Below is a guide to helping you understand the enemies you'll encounter in Elden Ring. This covers their behaviors, strategies for fighting them, and some insight into how you should approach them:
General Tips for Dealing with Enemies 
•Learn Attack Patterns: Every enemy has a pattern to their attacks. Observing and learning these can significantly increase your survival rate.
•Use Terrain: Utilize the environment for cover, elevation, or to funnel enemies into choke points.
•Stealth: Many enemies can be backstabbed for critical damage or even avoided entirely with stealth.
•Elemental Weaknesses: Exploit enemy weaknesses to fire, frostbite, magic, or other elements where possible.
•Spirit Ashes: Summon spirits to distract enemies or bosses, giving you a chance to heal or attack from behind.
•Upgrade Your Gear: Regularly upgrade your weapons and armor to keep up with enemy levels.
Common Enemies
Soldiers and Knights:
•Tactics: Use shields for stamina-efficient defense or dodge their telegraphed attacks. Backstabs can be very effective, especially on knights due to their heavy armor.
•Drops: Various armor sets, weapons, and runes.
Undead (Like Skeletons and Zombies):
•Tactics: Watch for their slow, predictable movements. Skeletons require their necromantic runes to be destroyed before they can be permanently defeated.
•Drops: Bones for crafting, various armaments.
Wildlife (e.g., Dogs, Bears, Dragons):
•Tactics: For dogs, keep moving; they can be aggressive and fast. Larger creatures like bears or dragons might require ranged attacks or specific strategies like shooting dragon eyes or underbelly.
•Drops: Claws, fangs, scales for crafting or trading.
Special Enemies
Revenants:
•Tactics: These spider-like enemies have multiple limbs that can grab you. Stay at a distance, use ranged attacks or stagger them with heavy hits.
•Weakness: Fire, as they are susceptible to being burned.
Fanged Imps:
•Tactics: They are quick and annoying, often using ranged attacks or blending into the environment. Close the gap quickly or use spells to keep them at bay.
•Drops: Imbued Sword Keys or throwing weapons.
Albinaurics:
•Tactics: They come in two forms, one that can be beheaded in one hit if struck from behind, and another more resilient type that uses elemental attacks.
•Drops: Glintstone Fireflies, various alchemy items.
Bosses
Margit, the Fell Omen:
•Strategy: Learn his three-hit combo for openings, dodge towards him to avoid his hammer swings, and use the environment to your advantage.
Godrick the Grafted:
•Strategy: His first phase is easier; dodge his axe swings and fire breath. In the second phase, he'll graft a dragon head, so watch for the fire attacks from above.
Starscourge Radahn:
•Strategy: Use the environment during his festival fight, summon NPCs, and keep moving to avoid his sweeping attacks and meteor showers.
Annoying Enemies
•Fingercreepers: Known for their grab attacks and erratic movements. Keeping distance and using range is key.
•Warhawks: Their aerial attacks can be tough to dodge. Use a shield or ranged attacks, and try to hit them when they land.
•Giant Crabs: They can inflict status effects like Sleep or Death Blight. Using fire is effective against them.
Environmental Enemies
•Cathedral Knights: Often found in churches, they can wield different weapons, changing how you approach them.
•Leyndell Knights: Very tough with high poise, use heavy weapons or magic to break their stance.
DLC Enemies (Shadow of the Erdtree)
•Untouchable: Stealth and parrying are your best friends here. These enemies are particularly adept at close combat.
General Enemy Behavior
•Aggro: Some enemies have a wide aggro range, especially large ones like dragons or trolls.
•Patrols: Many enemies patrol specific routes, providing opportunities for backstabs or evasion.
•Reinforcements: Be cautious in areas where defeating one enemy might summon others.
Note: Having a thorough understanding of your enemies and their weaknesses will make your journey much easier. In Elden Ring, you need patience and observation, so keep your equipment up to date, explore alternative routes, and don't be afraid to retreat and return stronger. |
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