Beating Elden Ring As A Cleanrot Knight! Cosplay Run!

[@GinoMachino]

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[@Smnsnsnsn]

Gino how do you decide what weapons to use for no hits and can I suggest certain spells or incantations too?

[@phantomgamer7814]

You can do the night caverly cosplay run

[@ilolami5399]

The spears initial hit will scale with physical dmg (hence why you were impressed with the first hit at 50 str and dex) and the second hit is pretty much dependent on holy buffs and faith lvl, at 20 faith for elden beast (this should be obvious why holy sucks) no wonder it underperformed for you 40 faith is a good sweet spot if you want to only use the spear while still having a challenge

[@Count.Saruman]

Fun fact: There was actually something close to 'Cleanrot Knights' in real world history. The Order of St. Lazarus was a Levant Crusade-era Knightly Order formed in Jerusalem, consisting almost exclusively of leprosy victims. They were sometimes called the most dreadful amongst all the Christian troops. After the Order was created, other knightly orders such as the Templars, Teutons Hospitallers would send their own lepers to join the Knights of Lazarus (or Lazarists), so that they could continue to fight against the Ayyubids. The Lazarists had a fearsome reputation for unbreakable morale- as for them, there was no real retreat. They would rather die in battle than from their disease. Combatants of the Mamluk Sultanate at the Siege of Acre apparently said that fighting the Lazarists who manned the walls was like 'fighting the dead, risen from graves to haunt us'. However, for all their grim discipline and fanaticism, the Lazarists were always few in number, and superior tactics on the part of their enemies like the Ayyubids and the Mamluks (who actually knew how and when to effectively retreat and redeploy) meant that the Lazarists never really turned the tide of any battles they fought in, despite the fear they inspired.

[@LtCdrXander]

If you're suffering from a horrible disease, why not use it to strike fear into your enemies? Pretty badass.

[@williamswan5247]

Did they also shoot the rings on pure essence of a holy god?

[@Count.Saruman]

​@@williamswan5247If those rings of pure essence are gobs of spit and phlegm and if that god is Nurgle... then yes.

[@therevenant40k]

​@@Count.Saruman ... r/suddenlywarhammer

[@binjuice1]

​@@Count.SarumanBLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@maskedmisfit364]

You could try a Malenia run. With her armour sword and spell , but no healing flasks. You heal back only using her great rune by attacking. You could only use FP flasks.

[@loneshinobi2682]

This sounds fun and challenging

[@Vankodek]

Godskin swaddling cloth would compliment it well!

[@MinerDiner]

Ah, the Bloodborne build

[@javelin1423]

or you know, just don't get hit like Gino usually do

[@morayeel344]

you realize Gino does nohit runs right

[@futuristicbus61]

I personally love the Cleanrot Knights. All the weapons and armour belonging to them, the lore behind them As well is some of my favourite, with them basically accepting that the rot will eventually kill them. Also, although I love the rings of light, I’m really sad that the scythe doesn’t come with that unique buff that they do

[@ItsKryptick]

"It's not the worst damage I've seen" is probably true to most weapons after completing a fist only run

[@Scoliosistic]

I love to do runs where i limit myself to a specific enemy

[@TrueLawbringer]

This is also the way I play, my first play through was Golden Halberd, Sentinal Set, and Erdtree great shield locked

[@magicoil1572]

I’ve done Kaiden Sellsword, Glintstone miner, and Celebrant

[@KataKunaZero]

I made myself an Imp King, and my Ash Summons were the Imp Twins. Had the Elder Imp Headpiece and dual wielded Forked Greatswords. Most fun I had in any of my Souls Ring Playthroughs.

[@vsGoliath96]

7:40 I'm with Gino. I wish there was more variety to the powerstancing options like in Dark Souls 2 and you were just limited to weapons of basically the same class with few exceptions.

[@bingbong-et6nz]

I love how in every fight the weapon swapping is so smooth, and then in the radagon fight - whilst having all hell chucked at him - says “Loreta’s thing is annoying me” and discardes it so he can hotswap faster it’s so funny

[@bingbong-et6nz]

Also would love to know what is your favourite armour set?

[@kittykate662]

Shoutout to the random reddit comment that mentioned your endurance only run, you're a hell of a personallity and your videos are superb for your subscriber count and I mean that in the best of ways. You and your editor put a lot of effort into your stuff. Love it, looking forward to future content but I have a heeeeell of a lot of stuff to keep me occupied until then!

[@LtCdrXander]

13:11 I think you meant to show the cookbook on screen, but it shows the cleanrot spear instead.

[@SGT_Squid_Dog]

23:40 I'd prefer if it were based off of the amount of enemies killed directly relating to the items you can get. Killing 15 or so cleanrot knights unlocks the ability to buy anything that they drop, and for every Knight you kill after 15, the items get a 1% rune discount until it is 50% off permanently. This means that the buy and sell price of an item dropped by enemies will be the exact same. Anymore than 50% discount will mean you can buy the item for less than what you can get for selling it. Or, alternatively, after 50 the discount continues but for the sell and buy prices. So after killing 115 of a single enemy, all of their drops are available for free at the twin maiden husks with the tradeoff of selling anything they drop to anyone in the Lands Between will result in 0 runes. However, for those who don't know, Rats have a very small chance to drop rune arcs and they are also a very plentiful enemy in the game. To my knowledge, they are the only enemy in the game that can drop infinite rune arcs, and having infinite rune arcs would be detrimental to the gameplay itself. So, I propose that some items would be unavailable for infinite purchase from the twin maidens, or at the very least, sold at a high rune price to make it for it being infinite. however, if anyone is going to take my idea and implement it as a QoL mod, please have it to where you can change the amount of enemies needed to kill to get the shop open, or the amount needed to kill to get the full discount. Of course, I don't expect anyone to take my idea, and I certainly don't mind if they do.

[@PoyoDesuka]

Honestly, cosplay builds are so fun! I love making builds that use several different things blended together, like Prelates Charge with Bloodflame Blade for my Blood Preist build.

[@Illuyankas]

16 minutes in but there's a overlooked somber 5 you can just run up to from Swamp of Aeonia, it's guarded by the graven mass in the nook to the north of the swamp (the one directly south of the Caelid/Siofra lift) by all the crystals and it's practically right next to Sellia Crystal Mine

[@TengouX]

Cleanrot Knight set is my favorite armor in the game. It looks so nice. Usually my drip on my chars consists of the cleanrot knight set with the chest piece altered, and then the crimson or navy hood.

[@MamaTrixxieAsmr]

the cleanrot set is actually pretty good, not gonna lie, it is both lighter and better at defense in almost every stat, if not every stat than most armors around the same weight as it. on top of that it is so fancy and goes with almost anything else gold or even just yellow, yeah thats right this goes with the dang goldmask. respect the haligtree damnit

[@mangoalias608]

this is literally my first playthrough. confessor starting class, halo scythe, blessing's boon. i even used the full armor set at some point (supposed to be a rare drop but i got it pretty fast). just throw in some ancient dragn incantations lol

[@Deneb626]

The cleanrot spear is a favorite of mine, the only standard spear I really like. I do wish we got a proper Cleanrot boss. FS did them a disservice using them unchanged *twice* as boss fights

[@haggus71]

They should have made Finlay a boss; and your reward would be her ashes. Fitting since she carried Malenia all the way across the lands between to the Haligtree.

[@Alenbh4g]

@@haggus71Put real Loretta in Caria Manor or Raya Lucaria, and put Finlay in her place in the Haligtree.

[@HoduAphrodite]

I think we already had a video where Gino talks about how he has built an intuition for stuns while fighting Elden Beast, and then it not transitioning into elden stars, and Gino being like wtf. What the heck

[@murderycatdoll1380]

He cleanrot Armour Looks just so cool!

[@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist]

I’m still kinda upset the spear cant also create a line of spears that go out vertically, like the enemy Cleanrot knights can do. Low key sorta a nerf to the spear. Cleanrot Knight gear is the coolest look though in the game IMO. Except the helmet dont care for its design, but you need it for the red streaks. Or I use the Melania helmet. XD red hair.

[@kamica6948]

The unaltered Banished Knight Helm also looks fire w/ it, the one w/ the scarf around

[@lilkillaloco]

I think a status effect run would be cool Like you can only attack until poison, rot, etc procs then you have to evade the attacks until the status goes away then you can attack until another proc. Change status type for every boss

[@TheHankScorpio]

I've farmed every single item in ER, and my god the enemies (like Cleanrots) that drop more than 1 item are so annoying. Nothing like getting 14 helmets, 12 chest pieces, and 17 leggings after 100 runs when all you want is 1 pair of gauntlets

[@CosyGaming76]

You and your videos/vods are the whole reason I tried out Elden ring. I’ve watched you fight Margot so many times that for my first time fighting him I no hit him😂 Needless to say, love the content

[@swiftraven2346]

Finally, seeing the cleanrot spear getting the love and recognition it deserves for being a top-tier weapon

[@lharsay]

Suprisingly Malenia is easier to rot than some other bosses, she has the highest resistance on paper but in reality just barely higher than Placidusax and Theodoryx while having lot more hp than those two and you can also land combos on her.

[@PrinceFlumph]

Cosplay runs are so underrated. Thinking of what NPCs would do if they were to reach full power or even to just expand upon the lore of them! Back in dark souls 3 and nowadays I’ve done it plenty. Such as seeing what I can come up with for thops, greirat, even been tempted to try boc out as of late!

[@floraeofthemoon]

mr. genome mitochondria, would you consider doing a backwards all bosses run, like doing whatever accessible boss has the highest rune payout and working your way down?

[@dinahdrake5]

Genome mitochondria is the powerhouse of FS games

[@slumpywumpy4166]

I love to do runs of Elden Ring where I use anything I want or that I think is cool. It really works well especially if you start on NG+0 and farm runes in Mohg’s palace for 8 hours.

[@Crouton-]

Same

[@jimthebottle6647]

The spear AoW is really good for human enemies, the initial swipe knocks them back into the followup

[@aaronarmstrong4126]

Petition to have more 'cosplaying videos' with bosses and other ememies

[@kode-man23]

Stoked for all the love that the Halo Scythe has been getting lately. It was massively underrated for such a long time but it is basically a cheat code until the late game.

[@xX_Thaddeus_Xx]

A Mohg run would be interesting, given you can get his robe, weapon, and a few of his spells. Combine the robe with the sanguine noble set's other pieces and you'd have a full set.

[@itsajoll]

It is actually insane to see what Gino is capable of and then try and play the game myself.

[@Rocky-yw1zo]

I wonder how a page cosplay would go, crossbow plus an estoc would be a simple yet cool combo

[@therevenant40k]

7 hours I farmed these guys, ended up with 7 scythes, 5 spears, 12 helmets, 4 chestplates, 11 greaves, a kajillion swords but still no gauntlets

[@Scoots_McGee]

I farmed for hours and only got multiple sets of greaves and crescent blades

[@insertedgynamehere___969]

The spear took me the longest

[@yeeaabooii9135]

That is why he uses a cheat engine

[@MrNobodySFM]

Honestly the cleanrot spear is my favorite weapon and i remember 2-3 months ago looking all over your channel for a vid where you used it and i couldn't find it. I am so glad you did this challenge, the weapons is actually so fun to use imo. It also gets rarely used in PVP apperantly because every time i use the ash of war people just.. don't know what it does? They run into the AoE 😭

[@themasterwolfom4109]

His video its out just after i did the same, its one of the runs i enjoyed the most. (Mostly with cleanrot spear)

[@itz_keagle8134]

I’d love to see you do a run with the death poker. Seems like a fun INT weapon to use that also does crazy frost buildup. Just recently stumbled on the vids and love every single one of them. Keep it up Gino!❤

[@deadfurydbf9647]

And would be a breeze

[@pumpkinmanblue9151]

If I’m not mistaken the reason you were getting multiple hits w the spear ash was because it was hitting there head as a 2nd hit and counting it as a separate body part. And it hit 3x on the tree sent is because of the horse along w it’s him and his head

[@swiftraven2346]

"Where's that bleed tho?" *margit explodes* "there it is"

[@LostM3mor1es]

That was the most cooperative maliketh I've ever seen

[@ChachiMcSwaqq]

I'm digging these chapter titles. Your Diallos kill was truly sublime

[@GinoMachino]

something went whacky and it used the chapters from an old video even though it had the correct ones in the description, thanks for letting me know. I think i fixed them - Editor Guy

[@shinobiofashina2168]

Actually haligtree blessing is able to be used by all the cleanrot knights it's just rare The player can receive the buff aswell if they invade near the knights it's also a damage negation buff aswell as regeneration

[@jackfrosty4932]

Great video man! Can you do another cosplay run for the next video? Malenia cosplay would be great!!!

[@tylerpeterson19]

I did one of these runs, I think as my first cosplay run. And honestly it was one of the more fun ones, I liked it a lot 😊

[@justarandomgamer7667]

I definitely noticed the spear ash of war hitting twice sometimes

[@elliotl_]

I think a few spears that get summoned are delayed

[@Viscid149]

Man the Cleanrot spear is such an underrated weapon

[@slimthug166]

Love the content Gino, can't wait for the god run 3 attempt. Keep up the great work ❤

[@MikeyShey0059]

PLEASE DO MORE COSPLAY RUNS!!!

[@lovabug3140]

i did this myself aswell. cosplay runs are the most fun

[@AaronCano-lm6xs]

I would love to see more cosplay challenge runs from you

[@eternalfinality154]

I have thought about a build called “The Storm Knights” but I think it works best with 7 players. I would like to see all 7 players have to build up the builds throughout as they slowly gather their equipments. (This is an all remembrances run) Armor: Banished Knight Helm, Exile Armor, Banished Knight Greaves, Banished knight gauntlets (all nonaltered) Talismans: Dragoncrest Greatshield, Pearl Drake +2, Shard of Alexander/Arrow Sting, Carian Filagreed Crest/Arrow Sting Weapons: (multiple can be used until all weapons/AoW are available) Partisan with Storm Assault Veteran’s Prosthesis Knight’s Greatsword with Storm Blade Zweihander with Storm Stomp Guardian’s Swordspear with Storm Caller Stormhawk Axe (Not from Nepheli but there is one in Royal Capital) Albinauric Bow with Mighty Shot only using Stormhawk Arrows 99 vigor is a stat goal. No using whetblades to change the weapon to anything that isn’t physically. It can be standard, Keen, Quality, or heavy but the ash of wars deal more damage with what it normally comes as

[@gryzziarth8288]

I spent 2 hours trying to do that darn jump. I did it free hand, binos, and used the bow. I could never get Torent to do the 360 jump at the final jump. That was my issue.

[@necromancyfantasy]

Would love to see more cosplay runs

[@helpbram]

Brotha ngl you might just be the best ELDEN ring KZbinr

[@kushjindal2939]

Please do a banished knight run with storm ashes

[@dominickvantil5183]

It looks like some of the holy spears appear a second later than the others

[@SpooderCrab]

I did this run myself a couple weeks ago, love to see you trying it out!

[@Vankodek]

Gino fr replicating my first run, where I grinded for Cleanrot gear and beat the game up to Malenia, where I swapped to her sword and helmet

[@ThePretzelBread]

Halo Scythe is my favorite weapon in the game, and it made me so sad to get all the disc of light incantations after using the halo scythe because its weapon art was so much better.

[@Kpgolfs]

Greatest Elden ring gamer to ever do it gino you’re a master class

[@5TailFox]

Damn. Krillin Stick goes hard.

[@zabel7697]

Maybe a Gideon or Godfrey cosplay would be interesting. Malenia as well.

[@kogeki9443]

I see so many attacks that should have hit you but don't. Blows my mind ha ha

[@gothiclb]

I used the Halo Scythe on my first playthrough until Malekith. Gotta be one of my favorite weapons

[@Тимофейсхеперс-щ3д]

Liked this a lot. We need more cosplay runs

[@PuskasMarton]

"I wish this was DS2" is not a sentence that I've heard from anyone.

[@CasualMason]

No Hit, Randomized, Region Locked, and All Achievement run with a friend when??

[@Tapps9977]

What about a bloodhound knight run??

[@terrychard2841]

This is how Finley got Malenia back to the Halig tree.

[@lharsay]

she paid for a carriage 100%

[@ipoopmuffins]

you should do more cosplay runs like this bro. like tree guardian (you could use poison mist since they do), knights cavalry, vulgar militia, etc etc. these kinds of runs have always been more interesting to me, idk why.

[@Corrinsolace]

Run idea: give yourself blaidd armor and weapon and give yourself base stats to use the weapon

[@smg4yoshi940]

Did you forget Fortissax and Rykard?

[@samdabulevicius6182]

I was bragging to the missus bout how you went from 500 likes on a video 5 years ago to 10K! Like it’s so amazing and I’m so amazed how you’ve managed this game hundreds of times NO HIT!!! @ginomachino you are a damn god!!!

[@jad1920]

It would be cool to see a powerstance nagakiba no hit run

[@Jeanmarie-i9x]

The cleanrot summon also uses golden vow

[@eddyfade5956]

Top notch content as always, looking forward to the next one!

[@ajburgs1121]

Poison/rot only playthrough would be cool

[@saisame7975]

I get the same bug with achievement bosses while playing offline with mods too but fidn know that this bug is in the game since the beginning.

[@legendking4505]

Id love to see a magma worm type build with like lava base only weapons nd attacks😱

[@masterthune]

The idea of the shop does sound nice but balancing wise, it seems OP the way you layed out. Maybe do something similar to DS2 forlorn items where you have to kill them X number of times to receive all the pieces. So using cleanrit knights as an example you need to kill them 4 times for all 4 pieces of armor a 5th time for the sword then after that kill one scythe and one spear to get their respective weapons.

[@Mythic_demon]

We need to see a torch only run

[@landonscott4347]

Beating Elden Ring as a Lucarian glintstone sorcerer, maybe?

[@frenzya613]

Have you done any bow run on elden ring?? I can't seem to find any of your bow videos.

[@juvalshaer9824]

I want to support you so much that I watched the whole raid ad

[@NicolasPaul-n9l]

After all this time and seeing Radagon and Elden beast over and over again i got to say that i do not understand the hate they got as final bosses.. They have a cool feeling and i do not think its that ugly. The fight feels super cool, while having some annoying parts i think that is ok for a final Boss..

[@Im-crazyfrogbro]

Bro Gino is such an anime character

[@Russ1anpower]

Episode's names are the best KEKW

[@eden4404]

You need to do a run where you cosplay as Godfrey

[@loneshinobi2682]

I did this and can confirm it’s fun af lol.. just stomping and charge attacking everything in sight and using Hoarah Loux’s earth shaker for smaller weaker enemies to just launch them

[@meteorytekrenaryte]

Okay, are we ignoring the fact that Gino completely skipped over Rennala?

[@Spooon10]

Wake up babe - new Gino video dropped

[@williamswan5247]

I feel like the cleanrot spear is understandably underrated but it doesn’t deserve to be, it’s pretty mediocre in PvP and the scythe counterpart is way better and that’s not including it’s insane droprate

[@boomhauer7556]

Every time he says “I’m dead” he dodges 😆

[@bronsoncarder2491]

I'm currently doing a "Rick, Soldier of" run. Starting out as Solider of Godrick, but I'll upgrade to Soldier of Radahn when I get there, then Leyndell Soldier, then Haligtree soldier. I'm not being super strict on it. While the only things I'm equipping are the Lordsworn weapons (plus a basic spear, since you can't get the spear they use for some reason...), the brass shield, and the soldier clothing, I'm allowing any ashes of war and a small handful of spells (using the basic finger seal), though it's a pretty simple quality build, so I don't plan on ever having the power to make my spells really worthwhile. Mostly just for buffing and healing. lol I'm also going around killing everyone I meet, cause that seems to be the soldier's standing orders. lol (Though, I did make an exception for the spirit tuning girl... but, the only summons I'm allowed to use are Solider summons lol).

[@Drunken.J0hn]

they use the partisan and you CAN have it

[@lharsay]

@@Drunken.J0hn the soldiers use shortspears, the knights have partizans

[@Echo_ohc3]

Cleanrot spear 13:11 Cleanrot spear

[@Joshua_Shadow_Manriguez]

I wish we could fire off like 4 to 6 Getsugas in quick succession like the Elden Beast.

[@addaku]

Higher Faith would probably increase the ash of war damage

[@donniedarko1234]

i wish to reach your level of chill one day

[@peterswift2774]

My lord you’re good at this game.. So slick

[@zackdantonio2473]

You could try fist only, no hit, all boss