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.
- Anonymous
I 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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