I find that move even harder to avoid than her mega dance (obviously after practicing how to avoid it a ton of times) . There are some shadow clones that are almost invisible if you target her and you get stun locked into another clone and then she ends you
@@danielfraiz74 completely agree. After a dozen attempts I could reliably avoid her flurry but that summon attack killed me every single time for about 3 days until I got the timing down, or just got lucky lol
@@jackthecommenter2768 Combos. Idk about with golden halberd, but I did it with 2 handed bloodhound fang, and the way I went about it was I could combo all my hits. So I would like Jumping heavy > R1 > R1 > R1 a bunch against her, and if you kept the pressure up really really hard, you could even posture break her once or twice during the fight and get even more damage. So every jumping attack would lead to quite a lot of damage due to the combos. And then I also had the turtle talisman and the stamina regen tear in my flask (as well as just a lot of stamina, level 40 endurance). The reason for this was so that I could easily do full combos on her while still having stamina, and my stamina regen would be VERY high so I could get enough back quickly to either start another combo which helped me keep the pressure up, or to quickly roll away and start dodging her depending on her attack pattern. So thats the key I found for a heavy 2 handed melee weapon. Combo out of your jumping attacks, keep pressure up as much as possible (which also reduces how much she heals because the fight is quicker), and have insanely high stamina and stamina regen so you can combo longer and dodge whenever you need to without running out of stamina. Then recognize the few best attacks you can get your first jumping attack on to stagger her as well as which moves you need to dodge and not challenge, and then thats pretty much the fight. Get one solid good run where you dont mess up too much and you can easily beat her quickly with that strat. It does take time to learn her patterns though cuz you do still have to learn the fight. But it makes her a lot easier once you do actually know her patterns. At least with this type of build, it wouldnt work for every build.
Got her in 8 tries with mimic, just had to be really aggressive so she gets staggered a lot. Had more problems with fire giant and maliketh. Radagon/elden beast was the worst for me 😭
@@MaheshwarChandra huh, my mimic couldn't tho lol. I ran Rivers of blood +10 in rigjt arm and blood nagakiba in left. But solo my mimic would still get rekt for sure
@tired soul cry me a river lmao. "You're playing the game wrong for using summons". Such bullshit. They were put in the game for a reason. Let everybody play how they want to play.
Whatever you do, don't summon the greatshield bros in this fight. It might seem like a good idea at first, but it's not. You will never overcome the lifesteal she gains from ALL of them when they block her attacks
Using summons at all is the “medium difficult” of Elden Ring. Summon players and spells is the easy mode. Hard mode is melee only no summons. Just don’t summon bro get Gud.
I didn't get scarlet rotted when I killed her. Only thing I noticed even gave me build up was the giant flower, so I just use the ash of war on my black knife to hit her from outside the flower
As much as I hated how she healed even after hitting your shield, this was still probably the most visually stunning fight in the whole game, and honestly for me it was the last one before getting the ending I wanted due to needing the needle to remove the frenzied flame. I actually would have preferred this to be the final boss, since you hear about her so much especially with that fight between her and Radahn in the trailer. The best way to fight her is stagger her so she can’t heal, so use a good strong weapon with a lot of stagger power. Good luck.
@@Rhyza13 yes, even over Elden Beast, because at least I can actually see Malenia where Elden Beast takes up the entire screen and spends half the fight constantly running away like a giant coward all the time. I choose badass Valkyrie goddess over giant space slug.
Just for the record: She was blind, the rot was eating her from the inside out which she weaponized. Those artificial limbs are in place of the ones which she lost to the rot.
First attempt I saw her second phase and was thinking the boss was a cake walk because the first phase went by without an issue. It turns out I had hella rng because after getting steamrolled by her second phase I didn't make it past the first phase for what felt like forever and I eventually started summoning randoms in and after about the 4th random we managed to kill her. I've beat every boss and she is the only one I needed to summon another player in for help.
i died right at the start of phase 2 and immediately switched to rivers of blood with + 9 mimics tear. and it still took me 7 tries. It felt as if I brought my 40 year old father to beat up my 10yo bully and then we both end up having to pay his lunch money.😭
Watched so many cookie cutter videos but as Asmon I went with my own melee spec without summons since it increased her life pool & with the insane lifesteal and damage she outputs you can't afford a single mistake.Took me a good 80 tries before I got the kill. Absolutely one of the most annoying/frustrating/satisfying journeys I've ever had in a game experience.
I thought I was pretty smart using my fingerprint stone shield against her which has 100% physical damage negation and 90% guard boost negation, I was able to block her slashing combos but her health was regenerating even though she was hitting my shield and not me. Then I dropped the shield and used another weapon with bloodhound step which allowed me to dodge her slashing combo attacks.
@@miorioff who pissed in ur frosted flakes this morning my guy?😂 them telling their stories is no different from a youtuber displaying their stories. Plus, ain't much u can do about them sharing their experiences. Ur just hot air talking my good sir
Yeah... while banging my head against the fight I learned pretty early on you can't run away from water fowl strike. Its either you block two parts of it and roll through another and block the last parts of it or you bloodhound step away and then through them.
you can actually dodge her waterfowl dance. Once she floats in the air and initiating the skill, you have to run away as fast and far as you can. You have to run until when she initiates the third combo, that's where you roll towards her afaik.
Not gonna lie she really cool tho. She doesnt even have three limbs, is blind, is always sick because of rot, and after all the she turned rahdhan "mightiest demigod" into a corpse feeding maniac.
If she didn't have her anime 900 slash nonsense attack, she'd be a cakewalk. Between that and the camera not letting me dodge in the right direction when she does it, she's the worst.
I believe I died almost 100 times with a sorceress and dual magma swords build. Then I tried Rivers of blood build and she died on my first try. The same with Godfrey.
@@Moneyman-33 so if a boss uses crazy high damaging/ one hit killing attack combos there’s no issue, but if a player uses it back against said boss he’s weak? For doing what the boss does to us back at the boss? Lol what?
Has anyone beaten her on the first try? I've always heard how difficult the boss is, but then I was there and made it the first time, I thought, but then came phase 2 and, well, many attempts later (40 to 50 I think), success. Good and hard bossfight, love it.
I think people who defeated her on the first try are either watched too many youtube videos of her attack patterns, over-leveled their character, or pre-prepared everything like bloodhound steps, mimic, stagger wep etc. Because due to her many ohk in the first phrase and second phrase, winning against her required a learning process.
@@Dovahshark The flower's a bit more manageable, but it is kinda hell for summons. Without Waterfowl Dance, she's still a challenging Bloodborne speed boss.
The waterfowl dance isn't so bad to dodge once you get it down. And the bloom is really easy to dodge and gives you a chance to rebuff/heal and then get a few attacks in right at the end of it as she's getting up, so it's really to your advantage when she uses it. What got me was the thing where she sends out all the copies, I kept panicking and fucking up the timing to dodge them.
Honestly the boss is a disappointment imo. The difficulty is nice but, as you said, when you actually examine her moves shes so basic in every way. Her OST is aight, arena is straight up awful if you ask me, feels like you're fighting in the same type of cave as a lot of the dungeons around the map. Most of the main bosses are vastly better "bosses" than her imo.
People really should not tie their flasks to the square/X button option as some bosses actually react by button reading, such as Malenia who will react to your actually pressing square/X and do annoying attacks to interrupt you. You should rather add your flasks to the Square/y + LBRB shortcuts. I beat Malenia on my third attempt, but then again I cheesed the fuck out of her by one, being over levelled and two, by using the Blasphemous Blade and just spamming its weapon art, it is so stupidly OP. But I don't really care, as my biggest gripe with Elden Ring compared to Dark Souls 3, is the boss design is just way too twitchy. I feel they never let up their onslaught of attacks and their damage is just too high. Fighting bosses in DS3 was more fun imo, even those I found hard because they at least felt more like fair challenges. I just don't find the bosses in this game as fun to fight because they are just too stressful and twitchy. Everything seems to be about reaction time and not about strategy. For instance when I fought Nameless King I felt I could overcome it by just paying attention and reading his moves, and it worked, he had moments of pauses that lets you breath and heal and it was a fight I truly enjoyed overcoming. It felt fair to me, but these bosses are so erratic and there are too many times that one hit is a death sentence because you can't freaking heal up because they just never lets up. I know there are people who will disagree and that is fine, I know people will take down this boss without even getting hit while wearing nothing and using a club. People are insanely good at games and that is also fine. I just do not find these kinds of boss designs to be as fun as previous games in the franchise.
Man, the amount of people making up retarded rumors about how the coding of the boss AI in this game supposedly works reminds me of the days of "Mew is under the truck".
@@lynbot2377 it's just that the ai is programmed usually to implement specific attacks if certain conditions are met, for example, you are healing. It's not reading your button inputs, it's reading all the info presented in the code.
Once getting to phase 2 I proceeded to spam the shit out of Taker's Flame whenever she did her Scarlet Flower move. It wasn't flashy but it worked after a few attempts. That BS 50+ combo move needs a longer wind up though.
Nothing to do with this fight, but does anyone remember Elder Scrolls? Skyrim came out 50 days after Dark Souls 1. Consider how many GREAT games and content Fromsoft has released since then and people are still waiting on Elder Scrolls 6.
She can also use Waterfowl dance, practically whenever she feels. Fromsoft pretty much decided Malenia was a boss that didn't need any brakes on her pain train.
She's the Nameless King of Elden Ring. 2 phase completely optional hardest boss of the main game. I'm scared to see what the Sister Friede will be of Elden Ring.
She uses the waterfowl dance when she reaches an hp threshhold. I'm trying Malenia right now and it seems like she's ready to cast it whenever she reaches 75% hp, 50%hp, 25%hp. I'm a caster, so I keep my distance and then cast a spell to trigger her attack move when she has reached the hp threshhold, then I run away if she casts it. Repeat if she doesn't. Not sure how you would bait an attack from her as a melee though.
This play through I had my best success against Melania.. Finally tried a frost bleed build and I completely wiped the floor with her in mere minutes. It took me less than ten tries but of course I was using my mimic because fk going solo lol. Golden vow + Flame GMS, Opaline bubbletear and a turtle neck for buffs, dual Naginata's - one with cold infused double slash and the other with cragblade although I didn't actually use it. She got boinked into next week!
I'm not joking but I legit just beat her 1st try on ng+3. All that I used was rivers of blood katana but that's not saying much because that weapon is fuckin good
Elden beast fight is super rng. I had no problem beating Elden beast the 1st few games. But on NG3, the fucker would not stop flying around. Made it so frustrating to fight
Not sure if this will help but it felt like an endurance fight which was made doable for my build with a haligdrake + 2 talisman which gives you holy resist. You can get it from Moghwyn palace near the giant birds in the blood pond on a body.
@@zombiegodsire I don't know about you, but this boss phase 2 radiated more than any other one. Like even Frieda with 3 phases doesn't compare to this one.
the chatter who said "rotussy" during the cutscene 💀💀
He’s got priorities
Mans going places
He's down bad
Someone said flowussy aswell
Someone call Let Me Date Her.
When she said "you'll witness true horror", I was like: Isn't phase 1 already horror?
Well that's horror but this...
This is *true* horror
@@VeganAncientDragonKnight 😂
@@VeganAncientDragonKnight heh, "TRUER horror".
Yeah but in phase 2 you have to deal with looking at her Rotussy.
Me who can't even beat Margit 🙂
Its like when you get into a street fight, and the best defence is to just get naked and go for psychological/biological warfare
Especially if your whole body has scars and weird rotting surfaces like a half-dead zombie.
biological? What you gonna poop in his/her Drinking water or smthin?
@@lucjeb9254 I MIGHT
@@Anubis7169 damn you're not fucking around
@@hel2727 Embrace the bestial nature of man. Infuse youre hands with shit (poison dmg+), and use ur saliva as ranged weapon.
He didn’t even see the clone shadow move lol - that shit so brutal in second phase.
He did tho. He just got ridiculously lucky with it.
I find that move even harder to avoid than her mega dance (obviously after practicing how to avoid it a ton of times) . There are some shadow clones that are almost invisible if you target her and you get stun locked into another clone and then she ends you
Wait wtf? I beat her but I don't remember seeing any clones or w.e tf??
@@danielfraiz74 completely agree. After a dozen attempts I could reliably avoid her flurry but that summon attack killed me every single time for about 3 days until I got the timing down, or just got lucky lol
@@C.hrismo when she charges into the air and launches 6 copies of herself and then charges to you
nice to see how he appreciate all the beauty and wonders of the game.
oh he sure does, this cutscene has a lot of beauty
Beat her today after 232 tries. No summons or magic, golden halberd only, I feel like a legend.
How
You truly are a legend. Reap the fruit of your victory.
@@R1chie228 Thank you richie. Thank you brother.
@@Crusade11722 you absolute menace. I wish upon you an abundance of Maidens.
@@jackthecommenter2768 Combos. Idk about with golden halberd, but I did it with 2 handed bloodhound fang, and the way I went about it was I could combo all my hits.
So I would like Jumping heavy > R1 > R1 > R1 a bunch against her, and if you kept the pressure up really really hard, you could even posture break her once or twice during the fight and get even more damage. So every jumping attack would lead to quite a lot of damage due to the combos.
And then I also had the turtle talisman and the stamina regen tear in my flask (as well as just a lot of stamina, level 40 endurance). The reason for this was so that I could easily do full combos on her while still having stamina, and my stamina regen would be VERY high so I could get enough back quickly to either start another combo which helped me keep the pressure up, or to quickly roll away and start dodging her depending on her attack pattern.
So thats the key I found for a heavy 2 handed melee weapon. Combo out of your jumping attacks, keep pressure up as much as possible (which also reduces how much she heals because the fight is quicker), and have insanely high stamina and stamina regen so you can combo longer and dodge whenever you need to without running out of stamina. Then recognize the few best attacks you can get your first jumping attack on to stagger her as well as which moves you need to dodge and not challenge, and then thats pretty much the fight. Get one solid good run where you dont mess up too much and you can easily beat her quickly with that strat.
It does take time to learn her patterns though cuz you do still have to learn the fight. But it makes her a lot easier once you do actually know her patterns. At least with this type of build, it wouldnt work for every build.
"She isn't that bad."
famous last words
Got her in 8 tries with mimic, just had to be really aggressive so she gets staggered a lot. Had more problems with fire giant and maliketh. Radagon/elden beast was the worst for me 😭
@@NielsO-t3v Good job! Mimic can still solo melania though for some reason even after the nerf, kinda weird
@@MaheshwarChandra huh, my mimic couldn't tho lol. I ran Rivers of blood +10 in rigjt arm and blood nagakiba in left. But solo my mimic would still get rekt for sure
@tired soul cry me a river lmao. "You're playing the game wrong for using summons". Such bullshit. They were put in the game for a reason. Let everybody play how they want to play.
@tired soul quit gatekeeping lil bitch “don’t use that thing that’s IN the game” sound dumb as hell…
Whatever you do, don't summon the greatshield bros in this fight. It might seem like a good idea at first, but it's not. You will never overcome the lifesteal she gains from ALL of them when they block her attacks
Black knife summon carried me trough it.
Honestly greatshields bros are never a good idea vs a boss with tons of 360° attacks
HAH imagine not knowing this. you must be a newbie if thats what u did
Using summons at all is the “medium difficult” of Elden Ring. Summon players and spells is the easy mode. Hard mode is melee only no summons. Just don’t summon bro get Gud.
@@Moneyman-33 cringe name and opinion
My favorite part is chat trolling him on death. "I am Melania, Blade of Miquella"
Beautiful area, and boss. Its so good. Surprised he didn't get rotted in P2 ever for the kill tbh.
yeah i never did, youre more likely to die from regular slashes before she manages to rot you.
I didn't get scarlet rotted when I killed her. Only thing I noticed even gave me build up was the giant flower, so I just use the ash of war on my black knife to hit her from outside the flower
It is actually rare to get rotted in this boss since one mistake = death.
She’d be easy af if it weren’t for her bull shut flurry attack. Pretty bad boss design tbh
He did get rotted almost immediately after this
I saw her 2nd phase on my 3rd ever try. Killed her 50+ later!!!!! oO
That's pretty good, took me 8 hours to start finally getting to 2nd phase consistently then another 7 to finally beat her
just like genichiro for me lmaooo
@@IPH-1212 Same!
@@IPH-1212 hes easy with axe build
i killed her in a few tries i was around level 140+ , blasphemous blade made the the fight pretty easy to be honest
Lol im glad they continued with the clip so we could see how fast he regretted those words😂
As much as I hated how she healed even after hitting your shield, this was still probably the most visually stunning fight in the whole game, and honestly for me it was the last one before getting the ending I wanted due to needing the needle to remove the frenzied flame. I actually would have preferred this to be the final boss, since you hear about her so much especially with that fight between her and Radahn in the trailer. The best way to fight her is stagger her so she can’t heal, so use a good strong weapon with a lot of stagger power. Good luck.
Visually? Even over Astel and the Elden Beast?
@@Rhyza13 Yeah visually it’s not that impressive. The Deer boss was really gorgeous and so was Renalla of the Moon.
@@Rhyza13 Yes. Because of booba
@@Rhyza13 yes, even over Elden Beast, because at least I can actually see Malenia where Elden Beast takes up the entire screen and spends half the fight constantly running away like a giant coward all the time. I choose badass Valkyrie goddess over giant space slug.
I respect your opinion but idk if I’d visually put it over Astel, Elden Beast, Rykard, Ancestor Spirit, Rennala and Placidusax
Just for the record: She was blind, the rot was eating her from the inside out which she weaponized. Those artificial limbs are in place of the ones which she lost to the rot.
Yep
why do we get her arm from somewhere, this is an "item" cant use it
@@orangecobraEU It's a quest item for an NPC.
First attempt I saw her second phase and was thinking the boss was a cake walk because the first phase went by without an issue. It turns out I had hella rng because after getting steamrolled by her second phase I didn't make it past the first phase for what felt like forever and I eventually started summoning randoms in and after about the 4th random we managed to kill her. I've beat every boss and she is the only one I needed to summon another player in for help.
I was really stubborn and refusesd to summon cause I hadn’t at all in the game. Took me like 12 hours to pull off tho.
Same I beat her first phase second try, but after I never did that good again.
@@madjackgamingandfitness498 That’s still impressive. I never even got her to half HP in phase one til about 100 tries
Lol this exact thing happened to me, still haven’t beat her. Never summoned another player before, hopefully won’t have to restore to that
I did this with one of my friend using the Seamless co-op mod because normal elden ring co-op sucks BALLS. Still was a pain in the ass
Malenia : Now rot!
Chats : yes mommy
cant blame them
is one of those bosses where you don't beat it, you just survive long enough
i died right at the start of phase 2 and immediately switched to rivers of blood with + 9 mimics tear. and it still took me 7 tries. It felt as if I brought my 40 year old father to beat up my 10yo bully and then we both end up having to pay his lunch money.😭
Same but with moonveil. It was two days before the nerf, so “we” basically played pong, juggling her royal swamp-ass in perfect harmony. I felt bad
Let your flesh be consumed… by the scarlet rot.
I was legit excited to see him get one shot by the opening attack and then realised he had the opaline bubble tear shield.
1:48 - OH MYYY GAHHDDD
When she said “wait” I knew I was fucked.
“Not that bad”
Malenia: And I took that personally.
lmao
“yummy”
“ROTUSSY”
“Scarlet Russy”
God help you chat.
Watched so many cookie cutter videos but as Asmon I went with my own melee spec without summons since it increased her life pool & with the insane lifesteal and damage she outputs you can't afford a single mistake.Took me a good 80 tries before I got the kill. Absolutely one of the most annoying/frustrating/satisfying journeys I've ever had in a game experience.
I thought I was pretty smart using my fingerprint stone shield against her which has 100% physical damage negation and 90% guard boost negation, I was able to block her slashing combos but her health was regenerating even though she was hitting my shield and not me. Then I dropped the shield and used another weapon with bloodhound step which allowed me to dodge her slashing combo attacks.
Tell us more
I just used bleed and fight was done in 1min
When will people stop telling others their experiences of the game?
Go play and shut the f*ck up
@@miorioff who pissed in ur frosted flakes this morning my guy?😂 them telling their stories is no different from a youtuber displaying their stories. Plus, ain't much u can do about them sharing their experiences. Ur just hot air talking my good sir
@@miorioff cry more you're literally telling them how should experience the game by telling them not to.
Say what you like about her fight, but that cutscene is one of the best in the entire series.
It looks straight out of a picture.
Yeah... while banging my head against the fight I learned pretty early on you can't run away from water fowl strike. Its either you block two parts of it and roll through another and block the last parts of it or you bloodhound step away and then through them.
Honestly most boss fights. I learned fighting Margitt to generally just roll towards them at their back unless they're winding up an undodgeable aoe
you can actually dodge her waterfowl dance. Once she floats in the air and initiating the skill, you have to run away as fast and far as you can. You have to run until when she initiates the third combo, that's where you roll towards her afaik.
The "OMG" at the end clearly shows the emptiness in his soul as Melania sucks it out 🤣
I swear after the last update , she's way more aggressive in phase 2
1:22 yeah.... Thats sums it up pretty well
That triple combo kept getting me phase one and two for soooo long
Just run on first attack, roll toward her on second and stay still on 3rd. Proven and tested.
@@vortexclue staying still gets you hit on third, you need to walk towards her before she moves and than walk away after.
The fucking chat with the "/gigachad/ I AM MALENIA /gigachad/ BLADE OF MIqUELLA /gigachad/" had me laughing in stream.
It was hilarious!
"This isn't that bad "
Morgan Freeman: "Get busy livin'. Or get busy dyin'. Our boy here didn't do much livin'...but he sure was busy."
1:27 bruh I’m dying he says fuck the same exact way three times in a row 😂😂
Yeah like wtf 😂
May have took him almost 4 hours and ~70 tries, but it paid off.
It took him 70 tries 😐
would have been cooler if he beat her on the 69th one
@@XojinKhan 74 to be exact
Not gonna lie she really cool tho. She doesnt even have three limbs, is blind, is always sick because of rot, and after all the she turned rahdhan "mightiest demigod" into a corpse feeding maniac.
If she didn't have her anime 900 slash nonsense attack, she'd be a cakewalk. Between that and the camera not letting me dodge in the right direction when she does it, she's the worst.
Carry a backup bloodhound step dagger
You can bait out the anime attack, get away from her and throw 2 daggers at her and boom you can easily survive it
That's exactly why she was given that move plus the life steal...too easy otherwise
@@ShaddoII uh, no. She’d be on par with rahdan with the npc summons, which I think was the intended difficulty.
@@ihuh1000 You can also just dodge into it, then away from it, and then off to the right or whatever for the final flurry. It's still a stupid attack.
She looks like a painting from hundreds of years ago, beautiful
"I'm ready"- but he was not ready
“This isn’t that bad…..fuck….fuck….fuck…..oh my god.”
Shes beautiful, the best boss fight by far.
Yep
I believe I died almost 100 times with a sorceress and dual magma swords build.
Then I tried Rivers of blood build and she died on my first try.
The same with Godfrey.
Weak player.
So you cheesed the game cause your bad. Congrats I guess. Keep posting Ls.
@@Moneyman-33 so if a boss uses crazy high damaging/ one hit killing attack combos there’s no issue, but if a player uses it back against said boss he’s weak? For doing what the boss does to us back at the boss? Lol what?
@@TehNiCoLaS Yes.
"fuck" actually sums up both her fight as well as herself very well
That "omg" make me the day xD
Why he keep quitting games
A man in complete denial lol
My own Soul almost left me when I found out she had a second phase.
🖖
Has anyone beaten her on the first try? I've always heard how difficult the boss is, but then I was there and made it the first time, I thought, but then came phase 2 and, well, many attempts later (40 to 50 I think), success. Good and hard bossfight, love it.
i beat her on my 4th try
@@raven-hx6xq took me a total of 11 minutes from start to finish at level 110, Arcane Rivers of Blood +9 AOW spamming made her easy
Second try, the initial dive bomb in Phase 2 has weird timing so I got slapped on it first go-around.
I beat her on my first attempt, all you need is Bloodhound Step and her Waterfowl can't hit you.
I think people who defeated her on the first try are either watched too many youtube videos of her attack patterns, over-leveled their character, or pre-prepared everything like bloodhound steps, mimic, stagger wep etc. Because due to her many ohk in the first phrase and second phrase, winning against her required a learning process.
"..." I don't give a fuck, shut up!" LMAO
“Oh my gawd”
its funny how rudimentary she would be if she didnt have the waterfowl dance
The Waterfowl Dance and the big flower she uses when she starts second phase were her worst attacks imo
@@Dovahshark The flower's a bit more manageable, but it is kinda hell for summons. Without Waterfowl Dance, she's still a challenging Bloodborne speed boss.
@@duck_t4039 shes harder than everything in bloodborne. orphan took me 14 tries, this bitch was a real grind. definitely over 50.
The waterfowl dance isn't so bad to dodge once you get it down. And the bloom is really easy to dodge and gives you a chance to rebuff/heal and then get a few attacks in right at the end of it as she's getting up, so it's really to your advantage when she uses it. What got me was the thing where she sends out all the copies, I kept panicking and fucking up the timing to dodge them.
Honestly the boss is a disappointment imo. The difficulty is nice but, as you said, when you actually examine her moves shes so basic in every way. Her OST is aight, arena is straight up awful if you ask me, feels like you're fighting in the same type of cave as a lot of the dungeons around the map.
Most of the main bosses are vastly better "bosses" than her imo.
Damn, I wouldn’t last 10 seconds against that. And I’m not talking about the fight.
People really should not tie their flasks to the square/X button option as some bosses actually react by button reading, such as Malenia who will react to your actually pressing square/X and do annoying attacks to interrupt you. You should rather add your flasks to the Square/y + LBRB shortcuts.
I beat Malenia on my third attempt, but then again I cheesed the fuck out of her by one, being over levelled and two, by using the Blasphemous Blade and just spamming its weapon art, it is so stupidly OP. But I don't really care, as my biggest gripe with Elden Ring compared to Dark Souls 3, is the boss design is just way too twitchy. I feel they never let up their onslaught of attacks and their damage is just too high. Fighting bosses in DS3 was more fun imo, even those I found hard because they at least felt more like fair challenges. I just don't find the bosses in this game as fun to fight because they are just too stressful and twitchy. Everything seems to be about reaction time and not about strategy.
For instance when I fought Nameless King I felt I could overcome it by just paying attention and reading his moves, and it worked, he had moments of pauses that lets you breath and heal and it was a fight I truly enjoyed overcoming. It felt fair to me, but these bosses are so erratic and there are too many times that one hit is a death sentence because you can't freaking heal up because they just never lets up.
I know there are people who will disagree and that is fine, I know people will take down this boss without even getting hit while wearing nothing and using a club. People are insanely good at games and that is also fine. I just do not find these kinds of boss designs to be as fun as previous games in the franchise.
Man, the amount of people making up retarded rumors about how the coding of the boss AI in this game supposedly works reminds me of the days of "Mew is under the truck".
@@lynbot2377 it's just that the ai is programmed usually to implement specific attacks if certain conditions are met, for example, you are healing. It's not reading your button inputs, it's reading all the info presented in the code.
that's not a reaction, that's a suffering
Malenia: “Tactical Nuke!”
He was not ready. Lol.
“This isn’t that bad… fuck”
He said Elden Ring has the quick combat flow of Sekiro and here he is beating a boss by running away and just using jump attacks whenever he can.
0:44 Asmon would 100% be one of those kids running around with their tongue out catching the "snow flakes" in Chernobyl.
Love chat spamming "I AM MALENIA BLADE OF MIQUELLA"
"This isn't that bad" 10 seconds later: FUCK FUCK FUCK
Given that even Elajjaz struggled you shouldn't feel bad if it's hard.
your comparing a speedrunner that wants to minimize time spend on the boss versus a casual gamer my guy
@@PitbullfromNM Not the first playthrough.
i witnessed true horror alright SOMEONE IN THE CHAT SAID SCARLET ROTUSSY BAHAHAHAHA
Once getting to phase 2 I proceeded to spam the shit out of Taker's Flame whenever she did her Scarlet Flower move. It wasn't flashy but it worked after a few attempts. That BS 50+ combo move needs a longer wind up though.
Nah it needs a range limit for when she can execute it. Like "can only use if player is a certain distance from malenia)
@@trevorveillette8415 that or only when she's
This like a final fantasy final boss
Nothing to do with this fight, but does anyone remember Elder Scrolls? Skyrim came out 50 days after Dark Souls 1. Consider how many GREAT games and content Fromsoft has released since then and people are still waiting on Elder Scrolls 6.
Malenia has big DLC energy
scarlet rot more like scarlet hot
Killed her solo with two handing the starscourge greatswords lol. Memorized her entire moveset lol.
- I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
*20 seconds later*
- oh my god....
GIGACHAD Lady KEKW
He had way too much time to heal
For some reason I find this fight harder with the mimic tear
Remember McConnell killed malenia without getting hit once? Lol
She can also use Waterfowl dance, practically whenever she feels. Fromsoft pretty much decided Malenia was a boss that didn't need any brakes on her pain train.
She's the Nameless King of Elden Ring. 2 phase completely optional hardest boss of the main game. I'm scared to see what the Sister Friede will be of Elden Ring.
@@klammyvagikarp7578 or the slave knight Gael and midir
She uses the waterfowl dance when she reaches an hp threshhold. I'm trying Malenia right now and it seems like she's ready to cast it whenever she reaches 75% hp, 50%hp, 25%hp. I'm a caster, so I keep my distance and then cast a spell to trigger her attack move when she has reached the hp threshhold, then I run away if she casts it. Repeat if she doesn't.
Not sure how you would bait an attack from her as a melee though.
@@quachdaivy nah bro she did waterfowl on me as her first attack, and I had just gotten into the room.
@@klammyvagikarp7578 DLC ? 😳
This play through I had my best success against Melania.. Finally tried a frost bleed build and I completely wiped the floor with her in mere minutes. It took me less than ten tries but of course I was using my mimic because fk going solo lol. Golden vow + Flame GMS, Opaline bubbletear and a turtle neck for buffs, dual Naginata's - one with cold infused double slash and the other with cragblade although I didn't actually use it. She got boinked into next week!
Of course it's *the attack* that got him.
And that's why I had my big brother Mimic Tear fight her phase 2.
She’s kissed by fire up top and rotten down below. Tell me this was written by George R R Martin without telling me it’s written by George R R Martin.
This isnt that bad. Famous last words.
lobosjr learn this fight in 14hrs, then proceeds to kill her on lvl 1 wretch
Did better than I did the first time. I may have had two people with me, but she 1 shot me with that opening fireball.
I'm not joking but I legit just beat her 1st try on ng+3. All that I used was rivers of blood katana but that's not saying much because that weapon is fuckin good
You can hear the fake confidence in «Who gives a fuck?!». Not even our boy believed that :D
1:30 when you realize there is 0% chance at winning
The true end game boss of elden ring
Always so over levelled hahaha unbelievable 😭😂
BRUH THUMBNAIL SPOILER WARNING WTF 💀
When you think you beat a hard boss and this happens
Just beat her today with black knife and black sword from malekith while being naked + godrics rune and all i can say is this battle is so good
SMH ....
Sees her doing her Waterfoul Dance... RUNS AWAY without drinking ... and dies...
Yes ... a Butterfly Woman just killed you...
I feel like shit for not even being able to get past the elden beast LOL
Elden beast fight is super rng. I had no problem beating Elden beast the 1st few games. But on NG3, the fucker would not stop flying around. Made it so frustrating to fight
@@Speedysolis the last three fights he won't stop flying around
Not sure if this will help but it felt like an endurance fight which was made doable for my build with a haligdrake + 2 talisman which gives you holy resist. You can get it from Moghwyn palace near the giant birds in the blood pond on a body.
I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
I summoned my mimic and used the Kamehameha after she did the death flower thing cuz she sits there forever
noob.
Does anyone have the full vod of this stream? I cant seem to find it anywhere
Wow Asmon could get her second phase. I don't know Asmon could be that smart to survive her flurry ass attack.
Beautiful area with a beautiful boss with beautiful areas
You know what's good about Malenia? After you beat that first phase, she refuses to give up determined to beat you.
thats...every boss with a phase 2? lmao otherwise theyd of not had a phase 2 theyd of just given up
@@zombiegodsire I don't know about you, but this boss phase 2 radiated more than any other one. Like even Frieda with 3 phases doesn't compare to this one.
and still loses lol what a loser bitch ruined all of caelid just to draw with radahn
"shut up I don't care about you"... Ooh trust me, you will pay attention, whether you like it or not 😂
Specked into a fire build and w mimic she got completely obliterated
I love her mommy dommy