How To Defeat Everdark Sovereign Caligo In Elden Ring Nightreign

When it comes to spectacle in Elden Ring Nightreign, Caligo, the Fissure in the Fog, certainly does not disappoint in his Everdark Sovereign form: the Miasma of the Night. He brings the cold dark of the night to the table, and only those who come prepared will weather its freezing bite.

But the cold is not the only danger. Ice, it seems, is sturdier than it appears, and unless you have the means to melt or shatter it, you’ll be faced with a wintery bulwark the likes of which have never been seen before. Do you have what it takes to face the freezing Miasma of the Night?

How To Prepare For Everdark Sovereign: Caligo

Only Fire and Strike can get through the bulky defenses of Caligo. For the special gimmick this boss brings, you’ll want at least one of them on each character present.

All resistances are exacerbated by the Frozen Armour that Caligo wears, further negating all damage. This armour can be broken more easily by Fire and Strike damage types.

Caligo is still normally affected by Bleed, Poison, and Rot build-ups.

Before you go galavanting into Caligo’s fight, knowledge of his weaknesses is not enough. The constant Frostbite is also an issue.

Therefore, the best strategy to prepare for Caligo is to trigger the Shifting Earth: Mountaintop. With this active, you must clear the following conditions on Day Two:

The optimal strategy is to ensure you are around Level 9 by Day Two. Then, on Day Two, follow the pattern shown above and listed below:

1. Lone Troll
2. Flying Dragon
3. Demi-Human Swordmaster
4. Objective
5. Mountaintop Dragon
6. Crows
7. Demi-Human Swordmaster
8. Duo Trolls

If you are coming from the east, the optimal order is to do: 8, 7, 6, 3, 4, 5, 2, 1.

Recommended Characters

The best characters for Everdark Sovereign Caligo meet both of these requirements:

1. Access to reliable Fire or Strike damage
2. Ability to reach Caligo’s head or ability to deal reliable stagger

Everdark Sovereign: Caligo’s Moveset

Attack	Wind-Up Tells And Attack Description	Suggested Counters
Frozen Armour	At 70 percent health and below, Caligo can phase-transition. As purple miasma is gathered around him and he hunkers down, he forms a protective coating on Caligo’s body in divided parts: head, body, and tail. Each part can be destroyed and deals damage to Caligo when it is. After an armour part is destroyed, Caligo can repeat this ability at any time, gathering purple energy around himself to regenerate this armour.	This attack only deals damage with an explosion at the end. Deal damage and then back away to distance yourself from the explosion.
Tail Slice	This attack cues like the original Tail Swipe, but as Caligo raises his tail and gathers miasma in it, the following strike also creates a vertical slice that travels forward and has a delayed burst along its path.	Sprint left or right.
Spinning Tail Slice Combo	When pressed from behind, Caligo will whip his tail back three times. He will then spin away, holding his tail in before spinning again and creating a horizontal slice of magic energy that shoots forth.	Dodge under Caligo. Then, rest and prepare to dodge roll forward through the spin.
Spinning Ice: Miasma	Similar to the original Spinning Ice, Caligo slides away from his attackers and gathers Night Frost in his maw. He unleashes it, creating several nodules over the ground. He then raises his tail, gathering energy, before unleashing it on the ground. This tail-slap not only causes the nodules to explode (like in the original fight) but also creates three slices of energy that cut in a fan pattern. Each of these individual slices strike twice, the second attack a delayed explosion along the cut’s path.	Sprint forward after Caligo and then dodge, if necessary, to avoid the nodes. Walk toward Caligo, finding a safe place between the nodes, and then dodge to the side to avoid the slices.
Frozen Night Assault	Flying up into the air, Caligo forms dark ice crystals around him. He then flies toward a single target and unleashes an assault of crystals as he crash lands and skids through them. He does this twice, and on the second landing, he turns and opens his wings to fire several rounds of icy crystals. These crystals are larger than the original form and leave ice patches that significantly raise Frostbite.	Keep your lock-on fixed on Caligo. Prepare to dodge roll twice through the crystals and landing. Copy this strategy for the second landing as well. Then, begin sprinting and dodge-rolling forward to close the distance with Caligo.
Winter Vortex	Gathering Miasma in his wings, Caligo shoots a short laser burst forward. It creates a pillar where it strikes the ground. This pillar detonates after a short delay and creates a spiraling vortex of cold. Inside the vortex, which eventually encircles the whole arena, Frostbite is quickly accumulated. However, the initial vortex also deals chip damage to any player initially inside it.	As the pillar is formed, sprint away from it. Stay as far away from the vortex as possible. Eventually, the Frostbite damage will continue, but the chip damage will not. Once the vortex is visually gone, you can safely charge Caligo.
		It is possible to stagger Caligo during the vortex, causing it to prematurely dissipate.
Winged Night (Original Reskin)	Similar to Caligo’s Roaring Wave, the cue for this move is different but the outcome is similar. Caligo crouches instead, lowering his body as he braces his wings in. After a delay, he lunges forward to unleash a massive wave of cold from both of his wings. There is no follow-up after this.	If close to Caligo, sprint under him to reach behind his wings. If not able to reach Caligo’s far side, sprint left or right and prepare to dodge frantically (if too far to sprint) in that direction.

This version of Caligo is unique among Everdark Sovereigns in that the new phase attacks are largely the same as the original fight: just a new skin with similar flavour.

As such, the difficulty faced in this fight is more a battle of attrition against Caligo’s new gimmick rather than a test of learning new attacks.

Most of Caligo’s attacks unleash purple miasma with stars within; however, this appears to be a more effective, shinier version of Frost Breath attacks.

Moves from Caligo’s first encounter, like the forward Ice Breath attacks, are not included in the list above. While the Frostbite build-up is increased and the color of the frost is changed, many of his moves are mechanically identical – barring some that might have slightly increased hitboxes to be less forgiving to error. For these moves, please study our original guide.

This move, if downed teammates are outside the circle, is the best opportunity to pick them up. It has a large wind-up, and only the tail slices can reach you.

How To Defeat Everdark Sovereign: Caligo

Caligo wants you to learn how to use the Sovereign Sigils to give you a real boost for a fight. Using your Sigils or the Rest mechanic to trigger the Mountaintop Shifting Earth is highly recommended.

As you unlock the secrets of the Mountaintop, you will gain additional resistances to Frostbite, making the effects negligible. Secondly, some will even give you Anti-Dragon effects for increased damage.

The first part of the fight is simply standard fare. Fight Caligo as you would normally in the second phase of his original fight.

However, once you reach the 60-70 percent threshold of his health, Caligo will transform into his new Everdark Sovereign form. Don’t let him get away with it for free, and get some cheap shots in first before retreating.

With his armour on, Caligo will have to be struck with Fire and Strike (Bludgeoning) damage to really feel any pain. Use one or both of these attacks to lob off his armour.

He has three main parts of armour:

1. Head
2. Body
3. Tail

Each can have their armour destroyed to deal an extra amount of damage and temporarily stagger Caligo.

With all this in mind, the main idea behind defeating Caligo is to keep hitting the parts that remove his armour. A good strategy, in a full team, can be to always have one on the head while the other two focus on the body and tail.

This armour can be regenerated each time Caligo repeats his Phase Transition move.

In this process, some might get knocked down. The best moves to get them back up are:

• Spinning Ice: Miasma
• Frozen Armour

If at lower health, you can also get away with picking up teammates during the Frozen Night Assault, making sure you listen for Caligo’s incoming charge.

Eventually, you’ll down Caligo by knocking the scales off this beast. In return for your efforts, you will unlock the rights to his exclusive Relic.