Elden Ringreleased back on February 25 to critical and commercial success, but despite it being almost six months since the game’s release and players having discovered all the game’s secrets, many are still testing builds and strategies for conquering the Lands Between. While the game is full of difficult fights, the most notorious boss is Malenia, Blade of Miquella, as she has tested even the most hardcoreElden Ringplayers. In a video posted to Reddit, a player has managed to defeat her without taking a single hit.
MostElden Ringplayers have at least heard aboutthe difficulty of Malenia. She can recover her own health when she hurts the player, she has a lengthy set of moves making her difficult to predict, and she has a string of sword slashes known as the Waterfowl Dance that is incredibly difficult to survive. Despite her difficulty, players have found ways to defeat her and conquer yet another grueling trial in the game, even if it takes hours to figure out how this fearsome foe works.
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In the video posted to Reddit by user “Lancenfstr,” anElden Ringplayer uses a strategy focusing on parrying. The weapon skill used is called the Buckler Parry and is actually one of the easiest parry moves to obtain in the game; the player starts with it equipped to their Buckler Shield if they chose the Bandit class at the start of the game, or it can be purchased from Gatekeeper Gostoc at Stormveil Castle, thefirst major story dungeon inElden Ring. All of Malenia’s attacks can not be parried, though, which forces the player to learn strict timings and dodges to avoid seeing the infamous “You died” screen in her arena.
After parrying the majority of her attacks, the player is able to deal a ton of damage, but they have also spent several weeks figuring out her patterns and getting timings down for the entire fight.Parrying inElden Ringis also a bit different than theDark Soulsgames, requiring evenSoulsveterans to re-learn how to parry consistently.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella remains one of the most difficult boss encounters that developer From Software has ever created. At one point during development,Malenia was even more difficult than she currently is. With players finding unique ways to combat this fearsome foe months after release, there truly is a lot to discover and learn inElden Ring.
Elden Ringis available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
