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waterfowl + sleep pots absolutely shredded these guys in sub 1min

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Bragging intended, I got 'em good solo with Milady + Endure as a STR RL125. Didn't use a single flask and summons, I played aggressively focusing on the fatboi first. The whole fight itself took me less than 1 min, while waiting for them to spawn was longer than the actual fight. But to get to this point (understanding of how the game almost completely) took me 2000 hrs gameplay (I'm a completionist tho so I love exploring).

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I wonder what they were doing in farum azula… perhaps they were going to avenge their mother’s defeat?

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As much as I like this fight, the only good thing is the soundtrack. They lack coordination, which is expected as a result of copy-pasting 2 regular mini-bosses that weren't meant to be fought together in the first place. If they had a unique moveset that complemented the other, then they could've been better than Ornstein and Smough. For example, the Godskin Noble could attack you with fireballs while the Godskin Apostle could stretch out and spew black flame from above.

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the godskin duo ain't **** on my chad squad trio (me, mimic tear, Big Benny Bernahl)

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This boss is overhated i mean yeah the whole respawning thing is lazy and putting bosses that were earlier in the game into one gang boss is stupid but thats pretty much whole elden ring and its not like they are difficult because they arent if you kill one the fight is essentialy over because it takes so long for them to cast that spell that brings back their friend overall godskin duo is lazy but perfectly balanced and overhated

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Seriously, I don't know what all the fuss is about. I was dreading doing this pair after hearing all of the horror stories, but it was one of the easiest boss fights I've had; WAY easier than Mogh or Malenia. Did it first time, didn't even need to heal and barely had to exert myself. Of course I used summons like any sensible person and spammed Takers Flame like any cheapass player, but that's because I was expecting it to be difficult. In fact, Bernahl kept one busy, Dolores kept the other on his toes and I just say there actually doing the damage from a safe distance. Took maybe 45 seconds to completely deplete the combined health bar, which equated to killing both of them twice. A breeze.

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ok so why is it just one healthbar ?? and "godskin duo" sounds like what the fanbase would call it instead of the actual name. it really feels like a fanmade boss

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I cheese this boss by being overlevelled (157). Still tough af. The strat (ignoring sleep) really is to focus on the skinny first, then try to burst each boss when they're only one.

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As of late they simply refuse to split up for some god forsaken reason so now you can barely get a hit in.

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Hear me please, dear Tarnished! Using summons on this boss fight is always morally correct!

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O&S with -1000000 aura

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My favorite sleepy lesbian couple

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Miyazaki put the 2 elden ring stereotypes into the game!!! The skinny and pasty nerd who smells like dead skin! And the fatass who can damage you by rolling on you!

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Once you have the desired texture and consistency for your dough, bake until golden for a fine Ornstein and Smough.

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I killed them both but the health bar wasnt down so another one spawned. I think this a gold nugget of boss design, because really if you think about it the real boss is always the health of the boss and not its other things or whatever really it doesnt matter. And of course you could totally justify it with lore, like, maybe there was actually a third member of the godskin duo like how "duo" has 3! letters for example

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I'm convinced people be fighting these two with a challenge in mind and no armor, cause I've beaten them first try every time I face them

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From soft only has two good dual boss fights, ornstein and smough and Demon in pain/ Demon from below, that's it. Anything else is just cope.

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do u think they've explored each other's bodies

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mimc tear, thats all

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Ive played the game ever since it was released and i fought these guys around two dozen times now and i never even once considered using sleep, and nowadays i look on youtube and everyone cheeses them with sleep even post-nerf, lmfao, i still just call the big bois Bernahl and Mimic Tear wielding the good ol Blasphemous Blade and togethaaa we clap them every single time, it was easy before, it is even easier now.

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Proud Foreskin Duo hater

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Using Tiche ashes and summonning Bernahl, while employing Storm Blade ash of war, made it disgustingly easy to beat them first try on RL1. If anyone has too much trouble beating them, I do recommend my strat.

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this boss is so funny to me i don't even know why they're in the game, why would you make this a mandatory boss fight when maliketh is like 5 minutes later anyway, they're a boss you already see a bunch of times in the game as optional bosses so this fight serves no lore purpose, i genuinely can't imagine why they would make this boss fight its pretty hilarious how out of place they are

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Smostein and Ough

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When you summon co-op for this fight and the phantom dies in the first 10 seconds, and you summon another and try again. Different person, same result. The real Elden ring begins now..

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godskin quattro, mediocrity of miyazaki

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The godskin ost is good already but the reprise that plays when they revive/resummon the other for this fight is S tier. It’s such a shame that it’ll be lost on a good portion of players who are focused on how stupid the fight is. This should’ve been a special fight with a godskin leader of some kind. Such a waste of good music imo

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sleep pots + NIHIL = win

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Do you feel like summoning or spirit ashes are cheap? So is this fight alone. Summon. Makes this fight bearable. I've only summoned on a couple of fights. It's a game mechanic. Don't let people tell you is for noobs. You spirit ash drawing attention from one is usually enough to kill the other one.

Depending on your summon you will want to focus the slim guy or the bug guy, but remember that the Michelin Man roll Attack will focus you regardless on who is he fighting, so I usually Focus him.

Sleeping is also a good strategy, but I'm too lazy to craft pots or seek arrows, even if they are not hard to come by.

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erase all other "strategies" on this page, just toss an eternal sleep pot. practically an insta-win

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They wanna be Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough soooo bad

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ah yes what i need before a shitty boss is 2 shittier enemies giving me backshots everytime i try to fight these 2

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If youre strength or str/int - meteoric ore blade almost trivializes this fight. It hits fast enough to get 2 poise breaks on the noble pretty fast, and can interrupt the godskins from summoning each other when one is down.

Focus the noble first, with the apostle, whenever you see him going for the summon, hit him with a jumping heavy.

Make sure to keep attacking them once their character model has fallen/disappeared. They will still take damage

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ez boss with dual great stars

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ngl i dont get the hate for this boss, i actually found them pretty fun

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I killed Malenia with a greatsword and no summons today, which was quite a fcng ordeal. No way in hell I'm wasting my time with this one. Sleeping pots on the fat one and Bolt of Gransax goes brrrrr on the snakey one.

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if you're struggling with this fight, I'd highly recommend Morgott's Cursed Sword.

I'm horrible at the game and it really helped a hell of a lot to spam its ash of war.

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It's so cool when you get summoned for this fight, put one of the duo to sleep. and then the host immediately rushes over to the neutralised godskin and wakes them up.

"Oh no, the fight has become a 2v1 in our favour, better put a stop to that!"

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The music is absolutely amazing despite the mixed feelings people have for the fight itself.

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If Kai Cenat can do this no summon and no sleep pots so can we.

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This is one of the easiest bosses in the game if you have a single sleep pot.

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guys, IS ONTIEIN N SMOW!

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Pretty easy fight even with no summons and ashes. Methinks all the people whining just have a poor build with low DPS.

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I just pounded them to death accompanied by my Spirit Ash.

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ban epicsolly777 for exploiting

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At least we can summon Bernhal and do a 2v2 fight... Also Bernhal Can solo one of them. Ez fight.

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These two reminds me of Ornstein and Smough. Good times!

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We need a Godskin Quadruplo.

Godskin Noble with Sticher.
Godskin Apostle with Peeler.
Godskin Noble with Peeler.
Godskin Apostle with Sticher.

Great. Now it's not a CTRL+C and CTRL+V, but a real upgrade for them.

Of course, not 2 by 2, or 1 by 1, but all 4 at the same time against us, miserable mortal tarnisheds.

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Only fight where i summon (other than bayle)

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I think it’s overhated. If I were to change it, I would stop them from respawning each other and buff their HP or reward you for killing them both before respawning the other.

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overhated boss imo. i think the main reason people hate this fight is because they try to fight both at once. its really not that hard to just focus on 1 of them until he dies while the other one is away throwing easy to dodge fireballs. its definitely not a good fight and it is very stupid to just put 2 reused bosses and give them a huge shared healthbar but people are talking about this fight like its the worst fight in all of fromsoft even though it is not at all

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Is this how Sumou and Ornstein looks when they take their armors off???

I prefer them with armors if that's the case......

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I think I'm the only person that actually likes this fight

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between "godskin duo" and "four kings" im not sure fromsoft knows how to count

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Well after seeing the final boss of the dlc i think i owe and apology to these guys

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While doing a fresh run with a character to take into the DLC I figured out that the only attack between the two of them that is actually making the fight difficult is the Noble's Roll. And he only starts doing it after his ~50% HP phase transition and thus I found a way how to do this fight without summons or sleep cheese:

Ignore fatty (Noble) and just kill the Apostle a bunch of times, while spacing and timing things to avoid fatty's attacks as much as possible. Once Apostle is down, just kite fatty to the other end of the arena and as soon as he starts summoning his lanky friend back run to the spawn point to get some fast damage in (or even down him again if you're fast and have good DPS.

The arena is bigger than it looks, so there's lots of space for positioning. You can get a couple of hits in on the Apostle here and there and the columns are good at blocking the black flame projectiles too, if you need to flask or cast buffs/heals. Should work with literally any build, although casters might find it more frustrating due to them spamming black flame when you try to cast/use items at a distance. Crimson Seed and Dragoncrest Greatshield talismans are good picks here as they boost your survivability a lot and allow for more room for mistakes as you get the hang of positioning and timing.

I actually had FUN fighting them for the first time ever using this strategy. Beat them on my 3rd try with a Keen Flamberge +19 at 70 DEX, only took a few minutes per attempt, so it's not at all a slog.

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if youre able to kill the skinny one first and get the fat one to start rolling, jump on a broken pillar and cast as many buffs as you can and lay into him once hes done

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the only boss I used Mimic Tear for because it's such a bullshit and unfun boss

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Unfun bosses that dont have synergy and force player to either play very passive or dps race them just like 4 kings, personally i go 4 kings route with lion's claw and smack their head in with this i can easily kill them on first try, playing passive with dex weapons seems to be harder as they lack a skill like lion's claw that has absurd hyper armor

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I just beat them second try (camera screwed me first try) by keeping my distance, some well timed dodge rolls, and spamming the magma wyrm sword ability. I went in blind, so i had no clue they were resistant to fire. Did not matter.

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Waiting for Godskin Trio

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With no summons, I successfully solo-parried these guys to death in Farum Azula. I alternate between the two for the sleeping pot throw. First, the plump sort sleeps then I parry the skinny sort to death. Second, the fat one's turn to be parried. Then the other revived his buddy so I made him sleep again and keep parrying the solo-awaken one. Revenge satisfaction never felt so good (remembering my noob days 2 months ago)!

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I've got a pretty suboptimal setup with the Godslayer's Greatsword +9, 40 vigor, 40 faith and bare minimum of other stats and I somehow managed to beat these badboys first try without using summons and with half flasks left. I either got better or lucky, because in my first playthrough with a very similar weapon- Fallingstar Beast Jaw- they took me around 30 tries. Colossals seem to work great against them though, the skinny one is easy to stagger and has some moves that allow charging free heavy attacks. I don't get all the hate, after fighting these guys like 3 times each they really become pretty predictable and quite fun, atleast for me.

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Mimic Tear (yes, murder me) alongside the spamming of that one Ancient Dragon incantations that summons a thunderstorm around you bruteforced the fight for me after numerous attempts trying to deal with them "legit".

FS Bossfights, Soulsborne especially, are the best when it's a 1v1 duel, so whoever tf keeps suggesting that "hey, what if we made a duo boss of some of the most oppressive bosses we have" I would like a word with. Especially considering the fatty's roll attack can get stuck ON you if you're against a wall. at that point, that's no longer "Damn, I should've dodged the other way", that's just "welp, I lose now. Thanks, game".

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I Like these characters lol, they are easy with Oleg+10 and Bernhal...

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Whenever someone says that that souls-like games from other devs "don't understand the genre" and it's not all about difficulty for the sake of difficulty, remind them of this abomination

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Is it more cheesy to use sleep strat or spirit ashes for this fight?

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i dont understand why the four kings healthbar is necessary? you have to fight what, 5 or 6 bosses worth of health bars? isn't that a bit stupid? Fromsoft is known for their love and care put into the game but for some reason they never fix the few bad bosses in their games with a patch.

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this is so bad, not 1 good duo boss in this game, even the "good" ones where mid at best, putting 2 health bars doesn't translate to a good duo, ffs the devs made Ornstein and Smough in 2011 and in 2022 we get this mess, this isnt even hard, either trivial with sleep pots or bs if you do it solo. fatty and lanky dont complement each other (which is realistic but makes for an annoying fight). ive beat them several times solo playing sword and board and after you learn them the fight isnt even satisfying its just boring

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Pontiff Sulyvahn and Pontiff Wazowski

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Hypothetically, what would they do if they skinned a giant god? I mean, would they make a Godskin robe out of every part of the skin? A fore skin robe? A scwrote robe? A nip robe? That's not even getting into the wacky shenanigans you could do with reddit semantics. Would they make a see through sclera robe because they're freaky cultists?

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Worst FromSoftware’s boss to ever exist fight me

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Devilskin Trio when

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So recently I've been doing a RL 1 playthrough (my first one ever) and for anyone struggling with this boss plying normally, I feel like this is almost a bulletproof strategy:

equipment:

Armor - Raptor's black feathers, then whatever you feel is best (enhances jump attacks)
Talismans: Claw talisman, then whatever you feel is best (enhances jump attacks)
Weapon: Bloodhound's Fang (a bit more cryptically enhances jump attacks, causes bleed) - crnge, I know, but c'mon, my first RL1
Flask of wonderous physick: the one that enhances stamina recovery + whatever you want
Items: sleep pots, obviously

The play is to make the fat guy fall asleep, or both of them ideally. What you can do, when they are asleep: heavy jump attack + critical attack - you an manage both, before they wake up. Tehn obviously, before the guy you picked (I recommend the thin one), another heavy jump attack, and anothe, if you have stamina, if not, disengage. What this does, is that it effectively puts the godskin in a situation where they are almost never able to even attack, you just need to be wary of their transformation phase (this is the main reason why you should picj the thin one first - after the blast accompanying his transformation, you can just stay next to him and pile on attacks while he swings somewhere half across the arena, the fat guy goes into invinvcible rolling tank mode)

Have multiple sleep pots ready and be prepared that after a while, it will take 2 instead of 1 to put them asleep.

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The cheese I found is Dragons Rot Breath, get the two with the large health pools, then let the minions fight it out. After the two large ones die, it's a 1v1 and a lot easier.

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**** THE FAT ****S ROLL MOVE! WHO THOUGHT THIS BOSS WAS A GOOD IDEA? ELDEN RING DUO FIGHTS ARE TERRIBLE

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eepy

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My two favorite bosses at once, very fun for me at least!

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I've defeated them on multiple playthroughs, but on my most recent one, I finally killed them, got their souls and their items, saw the site of grace appear in the boss room, and the music changed, but then the skinny one reappeared and I had to fight him. I managed to beat him but I wonder if they both would have respawned had I died. Very weird.

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Godskin polycule

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Knight Bernahl's summoning was nowhere in sight by either entrance. This was after I completed his questline and he said he'd assist me.

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therapist: godskin duo waking eachother up isn't real, they can't hurt you godskin duo waking eachother up:

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overhated

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beat with heavy zwihander and 50 vit

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Please fix this boss fight with the dlc update...

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npc summon trivializes this entire fight

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most annoying boss in co-op. The fat one always starts rolling then randomly changes to target the host mid roll and the host dies. this happens literally 90% of the time

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Beams of fire sweep through my head

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+10 mimic +9 rivers of blood and 11 charges of +9 estus makes this **** easy

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What level are we supposed to be when reaching them ? I dont know if I was overleveled but the fight was really easy, beated them in my second try

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The sad thing about multiboss fights is that they weren’t thoroughly designed to create some synergy like that of Ornstein and Smough. They were literally added as two or more enemies that will gank on you relentlessly, like creating a deathzone that you must go around and poke with a sword every 30 seconds which I really don’t find compelling.

The only explanation behind them is the fact that you would use summons which is pretty much what you can do to avoid nuisances. In fact that’s why godskin duo and crucible duo were not engraved in my memory as horrible experiences and in fact became kinda neat. When I did them alone though I wished they didn’t exist.

But summons have the issues we all know they have: they make the game terribly easy. I believe not all fights should’ve employed spirit summons but rather only in places of duo or multiple enemy fight like the game does in open world, instead of placing them for every boss fight like with radagon godfrey or malenia.

And even though you can limit yourself to use them in certain fights like the ones proposed, I still don’t understand something: why most people don’t use them in those instances? Is it pride?

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Such a great reference to Hotep and Huy from cinematic masterpiece Prince of Egypt.

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AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

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Amazing that the best part of the ost is shown only in the godskin duo fight when everything I listen to is the sound of my mouth cursing in disbelief and outrage of how garbage a duo fight can be.

Lit burying gold in the middle of sht

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Beaten these guys first try with Dung Eater Puppet +10 to hold aggro so we had 2 1v1s.

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I don't know if this still applies to the latest patch, but the sleep mechanic is apparently bugged. To the player's favor.
The godskin guys have an ability that allows them wake up sleeping allies.
However, IIRC the godskin duo's boss room or rather the enemies around it seem to interfere with the AI and prevents the wakeup.

Almost ironic that a bug is somewhat a saving grace for this boss fight.

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I've been trying to figure out how to do this fight without using consumables, status effect or ashes of war (in other words, "raw" combat), and here's what I've found:

- Just like with crucible duo, stay relatively close to one of them (preferably noble), while the further is only two-three Miyazakis away. If you walk away too far, the further one will spam black flame and approach. If you get too close, the further one will melee you. However, if you keep the further one at medium distance, he'll sometimes jump away when you swing your weapon, maintaining passivity, only rarely throwing a black flame;

- Stay unlocked, and always have both of them on your screen, to dodge any black flames they might throw anyway; locking on is death.

- Noble Presence (black belly flop) is almost too fast to react to, so once noble is below 50%, you have to be ready to preemptively dodge after your attack;

- Longer, heavier weapons like colossal swords allow for reliable hits and frequent stance breaks. You can do this with a small mace, but it will tighten your windows of opportunity dramatically.

- Obviously, you can now add any frostbites, bleeds, ashes or consumables to this strat as you see fit. Bear in mind, using many consumables/throwables triggers an action from the duo, either a black flame, or rushing you.

It's an insanely annoying fight that nonetheless is doable with just basic weapon attacks and rolling, so long as you work on your spacing and dodging their moveset. The trick is to not sprint away constantly while repeatedly healing, since it tightens their positions, rollcatching you the whole time. If you need to heal, sprint away behind a pillar, heal up, and return to proper melee spacing asap.

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so does the destined death debuff from blade of death effect drain there individual health or the shared health bar

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Bro, they but more effort into belfry gargoyles then all the duo fights in ER, hope the DLC changes that.

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