At this point, what is the best method to defeat Malenia in Elden Ring? In this article, we are going to go through the Malenia weakness, boss fight strategy, and best build for Malenia in Elden Ring after patch 1.06. 

Best Way to Beat Malenia (Melania) in Elden Ring After Patch 1.06 - Malenia Boss Fight Cheese 

Malenia is one of the most traumatizing bosses in Elden Ring, Malenia is a two-phase boss fight, phase one consists of Malenia, Blade of Miquella and phase two is Malenia, Goddess of Rot. Spamming bleed attacks like Swarm of Flies and Rivers of Blood was the only easy way out for a lonely tarnish or you could just summon up him, but after patch 1.06, they nerfed Rivers of Blood, then what is the best way to cheese & kill Malenia in Elden Ring after patch 1.06?

Malenia Weakness

In order to defeat Malenia Blade of Miquella in Elden Ring, you should know about her weakness first. The Malenia boss is vulnerable to some things, three of the biggest weaknesses are frost infliction, stagger and poise damage, as well as fire damage. You can make your Malenia build based on that. 

Best Way to Beat Malenia Elden Ring 1.06 - Malenia Strategy

How to kill Malenia quickly in Elden Ring patched? Thanks to Darth Senju, here is a strategy with build tips.

1. The first thing you want to do is to freeze her, find a source of frost, and use whatever you find easiest, for example, the Chilling Mist Ash of War works great, you can bait her into the freezing clouds, and do one more hit with a frosty sword. You can use the Nagakiba Katana, this is good because you can take the advantage of range, and you can keep your distance away from the boss. Freezing is important as once you inflict frost on an enemy, it lowers their defense and allows us to do more damage, then increases your defense and attack power even more. Furthermore, use the Commander’s Rallying Standard buff from the Halberd, once you use the skill, you can remove it to lighten your equip load and your skill to keep the buff. 

2. The second thing you should do is burn her. Find a source of fire against Malenia, Magma Blade is a good Elden Ring weapon that puts Malenia in her place because of how vulnerable she is to stagger and poise damage, this weapon is effective especially in the second phase because she strips her armor and loses all poise, this will make her even more fragile, also the fire damage will reset the frost we inflicted, allowing us to freeze her over and over, you just gotta make sure you're careful and aware of when you're attacking, have patience wait for her to finish her attack chain, then make your move.

3. There is another important step to this Malenia cheese strategy, specific spirit ash that goes by the name of the Redmane Knight, he brings the freaking heat with his bow and arrows with every shot he slaps her to the ground just summon him up close to the door out of reach and watch him do his magic.

Elden Ring 1.06 Malenia Build Guide & Tips

This builds ends up being insanely strong after the buffs, increased faith to buff our weapon skill because the weapon art scales with faith, you can also increase your poise, boost fire attack power, then you can always use some more damage negation too. With the new patch, you can raise your max equipment load if you want because the lightweight dodge roll has become the new bloodhound step.

- Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman: boosts physical damage negation

- Shard of Alexander: boosts the attack power of skills

- Two Fingers Heirloom: raises faith

- Great-Jar’s Arsenal: raise your max to equip load

- Flask of Wondrous Physick: buff fire attack 

If you have a higher intelligence level instead of strength or faith, there is another strong option for you, it's pretty much the same strategy, but instead use one of these dancing blade weapons, the weapon arc completely slaps Melania with stagger, it scales with intelligence and arcane, but also does magic damage, so you can raise your magic attack power, you can buff successive attacks use Godfrey Icon, there are so many ways to buff this build, you can use whatever but takes advantage of her frost, fire and stagger weaknesses. 

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