Marionette Soldier Ashes | Elden Ring Wiki

These guys carry so hard. You can bounce a boss's aggro between you and the summons all day. Gideon and Black Knife Assasins are going nuts trying to reach them. And with the mimic tear at Nokron I just made a cup of tea while they took care of business.

As with all summons they get a lot tankier and hit harder with upgrades. Being ranged and mostly immobile can be a huge benefit. Put them in a corner with a Warming Stone near them, while you approach a boss from behind.

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Fragile and not great at maneuvering but by god they will turn the boss into a pincushion or a panicked wreck. If the boss doesn't autododge they can draw INSANE aggro and often help with knockdowns due to constant poise chip. If the boss is coded to dodge projectiles it will spend the entire fight leaping around helplessly and you can kill it at your leisure. Seriously underrated summon. Just don't expect them to survive if they're fighting something with room-clearing AOE

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Since this page isn't mentioning it, you need grave glovewort to upgrade these guys.

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OK. I love you Mario Bros. You are a not too tanky but you stagger enough to never let a hit get in sideways. You can also find enemies before I know they are there even if you are just filling the wall with arrows, but FFS please don't wander off to fight **** that is not part of the mission. And if you do go off for a smoke, please come back and help before the fight is over, yeah, that would be awesome.

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I like these guys for doing chip damage to hoards. Like claymen. Just summon them in range and a bit high up. Then drop down to melee or stay and help pick them off with some range.

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These guys make short work of the Godskin Duo if you're stuck on that boss. The only thing keeping these from being my only summon is that they don't follow you.

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Super marionette bros, turning everything they see into a hedgehog.

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Use these guys alongside a bow that has Barrage AOW on it to turn your enemies into a pincushion.

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Would probably go well with the Cursed-Blood Pot to either have them aim down one target, or to get them to perhaps aggro from a far and have them move.

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mfs tear down bosses better than us! certainly in top 3 or 5

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Ahh, the Marionette bros

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Use these against the wolf boss in raya lucaria and it becomes a rave with how much he dashes around

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Say what you will about these guys but they just helped me beat Malenia, their arrows stagger her so much it was amazing

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I've just summoned these for the albinaurics at blood-filled lake. They did okay seeing as they have no upgrades put in them and the albinaurics here hit hard. If I did upgrade them would I see any improvement in the damage they do? or would they just get a slightly bigger health pool with each upgrade?

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I've never used these once since I found them, I know the enemy version can stun-lock and kill me easily if they see me before I see them and I was at a fairly high level the last time it happened at mt gelmir, but they are pretty fragile and die quickly. I'm going to try them out later on to see for myself.

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Finally beat the Godskin Duo with there bastards.

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Does this Spirit require Ghost or Grave Glovewort to level up?

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Best summon simply bc watching your boi have a seizure in the corner and then seeing 37 arrows sticking out of the boss's head can't be topped

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My favorite summon, breaks AIs, stunlocks everything that has no poise, always takes aggro off you from the sheer number of arrows and you can see all the arrows sticking out of the bosses. Also use this against the invisible black knife assassin in sage's cave. He can't do anything other than dodge and will be stunlocked.

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Super underappreciated summon. These guys single-handedly killed the invisible Black Knife Assassin in Sage Cave for me. Been bouncing between these and the Avionettes. These are better for distraction & dps, and they can tank a little more. Avionettes have more evasion because they are way more mobile, do fire damage, and can chunk with bleed but are pretty fragile. If the enemy has an AOE, use these guys & yoyo the enemy between yourself & the marionettes for success.

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carried the 2x iron maiden fight for me. They both ganged up on them so when they started firing arrows everywhere it was just over.

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Are there stronger ashes than them? Yes
Is their ai, especially aggro range broken, making them unreasonable passive if no enemy is in their attack? Yes
Are they fragile? Yes

Will the enemy have 20 arrows stick out of them and the only reason why there are not even more is because of rendering limits? Yes
Will the enemy constantly be interrupted because of a constant hail of arrows, especially since their quivers are magical and never run empty? Yes

I love these guys, especially since they are very early available

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Rather useless at Caria Manor, they'll shoot at enemies still burrowed underground, only good if you don't want to look for the enormous fingers protruding from the Earth. They also can tend to just act like Ash's Charizard, and will just wander about aimlessly while you try to proceed through an area. Good in boss fights but.

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Very handy for spellcaster and/or bosses that flinch.
They stay out of range of most attacks, and interrupts attacks for you.
Thus I absolutely love them on my melee fighter. Even use them to ping pong bosses
(forcing bosses to run between me and them without ever reaching either)

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Pretty damn solid Spirit summons. Stands head and shoulders above most basic enemy summons (that are quite garbage). They're just as good as annoying/hurting enemies with their quickfire barrage (as you well know by now if you've had to fight them lol) and they are surprisingly tanky too - although you should aim to have the enemy focus on yourself, of course.

And like the amazing Skeletal Militiamen summon, you get two of them.

.... there is a bit of a downside though, if they get hurt too much they go into a berserk mode where they just spin and fire arrows without targeting anyone which makes them useless for the duration. But that can be helped by aggroing things yourself.

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summoned these and instantly won vs abuductor virgins . super tanks

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These guys provide great cover fire for melee players

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Upgraded them as soon as I found them and they pretty much solo'd Renalla (Academy boss) by perma interrupting her casts

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This spirit is the dumbest AI I've seen in a game in a really long time. Don't get me wrong, they do their job to a good extent, but they cannot dodge or even move even if I am getting bodied right in front of them. So long as they cannot target your opponent, you're on your own, and they'll watch you suffer 'till the last drop of your Crimson Flask.

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Designed for one thing only: Search and Destroy.

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Their constant barrage of arrows screws with the AI against human opponents, making them roll nonstop and attack less.

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These mfs that shoots 2 billion arrows at you non-stop were awful when you had to fight them. Now they are on your side, so imagine that.

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Remember those marionette mofos that shoots 23242398203592 arrows at you non-stop 24/7? And remember how you almost rage quit when there are two of them side by side and you couldn't even get close? Well, this spirit is that, and it's great when they are on your side.

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These mfs that shoots 2 billion arrows at you non-stop were awful when you had to fight them. Now they are on your side, so imagine that.

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Remember those marionette mofos that shoots 23242398203592 arrows at you non-stop 24/7? And remember how you almost rage quit when there are two of them side by side and you couldn't even get close? Well, this spirit is that, and it's great when they are on your side.

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I think this is the best you can get if you playing heavy melee. BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF BOSSES THAT DO AOE ATTACK!

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these guys are built different, I have named mine greg and terry and they are truly my brothers in arms. I've never felt so attached to a string of 1's and 0's in my life.

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Elden Ring equivalent of suppressive machine gun fire, clears the trenches 10/10

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These bois are tanks. They stagger and laugh off hits. Replaced the wolves and jelly fish for me instantly.

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Came back here to say that these are insane

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This Summon is so strong against dragons. Summon this and stay under the dragon attacking its head. You have to dodge stomps but if you stop attacking for a second to allow the summon so keep pulling aggro you basically keep the dragon on the ground.

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Garbage, faster than Jellyfish but less damage before they die. Don't bounce weapons off either, and upgrading them doesn't give access to the OP melee guys.

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Possibly the best summon in my opinion. Tried out many others but this one just slaps different.

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These mfs made holy knight loretta trivial and i didnt even upgrade them

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Crazy good, switch to this from dogs.

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Can pretty much stunlock any humanoid enemy

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Can pretty much stunlock any humanoid enemy

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These are crazy. Stagger like hell, are tanky as **** and ranged, too. Also deal a lot of damage if the boss doesn't charge around like crazy.

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Mine dropped from one of 2 marionette soldiers in the Academy of Raya Lucia

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