Elden Ring Colosseum tips – tips you need to win in the new PVP arena

Elden Ring's PVP Colosseums are now open, and these are the tips you need to take down foes in the arena

Elden Ring’s brand new Colosseum update brings a lot of new content to one of the biggest games we’ve ever played. Patch 1.08 is aimed squarely at PVP players, as there are now new arenas and matchmaking options for players to take part in.

Whether you’re a team player or a one-man army, you can win in Elden Ring’s PVP Colosseum battles with the tips in this guide. This advice won’t be anything new to PVP regulars, but if you’re new to fighting real players, this advice will help a lot.

Make sure to find all of them with our Elden Ring Colosseum location guide.

Elden Ring PVP Arena tips

Play with a team to start – Elden Ring

If you’re a real beginner, you should enter a battle with a team. Most players jumping into PVP battles have a pretty good understanding of how the game works, so you’re likely to get a solid enough team, and as long as you play your part, you’ll come out on top – usually.

You can focus on backing up your squad – hanging back while using ranged attacks, or assisting one of your teammates in cornering and finishing an opponent. This gives you enough time to acclimatize to playing online. Oh, and please use a wired connection, if possible.

If you want to play with a team, make sure to enter the Limgrave Colosseum and use the United Combat ruleset.

Rulesets and duels – Elden Ring

If you want to improve quickly, 1v1 duels are the best way to do it, and you can take these on in The Royal Colosseum in Leyndell. Each Colosseum has slightly different available rulesets, so choose your battle location wisely.

• The Limgrave Colosseum features United Combat (teams) and Combat Ordeal (free-for-all), with games including between 2 and 6 players.
• The Royal Colosseum in Leyndell exclusively features 1v1 Duel Mode.
• The Caelid Colosseum includes all the above modes, and also allows players to use Spirit Ashes to summon assistants.

Dodge, run, roll catch – Elden Ring

Elden Ring is just about dodging and hitting, right? Well that’s true, but if you’re never played any PVP melee games you might not be ready for how complex this is going to get. In short, if you swing your sword and your foe is close, you best hope it hits, otherwise you’re likely going to get hit instead.

Experienced PVP players will use jumping attacks often, and time their strikes to have active hitboxes at the end of your roll – heavy rolling players, you will not survive for long, sadly. Keeping opponents at bay is the best strategy, but when you’re fighting up-close, make sure to be prepared to avoid, even if it means delaying your roll to avoid a roll catch.

Healing and interrupting – Elden Ring

This is obvious, but easier said than done. If you heal using one of your Flasks, you’ll also be at risk. Healing takes a second, and it’s often more than enough time for opponents to punish you for your efforts. In a team battle it’s easy enough to hide behind allies until you’re ready to fight again, but in 1v1 Duel Mode and more intense fights, it won’t be so easy.

Pick your moments wisely, but also make sure you have a ranged attack at the ready to punish an opponent that tries to heal. Throwing Knives are always good for this.

Spells and Weapon Arts – Elden Ring

We’ve mentioned several times that ranged attacks will give you an advantage against many players, but overall, you should be thinking about using your FP pool as often as possible. Even if you’re not the type to use Spells or Incantations, you should have some solid, competitive PVP weapons with appropriate Weapon Arts equipped. Weapon Arts still do a lot of Poise Damage, and can make taking out bulky foes far easier.