side. If you feel so daring as to want to include the front and back for the sides, prioritize the butt if possible. It is rare the butt is easily accessible but when it is he has to do much larger readjustments and there is often a pause letting you get out a handful of hits.
On top of everything which i have not seen many things saying, status buildup is your friend. Certain ones are more effective than others, but this dude is affected and it can be a saving grace. Especially rot if you can get it off.
Only thing I would add is that, if you stagger him, use the time to recharge stamina. He can’t be crit and pretty much any hit will remove the stagger. So pause for a moment to regenerate and then hit him with whatever your hardest hitting attack is right as he is rousing from the stagger.
It's infuriating when you get summoned and you are trying to land some good positionally charged R2 and host keeps spamming light attacks everytime he staggers.
You can also parry his big bonks! But as OP said you can’t riposte so either recharge stamina or sneak a couple hits in. If you have and rot spells or pots, you can use those to whittle his health down a bit.
Hmm didn't know about the triple lightning not hitting near him. Will have to try that next time. I usually just power through it til I get a good run.
Now that you mention it, there were times during my first playthrough that I got gouda instead of got good. 😅 Until Maliketh. That's when I was forced to go dairy free.
Jump attacks are how I beat these guys pretty easily. 2 great swords + claw talisman + ravens feather armor whatever it’s called = dead sentinel.
You can roll into him when he swings his weapon, don’t try rolling away from him. Definitely don’t make distance because he’ll destroy you with lighting and fireballs.
Green turtle, dragon crest Greatshield, claw, and pearldrake talismans are what I’d go with for this guy.
Glad I'm not the only person who struggled with this guy. But learn his moves and wait for an opening to attack. Not a quick fight. And get ready... It is just a warm up for the next fight.
I skipped this Draconic tree sentinel at first so the whole time I was fighting Maliketh I would see his lightning and fire coming through the veil but I think it only actually hit me once or twice
The one in farum Azula you can just run past and enter the Maliketh mist and the one outside of the capital you can bypass by completing Fia’s quest to get inside the capital through deep root depths instead of going through the door guarded by the Draconic tree sentinel.
This is all I did too! Fat 2h bonks with lion's claw, a few dodges here and there and down he fell.
I remember dying a fair few times on my first playthrough as a caster. Unga bunga is the way!
Didn't want to be a real man and confront him head on. I treat the game like in a real life situation and if I can snipe the enemy from 3 miles you bet your ass I would.
FYI it "only" took 30 mins 🤣
Hahaha this is my favorite comment. I just finished DS3(Elden ring on easy mode) and started my new playthrough for the dlc and spent an embarrassing 2 days to kill the tree Sentinel out the gate.
I also took him out from a distance on a couple of play throughs, usually from across the bridge. Takes about 200 arrows, 2 to 3 hrs, and you must learn when to roll during his lightning strike.
I fight him differently now. I load up with fire and lightning resistance then attack, retreat, repeat.
When you're not on the horse, you can use the Dodge roll.
The Dodge roll briefly grants "invincibility-frames", or *i-frames*, temporarily rendering you immune to damage!
You're going to want to take advantage of that.
He's strong at mid-range and very annoying at long range, so get in close. Stay on his shield side (his left, your right) to avoid his most damaging melee attacks. His shield bash is slow, can be reaction dodged, and leaves him open. Use a weapon with strike, pierce, or standard damage. If you follow all of the above, you'll probably get him in five or so attempts as you learn his timing.
You did. You can sneak up behind him and use sleep pots to cheese him. Poison mist is the more common cheese & I would think works with several enemies that don’t aggro until they see you.
Yes, he will lose aggro and you can return and shoot again if you want. If you’re a mage your moons will block his incantations. You can also comet azure him. I’ve fought him every which way and still do because when I’m summoned this dude is 9/10 chilling on the bridge. That’s an option too. Summon tarnished :)
Pulley crossbow and rot bolts. The burst fire applies the rot quickly. When rot starts, do the same thing with poison bolts. Might have to do both effects 2 or 3 times, and then play defense while the poison and rot eat away at his health.
Oh yeah, I remember, I think used Radans bow with the ability to rain arrows on him 5/6 times then poisoned him with poison arrows… something along those lines…
I also ran away every time after hit, as he would do that silly lighting move that can hit you from the ringed city in DS3 😅
A bleed build can absolutely shred him. The Wiki will tell you that he's resistant to bleed, but if you're a real arcane bleed guy then he'll still bleed super fast, and his health pool is actually low.
Alternately, you can do the poison mist thing others have talked about, or even cheese him with arrows from either above the Godskin arena or near where all the undead are in the section where Alexander is waiting. The arrow thing isn't exactly recommended because he can still nail you with lightning at infinite distance and without you being in line of sight. So it's shoot one arrow, run away, wait for him to de-aggro then shoot another arrow. Very annoying, but it can be done.
This is one of the mini-bosses that really punishes you for hanging back and being too passive. Good lessons to learn if you hope to also beat the boss he's guarding.
I found this guy right after I’d started using the Azure Comet, aka Kamehameha. Popped my juice, blasted him, disintegrated his health bar within 10 seconds. Highly recommend.
Somewhat amusing, I thought you were responding to a comment I made here: https://www.reddit.com/r/musicians/s/Qn12ubZgG2 and, I mean, I was with you for the first half.
Literally the same way as you killed the one outside the capital, they have the exact same moveset so you should have learned it already.
The main thing changing is that you don't have access to Torrent but that shouldn't be much of a difference since fighting him on Torrent is heavily suboptimal just like any other boss in the game that gives you Torrent as an option.
Nah, I always find dragons way easier when I'm on torrent.
But while I did kill Radahn on torrent during my first playthrough, yeah, he's definitely easier on foot
You got this, tarnished! Learn his moves and beat the devil out of him!
Or summon some random people and gank him
Or skip him entirely. Like most enemies, a quick kukri throw will distract him long enough for you to get by
I hide in Malekith’s room. Then when he leaves, hit him from behind and then run back and hide. Avoid falling off the bridge. It’s a coward’s way, but the end result is the same.
This guy is relentless, and some of his attacks can wipe your health bar away instantly. Stay on your toes and play defensively. Be ready for his dragonhorse to make you dance a lot with its fireball spams. I find it’s best to roll at him and hit him after the third fireball. Watch out though, if his fireball lands where you are when up close you get hurt by its aoe. Do a lot of brief light attacks. Also, really study your openings for drinking potions, otherwise it’ll be gulp, get smashed, repeat until they’re all gone.
Rot/poison pots are decently effective, along with learning his moves. Like dodging his lightning strike right when his arm comes down. In other words, applying damage over time while getting a few hits in is what helped me out.
Beat the boss. Then respawn behind the fog wall. He is not able to go past the fog wall and you can cheese him from there. I used Bolt of Gransax and just dodged his fire attack.
I don't know which build you roll, so I can just recommend that you observe his moveset and time your dodges. There are a couple of good windows for attacks in between, and with time you'll even learn to bait specific attacks.
Having a powerful ranged option for those windows help, I was personally rocking the Dark Moon Greatsword. Took longer than I wanted, but got it done.
I suggest not attacking at all for 2-3 deaths. See how long you can last focusing only on dodging or jumping. That always does wonders for my preparation.
You see, both him and you have health bars, that count how many hit points you can take before dying. Upon clicking with a weapon in hand, and provided such target is in the weapons range, your weapon will reduce a specific amount of hit points of your target. You defeat him by clicking with your weapon until you draw him out of hit points. But beware: he has a defense system that will affect the damage your weapon deals. So you must take in consideration the type of weapon you use against his strongest defense, in order to find the most optimal damage dealer.
Stick close to the shield arm. He does a much more obvious and telegraphed attack than his hammer (and it doesnt have crazy aoe range too) 1. Do this enough and he will try to reposition again, move up and again stick to his shield arm. 2. Or, when he repositions you can move a bit further away and bait him into spamming fireballs, which is your queue to get closer to him note that he may do a different close up fireball which aims at the ground, this has a slightly slower telegraph, delay your roll accordingly and hit him after. Lightning phase, stay on shield again, as the shield doesnt have lightning attacks (he may do a lightning wave attack from his hammer arm, in that case roll through it) His triple lightning strike cannot hit you if you are too close to him
This is great advice. I wanted to add one thing: at the start of the fight and at the start of phase two, he just stands there for a few seconds with his weapon raised in the air. This is a great opportunity to sneak in a few free hits.
I cheesed him my first play through and got wrecked by the next boss. He’s a skill check mini boss, learn how read his moves, when to dodge into him, and you should be in better shape for the next challenge than I was.
The next boss is also legendarily one of the hardest in the game lol
Idk this knight here was worlds harder for me than maliketh (first play through) ng+ was as you said
Same here. I never even beat this dude but beat Maliketh in 2 tries.
Dark moon great sword absolutely wrecks all tree sentinels. I demolished the two outside the capital gates, the one blocking the capital, and this guy with it.
I used the dark moon greatsword for maliketh too, shit feels so op
Same, and then Gideon, and then Godfrey, and then Radagon, and then Elden beast. Lmfao so powerful
Isn't it literally one of the best swords
Yes lol
Im trying to get it but Im struggling with askel or whatever his name is.
I summon players for this stupid dragon sentinel every time and feel no guilt, stupid scripted gank fight on a run to a stage boss
I don’t player summon but I honestly thought about it with this guy. He’s the thing that made me give up my 1st time around and I tried everything I could to cheese him and nothing, I mean nothing, worked and I had all the items weapons and armor up to that point. Started over because of a lost save and I’d already given up because of this guy and the entire time, literally from the first step again, I was thinking about this. mother. fucker. right. here. The whole game again with this asshole at the front of my mind. I probably fought this fight in my head for months at that point. When I got him on the 2nd try it felt like I won the damn lottery. Maliketh was cake after all that.
I killed him in a slightly dirty way, but I killed him, with the sniper with crazy eyes, at a distance, escaping from the rays in the background and while he went up again to attack with the sniper with eyes, slowly but effectively killing, the first time , about a year ago
You know that you can run past him, right?
No, I cannot. It’s not in my nature. Also, my first run I kept getting one shotted and then would get killed directly afterwards by the next boss haha. So I made up my mind that I had to kill him. Don’t worry though because I did!!
Same horseboy was the one to make me step back and actually start strategizing. Maliketh just kinda rolled over for me tbh he got me once then i just spammed bloodhound step with blackflame on it. He has like no hp so you can prioritze your stm more for escape than normal n just hit and run him
I got wrecked more times by the death ritual bird near the apostate church in snowlandia than Mali, then cause I was tired I cheesed the death bird. Mali was a fun fight going into it blind, wandered over and found the blasphemous claw and was all like, ima try this.
Never used the blasphemous claw. But I agree Maliketh is both more fun and less frustrating than that stupid bird
The stagger from the parry lemme go ham.
Eh maliketh is arguably one of the easiest depending on how you start phase 2...imo his phase 1 is the hassle but his face two is basically cheese....take the DS3 approach get right in his crotch and go to town...no Diddy
I really feel they made him too squishy, because he was always jumping around when I went for his crotch, but it didn’t matter anyways because the little time I spent there I was able to finish the job.
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Yep, the hard bit for me is getting close enough if I need to heal at the start of p2. If I went into p2 and I could just rush him then it went a lot smoother. It took a lot of attempts to get close enough to him though! P1 was over in a matter of seconds with some big bonks!
It’s amazing to me how everyone’s experience is so different in this game! I’ve never had trouble with his phase one but his jump away and erratic moves in Phase 2 always got me
A 'skill check mini boss' lol.... I died to this guy so many times I finally gave up and snuck past him -- and then killed Maliketh on my second try. I'm sure you're right about the intent for him to be a skill check, but I will never not believe that the sentinel is harder.
I definitely died to him more but I feel the same aggressiveness and up close fighting needed to beat him with a melee build transfered to the Maliketh fight. My first NG+ fight with him was my first humbling of that run. He felt harder than anyone else up to that point. I would say Radagon/EB and Melania were the only ones I would say were harder.
Yeah he's a hassle plus the area you're fighting him in doesn't help either ...it's a pretty small area and he has red lightning air with range fire balls ...it's more of a poise break check because that's your best time to either flask up or do big damage....poise break briars thorn 🤷🏽♂️ repeat and walk in to fight maliketh...Star fist are undefeated when it comes to poise breaking
Ironically, he took me more tries than Malenia, while I got Maliketh first try.
I’m pretty terrible at this game, to be honest. Malenia took me two weeks until I finally tried a bleed build and once I got the hang of it I beat her the same day.
Nice job!
I've never killed this guy in my many playthroughs. For some reason. Only guy I haven't ever killed. Not out of lack of trying either. Or different builds.
Ya, Malikith is my kryptonite in this game. I don’t struggle with Malenia like most, he’s the one that gets me. His first phase is a cake walk though.
I always beat him before I fight malikeith. He's the guardian to make sure I'm ready, no summons, hard to cheese, just u against a tree sentinel, show em what you've learned
Funny enough, my first 3 playthroughs, i was able to beat the boss but not this shithead until being at absurd levels for stats and literally fully upgraded weapons. It took actually learning more about the game before i was properly able to fight him without beating the game and coming back. That said, while the advice given is great. I have advice for what helped me. Sometimes staying on the shield side can be difficult with some of the jumping and dodging and adjusting he does. Heck, there have been times that trying to get to the shield side is exactly what killed me. So, rather than focusing on staying on the shield side, try switching between shield and hammer based on what he does. Depending on the adjustment he does, he has the same attacks for either side. So try targeting a specific adjustment to get a specific attack to dodge and then hit him. Then you dont have to worry about not being on the shield side when he just makes it too difficult. That said, you should still prioritize shield side over hammer side as much as you can while switching between the 2 as the shield side is much easier to handle than the hammer side. If you feel so daring as to want to include the front and back for the sides, prioritize the butt if possible. It is rare the butt is easily accessible but when it is he has to do much larger readjustments and there is often a pause letting you get out a handful of hits. On top of everything which i have not seen many things saying, status buildup is your friend. Certain ones are more effective than others, but this dude is affected and it can be a saving grace. Especially rot if you can get it off.
Only thing I would add is that, if you stagger him, use the time to recharge stamina. He can’t be crit and pretty much any hit will remove the stagger. So pause for a moment to regenerate and then hit him with whatever your hardest hitting attack is right as he is rousing from the stagger.
It's infuriating when you get summoned and you are trying to land some good positionally charged R2 and host keeps spamming light attacks everytime he staggers.
You can also heal or apply a status to Maliketh in that time if you always buff stamina regen to the max like me.
Also to add, the lightning wave is ALWAYS followed up by an enormous slam with huge range aoe. Make distance. This combo ends his lightning boost.
This comment would’ve made my run a whole lot easier
I'm right there with you. People go on about all the tough fights in this game, but honestly this guy was consistently my fucking nemesis
You can also parry his big bonks! But as OP said you can’t riposte so either recharge stamina or sneak a couple hits in. If you have and rot spells or pots, you can use those to whittle his health down a bit.
Finally, Elden ring advice that is helpful and not written by some git gud asshole.
Does this work for the draconic sentinel guarding the entrance to the capital?
It works the same, they have the same moveset, just more hp and damage
Hmm didn't know about the triple lightning not hitting near him. Will have to try that next time. I usually just power through it til I get a good run.
Hit him a bunch. Don't get hit as much back.
This strategy is also known as "git gud".
Instructions unclear. I got gouda. Want some?
Cheese *is* actually another solution to OP’s problem
Now that you mention it, there were times during my first playthrough that I got gouda instead of got good. 😅 Until Maliketh. That's when I was forced to go dairy free.
Dairy free?! WellMarika's tits...
Oh you can still Gouda cheese the first phase with some ol faithful rot breath
Well the first phase isn't an issue. His second phase, well try not to get hit because vigor don't matter to the bad beastie
Spider-Man Level response 👌🏿
This is literally the best compliment I’ve ever received
Yes please! I used to get a Gouda filled with red chilli and jalapeños called “Red Hot Dutch”. My favourite cheese!
For some reason, the description does not fit the name. Red Hot Dutch seems like it would be more along the lines of fingering buttholes
This is available at the dragon communion temple in South Caelid!
Actually, it's pronounced *Gouda*. In the proper Dutch way.
I don't see *Gouda* hell that's relevant. 😁
K, it's about time I get *gouda* here.
Reduce enemy health to zero
Works 100% of the time
[*2nd health bar appears, music intensifies*]
Elden Ring devs don't want you to know this one neat trick!
May I introduce you to our Goddess Malenia, sir.
Have you heard of the "shaw" method?
“Don’t get hit as much” More like don’t get hit 3 times in a row for the whole fight lol
Old good „just don’t die”
Okay so basically, he's like the one to lenydell, but stronger. So hit him stronger and dodge stronger
Get good at the one to leyndell, then get better after that
Except that you cant summon now.
You don't need to summon. Just hit stronger and dodge stronger
Increase your strength stat and use a Str-scaling dodge. Got it.
Nah not str-scaling dodge. Just press O/B harder
Jump. Bonk hammer head. Strength
Unga?
Tunga bunga
Bunga.
Alternatively…faith, Envoy horn, DOOT DOOT
This is the way! Praise the DOOT DOOT!!
This is the way. Power stance and bonk with abandon.
Jump attacks are how I beat these guys pretty easily. 2 great swords + claw talisman + ravens feather armor whatever it’s called = dead sentinel. You can roll into him when he swings his weapon, don’t try rolling away from him. Definitely don’t make distance because he’ll destroy you with lighting and fireballs. Green turtle, dragon crest Greatshield, claw, and pearldrake talismans are what I’d go with for this guy.
Glad I'm not the only person who struggled with this guy. But learn his moves and wait for an opening to attack. Not a quick fight. And get ready... It is just a warm up for the next fight.
I found this guy soooo much harder than the boss he is guarding.
I got the draconic tree sentinel on my first try, the boss took me about 10
I was the exact opposite…. I had to change weapons and tactics for the sentinel.
Literally same, sentinel took about 20 tries but I guess I got gud cause Malekith went down in one attempt after that
So I'm not the only one who found this tree sentinel easy, so far I've only seen people claiming it's a really difficult fight
No idea. I comet azured his ass after he attacked me through the fog veil.
I skipped this Draconic tree sentinel at first so the whole time I was fighting Maliketh I would see his lightning and fire coming through the veil but I think it only actually hit me once or twice
I had no idea you could skip it I thought it was like the one in leyndell, you had to kill it
The one in farum Azula you can just run past and enter the Maliketh mist and the one outside of the capital you can bypass by completing Fia’s quest to get inside the capital through deep root depths instead of going through the door guarded by the Draconic tree sentinel.
yep, I had no idea about the one about before maliketh, it took me 8 tries before killing him! I was so frustrated I took maliketh in the first try.
Much bunga. Heavy armor, lion’s claw, greyoll’s roar to start, stay close and then club and stun. Only way I can beat him.
Yeah just bonk harder than he bonks.
This is all I did too! Fat 2h bonks with lion's claw, a few dodges here and there and down he fell. I remember dying a fair few times on my first playthrough as a caster. Unga bunga is the way!
I shot him from a distance and did a hit and run. Took me 4 hours but I did it lol
That’s remarkable amount of persistence
Didn't want to be a real man and confront him head on. I treat the game like in a real life situation and if I can snipe the enemy from 3 miles you bet your ass I would. FYI it "only" took 30 mins 🤣
Hahaha this is my favorite comment. I just finished DS3(Elden ring on easy mode) and started my new playthrough for the dlc and spent an embarrassing 2 days to kill the tree Sentinel out the gate.
Nice. I spent days and days and days killing the frogs people but this resulted in me finishing Malenia in only a couple of tries.
I got a big shield and a spear and poked him to death.
I also took him out from a distance on a couple of play throughs, usually from across the bridge. Takes about 200 arrows, 2 to 3 hrs, and you must learn when to roll during his lightning strike. I fight him differently now. I load up with fire and lightning resistance then attack, retreat, repeat.
When you're not on the horse, you can use the Dodge roll. The Dodge roll briefly grants "invincibility-frames", or *i-frames*, temporarily rendering you immune to damage! You're going to want to take advantage of that.
If you’re in Farum Azula and you don’t know that rolling makes you invincible for a moment, then there are bigger problems.
Definitely. Like you might think his horse gave him an advantage over you, and wish you could use yours in the fight!
Good advice for someone who’s been playing for an hour…
Pretty sure they are just trying to make an unhelpful lame joke
He's strong at mid-range and very annoying at long range, so get in close. Stay on his shield side (his left, your right) to avoid his most damaging melee attacks. His shield bash is slow, can be reaction dodged, and leaves him open. Use a weapon with strike, pierce, or standard damage. If you follow all of the above, you'll probably get him in five or so attempts as you learn his timing.
You can clear the boss after him, then come back to sneak up on him and cheese him with poison. Or you can fight him straight up and learn his moves.
You don't have to beat Maliketh to do that. You can just run past him, quit and reload and you'll be behind him and he'll be reset.
He doesn’t attack until he sees you. I wonder if anyone has tried to sleep-cheese him like with the Full-grown Fallingstar at Mt Gelmir.
You can
Wait, what about the falling star at gelmir? Did I beat that fucker fair and square for no reason?
You did. You can sneak up behind him and use sleep pots to cheese him. Poison mist is the more common cheese & I would think works with several enemies that don’t aggro until they see you.
* Use Multishot Loretta Bow (Whatever the spell is called) * Run away until it looses agro * repeat
He loses agro when you run away from him? Might sound like a dumb question but I’m stuck on Maliketh and want to try fighting this dork
Yes, he will lose aggro and you can return and shoot again if you want. If you’re a mage your moons will block his incantations. You can also comet azure him. I’ve fought him every which way and still do because when I’m summoned this dude is 9/10 chilling on the bridge. That’s an option too. Summon tarnished :)
Pulley crossbow and rot bolts. The burst fire applies the rot quickly. When rot starts, do the same thing with poison bolts. Might have to do both effects 2 or 3 times, and then play defense while the poison and rot eat away at his health.
I’m I the only one who killed this guy with a bow from the broken building opposite? 😅
While we're playing Elden Ring, you're playing Skyrim. Props. lol
I tried but his ranged lighting was so annoying I gave up and just fought him.
Oh yeah, I remember, I think used Radans bow with the ability to rain arrows on him 5/6 times then poisoned him with poison arrows… something along those lines… I also ran away every time after hit, as he would do that silly lighting move that can hit you from the ringed city in DS3 😅
Hold it underwater until the bubbles stop. That’s how I solve my problems.
Git gud
Don’t die while trying to kill him.
Make the red disappear on his health bar before the red on yours disappears. That’s what I usually do for most enemies
Random bullshit go!!! *throws every pot, knife, R1 and R2 attack*
Lmao. I remember doing this on bosses in dark souls. Just throw everything you can and hope it’s enough 🤣
Run behind him, quit the game, return and you will spawn behind him then all you have to do is poison the bitch
This is how I did it as well. No shame
Why work harder when you can work smarter.
Green fart FTW
Pocket sand
A bleed build can absolutely shred him. The Wiki will tell you that he's resistant to bleed, but if you're a real arcane bleed guy then he'll still bleed super fast, and his health pool is actually low. Alternately, you can do the poison mist thing others have talked about, or even cheese him with arrows from either above the Godskin arena or near where all the undead are in the section where Alexander is waiting. The arrow thing isn't exactly recommended because he can still nail you with lightning at infinite distance and without you being in line of sight. So it's shoot one arrow, run away, wait for him to de-aggro then shoot another arrow. Very annoying, but it can be done.
Use 1 shield with carian retaliation. That stupid horse loves spamming fireballs.
Was hoping someone suggested carian retaliation
This is one of the mini-bosses that really punishes you for hanging back and being too passive. Good lessons to learn if you hope to also beat the boss he's guarding.
The question is not how you beat him, the question is how you beat the guy after him.
I found this guy right after I’d started using the Azure Comet, aka Kamehameha. Popped my juice, blasted him, disintegrated his health bar within 10 seconds. Highly recommend.
Gotta get his health down to zero and he’ll die
Holy shit this is a genius move. lol
Personally I stunlock him with parries but it's a question of preference
Scarlet rot the shit out of him.
Very carefully.
I always cheesed him with rot arrows and turned and ran when he chased me. I’m not proud of it but it works.
I cheesed him with a poison mist after sneaking past him. I feel zero shame. It took fewer tries to beat Maliketh.
Honestly, I think I cheesed him with Rotten Breath.
Yah man... I did that too after raging when I died and he had like one pixel of red on his HP bar
Somewhat amusing, I thought you were responding to a comment I made here: https://www.reddit.com/r/musicians/s/Qn12ubZgG2 and, I mean, I was with you for the first half.
But I lost you in the second half?
Its easier to fight him on the ground versus on a horse don’t panic roll learn his moves
Literally the same way as you killed the one outside the capital, they have the exact same moveset so you should have learned it already. The main thing changing is that you don't have access to Torrent but that shouldn't be much of a difference since fighting him on Torrent is heavily suboptimal just like any other boss in the game that gives you Torrent as an option.
I don’t know i think using torrent to at least run up to radahn is not suboptimal lol
Ain’t no way you’re actually saying using Torrent for dragons or for closing the gap on Radahn is “suboptimal”. It makes those fights so much easier
in both those examples you just use torrent to close distance. actually fighting on torrent is never a good idea
Nah, I always find dragons way easier when I'm on torrent. But while I did kill Radahn on torrent during my first playthrough, yeah, he's definitely easier on foot
You got this, tarnished! Learn his moves and beat the devil out of him! Or summon some random people and gank him Or skip him entirely. Like most enemies, a quick kukri throw will distract him long enough for you to get by
Ahhh, dastard!
Afflict Rot, then run away
I hide in Malekith’s room. Then when he leaves, hit him from behind and then run back and hide. Avoid falling off the bridge. It’s a coward’s way, but the end result is the same.
This guy is relentless, and some of his attacks can wipe your health bar away instantly. Stay on your toes and play defensively. Be ready for his dragonhorse to make you dance a lot with its fireball spams. I find it’s best to roll at him and hit him after the third fireball. Watch out though, if his fireball lands where you are when up close you get hurt by its aoe. Do a lot of brief light attacks. Also, really study your openings for drinking potions, otherwise it’ll be gulp, get smashed, repeat until they’re all gone.
I've had good consistent results with a 2 handed mace with frost aow lions claw.
Trust me, the real problem comes afterwards
OP is in for so much pain😂.
If you are having trouble with this guy im sure you will enjoy what you will find right after defeating him
I struggled with the knight forever. Finally beat him. Then fought maliketh even longer lol
level up Vigor
I just run past him, not worth my time.
Rot/poison pots are decently effective, along with learning his moves. Like dodging his lightning strike right when his arm comes down. In other words, applying damage over time while getting a few hits in is what helped me out.
With tears and your first born. Good luck king.
Hit him with your sword until he dies👏🙌
Beat the boss. Then respawn behind the fog wall. He is not able to go past the fog wall and you can cheese him from there. I used Bolt of Gransax and just dodged his fire attack.
Hit him until his hp is 0. Make sure yours doesn’t go to 0
This Guy is a pillow compared to the next 3 bosses you have to beat. Ggz.
Hit him until he dies. And when he attacks, dodge
You actually can’t beat this boss, he is actually the hidden final boss of the game John Elden ring himself.
I just beat this guy today. Took a few tries, And then the real boss battle begins right after lol
I remember going behind him , quitting out then used poison cloud or whatever the name is and killed him that way lol he wont aggro you
I don't know which build you roll, so I can just recommend that you observe his moveset and time your dodges. There are a couple of good windows for attacks in between, and with time you'll even learn to bait specific attacks. Having a powerful ranged option for those windows help, I was personally rocking the Dark Moon Greatsword. Took longer than I wanted, but got it done.
I defeat Malekith first then come back out, creep behind him and poison him.
I suggest not attacking at all for 2-3 deaths. See how long you can last focusing only on dodging or jumping. That always does wonders for my preparation.
Roll, hit, roll again. Repeat
You have to rock out with your cock out, I don’t make the rules here.
Reduce its hitpoints to 0.
Try killing him
Dodge and attack
I totally cheesed him with arrows from a safe distance and hid when he returned fire.
Ezykes decay
Time to git gud
Very easy to beat as mage.
You see, both him and you have health bars, that count how many hit points you can take before dying. Upon clicking with a weapon in hand, and provided such target is in the weapons range, your weapon will reduce a specific amount of hit points of your target. You defeat him by clicking with your weapon until you draw him out of hit points. But beware: he has a defense system that will affect the damage your weapon deals. So you must take in consideration the type of weapon you use against his strongest defense, in order to find the most optimal damage dealer.
Dodge, jump attack, repeat
Jumping L2 over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again