I got covid and braindead farmed these things for a couple of hours. I love these froggy dinosaur friends, and happy hunting! But given how many dragon bones and titanite slabs I've farmed off of these fellas, I really can't say I hate them. Sure, some people think they're ugly, and their stomps and lightning breath are annoying. When they are stomping their feet, they seem to have some kind of damage reduction? This makes it really not worth to trade damage with them, just keep your distance until they are done stomping. Certainly the safer option when you're low level/low health, but not the fastest by far. Rolling to the side will get you hit by the explosion :( -In the time it takes to fire off ten poison arrows or cast Dark Fog twice, you can have already killed it if your damage is high enough. You can roll through their lightning breath. Rolling into their landing, however, seems to be the better option. When they jump in the air, rolling back or to the side can get you hit with some kind of shockwave. I've even had situations where I accidentally aggro'd two and killed them at the same time this way. The bolts can be a bit tricky to land, but when cast directly behind or below them, two casts can be enough to finish them off. Some observations: -The fastest I was able to kill them was with Heavenly Thunder, using a Lightning Dragon Chime +5 at 70 faith. Can be poisoned with ~10 Poison Arrows, when you start to see their HP meter drain with poisoning switch to Regular Arrows until they're down.Kite them to the island/beach, they cannot leave the pool. They're generally weak to Great Resonant Soul. You can also deal with them by running to the beach and using ranged attacks. Repeat this and you should have no trouble with them. Staying in front of it and strafing usually only triggers the bite attacks, which are easily dodged. During the stomp animation they take little damage (208 instead of the usual 1044 at 50 Str 40 Dex on NG++ with previously mentioned weapons). The stomp has a small AoE, so watch out or you will be staggerd. Standing behind or to the side of it will cause it to stomp. Once you get one or two hits in, get back in front of it. Watch out for a follow up sideward bite in opposite direction. The sideward bite goes from your left to your right, and if you continue strafing it will miss you. Stand in front of their nose and strafe to your left. Standing under it will cause it to perform a leap attack, wich is hard to dodge. The best place to be is right in front of them. They can also approach the player by leaping in your direction. Their next step is generally the Dashing ram. Rolling to the side or strafing will take of a chunk out of your health due to the splash damage and slight tracking of this attack. If you time your roll right, you can roll straight through the orb spit. They will generally go for one or two ranged attacks, depending on their distance from you. Use ranged attacks to aggro one to draw him away from the rest. They are weak to strike damage so equip a great hammer (I powerstanced a Large Club +10 and an Old Knight Hammer +10 in NG++) for maximum damage output. I found the best way of dealing with them goes as follows. In higher NG cycles they can be a real pain.These twisted creatures are likely an offshoot of dragon-kind, though they bear only passing resemblance to those majestic creatures at first look. Malformed creatures residing in the Sunken City. The Imperfect is an enemy in Dark Souls 2.
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