Watching this in 2023, and looking back it's so amazing to see how much Nerbit has grown and come out of his shell. It's really nice to see and I'm so happy TH-cam randomly suggested this channel. Keep up the amazing work!
I just love the visual of a man just beaning dragons and the thalmor over and over with nothing more than a shield. Chadborn. Fuck weapons I have a shield.
@@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632 someone should make a mod for that so you could play as the shield hero in Skyrim with all the shield effects and powers
@@Nerbit13098 There's also the skeletons in the Hall of the Dead in Whiterun. They're really good for power-grinding Block and Heavy Armor. Just go in, get beaten on for a bit, then use either level-ups to recuperate your lost health or walk back out of the room, and wait on one of the pews to regain your HP. Long grind, but easily-controllable.
I was so intrigued by this challenge that I actually did it myself as well as the Stormcloak campaign. Vegetable soup with the 5x shield bash damage perk even with a normal shield is OP
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I was like "Hey, that's the Targe of the Blooded!" I recognized it despite the fact I have NEVER used it, ever. I always collect it eventually, but my play styles do not utilize Block in any way.
Mine do, but never WITH a shield. I max out my 2h and block trees, for block runner, shield charge and great critical charge. You can get an instant critical, AND blow the victim halfway across the room.
There's a cabin named pinewatch up near your first player owned house in the Falkreath hold that has a mid-level bandit in the basement compared to your level at all times. There's only one bandit and there's a bed that you can stand on and the Bandit will go across to the other side of the room while you heal and whatnot. I found that I can gain a lot of XP sitting down there blocking.
Interesting. It seems bleed works the same as it does in Fallout 4 then, which makes sense. So because you're able to bash multiple times during the bleed duration, the bleed affect actually stacks making it much stronger than intended. Normally you wouldn't be able to bash so frequently and sustain it but the soup allows for that. It's a cheeky, Spiff-level exploit and I love it!
I did this challenge once. I had at least 100+ of weight in stanima potions and nord mead so I could keep attacking. I also rushed restoration magic to get the perk that restored stanima, and to have a decent ward to block magic.
@@joshuatucker2521 i have. I just forgot to mention that I put this handicap on myself during the challenge because I felt like vegetable soup was too OP for this challenge.
@@totallynotarobot1 true. But usually an iron dagger is 2 weight. Not really too worried on it, not doing an unarmed run right now. Someone challenged me to do a run where I can only put perk points into sneak, speech, pickpocket, alchemy, illusion, and restoration. It is modded so pickpocket technically covers both it and lockpicking, and restoration has poison spells, but it'sbeen fun defining my character as having a toxic touch.
@@fireblast133I know just a suggestion bud and I like the sound of it, with sneak and illusion it's pretty strong, if it don't break the rules of your challenge become a vampire for the buffs to both. I'm currently playing a gray fox build for oblivion nostalgia, modded cause it makes it so much better.
I was surprised too, honestly. I'd just finished watching his Daedric Artifacts run and the playlist popped up. I was immediately hit with the realization that time has passed.
I like the fact your not using restoration I've been doing that recently for alot of warrior characters so it's nice seeing I'm not the only mental player making playthroughs harder
I did a two handed warrior playthrough who had crappy healing. Man, ending fights with a sliver of health would make those fights so intense. 10/10 would reccomend
Recently found your videos (Sep 2023) and listening to the difference in your voice here is making me really proud of you for how you’ve progressed as a content creator. Great job, man, you make me want to start my own channel
Funny thing is, this strategy is just as viable in the late game too. Assuming you aren't doing a challenge run, you can do this, use the Ebony Mail, poison a weapon and use Fire Cloak and you'll disintegrate any enemy's health bar with massive amounts of damage over time
Dawg, I found your channel recently and watched your newer stuff and then watched and man there’s a huge difference. You’ve come quite a path man, good job
On normal difficulty, you can beat Skyrim with literally any playstyle - it's very freeing and allows you to really build immersive characters around whatever theme you like. You want to beat Skyrim as a "naked" Khajit with just a fork while wearing a chef's hat ? You certainly can.
Something slightly helpful you could've done was play as an orc to use the berserker power to once a day regenerate stamina twice as fast for a full minute.
So, about the dragon-shield propulsion. What I think happened is this: You smacked a draugr or two. Dragon lands on draugr, who fit between its head and wing. You smacked draugr again, immobilizing them again and making them stagger back. While draugr recovered, you smacked dragon. Dragon went into recoil animation, which pushes its wings slightly closer to its body. Draugr is there and Skyrim physics says two entities can't intersect. Since there is no space for draugr to move, dragon has to. Dragon is pushed sideways, which dislodges draugr. However, dragon's wing now threatens to intersects with draugr. So draugr moves since now there is space to the side. But now draugr is threatening to intersect with dragon's body, so dragon moves again, on top of the original movement. This once again means the wing is threatening to intersect with draugr. Thus, the cycle repeats with ever increasing momentum as the dragon drags draugr along until they just slide off the cliff. They will keep going like this until draugr escapes.
When Captain America throws his mighty shield, All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield. If he's led to a fight and a duel is due, Then the red and the white and the blue'll come through. When Captain America throws his mighty shield.
And you can’t cock block the steroided jock when he wants to peg his Peggy. In the past she was hot, in the future she is not; Cap cried when she died because he threw his mighty shield to end her so he could bang another thot.
Shield 100 with vegetable soup, the Targe, deadly bash, the ability to move normally, and send people flying when running is easily peak skyrim. Pair with destruction magic and you are unstoppable
I don't think I've ever been to that peace council. I'd rather spend a few hours bashing skulls in the Civil War questline than ten minutes getting my brains melted out of mine out of boredom.
Wow Nerbie you might be orange but you've really improved in making videos the editing has gotten a lot better, you sound much more enthusiastic, and the quality has really skyrocketed in such a short period of time, good on ya partner.
I actually went and tried to get Targe of the Blooded at level 1. I learned just how complex the navigation of Atfalktjebd (whatever the Dwemer Ruin is called) was.
The older videos are still good but my god can you hear a difference, I'm assuming Nerbit got a new mic or at the very least switched to a different recording software
9:45 I wasn't as lucky. Delphine didn't pull out her torch at all for me so she just stood at the entrance to the area and softlocked the quest. Reloading didn't work the first time so I turned to the internet and it's misleading advice and spent maybe 40 minutes trying things before a reload fixed it by chance.
I remember doing a shield only run. The only boss you can't beat with it is ironically the one you need to kill to get the spellbreaker but otherwise shield's can kill anything in the game in a 1v1. I was slaying giants at like level 9.
What you could’ve done to deal with the magic is join the mages college and get the weak ward spell. It’s not a damage spell so it’d be allowed, and it protects good against early magic, and since I’m assuming you didn’t level up as much, the magic wouldn’t be as powerful due to level scaling.
Nafoumi (from Rising of the Shield Hero) “how am I suppose to fight with just a shield” Several anime, movie, and video game characters “do we tell him…… nah”
You need to follow hadvar during the beginning, that way you can get free iron/ steel and during the torture chamber you have the lighting guy on your side.
Wasn't aware that undead could bleed. The UESP says otherwise. Now I can finally do my bleed build (Targe of the Blooded + Axes with 3 points of Hack and Slash).
The dragon you yeeted with the Draugr? I think I figured out how you did it. You just gave him a really bad concussion so he tripped and flew over trying to balance himself
If Skyrim had real shield bashes they would be way more powerful. A proper shield bash hits with the rim, in a punching motion, and it's basically like having a mace for a fist.
He sounds so more nervous compared to the slaving freeing nerbit we know and love.
Every journey begins with a first step.
He still hates delphine just as much 7:38
LMFAO @@mrcoldmiser
I know it's so wierd
Watching this in 2023, and looking back it's so amazing to see how much Nerbit has grown and come out of his shell. It's really nice to see and I'm so happy TH-cam randomly suggested this channel.
Keep up the amazing work!
Still hates Delphine just as much
Here here
@@makeshiftusec992 All my homies hate Delphine.
Loki "I have an Army!"
Captain America "I have Soup"
What do you mean theres only soup?
good soup
I've got a jar of dirt!
Soup and shield build op
@@fabianholmgren9399 shield runner is better
I just love the visual of a man just beaning dragons and the thalmor over and over with nothing more than a shield. Chadborn. Fuck weapons I have a shield.
The best offense is a good defense?
The Great Wall of Chad
The shield hero
@@gipsydangeramericasmonster9632 someone should make a mod for that so you could play as the shield hero in Skyrim with all the shield effects and powers
Bonk
You should have grind your block skill on the mudcrab on the little pond in whiterun and get the strong bash perk
Yeah looking back I should have taken the time to get my block higher, certainly would have made things easy in places
I didn’t even know about this crab. That’s awesome!
@@Nerbit13098 There's also the skeletons in the Hall of the Dead in Whiterun. They're really good for power-grinding Block and Heavy Armor. Just go in, get beaten on for a bit, then use either level-ups to recuperate your lost health or walk back out of the room, and wait on one of the pews to regain your HP. Long grind, but easily-controllable.
@Harrison Fetters Nobody cares.
@Kylo Nicholas Nice alt account.
His voice sounds so different compared to now that's how much he has truly grown as a character
So true!
@@dman1357 PENIS
Our boy is growing up 😢
I was so happy when I found this channel.
I was so intrigued by this challenge that I actually did it myself as well as the Stormcloak campaign. Vegetable soup with the 5x shield bash damage perk even with a normal shield is OP
You should thank Todd howard for his totally good creation engine that works properly bc it saved you from that dragon
Dragons don't spawn if you don't talk to the Yarl in Whiterun 🙂
The all mighty god whose name is Todd Howard.
@@brobrofog hell yeah
@@Juber777 you have to talk to him to continue the main quest
@@TheSleepiestOfThemAll there's a ton to do besides the main quest...
now THAT is what I call a reliable shield-brother
I find it funny how basically being addicted to soup comparatively trivialised the challange lol. I gotta start eatin' more soup!
"Mom, can we have Captain America?"
"Why? we have Captain America at home."
0:46 Captain America at home
Wish-brand Captain America- Souper Soldier.
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I was like "Hey, that's the Targe of the Blooded!" I recognized it despite the fact I have NEVER used it, ever. I always collect it eventually, but my play styles do not utilize Block in any way.
Mine do, but never WITH a shield.
I max out my 2h and block trees, for block runner, shield charge and great critical charge. You can get an instant critical, AND blow the victim halfway across the room.
There's a cabin named pinewatch up near your first player owned house in the Falkreath hold that has a mid-level bandit in the basement compared to your level at all times. There's only one bandit and there's a bed that you can stand on and the Bandit will go across to the other side of the room while you heal and whatnot. I found that I can gain a lot of XP sitting down there blocking.
Interesting. It seems bleed works the same as it does in Fallout 4 then, which makes sense. So because you're able to bash multiple times during the bleed duration, the bleed affect actually stacks making it much stronger than intended. Normally you wouldn't be able to bash so frequently and sustain it but the soup allows for that. It's a cheeky, Spiff-level exploit and I love it!
Truly humble beginnings
Great job! a neat creative challenge and good commentary. i‘ve never played Skyrim myself so this watch was extra cool 👍
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! I'm hoping to have more videos like this one out in the near future :)
Ur missing out lol
Oh you missed out
I did this challenge once. I had at least 100+ of weight in stanima potions and nord mead so I could keep attacking. I also rushed restoration magic to get the perk that restored stanima, and to have a decent ward to block magic.
bro just use vegetable soup
regenerates 1 stamina a second, you only need 1 stamina to power attack / bash
Rushing wards in a shield only run is pretty funny
Guess you never heard of Vegetable Soup lmao
@@joshuatucker2521 i have. I just forgot to mention that I put this handicap on myself during the challenge because I felt like vegetable soup was too OP for this challenge.
@@joshuatucker2521 why are people acting so stuck up for no reason, it aint that big a deal
I love the water dripping in the background
Welp, got the itch the binge all of Nerbit's challenge runs afain. Godspeed to any other weary traveler doing the same!
Godspeed, good traveller! Doing it as well. XD
This is like, eleven times for me.
Beating Skyrim with your bare hands is the most fun I ever had with that game
argonian also works, but it's much less effective.
I had so much fun doing that to, my character was named “Sir Fisticuffs”
I went full Viking and was Bjorn the brawler 😂
He should remaster this video for the 4 year anniversary of this video
Ah, the Captain America run. I was wondering if this was legit
Nerbit went from NPC to main character
Lmao fr
Can You Binge-Watch all of Nerbit's Videos in one Sitting? Nerbit ASMR Power-Hours.
I've done unarmed runs in Skyrim, I don't consider it a break of the run if you use a dagger for things like cutting spider webs.
Make sense you're just using it to clear a path not kill an enemy
that's why you carry a woodcutter's axe with you
Use flames spell, means you don' need a dagger and it saves you a little bit of carry weight
@@totallynotarobot1 true. But usually an iron dagger is 2 weight.
Not really too worried on it, not doing an unarmed run right now. Someone challenged me to do a run where I can only put perk points into sneak, speech, pickpocket, alchemy, illusion, and restoration. It is modded so pickpocket technically covers both it and lockpicking, and restoration has poison spells, but it'sbeen fun defining my character as having a toxic touch.
@@fireblast133I know just a suggestion bud and I like the sound of it, with sneak and illusion it's pretty strong, if it don't break the rules of your challenge become a vampire for the buffs to both. I'm currently playing a gray fox build for oblivion nostalgia, modded cause it makes it so much better.
I AM SO USED TO THE MODERN VOICE HOLY SHIT THIS CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD
I was surprised too, honestly. I'd just finished watching his Daedric Artifacts run and the playlist popped up.
I was immediately hit with the realization that time has passed.
Coming back in ‘24 to start from the beginning 💪
I like the fact your not using restoration I've been doing that recently for alot of warrior characters so it's nice seeing I'm not the only mental player making playthroughs harder
I did a two handed warrior playthrough who had crappy healing. Man, ending fights with a sliver of health would make those fights so intense. 10/10 would reccomend
@@MetalSolidCrisis ya it's both fun and terrifying getting into battle only realizing too late you forgot to restock on potions
Wait people actually use restoration for healing themselves?
Could have done the quest for Spellbreaker.
Recently found your videos (Sep 2023) and listening to the difference in your voice here is making me really proud of you for how you’ve progressed as a content creator. Great job, man, you make me want to start my own channel
You became a Souper Soldier
Funny thing is, this strategy is just as viable in the late game too. Assuming you aren't doing a challenge run, you can do this, use the Ebony Mail, poison a weapon and use Fire Cloak and you'll disintegrate any enemy's health bar with massive amounts of damage over time
Considering Cpt. America is on the wrong side of the civil war in the MCU it's fitting you escaped with Ralof.
I was hoping to see Spellbreaker...
Good to know “it just works”
Amazing how much the quality of these videos have improved over the year and a half since this video came out.
I appreciate the mental image of just repeatedly poking dragons with the spiky side of a shield...
The Dragonborn's left arm must be jacked after doing this
Right arm too, I mean think about it. What would any dude do with his idle right hand?
@@oditeomnes inhale soup to regenerate his stamina
Dawg, I found your channel recently and watched your newer stuff and then watched and man there’s a huge difference. You’ve come quite a path man, good job
This is where the challenge runs began.
Crazy ass ideas he comes up with I'm fallout and skyrim makes me wanna re- play them all
Should have used a platter to glitch into the lift that exits alftand, brings you right to the targe.
Ah, the ancient Sherbet mic
The rising of the shield hero! SKYRIM EDITION
On normal difficulty, you can beat Skyrim with literally any playstyle - it's very freeing and allows you to really build immersive characters around whatever theme you like. You want to beat Skyrim as a "naked" Khajit with just a fork while wearing a chef's hat ? You certainly can.
wow it sounds like you're trying not to wake someone up compared to now
Something slightly helpful you could've done was play as an orc to use the berserker power to once a day regenerate stamina twice as fast for a full minute.
That's a red guard ability. Orcs have deal double damage and take half damage for 60 seconds.
Both of the mention races would be great for a run like this.
Oh my god he's just a lil Nerbo
You started this channel over 2 years ago look at how far you have come
Humble beginnings and im glad you continued friend
I'm watching this 2 year later and his voice is so much more happy
This video needs to be remade. It's such a neat idea
I’m thinking Captain America
*makes Thor*
Taking a piss while recording a challenge walkthrough is such a Chad behavior, props man.
Get Targe the blood, and get vegetable soup, that way you can have unlimited shield bash
So did you actually watch the video?
@@naithungoal609 I don't think I did lol
So, about the dragon-shield propulsion. What I think happened is this: You smacked a draugr or two. Dragon lands on draugr, who fit between its head and wing. You smacked draugr again, immobilizing them again and making them stagger back. While draugr recovered, you smacked dragon. Dragon went into recoil animation, which pushes its wings slightly closer to its body. Draugr is there and Skyrim physics says two entities can't intersect. Since there is no space for draugr to move, dragon has to. Dragon is pushed sideways, which dislodges draugr. However, dragon's wing now threatens to intersects with draugr. So draugr moves since now there is space to the side. But now draugr is threatening to intersect with dragon's body, so dragon moves again, on top of the original movement. This once again means the wing is threatening to intersect with draugr. Thus, the cycle repeats with ever increasing momentum as the dragon drags draugr along until they just slide off the cliff. They will keep going like this until draugr escapes.
When Captain America throws his mighty shield,
All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield.
If he's led to a fight and a duel is due,
Then the red and the white and the blue'll come through.
When Captain America throws his mighty shield.
Unless your a Plane or a Bomb or some Ice.
and you chose to take a Nap cause the ice seems Nice.
When Captain America Throws his Mighty Shield!
And you can’t cock block the steroided jock when he wants to peg his Peggy. In the past she was hot, in the future she is not; Cap cried when she died because he threw his mighty shield to end her so he could bang another thot.
Shittin and pissin my pants out of terror
Shield 100 with vegetable soup, the Targe, deadly bash, the ability to move normally, and send people flying when running is easily peak skyrim. Pair with destruction magic and you are unstoppable
Steveborn: “I can do this all day!”
Genius comment! 🤣
I wouldn't mind seeing Nerbit come back to this one, now that he's more experienced with Skyrim challenges
shield hero run i love these challenges.
Wow, the audio equipment sounds so much better after these videos. luv ya nerb.
Ah, the birth of a legend
I’m happy that this video was the first one I saw. Been part of your community ever since
To think this is a legends first video
Why did I have to discover this channel? Why am I now feeling a primal urge to blast through skyrim again😂😂😂
Getting predators grace mightve made this even better
I don't think I've ever been to that peace council. I'd rather spend a few hours bashing skulls in the Civil War questline than ten minutes getting my brains melted out of mine out of boredom.
Great job, Captain Skyrim
Wow Nerbie you might be orange but you've really improved in making videos the editing has gotten a lot better, you sound much more enthusiastic, and the quality has really skyrocketed in such a short period of time, good on ya partner.
Also someone from Ireland could probably make a very funny joke about the orange man using soup to win.
All your doing in this video is knocking people out cold and showing off your shield bashing skills. That I can say is impressive.
I actually went and tried to get Targe of the Blooded at level 1.
I learned just how complex the navigation of Atfalktjebd (whatever the Dwemer Ruin is called) was.
I would love to see a modern nerbit redo of this challenge where he actually maxes block skill
Obtaining Elder scroll before dragon tablet.. legendary status achieved!
The older videos are still good but my god can you hear a difference, I'm assuming Nerbit got a new mic or at the very least switched to a different recording software
Nebbit is the shield hero we needed
9:45
I wasn't as lucky. Delphine didn't pull out her torch at all for me so she just stood at the entrance to the area and softlocked the quest. Reloading didn't work the first time so I turned to the internet and it's misleading advice and spent maybe 40 minutes trying things before a reload fixed it by chance.
Did anyone else notice the dripping in the background of the audio?
yeah i was thinking the same thing lol
I remember doing a shield only run. The only boss you can't beat with it is ironically the one you need to kill to get the spellbreaker but otherwise shield's can kill anything in the game in a 1v1. I was slaying giants at like level 9.
I done this playthrough. Pretty fun. Once you get Targe, the run is basically over.
What you could’ve done to deal with the magic is join the mages college and get the weak ward spell. It’s not a damage spell so it’d be allowed, and it protects good against early magic, and since I’m assuming you didn’t level up as much, the magic wouldn’t be as powerful due to level scaling.
Awwwww baby norbit
Great video. I love challenges that sound absolutely impossible on paper.
Hey, tough challenge, but I bet yer armor skills are JACKED now.
It’s Corporal Ireland!
You said Balgruuf...but his name is Jarl..
Ballin, we be ballin!
Nafoumi (from Rising of the Shield Hero) “how am I suppose to fight with just a shield”
Several anime, movie, and video game characters “do we tell him…… nah”
My favorite character I ever made in Skyrim was a shadowscale that used his shield, fists and spells!!
You need to follow hadvar during the beginning, that way you can get free iron/ steel and during the torture chamber you have the lighting guy on your side.
The old shield hero playthrough.
Wasn't aware that undead could bleed. The UESP says otherwise. Now I can finally do my bleed build (Targe of the Blooded + Axes with 3 points of Hack and Slash).
The dragon you yeeted with the Draugr? I think I figured out how you did it. You just gave him a really bad concussion so he tripped and flew over trying to balance himself
He also needed time to come to terms with the fact that he is facing a dude with a shield, and will most definitely lose.
"Soup Strat" sounds like a diet.
If Skyrim had real shield bashes they would be way more powerful. A proper shield bash hits with the rim, in a punching motion, and it's basically like having a mace for a fist.
Ymfha used the serpent stone to petrify the block skill trainer and while she is getting up you can rob her with a 100% chance
I’m pretty sure if you can beat Skyrim with a fork, you can do it with a shield
*the dragon flies away* the dragonborns pimp hand is strong
When he gets to the embassy you can tell there's a shift in his confidence.
I genuinely thought that he was going to use Auriel's shield during the challenge.