Skill: Loretta's Slash

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Skill: Loretta's Slash is a Skill in ELDEN RING ⁽²⁰²²⁾.

Description

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Skill of Loretta the Royal Knight. Leap forward, imbuing the blade with glintstone, then descend, accelerating into a sweeping slash.

Acquisition

• Can be granted to polearms and Twinblades with the Ash of War: Loretta's Slash.
• Innate skill of the Loretta's War Sickle.

Effect

The user steps forward and imbues the weapon with blue glintstone magic, then leaps into the air and performs an ascending slash, dealing 40% of the weapon's Attack Power as well as an additional 30 base Magic Attack Power. Then, the user descends with an accelerating sweeping slash that deals 100% of the weapon's Attack Power as well as an additional 60 base Magic Attack Power.

If performing with Loretta's War Sickle, the weapon is imbued with particularly powerful glintstone magic, signifying increased power. The ascending slash deals 80% of the weapon's Attack Power as well as an additional 34 base Magic Attack Power, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 172% of the weapon's Attack Power as well as an additional 68 base Magic Attack Power.

Has heavy Hyper Armor just before the leap. Super Armor is granted while the user is airborne.

Jumping Invincibility Frames are active from the start of the first attack until the start of the second attack.

If performing without the sufficient FP or stat requirements, the ascending slash deals only 40% of the weapon's Attack Power, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals only 100% of the weapon's Attack Power. With Loretta's War Sickle, the ascending slash deals 50% of the weapon's Attack Power, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 120% of the weapon's Attack Power. The weapon is no longer imbued with blue glintstone magic, meaning that it does not deal any additional base Magic Attack Power.

Frame data

The first attack happens at frame 20/0.67 seconds in and the second attack at frame 45/1.50 seconds in.

This skill has Hyper Armor from frame 13/0.43 seconds in until frame 60/2.00 seconds in.

The jump is active from frame 20/0.67 seconds in until frame 47/1.57 seconds in.

Notes

• Costs 14 points of FP.
• The ascending slash costs 10 points of Stamina, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent costs 25 points of Stamina.
  • For the Loretta's War Sickle variant, the ascending slash costs 16 points of Stamina, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent costs 22 points of Stamina.
• The ascending slash deals 100% of the weapon's base Stamina against guarded enemies, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 230% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded enemies.
  • In PvP, the ascending slash deals 125% of the weapon's base Stamina against guarded players, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 287.5% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded players.
• The ascending slash deals 250% of the weapon's base Stance damage, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 200% of the weapon's base Stance damage.
  • Twinblades, Spears, Halberds, Reapers: The ascending slash deals 12.5 points of Stance damage, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 10 points of Stance damage.
  • Great Spears: The ascending slash deals 13.75 points of Stance damage, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 11 points of Stance damage.
    • In PvP, the ascending slash deals 675% of the weapon's base Poise damage, while the accelerating sweeping slash on the descent deals 540% of the weapon's base Poise damage.
• All attacks deal 100% of the weapon's Status Effect build-up.
• All attacks have a Damage Level of 3 (Long Stagger).
• The extra Magic Attack Power on each hit scales with the weapon's upgrade level and the wielder's Intelligence.
  • Intelligence-scaling is greatly increased by Magic Affinity and slightly increased by the Cold affinity.
    • The Loretta's War Sickle has stronger scaling, giving up to 8.3% more Attack Power, but the weapon itself doesn't benefit as much from Intelligence as Magic Affinity weapons do.
  • Attack Power is always at least 120 (136 for Loretta's War Sickle) for the first attack and 240 (272 for Loretta's War Sickle) for the second attack for a weapon at maximum upgrade level.
    • A Magic Affinity and 45 or 80 Intelligence gives 172 Attack Power for the first attack and 344 Attack Power for the second attack respectively 187 Attack Power for the first attack and 374 Attack Power for the second attack, a Cold Affinity and 30, 45, or 60 Intelligence gives 152 Attack Power for the first attack and 304 Attack Power for the second attack, 164 Attack Power for the first attack and 328 Attack Power for the second attack, respectively 171 Attack Power for the first attack and 342 Attack Power for the second attack, and a Standard, Heavy, Keen, or Quality Affinity and 20, 30, or 45 Intelligence gives 142 Attack Power for the first attack and 284 Attack Power for the second attack, 149 Attack Power for the first attack and 298 Attack Power for the second attack, respectively 160 Attack Power for the first attack and 320 Attack Power for the second attack.
    • Loretta's War Sickle and 20, 45, or 80 Intelligence grants 155 Attack Power for the first attack and 310 Attack Power for the second attack, 184 Attack Power for the first attack and 363 Attack Power for the second attack, and 203 Attack Power for the first attack and 405 Attack Power for the second attack.

Boosting

• The Ash-of-War Scarab and Carian Filigreed Crest reduce the FP cost of Skills by 15% and 25% respectively.
• Each piece of the Spellblade's Set boost the Magic damage of all attacks by an additional 2%, adding up to a total of 8%.
• The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander boost damage by an additional 10% and 15% respectively.
  • The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander cannot be stacked together.
• The Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear and the Magic Scorpion Charm boost the Magic damage by 20% (12.5% in PvP) and 12% (8% in PvP) respectively.
• This skill benefits from repeated-hits boosters like the Thorny Cracked Tear, the Winged Sword Insignia, the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, and Millicent's Prosthesis.
  • The Winged Sword Insignia and Rotten Winged Sword Insignia cannot be stacked together.

Strategies

• Pairs decently well with the Cold Affinity since both attacks have 100% Status Effect build-up.
• While the extra Magic Attack Power on the thrust is fairly low and therefore will be harshly impacted by an enemy's flat defence, it means that a weapon that already has Magic Attack Power (whether that is innately, from an affinity, or from a Weapon Buff) will deal a decent bit more damage than otherwise due to being more able to overcome defence.
• The first attack is a true combo with the second attack, meaning that any player hit by the first attack cannot dodge the second one (unless the skill's user manages to entirely miss them).
  • The Scythe's unique charged heavy attack also has a true combo with this skill. This means that an enemy hit by the Scythe's fully charged heavy attack cannot avoid either hit of this skill.
• While it may look like the character is jumping during this skill and they receive the same invincibility Frames as a jump, it is NOT boosted by the Claw Talisman or other jump attack boosts.

Patch Notes

Patch	Official notes	Community Notes
1.12 (General balance adjustments) (Skill adjustments)	Decreased the poise generation speed.	The timing for when the user is given Hyper Armor was delayed by 2 frames for both the Ash of War variant, and the Loretta's War Sickle variant. This change is erroneously listed twice in the patch notes.
1.07 (Balance adjustment of Skills) (Upward adjustments) (Generic Ash of War variant)	Increased poise damage for the first attack. Reduced the delay between the end of various actions (such as using items or attack animations) and being able to perform the skill.	The weapon's base Stance damage of the ascending slash was increased from 100% to 250%. In addition, the Damage Level value of the ascending slash was increased from 2 (Moderate Stagger) to 3 (Long Stagger). ???
1.07 (Balance adjustment of Skills) (Upward adjustments) (Loretta's War Sickle variant)	Increased attack power. Increased damage of the first attack. Increased poise damage.	The ascending slash was increased from 40% of the weapon's Attack Power and 30 base Magic Attack Power to 80% of the weapon's Attack Power and 34 base Magic Attack Power. The accelerating sweeping slash on the descent was increased from 100% of the weapon's Attack Power and 60 base Magic Attack Power to 172% of the weapon's Attack Power and 68 base Magic Attack Power. The Damage Level value of the ascending slash was increased from 2 (Moderate Stagger) to 3 (Long Stagger). The weapon's base Stance damage of the ascending slash was increased from 100% to 250% (total Stance damage increased from 300% to 450%). This appears to be the update where the version of this skill found on the Loretta's Sickle was changed to be stronger than the Ash of War variant.

Trivia

• Performed by Loretta in both encounters with her apparition and her real self.
  • In phase 2, her real self can perform a spinning slash with the war sickle that resembles Spinning Slash but on horseback.

See also

• Unique Skill: Angel's Wings - a skill with the exact same animation, but also prevents Flask healing for a time