How to beat Rellana, Twin Moon Knight in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Rellana, Twin Moon Knight presents a totally totally different sort of problem in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC in comparison with what you confronted in Belurat. Rellana is swift and cruel, with brutal, near-unbreakable combos, excessive defenses, and a few lethal magic — however has one large weak point.

Our Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree information explains how you can beat Rellana, together with particulars about her weaknesses, and how you can put together for the boss battle.

Rellana location in Elden Ring DLC

Rellana is ready round within the Ensis Moongazing Grounds on the japanese fringe of Fort Ensis. She’s a compulsory boss and not possible to overlook if you wish to make it to Scadu Altus this fashion, until you skip Fort Ensis by taking the good distance round by way of Ellac River. There’s a website of grace simply exterior her area, as with all bosses, and two NPC summons: Dryleaf Dane and Needle Knight Leda.

Keep in mind that each NPC or human ally summoned will enhance the boss’ well being, however having each readily available additionally makes for a helpful set of distractions whilst you find out how Rellana works — by watching her reduce your allies down.

Rellana weaknesses and how you can put together

Choosing the perfect weapon for Rellana is one thing you’ll in all probability need to experiment with as you get used to her moveset to see what works greatest in your model. Heavy weapons can knock off a sizeable chunk of her HP, however the hassle is it’s robust to land successful with one. Rellana strikes shortly usually, and she will dodge heavy assaults and observe up with a robust flurry of counter strikes.

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I struggled to land greater than two hits at a time even with a katana. Nonetheless, combating kinds with straight swords and light-weight greatswords are lithe sufficient to allow you to execute just a few assaults — even a well-timed Ash of Battle talent — and retreat whereas Rellana recovers. Milady, which yow will discover close to the Miquella’s Cross on the Fort Ensis checkpoint, is a robust selection for this battle.

Use a melee weapon that scales with intelligence or religion if you happen to’re working a magic construct, and keep in mind that spells will do little good in opposition to Rellana, as she has a few of the highest magic protection of any enemy. Magic does have its place on this battle, although, as she’s susceptible to Frostbite.

She’s additionally weak to lightning, but it surely’s somewhat harder to get a great lightning construct collectively if you happen to don’t have already got one. Frozen Lightning Spear takes benefit of each weaknesses, although since Rellana tends to dodge sideways, she usually locations herself out of attain of the incantation’s preliminary hit and its follow-up explosion. This one works greatest if Rellana is distracted with an NPC summon or your Spirit Ash.

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A better method to inflict Frostbite is with Glintstone Icecrag. It has excessive Frostbite scaling, and in contrast to Ranni’s Darkish Moon, it tracks your goal foe and has a sooner casting animation. Its low intelligence requirement of 15 means even energy or dexterity builds can use this spell. Rellana received’t take a lot injury from Icecrag itself, even when you have a excessive intelligence stat, but it surely’ll set off the Frostbite standing after about 4 or 5 hits. Frostbite offers heavy injury and will increase the quantity of injury Rellana takes from magic and may for roughly 15 to twenty seconds.

You may as well skip the spells and use Freezing Grease in your weapon as a substitute, although Frostbite buildup occurs extra slowly if you happen to can’t land a number of hits in a row.

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Both approach, you’ll realize it labored if you happen to see a frost cloud hovering round Rellana. You’ll be able to probably get away with simply utilizing Frostbite to put on her down In case your Spirit Ash is aggressive sufficient to maintain her distracted for many of the battle. Nonetheless, when Frostbite is lively, you need to attempt to land some hits along with your weapon and benefit from the ailment whereas it lasts.

As all the time, make sure that your weapon and Spirit Ash are upgraded as excessive as you may get them. For those who’ve run out of Smithing Stones or Glovewort, make a journey again to The Lands Between to choose up some Bell Bearings for the Maiden Husks.

How you can beat Rellana, Twin Moon Knight in Elden Ring DLC

Rellana’s assaults are quick and fluid, and he or she strings a number of combos collectively. She generally modifications which assaults she makes use of within the center and generally even skipping them utterly to ship one highly effective blow if you aren’t anticipating it.

As we prompt with the Divine Beast Dancing Lion boss, you could need to think about recording footage of your battle so you’ll be able to look again later and watch how she behaves with out attempting to not die.

Rellana boss battle section 1

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On the whole, you’ll be able to anticipate three elements to Rellana’s combos.

1. The primary is a gap strike, often a single swipe from certainly one of her swords.
2. Then comes a follow-up from the opposite sword, which is likely to be an upward slash or an overhand strike. Rellana might add a number of of those in the midst of her combo, or a downward slash from each swords, or perhaps a little twirling slash.
3. The combo ends with a robust finisher, as she crosses each swords earlier than bringing them down in a strong thrust.

Rellana can cancel her assaults and change to a distinct combo transfer and seamlessly swap between concentrating on a summon otherwise you. All of it sounds a bit overwhelming — and it feels overwhelming to play, initially — however Rellana’s assaults have one factor in frequent: They’re all forward-facing. Your first intuition is likely to be to again up and get away when she begins her barrage of assaults, however dodging ahead places you out of hurt’s far more successfully.

Nonetheless, Rellana pivots shortly, so that you received’t have a lot time to relaxation after you get away until she will get distracted by one thing else.

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Her different assaults embrace a robust thrust adopted by a second thrust or a slash from her different sword. Rellana additionally summons Carian swords that fly at you after just a few seconds, just like what the Carian Knight earlier in Fort Ensis did, and can generally hearth off an arc of magic vitality at you. Dodge ahead or to the aspect if you see her hand and sword glow blue.

The fallen Carian princess additionally has a devious trick that makes most robust assaults and elaborate weapon abilities out of date. Whenever you begin performing a kind of assaults, Rellana sweeps round at a 270-degree angle — that’s three-quarters of a circle — and hits you with an upward strike from certainly one of her swords. She’ll generally observe that with a downward strike as nicely. Your talent misses, and also you get an enormous chunk of your HP taken off as nicely.

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Persist with regular assaults when Rellana is dealing with you, and solely go for one thing fancier if she’s occupied with one other character.

After a couple of minutes, Rellana will summon a Carian Greatsword and carry out a vertical slash, which you’ll be able to dodge sideways to keep away from, adopted a second later by a sweeping horizontal slash. Dodging ahead or sideways works for this one, however if you happen to miss the best timing, you’ll take heavy injury.

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Rellana boss battle section 2

Issues kick off much more as soon as Rellana’s HP drops by about half, and now’s the time to summon your Spirit Ash if you happen to haven’t already. She pauses for a second and ignites her right-hand sword with magic and her left-hand sword with hearth, and he or she’ll observe that both with a firestorm that spreads in a diagonal sample round her or with a flurry of sword strikes that deal hearth injury in the event that they join.

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If it’s the firestorm, be sure you’re not standing on a flame spot earlier than it erupts. If it’s the sword strikes, attempt dodging them.

Rellana’s primary assault combos are unchanged on this section, although they’ll deal magic and hearth injury in the event that they join. She does have some new methods as nicely, although.

Her sword summons are extra like Greatblade Phalanx than Glintblade Phalanx now, however regardless that they’ll deal extra injury in the event that they hit you, you’ll be able to nonetheless dodge them in the identical approach as earlier than. Rellana will even use her Carian sword slash talent extra often and aggressively, usually firing a number of arcs in fast succession.

Rellana will even sometimes thrust each swords ahead and create a small tunnel of flame. Dodge sideways from it, and use the few seconds whereas she finishes the animation to land one or two hits.

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As soon as Rellana’s HP reaches a few third of its most complete, she’s going to sometimes leap into the air and summon two moons. One moon crashes into the bottom after a second or two and sends a shockwave of magic out, and the second moon follows proper after. Then, Rellana herself crashes again onto the battlefield and sends a good greater magic wave rippling out.

These strikes occur shortly, and never solely are they troublesome to dodge, however getting hit by all three — and even simply Rellana’s last descent — is sufficient to ship you again to the closest website of grace. Given the character of the assaults as round waves, your greatest wager for avoiding them is dodging ahead proper once they join with the bottom. Alternatively, if you happen to’re very fast and Rellana isn’t within the area’s middle, you could possibly retreat to the room’s far edge and keep away from injury that approach.

You may also get fortunate and keep away from this last trick of hers altogether, if you happen to press the assault laborious sufficient and hold Frostbite going.

Defeating Rellana earns you her Remembrance, which you’ll be able to give to Enia at Roundtable Maintain in trade for Rellana’s Glintblade Swords or her twin moon sorcery.

Searching for extra Shadow of the Erdtree guides? Take a look at our guides on new Elden Ring DLC weapons, armor, map fragments, websites of grace, and talismans. We’ve additionally bought location guides on the place to search out Scadutree Fragments and Revered Spirit Ashes, and an interactive Elden Ring DLC map.