What Elden Ring Boss Tips Monthly Actually Is
It is a curated collection of boss encounter guides that gets updated every month with new strategies, patch notes adjustments, and community submissions. The goal is to keep information current since FromSoftware changes boss mechanics with each balance patch. Most people find it through the official Discord or the community wiki section. The monthly edition compiles everything from the previous thirty days into a single document. It covers every major boss in the base game and Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. I used the January 2025 version when they reworked Malenia's waterfowl dance animations, and the guide had the new attack timings within three days of the patch dropping. That speed is unusual for fan-made content. The download is usually a Google Doc or a Notion page. Some months they provide a PDF export as well. I prefer the live doc because you can see the revision history and tell exactly which boss entry changed and when. It is worth checking the commit log before following advice blindly.
Here is the practical problem I ran into: the April 2025 monthly included damage numbers for certain builds that were completely wrong for my level 140 spellcaster run. The submitter had playtested on a level 200 bleed build. I caught this when my damage output was roughly half of what the guide claimed Malenia should take. The workaround was simple. I cross-referenced their numbers with the in-game damage meter mod called Hitbox View, which showed my actual spell damage was significantly lower than reported. Always verify damage-relevant tips against your own build metrics before committing to a strategy. The monthly also covers less obvious things like i-frame window timing and stance break thresholds. Most casual guides skip those because they are harder to calculate. The monthly team includes people who actually track frames. They will tell you that Radahn's gravity pull starts at frame 47 in the first phase and frame 62 in the second phase after the patch. That difference matters if you are trying to land a single hit during the pull window. There are real limitations though. The monthly does not cover every minor knight or demigod. You will find Margit, Godrick, Rykard, Mohg, and the main Shadow of the Erdtree lords covered in depth. Smaller optional bosses get one or two paragraphs at most. If you are stuck on Midra or the Rotten Stray, the monthly will not save you. The community forums handle those better with dedicated threads.
Another issue is build specificity. The monthly tends to default to strength or intelligence builds because those are the most common. Pilgrim's Fire incantations get more mention than bloodincantations or hybrid builds. If you are running a faith-based incantation build with a shield, some of the aggression tips in the monthly will not apply to you. I had to adjust the recommended aggression windows for Malenia because my faith build forces a more defensive playstyle. The guide assumed I was rolling in constantly. The document format itself can be annoying. Long pages that require constant scrolling. The mobile experience is poor. I ended up printing the boss sections I needed and keeping them on my desk. It took maybe ten minutes to organize, but it saved me from losing my place constantly. That tradeoff is worth it if you are doing a serious no-death run. The community submission process is open to anyone with enough post history. You submit a tip, someone with moderation rights reviews it, and if it checks out it goes into the next monthly. The review process is loose. I have seen entries with incorrect frame data and unverified dodge timings make it through. This is not a flaw in the concept, just a reality of how these things work. Community content will always have variance. Treat every tip as a hypothesis until you test it yourself.
Get the Full Details
For people who want the raw data without the monthly packaging, the individual boss threads on the forums are more reliable for edge cases. The monthly is a convenience tool. It saves time if you want a single reference point instead of opening twenty different threads. But if you are stuck on a specific mechanic, the monthly might be too broad. Go to the deep threads instead.
