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| Location | Church of the Bud |
| Drops | 280,000 RunesRemembrance of the Saint of the Bud |
| HP | 35798 (Legend Boss) |
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Hemmorage 
Holy
Romina, Saint of the Bud is a Legend Boss in Elden Ring. Romina, Saint of the Bud is an amalgamation of various creatures, such as a scorpion, centipede, butterfly, and humanoid creature. It can be found in Church of the Bud. This is not an optional boss, as players need to defeat it to advance in Shadow of the Erdtree.
Elden Ring Romina, Saint of the Bud Boss
Scadutree Avatar is a Legend Boss found in Church of the Bud.
- Romina, Saint of the Bud is not an optional boss.
- Romina, Saint of the Bud is a Legend type of boss.
- Closest Site of Grace: Church of the Bud, Main Entrance [Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Map Link] [Video Link]
- Multiplayer is allowed for this boss
- Players can summon Spirit Ashes to face Romina, Saint of the Bud
Elden Ring Romina, Saint of the Bud Location
Romina, Saint of the Bud can be found by Church of the Bud. You can get to Church of the Bud by heading South from the Scorpion River Catacombs. It's near the Church of the Bud, Main Entrance Site of Grace.
See Romina, Saint of the Bud's location on the [Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Map]
Romina, Saint of the Bud Combat Information
- Health: NG (35798), NG+ (37187), NG++ (40906), NG+3 (42765), NG+4 (44625), NG+5 (48343), NG+6 (50203), NG+7 (52062)
- Absorptions: ??
- Defenses do not change between phases - a firebomb will do the same damage in phase 1 as in phase 2.
- Damage:
Standard - Inflicts:
Scarlet Rot - Parriable: Yes, 1 parry is required to break her stance
- Can be poise broken with heavy and jump attacks.
- Weak to:
Frostbite - Resistant to
Fire, Standard - Immune to Scarlet Rot
- Drops Remembrance of the Saint of the Bud and 380,000 Runes when defeated.
Elden Ring Romina, Saint of the Bud Boss Guide
Romina, Saint of the Bud Boss Video Guide
Romina, Saint of the Bud Fight Strategy
The Best Tips for Romina, Saint of the Bud:
- Use the "Mimic Tear" Ash Summons
- Use the"Flame, Cleanse Me"Spell
- Bring "Preserving Boluses" Item
Melee Users
Romina, Saint of the Bud, is a mid-sized boss with a body resembling a centipede, a scorpion, the wings of a butterfly, and a human. She wields a spear, centipede fangs, and a scorpion stinger, making her a unique foe. To defeat Romina, you'll need a balanced approach, mixing both offense and defense. When facing her as a melee character, focus not only on her central human body but also observe her centipede fangs and scorpion stinger, which act as her arms. These parts of her body can move independently, meaning she can launch multiple attacks simultaneously, such as swinging her spear while her scorpion stinger strikes from the opposite direction. Romina's attacks include heavy spear thrusts, sweeping stinger strikes, and biting fangs.
Use the openings created by her heavy attacks to your advantage. After she finishes a combo, quickly counterattack to take advantage of the brief windows of vulnerability. Her attacks, while powerful, have high recovery times, allowing you to dodge and immediately counter. When she begins a combo, dodge her attacks by rolling to the side or backward. Immediately after dodging, counter with heavy attacks to break her poise. Frequent use of jumping and heavy attacks is recommended as it can stagger her, leaving her open to further attacks.
Romina at first seems like you must wait and punish with a typical melee build. She has a glaring weakness of being weak to animations that shift the players hurtbox down to low profile common moves she performs, such as her double glowing spear lunge and swipe move. Perfect example I found was using Dryleaf arts, the Heavy attack naturally low profiles many of her spear swiping moves. During my run I found it more beneficial to be aggressive rather than defensive, staying on her inner right side up front will negate a lot of her attacks with a dodge as needed. I ran frost to add the slow to her animations which was a plus but not needed in fighting her. The low profiling and staying on the offensive to break stance to heal as needed or deal big damage was enough. During you have enough time to heal and use Ash of War: Divine Beast Frost Stomp for example without getting hit. Patience and aggressive play shines in this fight as long as you can consistent low profile which is the namesake of this strategy.
Magic and Ranged Users
Strategy Writeup for Magic Users
Romina, Saint of the Bud Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Description | Counter |
| Triple Centipede Bite Swing | At mid range, Romina swings it's Centipede head thrice at you from left to right. | This attack can be evaded by rolling back thrice just before the centipede head swings. Additionally, rolling to the left, then the right and then towards her will dodge this effectively leaving you close by to punish |
| Double Spear Swing | At close range, Romina's human body swings its spear downward and upward at you twice. | This attack is easily predictable because it glows before the attack is executed. Roll back twice to evade this attack. |
| Scorpion Stinger Swing | At mid-range, Romina's scorpion stinger swings at you which deals heavy damage. | This attack is a bit difficult to evade but with quick observation, you can evade this attack by rolling to either right or left just before the swing executes. |
| Flying Sting | At mid or long-range, Romina flies briefly and thrusts downward toward your character with its stinger. | This attack can be evaded with good timing of your roll. When you see Romina fly through the air, wait for its stinger to appear. once a shine appears on the stinger, immediately roll to either right or left. |
| Cyclone Spear Slash | In close range, Romina will swing her spear downwards twice in a circular motion. | Roll to either left or right just before she starts spinning with her spear. |
| Flying Spear Slash | Romina attacks you with her spear thrice while in the air. | This can be countered by rolling to either right or left. Each of the three slashes has her getting momentum from up in the air. Time your roll just as she's about to soar down on you. |
| Butterfly Bombs | In some of her attacks, she sometimes leaves multiple butterflies that will explode after a few seconds. | After evading a certain attack from Romina, observe your surroundings quickly if she left a trail of pink butterflies after her attack. Immediately roll back until you're not surrounded by butterflies. |
Romina, Saint of the Bud Lore, Notes & Other Trivia
- This boss has no dialogue whatsoever
Romina, Saint of the Bud Image Gallery
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"Patience and aggressive play shines in this fight as long as you can consistent low profile which is the namesake of this strategy."
who is writing these
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Did her on my first try, it felt so random because Gaius and Mesmer beat the **** out of me. I used Queeligns ash of war and just spammed her to death even tho she is resistent to fire? I just stayed close, she didn't deal a lot of dmg either. By far the easiest of the main bosses
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Dryleaf dane does nothing. Walks around the arena and will probably do max 3k dmg in this boss fight.
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in what world is she strong against fire lmao who's writing these infos
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I actually enjoyed this I want to fight her again but that'd be another ng+
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is this boss supposed to be easy? literally 2 attempted her with a keen milady no summons.. her attacks are very readable i think
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Found her surprisingly easy but I did mainly fight her using adula's moonblade, I think she's just extremely weak to frost.
Makes me wonder - since frozen things generally have a harder time decaying, if things that are associated with rot are weak to frost as a rule. Malenia can infamously be frozen in one frost pot for example.
Kind of like how skeletons are weak to blunt, strong against piercing; armored enemies are weak to blunt and lightning; stone enemies are weak to blunt; squishy enemies like slugs are weak to piercing; animalistic enemies are weak to fire; these things generally tend to be the trend.
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Finally a boss where the hitboxes are ****ed up to my advantage.
I swear sometimes she just whiffs her attacks even if you're not dodging.
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Absolutely loved this one, reminded me of Dancer of the Boreal Valley in a strange way. Amazing.
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Romina really read Tokyo Ghoul and decided to cosplay Kaneki
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only boss in dlc i could actively perceive exactly what she is going to do
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One of the bosses that’s actually easier without summoning the NPC or spirit ashes. A very enjoyable fight.
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Idk why but her attack rythm seems familiar. It felt like I was dodging her attacks with some ancient knowledge or something, maybe she telegraphs them too much? Fun fight but felt a bit too easy.
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Easily my favorite Boss from Shadow of the Erdtree. Main game it's gotta go to Placidusax but honestly they are neck an neck for first overall both in design and combat. I just had some much fun with both.
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Solo Easier than with Dryleaf Dane.
Always cuddle.
Air Attack evade when the Pointy Stick glow.
She has alot of Openings after her combos burt with and NPC hjelf it becomes a mess.
I think solo is easy.
Careful of the Butterflies, they can Oneshot you.
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Raptor talons with bloodflame blade absolutely eats her idk why it says shes strong against fire damage
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Kinda cool to see another boss that's related to Scarlet Rot.
Given this is probably Romina's final form from Blooming, I wonder if Malenia would have been a giant moth or butterfly if she were to bloom again?
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Stay close, she will mostly slash or use the butterfly spell, dodge and hit with fire/bleed damage, tested with magma blades and rivers of blood and both ashes melt her.
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She is not resistant to fire at all. I've taken out half of her health with 2 or 3 fully charged Giantsflame Take Thee.
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I cannot block or dodge that triple attack and also you cannot summon spirits for this boss. So many bosses have attacks that aim for your roll it's seriously pissing me off.
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ironic that the rot boss is the most fun and fair boss ive encountered so far on ng+7
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Why on earth is she strong against fire? I mean lore wise it makes no sense: scarler rot was cleansed with fire
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I kind of regret summoning for this boss, probably could’ve been as much fun as Dancing Lion. Rellana and the hippo absolutely deserved it though
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by far the easiest fight of the dlc so far, very cool though and pretty
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Her being so easy is counteracted by the fact she has the worst hitbox ever conceived
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Shitty boss but better than a lot of the other DLC bosses by a mile. Great feeling when I finally beat her!
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It seems that everyone here fought a different boss to me, and that may be my skill level. But when ever I get her down into phase 2, all she does is either roll away or chain flying moves together like an ADHD bird on redbull, not giving me any time to hit her and causing the camera to spas out making dodging some of her moves difficult.
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what's this? A boss that doesn't crazy 10 hit combos? Fromsoft is losing it.
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I also had Dryleaf Dane as a co op summon outside of the boss door.
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protip just switch your keen weapons to cold for this fight, procs frostbite in a few swings each time and you don't lose any dps
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Dryleaf Dane is so useless in this fight… like yes please go punch the eldritch horror, lost my **** when he went for the critical hit and did zilch
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Just used serulia's tree and killed her with help of mimic tear and Dryleaf Dane, shes weak to holy damage.
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Remind me so much of Quelaag
Bleed build with Blood River just work so well
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A boss fight without infinite combos, one shot attacks or arena wide AoEs? I wish we had more of those
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easiest boss in the dlc if you stay close to here she misses alot of her swings, the only boss I killed from first try. All her attack are quite predictable and easy to dodge.
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Holy moly, an actual honest-to-god well-designed boss. And its somehow the scarlet rot one, what the hell?! But seriously, she looks cool, her moves are flashy, but readable, she has reasonable amount of hp. Just... perfect. If you struggled up to this point of the DLC and had to summon/cheese other bosses - i urge you to reconsider just for this fight
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I found this fight a lot more enjoyable with bloodhound step.
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you can summon Dryleaf Dane as a cooperator for her. His sign is on the right side of the entrance, just before the doorway thing. I do not know the conditions for his summon to appear. I didn't have him at first. I went exploring and defeated a few bosses and came back to see the sign.
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is she actually strong against fire? That's kinda stupid given that everything rot related is either weak, or has no res to fire
So she has Pink Butterflies but isn't a demigod which might ruin Butterfly Theory
She is not resistant to fire unless she resists lightning more
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best advice I can give is to stay as close to her as you can
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Ive been absolutely destroying her for people with the beast claws art, nearly all of her sword attacks will miss you while in it because you are either in the air or crouching. If you can get on her right side you can wail away with no consequence. Its still possible to get unlucky and get hit by the aoes, but most of the stuff that might actually clip you does little damage, you can also roll out after the 4th attack, just before the jump. its strength heavy, with bloodflame, and the bleed works great on her. can usually get a stagger or two depending on what the other summon uses.
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I defeated it and swapped to gold scarab before the runes dropped, only got 342k.
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I just tested it. With an unupgraded falcon with 65 dex, I did 96. With Messmer Fire Grease I hit 202. With the heavy holy grease I hit 172. Pretty sure she's resistant/normal vs holy, and weak/normal vs fire.
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One of the best bosses of the DLC for sure, design and combat wise, super fun fight, scarlot rot isn't cancer and the design is just amazing I love when developers use centipedes as inspiration it always looks so cool.
Combat tip: Stick close to her sometimes she will miss an attack or two.
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Easily the best boss in the DLC so far. No effects blocking the entire screen, no infinite combos. Hits kind of hard, but has a decent amount of openings. A+
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One of the most fair "main" bosses of the dlc. All her attacks are easy to read and see coming (aside from one where she strikes super fast, but It's not a combo and at most will eat away 30% of your hp), she is weak to freeze and bleed status, holy dmg wrecks her and she is quite easy to stagger. The butterflies are super easy to dodge sideway and her longest combo can be avoided by just hugging her real close. Nice boss overall, 8/10
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Easily my favorite fight so far in the game. This in my opinion is a near perfect fight. I think this boss takes what I think the best part of elden ring bosses (the spectacle), and companies this with a solid move set. Her move set always feels manageable but definitely will trip you up if you panic or get too greedy. I find the fact that you basically have to forces on both the body and the centipede head very interesting. Another thing is that I feel like this fight is the natural evolution to queelag with out being overly simpler to her. The over all spectacle of her second phase is beautiful with her butterflies. Her rot I feel like it’s fairly balanced where if you get hit a couple of time your not going to get rotted but you can’t just tank hits or else you will get rot inflicted. This fight for some strange reason reminds me of a lot of older dark souls fights in a good way. And also her soundtrack is amazing. My overall score is 9/10. The only problem I have is that she doesn’t have any cutscene or voice lines, so she doesn’t really have any character.
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The instant butterfly AOE in the 2nd phase definitely needs a hotfix, everything else is fair. That move can one shot you with 0 buildup
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This boss is the rykard to quelaag and najka well designed and actually fair
Such an awesome boss took 5 tries guts gs pure str just stay near the human body and like 60% of attacks will wiff, wish she did more dmg tho and her attacks woudlnt wiff which would bump her up from a 8.5/10 to a 9.5/10.
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Would be cool if she got an intro cutscene. Would make her a ton more memorable. The Quelaag bros have been thirsting for 13 years by now.
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Was having a heck of a time as an astrologer but this worked for me. Reduce your spell load out to just Rannis Dark Moon and Adulas Moonblade.
Summon the aid chatacter outside and run in, summoning the mimic tear, then hang the F back as best you can. She's vulnerable to frostbite, and being able stay back, volleying dark moons and getting the odd Moonblade in when you're close between dodges and I felled her first try with this after about 20 failed attempts
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One of the best bosses i think, her moveset is really fun to learn.
If you are struggling try to stick close to her human part, it makes dodging much easier.
Also, the flash and audio indication before the jump attack needs to be a regular thing in fromsoft games with how fast paced these fights are getting.
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yeah like another commenter stated the mottled neckalce +2 makes it a lot easier because scarlet rot builds up like 10 times slower so you don't even worry about it. google it, you'll find vids on youtube on how to get it, it's in the same area.
unlike some of the other dlc bosses her damage and HP are very reasonable. 1st tried it after putting on the necklace.
i always use mimic+golden greatshield against major bosses if you're not interested in "gitting gud"
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What? I defaet her with parry, please change this description
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Seems like hitting the back of the humanoid section with jump attacks definately staggers faster than hitting the front of the entire boss, wonder if each segment has different defence values or something
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What really is helping me with this fight is the +2 Mottled Necklace found near her arena, it massively boosts my protection against scarlet rot. Also, she seems to stagger really easily with heavy weapons, personally I'm using the Giant Smasher (Heavy +25).
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One of the best bosses in the DLC. Super cool design, fun to learn moveset, punishing but not overtuned; she's literally everything a Soulslike boss should be.
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If you have trouble with the Boss make sure to summon Maneater Mildred
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tip: use greatsword with giant hunt can easily break her stance (works in ng+ too)
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absolute ***** to fight, basically any movement of the boss is an attack, the length of it makes it awful to fight, is a great boss but man that sucked lol
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This Boss is actually Parriable, almost all of her spear attacks can indeed be parried easiest done with Golden Parry but can be achieved with any normal Parry Shield aswell.
this boss is so luck based. she either only does the really easy punishable moves, or she just spams the 5 hit combos giving you no time in between
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