Malenia, Blade of Miquella [1 Hit, Deathless] RL1+0 Zwei Only - Elden Ring Challenge Run

[@loopine]

I did this fight with medium roll. 6 waterfowl dances and 2 clone attacks dodged perfectly, 4 waterfowls and 1 clone attack of which all happen when she is in phase 2 with 25% remaining HP. The jump dodge is consistent even with a late start, it's more about timing than distance away from her: clips.twitch.tv/PrettySpoopyHareBatChest-g8b0cKWMd4rzuEAi I have some footage of me doing it from point black while still stuck on R2 recovery, I'll try and find it and make a video about it. Until then, Waterfowl Dance Dodge Timestamps: 2:47 --> 9:40 --> 12:49 --> 13:21 --> 14:52 --> 15:40

[@jameslough6329]

Bro I am so happy. You used the EXACT same methods for dodging Scarlet Clone and Waterfowl that I use. Cheers!

[@somechumpontheinternet3143]

When i use a weapon that causes heavy stagger, i can do the sprint+jump strat effortlessly, but with something like a straight or curved sword i always get nicked. It is incredibly weird.

[@loopine]

@@somechumpontheinternet3143 it's probably the arms hanging too low in the jump animation, which makes it much harder as opposed to a weapon that is held over the shoulder

[@unrecognizablewheat3394]

Honestly I think waterfowl was the thing that killed me the least during my attempt. I was always able to dodge it point blank.

[@aldraone-mu5yg]

You did a great job, aaa greeaaattt JOB.

[@OwlScowling]

Joseph Anderson: You see the only reason he could do this is because of animation munching that worked in his favor.

[@flamingmanure]

joseph really is a butthurt souls veteran tryhard that got his souls vet ego beaten into the ground and couldnt accept reality XD

[@thesnatcher3616]

@@john_Reilly2027 Dude built his whole youtube career on pseudo-intellectual video game essays where he pretends to know what he's talking about. The community around said essays were huge around movies, tv shows and comic books/manga, but it was he who pioneered it for games. That and I guess Hbomberguy(although the latter is more politically oriented).

[@Adam_U]

@@thesnatcher3616 I don't understand why people are so triggered by his video. He is entitled to his opinion and if it was a positive one then magically you wouldn't have an issue with it

[@Sintoras7]

@@Adam_U The problem is not that he has an opinion, but that he presents it as an objective fact. You can feel, that a game or specific aspects of it did not work for you, that is totally valid, but to use made up justifications, which just feel right, but are either not supported by evidence, or even contradicted by it, as "proof", that some aspect he didn't like was "objectively bad game design" is either disingenuous or otherwise problematic. Especially if you blame game developers for not catering to your specific niche way to play the game, which you made purposefully harder on your self, but expect it to still fit into your range of challenge enjoyment. Again, it is fine for Joseph Anderson to feel that way, but what annoys people is that he tried to present that as more than personal preference.

[@shinyhydreigon7257]

Finally someone showcasing sprint jumping waterfowl lmao. Ridiculous that this isn't more widely known.

[@seacowDUGONG]

timestamps please if you notice something cool

[@jameslough6329]

The boss everyone either loves to hate or hates to love

[@mephistophelesthesilentchi3446]

I've been trying the run and jump method for a while now, but could never get it to consistently, fully dodge WFD. I never saw other people try it and succeed either so I started to lose faith in it, but this video proved me wrong and showed me to focus more on timing than distance. Thank you.

[@loopine]

It may have to do with what weapon you hold as how low your arms hang in the animation can affect your hitbox so it becomes harder

[@malceum]

Are you using a mod that raises your FPS? The jump method doesn't work consistently at 120 FPS because Melania gets better tracking. The close range circle dodge is likewise nearly impossible at 120 FPS.

[@RandomPerson-rt8zt]

Marvellously fought. Melania has honestly become one of my favourite fights in Elden Ring now that I can consistently fight her. Also in regards to Melania “not following the rules” I recommend Magicats video “In defence of Melania” which covers a lot of the criticisms people throw at the boss. Best of luck for Radagon and Elden Beast!

[@RandomPerson-rt8zt]

Malenia XD

[@hunterlg13]

@@RandomPerson-rt8zt Melina kekw

[@RofoTheGyrm]

Absolutely carried by that powerful mustache But actually I've been really enjoying this whole run despite not being your typical fan of challenge runs. You basically map out a tutorial on every window that a boss has and then just hammer away at those windows while maintaining just an absurd amount of focus that's just a marvel to watch. Radagon should be a fun one, really looking forward to it

[@loopine]

Same brother 😍

[@hunterlg13]

Yeah, I was watching this seeing all of Malenia's openings with Zwei, like "wowza, that's a

[@enman009]

Fought her at rl100 with a +16 Greathammer; felt extremely cathartic to consistently punish her and get away from attacks. It's not a rl1 run, sure, but I'd never had patience for Soulsborne SL1 since they're so inconsistent. Glad to finally see you finishing this Odyssey, hope you take a rest after this.

[@loopine]

Only Radabeast remains 😤

[@squiggles9612]

@@loopine oof thats gonna be a slog with an unupgraded zwei, good luck

[@angelamengualcortinas3614]

Incredible end of the fight. Congrats! Adding to the point of the terrain messing with her moves, at the time I beat her (june 2022) when she started some specific attacks of her kit in the edge of the arena she would automatically cancel the animation and return to a neutral state. This was great when the attack she was gonna make was Waterflow, but most of the times they were the easily punishable attacks, which I wasn't very happy about ofc. Idc if this has been patched since then (not even sure if it's a bug). Still, I'm firmly in the camp of ''I hate to love her''. I'm pretty sure she suffered from rushed development, but the fight itself was mostly fun for me and she has an incredible soundtrack and visual design. Top 5 in the game imo.

[@ashen1510]

Happy that I got to see this live. It's one of my favourite fights in Elden Ring although she has a lot of inconsistencies, I wish she had more polish to her. But it still is one of the fights I always look forwards to when starting a new game. And hopefully, people through this video can see that jump dodge is viable.

[@MasterCorvus]

You know this was a good fight from his side when even I got racing heart and adrenaline rush just from watching it! GG bro, that was beautiful, especially how you mastered all of her moves!

[@unrecognizablewheat3394]

LESSSSS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOO ZWEI BROS 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@2manyeggshells]

oh shit, it actually happened

[@rct3terminator1000]

It's been so much fun seeing you take on these Bosses with the Bare Bones Stats/Equipment!

[@carlito852]

Solid. Been looking at your videos for guidance on challene runs. Well done man!!

[@ObsessiveBadguy]

FUCKIN SO HYPED FOR THAT LOVE THE SUBHUMAN SELF PHASE 2. Also damn impressive display of general game mechanic and boss knowledge, I was able to beat her using just powerstanced whips a few patches ago and ever since then I knew that people were overselling how "impossible" this boss was without using corpse piler and this vid only strengthens the argument against those arguments. Anyway, my sleep deprived rambling aside, great vid.

[@basmentmage3290]

He did it, the madman did it SUCK IT JOSEPH FOR LUPINEOS IS HERE WRECK HOUSE FUCK YEAAAHHHHH

[@envylyn463]

KING OF KINGS

[@talalal-rufaii6672]

Great job defeating malenia with the zweihander RL1+0, i watched the fight on your twitch channel and the fight seemed so fun and enjoyable that i tried doing your challenge with malenia and holy shit i spent 16 hours to defeat her and only seen phase 2 probably less than 20 times and it was really hard but at least enjoyable. I really hated how passive she was on her first phase along with her hyperarmor posture immunity that made the fight even harder along with some of her jank like activating her deflection animation when you haven't even attacked her or her triple quick slash attack from neutral. Her second phase was a much better experience that i wished she was at least this aggressive in her first phase.

[@loopine]

Yea phase 1 is a grind

[@epsilon1372]

I don’t like her posture immunity with hyper armor but I’m not sure if I dislike her passivity. She’s pretty easy to aggro and in phase 2 I feel like waterfowl is significantly more rng than in phase 1 which can make victory slightly reliant on luck if you have not already mastered waterfowl dance

[@slurpyfinesse]

Trying rl1 +0 for her now as well and running into the same problems for phase 1 :/

[@ClydeNut]

Goddammit I wanted to catch this live. Still congrats my dude! I still can’t beat this ho alone on a normal ass build so I have endless respect.

[@grayestrat]

Beautiful

[@mixc1845]

mad respect to the guilty gear and mgrr soundtrack, actually goated

[@aldraone-mu5yg]

......................................................Malenia, Blade of Miquella...............................................................

[@NathanSavageDamage]

Melania Deathleeeeeesssss!!!!!!

[@FiveHoursLater815]

Well shit, now it’s just radagon and Elden beast.

[@jaykelley103]

King of the Zwei Chads, I kneel.

[@mouseinatutu]

Yoo, he's done it. Nice work

[@loopine]

Only golden boi remains

[@JPHolt413]

I just soloed Malenia for the first time last night (NG+7), I feel like I could do pretty good if given another chance, but I need to be able to confidently beat her, started another ng+ cycle, I’ll update you guys on how her fight goes

[@aether8412]

How’d it go

[@clunkye8053]

I am currently doing my own zwei run and i haven't experienced the jank you talk about in the description. (Except the phase 2 wings blocking the attacks)

[@CrookedCrowe]

Gameplay: Amazing Mustache: Legendary

[@KrayanX]

It's finally joever! Took me waaaay too long to beat her

[@HeyTarnished]

Absolutely phenomenal run, you're insane my guy, doing a Colossal sword RL1 run hitless (apart from THAT 1 hit), disproving the KZbinr critics lol, I have a question, I see you're doing the blocking animation, what is the reason for that?

[@loopine]

It's guard cancelling, something that's been around since all of souls I think. You basically cancel any cancellable animation with a block animation, which allows you to do things like transition into a sprint faster by skipping the animation where you start sprinting or like cancelling the turn around animation when I'm sprinting away from malenia etc. Tons of applications, most of them PvP. ITs the same thing like when you cancel a roll recovery animation with a parry for example.

[@HeyTarnished]

@@loopine I see, thanks for the explanation, I'd totally utilize that in my next playthrough out of the 30 other NG+ playthroughs I've done in Elden Ring so far lol.

[@AllGlassEmpty]

insane skill man

[@aly3392]

honesty am surprised I came out my ng+7 +0 powerstance straight swords run not hating her guts but liking her. GGs on the kill Margit better tho (Can be said about most soulsborne bosses)

[@athurstyman2139]

Still waiting for you to give the people what they want and do this at level 200 with max weapon upgrades.

[@somechumpontheinternet3143]

Man you really don't like her huh? top 2 ER boss for me. Also hard disagree on the thematic miss point. Everything about the visuals of the second phase screams "scarlet rot", regardless of the actual proc. Great fight though! Really like how aggressive you were, staying in her face pretty much the whole time.

[@loopine]

Yea she will definitely rot you if you block a lot or are really tanky so there's that I guess. I don't hate her I just think she's a weak sharbearer fight but still a pretty decent fight in the grand scheme of soulsbourne bosses. Doing hitless base level for her is an exercise of insanity though

[@somechumpontheinternet3143]

@@loopine "hitless base level for her is an exercise of insanity". I believe it. Good luck with Radagon, his 3rd phase teleporting can get pretty nuts with bad rng.

[@aly3392]

He better give Radagon a good showing

[@loopine]

@@aly3392 Tell Radagon he better bring his boiz with him cuz I got the guns with me. 💪Zwei and 💪Hander

[@EmissaryOfStuff]

Well done. Now do this with bare fists, while overloaded and with Shabriri's Woe. Then you'll be a REAL Gamer!😜

[@thephysicsgamer123]

I've noticed you hold blocks briefly in a lot of your footage; is that a stamina regen thing like rapid-crouching?

[@loopine]

It's guard cancelling, something that's been around since all of souls I think. You basically cancel any cancellable animation with a block animation, which allows you to do things like transition into a sprint faster by skipping the animation where you start sprinting or like cancelling the turn around animation when I'm sprinting away from malenia etc. Tons of applications

[@KrayanX]

having a greatsword in the offhand just to dodge the waterfowl was a good idea. triple slash 😐I can see the difference in animation, but idk if it’s the arena or something but the elevation makes me confuse them sometimes. I’m probably just coping

[@loopine]

I have a vid about how I deal with it right around when I dropped this one. You can also save yourself the hassle and just space both options and charge an r2. Think I've seen people jump it for a heavy r2 to stagger her also. The no roll strat is you run to her right and she will miss everything. In heavy elevation discrepancies it can become impossible to dodge although I've rarely ever seen it.

[@abhishekduggal.2076]

Nice thumbnail 😂

[@KrayanX]

I can't consistently dodge the 3rd flurry attack 😔

[@loopine]

I remember for a bit I started getting hit by third flurry. It ended up being that I was moving during the delay before she lunges and it would throw off her tracking. It's best to stand absolutely still until she's behind you.

[@KrayanX]

​@@loopineI just realized that I can't really do certain dodges you do because I'm playing with kb+m

[@shukohs]

youre cracked bro i can barely beat her at level 700😂

[@Chrisfragger1]

I just cannot understand waterfowl dance...

[@UsernameGeri]

There's just 1 thing I don't understand. Why is "Deathless" in the title? 🤷‍♂

[@loopine]

Did it as a joke for another runner trying to find the dumbest way to name a run

[@UsernameGeri]

@@loopine LOL nice :D

[@UsernameGeri]

14:37 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@zenuriik3507]

Most inconsistent boss of all time

[@makia3]

wtf does 1 hit deathless even mean lol

[@loopine]

@@makia3 i named it that as a joke for NathanSavageDamage

[@mabooooyleatherface.1044]

Joseph anderson is such a bad critic he even fails at trashtalking a terrible boss like malenia ( i love malenia but her design is absoluteley terrible)