Ash of War: Giant Hunt | Elden Ring Wiki

I kept dying to that ridiculously overpowered ball bearing hunter in Caelid. No combination of weapons I had seemed to do much. Then I put this on my Knight Greatsword +21 and reduced his health by half in three hits (plus a critical from his stance break), before he could even finish his invading animation. It was very satisfying.

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If you're a new player, this is very strong in pvp. Most players haven't leveled vigor enough, so this can oneshot or almost oneshot them

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I see people talking about one shotting a lot with this, does that mean it would be a stupid idea of me to try to use it as a combo initiator and follow it up with Dragonclaw?

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I'm surprised you can't put this in the normal thrusting sword class. Wanted this for my cleanrot knight sword as I prefer giant hunt over impaling thrust. Pretty good to reach dragon's heads when they're above you and the stance damage feels superior.

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Used this against radahn. Run up behind him and poke him in the butt.

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Used this against radahn. Run up behind him and poke him in the butt.

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Giant hunt made passing sewers a breeze. 4-5 hits kills every Fatboy with no damage taken. As with most ashes of war it is very situational. IMHO good in close quarters against tough enemies combined with bleed does wonders.

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Can someone explain how this ash is supposed to be more effective on "gigantic" enemies?

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Now loses trades to fists. Don’t ask me why a meta build is gonna lose a giants hunt trade into fist nonsense.

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I like how this article says that it lowers the users "hitbox", but what they actually mean is the users "hurtbox", there is a difference.

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Very good in PvP if used appropriately. Don't initiate this attack when you're opponent is neutral and far from you, it can be easily out-spaced and countered due to its long start up and end lag animations. It's best used when you're opponent is near you and committed to an animation, this way they cannot dodge it. This attack has good hyperarmor and it useful for trading hits, since it launches opponents you'll pretty much always win the trade, at least when placed on a colossal sword, except in some rare circumstances.

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The bane of every Crucible Knight everywhere.

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Excellent for staggering dragons. Go beneath dragon's head, giant hunt, profit. Deals bonkers damage, too

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Lol, I don't even know this AOW existed until I finished the game...

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Did some testing after patch 1.07 and it seems to do the same stance damage as Lion's Claw now. In other words, as a posture breaker it's gone from surprisingly pathetic to top tier. It now has good range, hyperarmour, excellent damage, will knock down most non-massive enemies and pretty much guarantees a stance break if you follow up with a charged heavy. Pretty busted for PVE.

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For the animation it has you'd think it would do some pretty decent stance damage.

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So odd how hard this fell off in pvp. Before, every colossal sword you saw had this equipped, but it was so overused that I think everyone can deal with this easily. Maybe give it some time and we will see a resurgence of this skill.

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can anyone tell me how its damage scales? is it just based off of the weapon level of the weapon its on? or is it from a stat?

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put this on the forked greatsword and call yourself the fry cook

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The perfect ash of war on greatswords. High octane thrust damage, looks stylish. Even though the stance damage isn't high, the stagger damage is nuts.

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"usable on: collossal swords" oh wild strikes, why can't you be like this?

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Would this work on a Keen Guardian’s Swordspear?

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Nothing like burger flipping your foes until they die.

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Vigor Check!

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slap this bad boy on the pike and let the Giant Hunt begin

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Welcome to the Elden Ring space program.

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can stunlock a lot of bosses. used it to kill malenia on my third try (first two deaths to her bullshit 1hk's that you'll never dodge first try), impressed my wife doing it. now she thinks im good at games. 10/10

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8.8/10: High damage, works with the spear talisman, Roll catches PVEr’s to death, a decent mix up in duels, amazing at trading with medium weapons.

Solid and versatile

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Give ‘em the ol’ one and done.

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Oh man this ash is so fricken awesome. It took me a while to find a skill that felt cooler to use on my claymore than lion’s claw, but this takes the cake!

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Banished Knight's halberd, Alexander's shard, and spear talisman. The "no u" build for when anyone wants to mash attacks against you. This ash is the slower higher risk trade version of stormstomp. Instead of stunning someone you eat their damage and counter hit them for their entire health bar. Bonus is it can hail mary panic rollers if you misread them rolling into you. Very fun/strong and legitimately balanced ash both in PvP and PvE

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Why try when you can just one shot people no matter what? Rob bad greatsword poke good

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At 99 strength there is no damage difference between 1h and 2h, meaning it’s not based on weapon AR and the damage is pulled straight from stats

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Killed the cavalryman and he dropped the glaive not the ash of war. My game is completely up to date, have no idea where to get giants hunt I tried the troll it used to drop from and no luck.

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Can this be parried?

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This thing KILLS braindead rivers of blood users. Dont forget to point downwards and teabag afterwards, they don't deserve your respect.

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This thing KILLS braindead rivers of blood users. Dont forget to point downwards and teabag afterwards, they don't deserve your respect.

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This thing KILLS braindead rivers of blood users. Dont forget to point downwards and teabag afterwards, they don't deserve your respect.

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Is it Parryable?

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Is it Parryable?

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I'd hoped this would function like the "square off" R2 but for larger weapons. Unfortunately, though, it seems to deal relatively little poise damage. It's entertaining to pop Rennala into the air repeatedly, but not as useful as square off or FotRM on giant enemies despite being called "giant hunt".

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I have been using it a lot on the Nightrider Glaive before the buff and honestly I don't think it needed a buff. Why buff this with it's absolutely insane poise and damage while so, so many underwhelming ashes of war remain ususable becaus of the state of the pvp?

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Didn't deserve a buff should probably be reverted to how it was in the last patch.

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Really wish I could put this on the golem halberd

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Corpse Piler this you filthy casuls.

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This AoW disappeared from my inventory I dunno why

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will this one shot most people with shard of alexander?

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Damage dealt by this is always Piercing damage.

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how much fp does it cost?

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whoever named this should get fired it should be called everything hunt

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Cool combo I haven't seen on here: After hitting someone with this swap to a weapon with Hoarah loux's earthshaker ash of war and then slam em

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How we know how much damage this does? or any other ash of war?

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I could have sworn I got this from the troll giant pre patch but now it's gone from my inventory. So I went and killed the night's calvalry and nothing dropped. Is this happening to anyone else?

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You can yeet Melania up into the air with this. Feels sooo good

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Haha jonathan, you are panic rolling

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Got me killed when I used it against a Banished Knight. He didn’t get launched, he barely staggered, and before I recovered he was able to charge up his spazz out at the speed of light attack and instat kill me.

I know it’s a good AoW, I hit 1600+ dmg on an invader with my Iron Greatsword and thats without the Shard Of Alex but ever since that Banished knight it left a bad taste in my mouth.

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Is this straight up a better version of stamp upward cut?

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This can probably poke 2nd phase Fire Giant's Eyes while he's groveling.

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This thing trivialises any fight against NPC's :/

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Does this work in conjunction with the spear talisman?

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Reminds me of the good ole days of dark souls 2 iron keep bridge. I launch invaders off cliffs with this.

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Is there any other way to get it? I killed the night cavalry boss before the patch so i cant get it from him. Any help would be appreciated.

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So basically going for the Giant's testicles. Very good technique

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With right weapon can one shot in pvp, even better now after buff.

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Does it deal counter attack thrust damage? As impaling thrust does? It has a potential to scale not only with alexander's shard but with spear talisman too

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Effective against Malenia. It's not a cheese move that can trivialize the fight or anything, but it does huge damage and sends her flying if she doesn't have hyper armor.

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Best AoW for my colossal sword, godlike in pvp and especially for punishing moves with long windups if from up close. Also good heal punish

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So you're basically screwed if you missed killing the troll before the patch. The Knight's Cavalry doesn't drop anything, though eh did respawn.

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Just killed the Nights Calvary and he dropped Ash of war: Ice Spear

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Yoooo this thing for PVE is really good. It will straight up launch/knock down most enemies, even onyx lords or omen ogres, as well as doing heaps of damage. Highly would recommend

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Using this ability basically deletes some enemy types from the game like omens. Knock em up and charged R2 on wakeup. love it.

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Is this usable on Halberds since they are capable of thrusting?
Playing a Faith based invasion paladin and feeling this would deal great damage with big reach on the Banished knight Halberd.

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How can i get this after already killing the night cavalry before this patch and killing the troll knight after this patch??? LOL

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Gundyrs charge 2.0 gonna mess up alot of ppl

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The damage and speed on this is busted, how come more people aren't talking about this Ash of War?

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does this deal pierce damage? i wodner if this will work with spear talisman

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Super satisfyng to one shot players with this, I hope it doesn't get nerfed.

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Very easy to combo this out of the ultra greatswords crouch r1. crouch r1 - wait for them to panic roll - Giant Hunt = usually dead phantom/host

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J'avais deja cette compétence en tuant le cavalier, j'ai obtenue TROLL KNIGHT SWORD sur ledit chevalier troll

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can this ash of war be charged to work with Godfrey Icon?

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Is this piercing shield/guard?

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secret technique: Thousand Years of Pain!

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Is this basically the greatswors stance R2 from DS3? I keep finding comments about people using this on greatswords since square off is locked to straight swords.

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Great for hitting dragons in the face

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It does thrust dmg allowing you to extra damage if timed well. It also ducks under some attacks making this quite a nice skill.

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I found this post-game randomly and I gotta say I'm really annoyed I didn't find it sooner. Hits like a damn truck.

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I'm one shotting people on PVP with this on a +25 Greatsword, looks like 60 Vigor won't be enough for meta

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PSA: This can actually stagger crucible knights! Also the Nights cavalry that drops this is the same one that drops the nightrider glaive in liurnia

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Neither enemy dropped this for me.

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The animation looks a bit like the charge that the cleanrot knight does in the first trailer

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The troll didn't drop the skill and the Night's Cavalry didn't show up at night, Is it bugged?

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ngl the guy in the art got some serious cake

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ngl the guy in the art got some serious cake

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Good skill, but deals very little posture damage. If you use only this to kill a boss, chances are you would kill the boss before breaking its posture.

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Good skill, but deals very little posture damage. If you use only this to kill a boss, chances are you would kill the boss before breaking its posture.

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Good skill, but deals very little posture damage. If you use only this to kill a boss, chances are you would kill the boss before breaking its posture.

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Just got it, dropped from the Night's Cavalry as of 8:00pm Est

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Just got it, dropped from the Night's Cavalry as of 8:00pm Est

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Do we manual aim this or free-aim it in PVP for roll catches? It seems like I'm failing to catch anything with this.

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It seems like the troll didn't drop it for me on my new character post patch. Curious since I've gotten it multiple times before with other characters. I wonder if patch moved some items around or just broke parts of the game?

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