ELDEN RING - Isolated Merchant Shack (Caelid) Bell Bearing Hunter

This boss was giving me trouble, for any strength homeboys out there

[rhett]

This is probably the hardest variant of this boss and goddamn does he hit hard and have a massive hp bar.

[screeem]

This boss is damn brutal. It's like the moment you retreat or heal he is programmed to go fucking hard with the attacks. These attacks also have long range and can 1-2 shot you as well! I did eventually beat it though.

Things that helped me:
1. Passive damage increases: i had gear that increased damage of jumping attack and being full health.
2.Take advantage his spawn animation to land some free hits. With the buffs i used in no.1, i got his health to nearly half.
3. Dont heal on foot. You will get punished. get your ass on Torrent and heal at a safe distance. 3 fast rolls away and he will still manage to close the distance with his lightsaber throw. Once again, get on torrent if you gotta heal.
4. Stay close to him wait for him to do the shield smash. That feels like the only attack that leaves him vulnerable.

Another potential cheese strat (which i didnt succeed in pulling off lol): Theres a rock platform thingy on the ground. If you stand at a certain position behind this platform, and the boss comes walking towards you, he kinda got stuck at his end of the platform and kept doing short ranged attacks. Nearly killed him but eventually, he kinda got "dislodged" and i got 1 shotted at full health.

[titusalabat]

This is secretly one of the toughest bosses in the game. He surprises a lot of players especially very high level players who thinks they can just one shot everything including me lol. I think they should add more enemies like this where it makes players feel vulnerable again.

[mr.someone]

Your parrys were on point. Great stuff

[davidtsmith]

Brave to take on that bell bearing hunter head on boy. Well fought too. As everybody else says he's harder than most other mini-bosses or even big bosses in the game. I just couldn't beat him toe to toe. Had to end up cheesing him with poison from behind, rinsed and repeated.

[jonp]

Wow you can parry. Such engaging combat.

[Griefpluto]

The amount of hp this guy has is just absurd...

[LuminaryCursorem]

Whatever you do while fighting this asshole, don't let that grab get you.

[trippij]

Just found this boss and oh damn he hit hard 🤣

[viet]

Bruh I struggle with the caelid version the most because of the dogs and I kept messing up parry.

[anhvu]

I am level 151 first game now and he still beated me up. Guess i need to practice.

[SagarRai]

I have been trying to defeat him for 2 days now. He’s one shoting me. Any tips?

[saindst]

At level 275 this guy roasted me. Beat him on my third try using godslayers GS and bloody bull goat armor.

[newwave]

All these bosses are too lazy to run so be far away and use anything with the word "bleed" in description)
Easy win. Fighting at close range will be a way harder challenge.