Greatswords | Elden Ring Wiki

If anyone is curious, the first two R1 swings of any of these are equal in speed to the large club; but then continues into a MUCH quicker third and fourth swing, so combos a little better. Same is true of the first R2 attack whether charged or uncharged, but the second comes quicker from a greatsword. So yes: this category *is* quicker than greathammers if you manage to land more than two hits in a row, but at the cost of less unga per bunga unless you're facing plant-based foes or if you've put more priority int VIG & END than STR. They also require less stats in strength, so they're the better option if you want to spec into something like FTH or INT.

TL/DR: don't feel dumb for picking a greatsword over an unga-stick, provided you have.

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Love it when the greatsword user hyperarmors through greataxe attacks, so fun to fight. And of course greataxes cant hyperarmor through greatsword attacks that would just be silly.

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why they put scabbard on your back when its impossible to draw a 2h sword from your back

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I love this weapon class, I just wish there were more somber options without needing faith or arcane.

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Happy they finally nerfed the R2's, they came out WAY too fast they were practically R1's.

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Among the infusable ones which one is best for a Dante cosplay?

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Among the infusable ones which one is best for a Dante cosplay?

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Fromsoft, pls buff the hyperarmor for the dual wielded greatsword moveset. It’s slower than colossal swords, and attacks can be stunned out of by katanas. It’s good damage but the lack of hyperarmor makes it a terrible pick in pvp.

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Why tf are there 21 of these when there are less than half as many Curved Greatswords - and even worse only 4 of weapons like Heavy Thrusting Swords and Scythes?

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The default moveset for greatswords should be the animation from the double slash ash of war.

Cheers, god bless.

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Man I love great swords, however I think it would be pretty awesome if they had a great sword/Katana in the game. They have added alot more options for katanas in elden ring, so I feel like it could be a cool option, although I could see it being hard to balance

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Flamberge and Claymore missing from lots of the Max elemental and all the Max status buildup affinities. Possibly others missing too but the Claymore and Flamberge are the ones I noticed

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Great swords are cool

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Alabaster’s Sword is missing from the Max list

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Claymore is not included in the max upgrades

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Man, it sucks how little moveset variety there is to this weapons class, it's not that Their movesets are bad it's just that so many of them have the same generic "slashy slash, bash my sword into the ground like a bonehead" moveset the Claymore is the only one that has thrust attacks of any kind, and the Knight's Greatsword Banished Knight Greatsword and Inseparable Greatsword are the only ones with unique movesets otherwise, it's just a bummer when you compare them to the previous games.

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There's no lightning greatsword and it fuuuuuuuckin suuuuuuucks

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Ordovis GS is the best for both PvE and PvP tbh

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GS users going to arena to spam backstep and running attack after crying about rapiers for 20 hours.

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Anyone else think these are the worst for PvP?

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I think a great sword that has the unique 2H moveset of the KGS but also all the poke attacks from the Claymore would be sick

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Does the jump attack combo into r1 on these? I cant seem to roll out of it.

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Why tf are there more than 20 of these damn things and less than half the number of curved greatswords? And only four scythes and heavy thrusting swords? Think we know which weapon class Miyazaki’s got the hugest raging boner for

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What's the point of using these when you're just going to get either beat to the draw by a straight sword or out-traded by a colossal sword

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I'd go as far as to say these are overtuned now, the 1 handed r2 is faster than a straightsword r2 AND has lower recovery

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Knight's greatsword and claymore are both excellent dueling weapons. Claymore is good if you like going for counter attack hits with the spear talisman, and knight's greatsword is good if you like free-aiming your swings to get early hits

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1.09: Stopping by to say that greatswords feel excellent to use now. Used to use them in DS3 all the time but they felt too slow or clunky in Elden Ring. The recent buffs make them soo smooth, and the horizontal 2H slashing R2 that some have come out very quickly and lead perfectly in to your choice of Weapon Art.

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I just want a ds1 style greatsword with the 1 handed poke

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Every greatsword-user must know this unofficial technique: Two-handed R1/RA + Untoggled Reverse Backstep + R1/RA

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Better than colossal swords or straight swords, but not as good as halberds. I would say B tier weapon class.

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Knights gs is the best one

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Whats better for crits? infused lordsworn or sacred relic?

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Elden ring really hates int/fth builds, cus like four of these thematically should be int/fth and simply arent cus from couldnt be bothered to add int/fth damage scaling for fire, holy, and magic melee. Golden order greatsword having been int/fth wouldve been so good with golden order incants, helphens steeple and deaths poker are death weapons, and all their spells are int/fth too, and blasphemous blade is pure faith while rancor and the other magma stuff is both int and faith.

I just dont understand why theres no synergy between these things with the same origins and would be great for hybrid caster/melee builds and would open back up int/fth builds, ds2 and ds3 did so much more for broader build types

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As usual, this class of weaponry is filled with some really great swords!
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I won't let the door hit me on the way out.

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Overhead R2 is godly now

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why is there so many greatswords and straigtswords? We don't need like half of these

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Good'ol reliable for every souls game, these never fail me

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Boring as hell weapon class, they look cool and have different skills but function the same with its boring cavemen swings. Not all of them need a thrust attack, but some like the Ordovis (crucible thrust attack) would benefit greatly. Overall some variety would be nice the swings. Hopefully the DLC can bring some classics over from DS3.

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Has anyone else encountered a bug where after a jump r1 into r1 your character glitches for a splt millisecond and does the neutral r1 instead of the follow up r1? I say glitch because it true combos from a neutral r1.

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I just found out why so many people hate on these! They just want to spam pokes in pvp! It’s almost like these are better for pve! Elden ring wasn’t made so you could down point on some random person outside raya lucaria. It was made to be a pve experience.

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Don’t listen to the souls elitists. These weapons are amazing for their weapon arts. Greatswords are pretty good as weapons, but the only reason you should use them is for their insane unique skills. Some of the best in the game like blasphemous blade, death poker, DMGS, and the sacred relic sword. The infusable ones are useless though.

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Pick these instead of the weeb weapons in PvE. You won't regret it. Thank me later.

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These are UNUSABLE for PvP. It’s such a shame what Fromsoft did to these weapons after DS3. Just take them out of the game at this point bro

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Men.. in DS1, DS2 and DS3 this is my favorite type of weapon but in ER isn't anymore, every weapon art is so boring and useless. I miss you dark souls

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It seems that some infusable swords are missing from the table for magic, frost, blood, poison and occult infusions, I think the claymore, flamberge and bastard sword.

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If you are trying to compare the range of greatswords and colossal weapons remember that different classes have different R1s with different distance moved.

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Which absolute genius added the colossal sword range image to this page?

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Dex requirements are intended ! 80% of Greatswords from previous Souls games were Quality weapons, and the same thing applies here.

It doesn't mean they're unusable with Str builds, of course, but if you want weapons made for pure Str, you want Colossal Swords.

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Does the alternate unique 2H moveset that the Inseparable, Banished Knight, and Knight Greatsword have provided any benefit or is it just for show?

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Bloody slash is the MVP of this class

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basically katanas for str users. bad moveset, but with insanely op weapon arts

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Only way to give these weapons (besides claymore) a poke is giving them an aow that has one. Its better than nothing.

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they made the darkmoon greatsword so ugly in this game

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Loyce greatsword wya????

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It was my favourite weapon class in DS3, one of my favourite in DS1. In ER...it isn't anymore, even though Darkmoon GS is in my top 5 favourite weapons and those with hollowslayer moveset are fun (havent used Ordovis, seems to be cool). The rest are either too ugly or too boring: just the same thing with a different skin and big ass aoe/wave as a skill that feels completely separated from the rest of the moveset.

Many ER weapon classes are a huge improvement compared to DS3, but this one: has much worse running attacks, mostly the same R2s and just dont feel special, while in DS3 almost every greatsword felt unique, they had more R2 thrust variations, like Wolf Knight's one, or Black Knight's. One big plus for ER is backstep attacks that are amazing.

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The generic moveset got done dirty, the swishy swooshy light attack ones are so much better

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Kinda wish there was a greatsword with an S scaling in strength with the heavy infusion. The colossals just aren’t quick enough for my liking

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These and cgs could use a slight AR buff. A lot of them kinda suffer from ash-of-war-stick syndrome.

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Bloodhound’s Fang is a greatsword. So where is it?

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decent amount of moveset variety between all the different swords. same can't be said for some of the other weapon classes.

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where is guts greatsword?

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The insane dex requirements on these swords is proof that Michael Zaki hates us.

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Wish the game had more greatswords that didn't need anything else other than the STR/DEX stat

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Watchdog's Greatsword not listed?

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After some number crunching with the Wretch as my class, and 80 STR. The top 3 greatswords w/ the Heavy infusion + one-handed are:
1. Iron Greatsword w/ 724 AR
2. Gargoyles Greatsword w/ 722 AR
3. Banished Knight’s Greatsword w/ 703 AR

Personally I’d go with the Banished Knight’s mainly due to the alternative 2 handed moveset and being only 10 units of weight. Plus I enjoy the design of the sword.

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for the most part these all are good and have a purpose with different builds

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Average claymore fan vs. Average knight's greatsword enjoyer

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Dual Wield the Knight's Greatswords. Add effects to each blade. Become a Witcher.

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After many many hours of dueling with various Greatswords I came to the conclusion that the Claymore is the most viable hands down in PvP.
Having a Thrust attack is just too important to have, almost feels necessary to be competitive.

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Perhaps the dlc will have more moveset variety. Justice for Greatswords.

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1.07 hit. greatswords are back babyyyyy

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Well I was using implaing thrust/giant hunt and piercing fang to have a thrust attack and since the last patch they feel even more great. I think knights gs with impaling thrust feel seemless when you do R1 R1 L2. Yeah Claymore is cool but id much rather have the remnants of hollowslayer than a pokey scottish boi

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What has more reach in general, greatswords or reapers?

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Greatswords would be more popular if their R2 and crouching/dodge roll attacks are the same as Claymore's.

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look how they massacred my boy

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What I learned from this is that people just want to thrust cause of the range, I’d guess it’s just the pokers from PvP

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