How to beat the Putrescent Knight in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

The Putrescent Knight is a secret boss in Elden Ring’s Shadow of Erdtree DLC who ferociously assaults you with an enormous cleaver. If avoiding their brutal onslaughts was not sufficient, the Putrescent Knight has the assistance of an eerie horse throughout the struggle, and the capability to conjure highly effective fireplace spells at you. Enjoyable…

On this Elden Ring DLC information, we’ll clarify how one can beat Putrescent Knight in Shadow of the Erdtree, together with particulars about how one can put together and how one can learn the Knight’s assaults.

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Putrescent Knight location in Elden Ring DLC

You discover the Putrescent Knight on the backside of a area referred to as Stone Coffin Fissure, which you entry by descending by The Fissure. Nonetheless, earlier than you possibly can attain this boss struggle, you want first to progress with the principle story and have no less than reached Shadow Maintain.

By the point you get in entrance of the fort, a message pops up saying “Someplace, an awesome rune has damaged… And so too has a strong allure.” You may’t attain the Fissure earlier than that.

You’re led to The Fissure by following Thiollier’s quest. When you accomplish that, you can even summon Thiollier to struggle alongside you, though it’s not obligatory to entry the struggle. Whether or not you’ve or haven’t moved ahead along with his quest, you possibly can enter the struggle. After getting reached the Stone Coffin Fissure space, hold happening till you discover the Fissure Depths Website of Grace. Transfer ahead and leap from the large head to achieve the sector.

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Putrescent Knight weak point and how one can put together

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Usually, the Putrescent Knight struggle just isn’t a enjoyable expertise for melee builds, for the reason that boss strikes lots across the enviornment, supplying you with solely a brief window to land one or two hits. Lengthy-range skills, from sorceries to incantations, can work effectively towards this enemy.

Like another enemies within the Elden Ring DLC, the Putrescent Knight is weak to Holy injury. They take a big quantity of injury from assaults primarily based on this attribute, which is nice in the event you’re operating a Religion construct. When you’re not, then it’s a very good factor that Putrescent Knight can also be susceptible to Bleeding, making blood loss a strong second technique as effectively. Though the boss just isn’t immune towards fireplace injury, it’s not as efficient as it’s towards enemies within the base recreation.

Elden Ring has a substantial variety of Holy-based weapons, so which one you must use is a subjective resolution. There are some good choices to contemplate although. Weapons with the Sacred Blade Ash of Struggle are nice choices as a result of they provide a mid-range assault as effectively. As well as, utilizing this means imbues the weapon with Holy for a time frame. Two different enjoyable choices are Maliketh’s Black Blade — its damage-over-time potential is nice throughout down instances — and the Sacred Relic Sword, which has a talent that covers mainly the entire enviornment.

In terms of build up Bleed, give desire to weapons able to fast sequences of assaults, like katanas and twinblades. As talked about, the home windows to hit the Putrescent Knight are very quick and also you wish to set off blood loss as shortly as attainable earlier than the boss rides away from you.

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When you’d slightly play protected, operating some defensive objects, then the Flamedrake Talisman is a strong possibility for you. Putrescent Knight has two nasty Fireplace assaults, however with this talisman, you enhance your possibilities of survival in case you’re caught by them. When you’re having a tough time dodging these assaults. you must contemplate rising your Endurance that can assist you resist the Frostbite it inflicts.

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How you can beat the Putrescent Knight in Elden Ring DLC

The Putrescent Knight’s assaults have lengthy — however delayed — animations, which requires some observe to accurately nail the timing. You will have nearly no room to pop a flask or recast a buff. The Putrescent Knight’s package has multiple software to forestall you from doing so by forcing you to decide on between getting hit whereas therapeutic your self, or escaping their offensive actions however staying one hit from dying.

Whereas the struggle just isn’t explicitly cut up into two phases, we’re doing so to make the data beneath simpler to digest. The primary section encompasses all of the boss’s predominant strikes. After getting realized to outlive the primary section, the second turns into a stroll within the park.

Putrescent Knight boss struggle section 1

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The entire strikes we’ve detailed beneath repeat all through the entire struggle. Understanding how one can keep away from them and the home windows for hanging again are essential to beat this boss.

The Putrescent Knight can begin the struggle in two methods. They will leap at you and slam their large cleaver at your location or experience towards you and carry out just a few swing assaults — which is extra widespread whenever you carry out a talent as they’re coming at you. The previous is often adopted by one among Putrescent Knight’s signature strikes, the spinning assault mixed with their horse.

The mixed assault begins with Putrescent Knight leaping from their horse and performing three spins. This preliminary transfer is adopted by one other three spins and a cost assault from the horse, which they repeat yet one more time. In complete, it’s essential dodge three spinning sequences and two costs. Dodging the primary sequence of spins is barely a matter of rolling towards them. However, when the Putrescent Knight and their horse assault collectively, it’s essential roll towards the horse and shortly roll to the alternative aspect.

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As soon as they’re carried out, there’s a small window to assault the Putrescent Knight throughout the animation the place they mount their horse once more. Go for a single heavy assault and two mild ones, however don’t be grasping.

A second widespread transfer that it’s essential take care of throughout the entire struggle is a sequence of swing assaults. These are just a little difficult to keep away from initially due to their delayed animation, which implies that they have a tendency to take just a little bit longer than anticipated to really assault you. Fortunately, there’s a inform for when Putrescent Knight is about to execute the swings. Normally, they increase the cleaver with one hand. (There may be, nevertheless, a variation through which they use each fingers.)

When Putrescent Knight makes use of the single-hand variation, they’ll execute two to 3 swings. This model additionally has a variation the place the boss follows up the third swing with a double-slamming assault.

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To flee when Putrescent Knight swings and slams the cleaver at you, deal with rolling towards the course from the place their weapon is coming. Whatever the variation, after they full the sequences, the boss received’t transfer for just a few seconds, supplying you with one other good alternative to land a talent or just a few blows.

When you get near the boss for too lengthy, they’ll ultimately use two assaults. One is a stomp; the opposite is a roar. There isn’t a secret to avoiding these assaults moreover rolling on the proper second. Working from the boss to keep away from getting hit by them is nearly not possible so it’s essential simply tank the injury in the event you can’t keep away from it.

Lastly, in multiple second throughout the struggle, Putrescent Knight will experience away from you. After they try this, put together to dodge a boomerang assault. The Putrescent Knight will throw their big cleaver at you, and it’ll return by way of a semi-circular route. To keep away from getting hit by the weapon on its return, keep the place you’re.

Putrescent Knight boss struggle section 2

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As soon as greater than one-third of the boss’s well being bar is gone, that’s the place what we contemplate the second section begins. As talked about, the Putrescent Knight nonetheless makes use of the identical assaults from the primary section, however performs fireplace assaults for the remainder of the struggle. These not solely trigger plenty of injury however can inflict you with Frostbite.

The primary variation of the hearth assault is when Putrescent Knight rises from the bottom and shoots projectiles of black goo. After they hit the bottom, strains of blue fireplace are fashioned, masking components of the sector. The boss at all times releases three sequences of projectiles. You may both roll or dodge to flee the flames. The previous appears extra intuitive, but it surely’s more durable to time. Leaping ahead when the hearth is coming at you is the best technique.

The second variation tends to occur as a follow-up for the primary one. The Putrescent Knight unleashes a last frontal fireplace assault. Nothing particular right here, and you’ll keep away from it utilizing the identical technique.

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The third variation, nevertheless, has a special preliminary animation. As a substitute of rising from the bottom, Putrescent Knight stands and solely the horse rises just a little bit whereas the black goo concentrates on them and is thrown far on the edges of the sector. As soon as the projectiles hit the bottom, they type a circle of fireside that begins closing towards the middle of the sector. Leaping or rolling work equally effectively on this state of affairs as effectively.

Throughout all these fireplace assaults, you received’t even have a window to hit the boss, so deal with surviving the flames and wait till Putrescent Knight makes use of one of many assaults from the primary section.

Defeating the Putrescent Knight rewards you with the Remembrance of Putrescence and 220,000 runes.

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For extra Elden Ring DLC bosses, see our guides on all Remembrance bosses and discover ways to duplicate Remembrances. Must energy up? We’ve obtained location guides on the place to seek out Scadutree Fragments and Revered Spirit Ashes, and an interactive Elden Ring DLC map.