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| 6404 | 21000 | Nightmare Frontier | Ailing Loran Chalice |
| 22049 | 101899 | Defiled Chalice | Great Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice |
| 23832 | 120992 | FRC Isz and Loran | Cursed Nourishing Abyssal 21.5%; Nourishing 20.7% |
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Amygdala (アメンドーズ Amendōzu - "Amendoze") is an optional Great One Boss in Bloodborne. It's similar to the large enemies who attempt to grab the Hunter with portals, but lighter in color, and lacking tentacles on its head.
Amygdala Information
Location
- Nightmare Frontier, at the bottom near the shortcut lift that is guarded by a Silverbeast.
- To reach the Frontier, one must obtain the Tonsil Stone from one of four building-dwelling NPCs after nightfall and be abducted by the Lesser Amygdala hanging from the wall to the right and down of the Grand Cathedral in Cathedral Ward.
- This boss can also be found in the Defiled Chalice Dungeon, at the end of Layer 3.
- Lesser Amygdala, the non-boss version can be found across Cathedral Ward and Yahar'Gul, Unseen Village. They are treated as obstacles rather than enemies.
Drops
- Blood Echoes: NG (21,000), NG+ (145,866), NG++ (160,453), NG+3 (182,333), NG+4 (213,800), NG+7 and so on (364,665)
- Ailing Loran Chalice
- Great Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice (when fought in Defiled Chalice)
Combat Information
- Weak to Arcane, Fire and Bolt Damage. Resistant to Blunt Damage.
- The tricky parts of this boss fight are its weak points are dangling in the air and may not always be reachable. Even when only using its arms, this boss has a wide variety of attacks. The fact that it has so many arms makes things worse, as it may occasionally unleash longer-lasting or farther-reaching versions of its typical attack patterns.
- Amygdala has relatively low health for a boss, but only its head and front limbs are vulnerable to physical attacks. Attacking the lower half of the body will do much less damage, unless elemental damage is used. However there seems to be a sweet-spot in its crotch that can be hit with a high swinging weapon such as transformed Ludwig's L2 or Burial Blade, will deal standard damage.
- Projectile weapons aimed at the head can deal damage to Amygdala quite reliably. The Executioner's Gloves is a great way to do this.
- Watch out for its stomp attacks and jumping attacks. Its 3rd phase (about 30% HP) is very aggressive, and is the hardest part of this fight. During this stage, it will rip off two of its arms and swing them as weapons.
- Visceral Attacks can be performed by doing damage to Amygdala's head.
- There are 2 opportunities for Visceral Attacks (which signal the phase changes), the last one can be done once Amygdala's health gets below 10%. Don't miss it as it will end the fight if you get it. (If you know you are close to that mark, start shooting your gun at its head and get ready to run in)
- If you attack its arms, they will visibly bleed out. Any attack on that arm will do increased damage until it heals it, so it's more effective to focus on one, if possible. This tactic also works on its legs, though the damage before bleeding is significantly reduced.
- One can use the greatsword form of Ludwig's Holy Blade to hit its head at almost any time during the fight, via the L2 attack.
- For NG+ and onwards, the Burial Blade's secondary form (the long scythe form) can hit the head even more easily than Ludwig's.
- An upgraded Cannon with Bone Marrow Ash is also very effective, as is the Tonitrus, and the Threaded Cane in either form. All of these are safe, simple, and fun strategies to use.
- If you're having trouble with Amygdala's third stage, get behind it and attack. It should jump, but it will jump away from you, and it should be still facing away when it lands. When this happens, dash for it and use a dashing attack on its legs or tail. It'll do small damage, but it'll be safe. Keep pursuing it and hurting it. Eventually you will tenderize its legs or tail and you can do more damage to it. It'll take a while, but it's safer than trying to attack its head and arms now--especially in the Defiled Chalice. Occasionally, it may still try to stomp, so be ready to dodge it.
- If you're using the Kos Parasite a good method is to use hunters tools on his head (such as Accursed Brew or Executioner's Gloves) and run at him with a running R2 when he dips his head down after an attack since he's pretty weak to arcane damage. After enough hits to his head for a visceral, perform the visceral and then once the animation finishes for the both the visceral and Amygdala's recovery from it, while you're still near or under his head, hit L2 to perform the Parasite's AOE which will do a substantial amount of damage on him before he's ready for his next attack and then dodge away before his next hit.
- Attacking the arm closest to the boss's legs will more often than not trigger its stomp attack, making its first two stages much easier. However this is not always the case and may flail its arms instead, in which case dodging outward or between its legs is the safest method.
- Extremely weak to A Call Beyond.
- Amygdala's vomit deals Fire damage.
Strategy 1 (Fast, easy, reliable and safe)
The key to this strategy is that when the boss jumps, it won't hit you as long as you stay still. So: using a Hunter Axe in transformed form (L1), run behind it. Stay behind the tail (you may need to stay a bit behind to keep out of range of its backward swipe) and wait for it to jump. When it jumps, 1) STAND STILL and 2) hold R2 to queue up the axe's spin attack. When it lands on top of you (missing you entirely), release R2, making sure to aim your attack at the head (you'll eventually figure out where the head's going to be). When your attack finishes, IMMEDIATELY run/roll back to the tail or you'll get pounded. Rinse and repeat the above until it rips its arms off (at around 30% health).
Once it rips its arms off you can just stay toward the left rear (near the hands but in front of the left foot) and it'll generally jump, but now it will always jump away from you. Run up to its left side and take a swat at the middle or rear hand. Stay toward the left rear and it'll keep either jumping away from you or doing a stomp attack with the left foot (which won't hit you as long as you're not right next to the foot); in either case just take a whack at its hand. Rinse and repeat until it's dead.
Using this strategy, the Defiled Amygdala can be killed in 2-3 minutes while the player takes almost no damage.
Strategy 2 (Hit and Run)
My strategy is to simply lock onto its head and wait for it to do an attack where it ends up with its head on the ground and simply run in and hit it once (or twice if you are fast enough). A long range weapon is mandatory for technique, and any weapon that has an overhead vertical running attack will guarantee more hits if you are slightly late to react. I find it is best to continuously circle around it until I see an opportunity (there are only 2 attacks it does that I run in to attack). You will recognize these after 1 or 2 attempts. I find the last phase is easier to circle right (whenever possible), as one of the attacks it does that you are waiting for hits at longer ranges with the its right arm then left. This makes it easier to dodge and then run in for the attack.
Strategy 3
The key to this strategy is to stay mobile. Staying still is a guaranteed way to end up killed in this fight. When you walk through the boss fog you want to get on the move immediately, Amygdala will either leap at you, smash down with both arms (get caught by that and you'll likely die) or charge forward and use its laser attack.
In the first phase, you want to circle around it, letting the boss attack the ground and generally make it's bad temper known. As you circle around get in and score some hits on it's middle set of arms. You want to focus on one or two arms throughout this fight as when you break them you can score 1.5x the damage with each hit. A ranged weapon is ideal for dealing with it (the Saw Spear while extended or the Greatsword version of Ludwig's Blade) and if possible make sure you've got an elemental blood gem fitted for extra damage. Plug away at the boss gradually until you get it into the second phase.
For the second phase, it's time to get a touch more aggressive. Its attacks change up somewhat here. The dual arm slam now has small arcane AOE blasts on each smash down, the laser attack is now less predictable but most importantly, the boss bows it's head more and does the six arm flails less. This is the perfect opportunity to get some major damage in. Wait until it does a two arm smash and it bows its head, get in and attack the head with a combo. Your instinct when it gets up is to back off, but wait. Power forward and get underneath the boss as it will do wide swings in front which you can't roll through. Wait until it's stopped thrashing then get out from underneath it and resume the tactics from stage one. At some point in this stage if you keep attacking the head you'll hear the sound for a V.ATK. Don't miss this opportunity as you can take off nearly 800 hp. This is one of two opportunities for a V.ATK so don't waste it.
For the third phase you need to keep on your toes as Amydala gets incredibly aggressive. It tears off its two middle arms and uses them to attack you with increased range. When it swipes side to side with the extended arms you can roll through the attack but the timing is very difficult, so the best bet is to get up close and get underneath. The slam attacks now come in a frenzied combo with lots of arcane blasts from each hand.
Strategy 4 (A Call Beyond)
This boss fight can be made almost trivial by using A Call Beyond. It will take out massive chunks of its health, granted you have the QS bullets to spare (24 is recommended). At the start of the fight, get a few hits in with your weapon of choice to lower it's health a bit. Then get some distance between the two of you, aim at its head, and send off two A Call Beyond bursts. The first will stun him, allowing the second to do even more damage. When it gets back up again, dodge its attack and send off one more A Call Beyond to its head. This will either kill it or leave it with a very small amount of health. If it survives your last attack, make sure to run in and kill it quickly as it will go straight into its final (and extremely dangerous) phase.
Strategy 5 (Cheesing the final phase)
Whereas the first two phases of Amygdala consist of baiting it into attacking, dodging far back, and then attacking its limbs and head while the boss recovers, Amygdala's final phase (where it rips off two of its arms) can be very difficult due to its increased aggression and massive reach. A very easy way to defeat it at this point is to get behind it and attack its tail; the boss only two attacks at this point are a stomp and a jump, and after ripping off its arms it can only jump forward, losing it's ability to turn around. Therefore, this simply becomes a point of slowly whittling its health down and catching up to it when it harmlessly jumps away. (This cheese has been patched and the boss is now able to turn around while jumping in the final phase. This actually makes cheesing even easier. When you are behind the boss and it jumps, turn around where you stand, do not move and charge an R2-attack. When it lands and misses you but you might just get a fully charged R2 swing on its head if you are lucky)
Strategy 6 (Bow and Arrow)
The DLC introduces an easy boss tactic. Use a maxed out Simon's Bowblade to stay just out of harms way while dealing massive damage. Aim for the head during times Amygdala will not be dodging your arrows. Always save a bit of Stamina for an emergency dodge. Simply stay far enough away to avoid getting hit while using your Blood Vials to replenish your Blood Bullets.
Strategy 7: Kos Parasite
When Amygdala jumps, if you stay still, he usually will not land on you, this makes it easy to hit his head without even locking on using the L2 attack of the Kos Parasite. After he jumps, press L2, your character will hug themselves and explode arcane damage outwards, hitting Amygdala's head, chest, and arms. Then, as soon as you can move, sprint towards the opening between the tail and the back legs, rolling if necessary to avoid retaliation. Rinse and repeat until victory.
| Attack Name | Attack Description & Counter |
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| Stomp | Tries to step on the player for heavy damage. Best avoided by rolling away from its legs. |
| Exploding Laser | Fires a single blue laser beam in front of it, inflicting no damage. Immediately after this, powerful explosions follow the laser's path. When you see its fire, dodge horizontally away from the attack, and close in on it. A variation of this attack has it shooting the laser in quick, successive bursts. While powerful, the explosions this attack causes have small blast radii. |
| Acid Discharge | Flails its head and spits a pool of damaging vomit on the ground in front of it. Simply move under or away from it to avoid it. The area covered by this attack increases in Phase 2. |
| Low Arm Swing (+ Combo) | Sweeps the ground in front of it with one of its front-most arms. If the player is close enough, Amygdala will follow up with a 2nd sweep from the same direction, followed by a palm smash. |
| Flailing Combo | Smashes and claws wildly at the ground beneath it. Difficult to avoid due to the range and duration of this attack. Can also hit players standing behind the boss' legs. |
| Forward Palm Thrust | Lurches upwards, then does a right palm thrust followed by a left, with both attacks reaching close to the ground. Followed by a multi-arm smash targeting the perimeter of Amygdala's "underbelly". The recovery from this attack leaves the head wide open. Phase 2 introduces magic spheres at the end of this attack. |
| Arm Smash | Lifts four arms above its head before smashing them down flat in front of itself. Move under it, to its sides or to its rear to avoid this attack. The head is easy to reach with any weapon after this attack. |
| Jump | Jumps high into the air before coming crashing down, damaging anyone it lands on. Try to roll directly away from the starting point of the jump when it hits the ground, so that you end up between the boss' head and legs. |
| Downward Pincer Swipe | Raises all of its arms up with hands pointed downwards, then brings one pair of arms down to attack the space beneath it from opposite directions. May repeat this attack in quick succession. |
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Notes & Trivia
- Amygdala (plural: Amygdalae) means "Almond" in Latin and "Almond" or "Almond Tree" in Greek (ἀμυγδάλη).
- An Amygdala is a bilateral neural structure set deep within the limbic system of the brain. It is thought to be responsible for learning and organizing fear responses. Amygdalectomy - surgical removal of this structure - is associated with reduced capacity to learn memories related to fear and behaving fearfully.
- The shape of Amygdala's head (and the heads of the other beings of similar appearance) roughly corresponds with the shape of this region in the brain
- The Lesser Amgydala which it shares appearance with are invisible, but are partially visible once the Hunter is grabbed by their portal. They also become fully visible while the Hunter's Insight stat is 40 or more, and are permanently visible after the defeat of Rom, the Vacuous Spider.
- Unlike its portal-using counterparts, it has no grab attack, and does not inflict Frenzy damage.
- In the Defiled Chalice fight it is possible for it to get stuck in the ceiling when jumping. It is a rare bug but it is game over if it happens since you can't reach it and it can laser you. If you are low in level and beating it is taking a while and you are afraid this bug might happen, then try to keep it in the center of the arena where the ceiling is higher than it is around the edges.
- In some medieval philosophy the amygdala was regarded as the seat of the soul but also a medium for "animal spirits". Within the amygdala a balance is struck between the rational desires of the soul and the fleshy, animalistic wants of the body.
- Interestingly enough, the Dark Souls 3 boss Darkeater Midir has a laser breath attack which is almost identical to the Amygdala & Lesser Amygdala's laser. Both trace out a line which shorty afterwards combusts in flame.
**** you, **** you in the Defiled Dungeon in particular, I had enough after 3 hours of attempts, felt the most pleasure deleting your stupid dungeon
- Anonymous
A Call Beyond makes this fight a joke, even in the Defiled Chalice Dungeon you can mostly wreck them with it: (bone marrow and your choice of repeater or Evelyn when you run low on bullets).
- Anonymous
I don’t know who wrote strategy 1, but who ever they are they are the closest we have to a true old one
YALL WERE RIGHT!!
I should've believed in the baiting-jump technique a lot sooner. would've saved me a few hours.
- Anonymous
Defiled Cursed Chalice version of this guy is one of those bosses that can be radically harder or easier depending on the weapon you're using.
For me I struggled until I switched over to the saw cleaver, which happens to have just the moveset you want for this guy, and then got it on my second attempt. So if you're stuck, don't bash your head against a wall, change it up.
- Anonymous
Whoever discovered that her jump attack sets her up perfectly for a charged attack to the head deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, I swear to God
- Anonymous
Man the run up to the boss fight was a ****ing nightmare, but the fight itself was a cakewalk, dude got melted with the axe
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The way people talked about the defiled version of this boss I thought it would be a nightmare. Turned out it was incredibly forgiving and an fun fight. I expected to get one shot on all of its moves and turns out only the heavily telegraphed moves were the insta-kills. I've been so conditioned to doing low level runs that this wasn't comparable to other bosses in the souls series at low HP. Dancer or Boreal Valley, Ludwig the Holy Blade, Gundyr, and Godskin Apostle that guards the Godslayer Greatsword at low level were truly nightmares. Godskin especially at low level definitely prepped me for this one, had to play perfect as 1 hit on every attack of his was an insta-kill.
- Anonymous
amygdala: oh ahah well a fine boss fun not too hard
chalice amygdala: god-forsaken monstrocity of a love child of all things that are wrong in from games, a true nightmare, an "arabic dictator working half-time at Guantanamo" level of mental torture, induces Frenzy irl
- Anonymous
The Cursed Chalice version of this boss ruins the entire experience of this game.
- Anonymous
if anybody wants to beat it with me, my psn is KXRTl- (small L not capital i)
- Anonymous
Took me four hours to beat defiled Amygdala, the strategy that ended up working for me was spamming Accursed Brew and running away. Felt like playing a massively underleved Pyromancer in DS1.
Thankfully I can now delete that damned chalice.
- Anonymous
OK wow. So this is the worst actual part of the game. Like an otherwise fantastic game just bogged down by this absolute trash. And that's not even taking into account what the player has to go through to reach this stage of this awful dungeon on the forced march to the platinum trophy. Who thought up this absolute joke?
I can barely even enter the fight sometimes as it attacks right away with the lazer or sweep, so run into the boss arena, die instantly, loading screen, repeat. Just an absolute joke. No time to learn attack patterns. Not that you could anyway, since nearly every attack one-shots you. I spend more time running across the hall to get here than I do in the actual fight. Did anybody ever playtest this? Ever? Not having the chalice dungeons at all would be better than having a game with this boss fight in it. I know you can just not fight it, but no, I think the actual game is worse now because I simply know this boss fight exists, that someone spent time making it, and that even worse: somebody actually said yes to it.
I mean let's get real, a lot of boss fights in Bloodborne suck. I mean, a lot of them. There are a few standouts sure, and maybe 1-2 of the better bosses in the series, but these chalice bosses should be taking up a lot of the top spots on 'worst Souls bosses' tier lists. I can think of a few DS2 bosses I'd rather fight than do this. Of course we have Amygdala with nearly every trait of terrible Souls bosses: 'Large Health', 'Big Enemy Which Disrupts The Camera', 'Annoying 1-Shot Mechanics', 'Can Be Beaten With A Cheesy Gimmick', and who could forget 'Just Stand Under The Gooch'.
Playing this boss is like playing through every failure of boss design in the franchise. After revisiting BB post-Elden Ring, my outlook on BB was pretty positive. I thought it was holding up remarkably well, a beautiful gothic nightmare. Of course, why wouldn't I try to platinum it? I was having such a great time. Was. Unfortunately on the way to platinum my opinion of BB actually ended up being worse than it was before. Shameful.
- Anonymous
The best way to beat this thing in the chalice dungeon that I have found is the bait the jump attack you can do this by standing right behind the tail and then as soon as it jumps prepare a charged R2 attack and smack the its brains out (literally) , most of the times it's head will be behind where the tail was so try that. bonus points if you pull off a visceral
- Anonymous
Tried every strat under the sun in the chalice dungeon, died a million times, then I tried the go-behind-and-bait-the-jump trick, with the charged R2, and it was literally a one shot, only took damage trying to get away to repeat. Kinda makes me mad such a frustrating boss could go down from such a cheap gimmick.
- Anonymous
The defiled chalice one sent me through every single stage of grief. At one point I just started yelling "SUCK YA DAD" with each cast of call beyond and it made me laugh so hard I started crying.
- Anonymous
Defiled Amygdala: I am a from a higher plane of existance and can summon the arcane power of the cosmos!
Me: I have a hammer that go boom!
Amygdala: But I am resistant to bliunt damage!
Me: Get ready to taste the boom!
- Anonymous
Very easy fight even in defiled chalice. Just get behind her tail, dont do anything, just wait for her to jump, dont move an inch. Once you see her jump, start your charging attack (i did it with Ludwig) which will charge just in time she lands. Once she is on the floor, aim your charged attack at her head, hit her for a lot of dmg, immediately start dodging towards her tail. Repeat until dead. Good luck hunters.
- Anonymous
Honestly most hunter tools are great against her. People mention call beyond and gloves but I also just shat on her with augur of ebrietas. It has deceptive range and can almost hit her at every point of her attacks if youre standing close enough
- Anonymous
I don’t get what people mean by stand still when amygdala jumps. It worked fine for the normal version but the defiled chalice version kept landing on me when I stood still. I was safe about 50% of the time. Real strategy is to run between the legs when they are about to jump so you are behind amygdala. This way not only do you avoid it 95% of the time, you also get some free hits on the head if you are fast enough.
- Anonymous
After 50+ tries against defiled amygdala, I died while it was one hit away from dying. At that point, I lost patience and tapped into the forbidden knowledge of the ancient ones that have driven more than one curious scholar to madness and learned the singular truth at the center of all that is, was or will ever be: the taint is the greatest weakness of all living things, even eldritch abominations
- Anonymous
>the jump doesn’t hit you if you stand still
imagine my shock when i realised this wasn’t bait
- Anonymous
Arcane Build with 50 Arcane. A Call Beyond sucks **** on the Defiled Chalice one. Most other spells have extreme difficulty hitting the awful head hitbox (Accursed Brew and Blacksky Eye usually look like they hit but deal zero damage), the real cheese here is just the Executioner's Gloves. Because EG's projectiles penetrate and are accurate, they aren't nearly as wasteful as A Call Beyond and deal similar damage. You can just stand in front of it baiting out attacks and hitting it with EG as often as you can, while converting health to bullets and using vials to refill. I got him on my 2nd attempt with this strat.
- Anonymous
Is it not a great one? or even a kin of the cosmos?
It has red blood like beasts and humans
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easy boss to begin with but the Bowblade absolutely shreds this guy
- Anonymous
People really do say HMS and a call beyond are really useful, like unless it’s new game plus who Tf has a call beyond or HMS for the nightmare frontier?
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POV: You are the King of the Chimera Ants, and you done ****ed up.
- Anonymous
"One can use the greatsword form of Ludwig's Holy Blade to hit its head at almost any time during the fight, via the L2 attack." Is this a joke? I am whiffing nearly every attempt.
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For the third phase just stay under him. Don’t move when he jumps. Attack the tail, it will eventually break and you can deal massive damage and stun lock. Obviously avoid the foot stomp. You could probably do this all game but I used the Holy Moonlight Sword transformed R2 to hit the head. Also dodge to the left when he does phase 2 and 3 ground slam.
- Anonymous
Painful Weak get into a corner and its Stuck you can kill it easy by hittin its claws or head. Sems from always had Problems with small Arena and large bosses.
- Anonymous
First playthrough.
Threaded Cane (whip mode) + Fire Paper, lock onto bosses head and get underneath him (stay facing towards his head though), proceed to spam R1 and watch him get absolutely destroyed.
Obviously go for the visceral when he’s downed, and simply watch out for his jump up and slam down to the ground attack (incredibly easy to dodge), nothing else can really hit you from that position (plus you down him so fast anyways). Easiest boss I’ve fought so far.
I was level 52 with a +6 cane for reference. Good luck future hunters!
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Thanks to the advice on this page, and in the comments, I beat defiled amygdala second try.
First time round I thought I'd go in with both summons for a laugh, just to see how much worse it makes the fight, and yep, can confirm it turns a manageable battle into an unpredictable nightmare.
Second time (first serious attempt), in phases 1 and 2 I circled round at a distance to bait the slam attacks, going for the head whenever it was vulnerable, and then in phase 3 I stayed right behind its legs and just slashed away, dodging when it got stompy and standing still whenever it jumped.
I really thought it was going to be more difficult, but this strategy seemed pretty safe. I used saw cleaver +10, transformed for stage 1/2, normal for stage 3.
Cheers everyone for your tips.
- Anonymous
Wow this boss has a moveset other than just spamming the laser? That's news to me
- Anonymous
After gnawing my fingers off in fury from the ****ing fire dog, I thought this mf waiting at the end of the next layer would be a breeze by comparison, even with my HP halved. Nope. He wasn't a huge problem in the Nightmare Frontier, but in the defiled chalice I had to resort to the jump cheese strat after banging my head against the wall for hours. I am taking my Platinum trophy and going the **** home, thank you.
- Anonymous
I think I had an easier time with the Amygdala in Nightmare Frontier after I defeated the Wet Nurse, maybe because I was level 60 something and my hammer was +9. The camera was a pain though and after he ripped his arms off I had no opening and had to gun his head until he died.
- Anonymous
Its funny they patched some exploits against the chalice version when he jumped, lmao From really made people hate chalice dungeon
- Anonymous
Every time I see this boss I get ptsd from farming nourishing abyssals.
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This thing ****ing horrifies me to this day. If you go under it, you can clip inside its head and it just has eyes lined all over. So ****ing creepy.
- Anonymous
The one in the defiled chalice is significantly hard than the one in the nightmare frontier. Unless you are insanely power leveled for ng, that thing will 2-hit you almost every time. Some things will 1-hit you. Queen Killer is pretty awesome though.
- Anonymous
It would be so satisfying to MGR this lad and slash their head up to ribbons in Blade Mode
- Anonymous
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Worst part of this boss is fighting the freaking camera if you ever want to lock on.
- Anonymous
The one in the chalice dungeon holy **** what an insane jump in difficulty compared to the story version.
In the first two phases it's about hitting the head when you can and arms when you can't. Use a tricked weapon with reach going for the head and untrick for speed on the arms. The 3rd phase destroyed me over and over until I figured out to get close and attack the small dangling arm. He just tried a terrible stomp over and over again. Made it trivial, I almost feel bad.
- Anonymous
FOR ARCANISTS
2× Call Beyond
2× Blacksky Eye
Dead before he could finish the phaseshift to Phase 3. It was a joke.
- Anonymous
After dying so many times to this guy i decided to do the dlc, after killing the orphan of kos i went back and fought him and god damn, I killed him so quickly!
- Anonymous
Threaded Cane in the whip transformation makes short work of this boss. Just stand under/behind him and whip the weak spots until he's dead. The long range of the whip means you can hit his weak points at any time in any phase.
- Anonymous
This boss taught me that if I'm losing a fight I should rip my limbs off and wield them as weapons
The third phase is deceptively easier than the first, just run behind the tail to bait the jump and then dodge the landing. Amy's head will be right in front of you and you'll get a small moment to throw out a few attacks, then immediately run behind again and repeat the process. Super safe since none of the third phase attacks reach behind, just try to mind your stamina.
I read a good strategy somewhere, maybe here, maybe Reddit, but it worked VERY well.
Make sure you've got a good, high attack weapon, and I'd say equip all the Clawmarks you can for bonus visceral damage.
Run behind the Amygdala, where its tail is, to force it to jump. When it jumps, just back up a few steps and then charge your L2. By the time it lands, do a quick lock onto it's head and the L2 should release just in time to give her a good whack on the noggin.
Repeat that cycle. I found I could run between her legs (dodging an arm or maneuvering depending on what attack is telegraphed) to get back behind her. Usually the 4th or 5th L2 attack garners a stagger and you can go for a visceral.
Once she rips off her arms, do the same thing to initiate her jump but then just stay in the same place and turn around so you'll be facing her head when she lands over you (maybe you don't have to turn around, tbh I can't remember exactly but I'm fairly certain it DID turn around), and just do a normal attack. Her health should be low enough that if you just keep this up, you'll be able to take her out easy. Might take practice, but it worked for me!
- Anonymous
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I cleared the arra with the amygdala Arm and when I got her beloe 20%, I was only doing crotch shots with the extended R2. While I was charging, she prepated to jump but right at that moment she left the ground, Ihit her and I stop the jumping and it stagerred her. It looked sick!
the ACB strategy saved my bacon, thanks whoever wrote that up!
Not sure if I would recommend this strategy but whacking her tail for 15 minutes does also work + nearly no attack can hit you if you stand behind that tail. Just make sure to atand still while she does the juming attack and move behind her asap after she lands.
- Anonymous
a pretty good cheese strategy i used for the defiled version is to equip a fast high damage weapon (like chikage, or the cane), and fish for the attacks that allow you to easily hit his head 2-3 times. if you need more space to dodge his attacks strafe around the arena while keeping a good distance from him. phase 2 is basically the same but most of the attacks that you previously take advantage of now have slight lingering aoe, so just wait for them to dissipate and go in for a hit or two. phase 3 is easier than the first two but way longer, the safest way i found is to just run behind him and start hacking away at a leg. if he jumps, stand still and when he lands take 1 or 2 hits at the leg you chose and run behind him again. keep repeating this until he dies, just be careful as at 30 vit a single stomp is enough to one shot you.
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legit spent 15 minutes strafing and hitting his arms, just to get stomped on and died instantly. Who thought it would be a good idea to put such a wonky boss in this dungeon.
Amygdala in the main story is at least a solid boss for my personal experience, since it's a well design boss that gives you opportunity to strike its head for extra damage. The ways to beat Amygdala makes it a fun boss to fight, despite the other wise bad area of nightmare frontier. Defiled Amygdala from another hand is a different story. This is possibly the hardest chalice boss for me to solo since the boss has bloated HP and wide attacks after it rips its arms. Not to mention that the defiled dungeon can obviously cut your health. I just can't get past with its third phase in times after I beat Amygdala in the defiled dungeon, I don't feel satisfied, since I thought the defiled dungeon is an awful designed dungeon that doesn't add any fun challenge, just frustration. It's story Amygdala, but without the fun due to said dungeons being a nuisance.
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The extended saw cleavers r1s is good for making short work of him, it's shorter and by a bit than Ludwigs but still reaches the head and arms, it's quicker and safer, just learn to dance through his attacks and GIT gud
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Its almost unbelievable the different difficulty between the main storia Amigdala and the cursed chalice version
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is it just me or is this amygdala smaller than the lesser amygdala
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I didn't do this fight until much later so I just shot him like 10 times with Evylin and he died.
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a high beasthood with a maxed beast claw with good gems and beast embrance can do some serious damage to amygdala especially if you hit weak points
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The cursed chalice variant is tough as hell and took me many tries, but overall I think Amygdala is my favourite Bloodborne boss.
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Just beat him with a STR build. 40 vit, 30 stam, and 50 str with LHS 10. Hung around the edges baiting him into using the slam attack. The moment he hit, ran forward and did a L2 attack on the head, then dodged back out of the way. If I couldn't reach the head in time, I'd attack an arm to still get in a hit. This worked for me until phase 3, where I had to change between being beneath him or behind him. The hardest part of phase three was being patient and getting the timing down to roll out of the way of his jump attacks. Those landings killed me more than anything else.
Keep at it, you can do this.
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Just beat the one in the chalice dungeon **** me what a *****
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A good Strat for the chalice dungeon one is to ALWAYS keep moving, and ALWAYS keep her in the middle. If you see her walking toward you, run behind. Run in front of her quickly and bait the stretch attack, and spam away at the arm. Phase 2 is essentially the same. Phase 3, as she's ripping her arms off, run toward her crotch and slam at its tail or crotch. If she jumps, run to where the tail was before she jumped, this should let you punish over and over, essentially locking her in that state. I had 50 VIT, 40 STR and 50 SKL. With LHB or Burial Blade, use L2 to bait the jump attack in phase 3 and deal damage to that one sweet spot at its chest.
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So far, the cursed pthumeru chalice version is the hardest boss in the game for me. I keep on coming back stronger and stronger (level 170 now) and this douchebag keeps on tearing me apart.
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This boss in the Defiled Chalice is pure agony. I hate it so much. Big, dumb 6 armed idiot.
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Allright folks, I do not know if this strategy is already knowned, but since it worked fine for me let's share !
Only for bloodtinge builds thought...
Evelynn, your best blood gem in it, and load up with as much blood vials using your best Runes for it.
You load 5 blood bullets, you shoot them in it's head, and you repeat until the end.
It may provoke a visceral attack or 2 until you get het all the way down, but it's safer than having to melee it.
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Very disappointed I couldn't cut off that little mangy tail.
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Bloodborne truly has my favorite takes on Lovecraftian creatures. Instead of making them amorphous blobs of flesh (besides One Reborn I guess), they made sure that even if you can recognize individual parts, it's much more difficult to describe them in their entirety.
Best I could describe Amygdala is a bipedal spider-tree-man with blue skin, human hands, and a nut-shaped cage full of eyes for a head, but that would sound like nonsense to anyone who hadn't actually seen it before, and they still wouldn't be able to fully picture it even if they tried.
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What attack are what? im currious about the arcane part in there :/
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the chalice one has everything i love about souls games
shitty camera, FPS drop, one hit kill moves, most of body doesnt take much damage and hard to reach weak points
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One of the coolest looking creatures in this game, and that's saying something.
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The strat I used when facing amygdala, don’t lock on and head to the right and attack the hand hanging by the Amygdalas left leg. You want to be behind the hand because being in front causes the swipe attacks. This seems to bait the stomp attack which is easy to dodge and you can get 2 hits in between each attack. In the latter stages it tends to jump but if you can avoid it (I found rolling back right twice helps)and reposition the fights a cakewalk even in defiled.
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busted my balls today fighting him in the defiled chalice FOR 5 HOOOOURRRRRRS, but eventually i got him (**** this things moveset and jump though)
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busted my balls today fighting him in the defiled chalice FOR 5 HOOOOURRRRRRS, but eventually i got him (**** this things moveset and jump though)
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Anyone have good layer 3 lower loran glyphs for farming his waning gems?
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for those of you doing the defiled chalice version, if you spam its head a few times with the executioners gloves that takes out a good bit of its health from a safe distance, idk y but the 'a call beyond' strategy described here was utterly useless when i tried it lmao
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I lost 39 insight already, always spawnimg the NPC helper and cant over with this chalice version.
By god.. I love the version in the frontier but I hate everything else
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Main story amygdala isn’t bad, but the cursed chalice version is pretty infuriating.
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Doesn't seem weak to arcane, the HMGS deals way less than LHB and the empty phatasm shell doesn't make any real difference
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why they patched him in the chalice dungeon? such a crappy boss.
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"There seems to be a sweet spot in it's crotch" - priceless!
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Honestly, I don’t know if I just got lucky or what, but I beat this guy first time (which doesn’t usually happen for me in Souls games).
If you have high Skill stats and Blades of Mercy and a beefed up repeating pistol, & max bone marrow ash(or cannon, but I didn’t have a high enough strength stat), you can make this fairly speedy. I buffed my Blades with a 3% stamina reducing gem, arcane buff gem, and strength gem.
Get him to attack forward, throwing his arms down. He’s slow to get up, run in and get 1-2 hits on it’s arm, dodge as far back as you can get so you don’t get hit. Make sure to always keep him in front and circle the area keeping him at enough of a distance. Wait to attack until he does his arm slam, hit 1-2 times, dodge, wash and repeat.
When he hits 3rd phase, bust out your gun and go to town, dodge and keep distance, buff, shoot. I finished him in stage 3 with 4 shots. Hope this helps!
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The Holy Moonlight sword made this fight easy for me. I just used the transformed R2 attack most of the time
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Interesting design for a boss. It almost invites the player to find a cheesey exploit method.
- Anonymous
Defiled with saw cleaver:
Phase 1 & 2 - stay to the left and run in only to attack the head or the left arms. Break the arms for extra damage.
Phase 3 - run underneath him and use the transformed cleaver to cut his crotch to pieces for full damage. Stay mobile and watch out for stomps. When he jumps, I used a double roll to get away, then beat up the head.
Simon's bowblade is also good for getting quick damage in on the head. I was able to setup a visceral attack this way with R1's.
Huge PITA but this is the strategy that finally worked for me. I had a much easier time with Orphan.
- Anonymous
I’ll never forget the 12 minute battle I had with this boss on my level 43
Finally beat the Cursed Amygdala and never been prouder!!
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