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| Location | Undead Asylum | |
| Health * | NG: 825 | |
| NG+: 1,100 | ||
| Souls * | NG: 2,000 | |
| NG+: 10,000 | ||
| * Recorded in PATCH 1.5 |
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| Weakness: fire,bleed,slash,black knight weapons |
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Asylum Demon is the first Boss you face in Dark Souls. This boss is found in the Northern Undead Asylum and wields the Demon's Great Hammer. As a greater demon spawned from the Bed of Chaos, it is one of the few demons that survived the war against Gwyn's Silver Knights. At some point, this demon managed to escape the ruins of Lost Izalith and eventually took up residence in the Northern Undead Asylum, a place designed to keep the undead isolated from the rest of the world.
Asylum Demon Dark Souls Information
The large demon found during the tutorial in the Northern Undead Asylum. This boss is very similar to the Vanguard in Demon's Souls in both attack style and appearance in the story. After escaping from your cell and lighting the first bonfire, the next step is to open a large set of doors leading to another courtyard, surrounded by large vases.
If you stand in the doorway and look up, you will see the Asylum Demon waiting above the area at the far end. As you enter the room, he leaps down. You may either fight him then or escape via a gate that closes on crossing it, on the left side of the area. If you choose to evade, you will still have to face him a little later, but with the benefit of having more equipment.
During the second encounter, you will find yourself on a platform above him, giving you the opportunity to perform a powerful plunging attack to radically reduce his health and even the odds. Killing the asylum demon during the first encounter(not escaping through the door) will grant you the Demon's great hammer as discussed below, while killing him during the second encounter will not.
Asylum Demon Dark Souls Drops
- 2000 souls
- 1 Humanity
- Big Pilgrim's Key (Second encounter only. If slain during the first encounter, this key is instead obtained from Oscar of Astora).
- Demon's Great Hammer (only if killed during first encounter). Easy to obtain in New Game Plus.
Asylum Demon Dark Souls Trivia
- Asylum Demon is the conceptual heir of Vanguard Demon.
Dark Souls Asylum Demon Boss Guide & Strategies
Attacks
Hammer Drive:
The Hammer Drive is a pinpoint attack used by the Asylum Demon, when standing directly in front of him. While it is impossible to block, it has both poor range and tracking, so simply move out of the way when you see the Demon raise his hammer vertically.
Long Range Hammer:
The Long Range Hammer is used when the player is on the other side of the room OR is not within typical hit range, from the Asylum Demon; he raises his club above/behind his head and then launches a straight forward long range attack with his hammer, which has slight area of effect upon impact. This attack can track your movement somewhat so beware of dodging too early.
Ground Pound:
The Ground Pound move is used when the player is very close to, and/or in front of the Asylum Demon. It is characterized by the Demon flying up into the air momentarily then thrusting his weight and hammer down into the ground, either crushing the player or damaging them with area of effect shock-waves. The resulting damage varies, depending on how far the character is from the Demon but ranges a maximum of 10 feet, or roughly a little less than two character's heights. This attack will also track you, including when the Demon is in the air, so continue moving.
A variation of this attack involves the Demon flying up in the air, and then sweeping his hammer sideways from left to right while turning. This attack has good tracking and can easily knock a player down or into a wall. Rolling away from the attack at the beginning of the sweep is effective, but trying to circle past the Demon can result in a knockdown.
Platform Destruction (Only on Second Encounter):
If the player waits too long on the balcony overlooking the Asylum Demon, he will fly up into the air and perform an overhead smash destroying the platform. This can deal quite a bit of damage since the initial attack hurts a quite a bit; add that with the falling damage, and the lack of a plunging attack to even out the odds, and you're sure to find yourself in a bit of a pickle. When entering the fog again after fighting the boss and dying, or after resting at a bonfire, the balcony will be repaired.
Strategy
To receive the Demon's Great Hammer from the Asylum Demon, you must defeat him during your very first encounter, before proceeding through the gate on the left where most of your equipment is located. If you are unable to defeat him initially, don't worry—you can still obtain another Demon's Great Hammer later by trading a Sack to Snuggly the Crow after returning to the Asylum.
When you face the Asylum Demon for the second time, you'll start on a ledge above the boss arena. Begin the fight with a plunging attack to take off a large portion of his health. It's recommended to two-hand your weapon for maximum damage and perform a jumping attack as you fall, instead of simply pressing R1; this combines the jump attack damage with the plunge attack.
The fight itself isn't too difficult, as the Asylum Demon is slow and predictable. Stay close to him and circle around either to his right or left. Wait for him to begin an attack, then counter or continue circling around him. Try to position yourself behind his left leg—this way, when he turns around, he will push you along with him, allowing you to continuously attack without needing to dodge. If you have offensive spells or pyromancies, you can also choose to stand back and defeat him with ranged attacks, though you won't have access to a proper catalyst or pyromancy flame until after the first encounter.
Defeating the Asylum Demon during the first encounter in New Game (NG) can be challenging due to the lack of good equipment and Estus flasks, but it is possible with careful maneuvering or by selecting a smart starting gift. Although the Master Key is often recommended as a starting gift, choosing Black Firebombs will make it much easier to defeat the Asylum Demon during the first encounter and obtain his Demon's Great Hammer.
- Notably, Thief characters automatically begin the game with the Master Key in addition to their starting Gift, so starting the game as a Thief and choosing the Black Firebombs is an easy way to obtain both the Master Key and the Demon's Great Hammer very early in the game.
Defeating the Asylum Demon during your first encounter in New Game Plus and beyond is trivial, as you begin the new game with all your equipment and spells retained.
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This boss makes me horny everytime I see them. Those big juicy thighs and round exotic bum bouncing and jiggling. Sends shivers down my spine. For Gwyns sake, I need a an asylum demon maiden. I beg of you.
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People complain about delayed attacks in elden ring so much, yet this mf and the very first enemies you encounter in this game, aka hollow soldiers and skeletons, spam delayed attacks like crazy or either instantly jump at you across five meters. You can pretty easily say the same about first enemies in ds3, including Gundyr and Vordt. But they are easy. Yet elden ring bosses are no pushovers like that (at least if you don't get overleveled in Liurnia/Caelid before Margit), and instead of getting good all these gamers are crying about them being "unnatural" and "unfair" and other shіt. It's the same issue like with infamous ds2 hitboxes that are generally no different than in other games, arguably better than in ds1 at least. It's just that rolling is not as ridiculously overpowered like in ds3 without pumping adp, so you have to actually memorize attack patterns instead of spamming rolls and pray that you don't get hit which actually works in ds3.
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The entry boss in Dark Souls is more of a learning tool on how to fight bosses rather than an actual fight himself. He's got heavily telegraphed windups, and not a lot of health. Even further, if you picked firebombs as your gift, you can just chuck them for the win. Still even though this boss is a joke for veterans of the series, I'm sure many of us remember the first time we faced this monster, and got smashed by that great hammer again and again. I feel like this is a good time to point out the parallels to Demon's Souls bosses. Pinwheel was very much like the Fool's Idol, and the Asylum Demon is very similar to Vanguard, the tutorial boss in Demon's Souls.
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Allow me to add onto that. I don’t only want this behemoth to flatten me normally with its typical attack. I want it to stay there, sat down upon me, utterly consuming my entire human-raisin body, grinding, smothering, and moving its rumpcheeks, thighs, and hole aaaall over that pathetic body I bear. I want it to keep it up for so long that it begins to sweat, soaking my cloth armour in demonic ass-sweat while my body is wedged so deep into its asscrack I risk slipping inside. I want it to obliterate every bone in my body, to break my mind until I go hollow from sheer arousal, forgetting entirely about my original desire to vanquish it. I wish to know nothing but demonic assfat, those sweet jiggle physics, and to be absolutely drowned in demon sweat until the age of dark comes.
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God how badly I want them to flatten me under that great demonic rump with their buttcrush attack…
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Capra Demon is way smaller than this guy and Capra Demon is WAY harder.
Wow... O.O She's just like my highschool gf, not a very nice face and teeth but a godly load of juicy bouncy rear meat, yeah I kinda miss her, good times good times
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a little forgettable as a boss , you basically win if you pass behind him because he die so fast even for a first boss he is too easy , a good thing than they didn't even take the time to explain you the 4 direction dodge of the lock on before the fight to make it harder lol
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If my hollow ass with a sword hilt can easily beat this guy, then what the hell is Oscar's excuse for dying so hard to the first boss that his ass went hollow.
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They had no reason to give this big scary hulking demon such a goddamn insanely thicc juicy dumptruck of an ass.
How to skip this guy
1.kill him.
2.quit out as he is vanishing.
3.return to game.
4.He is alive so escape from door and get his key from oscar.
5.profit
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That fine was was the only thing keeping me from going hollow having to fist it 413 times
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Why don’t I do any damage to the boss!!! This is f***ing bulls***!!! Elden Ring is better!!!
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this is the last boss I have to fight, I left him for last because it's too hard
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If you're planning on getting the great hammer, don't wanna play thief, and still want that master key, the crack your knuckles, put on some nice tunes, and fist this f*cker to death
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Bro if you want to kill this guy first encounter set your gift to black fire bombs and when you get to him lock on and be-donk that twin cheek booty.
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"Man what are you doing out here with all this ass? Double cheeked on a Thursday afternoon, hella ass..."
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He is BY FAR the worst first boss i ever encountered!!! Way too hard even for Dark Souls (most bosses in this game are a breeze compared to this fu₵ker)!!! PLS NERF!!!!!!!!!
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I will never forget the shear terror I felt when I bought his game on PS3, AFTER HEARING EVERYTHING SAID ABOUT IT AND HOW DAMN HARD IT IS, walked through the door and had this fat **** drop from the sky with a boner for murder. So much terrified screaming
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I beat him twice (for the moment) with bare hand at very first encounter. It can be frustrating.
That feeling after you've done it... :)
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Fu₵k the people, claiming he is easy. My attacks do like 1-3 damage (from his 825 health) and i have no estus flakons!!!
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What a nice fellow I sure hope I don't need to fight him twice more but as a reskin with AOE spam
I just started Dark Souls,
So i'm a Little nooby,
But I know the golden rule,
Which is to smack that Booty.
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You know, I never quite understood, does this guy serve the Chaos flame, or the gods? We know the batwing demons act as guards and transports for Anor Londo, and the Sanctuary Guardian also seems a bit... holier than the Chaos demons, so why the hell is this dude bent on guarding an asylum for Undead? Demon Firesage is pretty obviously afflicted by Chaos, but not these two...
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Accidentally ran out the door not knowing it shuts on my first encounter first play through . Re rolling now, I had him half dead.. gimme that ass
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Don't mind me: I'm just his human butt plug after being crushed to death under that thicc ass.
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This has to be one of the worst bosses for the tutorial because you can’t dodge it’s slam attacks without taking partial damage from the shockwaves they cause. You’re sort of forced to learn positioning before dodge timing with this boss.
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This is the first boss of Dark Souls and the final boss of Phasmophobia.
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i came up with a loophole-get your starting equipment, go to the room with the first bonfire via the shortcut and enter the asylum demons room and then you can get the demon great hammer without choosing firebombs
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I´d like to know bosses' stats: HP, may be Lv, resistences, weaknesses, inmunitiies... etc. is there a place i can see theese?
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He was a great first boss for a great game (which I STILL have not beat. Call me casual is you want.) Don’t you dare go Hollow on me friends
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hardest boss in ds history, manus, o&s, nameless and all those other filthy casuls got nothin on this thicc boi
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Beat on the first try with the recovered equipment, I guess beating both DS2 and DS3 before trying DS Remastered helped a bit.
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This doesn't tell me who he was before he got devoured by the flame
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If you're dead set on getting the master key and punching this guy to death there's a safe spot directly under his tail. None of his attacks will hit you except of course when he hovers and drops on you but otherwise stay under the tail and press R1 for the next 45 minutes. Good Luck.
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DON'T FIGHT HIM. Escape through the door on the side. You can get your starting weapon, shield and Estus Flask on this path.
now let me tell you something.
start out as a knight, and two hand your broad sword.
also, take of your helm and shield because they're extra burden.
you'll kill him in less than 30 seconds, even from that plunge attack.
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Man this demon thicc af !! I feel kinda bad for killing him.
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NG+ it's very possible to one shot this boss if you follow the normal trail to the drop down section of undead asylum
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SHEET THIS IS INSANE. I JUST HAVE THIS BROKEN SWORD TO KILL HIM>?
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I'm still a noob at these hardcore games (however I'm not a filthy casual) so this is my first experience, AND HOT D*** THIS IS HARD
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Might be much easier. I was frustrated how hard it was first time (still a noob to the series) but after a bit of exploration I found the boss quite easy.
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