All bosses and key fights in Elden Ring
Every key fight, in the order you reach it: what to watch for, what it is weak to and what it drops.
| Fight | Area | Watch for | Weaknesses and resistances | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tree Sentinel | Limgrave | Heavy halberd swings, shield bash, leaping ground slam, golden shield deflection reflecting offensive spells | Golden Halberd, 3,200 Runes | |
| Flying Dragon Agheel | Limgrave | Wide sweeping fire breath, stomps, tail whips, leaping aerial divebomb | Dragon Heart, 5,000 Runes | |
| Godrick the Grafted | Stormveil Castle | Ground-pound shockwaves, whirlwind projectile rolls, grafted dragon fire breath in phase 2 | 20,000 Runes, Godrick's Great Rune, Remembrance of the Grafted | |
| Leonine Misbegotten | Weeping Peninsula | Fast leaping strikes, multi-hit sword combos, and roaring poise buffs | ||
| Glintstone Dragon Smarag | Liurnia of the Lakes | High-damage magic breath sweeps and aerial stomps | ||
| Red Wolf of Radagon | Academy of Raya Lucaria | Extremely fast leaps, sweeping bites, and conjured floating Glintstone blades | Memory Stone, 14,000 Runes | |
| Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella | Ainsel River | sweeping ground slams, claw swipes, charging attacks, and a second-phase transformation featuring blue frozen lightning strikes | Frozen Lightning Spear, 12,000 Runes | |
| Dragonkin Soldier | Siofra River | Sweeping claw slams, lunging strikes, ground tremors with delayed shockwaves | ||
| Starscourge Radahn | Caelid | Fires gravity greatarrows at range; rides a small horse with relentless melee sweeps; summons meteors and enters a crashing meteorite phase transition | Remembrance of the Starscourge; Radahn's Great Rune | |
| Decaying Ekzykes | Caelid | Massive dragon breathing Scarlet Rot clouds over enormous areas; stomps and tail swipes | Dragon Heart | |
| Godskin Apostle | Dragonbarrow | Black Flame fireballs, high-range torso stretching, spinning blade slashes | Godskin Apostle Set | |
| Flying Dragon Greyll | Dragonbarrow | Fire breath sweeps across the narrow bridge, airborne stomps, tail whips | Dragon Heart | |
| Mimic Tear | Nokron, Eternal City | Copies player's exact equipment, spells, and active hotbar items at the moment of entry | ||
| Valiant Gargoyle & Valiant Gargoyle (Twinblade) | Nokron, Eternal City | Poison breath clouds covering wide ground areas, spinning twinblade slashes, sweeping sword combos | Gargoyle's Greatsword, Gargoyle's Twinblade | |
| Godskin Apostle | Altus Plateau | Black Flame incantations, leaping plunge attacks, stretching torso swings | ||
| Ancient Dragon Lansseax | Altus Plateau | Red Lightning Glaive sweep, lightning breath, aerial red lightning slams | ||
| Godfrey, First Elden Lord (Golden Shade) | Leyndell, Royal Capital | Broad sweeping strikes with a colossal battleaxe and wide-radius ground-slam shockwaves | ||
| Morgott, the Omen King | Leyndell, Royal Capital | Conjured golden weapons (swords, daggers, spears, hammers), bloodflame blade strikes, wide-area rain of swords | ||
| Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast | Mt. Gelmir | Gravity shockwaves, high-speed charges, tail sweeps, and laser beams | ||
| Magma Wyrm | Mt. Gelmir | Trailing magma pools, charging stomps, and sweeping greatsword slashes | ||
| Godskin Noble | Volcano Manor | Black Flame spells, rapid thrusts with heavy rapier, rolling body slam, area-of-effect shockwaves | ||
| Lichdragon Fortissax | Deeproot Depths | Red lightning strikes, Death Blight lightning storms, dual lightning glaive smashes | Remembrance of the Lichdragon; 90,000 Runes | |
| Dragonkin Soldier | Lake of Rot | Massive reach, sweeping arm swipes, ground slams | Dragonscale Blade | |
| Fire Giant | Mountaintops of the Giants | Massive sweeping attacks with a giant iron lid, rolls across the arena, hurls tracking fireballs, and erupts into volcanic fire storms in Phase 2 | 180,000 Runes, Remembrance of the Fire Giant | |
| Borealis the Freezing Fog | Mountaintops of the Giants | Expels a blinding blizzard that heavily impairs vision, emits a massive screaming frost roar, and blankets the frozen lake in frostbite vapor | ||
| Death Rite Bird | Consecrated Snowfield | Ghostflame explosion, frostbite-inflicting trail attacks, piercing beak thrusts | ||
| Putrid Avatar | Consecrated Snowfield | Scarlet rot body slams, golden projectile bursts, wide sweeping staff strikes | ||
| Astel, Stars of Darkness | Consecrated Snowfield | Gravity meteor bombardment, cloning grab attack, tail strikes, teleports | ||
| Great Wyrm Theodorix | Consecrated Snowfield | Sweeping magma breath, crushing body slams, giant curved greatsword swings | ||
| Loretta, Knight of the Haligtree | Miquella's Haligtree | Casts Loretta's Mastery, Glintblade Phalanx, and charges with a magic-infused polearm | ||
| Maliketh, the Black Blade | Crumbling Farum Azula | Destined Death (reduces max HP and causes dot), aerial blade beams, rapid dagger swipes | Remembrance of the Black Blade | |
| Dragonlord Placidusax | Crumbling Farum Azula | Ruin breath beams, teleporting claw swipes, red lightning strikes | Remembrance of the Dragonlord | |
| Furnace Golem (Gravesite Plain) | Gravesite Plain | Sweeping fire stomps, jumping area-of-effect fire eruptions, fire kick projectiles | ||
| Blackgaol Knight | Gravesite Plain | Repeating crossbow volley, sweeping two-handed greatsword swings with projectile wave of light | ||
| Divine Beast Dancing Lion | Belurat, Tower Settlement | Alternates phases between Wind, Lightning, and Frost storms; executes erratic aerial lunges, spinning bites, and widespread ground lightning bolts | ||
| Dryleaf Dane | Scadu Altus | Close-quarters hand-to-hand combat, rapid flurry kicks, Palm Blast Ash of War | Dane's Hat, Dryleaf Arts | |
| Ghostflame Dragon | Scadu Altus | Ghostflame breath that causes frostbite, sweeping tail strikes, flying stomps | Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone, Dragon Heart | |
| Rellana, Twin Moon Knight | Castle Ensis | Dual-wields light and fire swords, casts Twin Moons shockwaves, Moonblade slashes, and rapid sword combos | ||
| Golden Hippopotamus | Shadow Keep | Massive charging bite attacks, needle rain, rolling bodyslams, and Crucible light thorns | 2 Scadutree Fragments, Aspects of the Crucible: Thorns | |
| Messmer the Impaler | Shadow Keep | High-speed spear thrusts, delayed sweeping flame explosions, unblockable grab attack, and transformation into giant striking abyss serpents | Remembrance of the Impaler, Messmer's Kindling | |
| Rugalea the Great Red Bear | Rauh Base | Roaring shockwaves, high-speed claw swipes, leaping ground slams | ||
| Romina, Saint of the Bud | Ancient Ruins of Rauh | Sweeping polearm strikes, rapid rot infesting butterfly bursts, and soaring centipede lunge attacks | ||
| Aging Untouchables ("Winter Lanterns") | Abyssal Woods | Completely invulnerable to standard weapon hits and spells; screech upon detection, inflict rapid passive Madness buildup, teleport onto the player, and execute a high-damage grab attack inflicting full Madness. | ||
| Madding Hand | Abyssal Woods | Wields the Madding Hand fist weapon and casts rapid Madness-inducing incantations. | ||
| Promised Consort Radahn / Radahn, Consort of Miquella | Enir-Ilim | Relentless physical combos and gravity pulls in phase one; massive holy AOE pillar bursts, clone illusions, and Miquella's grab attack in phase two |
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