Astel, Naturalborn of the Void (Lake of Rot) - Full Narrated Boss Guide - Elden Ring [4k HDR] 

The hitboxes on this boss are atrocious

The toughest enemy in this boss fight is the camera.

His "1 shot grab" killed me three times when he was just one shot. It was unpredictable.

I found Radahn (without the summons) easier than this fucking boss, this is my first soulsborne game and I duel wield, I know every boss can not cater to my style but it’s so frustrating not being able to consistently hit a character because of where it’s head is.

Astel teleporting behind you and insta killing you with a grab attack is probably one of the cheapest way ever to make a boss more difficult

I feel like this boss has moves that have really janky dodge timings. For example when the boss bites twice I can roll through the first but the second one is so fast it catches you immediately after the roll. When the boss slams down it's left or right arms to do the shockwaves it feels like I can roll through the impact but then the shockwave afterwards catches me the second I come out of the roll.

This might have been the most diffult boss for me so far. I think the fight was very cool, but I got killed so many times by the gravity well that rises you to air and slams down. If I was missing even a bit of health I was dead for sure.

I love that FromSoft were just able to let go of any and all restraints with the designs for these bosses. As an artist myself, these enemy designs are like crack to me.

Use the Moonveil Katana’s special move up close and locked on to his head, every 2-3 hits should stagger it; riposte and then wait for the second it can be hit again, strike it twice with the same move and you will stagger trap it. Just beat him my first try with this little deal.

His "oneshot grab" dealt around 70% of my life pool, and I am very beefy, 50 endurance, 38 vigor, spelldrake talisman +1 and pearldrake talisman +1 with some of the heaviest armors in the game focused on magic resistance.

"I recommend using a faster weapon" Me, looking at my battle hammer: "I hope this is fast enough..." Edit: Fast-forward to present day, I've gone through every boss with the battle hammer +25 on a pure strength build, only levelling VIT/END/STR. No items outside flask, no ashes of war, no spirit ashes, no magic It was absolutely stressful fighting Malenia and Maliketh in the first playthrough, but I did it after 140 hours of play at level 125. 20 or so more hours later, I'm going into NG+3 with the same set up, but now I use Bloodhound step because Malenia's waterfowl dance makes me sad, and I throw sleep pots at everything I can.

I have died 50 times here 😪 been trying for 4 hours straight Edit: 22 minutes after this comment and 3 respecs later I finally killed it 🙌 . Went back dexterity and vigor and used Uchigatana but what let me finish it finally was switching to my bow and staying back and shooting its face over and over and dodging the rocks and beams 😀

I stumbled upon this boss randomly at 2:00 am last night and I almost had a heart attack, what a special experience, let’s hope I can beat this punk

For all of those who come here and watch this, good you did something good your willing to learn, the tactics shown and guide given is perfect. I will give you one extra helpful note, today I learnt in my mates game you can bleed this boss as long as you hit him in the head it's not a lot but it's definitely a good amount that helps. So for all you bleeders get the blood sword katana and use that have a fun time!

Thanks for uploading this, I was really struggling and seeing someone beat it the old fashioned way was refreshing!

That rotten breath dragon move was so helpful in this battle. That one shot move was literally the only reason why I was dying.

I discovered this boss on my own without seeing any spoilers, was an amazing feeling. I'm absolutely loving this game.

I actually found this boss one of the more manageable ones with Colossal swords due to how much endlag there is on those magic swipes. If you manage a dodge roll past it, you can get 2 full power stances in on the head with Colossal swords without any real risk. And that's like 1500 damage for me. Meanwhile, half the bosses in this game have infinite poise and can dodge roll halfway across the room on frame one of getting up. Those are the one where I'm REALLY regretting going Strength.

Perfect guide. Had lost like 10x in a row, watched this guide, beat him my very next attempt

All thanks to this guide, I beat it with a couple tries last one with the help of this guide help get through

I put bloodhound quickstep on my zwihander and it’s insanely good for this fight cause you can kinda abuse the I frames from it to just dash through most of his shockwaves and stay up his ass the entire time. Don’t know if you’ve tried it but it helped me still be able to use my big swords in fights like this.(it dose take a bit to get used to you play unlocked a lot of the time to free aim your dodges and attacks) but works very well when you get the hang of it.

I think you’re right about the insta-kill. I’m at level 90 with 40 vigor and he killed me at max health. I used your tips and managed to beat him after I got my timing on dodging his attacks worked out.

Video helped a lot! Beat him in 5 tries! Thanks man

This video helped a lot, thanks

I love this design, such a bloodborne looking boss. Got him to 20 percent

Not liking this boss fight, but I'm hopeful with your guide I can do this, cheers

This video was very helpfull, ty

Man that beginning was so rough and his damage so little I was thinking there's no way he can beat him. But he pulled through, damn good job.

2:13 damn the animation here is amazing

Tip: get close dodge an attack and use dragon rot breath. Now grab your heavy shield and start walking away and doodging. When he teleporrs run and check your surroundings so you can dodge into his bite attack. Its pretty easy if you do this

Thank you for your advice, it helps

Honestly a good video 🤘

This boss is making me want Radhan back. >.

A teleport flying grab is quite cheesy. Fromsoft really laying on the cheese extra thick in elden ring. His tail reaches across the entire arena and hits twice so you dodge the first bit and eat the second. Bosses hover for 10 seconds in the air, every boss has flight and half have teleports.

Great guide, made the fight fun and beatable

great guide thanks!

I managed to beat this boss first try and thought this boss was super easy, but when I saw this video I realised that I got suuuper lucky as the boss didn't use like half of his moveset, which were the heavy hitting ones

Im playing with out a patch (I have no internet right now) so maybe that has something to do with it, but this boss actually says "misbegotten of the void" and I think the boss plays a little different too, he always opened up with the cataclysm attack and it was always 3 meteors that came after me. Fight was definitely my favorite of the game so far!

May be I was over leveled for this fight (90) but I found it quite easy. I used the grafted blade which has an overhead strike that, not only did a lot of damage, but also caught the body of the boss in every hit. I managed to beat him in my first try, thanks to your tutorial. Which was not easy to begin with because I started the fight with only a few HP flasks and one MP flask. I managed to strike it down with both hands, disregarding any and all protection. Thanks!

many thanks!

I absolutely love the visuals on this boss. I think it’s one of my favorite designs in the game so far. It’s such a shame most of the hit boxes are horrible. I think about 90% of my deaths to this dude were from that one flying grab attack. This might be the post-boss fight salt speaking, but there were multiple attacks that missed me by a couple feet that the game registered as hits… Not to mention one time at the flying grab attack when I was far away from the boss and got warped into his mouth. Still, I think this is one of the prettiest looking boss fights in the souls games.

This boss looks so incredibly good. He is terrifying once you enter. That beam and his figure. The music fits the boss too. Fromsoft games are literally the best

THANK YOUUUUU

This guy is absolutely WRECKING me. And I had very little trouble with Radahn.

If you're a sorceror, use rock sling on his head and it'll set him up for a critical hit. Also, during meteor ohaze, run directly through him to his back while dodging. Dodged every meteor all three times

Latenna +9 trivialises this fight, she does so much damage all you have to do is survive. She shoots from the fog gate and the boss never targets her unless he teleports next to her

never commented on a video. so i would like to say THANK YOU for the tip i was all ways trying to stay close to the tail and didnt think to more to the head

thanks to this video i was able to beat this boss!!

I defeated him at SL70, only melee, hopefully some of my advice will help you: 1. Use jump attacks to the head/neck, whenever he does any of that purple mist explosive, they are easy to dodge, then 2-3 attacks does a fair amount of damage, use the Talisman to boost jump attacks as well. 2. He always does the meteor shower attack when he gets to second phase, make sure you either have a Mixed-Phsykick that negates damage and pop it at second phase, or at least enough HP to tank one meteor, you’ll likely get hit. In my experience running TOWARDS him is better than away from him. 3. Also make sure you have enough HP to tank his “Dr. Strange” attack, anything above 800 will do the trick I think. 4. Stay close to him at all times, if he teleports lock off of him and run around, if he teleports close to you, wait until you see the head, only then roll to dodge his insta-kill. 5. When he does the ground gravity explosive attack if you stay under him, the first 2 dodges can be done instantly after each other, but delay the third a bit, it changes tempo, once you see it it’ll be easy to dodge. Good luck, don’t be greedy stay consistent! He is a 5 minute fight if you’re getting your jump attacks in.

This was nasty...but having invested everything in my big strength collossal swords I was unwilling to swap, turns out it paid off. Using Stamp (Upward Slice) you can go giga damage and stagger this boi hard for a big finisher, he just had to behave long enough, two finishers and he was done.

Dude listened to this guide as I did it after. Atleast 5 instant kills and I won THANKS DUDE!

I beat him!!!! Best feeling ever!! Thanks for the tips!

Waiter, waiter! More grab attacks please!

my issue im having is, when i get close enough to actually hit him, i cant see anything else. its like my camera zooms right in and im inside my character. then i get nailed with anything and everything he throws.

Great guide, I love all your videos man. Keep up the good work

Thanks for the vid just found him lets see

Man the mimic tear is no joke, I beat him on 5th try. I have it +4 and my summon just spammed meteorite spell and I used rock sling from a distance and moonveil when he gets close. Easy staggers! He went into 2nd phase with about a quarter health.

Just did this at level 60. Was getting murdered until I just bought a bunch of fire arrows and used a +11 longbow. Made this fight so so easy

Wow! I wasn’t able to even get to Astral to hit him because I would just be one shot as soon as I entered the arena.I died no joke 15 times before giving up on him. I watched this guide, listened to your breakdown of his moves and did him in first time.

OMG THANK YOU FOR THE STRAT

Okay but can you tell us how to dodge out of the grab when he teleports above us?

Thanks, your video helped a lot with this boss. Also, I have 40 vigor, 43 with a talisman, and I did not get 1 shot by the crazy grab. Had maybe 15-20% hp left

OMG thank you so much. I watched some other Guides before but it was your Guide that made me Finally succeed 😍 One Guy was level 250+ and said its super easy if you this and that...🙄

thanks johnny ❤

Moonveil Katana's heavy attack does a lot of poise damage to him, 3 or 4 hits and you get a crit, plus it auto tracks the head so aiming is really easy

For me I don't stay long being underneath him. That is where he use those AOE attacks that are just hard to predict. I just be in front of him and bait him to do those slow attack then get in jump attack his head and 1 or 2 hits there then get out again. Lots of bosses in this game have AOE so you can't exploit like we used to in previous Souls game.

BRO. I watched your video 1 time and went back and clapped him. you're a legend cheers.

Thank you for explaining how to beat bosses

I killed the boss easy second try I just used Lhutel the headless as a summon because he can tank a lot of the attacks and just did jump attacks at his head

Heads up I don't know for sure, but I tested it for a good hour, it appears he doesn't teleport to do a death grab if you are hugging the wall when he teleports.

I love Astel so much 😍 And that "mirror dimension" attack that the fallingstar beast shares is referred to as the "Bass Drop" attack by myself and all the friends I've told about it 😆

that is the coolest thing ive ever seen

I am extremely curious to see the lore on this guy

Great boss! Not super difficult but you have to pay attention to what its going to do otherwise you will get one shot or two tapped. I recommend you are at minimum level 90 as you will need very high damage and health to beat this boss. Side note, this boss drops a remembrance to craft a flail and a gravity based AOE ash of war for colossal, great axe, or war hammers ONLY, and its currently bugged so hold off on getting it. To get Astel’s meteorite sorcery, you need to fight the second version of this boss in the snow mountain region.

Hey bro your tips helped a lot. After watching this video I beat it on my 3rd try 💪

god damnit that one shot grab got me two times when he was at 5% or less

me sitting at the fog gate waiting for a summon to show up lol. this boss is tuff idk if im just under-leveled or what

I beat this boss around level 67. It was tough but well worth the fight

Finally beat this dude with the great sword. Didn’t think it was gonna be possible

It’s a one shot no matter what and keep up the great work and amazing videos

I was really struggling with this boss, so I just left it and came back later. I found out, that the boss is really easy with the Sword of Night and Flame from Caria Manor. The light special attack deals huge damage to him and I beat him in the first try.

I have 1.2k health and every single grab move this boss has will 100-0 me. Considering that the teleport grab literally comes out of nowhere this boss is off the charts on my BS-meter.

Good content

This guy, the godskin apostle at Caelid tower, and the bell bearing hunter in Caelid are absolutely ridiculous.

Anyone know where to fight the second version of him?

One of my favorite Souls bosses now. Amazing art direction, weird cool attacks, decent difficulty, great lore - love it. And it looks like its made of cosmic blueberries

fighting this boss brings back the feel of dark souls 2 ngl

Literally almost broke a controller heard you say just focus on head, beat him, massive

I beat this boss on my first go I was not particularly hard but I died when he used his meteor rain but my magic killed it before I died This boss looks so cool my favourite design so far

If you want to make this fight a joke as a melee build use the bloodhounds fang and spam its weapon arc at his head. If you time it well enough you can use it to dodge through his giant gravity attack too.

i always run towards him as soon as he teleports to make sure if he uses those asteroids attack I can get under him

I just used the mimic ash with rotten breath. Both attacking at the same time pulverizes this guy in no time

I used rotten breath on it, held back, and got hits in when I could and he went down no problem especially with a summons to distract it.

Im starting to get better at this game i see

This game is absolutely massive

Wandered into this boss doing rannis quest line at level 75 powerstancing the dismounter and bloodfang and killed it second attempt. Had no idea it was considered a tough one at the time. Weird because I struggled hard on some of the other "lesser" bosses. That's soulsborne for you.

I’ve fought him so many times now and all he uses is that drop down grab move over and over ☹️, the head tip was great advise.

I was able to survive the grab, I’ll record it and try to upload it to twitter and @u when I can

I got here over leveled I think as I took him out first time. I barely survived the first beam blast but dodged them afterwards. My mimic summon kept him distracted the whole time.

The grab is the freaking worst. Gets me everytime