Iron Ball Stats, Upgrades, and How to Get

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

Iron Ball Overview

Iron Ball Basic Profile

Iron Ball	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Fists Attack Type: Strike Skill: Braggart's Roar Weight: 101.0
Description
Iron manifer of spherical shape. Big Boggart the blackguard's weapon of choice. Not a weapon to be taken lightly, as its weighty blows shatter bones with ease.

Basic Stats

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

Iron Ball Location

Defeat Blackguard Big Boggart

You can obtain this weapon by defeating Blackguard Big Boggart. He can originally be encountered at Boilprawn Shack in Liurnia of the Lakes, but later moves to Leyndell, Royal Capital.

Blackguard Big Boggart (Boilprawn Man) Questline and Location

How to Use Iron Ball

Scales with Strength and Dexterity

The Iron Ball scales with Strength and Dexterity and has the highest scaling bonus with the Strength attribute. This means leveling up this stat will have the most increase in the weapon's physical attack damage.

It does not scale well with Dexterity but can be improved by changing the weapon's affinity with whetblades. This allows the armament to scale better with your other attributes and gives you the freedom to customize it to fit your build or playstyle.

Best Ashes of War

Fast Hitting Weapon

This weapon has the default move set for Fist type weapons which include fast normal attacks capable of easily stun locking enemies and bludgeoning strong attacks that can break an enemy's poise.

It deals a good amount of damage and can easily apply status effects such as Hemorrhage, Frost, and Poison are recommended affinities for an additional damage source.

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 the weapon skill Braggart's Roar by default. When this skill is activated it performs a shout that boosts your attack power, stamina recovery, and defense.

The skill takes a bit of time to cast and draws attention with the shout, using it far away from enemies is ideal if you do not want them aggroed on you.

Iron Ball Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

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.

Elden Ring Related Guides

All Weapons List

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Stat Scaling

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