Elden Ring DLC: HOW TO Beat Commander Gaius (Get Gud NOT Required) 

The hit boxes are broken for sure. The charge will damage you twice sometimes.

This boss would be manageable if it weren't for his charge attack. Whether or not you can dodge it feels like a coin flip.

Just fought him today. My biggest issue is when you lose the first time and how he is WAITING at that fog door for you.

For people wondering how the mimic keeps healing itself, it’s because she probably has raw meat dumplings on her hot bar. Mimics can use items infinitely even if you have just one equipped. Ergo, have at least one dumpling equipped as a consumable item when you summon your mimic and it will heal itself fairly reliably.

Pumba is too aggressive

Crazy how his AI is completely different in your game than mine

I think it’s sad you have to defend yourself about using an in game mechanic, this community has become so toxic. Use whatever means you have been given to beat whatever boss, it’s meant to be played that way. If you decide not to use said mechanics and want to get gud then go for it but don’t bully those who don’t care to do so.

When you enter the bossroom, simply run left around the corner completely, summon mimic, 2hand blasphemous blade and spam L2. 5 L2's was all it took me. (after dying 300 times) -edit Scadutree blessing lvl 15 by the way

He's just angry he couldn't wear his pants

my advice is no matter what, do NOT use your horse, bro is like twice if not three times faster than it and will kill it easily

The duality of boss quality in every piece of content From makes is hilarious. We get shit like this and then we get Renalla, Midra, and Messmer 😂

I love getting stuck on the entrance door

tbis boss was dumb because even with a shield his boar charge attack drains half your HP. like.... that's not how shields work in souls games.

I miss when FromSoft bosses had attack windows that the player could utilize

It’s comical how he’s not melting youre mimic at all lol he like never comes after you. 😂😂😂

Fought this dude today and i can say he is the worse cheap boss i have ever fought. here i though bael was bad when i did that fight but no this dude takes the cake. Hes hit boxes are a joke and even targeting him like having him locked on a lot of my jump attack would not hit or land. I was able to beat him but my god i dont even consider him hard you just cant do much because your getting slam left and right and him hitting you with combos that take half your life. When i finished this fight i just felt annoyed and i feel true souls bosses shouldn't leave you with a feeling like that but with a feeling of loving the fight and the boss and feeling proud you beat it.

Bloodhound step makes the boss doable

Thanks for the guide, it was the friendly break I needed to mental reset and get him down :)

SO many bosses in this DLC feel like "Look how cool my boss is" rather than "Lets make a fun battle"

i stunned him with greatstars and swapped it to marias executioner. fully charged one did like 40% of his hp per time

I’ve been trying to not use my mimic tear, but you’re right, this guy deserves it. Unless I experience a Groundhog Day situation, I’m not going to get good enough to beat him on my one.

boss will focus in on you first before going for the actual spirit summons the mimic seems be the only one that has this aggro first thing going since its basically just copying you. any other summon will just get killed unless there another spirit summon i dont know about that is both tanky and heals it self and dose best damage and keeps aggro with the boss . but this boss can easily keep up with torrants attacks if you decide to think smart and try to jump over him, then he just easily switch side to attack torrant , even tho this fight near cliff side you cant force him to jump off any actual interest way to fight this guy throw it out the window. sacred blessing level needs to be 12 to15 above .you try to just keep fighting tho if you get luckily ash blessing needs to be 10 to 15 as well. use mohg spear for its LT ability and get on the other side one the walls for the first phase if your really luckily you wont have to leave that wall, but if not you gonna have to fight him use mimic at level 9 or 10 and switch walls fk honor he deserves to get cheese,

I'm curious what sprit blessing you're at here, my mimic dies immediately it feels like.

That charging attack needs to be coming to me faster so that I can dodge into his hitbox with dodge roll i-frames. That is one big stepping stone to make this boss better. I can’t fathom how testers even dodged into that charging attack or whatever happened. Did that charging attack get properly tested?

He likes to spam his charge attack and 1 shot me with the ground gravity under me. Cant figure out how to get away from that. It happens right under me and by the time i see him queue it, its too late. Its too big of an aoe for me to get out

I don't really think he's hard personally, but I do think he's just a bad boss. His hitboxes are just all over the place and he can hit you twice on some moves.

If you want to kill Commander Gaius, try to use incantions against to him with your mimic. I reccomend the spell from the Giant Fire and other spells whatever you want.

I've been solo-ing all the bosses, but I straight up dgaf and summoned two players and we wrecked him. It just wasn't worth my time, I wanted the five scadutree fragments so I can focus on solo-ing Messmer, a fight I'm actually enjoying.

the july 3 patch moved him back to his original position when you first fight him. lots of videos i watched he is right there on further attempts. now he is way of to the left at the edge of the arena. the gives to some extra time to pull out your summon or apply buffs.

After messing around trying different things I switched to just having me and my mimic using impenetrable thorns on foot and got him wrecked on the second try.

Put bloodhound step on a fire knights great sword or a great katana. There are two or three attacks you can jump over instead of roll to get a jumping attack on him. Dodge right on his long combo. When he flies in the gravity spin you have to wait until he starts moving at you then bloodhound step at him and jump attack. You should take no damage from the spinning gravity thrust this way if you do it right.

this boss is ridiculous

Nicely done!!

How the hell is your mimic healing

Using the Spell, Miriam’s Vanishing move worked well will dodging the charge attack.

If you use the Fingerprint Stone Shield, it completely blocks like 90% of his attacks if you stay on the right side. I'm just not good with shields so I still die...😭😭

Yeah he is giving u great treatment he one shoted my black knife tiche 2 times hes maxed out and have my rivered ash to 6 😅

I used rivers of blood, mimic, and a whole lotta tries! Maybe 30 attempts before i got used to the boss pattern. Summon mimic asap, then horse, get out in the open, and off the horse, then finally battle this guy. It was very frustrating but you guys can do this

you can dodge into his charge at the last moment. But hitboxes are broken af so it works 8/10 times. Dodge his charge into the rhino

i cant even get out of the fog gate lmao

Not entirely what I can apply as a wizard boi with my glintstone nonsense, but I appreciate the take.

I'm not even able to think while I'm going in. It's pure survival for a few seconds till I'm chopped meet 😅 was able to get 3/4 of his health bar once ans thats it

well i fought him like 30 times trying every kind of weapon and summon and spell. but i could never do enough damage or not take big damage. left , went and did a bunch of other things. came back level 8 scadu tree and spirit ash 5. melted him with blasphemous blade skill and black knife tiche. what a difference the higher level made. took way less damage. and now im level 10 from the five fragments you get after the first

Trusty Blasphemous Blade worked first try for me as usual, after an hour trying different dlc weapons

Thank you. I was having a miserable time with him before seeing this. I had assumed mounted combat was the way to go. T_T

How is your mimic so tanky? Im in full tree sentinel armor, and my mimic lasts no longer than 20 seconds with agro

Anyone figured out how to dodge the charge attack? I've killed Gaius twice already but I can't figure out the initial dodge without using a shield.

Thank you hell yeah 👍

There is 1 atk that i cant dodge that drive me nuts i know if i can survive that hes beat forsure but i see so many play throughs like urs where he dosnt use that atk 1 time the atk where he lifts his spear in the air and no matter where u are it hits u with lightning and rocks

hell have the time i can't even get through the door

Omg I just beat him while playing this in the background lol

One of the best bosses in the game

I ended up cheesing him. It sucks because the 1st time I fought him he seemed fun and challenging but that immediate charge on entry got pretty annoying.

This boss was amazing

This particular boss is a nightmare. Checked out a few different things. Still working on him

You should also try fighting him on horseback, is a bit more manageable

The ash of war „raptor of the mists“ makes nearly every boss doable. You can avoid any damage and stagger them so fast

What kind of boss is this ı tried him alone 10 times then even when ı got mimic he just aggros at me every fucking timr of hid charges WTH

So many times I hit a are skill that covers half his body and he takes 0 damage

One of the most irrational bosses you can encounter in the game. Oddly large hitbox on the horse charge move got me killed many times. i used bolt of gransax+ mimic to just to survive and hit it a few times and i finally defeated on my 42th attempt. I remember having nearly the same number on malenia before that.

Anybody struggling the best option is skeletal militiaman highest upgrade you can go and use impregnable torns spell

thats the metal boar from DS1

This boss gave me such a hard time.

Amazing boss

A dark souls mom? Your husband is a lucky man

It's wardhog by the way. I might try my mimic summon at this point too.

Im going to edit my comment because I watched your video, faught him again..won first try. Great video! Lol

You cant lose with mimic im using no summon

This might just be my experience, but I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to fight him on torrent. The arena he’s in seems purposefully massive to allow for horse combat. His charge is intentionally hard to dodge if you’re on the ground, but once you’re on torrent it’s a fair attack. In fact all of his moves seem pretty fair once you add torrent to the equation. He plays like Rykard to me, you CAN beat him without the weapon they give you, but that makes the fight way more tedious and frustrating. You CAN beat giaus without torrent, but the fight is supposed to be fought with him.

Bro oleg was a great support

It’s not about learning how to dodge properly. I beat malenia 3 times, did a no hit on blood starved beast, beat midir while only getting hit 3 times and accidentally did a no hit on storm king. Dodging is easy for me but for commander gayass, it’s feels like luck. I’ve seen people dodge the head on charge and ik there is a window to dodge but on multiple occasions, I’ve dodged to the side and was nowhere close to him and still got hit, I’ve dodged through and got hit way after he passed me. That’s the only move I cannot dodge at all in this fight and of course he uses this move more than anything else for me

It’s a Fang Boar

why is everyone nagging about this boss? this one and the hippo (i enjoyed the hippo fight very much actually). I killed Gaius with nothing but my axe (sacred longhaft axe+25) and dodging. Level 180 + Blessing 10 It's not that hard to roll into his attacks (rolling into the charging attack is a bit tricky but it's not hard to find the proper timing after a few attempts). And there are all these sorts of tools (spirit ashes, mimic tear, summons, incantations and what not) to make the fight more manageable, and people are still complaining? Rellana had much longer and much faster combos with a lot less tells and more attack variations. I don't see anyone nagging about her.

how does ur mimic keep healing?

when he torpedoes slam on the ground just use torrent to get out of the way

They patched the wall cheese I believe. The trees and obstacles that used to slow him down so you could get away are now destructive so you CANT get him wedged

Honestly think it's the debris on the ground that gets me killed

My mimic tear dosent do anything but watch

i puched myself 37 times in the face lol literally no time to do anything

I was super frustrated, took a breather, watched this, and went back and did it on the first try lol thanks for telling me its ok to not perfectly dodge anything, I think I needed that

Did she just called that a rhino? 😂

Messmer and Bayle carry the DLC for me

The boss won’t focus on the mimic even if she is wearing the mask this boss insufferable have they done something to the summons 😭😭😭

My mimic died within 60 seconds

Just play how you like just tell ur friends that you have finished it if you want to, just dont discuss about mimic and get good mess and just stay happy with life

Am i the only one that commander gauis spawns further and gives me time to summon?

Fromsoft literwlly shit the bed (again) with the amount of broken shit in this dlc. They really gotta hire outside talent to help them balance their games. The backhand blade ashes of war have deatroyed pvp haha its just l2 spam again

Ngl I killed him first try by luck I did not know this was a hard fight

He feels like radahn...but worse

Ahmm 😂 who tell her that she literally just got a bit gud lol yeah she used the mimic BUT she actually used her brain unlike most casuals things like mentioning openings, being not too greedy and aware of that back kick and switching to the side after a couple hits to avoid that…. Those are all things a veteran does too, just with better rolling discipline which grants you better stamina usage aka not being overwhelmed by an aggressive boss. You had your mimic for that but you still did a great job and thats what we call get gud… get gud never was an insult in the OG souls scene… it genuinely just was the best general advice one could give to another 😊 you memorised patterns, got some discipline in you and picked a tool you deemed fit for the purpose and you had success. The definition of getting gud ^^ attagirl 😋

My mimic literally stares at him !!! He's uselesss!!!

👉 Crucible Feather Talisman 👈

There is a sorcery that makes you teleport...easy dodge 😬

What worked for me: 1/ Great shield soldiers +10 2/ Dragon communion incantations - frost and rot Hid behind my summons and rotted him to death from afar. Fair warning tho - dont try this unless you are atleast level 10 in scadutree blessings and level 5 in spirit summons. All the best!

I think my Elden ring is cooked. No matter how much damage my summon does, every boss is still trying to attack me. Only me. I have no divine beast head, nor shabriris woe. No matter what, I am always the target.

Yea if u can get your mimic off vefore ge rams u 😂

my plan: shabriri's woe (then remove it once mimic is on) a shit load of explosive and status pots respec so I have bonk activated for fingerprint shield (will sacrifice my "cool" incantations) what an utter shit boss man - he deserves the worst (screw it, will even take on Bayle with this as well). xD

I just can’t fucking do it, I did your Romina last night easy asf, this mf just doesn’t give me time to attack, before half health my mimic dies this man is to much I’m sitting at 13 scadu blessing and 7 reverend spirit ash but my Mimic is only plus 7

Commander Gayus

Ha haaaa!!! Victory at last!!! I know everyone has their way of playing its strange to me ive never seen anyone elese choose to go at him using torrent full fight i dont see anyone use torrent at all im not saying im crazy good or the only one if i were crazy good id beat him first try lol in my dreams but id like to become a kinda let me solo him for ppl with this jerk i can beat him now u just need my trusty horse n beat him at his own game