Malenia Strength Build EASY JUMP STRATEGY + TIPS (Solo, No summon, mimic, magic, parry, shield)

Across three days I've spent a total of about 7-8 hours fighting this boss trying different strength weapons and strategies. The "Jump" strategy is in my opinion the best way for strength builds to beat her without just abusing the mimic. Here are some tips that might help:


HOW TO DODGE THE FLURRY
The flurry consists of 4 different flurries and an aoe at the very end, I will breakdown how to dodge all of them

The most important thing to know in order to dodge it consistently is knowing your spacing. You need to stand OUTSIDE of melee range meaning both your swings and the bosses can't reach each other. The reason for this is because you will not have enough time to outrun the first two flurries in her attack if you are in melee range. This leaves melee builds and specifically slower weapons at a huge disadvantage as they need to get close in order to attack. Slow weapons suffer more as their attacks have longer recovery meaning the window to get to the correct position is much tighter than for fast recovery weapons. While it is possible to dodge at close range it is very inconsistent and difficult which is why I suggest staying outside of melee range.

1. Once you are outside of melee range and see her jump to start the attack immediately run backwards towards the camera. This will cause flurries 1 and 2 to whiff.
2. After flurries 1 and 2 there is a small delay where she will home in on you with flurry three, dodge BACKWARDS in the same direction you were running. This will cause her to land right in front of you.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE While dodging backwards unlock your camera by clicking in the right stick (or whatever your lock on button is) This is to help with dodging the final flurry.
3. Immediately after the 3rd flurry whiffs and you are unlock, RUN STRAIGHT ahead, the 4th flurry will fly over your head and land behind you. The reason why its important to unlock is while locked on your character will move towards the boss and the flurry so its very important to unlock before sprinting forward.
4. After the 4th flurry there is a delayed aoe explosion, you can roll through it but I prefer to just let it whiff and use the jump attacks massive range to close the distance and land a punish

One final note about the flurry is predicting when she will do it. In phase one once she loses about 25%-30% she will begin using this attack. While it didn't happen on the run in the video, you can see that once she hit this threshold i began backing off staying outside of melee range and used Bloodhound's step after every attack to reposition myself correctly. Unfortunately I have no idea if there are any easy tells in phase two and my best advice for that phase is every time you see her in the air start backing up.

GENERAL TIPS FOR STRENGTH BUILDS/SLOW WEAPONS

1. Do NOT swing more than once. Slow weapons like colossal greatswords do not have enough time to safely land two hits on her openings. While sometimes you will get lucky and the boss will get interrupted by your second swing, the more likely scenario is she will dash to the side and you will whiff and get punished.

2. Use the jump attack as your main attack. Combined with the claw talisman, this is the highest single attack you can do during openings. For big strength weapons these also have massive range so you can often stay outside of her range and punish whiffed attacks.

3. Don't immediately roll after jump attacks! If you don't input anything after a jump attack your character's hurtbox is lower than normal which means a lot of attacks will whiff right over your head. Specifically one of her attacks has her dashing right or left and swinging horizontally, if you don't move this will whiff. Its important to note however she also has attacks where you will be vulnerable if you don't roll, the telegraph for this is that she doesn't dash and instead will just swing immediately. So react accordingly to both scenarios

If you have any other questions feel free to ask and good luck.