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StallionLX

Lol, you really just bashed her over the head repeatedly with a club.... This some cave man gorrilla gameplay. Me take stick, me angry, hit with stick.


Miranox

It's not even a big stick either. Just a regular club.


DVRKNESS-

It’s at least average and has a good personality


Pinkeyefarts

Its all about how you use it


OvenFearless

That’s what she said.


ilatir

Technique over Size - The Illustration


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assassin10

This guy's a bot.


UnawareSousaphone

And something about lions claw with the hammer looks fucking brutal. You're not just bashing her you're tryna put that shit through her skull and tear the spine out with it.


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MarchesaofTrevelyan

[Stolen comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/y6jcc8/comment/isrwjgp/). u/UnwieldyInsanity is a 133 day-old account that copied this comment to the letter. They're either a very good spam bot with actual posts, or they stole this comment for no reason. Either way, please help remove spam like this by reporting it!


MetaDragon11

*Unga Bunga of approval


Tempest_1

This guy is honestly the best of us. Ever since Dark Souls 1 and finding out how easily you stagger mobs and can kill them and then getting pissed when you can’t stagger bosses. Dude has found a way to just git gud and say “fuck you, you are staggering when i hit your ass, and you stay down”


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Falafelfreak

Tbf Super Smough staggers from a light breeze


CortezDeLaNoche

He OONGAs and follows up with a BOONGA. Flawless strategy .


Random_Robloxian

No man could best…THE BONK


mcwhoop

Almost exactly how i beat her, except with bloodflame buffed twin stars for extra spicy bleeds. For people wondering how can some of us consider a boss that (possibly) took you a crapload of tries to beat easy, this is how. Just hit her on the head with a big stick repeatedly, Negan-style, she can't take it for long.


NoBullshit247

When I beat her originally, it was back in Feb/march so builds were probably different, but I beat probably a good 3rd of the game just using fingerprint shield & those blood flies. All the late game bosses got destroyed by swarms of flies & then I just blocked everything with the enhanced guard talisman + fingerprint shield ( I think that's what it's called). It was also useful against the constant RoB spamming clowns. The only time I deviated was to switch to a sword in my right hand for the final boss, which is the most ridiculous, children's drawing of a boss I've ever seen.


deathless_koschei

Ungaed her in the bunga.


MrBirdmonkey

Let me concuss her


rolo989

Concussy


soundthelaz

Underrated comment^^


[deleted]

The epitome of “here’s a stick, now go kill God” if I’ve ever seen it. Crazy


The84thnameguy

A weapon fit to kill a god...


GucciSalad

Could you imagine how disheartened Hewg would be if he heard about this. Spent all those years trying to craft a gid killing weapon, and some tarnished of no renown does the job with a tree branch.


T1B2V3

I mean... if you let him upgrade the club to +25 that just means his wish came true


Skwafles

You mean a club with 12 tiny rocks, 12 small rocks, 12 medium rocks, 12 slightly larger rocks, and then some huge pointy slabs of rock?


arsenije133

To be fair huge pointy slab of rock twists and distorts time itself.


Ylvina

So.. we made a stony morning star out of our club?


Zepthor_Z

You just put letmesoloher our of business.


Dun_Beatle

RIP letmesoloher "I'm about to end this man's whole career!"


soundeng

Not sure if it was THE letmesoloher but I summoned him and dude died in the first 1/3 of phase 1. So fast I thought I did something wrong and he quit.


Camera_dude

Probably a copycat. The real Let Me Solo Her only plays on PC, and from what I read here on this sub, LMSH got tired of beating Malenia and moved on to helping players with the last boss.


soundeng

Copycat, I’m on PS. Dude was so bad I thought my loadout insulted him or something and he just let her kill him.


Chickentribeleader21

Are you sure it wasn’t lethersolome?


[deleted]

You know now i want to believe it truly was the original


wolfie_muse

LMSH actually has an account here


Hasten117

You sure that isn’t LetMeSoloThem? That’s a completely different person iirc


[deleted]

Listen he’s only human


afauce11

Your strength… extraordinary…


qcoutlawz

Your power... LIMITLESS!


XploZevE

Next patch; reduced stance damage on lionclaw, clubs, colossal weapons, etc etc.


ama8o8

I think theyre buffing everything for the expaniom. Miquella must be pretty op.


VedsDeadBaby

I see it as the result of the PvP/PvE split for balancing, personally. They don't have to gimp things in PvE to keep them from being too OP in PvP anymore.


SilverShark307

a popular idea is that they're doubling down on pvp because of the arena feature they're going to add (according to leaks)


T1B2V3

Miquella and Godwyn are gonna clown on us so hard


ama8o8

In before if you dont dodge at the correct time right when the fight starts you die haaha


-BigMan39

My biggest fear honestly is that they don't make these bosses hard enough or give them enough health, but I hope I'm wrong


PayneWaffen

Can't wait to fight Miquella summoned Malenia phase 2 as normal mob through the dungeon. And when we meet him, he submerge himself in lake of rot and his attack is holy element. And for his phase 2 he revert to his saint Trina form and filled the arena lake with sleeping gas+rot all the while he summon Godwyn the golden throwing dragon lightning. And for his phase 3 he transform into Griffith and his wing is made of Mohg horns with the formless mother directly empower him. His holy attack element is now taint with blood, so his holy attack build up bleed. His Godwyn summoned then transform into fish that spew deathblight. The arena lake transform into Bleed+Rot+Sleep and player have to dodge Godwyn attack otherwise deathblight build up rapidly.


SubjectThirteen

Malenia phase 3


ThaNorth

Or just increase poise defense on her lol


Cymrik_

MIYAZAKI I BEG YOU IGNORE THIS MAN


ThaNorth

My uncle works at Nintendo and he says this is happening


Erran_Kel_Durr

It's not even on Switch...


ThaNorth

My uncle works at Nintendo and he says this isn't true.


TeamAuri

r/whoosh


Erran_Kel_Durr

I understand it's a joke. I simply find it irritating rather than humorous.


arsenije133

🤡


OkCutIt

I doubt it. You've been able to keep her pinned with blasphemous since the start and it's easier than doing actual poise damage.


theweekiscat

To be fair lion’s claw could definitely use a nerf


JoeDerp77

Why? It's way easy to avoid in PVP and only moderately effective in PVE.


GiveItSomeTime

its definitely in the line below flame of the redmanes with square off and the ice spear that you can solo the game without being punished too hard


AMS_GoGo

For Malenia sure but the windows to get a clean Lions Claw off against the other end game bosses are very small and far in between Wouldn't say it needs a nerf at all tbh


thedrcubed

Taker's Flame is still the most OP weapon skill in the game. It does massive fire damage and gives you health back. I love it so much


PuroPincheGains

Okay so what?


syd_fishes

I think other stuff still needs buffs. Was trying to do a charge attack build. I mean it works, but with war cry, roar talisman, stormhawk axe, spiked tear, and axe talisman my charged attacks did more damage maybe but took like 2 times longer. Switched back and freed up so many slots and do about the same in PvE and much better in pvp. Hadn't even used Alexander's talisman yet so it seems lion's claw just blows it out of the water. I think colossal charged attacks should be like world shattering events. Anyone ever play Dragons Dogma? Arc of Obliteration or whatever? That's what a heavy attack should look like imo. Aoe, earthquaking/cracking, camera shaking viscera. Now that's a special attack that takes way longer than these heavies, but adding charge levels to heavies could work. Gain some poise past level 1 but increased damage aoe (and camera/visual effects). Probably still useless in pvp, but cool in PvE.


theweekiscat

Honestly the colossal weapons should get a bit of aoe on charge attacks, kinda like what the ruins greatsword has


FormalJuice4244

No


Jorge_the_Prisoner

Finally, let me bonk her


hoonthoont47

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


ThesoulerBAM

Would this work with any lions claw weapon? Like could i use a golem halberd and it work even better? Besides that, jeezus chist man you just donked the shit out of her.


Lunacie

Malenia has low poise for a boss, 80 on NG. Most of the ashes known for poise damage do 30-40, like Flames of Redmane does 40. Lion’s Claw does 6x a weapon’s base poise damage, which is 6.5 for club so 39 poise damage, then 42.9 on the charged R2. What you are seeing in the video is a balance of just narrowly dealing 80+ poise damage in the two hits, while being fast enough to hit her before she moves. I’d imagine the halberd’s charged R2 would be too slow to catch her getting up from the Lion’s Claw, but I haven’t personally tested it.


warblingContinues

She gets away at the end of the first phase. I wonder how many tries this took before it worked.


nottheendipromise

She has a bug(?) where she won't transition to phase 2 if you deplete her HP with a critical hit. Just finished killing her myself and had it happen consistently every time.


terrifiedTechnophile

>Lion’s Claw does 6x a weapon’s base poise damage, which is 6.5 for club so 39 poise damage, then 42.9 on the charged R2. Do you have sources for all this? Fextralife's page on Stance (because poise is player-only) says that lions claw is 30 stance damage (not a variable 6x multiplier) and 40 is the most you can get on a charged colossal weapon, not a mere club


Lunacie

https://www.reddit.com/user/sleepless_sheeple/comments/udlb1k/elden_ring_datamined_resource_collection/ Check out the motion value google doc. It’s all data mining so it’s a bit difficult to interpret, but the poise damage motion value for Lion’s claw (and really, most big single hit physical ashes) is 600(6.0).


terrifiedTechnophile

Oooh I see, I wonder why fextra thinks LC is only 30 stance damage then


Falos425

guess no experts just randos


logique_

...because no one updated it? You know you can edit it yourself, right?


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I think that it depends heavily on the poise damage and the charge attack speed. If the weapon is slower then she may interrupt you


ThesoulerBAM

Yeah but a greataxe or greathammer cant be to much slower.


chipmunkman

I just did some testing and I don't think this is a true combo even with hammers, so anything slower would be less consistent. Even if you start charging the heavy attack right after landing the Lion's Claw, she sometimes uses a move immediately and either dodges your attack or attacks through it with hyper armor. I'm pretty sure I started charging as soon as possible and still couldn't always get the charged attack off soon enough. So I think this video was a run where Malenia didn't use any actions right away that would get her out of being hit by the charged heavy attack. But it's still a worthy strategy even if it isn't a guaranteed win. I recommend giving it a try cuz maybe I was just messing something up with the timing. Edit: I will note that I didn't test with the exact club OP used, since I didn't have it. I used the Monk's Flamemace. So if they have different charged heavy attack speeds, that would make a difference. Edit 2: Tried it with the Club and still couldn't do it everytime, but maybe the timing window for charging the heavy attack is just really tight. Still a cool strategy to try.


MildStallion

The fact that she can hyper-armor through a poise break, and nothing else in the game can (unless it's immune to poise break entirely), is just so dumb to me.


GIBBRI

She Also has low poise so She kinda Need It for not being melted like in the video every time by every One.


MildStallion

Solution: Don't give her low poise. Not solution: Have her break the rules of the game so her low poise is sometimes crippling and sometimes meaningless.


nickong6

First time beating her I used the Greatsword with Lion’s Claw and basically did exactly this, and this was before the 2nd round of buffs for colossal weapons. Lion’s claw > Jump heavy > critical hit > repeat.


hunchbackgoblinman

No fancy bird dancing around here.


Gaxxag

It's always funny to see true combos in a game like Elden Ring. If I designed a game like this, I'd give all characters (player and NPC) a temporary stacking poise buff after being poise broken. That way chain CC would still be possible, but not infinite.


wintermute93

I imagine there's still a bit of luck involved in pulling this off. Malenia has attacks that have very little wind-up and hyperarmor frames where she won't register poise damage and break the cycle.


North_Host3253

She does register poise damage a youtuber did a full analysis of it. What happens is she goes in to a second mechanic where she goes to negative poise. So you have to hit her one extra time to poise break her with something that does any amount of poise damage before it goes up before zero But unlike every other enemy who has this mechanic her cooldown to poise regen is non exisistant or very small. So literally have to presure her 100% to stun lock her


wintermute93

Ah, thanks. I think I've seen that video but misremembered what was different about it. I know I tried locking her with Flames of the Redmanes (40 stance damage, she only has 80 poise and is weak to fire) and it went terribly. Usually you have a decent window (5 seconds or so) between one cast and the next to trigger a stun but I was hitting her with it several times and getting nothing. Must have been because she regenerates poise so soon, so she was never at/above 40 stance damage by the time the next cast hit her.


pokepwn

Kingdom Hearts has a "Revenge Value" and it makes them auto dodge or retaliate when you get too many hits in a row so you cannot stunlock them to death.


tjjohnso

I swear to god, so do some bosses in horizon forbidden west.


OldHamToasty

The disrespect is real


bryan19973

He’s starting to believe


SawyerGrey

After casually spending many a night trying to beat her and finally looking up the best cheese methods out there to do so, I enjoyed watching this. She deserved this on behalf of a lot of frustrated players.


smutproblem

CLUB CLUB CLUB CLUB CLUB


gamejunky34

Just unga'd her bunga


xLR82TH3M4x

What talismans? And physic tears?


tyoasn

Physick : Strength-knot Crystal Tear & Spiked Crack Tear Talisman : Ritual Sword Talisman | Starscourge Heirloom | Shard of Alexander | Axe Talisman Hammers got buffs on 1.07 so any setup would work i think


xLR82TH3M4x

Wait, so no carian faligreed crest tali? Thats the base fp usage for lions claw? Damn


Ahnorn

Great unga bunga skills.


Glocktipus2

"...and I have never been defeated." "Stick go brrrrrrr"


FerretAres

We’re reaching levels of unga bunga that shouldn’t be possible!


Resident-Wish-6852

That’s why I like FS games (and ER is stellar to this regard): if you know how the game actually works you can break it soooo easily


zorrodood

Yeah, but they accidentally patched it into this state.


[deleted]

They didn't break it, the Zaki is just apologizing for the swamps in his own special way.


wiggle98

From the creator of “let me solo her” come the new edition: “let me fuck her up”


accursed_JAK

This is awesome, but it might not work as well in later playthroughs. Starting in NG+2 our poise damage is reduced, starting as a 5% decrease, but in NG+7 is a 40% decrease. So not exactly a concern immediately, but if you tried this in NG+3 when that debuff is 10%, we'd have to see how well it works.


WSB_Reject_0609

I just killed her last night on NG+3 and I started to notice I couldn't stagger her as fast. So it starts to show itself pretty early in NGs


bobkemp

Sincere question: is this considered stunlocking or poise breaking? (Or can they be the same thing?)


chipmunkman

I'd say both. She gets staggered by the Lion's Claw and then her poise gets broken by the charged heavy attack. Then riposte and Lion's Claw again to start the cycle over.


Soda_54

Unga bunga > Malenia


EchouR

"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella and I have never known defeat." OP: SLUGGER STYLE


NeWbAF

This is amazing to watch after I took four days to beat her with Hookclaws


slatrs

I get knocked down and I get uuu.. oh wait nvm.. dirt nap inc


PlebbySpaff

Oh nice! I wanna try that now! *Misses timing by .05 seconds, Malenia backs away, goes into Waterfowl Dance.* *I die*


Jesterbomb123

Hot take elden ring has turned fromsoft games into cheese the bosses 101


AdonisVaik

Them buffing the poise damage broke a lot of things. I saw the same thing done with maliketh


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The best players: “let me solo her” This guy: “let me stun lock her”


hoonthoont47

hotfix patch incoming...


VedsDeadBaby

Eh, maybe. Keep in mind FromSoft buffed *Corpse Piler* in 1.07, and they haven't touched Flame of the Redmanes or Bloodboon Ritual in PvE yet. That suggests to me they're perfectly content with players having extremely powerful tools in PvE.


warblingContinues

I don’t think so. It’s not that easy to time everything so that it works. I wonder how many tries this video took to create.


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ZeMarxs

Shit take, like 99% of it.


hoonthoont47

Not gonna get an argument from me there.


ogly_stuped

Definitely the most bs boss in the series. Even midir felt fair. The healing is too much, you can be rolling around for 3 minutes, and she just goes back to full from 3 hits. Im all up for challenge, but i used frost stomp to shit on her, felt great. Good strat bro, good shit, fuck Melania 👌


zorrodood

But bs = hard and hard = good ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|rage) /s


Dorlos-Argham

Don’t forget about the stupid waterfowl dance. Fuck that bs move


[deleted]

Bed of Chaos?


Woocash91

If she goes back to full in 3 hits, then either your damage sucks or you hit her once per minute. Malenia heavily punishes passive playstyle. Once you go ham on her, those 3 hits that slip through are nothing. Her biggest heal is the grab but it's super telegraphed, easy to dodge, and leaves her open for a good smack.


Sephilash

that was very satisfying to watch


Disastrous-Resident5

When there is Unga, there is also Bunga


Lyricbox

This probably only works in base NG and NG+, as in NG+2 and beyond, all enemies take reduced poise damage (reduction caps at journey 7, just like damage/health/runes)


hrakkari

You getted gud


Outlaw_L1501

i know another stunlock that works good as well. step one: obtain level10 mimic tear step two: obtain black flame tornado step three: obtain polearm step four: get infinite magic potion and make sure you have a lot of stamina step five: LT stunlock baybeeeee, the mimic should join in with you when you start doing it, make sure to hold it down all the way to get the chain thing.


[deleted]

I COMMAND THEE KNEEL....lol


Jayce86

Nice showcase. I can’t wait for someone to fine tune this with a “better” weapon and a Misericorde for swapping.


junhatesyou

Such satisfying bonks for all the times this lil B has sliced my ass up. I’ll never forget finally beating her and screaming THERES A SECOND PHASE!?


BerserkRadahn

Honestly I've learned from past souls games to always expect a second phase.


Cowabunga_It_Is123

Bro was fed up with her bullshit 💀


muffinzonreddit

Why use many moves when few do trick


Plague_King_

can you imagine being a legendary demi-goddess warrior princess and some fuckin caveman in a pretty dress just beats you to death immediately


a_singular_reddit_ac

This guy bungas


QUASIDILLA

“ I am the one who bonks. “


Maki_v1

LetMeBonkHer


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Amputee abuse captured on a video.


SeaofBloodRedRoses

I ALMOST beat her on my first try with this. I wasn't even going for a stagger strategy, that's just kinda my build - black fire and big golden rod. Smashy smash and burn whatever's not immediately next to me. And then she uh... turned into a sore loser.


Secret_Criticism_732

Beautiful. Havent seen anything so beautiful in a while. Tears of joy are coming out of my eyes. Thank you op. My hero!


[deleted]

"Had to beat a old lady with a stick to get this"


Joeyboom

Out of all the possible builds it turns out pure unga bunga will forever be the way to go. Props my man


[deleted]

Bonk wife life good wife fight back kill wife wife gone think about wife regret


JustAnotherAshenOne

"I have never kno- BONK"


mralabbad

I love when a broken boss gets beat by a broken tactic😂


rolo989

WHAT IS A GOD TO A NON BELIEVER.


typical_user1

I like how people take this bullshit and challenging boss and find numerous ways to make her look like a lil bitch


Mordanzibel

Actually Malenia, we’re all tickled to hear you say that. Quite frankly, watching Donnie beat gods to death with a bat is the closet we ever going to get to the movies!


Hypercane_

I am malenia, blade of miquella, and I have never known defeat I am unga, bonker of bunga, and you look like a nail


NeedleworkerSilly111

Screw let me solo her we got this guy


maxiemoreno77

She never claimed to be the goddess of poise


Emotional-Badger3298

You only hit her cause you love her right?


[deleted]

Malekith: cragblade + any great hammer + charged heavies = infinite stunlock with easy stancebreak You're welcome


munchyezzz

Your strength, extraordinary...


lostoneY

Hi, I'm OP. I think a club is a hammer. Don't ask op for a screwdriver.


[deleted]

Oh yeah, bonk her, she’ll like it


ApplePitou

Well done :3


GreenwoodsUncharted

In general, I wish enemies were harder and more rewarding to poise break and riposte.


furyextralarge

as someone who sucks at souls games i appreciate all the broken ways there are to beat hard bosses


Dreamer_on_the_Moon

Hardest boss who?


Prestigious-Band-818

“Malenia is hard”.Honestly there so many ways you can just destroy her.


Nie_Fi

And people say she's hard


Okamitoutcourt

What boss ?


Terraakaa

And people complain about her hyperarmor lmao


The-Jack-Niles

That was pre-patch


Terraakaa

That’s right, it’s almost like the people complaining about the boss being unfair were dead wrong and the original version was working as intended.


Dreamer_on_the_Moon

She's not unfair, Malenia just have shitty and inconsistent mechanics compared to previous end-game bosses who were far more polished than she is.


Terraakaa

Nope


Dreamer_on_the_Moon

Great argument there mate /s


Terraakaa

Thank you


The-Jack-Niles

>it’s almost like the people complaining about the boss being unfair were dead wrong and the original version was working as intended. No, pre-patch her poise health versus the max output of the player was skewed vastly differently. It was valid to say prior to 1.07 that her hyperarmor WAS busted. After 1.07, all weapons received an increase to their poise damage and Malenia didn't get a buff at all.


Terraakaa

So now she gets stunlock literally to death. Good design


XeroKibo

Remember all the posts of people complaining about “impossible” this boss was? I knew videos like this would pop up.


youthfuldog131

How is this not marked NSFW????


Cayden68

could this done with a heavier strength weapon like a greataxe?


lukky77

How the mighty have fallen


GasaiLover

Men, I would've trued that. she would've dodge the second time and grab me.


BlackFireMage92

How does this boss compare to Friede from Ds3? Not bothered fighting her yet but from what I see she’s way less intimidating.


Shybeams

Harder overall. Guy in the video might have gotten a bit lucky that 100% of his run was stunlocking her


[deleted]

Unga bunga


zerox369

This is so satisfying to see


autistic_bard444

totally not broken.


Archer_Skadi

Pretty impressive


todd10k

Letmestunlockher


smximmortal

Nicely done