5 Best Builds to Beat Promised Consort Radahn

[@ainrun]

Unfortunately the Impenetrable Thorns have been nerfed with the latest patch (30th July 2024). The rest of the builds are unaffected though.

[@DMOE22]

Bro I beat him on my 1st one with the thorns and I didn't even know it was meta. And now I can't do it again bc they make it pretty ass 😔

[@ravykam5194]

Fucking Miyazaki, spending all his time on KZbin to find the guys that melt the final boss pretty easily, ridiculous. Thx anyway lol.

[@aufmajen]

I used scarlet aonia + blasphemous blade. The rot works very well. I also yelled a lot, cursed From Software, wondered why I was inflicting so much pain on myself, and questioned the meaning of life. After 48 tries, I beat him. Mimic was the MVP though. I'm sorry I yelled at my mimic so much "hit him!!! What the f*** are you doing?! Help me!!!"

[@TheLowenstein]

I remember the good old days of Tiche flying in out of tower and pouncing on enemies. Good times

[@plantman1093]

My mimic became a simp half fight, can’t believe he betrayed me like this

[@luqqs3047]

48, jesus it took me 500, i did parry only but it seemed like the best option without summon and built switch off quality.

[@gabzsy4924]

​@@luqqs3047 500?! Bro this surely is a generic number right?

[@luqqs3047]

@@gabzsy4924 i rounded it was 473, i like to slamm my head against walls tho and i dont summon, i think with good build against him + mimic u can get it down under 100.

[@mr.dilanger]

When Radhn walked out I yelled "YES!! I know this guy, he's a friend from work!"

[@Dinosaur_Senior]

This is heckin epic Reddit Chungus bro! UPDOOT on me!!!

[@rubub8455]

what

[@sasaki999pro]

​@@rubub8455 Its a Thor Ragnarok reference

[@angelsalvador9425]

😂 I'm gonna watch Thor Ragnarok again. Thanks.

[@DaEvilShaman]

@@angelsalvador9425 I understood that reference!

[@melkor5901]

Dryleaf Arts- "How did you beat Radahn?" "He was tough, but even a god has a hard time taking 200 freezing nut shots. I even grabbed and twisted them."

[@SouravBoss08-xo1ix]

What Martial style is that I would love learn that type Martial Arts Irl that has Freezing Testicular Torsion

[@Dolosify]

I was using the dry leaf arts but them switched to danes footwork since it does more guard counter damage. i was doing like 3500 damage per guard counter it was insane! Great video, man!

[@ainrun]

Yes I posted a video where I did a full run with those weapons, they were really fun.

[@jameswtlocs]

Wait how do you do the guard counter with fist???

[@Marco-fs9bs]

@@jameswtlocs deflect hard tear inside your flask(you get that from the first fournace golem you can encounter), then you 2 hand the weapon and when an enemy attack is about to land, you use L1 to block and then, once you have blocked the attack, you use R2 to do the guard counter

[@paint4822]

​@@ainrun So you don't think he's tougher than Darkeater Midir

[@RelativelyBest]

4:03 - Miquella: "You dare use my own spells against me, Tarnished?"

[@lucasreissilva1219]

Radahn, Consort of 40 fps. Really is the worst thing about this boss

[@snazzythesnaz]

40 fps? i get 5

[@saberkiller4567]

My Xbox Series S is struggling. This shit shouldn't be happening

[@hygormotasantos4035]

​​@@saberkiller4567Even PS5 drops some FPS in this bullshit. Not only it makes the fight look way too overdone and messing up with the learning of the moves, it also simply fucks up with whatever console you're on. This really is one of the worst designed bosses ever

[@saberkiller4567]

@@hygormotasantos4035 dude my ps5 can handle everything but really? It's worse than I thought.

[@hygormotasantos4035]

@@saberkiller4567 Just defeated him for the first time. Almost got killed cause of those "echo" attacks, FPS on my PS5 goes to waste on these

[@roberts7873]

Fingerprint Shield. Poking Weapon of Choice. Bleed Grease. Shield Grease. Shield Talismans, Stamina and Stamina Recovery Talismans. 3 Rot Pots to Radahns Face. Ggs. I honestly don't know how else to beat him, outside of spending countless hours learning frame perfect rolls during a laser light show. Fromsofts idea of difficult bosses has ALWAYS been the same. It's the bosses who NEVER STOP attacking.

[@yeab9919]

How do I get the shield if lyndell capital is already ash

[@roberts7873]

@yeab9919 You can get a decent one from an quest NPC just before the boss if you don't have it

[@Glamador]

You say that, but Malenia isn't like that. And she's the next in line for the title after this fucker. She's slow, staggerable, and hardly attacks until you do until phase 2. She's hard for entirely different reasons. And, honestly, 90% of that is just Waterfowl. So I guess it's one of those two, yeah? Either A) never stops attacking and closes distance like a mofo, or B) this would be perfectly doable if it weren't for that ONE fucking attack!

[@HalodrianEnT]

@@GlamadorYeah I went to her right after Radahn in NG+. Felt so confindet and still died like 30 times to waterfowl move. Well but I wanted to meme her with big mouth imp ash. Which is just hilarious. Every shot from that thing knocks her of the feet. I had same RNG happening where she just ragdolls through the arena in phase 1 without ever pulling out one move

[@DreyfusLagoon]

I beat him with parries, kinda negates most of his combos. That and the deflecting hardtear

[@something-g99]

Everyone sleeps on Poleblade of the Bud, it's relatively fast and inflicts Scarlet Rot. Radahn is weaker to piercing weapons so this weapon worked well for me🔥

[@私はクソな中国人です]

I’m not your poleblade, bud

[@SrBlue-qp2ux]

its awful and the scarlet rot build up is slow to the point of being near useless against consort radahn.

[@saberkiller4567]

Nah use the Rot Rapier. Way faster

[@SharkSuitJoker]

I used antspur rapier for faster scarlet rot buildup

[@businessgoose69]

This Radahn guy has some pretty cool looking swords, I bet they'd make it easy to kill Radahn if you had them

[@MattDean-o1t]

😂

[@BriefKeef]

Nahh

[@ravenspurplebeats5412]

there neat swords he has, but they arnt all that great to use against him also.

[@Haviprime]

This was one of the most informative videos on the topic, thanks. Every other video is like "mimc, finger shield, poke"

[@LAK_770]

Radahn was the first fight where I actually recorded and studied footage of my deaths just to beat him. I do this for no-hit runs but never for just making it out alive. Phase 2 is so oppressive at first that you just die without learning anything. Wound up doing it in like 55 tries with Square Off, but had to learn literally every move the hard way

[@cazzenova9286]

i was already planning a Thorns/Bleed style build but this boss is the ONLY one in the entirety of the DLC that forced me to respec off my current Death Sorceries witch build, thank you for that lol it worked like a charm, cheers mate

[@TurnedYapper]

Same!!! This is the only boss in the ENTIRE game, except for Rykard because of his gimmick, that made me HAVE to change from my dragon build. I still haven’t beat him, but I’m only like 30-40 tries in. I’m trying to steer clear of the Fingerprint Shield and poke method, but I’m about to cave to an Impenetrable Thorns bleed build. This will probably be the only boss in the whole Soulsborne series that I beat once and have no interest in fighting again. I LOVE phase 1, but phase 2 is just pure, unbridled chaos!

[@SharkSuitJoker]

​@@TurnedYapperdid you beat him?

[@TurnedYapper]

@@SharkSuitJoker I have indeed beat him. Thanks for checking lol

[@1996NAB]

Reporting back to this video to say that THIS GUIDE HELPED ME FINALLY BEAT RADAHN. Specifically the impenetrable thorns one. I've never beat a boss with anything but a sword before now, but that one looked so fun, so I respec-ed into Arcane and Int and after a bunch more tries I finally got it. Thank you so much for this guide man, I'm now using that same build to help friends through other bosses in the game and it's blowing everyone's minds!

[@ainrun]

That's nice, GGs on the win.

[@puffii_]

I genuinely found going in with a shield with carian retaliation and an antspur rapier and parrying him to be the easiest strategy for this fight

[@1Maan1]

That is exactly what I am doing except I am golden parrying him

[@jimjim4034]

This boss forced me to learn how to use the Buckler shield. It honestly made this fight a joke. Highly recommend it if you’re having trouble (pair it with the Miséricorde)

[@giantslayer9335]

Oh my god it’s Gwyn all over again

[@scal221]

Yeah for the first phase.. the second is just Michael bay mind wtf

[@jimjim4034]

@@scal221 Trust me if you stay right on him at all times he’s pretty free (if you’re parrying). Just takes s bit of practice

[@nik991]

Yeah and then they Say its the hardest fromsoft boss

[@Zeke1460]

I managed to beat him! Used Cold Milady. Basically didn’t even touch my ashes of war lmao. Wing stance can be good for closing diatances and doing decent damage. But anything can work if you have enough time to land it.

[@Xternnal]

I was still able to beat NG+7 Consort Radahn with the good old Scavengers Bleed power standing jump attack build, strong base game build still carried me through the DLC

[@darkrot824]

I used sword of light and darkness, multilayered ring of light and Radagon’s rings to destroy this boss both in 1 and 2 phase in ng+, and I was doing 10k damage with Radagon’s rings in first phase and over 4k damage with multilayered ring of light in 2nd phase. So yeah, don’t sleep on holy damage especially in the dlc.

[@ericjensen7580]

You can counter act his meteors with Rannis darkmoon if cast immediately after you dodge his jump into the air. Ranni's darkmoon can also be cast immediately after he does his light speed attack if you are near him when he starts it.

[@boredflandre8234]

Don’t forget Fingerprint Shield + Antspur Rapider. Total cheese.

[@私はクソな中国人です]

I used mohgwyn spear instead works very nicely

[@roberts7873]

Sword Spear and Bleed Grease did the trick. And 3 heft rot pots

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

If you can use the scholars shield or shield grease… yeah gg Radahn it’s over

[@toospooky5929]

Honestly can't believe a video with builds to beat Radahn doesn't include this. Just L1 poke to death, completely ignore his entire moveset, he becomes a complete joke.

[@cabailey]

toxic gamer alert

[@ericjensen7580]

Also any hyper armor high stagger ash + melanias rune and defensive buffs are strong against him. I havent done him with deflect tear, but i have a feeling thats the real GOAT

[@eltondesouzacarneiro4811]

My build made him fall in second try, a simply wolfchest shield and carian sorcery sword, buff the shield with the shield buff spell and have fun. * Guarding strikes when he uses his aoe stuff like the pull and the leaping strikes. * His normal combos can be easily parryed, even in second phase. * If you cant parry, keep the guarding strikes, but take care of your stamina. Talis: [dragon crest shield/shield talisman/radagon icon/ godfrey icon) Why the icons? Its a int build , it is indeed focused in melee combat, but uses carian sword spells for extra sauce :3

[@rinzler168]

Phase 2 is just so wild 😂

[@Afrocypher9590]

It's a bunch of bs!

[@dutchblazewell6289]

Cold cross naginata + heavy fingerprint shield helped me. Its special because it has pierce, frost and bleed which he's weak to AND you can attack while blocking. Yep. You can poke radahn during most of his combos. Talismans were two headed turtle, greatshield, golden braid, and dragon rest greatshield. Good luck!! ❤

[@averyconners3478]

Which armor is being worn for the thorns build with the fur and the collar?

[@Nazyairsengikar]

He is the hardest, I have beaten all souls games and platinumed 6 of them. And this guy is the hardest to win legit on 3rd playthrough.

[@whitestar8965]

Thank you for the hint! Multilayered rings of light made short work of him. Was running 70 INT 45 FTH so I used the golden order seal to cast the spell while holding the dryleaf seal on the other.

[@Xhalow0]

5:28 "Oh i missread that" proceeds to take 0 damage and avoid the attack perfectly😂😂

[@Personage9487]

Instead of using the smithscript daggers I would recommend using the claws of night because: 1. Claws do more dps 2. Better scaling 3. Way easier to proc bleed or frost So basically, the smithscript daggers are just completely outclassed by the claws of night.

[@Melesniannon]

Fun fact, Multilayered rings of light is boosted by the Goldmask to make that spell even better.

[@86lanzo]

Best build to beat Radahn is Mohg spear and fingerprint shield.. ..if you're struggling to find openings..you can just attack and guard at the same time.. You can use the Ash of war when you see and opening for big damage Biggest thing to look out for is phase 2...standing in front of him will see you getting your heat stolen It took me around 6 tries to beat him with this build..use your usual bleed set up and you're good to go.

[@daytonpannell]

Glad i didn't see this video before i beat him. I my lack of self control would've had me cheesing him with the thorns. I can see those getting a huge nerf

[@DreyfusLagoon]

A slept on method to defeating him is slapping carian retaliation on a shield, equipping the dagger talisman and the blade of mercy, and literally just parrying the shit out of him. Any single sword swipe (not the double swipes don’t try to parry those they are not parryable) can be parried with pretty easy and generous timing due to carian retaliation. It’s not how I beat him the first time, but I did it the second time I beat him and it honestly made the fight so much easier. Completely negates a lot of his combos

[@lharsay]

2:16 Actually, the Maternal Staff is kinda bugged right now. instead of only applying a portion of it's arc scaling to blood sorceries for a ~40% status boost like the Albinauric Staff or the Dragon Communion Seal it applies the full 165% arcane scaling to the status build up.

[@ainrun]

oh that's very interesting, explains the one hit bleed procs.

[@jmsantiago1]

Easiest and most consistent by far is Fingerprint Shield + Poke Blood Anspier Rapier. It deals bleed and rot while staying safe behind the shield

[@WinterHE]

I beat him with Deadly Poison Perfume and Poison Antspur with "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice", the absolute nuke when you trigger deadly poison, poison and rot was hilarious!

[@kelakogreenaddict1888]

On my dex/int build, I used Wing of astel + brass shield was the set up I used wing of astel worked wonders on gaius as well (also on romina, but what doesn’t) Brass shield just to block part of that slash-slash-double slash combo which is pretty hard to fully dodge

[@blazefiksen3145]

I use two cross-naginatas, one with bleed and one with frost using chillingly mist. Does the most damage out of stuff I’ve experimented with on ng+7.

[@reybot5125]

You infused the Dryleaf Arts with cold to proc frostbite. I infused the Dryleaf Arts with cold to cosplay Sub-Zero. We are not the same

[@freddypyotr3771]

I still think malenia is a bit harder specially in a first encounter because her life steal is unfair. summoning an ash or shielding still has significant drawbacks against malenia as she can regen of it. if phase 1 malenia is as aggressive as her 2nd phase or as aggressive as radahn then it would be clear cut. I'm not proud of it but in my first playthru against consort Radahn i just hid behind the fingerprint shield, brought 15 health flasks, and poke him patiently with a blood infused messmer soldier spear. Occasionally come guard counters. The same tactic will not work against malenia since she heals of off it and i will simply run out of resources.

[@juggernaut204]

What talismans did you use for the Multilayered rings of light build?

[@Thaddaeus-z4e]

Did they nerf the thorns build cause I’m using it with 89 arcane and it does almost no damage

[@SemadOfficial]

Yes

[@sethlaflash3784]

Black steel great shield works really well with sacred affinity makes it 100% holy resist

[@thugkermit9999]

1.Grab the golden braid from the shaman village 2.Get the lords divine fortification from Gideon ofnir after beating malenia 3.Get as many scadutree fragments as you can There you go this combo will give you 90% damage resistance against holy damage, pop the fortification right as he does his big aoe in phase two and ALL of his holy follow ups stop dealing damage to you Turn his phase 2 back into his phase 1 If you want even more safety against him use the mimic tear and give him marikas blessing plus hefty and normal rot pots Once you use divine fortification your tear will also have the same damage resistance as you making him immune to the holy aoes and giving him an easy full heal he can use repeatedly while also rotting radahn which he is very weak to This boss has a lot of ways to deal with him you just have to know which is the best for you

[@dennismadrid5146]

If your a strength build, you can power stances 2 great stars. The left hand with cold infusion and cold mist to proc frost quickly and the other one should be heavy infused. You then will just use a bleed grease on the heavy infused one or if you have time, blood flame. The boss gives very little window of time for buffs so I recommend just the quick grease. Your best options will be jump attacks and basic R1s. You get a lot of ur health back from this strategy due to its passive. With claw talisman, the new chest piece that boost jump attacks while procing bleed and frost, you should be able to do a lot of dmg

[@Redst0neWiz]

5:00 if anyone cares, you dont even have to fight that misbegotten. If you run past him to the putrescent boss, he follows and falls off the ledge you have to jump over, thus giving you the incant. Happened to me 7 out of 7 times.

[@danielgerich]

I beat him after 7 tries with a great shield and a spear with blood loss, intense and long fight, but working

[@CaptainChubbyDuck]

Is impenettable thorns still worth it? It was nerfed right?

[@SupremeFazLord]

Yes they’re so bad

[@aidenberguson713]

If it’s throb sorcery can’t you use the staff that also builds up thorn sorcerers

[@Sombrita00]

Scarlet Aeonia and Milady was the only thing i needed✨

[@satcheljones]

when i found the putrescance cleaver i'd already been using a cold infused butchering knife - i had bloodhound step on it but switched to savage lion's claw after the DLC came out. imho i think the cold butchering knife is low key better. the damage is similar, the frost is similar, and you get 1% max hp back every time you land a hit. i don't use the cleaver's weapon art really ever, soooo but i'm also biased, because i've loved the butchering knife since release. something about it, lol. brilliant weapon.

[@noybeeswax]

Melenia kicked my ass first play through. I foolishly started NG+ before jumping into the DLC, to make my way through all the bosses to get to Consort Dick Bag. I then saw a build that required Melenia’s Great Rune, so I had to go whomp whomping my way through the Haligtree to face her again, and she wiped the floor with me 7 times again before I got my groove back and beat her. Consort Dick Bag is still whooping my ass, I’ve tried every strategy. And so here I am.

[@Wolf_Spark]

The only Build that I've seen working on him reliable was: Blood Antspur Rapier, Finger Stone shield (or any shield that is similar with it). Holly Vow and Scholar Shield (Glint stone staff and finger seal for these two). As for talisman I went for Green Turtle, Lord of Blood Exultation, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and Erd tree Favor +1 (you can get better one but that's the one i had). And that's the build, basically all you do is hold your shield and poke at him until he dies. If you need more help, you can throw your mimic at him too.

[@magiccookie3191]

But why did you need to fight her again. You keep the great runes from your previous run, you just need to restore the power of them in a divine tower

[@johnfrankster3244]

You cant access isolated divine tower until she dies.

[@longpham3877]

how did you do 5k damage with the ring of light cause i used everything in the vid with 99 faith too

[@ulysses8722]

Ty, cleared it pretty quick with the thorns build, gonna grind back here and try it with a melee build next

[@levismith8423]

I had two people help me beat him, and I'm not ashamed. It still came down to either me or him losing the fight.

[@hassansyed4135]

I was going through a Dragonborn build where I used both dragon communion, dragon cult and ancient dragon weapons and spells, and it was going well until this boss. I wish it was at least viable without becoming a speedrunner.

[@shadowfurydono]

It took me around 50 tries at my first attempt. Couldn't do it. Was about to break and use summons but shifted to shield poke setup. Did it in 2 tries. Then second time it took me another 30 attempts but finally got solo kill with zweihander. Now I can beat him everytime(in less than 5 attempts) with any decent weapon! So those attempts did bear fruit!

[@dragoon3219]

Any decent greatshield with the Antspur (blood infused with poison mist ash). You just shield poke him until he drops, not even an issue. The double stack of rot and poison eat him alive and the bleed procs just speed it along. The grab in phase two is literally the only thing he can even hope to win with.

[@Killa_3]

For anyone struggling he didnt actually put the best build to beat him but some in comments has said, its basically shield and poke, you may have to respec your guy but its pretty much easy mode , just get defensive and stamina talismans and holy negation, and make sure to use scholar sheild which is a spell to boost your shield, also upgrade the sheild for highest gaurd boost ( fingerprint or the new moore shield is good, or black shield from rift castle as v high holy negation if your struggling for strength on the first two shields) for poke i used nagakiba spear, but if you have arcane and can get better bleed then any long blade that pokes will do, also second faze pop flask for stamina refill and whatever else you may struggle with. It took a few tries but got it done pretty easy

[@DarkBeforeSpawn]

Taylew Golem summon and Heal from Afar, stay locked onto Radhan when you wanna heal Taylew since Radhan is almost always in Taylew's face.

[@rickrogan2355]

I died 50+ trying my best against this boss. Impenetrable thorns... 2 tries. And the 1 try that I died because my cat jumped in front of my screen and refused to move. Thank you.

[@sonictelephone1526]

I feline your pain 🥁

[@VasPsy-o1q]

I'm still struggling with this one, but after I spent all larval tears trying out different builds and died 63 times, I do a lot of damage and go easier to the second phase with a faith build. I have equipped the godslayer seal upgraded to its maximum and the blasphemous blade as a weapon. Black flame wall and rotten butterflies from romina do a lot of damage too.

[@hellogoodbye3786]

Devonias hammer + deflect tear + guard counter, double turtle neck, and two handed sword talismans shreds radahn

[@peetuaarila1267]

How did you do su much damage with putrescent cleaver? I barely do half of what youre doing!

[@GMurph2336]

Because he’s level 401

[@animatesynphony2716]

Claws of night are an insane sleeper on this boss, 2 boint blank ashes proc bleed and if needed can use range on it asaell as the r2 moveset being thrown but the lights where fast acting melee claw set.

[@adonizzthetitan]

I eventually got tired of getting him to down 10% health so the way that i beat him was that i put on the antspur rapier and verdigris greatshield with the greatshield talisman and kindred of rot exultation and proceeded to poke him while blocking absolutely every attack and barely taking any damage

[@dreamer0093]

what armor is he using in the dryleaf arts section? it looks sick

[@KingOfMalevolence]

On my second play through I did a magic build and I decided to try carian slicer for this boss because I was struggling a bit and wanted to experiment. I didn't know it was so strong, why does that magic have more dps than anything in the game??? Legit 2-3k damage every time he gave me an opening, more than 4k on longer openings.

[@leonardotranzillo5571]

what ash of war are you using with the fist and if you are not using one how do you deal forst? amazing video!!

[@ainrun]

The Black Whetblade allows you to put Cold Affinity with any Ash of War.

[@Bleachdemon88]

Thanks for the video, I just got the multi layer rings of light and I’m a strength faith build so this is the method I’ll try when I get to him

[@darnelldyson4590]

Radhan is a beast and enjoyed the 50 plus times it took me to beat him! Thank you Software, for not making him easy! ❤

[@mukelson]

Big hammer from the black knights (sacred infused), perfect block tear, guard talisman, physical and sacred defense talismans, Malenia great rune. just attack with guard counters, 3 of those will stagger. best build for me

[@ericwilliams7945]

I’ve been using my strength/int build and ita got me through most of the dlc except for radahn

[@CthulhuianBunny]

I had completely forgotten about the deflecting hard tear. I've probably been making things way harder than they need to be on my dryleaf arts playthrough.

[@miiBrawler699]

7:42 How does he do this trick? this attack with both hands how does he do it?

[@ainrun]

It's a guard counter. Block/deflect then immediately Right Trigger.

[@miiBrawler699]

@@ainrun This is good to combine with a magnificent exile

[@dinenpine]

Thanks for the various tips. I was able to beat him utilizing your first tip about about the impenetrable thorns and it made the fight much, much less of a slog than Malenia. This was my third playthrough of the core game. First time was a sort of janky strength build (random stats put into dumb shit so I could try to use heal spells or magic not knowing theres 2 kinds of magic, they both require different weapons to even use them, and theyre basically useless with the minimal stat investment). Whole game thinking this is some Zelda shit rocking a shield and a stupid lordsworn straight sword I found early in the game and just kept upgrading cause this was my first Fromsoft game and I had no idea how any of the mechanics worked. After that, my thoughts were "that game would have been waaaayyy funner had they explained the fkn mechanics throughout the game" and I played a second time using a hybrid dex / faith build. Also the youtube / reddit elitists brainwashed me into doing it no summon (never again, thats some unenjoyable bullshit lol). After that I wanted to try a pure int / sorcery build plus get Frenzy ending for the Plat trophy. DLC came out before I finished it so I could jump right in kinda halfway through that playthrough. Quickly learned that "damn all the shiny new weapons I wanna play with dont really fit a mostly int build." Eventually get to Radahn and run it for a couple hours solo, w/ Mimic, with Ansbach, w/ Mimic and Ansbach, w/ Mimic, Ansbach and Thollier to get a feel for the fight with various conditions. Results are not ideal. Both NPCs make him insanely tanky, one NPC makes it harder to read and dodge the few patterns Ive got down, the mimic and one NPC can DPS burst him to second phase just to leave me to die, and solo aint no way I can realistically dodge through 100+ combo sequences to sneak in 100+ single attacks. Research online and see a pretty successful tank build, but Id have to respec completely. See another one using the new Troll summon while healing from afar and hiding behind giant shield so thats also a respec. Then I find your video and see the thorn sorcery. At first Im thinking "arcane is my crappiest stat so bleed won't be as effective". After playing around with the with the idea in my head though, I think "I have the staff of the guilty thats been collecting dust. I can upgrade it, throw it in the offhand to make up for the low arcane and drop my useless shield. The mimic will have it too. Ansbach can inflict bleed, and Im good enough at dodging for a bit that I could keep pulling aggro back to me to give the summons time to heal. Also crack the physick to heal allies and I can probably ensure they dont die by the second phase. From there, just play/dodge enough just to pull aggro back to me a few times (use the perfume with the one time damage mitigation if I can get it off), and I think this sounds pretty valid. And it did, quickly. So thank you for the ideas that inspired the strategy. Malenia 1st time w/ Mimic and ROB took like 12 hours split over 4 days, Malenia 2nd time no summon same thing more or less, integrating your idea into what I could do, Consort Radahn 3 hours over 2 days. So thank you for saving me a few more days of pain, you a real one 💯

[@donxcuses9810]

We got Ainrun turning family friendly before we got gta 6

[@austins.2495]

Okay

[@jhond5]

The thorns were nerfed like a week ago, the bleed build up decreased frok 72 to 17

[@lilflax0396]

The worst part about learning that dryleaf is good against radahn is that I used dryleaf for most of my dlc run but I was too scared to fight him properly so I just summoned or looked for cheese builds online.

[@jen_s_13]

If anyone has trouble and is using mimic tear plus the two npc coops aim for trying prayerful strike ash of war-Dropped by an invisible Teardrop Scarab leaving glowing footprints under the short rocky tunnel on the lake next to the western entrance to Leyndell, Royal Capital- on a compatible weapon with a defensive build. Not only you heal yourself when you use this aow but you also heal your mimic (and mimic heals you and the npc coops at close range when it uses this aow keeping your mimic and npc coops healthy for phase 2) and npc coops since everyone is fighting close range. Also suggest a shield with high guard boost + shield grease or scholars shield

[@James-kv3ll]

“Packs a heavy punch, literally” and “fist weapons” When describing a weapon that literally does not punch. It just has kicks and palm strikes

[@vanceh706]

I’ve beaten him about 40 times now through co-op just helping people, i’d say nothing comes close to a status effect shield poke build using the fingerprint shield and scholar’s armament

[@nealbachman2708]

I used a keen uchigatana and a keen nagakiba dual wielding with no armor. Then I used mimic tear at the start of second phase. I died to him a lot doing the fight without mimic so by the time I used mimic I knew the fight pretty well. Once I started using mimic tear, I beat him second try.

[@zieglerphillip7560]

Dual Godskin Peeler Jump-Multihit-Bleedbuilt was the way for me

[@TwistedFeetMH]

Me with the Great Katana on my Dex/Arc and Black Knight Hammer on my Str/Fth chars: “hmmm interesting” I might try the thorns on my Int/str char

[@dankmemelord629]

No Fingerprint shield? That with barricade shield AoE, greatshield talisman, Two-Headed Turtle Talisman and a blood antspur rapier is ER easy mode.

[@shadowrunner0]

Took me 15 min to beat him, no summons, just fingerprint shield and bloody helice, this would not fly with malenia 😂

[@roberts7873]

It's the only way I could think of. Learning all the rolls is way too much trouble

[@onywibisono7768]

actually, its harder with npc summon 😓

[@matteomarcolin9367]

I used the ability of Reduvia with the lord of blood’s exultation, summoning Mimic Tear.

[@roymug1623]

Maybe im weird but i had dlc radahn in my 3th try and the sunflower took me over 50 trys

[@skipjacks85]

Welcome to souls boss logic lol

[@oscarmedina2050]

hey man do you have the build for the putrescence cleaver?

[@GMurph2336]

His build is literally just 60 in every stat. It’s not a build.

[@jcgrissom4067]

Wait i dont understand why you didnt take damage at all from the savage lions claw. I know palm blast gives hyper armor but you still take damage you just dont get staggered

[@constipation4650]

There is an alternative weapon that can be as good, or even better than the Putrescence Cleaver. That's the Death Poker, that weapon helped me a fuckton in the DLC and beating Radahn aswell. It's Ash of War is still busted.

[@FrancoMena-df8mk]

Whats the build you used for the impenetrable thorns? i seem to not be doing as much as damage

[@ainrun]

Maternal Staff and 99 arcane is the most important thing, anything else doesn't matter. You will get 1 hit bleed procs with just those two things.

[@wintercast1337]

Carrian retaliation + miscerode. Ever faithful

[@wasayqureshi34]

Amazing video. In the smithscript dagger section, it looks like you’re able to just stand there and tank radahn’s holy attacks like the big ass explosion he starts phase 2 with or the continuous afterimage strikes that follow after he attacks with his meteor. How?

[@ainrun]

Deflecting Hardtear, you have to deflect the attack.

[@ilyakopil2933]

Can somebody tell the build details of the multilayered ring of light build? Like what are the talismans, second tear used, other incantations etc? Would really appreciate it!

[@ainrun]

Just get a lot of faith and upgrade the seal to max. You can equip flock's canvas talisman for more damage but better go with defense talismans like Dragoncrest Greatshield and Golden Braid

[@EmilKlingberg]

Beat him with the claws of night pretty easy, i reccomend trying them for those who havent, shard of alex and the new throwing talisman buffs the Aow

[@just_a_guy10]

I beat him with the euphoria twinblade first phase it melts him second phase not so much so maybe switch to something else if you don’t know how to dodge but i definitely recommend Euphoria for 1st phase

[@AlecFortescue]

I was at it for few hours with an int build. got frustrated, specced into thorns and got him on first attempt. T_T