Godskin Noble | Elden Ring Wiki

Tip for when he rolls: He always rolls soon after phase 2 starts, so make sure to keep notice of that. When he starts to, roll to his right, or when he's rolling his bottom. From there make sure to keep a medium distance and circle at the same speed as him, so hes just rolling around you.

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Nerf hits fat roll already.

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Rather easy when throwing sleep pots at him. Throw one sleep pot, he goes to sleep, go behind him and damage him with a weapon. Repeat.

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Surprisingly easy to parry. Also only takes one parry per stance break.

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“GOTOSKINU NOBORU” squeals Miyazaki after getting instant-killed by the rolling attack, shi tting his pants in the process.

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When I stance broke him while he was rolling, I went over to riposte him, but he JUST STARTED ROLLING AGAIN, NO WARNING, JUST INSTANTLY STARTED ROLLING AGAIN?!?!

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Worst boss in the game. Camera glitches out constantly and he can stab you through the pillars. Did they even play test this boss?

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This boss is terrible, most of the time he rolls the camera glitches out and I can’t see my character. Also his sword goes the pillars. Literally the worst boss in this game.

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This boss is just annoying to fight so if you really don’t want to deal with him just stock up on a bunch of sleep pots/arrows and when he sleeps bring out your highest damaging attacks. Alternatively be crazy like me and try to do the godskin noble skip for 2 hours since the second half of it is ridiculously hard.

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boring boss with 2 unfair attacks . roll doesn't work in half of the arenas you fight him in & noble presence is unreactable

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Honestly the roll lasts way too long. Even if you dodge away and wait behind something, he just keeps doing it for like 10 s
-15 seconds until the ai is literally sure it can't hit you and that it's a waste of time.

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Mage: Physick w/hidden tear+magic shrouding tear, maximized int/magic w gear and talismans, Sleeping pot x2 (to be sure..), Cast Terra Magica then Comet Azur until no more boss. Feels like cheese but then again I am a mage!

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Honestly, piss poor boss design. Nobody who appreciates the masterpiece design of bosses from Sekiro, DS3, and BB could argue with this fact lol

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I think the Godskin apostle is fine as long as you don’t Afro him but the noble could use some work

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The roll could’ve easily been another goofy ash of war.

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If you put him to sleep during hit roll out he'll proceed with it, without wind up mind you, once he awakens, even if you hit him with a Critical Attack.

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When he rolls at you, roll THROUGH him. As long as you aren't fat-rolling, you should clear his hitbox (also works on Mohgwyn Albinaurics). After that, he tries to turn around to find you - easily avoided by staying in the middle of his circle.

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i like how the best tip is just cheese the **** out of the fight cause it sucks ass

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Literally me

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Dude just stabbed me through a pillar. Wtf. I saw his thing go through the pillar.

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Has anyone seen the bug where he will start the rolling then do a stab combo and immediately be in the rolling animation again? Killed most of my runs.

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When the Godskin Noble begins his wheel roll at you, roll in a direction going away from his head; the roll will go in a motion such that you are the origin of the circle he traces, if that makes sense. You can maneuver around this so that he'll just continue to roll around you and wear himself out, giving you time to heal / refill mana, select throwables etc.

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for the volcano manor one, if you manage to get him between the side wall during his spin he can be attacked through it making the fight wayyy easier

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I love this game and i love FromSoft, but this fight is just sooooo bad. So when he starts the rolling attack he has a weird bug in his code where if you arent the host he will glitch in and out of the animation until he locks onto the host and then does his roll again and this sh*t is soooo glitchy. Lol wtf

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Liurnia Tower Bridge cheese:

Ride your horse fast past him all the way to the other side of the bridge and he'll de-aggro and turn away from you to watch in the direction of the site of grace. Carefully approach him from behind and you can get close enough to cast poison mist without aggro. Back off + wait, approach + poison. Repeat as necessary

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If you have issues with him, try focusing on rolling away from his attacks and into him back in melee range instead of to the sides. He has really good tracking to roll catch you mid roll, but he also has surprisingly mediocre direct range. The only problem is the multi-stab, but you can also roll into it and evade it that way, he will whiff the rest of his stabs. Though the roly poly and 0 frame belly thrust just suck, sorry.

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Got him stuck against a pillar and wailed on him with my winged scythe until bleed procced

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I would recommend parrying. Why trying to guess whether he will follow-up when you can shut his combo right at start...

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4 lance ash of war is perfect aganist him. two casts and boom, he can be critical hit

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I can't believe the made the fat one Faster than the skinny one. Absolute nonsensical.

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Tubby?... NOBODY CALLS ME TUBBY!! *proceeds to enter dough-wheel mode and rolls you into paste*

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You're goin' down, tubby!

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Melee users salty cause they actually gotta get in and fight. Sorcery makes this boss a joke lmao

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I gave this fat **** poison, scarlet rot, frostbite and bleeding.
I was done. Absolutely 200% done.

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Read his weaknesses...

Gotta get yourself a Uchigatana with Lightning-Lightning Slash.

or you can just waste sleep pots on him like everyon else.

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You can roll into him when he starts spinning. It works everytime, I am not sure why it's not mentioned as an alternative to running around him

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At the Temple, he gave me 45,000 runes WITH the scarab. Did they lower his reward after 1.07?

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This game really made me curious how a sword with technically no blade but a pointy edge can hurt anyone by slashing...

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After many tries, finally defeated this one by summoning a group Ash and running for the altar when he puffs up to roll. Used blood, frost and sleep pots

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You can easily avoid the Blubber Roll™ by sprinting after him as he rolls. Sing “ring around the rosie” for added effect.

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You can easily avoid the patented Blubber Roll™ by sprinting after him as he rolls. Sing “ring around the rosie” for added effect.

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This mf single handedly ruined the whole Caria tower experience. Who tf thought that it would be a good idea to add this guy?

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When the host dies by the Godskin Noble rolling him into a wall for 10 seconds.

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I've just had a taste of the lesser fat-boy on the bridge before the divine tower of Liurnia on my first NG+ and it wasn't fun. There is no reliable way to not get hit again and again when te fat f**ker starts rolling around. But he will only go so far towards the west end of the bridge near the study hall use bleed arrows and dodge the fire ball and you'll be golden.

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“My desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.”

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"Sprint to the side as soon as you see his belly increase in size. Hide behind pillars until he's done rolling." he literally rolls through the pillars. in other words, there is no strategy outside of luck. typical fromsoft laziness.

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Anyone having trouble use Death's Poker on him. The L2 causes frostbite build up and L2+R1 puts a trail on the ground that procs when he walks over it. Phase two is super easy with it. Get him stuck rolling against a pillar and then spam L2+R1 and he will melt. Did it with a +6 Poker at level 41 (the first 4 somber you buy from Iji and then 5 & 6 can be gotten before Godskin in Volcano Manor, the 7th is behind the double stone key room in Volcano Manor depending how you got there you might be able to get it before the fight too. +8 is from a white dung beetle in Northern Caelid. You can have a strong weapon decently early in the game.

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I see Ymfah's foreskin espionage hasn't entirely been stamped out

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Love the wiki graffiti "foreskin noble"

Also gotta love getting roll jammed into a wall every time he hits phase 2 and dying on an otherwise more than manageable fight

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This is a great example of Fromsoft ruining a great boss design with some of the most cheap moves in the game. Not only the endless roll but the terrible hit boxes on his sword, he’ll be stabbing over your head and you’ll take full damage.
And his sword going through pillars is just sloppy

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Craft a couple of sleeping pots and this fight becomes super easy. In order to be able to craft the sleeping pots, you need the Fevor's Cookbook (1).

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It's amazing how FromSoft can make one godson enemy (the apostle) incredibly fun to fight and another (the noble) that has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Also, is there an explanation for why he is so fat?

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Did anyone notice this fat godskin has a tail while the skinnier one doesn't? I wonder why.

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I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS GUY

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Between that idiotic rolling and the supernatural ability of his attacks to pass through pillars (which is a thing across ALL the From games), there is nothing rewarding or satisfying about fighting this thing. Just a stupefying grind.

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worst enemy in the game? Top 3 at least.

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Fromsoft just couldn't resist putting another bonewheel skeleton in the game. But instead of making them boney, now they're fat. One hit from the roll and you're as good as dead cuz you'll be constantly thrown into the path of their roll to get hit again. Worst off, they're even faster than Torrent. You can't block because you'll get knocked over and then repeatedly hit until death. You can't run because they're faster than you. And on the bridge, you have no place to dodge.

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I just can't stay focused because of how utterly disgusting this thing is. I feel really sick when facing one. F**ng erase it from existence.

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I spent all this time reading guides and clever stuff... Trying to use sleep and spells and summons and incantations and stuff.

Ended up beating him solo at Volcano without healing with a light load and Bloodhound's Fang.

His only tricky dodge is the roll. Sometimes you can run right and slightly into his roll and he'll never hit you, sometimes he'll glitch on a pillar and end up locking you in a corner and rolling you to death.

The roll is a metaphorical dice roll. Don't be discouraged by that unfair death.

And Bloodhound's Fang. What else can you get this early that does so much slash damage?

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Annihilated this guy with the dual Inquisitor's spear+5 and naginata+12 while he was distracted with my greatshield men. He didn't even have a chance to roll.

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For some reason he doesn't stop rolling anymore after hitting you on patch 1.06 ...

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For the one on the bridge to the divine tower.

Ride up to make him spawn, rot breath him and then ride right past him to the other side. One full FP will take him to more than half go at 12 Arc. He will float and not transform. One e he comes back to the ground rot breath him once again. Never got close to me.

Worst mid boss in the game, esp after 1.06 where he never stops rollling. Hope this helps!

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When he rolls and breaks a pillar, stand on top of the base of the pillar, he can’t roll on top of that. Easy way to avoid his roll.

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Anyone know why he can start the roll, stop to fireball, then instantly resume rolling? It's killed me more than twice so I'm confused if I should be pissed at a stupid bug or at my lack of skill.

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If you throw sleep pot during his transformation, prior to ****-roll attack, it will bug out. This PoS can suddenly stop and fall asleep than immediately resume rolling animation. Absolute shitshow from fromsoft.

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****ing hate this boss. His roly poly move is like an extended invincibility phase, his combos vary in durations way too much with tiny openings between his fast and unnaturally delayed attacks and his cast of noble presence is literally unreactable.

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Kind of a shame that we can't get his Noble Ass-slam or his Roly-poly mode moves.

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The key for me was the throne. Rotten breath 2x to get his health to slow drop. Run behind throne while ash fights him. By the time that's over his health is pretty low. His roll will get stuck on the throne and cannot get past it. When he is FINALLY done with that damn roll. Blast him again.

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Easily the most annoying of the two Godskins imo, Apostle is not too bad but he hits hard, Noble on the other hand is always the really annoying one, his moves are a pain to consistently dodge, he has little to no wind up between attacks, and that stupid damn roll with lingering hitboxes never fails to piss me off, also screw that belly blast move he does in his second phase, that attack is complete horseshit, it is nigh impossible to dodge unless you have godlike reaction speed/reflexes, while always knocking you over even if you have super armor, I always sleep pot this smug chonky douchebag first and foremost.

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If his outfit is anything to go by, this dude isn't even just fat, hes definitely bulkier than the Apostle and he hunches over alot, but i don't think he's actually just obese, he's actually wearing a crapton of flabby skin, which is honestly alot more disturbing.

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sleep pot
spam nebula
sleep pot during phase transition
chug cerulean flask
spam nebula

EZ nohit

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**** you, godskin noble.

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In the manor, during the startup to the roll attack, just lock onto him and line up the little lockon dot with the middle of the pillars. you can buff here if you need to, since he just sits there rolling in place for around 20 seconds..

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Deviantart's dream husband.

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Did they nerf sleep or something cause I’ll sleep this guy with 3 arrows and then I can’t sleep him again

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I hate his rolling attack. The fact that they put him on the narrow bridge in Liurnia >:(

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I have more information on his moveset, basically, if your REALLY close to him right after his phase transition, he will do the move where he jumps into the air instead of rolling. You usually have to dodge the explosion during his phase transition to get close enough for him to do this. Another thing is whenever you close the distance on him before he finishes throwing his fire ball, once he throws it, there is a 90% chance he will immediately cast black flame ritaul. The other 10% of the time he will either do his delayed hilt Stomp, or the double hilt Stomp. I think out all the 300+ times I've soloed the godskin duo, (successfully without the host dying) I've only seen him NOT do one of those 2 moves around 5 or 6 times. Also, both of these tips apply for the noble in all of his fights, including the duo. Also if you made it this far, have a good rest of your day!

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The nobles roll isn't that bad, just dodge to the side then run in a circle. The real culprit is his noble presence attack, it come out in 26 frames with little to no warning. The only thing that I've found to somewhat consistently dodge it is to turn off your music because the move has a faint audio cue that makes the same sound as a fireball being casted. Even then it requires insane reaction time and in the duo fight can easily mistaken for a fire ball being casted by te apostle. I've soloed the godskin duo for around 300 people now and this is the only move I have trouble with in both the noble and apostles moveset. Extra fact, as of recently, so many hosts have died on me when I've been soloing the duo because the noble agro's onto he host when doing the roll, and recently, for some reason the roll doesn't end once it hits and usually hits 3 times. Also if you get trapped against the wall during the roll, pray to God you can get out because 9/10 hosts die if they get trapped against the wall. I hope this helps anyone having trouble, and have a good rest of your day if you've made it this far.

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*Gets to this boss at the manor on a new playthrough*
*Gets rolled; he doesn't stop*
*"What the ****, he's supposed to stop!"*
*finds out you can roll through his roll*
*beats boss*
*hours later: Godskin Duo has entered the chat*
*"****, who said this needed to be worse?!"

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He has so wide shoulders, how the **** he did not become the elden lord

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i really hate it when otherwise fair bosses have this one move that just screws you. in this case it's the repeating thrust attack for me, it has practically zero windup and just mauls most of your hp bar in seconds, then if you don't get out of the way fast he kills you. the rolling attack is not so bad for me but the multi-thrust feels unfair with how much less reaction time you get and how much harder it hits than basically any other move in his arsenal

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Oh man, that rolling attack is Fun* and Good*

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I’ve found sprinting to the side and rolling at the last second is a pretty consistent way to dodge the roll attack

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Still more fit than your average Genshin Impact player. (this is coming from someone who used to play it alot and quit a long time ago)

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did they make his roll last longer wtf, I don't remember it lasting so long when the game first came out

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Volcano Manor: He got stuck rolling against the altar (I was cowering behind it, as is natural) so I rot breathed him through it. I would say I feel bad but that roll, in that tight of a space, is cheap as heck. Plus he clips through pillars with every attack so it’s only fair that I can halitosis through a brick altar.

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So they changed the behavior of his rolling attack after 1.06, he used to stop after he hits you after 1 roll but now he keep rolling for a least 2 more hits and he seems to be more immune to sleep

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the rolling attack always combos me. why the hell does it go on for so long??

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Godskin noble: They see me rollin, they hatin...

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roll attack not stopping until it hits something isn’t a huge deal but it is just objectively bad design

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By far the shitiest boss of this game and it just shows one of the major problems with elden ring: Artificial difficulty.
He spends around 15 seconds on that homing rolling that is extremely hard to dodge and even though he hits you, he just don't stop. Actually when he hits you, you're ****ed be cause by the time you get up he'll be into you face again. So it is basically enough to end the fight. Forget guides that say that just need to run in a certain way because if he gets slightly stuck on a wall or pillar, he'll turn immediately to you, ruining the diagonal run strategy. And of course, pray so he don't stun lock you on a wall when he is rolling.

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godskin michelin man

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The rolling attack is the most frustrating attack in the game now that it Does Not Stop

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Deviantart users would proly be down horrendous for this guy. (I'm so sorry)

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Last update changed the rolling attack I think. He used to stop the rolling after he hits the player once but now he continues rolling even after hitting me, which makes it much harder

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He is such a handsome marshmallow.

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Very fun build to copy for invasions. Keep several Godskin Stitchers on you with Giant Hunt, Lightning Ram, and Ass Slam for an accurate NOBLE moveset.

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After years of Souls protagonists rolling into bosses, now we finally have a boss that rolls into YOU.

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Everybody gangsta till' Godskin Noble starts rollin'

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Oddly easier than the apostle imo, screw that roll tho that attack is bs

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