Astel, Stars of Darkness

astel stars of darkness boss elden ring wiki guide
Location Yelough Anix Tunnel
Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18120,000
Meteorite of Astel
HP 18,617
Stronger VS
Immune to
Weaker to

Astel, Stars of Darkness is a Field Boss in Elden Ring. This giant insectoid creature is found in Yelough Anix Tunnel in the Consecrated Snowfield. This is an optional boss, as players don't need to defeat it in order to advance in Elden Ring.

Astel, Naturalborn of the Void is another variant of this boss. 

 

Elden Ring Astel, Stars of Darkness Boss

  • This is an optional boss
  • Closest Site of Grace: Yelough Anix Tunnel
  • Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
  • You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss

Elden Ring Astel, Stars of Darkness Location

The boss at the end of Yelough Anix Tunnel. [Map Link]

Astel, Stars of Darkness Combat information

Negations (or Absorptions)

The negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.

Resistances

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.

  NG NG+ NG+2 NG+3 NG+4 NG+5 NG+6 NG+7
HP 18,617 18,896 20,785 21,730 22,675 24,564 25,509 26,454
Defense 120 120 123 126 132 138 144 156
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18Runes 120,000 240,000 264,000 270,000 288,000 294,000 300,000 306,000

Resistances

poison status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxPoison 601 / 891 / 1348 590 / 880 / 1337 598 / 888 / 1345 607 / 897 / 1354 616 / 906 / 1363 625 / 915 / 1372 634 / 924 / 1381 643 / 933 / 1390
scarlet rot status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxScarlet Rot 601 / 891 / 1348 590 / 880 / 1337 598 / 888 / 1345 607 / 897 / 1354 616 / 906 / 1363 625 / 915 / 1372 634 / 924 / 1381 643 / 933 / 1390
hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxHemorrhage 601 / 891 / 1348 590 / 880 / 1337 598 / 888 / 1345 607 / 897 / 1354 616 / 906 / 1363 625 / 915 / 1372 634 / 924 / 1381 643 / 933 / 1390
frostbite status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxFrostbite Immune
sleep status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxSleep Immune
madness status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxMadness Immune

 

Elden Ring Astel, Stars of Darkness Boss Guide

Astel, Stars of Darkness Boss Video Guide

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Astel, Stars of Darkness Fight Strategy

The Best Tips for Astel, Stars of Darkness:

  • Ranged Ashes like Latenna and Ancestral Follower will almost always aim for the head, dealing extra damage from afar.
    Tanky Ashes like Tiche, Rollo, and Crystalian can provide distraction.
  • Rock Sling can easily stun the boss. Comet Azur can work if it is uninterrupted.
  • Move the middle of the arena when it teleports away, to prevent being grabbed by the clones.

 

Melee Users

Stay out of the exploding clouds, and attack the head with Jump Attacks when there is an opening. Avoid attacking too frequently, as Astel can quickly chain together attacks. It is recommended to stay close to the head, as the bite attacks can be easily dodged. But one must be wary of the Gravity Wave attacks he does when one is under him for too long

Magic and Ranged Users

Don't underestimate the tail attack, as it has a very long range and it may one-shot you if you don't dodge. Astel has limited ranged options, opting to use a long ranged attack or its tail to hit you from afar. Keep an out for when it teleports,  if you don't spot it anywhere, it may have teleported above you, getting ready for an extremely powerful grab attack.

 

Astel, Stars of Darkness Attacks & Counters

Most of its attacks are identical to the Remembrance version. See the Astel, Naturalborn of the Void page for more information.

Attack Description Counter
Illusionary
Teleport Grab
Happens at around 50% health, where it will perform the Teleport Grab, but will instead summon many identical copies from the sides of the arena to catch the player. Aim the camera upwards
to see if Astel has teleported
above you. If it has summoned
its clones, stand still in the middle of the arena to avoid it.

Astel, Stars of Darkness Lore, Notes & Other Trivia

 

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Astel, Stars of Darkness Image Gallery

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    • Anonymous

      how can they have remained completely stagnant when it comes to giant boss design?
      you can't even focus to limbs to break them like in bloodborne, or cut off tails like in Dark Souls 1.

      • Anonymous

        I sure hope you guys like stupid camera angles, boring mechanical movements, and chasing a teleporting enemy.

        • Anonymous

          I found godskin peeler and Lhutel particularly effective. Bait Astel to melee with chompers, dodge, charged L2. Jumping Headshots when time doesn’t allow the full charge. Dodge forward through circular AoE waves of magic. Don’t get eaten when Stelly teleports. Don’t waste time trying to apply status effects in my humble opinion.

          • Anonymous

            I really love that when you fight this boss sometimes, RNG keeps telling you to run at least 2km away every single time you get close.

            • Anonymous

              This is the only time in this game I said "you know what, I don't need to fight this guy" and quit. Would I eventually be able to kill him if I kept trying? Yes. Would I be having fun? Not a bit

              • Anonymous

                Took 20ish min on 120 STR ARC build using Greatsword. Died every single time to that clone grab as I didn’t know how to avoid it and didn’t wanna look. I basically stayed super close to his head and stunned him with lion claw while procing bleed and finished with crit hit. Greatsword is just so damn satisfying to use.

                • Anonymous

                  This is one of the worse bosses imo. Losing lock on just to have the boss appear from offscreen with an instant-kill grab? Yea, I'll be having none of that. Really annoying hitbox when underneath him. Meteor shower is such a particle spam I just roll frantically hoping nothing hits me (which it almost never does for some reason) because god forbid I can actually see what is happening.

                  Not a fan.

                  • Anonymous

                    Miyazaki might have mental issue. The camera can't keep up eventhough I locked on. The white reticle went off-bound so many times, it's glitchy. How tf do I beat it summonless if I can't see where it is going?

                    • Anonymous

                      genuinely one of the easiest bosses in the game on my first playthru (battlemage build, had a twinblade with loretta's ash of war on it and magic affinity with Godrick Soldier spirits). dont know how people are getting hit by that super telegraphed attack and more over how they're so underleveled in the Consecrated Snowfield. i was like 150 when i got there and theres multiple ppl saying they were only lvl 70??? Snowfield is a post-endgame area how are people THAT underleveled lmao

                      • Anonymous

                        I powerstanced Blasphemous Blade on NG1 and it took me like 20 tries. I think this one is more difficult than the Naturalborn

                        • Anonymous

                          >Read the comments
                          >Upgrade my Death Ritual Spear
                          >Summon someone
                          >They have the same weapon
                          >Spawn Astel v2
                          >We spam Spearcall Ritual
                          >Mission success!

                          • Anonymous

                            Cool boss fight, but screw all grab attacks of any boss. They are just unfair one shots where if you fail one dodge you die and have to start over again.

                            Can you survive the strongest grab attack at Ng+7 without using buffs? Because I don't feel like you should be forced to use buffs to be able to survive an attack.

                            • Anonymous

                              For a faith build doing primarily Holy damage (lol), Stone of Gurranq worked best. Flies did track, but it was too slippery and the spell would fizzle half of the time. Stone would keep going until it hit the massive hitbox and not keep going for the head. Stone combos underneath the beast work great. High magic negate helps with the meteors but not necessary.

                              • Anonymous

                                Hey everyone. It's me that guy who usually wields gigabungus weapons.

                                I actually killed Astel yesterday and forgot to write about the experience because it was pretty bad. I just got under the stupid slimey limey and started blasting.

                                The Moonveil katana interestingly enough has like 50% magic block so I popped on magic defense talismans to fearlessly charge through the sniper shots and get under the stupid alien space snake. By rolling just slightly behind his head, you can avoid like 90% of his moves.

                                I also summoned a summon for the fight and of course its me the +10 Mimic so Astel was pastel when I was done salami-ing him into bite size runes with me, the best sous chef. Didn't get to phase 2 and I felt like the boss might of possibly gone down surprisingly faster than my first run with Gigabungus Larry and his two big gigabungus swords...

                                Guess it goes to show having range just technically means you kill things faster but STR weapons rule int weapons drool Astel is bad and if you cant kill him I recommend opaline flask tear and the pearlescent talisman and the magic defense talisman in tandem to reach high enough magic defense to use less supplies although the fight ends pretty quickly at 120RL.

                                • Anonymous

                                  Honestly seeing all the posts below made me want to post my experience with this guy.

                                  My first experience was with a STR heavy RaGS character. I jump attacked everything and that usually did the trick. I hardly remember this fight nor did I know he had a clone grab attack but honestly I feel like release Elden Ring and current Elden Ring are completely different animals. In fact, I plan on writing on my second experience shortly because I just made a 2nd character after a few months to play in the colosseum update which isn't a STR character.

                                  That being said why spend 3 seconds on a spell to potentially miss and waste mana leaving you defenseless when you can just spend 1 jump attacking? Less frames to punish because you don't waste time taking a deep breath and compose yourself after lifting your arm up from not leveling strength.

                                  If you guys are here reading about this wiki to beat the guy this late into the game, just do yourselves a favor and level strength and vigor and learn how to ooga booga because that is literally the precursor to any build; hell you can even oonga boonga with certain mage weapons with certain poise damage thresh holds but STR builds just have all the best gigabungus weapons and use less talismans to achieve damage which means they can do bazongas more damage in the long run if you really wanted to sweat it so if you are really the gigabrain, why even fight it?

                                  STR builds have always been the supreme build of all FromSoft games. STR players have this weird stigma of being stupid braindead players but like do you guys know how much calculus and trigonometry an average STR player needs to know in order to pull off a max range perfect frame jump attack to hit someone who took a second too late to consider their choices because they decided to get within hitting distance of a player wielding a gigabungus weapon? Did you know every strength player may not keep track of faces slain but they know the exact number of people killed because of their simple tried but true method of running in to hit something really really hard? The amount of tactic and skill a STR player must exhibit to get to his target despite whether the target can make the stars themselves rain down, hurl lightning bolts of pure power constructed from the vestigial remnants of power left within ancient ashes of olden warriors of mythological ilk, throw the god damn SUN at them?

                                  Stay tuned for my experience with this guy on my not good character because I decided I wanted to use magic. God magic just sucks every time ever since Dark Souls 1 and 2.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    Lol. 40% damage block on anything other than physical. Talk about lazy artificial difficulty. Used to be a time we had to figure out a bosses specific weaknesses and plan a build using specific infusions to get best results. Now it's just a simple matter of hitting them on the head till they die and if your char isn't a melee build with high Phys damage then too bad.

                                    • Anonymous

                                      The thing that does me in with him isn't that he has the grab attack, it's that by the time I've adjusted the camera, it's normally too late. Otherwise, I really enjoy the rest of the fight and can manage him

                                      • Confessor, paladin build. Believe it or not I used the Stone of Guranq most effectively on this one. Astel cannot handle physical dmg. Currently 50 str, 50 faith, 31 Int, 49 Vigor. Godricks great rune active. Had trouble staying on the head for sword or dagger dmg. Tiche did her job well as soon as I started running in toward the boss. Remember to dodge to the side for long range attacks.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          was rather easy for me:
                                          60str,heavy greatsword +25 with Lions Claw AoW. , bullhorn chest and pants,rest crucible knight. mixed physiq: str + guard break.

                                          Flame GMS + Golden Vow buffed, run up to its head and just go apeshit with Lions Claw until guard break, riposte and he is already almost dead.

                                          Lions Claw has hyper armor plus that frontflip which will always hit the head

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Only after Tiche FINALLY STARTED ATTACKING did the boss actually start melting, 7 attempts, and no Spirit Ashes felt like taking aggro from the boss, not even Greatshield guys. But the moment Tiche finally decided "oh yeah, I'm in a boss fight" the last 40% of Astel's Health plummeted.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              Spend your runes before fighting this boss, if your spirit summons does what mine did here you'll be fighting Astel solo while they slowly walk the perimeter of the boss arena.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                Enter the arena, see Astel, remember how I hated the fight with the first Astel (killed him on 5th try), **** this guy, **** this place. Didn't bother and left him.

                                                Might come back totally over-leveled just to spank him easily and laugh, because **** him

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  After half a dozen ulcerated tree spirits, nine erdtree avatars some of them putrid, two Mohgs, two Astels, two Margits and one Morgott, a golden shade and then the real deal and f**k knows how many burial watchdogs, I think the unique in "bosses are unique and challenging enemies" is redundant at this point.

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    I had an issue with this boss earlier on. I summoned the mimic but all it did was walk around the perimeter of the boss area while astel was fully focused on me, that turned out exactly the way you'd expect. I thought the issue was the mimic so I tried dung, he was very good for this fight in my first playthrough but this time he did exactly the same thing as the mimic just walking slowly around the boss room and doing sweet f**k all else. Radahn's rain was doing good damage to its head but I think I got to double figures with how many times it killed me.

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      How i cheesed this guy, use latenna, put her near entrance door. use greatshield and consumables (kukri and poison dart or pots if you want), rotten breath, shabiri woe and magic defense talisman, armor heavy on magic defense. shield with high magic defense. Seriously, his attacks are easy to dodge as long as you keep proper distance. Lock on his head for poison dart and kukri. I poison him first, then rot him, and finish it up with kukris, the blood loss damage on him is insane. I didn't even need to use any flask to restor HP, only to restore FP after rotten breath. Only use rotten breath when he's using the 3-tier gravity slam since his recovery time is long on that. Don't get greedy attacking and you're fine.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        This boss is a shining example of how shitty the late game design becomes in this game. It's mostly a carbon copy of the earlier Astel because I guess From wanted to go ahead and get the game over with, and their idea of making it unique was to include one of the single most bullshit attacks in the entire game: the clone teleport grab.
                                                        The boss can use this attack at any point once you've knocked down about 50% damage (and uses the regular grab once you've hit 20%), and you'll only know the attack is coming once you see multiple portals above you. The first time the boss uses this attack, you can run to the center of the area and likely avoid it, however the second time you literally cannot get away from it. Run to the middle? All of the clones converge to that spot. Roll through? Nope, can't roll through grab attacks. Run through and get behind? The ridiculous hitbox will cause you to still get sucked in. Maybe jump? Maybe jump off a bridge instead. The only way to avoid the second clone grab is to kill the bastard if you have the chance. I've gotten the health down to a smidge, then boom the Naruto crap kills me.
                                                        I've played this game for entirely too many hours, and when I first bought the game I wanted to go through and defeat every single boss. This one is NOT worth it.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          Beat this guy at lvl 70. Never again. Was one of the most painful fights ever. Thumbs up to those people who be beating the game at lvl 15-30

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            The AoW Black Flame Tornado is super effective when done right under him. It took me three tries and on the second I saw that black flame really takes chunks out of him while regular fire doesn't.

                                                            • What level are y'all when you beat this guy? I'm trying to figure out if I'm severely underleveled for this guy or if he just sucks that bad. I'm level 124 and I haven't had any major issues with bosses or enemies up to this point, but I just can't beat this guy. He always teleports directly above my head and grabs me, or he spawns a clone on my head that grabs me. It seems really unfair because I have no way of knowing where he is going to port to or what he will follow up with after... halp halp

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                A good thing to know about this boss is that a lot of his seemingly unavoidable attacks can be rolled through with the right timing. You can easily roll through the grab, the reverse gravity and the gravity wave. Once you learn this, he's honestly a pretty fun boss. However, I can see why the grab can be obnoxious the first time through, and I thought it was BS too until I learned to roll under him and not away from him. Still don't know why two different otherworldly godlike aliens would look exactly the same, but I guess I shouldn't expect that much from this game.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  Be careful; I used Ekzyke's Decay on this boss, he used the 1 shot grab attack at me at the end and killed me, but burned out as I was dying. I did get the item, but didn't get any runes for killing them.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    This is a boss that, at any given point in the fight, can do an grab attack that is practically unavoidable and most certainly will kill the player.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      I summoned Tiche +9 and managed to get scarlet rot dragon after 2 tries and then held on for dear life, was trying Shard Spiral but I don't think any actually even hit lol. Tiche did most of the damage honestly didn't know her bleed proc was so good, I was working so hard just to heal up most of the itme, next thing I knew he was dead.

                                                                      • This thing...I killed it before it done it's clone encircle teleport grab BS. But it's death animation didn't play until it'd crushed and killed me, we died at the same time..But of course, it didn't die! I was quite unhappy. This play through I'm a mage so I'll kick it's ass.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          As someone who managed to fight this guy before the weaker version i can say in confidence that i hate them both equally and this is probably my least favorite boss in the game

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            Royal pain to beat; 20+? attempts; ended up ROB OH + Fire Uchi [Flame of red manes]] w/ Ekzyke Decay + my man Dung Eater. Still a close fight

                                                                            • super hard boss!! for a mage.. my mimic and I woudl slowly whittle astel down with rock sling but he owuld always grab me and kill me before we could do his last 10%!!! until finally i got pissed off and use spearcall ritual on him once he had been poise broken with soem rockslings.. he never recovered form that.. it casts quciker than rock sling and once hes down the spears blanket him and its curtains then..

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                Hmmm, either they all develop into Astel or there were 2 astels, 1 taking the sky of a city and 1 taking a city underground. The fallingstar beasts develop into Astels and the graven schools could be eggs that hatch a fallingstar beast, since these things appear to have a deep history with the moons.

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  This took me a good 10 attempts before I got it. Black Knife Tiche and Rotten Breathe eventually got me it.
                                                                                  Although he's resistant to it, it still does damage over time which allows you to back off a bit. But other than that, it was Bloodhounds Fang to the head repeatedly.
                                                                                  Thanks whoever said to use Black Knight Tiche. He has an attack that does DoT as well.

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    Marionette soldier ashes +9 and rock sling made this a much easier fight for me. They aggro her and take all the attention off. Few hits of rock sling to the head staggers her.

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      This one was hard for me. Most other boss fights - major boss fights - didn't trip me up like this one. Homie had my number with that grab (and eat you like an ear of corn) attack. And then the one time he and all his boys did me at he same time from every angle - funny as Hell, in a fairly demoralizing way.

                                                                                      • I had spelldrake talisman+2 and dragoncrest greatshield talisman. Used flame of redmanes with a katana and black knife tiche. She kept distracting the boss while i spammed flame of redmanes. It breaks posture and staggers so easily.

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          Why is the video on astel naturalborn of the void instead of stars of darkness? Stars of darkness has different attacks in phase 2 that you never see from naturalborn

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            I really struggled with this boss, especially because my first fight with him was on NG+4, but I found out that using the mimic with some bulky armor, and the Fallingstar Beast Jaw weapon really helps. Just spam L2 with the weapon and after about 4 hits you’ll poise break astel

                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                              Just use a tanky mimic tear to distract it while pelting it with rock sling. Works great, you just have to be careful to back off when it agros on you, to get it back on the mimic. Even better if the mimic has a bleed weapon.

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                I love sitting on the ground for 5 seconds so he can hit me with a wake up 1 shot every time he sneezes on me. I never got the impression that From outsourced their boss mechanics to another company until now.

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  Black knife +9
                                                                                                  Carian filigreed crest
                                                                                                  Shard of alexander
                                                                                                  Pearldrake and spelldrake talismans +2

                                                                                                  Keep your distance and use blade of death from the knife

                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                    As a noob, I'll do my best give some tips that might help with your struggles.

                                                                                                    1. For its charged blast, it's pretty difficult to dodge it. So I recommend a light shield with high magic and physical defence (I used Silver Mirrorshield) to counter it. You could also seek cover behind fragile stalagmites(So only at the start of fight) which somehow shields you.

                                                                                                    2. For its tail whips, I recommend sprinting diagonally to close distance while Astel misses its hits. Shields are viable too.

                                                                                                    3. For its AOE "grab attack" where you get launched into air then insta-killed by Newton's 3rd Law(Basically death by being slammed into ground), you can actually "dodge" it with i-frames. I *think* the timing is right after it does its chomp.

                                                                                                    4. For its teleport then suprise grab attack, I recommend walking towards it then aim to dodge behind its claws.

                                                                                                    5. I'm certain you can survive the grab attacks, but you will need at least 1600hp (Might be inaccurate) without taking buffs/debuffs and talismans into consideration.

                                                                                                    6. For meteorites attack, just use shields. It will probably break your poise but will increase your chances of survival.

                                                                                                    7. No clue how to dodge its final phase change attack(10× Astel clones), think I accidentally skipped them by killing it quickly.

                                                                                                    8. Can't give much tips on attacks, but for melee(Uchi for reference), I spammed Unsheathe on its head next to its claw(Not directly inside its claws) to maximise dmg and poise breaks.
                                                                                                    For dragon communion build, I spammed Ezykes Decay while maximising my distance from it(Preferably not in front due to its chained pincer attacks).

                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                      I died multiple times with a STR/FTH build, and then I used rebirth for an optimized Wing of Astel+9 build. Used Golden Greatshield and the typical damage increasing talisman / flask mix. This boss melted surprisingly fast with the ash of war in combination with the damage increase to gravity type enemies. It was extremely easy then and I beat him on my first try.

                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                        I used maxed Lion Bow, mimic and spammed Radahn's Rain with Radahn's Spear arrows about 10-15 times. Got my damage resistance pretty high with talismans, crab, potions and Bull Goat, so the grab took like 60% hp. 40 vig 60 end and just enough str/dex for most weapons and ate an arc. This way the fight was easy, but before putting all this on I died quite a few times.

                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                          I know it gets a lot of hates, but weirdly enough this guy is not immune to hemorrhage, so if you want to melt him and get over it you can use dual seppuku, it works wonder. Oh and he's "strong" against it but 252 is not that high at this part of the game. I beat him in NG+3, level 150, dual seppuku, spelldrake talisman +2, oppaline hardtear for his magic damage and dragoncrest greatshield for his physical damage. And no summons, if that matters.

                                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                                            Oh boy i love a boss that abuses my two favorite things, AOE spam that requires basically perfect timing to avoid and instadeath grab attacks that guarantee death if you screw up even once!

                                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                                              This really is a difficult boss and the camera adds to that difficulty. Target locking the head is disorientating because of the way it moves around when you are underneath him and close enough to hit the f**ker right in its weak spot.

                                                                                                              For my second attempt I switched to the godslayer's greatsword, the weapon art and black flame ritual worked wonders in decimating its health bar. The queen's black flame is perfectly manageable without needing a target lock for good damage and repeated casts of black flame ritual if you are close enough will stagger it, but there wont be much time to get to the orange glow for the criritcal hit.

                                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                                With 1600 HP, full bullgoat set and ritual shield talisman, i was able to survive the teleport grab attack, though i went from full hp to almost zero. Making the ****-up-once-and-you-die attack actually survivable made the fight slightly easier, and much, much less stresfull. Used bloodhound step to avoid fat rolling. Though its kinda cheap, bloodhound step was generally very useful for the fight - made it much easier to avoid the AOEs and swipes.

                                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                                  BHS + Tiche + Katana (Powerstance) + Dragonshield Talisman + Antimagic Talisman
                                                                                                                  And DO NOT lock on the target!
                                                                                                                  Warp in, hit, warp away.
                                                                                                                  Dance like a butterfly, sting like a bee ;-)

                                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                                    Hated Astel the first time, but at least I learned how to fight it for the second go-round. Cheese it with Glinstone spells at like 25 int the first time, but I'd already re-specced out of int by the time I got to Astel 2: Electric Boogaloo, so it was all melee and weapon arts for this version.

                                                                                                                    Tiche can be great due to her speed in closing distances and her ability to temporarily decrease max HP. Gotta pull aggro here/there to keep her alive though, and the talisman that pulls aggro can be great if you know how to dodge most of the bs. Essentially just let Tiche do the killing, not very satisfying but effective.

                                                                                                                    Also Mimic using the Long Envoy horn can work pretty well. Just keep your distance around the edge of the gravity attack and spam the bubbles; mimic tend to spam bubbles when you do. 3-4 bubble blasts should break its poise for a critical. With the Long Envoy having strike damage on the melee attacks it's a good choice if you need to beat the crystaline legs, though you definitely want to focus the head if possible. 2-3 R2's from a great hammer should break its poise.

                                                                                                                    Overall its not a horrible fight, though I say that after having beat it about 10x now via NG+ and another character. Even on my level 220 meme character it's still not easy

                                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                                      If you have high dexterity stat, try to use Bolt of Gransax and aim at the head. It will take a bit longer to defeat him, but its quite safe method. It also helps to overcome problems with camera and hitboxes. Proper amount of flasks, which restore FP is needed.

                                                                                                                      About grab attack (which is simply terrible): Turn you camera so, that you will see front of your character and run that way, when he teleports. When his clones get close - roll through.

                                                                                                                      I found it on reddit and managed to avoid this attack literaly everytime. Hope it helps others as well.

                                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                                        I fell like this is one of the few actually cheap Fromsoft bosses. The way he teleports then grabs you for a one shot kill is just an "end fight" button. If you can't see him, you can't respond.

                                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                                          Second time fighting him, I think I finally started to get a feel for him. Yes he hits hard, and yes his AOE's are brutal for melee. However, the spacing is really important. Several of his attacks, particularly the scorpion-like tale stab have no hit box immediately in front of his head, giving you a great opportunity to unload. many of his slam attacks can be dodged by rolling straight underneath of him. Meteor also can be largely avoided if you run at him and dodge repeatedly underneath him. Tale slam, grab, and laser all suck, but at least you can learn the timing. Staying mid range in front of him you can wait out for an advantageous attack, then dodge through and repeat. He's tough, and I'm not even sure I'd say fair, but his attacks are very deliberate so you usually can respond accordingly. For those who played Bloodborne, think Ludwig phase 1. You stand right up against him and you're gonna have a bad time. Find that mid-range sweet spot, play reactively, and you'll get him in the end. You got spells? That sweet spot will work for you too.

                                                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                                                            I gotta say that this boss ended up being not nearly as bad as the community here made him out to be. Yes it's lazy design and even a bad choice to copy Astel, a very unique boss, but the boss itself after patch 1.05 isn't too bad.

                                                                                                                            Summons now attack him, even after he teleports. So pick a strong tanky summon and he's distracted quite a bit. His poise is also easily broken if you can manage to land headshots. So pick whatever your strongest poise break attack is, and aim for the head. I used moonveil, and feel like 3 transient moonlight hits to the head would bring him down. He's also down for quite some time, so you can easily land 4 dual wield katana hits or 2 heavy attacks in and then still use the critical strike.

                                                                                                                            The only absolute bullshit move is the teleport -> duplicate -> grab instakill move. Such bullshit that even at 1600hp it's still an instant kill.

                                                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                                                              Use Dung Eaters puppet. He was the champ in this fight. He took all aggro and I wast just running around casting Ezkyes Decay on her..

                                                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                                                Literally the dumbest and most annoying boss in the game, and it's just a duplicate of another boss. This is just plain lazy.

                                                                                                                                • Rough go on the second encounter as an ARC build... Ultimately, 1) use Latenna, 2) run to the right on him, 3) roll later than you think when he tail whips, then 4) stay close-ish to him, hit with rot breath, then go for melee when he turns to Latenna.

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