Great Runes have undergone a significant overhaul, elevating them into powerful build-defining additions that can distinctly change how a player approaches the game.

Godrick’s Great Rune is intentionally simpler and less powerful than the others, but the remaining Great Runes offer far more dramatic traits. Radahn’s Great Rune, for example, allows the player to survive a fall from any height, while Malenia’s Great Rune grants much broader animation-cancel windows, giving skilled players the ultimate edge in close-quarters combat.

Each Great Rune now comes with three unique abilities, usually designed to compound together around the theme of its associated bearer. Radahn’s Great Rune draws from gravity, Rykard’s from vigor and consumption, and so on.