5 best bleed builds for Elden Ring Colosseum

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Elden Ring, the game that brought the very niche Soulslike sub-genre into the limelight with its punishing yet satisfying game design, very recently received a brand new update.

The patch version 1.08 is easily one of the biggest and most substantial update the game has received since its launch. Not only has it added a bunch of balancing, quality-of-life, and performance fixes, but also a brand new PvP game mode - the Colosseum arena.

While FromSoftware did try and balance most of the build options possible in the game, it is no secret that the bleed builds still reign as the most overpowered. Here are five such selections that players can use in the Elden Ring's Colosseum PvP.

Note: This article is subjective and reflects the author's opinions.

This is the best strength-arcane build that players can use for the end-game PvE content as well as high-level (rune level 150) PvE and invasions. The build primarily incentivizes two things: bleed damage and DPS.

The Rivers of Blood and its very powerful "Corpse Piler" weapon art allows players to dish out raw bleed and burn damage to enemies while keeping their distance. Meanwhile, the Meteoric Ore Katana provides some really good damage numbers due to its strength scaling.

Here is a complete breakdown of the build:

Weapon:

Talisman:

Armor:

Eleanora's Poleblade is easily one of the most powerful bleed weapons and features a really spectacular Ash of War - Boodblade Dance. However, it is missable in Elden Ring, since it is tied to a character questline.

Much like Rivers of Blood, Eleanora's Poleblade can easily build up bleed with just a few swings. However, being a twinblade, the latter can inflict much more damage than regular Katanas, making its standard swings equally as viable as its