Dark Souls, But I Use A Different "Bad" Weapon Type Each Cycle!

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Like Shields? What about Gauntlets? Whips perhaps? Well we're gonna use all 3 of them in this video! Which do ya think will perform best?
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[@JKLeeds]

Download Game of Thrones Legends now: gotl.onelink.me/W7zw/jkleeds What's your favourite of these 3 weapon types?

[@SilverX66]

Have you ever been in Sheffield?

[@blunderingfool]

Ah yes, "games" that exploit vulnerable people for money. I accept a man has to eat however these sorts of sponsors are still scum.

[@scottt7309]

Whips are best

[@kunaly.5831]

⁠@@blunderingfoolhow does it exploit vulnerable people? It’s just some shitty mobile game

[@SaltyGaming-b3s]

Bro made the worst ADV i've seen in my life, You seriously took a script from some unknown company and read it willingly, Even the pun is written horribly, My grandmother can write a better adv script....But i will do anything for you my JKL. Gauntlets...The answer is gauntlets.

[@PressContinue]

These weapons might be considered bad, but at least the bonewheel shield and dragon bone fist are bad to the bone. However if you're sharp, you'll decide to use the claw. But if you're truly smart as a whip, you'll realize that the notched whip is cracked. And if you quickly want to make your way to NG+2, you need to go by cycle.

[@JKLeeds]

10/10. No notes!

[@flameblazerofdeath13]

​@@JKLeedsInteractions between the pun souls players are always the best

[@noble7525]

​@@JKLeeds I died inside reading this. I can't take this many puns at once

[@ichabodthecrane]

You and jk should do a collab where you do a limerick battle. Y'all can rhyme, do puns, and be clever

[@2DLexa]

My god, you two are the best dad joke generators!

[@onagda]

The Bone Wheel shredded Havel the Rock into Havel the Gravel

[@Diminius]

Dammit you beat me to it

[@JamesXatior]

Havel the pebble

[@Hyndsyte2020]

> planning a shield-only run > see a video by JK Leeds featuring exactly this idea > starts how you'd expect, knight class and all that > goes to the catacombs to get the bonewheel shield > 2% drop from the worst enemies in the worst area of the game > the search continues

[@Raen5]

It's a fun run once it gets going, but the start is a pain. Farming for the bonewheel isn't as bad as it looks, but I think any greatshield would work if you don't want to.

[@Hyndsyte2020]

@@Raen5 Oh, I already know shield-only DS1 is going to be almost prohibitively boring. The very earliest greatshield that you don't have to farm is the eagle greatshield in Blighttown, and the first one that's actually good is the tower shield you buy in Sen's. I might use the bonewheel if I get it, but that's a very big if, and would be after O&S besides because navigating the catacombs normally is already a chore, so I'll be damned if I have to climb all the way back from Vamos without fast travel.

[@frostyelwood9898]

@@Hyndsyte2020if you still wanna do a shield run theres a good video by Be And about a DS2 shield only run. Started doing it myself by loosely following his video and its fun so far

[@Uncle-Junior]

> Kirk doesn’t drop his shield in the depths

[@morjin4859]

Boots are simply the shields of the feet anyways, so it can't be a violation to kick off Lautrec. After all, you're GUARDING the fire keeper

[@JKLeeds]

This dude preaching pure facts 👏

[@miufke_]

feet🤤

[@jimijenkins2548]

Shin-shields, if you will.

[@BinkBonk-kn3dq]

Pickle?

[@QueueKyoo]

Hi, Speedrunner here. I like explaining weird things that happen in this game so here's a couple timestamps I noticed. 11:15 DSR's 60fps makes iron golem "randomly" pop up super high in the air when you knock him over specific collisions in the arena. Sometimes he can actually get stuck midair if you manage to have him fall on one of the pillars, it's pretty funny. 21:20 you performed a grab cancel by attacking the moment an enemy grabbed you. This CAN be used in other applications like with iron golem to launch yourself into anor londo, or with a demon worm in demon ruins to get into centipedes boss room. 26:40 that attack quelaag did happens when you deal 400+ damage to her butt. Its kind of similar to how iron golem staggers when you deal 400 damage to his feet and then another 200 to make him fall over. 45:11 you triggered accidental slope fall damage. While running at specific angles down this path (and quite frankly a TON throughout the game) the game registers you as being airborn and not on stable ground, so the moment you touch something the game registers as "stable ground" it takes your last registered height value and is like "oh okay, I need to give this much fall damage now"

[@Stirlingite-mm1nc]

Underrated comment 👌👍 It’s nice to know what happened 😁

[@slafyguy1658]

What about that red circle that appeared at around 24:39

[@QueueKyoo]

@slafyguy1658 no idea because of the jump cut. It's a vagrant and I know they can dissappear from worlds but idk what caused it to dissappear

[@shadow1233679]

@@slafyguy1658 It's a vagrant

[@slafyguy1658]

@@shadow1233679 woah that is cool I've never seen or heard about them before this

[@Thrano]

The best part about this channel are the awkward pauses after the REALLY bad jokes.

[@JKLeeds]

.....what do you mean "bad" jokes? I thought my jokes were good....

[@Thrano]

@@JKLeeds I once drove through Yorkshire. At a gas station, a group of youngsters held me up and asked me which club I support. Of course I answered: "Liverpool." But when they brandished their knives, I said "JK, Leeds."

[@RavishingPimp]

@@JKLeeds Really?

[@redrem1525]

Pay careful attention if any of the bosses seem to like getting whipped, then stay away from those bosses

[@BranchFam805]

That one tree in DS2 still gives me the creeps.

[@redrem1525]

@@BranchFam805 ah yes, that one, stay away from that tree

[@Hollow__Heart]

But what if I'm into it?

[@redrem1525]

@@Hollow__Heart pvp

[@michaelnobbs9147]

As a dad to two toddlers, I am LOVING these puns

[@emmettraymond8058]

As a Todd to two daddlers, I agree.

[@StFlyer67]

As a 22 year old dude with no kids I love these jokes

[@Mr.Jim248]

_"There were many other weapons, besides The Bare Fists, that were improved in the other games because of how bad they were as weapons back in DS1, And they went from mid weapon types to actually good weapon types."_

[@jonas-ho3ue]

9:09 "as we vamos out of here" tbh this is the best one i heard so far!

[@demisync]

Fucking hype, JK's NG>NG+>NG++ runs are probably my favourite videos of his

[@Mrkabrat]

You truly managed to whip the Int stat into shape in the third run, after shielding it for so long that you had to run a gauntlet for it

[@ObsidiusVFX]

Love this😂😭

[@ember3530]

5:38 As of the time of this comment, I have yet to receive my large Andre. I am very disappointed.

[@blockwearingman]

😭😭

[@hollowcrow9041]

No how actually... I watched so many of your vidoes and those fricking puns are always so funny. How do you come up with SO MANY different puns each video. Best part of all the videos 100%

[@NormalLee67]

45:11 someone else already explained this happened because the game thought you were airborn, but just wanted to add that I had this happen once on the elevator at firelink that takes you to undead parish. One time I was riding it down but kept walking forward into the wall, and my character was really jittery because there's a slightly elevated piece of ground on the edge of the elevator it kept trying to walk on top of. When I finally stopped moving I just instantly died because the elevator had already traveled what the game considers a lethal fall distance and I hadn't been on "stable" ground since before I got on the elevator.

[@lolichan3702]

similar thing happened to me but i just took a little dmg

[@dezsodebreceni4829]

"he gargoyles on my bell" I WILL FIND YOU

[@thederranged8556]

JK calls Big Hat Logan ‘Hugh Jackman’ and the Channeler above Gaping Dragon ‘Channeling Tatum’. …someone watched Deadpool and Wolverine before he wrote that part of the script.

[@bananagher7555]

"Ride the throat boat" is not a phrase I was prepared for

[@gearofwar915]

45:13 Dark souls can have some weird collision when going up and down slopes, especially the path here and the ones to the archers. The game thinks you fell, dealing fall damage as a result.

[@justsomeone883]

That sounds like a nightmare for no-damage runs

[@leviathan1082]

​@@justsomeone883 best way to avoid the random fall damage is walking slowly down the arch

[@justsomeone883]

@@leviathan1082 yeah thats a bit hard with those silver knights impaling you with those oversized arrows

[@leviathan1082]

@justsomeone883 it's only that first arch that leads to the imps, the knights, shouldn't, be aggroed on you from that arch, but even even a light jaunt should be fine its sprinting, or walking while light gives enough volacity to make the game think your falling.

[@justsomeone883]

@@leviathan1082 okay,thanks for letting me know

[@chuckledux186]

That can't be a Street Fighter Reference, but it's so specific because Vega does do multiple rolls into a punch most times.

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

Hearing the phrase "throat boat" just...oh no. lol

[@Parakas15]

Yeh wikidot does that on a few pages. Quelagg and the gaping dragons pages claim they are vulnerable to bleed but if you go to the bleed page (best way to get there is via the endurance stat page) it clearly says they are immune to bleed. Then again it also says Quelagg is immune to toxic but she's simply extremely resistant rather than immune.

[@SullySadface]

Meanwhile Fextralife is just a giant advertisement for their twitch streams

[@tridale]

21:24 My basic understanding says that you may have done a 'grab cancel'. Basically if you land a blow on an enemy on the same exact frame their grab 'grabs' you, it instead breaks the grab, and tends to throw you around. NGPlus's video 'Can you Beat All Dark Souls Bosses in Alphabetical Order?' talks a bit about it. The lucky part you had was that it just put you behind Gwyn, sometimes, especially if it's done with a running attack, it can absolutely LAUNCH you, even force you well out of bounds.

[@MikeHesk742]

Your trio 3-cycle videos are so unique as a spin on challenge runs, and let you overcome some of the challenges of getting certain weapons at the start of a run without "cheating". My favourite part of this format so far has been how it shows off the additional NG+ mechanics when you do it in DS2, i'd vote for more challenges there.

[@LotharinCW]

You unnecessarily cut so many tails in the last cycle, but you didn't cut Khalameet's?! This is truly calamitous...

[@hybrid5860]

That last Kalameet fight was so awesome looking. I love his original ost, but after hearing that new song, I can't help but wish fromsoft would make a boss them with electric guitars for their next game. It would fit so well!

[@rickswordfire4774]

Not one but TWO Black Knight Halberds. The game is just mocking you.

[@FoundationalDD-eb8qm]

I don’t think I have had a run that I haven’t gotten a black knight halberd….

[@RndStranger]

I did a whole run with dual bonewheel shields; one fire, one lightning. It was the spin to win run as I demolished everything.

[@nolongeraperson]

I know I've watched too much JK Leeds when I know that's about the 5th time he's used that Stag Party- No Memory joke.

[@JKLeeds]

Probably the most accurate thing I've ever said in any of my videos

[@PupBruh]

“and we grab the large andre which we can give to ember later” caught me off guard lmao

[@aaronblack7038]

Before finishing Darksoul's: Bro this guy is running through the game with shields while i'm stuck on 2nd boss with proper weapons and equipment After finishing Darksoul's: Hehe bonk bonk.

[@clearbeard2380]

Nicely done JK ! I can't wait to see you do this in Dark Souls 2 and 3 ! You know you've sealed your fate with this one.

[@JKLeeds]

DS3 with this run will be next

[@MaksCzad]

​​@@JKLeeds you are obviously afraid of dark souls 2 RIP (*)

[@JKLeeds]

Actually I'm working on the DS2 all archery run as we speak 🙂

[@MaksCzad]

@@JKLeeds oh my goodness 💀 i'll dig a grave for you then, good luck daddy jk 🫡

[@MaksCzad]

@@JKLeeds oh my goodness 💀 i'll dig a grave for you then, good luck daddy jk 🫡

[@joebykaeby]

The puns literally come faster than most of these weapons can attack

[@JKLeeds]

I actually fire them out with a machine pun, that's why they're so fast

[@hexadecimal973]

If he invited me to dinner I imagine he would be dressed in a nice suit and be sophisticated and have thought provoking conversations

[@InsertJokeHere325]

Missed opportunity to say spin-to-win 15:06

[@ClownAttorneyAtLaw]

Anyone who is not subscribed is maidenless and doomed to fade into obscurity.

[@christophermiller9320]

New favorite dark souls youtuber aside from the backlogs.

[@satantheg6512]

Can’t wait for the gauntlet run hope you tried the demon fist

[@DiscoFinalBoss]

I never get tired of the dad jokes

[@the_dark_soul_of_man]

This run was a bit bare bones at the start, but you managed to whip it into shape by the end.

[@Vikey36]

26:50 I like how you can tell he really haven't see that move by how he stops moving

[@mothirl]

What a wonderful birthday present from the youtube algoryth to see this. I love seeing this guy in a constant state of suffering from time to time, peak content

[@nicolais665]

Happy birthday

[@JKLeeds]

Happy birthday to ya!

[@TREVORVADER]

This run was as much suffering as I expected. Entertaining nonetheless. Always like seeing more weapons used in these games. Plus these three cycle runs are probably my favorite content from you. I’m always happy to see more like this in DS1 and 3. I wouldn’t mind seeing them in ER but that’s definitely a much bigger time investment. Keep up the good work JK!

[@skiffy8121]

the queelag buttshake is almost EXCLUSIVELY used when her ai starts cooperating and letting you behind her with easy reads, it deals stupid damage for no reason after pretending to not be able to hit you.

[@ethanprince9322]

Ok griphook but it better be Olive Garden. And your paying for dinner 0:46

[@HouseofSen]

Bad Derp looks like he’d invite me out to chew through sheet metal, and reenact the battering ram scene from Lord of the Rings with his forehead

[@BigWalex]

12:15 "blocking and attacking at the same time" Northernlion would be proud

[@neirokou]

47:26 the carbohydrates joke is legendary

[@kishan_draws]

Here's 2 ideas for a challenge run 1.Controls are flipped (if move right on controller ypu move left and if you try to move up you move down) 2.Not moving camera at all (disabling right analog button) (Apologies for bad English)

[@smastonglutes5816]

Damn I hate that’s it’s 17 hours away but I will be here for it!! Good luck mad man.

[@GameAndTrain]

That Sheryl Crow joke was priceless. Thank you for the video and making my day JK.

[@benclaypaper]

21:24 thats called a grab cancel, you can use it to skip a few bosses and fling you around the arena. you can do it to iron golem to fling you up to anor londo

[@robovelcro]

Calling the tossing giant Lemon, is that a Backlogs reference? Heck yea

[@SullySadface]

I would say the same thing I say to anyone who speaks to me: "Why are you in my house, get out"

[@Devlington87]

Wow! That video was eggshellent. Such cracking yokes throughout. One for the albumen that.

[@JKLeeds]

Thanks for the eggstraordinary effort you put into this comment 👏

[@zackwalker2172]

That loss of health in Anor Londo was fall damage. In some the ramped areas running down too quickly can damage you, and sometimes running to the hero's soul can even kill you.

[@ThommyofThenn]

"Asy-luminati" The uploader is warned but the dad joke jury will allow it

[@MultiDakman]

I am glad you used the Bonewheel Shield, I always get a bit disappointed when no one uses it in a shield only run

[@vinthebluerose292]

That FFX_2 music by the last run sparked memories, oh good times, great video!

[@TwilightWolf032]

45:13 My guess is that, since you're going down a slope, the game must have confused the downward movement as you falling and gave you fall damage.

[@tomasstargamer6308]

I remember for my SL1 run in DS1, I killed Havel with only a Shield, using Black Knight's, the charge strong attack having block frames was awesome.

[@abigriffin9496]

0:42 Considering I haven't been invited out to dinner before, I'd probably take Bad Derp up on his offer.

[@reathyork]

11:12 Iron Golem glitching out has to do with how invisible walls work. Surrounding the arena is an invisible wall that acts as collision for "All Bosses" (presumably this would apply to any boss that is in the arena) its almost twice as tall as the player character model. If you gain control of the boss using mods, he wont actually be able walk off the edge no matter what you do. There are however a few frames in his falling animation that deactivates his collision with the wall that allow him to fall off. In some cases the frames that turn off the collision can end while the boss is already clipped in the wall. The result being the boss' model pinching to the top of the wall before falling.

[@silver_j_night8563]

As you said "as italians say" and as now I say: Bellissimo

[@IkEisawesome7]

Gaping dragon CAN bleed, I did it a ton in a randomizer run with the lifehunt scythe. Maybe the buildup is just huge

[@angrycat6954]

Tbf the lifehunt scythe has an absurdly high bleed rate so I’d say he’s probably just very resistant

[@KyleDhyne]

The ember/Andre bit is so silly but it gets me every time

[@Jianichie]

Drunk Souls is pretty fun ngl

[@SamothIorio]

9:06 a bilingual pun using a word that makes sense and in the correct conjugation? That's highly uncommon, but I hope you will Solaire make more jokes like that in the future

[@zipforth]

I wonder if there's a mod to turn the embers into elemental Andres. Maybe you can hand their souls in to the crest of artorias

[@derelbenkoenig]

Every time someone refers to Pinwheel I forget that's the boss's real name and not a nickname. Just Pinwheel, not even any adjectives or anything.

[@crosshatched9594]

You can’t just play Tekkan music and not expect me to start head banging ☺️

[@jill9653]

Babe wake up, a Dark Souls run I’ll never attempt just dropped

[@KingofAwesomness14]

these runs must be truly hard, good work and congrats on the 100k subs!

[@DENIS_Biomech]

Tekken tag tournament 1 soundtrack in the background is a nice touch 👌 👍 👏

[@jasmith85]

It was bothering me where that song was from. Tekken Tag 1 THEE best Tekken Tag along with Tekken 3. It's been hugely downhill since then.

[@WolfBergMenace]

That Quelaag attack you've never seen before makes me wonder if you ever saw the Bed of Chaos's Fireball Attack

[@ma_n00b]

Came for the runs, staying for the puns. You, sir, gained a new subscriber!

[@Im_Tired4160]

You lost health because you tripped on air and took fall damage.

[@TheTrains13]

Im currently watching the 2nd cycle and i cant wait for a doll joke in third cycle

[@scaratylobsidian8830]

The fact you said "most people who do shield only runs" at all is funny to me. Not even mentioning farming bonewheels.

[@xapasti]

Hope to see this run return for the other games! Great video as always

[@JKLeeds]

DS3 might be next 🤔

[@xapasti]

Now that I think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen a shield run for it before!

[@jaredmedina833]

The Tekken and Final Fantasy songs in the background gave me amazing nostalgia!!

[@leviathan1082]

45:13 if you run down the support beams the game will sometimes render it as falling and you take fall damage, i've had it kill me, when try to get the heros soul next to the sniper.

[@nolongeraperson]

Same. I've ran down the exact same spot he does in the video and once I reached the roof it triggered and took 80% of my health.

[@9807036]

Love the run cycle and I hope this one continues in other games! Fantastic as usual

[@JKLeeds]

It for sure will!

[@oafkad]

I appreciate these long videos. A lot of folks only do 10 minute videos and it isnt as ideal for watching while coding or relaxing.

[@Ippido]

the way you mix words and names is genius 🙏👍 crazy run 🙏😂

[@riggokrag]

Getting the bonewheel shield be Like: If you cant Beat them Join them

[@warrior_adam6387]

As someone who went and did a shield only run the bonewheel sheild was my only goal from the start. Just happy i got two

[@falsnamae3511]

"crazy how you can see new things in these games after all this time" ...You forgot a boss each playthrough. The twinned Sanctuary Guardians in the DLC. It's ultimately a very minor boss addendum, but if you go back to where the first one was after beating the rest of the DLC, you can fight two of them at once.

[@JKLeeds]

I know about it but it's not a boss. There's no boss health bar, same reason I don't go down to ash lake to fight the black Hydra each playthrough

[@RollerOfNat1s]

At 45:15 you lost health because of the way you were against the middle of the slope, the game thinks you’re falling because of the weird sliding thing you do. The same thing can happen on the other buttress with the other archer and the soul of a hero, it can also happen in Valley of the Drakes before the first drake if you’re coming from firelink.

[@grogbit3682]

‘He gargles on my bell’💀

[@SlimePunkGaming]

Melodies of life as BGM to a DS run. I love it

[@pappardell3]

“He gargles on my bell.” ROFL. Holy shit.

[@bodkie]

I'd never be the first flame in the comments, but good lord souls, I'm Gwyn have to speak up. At first, I wanted to shield myself, then I wanted to throw down the gauntlet, then I felt a whipping was a reasonable punishment for the rapid-fire puns bleeding through in every moment. It took a lot of endurance and poise to retain my humanity throughout this video. Just like the game itself, it was rewarding and well worth it.

[@JKLeeds]

🐐 comment

[@ScrimmyBungus]

Puns in this one got me thinking he might be going hollow

[@andrearusso9846]

"We get the large andre that we can give to ember later" 😂😂

[@TheFusionmix]

A run of Sheryl Crow puns right off the bat? Oh this might be peak

[@Skullvac]

Hey I think I'll accept this fella's dinner offer, seems like an upstanding chap

[@nathangomez5129]

Congrats on 100 subscribers bro!!! Your videos always amazing 🔥🔥

[@KaoruMzk]

I've done these 3 runs in the past. Shields only is fun, specifically if you get an early drop from the black knights. Fist weapons only is more tedious than challenging, a test of patience rather than skill. And for Whips only I gave up after Quelaag, it was just awful.