Elden Ring: Best Weapons & Ashes Of War For Hand-To-Hand Builds

is full of weapons and tools for players who want to create characters modeled after medieval knights, samurai, archers, assassins, priests, or sorcerers, but it also contains a decent list of fist and claw weapons that let players create characters styled after boxers, wrestlers, martial arts masters, and other cool pugilist archetypes. Below are some of best fist and claw weapons in 's main game and in the alongside the best Ash of War skills to pair with a pugilist character's hand-to-hand attacks.

Many of the Fist-type weapons found in are styled after the Caestus, a boxing-glove style weapon used by Roman gladiators during boxing tournaments. The Claw-type weapons of, in contrast,owe a lot to the tekagi-shuko claw weapon of Japanese martial arts, the bagh nakhweapon of Hindi martial arts, and the claws of Wolverine from. All the Fist and Claw weapons in can be powerful and useful with the proper character builds. At the same time, certain Fist/Claw weapons — and certain Ashes of War that can be attached to those weapons — aremore useful than others.

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Right after creating a new character in and entering the game's starting area of Limgrave, players can acquire the Katar, a fist weapon modeled after punch daggers from the Indian subcontinent, for free. Simply ride east on Torrent to the Caelid Wilds, head southwest, break into the Fort Gael dungeon, and pick up the Katar weapon from a chest.

By sneaking into thelate-game Dragonbarrow area (possible by locating a secret teleportation gate north of the Mistwood) and riding west, players can also locate an isolated merchant NPC who sells the Spiked Caestus, a boxing-glove weapon covered with barbs.

After defeating Margit, the Fell Omen, and entering the gates of Elden Ring's Stormveil Castle, players canbuy the standard Caestus from the Gatekeeper Gostoc NPC and