Ancient Dragon Senessax is a boss in the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. See Ancient Dragon Senessax's location, stats and drops, and how to beat Ancient Dragon Senessax here.
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World View | Map Location |
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Ancient Dragon Senessax can be found sleeping in a cavern southeast of the Foot of the Jagged Peak site of grace. You will have to ride past two drakes and jump two Spiritsprings to find the way to its spot.
Ancient Dragon Senessax Details | |
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Runes | 200000 |
Drops | |
Spirit Summons? | Spirit Ashes Allowed |
Gold Summons? |
None
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Tips for Beating Ancient Dragon Senessax |
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Ancient Dragon Senessax can be an annoying opponent to fight due to his AoE attacks, hitbox, and reposition capabilities.
Don't be afraid to use Spirit Ashes or your Mimic Tear to make the fight more fair, so that you can either stay up close on Senessax's flank or poke him from a safe distance.
Senessax deals heavy damage through a variety of fire and lighting-based attacks, but his lightning attacks are especially deadly because you are forced to fight him in a wet arena, where the water amplifies his lightning damage.
Equip talismans like the Boltdrake Talisman +3 and Pearldrake Talisman +3, and consume items like Lightningproof Dried Livers to reduce the lightning damage you take from Senessax's attacks.
How to Get Boltdrake Talisman +3
To speed up the fight and leave less room for error, coat your weapons in Dragonwound Grease to get bonus damage against dragons, including Senessax.
Alternatively you can equip weapons like the Dragon Greatclaw or the DLC-exclusive Dragon-Hunter's Great Katana, which have attacks or skills that are designated as effective against dragon-type enemies.
Get the Dragon-Hunter's Great Katana
Several of Senessax's attacks involve residual lightning the pulse out or explode after the initial thrusts or hit. Prepare to dodge or jump multiple times in a row to avoid or reduce the damage you take.
Senessax's opener when you first wake him up, and a move he can repeat throughout the fight, is a roar followed by random lightning strikes throughout the arena that are skewed to target your position.
Aside from rolling, an easy way to avoid them is to ride Torrent. On horseback, you can outrun the lightning or simply jump over them.
At close range, Senessax's most-used attack will be a triple claw swipe combo with delayed lightning explosions.
Make sure to roll through, or move away from, both his claws and the lightning explosions that follow. The lightning can hit you even if you are behind his claws, so do not be too greedy.
Senessax has a single and double-spear version of this melee attack, where he charges lightning spears and plunges them into the ground to send out a pulse of lightning on the ground.
Simply delay your roll to when he actually plunges the bolt into the ground. If you're far enough, you can also just jump the outward lightning pulse that happens upon each plunge.
The attacks that leave Senessax the most vulnerable tend to be his firebreathing attacks because he takes a long time to recover from his animation. Take advantage of this by avoiding these attacks and punishing him right away.
When you are under Senessax for too long, he will breath fire directly under him in a small AoE to zone you out. However, this is his biggest opening, as you can just run to his tail and hit it while the attack is ongoing for free damage.
At range or when repositioning, Senessax will breath fire at you either from afar or while flying backwards. In both cases, rolling sideways until you're out of reach of the flames is enough, then you can push forward right away to get some hits on his head.
There are several periods where rather than being overly aggressive, Senessax will just slowly walk towards you as he prepares his next attack sequences.
Spellcasters can take advantage of this, and his other close-range attacks, by simply hitting him with spells like Great Glinstone Shard to whittle him down.
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