Fire Giant |
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| Location | Flame Peak |
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 180,000Remembrance of the Fire Giant |
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| HP | 42,363 |
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Fire Giant is a Legend Boss in Elden Ring. The last known survivor of the war against the giants, this massive humanoid has a face on its chest and is found in the Mountaintops of the Giants. This is not an optional boss as players must defeat this foe in order to advance in Elden Ring.
The Fire Giant is a survivor of the War against the Giants. Upon realizing the flames of their forge would never die, Queen Marika marked him with a curse.
"O trifling giant, mayest thou tend thy flame for eternity."
Elden Ring Fire Giant Boss
- This is not an optional boss
- Closest Site of Grace: Foot of the Forge
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
- You can summon Spirit Ashes for this boss
- NPC Summons: Iron Fist Alexander can be summoned to help within the boss arena
Elden Ring Fire Giant Location
From the Foot of the Forge Site of Grace, head across the chasm on one of the chains to enter the boss arena. [Map Link]
Fire Giant Combat information
- Health: 42,363 HP
- Defense: 118
- Stance: 120
- Parryable: No
- Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken in Phase 2 only
- Weak spot (Phase 1): wounded leg (+100% damage)
- Weak spot (Phase 2): wrists and eye (+100% damage)
- Damage:
Standard, 
Strike, 
Fire - Drops 180,000, Remembrance of the Fire Giant
Negations (or Absorptions)
Pierce
Magic
Lightning
HolyThe 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
Poison: 565 / 855 / 1312
Scarlet Rot: 565 / 855 / 1312
Hemorrhage: 565 / 855 / 1312
Frostbite: 1216 / 1673
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+ and Beyond (click to reveal)
| NG | NG+ | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 | |
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| HP | 43,263 | 43,609 | 47,969 | 50,150 | 52,330 | 56,691 | 58,872 | 61,052 |
| Defense | 118 | 118 | 121 | 124 | 130 | 136 | 142 | 154 |
| Runes |
180,000 | 360,000 | 396,000 | 405,000 | 432,000 | 441,000 | 450,000 | 459,000 |
Resistances |
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| Poison |
565 / 855 / 1312 | 269 / 559 / 1016 | 273 / 563 / 1020 | 277 / 567 / 1024 | 281 / 571 / 1028 | 285 / 575 / 1032 | 289 / 579 / 1036 | 293 / 583 / 1040 |
| Scarlet Rot |
565 / 855 / 1312 | 269 / 559 / 1016 | 273 / 563 / 1020 | 277 / 567 / 1024 | 281 / 571 / 1028 | 285 / 575 / 1032 | 289 / 579 / 1036 | 293 / 583 / 1040 |
| Hemorrhage |
565 / 855 / 1312 | 269 / 559 / 1016 | 273 / 563 / 1020 | 277 / 567 / 1024 | 281 / 571 / 1028 | 285 / 575 / 1032 | 289 / 579 / 1036 | 293 / 583 / 1040 |
| Frostbite |
1216 / 1673 | 579 / 1036 | 587 / 1044 | 596 / 1053 | 605 / 1062 | 613 / 1070 | 622 / 1079 | 631 / 1088 |
 Sleep |
565 / 855 / 1312 | 269 / 559 / 1016 | 273 / 563 / 1020 | 277 / 567 / 1024 | 281 / 571 / 1028 | 285 / 575 / 1032 | 289 / 579 / 1036 | 293 / 583 / 1040 |
 Madness |
Immune | |||||||
Elden Ring Fire Giant Boss Guide
Fire Giant Boss Video Guide
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Fire Giant Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Fire Giant:
- Use the Black Knife Tiche or Mimic Tear Ashes Summons. Avoid low health group summons like the wolves, as he can cleave them down with ease
- Alternatively, summon Alexander as his attacks are very powerful in terms of breaking Giant's poise.
- Use the Rotten Breath/Ekzykes's Decay Incantation
- Bring ?? Item
- Fire giant is resistant to bleed but not immune, making weapons that inflict bleed effective - especially with Giant large healthbar. Antspur Rapier with Ash of War: Seppuku and imbued with poison will inflict poison, Scarlet Rot, and bleed, enhanced further with items such as Mushroom Crown, Lord of Blood's Exultation, and Kindred of Rot's Exultation.
- During the second phase, the incantation Swarm of Flies can be used to inflict bleed during openings when the boss halts, which can be enhanced with items such as Radagon Icon, Faithful's Canvas Talisman, and Lord of Blood's Exultation.
Melee Users
Use Torrent to close the initial distance, using the dismount to i-frame through the giants first attack. Do not stay on Torrent in the first phase; the fire giant will constantly use swipe and jump attacks that require using I-frames to dodge, which is not possible using torrent. You can use him to safely close the distance again if needed, dismount i-framing through his attacks.
Phase 1
During this phase, the giant is somewhat mobile, and will roll to build distance if you get behind or below him for too long.
Aim for his left leg, which is wrapped in its own hair. Once this breaks, it reveals a weak spot. He will pause for a moment when it does, so take the opportunity to get in some free damage.
Once broken, he will always roll away. He now gains 2 new attacks:
- A slow moving orb, which explodes once it gets close, or after a period of time. Bait the explosion, and roll away quickly from the area, as it leaves behind a field of fire. You can use Torrent to make this easier, but be wary of doing this within range of his lid swings
- The second is a simple fireball projectile launched from his hand, which is only a concern if he rolls too far away. Simply watch out for it and dodge. Its hitbox is deceptively larger than it appears.
Once the Fire Giant reaches around half health, a cutscene ensues in which his ankle breaks from the Tarnished's attacks, causing great pain to the Fire Giant. He rips the foot off his broken leg and uses it as a sacrifice to awaken a mysterious power inside him, beginning the next phase.
Phase 2
For the second phase of the boss, his weakspot moves to his left forearm. However, this is a very dangerous place to be so hop on torrent and stick to his backside, as most of his attacks are to the front. Be wary of the sides as he will roll to reposition.
The boss can be staggered, allowing you to stab his eye for massive damage. Be cautious with this however, as he doesn't stay down for long, and being in front leaves you vulnerable.
There are new additions to be concerned about here, as well as add-ons to previous attacks:
- The slow tracking fire orb now spawns in pairs. Provoke the explosions and run away.
- The fireball spell will now be launched twice. Get on Torrent and strafe to avoid.
- Gains a new Fire Pillar attack; run far away as this attack will spawn heavily-damaging fire pillars underneath him.
- Will, and launch volcanic rocks into the air. Stay on Torrent, and build distance whilst dodging.
This boss has a lot of hp, so be patient and keep an eye on your stamina and Torrent's health. Stock up on Frozen Raisins if necessary.
Magic and Ranged Users
The tactics for ranged users are essentially the same as melee. It's recommended to stay close to the fire giant as this eliminates the launched fireball attack from consideration.
When you take on the Fire Giant as a sorcerer, it is best to have a particularly quick-casting, hard-hitting spell on hand (such as Stars of Ruin). You're not going to have to worry about burning through all of your FP, because like fighting a troll or the giant stone sentinels, the Fire Giant is extremely vulnerable to attacks on his weak points and we're particularly good at hitting them. Thanks to this, he can, and will, fold like a wet noodle with a little work. Some things that are extremely important to take into consideration:
- As with melee users, it is best to avoid using your horse. Fire Giant deals an insanely high amount of damage with all attacks, and us sorcerers typically will not survive being hit by him. Fortunately, he is easy to dodge and his attacks are highly telegraphed.
- If you have Black Knife Tiche at +6 or higher, she is definitely recommended. During phase one, Fire Giant is very mobile and has a tendency to roll away from you so you will have to close the distance. Tiche is extremely aggressive and very fast, but also good at dodging. She will almost always pull aggro when the giant rolls away from you which will allow you time to reposition and start hitting him with your spells again.
- If you can stay under or even behind him in phase one this can be very useful. If you cannot, stay at least far enough back that you can always see his weird disk as that will be the best hint as to what attack he is using next.
- When phase two begins you'll be sitting a lot better than you were in phase one. It might take a try or two to get used to what he has going on, but once you do you can take advantage of his new move set. For one, he becomes almost entirely stationary, and switches to a lot of ranged attacks. Some may suggest staying close to avoid his fireball, but keeping a little distance to bait out his fireball is not a bad idea as it is extremely easy to dodge.
- He may also use his big fire pillar AoE attack which is basically free real estate for us as we can hit him with impunity while he uses it.
- The biggest threats from him are his ice wave attack as the animation can be easily confused for one of his sweep attacks, and the slow moving fireball he uses. It will follow you around for quite a while and just serves to be a nuisance.
The Fire Giant can be quite intimidating. He's been getting a bad rep as extremely dangerous and very difficult. Go into it expecting to lose 5-10 times, and unless you get really lucky right away take the time to learn his attacks and then just dodge him and laugh at him as he struggles to deal with you and your glorious sorceries. He's far easier than he looks at first so don't fall to the hype!
For Incantation users, a lot of the advice is similar, but additionally Rotten Breath is very effective, and Pest Threads (at close range) deals heavy damage to large targets like the giant.
Fire Giant Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Avalanche | The giant places the lid directly in the ground and launches a fast moving wave of snow towards the player. | Dodge as the snow gets close, or get behind him before it launches. If used when approaching on horse, use dismount I-frames to avoid the attack. |
| Jumping Smash |
The giant jumps in the air, and slams the large lid on the ground | Dodge as the lid lands, using i-frames to avoid damage |
| Lid Swing | The giant swings the lid at the player. He may do a follow up swing | Dodge through the lid. Aim for his feet once he's done attacking. |
| Stomp | The giant stomps his foot, dealing high damage and stun. | Dodge as the foot lands |
| Roll | The giant quickly rolls forward to reposition itself. | Behind the giant is safe, otherwise, dodge through it. |
| Giantsflame, Take Thee | The giant launches a fast moving fire projectile at the player. This is only used when the brace on his damaged foot is broken. In phase 2, he will launch two at once. | Dodge as soon as the projectile leaves his hand. Torrent can easily dodge this. |
| Flame of the Fell God | Only used when the foot brace is broken.T he giant summons a slow moving orb that tracks the player. Once it gets in range, it explodes for massive damage, and leaves a field of fire. He spawns them in pairs in phase 2 | Bait the explosion if possible, and roll quickly away to avoid the lingering field of fire. These orbs are persistent and will take a long while to explode if not provoked. |
| Burn, O Flame! | The giant lets out a roar and ignites his hands, slamming them into the ground and spawning several fire pillars in the vicinity. | Run away, or tuck in close and watch for the patches of fire to appear. |
| Flame, Fall Upon Them | The giant’s mouth releases a mighty roar, spewing out explosive rocks into the air which fall onto the ground. They linger for a while before exploding. | Take this opportunity to get behind it and do some damage. |
| Breath of the Fell God | The Fell God's mouth releases a large stream of fire in front of it. | Run away while on horseback or get behind it and attack. |
| Swipe | The giant swipes from either left or right with his hand at anyone in front of him | Stay behind the giant, or roll through his hand |
Fire Giant Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- Voice Actor: Shaun Dooley
- Fire Giant's phase transition happens when it reaches 47% health.
- Alexander's summon for this fight is unique, as his sign is inside boss fight arena.
- During first phase, there is an additional model of Fire Giant. This model is swapped with the first one during phase transition (sometimes at the beginning of 2nd phase player can hear the sound similar to one, which can be heard during Giant death).
- During 1st phase, boss is immune to debuff caused by Blade of Death and Destined Death - skills saps his HP, but does not reduce his max HP. This is a very rare immunity in Elden Ring and it is unknown, whenever it is either a glitch or there is a lore explanation.
- At one point during Elden Ring’s post-launch, there was a bug related to Status Effects. If the player manage to get to 2nd phase via Poison, Scarlet Rot, Hemorrhage or Frostbite, it's effect would be multiplied in 2nd phase. What could even "skip" the 2nd phase.
- The Trolls are said to have been descendants of the Giants, and have since betrayed them during the war. Some have speculated that the gaping holes in the Troll’s midsection may have been where the Fell God resided, and have since been excised when they switched sides.
Dialogue
During Fight:
Phase 2 transition cutscene:
Aaargh! Aargh!
Nngghaa!
Argh!
Fire Giant Image Gallery
AnonymousI actually quite enjoy this boss, but I see where the hate comes from. I love his design and lore, and how much he feels like a character from Norse mythology. Personally, I really like the first phase. He actually has a reliable weak spot that you can actually get good damage by attacking, the camera is much less of an issue, since he rolls around and forces you to actually see and appreciate the design of the boss while also making you reposition so you’re not cheesing him, and he has none of the dumb attacks that are unavoidable that phase 2 has. Phase 2 is just tedious, but I still enjoy the chaos of it. The fact that he takes pitiful amounts of damage everywhere except his eye, which takes forever to be vulnerable and even then is hard to actually hit with bigger weapons, is just annoying. I like how they put more fire attacks in the boss called fire giant, but some of them are just unfair. The arena is trash, and it frequently interferes with the gameplay. I’m a part of a lucky few who haven’t had any major issues while fighting this boss, but I wish the second phase was more like the first but with additional fire attacks, or maybe there shouldn’t have even been a second phase. Idk.
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worst mandatory boss in the game imho. The game engine does not work well with monsters this huge and the fight feels very glitchy even though it's not.
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Most of the people crying about this boss have 30 vigor or incapable of pressing dodge. He has insanely generous openings and the easiest moves to dodge in all of endgame. Unlock, stay on your feet, raise your camera if you’re under him so you know when to dodge and you’ll be fine. And if ur a stubborn int noob build just use slicer. All of these graces next to the fog wall made all of you people braindead and not analyze your mistakes
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I loved this boss! Definitely one of the best in the game, though, I was a bit underwhelmed during the actual fight. I went in with bloodhound's fang +9 on NG and a Brass Shield +20 and almost never got hit. (I did a *lot* of side stuff first) The Brass shield made his physical attacks inconsequential, and bloodhound's finesse tore through his HP. I did get sucker punched by his fire ball incantation, but once I knew to look out for it the first phase ended fairly quickly. The second phase ended even quicker since I just beat the hell out of him while he charged up his big fire spell. Hemorrhage took a huge chuck of HP and he died without being able to do much.
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It took me 52 attempts to beat this guy because my ego didn’t let me tickle his foot for phase two. For phase two and 1.5, whenever he rolls away, get on torrent because he likes to do avalanche, giantsflame take thee, or flame of the fell god when you’re far away, all of which are easily dodged on torrent. The real difficult part with this strat is hopping off torrent when you’re in melee range.
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I hated this dude on my first play through but since then he’s become one of my favorite bosses
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Sorcerer tips:
Carian Slicer for phase 1. Get on Torrent, stay under that ballsack, and nibble that heel until it falls off.
Phase 2, pop a flask with the infinite MP tear and the increased magic damage tear, whip out Comet Azur, press that button down, and don’t stop blasting him until
He’s dust.
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This fight is actually fun with thorny crystal tear, stamina regen crystal tear, Millicent prosthesis, twinblade talisman, rotten winged sword insignia and two bandits curved swords
In phase two I find going for the hands is risky so I just go for his feet and if you manage to proc twinblade talisman you will do big damage
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they made an open world game and gave us the giantest giant inside a WIDE open area... really feels like they missed an opportunity of making this a fun gimmick boss. Just don't melee him if you don't want your day ruined, apply status with a bow or snipe with magic.
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Despite having high fire damage, Godslayer’s greatsword AoW works well against this dude, probably due to how blackflame works
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He's not bad, as far as giant FromSoft bosses go. But I'm not a fan of large bosses in general in souls games. Hacking away at a giants ankles feels kinda lame. I appreciate when you have dozens of bosses in a game a game designer wants to add some variety to avoid things getting stale, but the truth is the smaller bosses are far more enjoyable and superior in their movesets.
Giant enemies only really work in games that allow stylish skills and provide super flexible jumping movesets from players
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This guy’s actually fun to fight if you use a long-ranged weapon such as the Pulley Bow. In melee range he’s everything wrong with Fromsoft’s huge bosses
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That stupid snow toss this shithead spams makes me irrationally angry.
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Why is this piece of trash still not nerfed?!
Both it's HP and damage need to be straight up halved.
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If you are having trouble with this boss you can use black flame tornado which is the default skill of the godskin peeler that drops from the apostle in windmill village. It doesn’t matter too much if you even upgrade the weapon since black flame tornado does percentage based damage. This ash of war uses a lot of fp however so you will need to bring extra cerulean flasks if you don’t have high mind. Alternatively you can use black flame fireball or the Godslayer greatsword(this weapon has very high stat requirements so may require respeccing).
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First phase I don't like but I really really like the second phase! There's just so much chaos and I love it!
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I think the phase 2 fire giant has its own tiny phases: playing in a randomizer against it i noticed it started doing fire attacks after it lost a bit of its health
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Why does Fromsoft continue to put giant enemies in the game when it actively works against the this games awful camera?
Aside from already being too zoomed in, the camera does not allow occlusion of the player character model which means if you're in-between the legs of giant enemies the camera will zoom in making it incredibly difficult to see what attack is coming next.
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kind of surprised that no one here has mentioned that you can summon your Spirit of choice AND THEN Alexander also! ...but then no Torrent
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Dunno why but my 2nd playthough his phase 2 triggered at around 15% health
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summoning mimic tear and alexander made the first phase take like 30 seconds lol
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You guys do know you can turn off auto camera recovery if you hate it so much....
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I love chasing this guy back and forth across the arena! Such a thrilling fight man, I hope we get a “fire giant duo” in the dlc!
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Bleed infuse the Antspur rapier with Poison Mist AoW. Run under his feet, L2, then R1 spam (don't stop when he's rotted, bleed can take off nice chunks). Play safe and avoid obvious attacks. Trivialized the boss on my level 45 twink, Antspur +0. Should work at basically any level on any build assuming you hit the requirements. Got to 2nd phase w/o even breaking his leg brace.
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second phase is just absolute cancer, too much health and can easily stunlock you and then one shot while you're on the horse, the fireballs seem to follow for eternity and the **** keeps rolling away which is annoying af. imo one of the worst bosses in the game
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If you get this guy 2nd phase on a rando run, you're screwed
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This game would be easy if we fought enemies our size. Fights vs other tarnished? Ridiculously easy. Vs the Camera Giant? Just annoying
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Black Knife Tiche tore through him. In his second phase all I had to do was stand behind him while he did his opening fire attack and watch Tiche’s black flame melt him. By the time he finished his first roll, he was a few hits from dying.
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I summon samurai jack here and he soloed the boss so yeah best boss automatically
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This big red hairy bastard represents all of my most hated things about "gigantic" bosses in fromsoft games, all in one boss fight.
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Why does Fromsoft keep putting garbage like this in their games? You’re fighting the camera. Nobody likes bosses like this but they insist on putting this trash in every game they make. Sad. Probably the worst boss in the game. I prefer Godskin duo
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Contrary to what this guide suggested, I literally just rode around on Torrent doing hit-and-runs on his ankles and feet and ultimately killed him on first try. Granted I was lvl 135 which is somewhat overleveled from my understanding, but his health bar is so massive that he still took awhile to kill. Just ride away when he's doing his AoE stuff and you'll be fine.
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i need to know if he's immune to the debuff "KNOWLEDGE ABOVE ALL" cause when i use it on him i don't see the icon that suppose to show up
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Has anyone else experienced getting instantly killed by the phase 2 transition? I just died as soon as it happened from full health while on torrent and we were up near the top of the mountain when it happened. There was no attack that would have hit me happening at the moment. Is it possible the phase 2 teleport got me killed?
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Alexander is completely immune to all of his fire magics. Remember he was chilling next to volcano manor? Here's the result
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This guy HARD vigor checked me. I got one shot by just getting breathed on lol, but that just makes victory all the more sweeter
Idk who's idea it was to make it so you can't summon Torrent your first time fighting him but they should be drawn and quartered
Fire Giant is not hard, just boring and frustrating. I played as mage, 60 int, 31 vigor and about lv 130. Dealing damage was not the issue, that is, when hits land i could do about 2k with each Stars of Ruin cast. Dodging attacks is not hard either (i used light roll). Here the issue tho: the parts you can target are awful; when standing close to him you cant see what he is doing - so you cant properly dodge and if you get hit, the chances of getting insta kill is fairly high; his model is so massive that you cast a spell thinking it will reach hiss foot/hand but it doesnt; he runs too much - and if you take into account all previous factors, it becomes a problem. Id rather see a harder boss but all those issues fixd.
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If a boss is going to be so big and its weak spots are on the ground, their bottom half needs to have tells. He doesn't have audio cues either. This is an absolute fail of game design. Yes, I've beaten him. He is just a very poorly designed boss.
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Hardest boss in the whole freaking game
tip: always be behind him
warning! If you are not a mage you are kind of fcked and do not think that your spirits will help you they will mainly be like they dont exist
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On phase two as a dex build, I used poison nagakiba (for bleed and poson dmg) and stayed on torrent while constantly getting behind him and striking till he rolled away. When behind him only go for the feet because if he rolls he won’t ever roll on top of you. Plus stay on torrent because it closes out the distance when he rolls quick which will let you dodge the fire attacks too if you move right. Used like 10-12 rune arcs but it finally paid off on the last run when I made no mistakes finally lol.
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The game talks about "the horrors of facing a Fire Giant," but when you get to him he just spends half the time rolling away and shooting fireballs to protect himself. I swear, this guy is more elusive than a Black Knife Assassin. It actually ends up looking kind of goofy and funny.
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DS1 Giants roll balls through Sens' Fortress for eternity, DS2 had like two wars declared against Giants, DS3 has Giant Slaves, and now this dude is forced to tend to fire for the rest of his life... man FromSoft hates Giants lol
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I struggled with him for a bit, mostly on phase 1 (and died in phase 2 from being sloppy). The key for me was using torrent to get to his feet, then dismounting to attack. If he rolled away, I would mount again and hustle to him while being careful not to get smacked with his plate thing. Mimic Tear ashes were good to distract him. I wore the flame talisman to help mitigate his fire spells since those have huge AOE and are deadly.
Phase 2, I used Black Flame to safely chip away his health. I tried melee a couple times but got killed by his “volcano” attack.
I ran out of flasks in my last run so towards the end, his HP was low enough that I used Loretta’s Greatbow from a distance.
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Trolls, small giants, betrayed their own, and the Fell God was no more.
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I think this boss suffers from being way to large, it is getting boring real fast killing this boss. I think p1 is fine but you can hardly his attacks when you are locked onto his foot, in the second phase you can see attacks easier but he just keeps rolling, and because you have attack hands to deal normal damage to him it drags fight even longer. Overall pretty easy and boring boss
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For people playing sorcerer, the Shard Spiral spell completely obliterates the boss in the second phase, highly recommended.
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Quite a cool boss in my opinion. One of the few in Elden Ring that doesn't have a 10-hit combo of flailing limbs
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Why does he have 50 fire restince but not 80? He is follower of the fell god and the flame of ruin
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I like bh step with a pair of frosted slashy curved swords. And if you get latenna positioned and keep the aggro off her, she consistently drains him. Oh and Alexander! He's a champion in this fight
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this is the bottom of the barrel for an otherwise fantastic game - it’s one of the few bosses where every time i died it didn’t feel like my fault. you whittle down his unnecessarily massive health pool for like 10 mins and just pray to god he doesn’t get an unavailable cheap shot in. phase 2 in an even bigger mess - his weak spot is essentially unreachable because he’ll just one shot you any time you get in front of him, and his rolls will immediately kill you even if doesn’t look like he touched you. hate this mf
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Beat this ******* with my Giant Crusher. A fitting end to such a horrible boss.
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Even when you do catch up to him to wail on his leg, he's constantly repositioning himself so that his leg swings 10 feet away from you when you're in the middle of your attack animation. Sometimes you get good rng and can string a couple of aggressive attacks together, but, more often than not, it is an absolute chore.
Not to mention after you stance break him the first time, he goes into fire mode and you often can't get too close to his leg before running around trying to force the fireballs to detonate.
And if he ever happens to do his AoE fire attack while you're in the middle of an attack animation, you're immediately dead. Even if you find a spot in between the fire plumes, his foot will softly nudge you into one of them and you have nowhere to roll to.
Add to this the first several times you fight against him, you'll be wailing on his leg and be in the middle of an attack animation when his leg pulls back from you and he goes for the one hit kill overhead slam which you don't have enough time to get away from. Eventually after enough attempts against him you understand you can only start wailing on his legs from certain angles so that you have enough room to escape the one hit kill, but this is just more wasting of the player's time.
Nice to see that From gave the boss that happens to be running away from you the most in the biggest arena in the whole game the largest amount of hp out of any boss. There is nothing redeeming about this fight.
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When people say things like scarlet rot and bleed are great against him, yeah, that's true, but if you give up on all of your raw damage for it, you're setting yourself up for a much longer fight than needed. Hitting his left foot really ****in' hard is still the most important thing in the first phase (breaking his brace interrupts him once, increases damage done to the foot, and you should get a stance break soon after), and going for his hands at the start of the second phase pretty much guarantees another early stance break, if not right away then during his next attack. At that point he should be almost dead and all you need to do is not choke - just be super aggressive and don't stand around in front of him, there's a reason he tries to reposition to face you head-on when he rolls away, it pretty much doubles his moveset with a bunch of extremely dangerous attacks.
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Worst boss From has ever made, even Bed of Chaos is only a minute or two once you know what to do. This is a dreadful boring slog of slowly chasing him around whittling down his health while waiting out his fire aoe attacks. Even getting good at this fight and beating him easily, it's still a garbage experience.
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The only problem that I have with him is that a literal enemy of golden order and erdtree has 20% holy defense while also not being immune to fire damage while literally containing an outer god of fire in his stomach....
Also for people that don't know, you can completely negate his flame of fell god (giant floating exploding fireballs) by absorbing it with carian retaliation, or walk away while it ready to explode...
And if you have problems with camera while locked on, just free aim it, and listen for the attack sound ques...
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Bloody Slash on an Uchigatana +18 does a lot of damage to his weak points.
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a lot of irate people here. i feel like im the only person who never got anrgy at elden ring, and this is coming from a person who hadnt played a soulslike before this. i personally thought fire giant was an intimidating visual spectacle and i appreciated how rewarding alexander was, knowing that he was only available because i had kept up with his questline. i also think him having a very visual weak spot was a nice change of pace as most of the enemies are just weak to their heads.
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I kinda struggled with him as a mage at first, mostly cause his attacks hit like a truck and even one-shot Torrent. After trying to use Rain of Stars and melee attacks, I found out that using the good ol' comet to hit his leg was the best strategy anyway. I also summoned Latenna just to get some little extra damage.
After dying a couple of times to his second phase, I said screw it, gulped down Cerulean Hidden Tear and nuked him with Azure Comet while he did his long ass second phase animation. A couple more spells after and he's dead.
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Alexander really helps in this fight since he has a overwhelming amount of HP and is a really good distraction so you can get hits in. I also found that even though the Fire Giant is massive, he can be easily stunned if you hit him in his left hoot or his hands for his final stage. Honestly, not as hard as people make it out to be.
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I succeeded second attempt. +6 bloodhound fang and +10 Tiche did it with ma boy Alexander. Come on guys I know you can do it!
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This is From's magnus opus of awful game design. Everything they've ever done wrong in a video game is all here on display:
-Slow slog of a fight with cheap one shots everywhere
-Can't see anything the boss is doing when you're in range to attack
-Boss weapon and body parts clipping through terrain everywhere
-Tedious chasing him around a giant arena for most of the fight
-Long slow AOE when you're not chasing him
-Worse phantom hitboxes than anything in DS1-3 (including Ancient Dragon)
-His interaction with terrain in his own arena is a glitchfest (half his body literally floats in air when he's not on flat land)
-There's even the occasional fall death for good measure
The list could go on and on.
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After like 10-15 deaths trying various strategies I read this post. I beat it on second try with rotten breath golden vow and summon Alexander warrior jar. The jar tanks it for you while you destroy him. You don't need rotten breath just let Alex and ashes take agro run in and chip him down with 2hand sword. If he focuses u back off and let them tank. Heal over Time spells help blessing boon or blessing of erdtree (I'm str/faith build)
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You can't see a bloody thing while fighting him. These devs clearly never played Shadow of the Colossus.
Sigh, another terribly designed battle in a game filled with bad design. I love the world and exploration, but this game falls pretty flat on fight mechanics. Every enemy in this game has some cheesy one-shot mechanic or poor visibility or something else wrong with it. It's a shame that the combat designs muck up an otherwise amazing world.
I was sure because of the eye color he would be related to the frenzied flame somehow. I guess not
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I was using a lv 165 strength/faith build and killed him second try using bloodflame talons to inflict bleed, Dung Eater puppet +10 and Alex were both summoned, the Fire Giant seemed to get stance broken every few seconds as long as the summons were constantly attacking him, (Cursed Blood Pot might make this better) then I spammed bloodflame when he got stancebroken
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Bloodflame talons worked surprisingly well and it can be cast consecutively very fast, was able to beat him second try. I also used Alexander and the dung eater puppet to pull agro. The puppet wasn't pulling his weight at all but Alexander seems to carry with his stance breaks
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Love this boss design, small theory, maybe the Fell God isn't actually dead? In the second phase his leg removal and raising looks like he's making an offering with the way he presents it upwards then burns it. Maybe he's making an offering to the Fell God to awaken his "chest face" in order to try and kill you, like making an offering for strength. Idk.
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If you summon Alexander - when you get to the second phase, run *away* from the giant back near the boss door, because Alexander spawns way down there and you either need to lead him up to the fight or else drag the giant down to where he is. If you don't, then you will not receive much help if any from him for a good while. He pulls a lot of aggro and can tank a huge amount of damage.
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I love knocking this fool out and then digging up in his crotch, if you know you know... xD
This thing is HUGE! How can something like this move so quickly? It makes no sense to me.
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CORRECTIONS
-The giant is anything but stationary in his second phase, he rolls away to make distance constantly in both phases.
-There is no ability to summon a human player.
-You CAN have a summon AND mount at the same time.
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Poison is not procing at all. running arc 60 with venomous fang (132). Did not proc on my katana user either, with 2 Serpentbone Blades equipped. He's either immune or something broke after last patches.
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The main difficulty with this fight is just catching the boss. Much like the Elden Beast you will spend more time chasing him around than actually hitting him. This, the game's camera, and his high health pool make him annoying to fight.
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Bug report as of January 7th 2023:
There's a chance for him to do 2 moves at once. As I was hitting his leg after the 1st rope break he did a roll which unfortunately I didn't dodge in time; but then immediately after my I frames ended the area he was previously standing was filled with flame pillars (without any indication or telegraphing) it would seem as though something went screwy and he somehow casted at the same time as rolling. Is this a thing I'm just unaware of?
Was fighting on foot with a summon.
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if u dont hear the crunching sound when u attack his feet ur not aiming at the right spot, aim for the heel not the ankle
i wish you could punch his nuts
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