Malenia... We Meet at Last | Elden Ring - Part 78 

"I am Malenia. Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat." (Never forget this!!!)

It took me 4.5-5 hours of constant attempts to beat Malenia. Don't be disheartened. Everyone struggles with her.

She is without a doubt the hardest boss in this game. Took me about 12 hours over 3 day to beat her. This will not be an easy feat.

How refreshing to see someone who, instead of complaining about everything around the boss, appreciates a challenge the creators offered us and tries to play better and better :D second phase in less than 10 tries with that setup is stunningly impressive. Best of luck for you to defeat undefeated Malenia :D

Finally someone fights like a real pro. Not just abusing her with ROB bloodhound fang. Subbed😄

"this is gonna take another hour or something" 😆

She was not joking when see said see never known defeat..good god this cheek..😅

You got this Dandi. I will be rooting for you. She was an exhausting fight for me too.

So grand to see your still making your way across The Lands Between! And it's superb while doing so you've developed quite a following.

Making great progress! This is the one fight that made me break down and use the Mimic Tear ashes instead of Latenna...good luck Dandy!

This was crazy. Kudos on your patience!!! I just started the game a few days ago and I've been hearing terrible things about Malenia. She definitely looks the part. Wild.

Kudos to you for doing this Lordsworn Straight Sword challenge run. It looks tough. I used that sword until after the capital and just felt I had to replace it with something stronger.

Wow! You got the Haligtree Crest Great shield on the first attempt!! That thing took me a while to get...

Does anyone else realize the tree is LITERALLY MIQUELLA'S BODY AND FACE

It took me (a pure mage) walking away for a looong time and taking Vig, Mind, End, Int, and Dex all to the final soft cap and upgrading my armor as much as I could to beat her. Also using Mimic Tear with only the best spells to use against her equipped.

I have been waiting for this day all year

It took me 3 days to beat Malenia...but I beat her purely on melee!

I was cheering for ya! You got this!

I just did a 6th playthrough and decided to watch a bunch of videos to see how everyone else dealt with her, and out of all I've seen this is definitely the most aggressive and quickest approaches.

I died in about 5 seconds on my first fight, and hit her maybe 3 times, but when I died she refilled the HP she lost, so technically the first time I faced her I did 0 damage. Well done chopping off a large chunk of her HP on the first go. Bravo.

*Now this is where the fun begins* !

And you have never known fear, like from the very first moment you charged at her as if there a cat to catch. RESPECT

Awesome! Can’t wait to see this go down 😃

Second phase attack like hell! Worked for me!👍🏽

Wow, you survived your first Waterfowl Dance... I'm impressed. And rest assured, not beating her after 1 hr is completely normal, there's only one way to somehow manage that fight fine without insane practice (Tiche)

My first kill was with a greatsword and nothing else and it took 14 hours over two days. Don't give up skeleton!

How you handle your losses as learning experiences is really impressive! I never managed to beat her on my own, so I summoned help xD

You got the Haligtree Greatshield the first time you defeated the sole enemy dropping it. It took me hours to get it.

You were very lucky to get the Haligtree Crest Greatshield so easily. That one specific knight is the only enemy in the game who drops it. It took me like a half hour of farming with all the item discovery buffs to get it. It's really good, it has insanely high holy defense.

You can only get that shield from basically only that enemy and it has an incredibly low drop chance. I also used it to take down and cheese the final boss. It very strong.

I like that she uses Latenna as a Summon. Latenna is underrated as a long range attack support.

Man It took me a bit to finally get to the second phase and then I managed to take her down with a Bleed build, if it wasn’t for that build I would probably never defeat her lol

Nice watch! Enjoyed your gameplay👍

I like how your actually exploring the haligtree, most streamers I watched ran through the whole place just to fight malenia, missing a majority of the items

The look on your face when you first died to her second phase is priceless.

I can't wait to see round #2!! You are doing great!

I'm usually pretty calm when it comes to difficult bosses in any game. But this one drove me crazy. Took me about 6 hours to beat.

Let's player taking Malenia with Latenna and no bleed, BB shenanigans? My deepest respect, miss. Subscribed.

6:04 Damn, took me hours to farm this thield. Either that was very lucky drop, or I was just very very unlucky one :/

Could you imagine if there wasn't a site of grace right outside the boss room... I think most people would have given up, having to run back to her over and over.

Malenia was tough too beat without any summons. I semi-cheesed her with no summons, but I used RoB which is pretty OP.

I used a fat ass hammer to beat her, no summons. Only took me 10hrs, my pride wouldnt let go of my build.... the build that ive been using the entire game.

I was effing and blinding when I finally, FINALLY beat her... ...first phase. Hidetaka Miyazaki, you cruel, sick bastard.

vs Malenia, Blade of Miquella.... well there are many strategies but i like to use the sword RIVERS OF BLOOD . This weapon special skill "Corpse Piler" does a lot damage and procs BLEED easy... fully upgraded that weapon is awesome. Also people use some kind of ICE bot throw consumable item to stop Malenia's special attack...i didn't use it i just dodged it... but i let you know that there is a way to stop her crazy attack combo... but you have to throw the bot at the time when she jumps into the air

Took me roughly 6-8 hours to beat her. Such a tense fight o,o

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kUDOS for your composure after loss after loss against Melenia; i was raging during my stream. Then the mechanics clicked and my mimic owned her and we beat her.

"This is a bloodborne fight" and you'd be right! Milenia's animations are based on Lady Maria from bloodborne

I’m doing sorcery dex kinda build and have no clue how I’m gonna get her lol night sorceries ?

The time has come. Honestly I didn’t understand her fight at all the first time I played and thought everything felt cheap. I grew to love her fight every playthrough and probably have fought her well over 2000 times now. She can be super flowy and just fun fast paced. One thing that made her fight much more fun is learning how to dodge her move up close without light roll or bloodhound step. Now to me the move I felt was cheap was now something I look forward to dodging and I’m sad when she doesn’t do it. A lot of the time she won’t do it in the second phase for me if I’m doing too much damage. But anyway I’m glad you aren’t complaining and learning how to deal with her. I’m also glad you didn’t blow through her on the first two attempts and didn’t get an actual feel for her fight like a lot of people do. Hopefully it doesn’t take you another 4 hours but hey I’ve seen her take a week for some people that are very good at the game. We are in the end game now.

I Believe.

Not sure have they patch the bleed effect or not but when I beat her when the game was out, I used bleed weapon and mimic. It kill her a lot faster and also armor is pretty useless against her. Mighty as well wear something lighter for better roll.

Good luck fighting her took me for hours to beat her

It took me 201 tries to beat her. My build is only a colossal sword, strength, vigor and stamina. The hardest boss I have ever fought. I fckning love her ❤ Thank you creators.

I've heard people call malenia "sekiro cut content" ahaha, she really is tough

It took me just over 200 tries to get her solo using a bleed build (not RoB). But use RoB and mimic tear and it takes 2 to 3 tries at most.

Took me 5 hrs over 2 days to beat her, and I had to cheese her with a mimic summon spamming magic attacks lol

I am curious why you selected Latenna as your summons and not Tiche or mimic? Not saying it was not the right choice..just curious.

She is getting her health back xause she is .... Healthy

Does anyone know if those dragonshield talismans protections stack (if you have all 3 & you slotted all 3 would that then mean +35% damage negation)? Or do they simply supercede (not stack with) the previous one?

Nice build

Fun fact. You can dodge her water fowl dance reliably at any range. For mid to long range just don't get to aggressive after 80-70%. For close to long range attack simply running, and jump to avoid the first flurry. The second can be dodged into and the third can be avoided by positioning yourself away from her, she can air step left or right so you'll have to be ready to roll if your not familiar with her tempo. For close range simply circling her will through off her first flurry and the second can then be dogged and third as well. If none of this sounds viable the Haligtree shield you picked up can be your best friend for this fight. Add a good ash of war/good stamina and you will survive it with stamina to spare. But she will get some health back from this method. While I am at it. Do NOT use your spirit ashes too early in her fight that is just free hp for her unless you can reliably keep her attention on you and not your spirit ash. The first phase of the fight would preferably go smoother alone. And while I am at it you might benefit from a stronger spirit ash summon, Finlay and Tiche are good ones. Finlay can cast a healing buff on you and Tiche can use her black knife to sap away Malenia's health. Lastly you can knock her out of the water fowl dance by throwing frozen projectiles at her when she jumps up before the dance. If you time this right you can reliable hard counter the dance. Good luck Tarnished warrior. And may your dance with the goddess be legendary.

...don't feel bad...I may have thrown a controller across the room...

The most impressive thing about this gameplay video is how you keep your cool despite the torrent of attacks and losses 🤣🤣 - im usually swearing my ass off after every defeat haha - you're bad ass

This confirms my suspicions about the power of physical damage reduction against Malenia after I fought her on my second playthrough. On my first playthrough I could always survive her waterfowl attack. I could never dodge it completely, but I could always survive it with minimal damage by dodging. On my second playthrough, simply getting nicked by the waterfowl would instakill me. I had thought that she had been buffed to force players to dodge perfectly, but it turns out that armor makes a huge difference. At least against her waterfowl. On my first playthrough I was playing as a medium armor user. On my second playthrough I was playing as a very very light armor user with light rolls. I thought that the light roll buff would make dodging her Waterfowl easier, but it was no easier than dodging with medium rolls. I eventually gave up. I was able to reliably predict her waterfowl in the first phase, because she unleashes them at certain HP intervals, and so I could keep my distance, and not deal with the first flurry, and sometimes the second flurry (the second, and third flurries are super easy to dodge through). In the second phase, her waterfowl became a part of her regular arsenal. Which meant instant death for me cause I could never dodge the first flurry perfectly, and just one touch killed me.

On which platform do you play?

Dandi, saw a bunch of lotuses on your page, are you into Magic the gathering? would love to see some videos of that if you are into it!

not sure why you're not using the mimic. it takes the heat off you so you can stand back and pick your shots.

Melania was very hard for me - other bosses were easy but some were harder for me - best godfrey in like 12 tries - commander nile took me like 80 between him and his two knights.... but the hardest by far was the final fight - took me forever to get good enough between both phases

I do not regret that after hearing all the horror stories of fighting Malenia, I set up a cheese tactic using Tiche and Mohg's sacred spear.

took me close to 6 hours for the first attempt

You have the debuff from Dia. 😄

She's impossible for me. I don't think I can do it. But I will not move to another location until I do it.

wtf 31:17 it's the first time I saw Malenia do that attack twice in a row

Malenia tells you "don't block" and "don't get hit".

twinblade with bleeding is the best wepaon vs malenia

I had to bum rush her with dual twin blades frost/bleed with mimic tear. 8hrs straight

Very nice 👍👍

I couldn't pass the first boss in this game. I returned the game after one week. I grew bored dying over and over and not getting anywhere.

took 11h to beat her

...and this was the last time weve ever heared from her xD

Millicent and malenia are sisters and there are like 5 more sisters that goWry brought to the lands between , they all have specific powers from the rot pests because thier father goWry is secretly a pest too .

It took me 58 tries over 3 days to beat her

How u get to this area

I somehow beat her on my 8th try. I think I got lucky. The Black Knife Tiche helped.

impressive, very nice. now do it with a colossal greatsword.

she looks like millicent because Malenia is her sister, and she regains health because she has life steal with her bleed effect if she hits you she regains, Blood builds do well against her and I bet if you had a build like that you wouldn't need armor just run naked with uchikatana and youll beat her in one go

It only took me 2 goes lmao. I beat her using the holy scythe.

Fan of Bleach : who else got the music of "Minazuki" in mind now ? They are the same character XD

You played really well here, she is extremely tough. It took me about 7 or 8 hours to beat her without using any summons, spirit ashes or weapon skills. I have the video uploaded to my channel :)

Anything bleed will take care of her quickly

ehh to me the boss fight is kinda lessened when u see a bunch of streamers and such relying on a summon in order to beat her.

It took my 4 times to best her. Just half to have the proper set up

It's funny how when people face any challange at this game, the first thing they do is use summon spirits Fromsoftware indeed created an ''easy'' mode

I have never beaten Malenia Alone :( just with invocations

I use summon mimic tear and ROB katana 10x attempt done dont let her go up no matter what haha😂😂 60 arcane stats for bleed to proc much faster

Yeah. She malenia was nerfed. She used to leech more health.

Everyone that plays Elden Ring thinks it's all fun and games; until they meet Melania, Blade of Miquella.

I am Terry, cooker of fried rice.

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