Elden Ring features a unique mechanic called “poise” that determines how well a character can resist flinching or being interrupted during an attack. Stagger weapons are those particularly effective at breaking an enemy’s poise, leaving them vulnerable to follow-up attacks. Here are my top 10 weapons that you can use to easilly stagger the enemy.
| 10 | Rotten Crystal Sword | Rotten Crystal Sword is a Straight Sword that scale primarily with strength, dexterity and intelligence. It can inflict Scarlet Rot buildup, combined with spinning slash skill to easily staggers enemies, makes it a viable choice for Strength builds focused on applying Scarlet Rot effect to the enemy. |
| 9 | Onyx Lord’s Greatsword | Onyx Lord’s Greatsword is a Curved Greatsword that scale primarily with Intelligence, Dexterity and Strength. This weapon has weapon skill called Onyx Lord’s Repulsion, with this skill you can Thrust your weapon into the ground to create a gravity well. Apart from causing 24 of poise damage, this attack can also push enemies away. |
| 8 | Eleonora’s Poleblade | Eleonora’s Poleblade is a twinblade that scale primarily with strength, Dexterity, and Arcane. This is one of the top tier weapons in elden ring, it’s flurry of tornado-like attacks can rapidly inject Bleed Build up and stagger the enemy, make this weapon a great choice for arcane build to melt malenia in a minute. |
| 7 | Regalia of Eochaid | Regalia of Eochaid is a Straight Sword that scale primarily with strength, Dexterity and Arcane. What i like the most about this weapon beside it’s fast attack is the coolest corkscrew attack, really good weapon for dexterity and arcane build that you can get very early in the game. |
| 6 | Death Ritual Spear | Death Ritual Spear is a Spear that scale primarily with Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence. What i like the most about this weapon is The Spearcall Ritual skill that can hit multiple enemy from a distance, a powerful weapon for Intelligence and Dexterity build to staggering huge enemies. |
| 5 | Miséricorde | Miséricorde is a dagger that scale primarily with Strength and Dexterity, the critical damage of this weapon is outrageous. combined with Glintblade Phalanx Ash of War to easily break enemy poise, makes this weapon the best choice for a crit-focused build. |
| 4 | Greatsword – Lion Claw Ash of war | Greatsword is a Colossal Sword that scale primarily with strength and dexterity. what i like the most about this weapon is the chunkiness and Good Guard boosting in it, combine with Lion’s Claw ash of war, i can perform devastating leaping attack to break enemy stance make this weapon one of my favourite weapon for strength build in the game. |
| 3 | Bloody Helice | Bloody Helice is a Heavy Thrusting Sword that scale primarily with strength, dexterity and arcane. This weapon has weapon skill called Dynast’s Finesse, with this skill you can performs a swift spin, dodging incoming attacks while creating some distance from the enemy. then you can unleashes a two-hit counterattack by pressing the charge attack button. |
| 2 | Moonveil | Moonveil is a katana that scale primarily with Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence. This is one of the best katana in the game. It fast, and has Bleed Build up effect by default. Phenomenal weapon for intelegence and dexterity build to deal significant poise damage to easily Stagger the enemy. |
| 1 | Troll’s Hammer | Troll’s Hammer has weapon skill called Troll’s Roar, with this skill you lets out a powerful roar: The roar generates a shockwave that knocks back surrounding enemies, you can also performing a followup slam attack by pressing the charge attack button. |
