Skill: Kick

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Skill: Kick is a Skill in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Push an enemy back with a high kick. Effective against enemies who are guarding, and can break a foe's stance. Sometimes a simple tool is the most effective.

Acquisition

• Can be granted to infusable melee weapons of any type with the Ash of War: Kick
• Innate skill of the Arbalest, Chilling Perfume Bottle , Crepus's Black-Key Crossbow, Firespark Perfume Bottle , Frenzyflame Perfume Bottle , Full Moon Crossbow, Hammer, Hand Ballista, Heavy Crossbow, Hoslow's Petal Whip, Jar Cannon, Light Crossbow, Lightning Perfume Bottle , Mace, Monk's Flamemace, Morning Star, Pulley Crossbow, Rabbath's Cannon, Short Sword, Soldier's Crossbow, Spread Crossbow, Stone Club, Thorned Whip, Urumi, Warpick, and Whip.
  • This is also the innate skill of The Tarnished's own empty fists.

Effect

The user steps forward and executes a simple front kick with their right foot that deals an absurd amount of Stamina damage against guarded enemies, as well as dealing 30 base Strike Attack Power and pushing back opponents.

Grants some Hyper Armor during use.

Frame data

The kick comes out on frame 18/after 0.60 seconds. The skill takes 32 frames/1.07 seconds to complete.

Grants Hyper Armor from frame 11/0.37 seconds in until frame 27/0.90 seconds in.

Notes

• Costs 0 points of FP.
• Costs 16 points of Stamina.
• The kick deals 999 points of Stamina damage against guarded enemies.
  • In PvP, the kick deals 1248.75 points of Stamina damage against guarded players.
• The kick deals 6 points of Stance damage.
  • In PvP, the kick deals 60 points of Poise damage.
• The kick deals 0% of the weapon's Status Effect build-up.
• The kick has a Damage Level value of 5 (Push and Long Stagger).
• The Physical Damage Type dealt is Strike.
• Categorized as a Kicking / Stomping Skill
• Unusually, the kick does not seem to scale with anything except Weapon Upgrade Level

Boosting

• The Hammer Talisman boosts Stamina damage against guarded enemies by 40%
• The Divine Bird Warrior Greaves boosts the damage of Kicking / Stomping Skills by 5%.
• The Shattered Stone Talisman boosts the damage of Kicking / Stomping Skills by 10%.
• The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander boost Attack Power by an additional 10% and 15% respectively.
  • The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander cannot be stacked together.

Strategies

• It's not really worth trying to make this skill deal damage, as even when used on a weapon with a Heavy affinity for increased scaling and 80 Strength will have at most 200 base Attack Power or so, and this is before enemy flat defenses are applied and reduce the damage even further.
• Despite its simple-looking animation, it is devastating at the sole purpose it was designed for, practically breaking the guard of almost every enemy, even particularly sturdy enemies such as Crucible Knights and Cleanrot Knights.
  • Somewhat more limited effectiveness against player Greatshields as the short reach makes it harder to use.
• This skill's effect can mostly be replicated by either simply attacking with the Hammer Talisman equipped, which is simpler than equipping this skill on a weapon or leaving the right-hand and left-hand skill slots empty and can have a fair bit more range, but takes up a Talisman slot and isn't a guaranteed guard break.

Patch Notes

Patch	Official notes	Community Notes
1.12 (General balance adjustments) (Skill adjustments)	Increased the poise amount when using this skill.	???
1.07 (Balance adjustment of Skills) (Upward adjustments)	Increased poise damage and stamina attack power against guarding enemies.	The Stance damage of the kick was reworked, changing it from dealing 100% of the weapon's base Stance damage, to dealing 6 points of Stance damage. The Stamina damage of the kick was drastically increased from 350 points of Stamina damage to 999 points of Stamina damage.
1.04 (Weapon Skill) (Upward adjustments)	Increased cast speed.	???

Trivia

• Previously an attack that was universal to all weapons by inputting forward on the left analog stick and light attack.

See also

• Hammer Talisman, a Talisman that also helps with breaking blocking enemies' guards