Pus of Man

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General Info
HP  Souls Locations
841-1937 250-2500 High Wall of Lothric
Consumed King's Garden
Drops Dark Gem
Ember
See below for unique drops
Defenses
Enemy Type Abyssal
Weak

  Farron Greatsword
   Fire

Resistant   Dark
  Frostbite
Immune    Poison
  Toxic
 Alluring Skull attracts this enemy, making it vulnerable for a few seconds.
 Rapport charms this enemy, making it a temporary ally.

Pus of Man is an Enemy in Dark Souls 3.

 

Pus of Man Enemy Description

 

Pus of Man Combat Information

  • Whenever possible, kill the undead in the 2-3 seconds before it transforms. Its total health will multiply drastically after transforming, and it will be restored to full health upon successful transformation.
  • They are resistant to dark damage but very weak to fire. After transforming, it will be stunned for several seconds by any source of fire damage, trivializing the encounter. You can easily kill it with Pyromancies, needs only 2 hits with Chaos Bed Vestiges, but be sure that you're aiming the "black serpent" part of the enemy (one hit does about 1500 dmg depending on your build). One Firebomb will stun it long enough to get 2-3 free hits in. Fire-infused weapons will achieve the same effect. A Torch swing can also do the trick.
  • Follower Javelin infused with Fire or Chaos can set it on fire from a distance with its weapon art, even without FP.
  • Weak to Farron Greatsword and Wolf Knight's Greatsword.
  • Its large size makes it easy to hit. Avoid the front.
  • Can be fooled with Alluring Skull.
  • Can be affected by Rapport both before and after transforming, but applied rapport effect ends immediately upon successful transformation and must be applied again.
  • New players encountering these enemies on the High Wall of Lothric who are unsure of their ability to kill the undead before the transformation can find some black firebombs in the area. 3 of them should render the enemy close enough to kill with a couple of hits or another normal firebomb.

 

Pus of Man Notes & Trivia

  • The first time you kill the mutated versions in High Wall of Lothric they have a guaranteed drop of 1 Titanite Shard and 1 Ember.
  • Dark Souls lore describes the serpent as an imperfect dragon that is a symbol of the undead.
  • Their abyssal growths also look similar to what is consuming Iudex Gundyr.
  • Their attacks can damage all other enemies, including invaders.

 

 

 

 

 

Pus of Man Variations

Untransformed Corrupted Hollow

Are not transformed when you find them

Transformed Corrupted Hollow

Are already transformed when you find them

 

 
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    • Anonymous

      Those infecting two wyverns in Lothric castle die when you activate the second shortcut for Twin Princes boss fight located just before the entrance, for whatever reason.

      • Anonymous

        Killed both of these in high wall, they chewed through my flasks but bonfires are plentiful around that are so it really wasn't that bad, i don't really understand the hat if you want you can just run past em

        • Anonymous

          These guys are definitely a holdover from a different, older version of the game, as evident in the old leaked screenshots of a more puss-infested dreg heap-style area.
          I would kill for a leaked version of that build to one day come out.

          • Anonymous

            These guys are definitely a holdover from a different, older version of the game, as evident in the old leaked screenshots of a more puss-infested dreg heap-style area.
            I would kill for a leaked version of that build to one day come out.

            • A lot of people here seems to have forgotten than the main thing in Souls games is to adapt to whatever situation arises.

              In this case, the answer is fire.

              • Anonymous

                I think they only drop stuff if you let them transform cause I kept killing them before they did and they never dropped anything 3rd kill after letting transform I got a dark gem

                • Anonymous

                  This is arguably the worst designed enemy in the game. They're literally near-impossible to fight the "fair" way. Bullshit hitbox that covers 360 degrees around them, insane range, insane damage, insane health pool. The only reliable way I've found to fight them without taking a hit is cheesing them with fireballs and getting up close for a few R1s. I would honestly love for someone to tell me how you're supposed to fight these things.

                  • 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.

                    • Anonymous

                      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)

                      • Anonymous

                        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.

                        • Anonymous

                          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

                          • Anonymous

                            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

                            • Anonymous

                              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

                              • Anonymous

                                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 ;__;

                                • Anonymous

                                  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.

                                  • 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.

                                    • Anonymous

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

                                      • Anonymous

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

                                        • Anonymous

                                          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

                                          • Anonymous

                                            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)

                                            • Anonymous

                                              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

                                              • Anonymous

                                                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.

                                                • Anonymous

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

                                                  • Anonymous

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

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      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

                                                      • Anonymous

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

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          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

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            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.

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              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?

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                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.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  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.

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    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.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      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?

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        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.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          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

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            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.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              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.

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                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...

                                                                                • 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.

                                                                                  • Anonymous

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

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      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.

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        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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