How to Beat Mimic Tear: Boss Fight Guide

This is a guide on how to beat Mimic Tear, an optional boss in Elden Ring. Read on to learn more about Mimic Tear's drops, weaknesses, and recommended level!

Mimic Tear General Info

Stats and Rewards

Mimic Tear
Weakness	Resistance	Immune
━	━	━
Affected By	Poison, Scarlet Rot, Bleed, Frost, Sleep, Instant Death
Spirit Ashes Available?	Yes
Rune Rewards	10000 (NG)
Summonable NPCs	None
Location	• Nokron, Eternal City, Siofra River
Item Drops	• Larval Tear x 2 • Silver Tear Mask

Mimic Tear Copies Your Character's Stats

The Mimic Tear will copy your character's stats, including the resistances and weaknesses of your currently equipped armor.

Mimic Tear Location

Where to Find Mimic Tear

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The Mimic Tear is encountered as a boss in Nokron, Eternal City. You can access this area by entering the Starfall Crater in Eastern Limgrave which appears after defeating Starscourge Radahn.

When to Fight Mimic Tear

You can fight the Mimic Tear as the boss of Nokron, Eternal City which is only accessible after defeating Starscourge Radhan.

Fight at Level 70+

While the Mimic Tear is not a particularly tough boss, access to the area requires defeating Starscourge Radhan, who is one of the tougher early bosses in the game.

Level your character to at least Level 70 and you can easily defeat the Mimic Tear.

How to Beat Mimic Tear

Tips for Beating Wormface
Unequip Your Weapons and Armor
Trick the Mimic Tear Using Harmful Weapons
Use Weapons and Spells that Inflict Deathblight

Unequip Your Weapons and Armor

The easiest way to defeat the Mimic Tear is by unequipping your weapons, armor, and talismans before entering the boss arena. The Mimic Tear will then copy your character, forcing it to spawn naked without any weapons and armor and resort to attacking you with weak punches and throwing glass shards.

You can then simply requip your armor, weapons, and talismans and overpower the Mimic Tear.

Trick the Mimic Tear Using Harmful Weapons

Another way to defeat the Mimic Tear is by equipping a weapon that inflicts self damage to the user. The easiest way to do this is by equipping a Katana with the Sepukku Ash of War skill.

Once the Mimic Tear copies you, it will periodically use the Seppuku skill. You can then simply avoid its attacks and wait for it to kill itself with the weapon skill.

Use Weapons and Spells that Inflict Deathblight

The Mimic Tear is one of the few bosses in the game that is susceptible to the Death Blight status, which normally only affects players and certain human enemies.

The Eclipse Shotel's Death Flare skill inflicts this status along with the Fia's Mist sorcery and Death Lightning incantation. As the Mimic Tear has no way to mitigate this status effect, it will instantly die once the status procs.

Elden Ring Related Guides

List of All Bosses

DLC Bosses

Main Bosses

Optional Bosses

Mini-Bosses

Hostile NPCs and Invaders