Hand-to-Hand Arts | Elden Ring Wiki

I hope these become a staple in future Fromsoft Soulslike-games. Would be cool if we got more based on real-world martial arts!

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I prefer Danes footwork for a faster final attack in the r1 combo and benefiting better from the shattered stone talisman and the divine bird warrior greaves

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If you're trying to figure out if there's a big damage difference between Keen and Heavy, it's not that big of a deal. With two builds focused on a 60-25 investment into STR & DEX and vice versa, it's only a difference of about 2 damage in Heavy's favor.

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I know freaking judo

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These and beast claws are my favorite weapons. So happy they gave us these ! Feeling like some dbz character up in here lol..the skills are also the most fun ever

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What I always wanted from fists, these are way more fun & versatile

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Sad they can't be buffed, would be way cooler to lifesteal with your bare hand instead of weapons, but without buff useless for my build.

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Which one would be better for a Neo from the Matrix cosplay build? I was thinking drylead arts, as it has a good mix of the hands and feet, and felt it would be more accurate to the movie.

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These things rock. Just slap the R2 (heavy kicks) and experiment with your fav skills and playstyle. It can't be parried and is also lightning fast, it can even easily catch rolls (at least med load confirmed). I obliterated many DLC bosses (haven't reached Radahn because I take my time to savor) and frequently won in Colosseum. Katana wielders, colossal, and poking sticks are my fav opponents; they think they'd easily W and safe from my kicks and slaps. Their weapons are also so slow to swing or poke (more reaction time).

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These are probably the most fun weapons in the game if you ask me. Also really strong in PvP, but requires just enough skill to use.

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Powerstancing the two seems to just do the dryleaf art moveset no matter what hand when I press L1.

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would have been really cool if they made a blade weapon on your feet (veterans prosthesis) with this moveset or a similar one more kick focused

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broken in PvP

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Using these with deflect tear gives me more dopamine than anything in life fr

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I wish we could've got a heavy version based off Hoarah Loux's moveset. Dark Souls 2 had the Bone Fist that shook the ground and had an uppercut and a tetsuzanko if you two-handed it.

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Anyone has the numbers following today's damage buff for these weapons ?

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Rev up those’s friers! We got a 9/11 update and a got hand to hand buff!

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No rot affinity exists, yet both of these can be given the Poison Flower Blooms Twice ash. The posion affinity DOES exist, but neither of these can be given the Poison Moth Flight ash. This means Bleed Claws remain the only option for close quarters status builds. A crying shame.

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When it comes to martial arts, the implementation is limitless. If these appear in a future title, I'd love to have a bunch more with different unique movesets for each one, unlikely as that is. Even then, having unique ones with elements beyond infusions (actually having colorful effects) would be insanely cool. I'd give these the Most Promising award.

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Tarnished, try to remember some of the basics of CQC

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I haven't seen anyone mention that they only weigh 1 Miyazaki, which (I think?) is the lightest weapon that will accept endure. That makes it great for a soft swap choice while letting you where slightly heavier armor.

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In off hand it s very stylish

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They need to improve speed. They are too slow for a hand to hand art. I want the Bruce Lee speed atack.

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should weigh 0 tbh

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Can you parry the running R2? I haven't tried but I do get the feeling that you can't since you use your feet to hit with

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I don't really understand the implementation of these weapons. They have the lowest attack rating of just about anything in the game and nothing to make up for it; they're not particularly fast (compared to fists and claws), have no innate status like claws do, don't do any noticeable poise damage and have a shockingly low array of compatible AoWs. Worst of all, the martial art movements don't even look that cool. Even with all the right talismans and perfect setup, these are still completely underwhelming compared to anything else you could be using. What's the point?

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I found something interesting here. If you use the Godskin nouble gloves, this weapon becomes invisible. And it looks good. I recommend it for those who don’t like steel mittens

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these accept ashes of war: kick, endure, ground slam, hoarah loux's earthshaker, war cry, barbaric roar, braggarts roar, quickstep, bloodhounds step, raptor of the mists, beasts roar, storm stomp, flame of the redmanes, blinkbolt, lightning ram, golden slam, golden vow, the poison flower blooms twice, hoarfrost stomp, divine beast frost stomp, lifesteal fist, white shadows lure, shriek of sorrow, palm blast, and dryleaf whirlwind

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I use both of these. Bleeding+poison+flower blooms twice

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Finally. I can accurately cosplay as phase 2 Godfrey

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No capoeria,sad.
At least we got the muai thai keyboard warrior

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Both of these should be sped up to at least match the speed of fist weapons. At the moment these do considerably less damage while also being a bit slower.

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Man i miss the energie ball you could make with the bone fist i wish there was something similar in elden ring with the hand to hand arts

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Like many others I was really excited for this weapon class, shame there's only two of them in the DLC. How hard would it be to recycle some animations from Sekiro to make some new variants and AOW?

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I imagine a Hand-to-Hand Art similar to Muay Thai or kickboxing, or similar to Taekwondo.

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Like many others I was really excited for this weapon class, shame there's only two of them in the DLC. How hard would it be to recycle some animations from Sekiro to make some new variants and AOW?

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Was really hoping these would be low-base, high-scaling monsters that would perform best on physical to incentivize Blue Dancer Charm builds. Instead their damage is so generally low that they are best with elemental or status affinities for talisman/buff stacking. Bone Fist, these are not! RIP 20 base damage + S dexterity scaling.

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these weapon's poise damage is broken for pvp, it should be doing about twice as much poise damage

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these weapons are bugged at the moment, they should have a higher poise damage multiplier for pvp making them do similar poise damage as the claws weapon type, however fromsoft has forgotten to add this multiplier for some reason. they should do about double the amount of poise damage they do at the moment

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What about a Boxing-like Hand-to-Hand Art like those from untitled boxing game.

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Kinda disappointing this is all we get,
i thought we would have been able to find and duel several martial artists across the dlc to learn their techniques.
kinda like the ever goals in base game.

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Kinda think it'd be cool to have a hand to hand casting seal. Would it be balanced? Idk but the fist monk would go even harder

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We should be admiring fromsoft for their strength of will to not add a large faith requirement to these and add in the description: "Martial arts are a technique from the monks of the land of reeds. They found that practicing hand-to-hand combat was a brilliant meditative tool."

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Why does these weight more than 0???? Makes no sense

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Considering what beast claws and hand-to-hand is supposed to be it's weird that something representing going feral somehow is more mobile and evasive than martial arts.

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disappointed that there wasn't a hand to hand art that basically let you act like a mini version of Horah Loux, Warrior, i dont even care if it would have been an obscure more pvp oriented hand to hand art with highly telegraphed grapples, it just feels like a massive fumble on from soft's part

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This thing scales insanely with bleed, poison, etc. Really good for arcane builds

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the low damage would be fine if they were scaling monsters like they should be

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Wish they let you infuse with Parry ashes. Proper martial arts vibes

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Was running a frenzey flame pyromacer. This plus the frenzey flame seal, and my arsenal weights a grand total of 1.
I get light roll pretty much for free, for a very versatile character.

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Hand to hand adds a new level of get good
10/10 would recommend trying them

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Ok I tried, I really tried

I was si hyped with the trailer, really wanted to try this karate weapon.

I went blind in the dlc, didn't want spoiler . After a dozen hours, still not finding those I started to worry and looked up a guide (thank god I would never had'found it without)

Now that I've tried it... It's underwhelming, to Say the least.

Beastial claws are better in every way, also easier to Come across.. also reverse dagger or whatever it's called

I really, REALLY, want to like it

But it's just not really good

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You’re probably better off using anything else, but damn is the style good

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It’s hard for me to find these useful considering the low amount of damage they do compared to the exorbitantly high health bars of bosses. Poise damage is great, I guess.

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This should be added in the base game, starting a new game woth them.

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So basically every R2 does double poise damage? Am I reading that right?

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Can this weapon be parried

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dont forget poison hand and mad hand

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finally, dark souls 2 2

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I wish these had better dex scaling, as it stands it has lower dex scaling on keen than the caestus, which was never great scaling to start with. Strength got the beast claws, let dex have these.

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2H Sword Talisman does not seem to impact these

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Shame we have only 2 ,They could literally copy paste sekiro’ senpu arts like high monk to the game and I would be more than happy

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As of right now, judging by the MV Spreadsheet it seems that Dane's Footwork is a direct upgrade to Dryleaf Arts. The only difference between the two seems to be poise damage, and the footwork has higher poise damage since the kick attacks 6 compared to the palms 4

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the fact that we only get two, that are almost identical, and zero elemental ones or differing varieties, even with things like madding hand and poison hand, is extremely dissapointing.

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Can you block with these?

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If only the poison and maddening hand were in this category too instead of just plain fist weapons

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If only poison and maddening hand were in this category instead of just being fist weapons

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hope they fix the backstep r1 when 2 handing these, as you can't turn around like you do with every other weapon

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hope they fix the backstep r1 when 2 handing these, as you can't turn around like you can do with literally every other weapon in the game

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I LOVE how many physical damage buffs these can be stacked with. Axe Talisman, Claw Talisman, Winged Sword Talismans/Milicent's Prosthesis, Shard of Alexander, and Shattered Stone can all find homes on builds. Throw Swaddling Cloth in there for good measure. In fact there's almost too many, which I think is a great problem to have. It helps immensely that strike damage is arguably the best physical damage type. Genuinely, if FromSoft has any plans for future DLC (though I doubt they do), then elemental hand-to-hand is near the top of my wish list. Like, come on: Fire fists, Stormcaller kicks, Ghostflame, the list goes on.

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theres 2 of these and im willing to bet while theres no difference in stats they have the exact same moveset

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Everyone was calling these dex weapons before the DLC even dropped only for it to turn out that both of them get an A in STR.... guess I gotta respec now

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They must have the worst riposte multiplier in the game.
The riposte does as much damage as like 2 r1s,so try to spam charged heavy or weapon art when you down an enemy instead

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i forgot ranni's set only works with sorceries, so i made a frostbite ninja ranni cosplay thinking it'd scale the cold infusion, and now that i remember how things work it's too funny to switch to something that actually works. kung fu jumpkick ranni is the second funniest build i have ever seen only after the almighty lightning ram. highly recommended

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should i go bleeding or frosting ?

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should i go bleeding or frosting ?

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They couldve made more hand to hand weapons like the madding hand or poison fist but nah

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I was so excited for these new weapon types, until I saw how few weapons there are per new category. Of all the new weapon types, Hand-to-Hand was the one that I was most excited for, and also the one that got stiffed the hardest. What do you mean there's only 2 Hand-to-Hand weapons, who are both kind of similar, and one of them you literally can't get until right before the final boss of the game?? Why?

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These need buffed. look cool but are so weak

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Really fun powerstanced. Recommend feet in lefthand slot

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What is the difference between the two?

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You can’t put parry on these. It makes me sad.

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i can finally complete my cammy build

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You should use this with Godfrey and Alexander talisman, with 600 AR I dealt 3k+ DMG, and with rotten wing insignia I dealt 4k+ in a combo, The double charged attack also deal nice poise DMG thanks to powerstance which is only available for fists and claws when using heavy attacks

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Tifa and Yuji builds are gonna go crazy with these lmao.

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These need more poise damage.

Takes far too many heavy attacks in a row to stagger anything.

I test my poise damage builds against the golems outside the Lift of Dectus ... The halberd Golem is 2/3 dead before the first poise break.

Really under-whelming imo. I wanted to love these.

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A-TO-MIC KA-RATE!

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****ing finally. Bone fist but not in the clunkiest souls game. i cant wait to find these

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Yuji build?

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The riposte is the visceral animation from Bloodborne!

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These could've been fist weapons just like how cleavers are axes, that eight weapon types thing is a marketing stunt lmao. I'm not judging these TWO weapons, they're great actually. But when you say there's an entire new weapon class coming about hand to hand combat my expectations included different kinds, no such thing is here.

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mid damage? screw that! I finally got my cool martial art fist weapon since bone fist from ds2!

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Was super hype for this weapon so I made a fist only character and used the star fists for most of the base game. Got the Dryleaf arts and was a bit disappointed. This weapon class is probably okay, it's just that the fist does wayyyy more damage in comparison. They probably work better for bleed build that pure strength

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For those complaining about the lack of variety, remember "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

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Poisoned Hand is a fist weapon, not a hand to hand weapon

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kinda sad. was planning on making my entire builds on hand to hand but these both are pretty mid.

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There is only two of these for anyone wondering. It's sad but atleast they exist as an option

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ATOMIC KARATE

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rocking this, the goldmask top, and rennala's pants for my Juri cosplay build

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damage is a lil disappointing imo and compared to spiked caestus and star fists, not only does it lack innate status, it can't be buffed with weapon buffs i.e. flaming strike, bloodflame blade while having weaker damage than the two fist weapons mentioned

the moveset is sick though and the default ash hits like a truck and has hyperarmor

overall i like it for regular enemies, but for bosses it doesn't have much going for it over fist weapons

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