Elden Ring All Elemental Damage Types Explained & Best Uses For Magic, Fire, Lightning & Holy

[@04AMofficial]

In this video, I explain all 4 Elemental damage types: Magic damage, Fire damage, Lightning damage and Holy damage. I talk about their strenghts and weaknesses, which are best against certain armor types and show them in action! PHYSICAL DAMAGE GUIDE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noqcd6BnrseAoM0

[@matthewjaredcox9753]

What about ice?

[@MrOdio]

I want to know whats the effect of Lightning on enemy does stun them ?

[@justinlynn7315]

The crystalline bosses are EXTREMELY vulnerable to lightning damage. You can get both the flail for strike damage and lightning grease early on and makes them all pretty easy

[@InstagramWanker]

Does Falling star beast count as Crystalline

[@justinlynn7315]

@@InstagramWanker idk actually, i didnt make it that far on mt first play through. By the time i made it over there i was using my mage character and used spirit ashes. I didmt use a weapon in order to imbue it with lightning. No lightning spells at that time either sadly

[@justinlynn7315]

Edit: Rot Trio of crystalline are NOT vulnerable to lightning. Only strike weapons seems to work well

[@Aiden-Ed]

I prefer morning star tbh

[@xtryg]

hmm we got to do more research on elemental weakness of stone and crystal type enemies. i strongly feel those two are very weak to magic damage tho they could be more weak to lightning damage? i'm not too sure

[@ponaskompetencija]

Those tree bosses are extremely weak to fire damage, but very resistant to holy damage. Also ghost or spirit type enemies are immune to bleed damage.

[@aki_times_ten]

ghosts are immune to all status effects

[@jonp.3674]

I don't think you could be more incorrect by saying that holy damage has no downsides. Most of the toughest bosses in the game are strong vs holy damage. If you want a PvE build for ng+ and beyond then holy is the worst choice. It fucking slaps in PvP though

[@monhi64]

I still don’t understand how holy damage has such a bad reputation. It sounds like it should be OP but yeah it gets roasted. Late game bosses are rare situations so if it was just weak there I’d think it’d be better in general. Personally haven’t had much opportunity to try yet though

[@leoric6856]

I'm on ng+5 holy build not having any issues at all maybe you didn't have everything necessary?

[@MK-yz2pr]

Where I can agree on most part about weaknesses part of element types, I have to point out, that in case of bosses, you always want to have an alternative. Tbh, my experience with Dark Souls series taught me, that no matter what kind of build you have, you ALWAYS want to have a non-elemental weapon with you. Many bosses have some kind of resistances, sometimes they're not obvious. So either check the wiki and prepare accordingly, or carry alternative way of dealing damage.

[@Troy211]

The lightning armament buff also adds a slight stun you hit enemies. It’s just enough to give you more time to attack if your weapon is fast enough.

[@Jynx215]

Environments affect your resistances, too! When you're in water or it's raining, fire resistance is increased, and lightning resistance is decreased.

[@BUDDAz1g]

The pokemon analogy was on point I still go by that till this day when looking at different types of damage in games

[@Tonixman]

I would also add that lightning damage does very well against machine-type enemies.

[@jakesteinberg5902]

What machine type enemies?

[@Tonixman]

@@jakesteinberg5902 Abductor Virgins, are a good example. Although, thinking about it, they're probably the ONLY machine-type enemy (haha). Still effective, though. No doubts there!

[@michaelp4387]

I have serious doubts about this guide, as in the video (4:28), he said holy damage doesn't have any real weaknesses, considering the amount of late game bosses highly resistant to/immune to holy damage.

[@seanposner8884]

yeah, i''m not that far in the game myself because i've been taking my sweet time but i have read and heard over and over that very early and very late holy damage is moot

[@xteven-11]

Good stuff. I’m on NG+ doing a lightning build and I was worried if any enemy was weak to it. Appreciate the work done in testing and I like the format of your video, very easy to understand. Keep it up!

[@ZeNN.47]

I can never understand why does fire dmg doesn't do any damage over time.... I mean...things are burning.

[@uncommonjester6488]

Most bosses have increased resistance to holy damage :(

[@Nephibis]

Needed this. I'm getting tired of getting smacked around by heavily armored enemies.

[@04AMofficial]

Great to hear, cheers!

[@InstagramWanker]

They were bullying you. Now you bully them

[@Sandlin22]

Get yourself the coded sword in the capital. It goes through shields and armor looks like a light saber

[@sneekmuch]

If the item/weapon description says “Those who live in death” it usually means kills using that, they’re unable to revive. Mostly skeletons. Things like holy grease, the inseparable sword and gold(holy) glowing AOW will also do this.

[@ryans780]

Over 400+ hours in this game and I just found out that using holy damage prevents undead from rising again wtf 😂😂 love this game!

[@sadeyes1224]

occult infusion to bro

[@mashedpotato4465]

holy damage have weaknesses. demi gods and other religous enemies have resistance against holy damage.

[@zakwancu3]

very informative, i wonder why you don't cover cold damage? could you cover ash of war affinity damage type, recommendation for early and late game.

[@owenkingsley2142]

cold(frost) isn't a damage type, it's an effect, like bleed, poison, and rot.

[@justinlynn7315]

Frost has a build up mechanic like blood poison madness and rot

[@MonderMatrix]

many enemies do catch fire , and that is not a small thing. since you will have plenty of time to land the next hit and interrupt.

[@max784020]

Fukin awesome and helpful video

[@colonelradec5956]

Bows are op in elden ring at least on first playthrough. They are good in all souls actually. If you never tried a bow build or at least using one youd be shocked. The range is off the charts.

[@HenryCapcom]

Thank for the tips now I know why the draconic sentinel almost 1 shot me with his red lightning I'm pretty heavy armored or lightning/magic is pretty much 4x weakness for me lol

[@nox8521]

This is why the should have mob’s catalog the explain the enemies weaknesses or atleast hint it cuz there is too many enemies in this game

[@Bradypodidus]

Good Job. Was very helpful thanks

[@drewcp2012]

Anybody notice with sacred affinity you really aren’t doing holy damage it just seems like you are doing more physical damage that’s just based off of your faith?

[@polarblade1159]

Holy damage actually has a very big weakness: everything in later game is resistant to it

[@jtm-25]

Some ancient dragons are strong vs lightning! So be wary if they use lightning too

[@djet3988]

I was wondering about that, so were limited to only using dragon grease for that right? Also do you know if the dragon tree sentinel takes damage to that grease? Im super under leveled so I realistically shouldn't even be there, but i also dont want to waste my resources in case I feel like trying that fight again

[@Mr.Sax.]

@@djet3988 This is quite late but I have to say no, dragon grease only works on real dragons not draconic enemies like this one.

[@justinfrancis2644]

What does fire and lightning spells scale with? Faith or intellect?

[@dte1096]

very usefull guide, thanks a lot :)

[@limt9824]

PURE STRENGTH GO BRRRRRR

[@matthickman3492]

Lighting is good against the caelid ravens because there flying type

[@okonkwojones]

Aren’t there variants like black flame and frostbite as well? Curious about those.

[@04AMofficial]

Those are a whole different story, but I am happy to make a video about them as well!

[@InstagramWanker]

Yes blackflame seems to devastate Holy enemies/Gods. Frostbite tends to lower defenses

[@juicer1186]

@@InstagramWanker what’s an example of a holy enemy?

[@InstagramWanker]

@@juicer1186 the gods, enemies in leyndall capital maybe, the tree sentinels, Enemies using holy magic, lightning. Im not sure though. But it was definitely doing wrecking Lightning Dragon Lanseax aswell. I have not completed the game yet not even halfway through.

[@axelstansfield1156]

anything related closely to the nerdtree is very resistant to holy.

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

How can I find out which stat each element type scale off of?

[@yegor2]

moral of the story: it doesn't really matter

[@drakausdromgatti58]

I'm so confused. I put ashes on my sword that split the damage between physical and holy. Skeletons don't seem to be taking any extra damage. In DS3 this functioned property with animation. Elden Ring not the case. Lame man

[@djet3988]

Try using the sword order spell from D. For some reason holy damage and that spell are different. You only need 10 faith to cast it so its not too bad, you can also find an ash of war that does the same thing, i think its in the Altus Plateau dont quote me on that though. But death birds, undead, maybe even the black knife assassins?? Not sure on that last one. One more thing there is a torch from a merchant in mt. Gelnir that reveals invisible enemies, that'll come in handy with some of those assasin bosses

[@Alex-wd8en]

So what stat does each damage type scale with?

[@Danodan94]

Scaling is determined by the weapon the element is attached to. If the source of elemental damage is a spell or incantation, check the scaling on your respective staff or talisman. If the source of the elemental damage is an arrow or bolt, check the scaling on the weapon it is being fired from. Elden Ring has some weird rules though, so there may be some exceptions.

[@jurreosinga4175]

Yo man, i really like the video, very usefull stuff! However, I really dislike the fact that you (maybe not intentionally) spoil so many enemies and locations. Im quite new to the game and just wanted to learn how this stuf works, not see the endgame locations, otherwise great vid!

[@alcerscruro6107]

Question i read that dragons and some bosses are week on physical damage. Now that i do not get it is that the weapon, needs to have only physical damage which means no fire,no magic nothing that gives the weapon boost or it is not matter?

[@vp1011]

When i saw that holy had no weakness, I was like: "So Jesus IS the way, who knew?"

[@Hatemx1]

It actually does.

[@mxgames5585]

Im dissapointed that the elemental damge type dosent affect bosses

[@johnhakim7037]

what is that armor set at Magic vs Armor??

[@Daniel_WR_Hart]

Lightning is weak against Ancient Dragon Lansseax

[@juangomez8716]

Earned my sub good shit 💪🏼💪🏼

[@julianroberts3241]

The holy damage is weak againt bosses, the main ones save for mong all have holy resistance....

[@TheGamingRev]

Frost damage? We get frost skills after all

[@tbali2566]

Yesssss thank you

[@04AMofficial]

My pleasure!

[@newarma355]

thank you

[@calizyy]

Omg it’s the Minecraft dungeons guy

[@04AMofficial]

Omg!

[@feralshad0w]

Where does bleed, poison, and chaos/madness fit into this? It seems like these are where the most damage is at. Almost all high level builds are these damage types.

[@Mr.Sax.]

Those are status effects, they do damage based on HP percentage. High level builds use them because high level enemies have large health pools. -Hemorrage deals 15% of total HP to normal enemies and 7.5% to bosses (+100/200 points of damage). -Frostbite deals 10% of total HP to normal enemies, 5% to bosses (+30 points of damage) and lowers the enemies damage negation by 20%. -Madness deals 15% to total HP (+100) and 10% to total FP (+30). -Scarlett Rot and Poison deal a fixed HP percentage per second for a fixed timelapse. There are different degrees of this, for Scarlet Rot listed from strongest to weakest: --Malenia's --Lake of Rot --Swamp of Aeonia --Spells (Rotten Breath, Ekzyke's Decay and Scarlet Aeonia) --Weapon induced

[@feralshad0w]

@@Mr.Sax. Awesome. Thank you very much for this. I guess I was looking for the wrong term.. should have looked for status effect, but it seems I would get a lot more statuses to find the information as well. lol Either way, thank you very much!

[@Mr.Sax.]

@@feralshad0w You're welcome. Also take into consideration that there are armor pieces, spells and talismans that boost the damage of the weapon and some statuses.

[@feralshad0w]

@@Mr.Sax. It would be pretty awesome if there was a way to heavily boost physical damage near the status effects without needing to rely on consumables. Perhaps there is but I haven't found it yet.

[@allergicdodo7269]

you are misinforming people, a lot of bosses have massive holy negation like the last boss, maliketh, etc

[@ninjason57]

Ive been underestimating lightning damage.

[@LucazioJ]

What is flame art?

[@TheTheoser]

I still thing cold is the best. Same or more damage than lightning and also causes frost

[@Bowblaxian_Tricknology]

Except it isn't a damage type.

[@TheTheoser]

@@Bowblaxian_Tricknology still I can't get over it. It's magic damage that also causes a status effect.

[@xCenturion183]

Do you happen to know if the explosion damage that scarlet aeonia does is magic damage? At first I thought it could be holy like black blade is but I was wrong. I assume this would also be the case for like rotten breath

[@theslavegamer]

pretty sure the exploding rock items deal fire damage (they give the fire FX on the enemies which is how you tell what kinda damage they are being delt) so my guess is fire damage

[@Attackplaya]

isnt lightning bad against rocky enemies?

[@jamrionartis8667]

What about ice ?

[@besthitman7106]

Which is the best lighting or Holy or are they equal

[@04AMofficial]

I would say Lightning as Holy is only useful against 'undead'. Lightning works well against those Dragons but also armored enemies

[@Endarire]

Greetings and thankee for this video! As an INT-based caster using a combination of Rock Sling for physical damage and other Sorceries for mostly magical damage, is there a notable point to going INT/FAI for damage variety? I know Holy and Electricity damage according to your video have no notable inherent downsides, but as a caster, there's still the stat point investment. I also know that INT/FAI is better done at notably high levels (250+ or so) due to the investment requirements. Thankee!

[@04AMofficial]

Personally, I haven't experimented much with any caster builds as I am still doing my first playthrough where I discover the game at my own pace with mostly DEX and some INT/FAI/ARC on the side, so cannot judge, especially for higher levels. Hopefully someone of the community can help you with this question! Cheers

[@mateocortanage]

Frost?

[@jacksampson4711]

What would bleed be?

[@mirfalltkeinnameein9720]

Bleed just does % Max health damage so its very good against Bosses, only downside is that there are some enemies that do not get the bleed effect at all

[@JohnRodriguezVodnikHOTS]

Ice?

[@acidwarrior2]

Where is frost damage ?

[@04AMofficial]

Thats another type of dmg

[@acidwarrior2]

@@04AMofficial yes but isn't it elemental damage ?

[@pastorofmuppets4552]

@@acidwarrior2 not really, it’s in the same category with bleed, scarlet rot, and poison.

[@luffyuchiha3109]

Armor no armoooooor

[@04AMofficial]

Haha 😁 i get this a lot, I am not native english, apology! I kinda like the french vibe to it though

[@mrwilliegreen420]

What about freeze damage?

[@wellingtonrodrigues7654]

they are Magic type

[@HyperVegitoDBZ]

In reality, with 80 int you will one shot almost every non boss enemy in the game. So it makes very little difference what you use.

[@damonstrembiski2409]

What type is fucking ice..

[@jmbaroncello]

Você tem sotaque de brasileiro

[@Tripp38485]

R more

[@Hatemx1]

lol

[@RelationSh1t]

respec

[@tylerkeys1003]

Please do more minecraft dungeons

[@chrism.kubiak4277]

What about cold damage?