Malenia, Blade of Miquella, isn't the final boss of Elden Ring Items, but she may as well be. Yesterday, Bandai Namco released an infographic confirming that Malenia may be the Elden Ring boss that players have struggled with the most with 329 million attempts on her behalf life because of the game’s release. And based on one Redditor’s math, that number comes down to Malenia killing ten Tarnished every second.

It’s fairly simple to follow along with user 20mgAddy calculation. There are roughly 32 million seconds each year, so divide 329 million attempts by 32 million, and also you get a little over 10 attempts per second. And we are able to assume nearly all those attempts don't succeed, ergo a defunct Tarnished.

Ah, however, many of those attempts don’t result in a defunct Tarnished and instead end with Malenia being defeated. We can exercise just how many attempts to create a Tarnished victory because of Steam’s achievements and Bandai Namco’s own numbers. We know that 34.6 percent of Steam players have defeated Malenia at least one time because of the associated achievement and that we know there have been 20 million Elden Rings sold across all platforms. Assuming the speed at which players defeat Malenia continues to be the same across all platforms, and let's assume that the number of Tarnished that replay the sport and defeat Malenia again is vanishingly small, that actually works out to 6.92 million Malenia kills. That’s a success rate of roughly two percent.

So we are able to subtract the successful Malenia kills in the total attempts, and we wind up with 322 million dead Tarnished. And that still works to roughly 10 dead Tarnished every second.

There really are a bunch of other interesting stats within the infographic, like the way the most used spell in elden ring items is Rock Sling because of its efficient MP cost, excellent range, and capability to deal physical damage rather than magic damage. Also, just two percent of Tarnished are killed by other Tarnished, while 14 percent of Tarnished die by falling. So it’s cliffs that are the true Recusants in the end.