The Flail is a Flail available in Elden Ring. Read on for the Flail's stats, upgrade info, how to use Flail, and its location.

Flail Overview

Flail Basic Profile

Flail	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Flails Attack Type: Strike Skill: Spinning Chain Weight: 5.0
Description
Weapon Consisting of a bludgeoning head attached to a handle by a chain. The iron ball is spiked and induced blood loss. Blows from this weapon cannot be parried. The charge attack whirls the iron ball around for increased force before striking.

Basic Stats

PHYS ATK	109	PHYS DEF	36.0
MAG ATK	0	MAG DEF	24.0
FIRE ATK	0	FIRE DEF	24.0
LGHT ATK	0	LGHT DEF	24.0
HOLY ATK	0	HOLY DEF	24.0
CRIT ATK	100	GUARD BOOST	20.0
INCANT SCALING	-	RANGE	-
SORCERY SCALING	-	-	-

Passive Effects

Passive Effect 1	Causes blood loss buildup (50)

Attribute Scaling

STR	DEX	INT	FAI	ARC
D	D	-	-	-

Required Stats

STR	DEX	INT	FAI	ARC
10	18	0	0	0

Flail Location

Looted from a Carriage at Gatefront Ruins

Flail	Map

This weapon can be looted from a chest on the back of a parked carriage at Gatefront Ruins in Limgrave to the west of the Agheel Lake North Site of Grace. A few soldiers will be guarding the chest.

Gatefront Ruins Location and What to Do

How to Use Flail

Scales with Dexterity and Strength

The Flail scales higher with Dexterity than so focus on leveling it over Strength to increase its stat scaling Bonus. The Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom can further increase the damage of your attacks by raising your Dexterity.

Additionally, you can change the affinity of the weapon by using different whetblades to improve the default scaling of this weapon to better scale with your stats.

All Whetblades Locations

Has a Blood Loss Passive

Flail's normal and strong attacks are slower than most Dexterity-based weapons but cannot be parried. It can easily stagger enemies and won't easily bounce off shields or certain enemies like the Miners found in mining caves. The physical attack of this weapon also causes blood loss buildup and once the meter is filled it will inflict Hemorrhage. Enemies affected by this status effect will take a large amount of damage relative to their Max HP.

The talisman Lord of Blood's Exultation and headwear White Mask will both increase the damage of your physical attacks when Hemorrhage is applied in the vicinity.

List of All Status Effects and How to Cure

Infusable with Ashes of War

This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and has Spinning Chain as its default weapon skill. When activated spins the striking part of the weapon to attack, it will deal constant damage while spinning. This skill can be followed up or chained with either a normal or strong attack.

Since this skill allows you to land successive attacks, the talisman Winged Sword Insignia can increase your damage output.

Best Ashes of War

Flail Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Level	PHYS. DMG	SEC. DMG	STR	DEX	INT	FAI	ARC
+0	109	0	D	D	-	-	-
+25	267	0	D	C	-	-	-

Max Upgrade Level in Each Affinity

Scaling is ordered as (from left to right) STR, DEX, INT, FAI, and ARC. Additionally, passive Effect numbers are affected by your stats.

Affinity	Phys. DMG	Sec. DMG	Scaling	Passive Effect
+25 Standard	267	0	D/C/-/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Heavy	244	0	B/-/-/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Keen	244	0	E/B/-/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Quality	213	0	B/B/-/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Magic	202	202	E/E/B/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Fire	176	176	C/E/-/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Flame Art	202	202	E/E/-/B/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Lightning	176	176	E/C/-/-/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Sacred	202	202	E/E/-/B/-	Blood Loss (50)
+25 Poison	223	0	D/C/-/-/D	Poison (97) Blood Loss (45)
+25 Blood	223	0	D/C/-/-/D	Blood Loss (83)
+25 Cold	187	149	D/C/C/-/-	Frost (105) Blood Loss (45)
+25 Occult	234	0	E/D/-/-/B	Blood Loss (47)

Elden Ring Related Guides

All Weapons List ## Weapon Guides

Best Weapons Tier List	Best DLC Weapons
DLC Weapons	All Weapon Locations
What Weapons to Get First	Best DLC Strength Weapons
DLC Bleed Weapons	DLC Unique Weapons
How to Upgrade Weapons	Weapon Stat Scaling Explained

## List of Weapons by Stat Scaling

Strength		Dexterity		Intelligence
Faith			Arcane

## List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike	Slash	Pierce
Magic	Fire	Holy	Lightning

## List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost	Scarlet Rot
Sleep	Poison	Madness

## List of Weapon Types

Melee Weapons
Axes	Claws
Colossal Swords	Colossal Weapons
Curved Greatswords	Curved Swords
Daggers	Fists
Flails	Greataxes
Greatswords	Great Hammers
Great Spears	Halberds
Hammers	Heavy Thrusting Swords
Katanas	Reapers
Spears	Straight Swords
Thrusting Swords	Torches
Twinblades	Whips
Spellcasting Weapons
Glintstone Staves	Sacred Seals
Ranged Weapons
Light Bows	Bows
Greatbows	Crossbows
Ballista
Shields
Small Shields	Medium Shields
Greatshields
DLC Weapons
Backhand Blades	Beast Claws
Great Katanas	Hand-to-Hand Weapons
Light Greatswords	Perfume Bottles
Throwing Blades	Thrusting Shields