So this is officially their hardest boss fight ever huh?
>Laurence
>Defiled Amygdala / Watchdog
>Orphan
>Midir
None of them even come close. This bullshit is the natural end result of the Artorias of the Abyss DLC.
Sanctuary Guardian was a warning shot.
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>Bullshit
what bullshit?
She regains HP even if you block it with a 100% block shield. This is unfair, it doesnt even make sense in-context, and it runs counter to every other form of “lifegain” in video game history.
>She regains HP even if you block it with a 100% block shield.
Good, she would be too easy otherwise
>This is unfair
No it isn't
>it doesnt even make sense in-context
Yes it does, you always get scarlet rot proc
>Good, she would be too easy otherwise
If her difficulty hinges on one mechanic like that, she's a shit boss
Luckily it doesn't hinge on 1 mechanic.
>doesn't hinge on 1 mechanic
>Good, she would be too easy otherwise
Sounds like it does, by your own admission
Correct
Her difficulty hinges on the fact that she can use hyperarmor to recover and counterattack or dodges, which together with attack committment filters button mashers
that's not what makes her difficult. Remove her attack that targets you across the map and she becomes a normal boss
>that's not what makes her difficult.
yes it is
>Remove her attack that targets you across the map and she becomes a normal boss
Nah, waterfowl is really easy to avoid
>t. distance keeper
yeah she didnt like my jump attack spam and grabbed be whenever she could
beware, anon, now you're going to argue with literal clinical imbeciles. they will swarm you. they will smother shit all over you.
I don't disagree but the real issue is her giant health pool before lifesteal.
Health steal aside, my complaint is that she can animation cancel out of stagger states and reset her poise. I can deal
With being punished for getting hit by giving her some health back but inconsistency in unpredictable boss behavior getting you killed is dumb
I killed her really quickly with bleed bandit swords and mimic tear
I found Radagon to be harder. Malenia is impressive but once you understand Waterfowl Dance she's not bad at all and her poise is easily broken which is a pretty glaring weakpoint for a super boss.
the only hard part is dodging waterfowl.
This. The fight's pretty underwhelming otherwise.
Not even a top-3 fight in Elden Ring.
>the only hard part is dodging waterfowl
This is a true statement, but it's underselling how detrimental this one move is to the entire fight. Because this one move exists, you have to play passively for almost the entire fight in case she decides to whip it out, and I don't find that a fun way to play the game.
I agree with the popularly held theory that she's cobbled together from leftover scrapped Tomoe fight patterns.
Lol no one believes that.
moronic homosexuals do. and we're on Ganker.
I dont think they believe that. It's just one of the discord talking points.
Man has a point
makes perfect sense though. if you actually pay attention to details instead of just reading a redditor's opinion that is
>makes perfect sense though
No it doesn't, she literally attacks too fast for Sekiro. She was made for a dodge centric gameplay
One, they can just speed up or slow down animations as they see fit. Two, Look at isshins one mind. It’s literally just 1 wave of waterfowl dance.
Nothing about this looks right. Might as well be Bowser there.
>katana
>waterfowl dance
>only way for her to not heal is to perfect block
she does fit with sekiro even if she wasnt made for it
dance
Katans and attacks you have to run away from have been a thing in all Souls games
>>only way for her to not heal is to perfect block
Malenia has to heal on block because she has very little damage to stability and very little poise
That's really cool. Is there another Webm for her second phase?
>Final hit of her Shadow Clone Jutsu is a Mikiri Counter
Very nice
I love how she blatantly wasn't made for Sekiro deflection so the homosexual modder had to turn off some hitboxs of her fastest attack flurries
i just spammed giant hunt on my greatsword and pretty much stun locked her to death
I wanted to like ER, but the game basically forces you to engage meta to win. I mean you can look at a lot of different streamers and see they're all using the same shit to counter her. It's just not fun, and all builds are no longer viable.
You can beat her with whatever fricking build you want.
Hello uncle moron
>official
OP do you have brain damage?
There's no hardest boss; it depends on build and level. On my last playthrough I had an unbelievably hard time with Mohg and killed Malenia in maybe four tries and a lot of that was just rust.
Some people struggled the most against Orphan, for some it was Ludwig, for me it was Lawrence. That's just how these games are.
I sort of agree, but when BB first came out I struggled for a long time on Orphan. Post Elden Ring, fighting Orphan again it was like he was underwater, he was as easy as Gascoigne. So I do think overall the games have gotten harder with each release.
This except the DS3 DLC kicked me ass so hard. Didn’t see it coming as I breezed past most of the main game.
she becomes a joke when you stop waterfowl with ice bombs, she has 1 difficult move but when stopped, her fight is no harder than something like martyr logarius
Royal Revenants are worse than any of those.
The heal-on-hit mechanic is really annoying. I bet that using a shield is viable but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the boss heals off of a block.
With all the broken shit in Elden Ring, she isn't bad outside of the bullshit Waterfowl Dance
She only deals phys damage so a good shield can break through her more bullshit attacks. Life Drain is a nasty trick but dealing a lot of damage to her isn't really a problem as much as surviving her big moves.
this wasn't even that hard you fricking normalgay.
skill issue
She's harder.
Nah, Aegis and acid conpletely trivialize phase 2. The hardest Lies of P boss was the green swamp monster
>Aegis
You mean just holding it up or doing the perfect parrys?
>acid
I wasn't using an advanced build, just plain old motivity with the holy ark sword. Will try acid in ng+
shes about a midboss in sekiro terms, shes literally just a dodge check
>I am Malenia, blade of Miquella
Still gives anons ptsd to this day
I-I kneel
>So this is officially their hardest boss fight ever huh?
Looks like you didn't play Sekiro.
> that
> hard
If you want hard at least post owl from the past. Sword Saint is piss easy in comparison.
absolute meme of a boss. Both Demon of Hatred and Owl Father are harder
Less fun doesn’t mean harder. Though I only beat the first owl father, maybe the final form was when the game finally got fun.
Just use mimic and magic easy win.
Sanctuary Guardian was pretty easy though?
I just don't understand why she heals. Remove that feature and the fight is 100% fine
Just summon a few of the bros for co-op. Defeated her first try 🙂
Starting with the hardest
>Malekith
>Burning Hotdog 2.0
>Malenia
>Sister Friede
>Slave Knight Gael
>Midar
>Demon Prince
My uncle is Miyazaki and the above is objectively correct. It’s the bosses we couldn’t beat without a tear.
I’m told Shitkero has some harder bosses in a randomized run but I wanted nothing to do with that game after beating it.
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Malenia is 100% not harder than the hardest Chalice dungeon bosses. She has one problematic move and is otherwise just a more annoying Friede.
The burning hot dog of doom.