Ranking All 16 Elden Ring Daggers From Worst to Best (Patch 1.10)

[@Rusty._]

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[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

as a black knife main in both pve and pvp, have you considered the funni of hitting people, running away and watching them panic?

[@SoulKingsss]

WOOW I fr have like +20 hours into my own Claw, Fist, Dagger Ranking video im preparing... Tragic lol

[@17sbaucum]

Rank Elden ring women next

[@CriesOften]

What armour are you wearing? And if it's a mod, what's the name?

[@dragonlord4898]

Promotion Skip Button: 1:17

[@thesandmoose765]

This video sets the precedent that Rusty is going to eventually rank all weapons in elden ring, which I'm greatly appreciating and looking forward to but I feel so bad for him and his lack of free time now.

[@FabioDaFemboy]

I’m so glad he’s finally doing it! I asked for it a while ago!

[@Yharim_The_Impaler]

I feel like instead of doing every single weapon in one tier list he’s probably gonna do every weapon category one by one each having their own tier list. Then put each tier list together in a compilation.

[@TheyJustCallMeDom]

If you want a review of all weapons look up Youwy. I do enjoy Rusty’s commentary so it’s always a good watch 😂

[@TheMrMayo]

Between Chrightt's detailing into stats and Rusty's brutal honesty, I love listening to the both of them. And with Rusty taking time to work on other weapons (especially since he's already took time to work on 101 Sorceries and knows the game inside-out at this point), it's not unexpected to see more weapon class rankings whithin the next couple months. I say "Cheers to all that" and take the ride.

[@STOPSYPHER]

man I might as well do this, I’m already in the process of collecting every weapon in the game and have all the time in the world anyways

[@zerkker6096]

Eventually we’ll force him to rank all of Elden Ring in one 43 hour video. And I mean everything.

[@icetide9411]

Bosses, weapons, regions, talismans, armor sets based on drip, armor sets based on effectiveness, armor sets in general, STATS, BUSHES, *SITES OF GRACE, BASIC ENEMIES, NPC INVADERS,* *E V E R Y P O S S I B L E F A C E F O R T A R N I S H E D*

[@ggfrt96]

​@@icetide9411and rune bears, don't forget to make him rank the rune bears

[@jajasking9652]

​@@icetide9411areas, questlines, bridges, language subtitles and voice acting in every language

[@jadedalex9963]

that would go down as one of the most legendary videos on this site

[@raijinoflimgrave8708]

All the trees. That one tree that's just dancing near storm hill shack grace would be #1

[@V01DShinigami]

Hearing the black knife being described as the "alt goth counter part" to the blade of calling is now my new favorite way to describe this knife

[@jackreacher7495]

Scorpion Stinger has a wolf head on its pommel *probably* because the "Dynast Civilization" whose ruins we find it in were the successors of the Farum Azula reign, which involved humans serving under beastmen. The Scorpion Stinger was repurposed when the Ainsel chapter of the civilization founded the Rot Goddess.

[@avet4952]

​@@ForeverLaxxhes small brained in our himbo way

[@jackreacher7495]

@@ForeverLaxx I wonder why he would even put the effort into writing and voicing these questions about the pommel if he didn't actually care lol. I guess a troll, that's what I get for being a newcomer

[@malum9478]

@@ForeverLaxx sounds like he's based

[@kwamemwangs2173]

​@@ForeverLaxxthis seems like something so small to be annoyed by. Rusty isn't exactly the guy you come to for in depth lore analysis 😂😂

[@jackreacher7495]

@@kwamemwangs2173 The issue is the well-poisoning and shit rhetoric he spreads from his platform. That's totally ripe for criticism.

[@Horsebandit571]

I really like the 3d render of the weapons in this list, you should definitely keep that up.

[@teancrumpets5685]

it reminds me of skyrim :)

[@Haven158]

@@teancrumpets5685yes I knew I wasn’t the only one

[@AuramAlexander]

thanks!

[@bagel_guy9495]

The nox flowing sword, shotel, and eclipse shotel could be bunched with the ivory and celebrent sickle as their own weapon group

[@jamesruth100]

Should've just had sickles as a sibling category to reapers.

[@jajasking9652]

Yeah, i mean, there is like only 4 claws, while there is 5 diferent sickles

[@malum9478]

correct

[@TheActualMrLink]

@@jajasking9652and only slightly more fists (7), which greatly displeases I, the Lord of Fist Punch.

[@hoodiegal]

Very Curved Swords

[@bountylord9125]

Okay that little 3d model for every weapon as it is being ranked is honestly so nice to just look at. Haven't played ER in awhile. Although the dagger run I did before would have been a lot easier now.

[@StrunDoNhor]

I'll never understand why we can't buff/infuse the Crystal Knife. We _have_ weapons like the Clayman's Harpoon, which let us do just that, so it's not like there's no precedent for it. Much as I love FS, they do make a lot of design decisions that leave me scratching my head.

[@bofa722]

Fr. The casting system is pretty much the worst one ove ever seen too. Nothing kills the momentum in a fight more than having to scroll 7 times to get to the spell I want

[@StrunDoNhor]

@@bofa722 I'm generally fine with the casting, though I tend to find two or three spells that I really like and just stick to those. If anything, I find a lot of the sorceries are just overshadowed by Slicer & Pebble (and Pebble's later upgrades, Shard & Comet).

[@Tahanok2]

@@bofa722 I wish the magic staves could have a spell equipped to them like an Ash of War, so that I do have another default spell I don't have to scroll to. Or similarly, if each staff had a default spell for itself, even if they couldn't be changed.

[@leadfaun]

@@Tahanok2 this. Spell casting is mostly a good system, but the UI is terrible. You have 4 buttons for a Staff and only 1 is actually useful.

[@leadfaun]

Not every weapon needs to be buffable or infusable. They just need to not be terrible.

[@sunlightsage2982]

I’ve kept a Flame Erdsteel Dagger on my pyromancer since LAUNCH. The lessons imprinted upon me by the Sunlight Straight Sword and Saint’s Bident were not lost. Stacking your faith scaling just works.

[@matthewfera2954]

I'm just now doing my first faith playthrough, doing str/faith and have decided to try the fire erdsteel dagger too. It's not upgraded much yet but C str and faith scaling is looking nice.

[@The_Jibbler]

I absolutely love the double strike heavy attack on the erdsteel dagger, black knife, and blade of calling.

[@JuvoII]

Yep, adding a comment a bit late just too agree. The charged heavy, short dash and double hit, can connect so well, adds hits for talismans, and does great poise damage. And erdsteel dagger with impaling thrust, into charged heavy, into another charged heavy for the followup, are killing great bears and magmadragons and NPC invaders for me :). And a heads up, the talon straight sword has the same moveset, and excellent dex scaling. A dex build Switching between a medium shield and powerstancing talon swords, is my favourite build. I add the black bow or a short bow with mighty shot, for pulling stuff.

[@RealEnderman562]

The funny thing is, is that I just finished a duel dagger run using the Great Knife and Reduvia. So I’m glad that they’re in the top 5

[@edsonsouzaneto6251]

I used to run Great Knife and Reduvia. Now I run 2x Reduvia in NG+. Other build is 2 poison Great Knife.

[@stompingpeak2043]

Just go great stars fist weapon. It's better than both and just as fast for ng+++

[@carljohan9265]

Did you use the parrying dagger? The wiki paints it's parry as a rather unique one, as it has more startup and recovery frames than any other parry, but ALSO has way more active frames.

[@NedKnives]

Same😌🗡💯

[@SchwiReaper]

What were your stats?

[@ironwolf5802]

I love the new 3D module of the item slowly roll around. Makes it a lot easier to see the detail they put in.

[@Blazyken2]

Erdsteel Dagger is fantastic because it can be buffed AND has faith scaling, it's insane on faith builds with buff incantantions

[@Clockdrive]

Crystal knife should of either been buffable/ashable or have a unique stonedigger spell. What could of been kills me everytime I go and forget to not pick it up.

[@Yobolight]

Only use for the Ivory Sickle is that it allows you to quickstep through rot without wasting FP. Says a lot about a weapon that its best perk is its hard-to-meet high stat requirement.

[@Lord-of-Gaming-007]

And plus, sickles are used by Death, as well as a scythe

[@sunshineandrei2569]

Black knife doing 30% of malenia's health in ng:

[@mellowshooter]

I’m so happy Reduvia gets the respect it deserves, it was the weapon I took all the way from the start to the end of my first playthrough so it holds a special place in my heart

[@ymcmcmy6742]

same

[@thebadpianist535]

I just got the game and so far it's all I've used

[@granthefato340]

@@thebadpianist535powerstancing dual daggers is one of the most fun experiences

[@Brown95P]

@11:38 Thank you for indirectly showing the erdsteel dagger's occult infusion being bugged and having zero arcane scaling. It's been that way ever since launch.

[@DreamerTrain]

the Reforged Mod has given a lot of love to these daggers that I think cover a lot of the weakness outlined here, the black knife has a destined death buff on the weapon after using the weapon art, blade of calling got stance damage increase that matches skills like unsheathe or impaling thrust, the crystal dagger got better scalling and frostbite buildup added to it, the glintstone kris also doubles as a catalyst, the scorpion stinger has poison build up included The only casualty though is the Erdsteel Dagger

[@SilverFoxR]

I'm glad it was mentioned that the Bandit's Knife pairs well with Reduvia, because it's almost the ideal option on NG runs before you can get another Reduvia. If you build your Bandit's Knife with Arcane or Blood (heck, even Keen), it pairs super well as an off-hand with Reduvia, turning your character into an absolute blender. Bleed procs are going to just fly off of whatever you hit with this combo and is probably the best dagger set-up (until you can just dual-wield Reduvias).

[@lordvaust5830]

Daggers! I love it when people give attention to under appreciated weapons in games like these.

[@MacDonellCashRicher]

I made a Claymore (manga) cosplay build and started off by using the Cinquedea simply to boost my bestial incantations (to simulate the monster-like abilities the characters have) but ended up using it as a very reliable secondary weapon. It is truly an excellent option for fast attacks on a strength build.

[@HowardND9]

Incredibly based. I've been increasingly thinking about picking up Claymore. BTW I have your behelit pfp tattoed in my sleeve 🔥

[@MacDonellCashRicher]

@@HowardND9 I would definitely recommend Claymore and Norihiro Yagi's other works (Angel Densetsu and Soukyuu no Ariadne) Also, nice choice for a tattoo.

[@ratboy850]

Seeing underrated over the Erdsteel dagger on the thumbnail alone made me smile, one of my two chosen melee weapons with my build and it is such a nice little knife of versatility especially after the tweaking buffs over the year or so this game has been out, especially with the unique R2 and Faith scaling bonuses with infusements, I don't use any other than quality purely for Grease use but it can get scary good with Sacred or Flame art.

[@LaurenPebble]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that is bugged by the wakizashi being labeled a dagger and the lack of a tanto lol

[@negative6442]

I personally love the Misericorde, nothing quite as satisfying to me as staggering an enemy, quickly hitting right on the d-pad, and watching a massive chunk of health disappear

[@iancraig5415]

Something to note with the black knife AoW is that if you roll through the wave it still gives you the destined death debug and dot, just not the direct hit damage.

[@levifoster5639]

"One of these days, you'll run out of Elden Ring things to rank." "Yeah, one of these days... But not today."

[@rubyraptor523]

This video is way better edited then the last ones and i am really happy that you have started doing weapon rankings! Maybe try out a ranking on the bosses from easiest to hardest! (Based on the moveset and not the stats)

[@Sharpie_17]

this video is trash, this dude has the personality of cardboard and makes a ton of lame attempts to be funny or sound edgy

[@TheSuperZOS]

Finding out bloodstained dagger exists was one of those moments when I realized that I really was overthinking how to make STR builds more fun. You can just make a DEX build within your STR build and call it a day.

[@ireland5040]

7:01 transition has not gone unnoticed. it was fire

[@natezube8144]

And so the saga begins - the all weapons ranking. Hope Rusty doesn’t go actually insane at this rate.

[@Bun_McByuun]

"I have no idea how this ended up on one of the starting classes." *flashbacks to the Sellsword Twinblades*

[@GreedyAndreas]

scorpions dagger was actually mega useful for me in late game, as i would just rot proc a boss then switch to my usual weapon

[@red_menace1829]

As simple as it sounds I'm sure its effective lol I'll have to give it a try

[@BerksAreCool]

Oh god he's finally ranking all weapons. Godspeed Rusty o7

[@ZeeVoke]

The 3d renders are such a nice detail

[@randommixedletters]

Flame Art with Flame strike has more recently become one of my most favorite things to see what just gets utterly broken with it. Recently did a Nagakiba run with it (Journey 11, because reasons) and that thing utterly destroyed things to a point I was not expecting. Seeing it break a few daggers has me hella intrigued, very very cool stuff. And good ranking!

[@eamonmcandrews7707]

DLC is about to drop an item with a description like: "When radagon sealed the god of rot, he turned all scorpions into wolves"

[@lesouth0348]

The fromsoft way: retxcon information we already have from the same game

[@Nitsua1201]

5:30 - Guess what, in version 1.0 you can infuse and change its ash of war.

[@dragon_defeyes]

i wouldnt be surprised if every non somber weapon could be infused at that time

[@themis467]

18:27 Without swallowing... *Unlike Miquella*

[@SeanMaxhell]

5:06 Finally someone else has noticed a discrepancy in the scorpion's stingers, which seems to have been designed for one purpose and then used for another.

[@TheGoldstriker]

I only recently started playing ER and I have enjoyed all of your ranking videos and whatnot. I'm learning a lot!

[@chrisholly4817]

Good to know about the Cinquedea. My buddy and I are doing a caveman/primal themed run and a rock sword powering rock-throwing sounds pretty useful and fitting :)

[@AbeWaltChan]

"I don't know how to illustrate this without showing actual gore" I feel like this will be what is on this guys tombstone

[@Am4t3r4su]

Reduvia literally being a hop skip and a jump from the start of the game is pretty funny as well given you can start with 2 of the best daggers in the game within like 5 minutes.

[@BDeerhead]

I'm currently playing a dual wielding dagger build while watching this, and got all the way to the top 5 without hearing my chosen daggers mentioned. Using a poison affinity Great Knife with off-hand Reduvia. Poison Moth Flight to turn poison into a second bleed effect. Winged Sword Insignia and Kindred of Rot's Exultation for double damage buffs. And anything THAT doesn't work on gets the Morning Star treatment. I wouldn't have thought double dagger builds would be viable, but so far so good.

[@alexandermorgan5958]

Hey, nice video! This format is going to be real fun once you get to the shields.

[@theredgrin6765]

Man made a dagger ranking video as I start a new playthrough as a Dex Faith caster with an emphasis on parrying and revealed one of its greatest tools in the Flame Art Erdsteel Dagger. Thank you Rusty. I will now parry the gods themselves with this knowledge.

[@WunjoYT]

3d models of weapons are so cool!

[@Deadgye]

I think you're sleeping on the scorpion stinger putting it that low when rot is such a strong status effect. It goes insanely well as an offhand to the reduvia, bringing it in to proc rot and then swapping out to another dagger until its time to proc rot again.

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

15:53 I winced

[@burns0100]

Erdsteel dagger is just so satisfying on a faith build, slap sacred blade on it and the damage goes up to over 600 on a weapon that can hit two to three times before a UGS can swing. I really love it on a light roll build, combo with some good incants to increase your options and range and it's a real threat in the Arena. Haven't lost many fights yet. Just got back into things for the DLC and really connected with the feel of using just one dagger either 1 handed or 2 handed. Catches people off guard when they are in their full on heavy armour and massive weapons ready to trade blows and then I come at them with a dagger and they can't catch me. I know it's not the strongest build, bleed seems way stronger but in general I have no issues.

[@OfficialSuede]

We have weapons, people. One step closer to ranking the animals

[@spaceblockb5284]

If your ever feeling stupendously brave, rank every boss move, not every boss, not every move of a particular boss, every boss move.

[@branceorrell2878]

Scorpion Stinger having a wolf head for the pommel, especially a white wolf, is probably a reference to Game of Thrones since GRRM helped write the game.

[@illahstrait]

Nerijus is the invader who never swallows... 😏 Not sure if I should run or book a hotel room.

[@skvaderarts7009]

Thank you for the DMC refference, Rusty. I needed that today. I love that franchise so much lol!

[@stoneybourne9165]

I was literally just talking about you making another tier list, how funny. You sure did produce this one quick.

[@KLBGamingProject]

Bro has chilled and Magical Spyro music playing for a game that literally says, "nah, come back to life, I haven't killed you enough"

[@MCoterle]

not sure why but I love the videos from this channel, please never run out of things to rank in elden ring

[@Controcetica]

I had no idea the Glintstone Kris doesn't suck! I'm gonna try it out next time I play. I have been wanting to try dual daggers recently. You make a good case for cinkydaya too. Your gameplay with the rocks and stuff looked pretty slick!

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

Yeah it's really good

[@clairvoyant2930]

I think the ivory sickle was supposed to be like the erdsteel dagger where it has the innate int scaling but can put an aow on it

[@dexterbarlow-busch4127]

One note about Black Knife in PVP: If your connection is subpar, even if you dodge you still receive the health debuff and the damage over time if it connected on their screen. Because netcode is shit.

[@tinminator8905]

That is not the reason. It uses the same code as statuses. If you get hit during your i-frames in your roll, you won't take damage but status is still applied. Since the hit detection for the black blade effect is the same as for statuses it still applies through i-frames.

[@kestrelynn]

When the inevitable all weapons ranking happens Dont rank by effectiveness which will make the video relevant for about 2 months, rank them by how cool they are regardless if they're so bad they're worthless or so good they're frustrating

[@JustinY.]

When the teacher calls out your name during a lecture:

[@artkeyos8027]

I'm gonna slightly defend Crystal Knife here, noting crazy It's anti-golem weapon, higher poise damage with magic dmg and deals bonus dmg while crits them

[@jameshall2195]

Rusty is the go to Elden Ring God of comically putting things in order. So glad to have found him.

[@jumpcookie2667]

I wanted to try a dagger only run, good to see what daggers are good and bad

[@Rocky-yw1zo]

So im doing a bestial build and im trying the cinquedua for the first time as well as using the bestial incants for the first general time, and honestly its been really fun in how it plays

[@cubialpha]

the 3d model turnarounds of each weapon are a nice touch

[@sirderp2343]

I enjoyed this thoroughly. I just have a quick question, btw: Where did you go to get those models?

[@rubenjimenez4742]

Greetings Rusty nice work as always and i hope you are having a great day, quick and stray question: Where you find that graphic and data about the daggers?, look really well done and detalled. Thanks😊

[@Tarburz]

the outro song is Technicolor Dreamscape by Franz Gordon for anyone that was curious

[@amrienwinterweiss]

Nice touch with a classic rayman song :P My childhood!

[@TheTdroid]

It is kinda crazy and pretty awesome that the best dagger in the game is available alost immediately. Start as a Bandit and you can have a great double dagger setup from the begnning of the game, between the Reduvia and Great Knife.

[@racermigs1]

How about ranking the legacy dungeons?

[@brother_maleik]

Thank you for giving the tanto love. I was screaming at my scream. Weird that's a wakkisashi counts as a dagger...

[@elviraweekes3906]

Why did you have to bring that image into my head I could’ve lived a perfectly happy life without knowing, that you had a fish hook stuck in your finger now I have to live with that.

[@tannerstaples3555]

Glintstone kris is literally just handgun and I love it

[@RaidenKaiser]

Yay another rusty ranking! Can't wait for him to rank all the feet of NPCs.

[@kpDiDDy]

It’d be rad if you did a ranking of every weapon class like this, then a ranking of the best weapons of each to find the indisputable best. Breaks up the work, gets you more content to make money off 👍🏼

[@FabioDaFemboy]

He’s doing it! YES! THANK YOU RUSTY!

[@archaeologistify]

Just finished a playthrough with the Bloodstained daggers. It was lots of fun, but now that I get to use longer weapons with my other character, it feels so much more comfortable to play.

[@michaeltromer9003]

I knew it’s gonna be reduvia from the beginning, and I don’t even care about daggers, but I like your content so much I watched the whole video. Man, keep doing a great work :-)

[@jallybwan3767]

8:34 Given that the hp drain and damage over time will go through even if the hit doesn't connect (similarly to how other status effects like bleed work), Black Knife is actually a pretty common sight in PvP.

[@tunar_karimov]

what is the website used for checking scaling, dps and etc. in this video?

[@LyraniaLothar]

Can't wait till he reviews swords. My favorite is the Carian Knight Sword. That thing does magic damage and i found out that the Magic Scorpion Talisman also boosts its attack.

[@MOCTurtle4911]

I have not played Elden Ring in months and even then never used daggers other than to experiment, but I still watched this video because I knew it would make me laugh. Keep up the good work.

[@makoto1234]

really excited for the ranking of elden ring trees and bushes!

[@w_419]

So serious question here, I just started the game a few days ago, got the reduvia early on and have been using it since and usually pair it with a heavy shield which is where the crux of my question begins; for damage and bleed build up purposes is it better to use a single dagger to attack or use both with power stance? ive seen mixed opinions on this and many say that using the Reduvia by itself does more damage and has better blood scaling due to some changes that were made and was wondering if that is still the case. Thanks in advance for any input.

[@plebmcpleb5761]

Happy to see Erdsteel Dagger so high! Recently did a fth/dex dagger playthough and it was the MVP of the run lol. You can get two in a single playthrough and dual wielding them with Flame Arc + whatever I needed ended up resulting in a really fun and flexible spellblade build.

[@anface]

i always gravitate towards daggers in games, my entire first playthrough of elden ring was with reduvia and i genuinely thought it was gonna be considered the most op weapon in the game

[@TheMrMayo]

"This man Nerijues facts to gain favour." Okay, that was a bad pun, but you said to do it! In any case, Cheers for the upload! Didn't mean to push the weapon rankings onto you with the crowd, but I'm excited to hear from your recommendations. :D

[@steampunker8872]

You had a fish hook stuck in your finger when you were 7, I had a fish hook through my nose like a nose ring when I was 7.... No I'm not joking😅

[@nkirmath8621]

I love how the first dagger is explained like it's a data knife from titan fall

[@PKMNCoffee]

Honestly the misericorde is just something I keep in my second slot in my main hand for when I stance break a boss or something because of the damage it does

[@citizensnips2400]

17:00 was absolutely expecting a jump scare there.

[@kadefulton9162]

Giving this video a like just for the transition into nord vpn ad 😂 that being said great weapon taking videos!

[@kevinm.4846]

There's a wolf on the scorpions stinger because originally there were going to be more scarlet rot ancestral followers than the one in the lake of rot. They have more of a connection with the red wolves of radagon.

[@Dimumouto]

As someone who's been wanting to do a dual dagger run (and even farmed up a 2nd Great Knife already), this has definitely helped me.