I doubt he'll see this, but JK Leeds... Good Sir... Your videos actually help me sleep... I deal with PTSD & putting your videos on help me actually get some good sleep. Thank you from the bottom of my Black heart
I did see it! Sorry to hear about the PTSD, I wish you all the best with everything and I feel honoured my videos can help you even in some small way ☺️
I'm not well versed in how PTSD works but I hope your PTSD gets better if it can and I hope you can keep using JK Leeds videos to help you sleep, it helps him with the algorithm too so it's like a mutual relationship
Realistically its because you WILL generate about that much extra damage to compensate on NG+, but NG+2 just doesnt have as much of a growth opportunity, so they cant make it as hard
Like the other guy said, it makes sense since you SHOULD have an endgame build by the time you get to NG+. Those damage increases are mostly for very early bosses, with the DLC guys "only" adding ~8k HP instead of tripling the health pool.
I’ve made a habbit of watching your vids before bed, which has conditioned me to get sleepy whenever I watch one, which means I almost always fall asleep during the longer ones. Now this sounds like a bad thing, but for vids like this especially, it just means I get to enjoy watching it multiple times and get to enjoy new content each time
fun fact about Lady Maria (and most other human npc fights) is that they're programmed to automatically attack you after taking so many r1s. (i think the number is 3, but it might be 2 or 4. just test it out.) this means you can abuse that. Hit them a couple times then spam your gun for an easy parry setup. I did this my first ever time fighting Maria. Didn't successfully first try, but after 4 attempts she was dead with not much sweating on my end. Not useful in these single weapon type only runs, but definitely applicable in a lot of other situations.
50:22 The big thing the rifle spear has going for it is its transformed attacks, the charged r2 especially since it launches you pretty far forward and almost always staggers/knocks down enemies. The fact it can shoot in this form is also nice.
Honestly, the most surprising run was the gun run 😅 I just started my first NG+ experience and decided to just start a new playthrough. Those early bosses are NUTS in NG+
your first run could have been even more of a wash. little known aspect of the repeating pistol is that when you apply bone marrow ash it applies to both shots, meaning you effectively have 20 buffs when using it with the repeater, and each individual shot will do substantially more than a buffed evelyn, and can even outdamage a bone marrow ash buffed cannon
I love your stuff man you are the one who inspired me to start doing challenge runs in the soulsborn games with your throwing knife runs and now those are literally my favorite ways to play love you man keep it up
I feel its unfair to the Rifle Spear to judge it as bad when you give it only ok gems and take it against a late game boss in ng+2, after barely having ever used it at any other time. It does suffer from not being allowed to take elemental buffs, but it does have other advantages, like very long reach, having a gun while two handing, and lots of thrust damage. Micolash is just not a boss where the long reach is nearly as helpful, due to his own long range attacks. I think bosses like the Shadows, the Failures, Maria, perhaps even Logarius or Gascoigne would have been a better showing for it. Its also handy against any regular enemies you dont want to get close to. I think its very under rated.
Damn I’m stuck on my bl4 run on the living failures right now in such a slow fight it’s hard to focus in my opinion but thanks to you I will now try just shooting them. Thank you
the astral chain hub music during the consumable section makes me want to see a consumable only astral chain run, but thats not quite possible due to its carry limits
I like listening to challenge run videos in the background while I play video games or do puzzles and let me tell you, I was just relaxing, playing Skyrim as normal then at 12:45 I literally went “WAIT!” And looked at my screen because it finally clicked what song was playing. I love The Last Story and Invitation to Madness is such a great song, but I never hear it so it took me a second for it to click.
Speaking of DoomWolf and other purveyors of anti-jokes, this quip is probably the 2nd best so far! “We have to take care of this army of Me in my 20s…” - On the Living Failures
for the stake driver, i find its easier to use the charged R2 in the same way as the holy blades charged R2 (I.E. charge while out of range and then let the enemy walk into your attack). its range is deceptively large, and tends to flatten, occasionally allowing a charged R2 lock on some enemies
When it comes to soulslikes and their NG+ I actually love what Code Vein did: it allows you to play through NG+ without increasing difficulty. This would be so nice in other soulslikes to casually try out weapons you only get really late normally, without having to go through everything in harder. These Bloodborne increases look so insane in comparison. (And then there's Nioh 1/2 but they just work completely different with their difficulties and weapons.)
I just played Bloodborne start to finish, including Old Hunters, on ShadPS4. It was glorious. I used Lossless Scaling to play at 90 fps, and the whole experience was surprisingly stable with a couple of mods.
I recommend focusing on the katana melee Shadow first and using the large gravestone to block the projectiles. Then you kill the fireball one. That's order is much easier for me personally.
The "prevent you from healing" move at the end, I swear Im the only person before this who has seen this. Everyone would be bragging about how easy the moon presence is, and I died over and over again because of that move my first playthru
Man, watching this and playing Elden Ring atm, you really can see how much faster From made stamina recharge as their Soulslike went on. It recharges so fast in Elden Ring.
I did not know that the ng+ increases boss health by so much in Bloodborne. The first time I beat the dlc was on ng++. Now I know why it felt so unreasonably hard at times. Did beat Kos in 6 tries tho, still proud about that.
Hey hey, JK! I got Bloodborne for Christmas and I love it. I decided to do something similar to Accain, one character all weapons one weapon per ng cycle (but I'm skipping Kos Parasite) and started with Threaded Cane. I just beat Rom and wanted you to pick what weapon I use in NG+ cuz, you're entertaining and it's more interesting than a wheel or going by that tierlist. Hope ya reply :)
Wow what a great present! Well first I'd recommend not skipping the Kos Parasite. It can be a pretty cool weapon honestly, the L2 when transformed is awesome 👌 My favourite weapons are Whirlgig Saw and Burial Blade so maybe try one of those? 😊
@JKLeeds Bloodborne was basically all I actually asked for Whirligig and then burial, got it! Really? I guess I may try Kos Parasite... with extremely good gems. Those two interested me, so, thanks for the suggestions!
Ludwig's Rifle is good at low bloodtinge level up till 30 at which point the Hunter's Rifle does better damage. (I think; been a few years since I checked that info)
Love it, will watch again. But where you get all those word plays everytime ? xD Some are great, the other hurt a lot. Wooftop ... wooooooftooooop....felt like a vesceral to my ears :D
I love the stake driver it was the weapon i used to beat my first playthrough of bloodborne, and my two favourite weapons are Ghermans Scythe cus im biased and scythes are my favourite weapon period then its the holy moonlight sword just because its the most beautiful looking weapon in the game and ive loved every iteration of it in all the fromsoft games
one of the few souls content creators i actually subscribe to because you're so witty (even if it's extremely chees at times *ahem* ludwig). Keep up the silly videos friend. Praise the Sun!
I took a look around and between the two first BB wikis that came up for me the first one (fextralife) said it was arcane and the second one (fandom) said it was bloodtinge; I could be wrong. I also did check out Distortion2’s Madaras Whistle only run and it seemed to be doing good damage against Micolash, which is good to know as his arcane resistance is very high. The easiest way to check the damage type would be to have the snake actually attack yourself while wearing different armors with different resistances. The one good thing to come from it being able to hit yourself I guess.
It's always kind of funny when challenge runs 'cycle' back to almost being normal gameplay. JK, something about this video seems to 'lead' to a particular desire to speak a specific kind of way. Not sure where that's 'born' from but it might just be in the 'blood'.
JK has been stuck in some vicious cycles before, but this will be a whole different beast...
There will be blood...
@@JKLeedsIt's enough to make a man sick
Is it on an emulator or a ps4 ?
@@JKLeedsI have no idea who has worse jokes that I somehow laugh at
@@JKLeeds over and over again 😂
I never noticed until now, when gehrman dies he puts his arms in the "make contact" position. Very cool
@@UCXEO5L8xnaMJhtUsuNXhlmQ think Maria doe too
I doubt he'll see this, but JK Leeds... Good Sir... Your videos actually help me sleep... I deal with PTSD & putting your videos on help me actually get some good sleep. Thank you from the bottom of my Black heart
You'll get through this, I wish you all the best for the future! And I wholeheartedly love JK Leeds content as well haha.
I did see it! Sorry to hear about the PTSD, I wish you all the best with everything and I feel honoured my videos can help you even in some small way ☺️
Mate, I'm not that type of guy, but from the deepest depths of my heart, I wish you all the best.
I'm not well versed in how PTSD works but I hope your PTSD gets better if it can and I hope you can keep using JK Leeds videos to help you sleep, it helps him with the algorithm too so it's like a mutual relationship
I wish you the best,man.
What a puntastic video. A bloody beast of a run. It must have taken hours, but the training has finally borne fruit. Good job JK!
Can't wait to see how many puns will be in this one
well how many were there?
It's insane how NG+ adds about 10,000 health to every boss, then NG+2 adds about 1,000.
Ng+2 bosses feel bad for you and barley change to compensate
Realistically its because you WILL generate about that much extra damage to compensate on NG+, but NG+2 just doesnt have as much of a growth opportunity, so they cant make it as hard
Like the other guy said, it makes sense since you SHOULD have an endgame build by the time you get to NG+. Those damage increases are mostly for very early bosses, with the DLC guys "only" adding ~8k HP instead of tripling the health pool.
The hundreds of new puns you come up with is honestly astonishing.
@@chrislevack405 it's my favorite part to watch these
I’ve made a habbit of watching your vids before bed, which has conditioned me to get sleepy whenever I watch one, which means I almost always fall asleep during the longer ones. Now this sounds like a bad thing, but for vids like this especially, it just means I get to enjoy watching it multiple times and get to enjoy new content each time
THE ULTIMATE JK LEEDS VIDEO IS COMING, PREPARE YOURSELVES EVERYONE
How did you make this comment 14 hours ago if it came out 3 hours ago??
Probably early access for channel memberships.
@ oh, right
Every single challenge run marathon
This certainly a BEAST of a run. That hunter definitely a lot of BLOOD in his hands, BORNE of all the killing for echoes
27:15
Getting sent to Yahar'gul "early" threw me for a loop after Nightmare Frontier--
Chapel keeper: do you think we can be friends when the sun rises?
This guy: oh you'll never see it, bang, bang!
JK is a BEAST for doing this run hes boutta CLAW his way through all these enemies
What an absolute behemoth of a run. Glad to see you didnt succumb to madness during the process. I hope it left you with some new insight on the game.
fun fact about Lady Maria (and most other human npc fights) is that they're programmed to automatically attack you after taking so many r1s. (i think the number is 3, but it might be 2 or 4. just test it out.) this means you can abuse that.
Hit them a couple times then spam your gun for an easy parry setup. I did this my first ever time fighting Maria. Didn't successfully first try, but after 4 attempts she was dead with not much sweating on my end. Not useful in these single weapon type only runs, but definitely applicable in a lot of other situations.
No way bro used timesplitters music in the back, I’m here for it!
Timesplitters Future Perfect video soon maybe? 🤔
@ oh hell yeah! I guess I’ll have to subscribe
50:22 The big thing the rifle spear has going for it is its transformed attacks, the charged r2 especially since it launches you pretty far forward and almost always staggers/knocks down enemies. The fact it can shoot in this form is also nice.
The Seymour Omnis music toward the end of the gun only run!!! FFX had such good music. Great video!
When JK uploads, it Leeds me to believe he does it on purpose before im about to eat so I have something to watch
I am in your walls
Wtf so this why i don't see much people doing ng+ content on bloodborne wow. You are some mad lad.
Yeah those HP increases are no joke! Not sure what they were smoking when they came up with them 😂
This vid is gonna be bloody hilarious, with a splatter of explosively bright puns.
weapon roulette is so cool, id love to see you revisit this idea in some of the other games!
Thanks! It's somewhat easier in Bloodborne because there's only 26 weapons
Imagine how chaotic a spell roulette would be! lol
@@JKLeedsyou could use a specific class of weapon per run liked short swords only or mace only something like that would be great to watch
Honestly, the most surprising run was the gun run 😅
I just started my first NG+ experience and decided to just start a new playthrough. Those early bosses are NUTS in NG+
Yeah Cleric Beast getting 6x the HP is insane 😳
I’m so ready and glad to have a new BB video that I’ll probably rewatch 10 times🎉
Wooo this is the 3rd new BB video I’ve seen today. Best new year ever!
your first run could have been even more of a wash. little known aspect of the repeating pistol is that when you apply bone marrow ash it applies to both shots, meaning you effectively have 20 buffs when using it with the repeater, and each individual shot will do substantially more than a buffed evelyn, and can even outdamage a bone marrow ash buffed cannon
6:51 that ladder seems pretty solid
do more longer videos with ng runs challenges this was so entertaining
Oh trust me, I will 🙂
@ can’t wait cause I ran out of your videos, watched them all multiple times and still not tired of rewatching them
Ahhhhhh finally something that isn’t DS2 🎉
You love DS2
To be fair, DS2 has become a little random of late
Best souls 2
I'm always impressed with a spider kill while ignoring the adds. Amazing you managed it so cleanly on the first cycle.
Honestly fantastic video, especially the roulette run it had a nice SPIN to it. I thought you would use the reiterpallasch during the gun run.😂😂
Insane challenge! I always have fun with roulette moments! Love your videos JK, hug from Brazil!
I love your stuff man you are the one who inspired me to start doing challenge runs in the soulsborn games with your throwing knife runs and now those are literally my favorite ways to play love you man keep it up
I feel its unfair to the Rifle Spear to judge it as bad when you give it only ok gems and take it against a late game boss in ng+2, after barely having ever used it at any other time. It does suffer from not being allowed to take elemental buffs, but it does have other advantages, like very long reach, having a gun while two handing, and lots of thrust damage. Micolash is just not a boss where the long reach is nearly as helpful, due to his own long range attacks. I think bosses like the Shadows, the Failures, Maria, perhaps even Logarius or Gascoigne would have been a better showing for it. Its also handy against any regular enemies you dont want to get close to. I think its very under rated.
The rifle spear charge R2 has absurdly long range. I would highly recommend anyone who hasn't tried it out, to do so.
The Riflespear is definitely underrated, it has a lot of versatility.
Damn I’m stuck on my bl4 run on the living failures right now in such a slow fight it’s hard to focus in my opinion but thanks to you I will now try just shooting them. Thank you
Awesome challenge and really good commentary! Subscribed!
46:32 I felt that "I'm glad I don't have to do this again" in my soul
Why do i keep rewatching all of those cycle videos. Like the cycling around will help me up
Came for the playthrough but stayed for the amazing puns. Well done sir.
the astral chain hub music during the consumable section makes me want to see a consumable only astral chain run, but thats not quite possible due to its carry limits
"we go for another jolly jog through the fishing hamlet" says jk with a spear through his skull
I absolutely love Bloodborne
The bromance between JK Leeds and other guys like Doom Wolf and Barons Castle is one of the best things on YT
With that many cycles, we meet JK Laundry
I love your bloodborne runs, watch every single time
his personal tool of carnage is a Poolnoodle. Nothing instills more fear than a Guy in Victorian clothes armed with a pink Poolnoodle
I like listening to challenge run videos in the background while I play video games or do puzzles and let me tell you, I was just relaxing, playing Skyrim as normal then at 12:45 I literally went “WAIT!” And looked at my screen because it finally clicked what song was playing.
I love The Last Story and Invitation to Madness is such a great song, but I never hear it so it took me a second for it to click.
"We call our character derp the ripper"
Calls him Jack The Derper
Speaking of DoomWolf and other purveyors of anti-jokes, this quip is probably the 2nd best so far!
“We have to take care of this army of Me in my 20s…” - On the Living Failures
19:55 you finally changed it
for the stake driver, i find its easier to use the charged R2 in the same way as the holy blades charged R2 (I.E. charge while out of range and then let the enemy walk into your attack). its range is deceptively large, and tends to flatten, occasionally allowing a charged R2 lock on some enemies
every time I watch one of this man’s videos, I question if I am even good at the game.
The golden eye music in the background fills me with nostalgia.
Omg, video name sounds gorgeous, I'm looking forward for 1 hour of pure bloodborne challenge run pleasure ✨
Welcome to the Hunter's Dream. This will be your home, for now.
22:06
Hear that, Noah? Leeds wants something a bit meteor.
I’m sorry but that Ludwig-loo, north pole pun has sent me to therapy. Mr Leeds you can expect an invoice any day lol
Damn, that's not looking like suffering.
Super fun concept man. Great run! ❤
i swear when i start to hear "ooooooooh" at 17:54 i was like hell yeah best song of all video games incoming
Love bloodborne!!! Would love a chalice dungeon run
How does he come up with the jokes most of them are funny and really clever and he does lots of them in his videos love the videos bro
Jack the derpers weapon is definitely a comically big magnifying glass to burn his victims alive with! Also amazing video keep up the great work ❤
That man's weapon of choice is just continuous puns.
When it comes to soulslikes and their NG+ I actually love what Code Vein did: it allows you to play through NG+ without increasing difficulty.
This would be so nice in other soulslikes to casually try out weapons you only get really late normally, without having to go through everything in harder.
These Bloodborne increases look so insane in comparison.
(And then there's Nioh 1/2 but they just work completely different with their difficulties and weapons.)
You know shit goes down after the words Hey hey its JK. love it
Omg. The health increases are insane. Great video.
42:04
Funny thing is that its righteous damage bonus actually would've helped a bit there.
I just played Bloodborne start to finish, including Old Hunters, on ShadPS4. It was glorious. I used Lossless Scaling to play at 90 fps, and the whole experience was surprisingly stable with a couple of mods.
Disgusting. Buy a ps4/5 for a real playthrough
i felt my sanity draining, when i heared that ludwig pun
anyways love ya challanges
I recommend focusing on the katana melee Shadow first and using the large gravestone to block the projectiles. Then you kill the fireball one.
That's order is much easier for me personally.
With all your prior different cycle different challenges you could say you were bred and blood-borne for this challenge
The "prevent you from healing" move at the end, I swear Im the only person before this who has seen this. Everyone would be bragging about how easy the moon presence is, and I died over and over again because of that move my first playthru
JKs puns cause me physical pain, i cant stop watching...
You know its going to be a great day when JK uploads…. Even better when its Bloodbourne
Man, watching this and playing Elden Ring atm, you really can see how much faster From made stamina recharge as their Soulslike went on. It recharges so fast in Elden Ring.
I did not know that the ng+ increases boss health by so much in Bloodborne. The first time I beat the dlc was on ng++. Now I know why it felt so unreasonably hard at times. Did beat Kos in 6 tries tho, still proud about that.
An amazing run and video again JK, still love all the puns, keep it up
Bruh, Accursed brew, blackkey eye?! I didn’t even know that was in the game! Still discovering things in this game.
Yeah jack seems like he's use Ludwig's cannon and the Whirligig Saw stick
Gotta love the 007 soundtrack in the back of run #1😤
17:41 cured my depression
The 007 theme for the gun run is on point 😂
Hey hey, JK! I got Bloodborne for Christmas and I love it. I decided to do something similar to Accain, one character all weapons one weapon per ng cycle (but I'm skipping Kos Parasite) and started with Threaded Cane. I just beat Rom and wanted you to pick what weapon I use in NG+ cuz, you're entertaining and it's more interesting than a wheel or going by that tierlist. Hope ya reply :)
Wow what a great present! Well first I'd recommend not skipping the Kos Parasite. It can be a pretty cool weapon honestly, the L2 when transformed is awesome 👌
My favourite weapons are Whirlgig Saw and Burial Blade so maybe try one of those? 😊
@JKLeeds
Bloodborne was basically all I actually asked for
Whirligig and then burial, got it!
Really? I guess I may try Kos Parasite... with extremely good gems.
Those two interested me, so, thanks for the suggestions!
Smooth video and run as always, cheers from Germany
8:50 you can use the monocle to shoot above his head
Lmao, rifle tower bwahaha! Great run my friend
I officially have trust issues, I try to find a pun in every single sentence you say
Ludwig's Rifle is good at low bloodtinge level up till 30 at which point the Hunter's Rifle does better damage.
(I think; been a few years since I checked that info)
Love it, will watch again. But where you get all those word plays everytime ? xD Some are great, the other hurt a lot. Wooftop ... wooooooftooooop....felt like a vesceral to my ears :D
My GOAT uploaded! Finally!!
The Professor of Puns back at it again
Absolutely love your video keep it up I need more. I wait for these
I love the stake driver it was the weapon i used to beat my first playthrough of bloodborne, and my two favourite weapons are Ghermans Scythe cus im biased and scythes are my favourite weapon period then its the holy moonlight sword just because its the most beautiful looking weapon in the game and ive loved every iteration of it in all the fromsoft games
one of the few souls content creators i actually subscribe to because you're so witty (even if it's extremely chees at times *ahem* ludwig). Keep up the silly videos friend. Praise the Sun!
Quick note, the Madaras Whistle DOES do pure Bloodtinge damage, making it viable for high arcane resistant bosses.
Hmm are you sure on that? Literally every resource online says that it does Arcane damage 🤔
I took a look around and between the two first BB wikis that came up for me the first one (fextralife) said it was arcane and the second one (fandom) said it was bloodtinge; I could be wrong. I also did check out Distortion2’s Madaras Whistle only run and it seemed to be doing good damage against Micolash, which is good to know as his arcane resistance is very high.
The easiest way to check the damage type would be to have the snake actually attack yourself while wearing different armors with different resistances. The one good thing to come from it being able to hit yourself I guess.
I don't know how you guys have time to make all of these blood puns, I have too much on my Platelet.
😂
That unupgraded stamina hurts more than you'd expect
It's always kind of funny when challenge runs 'cycle' back to almost being normal gameplay. JK, something about this video seems to 'lead' to a particular desire to speak a specific kind of way. Not sure where that's 'born' from but it might just be in the 'blood'.
This Bloodborne challenge must’ve really got you bloodboiling.
Huh. Always interesting when you recognize music from another game in...videos about games. Seymour's theme in a _Bloodborne_ video...