Flying Dragon Greyll

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Location Dragonbarrow
Drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 1880,000, Dragon Heart
HP 11,500
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Flying Dragon Greyll is a Greater Foe Boss in Elden Ring. It guards the bridge south of the Bestial Sanctum. This is an optional boss. This dragon is simply a stronger Agheel in a rather narrow arena.

Lesser Dragon is the normal enemy form of this boss. Other bosses with the same basic attacks are Flying Dragon Agheel, Decaying Ekzykes, Glintstone Dragon Smarag, Glintstone Dragon Adula, and Borealis the Freezing Fog. Glintstone Dragon is a normal enemy with the same basic attacks.

 

Elden Ring Flying Dragon Greyll Boss

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

Elden Ring Flying Dragon Greyll Location

On the bridge directly south of the Farum Greatbridge Site of Grace. [Map Link]

Flying Dragon Greyll Combat information

Negations (or Absorptions)

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

Resistances

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

  NG NG+ NG+2 NG+3 NG+4 NG+5 NG+6 NG+7
HP 11,550 11,561 12,717 13,295 13,873 15,029 15,607 16,185
Defense 121 120 123 126 132 138 144 156
runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18Runes 80,000 160,000 176,000 180,000 192,000 196,000 200,000 204,000

Resistances

poison status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxPoison 627 / 917 / 1374 562 / 852 / 1309 570 / 860 / 1317 578 / 868 / 1325 587 / 877 / 1334 595 / 885 / 1342 604 / 894 / 1351 612 / 902 / 1359
scarlet rot status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxScarlet Rot 627 / 917 / 1374 562 / 852 / 1309 570 / 860 / 1317 578 / 868 / 1325 587 / 877 / 1334 595 / 885 / 1342 604 / 894 / 1351 612 / 902 / 1359
hemorrhage status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxHemorrhage 627 / 917 / 1374 562 / 852 / 1309 570 / 860 / 1317 578 / 868 / 1325 587 / 877 / 1334 595 / 885 / 1342 604 / 894 / 1351 612 / 902 / 1359
frostbite status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxFrostbite 627 / 917 / 1374 562 / 852 / 1309 570 / 860 / 1317 578 / 868 / 1325 587 / 877 / 1334 595 / 885 / 1342 604 / 894 / 1351 612 / 902 / 1359
sleep status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxSleep Immune
madness status effect elden ring wiki guide 25pxMadness Immune

 

Additional Fight Strategy

  • Stand on the elevated areas overlooking the bridge and snipe Greyll from afar. Its breath attacks don't track upwards very well so you can attack safely with minimal fear of reprisal.
  • Use Serpentbone Arrows or Rotbone Arrows and stand on one end of the bridge, just barely close enough so that your arrows can reach. If Greyll starts using a long-range fire attack, run away and come back once it's settled down

 

Flying Dragon Greyll Image Gallery

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    • Anonymous

      Dragonice for frostbite on horseback, then scythe. Even if I was one shoted ( 18 vigor) i reach him about 10% HP. Then O tree took the kill

      • Anonymous

        Cheese: on horse back, carrian great bow with meteorite staff int 60 and 6-8 flasks. Fully charge the shot and make sure it's locked into the head, hit retreat and repeat up the hill. Not super quick but very easy

        • Anonymous

          Gotta be honest, most medium size and big size dragons are a joke when you are on horse back. I just go under his pp and spam basic attack with the occasional dodge of the foot stomp.

          • Anonymous

            This was a toughie. What finally cinched it for me (Dragon Incantation build) was first summoning a helpful spirit ash (I went with Kaeden Mercenary), then basically playing chicken with Greyll running straight at him, slipping behind him as he started his huge fire breath attack, and blasting him with Rotten Breath from behind. Idk if it's a bug or what, but trying to do ranged attacks from the nearby hill was out of my range for all of the incantations I currently have in my playbook.

            • Anonymous

              So uh, was doing a sorcery run and tried killing him early, and he got stuck middair near the grace and died after a few sec. Made things faster, because im SURe I had enough fp :p

              • Anonymous

                Was able to kill him without too much trouble by summoning Latenna just to the east 9f bridge, right in front of the Farum Great bridge grace. Equipped flamedrake talisman, and with 25 vigor I would survive the flame breath, just barely, when he managed to hit me.

                Let Latenna blast him, while I was on horseback swiping at legs and wing when given an opening, and then riding quickly away when he would fly up, or rear up for an attack.

                • Anonymous

                  While I was fighting him he managed to get stuck on the geometry of the bridge and a tree mid flying/jumping animation, and after ten seconds of floating, he just died without me doing anything.

                  • Anonymous

                    Defeated this guy at level 60-65 using Flame of the Redmanes on a Heavy Pike, with Latenna making sure his poise doesn’t regen. Had to tank some hits, Flamedrake Talisman helped a lot. Good way to get 80k runes.

                    • Anonymous

                      Beat this guy at lvl 38 - flamedrake talisman and flame fortification incantation are must haves. Spam heavy attacks on his head and riposte - making sure to dodge his attacks. I used gold halberd which has amazing range.

                      • go toward his left. upon seeing the breath that goes left to right (or right to left from your perspective), quickly switch to his right and get 3-5 hits in before dashing away so as to avoid his tail. if he does the super long straight breath either run away or attempt to get under him if you’re close enough. takes forever but it’s consistent and effective

                        • Anonymous

                          So this guy appears to be a direct decendant of Greyoll, given the name similarities and proximity. Whats interesting is that he is guarding Gurranq and the Farum Great-Bridge. Its clear that color indicates a dragons' age so we know Greyll is recently matured (evidenced by the fact that the babies around Greyoll are brown, whereas she, the oldest of them all is pure white.) It makes me wonder if Greyoll had him guard their links to Farum Azula seeing as that is their safe haven. We know the dragons have some form of intelligence as Ekzykes hunted those that partook in Dragon Communion for revenge against those killing his kind, and Adula was smart enough to swear an allegience to Ranni and the Carian Royals, and learn magic

                          • Anonymous

                            Just a renamed agheel in a worse arena at least the other dragons have unique breath attacks this guy has nothing unique

                            • Anonymous

                              I was able to beat him by luring him to an area between the bridge and the site of grace. He got stuck and started doing the same walking movements over and over. He wasn’t even breathing fire or flying. So I went up on the cliff right above him and used a longbow+14 and regular arrows. Lock your aim on his head and use the mighty shot. I was able to get 422 damage with every arrow. Sometimes I was able to shoot him in the eye for over 500 damage.

                              • Anonymous

                                i personally think it would have been better to replace him with the black blade kindred that guards gurranq.And keep an ancient dragon at the kindred's place like in the trailer.

                                • Anonymous

                                  A little bit disappointed that this Dragon doesn’t have a special power. Maybe an upgraded or special Dragonmaw spell or something?

                                  • Anonymous

                                    Not even true , you can easily cheese him with the scarlet rotten breath and hiding behind the bridge wall , he'll walk back and forth, allowing you to rot him again , along with Grayoll and Radahn it's easy early runes

                                    • 1 unupgraded longbow
                                      99 standard arrow
                                      1 starlight shard
                                      6 cerulean flasks
                                      28 Dex

                                      This is all that it takes to kill him. Just get the aggro, wait for him on the hill above the site of grace; he will get stuck there giving you the opportunity to put countless headshots in. If you don't mess up with the shots you should be able to kill him this way. I had to deal the finishing blow myself because I messed up a little and I didn't have cerulean flasks allocated, so I had to make do so to speak

                                      • 1 unupgraded longbow
                                        99 standard arrow
                                        1 starlight shard
                                        6 cerulean flasks
                                        28 Dex

                                        This is all that it takes to kill him. Just get the aggro, wait for him on the hill above the site of grace; he will get stuck there giving you the opportunity to put countless headshots in. If you don't mess up with the shots you should be able to kill him this way. I had to deal the finishing blow myself because I messed up a little and I didn't have cerulean flasks allocated, so I had to make do so to speak

                                        • Flying Dragon Greyll: "Look at me guys I'm so smart I'll wait on this narrow bridge so people get stuck and can't pass."
                                          Also Flying Dragon Greyll: Breathes fire while panic dodging backwards, gets stuck on a tree with his wings spreaded in a majestic pose, only to die after 5 seconds of air time, giving the player like 96k runes(scarab) for free

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Is this the only truen dragon boss in the game that neither unlocks a new draconic power nor drops anything unique?

                                            • Anonymous

                                              Easy way is using rotten breath incantation and run away till rot ends. rot deals about 2000 damage, so 2 times and some arrows do the trick.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                Hmm yes today I will have a meager amount of self confidence

                                                *greyll proceeds to do his bombing run in the tight confines of the bridge*

                                                ALL CONFIDENCE IS GONE, ONLY PANIK

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Idk where they're getting the health values for this but it has WAY more than 2200 health. About 800 barely did more than a sixth of the bar.

                                                  • If you fight Flying Dragons by performing horseback archery, then this is basically Agheel v2. More health, higher damage, but same deal.
                                                    Equip a good bow, plenty of arrows, Arrow's Sting Talisman + Arrow's Reach Talisman. Keep your distance, watch your footing so you won't fall off the map. Bait him off the bridge. Shoot the head when he's approaching you in between attacks, shoot the body when he doesn't. Won't even take too long.

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Bleed resistance seems to be incorrect. It should be closer to 400~500. Bled a single time during the entire fight and I was able to thoroughly keep pressure on it and get about 11-14 hits in power stance both bleed off at same time on a few occasions.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        Stayed on a cliff near the bridge and just cast night maiden’s mist every now and then. Took about 10 mins or so for it to die.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          It's harder for him to run away than the other dragons, so this is a good chance for melee fighters to practice posture breaking dragons. Bonk him on the head, and stab him in the eye. Repeat until you get runes.

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            This was the easiest boss in the game, he took flight to crash on me, missed the bridge and died of fall damage.

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              If you're underleveled or just hate the idea of fighting on the bridge you can cheese the encounter by going to the cliffs next to the "Farum Greatbridge" Site of Grace and using any form of range attack that arcs over the rocks so that you're completely safe from any of the breath attacks.

                                                              The fastest and most reliable combination I found was to use any type of bow to get Poison/Scarlet Rot to tick while repeatedly casting Rock Sling. After 3-5 casts Greyll will usually fall down as some of the rocks hit the head which lets you reapply any status effects without having to worry about the breath attacks.

                                                              Consider allocating all your flask charges into Cerulean Tear as you will be casting a lot of Rock Sling and healing isn't needed at all as you will most likely instantly die in the case that you get hit by any of the breaths.

                                                              If you're able to cast Comet Azur then it's possible to nuke the boss from the same cliffs at a slightly different angle near the trees every time it tries to lunge towards you. Alternatively you can just go to the bridge, use a tanky summon near any of the roots and jump on the braziers to cast. This way the boss will usually waste a few breaths on the summon when the encounter starts and with good luck the roots will terrain block the breaths which gives you even more time to channel spells.

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                I ran underneath and rotted it with rotten breath. I then ran back to the graced side and got on the rocks. There is a spot where you can hide behind and not get hit by the fire. I spammed meteorite and chugged cerulean tears. I had either the talisman to boost damage at full health or the sorcery booster one. By ran I meant rode torrent.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  yknow, i like, for the most part, fighting dragons in this game, as horseback makes it actually feel pretty fun and cool...i DONT like fighting huge enemies with flame aoes on tiny, small strips of platform that you can't maneuver around.
                                                                  idk why they keep doing this in this game. putting you in really obnoxious environments to fight enemies that would be significantly more fine to fight in a wide open space :/

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    So I encountered him very early via the portal. He flew on top of the tree above the site of grace, got wedged between the cliff and tree, got stuck in his falling animation for 10 whole seconds before he landed, and died instantly.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      cheesed from above the bonfire on other side of bridge. didnt take off, just fired rocks at it. no damage to me

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        fought this guy when literally every one of his attacks one shot me except for the odd 1hp remaining after getting grazed by fire breath. strat is horseback with uchi(dealt like 100 damage per swing lol) hit the legs and stay in his belly area to avoid tail swipes. if he moves forward for tail swipe follow him and stay in belly area, if he flies, dash towards his tail and youll avoid both the body stomp and the sweeping breath attack. and the rest is patience, good luck!

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          Would be probably easiest boss in the game if it was not set on the stupid bridge. Now you just get stuck into everything and camera doesn't work.

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            Gained 9 levels worth of souls from killing it.... just kept on the horse by it's right leg, would not dismount even for finishers as it's hits would take 80% off my hp. Took me a while to chip at the huge health pool, but all in all a very easy fight.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              Defeated him using Nightrider flail +6 with Ice ash of war (very effective stance breaking)
                                                                              one hell of a fight

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                I encountered a glitch where he landed on a tree on the bridge and died withing a few seconds without me doing nothing. I was excited to fight him but I'm not complaining.

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  Standard dragon fight that can be complicated by terrain, sometimes in your favor as he can "fall" to his death by diving into the side of the bridge.

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    125K runes(using golden scarab talisman/golden fowl foot) by sniping him from the rocks on the cliff with Serpents Bow mighty shot and Serpent Arrows. Took three runs of poison and a couple pot shots. Just make sure to hide far enough away to out range his flame breath as it reaches pretty far into the rocks.

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      The bridge makes things easier because he’ll always remain centered for you to fight, making melee and magic passes with torrent extremely simple and low-risk.

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        You can easily beat him by staying close-mid range so he only uses the stomp move, just need to watch out for the breath fire AOE and the Flying Stomp, other than that, his head is always close to the ground, so just spam any quick attack to break his stagger.
                                                                                        I used the Moonlight Veil Art and completely mowed him hitless after trying the Meteorite on him and missing completely, so it's very doable.

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          He fell off the bridge by accident for me. Did his plunging attack while I was on the side rails and proceeded to fall off.

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            Boss gets easily bugged in the arena, but leaving the area and coming back will sort it out for you. Bleed+Horseback+No-Hit= early 80k runes

                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                              Just killed him. MAGE only technique. You must have Rock Sling spell. Bring plenty of FP healing. You shouldn't need but 1 crimson. Recommend having highest magic attack you can build yourself up to. From starting point use torrent and bait him to the opposite side. Get on the dead dragon heap to the left and stand on top. Find a good spot that his fire can't hit you and spam Rock Sling. You may need to test a few spots first. This could probably work with BOWS too. Happy hunting!

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                Easiest 80k souls in the game. Each Bleeding proc hits him for 13k. He had someting like 90k HP. And you can hit the very tip of his tail without starting the fight because is so long. The tail is located near the Fort faroth bonfire.

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  He was a cakewalk with rotten breath, just rot him and then keep midrange, in my case he just kept walking towards me. Easy to reapply as well because once you get close enough with torrent he does the big flame attack which was punishable

                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                    so for bow/magic users there is a way to glitch him, if you look towards the beast masters castle from the bridge you will notice that on the left side of the bridge there is lower terrain right next to the bridge. if you are able to get grehyll over there he will continuously use breath attacks and nothing else. however the breath attacks wont hurt you unless you get too close. I advise that you either bring alot of cerulean flasks or arrows to this fight as it will take awhile.

                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                      For magic users, a combination of frostbite and and fire damage may help

                                                                                                      (Dragonice + Black Flame if you use Incants.)

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