Malenia

It still took me a while to get used to her move set in general, since a lot of it is so fast. In phase 2, I also had trouble for a while because her wings often obscured the start up of her moves.
I will agree though, that the waterfowl dance is absolutely the biggest issue. I wasted many attempts in the beginning attempting to figure out how to deal with it. Then again, my damage was kind of shitty so I had to learn every single part in detail so I could actually stay alive for long enough to kill her.

She almost always uses her cringe dance once she hits the 40-60% hp threshold. Two things trigger her to do it are how close you are to her and how low your HP is. When I'm in melee range and my HP is low, I find that she often uses it immediately after she hits that 60% HP threshold.

First off, this mainly works when you have your aim locked on her. In order to actually dodge her dance, you need to keep a moderate distance and sprint away as she's charging her animation. She has 4 flurries + an extra hit, and the first flurry is BY FAR the most dangerous. If you're far enough, you can completely avoid the first flurry and dodge the rest of them. Even if you can't fully avoid it, you'll still waste enough of her animation to make dodging it easier.

If you're in a good position, dodge DOWN DOWN RIGHT RIGHT for each flurry.
If you feel like you might get cornered against a wall, dodge DOWN UP RIGHT RIGHT.
If you fucked up and you're too close to her. Dodge towards her, as it will cause her to swerve towards you, granting an extra couple frames to get the timing down. It should go UP UP RIGHT RIGHT.
The reason why you always want to dodge right after her second flurry is that she'll always spin towards your left side on the third flurry.
She has a long downtime before she uses it again, so you can play aggro after you've baited it out.
Honestly, the only bullshit part of her moveset is her triple-swipe, as it also requires either frame-perfect dodge rolling or keeping distance. You can try to dodge towards her to the side, but it's risky and then there's still a high chance of getting hit.

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it's the reddit dance and the ohko poke for me. the poke is dodgeable but its still annoying. and her bloated to shit hp pool because i guess a hard fight means it takes you 30 minutes to get her down unless you're spamming OP spells.

>her bloated to shit hp pool because i guess a hard fight means it takes you 30 minutes to get her down
You can literally beat her in 3 minutes if you're good, and 1 minute if you spam OP shit. Just bum rush her with bleed since she staggers easier than any boss in the game

she's still hot somehow

I just beat that fucking aid bitch and I'm still fucking mad. Is this what rapefags feel moments before they take a woman?

she jumps all over the arena nigga, i can barely get a hit in before she teleports behind me. i guess i'm just retarded for dumping everything into a colossal weapon.

>STRfags
lol

>Not a single black character of note
>Hot half-naked white chick
No wonder western devs hate this game.

Get gud
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Am I the only one that thought Mogh was way harder than Melania?

Pure STR Build, duel wielded Greatsword and Grafted Blade with full Knight Set armor. 55 VIT 80 STR, 35 END.
Melania wasn't that dangerous outside of her one bullshit attack, and I just adjusted to poking her and staying at distance, my jump + l1 hit her hard as fuck and she was easy to stagger.

Mogh was bullshit, the fucking fire everywhere in Phase 2 was complete cancer. You'd roll into random patches of fire nonstop and fuck yourself, and his attacks were hard as fuck to learn to dodge. Melania just had the one omnislash bullshit, but all of Mogh's attacks had super annoying delays and fucked hitboxes. When I killed Mogh it was because I got super lucky and phased him later, and skullfucked him at the beginning of phase 2 because he randomly decided to do basically nothing for 15 seconds.

>lol the way you've been playing the game up until now suddenly doesn't work like it's been working
excellent game design miyazaki-sama, please give us a malenia clone fight in the DLC

stagger the cunt, trade hits if you have to, once you hit her enough she backs off and you can heal. use the guard break physick, if you can stagger and riposte, she will without fail use the anime combo next giving you ample time to rush to the other end of the arena. just keep the heat on her, everything clicked once I realized that you should be hitting her as often as possible. if you do have to dodge her moves are in triplets, and you can easily punish each third strike, especially when she drops from the air, for these use a jumping R2. her orange spark attacks are also pretty much free jumping r2s. by mastering this strategy I was able to pretty much melt her 1st phase when I finally got the rhythm down. the second is the same strategy, get her out of the anime attack threshold asap after her flower attack, heal during her end of combo AOEs, interrupt her lesser combos, even if you have to trade. her ghost attack is avoidable just by rollspamming constantly in the opposite direction, you will leave the range of her final skewer attack. her scarlet flower is the perfect time to use a rune arc or buff your sword,etc. just put the pressure on her, don't get hit by her grab, and hope to god she doesn't use waterfowl dance in phase 2. i soloed her today with a greatsword, the key is to not be a bitch and do more damage than she can keep up with.

3 minutes with bleed seems pretty reasonable, that shit does tons of damage, definitely took like 5-10 minutes with heavy broadsword

Elden ring girls all look like boys.

does rune arc heal? if not what's the point of not just doing it before you start the fight, its not like you'll only have like 10 of them by then