Flail - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Database

Weapon consisting of a bludgeoning head attached to a handle by a chain. The iron ball is spiked and induces blood loss.

Blows from this weapon cannot be parried. The charge attack whirls the iron ball around for increased force before striking.

The Flail scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for extra blood loss causing effects that cannot be parried by enemies during combat.

• Found in a charriot, which is defended by a group of soldiers near the Gatefront Ruins.

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A flail with two additional bludgeoning heads.
Weapon of the Night’s Cavalry who ride funeral steeds.

The large spikes make it highly effective at inducing blood loss, but also demand higher dexterity to wield.

The Flail scales equally with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for extra blood loss causing effects that cannot be parried by enemies during combat.

• Dropped from the Night’s Cavalry boss in Weeping Peninsula.

• Weapon Skill: Spinning Chain
• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables.
• Nightrider Flail can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

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A spiked iron tube attached by a chain wielded by Mad Pumpkin Heads.

Especially large for a flail, wielding it requires more strength than it does dexterity.

The Chainlink Flail scales primarily with Strength and to a lesser extent Dexterity and is a good Weapon for extra blood loss causing effects that cannot be parried by enemies during combat.

• The Chainlink Flail is dropped by the Pumpkin Head guarding the outskirts of Fort Haight.

• Weapon Skill: Spinning Chain
• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Chainlink Flail can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones.

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Three bludgeoning copper heads attached to a handle by chains. Signature weapon of Necromancer Garris, the heretical sage.

The heads were made to resemble those of his wife and two children.

The Family Heads scales primarily with Dexterity and STR/INT and is a good Weapon for phy/magic damage.

• Dropped by Necromancer Garris at Sage’s Cave.
• Necromancer Garris is hidden behind an illusory wall in the chest room right before reaching the dungeon boss.

• Weapon Skill: Familial Rancor
• This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War
• Family Heads can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones

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Flail which deals magic damage, having been imbued with power by the remembrance of Astel.

Formed of the same many-colored star debris that comprised the form of the Naturalborn of the Void.

The Bastard’s Stars scales primarily with Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence.

• Bastard’s Stars can be obtained by giving Remembrance of the Naturalborn to Enia at Roundtable Hold.

• Weapon Skill: Nebula
• This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War
• Bastard’s Stars can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones

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A flail with coiled snakes for bludgeoning heads. Fire roars within the snakes’ bodies, inflicting horrible burns. Some of Messmer’s army used these flails to burn hornsent—to brand them with agony and fear.

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