Bolt

Bolt is a Damage Type in Bloodborne.

General Information

Bolt is a type of damage that deals electrical damage. It is the common weakness of the Kin, ethereal enemies, and generally useful against enemies that use metal armor.

Sources of Bolt

Items

• Bolt Paper
• Tonitrus
• Tiny Tonitrus
• Blood Gems
  • Bolt Blood Gems (converts physical damage into Bolt damage)
  • Odd Bolt Blood Gems (adds static amount of Bolt damage)

Enemies

• Fishman Mage
• Hunters of Despair (Yharnam Hunter)
• Silverbeast

Bosses

• Abhorrent Beast
• Loran Silverbeast
• Darkbeasts (both Loran and Paarl)
• Orphan of Kos

Enemies Weak to Bolt

• Evil Labyrinth Spirit
• Bound Widow
• Kin
  • Brainsucker
  • Celestial Child
  • Celestial Minion
  • Fluorescent Flower
  • Garden of Eyes

Bosses

• Amygdala
• Celestial Emissary
• Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos
• Living Failures
• Rom, the Vacuous Spider
• The One Reborn

Resisting Bolt

• Henryk's Hunter Set
• Dissipating/Great Lake runes

Notes

• It is one of the least common forms of damage.
• The Snail Women are completely immune to Bolt damage.

Trivia

• Bolt damage is strangely attributed with the uttermost final stages of beasthood, as the oldest Beasts found in the game, the Silverbeast, Abhorrent Beast and Darkbeasts all produce it innately.
• Most of the sources of usable items that deal bolt damage were the inventions of Archibald.