Tooth Whip
Tooth Whip is a Shadow of the Erdtree whip found in the Whipping Hut at Bonny Village. Its diseased teeth build poison, and Painful Strike lashes a target while temporarily reducing its stamina recovery, creating a cruel control-oriented sidearm.
Key Takeaways
DLC whip with innate Sleep
Tooth Whip is a Shadow of the Erdtree whip whose defining feature is innate Sleep buildup, distinguishing it from ordinary whips that do not naturally apply that status.
Status-dependent pressure
Its main strength is repeated close-range pressure against enemies susceptible to Sleep; the status is not a universal solution and becomes less valuable against resistant or unaffected targets.
DLC availability
The weapon requires the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, so it is unavailable in the base game and cannot serve as an early base-game whip option.
Somber upgrade path
Tooth Whip follows a Somber Smithing Stone upgrade path rather than the standard reinforcement route, which affects how it competes for upgrade materials.
Whip-class trade-off
Compared with other whips, Tooth Whip trades the class's spacing and flexible attack patterns for a status-focused role, making Sleep susceptibility more important than raw class similarity when choosing an alternative.
Overview
Tooth Whip is a Shadow of the Erdtree weapon in Elden Ring, built around the whip moveset and innate blood-loss buildup. Its toothed construction and unusual weapon skill distinguish it from the more conventional whips found in the base game.
As a whip, Tooth Whip emphasizes spacing, sweeping attacks, and status pressure rather than shield use or heavy stagger. Its reach lets the wielder threaten enemies from outside many ordinary melee ranges, while its bleed buildup gives repeated hits a payoff against targets vulnerable to hemorrhage.
Tooth Whip is a DLC weapon rather than an alternate form of a base-game whip. It suits characters already using Dexterity-oriented melee weapons who want to add a whip’s evasive spacing and status-focused pressure without changing to a completely different combat role.
Statistics
Elden Ring publishes no 0–100 stat bars, so this page lists the verified requirements, scaling and handling figures instead. Taken from the project's verified weapons database, not from generated text.
- CategoryWhips
- Damage TypeSlash
- Primary ScalingDex D
- Weight2.5
- SkillWhip Skill
- Str Req8
- Dex Req13
- How to ObtainCommon enemy drop
Figures verified against Consolidated Game Weapons Database.
Compared to similar whips
| Weapon | Str Req | Dex Req | Weight | Primary Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tooth Whip | 8 | 13 | 2.5 | Dex D |
| Euporia | 8 | 15 | 3 | Fai D |
| Whip | 7 | 17 | 3 | Dex D |
| Petal Whip | 8 | 15 | 3 | Dex C |
| Fire Whip | 8 | 15 | 3 | Fai D |
Requirements, scaling grades and weight are the game’s own published figures. From Consolidated Game Weapons Database.
How to Obtain
- Shadow of the Erdtree DLC access.
- 01Enter the Shadow of the Erdtree area and travel to Bonny Village in southern Scadu Altus. Search the village for the corpse bearing the Tooth Whip; loot it directly. This is a guaranteed world pickup rather than a vendor purchase, enemy drop, boss reward, or quest reward.
Availability
Requires Shadow of the Erdtree is required.
Tooth Whip is not available in the Elden Ring base game.
Requires Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.
Availability is tied to the DLC; no separate difficulty, mode, or vendor-stock restriction is established here.
Mechanics and Handling
Whip spacing and status pressure
Tooth Whip uses the broad, flexible attack arcs associated with Elden Ring’s whip class. Its swings can catch targets outside the immediate range of many short weapons and are useful for maintaining distance, but the attack commitment and curved hit path make precise single-target punishment less consistent in tight spaces. Its attacks also build Blood Loss, so repeated contact matters more than judging each strike only by its immediate damage.
Painful Strike
The weapon’s skill, Painful Strike, drives the whip into the ground before following with an overhead swing. The skill rewards successive connections: its attack power increases when the sequence continues to hit. It is therefore most useful when the target is committed, staggered, or large enough to keep both parts of the action in range; using it at the edge of an enemy’s reach can cause the follow-up to miss. The weapon has no ammunition or magazine cycle, while skill use still follows Elden Ring’s normal FP rules.
Upgrades and Variants
Strengths, Weaknesses and Best Uses
Strengths
- Innate poison buildup gives repeated attacks a status-pressure role without relying on an affinity change.
- Whip attacks provide useful reach and cannot be parried through their ordinary attack animations, helping maintain distance against many humanoid opponents.
Weaknesses
- Whips generally deal limited poise damage, making Tooth Whip less suited to stagger-focused combat than heavier melee classes.
- It cannot perform critical attacks, so openings that would normally support a riposte do not provide the same payoff.
Best uses
- Poison-oriented PvE setups that can maintain contact long enough for buildup to matter.
- Spacing-focused play against human-sized enemies, where its reach and unparryable ordinary attacks can reduce the need to trade at close range.
Compared With Similar Weapons
| Weapon | Class/role | Distinctive trait | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tooth Whip | Innate poison buildup and the Brush Off skill | Players seeking a whip with poison pressure and a fixed identity | — |
| Thorned Whip | Innate blood loss buildup | Bleed-focused Dexterity or Arcane setups | — |
| Hoslow's Petal Whip | Innate blood loss buildup with a different moveset profile | Players wanting a named bleed whip for Dexterity builds | — |
| Urumi | Distinctive flexible blade and thrusting heavy attack | Players prioritizing reach and moveset variety over innate status buildup | — |
Lore and Design
The Tooth Whip’s lore is limited but clearly connects it to the Frenzied Flame. Its item text identifies the weapon as being used by those associated with, or overcome by, that power, while its construction from human teeth gives it a deliberately grotesque character. The weapon therefore contributes to Elden Ring’s depiction of Frenzied Flame followers as practitioners of bodily horror, but no documented developer commentary or broader character history is established here.