Lightning Damage is a Damage Type in Dark Souls 3. It is one of eight damage types presented in the original game and one of the four Elemental-type damages.
Weapons, Items & Spells that cause Lightning Damage
- Weapons infused with Lightning Gem
- Weapons buffed with either Gold Pine Resin or Gold Pine Bundle
- Weapons buffed with Lightning Blade miracle.
- Crossbow with Lightning Bolt
- Greatbow with Dragonslayer Lightning Arrow
- Lightning Urn
- Lightning Storm
- Lightning Stake
- Lightning Arrow
- Lightning Spear
- Great Lightning Spear
- Sunlight Spear
- Lothric Knight Greatsword
- Dragonslayer Spear
- Dragonslayer Swordspear
- Drakeblood Greatsword
- Dragonslayer's Axe
- Dragonslayer Greataxe
Items & Spells that increase Lightning damage
- Sacred Oath
- Deep Protection
- Oath of Sunlight (Sunlight Straight Sword's Weapon Art)
- Morion Blade (when health is under 20%)
- Red Tearstone Ring (when health is under 20%)
- Lloyd's Sword Ring (when health is 100%)
- Lightning Clutch Ring
- Ring of the Sun's First Born
- Morne's Ring
Items & Spells that increase Lightning resistance
- Thunder Stoneplate Ring
- Speckled Stoneplate Ring
- Yellow Bug Pellet
- Lloyd's Shield Ring (when health is 100%)
- Blue Tearstone Ring (when health is below 20%)
- Sacred Oath
- Deep Protection
- Equipment with Lightning resistance
Enemy Lightning Damage Sources
- Lothric Knight using Lothric Knight Greatsword
- Undead Cleric (non-cursed variant)
- Carthus Sandworm
- Sulyvahn's Beast
- Lightning strikes during Slave Knight Gael boss fight (final phase)
- Dragonslayer Armour
- Nameless King
- Soul of Cinder
- Halflight, Spear of the Church
Enemies susceptible to Lightning
- Any hollow/undead, that does not use heavy armor
- Serpent-Man Summoner
- Serpent-man
- Lothric Knight
- Overgrown Lothric Knight
- Harald Legion Knight
- Lothric Wyvern
- Great Crab
- Smouldering Rotten Flesh
- Rotten Flesh of Aldrich
- Jailer
- Pilgrim Pupa
- Corvian Knight
- Millwood Knight
- Millwood Chieftain
- Champion Gundyr
- Crystal Sage
- Abyss Watchers
- Pontiff Sulyvahn
- Yhorm the Giant
- Aldrich, Devourer of Gods
- Dancer of the Boreal Valley
- Oceiros, the Consumed King
- Lorian, Elder Prince
- Ancient Wyvern
- King of the Storm
- Soul of Cinder
- Sister Friede & Father Ariandel
- Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf
- Halflight, Spear of the Church
- Darkeater Midir
Enemies resistant to Lightning
- Silver Knights
- Winged Knight
- Ascended Winged Knight
- Black Knight
- Ringed Knight
- Mimic
- Darkwraith
- Birch Woman
- Corvian Settler
- Rock Lizard
- Gargoyle
- Ravenous Crystal Lizard
Enemies immune to Lightning
- N/A
Trivia
- In contrast to Lighting Urn description, there are knights resistant to lightning.
- In line with Lighting Urn description, all dragons are weak to Lightning.
- Lightning seems to be effective againsts bosses using sword/axe/halberd/scythe/vessel (excluding Dragonslayer Armour and Nameless King, as they attack mainly with Lightning) and enemies with no armor.
AnonymousI am pretty sure there is something that multiplies lightning damage the closer you are to your target, but I don’t have a ton of evidence
- Anonymous
Silver knights also deal lightning damage when they rush at you. Add that, please.
- Anonymous
There is an item that increases lightning further that is not listed here. This is the Ariandel Whip’s weapon art: Awakening. It increases miracle spell damage by 25% which is a pretty massive boost to be left out of the “lightning boost items” section of this page.
- Anonymous
I just finished my lightning build but i swear there has to be a stun modifier to lightning
- Anonymous
It seems no one has written anything about this, so here goes. I just discovered while PvPing in the Anor Londo Water Reserve that my Lightning Urns left a medium sized lingering AoE upon impact with the water. Makes sense that water conducts lightning, so I experimented a little. It seems that any lightning based projectile will leave the same lingering AoE upon contact with a surface submerged in water, including lightning miracles and Dragonslayer Lightning Arrows. The 2 things I've seen that don't leave the AoE are the Lightning Storm miracle and the WA of the Nameless King's Dragonslayer Swordspear. I'm guessing Lightning Storm isn't a projectile, doesn't touch the ground, or is already considered an AoE because Lightning Stake has the AoE, and that the WA doesn't count as a projectile, because Ornstein's Dragonslayer Spear WA does leave the AoE.
I haven't tested anything with the Knight's Crossbow yet, but imagine Gael's Repeating Crossbow with Lightning Bolts... I can smell the salt already.
- Anonymous
It should be worth noting that spells like Iron Flesh drastically reduce your lightning resistance.
I used to have a yellowy color on my Dragonslater Greataxe's L2 but now it's a white color with a little bit of blue stripes here and there, anyone knows why ? (just curious cause the yellow lighting looks a lot better in my opinion)
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