Elden Ring - Flying Dragon Agheel - Review

Flying Dragon Agheel is one of the most satisfying dragon designs I have ever fought in the entire series and the variants haven't been boring. The design has the best sprinkles from just about every dragon battle throughout the other games and it comes together greatly. I only used Torrent when I needed to close distance quickly and I wanted to explore the fight more closely on foot which is something you can't fully accomplish on Torrent. I also feel that the Torrent mechanic isn't fully developed in my opinion but that's just me.

From Software has struggled for good dragon fights with the early designs being just gimmicks only defeatable through tedious methods then they would finally nail it with Kalameet from the Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss DLC. I'm not going through a list of similarities here because the review would overlap the footage but I also noticed that there isn't any videos out there talking about dragons and how they've evolved so perhaps that's something I could do after my ventures with Elden Ring.

My strategy consisted of reacting properly to the many attack variations of standing in front of Agheel. The best one to approach is a fire breathing attack which allows quite a few hits however I have to be mindful about how long I stay at the feet because there's a compromising attack which is a hovering fire blast. This could be avoided with the proper timing by running towards Agheel however it's a small window of opportunity for my comfort at least. Unfortunately that attack isn't displayed in the video for demonstration but I found that attacking the appropriate amount of times and leaving immediately helped with that situation.

I really loved this fight and it's so awesome that it appears several times in the game because the battle design is so addicting and engaging every time. I want to review the best out of these dragon variants so keep an eye out for that in the future.