She doesn't get staggered any more?

[Leither]

I remember Malenia getting staggered after a couple of hits, somehow that is not the case anymore... Did they make her immune to stagger after the latest patch?
Or maybe I'm supposed to thrust harder with more buffs on top of it?

[The Spirit of Jazz]

For her to be staggered by your performance, you must thrust repeatedly, as hard and deep as you can.

[SHOCKNUTZ]

RNG. sometimes you walk through the boss door and she works as intended. other times you walk through the boss door and her scripting is set to random.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Malenia+Blade+of+Miquella

[Elymnir]

Last time I fought her, she staggered fine with Siluria's tree and the reaper scythe. However, you do have to choose your moment. She'll essentially stagger when she's calmly walking toward you. But, when she attacks, she has hyper-armor. If you attack first during her walk, you can strike her twice before she launches her attack.

[Enderspoons]

Malenia will stagger from pretty much anything, but she has a lot of hyper-armor attacks that ignore all stagger.
Hitting her during these attacks will still do poise damage, but if you cause her stance to break during hyper armor, she just... doesn't, and will reset her poise all over again without you ever knowing.

[mayhem523]

I've been fighting her a lot the last couple days, she staggers pretty easily and I'm using reduvia daggers. I interrupt her attacks with the weapon skill pretty often. If you have high poise damage you can break her stance too.

Her waterfowl seems a lot easier to dodge, but maybe it just clicked for me all of a sudden. I never really practiced her but I'm able to dodge it pretty easily now. You just run away, then dodge toward her twice.. the trick is just being prepared to run away.

I'm able to dodge her phantom attack by literally just holding down left or right and spamming dodge until it's over. Has that always been the case? I've always seen people complain about these 2 attacks but suddenly I'm not having issues with either.

Maybe it's just because I'm running daggers with high stamina and keeping distance.

[Grizzly]

greatswords still stagger her all the way
10/10 would stagger deep into her again

[Sabaithal]

Sometimes she just decides that she has hyper-armor and will not stagger from repeated attacks (not after combos or repeated hits, or her kick either). This happens especially when being a furled finger I've found.

[SnakeshyperTTV/Kick]

Originally posted by The Spirit of Jazz:

For her to be staggered by your performance, you must thrust repeatedly, as hard and deep as you can.

Got to go balls deep and hear her moan harder please daddy.

[GopiPlays]

Originally posted by mayhem523:

I've been fighting her a lot the last couple days, she staggers pretty easily and I'm using reduvia daggers. I interrupt her attacks with the weapon skill pretty often. If you have high poise damage you can break her stance too.

Her waterfowl seems a lot easier to dodge, but maybe it just clicked for me all of a sudden. I never really practiced her but I'm able to dodge it pretty easily now. You just run away, then dodge toward her twice.. the trick is just being prepared to run away.

I'm able to dodge her phantom attack by literally just holding down left or right and spamming dodge until it's over. Has that always been the case? I've always seen people complain about these 2 attacks but suddenly I'm not having issues with either.

Maybe it's just because I'm running daggers with high stamina and keeping distance.

She seems to be easier while using katanas and fast weapons. I always died to her using colossal sword, as she will do the waterfowl(or phantom attack) as soon as my swing animation starts.

[Elymnir]

Originally posted by GopiPlays:

Originally posted by mayhem523:

I've been fighting her a lot the last couple days, she staggers pretty easily and I'm using reduvia daggers. I interrupt her attacks with the weapon skill pretty often. If you have high poise damage you can break her stance too.

Her waterfowl seems a lot easier to dodge, but maybe it just clicked for me all of a sudden. I never really practiced her but I'm able to dodge it pretty easily now. You just run away, then dodge toward her twice.. the trick is just being prepared to run away.

I'm able to dodge her phantom attack by literally just holding down left or right and spamming dodge until it's over. Has that always been the case? I've always seen people complain about these 2 attacks but suddenly I'm not having issues with either.

Maybe it's just because I'm running daggers with high stamina and keeping distance.

She seems to be easier while using katanas and fast weapons. I always died to her using colossal sword, as she will do the waterfowl(or phantom attack) as soon as my swing animation starts.

I hate when she does that. One time I was using colossal weapons against her and everytime I did a jumping attack, she would initiate her phantom combo. It would be fine if she'd just blast you away when you're too close, but no, being right under her has you staggered by her "hovering" damage and you die even before seeing the first ghost.

[P.]

Random hyper armor to scare R1 spammers

[Krazy Wallet]

You can stagger her, but there's an unfortunate mechanic that can prevent her poise break. If you've been building her stagger bar where the next shot would break her poise, and she does her kick, jump, or side dash to hyperarmor through your attack, her stance meter will reset due to your attack breaking the threshold, but she will not stance break because of the hyperarmor move.

I don't typically complain about much in Fromsoft games as I want the challenging, unfair experience. But I do like consistency, though it is mechanically consistent in what is happening, it plays and feels inconsistent when you've been getting several hits in and waiting for that stance break moment.

[Norm Macdonald's Ghost]

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

... But I do like consistency....

Parry her. She'll consistently swoon at your chadness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR-zAe6XpfQ

[Krazy Wallet]

Originally posted by Norm Macdonald's Ghost:

Originally posted by Krazy Wallet:

... But I do like consistency....

Parry her. She'll consistently swoon at your chadness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR-zAe6XpfQ

The only chadness happening in the Malenia fight is when she sheds her armor, dons her equipment, and bends me over to tarnish my lost grace...

[Drazruin]

Sadly Malenia is entirely random right now, I staggered her multiple times but heres the catch for some reason she regains health when getting staggered or smashed to the ground I don't know what they did wrong but this Boss actually needs fixing