Can You Beat Dark Souls Using Only Jumping Uppercuts? Dragon Bone Fist R2 attacks Only

Can you beat Dark Souls using only Dragon Bone Fist R2 attacks? The Dragonbone Fist has an unique jumping uppercut move, so let's try to beat the game with only that weapon and that specific attack.
If you desire even more fisting action, check out my SL1 NG+7 Caestus run: • Dark Souls - SL1 - NG+...
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[@lordskyline9766]

6:45 Actually, a kick doesnt deal any poise dmg. It completely bypasses poise on a player/Npc and forces them to play the stagger animation.

[@matthewshafer9545]

Unless you have poise equal to or greater than 48 in which case it does nothing at all . It doesn't damage poise, but poise does invalidate it .

[@ademasdanjuro]

I found the illusory wall’s fans

[@matthewshafer9545]

Turns out I was off by 2 . In DSR, you need 50 poise . In DS3 it's 48 . I just played DSR and the Dark Wraiths in New Londo kick all the time and could stagger me with the Gargoyle helm (8 poise) and wolf ring (40) . They could not when I equipped the Eastern gauntlets also (2 poise) .

[@michaelwerkov3438]

@@ademasdanjuro what about zullie the witch

[@chaoticstarfish3401]

@@matthewshafer9545 That's not the same thing. A Player Character's kicks bypass ALL Poise when interacting with other player characters. Enemies with ZERO Poise will be staggered by kicks, while enemies with any Poise value higher than zero won't be affected at all. For example: You can kick Havel around without any issue, but kicking a Man-Serpent will never trigger a stagger.

[@kamikaze4172]

Oh God, the Mimic's spin kick. Especially while it laughs at you, I watched a man get spin kicked down an elevator shaft, and told he must beat Sheng Long to stand a chance

[@BaronsCastle]

This is my fave script of yours so far, some great jokes in this one

[@Someone89a]

I Love both you guys’ content!!

[@dayyaanadam2589]

I personally like the ds1 with no souls the most but this is definitely a close second

[@BaronsCastle]

@@dayyaanadam2589 yeah thats a good one too

[@PressContinue]

Thank you so much Mr. Castle :)

[@PitaKFoXHounD]

"sure-you-can" killed me right from the start.

[@Zoxan96]

After almost a decade of Dark Souls, this video taught me that Pinwheel has a flamethrower attack.

[@dielaberbrudergaming6288]

god, that animation is so slow, a hit with a ultra greatsword is propably faster, btw. a follow up idea would be a demon fist weapon art only run, i don´t know how strong it is, but firestorm is way too much fun to use.

[@tobiaskadachi]

Slow, but bad ass.

[@autodidacticartisan]

Yes a greatsword is significantly faster. Even the r2

[@MicahRibbentrop]

@@tobiaskadachi it's better to look good than to feel good

[@tsunamicauserr]

the only weapon that swings that slow is the artorias greatsword r2

[@tsunamicauserr]

as the fist i mean

[@palicat8008]

37:30 I believe the ghosts go through poise unless you have transient curse active

[@JakeFish5058]

They go through your armor* wolf ring's poise will still work as normal

[@matthewshafer9545]

I dont think transient curse is any different than cursed . Attack is blockable, but causes falter if they land a hit . Doesnt matter what your poise is they still falter on strike .

[@bigz5407]

If you get invaded by and kill kirk all 3 times you can get his gear in the fair lady's chamber. I say this because if you equip his guantlets fist and claw weapons get a damage bonus

[@PressContinue]

I didn't even consider that to be honest

[@user-qh9yn3gk8u]

@@PressContinue cause it doesnt work

[@Lemontarts01]

@@user-qh9yn3gk8u pretty sure it does lol

[@user-qh9yn3gk8u]

@@Lemontarts01 there's has never been an instance that Kirk's armor added bonus damage on fist weapons 🙃

[@Th3letterJ]

@@user-qh9yn3gk8u imagine being this proud of yourself while being completely incorrect lmao. Just do a quick search of “gauntlets of thorns” on any wiki they add 20 ar to punching attacks

[@grfrjiglstan]

"Full House had Saget" Oof, poor timing on that one.

[@PressContinue]

Oooooooooooooooh, yeah that is a very unfortunate coincidence O__O

[@grfrjiglstan]

Also, sorry if this comment was the way you found out about it.

[@KaiserMazoku]

Bob Saget probably would have appreciated the irony.

[@HavocHounds1988]

@@KaiserMazoku Wait, Bob Saget died?

[@aramvartanian3899]

@@KaiserMazoku yes unfortunately

[@GretgorPooper]

I love how we can see PC slowly turning into a monster in this video XD. He starts by feeling really sorry for Sif, and then goes and feels bad after punching some mushroom kids. Then he kills the mushroom lady, justifying it with the fact that he wanted the Elisabeth mushrooms. Then he "oops" kills Dusk when trying to demonstrate that one R2 trick, then he kills the sealer despite him giving all he needed "because fuck it". Better character development than most stories I've ever read.

[@ShMokou]

Every soul have its dark.

[@GretgorPooper]

@@ShMokou indeed

[@sirkelendor5429]

Cant forget killing the fair lady

[@GretgorPooper]

@@sirkelendor5429 yeah, did it in cold blood. And her servant too.

[@calemr]

I used dragonbone fist to win an unwinnable fight, once. Hacker invaded in Anor Londo, had infinite HP and force miracles. Backstab combos into Shoryuken against normal human opponents. After about 20 minutes of me juggling him, he sent me a DM asking how to get the weapon ('Cause it looks badass, even if it's not statistically great outside of that one combo.) and then jumped off a ledge in exchange for directions.

[@bleachablemoments4618]

Hacks mean nothing against a man with pure, unfiltered determination and an uppercut strong enough to send them to the heavens.

[@sirkelendor5429]

Dumb hacker, smart one gives himself infinite poise

[@Carnax6969]

Clearly, this dragon punch is based on Dan or Sean's, 'cause if it was Ryu, Ken, or Akuma's then it'll have I-frames.

[@Bee-ef7tz]

I always did find it great that the tools Dan copied from Ken and Ryu are worse than the ones native to his own fighting style

[@t1glistenerelf]

Not in SFV, OP. Ever since season two, you have to spend meter in order to make them have i-frames.

[@Carnax6969]

@@t1glistenerelf Didn't know that, how terrible. I couldn't get into SFV or MvC:I, so I stopped playing them after about a few months after release.

[@t1glistenerelf]

@@Carnax6969 It's unfortunate that such a staple of their series was changed so drastically. Crush counters already made DPs pretty risky to begin with, but taking away i-frames just makes waking up with anything other than block or a read on throws that much more difficult.

[@kirramcdowell]

Whoo new vid from you. Was looking forward to one and I like the humor you recently started including.

[@iminmissouri8589]

Ikr I feel like this vid was funnier than usual

[@apolloniuspergus9295]

The 40% boost in damage is not counter damage, as it is unaffected by the Leo ring, but is known by the community as instability damage.

[@PressContinue]

Yeah true, counter damage is kinda used colloquially, but it apparently is the exclusive term for trust weapons hitting mid-attack animation.

[@jaxthejaximus6296]

@@PressContinue btw, you could've avoided all this bullshit by downloading the mod in this link then replacing the right hand weapon with the dragon bonefist by putting the dbf IDS code instead of the original weapon, no subscriber base needed.

[@kinkajoulegend9989]

@@jaxthejaximus6296he said he plays on console. Is modding even possible on console?

[@jaxthejaximus6296]

@@kinkajoulegend9989 who the F plays on console, also modding is possible on console.

[@kinkajoulegend9989]

@@jaxthejaximus6296 I know modding in general is possible on console, but I should’ve specified. Is it possible to modify codes like you’re talking about on console? Also, 1:45. I don’t play on console (hence lack of knowledge) but PC does. Pay attention to the damn video you’re commenting on

[@fromthegamethrone]

Can you beat the game using only the R2? "shoryuken" Love it.

[@rollinallonce]

Love it. Threw it in there, didn't pause for the audience to get it. Perfect

[@NeoGato2point0]

I had no idea that you could shoot a hadoken with the bone fist in DS2. The way the hands are positioned actually makes it look more like Ryo's Haoh Shokoken from The King of Fighters

[@spartanseventyeight8673]

Power stance I believe

[@ngotemna8875]

@@spartanseventyeight8673 Correct

[@holllow]

a reference to a reference character maybe

[@PressContinue]

If you desire even more fisting action, check out my SL1 NG+7 Caestus run: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnbUpmRnZ6d7rKc And I used the bone fists primarily in my DS2 Mimic Head run: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoiqhIqfl7yrb9k And special thanks to Fena Fernandez for making this video possible in the first place :)

[@valkyr_]

🥊➡️⬇️↘️🅿️🥊 Great strategies and legendary patience, beautifully done, Press.

[@Spectrik]

He didn't sugarcoat it

[@Markshadow4999]

Finally, i've been waiting for this. I also wanted to tell you that i've almost finished my first sl1 run in ds3 (only soul of cinder left to go, then maybe the DLCs). I worked some of the things i picked up from your old guide (the outdated one) into my own strategy, they were very helpful.

[@LJAndrews1986]

The intro alone makes me want to do this myself, God that music takes me back.

[@HavocHounds1988]

Yeah, that classic Street Fighter music was very nostalgic.

[@arathoras12]

"Work our fingers to the bone." The puns are, once again, too real.

[@senecauk8363]

More craziness from Mr Continue. I always loved the fist weapons in DS2. Combined with powerstancing, it actually let you box like a madman. Obviously the fist weapons in the other games seem a bit...underbaked. Once again, restricting yourself beyond already underbaked weapons so strictly teaches us all so much about the mechanics of these games. Keep it up :)

[@ryanmartin4037]

Against Kalameet he's literally doing a "dragon punch"

[@magnumd-pad5138]

I died to Pinwheel once and I'm not ashamed. It was late in the fight and he flung either two or three consecutive blasts at me that I didn't expect. Pretty sure I was wandering down there a little earlier than most people do, maybe even my first playthrough of the game. Anybody who isn't a tryhard who follows a guide has probably died to every boss in the game if they've played it multiple times. That's just the consequence of not having developed preparatory routing on trial and error.

[@blasttyrant3228]

My only run of DS2 I got stuck on Prowling Magus and Congregation, I have unironicallly died to True King Allant, every veteran has had some embarrassing deaths. I also first tried Gwyn, Manus, and Flamelurker, your skill in these games is rarely determined by the extremes of your ability, in either direction.

[@kiencancap]

It's all fun and games until the enemies start safejumping you.

[@SRFriso94]

You trying to squeeze past the hollows before the Gargoyles sounds exactly like King from The Owl House. Alex Hirsch would be proud.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

So can you beat Dark Souls Remastered with only the Dragon Bone Fist Heavy Attack Uppercut? Shoryuken.

[@WolfHreda]

"Good luck i-framing that fall damage, you dick." 🤣🤣🤣 This is the energy I subscribed to you for. It also strikes a cord with me since I'm currently playing Resident Evil 7 on Madhouse difficulty.

[@MegaTomPlays]

It's like watching a Ken player in street fighter play dark souls, just with fewer invincibility frames and less lag

[@fl9118]

Love the mock at 10:48 . Great video and fantastic unique hunor.

[@Lady_MInk]

i love the raw gameplay footage, it makes the videos really comfy

[@GHalfa]

So, I've been watching your videos on and off for a while now (maybe since 2018?) and I gotta say: this was fantastic! I think you've just reached the exact point where gameplay, commentary and general editing are in practical perfect harmony! I've been watching gameplay commentaries ever since late 2010/early 2011 and this was one of the very few times where I felt this way. Very nice stuff! And btw, this challenge wasn't even an idea I was particularly excited about when I saw the title. This is because although this is a really tough run, it limits offensive variety way too much; I sometimes like less challenging runs, such as NG+7 dual Bone fists on DS2, just for the fun factor. With that said, I must add I really enjoyed your SL1 NG+7 dual Cestus run. Anyways, this is just to show that even though I wasn't crazy about this particular challenge run, the video itself was just so good it kept me interested until the end!

[@DarkflameRaime]

37:33 if you don’t use a transient curse then the ghost’s attacks are a guaranteed stagger (and they also deal more damage per hit I think). Love your videos btw (ds2 challenges are my favorite)

[@HeavenlyHavoc]

The reason you kept getting staggered by the ghosts despite wearing Havel's and the wolf ring is because your poise is completely bypassed by those ghosts if you're not cursed or using a transient curse item. Just like your weapons don't hurt them, your armor is also useless for both poise and defense. Functionally, you might as well have been naked.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Great vid! You got yourself a new subscriber, keep up the awesome work!

[@user-mx9uh2nk9v]

I loooove your channel sm!!! The silly laughs we get here is much needed 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vrzrea795]

Moon butter fly and mooncaterpillar were jokes i did not expected hahahahajah

[@mrgrapejuiice8553]

I loved the constant dbza references, it’s amazing

[@hngldr]

I came for the run, and stayed for the hilarious phrasing and jokes. You have a way with words 🤣

[@DannYIIF]

'Fun' fact - the S scaling of the bone fist has a typo in the factor. The damage growth from strength is only a fraction of what it should be.

[@PressContinue]

Ah... that's kinda sad...

[@Luismafoo]

Please, never abandon the "poopa" jokes. They are surprisingly funny. Great video and effort for the run. You are amazing

[@schaedou]

I did not expect this, but I'm glad you did it

[@OMGWTFBBQRLY]

You're a machine. Always glad to see a new upload from you. Hoping to see you keep growing! I'll always remember you griping at your chat about foot fetishes while running Doom.

[@hamsteronion1428]

I funkin love this channel so much

[@bananaknight8575]

I see that a new great video dropped out, cheers

[@robertespinoza5958]

Your patience is the stuff of legends lol

[@RxAxIxNxBxOxW]

Amazing video again! I laughed like a hiena many times! Great job! Sooooooo.... Ds2 Hadouken only when?

[@PressContinue]

I did use the bone fists primarily back in my DS2 mimic head run kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoiqhIqfl7yrb9k

[@landoncube769]

By the time you landed that first shoryuken I already graduated college, married a girl, and had a family

[@spaceysteam5206]

This is the best channel ever

[@krishnansubramoni7801]

Great video 🧡. I also greatly appreciate the TFS Dragon Ball Z Abridged references 🧡

[@zomtron]

This move is so over the top I genuinely thought for a moment it was a dark souls remastest mod thing

[@jonaswest6993]

One of the best fist builds in the series

[@infinitas.]

I heard TFS Cell, I subscribed. Also, I enjoy your commentary so that's a plus.

[@sidvs8816]

Bedankt dat je voor ons door deze pijn heen ging

[@PressContinue]

Graag gedaan!

[@PhillStone]

Nice! look forward to watching this

[@PhillStone]

hahaha moonbutterFLY

[@shatteredrubyheart9082]

12:59 I Love how he becomes Papyrus for not reason just because he can

[@2102082]

I’ve tried a challenge run a couple times, and either have to use something similar til I get it, or just start the challenge in NG+

[@WhatupitsTetra]

30:03 I wondered why this was stuck in my head the other day, and it's definitely because I fell asleep while watching it

[@PhillStone]

Loved it! what was the track at the end? Sounds sweet!

[@PressContinue]

I wish I knew. It's a part I took out of a royalty free metal compilation. I don't know where it's from or what the name of that individual song is

[@adinwilcox3836]

Fun fact, that is also NOT were his eyes are. The face mask has fake eyes, and those neck nipple things are also fake eyes. He has slits built into the helmet in a T shape similar to the "frog helms", those slits being in the chin/jawline of the fake face It's incredibly intricate and surprising real way to build a helm of its weird design

[@AkibaAvenue]

1:36 "sure you can" shoryuken. LoL...

[@rolfstalker2986]

Loved the little DBZ Abridged bit 😁

[@arthur_V5]

"MOON PUPA" 5:56 XD

[@GetBendt]

Sif fly, or Dragon fly, or Dark Moon Butter fly 😂 your commentary is gold

[@t1glistenerelf]

The saga of pupa jokes continues. Brilliant idea. This is going into the Watch Later playlist so that I can try the run myself first.

[@amnesiaclapp]

So basically a fully charged stake driver r2 when it's broken and your stats are all 1 ontop of the fact that it a has damage lowering gems and is unupgraded

[@xryeau_1760]

1:12 That move exists in DS1 too, idk about DS2 though 4:06 I think this is caused by the enemy's collision hitting you when it's forced into the knockdown animation, which staggers anything nearby to prevent clipping

[@buckthorn-756]

Uppercut to your hearts continue

[@nssheepster]

A) I did not know this even existed as a weapon, but I find myself unsuprised that you did. B) I am both unsuprised that you'd do this run, and that you'd make so many terrible bone jokes while doing it. C) Well done. Incidentially, I didn't mention this on your previous video, but I do hope you convert more of your streams to videos. I've no idea what a smoke damage only run would entail, for example, but I'd like to find out... But making time for an hour video, or two times to watch in two parts if it's longer than that, is very different from watching the entire stream VoD.

[@Graxil]

Awesome vid as usual Smough’s eyes are slightly above your indication tho, there is a pair of slits for them in the base/chin of the armor’s face Bonus points for the TFS’s DBZ abridged reference

[@WreveAU]

4:15 someone has probably already brought this up in the comments but I'm not going to read them all to check. The occasional stagger when you send things flying is because the game thinks that they're getting knocked into you on the way to the moon due to the close proximity of your model to theirs' when the stagger is inflicted upon them

[@JaggedBird]

"GRAAAAVVITTYYY!" Aaaah Desertphile, may your meme never die

[@undeadNova]

sif's gender is never specified in the game's lore. however, every version of the game in a language that uses gendered articles, instead of the neutral "the" in english, uses the male one for "the great grey wolf sif".

[@justiciar1964]

3:26 And I'll be done seein' everything when I seen a elephant fly.

[@PressContinue]

"Ah that's good old fashion family racism" - Peter Griffin

[@fabricatedsoul-]

It’s cool and it sends enemies flying but it’s heavy attack is the slowest attack in the game I swear.

[@xuanathan]

They really put the most iconic anti-aerial in game where NOBODY'S IN THE FUCKING AIR

[@FernandoMartinez-xf6ux]

I am loving the puns!

[@slimchelmi6940]

this man's pun game is on another level

[@donpitra3826]

not even 6 minutes in and pupa jokes make their return, nice

[@mrmustard1098]

i think the best part of this run is the sped up O&S theme

[@siddhantbanerjee3328]

It takes a true badass to shoryuken through a dark souls game

[@karldevine3788]

great content man can you do ds1 playthrough with your favourite build just op playthrough?

[@PressContinue]

I'm not sure I even have a favorite build

[@karldevine3788]

@@PressContinue overpowered bulid then your creative you would do a great vid on it

[@umbra_cura4158]

I kinda chuckled at the Dragon-fly joke, but the immediate follow up with Moonlight butter-fly made me laugh embarrassingly hard… my humor may be broken

[@farzadsadeghi5281]

3:18 lol i lost it man,,, :))))

[@dudeadonaiski]

1:36 haha nice one

[@dariosusu1529]

was looking for this comment

[@fiddledydoodle]

that dragonfly joke was smooth af

[@hopefulXime]

Finally, the Brazilian Ken build in dark souls

[@eguitarplayer6689]

I wish dark souls had more attacks (like dragon fist)- that knocked the opponent away. The way the enemies of souls games pursue you makes it more of a stamina challenge. That's just my opinion.💀🎮

[@adamyohan]

33:09 that whole paragraph made me laugh lmfao

[@bigtsama]

Imagine this as an ash of war for fists in elden ring

[@kingdomcome3914]

I want to see a Bone Fist only run in Dark Souls 2!

[@PressContinue]

I use that as my main weapon in my DS2 mimic head run: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoiqhIqfl7yrb9k

[@ShMokou]

19:10 khem... no, his eyes slightly higher, right in the chin of his armor face. It's V-shaped (Or T-shaped...) slit like on Faraam Helmet.

[@PressContinue]

But there are eye holes down there! His armor seems to be unnecessarily complicated

[@ShMokou]

@@PressContinue they decorative as eyes on face above. You can look at official artwork, he is not fat under armour and his eyes should be exactly near slit. Indeed his armour is overcomplicated.

[@schattenlenk]

ore Moonbutterfly xD you got me with this one

[@Mr.Fettspeck]

1:35 when you said "sure you can" that could be another street fighter reference

[@PressContinue]

It was meant as word play yes

[@TwilightFlower9]

The pinwheel summon is the reason I run down through the catacombs first thing in a playthrough. Without it, well, sure, it's still Pinwheel, but hacking away at him for like 5 minutes sucks.

[@mohammadtaghavi4782]

13:00 The noise I make when my mom tells me to pause Dark Souls

[@Ietmeth1nk]

Nice DP

[@TechNinjaSigma]

Ah Hell Yea!

[@TheJanitorIsIn]

That TFS "shoryuken" joke was *chefs kiss*

[@Amoeba_Podre]

Ornstein and Smough theme in 2x speed is kinda fire tho🥶

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

came to the comments to see if anyone agreed lmao

[@HavocHounds1988]

Yeah, it actually sounds quite good sped up like that.

[@Oroberus]

The amount of puns in those videos makes me fist clenchingly cringe to the bone