A new way to cheese one ofElden Ring’s hardest bosses is discovered when one player finds a hilarious way to dodge Malenia’s attacks. As difficult games continue to be in player’s hands, said players will keep finding ways to side step the difficulty and ease their way through the more arduous parts of games. One such game isElden Ring, being a game developed by FromSoftware, is well-known for harboring some of the hardest bosses that players have ever come across. Thus, people find ways to beat these bosses in the easiest ways possible.
What is arguablyElden Ring’s hardest boss, famous for destroying even the hardiest of players by making themsuffer agonizing defeats in just two hits is Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Players have to fight Malenia after traversing through a tough series of optional environments, the Haligtree. Malenia’s attacks come fast and strong, barely giving the player time to dodge them before they are sliced to ribbons and sent back.
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These quick combo attacks are a bane for many players, but there’s a new way to dodge them. While much ofElden Ring’s player base takes to the usual dodging, blocking,using an overpowered Mimic Tear to destroy Malenia, or just outliving the damage, one player, a Reddit user named Channel-Rhodospin, found a peculiar way to dodge most of her attacks. In a video posted to r/Eldenring, Channel-Rhodospin runs up to Malenia to begin her boss fight before going to the quick menu to select the Balled-Up emote, which makes the player crouch down and ball up. Because of how low to the floor they are, as soon as Malenia starts her iconic combo of fast slashes and strikes, all of them go right over the player, doing no harm.
Now, this isn’t the perfect way to beat Malenia. In the comments, people remark that yes, this emote can dodge most of the attacks in her first phase, but other attacks, and especially her second phase, will see players finding that curling up in the fetal position won’t cut as well as her blades do. Sadly, the players will actually have to use more tactics than just crying, like utilizingElden Ring’s co-op feature to bully Malenia. However, this is still a rather funny way to avoid most of Malenia’s onslaught of blades.
This goes to show that players will always find new ways to avoid some ofElden Ring’s boss' toughest attacks just to get through the other end unharmed. While some prefer to build up enough skill totake on the likes of Godfrey with two daggers and no damage taken, others may rightfully turn to friends for help, or keep throwing themselves at it until they win. For many new players, seeing such skilled fighters be taken down with ease can make these bosses appear mortifying, but to find clever or funny ways to fight them will, at least, make these horrifying enemies seem just a little less scary.
Elden Ringis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
