Special Weaknesses is a hidden mechanic in Elden Ring. Certain Weapons, Skills, and Spells deal extra damage to certain types of Enemies.
- See Status Effects for all status buildups and other effects applied to your character.
- See Buffs & Debuffs for useful information regarding the stacking or overwriting of effects on your character.
- See Damage Types to identify the best sources and resistances for all damage types.
- See Affinities for a comparison of each affinity's effects and their respective whetblades.
- See Equipment with Special Effects for special stat-increasing or effect-granting weapons and armor.
All Special Weaknesses in Elden Ring
Gravity
Gravity enemies come from the outer stars far beyond the Lands Between. They often are covered with hard skin and wield powerful magic, but are weak to weapons that share their origins.
Undead
Undead enemies, also known as "Those Who Live in Death", defy the Golden Order and are thus weak to Holy Damage.
Weapons
- Golden Order Greatsword (+20%)
- Inseparable Sword (+20%)
- Golden Epitaph (+30%)
- Haligbone Arrow (+50%)
- Golden Arrow (+50%)
- Golden Great Arrow (+50%)
Spells
Order's Blade (+100%)- Litany of Proper Death (+900%)
Weapon Skills
- Last Rites (+100%)
- Shared Order (+50%)
- Sacred Order (+100%)
- Sacred Blade (+100%)
Consumables
- Sacred Order Pot (+90%)
- Holy Water Pot (+400%)
- Roped Holy Water Pot (+400%)
Dragons
Ancient Dragons
AnonymousNote: There are two kinds of "holy damage". Just because your weapon has Holy AR does not mean it deals this other kind of Holy damage. They only deal the 2nd kind by default if the weapon description says so, which is what deletes skeleton enemies. The listed ashes and incants can also "bless" your weapon with it.
e.g. Ordovis Greatsword and does not deal both types, only the AR kind.
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How the **** is the older than time DRAGON lord not a dragon or an ancient dragon? The hell is fromsoft smoking?
R.I.P dark souls players who used lightning against elden ring dragons
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It should be noted here that the Revenant undeads take damage from healing spells (the ones with area of effect), deals 50% of there hp with one spell cast
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They got to make some strong undead in DLC. Those spectral tombstones, deathroot around the Erdtree... All pointing on that one of major bosses must be undead.
Stay strong golden order incantations enjoyers!
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It's interesting that the rotten human enemies we see all over the lands between that are laying in corpse piles set aflame in caelid, wandering the shores of the weeping peninsula and lying dormant in abandoned dungeons, in all of their grotesque and zombie-like appearance, are not considered undead. Despite their unbelievably advanced state of decay they're still just humans. Such is the disturbing reality of a world robbed of proper death.
- Anonymous
Do the black fire incants actually do bonus damage vs radagon/elden beast? or are they just good because the % based DOT is extremely potent against endgame bosses with massive HP pools? (And endgame bosses have low fire resistence)
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I remember when i first played elden ring and i saw there were 2 named flying dragons. 2 named glintstone dragons. 2 status effect dragons, so i thought there would be 2 named ancient dragons. there is only 1. ( I know there is placy and fortisax but I thought there would be a 2nd dragon with "ancient dragon" in its name.) Also because i could not resist it, dragon deez nuts cross yo face.
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I know it just one weapon but wouldn't the Giants crusher belong here as well?
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Funny how a lot of the weapons that are “effective” on ancient dragons deal lightning damage. I mean, it’s not like ancient dragons have 80% Lightning resistance and can literally pluck Lightning out of the damn sky to use as weapons. Naaah…
- Anonymous
Ruin's Greatsword doesn't count as a "Gravity" weapon even though its AOW looks similar to other Gravity weapons, such as Fallingstar Jaw?
Dragons are absolutely trash bosses with unavoidable fire breaths
- Anonymous
There is a hyperlink to this page for "accursed" enemies, but it's not a listed category here.
- Anonymous
Not all weapons with holy damage can pierce the undead resurrection effect? really?
- Anonymous
holy water pots are godly against undead enemies, even with no faith leveling. Its so good that it does good damage even against the strongest death rite bird. Also easy to make. Makes skeleton filled catacombs a cakewalk
- Anonymous
kind of annoying that pretty much all dragon weapons have lightning but dragons are resistant to it
- Anonymous
The weapon skill Sacred Blade seems to do increased damage to Undead, and prevents skeletons from respawning if they are killed by either the projectile or the buffed weapon.
- Anonymous
If the spirit-caller snails are undead, are their summons also undead?
- Anonymous
Blackflame incantations, ashes of war and weapons like the Godslayer's Greatsword are extremely effective against Elden Beast. This is cool because it's backed up by the in-game lore.
- Anonymous
Not mentioned here - all blackflame attacks extra effective against Godkin (including most if not all demi-gods)
- Anonymous
Not featured on the list, the Sacred Blade ash of war also does increased damage against undead.
- Anonymous
Kinda weird that Ruins GreatSword doesn't have the Gravity weapon bonus
- Anonymous
Does the magma wyrm’s scalesword count as a dragon weapon? If the icerind hatchet does it’d be a little weird if the scalesword didn’t
- Anonymous
"Note:Placidusax is not a dragon or an ancient dragon"
Lol
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