Elden Ring SCYTHES Are BROKEN... (NOT CLICKBAIT)

This is the MOST OVERPOWERED weapon class we've tried so far...
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Challenge run list: pastebin.com/bqriz3Nx
Boss & Enemy Resistances: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
0:00 Intro
0:45 Limgrave Setup
6:10 Darry Wheel (Blaidd Quest)
8:00 Margit, The Fell Omen
12:10 Godrick the Grafted
16:30 Liurnia Setup
19:32 Erdtree Watchdog
24:35 Glintstone Dragon Smarag
26:05 Cleanrot Knight
27:36 Red Wolf of Radagon
29:48 Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon
31:26 Magma Wyrm Makar
32:46 Demi Human Queen Gilika
33:00 Altus Setup
37:12 Elemer of the Briar
38:56 Erdtree Avatar
39:36 Fallingstar Beast
41:20 Onyx Lord
41:52 Margit Illusion (Altus Plateau)
43:12 Ancient Dragon Lansseax
46:10 Draconic Tree Sentinel
48:00 Leyndell
53:40 Esgar, Priest of Blood
55:30 Goldfrey
56:48 Morgott the Omen King
58:10 Caelid Setup
59:56 Flying Dragon Greyll
1:01:54 Starscourge Radahn
1:02:42 Commander O'Neil
1:04:25 Godskin Apostle (Altus)
1:05:55 Night's Cavalry (Mountaintops)
1:06:52 Black Blade Kindred
1:09:32 Borealis the Freezing Fog
1:11:06 Roundtable Knight Vyke
1:12:40 Fire Giant
1:14:52 Commander Niall
1:17:12 Night's Cavalry (Altus)
1:18:24 Death Rite Bird (Mountaintops)
1:19:45 Death Rite Bird (Snowfield)
1:21:36 Putrid Avatar
1:22:40 Miquella's Haligtree
1:25:20 Magma Wyrm Theodorix
1:26:30 Yelough Anix Tunnel (Upgrades)
1:29:40 Loretta, Knight of the Haligtree
1:31:52 Malenia, Blade of Miquella
1:43:46 Godskin Snail (Mountaintops)
1:45:50 Journey to Volcano Manor
1:48:16 Godskin Noble
1:50:00 Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy
1:55:00 Astel, Stars of Darkness
1:58:42 Mohg, Lord of Blood
2:00:00 Godskin Duo
2:05:20 Dragonlord Placidusax
2:09:00 Maliketh, the Black Blade
2:11:00 Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing
2:13:32 The Sage's Cave Incident
2:14:58 Hoarah Loux
2:18:00 Radagon & Elden Beast
2:24:10 Death Rite Bird (Caelid)
2:25:56 Black Blade Kindred (Caelid)
2:27:20 Mohg Illusion (Leyndell Sewers)
2:28:28 Tree Sentinel Duo
2:30:42 Fire Giant (again)
2:33:23 Fia's Champions
2:35:28 Lichdragon Fortissax

[@WeirderEnthusiast]

The Backlogs and Gino doing Reaper builds in the span of 2 days! I guess social interaction can wait for 3 hours.

[@superproduce]

That's so real.

[@Random_Tech-Priest]

THE BACKLOGS MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dusty_Game]

ikr

[@patient0500]

I just watched that video and it took me to this one

[@nickfarano4219]

Any one know what he’s using to get that red glow on him? His video covers the inventory

[@Hauri1972]

On of my favorite playthroughs was a Sister Friede build, with frost mist on one grave scythe, the froststomp on the other grave scythe and some black flame spells to complete the reference to Friede. That was really fun.

[@MisterT.2962]

Similar to my first experience with scythes, I did a Gehrman build with it and quickstep hahaha, was really fun would recommend

[@cerovlogs]

For my first playthrough I did Grave Scythe imbued with Frost and Winged Scythe along with godslayer spells. I did this before even playing ds3 and was happily surprised when I ran into Friede lol

[@darkdrac7012]

Yeah, my first build was also scythe oriented, dual wielding Halo Scythes or one Halo one wing with black flame incantations.

[@ex-kommunist]

I love that so much people give credit to Sister Friede. One of the best bosses.

[@priyanshumaurya007]

Hunter actually edited this so fast! I'm so glad

[@pepeepupoo]

Hunter is the real mvp. Gino is almost an afterthought on the actual videos

[@R3D5500]

​@@pepeepupooHunter should just put a Waterpark right in the middle of the video throughout the whole video and no one will mind

[@73193]

yeah this video came out suprisingly fast i feel like i had seen he was still streaming it a day before

[@monhi64]

@@pepeepupoowhy are you guys ripping on Gino. I can’t tell if serious or probably one of the million semi inside jokes that pop up for a creator

[@siriboyd]

Love the eclipse break. Really sets this video at a moment in time.

[@eluminator04]

my first playthrough of Elden Ring was a faith build where I used the Winged Scythe till Farum Azula, where a friend told me about the blasphemous blade which then replaced it. watching this run just brings back so many memories of my first time exploring the Lands Between, thank you for that

[@theshiningfalcon]

I had a very similar experience to you. I ended up using the winged and halo scythe most of the game, the dual wield jump attack was so good.

[@TheLastVoodooMan]

Yeah I used Winged Scythe until Leyndell and a bit further as well, however I had a dps problem because I spread my stats too far and was too hesitant to use my smithing/somber stones

[@breadboy4712]

this is basically exactly how my first playthrough went hahaha

[@f41l6]

Pretty similar to my first run when I switched from the halo scythe which I had my entire run to the mamas wyrm scalesword when every boss was pretty much immune to holy damage

[@ezzzzyyy]

Thank you for uploading gino. Bad stuff has been happening recently and your content is a small slice of joy.

[@Aduraz]

You okay?

[@mochafennec]

Hope things get better for you soon.

[@jugomebu]

Hope you're getting through it even if at times it's hour by hour. ♥

[@BaronBlackriver]

keep strong my man

[@Tychonious]

Smalls slice of deez

[@michaelboyle7281]

42:52 An all ash of war run would be super fun to watch. It'd also maybe be cool to try out single ashes of war on multiple weapon types just to see how an ash varies from weapon to weapon. Putting spinning weapon blew me away and made me feel dumb for never trying that. A bit off-topic, but imagine a mod where you could put spinning weapon on fist/claw weapons, but instead of the weapons spinning, your character floats like 3 inches off the ground and spins lol

[@mcbill7352]

I believe dist already did an ashes of war

[@arachnidsgrip9205]

"Come Oathsworn--little Ranni..." Please don't summon my wife to chew me out, mother-in-law.

[@agentwashington3765]

I really appreciate that for some of the bosses you did multiple ashes of war, or even no ashes of war to really show the weapons off. I remember some people had issues with the daggers only run cuz they felt it was more "glintblade phalanx only". But this was great!

[@connoc5078]

1:08:00 It was honestly so painful watching this fight lol. Everyone in the chat telling him that he needs to lock on and that it has a follow up, but he never seemed to look over and read it. It reminded me of when I watched my friend play elden ring with the peeler and he shat on the blackflame tornado because he didn't read the description and figure out you can hold it

[@Stefan-qi4rk]

Idk if you'll see this Gino but you single handedly sparked my passion to play Elden Ring again. Never did beat the game fully, but I'm determined to git gud and do it now.

[@Shmethan]

You got this! It's worth it

[@Beanie-Babe]

good luck brother may grace guide your way 🙏

[@Stefan-qi4rk]

Appreciate the comments, just reached leyndell, that view was worth every hour 😭

[@calebjohnson4167]

@@Stefan-qi4rk can we get an update? how ya doin? whats ur build?

[@Zaszz1]

Its my GOAT game, there are some frustrating bosses sometimes, but be flexible, try different weapons, and strategies, and try to learn as you fight each boss each time you die. What moves work, what was too slow or too fast? Its very fun game.

[@asheeshkumar3946]

Flail is broken, scythe is broken, swords, shields,bows everything is broken 😂😂😂

[@hayiko69]

Most weapons deal high damage with the right build 👌

[@kode-man23]

Yeah with the build variety in this game, the buffs that you can apply, the equip-able ashes of war, and how almost every weapon class has at least one BS representative, yeah almost everything can be broken.

[@skult227]

​@@kode-man23but that's not being 'broken' it's being balanced. The fact that anything can be built to be made good. Just because something is really good doesn't mean it's 'broken', so this term feels very overused.

[@kode-man23]

@@skult227 I just compare the player character to other Souls games. I replayed Bloodborne recently and yeah, most of what you can do in Elden Ring is actually broken. Like, a pretty high percentage of builds can invalidate large portions of this game.

[@OnzagaoftheEast]

Dam, everything is broken. FromSoft! Give us back repair powder so we can fix them!!

[@samanthawycoff855]

I'm so excited to see what you ended up doing with scythes! I got the Grave Scythe really early by chance, I fell in love, and I've made it my weapon for the run. I'm in Farum Azula now, so this might help me find ways to improve my build before facing the Godskin Duo.

[@ParrotMan01276]

I think I'm going to try this after all. I've been experimenting with beginning builds, but this looks the coolest. You inspired me to do a whip build, which I deemed a Kurama build, from Yu Yu Hakusho.

[@apocolototh1948]

the double jumping attack auto getting the sweetspot, and the spinning weapon interaction are so great. godkiller flame spinn is one of my fav looks. Try it with the vulgar militia saw as well

[@jeanmouloude]

FIIIINALY someone talking about the scythes, people underestimate that weapon so much, im on NG+6 and im still destroying all the bosses, you can have 3 different debuffs if you put poison on one, frost on the other and they have bleed by default

[@spompofleks]

It's not the weapon, it's Gino

[@reachtrev69]

I've not seen the way you dodge water foul in other guides. I got it from watching over and over in slow motion but I'd also watch a guide from you. Also didn't know you can cancel her extremely fast move. Thank God I saw you do that.

[@joshuallewellyn2648]

Premise for a horror movie: gino goes outside to see the eclipse, leaves his stream up, and never comes back. We watch the world deteriorate outside via his webcam

[@Berlinbower]

Impossible it's a greenscreen

[@joshuallewellyn2648]

@@Berlinbower wouldnt that make it MORE possible?

[@Smugtortise123]

Heya Gino, great vid! I love using scythes they are pretty broken!

[@grfrjiglstan]

I love that the Malenia section of the video is way longer than any other section - but for the exact opposite reason you’d expect.

[@polo5760]

Can't wait to see your videos for the dlc

[@Tyr_11]

LETS GOOOO NEW VID Gino vids are what keeps me going thank you hunter your editing is godly

[@lharsay]

2:21:30 You can also put it on a Vulgar Militia Saw for bleed, or Keen Guardian Swordspear/ Heavy Nightrider Glaive for damage.

[@hunterharris1577]

Watched this all on the streams, but gotta watch the vid too cause I’m addicted to Gino vids apparently. Also Hunter is an editing legend

[@JaymzShikari]

Scythes Remind me of Aggy's first playthrough, he spent about 20 hours looking for a scythe, finding the worst one in the game while he had a +8 bloodhound's fang and assuming they're just bad

[@doop445]

There is a way to increase damage on spinning strikes - unlock from the enemy and spin your character the same direction that the weapon spins and you increase the hits by almost 3x

[@Mixi_Hazbin]

Ohh this is one I gave been waiting for.

[@EYEOFD00M]

I love ur vids keep up the good work!

[@homosexual2251]

love the winged scythe so much, used it for a long time during my first playthrough

[@eekajmoneybaby9309]

With so much symbolism to scorpions in items and crucible spells I hope we get a scorpion fist weapon that alter the fighting style to the martial skill in dlc but I doubt that would happen

[@Kinarta.]

Grave scythe was my first build and it is an absolute beast of a weapon, definitely one of my favorite builds

[@jakethebasher]

Kinda cool that you got the eclipse in there, too. Great video as always!

[@themainhater123]

FINALLY I CAN COMMENT ABOUT A WEAPON TYPE AND SAY IVE USED THEM, ive always been death in every souls i played (ds3 and elden ring lmao) where i just kill everyone n everything. i haven’t watched the vid yet but i hope to see u use the grave scythe. grinded 2 of those out and i melt bosses

[@jimthebottle6647]

Love the video mate.

[@swaggertom7701]

Thank you for exhibiting the coolness of scythes. They're such a badass weapon. Great gameplay as well.

[@zaykenzo]

this showed me how much of this game i still haven’t seen yet. it’s insane

[@drdilbygaming5793]

Ayyyyyyyyy I've been waiting for this video (I love scythes)

[@Darkmerge]

Old compliment but im going to say it anyway. You are insane. I love how you still died to skeletons thou it happens. Making it so thorough with timestamps and your steup is so nice. You are a god man

[@TheSingingFoxy]

I did this a while back, going through the game a few times using only one type of weapon. Sythes were the last ones I did and it was the most fun I had.

[@Lupe-mt6mi]

I’ve been wanting to play with a reaper build so thanks this helped me get started

[@daveg4861]

Ive never played Elden Ring, but I love watching your challenge vids. Thanks

[@Korra-cf8gz]

I love the content… it really helps me fall asleep at night… fr

[@mykd.kryptos5593]

my NG+ build was 99 arcane dragon communion with occult grave scythe. its nothing THIS HOT but at the time i felt like i was cooking so hard. the drip and aesthetic was so badass

[@MrMagyar5]

My first playthrough of Elden Ring was with the Halo Scythe and a faith build. Afterwards I learned how much easier the game was using that weapon.

[@randomdude3890]

I've been doing my latest playthrough with duel wielding Grave Sycthes and it's definitely been my favorite.

[@RF-xx8re]

Watched the whole thing live, scythes are pretty solid

[@polo5760]

This man just knows how to release amazing content

[@TurtlePalace]

I really like all of the dragon fights in ER. they follow the conventional progression in games. smarag has another fire attack compared to agheel, ekzykes has rot mist on top of smarags moves, adula has a special sword attack, and borealis is a culmination of all the dragons youve fought. its a little jank if borealis is flying on the cliffs but other than that fantastic fight

[@chalgress12]

the frenzy grab incantation is fun to spam on gideon. he can't really escape chain casts

[@IamWinningFoundation]

My very first build was similar to this, double bleed scythes. Except i made it even more broken and used mimic tear to double the bleed procs. Its a little cheesy but very satisfying.

[@casperhein1892]

I tried this same challenge a couple of weeks ago, but i didn't allow myself any other armaments other than reapers so i couldn't use incantaions, which makes the challenge way less enjoyable. So watching makes me want to retry the challenge.

[@beseando7431]

"hit the miners with holy damage" spoken like a true pastor

[@lt_schofield4058]

A wild Vyke has appeared! Gino uses NPC Cheese, It's super effective! Vyke casts Game Breaker, It's super effective! Gino faints!

[@lt_schofield4058]

1:11:07 is the time stamp

[@joja7868]

Spinning weapon is the new "omg, I had no idea that was so good" moment

[@Chara_the_god]

Woah Gino, you did the same thing I did! Bloodflame blade spinning weapon goes so hard. That's cool.

[@LastHumanLaughing]

Crazy that what I ran in my first play through is getting love finally

[@shinobiofashina2168]

That hit you got on horah loux and the tree sentinel is a glitch were the jump attack hits a second time its much more consistent with a jumping catch flame it was found by the pvp scene and its dubbed void tech

[@unknownentityenthusiast6765]

My first run was Angel Scythe until farum, where I swapped to Godslayer’s Greatsword. They’re incredible as a weapon class.

[@rezdoessomething3335]

I made a bloodborne build when i was PVPing. The scythes are dope

[@Stephetheon]

disliked for killing Millicent

[@kadelcomper]

Yeah but he kills Alexander every time but Millicent is crossing the line…. Wtv dude. Alexander is definitely more loved than her

[@Stephetheon]

@@kadelcomper k but *I* love Millicent more than I love Alexander. He's a homie so he understands.

[@susioeandno1else]

Killicent

[@Stephetheon]

@@susioeandno1else despicable

[@crimson_kairo7663]

Who is that?

[@_ikako_]

Glad to see Mr Chi Tenjin making an appearance! Love that guy

[@YoCBTV]

Amazing video. 🎉

[@experimentzero9431]

I made a dual grave scythe build and just accidentally first phased real mohg. My guy couldn't even nihil, and i wasn't even trying to speed through the fight. Dual heavy grave scythes with the jump attacks really made light work of one of my hardest bosses

[@willfultrain6779]

It's cool seeing people who just now found out about the greatness that is spinning weapon.

[@Deltaguy447]

Ah yes the firey lawn mower build, great vid Gino and excellent work Hunter!

[@GodMelon847]

Your editor is hilarious for including "The Sage's Cave Incident"

[@calebo56]

i used cold infused spinning strikes on regular scythe, sometimes powerstanced with halo scythe, on my RL1 playthrough and had a blast. truly busted weapon class

[@halvarianknight4477]

one of the great parts of phantom slash is the 360 control you have with your slash

[@GO-cy3no]

Reapers will always be my favorite weapon. That spinning slash was nasty on Renalla.

[@Xbigxhatxloganx]

i live with in the path of totallity and it was pitch black night time for a good 4 min, it was so cool. it was cloudy so we couldnt see much of the actual eclipse but i did see mars in the corona. once in a lifetrime experience.

[@DietmarEugen]

When I tried a region-locked Faith build, and eventually met its rather high requirements, I was pleasantly surprised by the Winged Scythe and its unique skill.

[@Cliche8701]

I did an ng+7 run with the Grave Scythe and Spinning Strikes on + Blood Flame Blade and it completely melted the game. Highly recommend

[@Raggy9145]

10:14 “should I try and helicopter this guy” -Gino Machino 😂😂😂

[@WaterAssassini]

I’m on my second ever playthrough after just beating it the first time, this made me want to do a Bleed Scythe build. Just need to know the best talismans

[@andresalexander3024]

Hi gino, I like your content it's amazing, I'd like to see you use the frozen needle in elden ring it's an amazing weapon, cheers.

[@metehanarslantas3106]

That blood splashes at 27:07 looks so satisfying.

[@Mystro84]

Came for Elden Ring, got "Don't stare at the Sun" advice... while watching a not-Souls game Easiest sub ever

[@Toxon69]

My first run I ever did was 2 grave scythes with bleed and cold on them, Malenia only took 2 hours to beat her for the first time. They're super fun weapon mainly because grave scythes are one of the few heavy weapon with bleed that can be infused.

[@berzerk-_-fury5470]

The Regular Scythe heavy attack is perfect for hitting dragons. As it's 2 consecutive overhead downwards angled strikes. This makes it perfect for hitting things above you.

[@SlamminZed]

I guess you didnt take yourself the time to see the eclipse... i saw the full one in sherbrooke, canada. I was unreal. Great vid btw

[@omnibot5848]

I'm not sure if it scales well into endgame, but I remember spinning weapon also being surprisingly powerful on clayman harpoon buffed with scholar's armament.

[@Jaycomma]

When Gino uploads a new video an Angel gets his wings

[@nandeshpsekhar7101]

I just finished my first playthrough, thought I'd seen every boss, either in my own playthrough or some in streams and videos, and TIL there was a second margit fight I missed

[@ADeatonic]

Scythe was the weapon of choice for my first run. And my second ...and my third.

[@meatballdivino8955]

Fast crouch attack, good reach, good damage, fun power stance moveset with really good jump attack, bleed, good scaling with different stats, decent ashes variety, goes through shields Reapers are just fun man

[@jackson4w]

Power stance cold gravesythes jump attack build was actually the build i used for my very first playthrough.

[@jacobflores6489]

I use the reapers personally on my main. I’m an arcane build but I use magic ash of war from rogier that spins. Put blood flame incantation on sythe and spin on boss. Super fast blood proxy’s and massive damage

[@davidpotts7116]

I discovered this from a friend on my first playthrough - if you're going for a dex/faith build you need to farm the halo scythe. Its damage per hit isn't much to talk about, but the weapon art hits like a freight train on steroids when you buff the damage of it. It's one of my favorite weapons to use, albeit one of my least favorite to farm for

[@AaronCano-lm6xs]

This is not clickbait guys, Gino is just that good.

[@jasonheath7045]

The Spinning weapon ash of war is insane Shredded the fire giant with a scythe using this weapon art

[@Dravanis]

Used a Heavy Infused Grave Scythe with Stormcaller last year. Suffice to say that was one of the easiest runs I've ever had.

[@spicyboinezu8434]

I wish you could monster hunter style great sword tackle cancel out of the first hit to go straight into the second hit, which is much easier to land

[@PurpleHaz3_]

My first playthrough I used dual grave scythes with one blood and one frost. Had 100 and something bleed on one and 117 frost and 50 bleed on the other 😭. That combined with varre’s mask, jump attack talisman, and the raven cape. I was shitting on bosses

[@robertfrancis3752]

just gonna copy this build for my next playthrough YOINK

[@scythe3799]

I love this cus im very biased towards scythes. Shared and liked

[@ismount]

I really appreciate that you do PvE videos. The majority of weapon/weapon class/similar videos are focused on PvP.

[@KarZak626]

what is the build,weapon,ash,stats,talismans,ect for final things equipped

[@euclidYT]

I used Reapers in my second run of the game. Getting access to spinning weapon and black flame tornado was very funny

[@leemcnutt5490]

love the eclipse content