How to beat Romina, Saint of the Bud in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Romina, Saint of the Bud is a boss struggle in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC that will throw you for a loop. Romina is a lethal menace with an array of quick assaults, however a lot of the stress in her battle comes from retaining Scarlet Rot at bay. On the brilliant facet, Romina additionally has loads of weaknesses so that you can exploit.

Our Elden Ring DLC information explains easy methods to beat Romina in Shadow of the Erdtree, together with what these weaknesses are and one of the best methods to make the most of them.

Romina location in Elden Ring DLC

Romina makes her dwelling within the Church of the Bud, a distant location tucked away within the western a part of Rauh Ruins. She’s a compulsory DLC boss, and also you’ll enterprise right here as a part of Shadow of the Erdtree’s primary quest. It’s troublesome to achieve and sits atop just a few rot caverns, with Hornsent ready to invade you alongside the way in which, however you’ll be able to’t miss it.

Romina weaknesses and easy methods to put together

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Romina has fairly just a few weaknesses for a legendary boss. She’s vulnerable to Bleed and Frostbite, and he or she takes further harm from holy-aligned assaults. When you’re operating a religion construct, you might need to choose up a number of the new DLC Incantations to take advantage of that final weak spot.

A Chilly- or Bleed-infused sword, reminiscent of Milady or the Backhand Blade, is superb for this battle, although non-elemental swords deal heavy harm to Romina as properly. Keep away from hammers and different blunt weapons, although. These appear to deal much less harm, and since they’ve shorter vary, you threat placing your self in additional hazard anyway. Maintain Glintstone Icecrag, Adula’s Greatblade, and Zamor Ice Storm outfitted for those who’re specializing in sorcery, and produce Frozen Lightning Spear alongside for those who’re operating religion as a substitute.

Divine Beast’s Frost Stomp can also be a really helpful Ash of Battle for this struggle, because it covers a broad space and Romina is fairly huge.

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The Mimic Tear is, as ever, a powerful Spirit Ash selection able to withstanding assaults and exploiting Romina’s weaknesses the identical as you’ll be able to. When you’re targeted on Frostbite, you may additionally need to strive the Dung Eater Puppet or, higher nonetheless, the Jolan and Anna Puppet, as they’re each glorious at inflicting Bleed. Full Rely Ymir’s quest and discover Rabbath’s Rise to get Jolan and Anna. Even the Greatshield Soldier is helpful on this battle, due to its ranged Frost-inflused assaults and excessive protection.

You’ll be able to summon Dryleaf Dane once more for this battle, and though doing so buffs Romina’s HP a bit, you must nonetheless carry him alongside. He’s a invaluable asset and retains her consideration off you.

Strive discovering sufficient Scadutree Fragments to get your Scadutree degree to 10 or increased and your Revered Spirit Ash degree to seven or increased. In case your immunity degree is low, think about equipping any of the Immunizing Horn Allure Talismans to sluggish how rapidly Scarlet Rot builds up, and have Neutralizing Bolus gadgets in one in all your shortcut slots to take away any rot buildup that does happen.

How you can beat Romina, Saint of the Bud in Elden Ring DLC

Romina’s assaults hit exhausting and regularly construct up the rot meter, however she’s slower and extra deliberate than the likes of Messmer and Rellana. There’s a second or two after most of her assaults the place you’ll be able to strike and retreat, and since she retains her consideration on one attacker for fairly some time, magic customers ought to have the ability to full the struggle from a distance whereas their summon and NPC ally preserve Romina busy.

The benefit of Romina is that her bug extensions make for a fairly large hitbox. You don’t need to be proper close to her human type on your hits to depend, so sticking to the tail stinger whereas Romina and the centipede are attacking a summon is a wonderfully viable technique.

Romina boss struggle section 1

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Romina nearly all the time begins the battle by dashing you and slashing twice together with her big polearm. The best way she strikes and the energy of every hit signifies that if the primary assault connects, you most likely can’t dodge the second. Dodge ahead or backward to keep away from each strikes, and control her actions to get the timing proper. She likes to carry the polearm again for an additional second earlier than swinging.

The centipede a part of Romina has just a few distinctive assaults of its personal. It’s going to typically thrust ahead and strike, an assault you’ll be able to dodge sideways to keep away from. If it rears again and clicks its mandibles collectively, that indicators one other kind of assault: It’ll rush ahead and to the facet in a snake-like motion after which repeat it once more whereas shifting ahead. The route is often proper, then left, however both method, you’ll be able to keep away from it by dodging backward proper when it’s about to strike.

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Romina will typically carry her tail and the centipede in round her after which whirl round and unfold them out. Dodge backward to keep away from getting caught by this one. She’ll additionally roll right into a wheel and race in direction of you twic, earlier than unfurling herself once more and attacking with the centipede and a fast slash from the polearm. Dodging ahead is your greatest likelihood of avoiding these, though there’s additionally a small secure area immediately in entrance of Romina the place the polearm — on goal or by chance — doesn’t hit you.

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She assaults together with her stinger tail for those who get too shut, and if the centipede makes contact with its single ahead thrust, Romina will lure you, deal harm together with her stinger, and construct the rot meter for a number of seconds.

Final is a powerful assault the place Romina will rear again and barely into the air, then whirl ahead and hit you together with her stinger, poleblade, and centipede one proper after the opposite. Dodging ahead will allow you to keep away from the three-hit combo completely.

Issues change a bit as soon as her well being drops to the midway level, although.

Romina boss struggle section 2

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Romina turns into rather more agile and positive factors just a few new assaults in her second section, together with a number of that trigger in depth Scarlet Rot buildup. Nonetheless, when she’s not airborne, her assaults are as deliberate as in her first section, so that you nearly all the time have a window of a second or two to assault whereas she recovers. She additionally stays targeted on one attacker at a time and solely modifications targets after ending a combo or for those who assault her repeatedly with out stopping.

The section begins when Romina summons rot vitality round her, rises into the air, and creates a number of butterflies in rings across the enviornment. These explode after just a few seconds, dealing harm and inflicting rot buildup. You’ll be able to place your self in an space with no butterflies or strive dodging to evade when the explosion occurs.

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Romina will repeat this assault at intervals, and there’s an odd quirk you’ll be able to make the most of after the primary time. She solely summons the butterflies from a selected location, and he or she’ll cross your complete battlefield to return to it if want be. That’s just a few seconds the place she’s not attacking, that means there’s a straightforward goal so that you can hit earlier than she creates the sector of rot vitality round herself.

Romina deploys her poleblade slashes extra incessantly on this section, and he or she has a brand new combo She rises into the air, then leaps ahead with a whirling slash that covers a lot of the battlefield, turns round and do it once more, and finishes with a whirling slash as she slams into the bottom. There’s a rhythm to this assault, and you’ve got a couple of second between every to dodge the subsequent, in any route.

This combo produces extra butterflies on the sector, which explode after Romina crashes to the bottom. Romina herself stays nonetheless for a second after the ultimate assault, which provides you time to hurry in and land a few of your personal.

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She’ll often use two polearm slashes while you keep too shut, which deal common harm as a substitute of magic and decay harm, and he or she’ll sometimes fly into the air and slam down on high of you or an ally after hovering for a second.

Defeating Romina earns you the Remembrance of the Saint of the Bud, which you’ll change for her polearm or for an Incantation that summons rot butterflies — or each, for those who duplicate Remembrances.

The purpose of no return lies simply past the Church of the Bud, so wrap up any questlines from NPCs with ties to Miquella that you just haven’t completed earlier than continuing.

For extra Elden Ring DLC bosses, see our guides on all Remembrance bosses and discover ways to duplicate Remembrances. Must energy up? We’ve received location guides on the place to search out Scadutree Fragments and Revered Spirit Ashes, and an interactive Elden Ring DLC map.