Mad Pumpkin Head | Elden Ring Wiki

I feel that these are one of the most iconic enemies in Elden Ring! So many interesting things about their nature that really makes you curious about their back story as a whole.

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be wary of head, seek rump

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why arent these sobs parriable

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Just had a bugged out entry to the waypoint pumpkin... When I entered I couldn't summon wolves until I stepped forward just slightly. Then I summoned but the pumpkin head never attacked. Just stood there while I glintstoned it down, never even aggroed the wolves. Still got the big finish, but never had the progress bar.

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I hate their disgusting heads and the constant banging damn thing is annoying

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This page has charts and data and different diagrams and key art but literally nothing about what it drops. Like what?

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Just realized that the St. Trina sword is found inside the ruins next to the duo boss fight... the answer was under my nose the whole time.

I'm sorry for questioning your design choices Miyazaki.

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It is Halloween time!

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By far my favourite character.

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are there those who put them on their helmets?

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'You thought I had a watermelon instead. BUT I GOT A TEAM OF PUMPKIN HEADS!'

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they are parriable just only on the fists

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what race are these pumpkin heads? Human? Numen? Albinauric? Why are they so big if they're just human?

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I love these guys. They’re oddly adorable.

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I never thought fighting this guy would be a challenge, until I played as astrologer. That was terrifying.

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Pumpkin heads remind me of siegward

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For the Duo, melee solo strat:

Run straight up to the one on the left (hammer) and get two charged attacks in which should stagger, then R1 until the other one is winding up an attack, at which point land the critical.

Run away (circling tight to the outside walls is safest) until Hammer is back up and you'll find he's a bit less aggressive than flail. You should be able to hit and run and finish him of pretty easily as long as flail is not attacking you.

Finally, if you forward roll Flail's attacks you'll have ample time to hit his back and he'll usually retaliate with the headbutt, which is easy to dodge and punish.

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Parriable: No
Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken or parried

is it parriable or not?

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Has a unique riposte when the player is knocked down, it smashes it’s head into you twice

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When you fight the two at once in Caelid, throw a sleep pot at the one on the left. Just one sleep pot. It'll knock him out before he can stand up. Then you can fight one at a time. If he's still sleeping by the time you kill the first one, you can go backstab the sleeping one.

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Try head

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The lesser ones have a chance to drop their Pumpkin helm :D

Just got one from the guy resting in Morne Castle.

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I summoned banished knight engvall and he basically soloed these two. They didnt drop anything though. Rather anticlimactic

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The one standing next to a gravestone around the Bridge of Iniquity cliffside (sorry I can't remember better directions atm) planted a spear in the ground before attacking me. Do all of them do this?

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The roll catches on these are annoying af when they start to become regular enemies

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Beat the mad pumpkin head in one try today! And yeah, wolf ashes help alot with the battle.

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You actually can parry the flail pumpkin head's fist attacks

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I took the community's advice and tried using a sleep pot, and one of them became permanently hostile towards the other while dealing no damage to him
I then ran from the hostile one around the room for about two minutes hoping it would fix itself before dying to him
I guess I'm just gonna have to level up vigor and strength until I can brute force these guys?

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Find it kind of goofy how they arbitrarily designed a custom great hammer for these guys but didn't put it in as a drop, but the flail is available in-game. Just seems like an odd design choice. Especially with the fact that they added stuff like the lesser bubble sorceries which is almost a joke spell.

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I put this on the page, but I just found out you can turn the pumpkin head bosses on each other. You can also turn the generic enemy pumpkin heads on whatever allies they have.

You need to make the pumpkin head fall asleep, then wake it WITHOUT a repost.
They will look up to the sky/ceiling and beat their chest 3 times before attacking NPCs that happen to be around them for a while. When the frenzy ends, you'll see them stare up at the sky/ceiling again and they will return to their normal state.

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Night maidens mist- torrent- wolves. Mind blowing how easy that was after getting jacked up over and over.

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Thank you for everyone who said you can ride Torrent in the dungeon. Actually makes the duo bossfight manageable at a lower level.

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two big enemies+small room=boss fight good job fromsoft

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This boss fight is super easy as a sorcerer and you can beat it without leveling up. If you picked the Astrologer class, just use the glintstone arc spell, making sure you are NOT locked on. This allows for the spell to hit under his helmet and pass through his body + arms which does alot of damage. If you try and shoot his head, it will do less damage as he is armored. Just make sure to dodge his attacks and you should have easy access to a spell merchant at the beginning of the game!

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This boss fight is super easy as a sorcerer and you can beat it without leveling up. If you picked the Astrologer class, just use the glintstone arc spell, making sure you are NOT locked on. This allows for the spell to hit under his helmet and pass through his body + arms which does alot of damage. If you try and shoot his head, it will do less damage as he is armored. Just make sure to dodge his attacks and you should have easy access to a spell merchant at the beginning of the game!

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It helped a lot to summon the Wolfs Ashes and riding on Torrent around them to gave them some nice hits without being hit. Worked for me for every fight against them, in which Ashes and Torrent was allowed. Otherwise only Wolfes and dodging.

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So I’m not sure if other people have found this or thought about it, feel free to put this in the correct place but on the saintsbridge there’s a pumpkin head smacking its head with its own weapon and smashing it into the ground, the fluid that comes out is white, almost like Albinaric blood but when you strike the body the blood is read, maybe the helmet holds some kind of parasite or maybe it’s to hide a defect of some kind, just found it to be odd, maybe more knowledgeable know more about this

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Terrible fight. You end up fighting the room and the camera more than the bosses.

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For the two in the Calem ruins, the one on the left has a flag that it sets down before fighting leaving an opening to attack so focus your attacks on that one to deal as much damage as you can so that ideally you stagger it to do a critical strike and finish it off or get close to doing so.

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For casters who keep accidentally hitting the helmet try free-aiming

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For the duo, just use sleep arrow on the hammer one (5-6needed with barrage, 4normal) and kill the flail one (easy to parry his hand moves). Then finish off the halmer one on it’s own. That’s how I did it in sl1.

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You can ride Torrent inside the chamber

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You can actually ride your horse inside the chamber.

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The duo fight you have two choices, pray for good overlapping RNG, or cheese, same for most duo bosses aside from crucible knight duo but only bc of the simple parries and it actually seems like their AI is tweaked to make them the spear one less aggressive. Same needs to be done here. I'll take Crucible Knight duo over this duo 10x over.

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The one in Waypoint ruins has 1325 health (tested with sleep pot critical and bleed)

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you know when you see that awfull monster before you and you know you just dont got the level But you just dont give it the fear that he wanted you rise high and above and claim his ****ing runes and bring em back to the round table Thats what its all about baby

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Black Flame isn’t aggroing the saintsbridge pumpkin head for me

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I wish you could help them get the helmet off.

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I wish you could help them get the helmet off.

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I just dont like that the game targets center of mass but always aims for the head

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I just dont like that the game targets center of mass but always aims for the head

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Crystal Dart does not work for this boss, even if you get it while they don't block.

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Ez fight. If you somehow have trouble just use the Bloodhound's Fang

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Ez fight. If you somehow have trouble just use the Bloodhound's Fang

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Use Hoarfrost Stomp! Slows them both down and messes them up big time!

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Use Hoarfrost Stomp! Slows them down and messes them up! Especially the dual boss fight!

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Wow, amazing design. As if there wasn't enough trouble - they're perfectly capable of striking through one another and roll catching you constantly. Cancerous stuff, especially for anything melee that has vertical attack pattern due to their stupid helmets.

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There is one in the back of the giant room with the corpse pile right after you use the elevator up from the Castle Morne Life Grace. You will see a pack of dogs on the left and a huge corpse pile with a bunch of what I think are "misbegotten"? You can slip past the pile of homicide and just battle the dogs on the left then go for the pumpkin head. He's at the back hunched over a body, I think. Perfect way to get a devastating jump on him.

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I used the Land Squirt Ashes for the Caelem Ruins duo and they tanked everything and poisoned them.

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Wouldn't specifically follow the ranged/magic advice. Better strat was to follow the melee advice and rely on faster spells/attacks once you slip behind.

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So for the duel fight in Caelid ruins, don't waste time with spirit summons, buff up with grease prior and your psykick buff, traverse the mist and immediately mount up, just beat the duo this way, run clockwise (or counter if you're insane) and keep popping off hits, whittle them down and claim the flame shield.

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I beat a pumpkinhead on the bridge and didn't get the helmet, then waypoint ruins - also didn't get the helm.

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Does it drops it's hammer ??

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Enter room, die. Rinse and repeat for as long as you feel.

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For the duo in Caelem ruins I found it best to target the Flail first and only parry his fist attack kill him with ripostes and eventually kill the Hammer one solo

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What is the best skill level to fight him?

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Siegmeyer needs to lay off the growth hormones

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For some reason, you are able to ride your horse in the Waypoint Ruins boss room...

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I love Smashing Pumpkins

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If u use the flail skill it’ll destroy him

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2 pumpkinheads boss battle in Caelid Ruins too

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Left hand attack parryable.

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His fist attacks can be parried. I did not managed to parry his flail though.

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Can’t find the Cairen treasure that is supposedly dropped here :/

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%100 confirmed lore Siegward traded his Onion helm for Pumpkin.

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Lock off him and use arc for an easier fight

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One can be found on a bridge by the high road cave may be the same guy due to him being mentioned as a “famous tarnished”

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Let the dogs out, mane.

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I cannot summon spirits there though?

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Cannot use spirit ashes on this right, please correct.

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Why'd this guy disappear after I died to him once?

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How do you get the mad pumpkin helmet? I beat him but did not get it.

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