Lightning Defense「tai・kaminari」 |
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|---|---|
| Type | Defensive Stat |
| Effect | Shows your current defense against Lightning damage |
Lightning Defense is a Defensive Stat in Elden Ring. Lightning Defense shows your defense power and damage negation against lightning attacks. Stats determine the strengths and weaknesses of your character. Defensive Stats are determined by your Attributes and Equipment.
Lightning Damage is not as common as poison or fire damage, so it is recommended to only focus on Lightning Defense by using equipment at the moment you think you'll need it instead of permanently spending Runes to increase it.
See also Calculating Damage for a detailed explanation of how defensive and offensive stats are used to determine damage in Elden Ring.
Lightning Defense Elden Ring Guide
- Your defense power and damage negation against lightning attacks.
- The former is calculated via your level, while the latter is calculated via defensive gear and active passive effects.
Elden Ring How to increase character's Lightning Defense
Lightning Defense can be increased increasing your Rune Level (soft caps 71, 91, and 161). Unlike other defense types, no other stat increases Lightning Defense, so your total Lightning Defense is just the defense from your level:
Defense From Level
| If... | ...then defense from level is... |
| rune level < 72 | 40 + (rune level + 78) ÷ 2.483 |
| 72 ≤ rune level < 92 | 29 + rune level |
| 92 ≤ rune level < 161 | 120 + (rune level − 91) ÷ 4.667 |
| 161 ≤ rune level | 135 + (rune level − 161) ÷ 27.6 |
Related Equipment & Items in Elden Ring for Lightning Negation
While no equipment directly affects your Lightning Defense, your armor is your main source of Lightning Negation. (See Calculating Damage for an explanation of how these stats differ.)
- Bull-Goat Set offers the best combined Lightning Negation
- Malformed Dragon Set has second best Lightning Negation but is much lighter than Bull-Goat Set
- Boltdrake Talisman (13%/17%/20%/22% depending on variant)
- Pearldrake Talisman (5%/7%/9%/11% depending on variant)
- Lightning Fortification - (+35%, self)
- Golden Lightning Fortification (60%)
- Lightningproof Dried Liver (15%)
- Lightningproof Pickled Liver (25%)
AnonymousThere's a reason why lightning is so overpowered in PvP: there's basically nothing that negates it aside from a single incantation. If From actually knew how to balance a game they wouldn't have nerfed all the defensive capabilities for everything.
- Anonymous
I played dark souls 3 to ng+8 and still couldn't do anything about poor lightning defense. I even devoted a ring slot for lightning resistince and it still felt pointless. By the end I had 99 vitality ( and double health because of embers) and 99 endunace ( hard cap for both) and havel armor and shield ( heaviest armor set in game with the best lightning resistince) and STILL most lightning based attacks can take a third of my health ( more than half for stong enemies like silver knights).
I think from software are doing that because in all their games lightning is this divine power that no one can really control.
Now I have the same problem in elden ring.
I have the best heavy shield in the game and even if I block, the tree sentinal's shield trible lightning attack can take more than half my health......on my first playthrough( IAM BLOCKING DAMMIT, AND IAM A HEAVY DEFENSE FOCUSED PLAYER)
I'm a big fan of from software games but I feel like they like to mock and punish defensive style players.
Sorry got side tracked....
As for lightning in from software games, from waht I've learned you can add to its negation but not defense. And it is the only damage type you can't
- Anonymous
Lightning defense seems to drop when standing on shallow water as well. In Siofra River, there's these Electric Orb traps floating around that are out to kill you by shooting lightning bolts at you if you get close enough and it makes sense since there's shallow water everywhere down there.
- Anonymous
I thought it'd makes perfect sense to have a stat like Dexterity or Faith improve lightning defense, since those two seem to be related the most to lightning-type weapons and spells. But i guess Fromsoft just sees lightning damage as too obscure of a damage type for that to be a necessary addition (don't quote me on that though)
- Anonymous
Which stat increases lighting defense it can’t be talismans like boltdrake negation isn’t enough direct hits for what I see hurt everybody by a lot they need to put a stat that affects it like Strength when you lvl it up or am I missing something?
- Anonymous
I don't see a stat that raises lightning def. Maybe a bug or an oversight? Also there's two types of rainy weather. The normal rain where your lightning def gets lowered by 10% and fire def gets raised by 10%, and then there's stormy rain where your lightning def gets lowered by 20% and fire upped by 20%. I might be wrong on the percentages but I'm 100% sure about the weather effects.
- Anonymous
so neither dextarity nor faith increase lightning defense?? why??
- Anonymous
it looks like lightning defense doesn't go up when leveling any stat why is that?
- Anonymous
Lightning Defense appears to be lowered while it's raining. ~10%
- Anonymous
When it rains your lightning dmg resistance is reduced by 20% while fire dmg resistance is increased by 20%
You could say that all Tarnished are weak to lightning, to some extent. I feel like this was the case in Dark Souls games as well, but I could be mistaken.
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