These are the TOP 10 Best BONK weapons and builds in Elden Ring ranked! Most of these are strength-focused builds that hit really hard and have high-damage caps. Some are Strength and Faith Builds.

Elden Ring 1.10 TOP 10 Bonk Strength Weapons & Builds Ranked 

These are really fun builds too with many also being overpowered builds that can make the game a bit easier.

TOP 10 - Troll’s Hammer

A mainly physical weapon that is certainly of the Bonk variety, this weapon does a little bit of fire damage and has a small amount of fade scaling, however, it is primarily a strength weapon, and a heavy hitting one at that, this is all around a very powerful setup for a lot of these and you can hit some bosses extremely hard with these high Bonk weapons.

• Weapons: Troll’s Hammer+24 (Right Hand 1), Dragon Communion Seal+10 (Left Hand 1), Heavy Highland Axe+5 (Left Hand 2)

• Armor: Jar (Head)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Roar Medallion, Shard of Alexander, Claw Talisman

• Flasks: Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Spiked Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 70 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 9 - Royal Greatsword

The Royal Greatsword has crazy good AR as it hits over a thousand AR with high stats, even at lower stats around 125 or 150, it can hit between 8 and 900, Howl of Shabriri is really powerful, it's basically a frost version of lion's Claw at 150 for this build, you'll want around 50 strength and 40 intelligence, this is a powerful strength and intelligence weapon that can Bonk with ease, using Frozen hard-hitting Ash of War.

• Weapons: Royal Greatsword +10 (Right Hand), Dragon Communion Seal (Left Hand)

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Magic Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flasks: Opaline Hardtear, Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 50 Strength, 40 Intelligence, 50 Vigor

TOP 8 - Ruins Greatsword

The weapon gets an awesome s in strength scaling, and jump attacks and the ash can do well in combo for a strength build, you can get solid range on the ash while hitting for substantial damage, mixing it charged and jump attacks, speaking of which the charge attacks on the ruins braid sword has a special effect with extra gravity damage that doesn't cost FP, it does a good amount of damage as well, this is a great addition to add enduring fights, making the ruins Greatsword not only a solid strength build, but also a powerful Bonk weapon and build too, this is one you have to try out if you haven't yet, it's also a good colossal weapon in the sense that it can build up a fairly decent amount of posture damage on your enemies too, you're going to see a posture break here on Godrick, we're on New Game Plus 70s in the early game Boss but even so he has decent posture, we're able to break him and then ultimately take him down with the ruins greatsword.

• Weapons: Ruins Greatsword (Right Hand), Dragon Communion Seal+10 (Left Hand)

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman, Shard of Alexander, Claw Talisman

• Flasks: Opaline Hardtear, Spiked Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 149): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 60 Strength, 13 Dexterity, 20 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane.

TOP 7 - Marika’s Hammer

If you build around it a bit, the ash becomes ridiculously powerful all this footage is on the new game plus 7 and all bosses have Max HP, we're able to really beat up the draconic tree Sentinel here, it's not too hard with Marika's Hammer you get that AOE on the ground you get the holy damage, the strength combination, the Stance damage, it all adds up to a lot of damage in general when it comes Hammer this is a very solid strength and Faith weapon.

• Weapons: Marika’s Hammer+10

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Sacred Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flaks: Opaline Hardtear, Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 20 Mind, 28 Endurance, 50 Strength, 13 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 40 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 6 - Rusted Anchor

The Rusted Anchor is a big weapon that could do a lot of damage, jump and charge attacks can do a lot as well as Pierce damage if you throw on something like wild strikes, you can do a crazy good amount of damage and on heavy Affinity, it works really well with an in strength scaling.

• Weapons: Heavy Rusted Anchor+24

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Claw Talisman, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flaks: Opaline Hardtear, Spiked Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 70 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 5 - Starscourge Greatswords

These are awesome for a strength build, they're absolutely in the Bonk weapon, and they're incredibly powerful the Ash has a powerful slam down, that's primarily physical damage and then it has a magic AOE as well that can be boosted by the roar Medallion and Highland ax passive, these great swords also have reasonable weight at 20 giving you two colossal type weapons for the weight of one, this is primarily a strength weapon with minimal intelligence scaling to slam down on the ash, the Starscourge Greatswords are a powerful combination, and if you're looking for a powerful stance weapon especially early in the mid game, not too far into the game for these weapons, you should try these out definitely, they also do additional damage, gravity type enemies like we're done here, another bonus for these heavy hitting swords.

• Weapons: Starscourge Greatswords +10 (Right Hand), Heavy Highland Axe+5 (Left hand)

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Roar Medallion, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flasks: Opaline Hardtear, Magic-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 149): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 60 Strength, 13 Dexterity, 20 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 4 - Great Stars

Great Stars are extremely powerful and heavy Affinity particularly, you get a little bit of bleed build up too, and you can get in some serious stance damage by power stancing these, jump attacks are especially powerful with double great stars, and it absolutely fits the high-powered Bonk build.

• Weapons: Heavy Grant Stars+24

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Claw Talisman, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flasks: Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear, Spiked Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 70 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 3 - Great Mace

This one you can put in heavy or sacred affinity for awesome damage, you can get serious stance damage from the Ash, and the weapon itself is certainly bonkworthy, the great mace you can also get in the Ernie of the Lakes fairly early in the game, jump attacks if you're dual wielding these can give you a lot of stance damage as well as damage in general, great mace is a solid choice for hitting stuff hard as a strength build, so be sure to try this one out also with prayerful strike which combos well here can consistently heal you back HP and keep you alive in those tight situations in those close situations, prayerful strike is incredibly useful.

• Weapons: Sacred Great mace+24

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Sacred Scorpion Charm, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flasks: Opaline Hardtear, Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 20 Mind, 30 Endurance, 28 Strength, 13 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 60 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 2 - Guts Greatsword

This does a really good amount of damage and is one of the best weapons and Ash combinations in Elden Ring, many will tell you Lions Claw on guts is easy mode, and it absolutely is it not only does great damage, it does around 35 to 40 stance damage on each use of its hash as well, this is a powerful combo in heavy affinity and easily makes the number two spot on the Bonk weapons and build list.

• Weapons: Heavy Greatsowrd+24

• Armor: Jar (Head), Raptor’s Black Feathers (Chest), All-Knowing Gauntlets (Arms), Lionel’s Greaves (Legs)

• Talismans: Ritual Sword Talisman, Claw Talisman, Shard of Alexander, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman

• Flasks: Opaline Hardtear, Spiked Cracked Tear

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 70 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane

TOP 1 - One-Hit Giant-Crusher

This weapon is so hard hitting that when buffed up a ton, it could one hit many of the bosses in the game, its AR is insanely High, giving some of the best damage, you'll get from a weapon in Elden Ring, you have the endurance to do wield these if you're using great jars Arsenal, you get a lot of damage out of it that way too, but generally one is enough buff this up to extreme levels and watch bosses disappear in a single bonk.

• Weapons: Flame Art Giant-Crusher+25

• Armor: Mushroom Crown (Head)

• Talismans: Lord of Blood’s Exultation, Red-Feathered Branchsword, Kindred of Rot’s Exultation, Axe Talisman

• Stats (Level 150): 55 Vigor, 21 Mind, 30 Endurance, 70 Strength, 15 Dexterity, 9 Intelligence, 15 Faith, 14 Arcane