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Aye good on ya for showing the dodges in slow motion, cause most those no hit videos that blow up can easily have a no stagger/damage mod on and making it look good.
@@stormbringer6704I saw them on my first attempt. It took me like 25 attempts to beat her but it's not unlikely that somebody sees the double moons on their first attempt
@@stormbringer6704idk it’s pretty common for me to have a really good first run against a boss. Then it goes downhill for the next 20 attempts until I miraculously defeat them.
Beat her solo after 40 trys, man she has combos that never end. The ice projectile at the start of the second phase was driving me crazy. Harder to dodge than it looks
I run sideways for the diagonal slashes, then jump the first horizontal slash, making her shoot the second one in the air so you don't even have to dodge it. Just dodge the last one while running towards her for a free hit.
@@eliwilson8242 what i did was run away while roll backwards & slightly earlier than usual while praying that the longer travel time gave me time to it, usually worked you can usually make her switch to the easier to punish flame move if u get close to her during startup too
2nd hardest boss after Malenia so far. This fight was crazy. Edit: Beaten all bosses except final boss. Died to Gauis more than anything else so far. Final boss kicking my ass rn
right ? what a joke. I get Rellana down to 10% and the desperation of troll spamming becomes insane.. dodge dip dodge dip times 30 .. Why do enemies not have endurance meters ? My boosts last 10 seconds.. this crackhead Boss has meth and crack on tap.
They basically gave a Carion Knight the movesets of a Black Knife assassin. One of the hardest things I have ever fought in a video game but incredible rewarding!
@@DarkrainHD Pontiff doesn't have a move that one shots you and bounces you like Rellanas moons do. Also doesn't clone themself like Pontiff does. Rellana uses far more magic and also is way more relentless with their combos. Really nothing like pontiff at all lol.
I’ve never been stuck on a boss for so long in my life. Not even the demon of hatred or melainia. I’ve fought her for roughly 5 hours total now and have gotten so close so many damn times I’ve lost count. I’ve realized it’s largely because I’m trash, but also because my build is trash as well. But I think I’m gonna keep going at it with my crap build for one more day since I’ve already done 5 hours with it lol
I just beat her and honestly i recommend Jumping over her twin moon attack instead of rolling, its way safer and you have enough time b/w all the three AOE's
This I specifically had to time the jump too so that i could jump over the first slash and she would then aim the second slash above me and miss, it felt so good
The thing about this boss issue is, she’s quite actually similar to Margit. Since she’s my first boss in the dlc, they taught the player to give up the instinct of dodge away whenever they attack. Roll toward your problems and they’ll be very rewarding
Yeah I think players just need to be more close and aggressive. Obviously you want to only attack when it makes sense but being closer actually slows you to dodge more easily rather than sitting at mid range
The problem when I roll towards her is, it feels impossible to dodge the next move. Especially when she tracks you through the air, when those swords come down, you gotta pray you're close enough to be out of range. I've lost to her 40 times, lost 50,000 souls and ran out of Summons....I feel very defeated
That just isn't feasable when the boss is fast you can't even recognise the attack. This also isn't helped by her thin as fuck swords that may actually be invisible in that dank dimly lit boss room.
@@monstermash1571bro Ive lost over a mil runes to her. Still haven’t beaten her but I will eventually 😈. I will parry everything and win without ez mode
You can bait out her fire tornado by staying close to her when she loghts her swords. Just be ready to dodge back once or twice to avoid the tornado. Much easier than dodging the magic projectiles. For the dual moons, run away when she goes up and then jump over the shockwaves.
Is it true that new game + 7 makes it harder? I thought the DLC area was exempt and the blessings to be picked up in the area matter more, how does it all work?
ACTUAL TIP!!! I managed to down her on my 2nd try, i'm quite amazed at myself believe me or now, i found a weakness in her moveset by accident. Lvl 165 character strength based NG+0, Scadu Blessing +4. I am using greatsword of solitude, and a charged heavy enthusiast, it appears that when i charge heavy with this weapon, most of her attacks (especially piercing and horizontal swipes) just go above my character and never hit me since he crouches when charging =)) you guys should try this, it was awesome!
@@qwikscopez6619 It's not 100 % consistent i think i also got lucky with RNG because she did the appropriate swings and not the ones that hit low to the ground that might clip your character. I have not redone the fight yet because i managed to complete DLC only once til now, IRL work got me tied up and i couldn't play much, i will let you know if the same happens once i reach her soon in NG+1, weekend is coming up ;)
Walked into this fight with an Intelligence build centered around the Dark Moon Greatsword. Perhaps the most frustrating fight I've ever experienced since there didn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Essentially just tickled her to death over the course of like 10 minutes per attempt while trying to avoid half of the instant kills that are in her kit. Then one of my friends walks into this fight with a Dexterity Bleed build and kills her in like 5 tries...
Ironically she's kinda really vulnerable to rannis dark moon. I had Lusats staff in right hand and regal septar in left, magic scorpion charm, +3 magic greatshield talisman, the two graven school tailsmens, snow witch hat, magic cracked/opaline hardtear, Terra magica, rannis dark moon and just kept spamming while running. I also summoned Leda but u dont have to do that tbh. I beat her within like 7 tries
I am also Intellectual Sword build with DM Greatsword. Haven't beaten her yet, but I think many openings described here (double stab combo end) given enough time for heavy attack. But I am also the kind of guy who is unhappy if I beat a major boss in less than 10 tries.
@@cartermiles5342 at the bottom nbefore u enter that castle area if u take a path to the right and southward, theres a cliff with bats at the bottom. u follow those drops to get into the poison ravine. take that to the end and u go left and there will be spirit springs (which need to be unlocked). it leads to another castle. if u exit that castle theres a grace near by and a tunnel. on the otherside of the tunnel is a ghostflame dragon fighting soldiers. u can run past that and ur pretty much in that large area after rellana. i got 6 blessings cuz i was looking everywhere for this one armor set that ended up being at the beginning of the dlc lol.
hardest part for me is just dodging her attacks. feels like they never end. what i find works best for me is dodging to her left in phase 1 and dodging to her right on phase 2. its just hard to consistently strafe her attacks because she jumps around so much
I had a similar thought when fighting her but honestly don’t overthink it with left or right. Dodge backwards on attacks which cannot be punished, dodge into attacks you know leave an opening. It allows you to space some attacks and get parries easier. I’d say parrying her is absolutely necessary if you try fighting her at a low level. The one attack she does which I can only describe as a downward X slash which looks like the claws backstep attack is super easy to parry.
@@cooldog8580 who tf does more than three ng+? honestly after the third one you cant do anything new, same weapons and shi, i'd rather just make another save
a heavily underrated sword for this fight is the beastman curved sword, tune it with ice magic and u can pretty much spam jumping R2's and R1s pretty easily, add bloodhounds step to dodge easier and tears that up ur magic damage and chance to stagger.
I agree on staggering. My main build is using jump R1 attacks with duel Rusted Heavy Anchors. For Rellana, all I needed to do was just get right in her face and spam jump R1s. I might’ve gotten lucky or something because I beat her on my first attempt and she didn’t even use any crazy attack combo, she kinda just let me spam jump attacks. Compared to the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, she seemed a lot more easy to read at least in her attacks align with not making the camera go crazy.
@@dbean5174Thanks so much dude I really wanted to beat her without using any summons like the other bosses, decided to try out dual anchors and I finally beat her in a few gos. Anchor for the win
@@bodaciousfallacious275yeah I like them a lot. I was trying a duel Gargoyle’s twin Kade build with bleed before this and while it actually has the potential to do a good chunk more damage than the duel rusted anchors, I found them to be a lot less inconsistent and not only that but I need to be much closer to actually get damage in.
on the span of over 3 days i finally beat this boss. no mimic no summon just pure fucking suffering and dedication. hardest boss yet from the dlc and im not ready for whats next in the journey.
5:17 love that there’s no possible way to avoid every attack in that combo unless you’re lucky enough to have distance. everything else in the fight seems like something you can learn but this move just seems luck based.
Important things not mentioned: 1. In her “neutral” state when she’s walking around. If you are a couple meters away from her and you heal with red OR blue flasks, she can do her ranged lunar attack and pretty much negate your heal. Only heal when you know you have a window. Preferably during her magic casts or after an attack string 2. In her second phase, depending on your position and distance from her, she can EITHER do the fire or magic sword combos. I think it’s easier to keep your distance and avoid the moon slices. Dodge the first two, JUMP over the third and she will miss the fourth. Then dodge the fifth to the left or right. I think I died to Rellana at least 100 times. I had to come back to her after getting at least 7-8 scooby doo fragments. Her second phase took too much health away the first time
Some extra notes (I havent done too much testing) if you get up close to her for phase 2, she'll start with her volcano attack instead of the 5 waves. if you attack her while phase 2 is starting, theres a chance she just jumps straight into fighting without doing either moves
I felt like the parry god in this fight. Only had one fragment so I had to no-hit the second phase and made it through flawlessly. Shit was a scene straight from an anime. This might be my favorite boss in the game.
Very fun to parry too, takes two to get a stagger but it also cuts her combos short and gives a moment for a couple quick hits. The move where she dashes to the side and does a spin attack felt like it had really intuitive timing for me, along with her gap closer cross slash
Yea she’s super easy to parry, everyone’s overreacting when it comes to this boss I beat her in 9 attempts and no hit a couple hours ago on my 33rd attempt and ima post it on my channel tmrw
@@innerecho9468 Parying in ER is basically only for nolifers. Takes forever to figure out what can be parried and when. The mechanic is clearly an afterthought, If they gave us the Sekiro parry, then it would be worth spending time on it.
For any Heavy Strength builds, the best way to beat this boss is to use the fingerprint shield, and a high damage weapon. Use Guard counter talisman and increased stamina recovery.... you should get to the second phase untouched Also the Guard boost Talisman is great too
If you are struggling it might help you greatly to mix a new wondrous physique flask and swapping a talisman or two. The moon drop attack can be dodged by rolling when the moons hit the ground. It is also helpful to get the right mindset to think “ I can do this”. I spent about 15 hours across two or three days fighting rellanna. When I finally beat her yesterday I felt like I could actually progress this dlc. After rellanna I went on to easily beat divine beast dancing lion, blackgoal knight, and golden hippo. Rellanna is the “Margit the fell omen” of the dlc. I did it on ng+5 with scaudtree blessing of 3. It really helps to get it up. There is no shame in looking up a guide for scaudtree fragments or using summons to alleviate your misery. IT IS A MECHANIC
Haven't seen the vid yet, but I took her down with guard counters on a pretty unoptimized build. Lightning is obviously a good choice, as half the arena is covered in water. Note there's surely a better way to fight her without taking damage, but for what it matters, the cuckoo great shield is solid enough. I used the dragon claw you get from the draconic tree sentinel outside Leyndell. In general, critical hits are the most effective strategy, either it be with parry or stance break
Finally defeated her after seeing comment on reddit that suggests switching to a Light Greatsword with Wing Stance ashes. The leap attack helps you get a few hits in easily and just roll away afterwards!
This is straight up better than Malenia no bs waterfall no cheap ass healing mechanic, actually can tell when combo ends. Beat her with Perfect Block tear. Great boss
In what world is this boss not more BS than Malenia?? Combos that last forever, the ability to cancel/change attacks mid combo with no warning, absurd hitboxes, the ability to endlessly chain combos without you ever being able to get a hit in, absurd poise and HP. You basically have no chance to attack her as she's always unleashing another combo with little rest At least with Malenia, you can stun her like you can a normal player and interrupt her combos that way. With Rellana though? Endless, infinite combos with little rest
malenia is just much more respectful and balanced than this boss. when you die on malenia it's your fault it's just infamous and the difficulty is artificial the life bar way too big and the damage just abused in addition to being random it's just not interesting and frustrating for the wrong reasons
@keikei2942 The combos are not that long, I killed her with a UGS without many issues, and I had no issues with her hitboxes either. Malenia has waterfowl and heal on hit. Rellana isn't BS because she has no unfair moves, everything she does is telegraphed and dodgeable consistently.
Honestly bloodhound step made this fight really easy for me. Been using the backhand blades for this dlc and I just equipped the bloodhound step for this fight specifically and I managed to dodge a majority of her attacks with that ability. For the moon nuke I’d recommend jumping instead of dodging though.
I only need 5-6 tries to defeat Malenia, this one needs like 40 times!! Took me 3 hours and finally I just gave up and summon spirit ash and the knight to fight 😢
@@shinren_ loll actually my friend told me how to avoid her waterfowl during the fight 😅 Malenia is bit easier than rellana because of her low poise! I used giant hunt on my claymore and aspect of crucible horn to send her flying, when she's on the ground i switched to my second right hand weapon and spam flamestrike, on my sixth tries I made it
Rellana is one of the coolest Bosses in the Game... Her Twin Blades are OP, in the right situation and her Twin Moons are very viable as well. FS should have given her a questline. I would LOVE to see her and Melenia go head-to-head in battle.
I feel like I cheesed myself out of the fun by nobraining this boss with the mimic tear. First time I switched out the ash as I want to actually enjoy a boss fight like this lol.
I beat her with the guts great sword with lions claw and to stop her healing inflicted scarlet rot with Melanias bloom flower incantation but even with all that she still was destroying me if I lost focus in her attacks
Ice great katana with wild strikes is really good for this. Stun her just before half health, and you can keep swinging freely for about 30% of her health
Beat her solo, but these bosses are so tedious and exhausting, it wears you down to the point of frustration. She took less time for me than other bosses in previous FS catalogue, but it felt like it took twice as long with twice as much effort, yet without the proper satisfaction. It's a shame cause the idea is there (awesome design, music, moveset). ER movement is way too slow to put up a fun fight against these crackhead bosses. If we had BB movement with a faster flask, then it'd be more like a back and forth dance, not a one sided wombo fest
I beat her solo with a carian knight shield with carian retaliation, and misericorde in the other hand. Learning to parry her is so fun if that playstyle is your thing. Probably one of my favorite bosses in the DLC so far
Started a parry build a few days ago. Not good enough for her on my main yet to win by parry, but it looks very doable and fun, because parrying can just shut down her 38 hit combos.
Naked Bow guy here & summoned Latenna for constant arrow pressure. Use status arrows/bolts- poison, rot, cold and she's weak to lightning. Light roll helps avoid her AOE. Two hits to death, though.
FInally beat her, your tips really helped a lot man ! I use Marais executioner sword so finding time to charge up Echoaids dance was hard but thankfully I was able to find her combo ends thanks to you
The hardest part of this fight is figuring out when the damn combos end. Took me 10-12 tries to beat her because I kept thinking I had an opportunity to get a hit in, only to find out the 12 hit combo was actually a 13 hit combo.
You can skip the twin and hippo bosses, there is a spirit spring path for the twin and just parkour down the ruin hole for the hippo. Go gather the fragments then fight them.
brought me back to pontiff ngl with this one, I keep screaming "COMBO COMBO COMBO WHEN DOES IT END" then I learned there's an opening once I paid close attention, and went "ohhhhh" rly fun boss.
Me and mimic went ham with Mohg’s toast fork while the knight provided a distraction, and it was over very very quickly. I’ll come back and learn the fight later with a non cheese character.
it took me lik 3-4 hours, mostly because I got hit several times and/or got 2 shotted, but I obliterated her in like 2 minutes on my last attempt. the backhand blades +25 + bloodflame blade (I also tried poison and rot, they work really good on her, frost as well) the ash of war let's you dodge a lot of her combos, it's insane.
This boss was a nightmare for my Mage build, too aggressive to cast anything solo, so had to summon Tiche to draw her attention back and forth while slamming her with night comets and dark moon spells.
One thing I noticed is that without bloodhound step it’s almost impossible to get away from her which just ruins your stamina causing you to die or take a lot of damage no matter what this is the only boss I genuinely think needs a nerf cause it’s just a worse version of dancing lion it’s especially worse in NG+
She is horrible! A Japanese player used a tank build with the fingerprint shield, draw all the arrgo on himself to helped me kill this boss. This is after over 20 tries with solo, solo with box summon and lot of random players. She is horrible.
if it can be of help to people with pure mage build: after various tests with spells I managed to beat her using mimic +10 and Ranni's dark moon. At the beginning of the fight you have to avoid her attacks until she shifts focus to the summons and then you can move far away in the arena and spam the moons as much as possible. From time to time she will go after you so you'll have to learn how to dodge until she moves her attention away. Once she has defeated the knight summon Rellana will start to focus on you but she will already have low health so the important thing is to concentrate on avoiding all attacks while the mimic will do the rest of the damage. Additionally, Ranni's dark moon can be used to avoid Rennala's twin moon if casted at the last second before the moon hit the ground (during the cast animation you will be in mid-air and take no damage). I hope it can be useful to someone
The second phase was actually easier for me. In her first her sword combos feel a lot longer and more fluent, making them harder to dodge and giving less time to attack. Her attacks in the second phase look more intimidating and hit harder over a larger area, but the longer swings open her up more. Found that to be noticeably easier than the constant string of smaller attacks before.
Spelldrake Talisman +2, Fingerprint Shield w/ Magic Affinity, Blasphemous Blade and Mimic Tear made this fight trivial. She was only able to do chip damage against the shield, and I was able to finish her off with Taker's Flame before she was able to go into second phase.
Here I am, never using parries in any FS game. In the DLC she is the second boss where I found parries to be my best chance at winning. And I did! Very rewarding.
This boss never stops attacking. Also, if you're not at meta level, good luck. I'm level 80 and with +17 weapons you can't really even dent her armor. Edit I beat her using Executioner's Great axe +17 with heavy infusion and cragblade. I also used Mimic tear and I had a marika's blessing in my belt slot (Mimic will use it to reheal completely without wasting it.) Also, DONT forget to upgrade your shadow realm abilities at the grace site. I believe this boss is a check for that as upgrading will allow you to deal more damage and tank more damage. Mine was at 3 for myself and Mimic. I will say, at level 80 with 45 vigor, EVERYTHING in this DLC hits like a MACK TRUCK. Most enemies hyper armor through your attacks and just 2 hit KO you. Struggling is real.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We think Dryleaf dane was removed as a summon after the day 1 patch, so you can only summon Leda
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It’s not that… she’s mandatory you can get to the new area by using those jump pads and when you get in new realm you can get dryleaf
Being very agressive worked best for me there are some combos where you can dodge behind her mid attack and get a hit off. She is my favorite boss.
@Itzkrezy what new area? Is there a way to skip this boss and come back later??
the area after the boss, and yeah you just come back in front of the castle yes you can skip this boss
Aye good on ya for showing the dodges in slow motion, cause most those no hit videos that blow up can easily have a no stagger/damage mod on and making it look good.
Pontiff Sulyvahn probably checks under his bed at night to make sure Rellana isn't there
😂😂
Pontiff walked, so this pain in my ass could run.. 😭
Thats a good one 😂😂
That’s what I said, Relanna is like the bastard child of Pontiff and Melania
It's his daughter he abandoned
I almost got her on my first try,until she pulled the twin moons, I deadass lost it
Lol I was exactly the same😂
You didn't see the twin moons on your first try. Let's start calling out these losers that lie about video games they play
@@stormbringer6704 going into the DLC most people are around level 120 or higher with like 14 heals, its not that unbelievable.
@@stormbringer6704I saw them on my first attempt. It took me like 25 attempts to beat her but it's not unlikely that somebody sees the double moons on their first attempt
@@stormbringer6704idk it’s pretty common for me to have a really good first run against a boss. Then it goes downhill for the next 20 attempts until I miraculously defeat them.
pontiff graduate from raya lucaria academy
Bachelor's for the swords, but you need a masters for the stand
Pontiff's coolness is still unmatched I'd argue. His coolest attack was the foreshadow clones. With WINGS.
He was easier than this guy lol
@@raymfivetwelve2247girl you mean
Pontiff if he chose the Shura ending
Beat her solo after 40 trys, man she has combos that never end. The ice projectile at the start of the second phase was driving me crazy. Harder to dodge than it looks
That move is such garbage. The second to last beam is borderline IMPOSSIBLE to dodge. Ruins the fight for me
I run sideways for the diagonal slashes, then jump the first horizontal slash, making her shoot the second one in the air so you don't even have to dodge it. Just dodge the last one while running towards her for a free hit.
@@kevinmiller5051 she still hits me like 50% of the time when I do this.
@@eliwilson8242 what i did was run away while roll backwards & slightly earlier than usual while praying that the longer travel time gave me time to it, usually worked
you can usually make her switch to the easier to punish flame move if u get close to her during startup too
I beat her today in ng7 for that move if you constantly dodge to one side you won't get hit at all
2nd hardest boss after Malenia so far. This fight was crazy.
Edit: Beaten all bosses except final boss. Died to Gauis more than anything else so far. Final boss kicking my ass rn
No?
Ha. Wait till you get to Messmer if you haven't already... 👀
@@EmptyBrewsky i fear the worst haha
@@F1shyBab1shyYes
@@EmptyBrewskyHow did you already get to Messmer? The dlc literally came out yesterday.
Dodge and wait for 35 hit combo to end, hit once, repeat 1000 times. Quality combat design right there
You can just parry her, also this guy is playing her really safe, you can play more aggressively and attack in her combos.
right ? what a joke. I get Rellana down to 10% and the desperation of troll spamming becomes insane.. dodge dip dodge dip times 30 .. Why do enemies not have endurance meters ? My boosts last 10 seconds.. this crackhead Boss has meth and crack on tap.
Yep! 😂 trash boss design.
@@theholypopechodeii4367 I do that and her combos just overpower me
@@dannysummers4591 did you parry or did you just block?
They basically gave a Carion Knight the movesets of a Black Knife assassin. One of the hardest things I have ever fought in a video game but incredible rewarding!
She's literally just Pontiff from DS3 but sped up
@@DarkrainHDpontiff is by far easier lol
@@theflipper404 yeah because he's slower lmao
@@DarkrainHD Pontiff doesn't have a move that one shots you and bounces you like Rellanas moons do. Also doesn't clone themself like Pontiff does. Rellana uses far more magic and also is way more relentless with their combos. Really nothing like pontiff at all lol.
@@theflipper404 Whatever helps you sleep at night homie
I’ve never been stuck on a boss for so long in my life. Not even the demon of hatred or melainia. I’ve fought her for roughly 5 hours total now and have gotten so close so many damn times I’ve lost count. I’ve realized it’s largely because I’m trash, but also because my build is trash as well. But I think I’m gonna keep going at it with my crap build for one more day since I’ve already done 5 hours with it lol
Bro fr man my brain is slowly dying 😭🙏🏼
if ur not already using them, damage negation items help a ton
Ong, this boss makes Sister Friede look like a tutorial boss
please keep me updated, you got this
took me about a hundred attempts, you'll get it..for the fist time ever I had to guard counter for the win
"hey, what's that double moon? Looks cool, I think that's simil... AYO WTF"
You released this video minutes after I defeated her myself.
Congrats! I was specifically waiting for you to beat it.
Same lmao
@@Fextralife I knew someone was spying on me! I KNEW IT!!!
...How did I do? :P
It was glorious
@@Fextralife 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I just beat her and honestly i recommend Jumping over her twin moon attack instead of rolling, its way safer and you have enough time b/w all the three AOE's
This
I specifically had to time the jump too so that i could jump over the first slash and she would then aim the second slash above me and miss, it felt so good
Wait shit wrong attack lmao nvm but still agree
Agreed
Especially since Jumping makes your entire bottom half invincible the same frame you press jump (A full second of immunity)
the amount of patiance u need is crazy, dodging 7 attacks only to get 1 hit in before she starts a different combo
Some might say bad boss design.
The thing about this boss issue is, she’s quite actually similar to Margit. Since she’s my first boss in the dlc, they taught the player to give up the instinct of dodge away whenever they attack. Roll toward your problems and they’ll be very rewarding
Yeah I think players just need to be more close and aggressive. Obviously you want to only attack when it makes sense but being closer actually slows you to dodge more easily rather than sitting at mid range
The problem when I roll towards her is, it feels impossible to dodge the next move. Especially when she tracks you through the air, when those swords come down, you gotta pray you're close enough to be out of range. I've lost to her 40 times, lost 50,000 souls and ran out of Summons....I feel very defeated
That just isn't feasable when the boss is fast you can't even recognise the attack. This also isn't helped by her thin as fuck swords that may actually be invisible in that dank dimly lit boss room.
@@monstermash1571bro Ive lost over a mil runes to her. Still haven’t beaten her but I will eventually 😈. I will parry everything and win without ez mode
@@roro_onlinesame bro i think my problem now is i rely on the shield too much, her second phase is too much for me
You can bait out her fire tornado by staying close to her when she loghts her swords. Just be ready to dodge back once or twice to avoid the tornado. Much easier than dodging the magic projectiles.
For the dual moons, run away when she goes up and then jump over the shockwaves.
i agree and easier to punish her after she casts fire tornado
It is also possible to just hold a shield for the double moon and dodge the last move.
@DCkogsch Jumping is easier imo, jump towards her and after the last attack you get a free punish.
I spent 6 hrs on her today bc i decided to do it on ng+7
Same bro getting spanked
Ng+5 here
Ng+ 4 this is my first wall a few attempts in
Oh brother I feel your pain we shall suffer and triumph together here in NG+7 hell may we experience the dlc longer than most
Is it true that new game + 7 makes it harder? I thought the DLC area was exempt and the blessings to be picked up in the area matter more, how does it all work?
I've just defeated her minutes before you posted this video
Congrats!
ACTUAL TIP!!! I managed to down her on my 2nd try, i'm quite amazed at myself believe me or now, i found a weakness in her moveset by accident. Lvl 165 character strength based NG+0, Scadu Blessing +4.
I am using greatsword of solitude, and a charged heavy enthusiast, it appears that when i charge heavy with this weapon, most of her attacks (especially piercing and horizontal swipes) just go above my character and never hit me since he crouches when charging =)) you guys should try this, it was awesome!
I have noticed the same thing but I've only done it by fluke. Is it consistent? Did U find heavy spam effective? I've been guard countering
@@qwikscopez6619 It's not 100 % consistent i think i also got lucky with RNG because she did the appropriate swings and not the ones that hit low to the ground that might clip your character.
I have not redone the fight yet because i managed to complete DLC only once til now, IRL work got me tied up and i couldn't play much, i will let you know if the same happens once i reach her soon in NG+1, weekend is coming up ;)
Walked into this fight with an Intelligence build centered around the Dark Moon Greatsword. Perhaps the most frustrating fight I've ever experienced since there didn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Essentially just tickled her to death over the course of like 10 minutes per attempt while trying to avoid half of the instant kills that are in her kit.
Then one of my friends walks into this fight with a Dexterity Bleed build and kills her in like 5 tries...
Ironically she's kinda really vulnerable to rannis dark moon. I had Lusats staff in right hand and regal septar in left, magic scorpion charm, +3 magic greatshield talisman, the two graven school tailsmens, snow witch hat, magic cracked/opaline hardtear, Terra magica, rannis dark moon and just kept spamming while running. I also summoned Leda but u dont have to do that tbh. I beat her within like 7 tries
Had like 80 int 60 vig/mind/dex and like 30 endr
I am an int build as well, used Tische as well as the NPC summon to hold her attention, then spammed Ranni's Dark Moon over and over till she died
I am also Intellectual Sword build with DM Greatsword. Haven't beaten her yet, but I think many openings described here (double stab combo end) given enough time for heavy attack. But I am also the kind of guy who is unhappy if I beat a major boss in less than 10 tries.
@@pirolysis single dad with 10 kids here so after 3 hours I npc summoned and mimic
Terrifying misdirection moves on this one. So cool.
First real wall I’ve hit in the dlc. I gotta go look for more fragments I think. Currently at Scadutree Blessing 4
She’s not optional so you’re at max until you unlock the next area
@@Heizzer47nah you can go around the castle. I’m fighting her at blessing 7
@@jonnyroberts1775 how do you get around the castle that early?
@@cartermiles5342 at the bottom nbefore u enter that castle area if u take a path to the right and southward, theres a cliff with bats at the bottom. u follow those drops to get into the poison ravine. take that to the end and u go left and there will be spirit springs (which need to be unlocked). it leads to another castle. if u exit that castle theres a grace near by and a tunnel. on the otherside of the tunnel is a ghostflame dragon fighting soldiers. u can run past that and ur pretty much in that large area after rellana. i got 6 blessings cuz i was looking everywhere for this one armor set that ended up being at the beginning of the dlc lol.
I beat her at Scadutree Level 7. I had to get stronger.
you forgot the part where if you are far enought away and heal with the flask she instantly uses a carian slicer .___.
if u get far enough u can still dodge after using flask
hardest part for me is just dodging her attacks. feels like they never end. what i find works best for me is dodging to her left in phase 1 and dodging to her right on phase 2. its just hard to consistently strafe her attacks because she jumps around so much
This Really helped, just beat her! Thank you!
I had a similar thought when fighting her but honestly don’t overthink it with left or right. Dodge backwards on attacks which cannot be punished, dodge into attacks you know leave an opening. It allows you to space some attacks and get parries easier. I’d say parrying her is absolutely necessary if you try fighting her at a low level. The one attack she does which I can only describe as a downward X slash which looks like the claws backstep attack is super easy to parry.
Must be nice being able to take more then 2 hits
Man this ng+ shi no joke
For reals. I'm in NG+9 and I can't take a full combo
@@jr_games4477 dont worry man i get it, sucks being at ng+37 while fighting her for the first time in your life
I'm honestly thinking of just starting a new save and coming back to this dlc without ng+, this is fucking insane
@@cooldog8580 who tf does more than three ng+? honestly after the third one you cant do anything new, same weapons and shi, i'd rather just make another save
Ah sweet suffering.. let’s all enjoy this moment!!
"Make sure you dodge that slice, unlike me" got me more than it should
a heavily underrated sword for this fight is the beastman curved sword, tune it with ice magic and u can pretty much spam jumping R2's and R1s pretty easily, add bloodhounds step to dodge easier and tears that up ur magic damage and chance to stagger.
I agree on staggering. My main build is using jump R1 attacks with duel Rusted Heavy Anchors. For Rellana, all I needed to do was just get right in her face and spam jump R1s. I might’ve gotten lucky or something because I beat her on my first attempt and she didn’t even use any crazy attack combo, she kinda just let me spam jump attacks. Compared to the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, she seemed a lot more easy to read at least in her attacks align with not making the camera go crazy.
@@dbean5174Thanks so much dude I really wanted to beat her without using any summons like the other bosses, decided to try out dual anchors and I finally beat her in a few gos. Anchor for the win
@@bodaciousfallacious275yeah I like them a lot. I was trying a duel Gargoyle’s twin Kade build with bleed before this and while it actually has the potential to do a good chunk more damage than the duel rusted anchors, I found them to be a lot less inconsistent and not only that but I need to be much closer to actually get damage in.
on the span of over 3 days i finally beat this boss. no mimic no summon just pure fucking suffering and dedication. hardest boss yet from the dlc and im not ready for whats next in the journey.
New favorite boss ever every single one of her attacks can be parried it’s like a misericorde goldmine
I hate this boss so much harder then Melania no cap.
Yeah feels like there is much more going on especially in phase two
Yea too much damage and she's tanky as hell
Nah the boss is fun, but it's pretty hard
@@Realkeonrthis boss is not fun this is probably the worst boss fromsoft has made since Laurence from Bloodborne
Lmao the salt reminds me of when people started talking about Malenia. I love it. She's a great boss
5:17 love that there’s no possible way to avoid every attack in that combo unless you’re lucky enough to have distance. everything else in the fight seems like something you can learn but this move just seems luck based.
Important things not mentioned:
1. In her “neutral” state when she’s walking around. If you are a couple meters away from her and you heal with red OR blue flasks, she can do her ranged lunar attack and pretty much negate your heal.
Only heal when you know you have a window. Preferably during her magic casts or after an attack string
2. In her second phase, depending on your position and distance from her, she can EITHER do the fire or magic sword combos. I think it’s easier to keep your distance and avoid the moon slices. Dodge the first two, JUMP over the third and she will miss the fourth. Then dodge the fifth to the left or right.
I think I died to Rellana at least 100 times. I had to come back to her after getting at least 7-8 scooby doo fragments. Her second phase took too much health away the first time
also fun fact i found out if you lower her max health with black knife when the effect is over it does heal her
Found this myself! Changed to mimic and 1 shot
After 12 hours I finally go to RUclips
Some extra notes (I havent done too much testing) if you get up close to her for phase 2, she'll start with her volcano attack instead of the 5 waves. if you attack her while phase 2 is starting, theres a chance she just jumps straight into fighting without doing either moves
I felt like the parry god in this fight. Only had one fragment so I had to no-hit the second phase and made it through flawlessly. Shit was a scene straight from an anime. This might be my favorite boss in the game.
Very fun to parry too, takes two to get a stagger but it also cuts her combos short and gives a moment for a couple quick hits.
The move where she dashes to the side and does a spin attack felt like it had really intuitive timing for me, along with her gap closer cross slash
Yea she’s super easy to parry, everyone’s overreacting when it comes to this boss I beat her in 9 attempts and no hit a couple hours ago on my 33rd attempt and ima post it on my channel tmrw
@@heyysmearomaybe cause barley anyone parries in this game 💀 try dodging her
@@innerecho9468 Parying in ER is basically only for nolifers. Takes forever to figure out what can be parried and when. The mechanic is clearly an afterthought, If they gave us the Sekiro parry, then it would be worth spending time on it.
For any Heavy Strength builds, the best way to beat this boss is to use the fingerprint shield, and a high damage weapon.
Use Guard counter talisman and increased stamina recovery....
you should get to the second phase untouched
Also the Guard boost Talisman is great too
If you are struggling it might help you greatly to mix a new wondrous physique flask and swapping a talisman or two.
The moon drop attack can be dodged by rolling when the moons hit the ground. It is also helpful to get the right mindset to think “ I can do this”.
I spent about 15 hours across two or three days fighting rellanna. When I finally beat her yesterday I felt like I could actually progress this dlc. After rellanna I went on to easily beat divine beast dancing lion, blackgoal knight, and golden hippo. Rellanna is the “Margit the fell omen” of the dlc. I did it on ng+5 with scaudtree blessing of 3. It really helps to get it up. There is no shame in looking up a guide for scaudtree fragments or using summons to alleviate your misery. IT IS A MECHANIC
i'm so scared of whatever bosses are after this scary bih
Haven't seen the vid yet, but I took her down with guard counters on a pretty unoptimized build. Lightning is obviously a good choice, as half the arena is covered in water. Note there's surely a better way to fight her without taking damage, but for what it matters, the cuckoo great shield is solid enough. I used the dragon claw you get from the draconic tree sentinel outside Leyndell. In general, critical hits are the most effective strategy, either it be with parry or stance break
Took me like 7+ hours but I finally beat her. No summons, no mimic tear, solo (I went a little crazy)
Finally defeated her after seeing comment on reddit that suggests switching to a Light Greatsword with Wing Stance ashes. The leap attack helps you get a few hits in easily and just roll away afterwards!
This is straight up better than Malenia no bs waterfall no cheap ass healing mechanic, actually can tell when combo ends.
Beat her with Perfect Block tear. Great boss
Try without summon and then we will see, also saying malenia has cheap ass healing mechanic just because your summon gets hit and she heals is lmao
In what world is this boss not more BS than Malenia??
Combos that last forever, the ability to cancel/change attacks mid combo with no warning, absurd hitboxes, the ability to endlessly chain combos without you ever being able to get a hit in, absurd poise and HP. You basically have no chance to attack her as she's always unleashing another combo with little rest
At least with Malenia, you can stun her like you can a normal player and interrupt her combos that way. With Rellana though? Endless, infinite combos with little rest
malenia is just much more respectful and balanced than this boss. when you die on malenia it's your fault it's just infamous and the difficulty is artificial the life bar way too big and the damage just abused in addition to being random it's just not interesting and frustrating for the wrong reasons
I think you got malenia and rellana backwards
@keikei2942 The combos are not that long, I killed her with a UGS without many issues, and I had no issues with her hitboxes either. Malenia has waterfowl and heal on hit. Rellana isn't BS because she has no unfair moves, everything she does is telegraphed and dodgeable consistently.
one more tip i have
try fighting her when its rainy while using lighting dmg and always keep her at the water surface for maximum dmg
Rellana does the eigong attack from nine sols in her second phase...frame by frame.... what a fucking awesome.....easter egg
Her attacks are so awkwardly timed that even if you dodge the first sword the second hits
Gotta dodge in the right direction too, or use quickstep. I agree tho this boss sucks dick of you don't parry
Honestly bloodhound step made this fight really easy for me. Been using the backhand blades for this dlc and I just equipped the bloodhound step for this fight specifically and I managed to dodge a majority of her attacks with that ability. For the moon nuke I’d recommend jumping instead of dodging though.
this is the best tutorial, awesome stuff thx
I only need 5-6 tries to defeat Malenia, this one needs like 40 times!! Took me 3 hours and finally I just gave up and summon spirit ash and the knight to fight 😢
5 tries without ash of war?
If u did malenia solo in 5 tries youre faking lmaooo no way ur gonna perfectly dodge waterfowl that quick
I dodge it twice on my first melania fight today and then pro eeded to die 35 more times. I quit for now@shinren_
@@shinren_ loll actually my friend told me how to avoid her waterfowl during the fight 😅
Malenia is bit easier than rellana because of her low poise! I used giant hunt on my claymore and aspect of crucible horn to send her flying, when she's on the ground i switched to my second right hand weapon and spam flamestrike, on my sixth tries I made it
Don't read Souls playthrough comments. It's full of children who lie @@kluivertdutra
Rellana is one of the coolest Bosses in the Game... Her Twin Blades are OP, in the right situation and her Twin Moons are very viable as well. FS should have given her a questline. I would LOVE to see her and Melenia go head-to-head in battle.
one of my favourite bosses they made its hard as fuck but its so good.
the moon attack is one of the most crazy attacks ive ever seen
Leda + Mimic tear go BRRRRRRR
was using Black Knife and Leda and couldn’t do it. switched to Mimic Tear and destroyed her in one try!
I feel like I cheesed myself out of the fun by nobraining this boss with the mimic tear.
First time I switched out the ash as I want to actually enjoy a boss fight like this lol.
I beat her with the guts great sword with lions claw and to stop her healing inflicted scarlet rot with Melanias bloom flower incantation but even with all that she still was destroying me if I lost focus in her attacks
Ice great katana with wild strikes is really good for this. Stun her just before half health, and you can keep swinging freely for about 30% of her health
This boss fr took me like 60 trys but I killed her by myself😭😭
I FINALLY GOT HER, THANK YOU
Beat her solo, but these bosses are so tedious and exhausting, it wears you down to the point of frustration. She took less time for me than other bosses in previous FS catalogue, but it felt like it took twice as long with twice as much effort, yet without the proper satisfaction.
It's a shame cause the idea is there (awesome design, music, moveset). ER movement is way too slow to put up a fun fight against these crackhead bosses. If we had BB movement with a faster flask, then it'd be more like a back and forth dance, not a one sided wombo fest
I beat her solo with a carian knight shield with carian retaliation, and misericorde in the other hand. Learning to parry her is so fun if that playstyle is your thing. Probably one of my favorite bosses in the DLC so far
Started a parry build a few days ago. Not good enough for her on my main yet to win by parry, but it looks very doable and fun, because parrying can just shut down her 38 hit combos.
Impaling thrust helped me a lot with this one
Still took 11 tries which is about the same as malenia and mohg
This boss is beyond difficult to the point of being outright unfair. I never feel like I have any window to attack in the second phase.
Im calling it wraps for the night, pick back up tomorrow! Its 11pm as of now in Houston
Me too it's 01:40 here in brazil. This morning I will continue hahaha died around 20 times
@@adrianobelle1253been at it for like 5 hours no win it’s 7 in the morning…
Explaining what her combo enders are was really helpful.
If only I could fight bosses in the same NG like a remembrance practice option without having the need to beat the game again.
Naked Bow guy here & summoned Latenna for constant arrow pressure. Use status arrows/bolts- poison, rot, cold and she's weak to lightning.
Light roll helps avoid her AOE. Two hits to death, though.
я вчера сидел на стриме у чела и он здоровым медленным мечом ее пытылся пройти
I got rid of my blasphemous blade because of the drop this boss gives… it’s game changing for my build
FInally beat her, your tips really helped a lot man ! I use Marais executioner sword so finding time to charge up Echoaids dance was hard but thankfully I was able to find her combo ends thanks to you
im on ng7 shes got so much health and does so much dmg its great
just use cheese her with bleed
The pontiff is back
except pontiff is incredibly easy
Another tip which got me the W in the end is to not run away from her when she starts phase 2. If you poise break her and shes
The hardest part of this fight is figuring out when the damn combos end. Took me 10-12 tries to beat her because I kept thinking I had an opportunity to get a hit in, only to find out the 12 hit combo was actually a 13 hit combo.
I defeated the boss as a sorcerer, with the Ogha ashes and one of the npc summon. Let the summons take agro and bombarded it with the night comet
sounds lame tbh
@@krupadre0177 thats your problem then
@@sunzalea3257 No, i'm fine, I didn't spoil my playthrough by summoning so many npcs to watch them annihilate the boss
@@krupadre0177 why are you so pressed about how others play? lmao i dont get it??
Clean AF
You can skip the twin and hippo bosses, there is a spirit spring path for the twin and just parkour down the ruin hole for the hippo. Go gather the fragments then fight them.
brought me back to pontiff ngl with this one, I keep screaming "COMBO COMBO COMBO WHEN DOES IT END" then I learned there's an opening once I paid close attention, and went "ohhhhh" rly fun boss.
waiiit.. the voice is different ! hahaha jk thanks for the guide !
please get a Messmer guide out ASAP 😅
Me and mimic went ham with Mohg’s toast fork while the knight provided a distraction, and it was over very very quickly. I’ll come back and learn the fight later with a non cheese character.
it took me lik 3-4 hours, mostly because I got hit several times and/or got 2 shotted, but I obliterated her in like 2 minutes on my last attempt. the backhand blades +25 + bloodflame blade (I also tried poison and rot, they work really good on her, frost as well) the ash of war let's you dodge a lot of her combos, it's insane.
God damn my fav boss ever! and the weapon is so cool
i tank this boss with Grafted Blade Greatsword build, kill her within minute lol
How? I need help bad I’m stuck please help me 😢
This boss was a nightmare for my Mage build, too aggressive to cast anything solo, so had to summon Tiche to draw her attention back and forth while slamming her with night comets and dark moon spells.
This is my technique. Rock sling works well too since it does physical damage as does anything with frostbite.
One thing I noticed is that without bloodhound step it’s almost impossible to get away from her which just ruins your stamina causing you to die or take a lot of damage no matter what this is the only boss I genuinely think needs a nerf cause it’s just a worse version of dancing lion it’s especially worse in NG+
Second boss?? I guess I beat the wrong "first" boss ;-;
She is horrible! A Japanese player used a tank build with the fingerprint shield, draw all the arrgo on himself to helped me kill this boss. This is after over 20 tries with solo, solo with box summon and lot of random players. She is horrible.
skill issue ngl
@@MizzledewThe boss is fine, she just has too much damn health
@@Mizzledew I highly doubt it was a walk in the park for you, how desperate to pretend you are some amazing player, sit down! 😂
@@zhilong I never said she was easy, just that you calling a boss horrible bc you can't beat it is ridiculous.
She is piecing me up so badly, but goddamn is this fight fun. Pontiff could never be this difficult.
Haven't beaten her yet but that twin moon ability is so mesmerizing. Sometimes I die on purpose to see it again.
people really don't want to admit how hard this boss is..
Bro this fight was nuts I just beat her, took me like 3 hours, second strongest elden ring boss at the moment for me
This fight took me 2hrs!! You ain’t wrong about being patient 😅😅 47 deaths but let me tell you I LOVED IT SO MUCH! 🔥🔥
if it can be of help to people with pure mage build: after various tests with spells I managed to beat her using mimic +10 and Ranni's dark moon. At the beginning of the fight you have to avoid her attacks until she shifts focus to the summons and then you can move far away in the arena and spam the moons as much as possible. From time to time she will go after you so you'll have to learn how to dodge until she moves her attention away. Once she has defeated the knight summon Rellana will start to focus on you but she will already have low health so the important thing is to concentrate on avoiding all attacks while the mimic will do the rest of the damage. Additionally, Ranni's dark moon can be used to avoid Rennala's twin moon if casted at the last second before the moon hit the ground (during the cast animation you will be in mid-air and take no damage). I hope it can be useful to someone
The second phase was actually easier for me. In her first her sword combos feel a lot longer and more fluent, making them harder to dodge and giving less time to attack. Her attacks in the second phase look more intimidating and hit harder over a larger area, but the longer swings open her up more. Found that to be noticeably easier than the constant string of smaller attacks before.
I solo'd her, but I needed 3 posture breaks (with R2), besides bleeding effect. And it was still hell.
Spelldrake Talisman +2, Fingerprint Shield w/ Magic Affinity, Blasphemous Blade and Mimic Tear made this fight trivial. She was only able to do chip damage against the shield, and I was able to finish her off with Taker's Flame before she was able to go into second phase.
The last double slice before her last one is pure rng on med roll I feel like, I tried to jump over it but that too is rng if it works or not
She’s got this bubble spell too that basically lights up the floor and if you don’t time roll you get 1 shoted
Jump no roll
The most over powered combo of attacks in the whole fucking game
Here I am, never using parries in any FS game. In the DLC she is the second boss where I found parries to be my best chance at winning. And I did! Very rewarding.
This boss never stops attacking. Also, if you're not at meta level, good luck. I'm level 80 and with +17 weapons you can't really even dent her armor.
Edit I beat her using Executioner's Great axe +17 with heavy infusion and cragblade. I also used Mimic tear and I had a marika's blessing in my belt slot (Mimic will use it to reheal completely without wasting it.) Also, DONT forget to upgrade your shadow realm abilities at the grace site. I believe this boss is a check for that as upgrading will allow you to deal more damage and tank more damage. Mine was at 3 for myself and Mimic.
I will say, at level 80 with 45 vigor, EVERYTHING in this DLC hits like a MACK TRUCK. Most enemies hyper armor through your attacks and just 2 hit KO you. Struggling is real.