I’m Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Six phrases any Elden Ring participant has burned into their frontal cortex by this level—like a Sekiro boss that by accident stumbled into Elden Ring, this combat was so obscenely tough that it spawned a complete style of pot-wearing heroes. Nicely, now you possibly can combat her in D&D.
This stat block was created by Dan Dillon (thanks, Dicebreaker) a former designer for D&D who was caught within the historic wave of Hasbro layoffs late final yr. Earlier than that, he was cooking up monsters, encounters, and adventures with the corporate for 4 years—so this is not some flimsy homebrew that cracks beneath inspection. The person’s resume speaks for itself.
“A little bit one thing I have been tinkering for enjoyable,” he writes on Twitter, as if he is forgotten of the horrors of the Waterfowl Dance, earlier than introducing a “Stat block for a two-phase #dnd combat utilizing the Mythic monster framework.”
The Mythic Monster framework was launched in 2020’s Mythic Odysseys of Theros. To simplify it, a mythic monster is a monster that has a second section when it drops to zero hit factors. As soon as that occurs, it good points an entire new host of talents—as anybody who remembers Malenia’s second kind is probably going realising, it is an ideal match.
The stat block itself is totally brutal. Malenia is, appropriately, a CR 21 monster (that means she’s a problem for a celebration of 4 max-level gamers). She has 5 legendary resistances, whereas numerous D&D monsters solely include three—and so they reset as soon as she enters her second section.
She has an area-of-effect rot aura that completely curses enemies with the Poisoned situation, dealing harm firstly of their turns. And—sure, she has the Waterfowl Dance, a recharging skill she will use alongside two different complete horrifying assaults on her turns.
This model even has that damned seize assault, triggered when you miss her—and whereas she would not impale you in a lot the identical method, she does knock you inclined, which is able to give her benefit on her subsequent three assaults in opposition to you if you do not get again in your toes earlier than her flip swings round. Savage.
Simply to do some fast back-of-the-napkin maths: assuming she’s received you all in vary of her assaults throughout her first section, and every part she will use is accessible to her, this model of Melania can deal a whopping whole of 257 mixed harm on common to a celebration of 4 on her flip. And that is not even factoring in her rot aura or her legendary actions. So if you wish to get good and beat her, it is an ideal thought to not group up.