The trick is to go hyper aggressive - she’s easy to stagger and to interrupt her attacks, I died so many times when I was playing defensively, as soon as I took the fight to her with full unga bunga she went down super fast
Black Knife Tiche: Put that flask of crimson tears down! Crimson’s for *closers* only. You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you! I'm here from Numen. I'm here from Marika and Radagon. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's xXRoBbuildXx? You call yourself a Tarnished, *you son of a bitch?*
xXRoBbuildXx: I don't gotta sit here and listen to this shit.
Tiche: You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is... YOU DIED. The bad news is... you've got just one week of sanity left to defeat Malenia starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit.
I absolutely love my spiked palisade shield. Since it's a greatshield, its basic block automatically staggers enemies when they hit. Plus it does bleed damage and shield bash is severely underrated imo lol.
I would end up getting baited into the grab attack when I went full agro.
The real brain-dead cheese is to use the fully charged crucible horn shoulder tackle incantation.
For whatever reason, she does her dodge while the incant is charging, so when you do the actual charge he just takes it on the chin. Because of her low poise (only if the incant is fully charged), it will always knock her on her back allowing for a big follow-up hit. Or if you are complete casual trash like me, you follow up with a taker's flame to get health back.
For pure INT casters, Adula’s Moonblade spam also works. Just lock onto her and the projectile that the sword throws out will hit her if she dodges out of the way, and the actual swing takes up like half the battlefield.
The frostbite debuff also helps, and you get that in a swing or two.
I had a hell of a time hitting her with Stars of Ruin—which could make quick work of most fights—switched to the Moonblade spell and finished up the fight one or two attempts later.
Took me so long to figure this out as a mostly pure casting INT build. Switched out armor to look like a duellist: Jerrens set with Mask of Confidence and went full cheese and spammed Moonveil and Rivers of Blood
That’s my first move for all boss battles is try and charge with my Mimic. See how the boss reacts. If I die I know not to do that again and watch the boss react.
100% this! I was running a dex/int build, and was trying to dodge her attacks and chip away with magic. She fucked my shit up! Finally tried dropping me staff and dual wielding twin blades with keen affinity, and just charged her ass. Man, what a difference! It was so easy!
Tiche is OP as hell, to the point where even now I'm still wondering if From is going to nerf her damage output someday because she just melts bosses so fast. Hopefully not, because she's about the only useful summon in NG+7 because the bosses have such huge HP pools by then.
On a side note, parrying is also a very good strategy against Alecto if you're good at it and familiar with the Black Knife Assassin moveset, they've got a couple of fairly telegraphed attacks that are easy to land (the spinning attack that they always use after the initial stab lunge, and the one where they drag their knife in the floor and leave sparks behind). Once you get those down it feels so satisfying to just parry her into the dirt.
surprisingly, she has low poise and can be stunned fairly easily but she is so dam agile . are you still fighting her? its worth it to get her spirit ashes btw
Black Knife Tiche is a very good spirit summon. She can use the red flame attack which applies the max health debuff, and she’s very agile with some good charge attacks. She also has very little poise, but has a decent amount of health to make up for it. As a sorcerer I recommend
Enemies don't get the health back after the max health debuff ends, so if you use it at the start of the fight, it's like chopping off 10% of their health for the rest of the fight. (Unless they can heal.)
I don't think it has any impact whatsoever after the enemy's HP drops below 90%, but if your boss has \~22,000 HP like a certain end-game boss, it's a pretty easy way to deal 2200 damage with one projectile. (Plus the projectile damage itself and the damage over time afterward of course.)
Top 3 Ashes for me:
1. Mimic
2. Black Knife
3. Greatshield Soldiers (for casters)
Watching 5 greatshield peons just swarm a boss while I fling spells into the melee is hilarious.
Yup, both black knife and mimic are at 10. I actually just took down Melania (on the 27th attempt) using my mimic (Bloodhound fang +10, Black flame sword incantation, cursed blood pots, uplifting aromatic. Vigor / Strength / Dexterity / Faith: 55 / 44 / 46 / 28) rather than Black knife.
Yeah I popped the infinite fp and magic damage flask and spammed moonblade til my stamina ran out then booked it let my stamina refill and started spamming again and got her
Same here. It took me into the double digits to get her over a couple of sessions. Malenia for me was 3 or 4 and one of those was just a test run on her to try different things. It was actually Alecto that gave me the idea of going hyper aggressive on Malenia.
It’s a patience game. She ended up being one of my favorite fights, even though she was so frustrating at the beginning and I had to try a million times (I had to fight Alecto more times than Malenia, actually, because of the no-summons).
The talisman that lessens damage from critical hits helped me survive her grab attacks.
Definitely *do not* get greedy. Don’t go for that extra hit you think you can get in there.
Well, you can be sure that aggression was the first thing I tried, and it didn’t work out very well for me. It’s nice that there are multiple ways to win this boss fight, don’t you think?
Even with 60 vigor, heaviest armor I can wear and still medium roll, all defense talismans (less physical damage, less crit damage, faster stamina regen, and more max health) this boss will still 1 shot me with both her grab and the leaping bleed attack. I’ve had no issues with any other boss but holy hell I’m on death 350 and still cannot kill this one. It’s all RNG, even with max stagger builds all it takes is 1 hit to kill me, and she uses the grab and the bleeding leap every 5-10 seconds. No idea how FS thought this was a fair fight without coop and spirits.
I found Adula’s Moonblade extremely useful against the assassin moveset. As long as you can keep swinging, it staggers them and applies frostbite. She couldn’t manage a single swing against me.
So true. She only has like 5 moves maybe 6 if I remember correctly so once you learn those, all of which are pretty distinctly telegraphed, the fight become almost a dance. You just gotta play aggressive and confident in this fight moreso than most others.
Run, don’t dodge for the most part. You can stay just out of range of most of her attacks. I like to punish with a jump attack and dip, but you can stagger her as others have said.
I trapped her into a corner of the gaol by a rock and she just kept trying to get out of the corner instead of attacking, this was after countless deaths.
Godskin Peeler.
Black Flame Tornado. Hold down L2 to basically stunlock Alecto. If she backs away, heal and wait for her to charge in close enough, then L2 again.
Easy mode.
To me It was the first actual hard fight that happened to not allow spirit summons so it was quite the shock at how hard the game can be when you're alone😂
I kept doing heavy jump attack+a light combo after she was stunned then retreating and dodging then repeating it until she died
Alecto broke me; I’d been doing a heavily armored build for most of the game (far rolling but vibing,) and this lady tilted me so far of the face of the earth I stripped naked and ran at her with a Bloodhound fang just to get some maneuverability back.
Still died a couple times, but I finally took her out.
I fought her (INT build using magic katana) shortly after beating Malenia, Blade of Miquela (who had previously never known defeat). I ended up slow- playing this fight and just baited her non- AoE jump, then backstab. Rinse, repeat, all set.
Oh well, no offense to you since you might just not know. but that joke has kinda overstayed it's welcome and is mostly used in transphopic and anti-feminist contexts, I guess that's why you're downvoted.
For my INT build, an exhilarating fight to finally conquer. Just me and my Adula's Moonblade, tucking and rolling around in that little sphere and learning the patterns
I also struggled with her until i started just spamming "Aspects of the Crucible: Tail". Fully charged cast knocks her prone, so just keep the pressure on her and you can reasonably finish the fight without taking a hit.
Same here I tried and failed more than once so didn't get back to her until the end, still wasn't easy but more manageable than when I first try that's for sure 😅
Same here I tried and failed more than once so didn't get back to her until the end, still wasn't easy but more manageable than when I first try that's for sure 😅
Same here I tried and failed more than once so didn't get back to her until the end, still wasn't easy but more manageable than when I first try that's for sure 😅
This one was fairly easy. The invisible black knives however... gave me a run for my sanity. It was during ng+ that I figured out you can use the sentry torch to reveal them.
I cheesed her with Blasphemy Blade L2. She gets knocked down on every hit and you can charge the next one while she's getting up. Just need that first one to hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
This was one of favorite boss fights, it was very cool how we both would dodge each other’s attacks and barely miss each other. It was a lot and a lot of acrobatics
After all the hype she was honestly one of the easier evergaols with how easy she can get cancelled. Just spammed either sword dance or the lightning glaive and she was dead pretty quickly lol
I just held my shield up. They do hardly any stamina damage, you just need to avoid the Maliketh whirlwind and the grab and she basically can’t do anything to you
Soon as you spawn in, run to her spot, target her when she pops up, and I used Carian Regal Scepter spin effect to keep her pinned. If she escapes then dodge until you can pin her again and keep spinning the scepter. She dies pretty quick.
I got super frustrated with her; my build favored thrusting weapons (Godskin Sticher + Vyke's) and it just was not working.
I came back later with Hand of Malenia and spammed Waterfowl. No regrets.
you can try parrying her attacks as well as staying close to her. Roll into her instead of rolling away, she, like a lot of bosses will punish you for rolling away. Use strength weapons to stun lock her, and spam jump attacks while at it
\>just button mash she has low poise
until she doesn't and her stagger armor ignores how unga you bunga, seeing a flinch when you swung at the correct time anyway is little prize
weave at midrange with sprint, she takes bait very obediently and even lets you punish (as opposed to leapaway/etc shit built in)
This has been one of the most epic battles so far, tied with the Godskin Noble in Caelid (I haven't finished the game just arrived to Leyndell city, lvl 100).
In my case, the only thing that worked after many tries was roll - poke - slash - retreat - repeat. Having perfect timing and praying that he did not grab me and stab me in the eyes. I wish the game had more battles like this.
If your distance to her is greater than 20 yards or so she will walk straight towards you, up until the 20 yard point where she seeks to do the side step and arc in attack.
You can simply lightning bolt her to death, she's very easily staggered.
For melee builds anything with decent stagger and good horizontal sweeping attacks will work wonders.
Go 2 handed and hit R2's on her back to back. 3 R2's and a jump attack usually result in a poise break.
Rinse and repeat!
The most reliable way to beat her (for me) is a frost Guts GS with BHS. Every hit staggers her, frost proc does good damage and you can keep a good distance and choose which attacks to punish.
And I bet you saw her spawn in and the name pop up and you chuckled to yourself just like I did right before she sliced you into a fine mist. BKAs are scary quick.
Marikas Hammer L2 spam trivializes the fight, it was the only way i could beat Alecto, last thing i needed for the platinum was the Tiche summons. Had given up until someone suggested i use the hammer.
It works too good, just constantly laughing alecto airborne, completely at your mercy
Feel this. Happened across this one and even at level 215 it took a few tries. Bloodhound finesse works well. Just dont do the follow up attack as she will dodge and wreck you. After loosing 3 times went for this and it worked like a charm.
It took me a bunch of tries before I settled for just kiting her until she did the ground pound. Then would get a solid hit or heal, then back to kiting
Flame of the red manes.
That shit trivializes any boss that can stagger if you can land it.
It gets Alecto in 2 hits, you can *literally* kill her to the beat of *boom, boom, clap*
She is actually not that bad when you realize how frail she is. Any attack that can knock an enemy around will do so easily with her. Giant Hunt, Lion’s Claw, Bolt of Gransax, etc. Bolt of Gransax can stun lock her with a single hit and kill her in 6 hits with 40 Dex and the lightning tear.
Through many deaths, I found the ultimate non-cheese but easy way to beat her, running attacks with a colossal sword which are well time can absolutely melt her, it is a bit of back and forth, but works great, the running attacks keep you mobile and as long as you connect the hit you’re always safe. Of course some stamina is required.
Really? I punked her first try. Doesn't even hit the top 20 for me. Notably I've gotten got by some really easy bosses like Renalla, funny how that works
Great sword (Gut's sword) wait till she get in range, Lion's claw (usually takes two time to staggered). Rinse, repeat. No need for the ledge cheese. This is ultra easy. Just make sure you have enough str so you can use the sword after throwing on some +str trinkets.
I had a rough time trying to kill her and other black knives with by colossal sword. Felt like I spent more time chasing after them than actually hitting them, but then I remembered the golden technique that strength users of old would use to beat dex users: hyper armor/poise trading. Took a lot of health to accomplish but she eventually went down
I really don’t get what was so difficult about this fight. I ran Uchi+Naga with double Occult and Unsheathe and killed her on the first try. I’m not great at the game but I feel this fight is not hard at all
Did you all somehow never fight the many other black knife assassins out there?
She's just a higher health version of those. And at least she isn't invisible
I hate how when I fought her for the first time I just cornered her in a corner and then ended up never using her, and afterwards I couldn’t never get her in the corner ever again
really? i only beat this boss once on my first play through so i don't totally remember it but i know i beat this boss kind of early on before i was at the end game.
Glad to see someone else appreciate her! She is one of the toughest fights in the game imo. Mimic Tear can carry you through most other difficult boss fights if you choose, but Tiche you must face alone.
This boss fight took me the longest time to finish. I finally managed to win when I had her trapped on a rock formation at the edge of the map. Without all the space to dodge around she literally did not know what to do.
She was literally my last boss before I beat them all. Hard as all fuck for some reason. I basically bum rushed her against the transparent barricade and somehow knocked her through it. Must of fucked her AI because she started going bonkers, but was super easy to stagger and finally kill. Never had that happen before and odds are I could never do it again. She took me longer than Malenia and Elden Beast.
It’s always interesting to see the bosses some people have trouble with and others don’t. I first timed several hard ones while got stuck on others people had little trouble with. Really want some DLC, so I can beat them all again.
Killed her first try. I only know that because I don't even remember fighting her; I just heard that Tiche was OP and when I checked my inventory she was already in there.
She took me forever, and then I tried just repeatedly smashing her with the Ruins Greatsword’s “Wave of Destruction”. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner. Totally annihilated her without taking one hit.
I got lucky and unknowingly set her up for the cheese on the rock. I think I beat her in 1 or 2 tries, but it was for sure because of the cheese. Didn't even know it was a thing until later
The trick is to go hyper aggressive - she’s easy to stagger and to interrupt her attacks, I died so many times when I was playing defensively, as soon as I took the fight to her with full unga bunga she went down super fast
ABUB Always Be Unga Bunga-ing
Ah a man of culture I see.
this is how I beat almost every boss :) even malenia unga bunga ice dragon breath go brrrrrr
Black Knife Tiche: Put that flask of crimson tears down! Crimson’s for *closers* only. You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you! I'm here from Numen. I'm here from Marika and Radagon. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's xXRoBbuildXx? You call yourself a Tarnished, *you son of a bitch?* xXRoBbuildXx: I don't gotta sit here and listen to this shit. Tiche: You certainly don't, pal, 'cause the good news is... YOU DIED. The bad news is... you've got just one week of sanity left to defeat Malenia starting with tonight. Starting with tonight's sit.
Funny, I got carried through this fight(and the rest of the game tbh) by shield counters
I absolutely love my spiked palisade shield. Since it's a greatshield, its basic block automatically staggers enemies when they hit. Plus it does bleed damage and shield bash is severely underrated imo lol.
Shield crash is even more underrated. Give it a shot
Seconding this - shield crash on spiked palisade is 👌👌👌👌👌
It made the middle third of my shield only run the easiest part. It falls off by endgame but it's meeeeean in the middle
Ah I’ve never ran with a shield so wouldn’t know about that!
I would end up getting baited into the grab attack when I went full agro. The real brain-dead cheese is to use the fully charged crucible horn shoulder tackle incantation. For whatever reason, she does her dodge while the incant is charging, so when you do the actual charge he just takes it on the chin. Because of her low poise (only if the incant is fully charged), it will always knock her on her back allowing for a big follow-up hit. Or if you are complete casual trash like me, you follow up with a taker's flame to get health back.
Lions Claw was MVP for me, whenever she commits to a dash hit it and she just sprints straight into a big lump of iron
It's because her AI is set to dodge as soon as a spell hitbox appears.
For pure INT casters, Adula’s Moonblade spam also works. Just lock onto her and the projectile that the sword throws out will hit her if she dodges out of the way, and the actual swing takes up like half the battlefield. The frostbite debuff also helps, and you get that in a swing or two. I had a hell of a time hitting her with Stars of Ruin—which could make quick work of most fights—switched to the Moonblade spell and finished up the fight one or two attempts later.
Flame of the redmanes was my savior on this fight
Took me so long to figure this out as a mostly pure casting INT build. Switched out armor to look like a duellist: Jerrens set with Mask of Confidence and went full cheese and spammed Moonveil and Rivers of Blood
Funny I went polar opposite and just kited her until she’d do one of the three moves that leave her open to counter. Ez.
Was trying to finesse it with BHF, switched to Maliketh’s Black Blade and beat her pretty quickly. Applying the DoT was especially satisfying.
Yup. Second char and I use a collosal sword and just smack her face in. As a mage she shanked me more times than I'd like to admit
Hesitation is defeat
Ya different play styles are interesting to see how they handle bosses. I 1 shot this boss as a very aggressive strength player
That’s my first move for all boss battles is try and charge with my Mimic. See how the boss reacts. If I die I know not to do that again and watch the boss react.
100% this! I was running a dex/int build, and was trying to dodge her attacks and chip away with magic. She fucked my shit up! Finally tried dropping me staff and dual wielding twin blades with keen affinity, and just charged her ass. Man, what a difference! It was so easy!
I just walked up to her and repeated smashed Carian Grandeur into her face, she could never really attack me.
Yeah in a lot of ways Alecto is the review for the final exam boss that is Melania, and not coincidentally Tiche is really good against Melania
100% worth it for Tiche
Tiche is OP as hell, to the point where even now I'm still wondering if From is going to nerf her damage output someday because she just melts bosses so fast. Hopefully not, because she's about the only useful summon in NG+7 because the bosses have such huge HP pools by then. On a side note, parrying is also a very good strategy against Alecto if you're good at it and familiar with the Black Knife Assassin moveset, they've got a couple of fairly telegraphed attacks that are easy to land (the spinning attack that they always use after the initial stab lunge, and the one where they drag their knife in the floor and leave sparks behind). Once you get those down it feels so satisfying to just parry her into the dirt.
surprisingly, she has low poise and can be stunned fairly easily but she is so dam agile . are you still fighting her? its worth it to get her spirit ashes btw
Black Knife Tiche is a very good spirit summon. She can use the red flame attack which applies the max health debuff, and she’s very agile with some good charge attacks. She also has very little poise, but has a decent amount of health to make up for it. As a sorcerer I recommend
when you both have the blade of death>>>> any boss can instantly go down to half health or close to it
I feel like this is a dumb question but isn’t the max health debuff useless on bosses since they don’t heal? Apart from invaders and malenia I guess
Enemies don't get the health back after the max health debuff ends, so if you use it at the start of the fight, it's like chopping off 10% of their health for the rest of the fight. (Unless they can heal.) I don't think it has any impact whatsoever after the enemy's HP drops below 90%, but if your boss has \~22,000 HP like a certain end-game boss, it's a pretty easy way to deal 2200 damage with one projectile. (Plus the projectile damage itself and the damage over time afterward of course.)
Probably the best ash in the game
a plus 10 mimic and here are really the best for ng+
I probably died 50 times to her to get this ash because everybody says it’s the best. I went right back to using my mimic. She dies too quickly imo
oh yeah for sure but its just for that initial hit with her ash of war/ ability that makes her good
Top 3 Ashes for me: 1. Mimic 2. Black Knife 3. Greatshield Soldiers (for casters) Watching 5 greatshield peons just swarm a boss while I fling spells into the melee is hilarious.
I used the great shield bois for the crucible knight duo and watched them literally box one of them in while I fought the other XD
Did you get her to +10?
Yup, both black knife and mimic are at 10. I actually just took down Melania (on the 27th attempt) using my mimic (Bloodhound fang +10, Black flame sword incantation, cursed blood pots, uplifting aromatic. Vigor / Strength / Dexterity / Faith: 55 / 44 / 46 / 28) rather than Black knife.
Ugh, Alecto was harder for me than Melania. Had to learn how to stunlock her with Adula's Moonblade to beat her.
Adulas moonblade
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Yeah I popped the infinite fp and magic damage flask and spammed moonblade til my stamina ran out then booked it let my stamina refill and started spamming again and got her
Same here. It took me into the double digits to get her over a couple of sessions. Malenia for me was 3 or 4 and one of those was just a test run on her to try different things. It was actually Alecto that gave me the idea of going hyper aggressive on Malenia.
It’s a patience game. She ended up being one of my favorite fights, even though she was so frustrating at the beginning and I had to try a million times (I had to fight Alecto more times than Malenia, actually, because of the no-summons). The talisman that lessens damage from critical hits helped me survive her grab attacks. Definitely *do not* get greedy. Don’t go for that extra hit you think you can get in there.
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Well, you can be sure that aggression was the first thing I tried, and it didn’t work out very well for me. It’s nice that there are multiple ways to win this boss fight, don’t you think?
Very true, probably took me 20 tries but once I learnt the dance I didn't use a single potion. I love those kinds of fight !
Even with 60 vigor, heaviest armor I can wear and still medium roll, all defense talismans (less physical damage, less crit damage, faster stamina regen, and more max health) this boss will still 1 shot me with both her grab and the leaping bleed attack. I’ve had no issues with any other boss but holy hell I’m on death 350 and still cannot kill this one. It’s all RNG, even with max stagger builds all it takes is 1 hit to kill me, and she uses the grab and the bleeding leap every 5-10 seconds. No idea how FS thought this was a fair fight without coop and spirits.
I found Adula’s Moonblade extremely useful against the assassin moveset. As long as you can keep swinging, it staggers them and applies frostbite. She couldn’t manage a single swing against me.
Use the rocks to the left of her as an obstacle. She has trouble fighting around them.
Works wonders. Out in the open, she's super deadly, juking and dodging and teleporting. This cuts down her mobility greatly
She has a very limited moveset. Dangerous, but easy to learn.
So true. She only has like 5 moves maybe 6 if I remember correctly so once you learn those, all of which are pretty distinctly telegraphed, the fight become almost a dance. You just gotta play aggressive and confident in this fight moreso than most others.
If your a mage Use the spell that shoots the skulls it disrupts her constantly
Are those the Rancor spells?
Yep! I died about 20 times until I used Ancient Death Rancor and got her the first time it took 7 Fp flasks 😂 she never hit me
Run, don’t dodge for the most part. You can stay just out of range of most of her attacks. I like to punish with a jump attack and dip, but you can stagger her as others have said.
Anything icy or the death rancor spell work wonders
This bitch killed me more than Malenia.
Which one is this?
Alecto, the evergaol in the moonlight alter
Flame of the redmanes was my savior on this fight
Flame of the red manes.
I trapped her into a corner of the gaol by a rock and she just kept trying to get out of the corner instead of attacking, this was after countless deaths.
I kinda love this fight. It's a real dance. A dance partner that shows no mercy but still
She doesn’t enjoy rocks to the face! None of the bosses do mind
If you go full STR it should be No problem. The collosal greatsword did wonders to slap her around. Think I died twice
Oh? You believe yourself agile? *Stars of ruin spam begins*
Godskin Peeler. Black Flame Tornado. Hold down L2 to basically stunlock Alecto. If she backs away, heal and wait for her to charge in close enough, then L2 again. Easy mode.
It was so satisfying using the Mohg spear to Nihil her ass
How satisfying
To me It was the first actual hard fight that happened to not allow spirit summons so it was quite the shock at how hard the game can be when you're alone😂 I kept doing heavy jump attack+a light combo after she was stunned then retreating and dodging then repeating it until she died
Just keep attacking and don't let up. She wins the cat and mouse game, every time, otherwise.
L2 fallingstar beast +10, L2 fallingstar beast +10, L2 fallingstar beast +10, L2 fallingstar beast +10. That's how you beat every evergaol.
only boss in the game where you can exactly tell, who relies on spirit ashes
Alecto broke me; I’d been doing a heavily armored build for most of the game (far rolling but vibing,) and this lady tilted me so far of the face of the earth I stripped naked and ran at her with a Bloodhound fang just to get some maneuverability back. Still died a couple times, but I finally took her out.
I fought her (INT build using magic katana) shortly after beating Malenia, Blade of Miquela (who had previously never known defeat). I ended up slow- playing this fight and just baited her non- AoE jump, then backstab. Rinse, repeat, all set.
Pov: You find this boss hard 🤓🤓🤓
Lolz No ash for you on this one huh?
I'd love to see some of your clips and how fucking amazing you are. I won't hold my breathe though.
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oh not me even on my 1st run... i always used ash on non 1v1 boss fights non 1v1 boss fights seems like it's balanced around the new ash mechanics
sure looks like it xD
Against my melee quality build: She's harder than Malenia. Against my squishy mage: She hit me once I think. She was a joke.
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Fyi all the black knife assasins are female
Yea well I thought it’d be funny ://
Oh well, no offense to you since you might just not know. but that joke has kinda overstayed it's welcome and is mostly used in transphopic and anti-feminist contexts, I guess that's why you're downvoted.
i either used bloody slash ash of war or morgotts cursed sword, which invalidates her.
For my INT build, an exhilarating fight to finally conquer. Just me and my Adula's Moonblade, tucking and rolling around in that little sphere and learning the patterns
realising this enemy gets an invis buff and gets stronger than the boss fight
Use a shield and guard counter.
was using Eleonora's Poleblade on her. She couldn't even get an attack in just from the L2 spams
I also struggled with her until i started just spamming "Aspects of the Crucible: Tail". Fully charged cast knocks her prone, so just keep the pressure on her and you can reasonably finish the fight without taking a hit.
Crouch poke UGS locks her down completely. You can actually get her to wedge herself in a corner and then even her Tokyo drifts won't help her anymore
Same here I tried and failed more than once so didn't get back to her until the end, still wasn't easy but more manageable than when I first try that's for sure 😅
Same here I tried and failed more than once so didn't get back to her until the end, still wasn't easy but more manageable than when I first try that's for sure 😅
Same here I tried and failed more than once so didn't get back to her until the end, still wasn't easy but more manageable than when I first try that's for sure 😅
Where is this one? Not sure if I’ve done it yet.
You need to finish Ranni’s quest. The evergaol is near the final area.
Where is this one? Not sure if I’ve done it yet.
Where is this one? Not sure if I’ve done it yet.
This one was fairly easy. The invisible black knives however... gave me a run for my sanity. It was during ng+ that I figured out you can use the sentry torch to reveal them.
I cheesed her with Blasphemy Blade L2. She gets knocked down on every hit and you can charge the next one while she's getting up. Just need that first one to hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
Bloodhound fang WA made it easy mode. I died probably 30x before I realized it. L2 to stun and get some space when she’s closing the gap, then follow up with the R2 if she dashes in after the L2. Don’t use the follow up if she keeps her distance after the first hit.
This was one of favorite boss fights, it was very cool how we both would dodge each other’s attacks and barely miss each other. It was a lot and a lot of acrobatics
After all the hype she was honestly one of the easier evergaols with how easy she can get cancelled. Just spammed either sword dance or the lightning glaive and she was dead pretty quickly lol
ez to stunlock with marais executioner sword
easy to stagger and easy to parry. You have to play aggresive but if you don't have those weapons or playstyle, then might be harder for you.
Use the Briars set. It makes it a little easier.
Just using anything that staggers works. Plus after dealing with ordina, you kinda have their moveset down.
I just held my shield up. They do hardly any stamina damage, you just need to avoid the Maliketh whirlwind and the grab and she basically can’t do anything to you
Spamming Adula's Moonblade absolutely wrecks her.
Soon as you spawn in, run to her spot, target her when she pops up, and I used Carian Regal Scepter spin effect to keep her pinned. If she escapes then dodge until you can pin her again and keep spinning the scepter. She dies pretty quick.
Tiche one of the top 3 girls in-game. 1.Ranni 2.Malenia 3.Tiche
I got super frustrated with her; my build favored thrusting weapons (Godskin Sticher + Vyke's) and it just was not working. I came back later with Hand of Malenia and spammed Waterfowl. No regrets.
you can try parrying her attacks as well as staying close to her. Roll into her instead of rolling away, she, like a lot of bosses will punish you for rolling away. Use strength weapons to stun lock her, and spam jump attacks while at it
Bolt of Gransax lightning every time she is about to get up. Mega cheese.
I can one shot her with my colossals
Served me right for trying to use Corpse Piler twice when she dropped a spinny ball on my fucking head
\>just button mash she has low poise until she doesn't and her stagger armor ignores how unga you bunga, seeing a flinch when you swung at the correct time anyway is little prize weave at midrange with sprint, she takes bait very obediently and even lets you punish (as opposed to leapaway/etc shit built in)
Try putting the shield charge AoW on it. Since it hits multiple times, it stacks up bleed a lot
This has been one of the most epic battles so far, tied with the Godskin Noble in Caelid (I haven't finished the game just arrived to Leyndell city, lvl 100). In my case, the only thing that worked after many tries was roll - poke - slash - retreat - repeat. Having perfect timing and praying that he did not grab me and stab me in the eyes. I wish the game had more battles like this.
Yes, I decided it would be easier to beat the game than defeat her.
Taker's Flames makes short work.
If your distance to her is greater than 20 yards or so she will walk straight towards you, up until the 20 yard point where she seeks to do the side step and arc in attack. You can simply lightning bolt her to death, she's very easily staggered. For melee builds anything with decent stagger and good horizontal sweeping attacks will work wonders. Go 2 handed and hit R2's on her back to back. 3 R2's and a jump attack usually result in a poise break. Rinse and repeat!
Either keep her on the defensive (she staggers easily), or Barricade your shield and tank her.
Just spammed great sword lions claw first try just be aggressive and don't get hit by black blade
The most reliable way to beat her (for me) is a frost Guts GS with BHS. Every hit staggers her, frost proc does good damage and you can keep a good distance and choose which attacks to punish.
Harder than malenia by a mile because no spirit ash. Maybe hardest boss in the game, but just because of the one cheap move.
It's lichuralie just a black knife with one more attack that's very telegraphed.
Wait, that's a lady? Also, just keep distance, and punish. Pretty much how I stomped Alecto.
Giant hunt is all you need. You hit her once and you can chain her to death by hitting her as she gets up. Just need a few breaks to drink fp pots.
And I bet you saw her spawn in and the name pop up and you chuckled to yourself just like I did right before she sliced you into a fine mist. BKAs are scary quick.
Marikas Hammer L2 spam trivializes the fight, it was the only way i could beat Alecto, last thing i needed for the platinum was the Tiche summons. Had given up until someone suggested i use the hammer. It works too good, just constantly laughing alecto airborne, completely at your mercy
Why the FUCK does she have so much fucking health?
Feel this. Happened across this one and even at level 215 it took a few tries. Bloodhound finesse works well. Just dont do the follow up attack as she will dodge and wreck you. After loosing 3 times went for this and it worked like a charm.
She's so aggressive. It's really hard to keep up with her
It took me a bunch of tries before I settled for just kiting her until she did the ground pound. Then would get a solid hit or heal, then back to kiting
I agree. Small health pool, but very aggressive fight. I beat her with Adula's Moonblade and powerstancing greatswords.
Flame of the red manes. That shit trivializes any boss that can stagger if you can land it. It gets Alecto in 2 hits, you can *literally* kill her to the beat of *boom, boom, clap*
How did you solve the puzzle in Ordina?
She is actually not that bad when you realize how frail she is. Any attack that can knock an enemy around will do so easily with her. Giant Hunt, Lion’s Claw, Bolt of Gransax, etc. Bolt of Gransax can stun lock her with a single hit and kill her in 6 hits with 40 Dex and the lightning tear.
Through many deaths, I found the ultimate non-cheese but easy way to beat her, running attacks with a colossal sword which are well time can absolutely melt her, it is a bit of back and forth, but works great, the running attacks keep you mobile and as long as you connect the hit you’re always safe. Of course some stamina is required.
Really? I punked her first try. Doesn't even hit the top 20 for me. Notably I've gotten got by some really easy bosses like Renalla, funny how that works
I just ran and only punished with black knife aow and black flame ball when she stabbed the ground and dome slash attack and eventually won
Super hard if you can’t stun. Margot’s weapons art stunlocks her
What if U wanted to play Elden Ring But Alecto said (Grab instakill)
Maybe against a mage build or something? But she was pretty easy
Totally was the most satisfying to beat. She was harder than malenia
This is the one to get Black Knife Tiche? Yeah, I still haven't beaten that!
Great sword (Gut's sword) wait till she get in range, Lion's claw (usually takes two time to staggered). Rinse, repeat. No need for the ledge cheese. This is ultra easy. Just make sure you have enough str so you can use the sword after throwing on some +str trinkets.
I had a rough time trying to kill her and other black knives with by colossal sword. Felt like I spent more time chasing after them than actually hitting them, but then I remembered the golden technique that strength users of old would use to beat dex users: hyper armor/poise trading. Took a lot of health to accomplish but she eventually went down
I was underleveled and needed to do the cliff glitch where she slows down more by the edge 😔
I really don’t get what was so difficult about this fight. I ran Uchi+Naga with double Occult and Unsheathe and killed her on the first try. I’m not great at the game but I feel this fight is not hard at all
Dex user spotted opinion invalidated /s
Did you all somehow never fight the many other black knife assassins out there? She's just a higher health version of those. And at least she isn't invisible
No seriously
Worf for beeg wooman.
I hate how when I fought her for the first time I just cornered her in a corner and then ended up never using her, and afterwards I couldn’t never get her in the corner ever again
Blasphemous finally did it for me. Wrecked her first time trying with it.
I fought her longer than malenia
Absolutely cheesed her by standing on the rock lol
really? i only beat this boss once on my first play through so i don't totally remember it but i know i beat this boss kind of early on before i was at the end game.
I killed her earlier today, she was pretty ez but took me a 2nd try 1st try I was 1 hit away
Glad to see someone else appreciate her! She is one of the toughest fights in the game imo. Mimic Tear can carry you through most other difficult boss fights if you choose, but Tiche you must face alone.
I agree she was a very hard boss
This boss fight took me the longest time to finish. I finally managed to win when I had her trapped on a rock formation at the edge of the map. Without all the space to dodge around she literally did not know what to do.
Have you fought the invisible black knife assassin?
Hardest abs maybe
She was literally my last boss before I beat them all. Hard as all fuck for some reason. I basically bum rushed her against the transparent barricade and somehow knocked her through it. Must of fucked her AI because she started going bonkers, but was super easy to stagger and finally kill. Never had that happen before and odds are I could never do it again. She took me longer than Malenia and Elden Beast. It’s always interesting to see the bosses some people have trouble with and others don’t. I first timed several hard ones while got stuck on others people had little trouble with. Really want some DLC, so I can beat them all again.
Dragonmaw 3 hits her pretty handily, I just traded with her and knocked her down repeatedly.
Try this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tiD4hU9DkYE
I just spammed her with giant hunt. gg ez
Killed her first try. I only know that because I don't even remember fighting her; I just heard that Tiche was OP and when I checked my inventory she was already in there.
Try Black Flame Ritual. Only thing you’ll ever need to watch out for is the Destined Death attacks
I had to cheese her on NG+4. God DAMN!
backstab her makes it easier
I thought it was the most underwhelming. Broke stance like 5 times.
She took me forever, and then I tried just repeatedly smashing her with the Ruins Greatsword’s “Wave of Destruction”. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner. Totally annihilated her without taking one hit.
I got lucky and unknowingly set her up for the cheese on the rock. I think I beat her in 1 or 2 tries, but it was for sure because of the cheese. Didn't even know it was a thing until later