I remember fighting the mimic tear boss and beating it one try. My heart filled with pride, I thought to read the messages strewed about. One caught my eye. "Weak foe? Time for introspection." Goddamnit.
That's definitely true. This boss has incredible stagger resistance so the spirits that have very high stagger values weren't able to make their true strength shine here. Still, Lhutel the Headless is the best overall performer in my opinion. High melee damage output, a shield, great poise, fade out ability, and a ranged option.
Couldn't agree more that the boss-type matters. I killed the dragon in the lakes by putting Latenna on a rock and she kept sniping him wherever he went. Lhutel the headless meanwhile did nothing but teleport back and forth doing nothing since the dragon just flies everywhere.
Very much the case. If the enemy can be staggered or stunned I found the marionette soldiers to be absolute stagger machines with the amount of arrows they pump out. Meanwhile the greatshield soldiers get destroyed by bosses with aoe nova attacks but I watched let them solo a lot of weaker bosses that I missed earlier in the game.
@@Omar_Al_Seddik the problem I found with luthel on my mage build was that bosses often lost aggro on her and would start targeting me because of her blink ability. She can tank a lot of damage but her damage output isn't that high. Her blink backfires on the players. Imo not the best for distracting bosses. PS. I got luthel after watching this video and thus my assesment.
Actually, the player moved behind them causing the projectile to hit the summon, and it wasn't the only time they did this. I hate it when that happens in co op; some other player is being targeted, they roll towards me, and the tracking causes the attack to land on me when it would have otherwise whiffed. Thx alot
@@TheNecroFisherman didn't notice rollo dodged too since the animation is a subtle sidestep. But the distance he traveled wouldn't have intercepted the projectile if it weren't for the player dodging towards them. Don't know if the player was doing this intentionally (since they do it multiple times) but it kinda messes up the demonstration since its forcing the spirit to tank more hits than its meant to. In a real fight the summon and the player are constantly dividing the enemy's attention, allowing the one not being targeted to recover or go on the offensive. If the person holding aggro constantly puts other teammates in the line of fire, it takes away the advantage of their numbers
Oleg hard carried me through the first half of the game, it's good to see he still keeps up in late game. It's a bad matchup for him cause his main purpose is as a stagger machine and the tree sentinel just don't care, buy I'm still proud of him.
I think Tiche, no matter how OP she is, is such a fun spirit to watch fight. Her floating around the battlefield is so different from my play style of choice with being a tank/paladin and it’s so entertaining to me
@@nunya3399 this abillity reduces Max hp so it looks like stuff gets healed esp bosses with Tons of HP but its just that the lifebar gets smaller faster then the dmg Ticks get out
Lhuthel the headless knight probably the most balanced spirit. She can block, can atk from range, can melee, can teleport out of harms way. Also quite easy to get early on
I ran Dung Eater on my first complete play through. He was mostly awesome, but there are times where he will go long periods without landing a significant attack to take aggro. He's also awful against Malenia - Tiche or one of the more aggressive summons work a lot better.
I ran the Nightmaiden and Swordstress puppets my first playthrough. Honestly, they were the most fun spirits to fight with for me. Seeing them dance around the battle field as we encircle the enemy, only for us all to get launched by some dumb AOE has a special place in my heart
Lmao and ya they were my best summons in my first playthrough at the endgame, I used those 2 skeletons that get back up when dead when first starting the game but they're so weak midgame and useless in endgame (loved them nontheless but too weak)
Watching them here I'm happy I brought them to +10. They brought down health right up there with the best of them but they drew massive agro. If you watch this simply looking at damage meters you'd think luhtel was the best, but he wasn't nearly as good of an agro draw. One thing I learned from watching this is how much I messed up this first playthrough by disrupting the dungeater quest prematurely. He was BY FAR the best agro draw. The guy could practically stand flat footed with that summons on the field.
Lhutel is exceptional, and an all-around generalist with a lot of good uses. Engvall is a heavy hitter, who's strongest point is probably trading aggro with you on mobile bosses; his best quality is leaping into action constantly. Oleg is a staggering master, and is really, really strong against bosses weak to interruptions or who rely on long charge cycles.
Also I used lhutel in the fire giant fight and she ate literally his strongest attacks and moved away from the insta death ones she literally survived till the second part of the fight then got burned alive I literally died because I was amazed for how long my summon survived
Latenna fully upgraded is actually quite useful, you can put her VERY FAR away from the actual fight and wont draw aggro in some open world bosses like Decaying Ezekys, its basically a DPS increase as the fight goes you just have to survive.
ya she carry me on so many boss , this showcase is completely bad showcase for all "range" and "support" spirits , i dont know what in mind of this Op when summon so many range spirits especially god like range Latenna right in front of boss and call it "SHOWCASE" , i think he should change his title from all elite spirits "showcase" to all elite spirits "introduce" !
shes essentailly a turret. Plus you can keep the boss between you and her and constantly hit the boss in the back as you draw aggro away from her and the boss basically gets stuck in the middle taking damage.
Yeah I think she is under-rated. Not many people are just watching summons fight the boss. Its easy to keep her safe on the other side of the room and she just does constant damage.
Summon mimic with a weapon that has Prayerful Strike ash of war. Whenever they successfully land a hit with the ability it heals them for 30% of their HP, which is a crazy amount considering the mimic's health pool.
You out here giving goverment secrets here. I've been using Prayerful strike with my mimic + great stars for awhile amd notice that the health regen stacks. So you can apply great stars passive heal on hit + Prayerful stike + heal for hit talisman (forgot the name) and I can have my mimic survive massive attacks while maintaining their healthbar at the same time after the nerf. Plus it adds hyperarmor so you'll need to get quite a beating to get knocked out of that move.
before the patch 1.03 mimic tear with faith build and incantation eldtree heal your mimic tear will always use it unlimited heal... before the nerf patch your mimic tear can 1 vs 1 almost everyboss it even can 1 vs 3
@@jameselrick6698 I just give my mimic Uplifting Aromatic and Raw Meat Dumpling. Paired with my build of Tree Sentinel Armor (wearing the nobel headband), Hand of Malenia and Cold Nagakiba lets just say we carve bosses to bits even on NG+. No Ash summon can compete anymore.
Tbh compared to my mimic this one sucks. Mimics are best with either extremely high dps equipment (dual bleed katanas for example) or with weapons that can heal them like a prayerful strike. My main run was a high vigor, high endurance, and high dex build focused on dual wielding katanas and heavy armour. Me and my mimic absolutely ripped through the late game. Even Malenia was pretty easy. I genuinely regretted summoning for Godfrey because the fight last less than a minute and he looked cool.
@@I-like-cows I have. I'm not that fond of replaying Elden Ring because it pushes you so heavily to do a tedious run around to grab good stuff and the incredibly low soul earnings early game make it generally not worth playing.
Just like with the standard ones, I went ahead and did a base damage chart. Now, with this list there are some very weird cases. Like the mimic being a duplicate of yourself, meaning it'll scale differently than everything else, and Perfumer and Finger Maiden constantly healing making it hard to get a good read on damage. Just like last time, this can't really take into account any special-type damage(bleeds/poison/etc), or if they have another type of attack they could do if they weren't the main target. But this should be a good starting place especially for mages or archers. I couldn't tell for sure because I haven't used any of these, but I'm pretty sure none technically regenerate after dying, some just heal, so I didn't include that stat. Please let me know if anything looks wrong. Summon: Dmg: Lhutel the Headless 97% Mimic Tear Ashes* 79% Nightmaiden and Swordtress Puppets 76% Black Knife Tiche 73% Dung Eater Puppet 71% Nepheli Loux Puppet 66% Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff Ashes 65% Omenkiller Rollo 57% Banished Knight Oleg 52% Banished Knight Engvall Ashes 51% Blackflame Monk Amon Ashes 48% Stormhawk Deenah 42% Redmane Knight Ogha 36% Dolores the Sleeping Arrow Puppet 27% Bloodhound Knight Floh 22% Battlemage Hugues Ashes 22% Cleanrot Knight Finlay Ashes 20% Latemma the Albinauric 12% Depraved Perfumer Carmaan Ashes 12% Finger Maiden Therolina Puppet* 10% Jarwight Puppet 7% Perfumer Tricia* 5%
Stormhawk is actually pretty great on a Strength build. The buff he gives stacked with determination ash of war lets me do bonkers damage on jump attacks and charged R2.
To be honest he would probably be great for my sorcerer since he seems to keep agro a lot better than the other summons, trying not to over use them though cause I've already got the damage, if I take the need to even dodge the bosses attacks then I'm just playing on easy mode
@@tokyobankai4031 it was slow to pick up speed in this one. Planning on doing str int for the final build but wanted to focus on one first. I’m doing crazy damage now and I’m not even done upgrading yet. Using the ugs you get from beating the boss right before the demigod in the caliead (fuck spelling it lmao). It’s a duo. If you know you know. It turns into S str and C int at 10. I have it +9 and it’s already doing 1k on jump attacks.
Similar to how I calculated the HP for the standard summons in the other video, I took note of how much damage it took for each spirit ash to die, in order to estimate their total health. Once again these aren't exact due to overkill, and three of them didn't die so I had to guess based on their remaining hp. Stormhawk Deenh: 5164 Banished Knight Oleg: 8533 Banished Knight Engvall: 8636 Bloodhound Knight Floh: 4748 Battlemage Hugues: 7849-8290 Latenna the Albinauric: 2788 Perfumer Tricia: ~3385 Depraved Perfumer Carmaan: ~6743 Omenkiller Rollo: 7280 Blackflame Monk Amon: 8353 Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff: 9986 Redmane Knight Ogha: 8216 Lhutel the Headless: 5719 Cleanrot Knight Finlay: 6263 Black Knife Tiche: 6304 Mimic Tear: 10280 Finger Maiden Therolina: ~2092 Jarwight Puppet: 4081 Dolores the Sleeping Arrow: 3356 Nepheli Loux: 6325 Dung Eater: 6954 Nightmaiden & Swordstress: 5843 x2 minions
I'm paralyzed IRL so even though the use cases are less I have a duty to my people to fully upgrade Latenna the Albinauric and Fell as many bosses as we can! 🤣😅♿💪🏻
Damn, I can't critique that. Play your best run my dude, she's certainly no tank but she's got some great punch to her if you can peel the bosses from them!
she helped me in during two fallingstar beast fights. i set her up on the edge of the battlefield and she was just raining down arrows while I mixed it up with melee.
Dung Eater will always be my favorite spirit summon. That blood loss sneaks up on enemies man, and is pretty helpful for arcane bleed builds. Plus he's tanky because of his armor and he reduces enemy resistances in an area with the Sword of Milos. Nothing to scoff at. His curse projectile is okay, I guess. All in all, he provides reliable support in a fight and is a great summon.
I’m actually going for a blood loss dexterity build right now and he sounds great if he also gives blood loss because that should mean we can stack it faster
One thing to note is that a lot of the spirits that die quickly actually deal a lot of damage, if you take aggro off of them then they are still just as viable. Its just that the ones that can solo bosses are obviously better.
Nah. The only exception is 8:13 Latenna the Archer; even then she would only be viable IF youre playing a full Agro Tank Build. You cant tell me that, the rest of them (that die fast but deal "damage") are actually biable if you take aggro. When Summons like 19:30 Luther The Headless and 23:13 Black Knife Tiche quite literally solo enemies while tanking **exists.** Like 5:48 Bloodhound Knight Floh is an embarasment.
@@Chris____. Bloodhound Knight is probably meant for enemies with less poise and likely deals bleed damage, which he did not get off from this fight. That bleed damage would be a big factor in his damage output if he has it(the bloodhound knight you can fight near the beginning of the game has bleed damage). Being constantly staggered into the ground due to not having as much poise is the reason he had a problem getting his bleed off and dealing damage. Spirits all seem situational depending on the enemies you're facing and that bloodhound knight is no exception. Also I should mention Lhutel the Headless wasn't tanking damage the majority of that fight, but avoiding it by teleporting all over the place. It's definitely stronger than Floh in terms of tanking ability, which leads to it being better in this instance, but like I said, it was avoiding a lot of hits in that fight by teleporting around. Had it been hit as much as Floh, it definitely wouldn't have lasted as long as it did, and again, Floh didn't get the bleed off that would have made it's damage better.
@@moufletmateis6445 Yeah used her quite a lot as she was the first of these I got and she’s the mvp in dragon fights for example. You ride around and evade the attacks while she just unleashes hell on them. Also good to pick off multiple enemies from afar.
@@Chris____. If you look at the headless and black blade fights, those two DON'T actually "tank" very well in the traditional sense. "Tanking" as a suport role is about more than just surviving hits, it's also about ensuring your allies DON'T draw unwanted attacks. As stated by other comments, due to Headless's teleporting and Black Blade's hit and run style the player ends up taking most of the aggro. Also it should be noted that their fights were amongst the longest, meaning although they did more damage all up it was partially because it took the boss longer to kill them (though holy crap Tiche has some wild burst damage, not sure why the boss kept getting health back for her fight). The two of them periodically draw aggro for short durations, but this may not be preferrable for DPS players who want more regular openings to get off their attacks. In this sense even the jellyfish *could* be considered a better tank for a heavily DPS oriented player because of its high health pool and regularly timed, high aggro attacks (1-2 hits is enough to get most enemies attention I find). Not to crap on Either Tiche or Lhutel. They're epic, but saying that they're the "only viable" spirits because they can "almost solo" enemies is a gross oversimplification of how spirits are used. The player's style factors into what summons are the most useful. As another example, let's talk about Floh. I can confirm what Jon P has said. Floh is a poor match up for this boss, especially without support. He's somewhat frail, easily staggered, and requires escape windows to get out of enemy combos. Ideally you would keep switching aggro to give him a chance to do his job. You do some damage, then back off to recover stamina/heal/chug FP juice while floh jumps in. They trade, Floh maybe gets staggered, but it's okay because now you're back in there. You get the boss' attention and Floh teleports back out to avoid potential collateral damage from any wide range sweeping or AoE attacks. Then he jumps back in (hopefully from behind if you're luring the boss right). Once he has a chance to get a few actual attacks off his value becomes apparent. His stagger and bleed are actually really good when you don't let him get stunlocked. If you're using him chances are you want to end fights quickly, so his low health pool becomes less of a concern. Even if he dies the boss should be on extremely low health and well within the range of finishing solo. Of course, all this changes against "zoning" bosses who try to wall you out with projectiles. This is where Floh TRULY shines. Used him at only +3 against second stage Rennala today. His movement speed and constant aggression meant that she couldn't even build distance, and his stagger meant she couldn't get off anything except her quickest attacks, and even then she ended up on her ass before she could finish half the time. And this was with me playing super passively (I didn't know her moveset so I was just feeling the fight out). Once I realised Floh wasn't going to let her breathe I just ran forward and it became a curb stomp with added bleed procs (as if her day wasn't already bad enough). I only found out later that she had the whole "summoning ash" gimmick when my brother told me about it. It was over so quickly she never got the chance to so much as call a wolf pack. This is just one example. While some summons truly are jokes (looking at you Noble Sorcerer), the vast majority are at least viable in a good number of fights, and truly shine under the right circumstances. EDIT: Upon rewatching, Lhutel's damage was a bit higher than I thought. I can see now why she's considered one of the most generally powerful spirits. My point about the aggro still stands though.
If you're going to use Latenna (which I did for much of the game), you need to summon her while as far away as possible. She has extreme range, and her arrows have homing. Of course she dies if you drop her right in front of the enemy. She's great against Astel.
Latemma is a great option if you are a tanky character and need a strong backline buddy with insane range, shes especially good in open world where she can snipe from a mile away. Also shes such a cool character who chose to become a spirit to help you.
yeah if its a more open boss i use latenna because im a straight tank build. if its tighter quarters i use mimic because we can both stand in the pocket and take abuse. i run the full bull goat armor set and grafted great sword with 60 vigor and 60 strength and 50 stamina so far. i haven't beaten the game but man my mimic has made the game kinda easy for some fights.
@@lostinspacestudio Nah, you can delete him and his farm Azula brother while he postures at you at the beginning of the fight. With that said comet azur kills don't prove much given that if you have an enemy stand still long enough that spell will delete most things in the game.
In both of these videos, I think I love the shield army the most. I love the idea of having as many dudes on screen as possible, So summoning 5 stubbon buggers with big shields who just bonk all day.... thats a LOT of fun to me.
that was my logic with Stormhawk: ok angry birbs are one of the most terrible things in this game.......lets see how the AI deals wIth a taste of its own medicine.
By pure coincidence, the first elite summon I got was Lhutel. Being my only "fancy" summon I only upgraded her and the jellyfish. Watching this now really makes me realise how easy my life has been because of pure luck.
I'd consider it an upside, depending on your build! For example, Lhuthel attacks both via Melee and ranged, making it useful for most any build the player uses. In my case, I'm maining a dual-claw, pure evasion playstyle, so I'm going to maintain aggro anyways. If Lhuthel takes aggro occasionally, I'll use that opportunity to heal or restore my FP, but otherwise I want my summon to stick in the fight as long as possible, while I Bloodhound Step the boss dizzy.
Perfumer Tricia is my favorite ash and I’m glad you demonstrated the strength of her buffs instead of just letting her fight, she’s not meant to do damage but those buffs she gives have saved my ass multiple times.
Tricia: Do something, I'm buffing you! Report DPS! Mimic: The one Darksouls player who just runs in and starts spamming attacks, with no regard for what the boss does.
The good thing about all these shown here, is that they are almost all great and even though none could solo the boss. During play you'd be fighting with them and the boss would die before they die. So pretty much most of them are potent and viable.
nightmaiden and swordtress actually impressed me. they got a lot of hits in and a few staggers. there's two of them so that's a plus. I think in parts of the fight they were getting stuck in the trees and rocks which was messing up their dodging and pathfinding in a single room like a dungeon boss i'll bet they'd be great
They are my new favorite as an astrologer, they are not tanky but good at running distraction. Knight Oleg is my toughest ash summon that I've upgraded but he's considerably slower so I have to mind my aggression somewhat with him
Just like the last showcase, I love how agile the summons are. Most of them aren't simply meat sacks, they dodge, reposition, flank, and fight like the real enemies.
The power of having two of them, and the way one kept her distance a bit, really seemed to help. This experiment seems biased toward the summons with multiple entities (the greatshield mob from the non-elite video did amazingly well), because the player isn't doing anything to draw aggro or damage the boss. I assume that a lot of the single summons would've done even better with active player participation.
Lhutel has been my favorite summon since i picked her up pretty early in the game. she hard carries me sometimes and im all for it her fighting style is awesome
Really curious to play through with perfume lady. Just got her and it seems she can cast that spell that makes you take no damage from your next hit like 12 times in a fight…that seems huge as a support character
Latenna is actually very good if you don't treat her like a pokemon and watch her fight alone, if you get the aggro on yourself she can just spam her homing arrows and melt bosses from surprising distances
So, Nightmaidens, Dung Eater, Black Knife, Lhutel & Mimic are the worthwhile spirits from what I can tell. and Dung Eater seems like the craziest one if the player can distract the boss while he casts his madness nukes.
Storm hawk gives you and itself an attack buff. You're supposed to attack with it. Black knife Tiche deals 1200 damage to bosses with her blood slash. And mimic tear is a copy of you. Those are the three best so far imo
@@trkg1887 good points here, this test only shows what they do 1v1. It’s a worthwhile test but we need more if anyone wants a definitive answer. Personally mimic is OP for me with my faith build because homie has unlimited FP and I can buff em
Also, this is a solo showcase, some of these ashes aren't meant to handle big beat stick like Tree Sentinel. I think some of their builds perform much better on opponents that don't have super armor like this one.
It doesnt shine as well in the video but ancient dragon knight has INSANE hp and tanking ability + seemingly unlimited range lightning attack meaning that theyre an absolute godsend to share bosses aggro, though due to relatively low damage theyre not gonna be soloing many bosses
Kristoff is always my go-to. Against enemies that can be knocked off their feet, he's incredible, because he really likes his shield bash that knocks people down. And I feel like this isn't a very good showing for Ohga. He's meant as ranged support with his greatbow, his sword and shield are his backup.
@@angelofasullo7930 I watched my Mimic finish of Malenia from the death screen lol. The only thing I don't like with Mimic is that the 5 Endurance from Godricks Rune doesn't apply to it so I have to be careful to not have it fat roll.
She was never that good to me. Wouldn’t hold aggro teleported too much and spent a ton of time getting back to bosses and not attacking. Mimic still better except you can’t put anything on your bars you don’t want him to use, like an unleveled bow because he’ll favor that over a fully upgraded melee all day.
If you’re a melee build who typically holds aggro seriously consider giving the Jarwight Puppet consideration for a fun time (especially for slower or stationary bosses. Crazy dodges and loads of status buildups; he’s my favorite by far and Dolores is fantastic for multi boss fights. As soon as a boss is put to sleep Dolores stops attacking them letting you have the free crit or allowing you to focus on the other boss. The sleep effect is 60 seconds long!
Redmane Knight Ogha has been my favorite since I got him. If you set him against a humanoid boss, like Omenkiller size, he just knocks them down until they die. It's hilarious to watch. They get up to get blasted flat on their back again. I usually take part, so I never watched if he could solo a boss like that.
Lhutel was the clear winner given another try or two, but Mimic Ashes is still supreme if you're playing a tanky/heavy hitter build. You can crit stagger bosses very easily together since it's the same damage type and your mimic will even use the critical attack if you're not able to fast enough. Pretty epic!
Mimic Tears is broken honestly, i just try it out with max +10. Arm your mimic summon with Dragon King Cragblade from Placidusax boss weapon along with good poise armor then Erdtree Heal incantation and offensive incantantion too like fallen star you're good to go watching that thing solo the entire boss.
@@emilykaldwin3081 you mean to weaponswap after the summon? i am using sword of night and flame so if the mimic has my same stats wouldnt it still be better since i got points in fiath/int?
I don't like this Mimic showcase. We don't even know what the hell this person was wearing. It copies all your equipment. ALLLLL OF IT. Just can't mimic Flask count. So if you gave it a subpar sword to fight with, thats YOUR doing.
Fun fact : The Mimic Tear copy your currently equipped Weapons, Armors, and Spells so you can get really creative if you are using a mixed build. You can simply have it copy your current build and go ham with 2 identical build, put on a caster based build before summoning then switching to a melee build to have an unlimited FP caster summon of yourself with the Spells you got while you fight in melee or the other way of having the Mimic Tear act as tank and aggro while you fire away or support with buffs.
Luthel being one of the first summons you can get is a must for "mages" that can pay the 104fp cost. Supertanky and keeps the bosses busy. The mimic is fantastic when farming and for the lulz, since it is superaggressive and with an AOE wep its fun as hell :D Tiche has insane damage but is far more elusive , you will be running, but he might just kill the boss for you XD
As a faith build, buffing my ashes is the way to go- Alecto or Lhutel by themselves are OP. Alecto and Lhutel with Erdtrees Blessing? Alecto stayed standing through all of Commander Niall AND Rykards two phases with me. Stacking that effect damage the whole time. I also slapped her with resistance for that fight specifically.
Tiche is good as support on bosses due to percent health damage. Overall, headless is still the best. Combo of best tank, and the addition of pretty good damage.
I use the Mimic Tear (maxed out) most often. And since I use a lv10 Moonveil and lv Rivers of Blood… we’ll let’s just say that having four katanas hitting you at the same time doesn’t do anyone any favors.
I had a faith build with the mimic, with leonids armor, heals and buffs. Its so cheesy, i had to stop using it. I had it almost solo the scarlet rot dragon.
Banished Knight Oleg has always been stupidly useful in every fight I've ever been in, to the point where I haven't even upgraded any of the other ashen summons
I got Engvall before Oleg, and its the same there :D I didnt get the mimic before the nerf, but before I got Engvall til +10 and they were both at around the same tier, I would die ALOT more on bossfights with the mimic out then with Engvall, just need to get some more of the top tier mats to max out that headless chick and the twins now :)
@@nicosand86 I have encountered multiple bosses that outright die to a +10 Oleg alone, people are really sleeping on the Banished Knights, especially when you wield a weapon that takes a year and a half to swing but breaks poise immediately.
Black Knife, Black Flame Monk, and Lluthel seem like some of the top choices. The Finger Maiden is an awesome healer and would great support for a warrior focused build.
Seeing your vigor/mind/ endurance up so high is just so amazing to me. I can’t imagine how many runes it would take lol I just got my little mage to 70 int
Yup, definitely modded, or using Cheat Engine. Don't know how strict ER's anti-cheat system is, but this person definitely cannot play online, or is likely put in a server with other cheaters.
I love using the mimic tear because im running a build using the legendary dragon breath attacks and it's great watching ruin and decay go off at once and just watching health bars drop from basically two ancient dragons using their breath attacks at once
I took Jarwright Puppet from Seluvis, and don't regret a single thing. He might be absolutely useless, but he throws jars of pigshit at people and that's something I have to respect.
Jarwight is actually really strong, you just have to take the aggro from the boss. He nearly insta poisons bosses and does 5-7k dmg total if he doesnt get stunlocked and dodges attacks like a champ, if he doesnt get stunlocked. There are different kind of spirits, tanks, offensive ones and supports. Jarwight is the offensive type
@@Kub1na32 Thanks you guys and lol same 😂I’m working on tanking I’m more of a ranged attacker but for that scorpion boss I had to tank to win so know I can do both
Most of the spirits get hopelessly stun-locked if you don't help out and at least draw the boss's aggro away. Lhutel's ability to escape from that is what made him the strongest.
Her* Lhutel is a woman. And yes I agree that’s what pisses me off about this video. He’s using spirit ashes on a boss with a lot of poise damage. Like hell even the fire giant does less poise damage that the draconic tree sentinel
@@kazoo_gaming442 Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that. Yeah, this is honestly a pretty poor way to compare the different ashes. I'm not sure how I'd do it differently though. Maybe throw a dagger whenever the ash takes a hit, to draw aggro back to the player? Idk. You can't help too much, or the comparison is meaningless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think a subsequent video for the summons that aren’t intended to tank the boss’s hits (like latenna and thereolina) would be handy as they weren’t really represented well. Thereolina is a healer and latenna has very little health. Also I think Ogha is probs better served using the great bow at range. Just a thought. All the same it was cool to see all the elite summons in action without having to do it all myself😂
Dude he put latenna like a foot away from the boss. Like dude are you okay? Latenna is a range turret, that’s why she stays in one place and has pretty much a two kilometer range on her bow. She is an albinauric after all and you know how painful ordina is with the albinauric archers
Latenna is amazing if you put her on the outskirts of the fighting field if you have a Melee build, she rains down constant damage while you keep the boss busy
Well this is a video of just a summon on its own. But I really enjoy the skeletal militia men. Fairly easy to kite the boss with aggro when they die so they have time to respawn. Helped me sooo much!
Deenah gives an attack buff on summon and will re-cast it occassionally. Deenah won't carry you but will support you. If you are going to be up there and fighting with your Spirit, Deenah is my suggestion.
Thanks fot hese, they're fantastic. Although to everyone reading this, I wouldn't use this one video as a ranking list or a tier guide. Each spirit has their own specific area they're best in. Redman Ohga for example is Legendary Summon who fires off gravity greatarrows, however they didn't do that here becuase they had to fight the boss solo.
So much fun to watch. The 'which one should I use' questions is relative to play style and this is a great example of what they offer. If you're tanky and hold aggro, use a ranged if you want, especially if the enemy is prone to magic/poison/arrow damage. Lots of good ranged or group-mob options to pelt away at health while you sword and board. Use the aggro trinket behind a good shield and with even non-elite spirits and something like the wolves, rot hound, those damned wandering nobles or whatever and they might be in a whole other league, nibbling away while you shout Taunt, Rend and Stomp (wait wut). A mage/incantation type might find a tanky one like Lhutel or the other melee, heavy armor types or BKT very effective at keeping the enemy at range and doing their thing. Distance = safety. Sometimes. Especially since most bosses (Malenia included) will focus on the last thing that hit her. I mean them. Otherwise you can't really go wrong with the mimic, Lhutel and BKT in just about any situation tho from my playthrough so far! They're great fun. Although in my Malenia fight, the mimic did die the two times I tried it, it doesn't flask heal like it did pre-patch. BKT walked out of the fight with me tho and held her own the whole time and did copious amounts of damage. She's my current favorite. Lhutel is probably also a great pick for that one, that would be fun to see. The bleed builds and probably some super heavy hitting spell casters I imagine lean Mimic still, they don't need to heal, everything just stops being on the screen especially when there's two trains of magic energy crashing at the intersection of The Boss and Winning.
@@victorhugo-rf7py I use him. As soon as I noticed he has that deathblade buff and can wisp out to avoid damage I knew he was gonna be the shit. I could see mimic being absolutely ridiculous though
The one I only used to the endgame is my girl Lhutel the Headless. Has a unique evasion that disappears and completely counters death blows more often. My Top 3: Lhutel, Tiche, Mimic
and cheap! Im playing a build where im purposefully playing a certain way and I dont have much fp, for 47 fp Stormhawk does a fine job. Even better once you learn to foght alongsode it and hold aggro to keep it safe. AI doesnt like dealing with annoying ass birds either.
@@danr154 ahaha literally , ive long been completed with Elden since i commented this and i found that the mimic tear actually helped my STR build way more just to amplify my DPS but yes Stormhawk is so good for magic and aggro hold especially
I like Stormhawk Deenah a lot. He flies around a lot which means it's harder to hit him. He also boosts your attack by 20% when he appears then he does so every once in a while, while doing decent damage on the side. Not a tank summon, but a good battle companion and the only elite bird summon.
Thanks for the data! I’d love to see tests on what all the “do more damage take more damage” items actually accomplish so we can decide if they’re worthwhile!
I didn't do any real testing but from what the stats show it took about 12% damage negation taken away from me, or it halved them. Originally I had ~24% across the board, equipping Radagast's Soreseal gives me just over 12%. So in light/medium armor, it's definitely worth it but if it halves your dmg negations you may want to avoid it in heavy armor. At that point it'd be taking like 25% dmg negation away from you, and that's gonna make you take considerably more dmg.
Leaving aside Mimic Tear, Lhutel is clearly the strongest ash, which is crazy since IIRC you can get her fairly early. The combination of the greatshield and the teleport gives her a fair amount of endurance, and the damage is good too. Mimic Tear is easily the best spirit though, and it isn't close - with the caveat that it depends entirely on your own build. If your own build is good, Mimic Tear is easily capable of soloing... honestly most bosses you can summon it for. Joining in on the fray just makes it hilariously overpowered. If your build sucks though, Mimic Tear is basically useless. As a hint: have an incantation seal in the offhand and a healing spell slotted. The mimic tear will use it!
One of my favorite spirits to use is Redmane Knight Ogha because if you do a war cry he buffs himself by doing a war cry as well. Like best buds hyping each other up lol
Late game nightmaiden and swordstress are very reliable. Can tank quite a bit and do loads of damage. I have them at +8 atm and so far they're doing better than most ppl I summon. If you're a mage build like myself having these 2 are even better.
Its important to understand that a spirit that died quickly or didnt do much damage isnt bad. The point of spirits is to support you in battle, not carry you through the fight.
90% of the time you want your spirit to take the aggro. If they die quickly then in general that makes them worse. Obviously there may be some exceptions
@@implodingfruitz8093 depends on the fight and build tbf, latenna spirit is a stationary turret who you’d preferably want in the back line just doing long range damage. She’s amazing if you have a frontline fighter. You wouldn’t want them to aggro the boss lol
@@fullsend4976 So couldn't you make a super tanky high endurance strength build and run the Talisman that makes enemies aggro you, and just block and block counter bosses while the bow summon just melts it from afar for you?
I really hope that they add a feature where you can refight bosses once you beat them. They could have an area in the roundtable hold where you can select a boss or invasion to fight again and maybe even change the difficulty such as adding modifiers to make it easier/harder or change how the fight works.
tbh i think thats what the coliseum that the GREAT-JAR protecting may be 🤩whenever they release a dlc or patch for it . it would definitely make sense if they do .
latemma is my fav ash, but since she never moves, it would be in the best interest to find a sniping spot that the enemy can't reach and then call her. One time, I cast her REALLY far from the battle and kept the boss in the middle between her and I, focusing on me. There's a stone mask pendant that draw enemy aggression and that works wonders.
The mimic is probably the best, but that depends entirely on YOUR build, as whatever you're using will transfer over to the mimic, including consumables and spells, and the mimic gets unlimited of these items as well as unlimited FP to use these spells. Personally i'm a tank sorcerer, using the golden shield from the grafted scion with the Barricade ash of war, makes the mimic basically impossible to stagger or damage with any regular physical attack, and access to several high cost, high damage spells will make it genuinely useful in any fight against bosses that don't have heavily damaging effects, such as bleed. My mimic died a single time and it was on a boss that used bleed weapons, bleed abilities and two annoying dogs that, i think, also caused bleed.
You can actually make the mimic even more broken with items like raw meat dumpling and aromatics. Raw meat dumpling heals 50% hp but gives poison, which does not effect mimic so it just gets free hp, uplifting aromatic can buff atk and give a 90% dmg reduction for 30s,which mimics will use to buff you as well
I like how Mimic's strength and weakness is based on the host itself. It copies all weapon and skill/magic equipped so you can design him however you want based on your image. Equip high risk high reward spells that you normally wouldn't use midfight and it would use it too.
I put rotten breath on that mf and they don't cast it for long enough every time but sometimes they just scarlet rot the boss out of nowhere for like a total of over a third of its health
Does it also copy stats? As in if you equip say a big ass sword and shield, but you yourself don't have the str/dex to properly wield them or roll quickly, will the mimic also suffer from the same issues? Or will it be able to wield the weapons with out issue?
@@Nozerone I don't personally know the specifics, but I have at least seen it try to single hand wield a greataxe which I could only two hand at the time, but it's possible it wasn't actually using it effectively.
@@Nozerone Yes, it copies your gear, stats, spells, items, weaknesses, everything really. So if you cannot wield a weapon properly, it also cannot. I don't know if it can heal through flasks (as I don't have it yet), but it can heal itself through spells and it uses weapon arts as well. Talismans also likely affect it.
Stormhawk Deenh did surprisingly well considering he's primarily a support summon who buffs the player. Latenna the Albinauric can't move or tank, but she provides godlike DPS if you set her down far away from the boss and keep the aggro off her.
Summons are easily the best thing to use in this game in my opinion. Most are better to use than actual other players, do to how much less damage you do to bosses with just a second player helping.
I've used Lhutel ever since I got him cause of his vanishing move. He's my favorite summon in the game, that storm hawk summon also looks really fun, but me and Lhutel are partners in crime
My favorite spirit ashes as a mage: - Mimic Tear: 95 pts. (not tanky but killer) - Omenkiller Rollo: 85 pts. (constant aggro and tanky) - Black Knife Tiche: 75 pts. (agile and killer, HP debuff, but sometimes lose aggro) - Greatshield Soldier: 70 pts. (constant aggro, surround the enemy, slow but constant damage)
As a spellblade, the maxed wolves make this game a lot easier than it should be. But the game is full on auto mode with Mimic and my build. Two Darkmoon great swords and arrows from the sky anyone staggered 95% of the time
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Alright love your content bro! My favorite spirit is the great shield soldiers
What level are you? I’ve not seen anyone else with so much health and magic.
@@Nightwalker601 Glitches Of Course
Could you maybe do a showcase of Weapons Arts/skills next? (including ashes of war and weapons you havent shown so far)?
oleg all the way
I remember fighting the mimic tear boss and beating it one try. My heart filled with pride, I thought to read the messages strewed about. One caught my eye.
"Weak foe? Time for introspection."
Goddamnit.
Lol same here, I had to rethink my whole build
You should know how to use your weapons way better than the AI...
that was one of my favorite messages
I'm glad I was using great swords at the time and knew the swing time to bully the mimic
I play a glass cannon build. That fight started, and I was like "you're me, which means you suck, and you're gonna die"
@@AFlyingSwive Emotional damage XD
Remember people, this is against a boss that relies mostly on melee attacks, strength of each spirit might vary for different bosses
That's definitely true. This boss has incredible stagger resistance so the spirits that have very high stagger values weren't able to make their true strength shine here.
Still, Lhutel the Headless is the best overall performer in my opinion. High melee damage output, a shield, great poise, fade out ability, and a ranged option.
Not to mention he just spams moves quite often. The man is playing whack a mole with some of these spirits not allowing them to even get up
Couldn't agree more that the boss-type matters. I killed the dragon in the lakes by putting Latenna on a rock and she kept sniping him wherever he went. Lhutel the headless meanwhile did nothing but teleport back and forth doing nothing since the dragon just flies everywhere.
Very much the case. If the enemy can be staggered or stunned I found the marionette soldiers to be absolute stagger machines with the amount of arrows they pump out. Meanwhile the greatshield soldiers get destroyed by bosses with aoe nova attacks but I watched let them solo a lot of weaker bosses that I missed earlier in the game.
@@Omar_Al_Seddik the problem I found with luthel on my mage build was that bosses often lost aggro on her and would start targeting me because of her blink ability.
She can tank a lot of damage but her damage output isn't that high. Her blink backfires on the players. Imo not the best for distracting bosses.
PS. I got luthel after watching this video and thus my assesment.
That fight vs Lhutel the Headless is just beautiful. The way he just fades out to dodge multiple attacks is a thing if grace.
Its a chick
i was on the edge of my chair... so much potiential
Heads up that makes alot of the bosses go crazy, that fading out saves alot of its HP but sends the aggro right back at ya.
@@Yokonato "heads up" nice pun
I thought that spirit had a lot of potential when I first summoned it and saw it just fading in and out to fuck up some mobs lol
12:12
Rollo tanks a fireball by moving in front of it as it was on course to hit the player. Absolutely godlike.
Like a true gentleman.
Actually, the player moved behind them causing the projectile to hit the summon, and it wasn't the only time they did this. I hate it when that happens in co op; some other player is being targeted, they roll towards me, and the tracking causes the attack to land on me when it would have otherwise whiffed. Thx alot
@@OsirisGrimoire I see that they both did it. Rollo dodged left and the player rolled right
@@TheNecroFisherman didn't notice rollo dodged too since the animation is a subtle sidestep. But the distance he traveled wouldn't have intercepted the projectile if it weren't for the player dodging towards them. Don't know if the player was doing this intentionally (since they do it multiple times) but it kinda messes up the demonstration since its forcing the spirit to tank more hits than its meant to. In a real fight the summon and the player are constantly dividing the enemy's attention, allowing the one not being targeted to recover or go on the offensive. If the person holding aggro constantly puts other teammates in the line of fire, it takes away the advantage of their numbers
chad move
Oleg hard carried me through the first half of the game, it's good to see he still keeps up in late game. It's a bad matchup for him cause his main purpose is as a stagger machine and the tree sentinel just don't care, buy I'm still proud of him.
And this is how love is born
Oleg is the GOAT
Where u get Oleg?
@@j18397 Bottom of the hidden area in the tutorial
Oleg is the main character your the spirit
I think Tiche, no matter how OP she is, is such a fun spirit to watch fight. Her floating around the battlefield is so different from my play style of choice with being a tank/paladin and it’s so entertaining to me
Did you happen to notice the bug at the start with tiche, looked like her red ability healed him.
@@nunya3399 this abillity reduces Max hp so it looks like stuff gets healed esp bosses with Tons of HP but its just that the lifebar gets smaller faster then the dmg Ticks get out
@@jhvfgvsfgbfr oh I see. The life bar length updates.
Tiche is my favourite :D
@@nunya3399 it doesnt heal them, but reduce the enemy health bar, but only for a some sec, then the health returns, thats why it "heal" 🙂
Lhuthel the headless knight probably the most balanced spirit. She can block, can atk from range, can melee, can teleport out of harms way. Also quite easy to get early on
First elite ash I got and I put all my gloveworts materials in upgrading her. Looks like it was the right choice!
Yeah it also misses alot and does get aggro
@@gif631 same problem
@@gif631 then level up your magic
It's a really useful summon, used it to defeat black knife.
Notice that the Dung Eater never lost aggro a single time. Despite that, he lasted forever and did a ton of damage. Every other ash lost aggro
I think he could be the best if the player helps keep the boss busy altogether and take some damage off from him.
Dung eater fucks shit up (when he's not fucking corpses). Especially when he's able to cast his spells.
Yeah he is much hated by any boss lol, no wonder if you look at his background
Also has bleed and a debuff. Fun ash
I ran Dung Eater on my first complete play through. He was mostly awesome, but there are times where he will go long periods without landing a significant attack to take aggro. He's also awful against Malenia - Tiche or one of the more aggressive summons work a lot better.
I ran the Nightmaiden and Swordstress puppets my first playthrough. Honestly, they were the most fun spirits to fight with for me. Seeing them dance around the battle field as we encircle the enemy, only for us all to get launched by some dumb AOE has a special place in my heart
Lmao and ya they were my best summons in my first playthrough at the endgame, I used those 2 skeletons that get back up when dead when first starting the game but they're so weak midgame and useless in endgame (loved them nontheless but too weak)
Watching them here I'm happy I brought them to +10. They brought down health right up there with the best of them but they drew massive agro. If you watch this simply looking at damage meters you'd think luhtel was the best, but he wasn't nearly as good of an agro draw. One thing I learned from watching this is how much I messed up this first playthrough by disrupting the dungeater quest prematurely. He was BY FAR the best agro draw. The guy could practically stand flat footed with that summons on the field.
not only are they one of the best, they're just so cool.
Bro I used them for the gargoyle duo fight and they were solid
The Nox girls are waifus, I love fighting alongside them lol
Lhutel is exceptional, and an all-around generalist with a lot of good uses.
Engvall is a heavy hitter, who's strongest point is probably trading aggro with you on mobile bosses; his best quality is leaping into action constantly.
Oleg is a staggering master, and is really, really strong against bosses weak to interruptions or who rely on long charge cycles.
Also I used lhutel in the fire giant fight and she ate literally his strongest attacks and moved away from the insta death ones she literally survived till the second part of the fight then got burned alive I literally died because I was amazed for how long my summon survived
I actually hate Engvall. He gets staggered so easily against most bosses
@Sir Dew of mountains same here. Engvall helped a ton against that Onyx Lord boss in that one cave.
All those guys suck except Lhutel because she teleports. 🤣🤣🤣
Engvall is great in enclosed spaces and he can take the most beating of any of the spirit summons.
Latenna fully upgraded is actually quite useful, you can put her VERY FAR away from the actual fight and wont draw aggro in some open world bosses like Decaying Ezekys, its basically a DPS increase as the fight goes you just have to survive.
ya she carry me on so many boss , this showcase is completely bad showcase for all "range" and "support" spirits , i dont know what in mind of this Op when summon so many range spirits especially god like range Latenna right in front of boss and call it "SHOWCASE" , i think he should change his title from all elite spirits "showcase" to all elite spirits "introduce" !
If you summon her while White Wolfes are atound she can go on top of them and move apparently
shes essentailly a turret. Plus you can keep the boss between you and her and constantly hit the boss in the back as you draw aggro away from her and the boss basically gets stuck in the middle taking damage.
Yeah I think she is under-rated. Not many people are just watching summons fight the boss. Its easy to keep her safe on the other side of the room and she just does constant damage.
@@kingknightisbestknight7398 holy sht that’s such a cute and awesome detail if that’s true
Summon mimic with a weapon that has Prayerful Strike ash of war. Whenever they successfully land a hit with the ability it heals them for 30% of their HP, which is a crazy amount considering the mimic's health pool.
You out here giving goverment secrets here. I've been using Prayerful strike with my mimic + great stars for awhile amd notice that the health regen stacks. So you can apply great stars passive heal on hit + Prayerful stike + heal for hit talisman (forgot the name) and I can have my mimic survive massive attacks while maintaining their healthbar at the same time after the nerf. Plus it adds hyperarmor so you'll need to get quite a beating to get knocked out of that move.
Genius! Didn't even think of that
before the patch 1.03 mimic tear with faith build and incantation eldtree heal your mimic tear will always use it unlimited heal...
before the nerf patch your mimic tear can 1 vs 1 almost everyboss it even can 1 vs 3
@@jameselrick6698 I just give my mimic Uplifting Aromatic and Raw Meat Dumpling. Paired with my build of Tree Sentinel Armor (wearing the nobel headband), Hand of Malenia and Cold Nagakiba lets just say we carve bosses to bits even on NG+. No Ash summon can compete anymore.
Where is prayerful strike? Might I ask?
28:35 They did the Mimic Tear so perfect that even mimics how close I am to kill a boss just to die for a bad timed attack!
Tbh compared to my mimic this one sucks. Mimics are best with either extremely high dps equipment (dual bleed katanas for example) or with weapons that can heal them like a prayerful strike. My main run was a high vigor, high endurance, and high dex build focused on dual wielding katanas and heavy armour. Me and my mimic absolutely ripped through the late game. Even Malenia was pretty easy. I genuinely regretted summoning for Godfrey because the fight last less than a minute and he looked cool.
mimic is the best their build just sucks ass lol
@@lokenontherange Actually, it's 3
Dex bleed, Prayer Stars, and Stupid high Poise
@@lokenontherange play the game again without the summon to really experience it
@@I-like-cows I have. I'm not that fond of replaying Elden Ring because it pushes you so heavily to do a tedious run around to grab good stuff and the incredibly low soul earnings early game make it generally not worth playing.
Just like with the standard ones, I went ahead and did a base damage chart. Now, with this list there are some very weird cases. Like the mimic being a duplicate of yourself, meaning it'll scale differently than everything else, and Perfumer and Finger Maiden constantly healing making it hard to get a good read on damage. Just like last time, this can't really take into account any special-type damage(bleeds/poison/etc), or if they have another type of attack they could do if they weren't the main target. But this should be a good starting place especially for mages or archers. I couldn't tell for sure because I haven't used any of these, but I'm pretty sure none technically regenerate after dying, some just heal, so I didn't include that stat. Please let me know if anything looks wrong.
Summon: Dmg:
Lhutel the Headless 97%
Mimic Tear Ashes* 79%
Nightmaiden and Swordtress Puppets 76%
Black Knife Tiche 73%
Dung Eater Puppet 71%
Nepheli Loux Puppet 66%
Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff Ashes 65%
Omenkiller Rollo 57%
Banished Knight Oleg 52%
Banished Knight Engvall Ashes 51%
Blackflame Monk Amon Ashes 48%
Stormhawk Deenah 42%
Redmane Knight Ogha 36%
Dolores the Sleeping Arrow Puppet 27%
Bloodhound Knight Floh 22%
Battlemage Hugues Ashes 22%
Cleanrot Knight Finlay Ashes 20%
Latemma the Albinauric 12%
Depraved Perfumer Carmaan Ashes 12%
Finger Maiden Therolina Puppet* 10%
Jarwight Puppet 7%
Perfumer Tricia* 5%
Thanks for this
Queen Lhutel carries
Thanks, a man of culture!
Thanks very nice information. Mimic will always be the best if scaled properly but I felt like cheating using him on my first playthrough.
@@AlVash2 Plus mimic doesn't need you to invest into mind.
Stormhawk is actually pretty great on a Strength build. The buff he gives stacked with determination ash of war lets me do bonkers damage on jump attacks and charged R2.
Stack that with the 'improved physical damage' wonderous chug and you can do some insane damage.
To be honest he would probably be great for my sorcerer since he seems to keep agro a lot better than the other summons, trying not to over use them though cause I've already got the damage, if I take the need to even dodge the bosses attacks then I'm just playing on easy mode
I’ve never done a strength build, but I think I’m going to now
....noted.
*applauded*
@@tokyobankai4031 it was slow to pick up speed in this one. Planning on doing str int for the final build but wanted to focus on one first. I’m doing crazy damage now and I’m not even done upgrading yet. Using the ugs you get from beating the boss right before the demigod in the caliead (fuck spelling it lmao). It’s a duo. If you know you know. It turns into S str and C int at 10. I have it +9 and it’s already doing 1k on jump attacks.
Similar to how I calculated the HP for the standard summons in the other video, I took note of how much damage it took for each spirit ash to die, in order to estimate their total health. Once again these aren't exact due to overkill, and three of them didn't die so I had to guess based on their remaining hp.
Stormhawk Deenh: 5164
Banished Knight Oleg: 8533
Banished Knight Engvall: 8636
Bloodhound Knight Floh: 4748
Battlemage Hugues: 7849-8290
Latenna the Albinauric: 2788
Perfumer Tricia: ~3385
Depraved Perfumer Carmaan: ~6743
Omenkiller Rollo: 7280
Blackflame Monk Amon: 8353
Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff: 9986
Redmane Knight Ogha: 8216
Lhutel the Headless: 5719
Cleanrot Knight Finlay: 6263
Black Knife Tiche: 6304
Mimic Tear: 10280
Finger Maiden Therolina: ~2092
Jarwight Puppet: 4081
Dolores the Sleeping Arrow: 3356
Nepheli Loux: 6325
Dung Eater: 6954
Nightmaiden & Swordstress: 5843 x2 minions
Underrated comment, thx.
Imo black knife have too much hp for their utility and mimic got way too much hp for it utility.
thanks so much
I'm paralyzed IRL so even though the use cases are less I have a duty to my people to fully upgrade Latenna the Albinauric and Fell as many bosses as we can! 🤣😅♿💪🏻
Damn, I can't critique that. Play your best run my dude, she's certainly no tank but she's got some great punch to her if you can peel the bosses from them!
Latenna is no joke, for the right encounter she can put out very reliable damage. She is in my top 3 to upgrade to 10 first.
she helped me in during two fallingstar beast fights. i set her up on the edge of the battlefield and she was just raining down arrows while I mixed it up with melee.
@@thant0s >Best run
Oof
She can cheese astal if you just keep aggro
Dung Eater will always be my favorite spirit summon. That blood loss sneaks up on enemies man, and is pretty helpful for arcane bleed builds. Plus he's tanky because of his armor and he reduces enemy resistances in an area with the Sword of Milos. Nothing to scoff at. His curse projectile is okay, I guess. All in all, he provides reliable support in a fight and is a great summon.
He's one of the best summons on par with Black Knife Tiche and mimic
I’m actually going for a blood loss dexterity build right now and he sounds great if he also gives blood loss because that should mean we can stack it faster
One thing to note is that a lot of the spirits that die quickly actually deal a lot of damage, if you take aggro off of them then they are still just as viable. Its just that the ones that can solo bosses are obviously better.
Nah. The only exception is 8:13 Latenna the Archer; even then she would only be viable IF youre playing a full Agro Tank Build.
You cant tell me that, the rest of them (that die fast but deal "damage") are actually biable if you take aggro. When Summons like 19:30 Luther The Headless and 23:13 Black Knife Tiche quite literally solo enemies while tanking **exists.** Like 5:48 Bloodhound Knight Floh is an embarasment.
@@Chris____. Bloodhound Knight is probably meant for enemies with less poise and likely deals bleed damage, which he did not get off from this fight. That bleed damage would be a big factor in his damage output if he has it(the bloodhound knight you can fight near the beginning of the game has bleed damage). Being constantly staggered into the ground due to not having as much poise is the reason he had a problem getting his bleed off and dealing damage. Spirits all seem situational depending on the enemies you're facing and that bloodhound knight is no exception. Also I should mention Lhutel the Headless wasn't tanking damage the majority of that fight, but avoiding it by teleporting all over the place. It's definitely stronger than Floh in terms of tanking ability, which leads to it being better in this instance, but like I said, it was avoiding a lot of hits in that fight by teleporting around. Had it been hit as much as Floh, it definitely wouldn't have lasted as long as it did, and again, Floh didn't get the bleed off that would have made it's damage better.
If you tank the boss, Latenna really seems to be able to litteraly destroy it, her dammages are really good
@@moufletmateis6445 Yeah used her quite a lot as she was the first of these I got and she’s the mvp in dragon fights for example. You ride around and evade the attacks while she just unleashes hell on them. Also good to pick off multiple enemies from afar.
@@Chris____. If you look at the headless and black blade fights, those two DON'T actually "tank" very well in the traditional sense. "Tanking" as a suport role is about more than just surviving hits, it's also about ensuring your allies DON'T draw unwanted attacks. As stated by other comments, due to Headless's teleporting and Black Blade's hit and run style the player ends up taking most of the aggro. Also it should be noted that their fights were amongst the longest, meaning although they did more damage all up it was partially because it took the boss longer to kill them (though holy crap Tiche has some wild burst damage, not sure why the boss kept getting health back for her fight). The two of them periodically draw aggro for short durations, but this may not be preferrable for DPS players who want more regular openings to get off their attacks. In this sense even the jellyfish *could* be considered a better tank for a heavily DPS oriented player because of its high health pool and regularly timed, high aggro attacks (1-2 hits is enough to get most enemies attention I find). Not to crap on Either Tiche or Lhutel. They're epic, but saying that they're the "only viable" spirits because they can "almost solo" enemies is a gross oversimplification of how spirits are used. The player's style factors into what summons are the most useful.
As another example, let's talk about Floh. I can confirm what Jon P has said. Floh is a poor match up for this boss, especially without support. He's somewhat frail, easily staggered, and requires escape windows to get out of enemy combos. Ideally you would keep switching aggro to give him a chance to do his job. You do some damage, then back off to recover stamina/heal/chug FP juice while floh jumps in. They trade, Floh maybe gets staggered, but it's okay because now you're back in there. You get the boss' attention and Floh teleports back out to avoid potential collateral damage from any wide range sweeping or AoE attacks. Then he jumps back in (hopefully from behind if you're luring the boss right). Once he has a chance to get a few actual attacks off his value becomes apparent. His stagger and bleed are actually really good when you don't let him get stunlocked. If you're using him chances are you want to end fights quickly, so his low health pool becomes less of a concern. Even if he dies the boss should be on extremely low health and well within the range of finishing solo.
Of course, all this changes against "zoning" bosses who try to wall you out with projectiles. This is where Floh TRULY shines. Used him at only +3 against second stage Rennala today. His movement speed and constant aggression meant that she couldn't even build distance, and his stagger meant she couldn't get off anything except her quickest attacks, and even then she ended up on her ass before she could finish half the time. And this was with me playing super passively (I didn't know her moveset so I was just feeling the fight out). Once I realised Floh wasn't going to let her breathe I just ran forward and it became a curb stomp with added bleed procs (as if her day wasn't already bad enough). I only found out later that she had the whole "summoning ash" gimmick when my brother told me about it. It was over so quickly she never got the chance to so much as call a wolf pack.
This is just one example. While some summons truly are jokes (looking at you Noble Sorcerer), the vast majority are at least viable in a good number of fights, and truly shine under the right circumstances.
EDIT: Upon rewatching, Lhutel's damage was a bit higher than I thought. I can see now why she's considered one of the most generally powerful spirits. My point about the aggro still stands though.
If you're going to use Latenna (which I did for much of the game), you need to summon her while as far away as possible. She has extreme range, and her arrows have homing. Of course she dies if you drop her right in front of the enemy. She's great against Astel.
0:10 - Storm hawk Deenh
1:55 -Banished Knight Oleg
3:45 - Banished Knight Engvall
5:50 - Blood Hound Knight Floh
6:40 - Battlemage Hugues
8:15 - Latema the Albinauric
10:40 - Depraved Perfumer Carmen
11:42 - Omenkiller Rollo
13:22 - Blackflame Monk Amon
15:05 - Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff
17:35 - Summons Spirit of Redmane Knight Ogha
19:30 - Lhutel the Headless
21:58 - Clean Rot Knight Finlay
23:12 - Black Knight Tiche
26:24 - Mimic Tear
28:46 - Finger Maiden Therolina Puppet
30:04 - Jarwight Puppet
31:42 - Dolores the sleeping Arrow Puppet
33:25 - Nepheli Loux Puppet
35:16 - Dung Eater Puppet
37:04 - Nightmaiden & Swordtress Puppets
thanks
No wolves?
@@krazyfil this is older content. There are many that wasn’t in the video.
@@jameszezulinski Engvall is a new Summon I thought? Oh well either way good video
@@jameszezulinski You just straight up skipped Tricia lol
Latemma is a great option if you are a tanky character and need a strong backline buddy with insane range, shes especially good in open world where she can snipe from a mile away. Also shes such a cool character who chose to become a spirit to help you.
She can ride wolves to if there are any near her
yeah if its a more open boss i use latenna because im a straight tank build. if its tighter quarters i use mimic because we can both stand in the pocket and take abuse. i run the full bull goat armor set and grafted great sword with 60 vigor and 60 strength and 50 stamina so far. i haven't beaten the game but man my mimic has made the game kinda easy for some fights.
She is dead? Or how is she now a spirit?
@@miguelfaican420 she killed herself basically
@@miguelfaican420 she took the form of a spirit just to help you but i dunno really how
I like how the bloodhound knight bosses try to avoid all attacks but the ash version just stands there and eats every hit
I think Tree sentinel has huge resistances to fire and magic, making any summons who use that look worse than they are.
you can comet azur this fool
@@grobariza not so easy he leaps around a lot
@@lostinspacestudio Nah, you can delete him and his farm Azula brother while he postures at you at the beginning of the fight. With that said comet azur kills don't prove much given that if you have an enemy stand still long enough that spell will delete most things in the game.
@@vocalcalibration8033 yeah well me and many others don't have that luck..
In both of these videos, I think I love the shield army the most.
I love the idea of having as many dudes on screen as possible, So summoning 5 stubbon buggers with big shields who just bonk all day.... thats a LOT of fun to me.
I found them mad annoying to fight. So I knew that once I got them as a summon, the enemies wouldn't like it either lmao.
that was my logic with Stormhawk: ok angry birbs are one of the most terrible things in this game.......lets see how the AI deals wIth a taste of its own medicine.
Meanwhile i'm casting Azur's comet 😂
By pure coincidence, the first elite summon I got was Lhutel. Being my only "fancy" summon I only upgraded her and the jellyfish. Watching this now really makes me realise how easy my life has been because of pure luck.
Lhutel teleport is broken af, but it does seem to reset aggro on the AI so it could also be a down side.
I'd consider it an upside, depending on your build! For example, Lhuthel attacks both via Melee and ranged, making it useful for most any build the player uses. In my case, I'm maining a dual-claw, pure evasion playstyle, so I'm going to maintain aggro anyways. If Lhuthel takes aggro occasionally, I'll use that opportunity to heal or restore my FP, but otherwise I want my summon to stick in the fight as long as possible, while I Bloodhound Step the boss dizzy.
Perfumer Tricia is my favorite ash and I’m glad you demonstrated the strength of her buffs instead of just letting her fight, she’s not meant to do damage but those buffs she gives have saved my ass multiple times.
That damage reduction is pog
Tricia: Do something, I'm buffing you! Report DPS!
Mimic: The one Darksouls player who just runs in and starts spamming attacks, with no regard for what the boss does.
Indeed and the only drawback wad that he had spells on. If he didnt, it would have spammed bloody slash and ended it within seconds likely
The good thing about all these shown here, is that they are almost all great and even though none could solo the boss. During play you'd be fighting with them and the boss would die before they die. So pretty much most of them are potent and viable.
I think mimic would've destroyed sentinel if it was correct build with useful items in hotbar
Even if you don’t attack the boss, you can just buff and heal the ashes from time to time.
nightmaiden and swordtress actually impressed me. they got a lot of hits in and a few staggers. there's two of them so that's a plus. I think in parts of the fight they were getting stuck in the trees and rocks which was messing up their dodging and pathfinding
in a single room like a dungeon boss i'll bet they'd be great
They are my new favorite as an astrologer, they are not tanky but good at running distraction. Knight Oleg is my toughest ash summon that I've upgraded but he's considerably slower so I have to mind my aggression somewhat with him
they really impressed me too. especially when one has aggro the other flanks . as soon as they were summon they went all in. i need to find them
@@Spydie1124 they are in nokstella behind a fog door 👍
@@jacelong7737 thank you 😊 I still haven't gotten them after all this time 🤣😌
@@Spydie1124 yea no problem
Thank you very much for this showcasing of the summons, you’ve done us all a service here!
Just like the last showcase, I love how agile the summons are. Most of them aren't simply meat sacks, they dodge, reposition, flank, and fight like the real enemies.
OLEG is the best. This man staggers almost ever enemy and boss. A true friend.
It kinda surprised me how aggressive the nightmaiden and swordtress are
Definitely want those two in my pokedex.
I've got them but haven't really given them a chance (thanks to my girl Lhutel carrying my ass.) Looks like I need to level them up a bit.
The power of having two of them, and the way one kept her distance a bit, really seemed to help. This experiment seems biased toward the summons with multiple entities (the greatshield mob from the non-elite video did amazingly well), because the player isn't doing anything to draw aggro or damage the boss. I assume that a lot of the single summons would've done even better with active player participation.
i think they're bugged, mine aren't nowhere near this aggressive and i leveled them up
I loved the theme of what they are and randomly upgraded them to max...ive never looked back
Lhutel has been my favorite summon since i picked her up pretty early in the game. she hard carries me sometimes and im all for it her fighting style is awesome
Really curious to play through with perfume lady. Just got her and it seems she can cast that spell that makes you take no damage from your next hit like 12 times in a fight…that seems huge as a support character
Where did you find her?
@@aaronweekes5436 I forgot the name, but it's one of the smaller dungeons in the altus plateu
Mimic can do that too, craft a uplifting aromatics and put it in ur item slot
She’s pretty trash because she rarely casts the shield spell
@@lukex1337 Dude, she's a borderline second Wonderous Physick.
Thank you Kristoff, for all the dedication you've give to me
Holy crap, Lhutel the Headless is an actual BEAST
Carried my mage against Rennala.
Dude is a king among headless men.
damn.. dude was 1 hit away from killing the boss
@@jordanfitzmaurice6658 You mean queen.
@@mpc2846 well they’re a dead ghost now. No gender
@@lewispooper3138 Who says ghost doesn't have gender?
Latenna is actually very good if you don't treat her like a pokemon and watch her fight alone, if you get the aggro on yourself she can just spam her homing arrows and melt bosses from surprising distances
So, Nightmaidens, Dung Eater, Black Knife, Lhutel & Mimic are the worthwhile spirits from what I can tell. and Dung Eater seems like the craziest one if the player can distract the boss while he casts his madness nukes.
Storm hawk gives you and itself an attack buff. You're supposed to attack with it. Black knife Tiche deals 1200 damage to bosses with her blood slash. And mimic tear is a copy of you. Those are the three best so far imo
@@trkg1887 good points here, this test only shows what they do 1v1. It’s a worthwhile test but we need more if anyone wants a definitive answer.
Personally mimic is OP for me with my faith build because homie has unlimited FP and I can buff em
@@donk8961 I used mimic on Rykard. It was hilarious. Poor guy
Also, this is a solo showcase, some of these ashes aren't meant to handle big beat stick like Tree Sentinel. I think some of their builds perform much better on opponents that don't have super armor like this one.
It doesnt shine as well in the video but ancient dragon knight has INSANE hp and tanking ability + seemingly unlimited range lightning attack meaning that theyre an absolute godsend to share bosses aggro, though due to relatively low damage theyre not gonna be soloing many bosses
Kristoff is always my go-to. Against enemies that can be knocked off their feet, he's incredible, because he really likes his shield bash that knocks people down. And I feel like this isn't a very good showing for Ohga. He's meant as ranged support with his greatbow, his sword and shield are his backup.
I found lhutel extremely early just from exploring and she has carried me HARD.
Best spirit until endgame with mimic for sure
Well mimic is trash now. Lhutel #1
@@randomnobody9229 Mimic is not trash lol
Unless your build is trash
@@angelofasullo7930 I may use mimic but it has gotten me killed lmfao 🤦
@@angelofasullo7930 I watched my Mimic finish of Malenia from the death screen lol. The only thing I don't like with Mimic is that the 5 Endurance from Godricks Rune doesn't apply to it so I have to be careful to not have it fat roll.
She was never that good to me. Wouldn’t hold aggro teleported too much and spent a ton of time getting back to bosses and not attacking. Mimic still better except you can’t put anything on your bars you don’t want him to use, like an unleveled bow because he’ll favor that over a fully upgraded melee all day.
If you’re a melee build who typically holds aggro seriously consider giving the Jarwight Puppet consideration for a fun time (especially for slower or stationary bosses. Crazy dodges and loads of status buildups; he’s my favorite by far and Dolores is fantastic for multi boss fights. As soon as a boss is put to sleep Dolores stops attacking them letting you have the free crit or allowing you to focus on the other boss. The sleep effect is 60 seconds long!
Fun Fact: Summon your mimic with warming stones slotted for you both to always have a HoT. Mine keeps em on the ground almost all the time.
Redmane Knight Ogha has been my favorite since I got him. If you set him against a humanoid boss, like Omenkiller size, he just knocks them down until they die. It's hilarious to watch. They get up to get blasted flat on their back again. I usually take part, so I never watched if he could solo a boss like that.
Damn, the dung eater took every single hit while still dealing a heafty amount of damage, that is a proper frontliner 🤣
Yea, most of his casts were interrupted and he still got the boss down to 1/3 hp
@@elgringosupremo hes a realsheesh right there
it's one of the best summons, and usually he keeps the aggro
Lhutel was the clear winner given another try or two, but Mimic Ashes is still supreme if you're playing a tanky/heavy hitter build. You can crit stagger bosses very easily together since it's the same damage type and your mimic will even use the critical attack if you're not able to fast enough. Pretty epic!
Yeah we all knew luthel was op, but I think mimic beats a large portion of the bosses solo if equipped right.
Mimic Tears is broken honestly, i just try it out with max +10. Arm your mimic summon with Dragon King Cragblade from Placidusax boss weapon along with good poise armor then Erdtree Heal incantation and offensive incantantion too like fallen star you're good to go watching that thing solo the entire boss.
@@emilykaldwin3081 you mean to weaponswap after the summon? i am using sword of night and flame so if the mimic has my same stats wouldnt it still be better since i got points in fiath/int?
I don't like this Mimic showcase. We don't even know what the hell this person was wearing. It copies all your equipment. ALLLLL OF IT. Just can't mimic Flask count. So if you gave it a subpar sword to fight with, thats YOUR doing.
@@Prince_Smugarina Question. Is the Mimic bound by the player's stats aswell? or is it *just* equpment that it copies?
No mimic is way more op than lhutel
I like how the finger maiden just focuses on healing and dodge rolls attacks better than mimic tear
Fun fact : The Mimic Tear copy your currently equipped Weapons, Armors, and Spells so you can get really creative if you are using a mixed build. You can simply have it copy your current build and go ham with 2 identical build, put on a caster based build before summoning then switching to a melee build to have an unlimited FP caster summon of yourself with the Spells you got while you fight in melee or the other way of having the Mimic Tear act as tank and aggro while you fire away or support with buffs.
For real though, the mimic tear turned Malenia 10 hit wombo combo of Miquella in to a joke
i love how it copies everything, from the ash of war on your weapons to the talismans your wearing, its so cool!
Thanks Capt. Obvious!
I think it even copies your items, mine started chucking throwing knives
@@puenboy1 LOL!
Luthel being one of the first summons you can get is a must for "mages" that can pay the 104fp cost. Supertanky and keeps the bosses busy. The mimic is fantastic when farming and for the lulz, since it is superaggressive and with an AOE wep its fun as hell :D Tiche has insane damage but is far more elusive , you will be running, but he might just kill the boss for you XD
Both Luthel and Tiche are female btw, but I agree completely. I swap between the two depending on the boss, but they're both insanely good summons.
I really love spirit summons! Hope more will be added
As a faith build, buffing my ashes is the way to go- Alecto or Lhutel by themselves are OP. Alecto and Lhutel with Erdtrees Blessing? Alecto stayed standing through all of Commander Niall AND Rykards two phases with me. Stacking that effect damage the whole time. I also slapped her with resistance for that fight specifically.
Tiche is good as support on bosses due to percent health damage. Overall, headless is still the best. Combo of best tank, and the addition of pretty good damage.
I think kristoff can tank more damage than any of them, especially if you get good rng and he’s guard countering a lot, which mine does all the time.
Man that's just a magnificent video! Better content than this one is impossible 🙌
I use the Mimic Tear (maxed out) most often. And since I use a lv10 Moonveil and lv Rivers of Blood… we’ll let’s just say that having four katanas hitting you at the same time doesn’t do anyone any favors.
I do it with 4 hand of Melinas, 2 for my max mimic and 2 for me. It’s absolutely op, killed the elden beast first try
mine shoots moons at ppl lol
I had a faith build with the mimic, with leonids armor, heals and buffs. Its so cheesy, i had to stop using it. I had it almost solo the scarlet rot dragon.
@@kotzer71 aren’t the moon spells slow though? How often does it hit, I’m curious 🤔
@@Ragnar_Aevarsson its not spamable if thats what your asking? it has good tracking and big aoe and does a shitton of damage
Banished Knight Oleg has always been stupidly useful in every fight I've ever been in, to the point where I haven't even upgraded any of the other ashen summons
I got Engvall before Oleg, and its the same there :D I didnt get the mimic before the nerf, but before I got Engvall til +10 and they were both at around the same tier, I would die ALOT more on bossfights with the mimic out then with Engvall, just need to get some more of the top tier mats to max out that headless chick and the twins now :)
@@nicosand86 I have encountered multiple bosses that outright die to a +10 Oleg alone, people are really sleeping on the Banished Knights, especially when you wield a weapon that takes a year and a half to swing but breaks poise immediately.
I'm just seeing that the summons, excluding mimic, really are suited to different bosses.
Black Knife, Black Flame Monk, and Lluthel seem like some of the top choices. The Finger Maiden is an awesome healer and would great support for a warrior focused build.
Seeing your vigor/mind/ endurance up so high is just so amazing to me. I can’t imagine how many runes it would take lol I just got my little mage to 70 int
This is using the Pc mod that lets you edit all your stats :)
@@Nergigante figured as much since I seen this person's other video. Lol seen a video with Thomas the Tank modded in.
Yup, definitely modded, or using Cheat Engine. Don't know how strict ER's anti-cheat system is, but this person definitely cannot play online, or is likely put in a server with other cheaters.
I love using the mimic tear because im running a build using the legendary dragon breath attacks and it's great watching ruin and decay go off at once and just watching health bars drop from basically two ancient dragons using their breath attacks at once
I took Jarwright Puppet from Seluvis, and don't regret a single thing. He might be absolutely useless, but he throws jars of pigshit at people and that's something I have to respect.
I’m trying to decide which one I want rn but like do you know what the finger maiden does?
@@ghostguy4619 she heals randomly, and throws jars of holy shit at people.
Jarwight is actually really strong, you just have to take the aggro from the boss. He nearly insta poisons bosses and does 5-7k dmg total if he doesnt get stunlocked and dodges attacks like a champ, if he doesnt get stunlocked. There are different kind of spirits, tanks, offensive ones and supports. Jarwight is the offensive type
@@bidoof5922 Oooh, then I have to clarify. He is absolutely useless for me, because I can't tank for shit.
@@Kub1na32 Thanks you guys and lol same 😂I’m working on tanking I’m more of a ranged attacker but for that scorpion boss I had to tank to win so know I can do both
Thank you for making this. As upgrade material is rare for elite summons; this really helps.
Most of the spirits get hopelessly stun-locked if you don't help out and at least draw the boss's aggro away. Lhutel's ability to escape from that is what made him the strongest.
Her* Lhutel is a woman. And yes I agree that’s what pisses me off about this video. He’s using spirit ashes on a boss with a lot of poise damage. Like hell even the fire giant does less poise damage that the draconic tree sentinel
@@kazoo_gaming442 Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that. Yeah, this is honestly a pretty poor way to compare the different ashes. I'm not sure how I'd do it differently though. Maybe throw a dagger whenever the ash takes a hit, to draw aggro back to the player? Idk. You can't help too much, or the comparison is meaningless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@VinceOveson another thing is that for carmaan the player just died before he could heal or do any damage. The player died before the jellyfish
Yep, my first +10 summon and the only one able to survive like 4-5 hits directly from the giant. Tryna get latenna for astel though
I think a subsequent video for the summons that aren’t intended to tank the boss’s hits (like latenna and thereolina) would be handy as they weren’t really represented well. Thereolina is a healer and latenna has very little health. Also I think Ogha is probs better served using the great bow at range. Just a thought. All the same it was cool to see all the elite summons in action without having to do it all myself😂
Dude he put latenna like a foot away from the boss. Like dude are you okay? Latenna is a range turret, that’s why she stays in one place and has pretty much a two kilometer range on her bow. She is an albinauric after all and you know how painful ordina is with the albinauric archers
Latenna is amazing if you put her on the outskirts of the fighting field if you have a Melee build, she rains down constant damage while you keep the boss busy
Lhuthel: "Getting hit is a skill issue. Just stop existing when the attacks are incoming."
Well this is a video of just a summon on its own. But I really enjoy the skeletal militia men. Fairly easy to kite the boss with aggro when they die so they have time to respawn. Helped me sooo much!
Deenah gives an attack buff on summon and will re-cast it occassionally. Deenah won't carry you but will support you. If you are going to be up there and fighting with your Spirit, Deenah is my suggestion.
Thanks fot hese, they're fantastic. Although to everyone reading this, I wouldn't use this one video as a ranking list or a tier guide. Each spirit has their own specific area they're best in.
Redman Ohga for example is Legendary Summon who fires off gravity greatarrows, however they didn't do that here becuase they had to fight the boss solo.
I just got the nightladies not too long ago. It's so fun watching them dance around the opponent
They're pretty potent too, I wasn't expecting them to be such good allies.
My boi Luthel was so close to pulling off the win. What a legend
Girl*
@@DeityOfValor let people comment shesh
@@chernobylopfa667 what i do wrong? Didn't insult anyone.
Sheeesh!
@@chernobylopfa667 no one said not to comment, nothing wrong with being corrected. It's a she
So much fun to watch. The 'which one should I use' questions is relative to play style and this is a great example of what they offer. If you're tanky and hold aggro, use a ranged if you want, especially if the enemy is prone to magic/poison/arrow damage. Lots of good ranged or group-mob options to pelt away at health while you sword and board. Use the aggro trinket behind a good shield and with even non-elite spirits and something like the wolves, rot hound, those damned wandering nobles or whatever and they might be in a whole other league, nibbling away while you shout Taunt, Rend and Stomp (wait wut). A mage/incantation type might find a tanky one like Lhutel or the other melee, heavy armor types or BKT very effective at keeping the enemy at range and doing their thing. Distance = safety. Sometimes. Especially since most bosses (Malenia included) will focus on the last thing that hit her. I mean them. Otherwise you can't really go wrong with the mimic, Lhutel and BKT in just about any situation tho from my playthrough so far! They're great fun. Although in my Malenia fight, the mimic did die the two times I tried it, it doesn't flask heal like it did pre-patch. BKT walked out of the fight with me tho and held her own the whole time and did copious amounts of damage. She's my current favorite. Lhutel is probably also a great pick for that one, that would be fun to see. The bleed builds and probably some super heavy hitting spell casters I imagine lean Mimic still, they don't need to heal, everything just stops being on the screen especially when there's two trains of magic energy crashing at the intersection of The Boss and Winning.
Since you can heal and buff these bad boys, a faith summoner would be pretty fun
I didnt know you could heal them, Ill upgrade my luthel, he seems great
@@victorhugo-rf7py I use him. As soon as I noticed he has that deathblade buff and can wisp out to avoid damage I knew he was gonna be the shit. I could see mimic being absolutely ridiculous though
@@kyronyxng3347 all depends on your own build.
@@kyronyxng3347 Lhutel's a girl lol
Are you positive you can heal and buff summons??
The one I only used to the endgame is my girl Lhutel the Headless. Has a unique evasion that disappears and completely counters death blows more often.
My Top 3:
Lhutel, Tiche, Mimic
To be fair, that is everyone's top 3. Those are without a doubt the 3 strongest in the game.
Stormhawk Dheen 🙏 As long as you keep pulling aggro off him and keep him from gettinf stun dropped hes untouchable, super useful
and cheap! Im playing a build where im purposefully playing a certain way and I dont have much fp, for 47 fp Stormhawk does a fine job. Even better once you learn to foght alongsode it and hold aggro to keep it safe. AI doesnt like dealing with annoying ass birds either.
@@danr154 ahaha literally , ive long been completed with Elden since i commented this and i found that the mimic tear actually helped my STR build way more just to amplify my DPS but yes Stormhawk is so good for magic and aggro hold especially
I like Stormhawk Deenah a lot. He flies around a lot which means it's harder to hit him. He also boosts your attack by 20% when he appears then he does so every once in a while, while doing decent damage on the side. Not a tank summon, but a good battle companion and the only elite bird summon.
Thanks for the data! I’d love to see tests on what all the “do more damage take more damage” items actually accomplish so we can decide if they’re worthwhile!
I didn't do any real testing but from what the stats show it took about 12% damage negation taken away from me, or it halved them. Originally I had ~24% across the board, equipping Radagast's Soreseal gives me just over 12%. So in light/medium armor, it's definitely worth it but if it halves your dmg negations you may want to avoid it in heavy armor. At that point it'd be taking like 25% dmg negation away from you, and that's gonna make you take considerably more dmg.
"I will upgrade you to max level so you can help me in combat against my foes"
Perfumer: "I missed the part where thats my problem"
Leaving aside Mimic Tear, Lhutel is clearly the strongest ash, which is crazy since IIRC you can get her fairly early. The combination of the greatshield and the teleport gives her a fair amount of endurance, and the damage is good too.
Mimic Tear is easily the best spirit though, and it isn't close - with the caveat that it depends entirely on your own build. If your own build is good, Mimic Tear is easily capable of soloing... honestly most bosses you can summon it for. Joining in on the fray just makes it hilariously overpowered. If your build sucks though, Mimic Tear is basically useless.
As a hint: have an incantation seal in the offhand and a healing spell slotted. The mimic tear will use it!
Last paragraph made this best comment
One of my favorite spirits to use is Redmane Knight Ogha because if you do a war cry he buffs himself by doing a war cry as well. Like best buds hyping each other up lol
Didn"t know that, seems hype :')
@@simonarques5201 yeah it's wild he does Radahn's arrow rain attack, it absolutely melts bigger bosses and large groups
Late game nightmaiden and swordstress are very reliable. Can tank quite a bit and do loads of damage. I have them at +8 atm and so far they're doing better than most ppl I summon. If you're a mage build like myself having these 2 are even better.
They are so good, probably my favorite summon so far. Notice when they attack together, they stagger bosses really easily and confuse the AI
The nightmaiden and sword tress looks soo elegant when they fight by far my favorite
Its important to understand that a spirit that died quickly or didnt do much damage isnt bad. The point of spirits is to support you in battle, not carry you through the fight.
90% of the time you want your spirit to take the aggro. If they die quickly then in general that makes them worse. Obviously there may be some exceptions
@@implodingfruitz8093 depends on the fight and build tbf, latenna spirit is a stationary turret who you’d preferably want in the back line just doing long range damage. She’s amazing if you have a frontline fighter. You wouldn’t want them to aggro the boss lol
@@fullsend4976 you didn't read my last sentence did you
Lhutel: Hold my head
@@fullsend4976 So couldn't you make a super tanky high endurance strength build and run the Talisman that makes enemies aggro you, and just block and block counter bosses while the bow summon just melts it from afar for you?
I really hope that they add a feature where you can refight bosses once you beat them. They could have an area in the roundtable hold where you can select a boss or invasion to fight again and maybe even change the difficulty such as adding modifiers to make it easier/harder or change how the fight works.
tbh i think thats what the coliseum that the GREAT-JAR protecting may be 🤩whenever they release a dlc or patch for it . it would definitely make sense if they do .
They added that to Sekiro so I'm hopefully we'll get it here as well!
The Mimic will actually use items that are in your hot bar as well. Warming stones are incredible with it.
Yep unlimited
The meat pies as well and they don’t get poisoned by it
latemma is my fav ash, but since she never moves, it would be in the best interest to find a sniping spot that the enemy can't reach and then call her.
One time, I cast her REALLY far from the battle and kept the boss in the middle between her and I, focusing on me.
There's a stone mask pendant that draw enemy aggression and that works wonders.
The mimic is probably the best, but that depends entirely on YOUR build, as whatever you're using will transfer over to the mimic, including consumables and spells, and the mimic gets unlimited of these items as well as unlimited FP to use these spells. Personally i'm a tank sorcerer, using the golden shield from the grafted scion with the Barricade ash of war, makes the mimic basically impossible to stagger or damage with any regular physical attack, and access to several high cost, high damage spells will make it genuinely useful in any fight against bosses that don't have heavily damaging effects, such as bleed. My mimic died a single time and it was on a boss that used bleed weapons, bleed abilities and two annoying dogs that, i think, also caused bleed.
You can actually make the mimic even more broken with items like raw meat dumpling and aromatics. Raw meat dumpling heals 50% hp but gives poison, which does not effect mimic so it just gets free hp, uplifting aromatic can buff atk and give a 90% dmg reduction for 30s,which mimics will use to buff you as well
@@yuch4eve i did not think to use those specific items, thank you that is actuallt very helpful
I don't use them much, but right now Battlemage Hugues, Lhutel the headless and 'Nightmaiden and Swordtress Puppet' look really useful
I like how Mimic's strength and weakness is based on the host itself. It copies all weapon and skill/magic equipped so you can design him however you want based on your image. Equip high risk high reward spells that you normally wouldn't use midfight and it would use it too.
I have that with fortissax lightning. That thing slaps
I put rotten breath on that mf and they don't cast it for long enough every time but sometimes they just scarlet rot the boss out of nowhere for like a total of over a third of its health
Does it also copy stats? As in if you equip say a big ass sword and shield, but you yourself don't have the str/dex to properly wield them or roll quickly, will the mimic also suffer from the same issues? Or will it be able to wield the weapons with out issue?
@@Nozerone I don't personally know the specifics, but I have at least seen it try to single hand wield a greataxe which I could only two hand at the time, but it's possible it wasn't actually using it effectively.
@@Nozerone Yes, it copies your gear, stats, spells, items, weaknesses, everything really. So if you cannot wield a weapon properly, it also cannot. I don't know if it can heal through flasks (as I don't have it yet), but it can heal itself through spells and it uses weapon arts as well. Talismans also likely affect it.
Stormhawk Deenh did surprisingly well considering he's primarily a support summon who buffs the player. Latenna the Albinauric can't move or tank, but she provides godlike DPS if you set her down far away from the boss and keep the aggro off her.
Summons are easily the best thing to use in this game in my opinion. Most are better to use than actual other players, do to how much less damage you do to bosses with just a second player helping.
I play a Paladin build (Strength/Faith), so Latenna is a personal favorite. That girl hits from a country mile!
Love how like half these spirit ashes rely on fire for most/all of their damage and they’re fighting a super fire resistant boss
Hell yea!! I appreciate the hell out of you taking the time to do this
I've used Lhutel ever since I got him cause of his vanishing move. He's my favorite summon in the game, that storm hawk summon also looks really fun, but me and Lhutel are partners in crime
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@@MadMethod-qs1en you're the lamest kind of nerd and you should be ashamed
My favorite spirit ashes as a mage:
- Mimic Tear: 95 pts. (not tanky but killer)
- Omenkiller Rollo: 85 pts. (constant aggro and tanky)
- Black Knife Tiche: 75 pts. (agile and killer, HP debuff, but sometimes lose aggro)
- Greatshield Soldier: 70 pts. (constant aggro, surround the enemy, slow but constant damage)
As a spellblade, the maxed wolves make this game a lot easier than it should be. But the game is full on auto mode with Mimic and my build. Two Darkmoon great swords and arrows from the sky anyone staggered 95% of the time