Mad Tongue Alberich | Elden Ring Wiki

One of my favorite fights in the game, oddly enough.

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He has a lot of hp and does heavy damage, but except for that he was quite easy if you use a heavy weapon that can stagger him. He always run straight into it. just keep in mind to hold up some stamina to roll away from his dance attack

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CATCH FLAME, NERD

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Very sad to find out that you don't get the gesture if you never let him do it, and there's no other way to get the gesture until new game plus and trying again

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I'm ashamed that i made it thru half this game before i thought to jump off the balcony and get invaded by this guy. I was leveled up enough tho that it was fairly easy fight

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Get dunked on lil bro

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I feel like no matter how many times i hit him with frenzy incants, he never goes mad. Are NPC invaders immune to madness?

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this ****er rotates when you go around for the estus stab. I like elden ring but man there are so many bs upper hand stuff to counter.

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Honestly the most troll placement of a max level phantom. You're level 12 and you've beaten margitt then you face this guy who can trade into any attack, has infinite fp and stamina and his weapon will two shot you. Spent like an hour having to parry him xD

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First time fighting against this guy I got kicked hard in the a$$, so I decided to level up like a lunatic and comboed him when he had just finished bowing
LMAO XD

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easiest way to kill him is with the Golem's Halberd. Charge him, and he'll get knocked down. when he gets up, charge again, and he'll get knocked down again. Do it a couple more times and he's dead.

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Ez cheese for this guy and most other invader enemies: battle axe, wild strikes, hold L2. at base level and a +0 battle axe I was able to kill alberich with one sustained button press, and Eleonora without much more trouble than that. they just try to fight through it and keep getting staggered

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random stupid fact about this guy: we can't see it very well since he is a red phantom, but Fromsoft gave him a face and hair. It's almost exactly like one of the female presets except his skin is grey and his eyes are a coral pink. Wonder why they gave him eyes like that, when they are never seen by the player

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im bad at this game that is for sure. Stagger him with RT Twinblade when he run towards you that worked for me surprisingly haha

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im bad at this game that is for sure. Stagger him with RT Twinblade when he run towards you that worked for me surprisingly haha

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Got my ass kicked till I leveled up a d upgraded both my uchigatanas to +2. Although still a difficult fight, it was funny seeing him try to drink out of his empty flask and my final blow being a cross slash. Dual uchigatanas are a menace and I love them.

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early game bloody crow of cainhurst

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His poise must reset very quickly because I hit him almost back to back with several glintblade phalanxes (ash of war, high poise damage version) and he refused to give me an opening for a crit.

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His poise must reset very quickly because I hit him almost back to back with several glintblade phalanxes (ash of war, high poise damage version) and he refused to give me an opening for a crit.

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With the Poisonous Mist Ash of War, he gets poisoned immediately, then just keep your distance and wait.

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Came back on him to get revenge with the Grafted Greatsword, and he died in 3 hits with just dem op skill.

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I dropped down, he spawned, i casted a few great splint shards and he kneeled and died halfway through the room.

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Dodging also helped. That and Bloody Slash

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try parrying

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+3 flail. Spin to win

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He's not immune to sleep

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Incredibly annoying on a 100% NG run to realize 15 hours in. Oh right, this random ass invader has a gesture and you screwed all your progress in the span of a minute.

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The one I struggled more time than Tree Sentinel in my first playthrough

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Heavy + 2 light attacks from the spiked caestus interrupts all his weapon swings, and procs bleed. Makes the fight way easier at lower levels.

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I beat him buck naked wearing no armor so that I was as nimble as possible to comfortably dodge roll away from him. He could touch me unless I really screwed up. For weapon, I had the Uchigatana and a great shield with shield bash. After creating some distance from him dodge rolling, I'd wait for him to start charging me, and then I'd use L2 shield bash, which will usually connect before he starts his attack animation if timed right. This will do decent damage and stun him momentarily, opening him up to 1-3 additional hits with the Uchigatana, depending on how well the shield bash is landed. The closer the better. If shield bash doesn't connect as well, then only one hit is possible. You'll get a sense of how many hits you can get in depending on how well the shield bash lands. Once you get your hits in, immediately dodge roll away and put plenty of distance between you and bide your time for the next charge. I wish I'd tried triggering shield bash multiple times in a row to see if it would stun lock him. Might be worth giving a shot.

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Should have turned this into a red sign after killing him first time, would have been a good place to practice.

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Difficult but doable even at low levels (SL20), even without Wild Strikes. 2-handed a Lordsworn Greatsword, backstabbed him at the beginning and then used light attack combos and Stamp > Upward Cut at the right moments. The hardest part was surviving, 2 hits were enough to either proc bleed or die outright.

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What drove Alberich to madness?

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Beat him as a lvl 24 priest with just lightning spear and a battleaxe+2

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wildswings is a stun lock

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all i did was use magic glintblade and run away from him lol

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I thought he was another player so I always bowed with him to be respectful lol

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did it at level 20 as an astrologer. Used the impaling thrust ash of war on a greatsword and thats it. need to land it about 20 times, he will one shot you with the scythe combo anything else is 2 shot, unless you get a wry frost proc, if you already have frost on you the mist has no affect on you. you can get a free back stab after he spawns in and starts his bow animation, then if you wait till hes about to get up you can get a free thrust in, when he goes for flask is a free hit, flask empty free hit, when hes done using double scythe slash hes a free hit, after thorns is pretty free and mist is free when you are frost bitten.

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For all you cool wretches out there that find themselves unable to kill Alberich SL20~ here are the big boy tips besides the very obvious ones already listed. TL;DR below.

1. Corner him by staying near corners and then rolling behind to make the AI more abusable (see how below).
2. Bait out his attacks with a strong attack; preferably with sword distance reach. This will cause the AI to hop back or get stunned long enough for a light attack follow up normally. If the AI cannot hop back it will still attempt to dodge back hence why cornering it like a chad will make you that much more capable of hurting this guy.
3. His charged up 2 hand scythe moves will usually be used if he is able to walk up next to you which he will attempt to do a lot to roll catch if you dodge too slowly. If you aren't able to dodge the first hit, you can attempt to dodge the follow up with a roll diagonally.

Optional to make fight even easier -
1. Get Kaiden chest and leg pieces from the riders on the overworld by the camp in front of the main gates. Frost will no longer apply in 2 hits bang bang.
2. +3 Wep because being punished to DPS race him with a weapon with no dam early on sucks, especially since he normally has 3-5x your hp. Fortunately very easy to get smithing stones early on thanks to random caves for 4 minute detours in the beginning areas.
3. Get a weapon with bleed or apply rot with scarlet rouge available early in the game. Fun adventure way is getting a weapon with Blood Slash weapon art from the Fort owned by our favorite lord Kenneth or ... just using the stupid flail you can snag early on right after the first church and the golden cavalry boy.
4. Poison pot recipe is actually pretty easily acquired early on as well. Buy 3 cracked pots from our boy Kale at the first church and grab the recipe. Afterwards just go get some poop from Mistwoods and then throw one as he bows to make him try to re-bow giving you time to backstab/smack him good.

Just remember don't be a coward and beat this guy with your stick.

TL;DR VERION
- corner AI into corner; big hall too big oog oog
- hold strong attack and bait a punish by being close enough (impossible for cowards)
- get gid dodge everything don't be greedy enjoy your 3 minute fight at SL20~

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Start the fight behind him with lots of dmg, I found workd well stunned him for a sec as he spawned, I had 2 daggers 1 being the reduvia, was effective

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wild strikes absolutely breaks his AI, just get close and hold down L2 and he dies, Hero's starting battleaxe comes with it by default and works well

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Use weapon with long reach, a halbert is very effective in my experience

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I find the Mad Tongue extremely difficult...so much in fact that I sacrificed my loss of runes to get away from him. I use the Heros axe, and cant seem to kill him!

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does anyone know what his resistance to deathblight is? it doesn't say here on the wiki.

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I killed this guy without bowing back to him, felt pretty bad about it, but then again when i was a newbie this guy absolutely tormented me and killed me likely more times than i could count, so maybe i shouldn't be guilty.

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Don't leave jumping off the balcony to trigger his invasion for too long. After the write up here saying he is one of the harder NPCs that invade and the comments about how difficult a fight it is, I was looking forward to it but I should have done it sooner because one or two hits from the serpentbone blade he was dead. I didn't see any of his move-set apart from him swinging his scythe a couple of times, it was a let down because I was obviously way over levelled for his invasion.

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I wonder if he has any relation to Rogier

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This guy taught me the hard way that you should not just go strolling into big open hall type areas with your guard down.

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Wild strikes. Plain and simple.
It’s not even fair at this point

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I was a little scared of him but…meteorite staff and rock sling makes him die

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Wild Strikes easily destroys him.

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Seems to be immune to madness, or at least highly resistant

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This guy has got to be immune to madness. I've landed probably 3-4 Flame of Frenzy point blank, never once proc'd, twice catching him during a leap attack with at least 6 hits each.

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I seems like after beating Alberich, Rogier dies. This happened to me. Came to the Roundtable Hold and talked to Rogier who then fell asleep.
I jumped down to beat Alberich (didn't want to/forgot about it before then).
I won the battle and returned to Rogier right after. He wasn't asleep anymore but dead. Received his clothes etc.

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Wears regular armor yet has 100 poise.

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I've found that the easiest way to cheese Alberich is to use Unsheathe (R2), Piercing Strike or any WA or R2 that takes a moment to charge and then deals a quick burst of damage at a safe range without getting too close. When Alberich starts running at you, he has already committed to attack and all you need to do is time your attack correctly, which isn't that difficult. Once your attack connects, Alberich will flinch and you have enough time to back off or roll away.

Unsheathe's R2 attack is particularly safe because the blade will intercept Alberich even when he is doing a jump attack, so if you get killed by those, try a weapon with attack/WA that has a large vertical hitbox. Thrusting attacks have more of a risk to miss if Alberich decides to do a jump attack.

The only truly dangerous (imo) move Alberich has is the spin attack, so time your rolls carefully. If you're right next to Alberich and he starts winding up the spin attack, the attack's later part will catch you if you panic roll too early. All in all, try to keep a safe distance. The spin attack can cover a deceptively long distance, but once you start to get the hang of its range, there's a lot of end lag and you can punish Alberich with a jump attack.

Also remember that Alberich has two windows of vulnerability in the fight: Once he drops below 50% health, hell try to use a crimson flask at some point, so once you see that, you can try to punish him with a jump attack. He will try to heal again once, which causes him to go through the empty bottle animation, which gives you another opportunity to land a jump attack. But don't get greedy. Jump attacks are dangerous against Alberich because if you land right next to him and he does the spin attack, you're toast.

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This NPC uses combo casting. the definitive proof that it is not an exploit?

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How do I trigger them to invade a second time? I want that bloodthorn spell thing

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The unsheath r1 weapon skill on uchigatana seems to have a far enough range that you can hit him before he starts an attack, sometimes you can get in a followup r1 but only try 1, the response to more seems to be sword dance which would always 1 shot me, I would generally get blood loss to trigger right after the heal, wasn't too hard when I was being more careful, but I had trouble with sword dance when I kept going for attacks during rolls

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You can parry him with a shield, but do NOT block with a shield, his scythe partially bypasses your shield.

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Rock sling is also really effective. He dodges too fast.

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Like most NPC invaders, he does not appreciate a healthy lion's claw to the face

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If you attack him before he does the bow gesture at the beginning, you will miss it and have to wait until NG+ to get it again. Bummer.

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Parrying him was fun.

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He's pretty easy to beat if you use the Ash of War Wild Strikes on a greatsword. You're able to do a lot of damage to him right from the start.

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It’s a “she”. Alberich is a woman according to Zullie’s npcs video.

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I didn't let him finish his gesture. Yey now I've missed out on **** with a character with hours of time wasted into him. So much fun.

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glintstone stars make the fight also easy, he rolls to early

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Aspects of the Crucible: Tail does very well against him. Even just one hit knocks him down.

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he was the original bleed abuser, respect

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They unmasked this npc and Alberich looks like a woman. So no idea if Alberich is a man or a woman

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When do we get to be "Mad Tongue" invaders?

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Error in this page; he healed twice in my fight.

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Extremely easy cheese as Hero.

When he's bowing, hit him with an axe heavy attack, then back him into a corner with Wild Strikes. He can't do anything about it and will promptly die in less than 10 seconds.

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The only respectful invader. What a gigachad.

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His armor and equipment is at the real roundtable hold you can find him dead laying next to the two statues with his equipment laying there.
I didn't kill him on my 2nd playthrough and arrived at the real table and grabbed his armor but he still invades if you enter the roundtable hold.

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His armor and equipment is at the real roundtable hold you can find him dead laying next to the two statues with his equipment laying there.
I didn't kill him on my 2nd playthrough and arrived at the real table and grabbed his armor but he still invades if you enter the roundtable hold.

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Had no trouble with this guy, ironically. Most NPC invasions sort me out very easily! Simple =1 Axe with Wild Strikes and it was over with the L2 attack only in less than 5 seconds.

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Surprisingly very easy kill if you have Catch Flame. Run at him, cast right before you reach him, and you can stunlock him with succesive casts until your fp reaches zero, then dodge away. Mind, he didn't use his 'instant death for low levels' overhead swing (because he just went down so fast), wich killed me a lot on an earlier spear build, so I'm unsure if that can be interrupted as well.

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What does Mad tongue drop

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His gear can be found in the Capital, also. In _the place_. You know which one.

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get parried *****

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I keep forgetting to let him finish spawning in, so I don't have Reverential Bow on most of my characters lol

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Does anyone know what Ash of War he uses on his scythe? I can't seem to find one that matches, I have however seen some use it against me

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I fought Edgar over at the Revenger's Shack. He drops a +8 banished knight halberd (Edgar is way easier than Mad Tongue IMO). I'd bet you could do it with a +0, but it'd be slower.

I literally just RB'd him to death. He staggers after each hit, so if you wait just a little bit between each hit, you'll stunlock him without running out of stamina.

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what ash of war is he using in the scythe? i would swear its the same a melenia or one similar

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I beat him but got no fingers. Did I do something wrong?

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Ive tried to use madness on him and seems unaffected so either hes highly resistant to madness or full out immune to it

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here's a strat if you're running a low level char with twin blade like me

two hand the twin blade, and run + r1 attack him or do jump attacks
worked like a charm

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here's a strat if you're running a low level char with twin blade like me

two hand the twin blade, and run + r1 attack him or do jump attacks
worked like a charm

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I was thought he’s a DS3 character using Whitetree Branch and Friede scythe. Until I get the staff and it’s neither white nor boosting cast speed. And it seems it’s just a regular scythe he uses.

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Why is he appearing AT the table now??? Every time I travel to the table now it's ONLY him there attacking me. At least I don't lose my runes there; but still, why is this happening?

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I mostly used poison mist and jump attacks. that made it doable enough.

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I just literally beat him, I saw the balcony, with all the messages and bloodstains, so I thought how did the others die if other have left messages? so I jumped down, and then **** got real.lol. Double handed Bloodhound's fang for the win

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Magic Glintblade kicked this dude's ass in my run.
Granted i'm a sorcery build to begin with

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Why is he there and what is his story... im glad i smoked him but i really am wondering what the point was where i got nothing and opened nothing... just to waste time?

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I beat him with short bow. Spent 80 arrows total (over half were missed), but I was safe from his scythe combo (kills me instantly every time), and it took only one try. The best time to hit him is when he begins to cast spells, but you will have to make sure you can dodge his spell too.

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As a mainly strength build, what I did was just kite him while getting a few good hits in. His magic is really easy to avoid. You just have to survive his scythe. He's pretty nimble too so ranged doesn't do much good.

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what staff is he using and can we find it.

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You can use a spear and R1 him to death, he will only heal once. Keep distance and side walk the magic missles, they're always 4

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