Highlights
- A new strategy in Elden Ring makes defeating the tough boss Malenia surprisingly easy, eliciting pity for a once challenging foe.
- Players use a clever tactic involving constant strikes to break Malenia's posture, rendering her defenseless against powerful jumping attacks.
- This strategy showcases the ingenuity of dedicated players.
A new strategy used in Elden Ring is making players feel somewhat guilty after defeating Malenia so easily. Elden Ring, the acclaimed open-world video game from FromSoftware, presents a significant challenge for players. Its world offers a plethora of bosses to battle, and some require many attempts to overcome. That's why this new strategy is so surprising; it turns one of its toughest enemies into a joke.
Malenia is one of Elden Ring's most well-known bosses, even more so than the final boss, the Elden Beast. The main reason is that Malenia was designed with an arsenal of combos and abilities that make her very difficult to beat. This has led to internet challenges among fans, finding various ways to defeat Malenia quickly and efficiently.
A Reddit user named BrownVented shared a clip of Elden Ring demonstrating how to defeat Malenia in such an easy manner that it evokes pity for a boss who is supposed to be one of the most challenging. In the video, it can be observed that the strategy involves partly fighting the boss with a companion's assistance. While one of them continuously strikes Malenia with a weapon ability that some users jokingly refer to as the "Cole Train," in homage to Augustus Cole, the well-known character from the Gears of War series. The strategy involves delivering forward punches almost in a straight line, like a train. The second player executes powerful jumping attacks that chip away a significant portion of her health.
The trick is that the player who keeps striking Malenia continuously doesn't necessarily inflict damage but aims to break her posture and keep her in a constant state of inactivity, so she can never attack or deal damage. Then the second player has a free pass to land jump attacks and deplete her health very easily. Malenia becomes utterly defenseless against this strategy and is defeated in just over a minute. This demonstrates, among other things, that the ingenuity of dedicated players can make even the most complicated boss seem easy. Many other users expressed their surprise and delight at seeing this challenging boss defeated so effortlessly.
Malenia is one of those Elden Ring bosses that divides opinions. Some players hate her for the problems she has caused them during the game, while others love her for exactly the same reason, as her incredibly difficult challenge is very satisfying to overcome. Undoubtedly, with this strategy, it's uncertain how satisfying defeating her will be now.
Elden Ring is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
