Oh your name is like Fred Flintstone

Great video. Some really interesting builds too for someone like me who has completed an RL1 run to bring me back to it to try new strategies. Thank you 👍

Really enjoyed the vid. Also appreciate your use of fighting game lingo when you talk about game mechanics. Will definitely do a RL1 run once I am done with the DLC.

Buddy really called ER “one of the hardest games ever made” 💀

Us human's are very social creatures but goddamn, please just keep your critique to a reddit post and don't waste your time on a video about someone not liking a dlc 💀

I think that’s the dude who introduced everyone to “ludo narrative dissonance” so I hate him, but everyone here is too angry. Also he should get a real KZbinr name like everyone else, why do I have to see his npc government name. joSePh aNdErSoN

In the Inverted tower you can jump from the platform with the npc onto the chandeliers and then to rafters. Makes it much nicer going through there

How viable is shield poking rhykard at level one? Thats what i have taken to doing

this video could’ve been perfect, but that horn riff at the end was 5 beats, and yet you only showed 4 bosses. you could’ve used rellana, bayle, or any other rememberance boss 🥲🥲

33:00 you can also hop on one of the corpse mounds in the arena and then jump to avoid the shockwave. Also for elden beast, getting on and off the horse gives a bunch of i frames you can avoid the sword beam with that.

0:43 why was this included as a gotcha, bugs arent really a subjective opinion? A poor start

Damn! You dropped the video while I'm getting to Malekith, after beating Malenia jajajaja. Great video!

I've got no specific build but stomping Godrick into the ground with a Fire affinity Zweihander doped up on Cragblade at RL1 feels rather satisfying. I like to gather stuff from the Lands Between so this will be the next ten hours or so 🙂

51:20 even easier than Giant Hunting Mirriam is to enter the inverted tower until they aggro, quit out and reload and they're gone, only the fingers and specters to worry about. Won't give you the spell obviously but you can always come back and kill them later.

27:50 you only need to invade three times, they don't need to be successful for being able to do Varré's quest. That is if you can live without the second Greatstars weapon wielded by Magnus, of course 🙂

nice guide but i think part of the most fun in challenge running no hit lvl1 etc is learning how to do so with your own strats and such no hate towards you or anyone if they want to be guided but thats the souls games for me u figure it out the first play through and u figure out how ur gonna challenge run it

First video came out just after I had beaten margit rl1, second vid comes out just after I beat morgott rl1! Timing is impeccable haha now I just need to figure out how to get past Niall without being able to hit trade so I can go fight Malenia, she was my favorite boss first playthrough I freakin loved learning and overcoming her challenge, can't wait to get back to her to fight her some more!!

I’ve done two RL1 runs, one before the DLC and one after. First run i basically just used Bloodhound fang with the occasional Serpent hunter and i even used Stormhawk Deenh for that spicy damage and posture damage boost. I got destroyed by some of these bosses over 50 times but eventually i took them down, thankfully i don’t think any boss took more than 100 tries. Radagon was probably my hardest fight, no not including elden beast, just Radagon, his rampant teleporting in the second half of that fight was too oppressive and i had a bad time dealing with it. But once i did, Elden Beast took no more than 5 tries. My second RL1 run was with the DLC, i ran with the bloodhounds fang again, but this time i wanted to beat up mogh early so i could grab my new favourite weapon, the Milady + wing stance. Mogh was tough with a not fully upgraded weapon and i felt like i could not be consistent enough with his moveset to fight him at this weapon level. Then i decided i’d level up to +10 after a little bit of collecting and i beat him first try with the new weapon level. And then i proceeded to throw my BHF to the wayside as i grabbed myself my favourite weapon. The Milady was pretty much made for me honestly, so fluid, heavy attacks stance break well, great at statuses (i used bleed for basically all of it unless the boss didn’t bleed), and last but not least, Wing Stance. This AOW made fighting bosses so fun because of its heavy attack and how it lets you dodge certain attacks when done at the right time. its basically a jumping attack into a devastating poke, this was before the rellana’s cameo buff so i might even try it again one day with that talisman. And so i proceeded to decimate the base game with the milady, bosses I struggled with BHF all fell much easier, Melania died in only 4 or 5 attempts because the weapon counter her so well with staggers and finding the stagger windows was very rewarding. Radagon, the guy that gave me the l most trouble last time, became almost scripted, Elden beast put up a better fight but tbh it was probably because i suck. With Basegame done, proceeded with the DLC, tried Dancing lion without fragments, realised immediately i was in over my head with this decision and used fragments before i deluded myself further. Dancing Lion was very fun once you realise that lightning phase is best fought defensively and ice attacks are pretty jumpable. Rellana was so damn cool and really shows how good wing stance is, every time she staggers you can do a charged heavy and a follow up slash with the milady before taking the critical, she stay stance broken forma very long time. Some move are jumpable which made wing stance even better and with enough scadutree levels and ritual shield talisman you can survive 1 slash of each sword in a combo. Scadutree was mostly fine tooC though the thorn were a real… thorn in my side… hehe Putrescent knight was very fun as i changed from wing stance to the holy slash for that holy damage buff. Gaius was surprisingly fun, the change is a little jank but everything else is fine. Metyr is probably the fight i had the least fun with but it was still manageable and fine when it comes to RL1. I realised that during the phase transition you get knocked down by the initial AOE but it doesn’t kill you so i tend to do as much damage as possible before i get knocked down and then heal and proceed to heavy attack or wing stance away. The big fuckoff laser sweep also doesn’t one shot with scadu levels and ritual shield so i just tanked the first one and then threw kukris while she was in the air. Bayle was done with Igon and the dragonslayer great katana, i might redo this fight without Igon one day so i can really learn the fight because bayle is probably my hardest fight in the DLC after all the PCR practice. Midra was my favourite fight of this run as usual, one that iMd happily so again, so many moves you can dodge in fun ways and the madness is a lot more deadly as one proc will most likely kill you, just such a fun fight. Speaking of fun fights, Messmer is as peak as always, he kicked my ass the most out of all the bosses so far bur i had a great time the whole way through. Then i got to Radahn… and oh boy… pre nerf made me want to scream, probably the second worst Souls experience i have had. And yet i still did it before the nerf, any negative feeling I had was replaced by pure hype as i took down this broken mess of a final boss and i still wish i had it recorded. Post Nerf Radahn is one i had to mod boss refights in for because i reallt wanted to see if the fight was any more fun, and thankfully, it was! He is so much more readable now, his openings feel great and i feel like deaths are more my fault than before, they did good with Radahn and now i love the boss again. Annnyways, yeah, RL1 was an experience alright

Another great video! I've beaten Godrick RL1 now and was really looking forward to this upload. Cheers!

My eyes have been opened to the fun and satisfaction of playing the game at Level 1. There's just so much you can do. In other Souls games, you're basically railroaded at Level 1. But in Elden Ring, the open world and the massive number of weapons and other options combine to make an extremely versatile and customizable experience. Thank you for this video!

Proud to say you motivated me to start a RL1 run with your last video. i am stuck trying to beat margit with a club and no armor. got him halfway but definitely didn’t have a good set up though. no physick. no upgraded flasks. no upgraded weapons. it’s tough but im getting better and more patient

I got to do a paper on this same topic for school just about a month ago so it's awesome to see one of my favorite creators cover it too :)

Im sure you've had a long and storied career, but I'm just now finding you. From my perspective you've come out of nowhere and bested Thingfishy, who I assumed was one of a kind. This is important work in it's own way and we're grateful for all the work you put in

What are the character sliders?

Great videos man. Found it on Reddit. Subbed.

Finally someone made a video about a level 1 guide for elden ring. My prayers have been answered!

“One of the hardest games in the world” sure

I did my RL1 run shortly after the game came out as my 3rd run of the game. I had seen other people doing RL1 runs with all the buffs and absolutely destroying the bosses. I decided to do what Lobos was doing and beat the game with just the Ringed Finger, because it looked funny. But this video has really shown the wide variety of options for a RL1 run that is still hard but allows more combat expression than the finger did. Might want to try another run! At the very least I'm showing this is my other friends that are on the fence about level 1 runs. This might change their mind about it.

Btw how can you deal with the furnace golem for some tears. I have trouble with those guys even when playing normally.

Level 1 Weapon +0 Thats the only Way 😌

Oh we have a peak video on our hands here, gonna watch it today! Thank you for this massive effort, Gred.

Maliketh is also my blocker now. Cuz I mainly use star fists and that miss a lot. Time to change weapon

Yes! Ringed Finger love. ❤

1:25:30 So annoying that they were able to work around this issue with Malenia, but not the other bosses.

Great video, I haven’t finished it yet, but you’ve already proved to me you can make great content. I’m basically 40 minutes in at this point and it’s great, so I know the rest is gonna be good. This is also a great video for me not just if I actually want to do a rl1 but also just in general. I don’t know what it is maybe I have autism, lol? But I OVER think some things WAYYY TOO much sometimes, not just Elden Ring irl too. I get overwhelmed by the size and span of everything in Elden Ring and I start overthinking how specifically I will be playing. How I will use the rest of my character slots properly. On top of the fact that I sometimes play the game as if it was just my first play through again. It is ANNOYING, it’s like me and my brain are literally two separate entities because I can recognize how dumb this is. Anyway this video is a help because it’s not just a guide it’s also a culmination of just Elden Ring information, you show the locations of items, how fast to get them, the best route to get them. What each damage type does (slash, pierce, blunt, standard) etc. So thank you, for the sake of my mind. Also at 20:00, so off topic but I just gotta bring up the coincidence. When I read Kalè I ALSO thought it was pronounced “Kayle” but the proper way to pronounce Kalè is “Ka lay”… Time for the coincidence: KAYLE is actually a character in my story and is such a rare name, so thanks for the epic reference.

I will likely never attempt beating Elden Ring at lvl 1, and if I do I it will certainly be so far in the future that I will have forgotten all things discussed here; but that wont stop me from watching this because god this series has no right being as entertaining and relaxing as it is!

Aussies are natural Soulslike players because they gain valuable IRL experience dodging and fighting dangerous native fauna from birth. Also, no mention of the Death's Poker? That thing absolutely carries through large chunks of the game (especially useful progressing through levels since it melts trash mobs) and trivializes furnace golems.

I saw your post on r/onebro. That’s how I found your channel and I like it

28:09 You can just kill Irena, though it locks you out of Hyetta's quest. There's also another dead maiden you can use in liurnia at the church where vyke invades you.

For dodging Malenia clones, the easiest way i found is to stay running back when she goes into the air, then jump when the first clone comes slashing towards you. Then you just have to dodge the 3 hits at the end of the attack and can dodge into Malenia and punish

It's always cool to see what strats people use for RL1. I did mine with a mix of Zwei, Great Mace, and Antspur (only for Godfrey/Radagon, was tearing my hair out after a few hours of attempts). Definitely not optimal but I just love the crisp shiny aesthetic and the Zwei charged heavy. Any plans on doing DLC RL1 video? I've been putting off a DLC RL1 run off cause it feels 10x more intimidating than base game.

For those struggling on either regular or mini Mohg, I will add to Gred's point about strafing the fire explosion - if you circle around his right instead of his left, it's tighter, but means you don't have to worry about dodging the followup and you can get off a full charged heavy on even a colossal sword with that!

My build: The most basic of knights you could make. With the knight armour, kite shield and longsword. It's not optimal in the slightest. But it's fun being a little weak knight guy fighting gods. Really makes you feel like the guy on the cover.

Couldnt you just scale the cliffs and kill Makar witnout needing to collect the two great runes

Idk how much it relates to the video but instead of doing rl1 runs with new character I just equip +0 weapon instead and just fight the boss with weapon I usually don’t use but think looks cool. Also I would consider this kind of a shortcut for the lazy part of the audience to try it out haha

We lost Mister Caption and it’s been downhill ever since.

how old are you?

@Gred and fellow one bros... @28:00 he's talking about Varre's quest but you don't need to fight grafted scion you can just end that Lady by the bridge at the entrance to weeping peninsula as well. Faster and easier. Either way is valid but it's always nice to have more options.

This video will piss me off based on how good it is. The better this video the better I will have to make my video. I will leave a comment later on my total thoughts