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| Location | Limgrave Tunnels Ailing Village Tombsward Cave Altus Plateau |
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Giant Rat is a Wildlife Creature in Elden Ring. Giant Rats are hostile creatures even if not attacked, and are usually seen in abandoned areas or within caves. They vary in size, ranging from small normal-sized Rats, to large human-sized Rats. These rodent creatures may very well attack alone, but will often charge in groups, therefore making them a considerable threat.
A group of Giant Rats can be summoned for aid as spirits by using the Giant Rat Ashes.
[They] swarm upon their victims... These vermin seem to multiply incessantly.
Giant Rat Location in Elden Ring
Where to Find Giant Rats:
- Caves and underground locations such as Limgrave Tunnels and Dragon-Burnt Ruins.
- Within Ailing Village and Callu Baptismal Church. Excellent place to farm Rune Arcs.
- Inside Tombsward Cave.
- Within the sewage section of Leyndell, Royal Capital.
- Castle Sol
Giant Rat Drops in Elden Ring
Item |
Drop Rate |
Additional Info |
| Runes | 100% |  39 - 811 | 160 - 938 |
| Rune Arc | 0.50%-1.00% | N/A |
| Yellow Ember | 5.00% | N/A |
| Golden Rune (3) | 20.00% | N/A |
Elden Ring Giant Rat Notes & Tips
- These creatures share the same moveset as previous Souls games, but do not inflict plague or similar status effects. Be careful not to get mobbed by them.
- Like any animal-type enemy, it is suspectible to Slash and Fire Damage
- Parryable: No
- Can be poise broken and riposted.
Giant Rat Image Gallery
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How can they be giant rats, when regular sized rats seemingly don't exist? Never seen one myself and until proven otherwise, those are just normal rats.
Deadly, masters of teeth martial arts rats...
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Small mobs like this are something I don't think FS has ever done all that well, mostly in regards to their health & damage scaling. Basic enemies dealing a quarter of your max health early on? Totally fine. It's an RPG, you're meant to be "weak" early. Those same basic enemies (often just reskinned) still dealing a quarter of your health because they're not in late-game areas? Kind of defeat the those point of leveling Vigor, if all it's going to do is play catchup. If giant rats appeared in Elphael, you bet they'd still be chunking you to within an inch of your life in a heartbeat.
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le instant hit 2 frame charge attack that stuns your character regardless of poise
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Try to aggro only one at a time; they do terrible amounts of poise damage. they're bastards.
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I can't believe no one else is complaining about the INVISIBLE GODDAMN RATS in the sewers. I swear those ones specifically have killed me more times than any other single enemy spawn in any FromSoft game
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I'M DA GIANT RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF DA ROOLS
let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into
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Shouldn't be underestimated. They die in one or two hits, but can dodge back and their attacks very easily break your poise. It's very easy to get stunlocked to death by them.
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For anyone who are farming these at the Beside the Rampart Gaol grace, if you ahve a skill similar to Starscourge Greatsword AoW it can clip through the wall and kill them. Helpful so you don't have to deal with them in the small room. Breath attacks also works (Like the Dragons fire breath for example) but is a bit harder to hit with. Still for anyone who has trouble with these little bastards.
My setup tends to be
Kill Enemies through Wall
walk to the front gate to peak and check
If ones there, take it and reset, if not head back and reset
It doesn't really cut down time or anything since this is already fast. But i thought i'd try to help a few people out there who do have trouble with this.
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With the terrifying amount of poise damage they could inflict, they'll see what kind of trouble they could get themselves into.
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If you get around 100 poise you won't get staggered by 1 attack from them. Now it takes 2 attacks.
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the way they jump with their tiny little arms, even the giant version... i hate these things even in ds. getting killed by a freakin rat triggers me more than getting killed by any boss
They don't drop the pauper's rune, that rune is unused content.
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Hate these stupid little shitlords, one of my most hated mobs besides imps.
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Typical of souls games to use rats to farm humanity/embers/rune arcs lmao
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I'm just glad that these things aren't the cute kind of rats.
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who would win?: an enormous 8ft sword that can flatten a fully armoured knight? or a few ratty bois?
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I have 58 poise and getting staggered by the smaller versions of these little shits lmao. Fromsoft is laughing rn
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Bro, why do basic axe and hammer swings miss these things at point blank?
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do you people have any idea how embarassing it was to fight my way through Fort Faroh severely underleveled so I could get the Dectus Medallion early, methodically vanquishing the poisonous bat harpies and eliminating the summoned soldiers, only to fall down a hole and instantly get deleted by a ****ing rat
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How can these shits stagger me out of my colossal weapon swing when sword slashes can't?? lol
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Fromsoft Developer: "so how much poise damage should we have this enemy do?"
Myazaki: "ALL OF IT!!! **** YOU!!!" *punches worker in the face*
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Fromsoft Developer: "so how much poise damage should we have this enemy do?"
Myazaki: "ALL OF IT!!! **** YOU!!!" *punches worker in the face*
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The larger ones seem to be in charge, I wonder if they make all the rules
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I don't know what specific sub-variant of rat drops Yellow Ember or Golden Rune (3), because I've killed close to 300 so far to farm Rune Arcs and haven't seen a single one of either of those despite getting close to a dozen Rune Arcs that have a (according to wiki) far lower drop rate.
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There’s four rats in the building right next to a grace called “Beside the Rampart Gaol” in Castle Morne
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Fuuuuck the ones in the castle with the soreseal. They hit harder than anything else up to that point. The bigger one can easily oneshot you.
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HOW DOES THIS THING HAVE MORE POISE THAN ME?
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