Can I Beat Elden Ring with Only GREATBOWS?

[@Kitti_Toes]

I love seeing his muscle-memory reactive instinct to change his talisman to the golden scarab nearly every single time he beats a boss, even when he doesn't have it yet.

[@samlaws2688]

Even when he’s just killed the boss that drops it

[@dfelux5943]

Yeah i don’t know how ppl remember to do that. I’m forgetful in the first place but damn I have to just leave it on if I want to use it in a playthrough

[@sunbleachedangel]

@@dfelux5943 hundreds of hours of practice, how else

[@Reverend_Mohg]

Yeah, that's pretty much every souls game, dark souls 2 where you had to swap a whole armor

[@pigstepyeet7530]

@@dfelux5943 😢😮😅😅

[@Cardsfan9996]

Dist: We’re just gonna bait him to jump off the cliff here. Should be no problem Nights Cavalry: And I took that personally

[@SauceyNoSoy]

hahahahaha this is great

[@Shadowxgems]

@@SauceyNoSoy v vbbvvvvvv tvvvvvvvvvvv t v

[@raynejx2]

NC: i dislike this tarnished, horsey. it's smug aura mocks me. giga chad: :D mald

[@mikeymoughtin]

I think it's cool that rhadan's bow and rain attack just fucks astel. Cuz he learned gravity magic to fight the stars, and astel is a star

[@tomasmisek5598]

Kinda wonder how many of the meteors releaseed in Radahn's death cutscene were other astels, because if there were multiple, then Radahn's powerscaling would go haywire again

[@ConstrictorDevlin]

@@tomasmisek5598 astel is presumably the final stage that some meteorites might evolve into. its quite possible that the earliest stage of astel is the fallingstar beast, you can see astel's skull and eye poking out from its head. (not all of the beasts have the eye i think, the one at mount gelmir does iirc) then you can see the smaller "astels" (apparently called malformed stars) in ainsel river for example, and they are much smaller than the fully grown astel and have duller coloring. not to mention that what the fallen meteors evolve into seems to be influenced by what they encounter, so they might also become alabaster/onyx lords.

[@therealfriday13th]

No, Astel is a Naturalborn *of* the Stars, NOT *a* star.

[@hazelcalderbank1556]

@@therealfriday13th The two titles Astels have are Naturalborn of the Void and Stars of Darkness, seems fair to call them stars

[@DrippyJamby]

@@tomasmisek5598 Lmao radahn cucks trying desperately to overhype radahn to try and make him seem like the strongest elden ring character 😂.

[@ColdEmperor]

I really hope they add more options for the neglected weapon types like Great Thrusting Swords, Fists, and Scythes.

[@home_taping]

Great thrusting swords are S tier in this game, surprised so few people use them.

[@SpectralFlame25]

@@home_taping they are definitely good but there are also like.. 4 of them. Still one of my favorite types to use especially Cragblade

[@YokaiGotha]

@@SpectralFlame25 yeah i want more in DLC, also good hammers

[@szarekhthesilentking7043]

​@@home_taping I think more like A tier, but yeah they're really good.

[@Knights_of_the_Nine]

Are you talking about PvE?

[@budderdrago7702]

If you didn't know, Fia's Champions and the Great Jar guys are based after real players who beat them, constantly updating if you're connected to the servers. So yes, you could get a ROB and Moonveil wielding AI and such

[@davidpotts7116]

Just today I got the worst fight I’ve ever had with those. A tanky int build with a frost weapon nagakiba and the moonlight gs, and an arcane build with of all things a lions claw great mace and bloodflame blade. Those two combined with Lionel’s spamming of ancient death rancor gave almost no openings to attack without being punished heavily for it. I actually almost lost that fight for the first time ever because of the random phantoms.

[@agedgouda8809]

Pointing down…after you kill a naked great bow user while chasing him down with the broken running attack on the stitcher and halberd pokes in your full bull goat at like level 40…Well played I guess bro

[@nawbro9156]

I saw the bull goats and was confused

[@Thereisnogreatersword]

the running attack on the stitcher and halberd pokes aren't broken, they're good but not broken. but yeah full bull goats with anything at level 40 is bullshit lol, even stitcher, people don't know the great epee exists and some invaders are like ganking hosts, they just use broken cheese tactics and point down knowing full well they didnt deserve it.

[@LOLquendoTV]

Fuckin twinks

[@hairlessgrizzly559]

@@Thereisnogreatersword man, I invade a lot, and most of them are just bleed build ganks or dragon incant spammers. But I'm level 278, so people have op shit anyways. If I'm not invading, I'm just duelling with my duel meteoric ore blades and Loretta's war sickle

[@Thereisnogreatersword]

@@hairlessgrizzly559 278, no wonder you find meta shit

[@DarkeWiing]

That healthbar edit for the Godfrey phantom fight was really good

[@owenblucher9089]

13:26 rare sideways-flying bird spotted

[@distortion2]

lmao nice catch

[@charlesatanasio1622]

An endangered species, that.

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

Nature is wonderful

[@gamesux420]

I love that the 1400 dmg shot came right as chat was laughing about the previous shot doing only 170 dmg on the draconic tree sentinel

[@actualreplyguy]

I’ve been using great bows pretty much since my first run through. It’s specially effective against large foes. Tree avatars, dragons, wyrms, deathrite birds, giants, etc. Lion Greatbow is my side piece 99% of the time even on NG+5. My only ask to FromSoft would be bigger quivers.

[@samael4550]

I mean, it’s limited for a reason. I understand where you’re coming from, but that’s what they feel is balanced. 60+ shots (depending on how many types of great arrows you have) is more than enough imo

[@error00001]

Yes, another meme run, this is what I'm here for

[@loghanrowden146]

Damn right man

[@sugisdoomguy54]

Wat then

[@Literally___Me]

Wait what I did this twice I thought it was a good way to get ez wins

[@inanimate111]

Kinda looks easy lol

[@Castrovalva9]

God I love Radahn’s greatbow. It made Placidusax the easiest fight in the game.

[@JustSnowglow]

Honestly, It's unhealthy for me to binge the meme run vods after work. I'm so down for these edited runs.

[@mralabbad7]

"I love blood stains. It's so funny, seeing how people die" Context😂

[@Vladek16]

this was the best challenge run to watch. Distance build + having to wait for opening gave birth to a run where we can admire the boss animation in all their glory. For example this is the first time I can realy see how insanly cool Fortissax is :D (and those perfect dodges over and over again against Radagon and Malenia, so freaking cool to watch too)

[@andrewdecker3752]

My takeaway from this video is that greatbows need poise

[@arcanefire7511]

They'd be stupid op then

[@games-wz7sz]

@@arcanefire7511 maybe small poise, as a treat

[@epicjeong]

And free aiming

[@ThatGuyOrby]

@@arcanefire7511 don't see how they'd be OP when their counter is literally just equipping a shield

[@Wangpi3ce]

@@ThatGuyOrby Shields do nothing against greatbows, you can shoot slightly behind their feet and it doesn't get blocked

[@thelastgamer1]

Says there is no video??? EDIT: it started working now it must of been a iPhone issue.

[@distortion2]

Not sure? I checked on my other PC and the video loaded fine?

[@jackA1690]

@@distortion2 same for me. On iphone

[@hrnnn1851]

@@jackA1690 iPhone here too

[@Sky-gf8bd]

Same for me on iPhone, maybe it needs a bit more time ?

[@enesarslan.mp4]

Same here no video

[@pooyataleb2514]

1:11:27 nice edit (the healthbar)

[@Videohphile]

That invasion at 30:00 had me laughing nice job

[@Hellorthere]

The patience of these meme runners is different, I guess that's why he was GigaChad.

[@PaytonSolaire]

I think its interesting how Radahn's bow doesn't fully work on actual Rennala but the second his sister makes an illusion of his mom, it stun locks her.

[@Hirotoro4692]

How is that interesting? Rennala in phase 1 is basically unable to fight back when her bubble is popped

[@emperorpingusmathchannel5365]

You made this meme build feel like an actually valid one.

[@arcanefire7511]

Its not really a meme build? Its legit powerful

[@daijj6122]

"Got any melee attacks for me pal?" Elden Beast: "Hold my beer"

[@Hirotoro4692]

I somehow don't think the Elden beast drinks beer in the first place

[@hitlord]

The entire time you were cheesing Niall I was here "come on dog, be a good boy, you can do this". Dog delivered hard. Edit: not sure if chat asked for it, but I'm really glad you killed Malenia while she was airborne. The entire time time I was thinking "man, I hope he kills her mid Scarlet Bloom or the other attack". Dist delivered hard too.

[@Zanemob]

That fall wouldn’t have killed him better yet lol. I got knocked off because I got cocky and managed to fall off last second but didn’t take any damage because of a slight slope. Happened the second time but it took like -20% HP.

[@Boxer_419]

my favorite way to get to fort faroth now is through the teleporter behind the church of marika - it's an easier path across the bridge, then taking the spirit spring behind the erdtree. boom, you're there.

[@chadbeck4139]

Walking into Mimic Tear, I was screaming: “It’s about to be a…BOW FIGHT!” 😂🤙

[@chadbeck4139]

@@BLUEBOYISLEDGE Rule 44 & 47. 😅🤙

[@supremeclamitas5053]

@@chadbeck4139 Don't forget rule 34!!

[@trencehumphries645]

Thanks to Lobosjr, I hear "Take me out to the ball game" during the Godskin noble fight. 54:57

[@twinarcher8123]

What video made you start to hear that.

[@Redhotquagmire]

I like how the strat for healing during the Radahn fight is to literally take a nice, BIG sip of something while his crotch literally rests on your face lol

[@james87367]

I can't tell you how entertaining these runs are. I watch the entire video. Super fun content Dist.

[@ByeMeinHerr]

Your meme/super specific build runs are my favorite things on KZbin at the moment

[@thelastgamer1]

The godskin fight song is just sooooo good it’s my absolute favorite tune

[@BoogieWoogieCat]

38:34 "These guys are about to get shredded, chat." - Misses every shot. 😂

[@DevastatingWarrior]

I remember when I decided to try a bow build in ER, half for challenge and half for wanting to make a ranger build. I was so blown away by how crazy the arrow rain aow is on enemies with moderately sized hitboxes. I wasn't even using greatbows, but it still shredded everything that had a hitbox larger than Rennala.

[@hypethekomodo6495]

This makes me want to try a full bow dedicated character: Black Bow for rapid hits and a Lion's Greatbow for beeg damage. The damage that thing can pump out is really surprising.

[@linkerspinkers]

Don't do it unless you have the dedication to farm for bleed arrows. Note from someone who tried to do it

[@TREVORVADER]

@@linkerspinkers yeah I’ve never been able to commit because I can’t be bothered to farm the materials for arrows. It’s such a pain

[@hellsfortune7132]

If greatbows are so good why arent there any amazingbows

[@ITBEurgava]

2:22:38 And I thought malenia would be impossible with a greatbow. Thank you for proving me wrong.

[@jorb333]

Reminder Maliketh can be fought early in the beastial sanctum If you kill him he drops 2500 runesn

[@HandsomeGamerGuy]

Yet the main boss is still going to be there

[@wulfleyn6498]

I already knew that Morgott was the leader of the nights cavalery, but it was only just now I noticed that he says "fear the night". Bruh.

[@wykettou]

What i love the most in those videos, is knowing people think it's OP so they will do it, and they will suffer so much \o/

[@obsidianfrost9514]

Great Bows and bows do good damage NG and in NG+1 the fact they hardly or don't scale is their biggest downfall. Magic scales. Incants scale but somehow bows and crossbows scaling would be "op"

[@chronoshindou9848]

@@obsidianfrost9514 yeah Crossbows suck even more, they absolutely don't scale at all

[@itsdan3362]

Everyone forgets that Godfrey and Astel both drop ashes of war as well as a weapon, not just spells and weapons

[@Rai273]

Great vid, very nice editing. The edit for the extra enemy in spirit elden Chad gave me a chuckle

[@Lakefront_Khan]

CHADwick BOWSman.

[@soundthatyoucansee123]

Rain of Arrows needs tuning. It DOES NOT trigger if you are attacked after launching the arrow and that makes no sense whatsoever.

[@eloeri]

Dude, for a second when you were fighting Godfrey's shade, I thought there was a mechanic I'd never seen where an npc in the boss room gets a health bar. I was like, what the actual fuck. Nice meme.

[@gabrielhipo2347]

Please keep doing these runs!

[@smoothsentient]

dear distortion and friends, 1st greatbow can be found in the tomb (Fringefolk Hero's Grave) when you start the game, put first giftas 2 stonesword keys and the secret room at the top where the chariot can be killed with the falling giant jars is where you find the Greatbow, hope it speeds up you run this way, :))

[@Hirotoro4692]

It can be, but it's a pretty terrible greatbow. They're better off farming a few golem for one imo. That's the best damaging greatbow by far

[@te6169]

@11:35 "Get down Mr.President!" rofl

[@themrblair5724]

Brother, congrats on the StunLock sponsorship. Greatly have I enjoyed their games.

[@dantethewanderer4989]

2:23 If Twitter gets a hold of this line out of context they are going to be _so_ mad

[@zachconant7031]

That person in chat after he said it lmao how do people get triggered like that.

[@thatonekid20111]

I don't feel bad about how I play anymore watching you. We have almost the exact same style when it comes to dodging, healing, and just general technicalities of the game. Now, if only I could achieve multiple world record speed runs and win thousands of dollars winning speed run tournaments.

[@UnpleasantLovepony]

Greatbow is my favorite weapon in the game. Love it so much. Golem greatbow is the dankest.

[@jo4h3zn]

In regards to using the Lion Greatbow on rune level 1, I used it on my RL1 and it kicked ass it’s definitely worth using it

[@Shenaniganschalbeezy]

2:03:15 best moment in esports history

[@ghostriposte2977]

I think it’s interesting how he’s using a build that’s honestly insanely good at melting bosses and he still finds a way to make it bad (trying to use rain of arrows unlocked and also not understanding how bullets work.)

[@TheCardq]

1:31:55 says shouldn't need extra arrow sunless he misses a lot, immediately misses more than he hits the next boss.

[@SahnigReingeloetet]

You can‘t free-aim the WA. If it‘s not locked on it sprays evenly around you, which is only optimal if you like stand right beneath a dragon or something. Also, it has 0 tracking.

[@Justbathwater]

Fia’s first champion was me. People who finished fia are used as champions/gear husks

[@SpydersByte]

1:05:45 gotta love how it stuck to the wall in a position that clearly shows it shouldnt have hit it in the first place :D

[@franciscodetonne4797]

That damage against Rykard tho.

[@Ricekrispy10]

16:38 got me good, I had to rewind to make sure I saw that right

[@gigglez3036]

Meme runs give me life. Thanks Dist!

[@WildArmACF]

I wish Neil's weapons in your hands did half of what it did in his hands. would have been an amazing ice weapon move set

[@MrZachensation]

I love when you get a good Radah's Rain off.

[@mushroomonpogostick]

Is the droprate of the Golem bow so low? When I used greatbows the golem bow had like 100 damage more in scaling when compared to radahns bow which could have been a bit better against smaller bosses like malenia and even Loretta. Unless something was changed since I played with that bow

[@luckerowl8990]

wouldn't kill the hungry merchant yet mercilessly slaughters Old Albus... how heartless

[@camoplant199]

Thank you for the great entertainment. You've earned a new subscriber.

[@joeraymond2444]

I feel this video deserves more likes because this is dope not everyone can do a run like this

[@Hirotoro4692]

For single target you should have used golem greatbow in your right hand and lion bow in your left. You can fire Radahn's spears from your golem bow and it will still gain the 20% damage boost from the spears even though the lion bow is holstered on your back. This gets you the highest single AP by FAR.

[@bcd398]

It's fun to watch someone else make a mockery of the game that I had to cheese every step of the way to beat

[@milktheshark1226]

Someone mentioned a dragons breath only run, which could work pretty well for everything except the Elden beast who is immune to all status effects, I'd guess you would mostly use ezykezes decay and just wait it out based on teh fact that dragons breath is almost a 3 second cast time, so you get very few opportunities to use it.

[@kadenthronson6375]

Some guy is basically doing it now on tiktok

[@preskynet]

my first malenia kill was with golem greatbow and greatsword with stomp yeet, she doesnt dodge during an animation and you just break her poise

[@famip3679]

This game is too good man ruined my social life that I never had but still

[@LazyDude915]

Funny thing is he coulda used a mimic ash for extra dps considering it can only use what’s equipped

[@jacobreynolds3777]

Watching so many missed shots because he won't hold a shot drives me insane 😂

[@jackshapiro4668]

So I did the math, and to kill Great Dragon Greyoll with on,y your fists would take more than 17 hours. This is assuming you do 2 damage per hit, attack every 0.5 seconds, and never run out if stamina. So, realistically, it would take about 20 hours.

[@m0gice]

NPC, Harbinger of Bad RNG killed me LMAO

[@GustavoSilvaBM666]

2:03:56 The rain hit her so hard she almost fell off her horse lmao

[@bvd638]

sometimes i wonder who would win in a fight the 6 armed creature at the haligtree or the blood raven from mohgs palace champion of worst mob in elden ring

[@StanleyG23]

1:04:07 It's fine, he dies on his own if you talk to him enough times.

[@the_Red_Star]

mad respect for that malenia kill. these runs are pretty enjoyable.

[@fisch4638]

They realy should habe made more of radagons lightning attacks into spells. I think most of them would work realy well. The one where an AOE area stays behind. Maybe one where you fly up a little and can throw up to 3 spears in quick succession depending on the charge.

[@Mazapine]

We need a fall damage run, only bosses you can throw off cliffs

[@vangh64]

You can get the 1° bow killing the chariot in the hero's grave in limgrave

[@nightcorefusion3884]

What amazes me about this video... is that V Rising is 10 months old already. I've got wayyy too many hours in that game.

[@xivix6710]

1:12:37 "NPC, harbinger of bad RNG" I don't know if this is supposed to be shown 😂

[@Terminarch]

I've been thinking about ballista only... don't think it's possible b/c no status or stat scaling. Run out of ammo in the final double fight!

[@TWoW]

very nice intro! that was really entertaining and i didnt wanted to skip it. keep it up

[@stephenantonsson_II]

It’s a shame he made this before the instant greatbow shot glitch was discovered

[@samwilson9810]

That malekith no scope was somethin else

[@axelkreed4282]

the fat shy guy from paper mario 64 is awesome as your icon for your youtube profile

[@badrboujabar3961]

Varry said ooh when you said give me the fingers and give them to you what a gentleman

[@howtoshpee]

Great video love the edits!

[@EliteCarlosN]

Great job Dist! i love your work homie :D

[@aura3506]

I give this video a lion greatbow out of 10

[@ElectroBooze]

I like those bows, they’re pretty great

[@stevenboelke6661]

Stone of Qurranq only run? Probably even more fun than the Boulder Heavy only run. It takes like 5-6 deathroot to get though, so that's a pain for setup unfortunately.

[@puresamari]

Big ups on the editing btw ☺

[@Kynoxz]

YES!, keep uploading this

[@TkKronic]

In the beginning talking about the spinning canceling it I just thought no scope 360 lol

[@Ar4tic_Blizzard1626]

wow there are so many attacks in this game that i thought you just had to facetank using defensive spells but no apparently you can just walk away or jump it

[@Akuankka000]

yeah same I never thought waterfowl was able to be completely avoided