Strategy on fighting Curseblades

[Butta Dawg]

Curseblades[eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com] can admittedly be quite a pain to deal with.

A reliable way to deal with them is using Ironjar Aromatics[eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com], as they allow you to poise through all of their attacks whilst taking minimal damage. Pair that with a hard hitting weapon and enjoy an easy victory.

Ashes of Wars such as Endure[eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com] should also do the trick should you be allergic to crafting items.

[1100011]

Thank you for starting this discussion. One of the first enemies you encounter... decided to run past the majority of enemies after that. (my mistake for going in blind).

Another strategy found on the net:
They're really tall, so they can't hit you if you're hugging them because the arms can't reach that close. Just roll in with a shield, strafe around and backstab twice.

[Fineous🔥]

A colossal sword with bleed Spinning Gravity thrust deletes them (knockback included) without having to use the "NaNo MaChInEs SoN" perfume.

Anyways amazing guide, even after a fourth visit to the Shadowlands they are the most painful normal monster to deal with (after the wicker man, but they count as mini bosses) for me.

[Key]

High poise, fast as hell, ranged attacks, endless combos, never stops attacking, can hit around shields, can gap close in an instant, constantly jumps around and can kill you in half a second if you don't see it coming, they also barely drop any runes and nothing else.

I rarely say this but honestly Curseblades as straight up a poorly thought out enemy that just excels at everything while somehow also managing to make lock on both necessary and vomit inducing at the same time.

[Knavenformed]

I just don't really

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

From my experience they were quite reliably interuptable if you do a heavy enough attack on them, keep doing that and throwing knives while they are far away to keep the stance from reseting until they get stance broken

Like most enemies too, dont roll away from them, try to roll diagonally to close the distance

[Sc0rpiTr0n]

Lightning Omen Cleaver with Sword Dance shreds them like wet paper bag.

But if I don't have it equipped and one of these mofos
surprise me they can be painful to deal with.

Dual Lightning Grossmessers with Thunderbolt are good alternative
for me and I almost always have them equipped.

I didn't test it much but I think Piercing Fang
and Impaling Thrust should be effective against them.