Can you Beat Elden Ring's DLC with only the Throwing Knife?

[@JonaEliteYT]

6:33 on the homing daggers 10:10 under a bride or whatever that is 21:03 on a tower Yet another great video 🔥🔥

[@heyfrankevans]

Damn man, this guy's too quick

[@tretrefairman]

Glad to see someone besides me get em

[@JonaEliteYT]

@@tretrefairman had to try it once bro, im sure you'll beat me next time lol

[@tretrefairman]

@@JonaEliteYT I just wanted to get the ball rollin 🫡

[@memedreampotato3380]

Enchanting the daggers with poison or bleed is a must for them to actually deal damage as an offhand weapon

[@thatlittlemonstrosity]

you know it’s bad when the only way of making a weapon somewhat viable is to just add bleed or poison

[@Arumia13]

@@thatlittlemonstrosityalso known as most dex weapons

[@thatlittlemonstrosity]

@@Arumia13 nah, most dex weapons are already busted without bleed or already have innate one

[@Divine_Mimic]

Bro I just started doing this as RL 1 in the base game and I’m doing 9 damage per hit on Margit at +0 😂😂😂 P.S. I’m able to use em due to wearing the Circlet of Light head piece

[@heyfrankevans]

lol I'm not surprised honestly

[@foreverie2626]

really appreciate you breaking down all the boss attacks as you fight them. youre the only youtuber ive seen do that very helpful and entertaining:3

[@gielieman2133]

this man deserves more subscribers. the effort in this video is insane

[@Ivy-fr9yh]

Facts, thought he had like 100k subs before the 0 viewer twitch thing😂

[@aidanalaniz8152]

I actually never say this, but you deserve it. You are mad underrated bro, from the challenges to your death montage was on point, and the ost was perfecto

[@heyfrankevans]

thank you so much man

[@stumpet8394]

I love that in the radahn death montage you can see just how many of the deaths were caused by that bullshit double cross man. Least favorite attack in the franchise right there.

[@heyfrankevans]

Completely agree, man. At least with stuff like Elden Stars the damage is relatively low, this move is just absurd

[@arbazahmed7350]

He would have cried if there was a phase 3

[@heyfrankevans]

I would have been in shambles man

[@ObsessiveBadguy]

This video exists and people will still say the DLC is artificially difficult or impossible to solo or some other fromsoft fresh content difficulty discorse that just annoys me to no end. This video and run are mad impressive, take a bow, you've absolutely earned it. Also shoutouts to the excellent use of Castlevania music, as someone who did an entire whip solo Belmont run of the base game, and currently doing the same for the dlc i can absolutely appreciate its use

[@kirayoshikage7630]

Just because someone can beat it with sheated sword, blind, with invisible enemies or something like that - doesn't prove anything. It has artificial difficulty. If someone beat fanmade battle with sans, whic has 3x speed and invisible attack it still shit. Get over with elitist mindset, if it can be beaten it doesn't automaticily means that it's good, balanced or even remotely fair. Other people are not "some filthy casuals", it's the people who just have some dignity and not blind fanboy mode for fromsoftware mistakes. Critique helps fromsoftware to learn and improve

[@viorp5267]

One of the problems I have with Elden Ring as opposed to Dark Souls 3 for example is that it feels that they took out the 'fair' out of 'hard but fair'. The hippopotamus and gaius have such bizzare hitboxes on some attacks that they feel undogable on medium roll at least. 9:24

[@AneggoctopuS]

Nice content. Very entertaining and your comments are also simple but on point . Castlevania music? Definitely add a point

[@FanumRizzFHML]

Yo you underrated af bro. I was genuinely surprised when I checked the subscriber count. I WILL be coming back to watch some more videos in the future.

[@heyfrankevans]

thank you man

[@McKnabbZ]

You earned a sub my friend

[@ClickBaittt_]

Keep up the good work you deserve so many more subscribers

[@danielksletsplays2789]

This video's excellent. I'm glad I found you and subscribed

[@theradianthorizon]

you deserve far more subscribers for the amount of effort you’ve put into this video dude, honestly keep it up!

[@chaincat33]

the throwing daggers I'm pretty sure are meant to be used in the off-hand to roll catch retreating players. It's a pvp weapon first and foremost. Scattershot exists but the claws of night are better for it, considering it's rare that enemies will retreat from you. Still, very neat weapons

[@Ty-010]

Love the death montages! Keep up the great challenge runs!

[@fernandosalamanca1154]

Love the character you created! Think I am going to enjoy this run 😊

[@thereheis3092]

tekken 5 bg music is enough to get a sub from me

[@heyfrankevans]

such an amazing ost, so many fire tracks

[@sparkyanimations213]

Bro deserves more subs 😊😊

[@Jakqua]

0:27 I was going to say scattershot makes them really decent lol

[@HisanNassar]

this is the birth of a g0d 25:10

[@boof994]

I mean they are fine, the consecutive attack buffs work on all attacks the dagger has, its all pierce attacks so spear talusman works

[@Pitchfallis]

Great video! You’ve got another subscriber.

[@promemeus5610]

your first playtbrough?? why??!!!

[@heyfrankevans]

why not

[@beansnrice321]

Lol, I beat Messmer, the scadu tree, Gaius and Romina all with the smithscript daggers. I used heavy armor and endure on cold smithscript daggers. It actually stomped becasue the daggers just love seeking our heads. So I coudl get somehting like 4 headshots in a row on any foes. Endure let me heal and attack freely.

[@heyfrankevans]

yeah, the weapon definitely isn't _as_ bad as I thought when making this. (if you have affinities on it, of course, otherwise yeah it's pretty terrible)

[@kakadu3609]

For that rellana flurry attack in phase 2 you can simply run to the left for the first 2 hits so you dont have to delay your dodges for the 2 horizontal swipes

[@heyfrankevans]

huh, that's good to know. I'll be sure to remember that for my next run

[@jtcsderp9250]

10/10 😊

[@namechanged3044]

im so sad that throwing knife is the worst because i think its really cool i also defeated BAILEY with it

[@apipias1358]

I unironically use those daggers :(, but then I again I have 300+ hours on my save so my character a little maxed out

[@heyfrankevans]

lol if it works it works I guess

[@pernellcook5900]

If you put holy on the knife with the ash of war piercing throw the thing does damage with great range along with the smith script shield dominates

[@viorp5267]

didn't they patch that? (because the sagger needed a nerf)

[@pernellcook5900]

@viorp5267 I am currently using it so I am having no problems

[@stormthefish]

Cool Video, since you mentioned your twitch I went to check it out. Maybe stream more often :) Last was 2 weeks ago, I would actually watch them (if we're in a similar timezone)

[@heyfrankevans]

Thanks man! I would be streaming more, but I think I should probably take a short break since 20 hours on one boss probably isn't great for my health lol

[@stormthefish]

Is there some way to tell when you're streaming other than twitch notifications (I dont look at those)

[@heyfrankevans]

I’ll probably start making community posts when I’ll be streaming in the future

[@RyanZhao-zl2ht]

Algo comment

[@hunter_legend735]

i did this challenge when i first found about the weapon, i used it form the very start and its so damn bad

[@thanomusic4697]

The JK leeds run, a classic

[@heyfrankevans]

he was too quick, got the vid out before me

[@codyfaught3606]

I believe in u

[@fanistermcdunna]

I mix in the dagger with scatter shot in pvp. Blood infused

[@heyfrankevans]

Yeah, this weapon is actually pretty good on PvP I’ve heard, just terrible in PvE. Headshots giving you an extra hit is really powerful

[@KB-ee6qo]

Use the throable ax for a kratos run of base game and dlc since he hates gods

[@flamager6408]

yes

[@Simpsonshane333]

Insane lol

[@LordRazer3]

21:08 wouldn't back stepping work for this? It does have I frames and also the fastest recovery. Down side it's hard as hell to pull off consistently

[@heyfrankevans]

are you sure it has s? After looking it up everybody says it doesn't Even so, after trying for a while I haven't been able to dodge anything so it would be really inconsistent if it does

[@Dastardly_Duo]

How come you didn't do any exploring?

[@heyfrankevans]

Great question, it was for a couple reasons. I would have wanted to but I wanted to get this video out as quickly as possible since videos get _way_ more views the earlier you put it out, and I'm an extremely slow editor. Also the only things I could really collect from exploring were scadutree fragments anyway

[@Dastardly_Duo]

@@heyfrankevans Thanks for the response. I was just curious

[@arhidontos]

I think u can jump over Radha cross attack

[@heyfrankevans]

I... think I tried that? Not sure. I doubt it since I never saw anyone do it when looking for strategies but I've made similar mistakes before lol

[@arhidontos]

@@heyfrankevans as far as i know jump invincible frane starts immediately and continues all jump animation, bud invincible become only lover part of the body

[@heyfrankevans]

@@arhidontos I'll have to test that out and get back to you, unfortunately I need to go all the way through the DLC again to test it

[@heyfrankevans]

@@arhidontos wow, you're right, I just tried it. You can jump the second hit after dodging, and the second slash goes right through you. What an odd mechanic

[@heyfrankevans]

wait, it worked twice and now it's not anymore... I think I got two lucky misses from the second slash in a row. I'd need to try a bit more, I don't think it actually works so far though

[@LucasNaughton-fv8ek]

0:13 why he say weapons like that lol

[@heyfrankevans]

clearly my speaking skills aren't as good as my elden ring skills

[@the_sacrifice]

Try finger

[@lucasrivera7628]

but hole

[@izzydarkhart4144]

I mean, yeah, you can, it is a skill based game. Play to its strengths or slap a broken status effect on it and let skill proval...if you have it.

[@heyfrankevans]

lmao yeah, but it's cool to see how it's done. Also I completely forgot whetblades existed in this run

[@Dastardly_Duo]

This weapon seems MADE for status effects. Sadly it's complete ass. It seems Fromsoft hated this weapon when making it

[@norrisbrothersgaming4283]

Can we get a gyat reveal

[@Moro-Goro-300]

Was this a no scadutree frsgment run, or were you just two shot all the time bc you had like 30 vigor?

[@heyfrankevans]

yeah, I used scadutree fragments, it was cause of my vigor and lack of armor/talismans

[@keenantheho]

So why did you split your stats again, failing to hit any of the softcaps??? The scaling on the int and fai is really bad, especially considering keen gives you s scaling for dex... Good work, but kinda brainless...

[@heyfrankevans]

Yeah, I noticed I made that mistake way too late... I did end up changing them to raise my dex to around 80 in the Radahn fight though, and lowered my int and faith to pretty much the bare mininum Also I kinda forgot about affinities, but I would have banned them anyway because using bleed or poison would have made the run way too easy

[@jonathancabrera404]

can your fix the way you enunciate the end of every sentence please mad ts almost unwatchable

[@heyfrankevans]

yeh, I did notice that too, it's something I'll try to fix for the next video I make

[@thatonedude]

really early on shameless plug, yikes. Cya again never. ;(

[@the_sacrifice]

Is this supposed to be satire?