The Mimic Tear creates a copy of your character that is much tankier when fully upgraded, complete with your armor, weapons, spells, and equipped items. The Mimic Tear Spirit Ash Summon is extremely useful in this fight.

Bleeding her removes a huge chunk of her health, which helps counteract her healing quite a bit. I beat her using fully upgraded Power Stanced Blood Uchigatanas, but other Bleed weapons work well too. Malenia is highly susceptible to Bleed, so using a Dexterity/Arcane build with Blood weapons is very effective.

Don't miss this opportunity to either hit her with a critical riposte or attack her several times while she's stunned.

Malenia can be staggered when hit with enough attacks.

However, all of Malenia's bigger attacks can't be interrupted.

Malenia doesn't have a lot of poise, so Strength characters can often hit her several times in quick succession.

If you're struggling to dodge a particular attack, try and block it with a good shield upgraded to endgame levels to avoid taking damage and healing a large chunk of her health.

Using a shield to block attacks reduces the amount of healing she gets from hitting you.

Note that Malenia's lifesteal is active in both phases of the battle.

If you don't, you'll likely get hit a lot. You should always prioritize conserving stamina for dodging and being patient in this fight over trying to rapidly take her down with flurries of attacks.

Malenia heals herself when she hits you, so dodging her attacks is crucial.

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