I don’t even understand how her super attack isn’t hitting him. The effects are going right through him at times he shouldn’t have invincibility and it sure seemed to hit me at a greater range than that.
Scuzz
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The supposed way to beat the Waterfowl attack is to run away from the first two moves then toward the third. It never worked for me as I usually went into straight panic mode. But you can see it done successfully repeatedly on YouTube by good players.
Tohree
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Nice video. I just actually finally took down Malenia with my mage on NG+ after countless tries. Not sure I would ever be able to repeat it, but you only need to get lucky once.
I abandoned magic altogether and used the Dark Moon greatsword and jellyfish shield. When activated, the shield offers a significant boost to damage. For talismans, I used the Shard of Alexander and the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia to bolster the Dark Moon’s ash power. I used an upgraded Dragoncrest talisman to mitigate physical damage and the upgraded magic boost talisman in case I needed to cast spells. I wore the full spellblade set to tweak out extra magic power for the Dark Moon ash power . For my ash summons, I used the Mimic armed with the jellyfish shield and a fully upgraded Moonveil katana. I also equipped the ironjar and uplifting aromatics for the Mimic to use. Tossed in some volcano pots as well.
During phase 1, I spammed the ice arc from the Dark Moon until Malenia was knocked down. Then my Mimic and I were able to inflict significant damage - largely because of the Moonveil’s bleed damage. During the first phase, the Mimic actually cast the uplifting aromatic that gave me some extra cushion against physical damage.
I basically repeated the process in phase 2. The Mimic was almost at full health thanks to the ironjar aromatic and kept the boss busy enough while I spammed the ash power of the Dark Moon. When I knocked her down, my Mimic and I kept up the damage. By the time the fight was over, the Mimic had a sliver of life left. I think I dodged twice during Phase 2. But in the end, my Mimic really showed up for this fight.
I started everything off with a Golden Vow buff. I have both 80 int and faith because I wanted to use the Prince of Death staff for my spells.
_aaron
3167
Congrats! Malenia’s a tough fight. It can be tricky for your summon to hurt her more than she life-steals off of it.
Tohree
3168
Thanks! My plan started to come together once I gave Moonveil to the Mimic. The life-steals weren’t as bad once I did that. On a previous run, I cast the Meteorite of Astel on Phase 2 Malenia and I was basically just evening out the life she was stealing from my Tiche. I knew that run wasn’t going to end well.
Black Knife Assassin Tiche+10 puts the hurt on Malenia. It’s hilarious. Plus Tiche is very agile and dodges like a mofo improving survivability greatly through the entire fight.
