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Brace behind shield before using body weight to ram foes while maintaining guarding stance.
Weaker enemies will be shoved backwards, and can even be staggered. |
Shield Bash is a Skill in Elden Ring. Shield Bash is a regular skill that can be use by equipping the some Greatshields and all other shields. Updated to Patch 1.08. Shield Bash has Standard Affinity.
How to get Shield Bash
- Dropped by a beetle in the island below the broken bridge connecting Raya Lucaria Academy and East Raya Lucaria Gate. Elden Ring Map Link.
- Liurnia of the Lakes: Dropped by a Teardrop Scarab under a bridge very close to East Gate Bridge Trestle site of grace. Elden Ring Map Link.
Default skill on the:
- Ant's Skull Plate
- Briar Greatshield
- Crucible Hornshield
- Dragonclaw Shield
- Inverted Hawk Towershield
- Lordsworn's Shield
- Manor Towershield
- Shield of the Guilty
- Smoldering Shield
- Spiked Palisade Shield
Elden Ring Shield Bash Guide, Notes & Tips
- This is an Ash of War Skill, associated with the Ash of War: Shield Bash.
- FP Cost: 10
- This Skill is not Chargeable
- This skill's move is the same regardless of if the FP requirement is met; the differences between a non-FP and FP-charged Shield Bash appear to be that the former deals roughly 50% of the latter, and does not deal as much stance damage, thus not knocking down enemies as readily and breaking their poise
- Like most Skills, the full FP requirement must be met at the time of casting to perform the FP-charged ability. Regardless of if it is successfully performed or the FP-less version is done instead, FP will be drained (e.g. FP cost of 10, player has 9 FP, uses Skill, the result is the player will perform the weaker FP-less version and have their FP drained to 0).
- When combined with Talismans such as the Carian Filigreed Crest and the Ancestral Spirit's Horn, a Shield Bash-focused playstyle becomes possible even on builds that have very little FP. By using a Greatshield with 100 PHY guard and high enough elemental guard, as well as decent offensive capability (such as the Spiked Palisade, or the Dragonclaw Shield) a player could hypothetically invest almost all levels and other stat-influencing items into maximising their stamina via putting points into Endurance, such that they could block most every physical attack with little risk and retaliate using guard counters and Shield Bashes, as well as keeping their equipment load maximum high enough that high-poise armour such as Lionel's Set, which helps to accommodate for Greatshields' slow attack rate and large window of vulnerability when attacking, can be equipped without exceeding a medium load, allowing for optimal dodge-rolling in addition to the already powerful defenses described.
- Regardless of how much Stamina the player has, so long as they use Shield Bash at the right time, they can block any and all attacks within the frames of the move. This is ideal as a way to tank a hit after attacking with a weapon to near zero stamina.
- NOTE: This Skill was changed with Patch 1.07 as follows: Stamina attack power against guarded enemies has been increased.
- NOTE: As of Patch 1.08 the time it takes to activate the guard part of the Shield Bash Weapon Art has been reduced.
AnonymousUnsheathe does 30 stance damage, meanwhile a shield bash does incredibly less, but also depends on the shield type:
Greatshield - 13 stance damage (13.875)
Medium shield - 6 stance damage (6.875)
Small shield - 6 stance damage (6.25)
In other words, a light attack when two-handing a Greatsword does more stance damage than Shield Bash on Medium or Small shields. Also it does basically the same stance damage as Shield Bash on a Greatshield.
It is honestly hilarious how most people do not know the fact that although you can't be guard broken during it, but lose stamina nevertheless. When I eat a square off or some other full wa and retaliate, they fall back in fear of my "huge stamina" not knowing I am in fact at 0 stamina and can't even roll. One hit and you would have won. But alas
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This is almost perfect, just please please please improve the poise damage. I can't count the amount of times I've used this to counter an opponent's attack then after hitting my shield with an R1 they just tank this skill like it's nothing and hit me with an other R1, after that I'm just a sitting duck with no stamina and I eat another R1 or even an R2/AoW. Nerf it in other ways if necessary, I don't care, it just sucks being punished for successfully using a skill in the exact way you're supposed to use it
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This is a shockingly effective Ash despite being so mundane. It's low cost, easy to throw out, does respectable poise dmg that can be mixed with you primary weapon, and pisses off invaders when you shove them off cliffs. Excellent ash.
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I think they lowered the poise damage on this on 1.09, not staggering hardly anyone through anything currently
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this is also default skill on fingerprint stone shield and is missing from the list
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Do you hate pokers who run in circles to farm running attacks? Is that colossal user spamming crouch pokes? Sick of jumping attacks?
Try this all-in-one package to tell em' to piss right off!!!
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It appears that this skill ignores the stagger from bleed and frostbite
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If you don't know: this cannot be stopped. No matter the damage, stamina damage or stagger. You can be drain to 0 stamina and this ash don't care. It catch so many players off guard with 500+ damage to the face it's disgusting.
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who needs stability when you can just block with hyperarmor that's also an attack?
if you wanna do it in quick succession you do need to spam L2 because if you do it too early your input won't get cued.
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Wondering if this works with the spear talisman, since the shield bash is technically a thrust attack
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shield bash on medium shield will not get guard broken during the animation. Kinda like how parry doesn't get broken as well.
Great for testing latency for parry timing
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Wouldn’t say it’s very helpful to run a ton of poise like the tips say if you’re planning on using shield bash a lot, with how fast the block frames come out you shouldn’t be getting hit while bashing very often. Shield crash is a different story, poise helps there because of the slower start up and definitely necessary to use it effectively in PvP.
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I know it says not chargeable, but is this considered a charged move? Like will boosting "charged attack power" work?
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Still works with buffs on right hand, including royal knights resolve
I can't really call this underrated, since there's so many borderline busted ashes in comparison... but this one certainly feels a bit overlooked. This art will 'guard point' through anything you can block, even if it drops your stamina to 0.
So you can use it to guard through combos or huge attacks that will break your guard, and get a counterattack off of it, which has high stagger and decent damage with an upgraded shield.
It really opens up an unique counter based gameplay style. Lets you get hits in where otherwise you'd be stuck blocking or dodging, so it helps to keep posture damage built up, or to defend in dire situations with even 1 stamina.
You can meet Fallenstar Beast's charge head on and knock it down, you can block the Royal Revenant crazy-flailing... just be careful as you'll likely be at 0 stamina afterwards when you use this and it has some fair endlag.
Such a fun ash of war.
I can't really call this underrated, since there's so many borderline busted ashes in comparison... but this one certainly feels a bit overlooked. This art will 'guard point' through anything you can block, even if it drops your stamina to 0.
So you can use it to guard through combos or huge attacks that will break your guard, and get a counterattack off of it, which has high stagger and decent damage with an upgraded shield.
It really opens up an unique counter based gameplay style. Lets you get hits in where otherwise you'd be stuck blocking or dodging, so it helps to keep posture damage built up, or to defend in dire situations with even 1 stamina.
You can meet Fallenstar Beast's charge head on and knock it down, you can block the Royal Revenant crazy-flailing... just be careful as you'll likely be at 0 stamina afterwards when you use this and it has some fair endlag.
Such a fun ash of war.
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Anyone know if the damage from shield bash uses your shields offensive stats?
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I found the art of war from a teleporting beetle, close by the grace point under the East Gate Bridge Tresle
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SLOWER than a Straight Sword's charged attack.
Does LESS damage than a Straight Sword's charged attack.
Does 5x LESS stance damage than a Straight Sword's charged attack.
Does LARGE amounts of stamina damage against guarded enemies.
In short, not useful against most bosses and large enemies but exceptional against anything in guard stance.
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