Can I beat Dark Souls with ONLY Thorn Armor?

[@zinbd]

I swear, if bowing gesture in thorn armor did damage Aggy would definitely accepted the challenge

[@ClappedCheeks1.1]

And would of smoked it too. Dudes the literal ashen one.

[@quadc0014]

i mean thorns makes kicks do damage so he could do that

[@Hazel-II]

I like how the bed of chaos was hard just because it's the bed of chaos

[@sewerwater12]

Bed of chaos is easy tho. Still shit, but kinda easy

[@noshua2326]

@@sewerwater12 if you’re doing a blind play through it’s the hardest boss in the game

[@hulkmt]

@@noshua2326 why? it's very intuitive, the problem is getting to the boss

[@chariot87k97]

@@hulkmt that's why it's hard, 90% of the times you just fall to your death

[@ltcuddles685]

@@hulkmt Because in a blind playthrough you have no idea what you're supposed to be doing until you go off to the sides. It's completely different from literally every other boss in the game.

[@bestsouls2446]

i swear, aggy has two sides, "sekiro god and leading cause of gyoubu suicides" or "doesn't know nito can give you toxic"

[@shaggyrogers9028]

I never knew nito can give you toxic...

[@HereticalFlayer]

wait he can?

[@MKVProcrastinator]

@@HereticalFlayer Not sure if the regilar swipes cause toxic buildup, but I do know that the gravelord sword spell (the one that's preceded by a scream) causes toxic.

[@travisumbra1974]

And the grave Lord swords R2 does poison damage I think

[@Nomans_Nomen]

@@travisumbra1974 Gravelord Sword inflicts toxic. That was the main reason anybody used it.

[@funnymoss-man]

“This might not actually be so bad.” And thus the greatest lie in history was uttered

[@TheDarkEnigma]

Is almost an unspoken rule. never say things might not actually be 'so bad'. The world WILL prove you wrong 😂

[@loriantheepicone1263]

it isnt bad tho, this guy is just trash lol

[@murkwithasmirk6877]

@LorianTheEpicOne12 he’s not bad. He’s a pretty decent player. His best quality is he’s entertaining. That’s why he has 60k subs

[@loriantheepicone1263]

@@murkwithasmirk6877 don’t care about his subs, he trash, entertainment doesn’t equal skill

[@DeBolttheBear]

@@loriantheepicone1263 Jealous AND an ego. Humble yourself dude.

[@comradecatbug5289]

Two ideas to make this run easier: 1. The Dark Wood Grain ring gives you 2 more s and crops 4 recovery fromes from your roll. This is obviously super useful as rolling is the only thing you'll do in this run. You can get it early by taking an alternate path to Darkroot Garden: just go down to Darkroot Basin and climb up the ladder near the hydra. Killing Shiva's bodyguard isn't a problem either, you can just kick him off the ledge and quit out to spawn his drops. The surrounding NPCs will only aggro once you quit and reload. If you have trouble with getting to the ladder, you can quickly visit the Undead Asylum to get the Rusted Iron RIng. 2. Nito can become significantly easier if you don't aggro any skeletons. This may sound impossible, but if you wear the Slumbering Dragoncrest Ring or the Ring of Fog and stay at your starting location they won't notice you. If you don't want to buy the Dragoncrest Ring from Griggs you can also get the Ring of Fog by trading a Skull Lantern with Snuggly.

[@monstasoul3542]

The only problem with this is that GamersWeekend tried the grain ring, and ruled it out. Rolls are already kinda finnicky with the hitboxes and the dark wood grain only made it worse, he also said it made it harder to "stick" to bosses, which is bad since you really gotta stay up on them.

[@cabriskus4700]

And if you run behind nito you can actually manage to gargle all over his cock and balls and it drains his HP Go touch some grass bro lmao

[@diabeticmonkey]

I bring a holy weapon for the skellyboys. They’re a non-issue at that point

[@Manigeitora]

@@diabeticmonkey That's not really applicable here since using a different weapon would invalidate the challenge of using only the thorn armor...

[@aj1046]

The Orange charred ring is also a useful option since it will give your thorn rolls fire damage

[@xyouthe]

in all my years of gaming, i always understood HP and that its short for health points in gaming. but, for some goddamn reason, everytime i see the thumbnail of this video in my recommended i keep reading hp as "horse power". yeah, would be crazy if lord gwyn had 4k+ horse power

[@WeaponizedGoochsweat]

Imagine Gwyn having less horsepower than a funny car

[@GBlockbreaker]

To be fair, the average horse has between 4 and 7 horse power so a god having 4k wouldn't be surprising

[@DimIsHigh]

@@GBlockbreaker You're breaking news to me, I always thought that the AVERAGE horse had ONE HP. What a load of bullshit this world always ends up being. 😂

[@trollface7622]

@@DimIsHigh a horsepower is the average amount of power a horse could produce in a day

[@Myrtilys]

4,000hp, he's fast as fuq boiii

[@tebbs7024]

We’ve all tried mentally calculating equip load and we’ve all failed

[@Gary_a_normal_human_being]

Bro the calculating i had to do for Havels armor was pretty impressive ngl

[@SuccMunkey]

The hardest thing in Dark Souls 1 isn't Bed of Chaos or the entirety of Blight town, it's calculating equip load💀

[@tmbfreak_16]

Truth

[@ElRiki77]

@@SuccMunkey blight town isn't bad if you come in from the valley of drakes.

[@Lex_Araden]

I thought I had enough equip in my current run, screwed up the math and was 10 levels short when I got all the equipment.

[@brattyneet1571]

Aggy's patience is something I thoroughly admire. Such an underrated aspect to his content esp with this weirdass gameplay of rolling, dodging, randomizers, weapon switching etc.

[@demetriamuniz950]

Aggy they butcher Goyo

[@Matsum0t0]

Gamersweeknd and the backlogs are pretty good with that kind of stuff

[@lathrin]

@@Matsum0t0 also Press Continue

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

"Maybe he doesn't have that much health?" Narrator: "But he did, in fact, have that much health."

[@YGNX]

Aggy becoming a hollow in real life after finally beating the run as his reward:

[@ftkvyn]

In a nutshell: 7 hours for 4 kings and Gwyn + 7 hours for the rest of the game. Abolutely freaking legendary!

[@user-fc4lq3ul5h]

Is this the first dark souls?

[@Lashb1ade]

@@user-fc4lq3ul5h Yes.

[@hazeltree7738]

@@user-fc4lq3ul5h It's the darkest soul

[@francisxavier8374]

4 hours on gwyn

[@nichtsoeren4384]

Fun Fact: This Challenge has also been done by GamersWeekend, though he did it by getting the Armor in NG an then doing the Run in NG+.

[@hidoryy]

and it took literally months for him to complete the challenge

[@HellishPumpkin]

Lobos did a solo run 8 years ago. Four Kings was unsuccessful tho, he had to use melee.

[@groegcheez5529]

@@HellishPumpkin Therefore he didn't do the challenge

[@HellishPumpkin]

@@groegcheez5529 Yeah he failed only with Four Kings because it was impossible. Mind I remind you again he did it solo, without summons? You should check him out, he’s done many incredible challenge runs.

[@groegcheez5529]

@@HellishPumpkin It's definitely possible, very unlikely, but possible.

[@RandomInternetStranger]

I don't think there's a more Dark Souls statement than "He has 4250 hp, This does 12 damage, let's kill it shall we?

[@leowulf5280]

Sounds like Monster Hunter in a nutshell.

[@aurelionsolofficial]

@@leowulf5280 DS and MH have a lot in common

[@alexalex7785]

355 rolls

[@RandomInternetStranger]

@@leowulf5280 I didn't even put it together at the time, but you're definitely right. In the wise words of one of the most truly based video game critics out there, the best of games make an intense boss fight that's really only a few minutes feel like an hour, but this game _actually_ does have boss fights that last an hour. It doesn't make the game worse, it just makes it... different from its competitors. Also, I just realized that one of the key differences between the two franchises is how the healing works: In Dark Souls and Elden Ring, healing takes only a few seconds but plays into the vulnerability of standing still for even that amount of time. In Monster Hunter: World, healing takes a lot longer, is gradual instead of instant, and there isn't much immediate danger because you can just make space, but even when you're really good at the game, the emphasis on tanking attacks in favor or doing damage and having so many be hard or borderline impossible to dodge is what puts the difficulty in healing. It slowly chips away at your supplies until either you've won the fight or you're too exhausted in resources to fight at the advantage of healing, and while you can just fast travel back to camp (which is a mistake honestly), you can still only work under so much stress, until either you break and forget to get your healing items, you get good enough to hardly need to re-stock, or you eventually win through attrition.

[@EldritchChaplin]

@@RandomInternetStranger Nah you got it wrong. You just need to Git Gud in both Fromsoft and MH. When you know a monster's moveset well enough, then you know when not to attack and therefore are free to just move around any attack. In Fromsoft when you know a boss's moveset well enough, you can strafe or dodgeroll all of its moves. Same principle really.

[@JustNameless2]

Hey LilAggy, I originally came from the Gameranx video that talked about your Sekiro refund run and I have been having a lot of fun watching your videos, keep it up!

[@AndrewBrownK]

welcome aboard!

[@sonicthepunch8957]

which gameranx video talked about the Sekiro refund run?

[@JustNameless2]

@@sonicthepunch8957 weird gaming stories of October, it was number 1

[@sonicthepunch8957]

@@JustNameless2 I found it thx

[@Sterl500]

The refund run was where I hit the button too. What a wacky way to draw in a crowd. xD

[@armando12322]

"No way this is gonna be harder than 4 kings" Gwyn: *Hold my lightning spears*

[@sirbill_greebi3811]

Hold them in your torso

[@somebodyalive6131]

Now we need an Elden Ring attempt with Elmer Fudd’s Briar armor

[@Mido_]

19:47 The way the boss shoved you into the lava with his feet is hilarious.

[@Gary_a_normal_human_being]

It looked so on purpose

[@dampierre99]

Dude I love this challenge so much, Kirk is lowkey a fun comedic character

[@evelynR1312]

i’ve been thinking about running this challenge for a while but o&s scared the shit out of me

[@xhulianolici]

You think that is hard, what about the 4...5...6 kings?

[@reagansido5823]

That was really nice and wholesome to see you and Tato come together to beat the four kings. :D

[@superspecialspacesouprare1353]

And he never lost hope, I couldn't believe it at first when the counter skipped 2 hours.

[@SoOth3rsMayLiv3]

I got to or stein and smough, died what felt like 100 times and gave up. Watching this video made me realize I just need to suck it up and try again. After months of not playing, i finally beat O and S. Thanks for the inspiration to not suck.

[@kinetic5195]

The good thing about enemies with this armor is you can dodge/roll out of the way but also, do damage

[@GBlockbreaker]

That's indeed the point of this armor, it's what the devs put it in for, good job captain obvious, your heroic deeds saved the day once again

[@wilfredoandresquinonesruiz5263]

Unfortunately captain douche has come here to ruin the day, worry not, your comment was useful

[@rudolfzivkovic7148]

Crazy how even after all that Aggy was struggling more on the multiplication part than the challange run

[@robinnyholm3647]

Killing Havel by rolling is so poetic

[@FeltonDood]

Obviously the runner here is a cheater, he never used weapon. How kill bad guys? Cheater. (Good job Aggy was pretty sick.)

[@Trap-chan750]

Fun fact: i met a guy who was actually saying something like this belowe Squilla's video.

[@FeltonDood]

They are everywhere on speedruns or weird challenge runs and it's funny

[@potatoman7594]

how he can kil peopel!!? i can not.

[@molkwi9077]

I have 2 questions about the armor. 1. does rolling on enemies use durability? 2. does rolling on enemies inflict bleed?

[@LilAggy]

Nope and nope!

[@presussy]

"I guess now is a good time to sleep" *Aggy uploads" Fuck.

[@curtisstephens4482]

"Cant rest while greatness is nearby"

[@capperbuns]

I relate to that math segment so hard.

[@ggghjk5280]

Aggy: I lived BoC: And I took that personally

[@Manigeitora]

Souls challenge runners: "Well this does more than 0 damage, so that means I could theoretically beat the entire game using only that."

[@jackthorndyke3390]

Gwyn is rarely the hardest boss of any run, so it felt appropriate for him to be the biggest challenge here. Four Kings solo might be even worse but I doubt anyone's gonna do that

[@danielwhitehead3365]

Oooof I felt that getting cursed on Seath fight. Legend for this run!

[@keeganh8874]

I have something to learn about patience and resilience from this run.

[@deadluke13]

all those demons waiting to fight the next player wondering how they lost to a rolling thorn ball.

[@Vergil_1999]

I remember the team of invaders using thorn armour. There were like 5 of them

[@TheRealBrotherGrimmy]

My first thought going into this... is "how the fuck is he gonna beat 4 kings lmao"

[@daveKoRnfan]

Fred Durst would be proud of this run

[@tabkg5802]

15:47 DS easy mode was tank build all along

[@amberhernandez]

Gamersweekend: I'll answer your question with another question: Can you do it on NG+?

[@TheLordofMetroids]

"Someone should name themselves THORN ARMOR, and use a Black Knight greatsword." That would have been the best, chat gets it.

[@plastic8570]

"Thank you dark souls" moment throughout Quelaags fight hahah

[@alanstringer.]

The math shit is so real, I'm amazingly quick with basic arithmetic in my head when I'm alone or (weirdly) on the phone, but if I'm just chilling with the guys the gears lose all lubrication instantly.

[@destinsather9757]

You’re really on a roll with this Dark Souls stuff

[@Zacharygoldberg123]

My advice if you ever are insane enough to try this run again is to allow grass crest and get the darkwood ring. Best set up I can imagine

[@Trap-chan750]

There was a guy trying to kill 4 kings with just the thorn armor and just fukin called it impossible.

[@PraisetheSun150]

Oh my god that streamer math at the beginning was hilarious

[@Alpha_omega_102]

Love your content dude, excited to see the next dark soul content you have for us!

[@tovlasek]

Great Job that was unbelievable! Also that bit with Tato was epic haha!

[@Spamlunchmen9852]

BREAKING NEWS: Local insane person goes on a rolling rampage, hundreds, dead; children, now orphans; police, already destroyed; churches now see this man as a god among them

[@CaptainJoJo71]

The punctuation on this was stellar. Lol. So much effort. So many mistakes... And yet, there is something so tragically beautiful about all the wasted effort.

[@Jerjoker007]

Oh god! There’s another one. We stand no chance.

[@Spamlunchmen9852]

@@CaptainJoJo71 I'm gonna be honest, it was like 4 in the morning when I made that comment, so I didn't necessarily care about punctuation errors

[@CaptainJoJo71]

@@Spamlunchmen9852 lol Fair enough, friend.

[@sexygorillanips7535]

I see you practice in the art of wing chun, the art of attacking while defending.

[@HateshWarkio]

The final boss should've been a math homework

[@dweebpatrol]

You know, even if the cheese kill against ceaseless didn't work normally it would still work in the long run. He wouldn't be able to attack you so you'd just have to roll into him for an hour.

[@dweebpatrol]

And there's pretty much only one consistent strat for Bed Of Chaos that isn't a straight up cheese. There's a spot where you can make a pretty precise jump across the chasm a bit further down from where you jumped, it keeps you out of the hand's reach and is way easier to get right than just charging through.

[@jabloko992]

This might be the only situation in which leveling Resistance is not a terrible idea.

[@benturtl9076]

12:37 ROBERTOOOOO

[@thedepression950]

He has mastered the way of rolly-polly

[@interrexclamacion]

I like how his chat is talking about something else the entire time.

[@ghostnappa906]

i'm shocked ive only just found your content, i love it tho!

[@brandonmulryan1522]

I have a rule of thumb, as long as you can do 1 damage you can kill anything.

[@jollygrapefruit786]

It actually makes a lot of sense how relatively easy a time he had against so many of these bosses. He's literally doing damage while being invulnerable most of the time.

[@jahmair862]

Watching this on my phone with the lowest brightness and night mode on, I can never tell how much health a boss has lol

[@creeperconner3156]

You have the most asfjerome voice and vibe and I love it

[@jans353]

Hey LilAggy, thank you for making content man :)

[@spot67833]

Tato is the savior of this run, may God shine favor upon his Soul 🙏

[@PlayMadness]

ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

[@BrilliantBouncingBall]

I’m happy I finally got to play dark souls because now I can watch these without fear of spoilers

[@robertespinoza5958]

There's something so funny about aggy being like "THE CLAMS! THE CLAMS!" XD I just imagine him being a clam conspiracy theorist lol

[@goldchris1111]

falling onto the tarus demon did almost 2x the roll damage lmao

[@brianlavalley3983]

"Why aren't you allowed in PetCo anymore?" " 29:26 "

[@yoavsnake]

wow, you didn't even use the rusted ring or green shield or sanctum shield

[@arkbjorn]

2:28 omg the math part was hilarious

[@uninspiredrambler]

Finally a weapon that benefits my play style: panic rolling

[@CallMeJayBoi]

Carry weight (a) x 4 = target load (b) If A=30 then Ax4=120 So equip load needs to be higher than 120

[@mroffice8166]

The one challenge where gwyn was actually menacing beyond belief

[@karlaeickhoff3594]

Aggy saying "Pinheeeead" lives rent-free in my brain

[@frankie_is_broke5591]

how on Earth did he not get hit rolling toward Firesage's swing? I don't think you should get hit, but I get hit every time I do that.

[@xryeau_1760]

Timing

[@grfrjiglstan]

Okay, think about Demon Firesage. Imagine someone slowly but determinedly raking thorns across your fat belly over and over, causing eventual death by blood loss from a thousand tiny lacerations. He was probably scraping his intestines by the end. Not a fun way to go.

[@thatguyvic0679]

11:42 "Bro these guys are stealing my tech!"

[@justinjakimiak1998]

I'm convinced this is the ultimate way to play Dark Souls

[@blackwolf_365]

In this special playthrough, each enemy caused his own death

[@An_Ornge]

Great rampart hedgehog from DS2 cosplay

[@hunszaszist]

Lmao the BOFURI build

[@figarozxkill1294]

I once fought quelaag with only that level of damage because I couldn't upgrade my uchigatana above 5+ fight took forever

[@trash6985]

bro I found out about upgrading weapons in anor londo ☠️ and since I didnt have the large ember I had to fight O&S with a +4 claymore

[@senseweaver01]

2:50 - What do you mean 'we'? That was all you buddy boy

[@henryzhang9771]

I am curious how he manages to do the two archers at Anor Londo by rolling.

[@x54xHantamachine]

I am assuming he is just gonna bait their lunge attack which makes them throw themselves off the ledge easy peasy

[@phluffymuffin7924]

I knew this day would come, Thank you LilAggy!

[@kumo1814]

This reminds me of the "keep rollin Rollin"

[@purplehaze2358]

"This run is easy", said a man who downed the first boss which is always going to be categorically easier than anything after it.

[@Xener09]

I would love to see a Dark Souls playthrough as a Dedicated Tank. The rules are you can only level Vitality, Endurance and Resistance, and you are not allowed to roll. You must take every hit to your shield or face, as any true tank would. Also without being allowed to level Strength or Dex you are limited to your weapon choice. But tanks don't deal alot of dmg anyways.

[@Vellision_Blake]

The math sets the stage for this vid perfectly

[@cl0ckw0rkna9]

Alternate Thumbnail "Dark souls but i'm sonic the hedgehog!"

[@purplehaze2358]

"If your splooge is this color, go to a doctor" I don't think there's any natural way to get your nut to look and behave like molten rock, so I think the more practical advice would be "go see an exorcist".

[@basedyuriy]

bro LilAggy is literally a legend for this

[@Oakshield2]

Rewarding rolling training right here.

[@lagr1mas]

i like how when aggy gets angry he sounds like a squeaker

[@Dindonmasker]

The new sonic game looks good!

[@TheRealGovika]

29:53 Man LAUGHS after SLAYING DOG

[@aidensmith9910]

I don’t care if someone did it on a harder difficulty I just want to watch aggy play it

[@beanie4882]

Missed opportunity to name video “how to best dark souls by aggressively rubbing against people”

[@B9-s3ns3]

This is great because rolling will damage enemies on top of giving i-frames Unbeatable strat.