Bloodhound's Step

bhs
Skill that allows the user to become temporarily invisible while dodging at high speed. Moves faster and travels farther than a regular quickstep. This skill can be used to circle around lock-on targets.

Bloodhound's Step is a Skill in Elden Ring. Bloodhound's Step is a regular skill that can be found in Ashes of War, it can also be used on all melee armaments and has Keen Affinity.

 

How to get Bloodhound's Step in Elden Ring

 

Elden Ring Bloodhound's Step Guide, Notes & Tips

  • This is an Ash of War Skill, associated with the Ash of War: Bloodhound's Step.
  • FP Cost: 5
  • Stamina Cost: 12 (the same as rolling)
    • If you're out of FP, the Stamina Cost is 18.
  • A single use of Bloodhound's Step provides 16 invulnerability frames (at 30 FPS).
    • If you use Bloodhound's Step multiple times in a row, uses after the first provide 14 i-frames.
    • If you're out of FP, it provides only 5 i-frames.
  • Bloodhound's Step travels farther than rolls.
    • It covers the equivalent to two rolls in medium equip load.
    • It covers the equivalent to one and half rolls in light equip load.
  • This skill can be used even when the equip load is overloaded.
  • See Dodging for detailed information on the mechanic and a comparison of different dodging skills.
  • The low FP cost provides the player with a good alternative to dodging attacks which can be applied to any weapon.

Click below for Bloodhound's Step recovery frame data. 

See Bloodhound's Step recovery frames at 30 FPS (click to reveal)

Forward

  • Roll: 9
  • Ash of War: 7
  • Right-hand attack: 1
  • Left-hand attack: 5
  • Block: 8
  • Quick item use: 6
  • Item use: 11
  • Walk: 13

Forward (Repeated)

  • Roll: 11
  • Ash of War: 11
  • Right-hand attack: 6
  • Left-hand attack: 7
  • Block: 12
  • Quick item use: 8
  • Item use: 13
  • Walk: 15

Back

  • Roll: 7
  • Ash of War: 7
  • Right-hand attack: 1
  • Left-hand attack: 5
  • Block: 8
  • Quick item use: 5
  • Item use: 9
  • Walk: 11

Back (Repeated)

  • Roll: 9
  • Ash of War: 11
  • Right-hand attack: 2
  • Left-hand attack: 7
  • Block: 12
  • Quick item use: 7
  • Item use: 11
  • Walk: 13

Side

  • Roll: 6
  • Ash of War: 6
  • Right-hand attack: 1
  • Left-hand attack: 4
  • Block: 7
  • Quick item use: 6
  • Item use: 10
  • Walk: 11

Side (Repeated)

  • Roll: 8
  • Ash of War: 13
  • Right-hand attack: 2
  • Left-hand attack: 6
  • Block: 11
  • Quick item use: 8
  • Item use: 12
  • Walk: 13

 

 

 

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    • Anonymous

      What weapon is this good on? I ever use this on lake of rot and never really know what weapon should I put this on?

      • Anonymous

        the night cavalry guy is not spawning for me at night, and I am pretty sure i didn't kill him cause I dont have his ash of war am I missing something?

        • Anonymous

          Never used this until the dlc final boss. His 2nd form is so ****ing bs I had to resort to this. Wish me luck yall

          • Anonymous

            I beat the DLC without using BHS, that being said, if you use this at all you are still valid for it. Especially against the final boss of the DLC

            • Anonymous

              Very good against a lot of DLC bosses, some nearly undodgeable attacks at medium weight became easy to avoid

              • Anonymous

                Now that the DLC is out and 90% of the bosses spam aoes that cover half of their arena I don't want to hear anyone complain about BHS ever again.

                • Anonymous

                  just some regular AoW, Elden Ring also has wide area of effect AoW, hyper armour AoW, instant cast AoW and the list goes as long as their are people still playing this game.

                  • Anonymous

                    "This skill is useful for circling around lock-on targets" yes but consider:
                    using zamor ice storm when the edgelord is trying to get behind me for god knows why is really funny

                    • Anonymous

                      >Bull Goat?
                      >Check
                      >Eleonora's Poleblade?
                      >Check
                      >Rotten Breath?
                      >Check
                      >White Mask?
                      >Check
                      >Bloodhound's step?
                      >Body Type B?
                      >Check
                      Oh yeah, it's Elden Ringing time.

                      • Anonymous

                        Doing a RL1 challenge but think spirit ashes and NPC summons are cheats? No worries, Reddit won't have any dirt on you with this one.

                        • Anonymous

                          If you're coming back to this game, yes, now you can use this, look very bloodborne and cool, and not being called bloodhound step abuser

                          • Anonymous

                            Skill is super glitched and only works if the weapon is two handed or in your right hand. Or this is just another bullshit design decision.
                            Either way, wtf?

                            • Anonymous

                              Best feeling ever to dodge left and while still holding left use bloodhound step and it dashes right. Let me just dodge back into the attack I was going to avoid. Thank you.

                              • Anonymous

                                As somebody who's been using bloodhound's step since day 1: it was never that strong in the grand scheme of things. Bloodborne had Old Hunter's Bone, Ds1 had Wood Grain Ring- and the fact that this got neutered at least 3 times in a ROW to the point where it's just quickstep with slightly more distance is so disappointing; there might actually be NO use for this Ash of War anymore. Popular invaders like Jeenine, Steelovsky and more crying that this was overtuned had no idea what Elden Rings original vision even was. This Ash was meant to be able to evade and aggress ganks and the people that spammed all the best AoEs and movesets. With BHS effectively nothing like it was before, and how everything has been melted into Ds3 hyperarmor/trade and spacing based combat, you now logically lose to virtually any gank with a rapier or spears, much less every spell and incantation in the game.

                                • Anonymous

                                  Bro I have to fight dudes who use a bleed thrusting sword and since I only use heavy weapons I physically cant win.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    Had someone using this the whole time and trying to lure me into a dragon's aggro range, and they had the cheek to complain when I killed them with sacred sword instead of playing chicken with them lmao

                                    For people struggling with the timing to counter it: spells with a good AoE, the fire spells do decent, flame of redmane Ash of war too.

                                    • Anonymous

                                      The entire arena mode is off limits for me because of this no skill ash of war. I hate using it and fighting it.

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Some people really still can’t counter it after the patches, it’s about timing. If People just lure and run away the whole time they’re cheeks at the game and that can be done without bhs or quickstep. it just takes timing and poise to counter unless they’re cheesing it with heavy poise and DEF or magic as well. The only nerf that really needs to be made is to poise. Poise should determine the effectiveness of dexterity based weapons and skills. People in full goat or heavier armor should be barred from using it entirely and the ability should be limited to smaller loads/ lower poise builds (light load) and dex based weapons like hookclaw, katana etc. but I use it and if you know how to use it it actually takes precision and timing to use.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          Still needs to be simply removed from online, both coop and invasions as well as arena mode. Cannot be beaten unless the user suffers brainrot.

                                          • Anonymous

                                            I block all players on Steam who use this skill. Even if I'm winning and suddenly the opponent switches weapons and starts using BHS. I do the same with players who use dual vyke, dual run-pike-pokers and sleep builds.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              I have a really good idea that will properly balance this ability that I think everyone can get behind. It's simple really, all Fromsoft needs to do is delete bloodhound step from the game, and permanently ban anyone who has ever even had it in their inventory just to be on the safe side. Unfortunately this will include me, but it's the only way to be safe from bloodhound step.

                                              Seriously though if they just did something about the ability to cancel recovery animations via bloodhound step, quickstep and raptors of the mist they would be fine.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                aight let me sum it up, there is a mf in the arena who oviously practices the same tactic over and over, uses thrusting sword with this, forces you to fight at close distance, spams r1s till you are scalet rotted if you die you get a dung simple as that so thats why i agree it should be disabled for pvp (in the arenas at least) couldnt hit her once unless she did a trade for the last attack.

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Sorry guys I joined the cringe earlier I was up against a star fist with quickstep ash of war with tree sentinel armor he kept pressuring had to put on my emergency BHS ash

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    If you use this skill whilst singing Stains Of Time from the MGRR OST until your vocal cords stop working you get a 20% speed boost

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      I like this ash of war, but I am so bad at using this. Instead of dodging the enemy’s attack like you’re supposed to, I always end up jumping to the enemy’s attack from a safe position with this skill and end up dying.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        I started a rouge build today with the bandit class. I immediately grabbed this and but it on my great knife. I just beat Margit after 3 tires and I'm going to get misericord. So far this thing has been fun to play with and made me use something other than just the ash.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          Wtf where they thinking when they put this in the game? "Let's make an objectively better version of an already problematic Ash"

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            Another amazing ash of war nerfed because of the pvp crowd when 95% of players are pve players, just like stars of ruins

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              It’s just inexcusable to use this. You’ve chosen the path of weakness and it will show in the rest of your life outcomes.

                                                              • Doesn't make too much sense to put the i-frames for 30 fps... i'm all the way up to 60 fps 100% of the time and i assume most people as well. If you know your FPS rate chances are you are playing on PC and you get 60 anyways, and if you don't know you are playing on a console. (yes, i know ppl can still know their console's fps rate, but i'm not counting on that and you shouldn't as well)

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  >latest comment says previous comments are outdated, proceeds to talk about PvP
                                                                  >previous comments saying BHS is terrible are about PvE

                                                                  Some of y'all are nothing more than high-functioning peanuts. With how harsh the nerf was, there's barely any reason to use BHS over Quickstep right now, no matter the context.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    Most comments on this page are outdated. BHS is completely fine after the nerf. If you can't roll-catch them, it's probably because they're also using light rolls, which ARE still busted

                                                                    • After putting up with this in PvP, winning and loosing and making it to ng+5 figured why not I'll try it now.
                                                                      The one thing tho, is not to over use it and to have a move set that really compliments the AoW.
                                                                      I haven't Found a more Suitable AoW for the flowing sword, now I will actually be able to dance around people XD

                                                                      • Yeah, this is still stupid. It has almost no startup period and almost no recovery period, so there's not really a good way to punish it, honestly.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          I'm a simple man who likes dueling variety builds and skill opponents, and use whatever you like, I'll probably enjoy the fight
                                                                          But if I see either this or Rivers, I'm gonna bust out those Stars of Ruin without any shame

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            I did an entire playthrough with a pair of swords and nothing but bloodhound steps and attempted to kill everything in the game with nothing but melee attacks. I succeeded on everything except godfrey, Malenia and the final battle which required far more precision timing than I have the patience to learn so I used ashes and ranged attacks in those fights.

                                                                            I do not think bloodhound step is very good. It was rare that it saved my butt where a Dodge would not have. And there are many times where it sends you in a completely random direction and can leave you hanging out to dry.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              Anybody have issues with BHS and quick step, but i put this issues in this way
                                                                              Imagine fight Malenia, Maliketh or the f***ing elden pokemon in pvp, is it fun?
                                                                              I think we all know the answer
                                                                              The spam dash, hyper jump or TELEPORTATION is basically not fun allowed, if there are on players, on enemies or on bosses, makes no difference...
                                                                              guys, elden ring have bosses more mobile than bloodborne bosses, and bloodborne have dash instead of roll when fighting!
                                                                              (i still likes this two game, and i go on ng+2 on elden ring, but sometime i think the speed difference are not good for the health this game)

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                Ash is still pretty crazy, but you need to dedicate yourself to it with light armor and weapons so it balances out

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  Man this thing must have been insane if its still this good even after a nerf. Granted I'm using it on a light load; which makes it pretty balanced I suppose

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    I havent noticed the nerf as a light load build. Still goes further than a dodge, and more I-frames. 3-4 consecutive uses starts to have less distance, but just roll every 1 or 2 BHS.

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      Honestly at this point, if you’re going to go for a light load to get the most out of this Ash of War now, you’re better off just rolling with a vanilla light load. It’s basically a free BHS

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        This only way i can survive against point blank Malenia's waterflow, i have difficult time going against her after BHS nerfed, might try frost pot i guess.

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          imo this was kinda overnerfed. it doesn't really offer anything that quickstep can't do better. they should restore the travel distance it used to have, while keeping the diminishing returns when spammed.

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            This is so broken than even after nerf is still broken. And I love it. Rolling is beta male behaviour. Sigma males glides instead.
                                                                                            BHS + Bleed For life.

                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                              The real reason this was nerfed was cause Miyazaki was angry people were using it to get passed the lake of rot.

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                Awesome skill, annoying as hell to deal with in pvp with spammers...i get it though, it works. On that same note, if i see you spamming this in pvp against me i will hit your ass with rotten breathe and mohg/vykes spear lol

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  While the nerf was needed. I wonder, original bloodhound step locked to small weapons only, maybe even just daggers, would have been pretty balanced, especially if it reverted to nerfed form for PVP only.

                                                                                                  • This just got nerfed in version 1.06. Yet another piece of **** nerf from the developer and Steam ... so just search for firewall in Windows and block Steam and steamweb... Microsoft will immediately add another steam application which is unblocked - delete it. Like 10 of my favorite weapons got nerfed since the release of the game and I'm sick of that bullshit.

                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                      Goes without saying this AoW is over-powered for both PvE and PvP. For the single-player side of things though, feel free to use it as much as you want, you paid 60 dollars for the game so you get to play it however. Go wild.
                                                                                                      But for PvP, it does seem quite unfair. It stalls fights and makes them a chore, which is not good. I feel it needs to be nerfed in some way, but also not make it completely useless.
                                                                                                      I've heard it was nerfed in the recent 1.06 patch, but I haven't checked the patch-notes yet so not sure in what way.

                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                        the only way to dodge dragon breath attacks in a hallway. Probably not even guarenteed. Its reputation was ruined by ppl that use it to stall and get free heals

                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                          For duels i actually recommend quickstep. the travel distance of BHS makes it too difficult for you to be on the offensive

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