Divine Beast Dancing Lion Location and Guide – Elden Ring Guide – IGN

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.