[Dark Souls II] How To Beat Lud & Zallen, the King's Pets

Описание: This battle took place during NG++

Well this battle looks familiar doesn't it? Since FromSoftware recycled these guys, I'm going to recycle some of my strategy text from my Aava video! That being said, these two are obviously more challenging.

When you first enter the battle, Lud will be ready to greet you, and is an exact clone of Aava, minus the crystallized appearance as well as the jumping bite move. When you get Lud to around 33% health, Zallen will enter the arena, and he actually has the jumping bite move in his move set.

When Zallen enters, try to dispatch of Lud as quickly as you can. Usually, Zallen's first attack will be the crystal homing attack, which gives you about 10-15 seconds from the appearance of its health bar to dispatch of Lud. Trying to fight these two at the same time is extremely difficult so try your best to get rid of Lud. If you can't, you can try running around the perimeter of the arena until Zallen initiates the homing crystal attack, which would give you the opportunity to finish off Lud, but this strategy isn't reliable because they have long reaching attacks.

When Zallen gets to 33% health, it will begin regenerating its health. There's not much you can do about this except continue putting pressure on it, attacking when it's safe to do so. It will eventually stop regenerating health for good.

Lud and Zallen have most of these moves at their disposal:

Direct claw attack - it will usually do this attack when you're standing in front of it. The best way to successfully dodge this is to make sure you are standing about 5 or so steps in front of it so that you're not too far to roll to its side yet you're not too close that you're touching it. If it charges its left paw, roll towards its left side, if its right paw charges, roll towards its right. It will occasionally do a second swipe right after the first, so be prepared for that by either rolling once again or simply strafing away.

180 degree claw attack - It will usually do this attack if you are on one of its sides or back. The best way to avoid this attack is to roll towards the paw that is doing the attack. In other words, roll in the opposite direction of the direction its attack is headed towards.

Jumping claw attack - It will usually do this attack if you are at a distance away in front of it. This can be easily avoided by simply rolling towards it to the right or left.

Jumping bite attack (Zallen only) - Similar to the move above except that if it hits you, the tiger will chomp you with its mouth and slam you down on the ground. It does quite a bit of damage but can be avoided easily by simply rolling away in time.

Homing crystal attack - This is a magic attack, similar to Homing Crystal Soul Mass, where it will summon a few magic projectiles that home in on you. This is really easy to detect as well as avoid. Simply run to the left or right and they will all miss you.

AOE ice pillar attack - When you're at close range, It'll charge its paw and slam into the ground summoning multiple ice pillars from the ground. Simply stay away from it during this attack to avoid it.

AOE blast - Another close range attack. This one is a little hard to detect, as there's no immediate visual cue. The tiger's stance will change slightly; it will spread its legs further apart and get closer to the ground. When this happens, RUN AWAY! This attack does a considerable amount of damage.

Killing this duo nets you:
-Soul of Lud, the King's Pet
-Soul of Zallen, the King's Pet, and
-56,000 souls