Tips for Malenia

[TiredTape]

i'm trying to solo all the bosses but i'm stuck on Malenia. my built is mostly magic focused any tips on beating her are welcome.

[Fineous🔥]

Originally posted by TiredTape:

my built is mostly magic focused any tips on beating her are welcome.

Hmm then my old reliable GIF is perfect!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3166333894


Always keep some distance between you and learn how to "taunt" her when she wind up to start the chicken dance.

For anything else use frost magic like Ranni darkmoon and Adula moonblade! If you time the frostbite procs well you can even interrupt Waterfowl dance.

[Sabaithal]

- Look up how to dodge waterfowl (because its not exactly intuitive). If you can't dodge it get a greatshield and tank it. Otherwise you are dead.
- Get the timing down for dodging scarlet Aeonia. Otherwise you are dead.
- Learn how to avoid her phase 2 shadowclone BS, otherwise you are dead.

In truth most of 'getting good' with Malenia is just learning how to avoid her 1-shot gimmicks. After that she's not that difficult to deal with.

[Reynard]

"Magic focused" is a little too vague. Keep your distance and use spells that can't be dodged by enemies. Get your load lighter to light roll, perhaps.

You can use freeze pots to knock her out of waterfowl dance, or simply run away/look up how to dodge it. Learn the boss and her punish windows.

[Razkil]

If you get tired of her dodging, use the Night Comet spell, she literally can't see it. If you want a more fair fight, I would recommend "combo magic", in essence bait her with a cheap shot, follow by a quick but heavier one. Great Glintstone Shard into Comet can work, though it is not reliable.
An alternative that can be fairly reliable is Glintstone Blade, fully charge one, and no charge on second will usually land 2 shots on her, since she is input reading, not actually dodging the projectile itself, or so it seems.
Another that can work, if you do it right, is Cannon and Gavel of Haima. They tend to send her flying or knock her down, though depending on your armor and health, it might be a bit of a gamble.

[BoD[6-4]]

Tornado of blackblame is your friend. Works on any build

[Casual Amateur]

I did hear some one explain some thing about her Waterfowl dance hit box. Her Waterfowl dance attack does have a rubber band to your character location. Basically no matter far your character away from Malenia. Her waterfowl dance attack will move to your location quickly. Some people suggest dodge roll toward her during waterfowl dance third attack to cause her attack over shoot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHkqbLrX8E&ab_channel=Domo3000

[Super Mario Galaxy 2]

get a frost pot and bind it to your use button + direction arrow so you can throw it at her when she is rising so you cancel waterfowl completely
get some buffs, meat, perfumer stuff that negotiate damage
scarlet aionia is easy to dodge, dodge when screen starting to shake
i believe in you pal

[Sc0rpiTr0n]

Use Night Comet spell and keep your distance.

Cold weapon with Chilling Mist or Giant Hunt Ash of War will also help.

[XiØN]

https://youtu.be/BYrOwjNcR-g?t=36

[Dizzy Ladybug]

make sure you're aren't neglecting vigour, also there's the Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman just before her boss room

[Xonah]

I beat her twice. 1 with rivers, 2 with blasphemous blade. I spammed and broke her. I wasn't going to deal with her ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Y'all souls veterans can go ahead and do that. XD

[Papi_Teflon]

Any weapon you can apply Lion's Claw with a blood loss attribute (preferably a great curved sword or colossal sword, but given you're a mage build, might not have the points to wield either efficiently) that can stun lock her 8 times out of 10 if you're successful in timing her attacks to punish her with. If you have a sufficient amount of Dexterity, Moonveil still works pretty well from a distance with the Transient Moonlight skill. Blasphemous Blade is GOLDEN when used against her, because in addition to stunning her from time to time, you'll also get some health back that you lost if the swords skill connects.

Beyond that, not much else I can offer advice on other than bringing "Flame Cleanse me" along for her second phase if she proc Scarlet Rot on you so you don't die in an instant. Rivers of Blood is meh at this point. You gotta be super careful with that skill. I think any blade you can apply "Blood Slash" to would help better so you're not caught mid skill proc while she attacks.

In short, Frost and Bleed are your best friends for this fight, so use any means to proc those elements to your advantage, learn to time the rhythm of her Waterfowl Dance and you should be able to solo her no problem. OH also if you wanna try your luck, you can parry some of her simple attacks in the first phase. It takes 3 parries to break her poise so be mindful of that.

I realised from my fight with her that her movements and cues correlate to Sekiro mechanics. Namely when her prosthetic arm glows with that red spark, that basically means evade the attack by any means necessary lol

[Jinx]

Carian Piercer + ice crag + that firespell from volcano manor for the first phase. Keep your distance and Ice crag her till she frozen, usually it happens when she close, Carian Pierce her for heavy damage and knockdown, reset freeze with firespell and run away. Could be tricky as she dodge ranged attacks and you need to figure optimal distance and rhythm so most of your spells hit.
Night spells also good as she don't dodge but ice+fire faster.
Second phase actually easier. When she use her scarlet rot explosion she vulnerable to attacks. You can bring her to almost half hp after first explosion without kamehameha. And soon she would do second one and after that she would be few hits till death.
For waterfowl dance, I don't know how to dodge it so I just block. Block first two hits, dodge, block next and attacks her from distance when she do final circle burst.

[Sean Maxhell]

I've got plenty of no hit on Malenia with different characters on my channel, but nothing with a full mage.
This is the nearest.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035652008

[gamer]

frostpots stun her out of waterfowl dance. all you need to know tbh