Gravelord Nito |
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| Tomb of Giants |
| NG: 4,317 |
| NG+: 7,076 |
| NG: 60,000 |
| NG+: 120,000 |
| * Recorded in PATCH 1.05 |
| weakness: fire |
Nito is a Boss in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered.
Nito Information
Holder of one of the four Lord Souls, Gravelord Nito was among the lords to wage war against the dragons. As the Lord of Death, Nito rules over the dead in The Catacombs and resides within the Tomb of Giants. His army of skeletons guard his tomb, while his Gravelord Servants spread death through the Eyes of Death.
You can join his covenant via a coffin next to the Titanite Demon, in The Catacombs. However, should you kill him - which you eventually have to do in order to progress with the main storyline - you will not break the covenant but will be unable to further level within it, until NG+.
Drops
Attacks
Allegiance to the Gravelord
More of a passive ability, Skeletons that appear in the area will side with Nito in trying to kill the player. However, Nito's attacks can damage them if they are hit. The same rules apply here with these bony enemies; kill them with a divine weapon to prevent them from reforming.
Gravelord's Gravelord Dance
Nito thrusts his sword into the dirt for one or more orange swords similar to those in the Gravelord Sword Miracle will burst out of the ground. This attack is preceded by a scream, which you can use as an alert and be ready to act appropriately. Unlike the apparent randomness of its Miracle counterpart, Nito's swords will target the player and any summons. With good timing, these can be dodged, however, viable strategies include to either roll continuously as soon as you hear the scream, until after the sword bursts, or to "count" the second before the sword bursts, and dodge right. If it hits, it will throw you into the air and fill a substantial amount of your Toxic Meter.
Death Wave
Nito sits and darkens, intensifying the aura around him, before exploding and sending a dark wave which will do damage to the player. It can be blocked for reduced damage but will stagger you and fill your toxin meter, at the very least. The upside to this is that any Skeletons roaming around Nito at the time of this attack will surely perish. You however, will not, as long as you run away from him when he starts charging; you should have at least 2 seconds before it goes off.
Toxic Sword
Nito's standard melee attacks with his sword are not very dangerous in terms of damage, however, has the ability to inflict Toxic with two hits. Painted guardian or Shadow sets are good for slowing the process. The Bloodshield can also add further resistance. Nito has two observed swings: a right-to-left close-in slash, and an leaning overhead chop. The overhead chop has an extremely long recovery time, even if it hits you (unlike most enemies, who will take longer to recover if they miss).
Grab Attack
Nito can also employ a rarely used, but highly damaging, grab attack. Staying to his sides or back is an easy way to avoid this. Alternatively, if you are grabbed, repeatedly tap L1/R1 in order to escape the grab entirely. Fortunately this attack has a huge tell: his hand will start glowing, so that should give you enough time to get away.
Strategy
It is highly recommended upon entry to this boss fight, you stay put and let them bring the fight to you; traversing too far in will result in attracting all the Skeletons that lurk in the corners of this area - of which include Giant Skeletons. Staying put will reduce the number of enemies you have to deal with, in addition to the boss. When the fight begins, stay put. Use a divine weapon to keep the Skeletons that come after you down. If you are not in possession of any, keep knocking them down until Nito arrives.
Make sure you equip either armor with high poise or the Wolf Ring, to prevent an interruption on your combos. Most of his basic attacks are easy to dodge. Strafe around him when he gets close and whack away. With the more complex moves, take the precautions and safety measures listed above, accordingly. Refrain from traversing deeper into this area during combat and stick to the entrance area.
After he uses his Death Wave attack, most of his Skeletons will be dead so take this opportunity to move in and do some damage. He also moves extremely slowly and is very susceptible to fire, so going in with an array of Pyromancy Fireball/Chaos Fireball spells will go a very long way.
If you have a divine weapon to dispatch Nito's minions, he becomes one of the game's most laughably easy bosses for a heavy melee build. You can easily strafe behind him for free hits, and all of his attacks except the Sword Dance and the Death Wave can be blocked, resulting in negligible damage.
Easy Ranged / Mage Strategy
Equip the Ring of Fog and the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring. Drop down into the boss arena, but do not move. When the cinematic is over, Nito will slowly approach you, while not aggravating any other Skeletons, leaving you to take him out with your bow or spells.
Tips & Notes
- Gravelord Nito's biggest weakness is fire, use this to your advantage.
- Nito is extremely slow and won't attack nearly as often if you aren't in full view. By keeping the central column of the cavern between you and Nito, you can take out the Skeletons and attack him with spells or arrows as he lumbers around the bend.
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Nito is definitely on Mohgsteins island, just look at him. (lets not forget all of the baby skeletons just above his boss arena too)
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lazy design making you lose half your health to fall damage and spawning in a bunch of reused enemies cause they couldn't figure out how to make the boss challenging on its own
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In the image section someone should put a photo of ravelord nito
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Everyone: Nooooo I took fall damage nooooo it’s so unfaaaaair nooooo
Me: Get Fall Control, you only need 10 intelligence. Not that hard.
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Best lord soul fight imo
Not that that’s a massive feat given what the others are like
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Losing half fp from fall damage and second later the other half from his spell, dying before the fight even begins.
Very nice boss fight design, Neato I'd say.
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The one time Nito managed to grab me, the game had a Bethesda moment and he somehow tossed me into the ceiling so I got stuck halfway out of the map. I thought I had to quit and reload but this ended up making the fight a cakewalk because I could still hit Nito with the Zweihander R2, while I was safe from his skelibuddies and the only attack that could hit me was his AoE explosion.
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The skellies are a proper pain for my int-only sorcery build. I wish magic would permakill. Cannot equip both stealth rings either as I'm committed to the FAP. Sad times.
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Broke: ugh, I hate necessary fall damage!
Woke: time to enter the B O N E Z O N E
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when you kill the skelly , this boss become one of the biggest joke of any from software game , in my fight he used only one attack ,many monster in this game were more interessing to fight
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Quite convenient that he damages the skellys, whooped his ass with a dose of chaos storm and a few swings of a regular weapon while he cleared the area for me. Getting swarmed and the timing on that goddamn sword coming out of the ground and inducing toxic are the real pain in this fight
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it's like capra demon but this time i have some poise and a divine weapon up my sleeves *laughs maniacally*
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Not hard, but you need some prep. Get 40str, 1400 hp, havel’s ring to get beefy, and then +14 that big BONK STICK you picked up a ways back and show him who’s daddi. Fk the first couple skellies if you need too, but avoid getting pushed back to the cluster near the end.
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I was being summoned for this guy with a Divine weapon, but the skeletons kept respawning when killed. Can't remember if I was the last one to hit them due to lag tho. Can only the host kill them permanently in coop or must the Divine weapon do the last hit?
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I always make sure to blast death metal while fighting this boss.
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It's the Capra demon all over again. Not too hard but the dam skeletons surround you and your stuck in a corner against the wall.
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How do i activate his bossfight? I found him and joined his covenant(i got a op sword.) And nothing happened.
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Can he be toxin/poisoned? Im confused as there is no stated immunity, but you know, hes the lord of death and disease and all that
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Just beat him. Initially had a very hard time against him because I was too passive. I found it not to be a good idea to wait for him to come by. Its better to run at him immediately and try staying close and spam attacks. Except for 1-2 situations depending on his attack.
Most imporantly: I just ignored the skeletons as he is constantly wiping them out himself anyway. So no bother fighting them, only avoiding/blocking/rolling if necessary.
First time I did this strategy I initially won. Maybe for those who still struggle.
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How do you people die to nito? You have divine weapon at this point and 1v1 and poise break all the skeletons then dodge a super slow sword swing
You literally just move the left analog stick up and press R1 until there are no skeletons then fight nito as you would a titanite demon in slow motion
I almost killed him but then killed myself to refight thinking the boss was bugged but no
99 resistance builds i guess
I have 30 vit no armor and 2handing a divine morning star +14 50 strength
I also used a hacked character at SL1 with a divine shortsword and did the same thing
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Reminded me of an Adrammelech esper fight in FFXII, with summoning skeletons and all. Only that was more challenging because I accidentally bumped into him not knowing anything. And with Nito, well, I also didn't know anything, but luckily I had my trusty +15 zwei on me. Never leave the house without it.
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Find something heavy that does fire damage and hope you can kill him before his goons rip you apart
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Havel the rock set and dragontooth +3, I just tank and beat this guy to a pulp. All hail Havel
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This just sucks. The fastest way to him is still HORRIBLE. Also the first ting Nito did to me RIGHT after the cut scene was slam his sword into me because somehow it seems he screamed during the cutscene x.x And following this guide here has just been...horrible. It should've pressured at the last bonfine to get a divine weapon if melee, cause I stood no chance with the skeletons swarming me. Gotta warp now, farm souls (UGH), upgrade a weapon to divine and improve it to fight with it, and then do that super annoying way again from the last bonfire to Nito. Just feels stupid.
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Cool boss—awful fight, seriously. bosses that spam other enemies (ONES THAT YOU CAN NOT KILL NORMALLY) is poor boss design, they don’t add anything special to the fight and make it more tedious and asinine. I’m fight the skeletons more than nitro who himself in not difficult. They’re just thrown in there with zero balancing.
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If you're already bringing pyromancies, iron flesh can go a ways to letting you tank some skeleton hits as you whittle down nito.
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All Ravelords born after 1993 don't know how to swing sword. All they know is sword dance, AOE attack, hide behind skellies, and DIE.
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F*** this f***er’s bulls*** sword dance!!! F*** you, Miyazaki!!!
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Best strategy that I found, killed Nito first try with this; Equip heavy armor to tank hits from the skeletons, use your best weapon (doesn't have to be Divine, Raw worked perfectly fine for me), Crest Shield will help block his magic AoE attack, use Green Blossoms & Charcoal Pine Resin if needed (didn't need personally, but it'd help.) Once geared up, enter the boss room and have him come to you. Best you can do for his ground attack is tank it (don't even try dodging it, waste of stamina.) When he gets close beat him to a pulp and he'll be double dead within a minute or so.
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I've seen some people say that's it's easier to just ignore the skeletons and go right for Nito. This is completely insane IMO. First attempt, I tried that and it was just such a frustrating pain in the ass. I Homeward'd out of there after 5 minutes of constantly getting hit from behind, from off screen or just getting stunlocked. It's just an absolute mess. Next attempt, I killed all the skellie's first and then Nito himself was an absolute cakewalk. Didn't hit me a single time. So, my advice: bring a divine weapon and take out the skeleton's asap. I had a Silver Knight Spear +5 (which is possibly the best weapon in the game btw) and it worked incredibly. Took out every skeleton in 1-2 hits. After that, just learn the timing for Gravelord Dance and be sure to run a ways away every time he kneels down and starts glowing dark. You shouldn't have much trouble.
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Nito would have won if he stopped using his **** weapon and picked up the PKCS instead
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Ignoring the skeletons and focusing on Nito worked better than trying to take them down with a divine weapon, at least for me.
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So, I followed the tip and use my illusory rings.
Jumped down, after cinematic immediately got caught by the toxic sword
Stayed there and returned it to him with a lot of bolts(the total is like 30 or less tho, my +15 crossbow is stronk af boi).
Nito-san doesn't seems like he is gonna come to me either, he just stood there, menacingly.
Sometimes he threw another scream with toxin sword again.
Plck, last bolt. Done. It was over in 1 minutes. I feel like I should have respected him more, but I don't wanna die so whatever. Bye~
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Am I misremembering that I thought there was an armor set in his boss arena?
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Ravelord Nito*
That’s his actual name. stop spreading misinformation
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Geez I feel so silly not knowing I could perma kill the Skellys with a divine weapon.
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I was scared coming into this fight tbh but I just hugged him and tanked his hits and death wave, since it kept killing all of his skellies lol (didnt have divine wep and went into this blind lol), kept hammering away with demon's greataxe+10.
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I get that Nito just woke up from his coffin, but if he was a bit faster with his attacks I think the fight would be more challenging. I still like the overall atmosphere during that fight.
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I had been doing my recent run with the sound off so as not to disturb my roommates. Figured I could pretend this character was deaf as headcanon. Then I got to Nito and was painfully reminded of the vital sound queue in his fight. Never so willingly ditched a headcanon in my life, haha
Poor Nito. Now everyone and their mother knows about using a divine weapon and staying away from the big skeletons, but back in the day, this was and can be the most chaotic and hellish of the Lord Soul fights and possibly in the game if you don't know that one simple trick. And believe it or not, folks, some people didn't.
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So the guy used his grab attack on me, and then he got clipped through the ceiling somwhow. I couldn't hit him anymore, is it a known bug?
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It's annoying that you necessarily take fall damage upon entering the arena.
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wait if nitos the first of the dead doesn't that make him every undeads father in some extent or god
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Well... this was disappointing. I expected a really hard fight, but Nito is a wimp apparently.
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dodge the toxic sword by the moment he plunges it into the ground as if you were dodging the sword itself, basing it off the scream will only mess up your timing; also, if you bring a light source into the fight, he'll spam that attack and other more annoying ones, so take the sunlight maggot off and you should be fine
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this boss deals a lot of damage to my framerate when i get too close to him
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Grass Crest shield,ring of steel protection,furysword +5 and...Iron flesh pyro spell....just stand there,swing and iron flesh when needed with occasional estus...skellies die pretty fast as well or use a +5 divine weapon.
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I did so much preparation for this boss..kindled last bonfire before him...even put ring of sacrafice because i had about 30k souls and 12 humanity on me.. thinking ok this first time i'll try him then gift my humanity to daughter of chaos and..fight him for real subsequent times...
When at the end i ran from those skeletons and when he is alone hit him a few times with my trusty Quelaag's Furysword..then run around again...dodging skeletons...just to get to him to hit him again... and killed him on first try.. o.O
Didnt expected that...usually i dont kill bosses on first try ( so far on first try i only killed Gargoyiles, Sif and Pinwheel )... cool boss but he as a boss is pretty easy.. the skeletons are the problem but can be dodged...
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i find it funny that we literally walk in expecting a epic reval only for nito to be sleeping in his coffin
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Dose anyone want there to be a mod were rave music plays when you fight nito
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where is nito in ds1 i enter the catacombs and get my ass kicked by his minions I want to kick his ass to return the favor for the endless skeleton deaths ive had
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I could wreck Nito with a +15 Lightning Halberd (roughly 400 damager per swing) if I didn't keep getting ganked by his skeletons
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Basically stand at the entrance until he comes to you and dodge his spell attack from the ground that you see coming when he screams. Then just beat him down from the front. His swings always missed for me when you're in his face. Run away when he does that explosion attack.
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No mention of hit Toxic spike attack that he will spam if you drop down fighting him with any sort of light source. As far as I know there is no way to avoid this attack.
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I like our gravelord. Others call him names, like "***lord Nito", but I think he's pretty Neat-o
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I think i just realized something stupid. Is Death wave suppose to be that move that nito does in the trailer? quote (and nito unleashed a miasma of death and disease.) Cause you can see the resemblance of stance in both he puts his weapon and hand up. I say it's stupid cause it shouldn't do physical dmg only poison and toxic. And if so just very little physical.
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Can be a real pain with the skeletons constantly attacking, so getting rid of them with a divine weapon really helps. As long as he doesn't spam his grave dance attack, he shouldn't be a big problem.
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nito gave me the biggest darksouls vibe check ive ever had, first time playing DS remastered, so the first time i dropped down to nito i instantly towards my estus to heal up from falldmg but 1 sec before i hit the button i heared screaming, ****ing gravelords dance oneshot me 3 sec into bossfight wtf.
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Nito: "The stuffy warmth of life has penetrated my grave. Rise up, my servants! Oh, while we are talking about penetration, watch what happens when I ram my sword into the ground ..."
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If you heard that scream in a horror movie scene it wouldn’t be nearly as scary as knowing what’s coming next in this fight
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Why is everyone trippin? The sword dance is easy to avoid. After he used it on me like twice my first playthrough he hasnt hit me with it since
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