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| Location | Shrine of Storms | ||||||
| Enemy Type | Undead | ||||||
| Reward/s | 1227 Souls | ||||||
Black Skeleton is an Enemy in Demon's Souls and Demon's Souls Remake. Enemies have their own behavior and unique attacks, killing enemies provide various drops that reward players with items and souls.
Debatably the hardest type of Skeletons, these enemies make themselves formidable being armor clad and wielding two Katanas dealing huge, quick damage. Nothing can really penetrate their tough armor; even blunt damage is lacking.
Luckily their health bars are rather puny, and are slow to turn around making them extremely vulnerable to backstabs. They are the only source of Pure Bladestone in the game.
Combat Information
- Horizontal slashes.
- Right-handed piercing thrust.
- Dual katanas slash attack.
- Lunging dual slash attack that causes knockdown.
Strategies
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All kinds of ranged strategies work well, be it magic or arrows. The damage will be mediocre but eventually, they usually go down without a fight. Flame Toss works well on the first playthrough of the game, combined with Thief's Ring. On the rare occasion that they run towards you, Warding or Second Chance are very helpful. They ignore stun from most weapons, particularly small ones, though Dragon Bone Smasher is a weapon that works particularly well, as do large hammers like Meat Cleaver and Bramd, if you can weather the damage.
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Parrying tends to be pretty straightforward - wait until they make any kind of attacking movement, there isn't too much timing involved. Occasionally they do attacks that take longer to come out, and you have to be up close to parry, which can be difficult due to their massive range. Backstabs are usually the most effective methods of takedown, even if they hit you chances are you can still stab them from behind. From there, you can constantly hit them in the back, or even wait between attacks and use another backstab to finish them off. Their turning around is so terribly slow they can't make a comeback from there.
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As for melee tactics, using Soul Remains to distract them and then going for a critical hit and finish with several quick strikes works very well on the early Black Skeletons. The best way to do this is as follows: stand back, some distance, but within lock-on range. Then run towards them, forcing them to jump and make a killing strike. If you roll at the moment they jump or just run past them while they are in the air, they will miss, and you can turn around for a quick backstab. It's best not to wear the Thief's Ring or use a spell that hides you, because then you have to be closer to make them jump. If this strategy does not work the first time, just back up and try again. Any fast hitting weapon, like a Dagger, soaked in Turpentine or Black Turpentine will work very, very well.
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Using a Shield to block his attacks will cause him to get pushed back, at this moment you can hit him once or twice and repeat with another block. This is perhaps the most fail-proof and simple strategy against them.
Item Drop
| Enemy Variety | Item Drops |
| All | Soul Remains Uchigatana (rare) Shard of Bladestone |
| 4-2 | Chunk of Bladestone (rare) Pure Bladestone (very rare) |
| Black Phantom | Chunk of Bladestone (rare) Pure Bladestone (very rare) |
Notes & Trivia
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- Other notes, tips, and trivia.
Anonymous
- Anonymous
All Black Skeletons drop both the Chunk of Bladestone and the Pure Bladestone.
- Anonymous
The Black Skeleton that dropped my Pure Bladestone also dropped an Uchigatana! Is that normal or crazy rare?
Can 100% verify Pure Bladestone can drop from the first black skeleton in 4-1. My item discovery is only 68 with the Province ring on and got one.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Why the f*** do these f***ers chase me to the f***ing ends of the f***ing Earth!!! F***ing re***ds at Bluepoint!!!
- Anonymous
Black Skeleton next to Crescent Falchion gave me Pure Bladestone on my first kill of him
- Anonymous
Who thought that this Bladestone farming nonsense was a good Idea? And who thought people need that in a remake?!
- Anonymous
Tbh I find them way easier then the normal/ silver (?) Skeletons
- Anonymous
Fire damage caused them to take a short stagger which is pretty useful but unfortunately it doesn’t stunlock them
- Anonymous
What the hell farming these to get chunks is painful. Hit soul level 67 running between the 2 black skeletons and only killed 2 bosses, got 12 pure and 2 chunks in PBWT with provident ring. Not sure its worth it.
- Anonymous
As many others have pointed out, the skelly right before the boss in 4-1 definitely drops both Chunks and Pure Bladestone (just got one myself, after 250-300+ kills, even with Providential Ring). I can also confirm that the two black skellies earlier in 4-1 can drop Chunks and Pure as well, as I farmed those two on another character for Pure Bladestone when I misread the wiki entry originally, AND no joke as I was typing this I killed them each once again to check and got another Pure.
Skelly in 4-2 might have higher drop rate, hard to say as I never bothered to farm it that much since it's easily 2-3x farther than the one above Adjuticator room.
- Anonymous
It took me multiple tries but I also got pure bladestone from black skeleton in 4-1 right before the boss. Way quicker route than the hidden path in 4-2 (which I tried loads and didn't get it).
- Anonymous
I just got a pure bladestone from the black skeleton in 4-1 right before the boss
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Dropped the Pure Bladestone from the 4-2 secret passage Black Skeleton on PWWT, in a few tries. I had the Providential Ring equiped. Not sure if I was blessed by the RNG gods or if the droo rate was lowered in the remake.
- Anonymous
Tested drops using Gold Coin Luck Glitch, Uchigatanas drop practically every time any one of these enemies is defeated. Pure Bladestone and Bladestone Chunks are still extremely rare even with this glitch.
- Anonymous
I just got two bladestone drops, one right after the other, on the Black Katana skeleton in 4-1 right before the Adjudicator boss room. Maybe about an hour of farming total.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
I was soul farming between 4-2 and 4-3 and a random black phantom version was there when I was running back to my bloodstain after a nasty fall. Almost gave me a heart attack from the surprise, then he killed me in the tight passageway. What are the conditions for him to spawn in?
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