Pus of Man | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Definitely the worst standard enemy in the game. Good thing they're rare.

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Mfs be like "Omg, Dark Souls 2 is so artificially hard" but praise Dark Souls 3 while this ****ers exists. Seriously, they move too fast even for the camera, they hit so hard you die in 3 hits and their attacks are too unpredictable for you to dodge, even if you do, they have more attacks than you have stamina to dodge.

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I low-key think these guys are harder than basically every boss except Friede & Boreal Outrider Knights (specifically in a melee 1v1, I usually bomb them for an easy win)

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Whenever I see one of these, I lower the volume of my TV speakers or outright mute the game. I can't imagine playing this with headphones.

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Hate these stupid black abyss tar things with Thier flailing bs tantrum attacks where even just a single love-tap from them takes off over half of your health and pancakes you, and as if they weren't infuriating enough as it is, of course they have to constantly emit obnoxious ridiculously loud earraping screeches that destroy your ears, screw these stupid things so hard

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fire bomb likes that

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Elden Ring enemy design sneak peak

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Easiest way of killing these is spam rapport when close enough. Especially in the garden area. They didnt attack each other on my playthrough, but they'll just stand there and take hits for 30 seconds. Use fire weapon and pus die before spell wears off. I'm a quality/str build, but so glad i lvl'd INT to 15 for this spell alone. A cheap/horribly designed enemy deserves a cheap tactic lol

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I just farmed these 2 for at least an hour well over 50 times wearing the chest head piece for discovery and didn't get the dark gem. I give up

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imo it's humanity gone wild.

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I literally just started playing DS3, just got to High Wall and I can't seem to get close to the hollow and kill him fast enough before he transforms and literally 3 shots me everytime ;__;

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Apart from fire, they have little resistance to bleed

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Did anybody know that these guys actually drop Dark Gems? I just got one from killing one of these guys.

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The big Oh **** moment when you hear the scream

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tip: dont bother
tip 2: fire bombs

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Tip: For the Pus of Men that are in the Consumed King's Garden, you can trick them into falling into the elevator pit, that's an easy kill. It's a bit harder than it sounds, but it's still easier than fighting them. If you must fight them, Fire Bombs and Wolf Great Sword are a great combo. Throw the bomb to stagger, rush with the sword, and run back. repeat.

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I think the ones in the High Wall don't drop the items unless you let them transform first.

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This thing is insane. It just flails all over the place pancaking you from completely random trajectories and directions. The camera can't keep up either.

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bIG OL SNAKY HOLLOW DUDE

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Average female genitalia fan vs Average Man Pus enjoyer

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This is why I always buy a torch from the shrine handmaid when I arrive in firelink

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I absolutely hate the design of this enemy. You cant even see the part hitting you if you're playing melee

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i find these to be the hardest regular enemy, even the greatsword cathedral knights aren't as unforgiving

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Im so happy this affliction is not a real thing. Imagine. Waking up one day and you feel weird and then this thing rips from your back

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fire infused exile greatsword. thats all

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Toxic invaders when I cast rapport on the pus of man they were leading me into (they don’t like it when enemies interfere with pvp anymore)

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Imagine you are killimg a random enemy and he tranforme lol like in resident evil 4 , you ehadshot a zombie and his head tranforme in that thing

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What's with this game and enemies that attempt to destroy your eardrums by screeching as loud as they can? Not even the beasts in Bloodborne were this obnoxious.

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do they give different souls/drops if you let them transform?

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do they give different souls/drops if you let them transform?

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UROBOROS!

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English accent~ "BLOODY DISGUSTING"

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Have you guys ever tired or proper attack movesets? Fine, try to catch torch or firebomb properly! Human body can Ben backstabbing

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HANS, GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!

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Watching them writhe in pain with a firebomb is really satisfying

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Pussy of Man

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Where is chicken biscuit? Is he alright? Is he ok?

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Anyone noticed they look like the primordial serpents from dark souls 1

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Missed opportunity to have this as a transformation for the player character. I would totally trade that abysmal dragon form for this.

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RIP chicken biscuit. Can't fix the thousands of instances of flat out wrong or missing info on here but they sure can get that one

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Well time to get the flamethrower

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you can do over 2000 damage with CBV and red tearstone+ morion blade+ fire clutch ring+witches ring+great swamp ring

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I call them "Man-Pus" whenever I see them, and it just takes all the seriousness out of because I'm too busy giggling about Man-Pus.

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Still haven't been able to get rid of one sad troll here huh

Man I wish we had a half decent wiki.

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Maybe it is time to get rid of Chicken Biscuit

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Chicken Biscuit can never die

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Chicken Biscuit's back

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What's up here? Oh you damn crossbow wielding bastard come he- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING

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CHICKEN BISCUIT.

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use a fire weapon, get in close and hit them one to make them staggered for a few moments, give them a bunch of hits then get the hell away once the stagger ends, rinse and repeat till dead

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Autistic screechers.

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god awful creatures... burn them with firebombs

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chicken biscuit

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who tf put "chicken biscuit" as a weakness

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these things are so loud and obnoxious

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haha floppy snake man

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Chicken biscuit

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look at the weakness :)

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When the game tells you to use fire and your inner smartass say "nah"

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"It's like a Black Jizz Dragon!"


~TearofGrace -2016

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Im new to this game
And I'm asking my self
Why... why to make **** monster...
It's so ugly the design is horrible. who thought about this kind of art.
look at those attacks it's so stupid it made me laught when I saw it for the first time
In my opinion this **** not adding anything to the game experience...
Hope next games they wont make another big **** fighting with you.

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I got a dark gem from just killing 1 of this

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Hey wouldn't it be funny if there was an enemy with a hitbox the size of it, one of the biggest enemies in the game? Then put multiple of them in a toxic swamp?

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Easy way to deal with them: roll onto them whenever they start flailing their head. You ll end up behind them and their attack will continue for the next 4 seconds. Might even loose aggro if you don't touch them.

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More bark than bite. Use the same strategy you used on Iudex; stay close, stay behind. Save your bombs and get your hands dirty - you won't even get hit.

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Still easily the most annoying enemy to fight, besides maybe the jumpy bois in Farron Keep

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Lore-wise, i think pus of man has nothing to do with the curse of the undead. It's more like a product of an entirely different curse, that certain king brought upon his own bloodline. Oceiros was so obsessed with dragons that he didn' t think about the curses that lied between seath's knowledge or how the godly blood (Gwynevere, though i doubt that's pure god blood due to gwyn's descendants history) would affect his plan. Lothric and lorian's curse must have been something like this: a malformed, dragonlike creature akin to dark. I guess the reason those two did not transform was because of not being truly undeads, as they never died before. As for the rest of the people of Lothric, including Gundyr, makes sense that they re affected considering how curses works. Then the curse ended with the destruction of Lothric, as we see a petrified, gigantic pus of man in the dreg heap. The last of them to be seen from that point on.

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9/10 Dancers of boreal Valley prefer Pus of Man Lube

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***** these guys.

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Of course! Try the ranged battle!

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They look kinda like dragons in a twisted way.

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im so tilted with these stupid enemies...fire damage doesnt always affect them! wtf? i even aim for the black parts and let their stun wear out before applying more fire. is there a trick to it?

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Here's a bit of a useless thing I've noticed: If you let a hollow transform, kill the Pus, then reload the save file, the hollow will come back, try to transform again, then immediately just disappear from the game.

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the ones next to the two dragons guarding the bridge in Lothric castle can increase your curse (for me, it was more than half the curse bar in ng+) with what looks like a spit attack and they only “spit” at you when you are far away

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Most annoying enemy in the game unless you've got Firebombs.

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Cursed flame is fading, and humans begin to assume their true from – of dragons/flying serpents. Even more so, with growing dragon out Gundir, and the Drakes which is spawns same humanity's serpents out them upon killing them for the first time. Humans=Dragons, hinted in DS1, confirmed in DS3.

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Judging by the QA Cut Content: - Serpents like Kaathe and Frampt were meant to be the final boss. - Gundyr, infected by Pus of Man, was meant to be Oceiros. This makes Pus of Man have much more sense - it resembles a serpent-like being. All around Lothric there are hints of serpent worship. Oceiros (Gundyr) being the "lord"/researcher that introduced the Pus of Man in Consumed King's Garden (with a bunch of them + poison being there) makes sense. In the end, they've hastily scrapped the whole thing and Pus of Man remains an after-thought.

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I feel like these dudes were a bit of a red herring in terms of lore and enemies... It's so clearly part of the dark/abyss/deep or whatever, some sort of corruption of humanity from eons before, manifesting as a new symptom of the undead curse. Although, the player characters is no longer an undead, is it, but an unknindled. Which explains how Hollowing now is attainable only after certain actions, compared to the first two games where death made you hollow. Anyways, these creatures only exist in and around Lothric castle/wall, with the only other one outside of Lothiric being Iudex's version (which in reality is still "inside" Lothric). We see some already transformed in the Gardens, and the white drake @ Lothric is afflicted by it too, as we see later on when we attack it's foot. I don't think any item or spell go into any lore for these, and i still felt they led to no satisfying conclusion; for example: Champion gundyr in Untrended Graves having a pus of man as well, or there being a pus of man related item, spell, or npc to interact with there. Would have been awesome if these were covenant related, too, and one could wield a pus of man related item or spell much like that one covenant in Bloodborne that could let the player become one of the Kin. Unless there is some other piece of lore i don't know about, these enemies feel like they were unfinished in implementation, lacking lore...

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I really wish they had done more with these. You see Iudex transform, and can run into two of these on the Wall early on, so I though they would be a prominent part of the story, popping up as you went along. Instead they just kind of disappear until much later in the game.

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Err...what?

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Am i the only one to notice, that the pus of man have horns and serpentine mouths. They're imperfect dragons?

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Do these guys have a better chance of dropping dark gems in later areas?

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PSA: Let them transform, and then kill them. They give tons of souls and Titanite/Embers. Just throw a couple Firebombs and they're dead.

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good fucking lord these enemies do not stop attacking. 5 string combos every damn time. good luck fighting these guys with anything slower than a straight sword...

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Little bonus info: Kills on enemies by pus of man give a 20% bonus to souls.

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Lore?

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Why are they so f*cking loud?

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The enemy heals itself continuously! The effect is very slow but if you playing around you can note it. Maybe someone can add this to the page. Thanks!

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i read puss in boots

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If you’re able to make the undead stagger right as it’s about to transform, it will cancel the transformation and it will stay as an undead.

I saw this yesterday when I playing some co-op with my bro on the High Wall of Lothric. He was a sorcerer so he hit it with his soul arrow right as it was about transform and then it didn’t. I’m not sure if this is a bug or what but it was interesting to see.

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SOMEBODY EDIT TO ADD THIS BUG:

If you kill the hollow at the exact same time it transforms, the game will crash.
Steam version, 09/01/2018

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Does anybody knows a mod that allows player to transform these things? Seriously dude, first time i really wanted to become one of them and i searched all spells but, i think we can't in normal game

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You may not realize it, but they actually have really low physical defense, the health bar is deceiving.

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Couldn't the serpent also be something related to Kaathe? Evidently Prince Lothric wishes for the end of the Age of Fire, and Lothric's alliance with the wyverns seems to imply a departure from the Gods' decree, similarly to why the Nameless King was wiped from history by Gwyn himself. Plus, two of the serpents appear out of the wyverns in the Dragon Barracks...

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It appears that these enemies, or at least the ones under the bridge with the 2 dragons at Lothric castle, have a rather special, and deadly ability. I learned it when I tried to cheese one of them by fleeing towards the area where the baby crystal lizard is and the subsequent ambush by hollow assassins. I hoped to get the pus of man stuck in the door way then shoot it to death with my bow. It worked, until the pus of man made a... copy of itself, right inside the room after the doorway.

It looked as if the copy was made of shadow, even the hollowed man part of it, and it had a skewed movement, like if it was moving at like 15 fps. Furthermore, the shadow clone (Naruto approves) was only visible and physically present when it was attacking, when I got out of its reach it vanished completely, and arrows went through the place where it just stood a moment ago. When I walked back, it popped out of thin air again and attacked.

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Where is the one in the Untended Graves? You give values for them yet i do not know of a single one there.

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I begin to think that monster who can hit invaders just like Pus of Man is just another mean to nerf invasion. To prevent invaders to hide behind/underneath them. Makes sense. One Sunbro, 2 Blues and the host would be in real danger otherwise...

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It's incredibly annoying when a summon rushes in and kills it before it transforms as on the first time they are killed in high wall of Lothric they always drop 1 ember and 1 titanite shard I get that some people don't want to deal with them (cause they can be a total b*tch to fight if you're out of firebombs and fp) but still...

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fire works well... these things are impossible if you run a light weight build... Samurai cos-play ruined thanks to these things, but hey if you can kill them in melee then you can take out the boss, Vordt of the boreal valley...

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Ya

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