Guardian Golem

Guardian Golem is an enemy in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Overview

Golems are giant stone guardians hailing from a civilization now gone to ruin. They are said to have been made by a golem crafter, using an impure crystal knife not unlike the Crystal Dart. Though typically wielding equally massive Golem's Halberd, some can be found carrying Golem Greatbows that they use with great precision.

Appearance

Fire can be seen through the plates on their chests. Their hard, stone bodies are very resistant to physical damage, however they will topple if their ankles sustain enough damage, allowing for a critical attack on their chests.

Variants

HalberdGreatbow

Variant Description

A golem carrying a massive halberd that it can use to tear the earth asunder and can eject streams of fire through their helmet. Be wary of the instance of this enemy on the cliffs just east of the Minor Erdtree in Greyoll's Dragonbarrow that wields a magically infused halberd, as it is extremely powerful and capable of using the halberd to summon three orbs that shoot a very destructive magical beam.

Stragies

Surprising reach due to the length of their halberds, and they still have strong attacks to defend their weak ankles. When they are knocked down their chests are vulnerable for a critical hit but sometimes just continuing to hack away at the ankles may be more effective.

Moveset

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Variant Description

A golem carrying a massive greatbow. It pulls back the hardy string with its immense strength to shoot great arrows infused with the storm. Be wary of the Golems that guard the approach to the Great Jar of Caelid, as their arrows unleash a magical explosion upon landing.

Strategies

Almost defenceless at melee range since they can't point their bow further down at that point. The actual danger lies mostly in approaching them, after that the stomps should be of minimal difficulty.

Moveset

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Drops

Item	Drop Rate	Notes
Golem's Halberd	5% / 10%	Only dropped by the Halberd variant. Lower droprate for the non-respawning ones.
Golem Greatbow	5% / 10%	Only dropped by the Greatbow variant. Lower droprate for the non-respawning ones.
Great Arrow	50%	x5 arrows per drop Only dropped by the Greatbow variant
Golem's Great Arrow	5%	x5 arrows per drop Only dropped by the Greatbow variant
Golem's Magic Arrow x5	5%	Only dropped by the Magic Greatbow variant
Smithing Stone 1	5%	Dropped by Golems in Limgrave and Weeping Peninsula
Smithing Stone 2	2.50%	Dropped by Golems in Liurnia of the Lakes
Smithing Stone 3	2.50%	Dropped by Golems in Liurnia of the Lakes
Smithing Stone 4	5%	Dropped by Golems in Greyroll's Dragonbarrow and Capital Outskirts
Smithing Stone 5	5%	Dropped by Golems in Liurnia of the Lakes, Leyndell Royal Capital and Leyndell Ashen Capital
Smithing Stone 6	2.50%	Dropped by Golems in the Mountaintops of the Giants
Smithing Stone 7	2.50%	Dropped by Golems in the Mountaintops of the Giants

Bosses

Background

A Golem found at the end of Highroad Cave, having most likely fallen down from the bridge to the Divine Tower of Limgrave.

Strategies

Damage types: mainly Standard damage, with some Pierce damage from its thrusts and Fire damage from its flame breaths.

It's immune to all Status Effects and has 40% negation to all non-Physical damage types except for Magic, where it has only 20% resistance. It is somewhat weak to Strike damage, having 0% negation towards it, and a mild 10% negation against all other Physical damage types.

Since it starts out lying on the ground and will take a few seconds to get up once alerted, it's easy to get in some opening hits on its ankles. It has the range advantage and can hit most of the cave thanks to the length of its weapon.

The simplest strategy is to do the same as with a regular, non-boss halberd golem by sticking behind its ankles and backing away when its starts hitting the ground with the butt of its weapon or if it breaths fire.

Notes

• They are immune to all Status Effects like other golems.

Gallery

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  A Guardian Golem with a magic-infused Halberd, found in Caelid.