There are plenty of good PvP builds out there in the Lands Between, and there are also plenty of Elden Ring fans cosplaying as various characters from Batman to Geralt of Rivia. Very rarely do these cosplays turn out to be as effective as pure-PvP builds, but Lavender the Soap Sorceress might just be the first very first.
From the brilliant mind of Reddit user bsmiff comes the Tarnished that truly believes in cleanliness. Every aspect of Lavender plays up her love of all things clean, right down to using soap after every successful PvP kill.
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Besides using the actual in-game Soap item to remove bloodstains from her face, Lavender comes armed with the Ancestral Infant's Head to give Tarnished a bath, and the Bewitching Branch so that they come out smelling like a rose. Neither are particularly effective in PvP, nor are the Oracle Bubbles and Great Oracular Bubble spells.
What makes Lavender so deadly is perhaps the oldest trick in the Elden Ring PvP playbook. Armed with the Misericorde with the Kick Ash of War, many of Lavender's kills are merely well-timed critical strikes. Because Misericorde deals the most critical damage of any weapon in the game, a single crit with it often proves fatal. To make sure that opening comes, Lavender has Thop's Barrier on the Ice Crest Shield to allow it to parry both physical and magical strikes.
Other than that, it's a Carian Glintstone Staff to wield those spells and the Zamor Curved Sword rounding out the build. Zamor Ice Storm isn't exactly a bubble bath, but it looks pretty close, so we'll forgive Lavender for having a bit of AOE. Freezing Pots are likewise not thrown soap, but they're
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