Elden Ring guide: How to defeat Valiant Gargoyle

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Elden Ring is chock-full of fun and unique bosses for players to battle and eventually succeed in defeating. FromSoftware has created some of the most memorable bosses for their latest open-world magnum opus.

Main story bosses like Godrick, Starscourge Radahn, Hoarah Loux, Maliketh and Malenia, Blade of Miquella, are some of the best and possibly hardest bosses the developer has ever created.

However, as the game is an open-world experience, it boasts some enjoyable and challenging boss encounters apart from the main story ones. Optional bosses like Ancient Dragon Lansseax, Lichdragon Frotissax, Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast, and Valiant Gargoyle are some of the most challenging encounters users will face during their journey through the Lands Between.

This article looks at Valiant Gargoyle, who, without a shadow of a doubt, is one of the most difficult mid-game encounters in Elden Ring.

Although defeating Valiant Gargoyle is tough, reaching the boss is equally as daunting, which requires gamers to partake in one of the longest questlines in Elden Ring. They need to follow Ranni's questline up to the point of reaching Nokron, Eternal City.

Players need to follow the following steps to reach the Valiant Gargoyle:

The Valiant Gargoyle boss fight starts relatively easy as managing a single gargoyle is a fairly straightforward affair of dodging through its sword thrusts and slams and attacking its legs. However, mid-battle, another Gargoyle joins in (akin to the Bell Gargoyle boss in the original Dark Souls), making the fight substantially more challenging.

Both the gargoyles, although looking identical, boast an entirely different set of weapons and movesets, which will constantly keep players on their toes. The bosses are also