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No need for mental coaching, get a big greatshield, and get a bleed thrusting weapon. He is dead.

You shouldn't have to change your build for 1 boss in the entire game lol If you can kill every boss but one it's not the build that's the problem, it's the boss.

genuinely laughed when i saw they recycled Radahn for the final boss. the gudcels are really trying to convince people (mostly themselves) that this isn't lazy slop. you guys sound like the Star Wars nerds walking out of Episode 1 lmao

Where do you get that weapon?

Unfortunately I am a mage. 60vig, 80int, and enough stats to equip Icon Shield, Blaidd's Armor, and Dark Moon Greatsword/Wing of Astel. I'm used to cheesing everything with Mimic Tear, Rock Sling, Comets, and Sword Beam/Nebula spam. How fucked am I?

You can use miquella’s greatrune that you get from defeating the scadutree avatar, it negates the affect of his grab attacks entirely

Finger print + anystupr + marika's braid equipped for extra defence , thank me later

essential tips for beating any boss: get naked. light load makes dodging attacks so much easier, and taking damage doesn't matter if you don't get hit

Great video, but I can’t swallow my pride. I will beat this bastard with bastard sword no matter what.

No spoiler warning or anything smh

Excellent video, especially the part about the build reevaluation and the mental coach adivce at the end. I will leave a foolproof tactic with mimic tear here for anyone who cares to know: Equipment: Any Greatshield with 70+ Stability and preferably high holy damage negation + the strongest catalyst you have. Talismans: Double headed turtle Talisman. Build: Around 30 faith to cast black flame orb and the great aoe heal. Ideally 60 Vigour, 35 Mind, 60 Endurance. Tactics: Summon Mimic at earliest opportunity. It will only ise Black Flame Orb to deal %-based damage. You do the same. Whenever you have aggro, just block and wait for your mimic to take aggro back with black flame. Your mimic has infinite FP so it will always use the AoE Heal to restore itself. Make sure you only have the greatshield, catalyst, and those 2 invocations equipped. No weapons since then mimic AI will act less optimal (although you can equip a weapon AFTER summoning the mimic). This works on every boss in every ng+ cycle since black flame damage scales with max enemy hp. However, I avoid using this strat since I like changing up my builds, but I had to fall back on it for Promised Consort Radahn since my patience ran out. In any case, it is good to have a build to fall back on.

Beat him in 7 attempts and did it solo. Did i use an op build to do it? Yes, but I spend my time helping others defeat these bosses. idk why, but I love this dlc

Just use a good shield. 😊

good to see you stopped your opinions about elden ring boss design and atleast started to play it slightly correctly. although your jump attack spamming is a pretty bad way to play as it showcases youre only going for the safe ds/bb style openings, but youll get there!! atleast youre starting to understand the mechanics of combat and positioning of bosses rather than have objectively wrong opinions about a combat system you never played well in, let alone perfected. just stop spreading the pathetic joseph anderson objectively incorrect misinformation next time, and were good., your last video was a disgusting deceptive attempt at hiding your confirmation bias and highlighted your thoughtless blind bias to the older games, especially bloodborne, which was an utter joke after playing games like ER and sekiro.

I actually decided to keep trying with my build (battle mage with dark moon and comet/glintstone icecrag) until i defeated him. First i used icecrag to frost him easily (unfotunately you don't have time to cast ranni's moon so i gave up using it), then i punished big opening with dark moon charged attack and when he wasn't super aggressive and i was at a comfortable distance i used comet (don't spam it tough, you wanna be able to avoid both the gravity dash and pull). So yeah, my advice is to not give up even if you don't have a shield, just make sure your build is optimized. Oh and 1 more thing that really helped me and can be used be all types of build: use the giant scarlet rot pot! Just 1 is more than enough to apply the status even in his second phase (where he gets mor resistance to it). Hope this will help, have fun!

I mean, I am a dark souls 2 fan but the few times I went through each of the dlc for the game I hated each of them but I like the base game. Only real positive I would say personally that the dlcs offer is just the addition of more rings but besides that I'm good with just the base game but I would go through artorias of the abyss dlc or the other one in dark souls 1 again. So yeah I gave dark souls 2 some negativity for those that don't like it at least.

If anyone wants a build that makes the fight more bearable here is what I used (I beat him with no summons): 2 twinblades that you can equip seppuku (if possible 2 godskin peelers). If not I used 1 normal Twinblade and 1 Godskin peeler. Put seppuku on them with the bleed affinity. (Apply seppuku before the fight) I used Golden Vow and howl of shabiri for buffs. Talismans were dragoncrest great shield talisman, haligdrake talisman +2, lord of bloods exhalation, and either the claw talisman, rotten winged sword insignia, or the turtle talisman he talked about in the video. If you’re struggling with stamina pick the turtle talisman, if you prefer damage choose the rwsi or claw talisman. Armor was Crucible tree helm and body. And tree sentenel legs and gauntlets. If you really want damage go with the white mask and raptors black feathers. For the physic I used thorny cracked tear or either Opaline bubbletear or the one you get that heals your health halfway because of the seppuku. Finally just spam jump attacks whenever there is an opening. It procs bleed in like 4-5 jump attacks for like 6-7k

I know this is silly. But the reason I'm so stubborn with my builds. Is because I'm RPing either OCs who have a set fighting style. Or, as a character from another game.... Like Ganondorf. I'm using the Banished Knight's Greatsword. Because that was the closest thing to what he used in Twilight Princess, while still being a good bonk build. Also used Braggart's Roar for the defense and stamina boost. For another character. She uses two Flame Art Bandit's Curved Swords. Golden Vow and Flame Grant Me Strength, the Fire and Multihitting Physic, and both of the Multihit boosting and Claw Talismans. I dunno, it just feels weird to completely change my loadout when literally no other boss in the game REQUIRED a shield.... Hell, Malenia was the anti shield boss fight.

DS2 fans try not to make themselves look ridiculous challenge impossible difficulty

There are a lot of holy damage negation things in this game so make sure to take advantage of them to make second phase easier

So when a game like ds2 is actually unforgiving its bad?lol

Gamers, if you use summons, I recommend summoning only once you're outside the big laser beam he usually starts phase 2 with. This way your summon won't die mid phase 2 and leave you alone with the big scary boss, and phase 1 is relatively easy to learn.

After you beat the scadutree avatar behind the shadow keep you get miquella a great rune, after you get grabbed find an opportunity to use it to dispel the charm

For the meteor, run as far away as you can from where he leaps and you should be fine

I don’t know what I did, but I found this boss not nearly as hard as everyone was saying, I beat him in 11 tries

Great video, appreciate the tips and the encouragement.

If you can do the sekiro style blocking, you may able to do this with a middle shield, or even your weapon.

Well im not struggling, i just wanted to say shield bros this is our time!!

Parrying him is also a good strategy it stops him from doing his aoe spam after each hit

You know when his left hand swings right. You dodge that and then wait to perceive his next swing before panic rolling. And like >50% of the time he immediately backhand swings with same hand and despite you pressing the roll button, fromsoft has a penchant for tarrying roll execution so you just watch your char stand like an idiot to get hit by smthg so dodgeably slow. So i guess panic roll is the way; i started to roll before i know what he is about to do. It works. Where he delayed his backhand attack, panic rolling immediately after dodging the forehand gives time to roll again to avoid his delayed backhand as it would his immediate backhand. But then there is a problem. There is a 3rd backhand variation where it is quite delayed but not as much, and this would catch panic rolling. UNBELIEVABLE miyazaki - let me see you play this dirt of a game. I managed to reduce like 75% of his health after 1-2 hours. 2-3 more hrs went unfruitfully. Next time i play this game im gonna be merciless and pick up scadutree filths which i have hitherto neglected save the ones found on my way straight to miquella the ostentatiously mumbo-jumbo. The only detour hitherto is the dancing lion area. I am like scadutree 5/6/7. Next i will explore south and west (edit: east) etc. honestly i just wanna beat the hardest boss asap and not waste time exploring but it seems i have to give fromsoft more than my money and preferable amount of time

Cool strategy. I wish more players were open to using blocking. I think it adds an interesting option to the game that so many players neglect. It's not overpowered ever as long as you're not using certain greatshields. One of my fondest memories from DS1 is beating Artorias using the Twin Eagle Greatshield.

W hollow knight pfp, and secondly I will NEVER use a shield, i have over 200 weapons upgraded and my best one was duel twinblades with bleed got him one then died

Most of his melee combos have long recovery time on the last attack so I was using rakshasas great katana w/ two handing sword talisman, axe talisman and spear talisman if you manage to dodge his last attack of the combo and immeadiately hold a charged heavy you can usually get the heavy off and dodge his next attack this lets you get massive combo damage and massive poise damage for each charged heavy

ive never used a shield because i liked the challenge but i might have to swallow my pride and use this build😭

are dex weapons good? i really like using the light greatswords and i want to know if they are viable enough to deal with him. great video btw. im trying to fight this boss with an open mind because he is so cool, but its a little hard when everyone is complaining about the boss, valid reasons or not

This might be a more long form comment but I feel it’s warranted. This is extremely well done video that combines a lot of the tips and build ideas thrown around these past few days especially regarding poise,armor,and talismans. This is all genuinely fantastic advice and I’m seriously recommending it to my friends who are also stuck on radahn lmao. I beat him ng+ with two summons but my ng play though is gonna have none so even more so these tips will be beneficial. Super excited to fight Radahn again. Thanks for the encouraging words too a lot of people don’t realize the spike from even rellana/dancing beast to radahn and alot of discourse online is really “git good” idealized and telling people they’re bad at playing rather than encouraging them to have an open mind about the boss and the player…..ie not JUST get good. This vid was fantastic man genuinely a top tier video. 10/10

This is very helpful, I'm not going to lie though, its hard to abandon my twohanded greatsword build lol

my ranking of the bosses from worst to best (no summons except radahn) 1. messmer 2. midra 3. rellana 4. bayle 5. metyr 6. putrescent knight 7. lion 8. romina 9. scadutree avatar 10. commander gaius 11. radahn

Good Job, I did the same, only with a dex build, it’s not for the weak lol.

i should of went strength build i knew it. Dex build with the final is absolute misery

Best one is Bayle, imo.