Elden Ring - Boss Fight - Leonine Misbegotten (4th Attempt)

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• This is a clip of a boss fight from my gameplay of 2022's popular "Elden Ring" video game.

• Here's some info on the game below:

In Elden Ring, players control a customizable player character on a journey to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. The game is presented through a third-person perspective, with players freely roaming its interactive open world. Gameplay elements include combat using several types of weapons and magic spells, horseback riding, and crafting. (Gameplay description, Wikipedia)

Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional landmass ruled over by several demigods. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested as the physical concept of order. When Marika eventually shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began warring over pieces of the Ring in an event called the Shattering. Each demigod possesses a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. As one of the Tarnished, the player must traverse the realm to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord. (Story, Wikipedia)

• The Leonine Misbegotten can be found on a small cemetary island behind a gate in the back of Castle Morne.

• My first couple attempts I still had a hard time remembering this boss's pattern of attack and when exactly to dodge-roll. Also, I relied heavily on magic and rarely ever used my broad sword or my broad-sword's Ash of War, Impaling Thrust which I found to be effective against this boss.

• There's no summoned cooperator for this battle but you really don't need one since he's nowhere near as hardy as someone like Margit Fell Omen.

• I started the battle by picking the right distance to cast my incantation Flame Frenzy in it's fully-charged form to full effect. This resulted in Leonine Misbegotten losing almost a fifth of its health bar.

• This boss usually does 2 to 4 horizontal attacks at a time which require the horizontal evasion of dodge-rolling. They also roar but I was never close enough to see if that had any special effect. As a melee-mage build, I try not to get too close -- peppering with magic from afar and then finishing off with some melee.

• With a second Flame Frenzy I knock its life down to almost half but am not far enough and get caught in an attack that nearly kills me.

• I heal once but instead of backing up, I push my luck and heal a second time and get swiped by Leonine's long great sword.

• Luckily, I'm able to dodge it's neck two attacks even when it moves the camera by jumping high into the air.

• While it's trying to pull its sword out of the ground, I finally decide to use my sword too and use Impaling Thrust.

• Being a creature of habit, I put some distance between us again and heal and then push my luck again with a second heal and get knocked off my feet.

• And just like before, while Leonine's pulling his sword out of the ground I hit him with another Ash of War, Impaling Thrust.

• To my surprise, he hit me back with a quick vertical strike which was pretty smart since I rolled away from him instead of to the side.

• I back up after this and find some gravestones for cover before refilling my magic with a drink from my Cerulean Tear Flask and my health with a Crimson Tear Flask.

• Being far away, I launch a Flame Frenzy twice and he dodges half of both but stillg gets burned quite a bit.

• I'm not sure why I collect the fallen runes since it's zero at this point but it's a good habit.

• When he gets close enough I hit him with an Impaling Thrust which to my luck stuns him, or in Elden Ring "breaks their stance" allowing me to launch a critical-hit stab that ends the fight.

• In the end I get the Grafted Blade Greatsword which would be great if I was using great swords but is still a nice new addition to my collection of boss items.

• Hope you enjoyed this short video!

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