Punching anything that moves is such a mood like I've waited for an excuse to get in a fight for years now unfortunately seems like no one is stupid enough to give me an excuse and my body won't let me either I guess since I had to have an appendectomy yesterday which fucking sucks and right now and even when I was in the hospital I just wanted to eat a bullet instead of feel pain
Did some research and if you go after all the 'smithing stone' based fist, claws and whips, you'll have exactly 13, which is also the max number of Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in the game currently. Without ng+ or dlc
The grafted dragon used to be a meme weapon but became really good after they buffed it...but only in pve, nobody is gonna get hit by that massive windup attack on the skill. But it ironically shreds dragons and other large creatures, or anything that it's explosion knocks on their ass. Used to be even stronger back when offhand skills applied mainhand buff effects.
I've been rocking it for a while. You'd be suprised. Even decent players can get hit if they get greedy. If they don't, they can still get clipped by the fire rain, unless they run out of range (imo the boring passive option). Oh also it actually has +10% damage against some dragons so yeah, dragon killer.
6:38 damn, I like that gameplay style, that guy looks like a boss, cool armor, stylish stacks (+ bleed and lightning), bow and knife throwing. I love it
Btw unblockable blade is more like piercing fang. Both unblockable blades and fang completely ignore a shield while impaling thrust punches a large amount of your damage through but doesn't completely bypass
Hell yeah, I love the fist weapons. I'm big into boxing irl (watching and practicing) and I just find something satisfying about punching gods, demi-gods, monsters, and legendary heroes to death. Also big congrats on 20k subs my man, you deserve much more than you have. Looking forward to seeing your channel continue to grow.
Freindly reminder that blood infusion overwrites native bleed, making caestus/spiked caestus have the same bleed blood infused. What you wanna use for spiked caestus is the occult/poison infusion, as it scales the base bleed with arcane. The few more points in status is insignificant against the occult ar increase. Tldr, dont use bleed infusion with weapons that already have bleed.
The fextralife wiki says that most bleed procs deal 15% + 100 damage, but blood infused weapons that have innate bleed deal 15% + 200 damage. So on someone with 1900 health an occult spiked caestus will deal 385 damage from the bleed proc, and the blood spiked caestus will deal 485 damage from the bleed proc. Also the blood affinity will usually get around 25% more bleed buildup than occult in most cases. Basically, use occult for a balance between bleed and physical damage, and blood if you want to go all in on bleed procs.
Starfist's heavy attack is absolutely good as it hits with BOTH fists at ONCE! Double damage, double effect buildup! It also procs multihit talismans super fast
8:00 braggarts roar is equippable on all infusable fist weapons, so it requires no special coding. Since implying thrust can only be equipped on katar for fists, it wouldnt show up as default and an exception would have to be made
It's worth noting for the Grafted Dragon is that it's heavy attack comes out fast and does surprisingly good poise damage. And, for some reason, even if you have it on your offhand using an ash will prioritize Bear Witness over whatever you have in your right hand, similar to a shield's ash being used instead of a weapon's. As for powerstancing them, the way i think of it is that R1 swings with one, L1 swings with two, R2 swings with your right and L2 Swings with your left. It's a fun setup if you want to think of fistfighting as a bit more technical.
Yeah people don’t realize how unbelievably strong the 1 handed charged heavy it. Come out incredibly fast, has almost no ending frames, does a shit ton of poise for what it is, and barely uses any stamina. It’s like the devs took into account that it’s a 1 handed fist weapon and buffed it’s charged heavies like crazy
The best fist weapon with the regular moveset is spiked ball, which does more damage than iron ball and has bleed. Plus bloodflame blade on the 2 hand is crazy.
Important note, most fists weapons deal more damage if you power stance them instead of two handing, but that does mean you need two instead of one upgraded weapon
It's worth pointing out that the grafted dragon for some reason deals _ridiculous_ stance damage in PvE. Those charged heavies break stance way faster than they have any right to.
fists are my favorite weapon type in elden ring, its such a shame they get shafted when it comes to ashes of war (i will be eternally pissed that you can't put impaling thrust on the katar)
Caestus is Latin and it is pronounced Kai-stoos. I don't care how people pronounce it, but for those who wanna know, that's how. It makes me happy that it's the coolest pronunciation of the word though.
what gauntlets are you wearing at the begining ove the video for only your right hand to have the jutting out circle around it? also what greaves are you wearing?
is there a way to see how much poise dmg a weapon does? and speed? playing with daggers and the venomous fist atm. i guess the fang is pretty much the same range as a fist, but they def. feel slower than daggers. but my main issue with daggers is that they bounce off shields and these crystal enemies
I wish the fist weapons incorporated more kicks into them... like I know it defeats the whole "fist" name, but the Kick ash of war is way too slow for me to picture my character as a monk
I first got into fist weapons back in Dark Souls 3 because Caestus' could rolling attack in-between attacks from the ultra greatswords and greataxes, and also because Crow's Talons had the exact one-handed moveset as the Longsword and people just didn't expect that. Elden Ring somehow made me love this playstyle even more, as my first character bashed bosses' faces with his spiky balls.
i love the moveset of the regular caestus, really wish there were more cool options to put on fists tho (impaling thrust should be allowed on all fists)
tbh I love fist weapons in general, but really can't love cliging bone. Lifesteal fist is great. It's available very early in the game (in a scarab on the way to the spiked ceastus) so it's a good way to set up occult affinity on fists and claws and get better status build-up before beating Radhan, or anyone else for that matter. Additionnally it proc greases and spell buffs 3 times at full strength so even standard fists get a good use out of it. Clinging bone itself can't really benefit from either and has worse AR than a keen or occult katar for 80/20 and 20/80 split into DEX and ARC. Even going for 50/50 doesn't bring it above either of the katars, let alone an occult spiked caestus. And above that it can't apply status or get weapon buffs. It looks cool, but numberwise it's kind of the worse fist option unless you decide to go for something like 80 ARC 80 DEX.
I just recently started using katars with quickstep on my caster and it's so much fun! The mobility and aggression enables some great setup for some more obscure spells
My first playthrough in Elden Ring was centered around Cipher Pata and Beastial incantasions, holy damage felt great in early game while physical from Beast Sling, Claws and Rock carried me through last quarter and pure faith actually scales better for'em even with the claw talisman Still my personal favourite playstyle
Spiked Caestus is god-tier. Also, double Grafted Dragon is pretty dope. Also, also, Star Fist is tight. Also, also, also, a Mike Tyson build done right is immensly broken.
I remember when i discovered that all their r2s all poise break all natural poise. Alwasy won trades with it being way faster. Shutdown all the crouch pokers. Then discovering that all r2s had comboed into another r2. Even charges r2s. The raptor talons 4 hit true combo. Im glad i made that fist video when i did before they nerfed the stagger killing the combos
You're finally living up to your name. Now go punch anything that moves
Punching anything that moves is such a mood like I've waited for an excuse to get in a fight for years now unfortunately seems like no one is stupid enough to give me an excuse and my body won't let me either I guess since I had to have an appendectomy yesterday which fucking sucks and right now and even when I was in the hospital I just wanted to eat a bullet instead of feel pain
@@Lucifer-sn9ir 14 year old moment
@@Lucifer-sn9ir short people moment
Did some research and if you go after all the 'smithing stone' based fist, claws and whips, you'll have exactly 13, which is also the max number of Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in the game currently. Without ng+ or dlc
The perfect playthrough , do each remembrance with a different one of those, and reuse two.
Cool!
You have given me the courage to finally FIST my enemies. Thank you.
dang how does nobody notice it’s you?
Why hello there
Ranni ❤❤
I love when some of my fav youtubers watch each others videos
Sup "waifu" (didnt know what else to call you)
The grafted dragon used to be a meme weapon but became really good after they buffed it...but only in pve, nobody is gonna get hit by that massive windup attack on the skill. But it ironically shreds dragons and other large creatures, or anything that it's explosion knocks on their ass.
Used to be even stronger back when offhand skills applied mainhand buff effects.
I made a build with it last week and it's surprising how many people get hit by it😂
I've been rocking it for a while. You'd be suprised. Even decent players can get hit if they get greedy. If they don't, they can still get clipped by the fire rain, unless they run out of range (imo the boring passive option).
Oh also it actually has +10% damage against some dragons so yeah, dragon killer.
Occult Spiked Caestus on a pure arcane absolutely slaps. It has the same energy as pure faith Cipher Pata.
Yawn.
man. you got some loser real upset that you're having fun with a build. god forbid we have any fun.
6:38 damn, I like that gameplay style, that guy looks like a boss, cool armor, stylish stacks (+ bleed and lightning), bow and knife throwing. I love it
Btw unblockable blade is more like piercing fang. Both unblockable blades and fang completely ignore a shield while impaling thrust punches a large amount of your damage through but doesn't completely bypass
Hell yeah, I love the fist weapons. I'm big into boxing irl (watching and practicing) and I just find something satisfying about punching gods, demi-gods, monsters, and legendary heroes to death.
Also big congrats on 20k subs my man, you deserve much more than you have. Looking forward to seeing your channel continue to grow.
I appreciate the love Orby 🤝
Freindly reminder that blood infusion overwrites native bleed, making caestus/spiked caestus have the same bleed blood infused. What you wanna use for spiked caestus is the occult/poison infusion, as it scales the base bleed with arcane. The few more points in status is insignificant against the occult ar increase.
Tldr, dont use bleed infusion with weapons that already have bleed.
The fextralife wiki says that most bleed procs deal 15% + 100 damage, but blood infused weapons that have innate bleed deal 15% + 200 damage. So on someone with 1900 health an occult spiked caestus will deal 385 damage from the bleed proc, and the blood spiked caestus will deal 485 damage from the bleed proc. Also the blood affinity will usually get around 25% more bleed buildup than occult in most cases.
Basically, use occult for a balance between bleed and physical damage, and blood if you want to go all in on bleed procs.
I know it would have been stupid, but bare fists only pvp would have been funny as hell
when you run around with metal balls on your hands and put Prisoner Mask you have ball trifecta
Starfist's heavy attack is absolutely good as it hits with BOTH fists at ONCE! Double damage, double effect buildup! It also procs multihit talismans super fast
Man,the clinging bone IS my favorite weapons,thank you!
8:00 braggarts roar is equippable on all infusable fist weapons, so it requires no special coding. Since implying thrust can only be equipped on katar for fists, it wouldnt show up as default and an exception would have to be made
Really? I thought it was exclusive to the iron balls?
I love how monk wins with the majority of the weapons he showcases for his videos 😂❤
It's worth noting for the Grafted Dragon is that it's heavy attack comes out fast and does surprisingly good poise damage. And, for some reason, even if you have it on your offhand using an ash will prioritize Bear Witness over whatever you have in your right hand, similar to a shield's ash being used instead of a weapon's.
As for powerstancing them, the way i think of it is that R1 swings with one, L1 swings with two, R2 swings with your right and L2 Swings with your left. It's a fun setup if you want to think of fistfighting as a bit more technical.
Yeah people don’t realize how unbelievably strong the 1 handed charged heavy it. Come out incredibly fast, has almost no ending frames, does a shit ton of poise for what it is, and barely uses any stamina.
It’s like the devs took into account that it’s a 1 handed fist weapon and buffed it’s charged heavies like crazy
Finally a monk video by monk
I like the star fist. Because it's like spiky punching. Between spiky punch and big hammer I'm very happy tarnished
I like cragblade for both weapons. Because how do you make punches and hammer better? Make it more heby
The best fist weapon with the regular moveset is spiked ball, which does more damage than iron ball and has bleed.
Plus bloodflame blade on the 2 hand is crazy.
Important note, most fists weapons deal more damage if you power stance them instead of two handing, but that does mean you need two instead of one upgraded weapon
My man, don't sleep on the grafted dragon. Those charged strong attacks come out quick and do a ton of stance damage
It's worth pointing out that the grafted dragon for some reason deals _ridiculous_ stance damage in PvE. Those charged heavies break stance way faster than they have any right to.
Can’t wait for the DLC i already got a name ready for my bone fist build. It’s Jackie Chan🤣
the katars with lightning ram reminds me of Voldo from soulcalibur. love this
The Brick hammer is my favorite Unga Bunga weapon
I love the Katars, and its a very solid weapon on Elden Ring
When it comes to the caestus, I believe you're almost correct, but it's a hard "C" like candy or cola.
Ayyye congrats on 20k❤
Star Fist + Cragblade = EZ Game
fists are my favorite weapon type in elden ring, its such a shame they get shafted when it comes to ashes of war (i will be eternally pissed that you can't put impaling thrust on the katar)
Just starting to fall in love with the katar
Bear witness is baller
Man I love fisti--wait no
Fr tho the pata-style fist weapons are my favorites. Wish we had an infusable one with decent range
Finally, a grab attack from a player
Spiked cestus is my favorite weapon in the game lmao
w monk congrats on 20k man next 50k
Case-tus is probably the pronunciation on thet.
Fist weapons scrath my monkey brain just right
Veterans prosthesis is a kitchen knife
W Video🔥 can we get halberds next 🧐
I need to do a fist playthrough now
Do u have a recimindations for base campain coming back to the game an i want to.try fist only play throw since i never beat the game
Caestus is Latin and it is pronounced Kai-stoos. I don't care how people pronounce it, but for those who wanna know, that's how. It makes me happy that it's the coolest pronunciation of the word though.
because Lifesteal Fist counts as a critical, you’re better off putting it on the Katar with it’s 110 crit
The Monk is monking!
I thought they pronounced that fist weapon like cactus
bro i love your content, im waiting for the hammers video pls make one❤❤
The Caestus is pronounced “Ca-ae-stus” it comes from Latin as of the pronunciation
what gauntlets are you wearing at the begining ove the video for only your right hand to have the jutting out circle around it? also what greaves are you wearing?
Kinda want to get the Katar and do a Diablo 2 assassin build
is there a way to see how much poise dmg a weapon does? and speed?
playing with daggers and the venomous fist atm.
i guess the fang is pretty much the same range as a fist, but they def. feel slower than daggers. but my main issue with daggers is that they bounce off shields and these crystal enemies
Trying every Greathammers when?
5 thousand subs away from the feet reveal.
W intro props to his intro
wrong, the real kick on the katar is the fifa world cup
I’m kinda upset that they didn’t add the fist weapons that the Nokron enemies use
What enemy?
Star fist is the best
Haha monk
Id love to use the bows more but they’re kind of booty.
Also, 0:54 when the wife be throwing it back!
14:40 I have fought this guy soooooooooo many times in the colosseum but I change my name and build constantly so he probably doesn't recognize me
☠️Such a shame
Can You do halberds next please
Do spears next please
What armor is this
Please do funny daggers next 🫥
im sorry did you say OONGA BOONGA? its UHnga BUHnga
what shield is that at 4:30?
haligtree knight greatshield
Use scythes
Scorpion stinger fist with the face suck ah of war
I only wish it had a proper jab instead of the crosses and bitchslaps. Otherwise PUNCH GODS MAKE MONEY
Bro I watch ur videos can u do spears
I tried every weapon, sorcery, and incantations in ng+. Fun times. Then never tried ng+ again because it was a bore
Day 13 of asking monk to do the godskin apostle build
Apparently its pronounced Kay-stes
kaestus
Jesus adores you and wants to help you
shout me out legend B)
Day 162583 of asking for a sekiro build
First!
Try fingers
Try your mom
СЛАБЫЕ ПРОТИВНИКИ У ТЕБЯ, ЯВНО НИЖЕ УРОВНЕМ, ПО УРОНУ ВИДНО... ПОЭТОМУ И ПОБЕЖДАЕШЬ. НАЙДИ СЕБЕ ДОСТОЙНОГО ПРОТИВНИКА, А НЕ ЭТО ВОТ ВСЕ
fun fact: pata in spanish mean feet, but can be translate as pie
I wish the fist weapons incorporated more kicks into them... like I know it defeats the whole "fist" name, but the Kick ash of war is way too slow for me to picture my character as a monk
Congratulations, you get exactly what you want in the DLC!
Dryleaf arts will be your friend in a couple weeks
I can't wait for you to review claws! Hookclaws + all heavy attack enhancements + Endure are *the* furry lover cosplay
I first got into fist weapons back in Dark Souls 3 because Caestus' could rolling attack in-between attacks from the ultra greatswords and greataxes, and also because Crow's Talons had the exact one-handed moveset as the Longsword and people just didn't expect that. Elden Ring somehow made me love this playstyle even more, as my first character bashed bosses' faces with his spiky balls.
i love the moveset of the regular caestus, really wish there were more cool options to put on fists tho (impaling thrust should be allowed on all fists)
tbh I love fist weapons in general, but really can't love cliging bone. Lifesteal fist is great. It's available very early in the game (in a scarab on the way to the spiked ceastus) so it's a good way to set up occult affinity on fists and claws and get better status build-up before beating Radhan, or anyone else for that matter. Additionnally it proc greases and spell buffs 3 times at full strength so even standard fists get a good use out of it.
Clinging bone itself can't really benefit from either and has worse AR than a keen or occult katar for 80/20 and 20/80 split into DEX and ARC. Even going for 50/50 doesn't bring it above either of the katars, let alone an occult spiked caestus. And above that it can't apply status or get weapon buffs.
It looks cool, but numberwise it's kind of the worse fist option unless you decide to go for something like 80 ARC 80 DEX.
Great vid, keep these one's coming man. Ps starfist are my favorite fist weapon.
Never been so early. love your videos. Keep it up man
I just recently started using katars with quickstep on my caster and it's so much fun! The mobility and aggression enables some great setup for some more obscure spells
Can't wait for the "trying out every crossbow" video
My first playthrough in Elden Ring was centered around Cipher Pata and Beastial incantasions, holy damage felt great in early game while physical from Beast Sling, Claws and Rock carried me through last quarter and pure faith actually scales better for'em even with the claw talisman
Still my personal favourite playstyle
"this is what i sacrifce for the drip" a true-blue fashionsouls man. respect.
The fists of all time!
double dragon, my next run
What armour set is he using?
I believe it's a mix of samurai and ronins set
Spiked Caestus is god-tier. Also, double Grafted Dragon is pretty dope. Also, also, Star Fist is tight. Also, also, also, a Mike Tyson build done right is immensly broken.
I haven’t played elden ring for a while but yesterday I just found out there’s 3 coliseums😅💀I thought there was only one 💀
They really need to Buff Fists/Unarmed. Never felt as Strong as past games. But the new Kong Fu style is fun to run.
How good are those on PvE?
I remember when i discovered that all their r2s all poise break all natural poise. Alwasy won trades with it being way faster. Shutdown all the crouch pokers. Then discovering that all r2s had comboed into another r2. Even charges r2s. The raptor talons 4 hit true combo. Im glad i made that fist video when i did before they nerfed the stagger killing the combos