Can You Beat Elden Ring at Level 1 (without being good)?

[@JoaoVitor-ge4le]

He beat the last boss with the power of friendship. Like a true gigachad.

[@falc0hasabeanie899]

lol

[@Iluhvahtar]

Me too. I called my friend Tiche

[@smort123]

Jolly cooperation

[@ccclll987]

He was maidenless. That was not the lowly power of friendship, but the elden power of friendzone.

[@LestatFPS]

naruto would be proud

[@johnlovgren4730]

5:49 this part had me crying because the wierd footlicking lady is supposed to creep you out but gigachad just smiles back xD

[@escapefromtibet2530]

I think that's a kid, not a lady

[@dantefeng2166]

the angle was on point

[@bornofpixels]

he liked it

[@zerrierslizer1]

i was so damn good i made a Gif out of it lmfao.

[@kratox123]

She sucked

[@theonlyzanny]

Made possible by my guy Alexander's sacrifice. Raise a glass 😔

[@nausicaa3746]

It hurts me whenever I see him die 😢

[@itsakc4707]

Yo!!! It’s the legend himself!!!

[@joker13265]

hes my favorite carnivorous piece of pottery

[@Lance_Lionroar]

It's the zan man.

[@alecmiller5296]

What’s up clanka

[@olyhrias5410]

"I'm not a masochist" -> proceed to make a run constantly overloaded and with no horse You are tricking no one my friend

[@hi_imfitzek4434]

i guess being overloaded with no horse seems easier than trying to beat the game lvl 1.

[@FantasticTaze-yt]

@@hi_imfitzek4434trust me, it’s not

[@hitthere7722]

⁠@@hi_imfitzek4434Both have extreme difficulties, just in different places A onebro is limited in what they can use, but gets all their normal dodge mechanics and such Always overloaded never has to care about weight, because they can’t roll, sprint, or use anything that isn’t a weapon special It’s basically no stat increases vs no dodges (And no fast movement other than fast travel(teleporting) outside of combat), which sounds like it would be worse (Not necessarily harder) to do?

[@calebdalby4803]

There is a REALLY easy way to dodge those "undodgable" whole arena AOEs in the battle with Godfrey the First Elden Lord, just jump over them. Works every time consistently and also really shows how From Soft took into account all the ways of dodging in the game, not just rolling like in previous games. This method also works for like 95% of the ground stomp/ground based AOE moves in the game so keep this in mind as well. Hope this helps someone!

[@dariustownsend3851]

Bro I forgot jumping is a valid thing In fights 😂😂

[@masterkief1141]

Sekiro taught me well

[@goldenfrieza1381]

U can jump Radagon's lighting bolts as well

[@GeekRaj]

Thanks bro forgot that you could jump too.

[@SgtNicholasAngle]

Weird I had no trouble rolling to dodge them, maybe I just found the right "groove".

[@chickenmaster3658]

The way gigachad stared at Rennala's minions had me DYING

[@adyy78]

05:49 *i'm gonna have my way with that*

[@ghostspud]

@@adyy78 they're kids

[@adyy78]

@@ghostspud have you seen the face his charcter was making ? didn't it not give THAT vibe ? X)

[@sus6221]

@@adyy78 certified mogh maniac moment

[@fegeleinherman8587]

"hey Malenia your brother is looking kinda breedable right now" - Mohg, Lord of Blood

[@LoudMouth_]

In case anyone wasn't aware, the Godskin apostles/nobles are EXTREMELY weak to sleep. One sleep pot will put them asleep for a couple of minutes. So the fight is a 1v1 if you use them. The fact you can carry like 15 at that point really turns that fight into a cakewalk. In fact you can hit them with a pot on wakeup and have them stun locked the entire fight.

[@Starlitsoul0359]

I am SO abusing this

[@Crumplednoseskin]

Are you fucking... serious? 300 hours. Still learning shit. That's... fuck me.

[@Starlitsoul0359]

@@Crumplednoseskin welcome to fromsoft games. Where everything is so absurdly layered even the DATAMINERS will be finding new things in ten whole years.

[@StrigWilson]

hey alright

[@josephhanicak7922]

Wow.

[@joevollbach4099]

I didn't expect the cutscene at 5:46 to make me laugh that hard! That smile back at the scholar is somehow just too funny. 🤣

[@hasangunes9464]

Same here 😀

[@dontmatter4423]

I come back to watch this part when I feel depressed af

[@TipoIrritable]

@@dontmatter4423MAO good to know

[@johnpett1955]

The cutscene at 11:44 was funny too. Where the fire giant falls off a cliff and breaks his legs.

[@clickboomgaming5712]

I'm still crying laughing xD

[@enlongjones2394]

Note: Godfrey’s room wide shockwave attack can be dodged by jumping. Any “earthquake” style attack can. You can also jump over the closing ring of light the Elden Beast creates.

[@dimo6994]

Bro i ve never used jump to dodge ANYTHING in this game, LMAOO

[@Calix_Daffodil]

The shitty part is that the ring of light has a very particular hitbox so it's really fucked up actually dodging it with a jump

[@TheFeljoy]

@@Calix_Daffodil i have never gotten hit while jumping over it

[@Vespyr_]

You can't jump over the explosive part of it. You also cannot jump over earthquakes with explosive effects like Radagons hammer strike if you're anywhere near the erdtree seal.

[@Vespyr_]

Can't jump over Astels ground splash either. You can however roll through those.

[@anecro]

"I'm not a god player" Proceeds to explain how he beat Margit on his 3rd try with a level 1 build

[@SultanxD]

lmaaaaao that's what i thought

[@vsclsvr]

@@laurenglynn4769 bro I have the wolf spirits an rogier and still can’t beat him🥴🥴🥴

[@tainehickey7761]

@@vsclsvr use the meteorite staff with the rock sling spell i beat him first try with that its the most op early game staff

[@daringdarius5686]

I beat Margit first try, I was challenging myself so I was the starting level of prophet. I summoned Rogier and wolves, healed them up, attacked when I could, dodged like 3 total attacks and won.

[@-freeze-8603]

@@daringdarius5686 no wonder

[@josephsmith2682]

Tip for the homing orb: there is a crystal tear that converts non-physical damage into health. The effect doesn’t last long, but if you slam a physic right before the orb, it will actually heal you and you can just wail on the elden beast

[@user-xu1ru1nu3y]

you cant do that on rl1 tho, then you can’t get bubble and tiche

[@JaitsuStudios]

Where's that!? I've never even heard of such a tear

[@hardikdave1211]

@@JaitsuStudios The Crimsonburst bubbletear. It's in mountaintops of the giants near the foot of the forge grace

[@jallybwan3767]

@@hardikdave1211 I think it's Crimsonwhorl; Crimsonburst is the HP over time one

[@hardikdave1211]

@@jallybwan3767 Yeah, got those two mixed up

[@AniGaAG]

I love the story implication. Melina: "I offer you an accord." Character: "Nah." _Leaves alone and succeeds anyway_ ... xD

[@TheMuffinManIsHappy]

These maidens really ain’t shit

[@Justafixer]

That would be embarassing for her

[@splicerdicer0315]

I thought Melania was mandatory to beat the game this whole time😢

[@tasosmanya7172]

Well he has to say yes for her to burn the erdtree

[@BelchingBeaver69]

@@Justafixertrue but she’s hot so she’ll get over it

[@iamnotinvolved1309]

I'm enjoying this so far because it feels like exactly how a real person would have to barely survive if they were isekai'd into the game.

[@therealryannegronva]

Exactly my thoughts haha! These are some strats Kazuma from Konosuba would use

[@teesmith501]

Same here. The Souls franchise hardcore gamers will disagree, but I almost feel as if being able to 'cheese' the bosses was by design. Many of us just don't have the skills and timing to defeat a lot of these enemies, so I get the sense that I'm being awarded when I discover a way to outsmart them.

[@BornaDudeAlwaysaDude]

Why is your picture of Jane from outsidexbox….

[@marcelkurz134]

@@teesmith501 is it that much harder than other DS?

[@thoribio5846]

@@teesmith501 and regular people don't have the time to Git Gud, really. Uber gamers can do as much challenges as they want, but normal people shouldn't feel like they're missing out if they cheese the bosses. If your character can have 99 Int, they should be able to outsmart a monster.

[@shamvnblood]

16:36 fun fact: even if tiche did kill maliketh at the last second right here, it still wouldn’t have counted because maliketh’s death dialogue is so god damn unnecessarily long that the victory banner would never appear before he was sent into the loading screen. I only know this because it happened to me while practicing for sl1. Thanks from, just one step ahead of us.

[@Lucarioly]

My first kill of maliketh actually happened after my death my mimic finished him off and after an ABSURDLY long load screen I spawned in ashen leyendell with no souls and less than max health for some reason.

[@mitchbs6794]

@@Lucarioly bet you didn’t get the runes though huh :(

[@MalachiLper]

@@mitchbs6794 On my first ever fight against Maliketh, I was using a freeze build, and I died, about 3 seconds before my Mimic Tear killed him. A cutscene started, and I was there with no runes at all. However, I went back to the Maliketh boss arena and my runes were there, as well as the ones from Maliketh.

[@alban4220]

I had that happen with Renalla. I killed her, and then died to her summon, but due to her stupid dialogue, I had to do it again.

[@cannedsquasher5923]

Also another fun fact: The Godskin duo are both sleepable. Sleep arrows (but you need Trina Lily's) and St. Trina's Sword absolutely trivializes that fight. You can sleep both and then just absolutely wail on just one while the other is sleeping. With decent damage you can kill them before they even fully wake up.

[@Shimada.]

12:09 This part was honestly my favourite, you set it up perfectly because of how you were casually explaining and then just "Then I woke up in Ohio". hilarious lol

[@GarbleSnark]

Go Browns!

[@bobryant442]

You had me at “without being good”. In the middle of a lvl 1 run and I needed halp

[@alecelosramboilyaasmayfiel395]

The idea of the last weapon being friends made me laugh so hard love this video

[@ryanherrera9265]

power of FRIENDSHIP

[@taran5747]

@@ryanherrera9265 😂ya

[@Lolvi6]

Maybe the real weapons were the friends we made along the way

[@rod1028]

This is only the beginning of the challenge runs my friends, after a few months or so some mad lads will be beating the game with donkey Kong bongos with a ddr mat while taking no hits and not rolling and only using the torch.

[@wersande1454]

Deutsche demokratische republic mat?

[@trogdortheburninator4253]

And taking bong rips

[@NinjaWaffle14The1st]

Lil aggy already played through the game with craftable items only!

[@FSVR54]

@@trogdortheburninator4253 I do that while normally playing lol

[@info0]

there is a guy already who beat the game with bananas as controller lol. There is also one guy from Korea who went SL1 vs all the bosses with no damage taken ... Using only the starting club as a weapon xD.

[@Yavorh55]

Iron: "Im not good" Also Iron: "Yea I beat these bosses 3rd try with no stats or cheese"

[@iamamish]

There is good, and then there is sl 1 speedrun good. No hate though because I'm certainly not sl 1 speedrun good either

[@senvivaviro]

Yeah, I'm gonna call BS right here. You're more than 'good' if you're taking down bosses at level 1 and 3 tries.

[@SteamboatWill]

Hoarfrost stomp was just that busted it got nerfed like he said in the video but that’s why every speedrunner used it because u could 1st try bosses if u were good almost every time

[@SteamboatWill]

U don’t need to be super good to do what he did, now u do but with hoarfrost no

[@DjZephy]

@@iamamish Just curious, what is sl 1? does that mean solo (1 player)

[@spandytube]

It's so interesting coming back to this over a year later. These early versions were truly the wild west of Elden Ring, almost none of these cheese tactics work anymore.

[@chaosflash7]

not to mention the new tactics. lack of sleep pots on godskin duo is so painful

[@AleeWiksa]

21:45 You can use Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear to tank the homing orb damage move, it converts all non-physical dmg into hp, healing you instead of damaging your nerves.

[@ItachiUchiha-69]

I have no idea how he couldn’t dodge it with bloodhound step, you just dodge away until it disappears.

[@OrkwilP]

@@ItachiUchiha-69 level 1 FP

[@ItachiUchiha-69]

@@OrkwilP mf had flasks

[@RyoRocks]

@@ItachiUchiha-69 so you go to use a flask while the orb is right behind you. then it kills you.

[@ItachiUchiha-69]

@@RyoRocks no, you use it while you’re well in front of it- it’s decently easy to dodge with bloodhound step. Sitting for half a second to drink a flask doesn’t really hurt, the spell doesn’t do that much damage unless you’re in the middle of it instead of away from it.

[@justas423]

The "(without being good)" part is what really turns this from a challenge run into a tutorial.

[@almostanygame1287]

Fun fact for those playing along at home: The commoner's garb at 12:43 is a rare drop but you can also get it guaranteed. There's a Site of Grace just inside the entrance to Stormveil Castle, right next to the crank which opens the gate. If you enter the castle through said gate, you can get there by running up the ramp and then turning left as soon as you can to get on to a path leading to a doorway. The site of grace is on your right as you enter. If you run to the opposite end of the room, there's another doorway leading outdoors to a balcony area which has the commoner's garb item.

[@user-hp9hx3jn3g]

mlp

[@TheWeen344]

IMPORTANT NOTE: the drop only appears if you go through the main gate first before taking the secret passage that most players take. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I'm right

[@smoofbrain]

Ackchyually, "guaranteed" is a bit of a misnomer/misleading as that item is not the same as the ones that drop. Sure, the one you're talking about still has a +1 bonus to Faith, but the stats and visuals are slightly different-distinguishable by its protruding, white cloak. "Simply" put: That's the "Commoner's _Simple_ Garb" (world loot) as opposed to the ones simply called "Commoner's Garb" (mob drop). Oh and, _"Nay, thou needeth not wend the main gates to hast the item appeareth for thy daddles to purloin."_ - Ranni-wannabe Kenobi

[@songlovers3426]

@@TheWeen344 not accurate. I got it even though I used the secret passage. maybe they patched it since I started recently

[@1umbreon4life]

some quick math for those who care: The soreseal causes you to take 15% more damage from all sources. +5 vigor at level 1 takes you from 414 HP to 522, as seen at 1:28 which is an effective 26% increase. +5 endurance also gives you about 16% more equip load, letting your wear more armor. It's hard to justify ever removing something that good, especially since it helps with weapon prerequisites and doesn't require beating any bosses.

[@youtubeisdead1858]

12:16 You can actually cheese this by using the Sword of St. Trina. It'll put one of the Godskin Duo enemies to sleep, which will cause them to not fight for a whole two minutes or until woken up. You can just then fight them one by one.

[@paul-antoinect2922]

youtube isdead congrats man!

[@paul-antoinect2922]

Or not... just realised it’s a bot 😅

[@LoudMouth_]

You don't even need the sword, you can just use sleep pots, one puts them asleep and if you hit it right you can get both with one pot.

[@youtubeisdead1858]

@@paul-antoinect2922 What..?

[@paul-antoinect2922]

@@youtubeisdead1858 there was a bot with the iron pineapple image saying that you won a ps5 haha (it’s seemed to have been banned already👍)

[@MarcosAraujo-ps3od]

16:37 I think everyone felt his pain at this moment. That moment the boss has 1% HP and you die. The healing was just adding insult to injury.

[@allbottledup9513]

Even for Souls veterans, this is the hardest thing to swallow and not get mad. It’s enough to make you want to put the controller down and call it a night lol

[@dacianatrif490]

didn't they make it so most (main) bosses survive with 1% hp or something?

[@dirtface1274]

i think weve all had the same exprience before :(

[@BigVorst]

Basically what happens when I die to a boss most of the time.

[@mikeblxnky]

Happen first time I fought the first dragon by limgrave

[@jukmifggugghposer]

I love the attitude of this run. Nothing is off the table, there’s no right or wrong, honorable or dishonorable way to beat a boss (other than by leveling of course), just beat the game in whatever ways work.

[@Gorlami90]

We’ve all read the Ashina esoteric texts

[@DKdrop]

The challenge of this run is avoiding getting good, which I something that I relate to hard.

[@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д]

​@@DKdrop why get good in the first place if the community will find a reason for you still being a filthy casual

[@DKdrop]

@@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д Personal fulfillment (I have never played a fromsoftware game).

[@blazingbuizel7194]

"I'm not that great at Elden Ring." "I simply dodged Margit normally. It took me three tries lmao" Actual gigachad

[@FiftyStates5]

Margit is easy tho

[@helianthe3457]

@@FiftyStates5 Not when you start playing. In short you kinda have to get better to a certain extent to finish the game...

[@roscora614]

​​@@helianthe3457 but having an easy time with the first boss doesn't mean you're good, does it? If anything, it just shows that you are mediocre or better.

[@helianthe3457]

@@roscora614 Margit is a huge roadblock for a lot of players, especially those new to souls games. You *do* have to get significantly better at the game to be able to pass it without like, rogier + wolves + long range sorceries (I say this because that's how I beat him the first time and tbh I didn't learn much about the game this way and it got very problematic later on). He might not be the greatest elden ring player of all times, but he is still pretty good I'd say? Now, it also depends on what you consider being good or not. That definition is different for everyone, especially fromsoft bros vs everyone else

[@roscora614]

@@helianthe3457 I understand that Margit is a big challenge to new players, but he is also incredibly easy compared to a lot of the other main bosses in the game. I also understand that a new player will have to get significantly better at the game in order to beat him. My argument was more that the thing that defines "good" in a game is the content in it. For instance, if a person is really good at call of duty, but then moves to Titanfall 2 and gets their ass kicked because it takes a different skill set, they are not good at Titanfall 2. A new player to that game would also need to get significantly better at the game in order to beat the single player campaign, but if they still can't compete with the majority of players it would be unreasonable to call them "good at the game". I hope this clears up my point a bit. Also, I don't say this to disrespect the amount of effort it takes to beat Margit or the amount of skill involved. For instance, when I started playing it took me multiple days of grinding him down before I finally figured him out.

[@Loiya0451]

There's a few things you can do to make this much easier 1. Godskin minibosses are HILARIOUSLY weak to sleep. You can outright sleeplock the bigger variant with a Saint Trina sword, and probably the pulley crossbow too with sleep bolts 2. You can trivialise the Maliketh fight by beating Rykard first. Bernahl will invade you at a side area of Farum Azula, and killing him will give you a reusable consumable that lets you easily parry all of Maliketh's downward aerial thrust attacks. And if Rykard proves to be a problem, you can stunlock him by spamming the 1st hit of the serpent spear's weapon art. Just turn all your flasks into FP ones and he's toast.

[@emilianonuke]

funfact, if you dont kill rykard first Bernahl is a summonable npc for maliketh's fight

[@FelisImpurrator]

You know, now I wonder if bleed being so busted is also partly intentional, because some enemies that are completely immune to bleed will just destroy you immediately... Including the Elden Beast, lmao. Bosses having bullshit weaknesses that can be used to ape them into the ground almost effortlessly, while being hard as shit every other way, sounds like an intentional design thing. Godskins and sleep, Rot on Radahn...

[@cs40660]

@@FelisImpurrator yeah nah every status effect is incredibly busted depending on the enemy, i went through most of the game just cycling dragon incantations since they cover most of the status effects

[@Bstrdmn]

@@FelisImpurrator well rivers of blood still shreds elden beast even without bleed, so I think blood/arcane weapons/skills just bit overturned at the moment

[@Lac0na]

I tried using sleep on the godskin minibosses on my regular playthrough and it was useless - one of them would stay down for like 5 seconds then just pop back up without me doing anything to him. Why are people saying sleep is remotely useful here?

[@draskirondaar]

@IronPineapple 21:45 There's a mixture that you can put in the Physick flask that completely negates this attack. It turns all non-physical damage into heals instead of damage, and it's the only reason I can get through the fight. Everything else, I was able to learn to dodge eventually. It's called the "Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear".

[@DetectiveOlivaw]

The fact that I never found this… wow

[@natustenebris9568]

How long does the affect last?

[@draskirondaar]

@@natustenebris9568 I'm not sure exactly, but long enough to outlast the attack at least. EDIT: Wiki says 15 seconds, which doesn't seem quite right to me, but even still, it's enough to counter the one unavoidable attack.

[@luckyrice672]

im pretty sure he already used his physick ot summon tiche

[@shintaroarvin9693]

Elden beast does that move more than once so once it wears out hes dead

[@Chancebeloudtv]

I’d love to get the sliders for this character. The smile on his face is just too funny to not do a run with.

[@Zepee-ls9iz]

did you ever find what they are?

[@bryanwollbaum2866]

@@Zepee-ls9iz Just type in "Elden Ring Gigachad sliders" Should be the same if not better

[@Sean27007]

This run made possible BY THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP. The most powerful weapon in this game

[@weeb8925]

The best way i've found to avoid the Elden Beast's Elden Stars (the funny homing holy projectile spamming nightmare) is to use the Crimsonwhirl Crystal Tear. Mixing it into your Physick makes you absorb all non-physical damage you take into HP, and it lasts around 15 to 20 seconds, almost the entire duration of the attack. It's obtainable before the Fire Giant boss fight and It could also work pretty well to tank some fire hits from him if you are also struggling. Best part is that if you are into PVPing, and despise the magic spam, you can also use it to look like you're hacking and just walk through the magic projectiles.

[@bingbong1919]

Just imagine his gigachad character slow walking into every magic projectile 🤣

[@creatureofsteel17]

Which erdtree do you get it from?

[@weeb8925]

@@creatureofsteel17 It's not on an Erdtree. It's hidden in a weird spot in the Mountaintops of Giants that i can't explain. I suggest looking up a video or the wiki.

[@Mas3d_p0ta3rs]

Fuck me this woulda been great to know about when I went for the big pot trinket

[@GewalfofWivia]

I used this to tank a full Comet Azur beam in an experiment with my friend. On the character sheet it shows up as 99% damage absorption to all elements for ~10 seconds.

[@andreacurto6393]

I am actually attempting my level 1 run on elden ring, actually on Godfrey, first elden lord bossfight (not the golden guy) and i have to admit i have learned some things about the level 1 run, even if it's late. Anyway i would love to share some other tips with everyone who will attempt the run. 1. Get the marika's scarseal talisman in siofra river, u will boost by 3 points Mind, Intelligence, Faith and Arcane. Location: @ 2. Get the talismans that will boost your single stats by 5 points, there are 4 in the game and you can get them "early". I will list them from easiest to hardest to get them. +5 Faith: Purified ruins, Liurnia, into the chest in the underground room. Location: @ +5 Strenght: Fort Gael, Caelid, into the chest on the roof before the watch tower. Location: @ +5 Dexterity: Church of the Plague, Caelid, Millicent gives it to you after giving her the golden needle as a part of her quest. Location: @ +5 Intelligence: Divine tower of Liurnia, Liurnia, to reach the tower u will need to progress Ranni's questline. Location: @ 3. List of some the best armor pieces that can increase your stats or give you some interesting bonuses, as i did before i will rank them from the easiest to get in my opinion and i will link you some coordinates to get them. - COMMONER'S SIMPLE GARB: Stormveil castle, Limgrave, near the front door lever. Let Gostoc give the signal to get the main gate open and speed up the process. +1 Faith. Location: @ - RULER'S MASK: found northeast of the Abandoned Coffin site of grace, Altus Plateau, on a corpse on a carriage. +1 Faith. Location: @ - RAPTOR'S BLACK FEATHERS: Sage's cave, near the abandoned coffin site of grace, Altus Plateau, in a chest behind an illusory wall. Increases the jump attack power. Location: @ - SILVER TEAR MASK: Mimic tear bossfight, Nokron. +8 arcane, +8 discovery but decreases the physical damage. - TWINSAGE GLINTSTONE CROWN: Raya Lucaria academy, Liurnia, dropped by a Crystallized Crab. +6 Intelligence but reduces Health and Stamina. Location: @ - OKINA'S MASK: near church of repose, Mountaintop of the Giants, dropped from the invader okina. You can cheese him by baiting him to fall from an edge behind the church. +3 Dexterity but less concentration. Location: @ - WHITE MASK: mohgwin dinasty mausoleum, Siofra river, dropped by killing one of the three Nameless White Mask NPC invaders - i do not recommend to get it just cause of the monsters that will follow you with the npc, but it can be interesting in the run for a bleeding build. +10% damage when the bleeding stacks uo near you on yourself. Location: @ 4. Get some ashes of war that can help you during the run, the 3 i recommend: - ICE STOMP: Liurnia, near the Caria manor, dropped from the invisible scarab in the small lake. Location: @ - SEPPUKU: Mountaintop of the giants, in the frozen lake. Location: @ - BLOODHOUND STEP: Dragonbarrow, dropped by the night's cavalry on the small bridge. Location: @ 6. Get the dragon communion seal, it can be found at Fringefolk Hero's Grave, and buffs Dragon Communion Incantations by 15%: @ Head to Fort Faroth, kill the big dragon with a bleeding weapon and get 5 dragon hearts: @ Then move to the Cathedral of dragon communion in Caelid ( @ ) and get the scarlet rot incantation and the ice incantation from the altar. Due to your talismans and armor pieces mentioned before you will be able to use them both. Very powerful against almost every boss, gives u the chance to end every fight relatively fast if u then move to a melee fight or with much less risk if you want to keep your distance from the boss. Get the poison mist near Castle Morne to cheese some bosses in stealth mode without letting them move and with 0% risk of loosing: @ Get the swarm of flies incantation in mohgwin dinasty mausoleum for a bleed build: @ 7. Get the Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearings and the Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearings to easy upgrade your weapons. Locations for the smithing stones bell bearings: @ Locations for the somber stones bell bearings: @ 8. A small list of some of the talismans that can give u some benefits for the builds you would be using: - FLOCK'S CANVAS TALISMAN (Greatly raises the potency of Incantations): @ - LORD OF BLOOD'S EXULTATION (Blood loss in vicinity increases attack power of 20%): @ - MILLICENT'S PROSTHESIS (+5 dexterity, raises attack power with successive strikes - one of the hardest to get due to the path you have to follow): @ - MARIKA'S SORESEAL (+5 Mind, Intelligence, Faith, and Arcane - one of the hardest to get due to the path you have to follow): @ - KINDRED OF ROT'S EXULTATION (Poisoning or rot in vicinity increases attack power of 20%): @ - RED-FEATHERED BRANCHSWORD (+20% attack power when HP is low): @ 9. I will list some builds I created with all the items listed before, just to let you know how your playstyle may change during the run or inspire you to get new builds setups. (NOTE: you NEVER want to remove the Radagon's soreseal talisman from your builds, so i will not mention it in the builds below.) - EXTREME BLEEDING SETUP: Okina's mask, +5 Dex talisman, uchigatana & nagakiba both with seppuku - optional talisman: Lord of Blood's Exultation. -- EXTREME BLEEDING - MID RANGE SETUP VARIANT: Silver tear mask, marika's scarseal/soreseal talisman, +5 dexterity talisman, rivers of blood katana, dragon communion talisman, swarm of flies. - MID RANGED ICE AND SCARLET ROT: Marika's scarseal talisman, shard of Alexander talisman, Flock's Canvas Talisman, commoner's robe, ruler's mask, dragon communion seal, dragon communion spells, Uchigatana with ice stomp. - MID RANGED ICE AND SCARLET ROT VARIANT: Marika's soreseal talisman, shard of Alexander talisman, Flock's Canvas Talisman dragon communion seal, dragon communion spells, Uchigatana with ice stomp: mid ranged ice and scarlet rot build with light weight. If you made it here, thank you for your time, i appreciate that cause i spent a lot of time writing this little guide while im in bed with covid-19. Keep it up my fellow tarnished boys! post scriptum: i'm Italian, i hope i wrote everything the most correctly and clearly possible for you.

[@siri5349]

Thanks bro, get well soon 👍

[@reentrysfs6317]

The most ambitious

[@edu1155]

Touch grass

[@andreacurto6393]

@@edu1155 touch grace*

[@Schlittlenutacus]

Man gave us a whole ass guide in a comment I tip my hat to you!

[@Tankzilla-j1j]

The "I'm Sorry" after killing Alexander was so genuine.

[@fabiolean]

"A sacrifice." :my heart drops:

[@thebigsucc030]

I almost cried watching it 😢

[@Sargaxiist2022]

When the music kicked in and the friend came up from the summon sign all I could think was "DID SOMEBODY ORDER A BIG ASS CAN OF JOLLY COOPERATION?"

[@skizordrone3836]

I’ve been doing a LV1 run post patch 1.03 so the ice stomp was heavily nerfed and the magic shield no longer works so I’m stuck on godricks spirit. The poison mist carried me hard, I have you to thank for this :)

[@sod0m]

Upgrade a normal shield as close to +25 as you can, put Carian Retaliation ash of war on it (Pidia in Caria Manor sells it), get the Wraith Calling Bell from under Laskyar Ruins, now equip both, use the Wraith Calling Bell and immediately parry with the Carian Retaliation, and get ready for big boy damage.

[@retnuHDJ]

@@sod0m That is just TOO cheesy though haha

[@Sky-yb4jg]

A longsword and square off are really good tools. They aren't fancy or anything, and are less cheesy then you may want, but can do a ton of damage and have a high poise break.

[@naruspheal1831]

@@retnuHDJ its just as cheesy as the greatshield and poison

[@sod0m]

@@retnuHDJ Debatable, if he was leveling normally. But if you're doing a lvl1 run nothing is off the table.

[@Baku69895]

Can you beat Elden Ring with only Bleed & Pre-nerf Hoarfrost Stomp?: Yes Can you Beat Elden Ring with only Bloodhound Step?: Yes.

[@bjornolfactory9363]

Does bleed even actually proc on Elden Beast? I fought him with a maxed out Rivers of Blood, a maxed out Uchi with Sepuku and did a lot of damage. But I don't think I bleed Elden Beast a single time!

[@hctaz]

Okay but Bloodhound’s Step is awesome and I love it xD I don’t care.

[@crazybeatrice4555]

@@bjornolfactory9363 no elden beast is immune to blood

[@jacobbill]

@@bjornolfactory9363 Neither EB nor Radagon suffer bleed.

[@_Salok]

@@bjornolfactory9363 I don't think bleed procs on either Elden Beast or Radagon, but they're the only ones out of all the main bosses. And outside of these, only the gargoyles, stone trolls, burial watchdogs and crucible knights are immune to bleed.

[@destenwoodham9094]

I was straight faced the entire video until… “and then I woke up in Ohio” I laughed so hard. Totally caught me off guard

[@a_smiling_gamer9063]

Same

[@RendezvousWithRama]

Yep :D

[@mahentahen5992]

Really?

[@jedobusiness6509]

Nice, loved it. I’m glad you stuck through and beat it

[@Afrieddelicacy]

Fun fact: you can also take commander O’Neil to the scarlet rot geysers outside his arena and kill him that way. They do 750 damage and if you can line him up to get hit by 2, it’s a very easy fight

[@GewalfofWivia]

I defeated invader Millicent once using those

[@carneus]

You can also sneak behind him and poison mist him without aggroing like draconic tree sentinel in leyndell lol

[@JR-vt7rb]

"Fight" 😂 but i can confirm it works, i did it with my lv 9 character to get the night maiden's kiss, you can cheese 99% of the bosses with that one spell

[@dowfreak7]

Yup, did that when I first encountered him and grew tired of running in with my horse in the single opening he gives to wail on his enormous health pool, while dodging all the buffed adds... I don't regret cheesing this guy.

[@fatalexception3845]

Another easy kill that's otherwise a bit of a headache is the knight under the rampart at Stormveil castle. The one that drops you the Crucible Aspect: Tail. Run past him in the elevator room, make the elevator go up and stand on the other side but within swing range. Dodge when he swings to avoid the damage and see him fall to death. You still get the incantation.

[@millionaiyer]

"Don't work hard , work smart. Literally sits there for 16 min to poison the boss to death " xD Loved the video!! Great video! :D

[@brandon_bman590]

A consumable item that would have been really useful that you missed was the Uplifting Aromatic perfume that gives you another bubble, and can be used multiple times in a fight. If you find perfumers cookbook 1 you could probably do this challenge on the current patch.

[@IdleByte8000]

apparently you can get your mimic to use this as well, but no idea how decent the ai is after the nerf

[@myotheremailisacat]

@@IdleByte8000 He uses the Aromatic a decent amount. Whenever I use him, I'll end up getting the bubble 2-3 times in a boss fight.

[@orion1204]

Mimic do be using sleep pots and perfumes well

[@kafkasja]

does anyone have a friend that plays elden ring?

[@Luminous_Wind]

In the case of the Elden Beast's chasing attack, you may be able to use the crimsonwhorl bubbletear to soak up the damage. It heals you for 5% max hp instead of taking damage while it's active

[@neroxdgaming9362]

Knowledge is power, and you my friend have done that throughout the play through. Doesn't matter how cheap or how cheesy the way you beat the bosses. The fact that you found a way for each boss all the way to the end earned you a sub!

[@mythical_pizza]

He literally made Gigachad poison fart into a draconic horses ass for 16 minutes to beat a field boss and if that isn't god-tier elden ring playing I don't know what is

[@zoblon451]

"I let Melina burn the Erdtree and then woke up in Ohio" as a native Ohioan, this is extremely accurate

[@dummyforcummy5223]

The only thing missing is a billboard telling me I’m going to burn in hell

[@kiratrion5906]

You start out in the rural religious region of Ohio, this area is Kansas.

[@fatalexception3845]

@@kiratrion5906 Or Nebraska?

[@doctorcropse2795]

The swamp area is Louisiana

[@Cyranek]

the virgin max level casual vs the lv 0 chad tarnished

[@matosz23]

I will take that L EVERY time. Currently lvl 159. XD

[@johnpantag472]

I've never heard anything more cringe than this

[@Greywander87]

IIRC, the Godskin Duo is susceptible to sleep pots. This gives you time to apply poison, buff yourself, and set up a combo, and you can leave one of them snoozing so you only have to deal with one at a time. That said, Trina's Lilies are in limited supply as they don't respawn. You can get unlimited by farming them from Cleanrot Knights, but this can be a little tedious.

[@inkymonstrosity]

I was surprised that he didn't use this tactic. Perhaps he simply wasn't aware of it, or it didn't cross his mind at the time. But yeah, it makes the boss that little bit more tolerable on any run

[@castlestudio9246]

I actually like that he didn't hold the game or challenge sacred. It's refreshing. Cheese, bend the rules, get it done no matter what. I liked that.

[@twelvevoltage]

Yeah I hate gatekeeping in FromSoftware games especially a sl1 run

[@AaronCorr]

@@twelvevoltage reminds me of the time ymfah checked "challenge rules" to find a good strategy for a run. The rules forbid Tears of Denial because boohoo you aren't supposed to survive a hit, so he got it

[@twelvevoltage]

@@AaronCorr elitists are the WORST

[@Captain00Chaos]

@@AaronCorr Its a game, do what you want. But at the same time, if you are doing a set challenge, then it doesn't make sense to not follow said challenge. It'd be like making a house without any entrances, what's the point?

[@todd3143]

the challenge is sacred. he didn’t level up and used alternatives when necessary, the things that he set out to do. if there’re any gripes with this, it’s that there are even more tools and weapons that makes certain challenges easier as a rl1

[@Nzzertral]

The strategy you used for the tree sentinel is what I used on the that "star beast" thing you fight in some crater and usually these strats feel too dirty but when I need it, I must justify it with the thinking of "this game has no problem instant killing me and pulling dirty tricks, so I should do the same"

[@mylji2276]

The Godskin Duo is extremely susceptible to sleep: Just use a bow with sleep arrows or the Sword of St. Trina. As they are sleep, you can also use mist spells like Night Maiden's Mist and Poison Mist that do not wake them up. You can also sleep just one of them and focus the other one if you want a one on one fight. Edit: Night Maiden's Mist does wake up enemies, but still shreds these 2, so its still recommended.

[@user-hi3lv1bu7l]

The skin men must sleep

[@Guardian_Arias]

Summon minic tear with trins sword equiped XD

[@BDD_c2bn]

@@user-hi3lv1bu7l That's what she said.

[@DetectiveOlivaw]

I don’t think I ever used sleep but for one time in the entire game! There’s just so many tools it’s really easy to forget about one when you need it

[@cabriskus4700]

Bro I cannot tell you how much watching you do these series have helped my performance in Elden ring. You show so many good ways to cheese bosses that I’ve never seen before lmaoo

[@deadmemes1824]

This is what I love about these games, I just recently got all the achievements and now I wanna make a few challenge builds like this

[@DerRusher]

meanwhile: serpent hunter requires 0 stats and has insane damage even with no stats. + you can use it in combination with a greatshield & poke while blocking. would need all the strength boosting equipment & flask though

[@DetectiveOlivaw]

Is there any way to get it without doing a few assassinations or killing a godskin though? Those might be barriers to a level one character.

[@lordbagel6610]

@@DetectiveOlivaw There's a way to skip the Godskin Noble fight that involves jumping around the arena. It involves attacking to move yourself forward midair at some points, but none of it is really that tricky.

[@dhats5575]

Some moves are meant to be jumped over. Seeing that jumping is so convenient in this game and not in the others it really took some getting used to. Great video!

[@seekerofthe6459]

Whenever I try jumping over attacks I still get hit. What type of attacks can you jump over?

[@Vazmezvez]

@@seekerofthe6459 The stomp from godfrey, the ring from the final boss, the fire from godrick are some that immediatly comes to mind

[@xGCxn00b]

@@seekerofthe6459 Rykards side-sweep attack with his sword, Elden Beasts rings, most stomps and a couple of others. Its mostly attacks that are "close" to the ground or send out some form of a shockwave. If you've played Sekiro, it becomes more apparent which attacks you might be able to jump over.

[@rightwing707]

@@seekerofthe6459 Quite a few of Maliketh's sweeping attacks are fair game for it too. I tend to bully him with colossal weapons whenever he goes for them.

[@xGCxn00b]

@Weyland Punani Then you are either jumping too late or too early. Elden Beasts rings work a 100%. So does the sweep attack of Rykard and Godfreys Stomp for his "buffed" phase. As other people have said, there are a lot more attacks that can be jumped over. It's just that most people (myself included) arent used to it working for multiple attacks in a "Dark Souls" game and its definitely worth it to learn which attacks are able to be jumped over just to be able to punish bosses with a jump attack.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Your grey lv1 god not only has the heroic physique of the Gigachad but also the smug of Jetstream Sam

[@lacia1658]

11:12, there's actually a glitch that works against Morgott. All you do is use Margit's shackle 3 times before entering the mist and it freezes the ai. Just make sure to not move around too much otherwise it won't work. Then you just get poison mist and eventually kill him

[@sotonin]

Also works on Mohg. As long as you attack painfully slow and don't stagger can skip all other phases.

[@RendezvousWithRama]

@@sotonin Would probably be more useful for Mohg, since Morgott isn't a hard fight. Too bad Mohg is actually a really fun fight though. Both are.

[@FreyaTheGoblin]

The unavoidable final boss move can be avoided with a simple trick any build can do: by running in small circles. that's it, just run in a small circle and the tracking will try to rain down onto you and into the ground right behind where you were.

[@Shojaboy]

how small of a circle?

[@Delacrow_l_Chawngthu]

@@Shojaboy 6ft

[@dantefromdevilmaycry9857]

@@Delacrow_l_Chawngthu Great now I'll just have bring my Measuring tape next time.. thanks!

[@FreyaTheGoblin]

@@Shojaboy Very small like as small as possible

[@azureascendant994]

That worked for me In Sekiro... Less in this game.

[@kidthebilly7766]

just a tip.. for the mage lady fight rather than dodge rolling at all- sprint. sprinting at a 45 degree angle towards her avoids all of her magic attacks (literally all of them) if you’re very close to her, though, you have to roll past. especially the comet, i said you could sprint and avoid it but it’s very close i would recommend rolling once and getting out of the way. everything else can just be ignored, as long as you keep hitting her no matter what it’s a very straightforward fight

[@Smogne]

Yeah, I also found out that the lone wolfs summon (you get it as a gift from Ranni, I think, on the beginning of the game) can easily catch up to her. May times they broke her spell casting while I was running towards her, and did decent damage... Overall, they are great summons against non ultra aggressive bosses early on.

[@WhiteVampire888]

can confirm, fight took me two trys and i never even found out about her summons... a friend told me after that she summons stuff lol

[@Teemu14]

you casually killing godrick at lvl 1....me dying everytime at lvl 59..... (Update: i did it..., i know my build is bad but i like it!!!)

[@joshuatucker2521]

Godrick super easy with right build

[@casual_loser6733]

Godrick is easy if you don’t spam roll

[@danielbartos7603]

git gud

[@OLDPEDOJOE]

Just summon Master Roshi or whatever and then go intelligence and spam rocks at him :)

[@berichixd7219]

U weak my guy

[@MiguelPaolo]

Your Elden Ring content is so addicting. Scratch that, all your content is just so bingeable. Thank you so much Ferrous Ananas.

[@gojiradropkick9447]

Honestly really refreshing to watch this sort of challenge by someone with a reasonable skill level lol. Great video as always :)

[@wtfisahandleffs]

For the homing orbs, you have to run in a circle while moving slightly towards the boss. Like a slow spiral circle around the boss. No need to dodge or roll.

[@SetariM]

I'd like to see a video of this, lol

[@temporarilyembarrassedgodd9656]

I was doing this too

[@devansh2795]

@@temporarilyembarrassedgodd9656 so like , were you able to completely dodge it ?

[@Ftoy-OG]

@@devansh2795 can confirm

[@posthardcoresinger]

@@devansh2795 yeah the bolts eventually just hit the ground behind you if you get a good turning angle

[@weebto]

You forgot to grab the single, most important item for any RL1 playthrough - the ritual shield talisman. Lots of bosses, including Godfrey, Gurranq and Malenia would've stopped one-shotting you with that equipped

[@collinsmith5978]

The fact that the Fire Giant can be killed that easily by fall damage is absolutely hilarious. Gonna have to try that later.

[@duartelessa1085]

they already patch it

[@jaxzian]

patched and not as easy as it looks when it wasnt

[@jovnatequante2458]

@@jaxzian I raged more at attempting the glitch than killing the boss it was pain.

[@jaxzian]

@@jovnatequante2458 same I got it to fall alot but 99% of the time it didn't kill in 2 falls and I'd die and have to do it all over again was lots of fun

[@leme686]

25 tries trying to cheese him....5 tries actually fighting him..

[@mangoruby1357]

Fun Fact: the strat where you cast poison mist on the draconic sentinel also works on old king Allant in Demon Souls, both in the original and the remake! If you stand still when you start the fight then Allant will not aggro onto you and will walk to the middle of the arena, where he will then turn around. Walk up to him and cast poison mist (or whatever it's called in Demon Souls) and bad bing bada boom he's dead.

[@agentsith1572]

poison not aggroing the boss while simultaneously damaging them is valid strat in dark souls games too. You can kill Wolnir that way for example

[@CerberusMalt]

@@agentsith1572 Wait, Mr Skellybones can be poisoned?

[@agentsith1572]

@@CerberusMalt yes, he does have some poison resistance, but it's possible to pull off, using either poisoning spells/pyromancy or storyteller staff WA you can kill him without engaging if you do it on your first meeting (if you don't kill him 1st try he will start all next tries already engaged) I also should mention that it should work on all bosses and enemies in all 3 DS games (and apparently in Demon Souls and Elden ring) that do not auto-aggro and don't have poison immunity, as game coded such way that recieving damage from those poison clouds isn't considered an attack for enemies so they don't aggro when you use it on them

[@BloodyAshes]

why would you need to though? The man is literally sludge.

[@mangoruby1357]

@@agentsith1572 I honestly think it's really interesting that you can just poison any boss to death as long as they don't notice you. I wonder how many bosses across the whole soulsborne/sekrio series are susceptible to this?

[@navtektv]

Iron Pineapple: "I'm not good." Beats Margit and Godrick in three tries with zero leveling and wretch build. Me: Hmmm.

[@shadowrosegaming3566]

Not good but better than me

[@Kylekashi]

To be fair, it seems he did this run before the hoarfrost stomp nerf and it was REALLY broken as you see in the video. On top of that, bleed is really OP on its own as well (still is in the current patch). It is especially helpful against bosses you are underleveled for. Like my brother (who is about the same skill level as me) had a super easy time with Margit since he had a bleed weapon. I had no bleed weapon and got my ass handed to me lol So yeah since both frost and bleed are really really strong (as well as that stomp being outright broken in the early patch) - and he used both - it is no wonder he found it easy.

[@navtektv]

@@Kylekashi Wait is that why I'm stuck on Godrick? I've been halfway past Liurnia and into Altus Plateau slaying mother fuckers cept the bosses but Godrick still fucks me up at level 40. Or maybe I'm a worse 'Not Good' than Mr Pineapple over here. Oh wait you're talking about the stomp Ash of War. I thought it was something they did with Godrick that made him be a spamming dick. Turns out its me who's Not Good after all. Ugh.

[@Kylekashi]

@@navtektv hmm I mean I don't know about what rules you set for yourself but I found the fight to become pretty easy, even without bleed or frost, if you summon Nepheli when I did that for her quest.

[@navtektv]

@@Kylekashi Just gotta get good I guess. He's harder for me than Margit to be honest. I'm glad he's optional because he's pissing me off. I know that if I level up enough he'll be a breeze but I wanna beat him on skill not on stats.

[@justinlowery6017]

Yeeeeeess! This video is more my style lol. Currently doing my own RL1 “work smart, not hard” play through and came across this, so helpful!

[@1oace768]

So fun fact, you can find Bernahl in Farum Azula, he'll invade you and when you beat him you get a special item that allows you to parry Malekith's Black Blade attacks.

[@Smogne]

Yeah, he is on a divergent path of the map... I think it's the same path for the great shield that you can get at that area, kinda close to Malekith's arena I think.

[@Salmon_Toastie]

That’s why I always check everything in the area before boss areas, that parry item is insanely useful and it even shows when you can use it!

[@dranyth]

Correct, although you have to do pretty much the whole Volcano Manor questline before Bernahl will leave and be able to invade you in Farum Azula. Otherwise he'll just sit in Volcano Manor and won't invade you.

[@Ulqui_210]

Man, I was too busy fighting other enemies when he invaded that he just fucked off and never returned. Damned coward

[@0Winkleson0]

SO THAT'S WHAT THAT ITEM WAS FOR. God I needed to remember to read that item description before facing that boss...

[@lolbuster01]

A tip with the mimic is that if you get the talisman that draws aggro, and equip it, once you summon your mimic and irs copied you, you can unequip it and the boss will focus your mimic almost constantly, unless that's been patched.

[@BigDBrian]

should work

[@commandernomad2817]

3:33 im glad someone else out there understands peak comedy. we all know running around naked is lol so random and that equals unparalleled comedy genius.

[@IKnowBangerss]

Goldfrey is a super underrated boss. When you’re under leveled you realize how fun and fair this boss is even when you die 20+ times

[@N13J]

Iron Pineapple: *Telling everyone that he’s not a god tier souls player* me: “How many lies have I been told by the council?”

[@bob1builder100]

He is good, but the stomp has been nerfed with the patch, he couldnt finish it now

[@williamromero5784]

@@bob1builder100 i am sure someone can find another exploit to do it in a different way

[@Lunaraia]

@@williamromero5784 The Cheese ALWAYS finds a way

[@JoeKing69]

@@bob1builder100 just tried the stomp today and DAMN, that shit is strong. I can only imagine what it was like before the patch. I think I'll keep it on my offhand weapon as a way to open fights and ripen enemies for the sickle with the frostbite debuff.

[@MrMarket1987]

It's more like Pineapple is an adept pro in his own right, but the really funky players would still run circles around him. They're a special breed all on their own that defy logic. :V

[@strawberrycheesecake5502]

This was a delight. The ending and the "I'm not mad" part were so good. Thanks for putting yourself through this, and letting us experience it.

[@אביבעזר]

12:00 fun fact, that's a realistic depiction of what would happen if a creature that size took a leap. The weight of their own body would easily crush their bones and, depending on their weight and the height of the fall, might splat them like a meatball thrown against a wall. That's the reason elephants can't/don't jump and whales can only live in the water where their weight is supported.

[@Pnatz]

12:08 Nah man ain't no way you said that 💀

[@kelbel4552]

💀💀🤣

[@InclementFilms]

Yooooo XD

[@icanexplain8148]

he predicted the meme

[@Yummomummo]

I love the long explanation on rennala because I've always beaten her by literally just sprinting around her in circles and none of her attacks can hit you except the summoned giant and dragon which she barely ever uses anyway.

[@atMagnusKnight]

I used the Kaiden Sellsword Ashes to beat her. This was my favorite Ash before getting the Mimic. Kaiden has a shoulder charge that knocks down low poise enemies, including Rennala, so he basically kept her stunlocked almost the entire fight. He made her super easy and he was barely upgraded at the time I got to her as well.

[@spaceblockb5284]

@@atMagnusKnight Ekzykes decay and pray. My strategy for most bosses.

[@Squirrelfaceboy]

I spammed the crucible horn incant, she never had time to stand up lol

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

Games Journos: "iT's ToO hArD!" Iron Pineapple: "watch me defeat the game without wearing armor on a level 1 character, _and I'm not even that good at the game"_

[@RatKing2137]

8:28 Apparently, it's a thing for every single status effect in the game - they all get harder to apply as you keep proccing the effect.

[@TheMelnTeam]

Don't know about the others, but bleed proc threshold increases cap after 3 procs. After that, the threshold doesn't further increase. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same for the others. I don't know how you could even test it for scarlet rot, though, since that will generally kill stuff after 2nd proc.

[@esoteric404]

I think bleed might be the exception. Or at least the increased requirements is almost negligible. There are builds that will proc bleed every time you do a kneeling attack

[@CubicleComa369]

I thought this was a given in any game as a monster hunter player

[@HansAlRachid]

Wasn't this always the case in PvE? I rarely ever play status effect builds aside from bleed stuff, but I assumed that was just how it worked in the series.

[@AscendantStoic]

Monster Hunter also has a similar system for its status effects procs.

[@ViperFox_]

After watching all of your playthrus it truly is a testament to how well thought out and amazing this game is! Along with other FS titles

[@phntmthf5505]

In regards to the poison resistance, that actually applies to all status effects. Every time an enemy suffers a status, it’s resistance to that status increases.

[@IHMyself]

I've never played this FS game. Does it increase permanently (only until you die of course)?

[@phntmthf5505]

@@IHMyself Yes, sadly. And it varies whether a phase change will reset the resistances. Malenia, for example, carries resistance numbers between phases. I can’t remember any examples where it resets off the top of my head right now.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@phntmthf5505 Pretty sure Maliketh's resistances reset between phases. I know this because I've reliably cast Ekzyke's Decay once each during each phase to afflict him with Rot, but it still takes most of the cast for the first application.

[@phntmthf5505]

@@azuredragoon2054 I could be wrong, but I believe that Malekith becomes a different boss entirely between phases. So that makes sense.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@phntmthf5505 They share a health bar, though. So having the resistances reset is a little less orthodox. It may be due to how different the move sets are, unlike Malenia who has a few new moves but otherwise the same set.

[@centhegibbon8220]

15:30 The reason why the bosses health goes back up is because their maximum health total is restored. Black Flame reduces maximum health total and causes a burn based on a % of maximum health! If you're quick enough you can kill a boss during this weakened window!

[@maciejochowski7662]

I like how his every strategy was either nerfed or removed in the last patch

[@frank.e.wildcat]

Yeah if I was him I'd ho estly probably have abandoned the video

[@MolnarSPeter]

The idea wasnt to showcase these busted methods, but to showcase that there is always another option you can abuse to easily get trough. And that still is correct you can use so many cheese strats till this day he could've made the whole thing again on this patch with different methods

[@valkyr_]

All the things I wanted to try before they were patched out, gone forever T.T rip lmao

[@entheo302]

This video inspired me to try my own rune level 1 run. Beat the tree sentinel naked with a +2 axe. Major accomplishment for this scrub!

[@kirinnarukami4016]

about elden beast's homing orbs, i learned on one of my attempts (while panicking because the homing orb always killed me too) that the orbs are REALLY bad at turning around, so i kinda just ran around in a circle while the orbs struggled to keep up. this was on a normal playthrough though, so being hit just a tiny bit by stray orbs wasnt a big deal for me, but it probably wouldve been in a level 1 playthrough, and it couldve been a fluke tbh

[@Raezra]

Godfrey's second phase was so cool that I had to go and max out the caestus just to fight him the way it was meant to be.

[@brunovega6479]

didya win? also that idea is so genius you might just be a demi god, gimme your rune!

[@Raezra]

@@brunovega6479 Of course I won, I then proceded to beat the everloving runes out of Radagon and the Elden Beast.

[@gibby3767]

Straight chad if you got him

[@Lunaraia]

Wonder how many faces has been crushed by that damn suplex of his.

[@GeekRaj]

What is caestus?

[@iota-09]

the realization tht he almost never jumped to dodge make me realize two things: 1: it's no surprise people find the game harder than it is. 2: he is the god gamer he claims to not be.

[@joelgoetz1145]

In fairness, it feels pretty unintuitive how jump invincibility works

[@iota-09]

@@joelgoetz1145 is it though? i feel it makes sense, you just... jump over thing, the i-frames on your lower body are simpl to make it less buggy. it's moreso the advantages it brings that are unclear.

[@comet9864]

I only jumped in Godfrey's boss battle right before Radagon and that shit made me feel so frickin' cool

[@medusamori9015]

personally, the only time it even crossed my mind that I could jump to dodge (aside from horseback fights) was during the last three bosses in the game, and by that point, it was easier for me to just roll I-frame through almost everything than remember to move my finger 1 centimeter to press jump most of the time. I had a hard time getting the timings right for the jump dodges too, from lack of practice with it. you can dodge all of Godfrey's earthquake stomps this way (even the ones that cover the entire arena) but I don't recommend it lol i think it might be possible to roll through the triple aoe stomp Radagon occasionally does in phase 2, but I didn't have much luck with that.

[@iota-09]

@@medusamori9015 the triple aoe stomp ca be i-framed for the first two, but i doibt the 3rd can be done, but you can still make use of the i-frames to get behind him at least.

[@colinfirth8678]

Absolutely brilliant. Wonderful ingenuity. Please try again after all of the fixes. This is some of the best FromSoftware KZbin content.

[@knightbroseph9553]

Something I HIGHLY Recommend you look into for the Rennala fight is to always walk into her exactly diagonally. I use keyboard an mouse (so idk how much play there is) so its just holding W and D (forward right is my preference). But this literally dodges 90% of her spells without the need for rolling. Pretty sure it will dodge the homing missles, big laser, shotgun crystal blast, etc. I can't think of one diagonal strafing doesn't dodge. I think it even helps against the wolves, but it certainly helps during all the adds to not have to worry about her spells.

[@rambo-cambo3581]

Playing these kind of games with a keyboard is just inefficient and dumb

[@knightbroseph9553]

@@rambo-cambo3581 Very cool. Just a personal preference. I'd probably shit on you in pvp tho ezclap

[@drudigger]

@@rambo-cambo3581 ive played and beaten every game except bloodborne with kb+m lol, did demon souls using rps3. Nothing wrong with it. Definitely not as precise as the sticks for general movement but it works just fine. All the souls games and even sekiro are easy with it imo.

[@Ben_of_Milam_Music]

I crouch under Rennala's comet azur to style on her

[@AkiRa22084]

@@drudigger You can't do L2 + R2 combos without changing the default controls. Keyboard controls were always an afterthought in Souls games.

[@_MrTrue]

There is actually a way to break the AI in the last fight as well. I'm not entirely sure how it's done tbh. It's how I ended up beating him in my 2nd run. Normally I would have restarted the fight but I was doing the Dung Eater ending so my morals were out from the beginning.

[@baklapjr]

Yeah Radagon can be cheesed, elden beast can't hahaha.

[@_MrTrue]

@@baklapjr elden beast most certainly has an ai break where he just sits there

[@laurencerondina9177]

direwolf tear

[@toxickingchristian2645]

If you have a mimic and he gets stuck in front of him at the right time you can cheese him with the beam from the sword of night and flame. He just stays stuck there and you can keep blasting him. Stumbled upon this by accident but didn’t have enough cerulean tears to finish him off

[@Beatrix7979]

@@toxickingchristian2645 I had this happen too but I was using the swan dance from Melenia's sword. I couldn't figure out what was causing the beast to lock up though but I managed to get it to happen a couple of times.

[@maxyboy9648]

Watching that Draconic Tree Sentinel slowly die with poison was hilarious

[@isosev]

"I really gotta change what I feed my horse." -Draconic Tree Sentinel dying to poison gas.

[@mangoruby1357]

This actually works on Old King Allant in Demons Souls aswell, both in the original and the remake. In fact i'm pretty sure that this strat could work in any souls game as long as your able to get behind a boss without it aggroing on the player.

[@frank.e.wildcat]

Invaded two people doing this and immediately dumped a rotten breath on them, the irony was so satisfying

[@farcry8790]

Sounds like the key is to dodge toward every boss instead of away.

[@Finwaell]

yep. runebears are actually easy if you just hug them all the time. dragons too. they can't reach you when you are underneath them

[@Ravenslayer131]

Absolutely. That's the only way I could beat Yhorm in Dark Souls 3 on my Level 1 playthrough without Storm Ruler (I always avoid using Storm Ruler, because even though it's intentional, it feels too easy)

[@Mike-official]

until they hold their blade up for 7 years and bring it down at mach 5 while doing a double spin triple backflip inescapable combo that roll catches you on each swing (Looking at you morgott phase 2)

[@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д]

If only the camera didn't get shitty...

[@augustleo8368]

Commander O’Nieal can also be lured out into the rot swamp outside his little area and killed with the rot spurts. Pretty sure you can jump over Godfrey’s slam attack too

[@JergoYT]

I found the exact same way of cheesing the big Godskin fella when i played my Bow Only run. BUT a viewer of mine mentioned that you can sleep them and...it actually works! You can sleep arrow the big Godskin dude and he will sleep for ~40 seconds. Giving you time to kill the slender one. Ofc this only helps in a regular run because they respawn and you dont deal enough damage in a challenge run anyway :S That Homing Projectile is a challenge run filter i tell you. It's so bright that i cant see any other attacks, it's just straight up annoying...but after only 11h of try harding radagon and elden beast i finally got them :0 Nice Video, keep it up

[@thehalokid32]

Im a full supporter of cheesing bosses in the overworld, so if someone wants to cheese o'neil and you dont wanna have to grab tons of arrows, you can have him follow you outside to the site of grace nearby, beside that site of grace there are three rot geysers, you can use your horse to not get any rot while baiting him into walking over the gysers, it does really good damage and keeps you almost entirely safe, with the exception of accidently getting to close to neal breen

[@TheMasterblah]

You leave Neal Breen out of this

[@Drivaawwrrr]

Neal breen 😂 Now I will never _not_ hear his lines whenever I fight the commander

[@PenumbralLady]

Hey thats exactly what i did!

[@littlerat6716]

You can hide in a tree above the geysers, he'll stand under you until he dies

[@westonstaufenberg7278]

he's also incredibly easy to parry to death.

[@pacolibre5411]

3:05 In a typical RL1 run, this is a bad Idea, because if you complete Alexander’s quest, you get an upgraded version of the talisman, and in Level 1 runs, your endgame build matters more than anything, since that’s when you’re at the biggest disadvantage.

[@Zyodl]

sorry let me correct you rq "3:05 in all runs, doing this is a stupid terrible idea because alexander is an absolute home slice for life, my ride or die. and killing him is litteral blasphemy so you should never do it"

[@NWGJulian]

21:58 welll there is actually a crystal tear that heals you when receiving dmg, which in this case means u get heal instead of dmg from the stars

[@JohnBoles-z1o]

The saddest part about 16:40 is that even if Maliketh does "die" his death sequence takes so long you wouldn't beat him anyway, this just happened to me this morning and it really, really sucks.

[@TheTTTobias]

I killed him the moment i died and it actually worked

[@Smogne]

True happened to me. We died at the same time, but his monologue is big enough for the game to respawn you without accounting his death hahaha

[@Jeff-jr4xw]

After about 100 tries trying to kill malenia, I finally did but died from scarlet rot immediately after - never counted. i was pissed

[@Ivy-pe2wz]

Just so you know, Commander O'Neil takes damage from the scarlet explosions just outside his area. You can easily cheese him with dealing no damage yourself. No need for arrows! Also, you have the Soul's player curse. You don't jump, you roll. If you master jump timing, many of the bosses become much better fights

[@joshs3775]

The curse is real ... I didn't even realize I could jump the banister at roundtable hold for a good 40 hours. I saw a two foot high ledge and thought "oh an impenetrable barrier"

[@PseudoUematsu]

@@joshs3775 wait, you can WHAT

[@boogie8586]

@@joshs3775 bro it's fucking crazy how high you can fall from without taking ANY damage, these kids don't know how good they got it now

[@alexanderholzer7392]

Yes, a lot of the complaints about bosses being impossibly difficult are simply caused by people not jumping during fights. Actually I'd bet that new players are better at the game in this regard because they aren't locked into dodge-rolling every attack. Still doesn't help with waterfowl dance lmao

[@TK-7193]

@@alexanderholzer7392 i wouldnt know as i havnt played a souls game. but i imagine rolling to be standardly better than jumping in most cases as rolls have i-frames. i always need to know if games with rolling has i-frames because of enter the gungeon. roll rule #1, if you have no i-frames roll away, if you have i-frames roll into. if you got i-frams use them people - a gungeoneer with 100+ hrs

[@KyoHirokura]

5:46 That is peak Elden ring comedy, just because of the way the screen pans to his character