Ash of War: Lion's Claw | Elden Ring Wiki

This is just one of Artorias' attacks.

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HEHE BIG IRON STICK GOES VROOMM AND SMASH SMALL BLUE MAGIC TOOTHPICK GUY

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You use lions claw because it has infinite hyperarmor on frame 1, good range, great damage, and amazing poise break.

I use it because it makes my character do a cool flip.

We are not the same.

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One of unique things about this AoW is that it's hyperarmor kicks in instantly, literally at frame 1. So you can pop this amidst getting smashed, and it will work, similar to Endure. Not to mention that hyperarmor itself is monstrous and i haven't seen a single case where someone got knocked out of it at all.

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Does more damage and poise damage that a fully charged R2. Also kinda chains into one another in PVE against enemies that get pancaked (anything the size of an Omen or smaller)
Reaching aroung 2500 damage on NG++ against the Troll outside of Godrick with 99 STR two handing heavy Greatsword with Shard of Alex as only boost. Giant Hunt does around 2200 damage. Both stagger the Troll on two hits. 3 shoting the Omens at the Capital sewers with the same setup. Charged R2 without any buff or talisman deals around 1600. R2 jump attack with RKR deals around 2200 damage with the same setup against the Troll

Pretty much this Ash deals huge physical damage,huge poise damage, comes relatively quick, with hyperarmor, fairly costed at 20 FP, and leaves room for 3 talismans as you only benefit from Alex Shard for damage unlike other ashes that might deal more damage but require other slots. Im currently using Dragoncrest,HP medalion and Spirit Horn to be as tanky as possible and still pack a serious punch

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When I got this ash of war and put it on my Greatsword (colossal) the game became from hard to super easy...

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For me this doesn't poise break any bosses, even when I use it twice or 3 times in rapid succession. Does anybody know my issue? Are there specific talismans or gear i need?

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literally didnt drop even though both are dead

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Don't mess with us lion claw users
We WILL spam when out of fp

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big hunk of raw iron goes bonk

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If I have this on my left handed Greatsword and I'm dual wielding colassol swords, will this Ash make both hit or just the weapon with the Ash?

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Deals 30 to 40 poise damage when put on light > heavy weapons.
pretty balanced and fun AOW

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Poise breaks every boss except Radagon, who of course, is half naked!

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I think this actually gives infinite poise during the animation, have tested everything from the giant crows to godfrey big eruption and nothing knocks you out of it, except for grabs and of course dying.

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bonk

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Too expensive FP cost.

Maybe just for me but square off and unsheathe can do a better job with more versatility.

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of course miyazaki put the artorias flip in fort GAEL

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Is it possible to be staggered out of the artorias flip? bc I’ve used it against countless of bosses and none have staggered me out of it

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Lion's Claw my beloved

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HALBERD USERS HATE HIM! learn to win a poise trade with this one easy trick!

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guts flip

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Man, this **** wrecks.on a great stars with alex shard i can one shot alot of invaders. Totally catches aggressive people off guard. Even if they see it coming the raw power of it will just make them assume room temp.and if you manage to proc bleed or frost with it forget about it. Testing with my friends at 99 vigor, all buffs and talismans applied, hits for 1900 on a a single hit. And thats at lvl 300+ with 40% resistance from beast champ armor amd dragoncrest.This thing erases people with the right setup. If youre a str build, hell any build, this is a staple AoW

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every time I've struggled with a boss I just spammed this with my greatsword

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Does it scale with Claw Talisman?

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You can hyperarmor through moonveil with this. It’s also really fun to make rot breath spammers part of the landscape.

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Flipty skipty your dead now

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lions claw for pve, giant hunt for pvp

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C'mon let's slam

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very good against people who do nothing but spam. its very hard to get knocked out of the animation

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Monke Flip

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Good luck in the next duel if you get hit by this. Lost almost 2k HP with 28% absorption today, almost broke my neck irl

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best heavy ash

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Rotten greataxe, this ash of war and frost damage are great together. Takes some time to get used to it, but atleast Mohg goes down fairly quickly

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ARTORIAS!

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Does about as much damage as a fully charged heavy attack so it absolutely shreds on collosal weapons or other high ar weapons

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I can’t apply frost anymore on the rotten great axe anyone else having this issue

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Love this Ash. Literally carried me through the Godskin Duo fight. 100/10

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Time for Guys, therefore praise the message!

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An actual good but not BROKEN AoW.

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bro why does it say elden rink in the map coordinates link lol

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This skill, Shield Crash and Charge Forth pancakes the dumb broad that goes by the name of Malenia

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This Ash of War will not benefit from Claw Talisman, but will benefit from Alexander's talismans (10-15% versions)

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This is a literal win button on colossal swords like Greatsword. It pairs perfectly with the unbreakable hyperarmor, staggers more than most of your attacks, does a decent chunk no matter what enemy you attack and it's almost as fast as the other Ashes like Impaling Thrust or Unsheathe. One of the best strength ashes in the game and you can slap it on any weapon and it would still be effective.

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This takes some Guts, ha.

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The stance Motion value of of this is stupid high, it is 600, basically it multiply your normal light attack stance damage by 6, so a giant-crusher that does 16.8 will end up doing 100 stance damage, this will pretty much break the stance of any ennemies in the game in one hit, and bosses/giant type ennemies in two, add in the amazing damage, hyperarmor, and little recovery frames, and you have one of the best pve ashe of war in the game, its also really effective in pvp since it pretty much can't be punished easily thanks to patch 1.04 buff.

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Halfway through the game on my Str/melee character I realized I had stopped actually trying to learn patterns and started just kind of lazily trading hyper armor Lion flips with my CGS until I won every fight.

Great PvE skill, turned me into a filthy casual, 10/10 would flip again.

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Is the Poise damage as good as Flame of the Redmanes?

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Also on the Claymore found
in a chest at Castle Morne

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Hot take: I wish the range was SHORTER so I don’t flip past them when trading with huge hyper armour.

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Insane hyperarmor. 1 shots in pvp. Very quick, 9/10 would recommend if you are using any large weapon.

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You'd think pancaking things with this skill will get old -- it thankfully does not.

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Does anyone know what this skill actually does to your damage? like is the damage here similar to a fully charged heavy attack or is it more then that? is there a specific calculation for how it increases your damage? Also does this ability scale in damage directly with your AR like eochaids or is it more like normal ashes and only based the stuff listed in the wiki?

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Quick question
I've used it on my current moon axe, such a quality of life
What will be your recommended weapon to use it if want to have a decent reach?
What is your go to when rocking this for ur fun time?

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Can this be used on Great/Colossal weapons? Can I use this on a Great Club?

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Can you parry this?

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pls fromsoft i want the spin too

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This thing is a PVP trading nightmare. If somebody does literally anything that relies on breaking your poise and staggering you, do this first and it is a hard punish

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It should be noted that this weapon Art retains it's some of it's poise damage and HA even when used with no FP, all it seems to lose is the high motion value on the attack.

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This AoW is perfect at what it does now (a close range punish). Amen. The ONE suggestion I'd make is to give it those jumping i-frames when you flip so you can use this, when timed correctly, to punish thrusting weapon running attacks or some such. Partly because it'd make sense, and partly because that'd be some of the damn coolest outplay potential.

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Fun fact: this still works when out of FP. It deals reduced damage, but said damage is still roughly equal to a heavy attack. It also benefits from Alexander’s shards even when out of FP. I was testing with the Golem’s Halberd and it’s genuinely phenomenal, I don’t even invest in mind anymore

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Is the poise damage the same regardless of the weapon? I wanna know if I can break poise of bosses faster with a colossal weapon or if a katanna gives the same effect (when using the skill ofc)

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I like this on Prelate's Infernal Crozier. I was using it in 1.03 and 1.04 just buffed the speed

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ARTORIAS

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Does it have the same posture damage with different weapon type? Like, Claymore and Greatsword will perform the same amount of guard break with the AoW?

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This or Stamp (Upward Swing) for a PvE Zweihander character? I feel like I'm getting the same utility out of either (hyper armor and then a big chunk of staggering damage).

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Post update april 19 :
This ash of war is even more amazing, idk if it was intended or not but its so so damn fast now , i used it couple of times to insta kill rivers spam from a distance since now the attack speed of it and recovery is so fast

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Before the buff it was good, now its truly terrifying... Artorias and Guts would be proud...

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ridiculously fast as of patch 1.04, can totally spam it like ds1 artorias

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*gasp* is that Artorias???

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“AETHER!” - Ike

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This salto need stanlock, and that fix this bug, its bug.

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Gives insane hyper armor.

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Usable on "Swords" includes the Twinblade by the way. Fun way to give that weapon a single strong attack to break poise with.

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DO A FLIP

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havent seen anyone mention this but if you have briar armor equiped you do damage and stagger small enemies with the initial jump

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This ash destroys most NPC and human sized bosses.

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HAI IEEEE YAI FORCES!!!

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This move is GODSEND at punishing R1 spammers

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Does this ash of war work on Katanas?

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ARTORIAS!

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Put this on a greataxe. Hits like a truck

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It's the berserk armor flip attack with the great sword from guts

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Is this a Berserk reference?

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does using this with 1 FP left deal the same damage as having 20 FP left?

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Amazing when somebody’s trying to heal and thinks they’ve distanced enough, only for you to pull this **** and one shot them

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Killed an imp 10 times with, and without, the claw talisman to test if it counts as a jump attack. It does not seem to give any more damage as it was the same amount of damage all 20 hits.

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Does this receive a buff from the claw talisman?

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Does this benefit from the Claw Talisman that gives jump attacks increased damage?

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I used this against one of the NPC invaders (late into Ranni's quest line). Dude was outclassing me in damage and health by a ton - it was basically a boss fight. However, this art pancaked him every single time, it was hilarious. Find out where an opening big enough for this is, pop it, boom, combo broken. It's not as powerful as other arts (like Hoarfrost Stomp) but the stopping power is legit.

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The ash of war is my favourite in the game high range flip
I’ve got it on the giant crusher so both L2 and R2 are just flips

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This thing feels very balance.
Decent damage/poise damage, alright tracking, has huge hyper armor (I don't think you can be knocked out of animation), can stun most enemies. The downside is the long wind up animation so prepare to trade damage.

There're more broken things out there? Yes. But if you want a no bullshit melee build, totally would recommend this.

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Did they remove the initial flip hitbox that was present in DS3?

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does anybody know if this counts as a charge attack?

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Identical to Artorias's signature slam attack, except that it's slow as hell and you only move forward about a foot...so..not really that great.

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You can also get this Ash of War early from Claymore that can be looted in castle Morne

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You can apply this to the greatsword for that Guts cosplay

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The location is in Caelid Fort Gael by killing the Lion.

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Should've been Wolf's Claw

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Kill the Lion Guardian in Fort Gael to get this Ash of War.

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You can find this at Fort Gael it is not too far from the Impassable Bridge and Caleid, dropped by the lion with a bladed arm. It's strong, but spirit summons can be used to face off with it.

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