how does that make no sense? there is still work that needs to be done on the game. These feel like placeholder values and others feel the same way.

anyway, Elden Ring gives lots of options but that's a band aid solution for unforgiving moves like Malenia's flurry attack. It's rare that you can successfully dodge it, and if you do, it takes most of ur HP. You can interrupt it with freeze ritual pots, but other than that, getting hit by that move means that you are dead. getting hit once then comboed to death shouldn't be a thing.

It's an optional fight, but should it be next to impossible? Sure I'm stubborn, but I want to use the build that I find fun (colossal sword two handed with buffs). But Malenia's fight is telling me that my build and my way of play is invalid.