Rellana Twin Moon Knight RL1+0 Zwei Only, Nothing Allowed

[@loopine]

Not entirely happy with the kill, but we showed off most of the dodges i wanted to

[@RedCensure]

How fast are you bro this just happened today

[@BBQcheese]

I'm happy I got to be there for once! Good job man!!

[@schadowsshade7870]

I dealt differently with the fire thrust that you jumped. If you block and walk left she‘ll miss you and if she doesn’t do the spin you can strafe the other follow-ups left and do a fully charged heavy afterwards

[@corporialme]

GG, awesome start to this run! This boss is just perfect. It's mind-blowing how a boss this fast can work so well with the slowest weapons in the game. Those low profiles feel so consistent and the recovery is just long enough to dodge the follow-up, i simply can't believe it's by accident. Master craftsmanship.

[@TheCoctor]

Rellana was the first dlc boss i fought, and i absolutely loved her. Took me a very long time to get her because my blessing level was pretty low, but i had a great time. I actually found some of the jumps you used here myself, it made me pretty happy to see you showing them off. Well played!👍

[@mingQWERTY]

"Rellana has too many combo extensions she literally has 0 openings"

[@Polevolter]

"FromSoft needs to SPEED up the healing animation. You LITERALLY CANNOT HEAL against these new bosses"

[@Feddy009]

Also i love how he tanked her Attacks WITH LEVEL 15 VIGOR with radagon sorseal , and people complain about the damge

[@mwjgcreeves4984]

Replace Rellana with Maliketh, Godfrey, etc 😂

[@mingQWERTY]

@@mwjgcreeves4984 If people say Godfrey has no openings then it's genuinely a lost cause

[@Titanicus560]

@@Polevolterfeeble king?👀

[@athurstyman2139]

Living Failures theme on Rellana is some nasty work to pull on a woman whose main character trait is “permanently yandere for the world’s most pathetically emo genocidaire”. Love it.

[@pafunciobatista8244]

Rellana is the best girl failure

[@enman009]

So, Rellana is Marge and Messmer is Homer Simpson? Miyazaki making homages besides Berserk I see.

[@recruit-legionary]

The coffin of messmer and rellana (I'm sorry I had to make the joke)

[@tyronewithaj556]

Joespeh Anderson and Feebleking are pissing and shitting their pants rn

[@SoulsNThings]

Lmao was thinking the exact same thing

[@Fakheet]

What does this prove though? That if you've already beaten the boss and put a lot of time into learning all the intricacies of it's moveset you can beat it by perfectly dodging and chipping away for 10 minutes unlike someone who's doing the boss for the first time? Sure. Is it reasonable to expect this level of time and effort investment from a regular player though? No. If the question was "is there enough openings to damage the boss?" then the answer is yes and you didn't need to beat her at SL1 to realize it. The problem most people actually have with a lot of the more controversial bosses in the dlc isn't necessarily the boss itself, it's either a) particular parts of their kit, b) visibility/camera issues or c) lack of certain information. Relana for example is fine on her own, but the locked on camera tracking messes with your roll directions sometimes when she's is flailing around you and the camera is trying to keep up. With Radahn it's issues of visibility with his cloak, Miquela's hair, constant barrage of light effects, and camera not being zoomed out enough. Also obnoxious moves like the X slash you can't normally dodge and phase 2 phantoms. Phase 2 in general is very punishing because if you can't dodge some of the hard to figure out moves you're almost guaranteed to die even with 60 vig and high enough blessings level

[@kuhakusora6114]

​@@Fakheet but the thing is he is showing that scrubs are just whining about the bosses because they're placing a difficulty level on themselves like not summoning or being inefficient with their damage outputs by just ignoring boss weaknesses or not thinking about damage negation and buffs. It is a boss not just a mob or npc you fight along the way. It's supposed to be hard and you're supposed to learn them and adapt to what they're doing. Enjoy the fight and if there's some camera angles or some other things fucking your experience then think of a way that would prevent them from happening or at least adapt to it. The DLC is new and bugs are being fixed every week. We just got a patch right now. Even back then they fixed Radahn's hitbox. With everything said, people just need to enjoy the game. Don't put too much stress or pressure on yourself. Use everything the game is giving you. I mean fuck they buffed summons this patch(except mimic because thats already busted). Use consumables, use buffs, perfumes, everything. Don't make the game hard for yourself

[@mollypolly8631]

@@FakheetIt demonstrably proves that combo length and little openings are not actual issues. Most people do not have well formed, intricate opinions about boss design, they parrot the same reactionary takes about combos and openings that ragebait content creators produce. FeebleKing and Anderson are two who have largely popularised these takes. Discussions about visibility, specific issues like Radahn's cross slash, difficulty and punishment, etc should be had but genuinely discourse is completely plagued by everyone immediately dismissing the boss design as generally unfair and that is frustrating.

[@takubear88]

@@Fakheet It is reasonable to assume that a person can spend the time to learn dodge timings, yes. You don't have to learn all of them. You have 14 flasks to heal you, you can bring defensive talismans, you can run a cheese build. A person unable to understand you can stagger a boss with a heavy attack weaved in here and there without much effort on KATANA etc. The bar is insanely low, but the people complaining still fail to clear it.

[@ParacelsusCaspari]

the amount of moves you can dodge by simply letting animations finish and not panic rolling out of them is just beautiful to watch

[@spooky8662]

The spacing in this fight brings a tear to my eye tbh

[@FiveHoursLater815]

We are so back.

[@DevramAbyss]

It's incredible how even with so many self imposed restrictions the game doesn't require perfect execution

[@ni9274]

You can strafe the attack where she jump back, run after her and get a hit when she cast the soul mass spell. And when she does the attack at 1:43 you can hit a crouch poke before she ends her combo. You can also strafe to the right of the second part of the attack at 3:22, this get you one of the biggest opening of the fight imo since you start to charge an attack before she finish

[@draxxilion5957]

6:25 was the music live on stream because that was damn good timing

[@cynvic1872]

Zwei Guy is back LFG

[@feldmarshallduda6301]

The God of Zweihander showing how to clap royal cheeks once again, love it.

[@rct3terminator1000]

Was happy I got to witness this particular kill live when I caught the stream of it! That Rellana fight was Sick Af! Definitely want to try jumping a lot of those attacks like you did next time round.

[@carlossssssss5492]

This series is the reason I beat the main game rl1 with a un-upgraded weapon as well. Even named it "suck it slightly less Anderson".

[@Sunny-di3ef]

Rellana is imo one of the better dlc bosses. She actually rewards positioning unlike many other bosses

[@Rin-ash]

Also the final boss The fight is mostly about positioning.

[@Sinhsseax]

How fitting. I'm doing a fire incantations only Rellana kill right now. (Except I'm failing hard) So this will be a fun comparison.

[@D0verking69]

I wish this fight had the presentation equal to the quality of the fight

[@MakioGoHardio]

Love the Subhuman Self is so goated 5:15

[@PeterEhik]

Holy shit you’re incredible and you make it so hard for yourself. Imagine you had a +25 zwei, you’d be no hitting the bosses easily

[@AllenIronside]

If Radahn doesn't take you at least 10 hours on this, you're a god.

[@karayi7239]

I wish people did challenge fights centred around finding interesting and cool ways to deal with bosses attacks. sth along the lines of what ONGBAL does with sekiro. Still mighty impressive what you do

[@themightymcb7310]

Ongbal has super stylish Elden Ring boss kills too, suggest checking them out, especially the post dlc ones because of the deflect tear.

[@karayi7239]

@@themightymcb7310 yeah he does, I just think that he REALLY pushed that format in sekiro. But to be fair, sekiro is better equipped for that sort of thing. Perhaps if we get a mod that let's us switch weapons/spells super fast we can see some insane stuff.

[@Stanzbey69]

Send this to demodcracy and feeble lmao

[@YaboiDeep]

Yoo season 2 of the suck it Anderson run 😂 Calling it early despite the lack of presentation and what not Rellana might be the best in the DLC.

[@Rin-ash]

Mesmer is better imo but she is definitely 2nd in the dlc

[@enman009]

Definitely top 5, just below Midra, Bayle and Messmer.

[@earthnugget7881]

I think mechanically rellana is the best in the DLC but Messmer and Bayle get a leg up (ok maybe not bayle he's kinda missing a leg) due to presentation and buildup. All fucking amazing bosses though

[@jamesarthurkimbell]

In addition to hitbox visualizer tools, it'd be fun to see a range visualizer of where you can stand to keep her combos going or not. Although people would probably just use it as a reason to complain.

[@highlightermarca-texto3281]

You can jump over her single sword beams and twirly fire slash as well. Really looking forward to see you do (or not) the final boss lol. Guessing you're just gonna use the backstep talisman?

[@Rin-ash]

Actually you don’t need the backstep talisman or crucible talisman Tho i do it on light load so idk about med roll but i have fought the boss for so much time (40+ hours) and i found a way to consistently dodge the cross attack.

[@loopine]

Prolly just lightroll

[@highlightermarca-texto3281]

Well yeah there is a consistent way to dodge it on light roll. It's just super boring lol

[@Rin-ash]

@@highlightermarca-texto3281 boring ? u literally just fight him normally.

[@highlightermarca-texto3281]

@@Rin-ash And sacrifice all but like, 4 damage openings to run to the back of his leg. So yeah, a pretty normal fight

[@victorprati7908]

Strafing, low profiling, and jumping is just stylist af 👌

[@josephhobbs4680]

I had no idea you could jump so many attacks, i kept close because her hitboxes don't go down her arms so she just misses most of the time but this looks more consistent

[@facundovera3227]

New Malenia just droped a month ago, boss took me two hours which is half of what Malenia took me the first time. I love it and hate it at the same time. The best -worst- part is when Rellena stops holding back and becomes a whirlwind. I have to thank the stargazing water in the middle of the arena for reducing her fire damage and upgrading my lightning damage. Good work with the video, I knew my technique lacked something, it's those sick jump dodges. She killed me like seven times when she was two hits away from dying, and because of that I was about to go "Nah, I'd give up". But I did it anyway. After the fight, when I encountered Knight Leda and she said that we _really_ should start killing people, and I went "You, bitch, I'm in!"

[@ETBrooD]

A proper war! This is what I like to see :)

[@amrmans2]

WHEN IS LOOPINE GONNA HAVE A DISC SERVER? Also at the start of phase 2 you can go up to her point blank and her multiple blue projectile attack doesn't actually hurt you. Whats the song used in the video btw?

[@loopine]

@@amrmans2 uhh comona, living failures, and love the subhuman self

[@greysilverglass]

rellana’s so good, you can jump or duck under almost everything

[@bubududugaming8336]

Cinema

[@viss-kn4iu]

So quickly? You’re a beast dude. I wanna get to me RL1+0 but I got distracted beating the dlc with my level 30 and also level 9 saves for twinking 😭

[@figgy808]

Nice kill. Im looking forward to seeing your skill expression in some of the upcoming fights as well. On a side note im admittedly wondering what your thoughts are on the lack of skill expression in metyr's phase 2 and rominas phase 2.

[@loopine]

No clue yet, will report back. I think combat expression like ash of war thru the metyr laser is more interesting to 99% of people compared to only doing the passive phase 2 just so you can run around the laser

[@thexangelolight6693]

Comona is a good music choice for this intense fight

[@ni9274]

But they said you cannot play aggressively against Rellana, they say she does infinite combo and you never have openings !

[@cornthdl]

GG this is awesome to watch.

[@anonymous01201]

top-tier gameplay-wise definitely but lacks presentation imo

[@carlossssssss5492]

We are so back

[@chuvits217]

Imo, most dlc bosses are actually too easy to kill with two handed big weapons by abusing stance breaks. Once i learned moveset a bit to consistently abuse openings, 90% of bosses died first try because of how op colossal weapons in this game are

[@enman009]

I literally blasted the final boss at my 4th attempt with a Greathammer, despite not using that weapon type in months if not a year. Once you find the right spot, those bosses die a bit too quickly for my taste.

[@chuvits217]

@@enman009 yeah, i suppose it's just colossal weapons that are too op. They have amazing scalings, axe talisman and cracked tear to buff charged attacks, two handed sword talisman to buff ALL damage and many op AoWs. They just destroy everything lmao

[@SsirMoustacheE]

Good stuff. Trying to do this but with more stuff allowed, mid roll. Pretty brutal, but doable

[@CeresTheCrow]

frick yeah heck yeah

[@RedCensure]

Very good kill, one thing I want to say is that you can do a charged R2 during her stagger instead of a talisman swap. I think it looks much cooler when you chain three charged R2s that way

[@KrayanX]

This dlc was pretty good, I'm still mad about Lamenter though... having a boss that is actually impossible with low dmg just isn't fun

[@Maffo__]

We’re back

[@An_Euco]

Of course it was immediately after I went to bed I swear this just keeps happening Jesus is back, are we ready?

[@D0verking69]

Great Job!

[@SoulsNThings]

Nice

[@moonlightostrich3690]

I havent finished the DLC cause I get so easily lost in the open world segments but I loved this fight golden hippo pissed me off immediately after though lol

[@katze9912]

New to the game, why does zwei seem to be a common pick for challenges? Is it there something noteworthy about it among strength weapons, or do you just think it’s neat

[@loopine]

Im a zwei stan but its probably because it is light and has low requirements to use. Plus it has the poke r2

[@TheCanadianPlaya007]

HE IS RISEN

[@tyler547]

stream was peak

[@enfrax]

Really nice kill, GGs!

[@why8642]

Rellana, more like Relloser

[@enman009]

I don't know if it would copyright strike you, but I would love to hear you talk about some Tool's songs on your videos. The rhythm on their songs absolutely SLAPS harder than Maliketh.

[@grayestrat]

GGs!! Best boss in the dlc

[@Felicificity]

Good shit loopy

[@zingers847]

now you’re just being mean to Mr. Anderson

[@JoseViktor4099]

What I think is gonna be painful is the fact that as enemies scale around Scadutree Blessing, you start to realize that the final bosses rounds around 40.000-45.000 HP. Oof

[@yab3146]

I'm currently on bayle and yea it's rough 💀 Midra actually has the most health but he fell very quickly on my RL1 run

[@epsilon1275]

Idk what you mean around "scaling around scadutree blessings" are you trying to say their HP changes depending on what lvl you have?

[@zjay]

​@@epsilon1275i think they mean the bosses were balanced around the fact that people would have leveled up the blessing

[@bombthing]

Well this isnt a no blessing run, it said at the beginning he is blessing level 14 for this fight

[@epsilon1275]

@@zjay i guess I was just confused that they had brought up Scadu Frags and HP

[@EmissaryOfStuff]

Are you leaving Divine Beast for later?

[@loopine]

@@EmissaryOfStuff just depends on what boss I'm in the mood for

[@Feddy009]

Nice kill! Who is gonna be the next boss?

[@loopine]

@@Feddy009 kind of depends on my mood for the day but probably Commander Gaius since he guards like 5 fragments.

[@duvetboa]

Doesn't rain reduce fire damage? I wonder if that's why you survived that last hit near the end there :P

[@northwoodsjjd8454]

How long did it take you to learn all these openings?

[@loopine]

About 3 hours on my own

[@northwoodsjjd8454]

@@loopine damm it took me two days to beat her, let alone optimise openings😅

[@loopine]

@@northwoodsjjd8454 I would say the optimizing took another 4 or 5, knowing which punishes to do from which position and when Im safe from her fast neutral startups like the uppercut or thrust. But yea i just walk in with a shield, block everything, then trying jumping and strafing everything. Takes longer to put it all together into a combat loop though.

[@northwoodsjjd8454]

@@loopine also you should know your fun and fair video on Elden ring really changed how I played the game and I got better and enjoyed it more🙏

[@carlschrappen9712]

Is this light or medium roll? I think this boss is good, it's just kind of insane how fast some of her combo starters come out, they're practically unreactable if you can't see her left hand.

[@loopine]

@@carlschrappen9712 light roll

[@carlossssssss5492]

The trick is to never stand point blank with her, it also took me some time to understand this

[@greysilverglass]

it used to catch me out ALL the time when she did the uppercut or thrust while her back was turned. the tell is just very subtle though

[@ClydeNut]

Curious why you’re not doing it on 0 blessing level.

[@ETBrooD]

Cause that would take ages. Fun is allowed.

[@loopine]

@@ClydeNut Sanity

[@enman009]

Having 14 Scadibiti Fragments is a nice limitation. RL1 against some of these bosses is already challenging.

[@glisteninggames2981]

@@enman009 putrescent knight at RL1 +0 blessing 0 is a nightmare too. i have 3 runs up to phase 2 so far, and phase 1 alone lasts 6 minutes lol ( fully optimised )

[@enman009]

@@glisteninggames2981 Holy Cows. I can imagine using consumables and talismans to make it a bit more digestible. Putrescent Knight is quite underrated IMO, and better than, say, Scadutree Avatar and maybe even Metyr.

[@KnjazNazrath]

Bess boss in Elden Ring bar none.

[@clunkye8053]

I would SMASH rellana anyeays what boss is next?

[@jaykelley103]

Metasisters... not like this...

[@team03productions38]

is this on ng+ or regular ng

[@loopine]

Regular new game

[@hhowdy]

Did you literally just change you name? It was Not Loopine like 40 minutes ago

[@loopine]

@@hhowdy thats my side channel

[@hhowdy]

@@loopine Oh, well idk why I’m responding a week later, but I am not the smartest person 😭

[@godfather140]

steamin from the oven ,And 3 days streaming you might as well be a full time content creator😂 , messmer's days are numbered as he will meet death in the embrace of jesus's zwei🏌‍♀️🤺💪

[@epsilon1372]

Okay but you used your hands. Does this really count as a win at this point?

[@Titanicus560]

Loopine you should do another febble king reaction and he made another Elden ring vid saying the dlc is the worst in fromsoft history 😬

[@ObsessiveBadguy]

Feeble King, more like Feeble Clown

[@ni9274]

his video doesn't even bring up anything new, it's the exact same point he made and the exact same lies

[@ObsessiveBadguy]

@@ni9274 Hes the embodiment of "having a separate opinion from others doesn't actually make you a smart or insightful person" its actually a little bit upsetting knowing that he has a patreon for people to give him money to publish and regurgitate his clown ass opinions

[@Titanicus560]

@@ni9274 I think he posted a rant over his personal issues with the dlc and called it a review

[@epsilon1372]

i can agree with some points like a few areas being too empty with nothing else to offer, the final boss being underwhelming, and a few attacks being lame like usual. but i found this wild coming from the guy who changed his mind on most base game bosses. saying things like "they wont change healing speed because they want you to die a bunch" and that jab at the community about it being a cult (while not entirely untrue) just felt so off and reactionary, even more so than people's reactions to the base game

[@AlphaOmega-jh6ll]

Idk man light roll seems kinda cheesy, and let’s not talk about posture breaking or even using a weapon. Do you really think you have accomplished anything? What is the purpose of this "challenge" if you are going to use these clearly unintended and broken tools. Shame on you Loopine.

[@kimlee6643]

Lightroll... but at least you turned that whiny music off.