Divine Beast Dancing Lion Location and Guide - Elden Ring Guide - IGN (2024)

Divine Beast Dancing Lion is the Main Boss of the Belurat, Tower Settlement Legacy Dungeon and the first main boss of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.

Check out our boss strategy below to learn how to beat this great foe:

Divine Beast Dancing Lion Boss Fight Strategy Guide

You can enlist Redmane Freyja for this battle using the summon sign outside the door. Summoning Freyja makes this fight much easier, but not free. She is incredibly helpful as a distraction, she is very tanky and will let you get in many free charge attacks. However, she is very bad at avoiding the second phase, and can eventually just get stunlocked and die.

Divine Beast Dancing Lion is a large beast type enemy with a wide variety of slam and tackle attacks that cover big range and deal big damage. As you might expect, the danger zone is his head and mouth, so you want to mostly attack from his side or hit him in the tail. You never really want to be directly under him though, because his body slam will catch you at that range.

For the most part, his attacks are nothing tricky. He lifts his head before lunging at you, lifts his body before slamming down. Avoid by dodging past them, the tricky part is that he likes to chain them together quickly before you can really react.

The best move we can hope for is his giant body slam, where he stands up on his back legs for a few moments before crashing down. Dodge toward as he hits the ground, then lay into him with some heavy attacks. A shield is a great option here for standing your ground while you wait for the right opening.

When the lion stands and clamps his teeth together he is about to charge at you and try to grab. This deals significant damage if you get caught, roll at the last second just before he is about to bite down on you to avoid it.

If you see the Lion stand and face his mouth down he is getting ready to spew dust into the area around him. This attack is very annoying and covers a lot of space. What you want to do is back away slightly and slowly strafe around. As the dust blast approaches you, dodge roll through it to avoid damage. This goes on for a few rotations, if you feel daring you can try to get some quick attacks in between dodging.

When he lifts into the air and twirls, he's about to do a three hit slam combo, then lift up and do the aforementioned dirt blast. This is his biggest attack in phase one, just try to block or run away from the attack fully. Once the dirt blast starts you can carefully make your way back in, dodge, then get some attacks off as he recovers.

At about 65% health the Lion will enter phase two, activating his elemental enhancements. The enhancement can be lightning, ice, or wind, and he switches between them every 15-30 seconds. This causes all of his attacks to gain elemental area effects you will need to dodge in addition to the usual hitboxes.

The lion always starts with lightning. This is the most threatening of the three. All of his attacks now cause lightning bolts to strike randomly around him. These are nearly impossible to predict, but they seem to appear slightly less behind him. These strikes make it nearly impossible to get attacks in, so I recommend just healing up and running away until he switches to a different form.

He also has a new attack, a long range lightning bolt. If he attempts to throw it, just dodge roll away at the moment of impact, then dodge roll again to avoid the resulting area damage.

Second is usually ice. This one is much better, his attacks cause a grounded ice attack to shoot out around him. You can avoid these by jumping or rolling away onto the non-icy sections of ground. Use more jump attacks to get off the ground, just be careful of Frostbite buildup.

The new attack is his frost slam, where he lifts his leg up high and stomps, causing ice to shoot in all directions. This is a great opening for us, you can avoid this by jumping as the stomp connects. Use the chance to get a free jump attack, plus a few more hits after.

Third form is wind. This seems to be the easiest one, so when you see it come out that is your signal to go all out and try to finish him off. There is still an AoE around him, but it isn't as strong or dangerous as the other two. Most of the wind blasts you will avoid naturally by dodging the physical portion of the attack.

He does have some new ranged attacks where he throws wind blasts at you, including a new super attack where he charges up a tornado and flings it at you. All are easy to dodge by simply running perpendicular to the blast.

At very low health the lion will start mixing all three elements. This can be overwhelming, but the strategies aren’t new. Stick to the plan, and avoid lightning!

Generally, staying a little ways away and watching his actions is always good. Wait for him to do a big slam or dash attack, then counter with an approaching jumping attack or charge attack before backing off. He seems very susceptible to stagger, you can probably get 2-3 off over the course of the fight. If you are a ranged character you have it a little easier here. He will still chase you relentlessly, but you do not have to get close up and deal with his various area strikes and slams.

If you are struggling with this boss, we highly recommend exploring more of the Shadow Realm and increasing your Scadutree Blessing. You do not need to defeat this boss to progress into the other nearby regions.

Divine Beast Dancing Lion Rewards

Defeating the Dancing Lion gets you 120,000 runes, the Remembrance of the Dancing Lion, and the Divine Beast Head helmet.

Wear this helmet and speak to the old woman in the storeroom to get the Watchful Spirit spell.

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