Malenia, Blade of Miquella
18,473 HP at Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree · Malenia, Goddess of Rot, with the area's scaling applied. It takes the most damage from Fire and the least from Holy.
Where you fight it 1
Each place uses its own copy of the boss with that area's scaling. HP and stance as you meet them (first phase, offline, no new game plus).
| Place | HP | Stance | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree · Malenia, Goddess of Rot ×6 | 18,473 | 80 | ×7.422 |
Damage negation
How much of each damage type it shrugs off. Lower is better for you; the type it takes most is highlighted.
Flat defense
Subtracted from each hit before negation; it matters most for weak hits. Area scaling raises it along with HP.
Status buildup to proc
Buildup needed for the first proc, and how much more each following proc needs (it grows after every proc, up to the fifth).
| Status | 1st proc | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poison | 1,481 | 1,938 | 1,938 | 1,938 |
| Scarlet Rot | 1,481 | 1,938 | 1,938 | 1,938 |
| Bleed | 421 | 519 | 809 | 1,266 |
| Frost | 306 | 348 | 446 | 736 |
| Sleep | 689 | 979 | 1,436 | 1,436 |
| Madness | Immune | |||
| Death Blight | Immune | |||
HP in each journey
At Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree · Malenia, Goddess of Rot: new game plus multiplies HP, defense and resistances again on top of the area's scaling.
| NG | NG+1 | NG+2 | NG+3 | NG+4 | NG+5 | NG+6 | NG+7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18,473 | 18,750 | 20,625 | 21,563 | 22,500 | 24,375 | 25,313 | 26,250 |
How its AI decides verified
- Its attack choices change at 72%, 64%, 42% of its HP: some attacks unlock, get likelier or are forced below those points.
- It picks attacks by how far you are, with cut-offs at 1 m, 2.6 m, 5 m, 5.4 m, 9.5 m, 11 m, 20 m.
- It chooses among 32 attack routines; 16 have a cooldown (5–36 s).
Read from the game's AI script for this boss. Which animation each routine plays isn't named yet.
Patch history 1
Every patch that changed its numbers, read from the game's balance file (regulation) of each version.
- 1.02.1from 1.00
- HP2,212→2,489
- Standard negation20%→10%
- Slash negation20%→10%
- Strike negation20%→10%
- Pierce negation0%→10%
- Poison resistance252→542