Colossal Weapons | Elden Ring Wiki

Colossals are ass in PVE if you're going for staggers. Great hammers are much faster and only do slightly less stagger damage.

PVP speaks for itself.. you have no chance

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hard being a colossal user in a quickstep rapier user's world

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FromSoftware when my Axe of Godfrey lands 1.5 cm next to my enemy's body: "Sorry you missed"
Also FromSoftware when a thrusting weapon/dagger running attack lands half a meter behind your back: "Haha, get hit idiot, 1 meter phantom hitbox go hard"

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My fully charged giga chad R2 of destruction. . . Misses because of a rapier poke. Strength bros, I can't go on much longer. . .

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Worst rolling attack in the game

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more often than not the hyperarmor just screws you over, because you'll just whiff because of aimpunch and then eat like 4 R1s to the face

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r1 into r2 is a reliable rollcatch on people who are bad at rolling

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i need to kill fast and big stick too slow

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the R2s on these things really deserve to go further, especially charged version. you'd be lucky to hit anything that isn't standing still

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Shenanigans ahead

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Ong I just want the axe of Godfrey buffed

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1.08 indirectly buffed these (in PvP) by lowering the poise damage on lighter weapons. Much easier to poise through a light weapon attack and win the trade.

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Remember ya'll: L1->R1 true combos in PvP.

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why did they get nerfed?

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Where is golden Halberd? I'm sure other weapons are missing too?

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as of 1.08 colossals still get screwed over by aimpunch

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Ever since 1.0, colossal weapons are lackluster in every way compared to smaller weapons with the exception of jump attack spec. Even when you jump you will be vulnerable when airbourne, so it's not that great, many enemies will stagger and then rape you before you can hit them. Slow = masochism in this game. I think Str stat should increase swing speed of great and colossal weapons, or increase resistance to flinch during attack.

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honestly im just glad thrusting swords get hitboxes the size of neptune but colossals whiff when theres a slight breeze. amazing

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colossal swords are almost better in every single way, these definitely need some love

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every time i whiff due to aimpunch a little part of my soul dies

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Great Club has the most posture dmg if someone wondering

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I tested it with Cheat Engine (show posture bar). G-Crush and Prelate's hammer do quite the same posture damage between R1 and "Charged" R2 (lower posture dmg than charged R2 of any Straight swords)

so disappointing for the heaviest weapon (not a shield) in the game

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colossal swords aren't colossal weapons?

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Seems like giant crusher and prelate both do less poise damage than other colossal boys. Can anyone confirm?

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The surprisingly best AoW to slap on these weapons is War Cry (or its superior version Braggart's roar), into fully charged R2s.
1. Insane damage and poise damage with correct setup (highland axe off-hand, axe, roar, godfrey talismans, charged attack and poise damage tears).
2. When your character starts fully charging heavy attacks, he kinda leans forward and becomes shorter, thus much harder to hit with horizontal attacks. As such, some overhead attacks will miss you entirely. This proved especially useful against runebears and those scary lions with implanted blades, as long as you stay underneath them. For non-horizontal attacks, stack as much armor poise as you can.
3. Fully charged heavy attacks apply TWICE the build-up of whatever status effect with colossals. Tested on the giant with The Rotten Greataxe outside Godrick arena, with bleed and rot proccing twice as fast.
I don't say you will reliably hit ALL charged heavies, but when you do, the dopamine surge will be worth it.

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So you're telling me that the Fallingstar Beast Jaw will somehow still hit someone standing a whole foot in front of it or someone two feet from either side of it, even the weapon doesn't touch them? Does Fromsoft even know what physics is?!

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since when you can aimpunch something that much bigger than you with a mere dagger or stick ?

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i don't compensate anything i swear

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man they really really need to fix aimpunch with these. most weapons can cope since the swing much faster, but every hit i miss because my character flinches slightly feels like a kick in the balls.

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man they really really need to fix aimpunch with these. most weapons can cope since the swing much faster, but every hit i miss because my character flinches slightly feels like a kick in the balls.

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It says Colossal WEAPON but not what kind of weapon it is. Could be Colossal Dung Pies if anything

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I know these are not good both in PvP and late-game PvE, but man... I just can't help but return to these big boys weapons. Other weapons just don't feel the same. The masculine desire to take the heaviest stick and bonk is strong with these.

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i can't even count how many trades i've been robbed of from aimpunch BS

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with how good the other "great" weapons are now, these need some serious TLC

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Even thought Rotten Greataxe and Rotten Staff seem like quite the meme weapon, if you powerstance these weapons then you can get a far superior CR1 (a downgraded version of UGS pokes), with the same hyperarmor properties on weapons that apply scarlet rot. You can also apply rot grease to the rotten greataxe.

The main drawback of this set up is the insane ENDURANCE necesary to dual wield the Colossals with armor that has enough poise. But the main advantage of it its the posibility to hard counter PS greatspears, PS straightswords and UGS by using the different moves that grant over 130 to 160 total poise with the necesary gear.

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In the context of Bull-goat's talisman, having the talisman equiped boosts every single attack of the Colossal Weapon class significantly, allowing you to even poise through Colossal Swords with ease with certain moves. For example, at 46 armor poise and Bull-goat's talisman equiped you can poise through Colossal swords' pokes with R1, R2, jumping R2 and running R2, the best move is R1.

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You can bait people into rollcatching you by panic rolling randomly at a duel, since Colossals get priority out of crouch attacks against almost every single weapon in the game you can land a 2-h or 1-h CR1 or even a block cancell R1 out of crouch if you predict the attack coming early. Just remember to have enough poise to do so, having bullgoat talisman buffs your hyperarmor too.

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you can block while two handing to alleviate the blinding nature of some of these weapons

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i hope fromsoft shows a little love to colossals. you get anchored in place for so long so its really easy to get punished for whiffing. it would be nice if the normal R1s and R2s had a little more lunge and a faster recovery.

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PVP info: Glintblade phalanx is probably one of the best AOW to pair with these weapons since you can abuse the heck out of the garanteed hitstun that these blades provide, I recomend using this AOW on a primary hand weapon such as a thursting sword and softswap the weapon for the Colossal when you are done so that you can land the slower moves such as backstep R1, R1, running R1 and jumping R1 because of the hitstun.

The mayor flaw of the Glintblade Phalanx is the cast time and the skill floor needed to use them effectively, if you are able to go beyond these weaknesses then you can gain access to one of the most skill expresive AOW in the entire game, this set up is an insane noob stomper against casuals, I constantly end up buffing like once or twice during duels because my opponents can't figure out a way to get too close (and I have no clue why), and when they too close and make a mistake then I just look at them to trigger the glintblades, get the hitstun and deal between 500 to 1000 damage on a true combo with hyperarmor. This is very fun to execute and it is such a decent way to make a weapon with such a trash neutral game very good when combined with the poison infusion.

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PVP info:

I have found that, when infused on Poison, Colossal Weapons can get a very decent neutral game thanks to phantom hits and the obnoxious poison stat that they get (+132 at lv.25), that combined with Poisonous Mist can turn the weapon into a deadly force against non-experienced players. This also allows to set up a jumping attack on people who try to use boluses too close from the user of the Colossal Weapon.

Also, Poisonous Mist AOW on Golem's Halberd is a very good AOW, I recomend you trying it as a starting AOW if you are new to the weapon class so that you can pressure people even if you miss all the time, just remember to keep your spacing and stamina always in check so that you don't get into a situation where you can't dodge roll out of dange or into a scenario where you can get backstabed very easily.

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I would recommend adding " is it ashes of war(able)" or not in spreadsheet so players who want to customize their weapons dont need to click each one of them one by one

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hee hee bonk with big thing

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Looks like Prelate's Charge start-up blends almost perfectly with the blocking animation while using a Colossal, with the only visual indicator being the flames starting to appear and the weapon turning 90° to the side.

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If you ever find trouble attacking hyperagressive people in PVP with any infusable colossal, use Stamp (Sweep) as a punish, I have found this specialy effective against UGS users while using a bleed infused golem halberd. Just remember that it can be punished very easily and it doesn't cover jump attacks.

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Its cool that they brang back the R1s from dark souls 1 instead of keeping dark souls 3s R1s

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People, I have found that Storm Stomp AOW can actually true combo into an R1 if you hit someone with the AOW right about the end, it is not a reliable strategy, but it helps to counter hyperagression while using the weapon class in PVP.

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This weapon class is so gimped for almost no benefit. Their playstyle is as one-dimensional as colossal swords because it hinges on spamming their only attack that isn't complete garbage

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Even within the same weapon class axes are still gimped. Despite having the exact same moveset as the hammer colossal weapons they have lower hyperarmor and poise damage. why?

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Didn't know that Fallingstar was that long, I am starting to think that I may scrap about a few points of strenght just to use that colossal as it is even longer than Golem's.

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lol

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pvp hard mode

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I didn't have the requirements for any of the colossal weapons when I found them, and I didn't invest in attributes with any of them in mind later in my game. I've just tried some out on the guardians around the smouldering church in caelid, all hit hard even with no upgrades, and I could see the skill needed to use them effectively when I target locked an enemy but couldn't see it anymore because the weapon was in the way. but I have some questions as well, and I'd appreciate it if anyone who's using them as their main weapons would answer. I tried ghiza's wheel first, seemed like it could be a fun weapon to use but it had a detrimental effect on the camera, as if the right stick was being pulled back slightly to look up, I don't know if its intentional to give a feeling of weight but it didn't feel right to me even if that is the case. exact same thing with dragon greatclaw, prelate's crozier and great club but those three all had issues with the R1 input not always registering as well as making the camera behave oddly, (didn't run out of stamina) left me just standing there doing nothing, crozier was the worst for not reacting to R1 inputs, the weapon art on it wasn't consistent for me either, I had plenty of FP to use it, but prelates charge was going into the uppercut hit when I was still pushing forward on left stick, its supposed to keep the hammer head on the ground laying down fire in a AoE until either the FP runs out or L2 is released then do the upper cut. there were some issues with golden land on the great club as well but I think that might be about the scaling or maybe not being upgraded. so is the wonky camera the price of admission for those weapons? to give them a feeling of weight? and is anyone else having R1 inputs not working or inconsistency in the weapon arts on these particular weapons?

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For first time players.
How to win with colossal weapons.
Roll poke, crouch poke, giant poke. It’s important to remember that you can poke some these weapons.

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The crouch stab attack of these isn't so bad, it is one of the better attacks in the game. Fast recovery, big circular hitbox, big extra poise. It's just that the range is low compared to the longer colossal sword pokes. These are W I D E, those are Looooong.

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ngl I always find myself coming back to the colossal weapons/swords. Just too fun, other weapons just either feel to dainty or too light. Maby I'm just way to accustomed to using these instead of other weapon types but can you blame me, their just so fun

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non-sword colossals trigger the HP/FP on crit talismans twice while swords only do it once for some reason
makes them pretty sweet for casually strolling through the game without worrying too much about eating a hit or 2, if you can stomach the shitty rolling R1 on some of them that is

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fromsoft devs creating good movesets challenge (impossible)

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If you want a simple one go with golem's if you want a crazy one tho go with Ghiza wheel but fallingstar beast jaw and Envoy greathorn are good to.

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Colossal Weapons pros and cons

Pros:
Insane poise damage
Top tier flat damage for melee

Cons:
Heavy stat requirements
Midgame only
Waaaaaay too slow
Very heavy

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Man what's the point of even having weapons in this category if they're all going to be so piss useless? Like half of these are useless feels like the game devs made them piss on purpose or something

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Why do colossal axes have hammer movesets… I’m just confused, no horizontal slashes or anything. Just… smash the blade directly into the ground with every attack. Why does this keep happening?

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They said it couldn't be done. Ultra greataxe and ultra greathammer. We even got an ultra greathalberd

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Am I the only one who really dislikes the generic colosal weapon moveset? I know it's more akin to the greathammer moveset in DS1, but I personally prefer the DS2 and DS3 ones.
I just feel like I miss so much with these R1s.

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Why is this a different class than greataxes and great hammers

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can you powerstance these bad boys?

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They need faster recovery time, still to slow and useless.

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Is there any particular reason why the rolling attack on colossals is so awful? It has no range, its slow, and it even enlarges your hitbox instead of staying crouched. No special properties afaik, just bad. What gives?

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How much does the patch improve these?

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praised be the 1.04 patch

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which has the most range?

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Added the new Guard negation and boost to most of the weapons here, except the ones I currently dont have on my character lol... sorry for that

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Two handed damage was just increased for these weapons, I think I busted a nut.

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Unga Bunga

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Please add scaling as a separate column from requirements, so we can sort by scaling.

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to get status effects in a table just hit one of the buttons above that say "MAX" on it and you will get a table.

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The Giant-Crusher's link to it's ablitiy is wrong on this page, it should be Endure, not a link to Striking Damage type

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powerstancing these means you become death, destroyer of poise

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I wish status effects were listed

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Make these things parryable with running attacks and rolling attacks again. It was perfectly balanced, and now there's simply nothing you can do against a greatsword poke + bloodhound stepper as a fellow melee build, and I imagine most other builds as well. It was a good punish for the ones who lobotomized themselves and kept using the poke.

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Jump R2 all day.

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I just realized: WHERE IS GREAT WOODEN HAMMER???
It should really have been in the game!

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Alright, under no circumstances should a non-colossal user be able to poise through an R1 from one of these things. I have been losing my mind watching all these ash of wars on these teeny tiny weapons completely ignore hits from these things.

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Fallingstar Beast Jaw says 30 int required, only requires 20.

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I kinda wish the “infusable” Ashes of war Colossal Weapons were easier to obtain. I don’t want to be farming for hours for these things.

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please add the Finger weapon found from the bottom, past in the chariot in a chest of Mount Gelmir Hero's Grave

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Sta is stat bonus?

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The only thing I don’t like is how most colossal weapons have such mediocre strength scaling. Isn’t the entire point behind even wielding one of these things to be extremely strong? Makes no sense.

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The Giant-Crusher's skill is listed as Strike, which links to the damage type Strike, not an actual ability.

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You say they are compatible with a variety of ashes yet you fail to detail any of the ashes that can actually go on it. Would like some more detail regarding this

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The amount of ppl who dont look at wpn type in this site oh my goodness lol

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deez nuts

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deez

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Greatsword not listed found in a chest surrounded by dogs in Caelid on the back of a caravan

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I power stanced the pizza cutter and the golem halberd at 40+ endurance and 60 str for my first playthrough and basically turned the game into a face race

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Great Stars is missing, at Altus Plateau TP at the top bridge (i think where goldmask is) if you have the grace, then follow the road west side, you should find 2 giant moving a huge chariot, there is a chest and inside the weapon. My favorite weapon so far, running double Great Stars with Cold infusion is amazing. You lose -5 bleed proc for 127 frost buildup.

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There is waaaaaay too many hammers in this game holy crap

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8 Hammers
4 Axes
3 unassignable Weapons (2 Hammers, 1 Axe IN MY OPINION)

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envoys great hammer is found going down the haligtree behind the giant horn using enemy on a dead body. i dont know how good the stats get since i didnt invest in it.

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envoys great hammer is found going down the haligtree behind the giant horn using enemy on a dead body. i dont know how good the stats get since i didnt invest in it.

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