Now that the dust has settled, which is the best?

my niggas the shield skelly gang

My wife Lhutel

I have never used the mimic tear because my build is so esoteric the computer can't fathom how to make use of it.

>>714295253 (OP)
Dung eater. I like him

>>714295253 (OP)
Mimic tear is literally me and I suck ass at the game so Tiche.

/v/ sleeping on that knight with the Radahn bow

>>714295253 (OP)
the reality is that any tanky melee summon is good enough. All you want is for it to take aggro and stay alive for 30 seconds

>>714295253 (OP)
a fully upgraded mimic tear will have roughly 4x the player's health. on a maximum vigor build your mimic will have nearly 12,000 health and will just shit on anyone since CPU AI in Elden Ring is as bullshit as enemy AI.

Deenh my one true ally

Lmao 5Rat

>>714297780
Underrated and based spirit, perfect for non spell casting builds cause of the low FP cost

Nobody even remotely competent has ever even summoned a spirit ash. It’s an easy mode designed for children or actual retards.

>>714298280
lol yeah right, just because i can beat the game without ashes doesn't mean i'm not gonna use it to have fun

>>714298280
>why yes I totally derive absolutely every single ounce of self worth by being good at this video game

>>714298280
>Nobody even remotely competent has ever
fake skill fags never play what they want they always metafag and i-frame through everything

>>714298280
they actually expected people to use it, it's why they ended up having to nerf all the dual enemy fights to be less aggressive

>>714296601
If you have too many items on your hotbar the ai freaks out as well. It'll just eat hits trying to use your various items at the wrong time.

>>714298602
lol is that how you cope

>>714298612
On the other hand it gets infinite uses of every item on your bar. So giving it really powerful stuff like perfumes or that healing item that would normally poison you but doesn't the tear is a good strat if you're really struggling.

>>714298602
crazy how the aggression nerf carried over to nightreign

>>714298724
my first run was no summon for the fun of the challenge but it's clear they designed shit around people using it, no way memeazaki could no everyone would decide this tool they give you in the first 10 minutes was off limits

>>714298808
Yea, but I use mimic tear because the only thing more based than one of me is two of me not because I really need it. I don't think most people even realize that you can use the mimic like that either.

im surprised you fags hyped up it as like not beatin ghte game i assumed you got that shit early and could skate through the game, fucking tons of shit you gotta do and progress through 70% of the game just to unlock that shit

>>714295253 (OP)
love my wife tiche

>>714295253 (OP)
It goes: Tiche>Latenna>Lhutel>>>>Miranda Sprouts>>>Mimic Tear

>>714299009
>no way memeazaki could no everyone would decide this tool they give you in the first 10 minutes was off limits
It's only off limits for retarded faggots on /v/ who probably haven't even played the game. If you wanna use blasphemous blade and the mimic go right ahead nobody who's not an insufferable faggot truly gives a shit.

>>714295253 (OP)
Tiche has a trip/knockdown, is highly evasive and does % damage, easily the best.

>>714296971
I used this guy on my last playthrough and he fucking owned, can't believe how little he's talked about. I did end up using the bird warrior from SoTE eventually though.

I use both
t. never played any fromslop

>>714299342
while he's at range he is really good, if he puts away the bow, kinda meh

>>714299342
all the expensive named summons are pretty strong, fart nibba is top

>>714298280
This

>Arigato... Meera

>>714299152
you need to find like 3 sites of grace and then you get the summoning bell, unless you mean mimic tear which is something you can get in the first half

>>714299430
the 2 Knights summon in SotE you get in a sidequest are lame

>>714295253 (OP)
Mimic genuinely got lobotomized after the nerf they gave it, Luthel is the safer option

>>714299009
That's what I do as well for all Fromsoft games, but on ER, by the time I got to the snow part I was so done with the game I just said fuck it and started summoning whenever I could.

>>714299702
the snow area is a slog too

do spirit summons affect matchmaking i'm doing a level 1 run

>>714299690
I haven't tried many of the DLC summons

>>714299838
not for pvp, i guess is the same for pve

I wish the bloodfiend summon was better

>>714295253 (OP)
My nigga Oleg

>Fromslop on the catalog
You troons need to fuck off back to your general like the gacha menace.

Only trannies use spirits tho

>>714295253 (OP)
Finlay is cool but you have to baby her a bit also you get her so late in the game, I just open up CE and use her unupgraded on a new game while cosplaying as her by also spawning the cleanrot armor in CE lol.

The one that didn't get lobotomized twice because the devs haven't made a balanced game in over a decade.

>>714300160
Go read rule 6, specially the second sentence, for this board and then promptly hang yourself you wannabe janny nigger.

>>714295253 (OP)
How is this even a debate?

>>714298280
6/10

Omenkiller Rollo

>>714295253 (OP)