Godrick the Grafted

One of the Great Rune keeper——the lord of  Stormveil Castle. A once feeble demigod has gained strength through Grafting.

Location:  Stormveil Castle

Drops: 20,000 runes, Godrick's Great Rune, Remembrance of the Grafted

Combat Information: 

Health: 6,080 HP

Defense: 105

Stance: 105

Parry able: No

Is vulnerable to a critical hit after being stance broken

Has increased defense during phase transition

His Stormcaller attack deflects throwable items like arrows and pots.

Damage: Standard, Fire

Drops: 20,000 runes, Godrick's Great Rune, Remembrance of the Grafted

Damage Negation / Resistance:

Standard: 0

Slash: 0

Strike: 0

Pierce: 0

Magic: 20

Fire: 20

Lightning: 20

Holy: 40

The negation numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if a negation is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% will be negated. Bigger number = less damage. A negation of 100 means no damage goes through, and a negation of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.

Poison: 318 / 416 / 706 / 1163

Scarlet Rot: 318 / 416 / 706 / 1163

Blood Loss: 318 / 416 / 706 / 1163

Frostbite: 318 / 416 / 706 / 1163

Sleep: 318 / 416 / 706 / 1163

Madness: Immune

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of the given buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs. The values after the "/"s indicate the increased resistances after each successive proc.

Fight Strategy:

Godrick has a ton of health and hits hard. He also has 2 phases. In his first phase he uses mostly melee attacks and some ranged whirlwinds. After half his health is depleted he will get a fire-breathing dragon-arm and uses a lot more fire/AOE/ranged attacks. Before you begin, summon the NPC helper in front of the boss gate (yellow glow on the floor to the right of the mist gate). He will draw the boss to him. A good Ash for this fight is the Noble Sorcerer Ashes but this is optional. This fight is far easier playing with a magic build (Astrologer). My build was Level 24 / 29 Intelligence / 18 Mind. Use the Astrologer’s starting spell “Glintstone Pebble”. You should also have 7 flasks by this point, allocate 5 flasks to Mana and 2 flasks to health. First flask upgrade you got from picking the Golden Seed as starting gift, then two more Flasks by collecting other early-game Golden Seeds and using them at a site of grace in the Flask menu. If you don’t have enough flasks you’ll have to use some melee attacks or else you’ll run out of Mana. When the fight starts, run past the boss and summon Noble Sorcerer Ashes on the side, the sorcerer will attack the boss and also draw his attention. Let the summoned NPC helper draw the attention of the boss, then attack the boss from behind (you do much more damage from behind!). When the boss gets stunned, do a melee attack from behind to deal a high-damage blow to him. For any of his attacks throughout the fight always run/dodge backwards and you should avoid all attacks. The arena is quite large so it’s easy to get away from the boss. Especially with a magic build you can just keep spamming Glintstone Pebble from safe distance and wait for the boss to refocus on your NPC friend. After the boss reaches half health he will use fire attacks. When he uses his flamethrower attack, run away and dodge sideways through the fire, this way you will avoid taking damage. When he throws fire whirlwinds at you dodge sideways. When he rains burning rocks from above run/dodge backwards. When he uses any melee attacks dodge backwards. With 2 health potions / 5 mana potions and enough intelligence skill points you can brute force him, you just need to get lucky that your NPC helper stays alive long into the 2nd phase. If you have too much trouble it’s better to go back to Limgrave and explore other areas of the map and grind some level ups, put as many points as possible into Intelligence to deal more damage with each hit of Glintstone Pebble, which also conserves mana as you need fewer hits for the same amount of damage. Leveling up Mind to Level 25 should also help a lot to have more FP/mana points. Getting Sacred Tears and spending them at sites of grace in the flask menu is also helpful to make each flask restore more health/mana.