Serpent-Hunter

Serpent-Hunter

Attack	111 Physical
Critical	100
Scaling	Str B, Dex E
Requires	None
Effect	Emits a blade of light when wielded against Great Serpents.
Guard	72% physical, 50 guard boost
Type	Great Spear
Attack Type	Pierce
Skill	Great-Serpent Hunt
FP Cost	10 / 20
Weight	12
Upgrades With	Somber Smithing Stones, to +10
Sell Price

The Serpent-Hunter is a Great Spear in Elden Ring.

When to Use It

Mid game. It is found around Volcano Manor, which opens up past Stormveil Castle, so it arrives once a build has taken shape.

Why Players Pick It

Zero stat requirements in every attribute with B Str at +0 rising to A at max standard; records 694 attack rating (AR) one-handed and 747 two-handed at 80 Str / 12 Dex, plus the class's best guard boost at 55. It cannot be sold, dropped, infused or buffed, and it is picked up inside Rykard's arena, so it is a boss-fight tool that happens to be a strong Strength weapon afterwards.

Upgrades

It takes Somber Smithing Stones rather than the common kind, one per level up to +10, and it keeps its own skill for good: no Ash of War will replace it and no affinity will re-cut its scaling.

Skill

Great-Serpent Hunt costs 10 / 20 FP. Perform a powerful forward lunge and follow up with an upward thrust via additional input. When fighting a great serpent, a long blade of light will appear, revealing the armament's true power. It belongs to this weapon alone: no Ash of War will move it onto anything else, and nothing will replace it here.

Build

Its scaling runs Str at B and Dex at E, so Str is the stat worth levelling, and it asks nothing of you to lift it. Because the skill is its own, the build has to come to the weapon rather than the other way round. It also emits a blade of light when wielded against Great Serpents on its own, with no infusion needed.

Notes

Weapon that serves as both greatsword and spear. Thought to have been used to hunt an immortal great serpent in the distant past, it manifests a long blade of light when facing such a creature. When their master's heroic aspirations degenerated into mere greed, his men searched for a weapon with which they might halt their lord.

How to Get Serpent-Hunter Guide

Mt. Gelmir (Volcano Manor) Loot: Can be picked up within the boss arena of Praetor Rykard, just after the fog gate. This item does not re-spawn when the player has one in either their inventory or chest, even in NG+. However it will re-spawn (and thus can be picked up again) from the same location should the player discard it. This is to make sure that the player always have the means of fighting Rykard with it. Because of this safeguard it is still possible to obtain duplicates of this weapon:.
Requirements:.
The player needs to not have a copy it in their inventory.
Rykard needs to still be alive.
The game needs to be in online-mode.
1) Stand outside Rykard's arena and attempt to connect to another player's world through any means necessary. (Tarnished's Furled Finger, Duelist's Furled Finger, Bloody Finger, Recusant Finger, Festering Bloody Finger or Blue Cipher Ring).
2) When the game has successfully found a world it can try to connect to, enter Rykard's arena and pick up the Serpent-Hunter before the Loading Screen appears.
3) Leave the multiplayer session either by completing your objective or using the Finger Severer.
4) When you re-spawn back in your own world, do not fast travel or rest at the Sites of Grace, instead enter Rykard's arena again and you'll see the Serpent Hunter is still there, available to be picked up again for a second time. (Traveling or resting at the site of grace will make the game check if the Serpent-Hunter is in your inventory before it decides if it'll spawn in a.

Where to find Serpent-Hunter Location?

Map credit by Map Genie.

All Great Spears

Name	Physical	Magic	Fire	Light	Holy	Crit. Boost	Weight	Str.	Dex.	Fai.	Arc.	Sell Price	Skill
Barbed Staff-Spear	86 42	0 31	0 31	0 31	86 45	100	7.5	E 14	E 18	C 22	0	1000	Jori's Inquisition
Bloodfiend's Sacred Spear	115 40	0 25	0 25	0 25	0 25	100	8	E 22	E 12	0	C 13	200	Bloodfiends' Bloodboon
Lance	123 57	0 36	0 36	0 36	0 36	100	9.0	D 20	D 14	0	0	100	Charge Forth
Messmer Soldier's Spear	122 56	0 35	0 35	0 35	0 35	100	8.5	D 19	D 16	0	0	100	Impaling Thrust
Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear	96 55	0 38	62 38	0 38	0 38	100	10	D 24	E 14	0	D 27	1000	Bloodboon Ritual
Serpent-Hunter	111 72	0 42	0 42	0 42	0 42	100	12	B 0	E 0	0	0	Unsellable	Great-Serpent Hunt
Siluria's Tree	90 51	0 36	0 36	0 36	90 55	100	10	D 27	E 13	D 20	0	500	Siluria's Woe
Spear of the Impaler	85 48	0 32	102 32	0 64	0 32	100	9.5	E 14	C 35	D 18	0	1000	Messmer's Assault
Treespear	122 55	0 35	0 35	0 35	79 45	100	9.5	D 15	D 22	D 18	0	500	Sacred Order
Vyke's War Spear	103 52	0 33	66 45	0 33	0 33	100	8	E 16	C 20	D 18	0	500	Frenzyflame Thrust