Fingercreeper | Elden Ring Wiki

Souls community: miyazaki has too much of a feet fetish.

Triggered Miyazaki: lemme give you a reason to prefer feet real quick.

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Miyazaki really gave us the finger with this one.

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It isn't a souls game unless you think "this is the literal worst enemy ever designed" at least 5 times through the game. This is one of them.

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Why are there so many of these damned things in Caria Manor? I can only assume its Selivus' doing.

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Hello, you’re dead!

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These enemies are intensely badly made and patheticly so at that.

Their hit box are all over the place, they can entirely ignore your attacks and substitute it with their own, stunning AND damaging you when they themselves should've been hurt/killed.

The best method to stun and kill these programming errors is to use fire but you should take care that they sometimes simply ignore that this should've stunned them. Range combat is adviced due to the numerous errors.

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HIghly weak to fire damage

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Walking hitboxes. I guess just having Revenants fill that "niche" wasn't bad enough.

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step one - fire arrow (maybe even with mighty shot)
step two - bum rush with melee
step three - ???
stop four - profit

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Chuck a fire pot at them first and while they're squirming around finish them off.

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Time for Freddy?

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Fire stuns them and they’re weak to bleed? It’s like Bloodflame Blade was invented just to deal with these things

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Why do so many people hate these guys,they aren't even that annoying unless in groups.

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What is meant by "one time only" drops? is it like I can't farm the same for somber smithing stones as they will only drop these once per enemy?

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Despite not having eyes, i have seen it have the same glowey trail enemies get when they have increased Rune drop. From near the stump. Weird but I did get the souls increase, for once the huge hand drop decent runes..

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The one at Foot of Forge is nice to test dmg on. Moves slow and predictable. Close to grace. Alot of HP. Easy to hit, both cuz of its size and its landing on the crow every time gives nice window to charge a phat spell. Share moveset with the smaller but it way bigger so often lunges too far. Often jsut strafes in a wall like an idiot. Few attacks n short combos; easy to learn. Has 0 elemental resistance.

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Correction needed. There are actually FOUR colossal ones. The one that drops on the giant crow, the one buried on the way to the crimsonwhorl tear, and then there are two more on the rock formation directly in front of the Church of Repose where the trolls and crows are fighting. One on the southeast side and a second on the northeast side.

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It is possibile to stunlock the big ones with two daggers

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AI-drawn hand

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Thanks. I hate it.

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my name is yoshikage kira

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nice typo

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Roll to side or behind and catch flame spam...so satisfying

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Elden Ring is a great game but it has a lot of very awful enemies which bring down its overall quality.

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Actually one of the worst enemies Fromsoft has ever put out. What were they thinking when designing the move set of these things.

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The best strategy I have for dealing with these guys is to always dodge around them. Never dodge backwards because you'll get caught in their combos. Also try and stay behind them as they don't seem to have a rear move and will instead try and turn around to face you.

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The thing from the Addams family

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Kid- wait
Spider named Finger:

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I nearly died laughing (literally) when it raised up and gave me the finger! :)

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Even though these guys aren't all that strong, I never want to see them again.

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These guys are quite the handful

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Thanks, I hate it.

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i didn't know they had that dog reaction to fire.
if I knew that I would use my torch like I do against the miners and sometimes the crystal dudes

I only learned because it was seen in a Zullie video

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Bloodflame Blade + Claws. You're welcome.

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Do the small ones sometimes drop Arteria leaves? I think that just happened. The bunch of small guys northwest of the road to iniquity SoG.

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I would like to talk to the developers who designed and approved of this thing. Really curious to know the thought process and testing methodology of enemies in Elden Ring.

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If these things somehow reproduce, and they reproduce sexually, would they be finger ****ing?

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Wallmaster. It'll send you back to the beginning of the dungeon [Last Grace Site]. Burn it.

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These are the crawling hands from the canifis slayer tower in RuneScape

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Black Flame spells/weapon arts melt these awful things, fire is very effective against them in general though thankfully.

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WHY do they exist jesus ****ing christ. These + fire breathing birds + Revenants can all go to hell. **** them all to hell, they are the worst enemies to have ever existed in the entire series.

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Do these hands belong to all the dead giants in the snowfields? And each is two hands that have been grafted together

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More proof that Miyazaki hates all of you.

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Rivers of Blood is literal Kryptonite to these things, it DESTROYS them.

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Any form of fire damage is a godsend against these nightmare fuel bastards

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Fingercreepers in sewers of Subterranean Shunning Grounds drop the Somber 7's and/or 8's

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Finger Creeper, Elden Ring Grim Reaper

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If you don't have fire at your disposal, i found that you can semi reliably stunlock them with double rapiers

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Try Fire's Deadly Sin with Bestial Vitality or any other healing-over-time thing. You won't lose much health, and it helps out a lot with the ones underground.

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Briar armor rolling seems to stagger the big ones

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+8 uchigatana w/ flames of redmanes cuts through them fast but oh my god, the animation of them on fire is the worst thing I’ve seen so far in this game

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Yeah don't even bother fighting these without fire. One of the worst enemies

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That thing can grab you. Gross, absolutely gross.. I don't wanna play this game anymore

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Composed entirely of middle fingers if you ask me.

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What the five fingers say to the face..... SLAP!

You Died

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The only thing that makes this enemy bad is the input buffer. God I absolutely hate input queuing in this game, horrible.

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Try a couple L2s with Flame of the Redmanes on Misericorde, breaks their stances for a crit and easy kill.

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At least they don't carry you back to the beginning of the dungeon

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these guys are susceptible to fire damage. be it fire incantations, fire pots, fire grease, fire arrows. for me, fire pots really made my run through caria manor grounds a LOT easier. two fire pots are enough to stun the ones underground and one is enough for the ones already roaming around.

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In Stormveil castle I switched from using a mace to a great sword. Had a much easier time especially with the banished knights. Until I came to Carian Manor great sword was my first choice. But with these bad boys I gave mace again a try since great sword was too slow for the attack streaks. Mace solved the fingers for me, especially with easily staggering for a crit hit, via guard attacks

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My theory is that they were created by Rykard as further blasphemy against the golden order and the two fingers. If you look at Rykard’s hands he also has an excess of fingers on each one along with a collection of rings.

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I note that these are among the few monsters vulnerable to madness, and very vulnerable at that, it procs on them with just one or two casts of flame of frenzy and because of their weakness to fire, they take extra damage from the burning debuff.

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They have to be related to the 2 and 3 fingers in some way, right? Like weird bastard offspring of the 2 fingers? I remember when trailers showed one I thought they might be intelligent, given that they wear jewelry... but they don't seem to be? I can't figure them out.

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Cool creature, but where are the giant FEET monsters??? Miyazaki should stop being so selfish and give the community what we really want. I don't blame him for keeping all of them to himself, but this has really let down my Elden Ring experience. Hopefully we are treated a bit better in the DLC...

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These hand monsters are legitimately the most terrifying monsters in the game. I have a few things to say about them, though.
1: Would they be good at playing huge Pianos, or would they just crawl all over them?
2: Do they in any way have a connection to the Three and Two Fingers? Like are the Fingers just housing units for the Greater Will or whatever, and they saw an easy host in a fragmented Fingercreeper?
3: Do the Fingercreepers know magic, or is the fact they literally flip you off to cast their annoying spell just done by the sheer rudeness shaping into magic-ness?
4: I haven't seen any creatures that have hands like the figercreepers, but clearly they don't just reproduce on their own. Are they Giant hands brought back to life by Erdtree voodo crap?
5: HOW THE HECK DO I TAKE THEESE HAND BOIS DOWN!!!????

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Seeing these things always scares me because I know there’s going to be a bigger one nearby

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Fire is indeed a weakness for them but I found lightning to be effective as well. Especially for the ones buried in the ground. Get close to the areas where there are dozens of them buried and charge up Ancient Dragon Lightning. Moments later you'll have charred fingercreepers. Only the large ones seem to be able to survive a single cast but thats barely only coming out of it with maybe 5% of their HP left.

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Hmm, another DS3 reference to the Monstrosity of Sin. And people say Elden Ring has no connection to DS...

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this thing makes me hate my own hand

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Thar gigantic hand is one of the most terrifying enemies of this game, surprising it was never reused in a dungeon

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Thar gigantic hand is one of the most terrifying enemies of this game, surprising it was never reused in a dungeon

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Damage Absorptions:
-10 Absorption for Standard, Strike, and Piercing
-40 Slash!
0 For all others, including fire. But fire attacks are highly effective causing them to roll around and take a very high amount of damage. It is important to note to NOT interrupt the rolling animation, or they won't take the full amount of damage the special animation causes.
If you intend to farm them, be sure to use a slashing weapon and perhaps a different weapon or spell to hit them with fire, like a torch. While it is easier to simply infuse your weapon with fire, you are also reducing your slash damage which they take +40% damage from. Bleed is also effective. So maybe a katana + torch combo.
Resistances:
Immune to Sleep
112 for Poison, Rot, Freeze
84 Bleed

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Banished Knight Engall +3 and fire arrows make the big hands manageable. They're tough on their own, especially two at once.

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Could these be hands of the giants? We find the enemies strangely in the land of the giants, and many of the giants seem to have their hands chopped off or arms buried in the ground. In fact I really couldn’t find a handed-giant, thought someone could fact check that! Could it be some kind of punishment for having fought against the erdtree, hands forever bound to service?

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Is there a lore explanation for these things? I assume they are tied to the Carian royal family in some way. Are they naturally occurring beings or are they artificially created?

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Can someone tell me how many colossal ones there are in Mountaintops of the giants ? And where?

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Jesus, I'm not arachnophobic in the slightest, but hell, these are more worse than Basilisks. Bring fire and bleeding by the way.

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Nightmare fuel Q_Q

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Anybody notice that Rivers of blood literally sets the hands on fire? I haven't found another enemy it does this to yet. I need more context as to why. Any ideas? I do not have the time to do an in-depth search and I haven't found anything on the internet yet.

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As far as I have seen, they consistently drop Somber Smithing Stone [2], even with respawning them. I was helping a partner out, taking turns through the manor, and dying a few times each side. We just got to the second grace, and I have THIRTY SSS[2] in my inventory. Admittedly, I am playing an arcane character, but still.

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look an awful lot like rykard's hands

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these guys make me break my fingers

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Adams Family lol

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Honestly, just go grab hot wetstone first in Caelid or just get yourself some kind of fire spell. Even the torch all the way south in the castle at weeping peninsula is worth it. Otherwise... Just avoid it, it's so cancerous.

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Ok, after an entire afternoon trying to clear the Giants' Gravepost area (the one before the Fire Giant boss on the Mountaintops of the Giants) and malding over the ****ing ginormous ass fingercreepers (not the M-sized one, I'm not exaggerating, it's the ****ing XXL ones), I finally found a way to deal with them as melee:

>>> Quickstep/Bloodhound Step (and bleed) <<<

They stay out of melee range. The only times they're in range are when they are charging at you, and there's no dodging the dogshit charge with constant XXL hitbox, and by the time you're back up on your feet proper, they'll've already charged past you out of range again. You can dodge the jump-flick and get a meager attack in, but then you're in range for another charge or clawing and there aren't enough i-frames to dodge those either. They don't burn, and they don't seem to stagger even when you hit the stump. Even if you try to break their posture, you're dead before you can do it anyway.

Enter Bloodhound Step. You have a **** ton of i-frames, more than enough to phase through the charges, the flicks and the clawings, and you can cover a lot of distance. I put it on the 2 Hoslow's Petal Whips I have with blood infusion for the long reach. Then I just whipped the **** out of them and bled them dry. Couldn't even touch me. The difference made is so insane. I'm so mad I didn't think of it earlier.

I'd always been on the side that doesn't give a **** about quickstep/BHstep because I thought I can make do with normal dodging and sprinting away. Now I'm successfully converted. I'm beginning to believe. BHstep is the way. I have spoken.

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Weak to fire + weak to bleed = bloodflame incantations. BURN THEM DRY

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The Serpent King's hands look very similar

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Hmm I sure love being a giant ugly bird. Nothing will go wrong today.

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Frost stomp them really help

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I prefer these over the monstrous foot abominations that would swallow you in the Profaned Capital in DS3.

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Looking at the cutscene when Rykard goes into his second phase and pulls the sword out, his hand looks awfully similar to these. Plus, the description of the Ringed Finger mentions "an ancient blasphemy"...

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drip hand

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I got grabbed by one in the ground and screamed, then after getting crushed to death I came back and just ran for my life past all of them, even the little ones. I cannot stand this enemy, it’s so unsettling and gross. Kudos to the designer that made this abomination.

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Zelda hand

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It has 12 fingers.

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Attacking it with fire damage will trigger an animation wherein the fingercreeper will roll around on the ground, trying to put itself out. It will take a large amount of damage during this animation. However, they appear to only be susceptible to this ONCE, and attacking them during the animation can interrupt both it and the animation. Passive sources of damage, such as the magma pools left over from a Fire Sorcery, can also interrupt it; therefore, it’s best to trigger it using something which hits only once and leaves no environmental hazards. Wait until the hand finishes hurting itself, THEN keep attacking.

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May have been mentioned before but in my second play through I found my Fingercreeper buster. Frenzied Burst takes significant life but also causes them to be stunned, rolling around on fire. It’s one of my favorite spells due to its range alone but this is a great surprise.

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I love that just before it shoots its magical attack than will stun you, it raises its middle finger. I always imagine that it's Miyazaki showing us the middle finger

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The crystal on one of the fingers can fire a magical attack than will immobilize you for a short while if it hits you

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-This enemy is a hand
with many fingers.
- One of the most important story aspects in the game are fingers and how many they are in a "hand" .
- This is a fairly common enemy with no story significance or some sort of lore whatsoever.
- Appears in the Carian Manor for no reason.
- It appears in Mt.Gelmir despite it being weak to fire.
- No npc even mentions their existence.

I don't know man, this thing seems kind of rushed in development or they didn't even know what to do with it.
Fromsoft used to not be like this with their enemy placements.

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