Blood-starved Beast | Bloodborne Wiki

	Pungent Blood Cocktails attract this enemy, making it vulnerable for few seconds.
	Shaman Bone Blades don't affect this enemy, making the item ineffective.

Boss Defenses (Old Yharnam)
	107		172		180
	107		59		X
	107		172		-
	107		999

Game Cycle
1st	(NG)	3470	6600
2nd	(NG+)	15831	62747
3rd	(NG+2)	16939	69021
4th	(NG+3)	17414	78433
5th	(NG+4)	17889	94120
6th	(NG+5)	18206	125494
7th	(NG+6)	18997	156866

Cooperation & Boss' HP

• Having a summoned ally doesn't alter the health or difficulty of the enemies you'll fight, but it does affect the bosses. To ensure they are still a challenge, boss health, showed in table above, is increased to 1.5x when a second co-op player enters your world, and to 2.0x when a third enters.

• Phase 1 Strategy: The Blood-starved Beast is most vulnerable during the first Phase, due to its slow movement and minimal aggression. You can avoid all of its attacks by circling clockwise around it at a very close distance, or quickstepping to be safe. Beware that both its Slow & Fast Combos can clip you if you close in to attack before the combo finishes. If you're using a fast weapon, you can employ charged R2 attacks from behind followed by a Visceral Attack. If you're confident in your timing, you can interrupt all of the Blood-Starved Beast's attacks -just be aware that doing so later in the fight can be extremely risky. Remember to stay close, and take advantage of his scream that signals Phase 2; a few R1 hits or a charged R2 to the back can add some significant damage.

• Phase 2 Strategy: Watch out for the boss' grab during this Phase and try to avoid being hit - even a glancing blow from its claws will inflict an enormous amount of slow poison build-up. Watch for it to stop walking and stare forward for a moment; that signals an oncoming grab attack. You can still avoid all of its attacks by rotating or quickstepping past it in a clockwise direction - do your best to stay behind it, as it cannot reach you in this position. Continue using Pungent Blood Cocktails to lure it into a vulnerable area, or punish its attacks from behind. Be aware of the scream that signals Phase 3 and punish it appropriately with a charged R2 from behind and a Visceral Attack or several R1 attacks.

• Phase 3 Strategy: Your priority during this Phase is to finish the boss as quickly as possible, though you'll also need to pay careful attention to its attacks in order to avoid being poisoned or grabbed. Make every effort to stay behind the boss and don't get greedy with your melee attacks; attempting to interrupt it during this Phase is extremely risky, due to its unpredictability.
• As in the previous Phases, you can avoid all of its attacks with very close clockwise rotation or quicksteps, but be aware of its poison aura if it has successfully used Poison Blast. When the Blood-starved Beast retreats and begins emitting jets of brown mist, it is readying its Poison Blast; while this move has heavy super armor, you can cancel it by repeatedly striking the boss' head with quick R1 attacks or landing a charged R2 from behind followed by a Visceral Attack. Pungent Blood Cocktails still attract Blood-Starved Beast in this Phase, so use them if necessary for some free damage.

• For enemies that also appear (or exclusively appear) in dungeons, their stats will be shown at the base level, because their exact stats at any given point are calculated from these base values. The basic formula is: Total Value = Base x A x B x C x D. Multipliers written down below were datamined directly from the game files. Multiplier A represents depth (1 - 5) of the chalice dungeon; multiplier B is layer (1 - 4) of the specific chalice dungeon; multiplier C is used when dungeon is Pthumeru Ihyll; multiplier D is for calculating blood echoes when additional curse rite is used.