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Block attacks if you have no other choice, but you'll usually be staggered into vulnerability - far better to dodge roll and prohibit her healing altogether. While many of Malenia's sword attacks can be blocked with shields, it's not a good idea - even if you block her attack entirely, she still gets the health regeneration regardless. Blocking attacks has its downsides, but parrying is high-risk/high-reward Instead, the best thing you can do, aside from not getting hit, is press on the offensive, which we'll explain more below. Even anti-healing items like the Albinuaric Pots or Winged Scythe won't work, as they're designed to stop people using Flasks, and this isn't that. Sadly, there is no way that we know of to stop this effect. Her health restored also doesn't relate to the damage inflicted, so building your defence won't make a difference to her healing power. Malenia doesn't have much health, but it doesn't matter when she can restore huge chunks of HP in a rapid barrage of sword swipes. That includes you, your allies, your summoned friends, or Ash Spirits. Let's address the vampiric elephant in the room - every single one of Malenia's attacks allows her to restore a small amount of health if she lands them on any player, character or target. Don't let Malenia use her lifesteal health regeneration Don't be limited to armor in your choices either, Preserving Boluses, Cured Meat, the Flame Cleanse Me Incantation and Talismans like the Mottled Necklace and Immunizing Horn Charm will help, especially those that passively resist it rather than forcing you to stop and swallow medicine each time you're infected. Protect against all the sword-based damage you'll take, as well as Scarlet Rot, a big theme of her attacks in Phase 2. It's absolutely better to avoid Malenia's attacks than tank or block them, but it's nigh-impossible to get through the fight without getting hit at least a few times, so you should prepare for when it happens. Protect yourself against Slashing, Piercing and Scarlet Rot with armor and consumables The effectiveness of all these is greatly reduced against her - in fact, Poison and Scarlet Rot are basically nigh-impossible to inflict on a character literally called the Goddess of Rot. What you should not be using is Holy damage, Poison or, unsurprisingly, Scarlet Rot. This works out fairly nicely, as weapons that specialise in Bleed and Fire tend to be fairly fast-hitting, like whips and the Hookclaws, which builds into the aggressive strategy we'll outline further on. Malenia is most vulnerable to Fire attacks and has less resistance to Bleed attacks than she does to most status effects. Malenia is weak to Fire attacks, Bleed status effects, and weapons We'll go through some tips below, both things you can do before and during the battle. Still, there are ways to get past it, and to bring her down properly. Malenia can thankfully be stunlocked by a number of different methods in Elden Ring, so for those who still plan on fighting her before this bug gets fixed, you'll hopefully have summons or tactics yourself that can prevent her from lashing out with these phantom hits.Things get more complicated when she enters phase 2 and becomes the gruesome, graceful Goddess of Rot, as she has most of the strengths she had before, along with some more, swapping to a more ranged form of combat that's harder to use against her. Other players less knowledgeable of Malenia's moveset and the best tactics to beat her, however, may not be so lucky whenever she's healing off of players without hitting them. That meant the fight took way longer than it normally would, but Let Me Solo Her still came out victorious. When you take into consideration the fact that she's got the multi-hit Waterfowl Dance attack, that's a lot of healing from attacks that aren't even landing. While fighting the player, Malenia was able to heal off of attacks that whiffed entirely and dealt no damage. The bug in question was showcased by Elden Ring's Malenia-fighting phenom Let Me Solo Her in the video below that shows them battling Malenia for the umpteenth time, but this fight had an extra layer of difficulty to it.