Best Elden Ring Curved Sword? All 19 Curved Swords Ranked! Weapon Tier List Patch 1.16

[@morganelli0t]

It’s still baffling to me how Astel’s remembrance weapon is significantly worse than a weapon named after him that’s in a random chest

[@Sasheto05]

It’s still one of the better remembrances in the game tho

[@dimitrialexandreblaiddyd8246]

if wing of Astel didn't exist Bastard Stars would be a tier

[@grandbean9031]

Well it's just *an* astel's wing. Astel is a species pretty sure.

[@protonjones54]

Bastard stars is also pretty good, not "significantly worse" u quack

[@andrei-cezarbleaje5519]

astel is the name of the race , since there are 2 astels in the game one in the Grand Cloisture and the other one in the Yelough Anix dungeon

[@magganboi1350]

Who would've thought The best stance breaking weapon in the game was a single curved sword? Funny how some things turn out

[@Vengeance_I_m]

And second best stance breaking weapon is Balls of Steel 😂

[@andreprincipe48]

Wings of astel skill destroy the furnace gollens, just spam at their feet

[@JohnSmith-tg9wc]

They need to work stance damage imo. Kinda makes no sense that heavier, larger weapon classes are a lot worse for stance breaking builds.

[@Vengeance_I_m]

@@andreprincipe48 Furnace Golems staggers are not dependent on stagger, but on damage. With carian slicer or pest threads you can stunlock them much quicker. Basically anything that has insane DPS is more suitable than stance breaking options.

[@Vengeance_I_m]

@@JohnSmith-tg9wc no. Larger weapons are still extremely viable, much more viable than any other class in fact. Wing of Astel is the only exception, because it has unique R2. Greathammers and Colossal Weapons are still the best for overall stance damage, every type of their attacks do significantly more stance damage. Jumping R2, charged R2. Bloodfiends Arm and Great Club are insane, their stance damage combined with charged R2 being faster than Straight Sword's. And ashes of war like Lions Claw and Cragblade are just broken with Colossal weapons and Swords

[@Data-AnalystSera]

Honestly the fact that deathblight doesn't affect Leda and friends ticks me off because why not? It's one of the only parts where it would be a viable strat

[@TheDocbach]

Giving the player the choice of using a status effect that instantly kills on proc was a mistake. Only 2 outcomes are possible. Either it becomes the ultimate crutch that makes the game way too easy. Or it is balanced to the point where its basically non-existant or useless. The devs chose the latter.

[@aNaRcLaSm]

Occult Great katana repeating thrust/Blood sword lance repeating thrust/Blood Guts Greatsword spinning gravity thrust go Brrr

[@LoonyLemonJeff]

​@@TheDocbachbut leda fight is cancer, it would be worth

[@poporiporo]

Because some dumbass dev thought “It WoLd Be ToO oP!!!!!”

[@SaltyMaverick]

It was doomed from the start. They couldn't give us something like that or else it would be "too easy". The only place deathblight could be useful in is PvP, and it's garbage even there.

[@phenix2403]

Saw a suggestion somewhere of how to improve death blight: make a lesser effect that can increase the enemies holy damage weakness when procced. Good change to buff holy damage in the base game and death blight at the same time -Also think they should do something similar for frenzy as a status (like maybe it increases fire weakness or general damage negation?) since these status effects are criminally useless in PvE

[@slippy9251]

Imagine if procking death blight/frenzy status made the next source of Holy/fire damage do 2-3 times more damage, that would lead to so many good synergies and build ideas as well as rewarding players who go out of their way to accumulate these sources cause it sucks for a new player to do a hard dungeon or questline and get rewarded with a niche pvp item.

[@l.o.v.e-sick5330]

Wha? Sleep exultation absolutely triggers on sleep stagger, don't know what these comments were talking about. My only guess is that they proc'd with arrows and\or pots and were simply too far for the talisman effect to trigger.

[@phenix2403]

@@l.o.v.e-sick5330 havent played around with it myself yet so wasnt sure, but thats good to know. Ill edit my comment lol

[@unkindled6410]

i think it could be a debuff where, if activated the enemy would be instakilled once in a certain HP threshold. so sorta like a inverse of what destined death does where it instantly saps a percentage of their max HP, once an enemy hits what, 10-15% health it just dies. (unique animation of them being impaled inside out by the roots too) however it could be a shortlived debuff meaning you want to keep reaplying it whenever possible.

[@fishman432]

Favorite weapon category right here

[@chaindorian]

13:20 You say the Nox Flowing has some of the worst range, but show the chart that has it tied for the best range. The Flowing sword near the bottom of the lost is the sword with the dancing heavy attack.

[@Rastacat17]

NGL that ticked me off, thought these vids would be more critical in their analysis but every vid has entries like this, where it feels as though he probably just downloaded gameplay bc how did he think it had bad range?? Did he USE the weapon?

[@DemonLordSparda]

@@Rastacat17 No, he didn't. He is only able to put out videos quickly because he lifts other peoples work. When he's testing on stream he tests weapons in like 3 or 4 of the same scenarios and ranks based on that. Rusty at the very least uses the weapons and gives real numbers. Take a shot every time Youwy says does good damage, does bad damage, basically, really bad, good, high damage, low damage and just punch your own ticket.

[@AxeMain]

17:07 what an awesome transition

[@sne5540]

fr

[@night-v5258]

Didnt realised it, bro cooked

[@wilbert3842]

Shamsir is one of the most underrated weapons in the game probably because it’s in a random hidden cave. Amazing scaling, good damage, great moveset and in limegrave

[@kennyford3168]

Grossmesser in C tier but serpent god curved sword B tier? Never let bro cook again.

[@spongbobsquarepants3922]

Beastman's curved sword is the curved sword that performs best with jump attack bleed. this is with strength arcane, where it has higher AR than Bandit's Curved sword on a dex arcane build or strength arcane build. you want to go bleed with powerstanced curved swords, so Beastman's curved sword is the best curved sword.

[@afrokoku-jin5161]

19:23 You actually get more damage out of a bleed infusion over an occult infusion. Bleed has higher dex and strength scaling, so your physical damage at high levels is higher. Additionally, you get more bleed than an occult infusion.

[@deathandrebirth-y8x]

what about seppoku?

[@issamabdoh394]

10:47 clean transition 👏🏻

[@lharsay]

16:30 Magma Shower also stuns larger enemies like omens on the first hit.

[@kubakowalik6598]

Magma Blade has amazing synergy with Great Malenia Rune - each magma DOT procs the rune, so it actually heals A LOT. And blade hits heal too. And against some bosses & minibosses, pairing it with Endure or Grafted Sword is funny, as it just outheals most enemies in the game (and even many bosses). Well, at least in NG & NG+1, probably not in higher NG++.

[@varsa507]

Favorite weapon type even 3200 hours later. Finished first playthrough with wing of astel and did the whole dlc first time at ng+7 with dual poison- poison moth flight scavengers. Curved swords make the game so fun

[@lorenzop8022]

damn bro you gonna need elden ring 12 step program to recover from this addiction lol take a break and play something else

[@DooDoo-f4v]

If you PVP Wing Nebula is a combo monster. You have enough time to swap to another weapon and get off a combo. I've seen folks use it for guaranteed unsheathes/transient moonlight

[@Phantom-3723]

Side note: Star fists has nearly just a good poise break potential and is much more consistent, as with wing of astel some of the bullets (nebula clouds) can miss unless it is a bigger enemy, and star fists also gets bleed, gets multihit, and it can even double dip that multihit too

[@Vengeance_I_m]

@@Phantom-3723 Bloodfiends Arm and Ordovis Greatsword are even better at stance breaking and most of all, are very consistent, unlike Star Fists (that have horrible range) and Wing of Astel (with longer charged attack and Nebula being complete RNG, where sometimes it can miss the boss)

[@dudeiii2069]

Pretty sure you can just crouch cancel moonveil r1 and you’ll get just as much stance damage as wing of astel too.

[@nad77772]

He puts them both top 10 iirc

[@Vengeance_I_m]

@@Phantom-3723 Also, Star Fist are very hard to use, they have a very high skill cap. 99% of players will never see it as the best stance breaking weapon, because it requires being right next to a boss and be very aggressive and know punish windows perfectly. It's not the same as spamming Nebula or Lion's Claw brainlessly.

[@Doki_LP]

​@Vengeance_I_m I 100% agree. It's range is dogshit, I'm doing a starfist run atm and especially Bayle was fucking hard. Hitting his face with the star fists is cancer.

[@JerichoDeath]

Serpent-God's Curved Sword doesn't stack with itself no... but it does stack with Blasphemous Blade... and Taker's Cameo... and Rykard's Great Rune... and technically Greathorn Hammer.

[@joshk494]

Some really good points here, especially regarding the mantis blade, and why the DLC curved swords weren't just backhand blades.

[@Silverstar114]

I've found that in high ng cycles (moderate str, dex, and arc), a blood bandits curved sword is just better than the scavengers in every way.

[@sgtpowers]

2:59 what’s with this guy and the insane transitions lately?

[@_caerwin_]

ignoring the fact that you can couple dancing blade aow with ironjar aromatic and completely ignore the only flaw that weapon has because you just poise through every single attack

[@xienho]

Wing of astel makes that evil banished knight in castle sol so easy. He teleports? Doesnt matter nebula still hits him

[@glowindark64]

Its sooo good

[@theomwithi8786]

Best bleed weapon: chicken wing Best stance break: astel wing Best new op combo: stance(wing) Elden Wing confirmed.

[@Yobolight]

Shotel R2 buff gave them the best uncharged R2.

[@Gh4wzt]

W vid 🔥 (haven't seen It yet)

[@salzjung226]

"But both of them do have a pretty low drop rate of some skeletons" - accurate but painful

[@Yobolight]

They really should’ve put a boss with shield in the DLC. Currently, shield chip is only useful against trash mobs and PvP.

[@shoopah92]

I really enjoy using the wing of astel with a shield. Having the option to block and guard counter plus the ash of war and its heavy attacks is amazing

[@valentai_777]

The Serpent Sword stacks with all the other health regen buffs. So you can use the Takers Cameo to get more health, making it a nice option as a side arm.

[@iammax1393]

Dual frost infused curved swords with Chilling Mist paired with the Perfumed Oil of Ranah goes absolutely stupid for rapid frost proc

[@TR12015]

The shamshir moveset is so satisfying though wish it did more damage

[@DooDoo-f4v]

Death Blight in PVE should be a protection debuff that decays like Black Flame. For example Shriek of Milos what's up with that? Wraith Flame seems to be what Omens use.

[@deshaecole9118]

Glad to see Wing of Astel getting some love, shoutout to my favourite weapon in Elden Ring

[@graysaltine6035]

Deathblight should be a lingering effect where the bar has to tick down and just reduce max HP by something like 20% for each time it procs until it wears off or gets cured. Might sound strong but is it stronger than instant death?? Sleep/madness in PvP are often functionally equivalent to just being dead anyway, so a mechanic like this wouldn't be any worse than that and in a world of people invading you then just running away for 20 straight minutes it would allow you to wear people down in a way other than waiting for them to run out of pots.

[@kittenbus0]

That's just the scarlet rot. Deathblight and madness are exclusively a pvp status effect and we should all just accept it

[@graysaltine6035]

@@kittenbus0 Scarlet Rot reduces your max HP.....? Uhhh...

[@nattensmadrigal6138]

So what's the best build for Bandit curved swords at 80 arcane? Bleed? Occult? Go 80 dex and keen? Cold?

[@ddrsquirrelz]

You can put Sacred Vow on the Serpent God's Curved Sword instead of a dagger, making the effective weight increase only 2.5 for the extra HP regen on kills if you aren't spec'd into faith.

[@iTsOfficiallyPluto]

18:21 anyone else notice that he’s fighting Radagon next to Radagon? 😅

[@RanDoomPuff]

At really high levels, a blood bandit curved sword actually completely outclasses an occult scavenger sword in bleed, damage and of course range

[@andrewmiller8153]

Where do you find the range comparisons for weapon classes I’m trying to see what colossal weapon has the best range. On the wiki they don’t have the dlc comparisons yet just base game

[@lharsay]

8:10 On the other hand it does stack with the Greathorn Hammer and BB.

[@theoneandonlycrackedegg4212]

You should rank every sewer omen next.

[@Javelin.The_Idle]

The yap master just dropped🗣

[@WinstonWolfe21]

Big ups on the Nox placement 🙏

[@braedenaldridge8452]

Great video thanks for the info

[@PristenCityMan]

How much Mesmer transition do you want? Yes.

[@Goku-zu3rk]

How much faster is the mantis blade heavy after the last patch?

[@purplesmokeofficial6877]

Another delicious video from youwy boy 69

[@djinn0466]

Grossmesser is S-tier swag. I'll take a dps hit to look good any day.

[@Jowahotz90]

Here we go just started the vid, take a shot whenever Youwy says to or too

[@mutazsabra245]

Are you gonna do curved greatswords next?

[@bigdawg000]

power stance blood curved sword or blood twinblade?

[@flak125]

Couldn't agree more on the tier list. Not only is the Wing of Astel the best PvE weapon, but also one of the best PvP weapons. It can do it all: feints, ranged attacks, charged attacks, jumping attacks, dual wield attacks, etc... It's just the perfect weapon!

[@dukesilver1189]

It’s unfortunate that both spirit weapons in the DLC are just inherently worse that a cold infused weapon of the same class with the same ash. I’m still shocked that they made the spirit curved sword basically a dagger, which is a joke.

[@shadowkrio6603]

Hot take: the shotel was made for newer players, and is perfectly fine as a weapon because newer players who don’t understand how to attacks and such that “panic attack” shielding enemies can get a little more value, until they learn the timings and can use a better weapon that doesn’t rely on the gimmick of partially ignoring shields.

[@noiwontsignyourarmpit5263]

Grossmesser might be worse than Bandit's stat wise, but the fashion is infinitely superior.

[@thatlittlemonstrosity]

backhand blade specifically states that this is a fighting style deeply rooted in hornstent arts and yet Horned warriors don’t backhand, Hornsent doesn’t backhand them, dancer of Rannah doesn’t backhand them (though she isn’t hornsent so it makes just a little more sense). Like why the hell did they make this a hornsent fighting style if we don’t see any hornsents use it except curseblades that use cirques and not backhand swords. 3 Paired curved sword could’ve been backhand and it would make more sense, curved sword category is already bloated as is

[@mikeweaver813]

It's funny because their are 3 other weapon types that have more weapons than the curved sword those are the straight swords, Greatswords and curved Greatswords with all 3 of those weapon types have over 20 weapons each.

[@charlieperaltaf]

Seems that you're unaware of how many shenannigans the eclipse shotel has caused on the pvp scene...

[@l.o.v.e-sick5330]

"Honey wake up new deathblight glitch just dropped" At this point just patch it to have innate deathblight build-up instead of it being a buff lmfao, will unironically be less broken that way

[@mark0183]

Big Curved Pen... Swords

[@CraigCR]

“But double the length of ‘not much’ is still not gonna be that crazy” 😢😢😢

[@TheMuslimMan1337]

Offhand eclipse shotel is the best weapon for PvP fr

[@nadaburner]

15:26 Laughs in Ironjar Aromatic.

[@taylor99-w3o]

Not first but I’m here 😂❤

[@hunterprice321]

Can we get a reaper ranking video

[@notveryartificial4486]

Scythe C tier grave scythe B tier winged scythe A tier cleanrot scythe A tier obsidian lamina S tier There you go, no videos needed xD

[@Vengeance_I_m]

Youwy is not done yet

[@AJL-y3x]

Armor combo in the thumbnail?

[@joels5150]

Turns out maybe the real swords are the curves we made along the way 🤔

[@sieg.4444]

Really unfortunate that scavengers is the only real option for occult builds.

[@kellbyb]

Eh, any infusable weapon with innate bleed and the venomous fang will be some degree of usable for occult.

[@sieg.4444]

@ this is a curved sword list.

[@kellbyb]

@@sieg.4444 ah mb, I interpreted it as a general statement.

[@Itsbeeve]

Wing of Astel is like pre-nerf flame of redmanes. Its just stupid.

[@adamyohan]

Good vid

[@vedishplays]

grossmesser has more style points than bandit.

[@thaearthquake]

Falchion my beloved.

[@YonkoLeon]

YOUWYYYYY GANGGGGYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@darienmarquez7511]

hammers next pls

[@JoaoVitor-tg7ju]

So curved swords are good, but if you want more damage and bleed buildup power stance the gargoyle twinblade is the way to go, they are sure heavy but so worth it

[@joymarcruz4417]

Mantis blade supremacy

[@stanleylee3329]

The Eclipse shotel is the *ONLY* weapon that gives death blight and it has probably the lamest moveset, a wack AOW that does a buff then a slow ahh explosion-and its scaling sucks. Like dude

[@DTGeorge]

If Mantis Blade isn't on the top I'm unsubscribing

[@BigDBrian]

not the top choice for casual play b/c it doesn't play well into powerstancing or AoW spam, but the placement in the video is criminally low :(

[@polbulanosalto7403]

Mantis blade is shit tho 🤨

[@mortenwammen4159]

The grossmessser and falchion are not as curved as their counterparts, and therefore hit a little faster.

[@attruong3191]

pleaseeeeeee, Rank katana pleaseeeee

[@Breve_]

falx is my fav wep in the whole game

[@SkereKelel]

Youwy play Enotria, don't drop it like you did with Wukong. 😢

[@benro6564]

The best curved sword is the warped axe

[@cora8779]

youwda bomb

[@SSuser-go7jm]

Used Spirit Sword for the dlc, and can confirm it was absolute ass.

[@merrick1214]

shottle

[@muramasa870]

Youwy be there again abusing infinite money glitch mechanic(rent payment)

[@ymz987]

W youwy

[@DOGGER-ye9wp]

sebenth

[@G_UZI]

Rank every carti song

[@Вейн-э5б]

Virgin Ash of war spam vs Chad power stance jump attacks enjoyer

[@yvindApneseth-ps2vv]

First

[@Detodos33]

1

[@yvindApneseth-ps2vv]

Omg

[@crossycross6417]

174 views in 10 mins bro fell off

[@havoc-yw8xq]

Unoriginal joke

[@willyoungberg823]

This shit was unfunny 4 months ago

[@UnaMoscaEnLaPared]

Wing of astel in number 1? 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... This is the reason the tier list are trash.

[@deathandrebirth-y8x]

he actually beats radhan every night

[@yvindApneseth-ps2vv]

2 comments in 20 sec you realy fell of