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Fire Giant Fight Strategy

The Best Tips for Fire Giant:

• Use the Black Knife Tiche or Mimic Tear Ashes Summons. Avoid low health group summons like the wolves, as he can cleave them down with ease
• Alternatively, summon Alexander as his attacks are very powerful in terms of breaking Giant's poise.
• Use the Rotten Breath/Ekzykes's Decay Incantation
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• Fire giant is resistant to bleed but not immune, making weapons that inflict bleed effective - especially with Giant large healthbar. Antspur Rapier with Ash of War: Seppuku and imbued with poison will inflict poison, Scarlet Rot, and bleed, enhanced further with items such as Mushroom Crown, Lord of Blood's Exultation, and Kindred of Rot's Exultation.
• During the second phase, the incantation Swarm of Flies can be used to inflict bleed during openings when the boss halts, which can be enhanced with items such as Radagon Icon, Faithful's Canvas Talisman, and Lord of Blood's Exultation.

Melee Users

Use Torrent to close the initial distance, using the dismount to i-frame through the giants first attack. Do not stay on Torrent in the first phase; the fire giant will constantly use swipe and jump attacks that require using I-frames to dodge, which is not possible using torrent. You can use him to safely close the distance again if needed, dismount i-framing through his attacks.

Phase 1

During this phase, the giant is somewhat mobile, and will roll to build distance if you get behind or below him for too long.
Aim for his left leg, which is wrapped in its own hair. Once this breaks, it reveals a weak spot. He will pause for a moment when it does, so take the opportunity to get in some free damage.

Once broken, he will always roll away. He now gains 2 new attacks:

• A slow moving orb, which explodes once it gets close, or after a period of time. Bait the explosion, and roll away quickly from the area, as it leaves behind a field of fire. You can use Torrent to make this easier, but be wary of doing this within range of his lid swings
• The second is a simple fireball projectile launched from his hand, which is only a concern if he rolls too far away. Simply watch out for it and dodge. Its hitbox is deceptively larger than it appears.

Once the Fire Giant reaches around half health, a cutscene ensues in which his ankle breaks from the Tarnished's attacks, causing great pain to the Fire Giant. He rips the foot off his broken leg and uses it as a sacrifice to awaken a mysterious power inside him, beginning the next phase.

Phase 2

For the second phase of the boss, his weakspot moves to his left forearm. However, this is a very dangerous place to be so hop on torrent and stick to his backside, as most of his attacks are to the front. Be wary of the sides as he will roll to reposition.
The boss can be staggered, allowing you to stab his eye for massive damage. Be cautious with this however, as he doesn't stay down for long, and being in front leaves you vulnerable.
There are new additions to be concerned about here, as well as add-ons to previous attacks:

• The slow tracking fire orb now spawns in pairs. Provoke the explosions and run away.
• The fireball spell will now be launched twice. Get on Torrent and strafe to avoid.
• Gains a new Fire Pillar attack; run far away as this attack will spawn heavily-damaging fire pillars underneath him.
• Will, and launch volcanic rocks into the air. Stay on Torrent, and build distance whilst dodging.

This boss has a lot of hp, so be patient and keep an eye on your stamina and Torrent's health. Stock up on Frozen Raisins if necessary.

Magic and Ranged Users

The tactics for ranged users are essentially the same as melee. It's recommended to stay close to the fire giant as this eliminates the launched fireball attack from consideration.

When you take on the Fire Giant as a sorcerer, it is best to have a particularly quick-casting, hard-hitting spell on hand (such as Stars of Ruin). You're not going to have to worry about burning through all of your FP, because like fighting a troll or the giant stone sentinels, the Fire Giant is extremely vulnerable to attacks on his weak points and we're particularly good at hitting them. Thanks to this, he can, and will, fold like a wet noodle with a little work. Some things that are extremely important to take into consideration:

• As with melee users, it is best to avoid using Torrent. Fire Giant deals an insanely high amount of damage with all attacks, and us sorcerers typically will not survive being hit by him. Fortunately, he is easy to dodge and his attacks are highly telegraphed.
• If you have Black Knife Tiche at +6 or higher, she is definitely recommended. During phase one, Fire Giant is very mobile and has a tendency to roll away from you so you will have to close the distance. Tiche is extremely aggressive and very fast, but also good at dodging. She will almost always pull aggro when the giant rolls away from you which will allow you time to reposition and start hitting him with your spells again.
• If you can stay under or even behind him in phase one this can be very useful. If you cannot, stay at least far enough back that you can always see his weird disk as that will be the best hint as to what attack he is using next.
• When phase two begins you'll be sitting a lot better than you were in phase one. It might take a try or two to get used to what he has going on, but once you do you can take advantage of his new move set. For one, he becomes almost entirely stationary, and switches to a lot of ranged attacks. Some may suggest staying close to avoid his fireball, but keeping a little distance to bait out his fireball is not a bad idea as it is extremely easy to dodge.
  • He may also use his big fire pillar AoE attack which is basically free real estate for us as we can hit him with impunity while he uses it.
• The biggest threats from him are his ice wave attack as the animation can be easily confused for one of his sweep attacks, and the slow moving fireball he uses. It will follow you around for quite a while and just serves to be a nuisance.

The Fire Giant can be quite intimidating. He's been getting a bad rep as extremely dangerous and very difficult. Go into it expecting to lose 5-10 times, and unless you get really lucky right away take the time to learn his attacks and then just dodge him and laugh at him as he struggles to deal with you and your glorious sorceries. He's far easier than he looks at first so don't fall to the hype!

For Incantation users, a lot of the advice is similar, but additionally Rotten Breath is very effective, and Pest Threads (at close range) deals heavy damage to large targets like the giant.

Fire Giant Attacks & Counters

Attack	Description	Counter
Avalanche	The giant places the lid directly in the ground and launches a fast moving wave of snow towards the player.	Dodge as the snow gets close, or get behind him before it launches. If used when approaching on horse, use dismount I-frames to avoid the attack.
Jumping Smash	The giant jumps in the air, and slams the large lid on the ground	Dodge as the lid lands, using i-frames to avoid damage
Lid Swing	The giant swings the lid at the player. He may do a follow up swing	Dodge through the lid. Aim for his feet once he's done attacking.
Stomp	The giant stomps his foot, dealing high damage and stun.	Dodge as the foot lands
Roll	The giant quickly rolls forward to reposition itself.	Behind the giant is safe, otherwise, dodge through it.
Giantsflame, Take Thee	The giant launches a fast moving fire projectile at the player. This is only used when the brace on his damaged foot is broken. In phase 2, he will launch two at once.	Dodge as soon as the projectile leaves his hand. Torrent can easily dodge this by moving to the sides.
Flame of the Fell God	Only used when the foot brace is broken. The giant summons a slow moving orb that tracks the player. Once it gets in range, it explodes for massive damage, and leaves a field of fire. He spawns them in pairs in phase 2	Bait the explosion if possible, and roll quickly away to avoid the lingering field of fire. These orbs are persistent and will take a long while to explode if not provoked.
Burn, O Flame!	The giant lets out a roar and ignites his hands, slamming them into the ground and spawning several fire pillars in the vicinity.	Run away, or tuck in close and watch for the patches of fire to appear.
Flame, Fall Upon Them	The giant’s mouth releases a mighty roar, spewing out explosive rocks into the air which fall onto the ground. They linger for a while before exploding.	Take this opportunity to get behind it and do some damage.
Fire Breath	The Fell God's mouth releases a large stream of fire in front of it, tracking the player’s movement.	Run away while on horseback or get behind it and attack.
Swipe	The giant swipes from either left or right with his hand at anyone in front of him	Stay behind the giant, or roll through his hand

Fire Giant Notes & Other Trivia

• Voice Actor: Shaun Dooley
• Fire Giant's phase transition happens when it reaches 47% health.
• Alexander's summon for this fight is unique, as his sign is inside boss fight arena.
• During first phase, there is an additional model of Fire Giant. This model is swapped with the first one during phase transition (sometimes at the beginning of 2nd phase player can hear the sound similar to one, which can be heard during Giant death).
• During 1st phase, boss is immune to debuff caused by Blade of Death and Destined Death - skills saps his HP, but does not reduce his max HP. This is a very rare immunity in Elden Ring.
• The Trolls are said to have been descendants of the Giants, and have since betrayed them during the war. Some have speculated that the gaping holes in the Troll’s midsection may have been where the Fell God resided, and have since been excised when they switched sides.
• Bug: Activator for talismans like Lord of Blood's Exultation is placed around large eye on torso, therefore player is unable to use them for buff activation.

Dialogue

During Fight:

Phase 2 transition cutscene:

Aaargh! Aargh!

Nngghaa!

Argh!

Borealis's Mist

Burn, O Flame!

Fire's Deadly Sin

Elden Lord Crown

Flame of the Fell God

One-Eyed Shield

Remembrance of the Fire Giant

Smithing Stone 7

Giant's Red Braid

Melina

Iron Fist Alexander