Elden Ring: The Best Colossal Weapons, Ranked

Highlights

• Wielding colossal weapons requires patience and skill due to their slow speed and back-loaded payoff.
• Players must invest in Strength and Endurance for heavy builds using colossal weapons in Elden Ring.
• Colossal weapons like the Troll’s Golden Sword offer unique skills for crowd control and efficient enemy staggering.

Colossal weapons or ultra-great weapons have always been a staple of Souls games. Elden Ring is no exception and, with its towering enemies and oversized uppity demigods, some of these ultra-weapons are almost necessary to keep these Elden gods’ egos in check. Wielding these colossal weapons, however, is no simple or easy feat.

For one, they’re the slowest weapons in Elden Ring. Their payoff is also back-loaded, assuming the blow does connect. That’s why many Tarnished have laid their ambitions to rest and just opted for bleed katanas or overpowered magic. Those who have stuck with colossal weapons and gritted through their fights deserve not just applause, but also the best, such as those following big boy bonkers.

Updated on August 19, 2024, by Nahda Nabiilah: Colossal weapons are one of the many types of weapons players can find in Elden Ring. Thanks to the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, there are some interesting new additions to the Colossal Weapons category. As usual, some of these requirements can be picked from the ground while exploring the Land of Shadow, whereas others require defeating a boss or two to get the weapon.

21 Troll’s Golden Sword

Used To Be Wielded By Lesser Giants

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D
• Location: East of Lux Ruins inside a chest

The Troll’s Golden Sword possesses the best Skill for removing a large crowd of enemies in one single hit. The Troll’s Roar allows players to unleash a powerful roar, pushing back everyone nearby, and can be paired up with a follow-up attack.

Other than the mentioned Skill, leveling up the Troll’s Golden Sword will only increase the Strength from D to an acceptable C. However, thanks to the continuous patch updates from Elden Ring, Troll’s Golden Sword rolling/crouching attacks and the Troll’s Roar Skill attack have increased.

20 Watchdog’s Greatsword

Easily Stagger Enemies

• Initial Scaling: Strength – C, Dexterity – E
• Location: Dropped from Watchdogs enemies found in Mountaintops of the Giants

Unlike most weapons, where players can obtain them via exploring a hidden area or defeating a boss in Elden Ring, the Watchdog’s Greatsword needs to be farmed by defeating the Lesser Watchdog enemies in the snowy region.

Wielding the colossal weapon rewards players with a common Skill that’s great for staggering enemies, especially those on the larger side. As for scaling, upgrading the Watchdog’s Greatsword won’t change the Dexterity scaling but will transform the Strength’s C into a decent B at +3.

19 Troll Knight’s Sword

Unleash An Intense Roar

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D, Intelligence – D
• Location: Dropped from the Troll Knight in Caria Manor, Liurnia of the Lakes

The Troll Knight’s Sword is eerily similar to the Troll’s Golden Sword in Edlen Ring. Both possess the same Skill, Troll’s Roar, and both scale with Strength and Dexterity. However, there are some noticeable differences, like how the Troll Knight’s Sword requires an additional stat, which is Intelligence, and the fact that both Strength and Dexterity become C.

Tarnished need to have the minimum requirement of 20 Strength, 14 Dexterity, and 18 Intelligence to be able to wield the Troll Knight’s Sword. By leveling up the required stats and upgrading the weapon using Somber Smithing Stones in Elden Ring, players will certainly enjoy wielding the Troll Knight’s Sword.

18 Staff Of The Avatar

Ground Slam Enemies

• Initial Scaling: Strength – C, Dexterity – E, Faith – D
• Location: Dropped from the Erdtree Avatar in Deeproot Depths

Other than the fact that Staff of the Avatar will deal heavy damage upon making contact with the target, its unique Skill will surely clear any horde of enemies. The Erdtree Slam is arguably one of the best ground slams in Elden Ring, as it allows players to jump high in the air and crash down heavily on the ground, releasing golden shockwaves that deal holy damage.

Although the Staff of the Avatar can easily help players navigate through bosses and enemies alike with ease, its ground slam becomes quite useless towards the end-game, since most bosses are particularly immune to holy damage. Therefore, Tarnished will have to rely on the staff’s physical damage and hope for the best.

17 Gazing Finger

Fight With The Head of Metyr, Mother Of Fingers

• Initial Scaling: Strength – C, Intelligence – D, Faith – E
• Location: Purchased from Enia upon receiving the Remembrance of the Mother of Fingers at Roundtable Hold

Although there is a 20 Intelligence requirement, the Gazing Finger will scale with only Strength (20), Dexterity (8), and Faith (14) upon leveling up. The initial scaling of INT stays D, while Strength and Faith become B and E respectively. The stats are not impossible to achieve, meaning everyone can wield the Gazing Finger if desired.

Upon completing the Cathedral of Manus quest in Elden Ring SOTE, players must head to the final ruins and fight Metyr, Mother of Fingers to get the Remembrance. The Skill equipped with the colossal weapon, Kowtower’s Resentment, allows the user to charge the weapon and bow down to smash it to the ground, causing decent damage, and lifting it sends a shockwave towards unsuspecting enemies.

16 Envoy’s Greathorn

Terrify Enemies With Bubbles

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D, Faith – D
• Location: Dropped by farming the Giant Oracle Envoy in Miquella’s Haligtree

The Envoy’s Greathorn is definitely one of the rarest weapons players will come across in Elden Ring. At 100 Discovery, the chance of getting the weapon from the Giant Oracle Envoy is only 2%. It possesses a unique Skill, the Great Oracular Bubble, which sends one giant bubble toward the enemy upon blowing into the Greathorn. Blowing the bubble toward an unsuspecting group of enemies will also take out most of them, since the bubble explodes upon contact. Moreover, the bubble will deal holy damage that can be increased by wearing the Envoy Crown.

It’s not a secret that defeating enemies and killing bosses with bubbles is a fun and unique build to play in Elden Ring. However, while the Envoy’s Greathorn does good damage, upgrading the weapon won’t increase the stats scaling by much, which means it will always deal somewhat decent damage.

15 Axe Of Godfrey

The First Elden Lord’s Weapon

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D
• Location: Purchased from Enia upon receiving the Remembrance of Hoarah Loux at Roundtable Hold

Defeating Godfrey, First Elden Lord, players will be able to wield his weapon, the Axe of Godfrey. Although the colossal weapon primarily scales with Strength and Dexterity, the latter doesn’t improve upon leveling up the Axe.

The Axe of Godfrey has a unique Skill called Regal Roar that boosts Tarnished’s overall damage and sends a huge shockwave that cannot be guarded. The Skill is very useful against a group of enemies but may cause hindrance against single targets, making it a bad choice for PvP. That’s because the war cry leaves players vulnerable, and any attack will cancel the move. Additionally, the Axe doesn’t have much range like other colossal weapons in Elden Ring since it’s required to be up and personal with the enemy to cause decent damage.

14 Giant-Crusher

Crush Anyone In Your Path

• Initial Scaling: Strength – C
• Location: Chest south of Outer Wall Phantom Tree site of grace in Altus Plateau

Giant-Crusheractually deals more damage at maximum upgrades and the same prefix when compared to the popular Greatsword. It’s just that it has a worse range and looks like a cinderblock attached to a pipe. However, if the damage is all that matters to a Strength-based build, then this excels better.

Now that the colossal weapon swing speed and recovery time are reduced, the Giant-Crusher is even more powerful. It was already good before the 1.04 patch, but now it’s a lot better. Paired with Ashes of War such as Lion’s Claw or Royal Knights Resolve, this will flatten any enemy into a pancake.

13 Fallingstar Beast Jaw

Stun Enemies With An Electrified Horn

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D, Intelligence – E
• Location: Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast in Mt. Gelmir

Locking horns with the Fallingstar Beast in Mt. Gelmir is one of the toughest challenges in Elden Ring in the game, but the reward is well worth it. That’s because the Fallingstar Beast Jaw might as well be a cheese tactic thanks to its weapon skill.

The weapon skill unleashes a gravity lightning bolt down a target, and it will stagger them, eventually poise-breaking them. This weapon skill can be spammed repeatedly and from a safe distance. Players can thus use it to deal with bosses that are easily stun-locked, such as a certain Blade of Miquella that has never known defeat.

12 Royal Greatsword

Obtained At The End Of Ranni’s Quest

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – E, Intelligence – D
• Location: Drops from Blaidd after players kill him

Before update 1.04, the Royal Greatsword was just a slower and generally worse version of the Darkmoon Greatsword. The scalings are also odd for a colossal weapon and a lot of people didn’t know what to do with it or just didn’t like it.

Now, thanks to the increased damage and decreased recovery time for colossal weapons, the Royal Greatsword is more than viable. The weapon skill’s damage has also been significantly improved and can deal massive damage while causing Frostbite. Players can also expect to see it more often in PvP.

11 Grafted Blade Greatsword

A Legendary Armament

• Initial Scaling: Strength – C, Dexterity – E
• Location: Leonine Misbegotten boss in Castle Morne at the Weeping Peninsula

The Grafted Blade Greatsword was just an embarrassing pile of swords glued together to resemble the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. But thanks to update 1.04, it’s now a weapon worthy of its appearance. The damage has gone stellar on this weapon.

It now hits about as hard as the Guts Greatsword with jump attacks that go as high as 1,200 points of damage. With the reduction in swing and recovery speed, it’s also now fun to use as the safety risks are lower. The weapon skill is also pretty much a mini version of Godrick’s Great Rune , which is always useful.

10 Zweihander

A Classic Choice

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D
• Location: Isolated Merchant in Weeping Peninsula

Souls veterans might as well call this one ol’ reliable by now, since it has carried many of them through several games. The Zweihander is back, and it’s as mean as ever, complete with wide, sweeping arcs for its normal attacks and tremendous overhead swings.

The weapon’s length helps a lot in keeping a safe distance, while its original weapon, art or Ashes of War allows players to poise through damage for an all-or-nothing attack. The scaling also helps a lot of players to keep secondary weapons on hand since this weapon favors Quality builds.

9 Greatsword

A Berserk-Inspired Weapon

• Scaling: Strength – C, Dexterity – E
• Location: In an immobile caravan in Dragonbarrow, Caelid

Then again, some players might prefer the slow and raging testosterone associated with a pure Strength weapon such as the Greatsword . Despite the name, it falls in the Colossal Weapon class. It’s also a homage to Guts’ Dragonslayer weapon from Berserk.

Like its primary inspiration, the Greatsword looks more like a raw heaping hunk of iron. Oh, it cleaves enemies, for sure, but due to its size, it can also act as a shield, since it blocks more than half of the enemies’ physical damage and half of everything else.

8 Ruins Greatsword

Requires A Whopping 50 Strength

• Scaling: Strength – B, Intelligence – D
• Location: Misbegotten Warrior & Crucible Knight boss fight in Redmane Castle Plaza, Caelid

The Ruins Greatsword is actually just a piece of rubble that fell from the sky but some awesome chad of a blacksmith thought to turn it into a weapon since it was hit by a meteorite. It somehow harnessed the said meteorite’s power. That’s well-reflected in the weapon’s Ashes of War.

Apart from physical damage, it also unleashes magical gravity attacks and these are included for free with every heavy or charged attack. Meanwhile, the weapon’s skill lets its wielder unleash a heap of otherworldly pain in a single direction and around them, making the weapon still viable against ranged enemies.

7 Devonia’s Hammer

One Of The Many Crucible Knights’ Weapons

• Initial Scaling: Strength – C, Dexterity – E, Faith – D
• Location: Defeat Devonia, Crucible Knight near the Ancient Ruins of Rauh

Devonia’s Hammer calls for 30 Strength, 13 Dexterity, and 19 Faith. Upon using the unique skill, Devonia’s Vortex, players will hold the hammer above their head and spin it quickly before bringing it down in a powerful attack.

The weapon requires Somber Smithing Stone to level up, and upon reaching the final upgrade, all the initial scaling changes. Strength becomes a decent B, while Dexterity and Faith become D and C, respectively.

6 Prelate’s Inferno Crozier

Smash Enemies To The Ground

• Scaling: Strength – C, Dexterity – E
• Location: From an enemy wielding it in Fort Laiedd near Seethewater Terminus, Altus Plateau

Want to consistently flip human-sized enemies like pancakes? Then the Prelate’s Inferno Crozier is the best weapon for that joyous endeavor. It’s a huge hammer that resembles Executioner Smough’s weapon in Dark Souls. The difference is that this one has fire included in the weapon skill.

The skill, or Ashes of War, is a charge attack that turns the whole hammer into a train, burning everything in its path until it reaches a target. Anyone that gets hit will be flipped and burned, turning them into a full meal to be chewed by the hammer’s wielder.

5 Shadow Sunflower Blossom

Headbutt Enemies To The Ground With An Oversize Flower

• Initial Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – E, Faith – D
• Location: Purchased from Enia upon receiving the Remembrance of the Shadow Sunflower at Roundtable Hold

Head to the deepest parts of the Church District in the Shadow Keep to find the Scadutree Base. There, you need to defeat the Scadutree Avatar to get the Remembrance of the Shadow Sunflower . Now, Tarnished can start using the Shadow Sunflower Blossom Colossal Weapon if they meet the requirements; 24 Strength, 8 Dexterity, 25 Faith.

When players use the special skill, Shadow Sunflower Headbutt, the Shadow Sunflower Blossom is raised up and then slammed to the ground, creating a shockwave as well as dealing massive damage. The weapon primarily scales with Strength, Dexterity, and Faith. Upgrading it fully will transform the Faith scaling from a D to a B.

4 Ghiza’s Wheel

The Infamous Pizza Cutter

• Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D
• Location: Inquisitor Ghiza in Volcano Manor, Altus Plateau

Straight out of Bloodborne is a colossal weapon that comes with one of Elden Ring‘s most devastating damage conditions: Bleed or Hemorrhage. Ghiza’s Wheel is practically a giant buzz saw blade attached to a pole; it can also otherwise be referred to as a pizza slicer, except the pizzas are demigods and other players. It’s also the same weapon used by those nightmarish Iron Virgin enemies.

In any case, Ghiza’s Wheel is a notoriously effective bleed weapon, since its weapon skill allows the wielder to peel the flesh of their targets with a continuous spinning of the weapon’s end.

3 Godslayer’s Greatsword

The Fastest Colossal Weapon

• Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – D, Faith – D
• Location: Chest behind Godskin Apostle boss in Divine Tower of Caelid

Despite the Colossal Weapon tag, the Godslayer Greatsword apparently has shorter animation delays compared to the other ultra-Greatsword weapons, making it automatically better since it still hits like a truck thanks to the Faith scaling. To that end, it’s also perfect for Paladin builds.

It also comes with an astonishing weapon skill called the Queen’s Black Flame, which allows the wielder to unleash some diagonal slashes imbued with black flames that significantly increase the weapon’s range. Any Strength/Dex-based pyromancers will have fun with Godslayer’s Greatsword .

2 Maliketh’s Black Blade

Wield The Power Of Destined Death

• Scaling: Strength – D, Dexterity – E, Faith – D
• Location: Remembrance of the Black Blade, which drops from the Maliketh boss fight

For an even better Strength/Faith weapon, look no further than Maliketh’s Black Blade which is a lovely reward for defeating Maliketh and trading his soul for this sword at the Roundtable Hold. One thing that gives it so much edge compared to the other colossal weapons is its weapon skill.

The Destined Death skill unleashes a flurry of strikes on an area that has incredible range and an obscene amount of poise damage. Some players even had an easy time with Malenia using this weapon as it allowed them to stun-lock that ridiculously powerful boss.