Abductor Virgin | Elden Ring Wiki

Liars! They grab me all the time and put me inside them, they are not virgins anymore. Unless they have cure factor and regenerate their quality seals for another "first time", it would explain the blood they drips while putting you inside them (your blood comes after the blending session). I don't consider a quality seal regenaration a virginity regeneration, if they jumped on the log once, they are not virgins anymore. Wilful liars, all.

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Kind of sucks they don't drop anything more worthwhile. Aside from the boss version, the one needed to break the statue in the Sealed Tunnel and the teleporter one there's hardly any need to engage them. More often than not just better to go around or run past them

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creepiest enemies in the game

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The versions in the DLC are on some crack. They'll roll halfway across the map in a single run just to slice and dice you unless they run into a terrain obstacle. Be careful!

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The Elden Ring equivalent of a Dalek

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I've been inside them. Gonna have to update their name.

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"Gravesite Plain: Southeast Poison Swamp; Scadu Altus: Moorth Highway South, Fort of Reprimand; Abyssal Woods: East of Divided Falls" LITERALLY THE SAME LOCATION LISTED THREE TIMES. There are only two in the DLC, and both are outside Fort of Reprimand.

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The lightning perfume running strong attack stunlocks them pretty fast

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If running away as it chases you is your best option, don’t run in a straight line.

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Too bad their head is not an obtainable headgear ):

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Retrospection required ahead

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Seeing a lot of big mad about an enemy with two full seconds of telegraph on every attack and no tracking.

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Why's is that, out of all the enemies in the game, these guys freak me out the most?

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This is what not having a girlfriend before turning 20 turns you into

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The Crucible Horns incantation, when charged, somehow pierces them and hits the weak point inside, it does way more damage than melee attacks without requiring the Abductor to open up. Time it for the end of their attacks and you can deal with them in relative safety.

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unfortunately would

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Use volcano pots, it breaks their stance rapidly.

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The ones near fortified manor, first floor at Leyndell have 5000hp, more than their boss versions.

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i think they are immune to frostbite

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Two lightning bolt volleys from pulley crossbow is enough to stagger them

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marika is holding messmer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Use electrify armament on them if possible, it shredds them.

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It’s always fun tricking invaders into getting caught in the blender. Say goodbye to half your flasks bucko

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Dual daggers (probably claws or fists too) actually demolish these things, much easier than my Greatsword.
They have 65 Stance, but every weapon seems to deal 5 stance damage per hit, regardless of jumping attack or whatever. 1 full chain of dagger attacks is about enough to stagger them, and then another full chain when they're open will almost kill them. Meanwhile with my greatsword I could never stagger them whether I used Glintblade Phalanx or Lion's Claw or Repeated Strikes, they just regenerate Stance too fast as soon as they use one of their keep-away moves

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100500 millions attacks, 1 second opening. Most unfun enemy in the game to fight, not very hard but so tedious and boring

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100500 millions attacks, 1 second opening. Most unfun enemy in the game to fight, not very hard but so tedious and boring

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****ed these mfs up so many times they shouldn't even be called virgins anymore

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i died to the one in the academy and are now in the bossroom of rennala ?

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The one in Gelmir is annoying as hell. Thankfully it can get caught on the rocks and it doesn’t seem to have as much HP as the others.

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The headless one in Mt. Gelmir is a literal race car, i was running away on Torrent when this mf did 2 donuts killing every single mob around it and still managed to catch up to me a damn mile away

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Looks like they really have been a virgin for a very long time. They literally jump on you and try to insert themselves into you (bad joke, sorry, but I still find it funny)

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Pain in the ass if you use heavy weapons. The amount of time from the end of its any attack, then recovering out of it, then opening the doors, then grabbing you is shorter than the recovery of your own attack with a heavy so you always end up getting caught. Best to stay at range, wait for the doors to open, avoid, then poke your thing in there.

Also It confused me why they arent called iron maidens but virgins, and if that may be unintended translation error.

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Since there's not a specific thread about it, you need to take fatal damage from the abductor virgin to get transported to volcano manor. I didn't realize this to any other poor idiot soul like me who kept letting themselves get eaten but didn't die.

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Vulnerable to damage from below , the belly opens quickly:
- Comet SONAF!
- Crystal Barrage!
- Volcano Pot!

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I used to hate these until I found out they're weak to lightning. Now I love fighting them. Just carry a fast-ish weapon that you can coat in grease, I like Estoc but it could be a Wild Strike weap for a STR build or even a dagger without infusions will do if you're a caster. After a full attack cycle they'll break down. When they're staggered, if you're in front of them, they also take double damage because you hit the snake innards as well, it's extremely satisfying.

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The grab...I hate the grab...

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>weak to Lightning
Abductor Virgin vs Chad Dragon Cultist

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1/5 stars: this hugbox is very uncomfortable :(

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Stack those with Runebears and Royal Revenants in the "Strong annoying enemy with no reason to fight them since they never drop anything worthwhile" club

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This enemy is named the Abductor Virgin. This is a subtle reference to the fact that you are a virgin.

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Fun fact, the iron virgins at the top of mnt Glemir can harm each other, get a line of these bastards and target the one at the back

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You can farm the ones on Mt gelmir. You know, the ones by the bridge of iniquity? They drop 2300 runes each, and there are plenty of rock spires that you can use to cheese the 2 wheel variants there. And there is an alt framing option up above. Just letting you all know.

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Night Maiden's Mist does a decent job at stance breaking these, sadly the mist will hurt you as well. It's not as efficient as other methods but it's still a method worth mentioning

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PvP bleed abusers before it was nerfed:

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Its grab attack is something else

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Attention! Very vulnerable to the spell Crystal Barrage.

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For anyone who have problems with them, get a dagger with lightning damage and hit them 4 times

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These are my favorite yet toughest enemies to fight. They look like medieval robots being controlled by snakes.

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fromsoft devs: i think we should name these enemies abductors
*gets killed by the grab attack*
fromsoft devs: i think we should name these enemies abductor virgins

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So, for reasons I cannot even begin to fathom, it seems these enemies are extremely susceptible to being poise broken by Crystal Barrage, even while their doors are closed.
I have not tested it with Crystal Torrent, but after repeated tests on different ones using Barrage, I can safely say it absolutely SLAPS them for no apparent reason. You just line it up, start firing, and their poise breakes after only a few seconds of continuous fire.

Perhaps their stance depletes based on number of hits instead of actual poise damage? Perhaps it, somehow, pierces through their metal shell and peppers the hands inside them? Perhaps I'm just the luckiest guy on the planet? Either way, it counters them hard

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I saw a pic of these on the loading screen

i thought "oh they look about 8-9 feet tall

they're like 15-20

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Lightning and fast attacks when they open their doors are their weaknesses. Attacking with even a katana that has lightning damage will stagger it after a set of blows which will allow you to finish it off. Just remember to avoid their blade rotation and wheel pattern. Dodge late into the grab and then attack.

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Honestly this is the SINGLE WORST ENEMY FROMSOFT HAS EVER MADE. Every move it has oneshots me. EVERYTHING. And the one time it glitches out and stops attacking, it takes ten minutes of nonstop hits to kill.

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which ones all Teleport? I only found one so far. Spoiler:
The one on the bottom of raya lucaria. Are there more? every time i kill one i thought i miss a tp somewhere?

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They ain't no virgins anymore, they ****ed my ass so hard.

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SNAKE MECH SNAKE MECH

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I just absolutely LOVE the sound designs for both the screaming metal of the wheeled version and the CANNON FIRE followed up with the GLORIOUS SOUNDS of dragging metal from the sickled version!

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Marionette Soldier Ashes decimate these guys.

The sheer fire rate consistently stuns the Iron Virgins, allowing you to get some quick critical hits.

Highly recommend using the Marionettes if you lack another method to kill these things.

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I seriously thought the one at Hermit's Village is actually hijacked by the Demi-humans and is controlled by one of the little gremlins, who's literally just sitting in its upper torso underneath the missing head, slamming and smashing all the control levers while screeching menacingly, thus resulting in the somewhat mad and erratic movements of the thing, like Ewoks did in Return of the Jedi.

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What night of questionable drug use coughed up this monstrosity i wonder

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"The headless sawblade in hermit village is blind so it goes crazy."
Blind my a@@, it chased till i rested at azur's grace.

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I hate this enemy

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This might be hard to believe seeing as the pendulums they use can pass through walls and still hit you for a lot of damage, but anyone can easily verify the truth of it for themselves.

I've been messing around with the iron virgins trying to find a way to make them an easy kill, I haven't but I did find something surprising with the combination of brass shield and the AoW barricade shield. If you press L2 to put the AoW on your shield just before the virgin starts to throw or spin its pendulums it WILL block the attack it WONT break your guard, drain your stamina or do any damage. You will get pulled towards the virgin a little when it retracts the pendulum but as long as you don't end up close enough for it to use its grab attack after being pulled closer you are golden.

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"Abductor Virgins who are visually indistinguishable from Iron Virgins, will teleport whoever they capture to another location far away"

Does that mean that the one at the bottom of Raya Lucaria is not the only one to teleport you? where do the other ones teleport you to?

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I noticed yesterday the iron virgins were powering down when hit with clusters of LTN arrows but not when hit by LTN spear. I've been messing about with LTN spear, LTN strike and honed bolt on the same virgins near the bridge of iniquity grace. I used radagon icon but no other talismans or physik to boost my FTH, LTN damage, or incantations. I was using the golden order seal with incant scaling of 235. I killed a shed load of virgins this afternoon but I'm none the wiser as to what is causing them to power down than I was yesterday when I first saw it happen. It seems like its linked to the damage they take because I was also able to make them switch off in the same way with volcano pots, it takes a lot of hits from the pots to make it happen though, and it doesn't explain why LTN spear does not have this effect, a full charged cast after another will kill them but not switch them off, it hasn't happened once. The most consistent ways to power them down is the cluster of lightning arrows from the 'rain of arrows' AoW, spamming honed bolt then lightning strike, LTN strike wasn't as consistent as honed bolt or clusters of LTN arrows. Hope this helps any new players having a hard time with the iron virgins like I did.

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I can't unsee their insides as bacon.

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A little note that while you're on torrent, the tentacle grab attack will just whiff.

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I've been using lightning spear on the virgins since I got it, having a weakness to that element doesn't exactly melt them or make them an easy kill though, but I've just seen lightning arrows have an interesting effect on the virgins past the bridge of iniquity grace that I've never seen happen with LTN spear. I have 'rain of arrows' AoW on a shortbow+15 I also had 'arrow's sting' and 'arrow's reach' talismans equipped, I target locked one and shot a cluster of lightning arrows down on its head, when they hit the virgin it powered down for a short while, it wasn't moving and it was bent over forwards, it doesn't last very long and I didn't see the orange glow indicating a critical hit was possible. I'm not sure what to make of this though it wasn't consistent, sometimes they powered down from one cluster of the lightning arrows hitting them, other times it took two, but they were repeatedly shutting down when hit with 'rain of arrows'. I went to raya lucaria to see if it was the same for them all. The virgin in the courtyard was different, with the second cluster shutting it down but only once. If this happens to all iron virgins hit by clusters of lightning arrows, I think it would have a lot of value in coop, if one player is keeping a virgin locked down with 'rain of arrows' a second player could make very easy work of them.

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putrid tree spirit

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I don't enjoy fighting these things.

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omg literally me

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I wish you could get an armor set that looks like these things. Call it the "Virgin Set" and it's perfect for me!

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They seem to be immune to rot.

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I like to call these things "Vore Mommies" :)

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the malfunctioning version is ridiculous, I was laughing my ass off when it raced across the map killing every mob in its path

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They hold a little baby at their chest and still have more than enough hands to wash you.

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I thought Lightning Ram was the dumbest weapon skill until I used it on one of these guys. Makes them a piece of cake.

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Surprisingly, Stormhawk Deenh +4 is rather tanky with the Vulcano Manour boss.

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These are iron virgins, not iron maidens, becuase they are indeed maiden less. Seriously **** these things.

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(Tested only at the ones at Mt. Gelmir) I've found that just 4 hits from Lightning Weapon-infused Misericorde are able to stagger them; and obviously a dagger hits FAST. Then a full combo later and they're dead. Makes killing them a joke. Seriously, I was stunned at how easy it is to kill them this way; I had so much trouble against them before. I don't know if Lightning Ashes of War will work as well; try them yourselves.

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I relate to this enemy very much

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What physical damage are they weak to? I don't have any kind of sustainable lightning damage

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There is one in Carian Manor.

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apperently you gotta be carefull with the one at the bottom of the academie. i died to the bleed as it seems and therefor didnt get transportet to carion manor. worked on the second try when i made sure i wont bleed out.

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I dropped a summon sign to help somebody defeat the boss ones in Volcano Manor (after being abducted by the one at the bottom of the water wheel in Raya Lucaria), and when I returned to my world, I respawned in some area that was completely orange as if I spawned outside of the map. I was killed instantly and my runes are irretrievable. I can't tell if this is a glitch or an intentional punishment for helping somebody with this boss battle.

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I wish they could drop their sickle

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I found the one at Raya Lucaria could be easily beaten (imo) since there is plenty of space to keep away. I would just wail on it and take it out since you can also summon ashes to distract. But the ones at Volcano Manor are scary as hell...there's probably no difference but it's just how it is for me lol

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oh nvm this is great, just beat the boss at fog door then go through and puts you in Mt Gelmir

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One of the worst enemies in the game, imo. Just a terrible time dealing with these awful things.

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What. The. ****.

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GET OVER HERE

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Am I the only one that calls these things iron maidens. It seems like a fitting term for them.

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"root-like tentacles" its two pairs of three snakes, which fits with the snake motif they have on their exterior, and means it was probably praetor rykard who made them.

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The actual name for them is Abductor Virgins, there is a boss fight with them and the name appears on screen

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Cancer enemies tbh their charges are very difficult to dodge and if they catch you, you'll get teleported to some random location.

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Cancer enemies tbh their charges are very difficult to dodge and if they catch you, you'll get teleported to some random location.

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The one you encounter at the bottom of the lift in the Academy can be easily beaten by standing underneath the wheel of the lift. It can't reach you from there

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These are called Iron Virgin. Patches tells you as much.

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Fighting this thing using pure melee build like playing hardmode

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There's a lonely one of these in Caelid, South East of the Caelem Ruins Grace. Easiest way to find it is going to the telescope directly South and then going East-South-East from there. It does NOT, I repeat, it does N O T take you anywhere with its grab attack.

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