Basilisk is an Enemy in Elden Ring. Basilisks are frog-eyed creatures found in underground areas. They are able to breathe out a black smoke that inflicts Death on players for each second they stay in it, making it important to mind your surroundings when fighting them.
Elden Ring Basilisk Locations
Where to Find Basilisk:
- In the dark caves of Ainsel River
- Lake of Rot: They may pop out from out of the poison while exploring.
- Mt Gelmir: Seethewater River, north of the Seethewater River Site of Grace.
- Auriza Hero's Grave
- Found around structures close to the waterfalls in Deeproot Depths.
- The Shaded Castle
- Subterranean Shunning-Grounds
DLC Locations
Elden Ring Basilisk Drops
130–819 Runes- Aeonian Butterfly (8.00% base)
Shadow of the Erdtree
Item |
Drop Rate |
Quantity |
Discovery Affects |
Additional Info |
| Runes | 100% | - | - | ??? |
| Ghost Glovewort (7) | 1.6% | x1 | Yes | N/A |
| Ghost Glovewort (8) | 1.6% | x15 | No | N/A |
| Ghost Glovewort (9) | 1.6% | x1 | No | N/A |
Elden Ring Basilisk Notes, Tips, & Trivia
- Often found lying in ambush in Poison/Rot pools or around corners. Never expect them to be alone.
- They create clouds that build up Death Blight, but otherwise deal no damage.
- Weak to Fire Damage and Slash Damage.
- Resistant towards most Status Effects
- Affected by Beast-Repellent Torch
- Parryable: No
- Immune to critical hit. Stance break only stuns for a moment.
- Their large eyes are false; the real ones are slightly above their mouth, though they are very small.
The large eyes are also reminiscent of Godwyn's eyes, found in areas afflicted by Deathroot. - Recurring enemies from the Dark Souls series.
Elden Ring Basilisk Image Gallery
Anonymousis there a lore reason these pieces of **** can poise through an ugs running r2 despite being in the air and being able to spew out another death cloud just to spite you? are the devs that stupid? (i already know the answer's yes don't worry)
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Funnily enough what little lore they have is almost exactly the same as in DS as well, in both versions it’s the fake big eyes that give them their cursing powers.
In DS it’s Nito’s eyes of death and here it’s Godwin’s deathblight growths replicating the bulging eyes of his deformed clam-face.
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Their death blight clouds stack meaning they can curse you in 2 seconds flat.
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I was so scared when I saw these but then I forgot there is no curse system.. thank god
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I've seen your kind, time and time again.
Every FromSoft game must be plagued. Every title must be ruined.
Such is the deceit of the self-proclaimed designer of games.
But in the end, you lack the novelty.
For the hate you'll bring upon your fandom...
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Played this right after DS1, and I gotta say, this version is way more manageable. No curse, they usually occur in less cramped areas, and more talisman slots makes Prince of Death Pustule less of a commitment than Cursebite Ring.
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Just discovered those aren’t their real eyes. Honestly I’m not sure whether this is an improvement, both options are uncomfortable.
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Any true Dark Souls player will know this, but i still felt like telling people: the “eyes” you see aren't their real eyes. Look above their mouth, very closely. Those are their actual eyes. The image on this page with all the red shows this clearly.
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Vanessa from security breach says the gits do way too much damage and are a pain in the ass.
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The basilisk feet are perfect and I want then to step all over my face.
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one of the easiest enemies, they deal practically no death blight buildup and 0 damage
I once saw basilisk looking fish with huge round eyes and small black body irl in an aquarium, shat myself
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The wiki says that they are resistant to most status effects, but it only takes 3 strikes with an unaltered Uchi without buffs to cause them bleed.
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I fight almost anything but i always avoid these things no matter where they are as i find deathblight to be borderline unfair.
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elden ring would've been the game of the decade if all they did was just remove this one single enemy
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they look doofy as hell, but the deathblight is beyond annoying, especially since it really only works for PvP, as no enemies are really vulnerable to it
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do you guys think these could be cooked into a good meal like how pufferfish are prepared?
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There's basilisks in Volcano Manor under that long hallway/bridge that leads to the one Man-Serpent with the glintstone staff.
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My Katana is slash damage and has Flaming Strike that is Fire Damage
But i still run!
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If basilisks don't want me to murder them en masse why do they drop aeonian butterflies
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These things were much worse in DS1. Can you imagine if they kept the cursed mechanic?
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I love how miyazaki like certains designs and characters so much he puts them in games that they have no reason to be in
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Their tired, and slightly disgusting Godwyn eyes actually make me feel a little bit of sympathy for these odd creatures.
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I want a goofy ass weapon that's literally just one of these guys strapped up to some planks and ropes that dispenses deathblight like some kind of medieval fantasy bee smoker
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These things were never fun/interesting to fight in any of the souls games, every time you encounter them there are multiple that jump you by surprise in cramped spaces. Really hate how they came back yet again for elden ring
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There is Basil in basilisk for a reason. Think Omori think!
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elden ring design philosophy: give them too much poise and hive them too much health. these were actually well designed in dark souls.
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You again. I thought I made myself perfectly clear the last time.
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the eyes make me feel so disgusting and instantly physically cringe. staring at them for more than 5 seconds would actually make me seppuku without gaining any buffs.
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In dark souls they look silly in elden ring they look like they are about to have a mental breakdown
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the kind of enemy i just avoid in every single run from every single Fromsoft game i play all the way back since Dark Souls 1 & 3, by this point i have got the innate instinct to just run past these things the moment i look at them, they never drop anything that i need or want, and are just not enjoyable foes at all, like, i can deal with Bleed, Frost and even Sleep or Madness, but simply "instakill by not being way too careful where you step at" is just a free call to run past every single one them, its beyond my jurisdiction as a TTT (Throne-Taking Tarnished), and now there is the Lesser Wormfaces to add up to this bracket as well, death-status is the new grappling attack spam xd
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WHAT KINDA
BIG EYED
FROG FACED
MIST SPEWING
BUNNY HOPPING
CURSE GIVING
FOUR LEGGED
UNDERGROUND LIVING
TARNISHED HATING
BLIGHT BEAST IS THIS
Weak to fire, therefore it's quite logical to put a flock of them on literal lava in Volcano manor. Where they don't get burnt. Because reasons.
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I think the one's at the shaded castle drop poisonbloom, not 100% sure though
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These guys aren't too hard really if you keep your distance but still, I will never ever forgive them for when they first cursed me back in Dark Souls 1.
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They share characteristics of Godwyns corpse, wonder if they have been afflicted in similar ways, aside from Godwyn being a vegatable and these guys being feckin lizards
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Anyone who ever died to these guys, please hand in your gamer license. Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 included.
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Not these ****ers again, at least they can't cut half of your hp anymore.
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Was nice to see after years of seeing these in videos of other Souls games that they were not nearly as much of a menace as I always thought they'd be upon first fighting the trio in Auriza. Blight is easy to avoid and only becomes a mild concern in small places if you let yourself get cornered, and besides that they are nearly harmless. While I can't attest how it feels with a great or colossal weapon, anything that isn't slower than molasses or shorter than ye' olde dagger will take them out with only mild effort. If you have any AoE casting ability and don't have terrible scaling, they are a total-non threat as well
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goddamnit, how do i kill them fast without them creeping me the hell out? how can i firebomb the area in elden ring so it kills them all? can i summon a lichdragon just for this one area sweep kill! God i hate them, and i once encountered them in a sewer, i screamed like a little girl and turned the game off, never went to that area again.
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Flame of the Redmanes any good for farming these without getting too close?
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Remember everyone. Basilisks are Ranni's fault in this world, her night of black knives killed godwyn which created death blight.
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Their connections to the Prince of Death in this game are kinda obvious, but does anyone else think they're somehow related to the Scarlet Rot as well? They are weak to fire damage, show up in two Rot-related areas (Shaded Castle and Lake of Rot) and have a chance of dropping Aeonian Butterflies.
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I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure the basilisk has been in the most soulsborne games out of any enemy. Only the basilisk and the hollows (counting hollows more depends if you mean a specific type of hollow or just enemies that are hollow in general/have hollow in the name) have appeared in all 3 dark souls games and there are no hollows in ER so the basilisk is in one more game than them. (I think the dogs have been in every soulsborne game but they have a different name and appearance each time while the basilisk is consistent in name and appearance)
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The only monster that i was actually happy to see on my first playthrough. Normally im just interested and find myself thinking "this thing looks cool/absolutely terrifying, wonder what it does."
But when my eyes once again landed on the glory of the basilisk i remembered all those deaths in dark souls 3 and i couldn't help but feel this intense feeling of joy and nostalgia. Welcome back my basilisk friend, welcome back.
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Looks like a reject beta Spore creature. Hideous, and not in the cool way.
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They have never been more annoying and dangerous. A group of three can take forever to fight: like literal minutes, because with them spewing death cancer dogshit, openings don't happen. oh yeah, another enemy completly dogshit to fight enemy as pure melee. So the usual
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Ah, you were at my side all along...
my true mentor...
my guiding basali- *dies to deathblight*
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These things creep me out so much. Just their weird fake eyes and they way they just jump out and run at you with the death puke scares me. Very satisfying to kill though.
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I love these guys. Sadly there'll never be ashes of them because they'd be useless.
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I know they arent that dangerous anymore but my ds1 expirience makes me run out the room when I see these guys
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I wonder if squeezing their fake eyes launches them like a cannon
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Anyone know if the Basilisks at/ outside Shaded Castle drop aeonian butterflies?
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They oddly have similar shape to Godwin's Corpse albeit smaller
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I don't think the thing about the big eyes being fake is true in this case. Not only do the "real" eyes not appear to be there, but the description implies the big eyes are real
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When I first saw these things I noped out of there instantly. I have ptsd from that one area in the depths, you see.
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Is this proof Elden Ring is in the same universe as Dark Souls?
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Need to have a head piece with the googly eyes. I mean we got a baby octopus helmet so c'mon.
Damage Absorptions:
• -10 Absorption for Standard, Strike, and Piercing
• -20 Magic, Fire, Lightning, Holy
• -40 Slash!!
Resistances:
• 84 for Poison and Rot
• 63 Bleed, Sleep, Freeze
Farming Basilisks? Slash and bleed.
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I love how they took one of the most memorable designs from Dark Souls and gave it way more lore significance. Their connection to deathblight and deathroot and their appearance similarities to Godwyn make them way more fascinating.
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"When your Death meter fills you will be struck with instant Death." That's a joke right?
Wasn't funny the first time I got struck with instant Death...
I don’t mind them in most games but for some reason ER just gave these bastards like twice as much HP as they’ve any right to have. Especially given that they come in packs and I’m dealing with 10 frogs spewing death at me who can all withstand a sound beating
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