This boss was tough. She’s super aggressive during phase 2 and has a lot of attacks that can kill you if you don’t dodge correctly. Took me a while to realize I had to jump those moon shockwaves. Lol
Man, she moves like Dancer of the Boreal Valley, she looks like Artorias and her weapons look like Pontiff's. I just fucking love her desing and her boss fight.
This fight was TOUGH, but the more I think about it retrospectively, the more I love it. The pressure of this fight, the adrenaline, it’s all so addicting.
@@h4xe7reac75 I would agree if her moveset complimented it. You end up having to bait out certain moves in order to heal or use items, but she can combo into other moves that punish you anyway. It feels a little too chance-based for me.
Nah, she isn't harder. We've just had a lot more time with Malenia and have come to know her better. I'm sure that given enough time, Rellana will start to look a lot easier too.
Yeah I think you're onto something here : ) Still one hell of a boss though lol. Greatest two handed sword user in all of elden ring! Aside from Radahn of course. No one tops the general of the stars! I hear a not zombie version of Radahn is in this game. Uhhh ohhh!
I think this boss is harder, has a more wide range of attacks. You have to be near flawless during the 2nd half of the fight as any missed time dodge will likely kill you. Imagine if she had an actual phase 2 like Malenia!
Add life steal to her and she's harder. Rellana is a lot more aggressive and her moveset is way more chaotic than Malenia. The only thing that gives Malenia the edge is her life steal bullshit.
Thus, behold the tale of the two sisters, each who conjureth the might of the moon. Though the greatest of magicians, Rennala had became, in the knight’s code, did her twin brethren Rellana partition.
@@Cellthegamer man I promise it’s something rly rly awesome I love the fight but my only chance to win is by summoning the girl at the door and try poise break… to be honest it’s the hardest boss I’ve ever fought
it is her Twin Blades are bad ass especially when you realize that fully upgraded they do as much damage as the Blasphemous Blade and basically has 2 weapon arts in 1 amazing boss weapon
Remember Rennala? The boss that can easily be defeated by spamming any type of attack in her face, staggering her and preventing her from casting her abillities. Now its payback time with Rellana, and oh boy she doesn't give you a moment to breathe.
What makes her so hard is that she can poise through almost anything. She is about as tall as malenia but malenia staggers even from hitting her with Light weapons like katanas but rellana... You can smack her in the face with a ultra greatsword and she will act like you tickled her feet. Thats why i choose too parry her, the feeling of banging your head against the wall for 2 hours straight. But damn did it feel good to finally kill her. But i kinda wish i knew that she was weak to poison
1) no she isn’t 2) I love this story. Renalla now has a sister out of nowhere but she is so badass we don’t mind lore drops out of nowhere. Great explanation of the series as a whole to be honest.
Best thing is that a secret sister makes perfect sense. ‘An honor said to have once been awarded to carian knights who served as direct retainers to the kingdom’s princesses. Now there is only one Princess: Ranni, daughter of Rennala.’ Which means it’s customary for multiple princesses.
Defeated Rellana earlier today, Malenia is just a cakewalk now since I've been fighting her so many times before the dlc released This boss was something else, I'm terrified of what's to come next
Ng+7 is so hard everything i loterally sudden death i have to use bloundhound step and the incatantion for magic resistance and spam lightning spear from a distance
Just finished her today, my throat is in a bad condition after this fight. I was so upset by how aggressive she was I had to use scarlet rot and the black flames blade incantation to shred that huge amount of HP to take less risk. By the way her swords are very cool.
Bro I defeated her 2 try using iron flesh,so sad I didn't have the chance to see the 2 fase T_T (LV 150 falling star best jaw hold R2 riposte and repeat)
@@Cellthegamer like her lapis blue cape flowing and wrapped around her shiny silver armor😩 not to mention her twin ornate blades with contrasting fire and magic. Her design is immaculate
Don't really know why everyone seems to struggle with her. Beat her first try with Blasphemous Blade and my Mimic Tear Ash. Made her about 3500 Damage per hit. She get's hard if you help in Coop though.
I dunno, I killed her on my second try. Admittedly I am using the same OP stuff that trivializes the main game: mimic tear, bull goat, and blasphemous blade. I just let the mimic keep aggro and flamed her down. Melania is much harder, for me anyway. Edit: at NG+7 and blessing 5. I'm definitely regretting starting the dlc at NG+7; lots of stuff 2 shots me.
I think this fight is harder than melania because you have to respect the boss at all times. Against malenia when you hit her, she staggers. This boss doesn’t. She deals a sizable chunk of dmg, with short punish windows, plus she has many moves with varying wind ups that just 1-shot you. Overall very hard, but a very fun fight. Easily hard that Pontif and I’d say Malenia too. Wp
not harder than malenia but she's the exact same type of brickwall-boss that margit is. what makes her so hard is that you can't really memorize her patterns well because her combos are not only extremely long, similar and quick... no, they also can vary midway through. so it's already enough to miscalculate once, just to find yourself dead because you got trapped within the hits of the remaining combo. one hell of a bos though. well presented, cinematic moves and the developers even thought of triggering our ptsd that we all got from pontiff sulyvahn as soon as she activates her elemental swords.
I just beat her too, i can say that this is just malenia bit worse, as this fight removes the stagger mechanic that used to balance out malenia, so with rella a you just need to have perfect rolling skills or you aint getting nowhere. Still i liked this boss, i think it would be an A- in a tier list
The stagger didn't balance out shit, it together with her reactionary moves, ability to stagger cancel and stagger resist just added another layer of unrelyability to her fight.
harder than malenia? this boss doesn't look all that hard it just does a lot of damage and if you've fought pontiff before then this shouldn't be that bad
I'm soo confused this was my first boss un the dlc I was pretty sure I was in the wrong location but after a good 45 mins I had to summon mimic and I got the imo my favourite weapon.
Took me 15 tries to beat Malenia and only 4 for Rellana.. what makes Malenia harder she's heals during the fight and Rellana doesn't..I think Rellana fight is much cooler though fire and magic combo..
@@rainman11 most bosses from the dlc have a phase 2 just no cut scene. they just transform to second form.. the boss who matches Malenia is Bayle or harder depending on your point of view..that boss will challenge most experienced Elden ring players..
@@john.s7559 the difference is though Malenia has a new life bar whereas Rellana uses the same life bar but just adds new moves to her arsenal. If you’re able to do big damage early, your “phase 2” becomes a lot easier for Rellana than having an actual phase 2 where things reset.
Beat mage fight in all the games. She is elegant, powerful, and hits like Mike Tyson! Edit: After beating her, my Int playthrough got 10 times more fun!
Sorry but no, she's not harder than Malenia. Very easy to dodge, can't randomly parry hits, doesn't have hyper poise on some animations (which is why you get hit by Malenia despite her easy stagger, she can ignore poise damage on certain of her animations), doesn't heal, doesn't have a "haha now I one-shot you because you didn't react in a fraction of a second" attack. Phase 2 is hard, but every time I died it was because I was greeding for a hit or too stubborn to count her combo, not because she's super hard. I'll put it like this: with the balancing aggro feature you could fight 2 Rellana at the same time, you could not do the same with Malenia. And you can Carian Retaliation her projectiles, feel free to try to parry the butterfly clones or Waterfowl Dance...
Lowkey if they reduce the damage a little for a lot of the dlc it would probably be S tier, but everything two shots even with 60 vig. Love the bosses but I want to enjoy them more than 5 seconds.
I havent fought Malenia in a long time....but she was way worse for me than Rellana so i cant really agree that Rellana is harder, 3 tries against countless...
It's kind of hard to compare how I did against her vs how cell did against her. I don't know what play through he's on, what rune level he's on, and how many of those weird thingies that you can cash in at sites of grace to reduce enemy damage in the shadow lands soooo It's hard to say. That being said I am a gigantic coward, unlike Cell. Cell took her on solo and managed to win. He suffered for like 3 hours lololol but he did it! Cell is the kind of player who thinks he can roll dodge his way to victory every damn time and so far he's capable of doing just that lololol. Keep being amazing boss! Unlike me lol I played it as cheese as I could hahaha. Maybe one day I'll be good enough to fight her like you but for now? F THAT! lololol. I summoned the mimic tear, colossal power stanced, and ran away like a coward with BHS if she even looked at me. I used a ton of status effects on her and used a ton of buffs on myself. And I still died about a dozen times but hey lol I beat her in less than a hour at least haha.
@@Cellthegamer I gave up after one 1 hour and used mimic. That's the moment I started do damage. But she still had her wide range atacks that could 2 shot me lol. It really seems that from software forces us use summons, this summon leveling system is also indicates this, balance in dlc is cracked
Dude, hard disagree. The thing about malenia is that at least you could mini stagger her on every attack, except for few moves with hyperarmor. This fucking boss moves even faster and has input reading so every hit you do is a trade with her. Also because of input reading there is hardly time to heal cause she will automatically do her ranged attack. People keep saying she feels like a dance, yeah maybe if she was a proffesional ice skater and you were a 500 kg discord mod with autism. That’s how this boss feels. I didn’t even feel accomplished when I beat her since I knew this boss is bullshit. Malenia is far better
