The ultimate guide to understanding all the different Elden Ring stats
Need some help understanding what the different Elden Ring stats actually do?As with mostRPGs, there’s a wealth of different stats that govern the strengths and weaknesses of your character inElden Ring. But understanding what those stats actually do is harder in Elden Ring than most games.
That’s why we’ve worked to put together the ultimate guide to all of Elden Ring’s stats. Below, we’ll explain all of the base stats, attributes, and resistances in Elden Ring and what exactly they do.
Elden Ring base stats explained
Every player in Elden Ring has 8 base stats: HP, FP, Stamina, Weight, Equip Load, Poise, Discovery, and Memory Slots. Here’s what they all do:
Most of these stats are fairly easy to understand, although the relationship between your character’s Weight and Equip Load is worth an extra table. This is because, depending on your Weight-to-Equip-Load ratio, your character will fall into one of four categories: Light Load, Medium Load, Heavy Load, and Overloaded. Here’s what each of those categories means:
Aside from your base stats, you also have access to 8 attributes. These stats are the ones that you can level up using runes at anySite Of Grace, and the aspect of your character that you have most control over. Your player’s overall level is, quite simply, all your attributes added together.
Here’s what all of your attributes mean in Elden Ring:
The final step in understanding all your Elden Ring character stats is to look at your resistances. Every player has 4 resistances to keep track of. Here’s what they do:
In addition to these, there are other self-explanatory defence-related stats like your Physical Defense and Magical Defense (which as you might imagine, govern how much or little damage you take against physical or magical attacks. There are also separate defence stats for particular damage types, such as Strike, Slash, and Pierce damage for physical attacks, and Fire, Lightning, and Holy damage for magical attacks. Simply put, the higher your defence against a certain attack type, the less damage you’ll take from an attack of that type.
To fully understand what each of the above resistances actually do, it’s important to understand the different status effects that they protect you against. Here’s a list of the major status effects in Elden Ring and what they do:
That’s all the Elden Ring stats explained in enough detail to see you through the entire game and its legions of stat-altering items and weaponry. To that end - why not now check out our guide to thebest weaponsandbest armor setsin Elden Ring? You can also check out our guide onhow to level up in Elden Ring, or ourElden Ring walkthroughandarea orderguide if your stats are starting to feel underlevelled.
