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PassiveAnt's Skull Plate is a Greatshield in Elden Ring. The Ant's Skull Plate is a Shield that scales primarily with Strength. Greatshields provide a greater value of blocking, protecting the player from enemy attacks, but greatly increase the weight while reducing the mobility of the player. This type of shield works best at reducing damage through guarding instead of by parrying.
Huge head of one of the giant ants which inhabit the two underground rivers, used without modification as a shield. Excels at repeling enemy attacks.
Giant ants are venomous creatures, granting a boost to immunity when wielding the shield.
Where to Find the Ant's Skull Plate in Elden Ring
The Ant's Skull Plate can be found in a chest in a small room in Nokstella, Eternal City. Head West from the Eternal City Site of Grace, and up the first set of stairs. Make a left before the large arch, into the room with a Nox Swordstress facing a large chest. The shield is in a smaller chest to the right of it.Elden Ring Interactive Map Link Here
Elden Ring Ant's Skull Plate Notes & Tips
- Shield Skill: Shield Bash
- This shield can not be infused with any Ashes of War
- Can be buffed by defensive Magic or Consumables
- Ant's Skull Plate can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones.
- Boosts Immunity (+60); Causes Poison buildup (90)
- Unlike any other greatshield, this has Tier 3 Hardness. This means it causes even larger weapons like Greatswords and Great Hammers to bounce off.
- Sell Value:
200 - NOTE: As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Table of this weapon below.
Wooden Greatshield PvP Poise Damage Values in Elden Ring
Patch 1.10 adjusted PVP Poise Damage of all Weapons including some Spells and Incantations. Please take note that these adjustments are exclusive to PVP.
One-Handed Attacks
- 1H R1 (1/2/3/4/5/6 Attacks): 222/111/120/--/--/--
- 1H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 360/360
- 1H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 1080/1080
- 1H Running R2: 240
- 1H R1 Jumping: 222
- 1h R2 Jumping: 720
Two-Handed Attacks
- 2H R1 (1/2/3/4/5/6 Attacks): 288/144/156/--/--/--
- 2H R2 (1/2 Attacks): 396/396
- 2H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): 1188/1188
- 2H R1 Jumping: 288
- 2h R2 Jumping: 792
Ant's Skull Plate Upgrades in Elden Ring
Please see the Upgrades page to understand the weapon bolstering process.
Requires regular reinforcement with Somber Smithing Stones.
| Attack Power | Stat Scaling | Passive Effects | Damage Reduction (%) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Ant's Skull Plate | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Sta | Str | Dex | Int | Fai | Arc | Any | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Bst | Rst |
| Standard | 136 | - | - | - | - | 88 | D | - | - | - | - |  (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 63 | 28 |
| Standard +1 | 149 | - | - | - | - | 94 | D | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 63.63 | 28 |
| Standard +2 | 161 | - | - | - | - | 100 | D | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 64.26 | 28 |
| Standard +3 | 174 | - | - | - | - | 106 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 64.89 | 28 |
| Standard +4 | 186 | - | - | - | - | 112 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 65.52 | 28 |
| Standard +5 | 199 | - | - | - | - | 118 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 66.15 | 28 |
| Standard +6 | 212 | - | - | - | - | 124 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 66.78 | 28 |
| Standard +7 | 224 | - | - | - | - | 130 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 67.41 | 28 |
| Standard +8 | 237 | - | - | - | - | 136 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 68.04 | 28 |
| Standard +9 | 249 | - | - | - | - | 142 | C | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 68.67 | 28 |
| Standard +10 | 262 | - | - | - | - | 148 | B | - | - | - | - | (90) |
100 | 57 | 42 | 57 | 57 | 69.3 | 28 |
AnonymousIt should make the big headed ants to run away or become berserk if you raised that shield toward them.
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Looks and works well with the Executioner Greataxe. Break Enemies Poise/Stance with Guard Counters and execute them with the innate higher critical damage of the Executioner Greataxe.
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This shield would be SS tier if it wasn't for the ash of war, with no skill it would be incredible. Still probably the best PvE shield in the game
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Those stupid divine warriors in the DLC cut through this like butter. Hardness 3 isn't enough to make them bounce of appearently.
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An argument could be made that since more attacks will rebound off this shield than other greatshields it indirectly loses less stamina while blocking since you would be getting hit with less combos. You can also use the shield bash weapon art if you are about to run out of stamina to avoid getting guard broken.
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Imagine the smell, god.
You couldn't pay me to touch this nasty trash
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Am I the only one that does not see the extra hardness effect while blocking attacks? I'm glad I wasted a somber for just a poison shield essentially
It's really good for its hardness, but the weapon art is lackluster. Not being able to infuse it w/ ashes of war is a letdown, but what also sucks is that it has no arc scaling to make its poison buildup any better. 90 is a lot, but I also would've liked 60 buildup, but with shield crash instead of shield bash, and then a dash of arc scaling to improve the poison
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Would have been 10x better if you could infuse it, I'd like to put shield crash on this
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I wish the weapon art was making the little jaw on the front do a bite.
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I mean, would it have hurt to at least give it D ARC scaling?
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So when is the additional hardness useful? I mean, other greatshields have tier 2 and this has tier 3, so against what weapons and//or enemies does this shield give you an advantage over other greatshields?
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Yeah this would nope me tf out if I was actually in the Lands Between. Although that can probably be said for many things on this game.
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Oddly, believe this shield of the lot, actually has a higher "hardness", than any of the others (deflect/flinching attackers). 3 vs? 2 from GS, can't remember off hand
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I don't care how strong it is, i will not use the head of a giant ant as shield.
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god be my witness I SHALL BE HARDIER THAN THE LITERAL WALL HOLDING LEYNDELL
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this offers higher hardness than other greatshields, making it a good counter to lighter weapons
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Should inflict deadly poison like all the other unique poison weapons do.
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Im surprised this doesn't do rot instead of poison, since the ANTspur does rots
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I was looking at the Hardness page & this Shield is the only one in the Game that is Tier 3.
AKA: This thing Repels Great Swords, Cruved Great Swords, Greataxes, Hammers, Great Spears, & Fists.
All other Great Shields are Tier 2.
Barricade AoW & Ironjar Aroumatic count as Tier 4.
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I take it this inflicts the weakest variant of poison since it doesnt specifically say deadly poison… too bad seems it could probably benefit from having that
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Fromsoft fell off, back in my day this would have inflicted arbitrary poi-
Well I’ll be damned
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Great shield enjoyers use this over the stone finger print shield ANT PROTECT ME!
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an interesting tidbit is that the Ant skull plate have higher hardness than all other greatshields (3 instead of 2), which mean, for example, than a 1h greataxe will bounce off of it instead of hitting normally like it would do on another greatshield.
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Like many of the weaker greatshields, outdone by much lighter medium shields like Brass or Banished Knight that have nearly identical Guard Boost, much better weight, and the ability to parry. But the Ant Skull Plate is unique by its ability to deflect anything that's not two handed or a giant weapon.
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What could have been a great shield is ruined by not being able to equip shield crash on it.
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great idea for a shield but this thing looks like some nasty squished bug not a piece of carapace, burn it with fire
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Wish it was ashable. That's like the one thing that keeps it from being great.
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Imagine dying and the a*whole who killed you uses your forehead as a shield
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Does the shield apply poison when we hit an enemy with shield bash? or when the enemy hits it?
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So did a little more testing of the deflection properties. Replicated the first person's test vs the Limgrave knights and got the same results, but couldn't deflect the heavy attacks of banished knights like the one outside of the Cathedral of Dragon Communion. It does seem to have an increased deflection property in PVE, albeit a minor one. Can also confirm this has no impact on PVP, doesn't deflect any attacks like dragonbolt blessing does.
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CAN NOT be infused using ashes of war. default skill and scaling is the only possible version of this shield
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Upon testing, I have found that the Ant's Skull Plate description about it being good at repelling enemy attacks is not just filler. There is apparently a hidden shield stat that triggers the "repel"/"knock back" animation for enemy attacks, and this shield is high in it. I tested on the guardsmen near the Church of Elleh; they have a charged up downward slash attack that most greatshields will not repel. This one does. It is also not related to Guard Boost, as a Guard Boost 73 Eclipse Creat Greatshield I had was not repelling, whereas this one WAS at Guard Boost 63. Even the extremely heavy One Eyed Shield or Visage Shield do not repel that particular attack, but this one does. Feel free to test for yourself.
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this thing is amazing. deals great damage, poisons, strength requirement isn't too high. only issue is no ashes of war
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I really don't get why fingerprint can be infused, but this can't. I love this in the arena for meme builds but it literally takes a good 4-5 hits to proc poison and everyone just heals it instantly. At least let me have shield crash on it.
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