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
problem with git gud is that while there is often truth behind it its spammed beyond oblivion without any sort of tangible advice attached to it. i hate how so much discourse in this community is either people whining that victory isnt handed to them on a silver platter or how every single critique you have of the game is actually your fault
@@epsilon1372 I think I somewhat agree with the “git good” having some truth but what I KNOW is more true is that not having an explanation on how to get good leaves people frustrated and angry. Often times leading to worse gameplay and an even bigger spiral. This video is a great example of WAYS to get better there was boss/build/placement advice all leading to someone getting better. If more discourse and commentary was more like this there would be a lot less toxicity within the community.
I didnt watch till the end for fear of too much spoiling advice. But shields generally dont help me as it further delays my roll. As for “git gud” bs, in cases where you have to roll not amidst the swing in motion but at the starting point thereof, analogous to presenting hand gesture at the moment your opponent presents his in rock paper scissors instead of thereafter in reaction thereto, i consider it my displeasure if i ever do “get gud”. That means i play with intuition, muscle memory, and at best memorizing the different body poses of radahn at the aforementioned starting points of his different attacks (IF indeed there is a diff between, eg., his 2 variations of backhand swing following forehand swing), to wit, I rely on the furthest empirically-characterized end in the spectrum ranging between a priori logic and empiricism, characteristic of animals. While in an action game there is inevitable involvement with the empirical and pure a priori logic is out of reach, we humans ought to deduce the common principle among all threats, to wit, when an actually damaging attack is about to land, roll before it lands while it is locked on its way, not before when it simply charged itself to strike, but amidst its motion to your character. Abstract this principle and apply it to all threats, that is as close to pure reason as can be. Let the animals, slaves and computer-tools bear the duty of memorizing empirical data with its many nuances, humans ought to divert their gaze to simple principles uniting these nuances. But fromsoft games are made for these lesser creatures because i CANNOT roll amidst a swing, but only at the starting point
"Git Gud" is words of encouragement I don't know why or when people decided it wasn't. But I've played these games for 15 years and it was never suppose to be a diss to anyone. Its like you either just say get gud or you have to know specifics and then give very specific advice or suggestions. So Git Gud is the way to go if you just want to encourage someone. Because in the end you won't beat the boss without gitting gud. That being you either learn the movesets, timings and openings or you go and make a stronger build. Both are valid options and there are other options to in the end though you have successfully beaten the boss = You did get gud
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.
The final boss is actually really fun co-oping with a friend. I helped a friend kill him and we had me sort of tanking and my friend would cast the new thorns spells. At 25%ish, right before he was going to take off, he grabbed me. My friend got behind him and got off two thorns and deleted him.
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.
you can also dodge it with 2 well timed rolls, after running away a bit. The visual cue is he like flashes in the air a split second before he drops. But ofc the main challenge is actually seeing where tf he's dropping from. It probably isn't a random direction but I never figured it out so I was always panic looking around looking for where he went lmao
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.
It’s hard to sell people on tank and spank when they game presents you with so many cool options on the periphery. It’s honestly kind of a failing of elden ring. You give the player these sick tools like Roseminas polearm, the meteoric colossal sword, all the cool backhand blades stuff, but the endgame is so uncompromising on damage requirements unless you want to spend 8 minutes engaged with a boss that you have to pivot to a build that either gets huge payout for short exchanges aka high damage, or gimmicks+ defense. dunkey put it really well, in a game full of cool and interesting creative things, it’s so sad to see 90% of the player base rely on the same broken builds (shield+status/ colossal/spear, power stance status ala twin blade bleed or curved sword bleed, etc.)
@gf8762 It's not too hard to incorporate shields into a build that does good damage, I did it on my my first playthrough of the DLC with a quality build. Even if you are two-handing, alot of large and colossal weapons have surprisingly decent blocking stats.
@@carlschrappen9712 It’s not about doing good damage with a shield. It’s fairly simple to get 1.6k+ guard counters. My point was that players want to be cool, to look cool, to feel cool. Game satisfaction is more about how the players perceive themselves than anything else. Guard counters don’t feel or look cool so it’s hard to convince players to Use it. I think in a vacuum without the internet, more players would quit the final boss before they compromised on the play style they enjoy.
Here’s the thing though, I’ve NEVER had to change my build for any boss ever, and if I have to then that’s saying something. I just stuck to my two handed greatsword. And sure, it took me about five hours to finally kill him, but I feel like it was worth it.
This has to be the most useful Tips vid about Radhan. well done fellow tarnished. I tried reevaluating - essentially - my only DLC build which is Great Katana + Carian Shield, but found out all my 650hrs muscle memory was too much tied to it. Did some respecs (first time in ER) but I only got things worse. And I don't use buffs since I never found them useful for me unless you stack them up. I always relied more on movement and composure. For this one I went back to my trusty Naga + double slash given the tiny attack windows available. Took me something like 70-80 tries but I have to say this fight felt like a chore. The holy VFXs in 2nd phase are way too messy and couldn't really enjoy what was going on. But yeah, you can all do it
On my first play through I used great shield and counter attacks the entire run. First time using that build and it was actually really fun. It still took me like 5 hours to beat him tho. On my second run with a sorcerey build it took me about an hour to beat him.
I took a different tack to this bossfight and did not end up swapping off my two handed colossal weapon. My strategy was to use the perfect block hardtear, stack as much damage resist as possible (bubbletear, paledrake+3, and the physical damage resist one), and guard counter off of perfect blocks. All of his first phase attacks will deal zero damage to you if you're using the perfect block tear, and his second phase attacks will only barely chip you when perfectly blocked. Using the anvil hammer at +10, Radahn staggered in two guard counters if they were close enough together. This method did end up turning the boss into sekiro, though, lol. I think a shield would have made it much easier. Weapon blocking is surprisingly good though!
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
Tip for Colossal Sword users: I beat him solo using the Guts sword two handed infused with bleed using a STR & ARC build. I used Giant Hunt in most openings which builds up huge stagger, has some hyper armor, & big damage. I think the crouch animation in it evades some attacks as well (not too sure). Otherwise, use jump attack as a gap closer & light attack for a quick hit. I personally can't find an opening for a charged heavy so just use Giant's Hunt. Blocking with the GS is also pretty effective if you think you can't dodge. You can take a few hits with that. Bleed will also proc a few times if you aren't too passive. It was my first day with the boss. I beat him after like 25-30 attempts before going to bed that time (thank goodness). Goodluck.
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
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 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
@@SomeUserk you DIDN’T grab all the scadutree fragments? No wonder you’re spending so long on him you gotta be at scadutree blessing level 20 to even stand a chance of beating him or at least somewhere near lvl 20
@@worldsworld933 got him to ~25% health couple of times with scadutree 6. Once triggering both his meteor and second levitating holy attack. After that i decided to look up scadutree location and buffed myself to scadutree 15. Then killed him like 4th try. He is actually not too scary. I think i struggled more meeting malenia first time
I just beat him and yeah I had too change from Dex backhand blade lightning build to a heavy shield with sacred affinity and blasphemous blade. U can use Miquella's great runes, it's a re-useable consumable that breaks his charm, u get it from scadutree avatar
I could not beat him by myself because I just don't have the reflexes to dodge his attacks. The second I got a Cooperator to join I got my kill. ALWAYS REMEMBER: jolly Co-operation is an option and you can beat the Bosses together. If you are playing with friends, try and figure out how your builds can compliment each other. And remember it's just a Game, have FUN.
Thanks for the video. I’ll keep saying it though, on NG you shouldn’t have to change your build much to beat this boss. They made it too hard and this should be his NG+ version. I have zero problems taking hours and having to change my build for NG+ but in NG every build should be viable for the average player. And the fact that everyone seems to be getting this far and then struggling with this boss, is a sign the difficulty spike is too high. I hope they nerf him in NG and then keep the challenge for NG+ and beyond. I know this won’t be a popular opinion but no previous souls game had a final boss difficulty spike this high.
I played the DLC at lvl 280, it wasn't actually that hard, Radahn actually killed me only once (I messed up with my build), I got killed more times by Bayle and Putrescent knight.
that's honestly ur fault if you got spoiled the title literally says "elden ring dlc final boss" so if u clicked thinking u weren't gonna get spoiled is crazy
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
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
@@BollsNiguh it puts a mark over your head, if you get grabbed again while having it, its instant death. So either dont get grabbed or use miquellas great rune to dispell the mark
The "you ARE good at this game" bits were highly appreciated 😅 I actually never even realized he had a grab attack. When i first saw him go for his dive bomb, i panicked because I didn't see him, but then i had an anime moment and used my ears and experience to correctly guess the timing. The entire time i was thinking, "oh my god, if this fight is this hard, I'm scared to see the final boss" 😭 (i still had a lot of the map unexplored.)
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 used a Dark Moon build too and the black hole is great for taking his meteorite spell. I would use the deflecting tear in phase one and use parry counters and charged moonlight sword to stance break him off like 3 consistent hits. Phase 2 was a crap shoot tho and I got a good run when I beat him.
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
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
Yes I think they can be good, but you have to play around them in my opinion. If you want to use the light-greatsword probably you should use Miladi infused with an arcane scaling to get blood loss buildup on him. I would still recommend having a heavy shield in the off hand with some holy damage resistance for phase 2. Use Varre mask for blood loss, Dragoncrest talisman, Golden Braid talisman, Two head turtle talisman and then another talisman geared towards offense (depending on which moves you're using). I found that the perfect way to fight him (for me) was blocking specific attacks and dodging others, so a mix between the two. Also Scadutree level 20 will help a lot
The problem with using summons is that it's not gonna help you learn the fights against complex diffecult bosses on the level of radahn. I have realized that myself.
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?
If you hug the boss in 2nd phase and know how to deal with his meteor attack and oe blast then its achievable. Im stuck on him rn, have respeced into 70 dex 70 strngth 60 vigour. Pop on a great katanna and just learn 2nd phase. Posture break buff and heavy buff in mixed physic makes stagger possible. This is my current strategy wish me skill.
Back old days everyone use shields uintil they nerfed shields to shit in DS3 to speed up the game. Shield is great again in elden ring again, but people refuse to use them lol, and call the game unfair.
I literally just don't like the look of shields. Thats the whole thing. I haven't used a shield since I learned about s back in dark souls 1. And it is only occurring to me, right now, that this has probably made these games harder lmao. To me, blocking is just something I do with my sword in 2 hands so I don't do the stupid pivot
heavy/shield builds breeze thru the DLC, heavy damage 2H have problems, light armor casters cant do anything in this DLC (unless they get the crazy OP DLC spells but even then they get oneshoted) ...add to that 1/4 of DLC weapons and spells are OP busted and the 3/4 are useless garbage even if you try your hardest to build around it and you can clearly see that there is ZERO balancing done in this DLC, add cut coontent and empty areas and you can clearly see where the problem is, and its not the player
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.
Well you *can* learn his 2nd phase if your outputting enough damage. If want to get really good at posture breaking the 1st phase and make sure your charged heavy attacks are doing yellow bar damage. His 2nd phase is not as hard as you think, you just need more time in there with him to learn him
Folks I know the final boss is beyond hard…at first! But in just 2 days my 3 year old has learned to call torrent, ride through caelid, dismount, lock on, use crimson flasks to heal, jump attack, light and heavy attack, ash of war (even stance ones) and has completed several low level dungeons that I’m too lazy to do. I’m RL 150 and he uses guts greatsword…if he can accomplish beating impalers catacombs, death touched catacombs a tree sentinel, the lobsters in liurnia, and the tree sentinel duo in Altus….WE CAN DEFEAT THE MIQUELLESTER …..TOGETHAAAAAA WE WILL DEVOURRRR THE VERY GODSSSS
My method to super hard bosses like consort radhan is taking my time with the boss. First 10 deaths to learn the movesets, then i ll give about 10 more trys to beat the boss if i fail just come back tomorrow. My reflex are always better the next day. And also i only do about 5 to 7 tries in one session. The boss is definitely super busted and took my about 5 days but i had a dozens of super close calls. Kept chocking at one hp remaining. My build was pure dex guardian swordspear which i used from the base game to the whole dlc no summons as well.
I had a similar experience when I managed to get to him, with my casual build that I had done for fun while playing the DLC, looking like a scarecrow with a bloody scythe. I tried for two days before I accepted that I would have to change my character and tactics to beat him. I had to put on better armor, use the same shield you have, and a better bleed weapon to finally beat him with a lot of tries. it was not a fun fight and i haven't played the game since.
Honestly shield is the best way to adapt on the final boss unless you’re willing to spend hours learning his entire move set. Especially on ng+7 that’s a huge time sink when 1-2 strong hits will decimate your HP bar.
2:43 commander gaius would disagree with you, that bastard was just not fun to fight to me atleast, even with +17 scad and 65 vigor and dragon crest greatshield talisman, he was comfortable 3 to 4 tapping me
Great vid. My tip for any boss people find hard- turn the music volume down to zero! Amazing how much difference in pressure you feel when you don't have an orchestra in your ear...
I tried 6 different builds to beat him. I died like 75 times and when I finally beat him, it was with the original shield + mohgwyn trident that I started with edit: one of the biggest issues I had was I couldn't see anything he was doing in second phase. Also to dodge the comet attack, you just have to run away and double or triple roll when he lands and shoots out fire
I e played him a lot with 59 different weapons. I e only beaten him with incantations and sorceries in one hand and the blasphemous blade and whatever the name of that butterfly weapon is and that was luck.i only had two sumos. I wish i had 3 but who has the time for quests. I wish they had come up with a new boss. His size kinda helped me in a way
Use the fingeprint stone shield and the rot inflicting(also put on bleed affinity) thrusting weapon. Use the heaviest armor u have and spam shield attacks. I got him first try that way
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Switching to this build helped me do some decent damage and gave me some breathing room to learn his openings. Finally beat him after god knows how many attempts.
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
he keeps his stagger bar after the 2nd phase transition, so if you are fighting him and noticed he didn't stagger, charged R2s might break his poise during his AoE charge
all good advice. My only addition is this. "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer" -Javik. this boss is a pain in the dick and if the game wants to be unfair you can be unfair to the game. Lightning Perfume bottle, all the relevant buffs, and spam it at his feat until he dies. ironically phase 2 is easier since hes in 1 place at the start of it making landing several easy,
I’m primarily someone whose apart of the ds2 community and I take pride in the fact that I’ve beaten every boss in this series - so knowing that the best way to help people who think the dlc is “too hard” I made a almost guaranteed build and strat for him. I also did this on a character who hasn’t progressed past fire giant, so I beat radahn with only +18 weapons and 12 lvls in shadeau which you can get by pretty much speed running the dlc. Gear - fire knight helmet that increases hp, stamina, and equipment load. The godskin noble chest and bracelets that you get at ranni’s great rune tower. And the dlc solitude knights leggings. This gives you 60% holy negation Tailsmans - haligtree +2 at mogh’s palace for 68% holy, greatsheild tailsman, dlc pearl sheild tailsman, and twin headed turtle tailsman. Weapons - fingerprint greatsheild with barricade sheild AOW (aow not really necessary) from the night rider in weeping peninsula. And the antspur with a innate bleed AOW to proc both bleed and scarlet rot. Stats - 50+ vig, 35+ end, 50 strength, 40 dexterity (this one just help with dps, so this is flexible) Want at least 11 crimson tear flasks at +11 In your wondrous physics you want the bubble negation to cancel out one of his nukes (uplifting aromatics are helpful but not necessary) and the crimson physic that passively regenerates a small percentage of your hp for about a minute. With the holy damage negation this will outheal the chip damage his holy does to you when blocking. - drink this when he first uses the big laser in phase 2 Attack advice - circle around to his back, getting about 2 pokes in each attack chain, stop attacking if your stamina bar is under half. When he ends chain with x dual slash roll to his side. When he slams into ground roll into him as he begins to pull his swords out. When he crosses his swords into a L just tank then roll into him as he lands from his jump. (When ever he does the big light wave from these attacks are good times to heal, plus the mogh bloodflame if behind him) The grab, roll to side after he jumps. Gravity barrage, run straight away from it then jump to the side at the last second then tank which he’ll probably end it with a ground slam. If he does the light dash where he goes off in a random direction DON’T stand in it’s way, avoid at all cost. Will easily one shot you in less than a second. The dive bomb - look towards yellow dot in sky, will blink once and roll as it blinks twice. Then roll a second later. Scarlet rot will most likely proc again during phase 2 once he’s about to do dive bomb. Just need to survive once it does. But keep agro to minimize chance of him going for a nuke.
Great video. I beat him with guts greatsword + lions claw (base game). It takes 4 lions claw to stagger him (I think his poise resets after the meteors in stage 2). You can stagger him with three if you can get them off quickly. Once I figured this out and got better at not getting caught out by those two delayed swing combo finishers I was able to finish phase one quickly and consistently. I agree on being aggressive! I really started progressing him in stage two when I rushed him at the start. Stay in melee I also agree with: his hardest attacks to dodge (the illusion crap) won't come out as often when you're close in. Uplifting aromatics! More people should use them! I used one whenever I got him to fly away after I was safe from his return explosion. Everytime you die, pause for a minute and ask "what moves do I struggle with?". I got hit with blood flame alot when I'd try to get around him to avoid it, so I started dodging back away to avoid it safely. I had two deaths at 1 hit from a kill. When that happens, take it as a victory: it's progression. It took me 3-4 hours, and I took a break every hour.
If you're using a greatshield build like this, the greatshield sounds like it would help... but ironically... it helps greatshields less. The Pearl greatshield talisman however raises holy negation on block. THAT helps.
Radahn is just a huge skill gap no gear unless it’s cheese will help you 1st phase is honestly not hard at all this boss punishes very hard on players who dodge away from the boss u gotta stay close or the holy light will keep clipping you and that’s what u don’t want because one stagger from one of those holy lights after his swings means u gonna get chained by his other attacks and that’s gonna cause u to panic roll further ending ur attempt tips for the fight it’s either u get good and learn his moves or cheese no ther way around it stay close the light beams come down in the direction where he’s swinging too
You can use the new weapon called the bloodfiends arm at 60 Arcane it has over 200 Bleed build up. In 2-3 Heavy attacks you can probably stun Radahn and get a bleed proc.
I got him with a 2 handed greatsword with giant hunt, level 200 and it took about 5 giant hunts to get through phase 1 and just wait for opening in phase 2 and get a few giant hunts in
Few strategies I developed during my time with this boss, after 4 hours of attempts until I beat him -Bring a shield, holy enchant it, even if you don't want to use it the whole fight or are dual wielding. Having a shield at the ready is a great way to deal with Phase 2's long ranged attacks where he teleports to you repeatedly. If you block the light moves but if you dodge the real one's attack, you get an attack window -From my experience the phase 3 transition with the God ray coming in seems to target where Radahn was before he jumps off screen. So once he leaves get out of that area and you should be okay to buff back up or heal -I typically save my Physick buff for the start of Phase 2 after getting away from the giant holy explosion. You have enough time to use the physick or even summon a spirit ash. Phase 1 starts too aggressively and after long enough that phase is pretty figured out. So save your valuable buffs for the hard part -If you're feeling too pressured by the boss and struggling to notice his patterns, call the NPC summons in for a few runs. I don't think they help that much but having some breathing room to properly observe Radahn's attacks can go a long way -While risky, many of his attacks are parryable. It is absolutely a viable way to go for the fight -Use all the buffs/rune arcs, consumables you got once you think you got a grip on the moveset. Theres nothing harder in the game so whatever items you've been holding, NOW is the time to use em Best of Luck to y'all fighting this beast! We'll all make it past this guy, just like every other boss they've thrown our way o7
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.
Agreed. The whole lead up to this boss was so easy, and I was having tons of fun with my build. But then I’m forced to change to some cheesy build because his attacks are complete bs? Great design
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
Shields are the way to go I got through the entire game with a heavy endurance stamina build Quality With about 130 poise It's extremely rare a boss can break my guard Especially with these new talismans that have the "utmost " and are just the strongest versions from the original game That being said it did take me a few tries just changing up the weapons My advice to anyone struggling is it's ok to use your mimic ash but I wouldn't summon either of the two before the fog gate as they both do little damage and only make the boss have a larger health pool It was switching weapons and not summoning them that I beat him on my 4th try
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
Awesome comments like yours make my day. Thank you very much 🙂
problem with git gud is that while there is often truth behind it its spammed beyond oblivion without any sort of tangible advice attached to it. i hate how so much discourse in this community is either people whining that victory isnt handed to them on a silver platter or how every single critique you have of the game is actually your fault
@@epsilon1372 I think I somewhat agree with the “git good” having some truth but what I KNOW is more true is that not having an explanation on how to get good leaves people frustrated and angry. Often times leading to worse gameplay and an even bigger spiral. This video is a great example of WAYS to get better there was boss/build/placement advice all leading to someone getting better. If more discourse and commentary was more like this there would be a lot less toxicity within the community.
I didnt watch till the end for fear of too much spoiling advice. But shields generally dont help me as it further delays my roll.
As for “git gud” bs, in cases where you have to roll not amidst the swing in motion but at the starting point thereof, analogous to presenting hand gesture at the moment your opponent presents his in rock paper scissors instead of thereafter in reaction thereto, i consider it my displeasure if i ever do “get gud”. That means i play with intuition, muscle memory, and at best memorizing the different body poses of radahn at the aforementioned starting points of his different attacks (IF indeed there is a diff between, eg., his 2 variations of backhand swing following forehand swing), to wit, I rely on the furthest empirically-characterized end in the spectrum ranging between a priori logic and empiricism, characteristic of animals. While in an action game there is inevitable involvement with the empirical and pure a priori logic is out of reach, we humans ought to deduce the common principle among all threats, to wit, when an actually damaging attack is about to land, roll before it lands while it is locked on its way, not before when it simply charged itself to strike, but amidst its motion to your character. Abstract this principle and apply it to all threats, that is as close to pure reason as can be. Let the animals, slaves and computer-tools bear the duty of memorizing empirical data with its many nuances, humans ought to divert their gaze to simple principles uniting these nuances. But fromsoft games are made for these lesser creatures because i CANNOT roll amidst a swing, but only at the starting point
"Git Gud" is words of encouragement I don't know why or when people decided it wasn't. But I've played these games for 15 years and it was never suppose to be a diss to anyone.
Its like you either just say get gud or you have to know specifics and then give very specific advice or suggestions. So Git Gud is the way to go if you just want to encourage someone. Because in the end you won't beat the boss without gitting gud. That being you either learn the movesets, timings and openings or you go and make a stronger build. Both are valid options and there are other options to in the end though you have successfully beaten the boss = You did get gud
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.
to add on if you have a marikas blessing and raw meat dumplings in your inventory(hot bar) your mimic tear will use them if your using that summon
The final boss is actually really fun co-oping with a friend. I helped a friend kill him and we had me sort of tanking and my friend would cast the new thorns spells. At 25%ish, right before he was going to take off, he grabbed me. My friend got behind him and got off two thorns and deleted him.
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.
Parrying him is also a good strategy it stops him from doing his aoe spam after each hit
For the meteor, run as far away as you can from where he leaps and you should be fine
Maybe a little jump at the end to be extra safe
you can also dodge it with 2 well timed rolls, after running away a bit. The visual cue is he like flashes in the air a split second before he drops. But ofc the main challenge is actually seeing where tf he's dropping from. It probably isn't a random direction but I never figured it out so I was always panic looking around looking for where he went lmao
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.
It’s hard to sell people on tank and spank when they game presents you with so many cool options on the periphery. It’s honestly kind of a failing of elden ring. You give the player these sick tools like Roseminas polearm, the meteoric colossal sword, all the cool backhand blades stuff, but the endgame is so uncompromising on damage requirements unless you want to spend 8 minutes engaged with a boss that you have to pivot to a build that either gets huge payout for short exchanges aka high damage, or gimmicks+ defense. dunkey put it really well, in a game full of cool and interesting creative things, it’s so sad to see 90% of the player base rely on the same broken builds (shield+status/ colossal/spear, power stance status ala twin blade bleed or curved sword bleed, etc.)
@gf8762 It's not too hard to incorporate shields into a build that does good damage, I did it on my my first playthrough of the DLC with a quality build. Even if you are two-handing, alot of large and colossal weapons have surprisingly decent blocking stats.
@@carlschrappen9712 It’s not about doing good damage with a shield. It’s fairly simple to get 1.6k+ guard counters. My point was that players want to be cool, to look cool, to feel cool. Game satisfaction is more about how the players perceive themselves than anything else. Guard counters don’t feel or look cool so it’s hard to convince players to Use it. I think in a vacuum without the internet, more players would quit the final boss before they compromised on the play style they enjoy.
Here’s the thing though, I’ve NEVER had to change my build for any boss ever, and if I have to then that’s saying something. I just stuck to my two handed greatsword. And sure, it took me about five hours to finally kill him, but I feel like it was worth it.
Beat it only rolling with a claymore. Took me like 10-12 hours, loved every second of it.
This has to be the most useful Tips vid about Radhan. well done fellow tarnished.
I tried reevaluating - essentially - my only DLC build which is Great Katana + Carian Shield, but found out all my 650hrs muscle memory was too much tied to it. Did some respecs (first time in ER) but I only got things worse. And I don't use buffs since I never found them useful for me unless you stack them up. I always relied more on movement and composure. For this one I went back to my trusty Naga + double slash given the tiny attack windows available. Took me something like 70-80 tries but I have to say this fight felt like a chore. The holy VFXs in 2nd phase are way too messy and couldn't really enjoy what was going on.
But yeah, you can all do it
I already killed him, but I wanted to see how much of my suffering was unnecessary
This is very helpful, I'm not going to lie though, its hard to abandon my twohanded greatsword build lol
I had to break my it D: I have faith, though! Good luck, Skeleton :)
On my first play through I used great shield and counter attacks the entire run. First time using that build and it was actually really fun. It still took me like 5 hours to beat him tho. On my second run with a sorcerey build it took me about an hour to beat him.
I took a different tack to this bossfight and did not end up swapping off my two handed colossal weapon. My strategy was to use the perfect block hardtear, stack as much damage resist as possible (bubbletear, paledrake+3, and the physical damage resist one), and guard counter off of perfect blocks. All of his first phase attacks will deal zero damage to you if you're using the perfect block tear, and his second phase attacks will only barely chip you when perfectly blocked. Using the anvil hammer at +10, Radahn staggered in two guard counters if they were close enough together.
This method did end up turning the boss into sekiro, though, lol. I think a shield would have made it much easier. Weapon blocking is surprisingly good though!
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
Tip for Colossal Sword users: I beat him solo using the Guts sword two handed infused with bleed using a STR & ARC build. I used Giant Hunt in most openings which builds up huge stagger, has some hyper armor, & big damage. I think the crouch animation in it evades some attacks as well (not too sure). Otherwise, use jump attack as a gap closer & light attack for a quick hit. I personally can't find an opening for a charged heavy so just use Giant's Hunt. Blocking with the GS is also pretty effective if you think you can't dodge. You can take a few hits with that. Bleed will also proc a few times if you aren't too passive.
It was my first day with the boss. I beat him after like 25-30 attempts before going to bed that time (thank goodness). Goodluck.
If you can do the sekiro style blocking, you may able to do this with a middle shield, or even your weapon.
Finger print + anystupr + marika's braid equipped for extra defence , thank me later
wanna beat rhadan without memorizing movesets???? Use a big ass shield and moghwyn spear. Hold shield and poke til he's dead.
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
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 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
@@SomeUserk you DIDN’T grab all the scadutree fragments? No wonder you’re spending so long on him you gotta be at scadutree blessing level 20 to even stand a chance of beating him or at least somewhere near lvl 20
@@worldsworld933 got him to ~25% health couple of times with scadutree 6. Once triggering both his meteor and second levitating holy attack. After that i decided to look up scadutree location and buffed myself to scadutree 15. Then killed him like 4th try. He is actually not too scary. I think i struggled more meeting malenia first time
@@SomeUserk like I said most of his melee combos have long recovery time very easy to take advantage of
That great katana with that R2 is just 👌 oh my goodness thats some good stuff
I just beat him and yeah I had too change from Dex backhand blade lightning build to a heavy shield with sacred affinity and blasphemous blade.
U can use Miquella's great runes, it's a re-useable consumable that breaks his charm, u get it from scadutree avatar
I could not beat him by myself because I just don't have the reflexes to dodge his attacks. The second I got a Cooperator to join I got my kill. ALWAYS REMEMBER: jolly Co-operation is an option and you can beat the Bosses together. If you are playing with friends, try and figure out how your builds can compliment each other. And remember it's just a Game, have FUN.
Here's the part that confuses me. I used the exact same build as you but with one hit litaraly over half my health bar is gone! Why!!
2 shot him, i was doing a shield tank build and i just face tanked him. only died to that insta kill grab attack or else I had him in one.
thanks for the encouragement king
Thanks for the video. I’ll keep saying it though, on NG you shouldn’t have to change your build much to beat this boss. They made it too hard and this should be his NG+ version. I have zero problems taking hours and having to change my build for NG+ but in NG every build should be viable for the average player. And the fact that everyone seems to be getting this far and then struggling with this boss, is a sign the difficulty spike is too high. I hope they nerf him in NG and then keep the challenge for NG+ and beyond. I know this won’t be a popular opinion but no previous souls game had a final boss difficulty spike this high.
I played the DLC at lvl 280, it wasn't actually that hard, Radahn actually killed me only once (I messed up with my build), I got killed more times by Bayle and Putrescent knight.
No need for mental coaching, get a big greatshield, and get a bleed thrusting weapon. He is dead.
Where do you get that weapon?
That's the boss soul weapon when you kill Scadutree Avatar
@CosmicEye597 that'll be why I don't have it then 😒
Just use a good shield. 😊
the second phase it's just stupid and hard to see to understand what's going on...worst fight ever...
Great tips but changing a build just to beat a boss shouldn't be a thing. Not on you of course, it's just poor design
No spoiler warning or anything smh
that's honestly ur fault if you got spoiled the title literally says "elden ring dlc final boss" so if u clicked thinking u weren't gonna get spoiled is crazy
Are you stupid?
@@akv0id video started playing automatically didn't click on it
@akv0id just would have been nice because he says it half a second in
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
It's not even recycled he doesn't even use the same moveset, doesn't wear the same armor, and the game literally explains why radahn is back
You can use miquella’s greatrune that you get from defeating the scadutree avatar, it negates the affect of his grab attacks entirely
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
What does the command grab do? Does it make you take more damage or what?
@@BollsNiguh it puts a mark over your head, if you get grabbed again while having it, its instant death. So either dont get grabbed or use miquellas great rune to dispell the mark
The "you ARE good at this game" bits were highly appreciated 😅
I actually never even realized he had a grab attack. When i first saw him go for his dive bomb, i panicked because I didn't see him, but then i had an anime moment and used my ears and experience to correctly guess the timing.
The entire time i was thinking, "oh my god, if this fight is this hard, I'm scared to see the final boss" 😭 (i still had a lot of the map unexplored.)
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 used a Dark Moon build too and the black hole is great for taking his meteorite spell. I would use the deflecting tear in phase one and use parry counters and charged moonlight sword to stance break him off like 3 consistent hits. Phase 2 was a crap shoot tho and I got a good run when I beat him.
@@ArcadianWaheela Yeah second phase really sucks, scarlet rot helped me a lot though.
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
“We chose to go to the moon not because it is easy. It’s because it is hard.” JFK
Great video, appreciate the tips and the encouragement.
use a rapier if u going to do shield, so u can block and attack. plus u can infuse it with blood for bleed build up.
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
My friend is a dex user and he was getting cooked. He had to end up summoning, which is usually avoids. Good luck tho :)
I beat him with a keen milady with impaling strike so I think your good
Yes I think they can be good, but you have to play around them in my opinion. If you want to use the light-greatsword probably you should use Miladi infused with an arcane scaling to get blood loss buildup on him. I would still recommend having a heavy shield in the off hand with some holy damage resistance for phase 2. Use Varre mask for blood loss, Dragoncrest talisman, Golden Braid talisman, Two head turtle talisman and then another talisman geared towards offense (depending on which moves you're using).
I found that the perfect way to fight him (for me) was blocking specific attacks and dodging others, so a mix between the two. Also Scadutree level 20 will help a lot
Lol tried playing dex in the dlc for fun and I couldn’t stand it,it so weak so went back to oonga
I beat every dlc boss with only back blades and dual wielding katanas but this boss i went bleed/strength
The problem with using summons is that it's not gonna help you learn the fights against complex diffecult bosses on the level of radahn. I have realized that myself.
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
3:35 So you dont need the bubble tear! just run in one direction and you will avoid his divebomb
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?
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
200 IQ
If you hug the boss in 2nd phase and know how to deal with his meteor attack and oe blast then its achievable. Im stuck on him rn, have respeced into 70 dex 70 strngth 60 vigour. Pop on a great katanna and just learn 2nd phase. Posture break buff and heavy buff in mixed physic makes stagger possible. This is my current strategy wish me skill.
ive never used a shield because i liked the challenge but i might have to swallow my pride and use this build😭
This is the first time I swallowed my pride. I honestly loved it. Good luck, Skeleton!
Back old days everyone use shields uintil they nerfed shields to shit in DS3 to speed up the game. Shield is great again in elden ring again, but people refuse to use them lol, and call the game unfair.
I literally just don't like the look of shields. Thats the whole thing. I haven't used a shield since I learned about s back in dark souls 1. And it is only occurring to me, right now, that this has probably made these games harder lmao. To me, blocking is just something I do with my sword in 2 hands so I don't do the stupid pivot
Bro I just beaten him thanks to our tips to have holy dmg negation. That helped SO MUCH!
Nice work!
heavy/shield builds breeze thru the DLC, heavy damage 2H have problems, light armor casters cant do anything in this DLC (unless they get the crazy OP DLC spells but even then they get oneshoted) ...add to that 1/4 of DLC weapons and spells are OP busted and the 3/4 are useless garbage even if you try your hardest to build around it and you can clearly see that there is ZERO balancing done in this DLC, add cut coontent and empty areas and you can clearly see where the problem is, and its not the player
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.
Well you *can* learn his 2nd phase if your outputting enough damage. If want to get really good at posture breaking the 1st phase and make sure your charged heavy attacks are doing yellow bar damage. His 2nd phase is not as hard as you think, you just need more time in there with him to learn him
Yeah you're so right I don't wanna use a shield and rather die over and over again for 10 hours+ 😂
Folks I know the final boss is beyond hard…at first! But in just 2 days my 3 year old has learned to call torrent, ride through caelid, dismount, lock on, use crimson flasks to heal, jump attack, light and heavy attack, ash of war (even stance ones) and has completed several low level dungeons that I’m too lazy to do. I’m RL 150 and he uses guts greatsword…if he can accomplish beating impalers catacombs, death touched catacombs a tree sentinel, the lobsters in liurnia, and the tree sentinel duo in Altus….WE CAN DEFEAT THE MIQUELLESTER …..TOGETHAAAAAA WE WILL DEVOURRRR THE VERY GODSSSS
My method to super hard bosses like consort radhan is taking my time with the boss. First 10 deaths to learn the movesets, then i ll give about 10 more trys to beat the boss if i fail just come back tomorrow. My reflex are always better the next day. And also i only do about 5 to 7 tries in one session. The boss is definitely super busted and took my about 5 days but i had a dozens of super close calls. Kept chocking at one hp remaining. My build was pure dex guardian swordspear which i used from the base game to the whole dlc no summons as well.
I had a similar experience when I managed to get to him, with my casual build that I had done for fun while playing the DLC, looking like a scarecrow with a bloody scythe. I tried for two days before I accepted that I would have to change my character and tactics to beat him. I had to put on better armor, use the same shield you have, and a better bleed weapon to finally beat him with a lot of tries. it was not a fun fight and i haven't played the game since.
Havent watched yet but im pretty sure the answer is shield poking
Honestly shield is the best way to adapt on the final boss unless you’re willing to spend hours learning his entire move set. Especially on ng+7 that’s a huge time sink when 1-2 strong hits will decimate your HP bar.
2:43 commander gaius would disagree with you, that bastard was just not fun to fight to me atleast, even with +17 scad and 65 vigor and dragon crest greatshield talisman, he was comfortable 3 to 4 tapping me
Great vid. My tip for any boss people find hard- turn the music volume down to zero! Amazing how much difference in pressure you feel when you don't have an orchestra in your ear...
I tried 6 different builds to beat him. I died like 75 times and when I finally beat him, it was with the original shield + mohgwyn trident that I started with edit: one of the biggest issues I had was I couldn't see anything he was doing in second phase. Also to dodge the comet attack, you just have to run away and double or triple roll when he lands and shoots out fire
I e played him a lot with 59 different weapons. I e only beaten him with incantations and sorceries in one hand and the blasphemous blade and whatever the name of that butterfly weapon is and that was luck.i only had two sumos. I wish i had 3 but who has the time for quests. I wish they had come up with a new boss. His size kinda helped me in a way
Use the fingeprint stone shield and the rot inflicting(also put on bleed affinity) thrusting weapon. Use the heaviest armor u have and spam shield attacks. I got him first try that way
I bashed my head against rahdahn for 13hrs before i finally beat him out of pure luck. I got extremely luck with his attacks phase 2.
This feels like a therapy session and I’m depressed :D
Also he's slightly weaker against holy for his first phase but not in the second phase
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Switching to this build helped me do some decent damage and gave me some breathing room to learn his openings. Finally beat him after god knows how many attempts.
Awesome job! Glad you beat him, and I am glad I was able to help :)
Killed him twice. With a katana and shield the first time, and with dual skimitars the second.
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
Same happened to me and after using shield I’ll never turn back
Miquella's rune can be used to rest the charm effect I think.
Impenetrable thorns.
I like you man. You’re positive 🎉
he keeps his stagger bar after the 2nd phase transition, so if you are fighting him and noticed he didn't stagger, charged R2s might break his poise during his AoE charge
If you're using a shield build and you go a punish after a certain combo, block right away
all good advice. My only addition is this.
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer" -Javik. this boss is a pain in the dick and if the game wants to be unfair you can be unfair to the game. Lightning Perfume bottle, all the relevant buffs, and spam it at his feat until he dies. ironically phase 2 is easier since hes in 1 place at the start of it making landing several easy,
The lightning bottles and the ash of war has been patched
@@naterod sadly
I’m primarily someone whose apart of the ds2 community and I take pride in the fact that I’ve beaten every boss in this series - so knowing that the best way to help people who think the dlc is “too hard” I made a almost guaranteed build and strat for him.
I also did this on a character who hasn’t progressed past fire giant, so I beat radahn with only +18 weapons and 12 lvls in shadeau which you can get by pretty much speed running the dlc.
Gear - fire knight helmet that increases hp, stamina, and equipment load. The godskin noble chest and bracelets that you get at ranni’s great rune tower. And the dlc solitude knights leggings. This gives you 60% holy negation
Tailsmans - haligtree +2 at mogh’s palace for 68% holy, greatsheild tailsman, dlc pearl sheild tailsman, and twin headed turtle tailsman.
Weapons - fingerprint greatsheild with barricade sheild AOW (aow not really necessary) from the night rider in weeping peninsula. And the antspur with a innate bleed AOW to proc both bleed and scarlet rot.
Stats - 50+ vig, 35+ end, 50 strength, 40 dexterity (this one just help with dps, so this is flexible)
Want at least 11 crimson tear flasks at +11
In your wondrous physics you want the bubble negation to cancel out one of his nukes (uplifting aromatics are helpful but not necessary) and the crimson physic that passively regenerates a small percentage of your hp for about a minute. With the holy damage negation this will outheal the chip damage his holy does to you when blocking. - drink this when he first uses the big laser in phase 2
Attack advice - circle around to his back, getting about 2 pokes in each attack chain, stop attacking if your stamina bar is under half. When he ends chain with x dual slash roll to his side. When he slams into ground roll into him as he begins to pull his swords out. When he crosses his swords into a L just tank then roll into him as he lands from his jump. (When ever he does the big light wave from these attacks are good times to heal, plus the mogh bloodflame if behind him) The grab, roll to side after he jumps. Gravity barrage, run straight away from it then jump to the side at the last second then tank which he’ll probably end it with a ground slam.
If he does the light dash where he goes off in a random direction DON’T stand in it’s way, avoid at all cost. Will easily one shot you in less than a second.
The dive bomb - look towards yellow dot in sky, will blink once and roll as it blinks twice. Then roll a second later.
Scarlet rot will most likely proc again during phase 2 once he’s about to do dive bomb. Just need to survive once it does. But keep agro to minimize chance of him going for a nuke.
Great video. I beat him with guts greatsword + lions claw (base game). It takes 4 lions claw to stagger him (I think his poise resets after the meteors in stage 2). You can stagger him with three if you can get them off quickly. Once I figured this out and got better at not getting caught out by those two delayed swing combo finishers I was able to finish phase one quickly and consistently.
I agree on being aggressive! I really started progressing him in stage two when I rushed him at the start. Stay in melee I also agree with: his hardest attacks to dodge (the illusion crap) won't come out as often when you're close in.
Uplifting aromatics! More people should use them! I used one whenever I got him to fly away after I was safe from his return explosion.
Everytime you die, pause for a minute and ask "what moves do I struggle with?". I got hit with blood flame alot when I'd try to get around him to avoid it, so I started dodging back away to avoid it safely.
I had two deaths at 1 hit from a kill. When that happens, take it as a victory: it's progression.
It took me 3-4 hours, and I took a break every hour.
If you're using a greatshield build like this, the greatshield sounds like it would help... but ironically... it helps greatshields less.
The Pearl greatshield talisman however raises holy negation on block. THAT helps.
Radahn is just a huge skill gap no gear unless it’s cheese will help you 1st phase is honestly not hard at all this boss punishes very hard on players who dodge away from the boss u gotta stay close or the holy light will keep clipping you and that’s what u don’t want because one stagger from one of those holy lights after his swings means u gonna get chained by his other attacks and that’s gonna cause u to panic roll further ending ur attempt tips for the fight it’s either u get good and learn his moves or cheese no ther way around it stay close the light beams come down in the direction where he’s swinging too
You can use the new weapon called the bloodfiends arm at 60 Arcane it has over 200 Bleed build up. In 2-3 Heavy attacks you can probably stun Radahn and get a bleed proc.
I got him with a 2 handed greatsword with giant hunt, level 200 and it took about 5 giant hunts to get through phase 1 and just wait for opening in phase 2 and get a few giant hunts in
Well im not struggling, i just wanted to say shield bros this is our time!!
What’s the music used in the beginning of the video ?
Few strategies I developed during my time with this boss, after 4 hours of attempts until I beat him
-Bring a shield, holy enchant it, even if you don't want to use it the whole fight or are dual wielding. Having a shield at the ready is a great way to deal with Phase 2's long ranged attacks where he teleports to you repeatedly. If you block the light moves but if you dodge the real one's attack, you get an attack window
-From my experience the phase 3 transition with the God ray coming in seems to target where Radahn was before he jumps off screen. So once he leaves get out of that area and you should be okay to buff back up or heal
-I typically save my Physick buff for the start of Phase 2 after getting away from the giant holy explosion. You have enough time to use the physick or even summon a spirit ash. Phase 1 starts too aggressively and after long enough that phase is pretty figured out. So save your valuable buffs for the hard part
-If you're feeling too pressured by the boss and struggling to notice his patterns, call the NPC summons in for a few runs. I don't think they help that much but having some breathing room to properly observe Radahn's attacks can go a long way
-While risky, many of his attacks are parryable. It is absolutely a viable way to go for the fight
-Use all the buffs/rune arcs, consumables you got once you think you got a grip on the moveset. Theres nothing harder in the game so whatever items you've been holding, NOW is the time to use em
Best of Luck to y'all fighting this beast! We'll all make it past this guy, just like every other boss they've thrown our way o7
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.
Agreed. The whole lead up to this boss was so easy, and I was having tons of fun with my build. But then I’m forced to change to some cheesy build because his attacks are complete bs? Great design
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
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
Shields are the way to go I got through the entire game with a heavy endurance stamina build Quality With about 130 poise It's extremely rare a boss can break my guard Especially with these new talismans that have the "utmost " and are just the strongest versions from the original game That being said it did take me a few tries just changing up the weapons
My advice to anyone struggling is it's ok to use your mimic ash but I wouldn't summon either of the two before the fog gate as they both do little damage and only make the boss have a larger health pool It was switching weapons and not summoning them that I beat him on my 4th try