Serpent-man | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

In addition to dropping Chunks and Lightning Gems they also drop Large Titanite Shards (a lot more common) and their weapon (Man Serpent Hatchet)

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nice ennemies to farm with a macro

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Those little dagger freaks really make me wish we even had a crumb of poise outside of innate hyperarmor. I love being stunned mid swing by a dagger!!!

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cute little guys, but a vacation at archdragon peak will teach you to despise them

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Their head seems to e the weak spot for melee

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The ones with axe are the worst. Delayed and fast attacks in one combo? Here's infinite stamina as well

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Insufferable little ganking spammers.

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Dagger version is just pure cancer. Even with broadsword they are faster than normal swing. Attacks , stunlocks , dodge before your ttack and dashes at you again. I cant even imagine how people dealing with them with a slower sword lmao.

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Harder than ancient wywern

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I'm not seeing it here but their fireball can also clip through walls if they stretch their neck forward enough.

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Screw the stunlocking arseholes in the Ancient Wyvern bossfight, I hope whoever put them around the corner of the entrance to the left buiilding steps on the sharpest lego known to man.

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While farming for large titanite shards, I found a chunk on a small serpent-man. Seems very rare.

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archdragon peak is just a nicer way to label "gangbang simulation"

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I want the devs to know that there is a special place in hell for the person who designed the dagger version of this enemy

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They can't be lured, I just tested that.

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Why did they spam a trillion of these in one place near the Great Belfry bonfire? There's no point in summoning Hawkwood since he instantly gets gang-attacked by 10 different giant Serpent-man with ridiculous range.

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One of the shield buggers parried me and then he just straight up ate me.

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These ****ers have infinite poise and stamina

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Those dagger Serpents are the real boss of the Ancient Wyvern.

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I just wanna point out it says you cant parry big serpent men not true because I've parried them

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I would love that chain axe as a weapon..

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Big ones also have a grab and smash. Boy was I surprised when that neck whipped around and he bit me while I was circling around behind

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*ring ring* Havel's callin', he wants his poise back.

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I like how the picture is slightly blurred indicating that whoever took the picture aggroed it also

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Wiki is wrong, the large serpent- men absolutely can be parried

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The only one of these that give me issue are the ones with the greataxe that use the chain attack. Other than that they're pretty predictable once you learn their moveset and timing. There's only 2 areas in Archdragon peak you have to deal with them anyway. First is path of shaming the path to plunge attack the Arch Dragon and then at the Great Belfry when going for the ashes that unlock all of the rare titanite materials.

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I found out (in NG+6...) that with a Greatsword with Hold, the Hold R2 breaks twindagger serpentmen: you either interrupt their attack (double swing or dashing thrust), or duck behind their bite

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ah I hate these guys

wish we could become one to give them a taste of their own medicine

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As much as I hate those dagger as$ oles, this commenct section jsut made my day with all that salt :D

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Lol of course they're also immune to Rapport xD oh wow

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be mindful of the dagger ones, they will parry and riposte for a fair bit of damage

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mother****ers speed should be in bloodborne and not dark souls 3

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THESE *******S CAN PARRY??

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**** the ones with the twin daggers in particular

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no one has say it or idk if it's mentioned but small ones that dual wield daggers can parry (they have a very similar animation to pairswords parry)

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is it me or do the big ones have higher endurance combo than pontiff?

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Large serpent man (both axe and chain axe) can both be parried as long as it’s a one hand attack they do. Tested multiple times

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***** these *****es with their *****ass hand-wiggle stunlock combo. If someone were to parkinsson a butter knife at you, would you be stuned, or just annoyed? That's what I thought.

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I just got a Small Leather Shield from one of these, I think the drop list has to be updated

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ehy is there no note on the weapons they drop? i farmed a "Man-serpent Hatchet" from one of the smaller serpent men. anybody know of other items they drop?

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for those of you wondering why they drop lightning gems (when they're dragons, and lightning hurts/kills dragons) well, people carry guns, and guns hurt/kill people

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Well I can kill them in about two or three hits. Provided they give me time to at least hit them oncewith. Even though they seem to have infinite poise. And infinite poise damage. They get me staggered as much as triggered. I'm talking about the small ones. I don't even want to know what the big ones are like.

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Most BS enemy in the game. The small ones are easy enough but the big ones are pretty much impossible without a strength build. One on one you can parry them easily but the game throws 3 at you at a time. Total BS.

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Here I though jailers were bs when one of the guys has a chain axe that will skip through space and time to get you.

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Am I just not seeing it listed her that they drop the Man Serpent Hatchet

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You can parry the chain-axe on the big ones out of the air, which doesn't result in a riposteable state but you do get a satisfying animation of the axe pinging back and hitting the man serpent in the teeth.

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Give one good reason why these worms can clip their chainaxe through walls!!!

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I hate these assholes.

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Guys i have perfect strategy for killing the dagger wielding ones and it is: parry tf outta them OR have a fast weapon (note for slow folk: by fast i dont mean ugs-fast but more like pontiff knight curved sword- fast :P )

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Dual wield guys deserve a nuke. How much poise damage does their dagger seriously do? Havel stays on the roof because he's afraid of being stunlocked by these things

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Wish I could loot one of those 30-foot chain axes...

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I also noticed that they spot you with the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring - Hidden Body combo from a further distance than most of the enemies. You can sneak behind them, but Hidden Body is just a waste of FP.

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These *****ing pricks are so *****ing annoying

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I can confirm that they are immune to rapport but I can't seem to lure them with alluring skulls. I have tested against the ones just outside the belfry bonfire guarding the dragon stone. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Hawkwood old friend... I must call upon you to take the aggro once more.

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Incoming ass wine

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Incorrect. Large can be parried. Works with Hornet Ring

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Does anybody know if it’s possible to get the daggers they have, or is that a meta only reserved for the NPCs?

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makes me wonder why any enemy bothers swinging around a giant sword when they can just grab a pair of kitchen knives and hit you three hundred fucking times in one combo.

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These seem to be immune to Toxic and Poison damage, at least when tested with Toxic Mist and Storyteller's Staff at Archdragon Peak.

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The large ones can eat you if you're behind them

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bGMqtoWVXo is this false?

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You should probably add some of the smaller ones can parry YOU and if they do parry you, they will attempt to eat you.

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No mention of their grab attack? I think it's only the chain axe wielders that do it, but when you're standing directly behind them, they'll stretch their neck backwards and grab you in their mouth, then flail you around before smashing you to the ground. It has very little warning, and usually destroys me right off the bat, even if I don't end up being spat off a cliff.

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These mother*****ers need to get fixed, at the first game i respect that they decimate you with a lightning ball, but giving a bull*****homing missile coming from *****ing mouth is just utterly pissing me off and dont get me started on the ones with *****ing chained axes tose things can ***** you up from 1,000,000 miles away the range on that *****ing chain axe is bullshit

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Guys, for those who hate parrying like me and avoid it 99% of the time, the big serpent men aren’t too difficult to parry, even with a medium shield. I parried one first try with a Lothric knight shield twice for the kill, easiest kill I ever had on one of them. Wish I’d have known this way earlier...

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So they can be farmed for most their gear, including Man Serpent Hatchets, Small Leather Shields, Large Titanite Shards, and lightning gems... But you'll get four of the hatchets, three titanite chunks and two lightning gems to ONE shield for some reason...

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Oh lord, the great KUNAII WITH CHAIN returns... why fromsoft, why.

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The chain axe ones can attack through walls, it gives me conniptions

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***** I want their chain-axe weapon so bad

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Use an Irithyll Straight Sword +5 on them. Absolutely ruins them

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they cant be lured

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I destinctly remember seeing someone wearing the armour of these once...

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Chain Axe big guys' attacks go through walls -_- gr8 programming from soft

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Is there any possibility to get the shield? it looks really awesome

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They drop lightning gems just confirmed but very rare almost as rare as farming covenent items if not more they also drop large titanite shards

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Dagger wielding variants are beyond annoying with that slashing spam.

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Does anyone know if their dual daggers drop?

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I think it should be noted they are EXTREMELY WEAK to lightning."Weakness: Bleed, Thrust & Lightning" is misleading.

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The larger versions are so ***** annoying to kill. Their attacks have super long range, they have high poise and they'll retaliate when you combo (this is even worse for a Dex builds) and can kill you in two blows (they have a greataxe hence it'll stagger you as well). Blocking is not the way to go since it'll eat up stamina like crazy. Dodging is also not the way to go since their reach is long and cover a wider area. UGHHH

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I have gotten Sepentman Hatchets from the axe & shield, as well as fireball variants, large titanite from all, and I may of gotten a chunk from the axe& shield. Can anyone confirm the chunk? Been farming for a while now trying to replicate that drop...

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Most annoying enemy

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I mean, seriously, look what they can do

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I'd like to add that the dagger variant is capable of parrying. Was running around in NG++ in the Dragon-Kin Mausoleum, got parried by one of the two hanging out by the Titanite Scale upstairs above the bonfire. Be careful with your R1 spam.

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Frigin giant serpents with axe are incredible annoying, they have almost infinite poise and their attacks deal insane amount of damage, died many times because of them before i finally tried to parry them. Despite them holding theirs weapon in both hands and the size of the weapon parry them is pretty easy, just wait for their charge attack with their axe raised, parry window on this attack is stupidly large(had used target shield, parried in 98% cases).

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On NG+ the ones at Archdragon Peak have 590 health. Anyone have values for the other NGs?

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The dagger wielding serpent men may not look like much but don't let them stunlock you into their full combo. It can actually one shot you if you're running less than 20 vigor. Keep some sort of shield handy, like the thalls, a single block will stagger them back and allow for an easy R1 spam kill.

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