FAQ: "I'm not doing as much damage" Unfortunately there's lots of delicate factors to this build you can get wrong if you don't know what to do. If you're not dealing as much as I am in these clips, it could be one or more of the following factors: -You're not deflecting. You need to block right when the attack hits you (similar to Sekiro if you've played it) in order for it to count as a deflect. You'll know it counted thanks to a small visual/audio indication and you'll take less stamina/HP damage than usual. -Royal Knight's Resolve ran out. The buff needs to be reapplied every attack and only lasts like 10 seconds, so take too long and you'll be missing an +80% boost. Same goes with all your buffs, they're not gonna last forever, and the deflect buff can run out too if you take too long between deflects -The attack didn't count as a counterhit. The enemy moveset is a big factor for whether or not you can perform a counterhit, and sometimes it won't be possible even with a fast guard counter weapon. -I have 20 Scadutree blessings in the video, so keep in mind that a 0 blessing character would do about half this damage to the DLC bosses, which is why I included non-dlc clips as well. Keep in mind 26k is not a value you can get all the time, but if using it right, you can get a lot of damage all the time and upwards of 26k if you're lucky. I strongly suggest checking out my Backhand Blade video I uploaded after this one, since a bug fix made those even stronger for Guard Counters and you don't need to rely on coutnerhits anymore.
Seriously tho I meant what I said on the defense vid, great information, well explained and demonstrated without a bunch of nonsense filler. Sorry for chirping at ya for vig, good on ya for making a bit from it!
@@kubomagico8853 Fine with me. More time to enjoy the fight! I might be a minority but I don't think I disliked any of the remembrance bosses in the DLC .
You don't necessarily need to deflect 4 attacks to get to the highest boost. A lot of boss attacks are strong enough to boost you up multiple tiers at a time! I'm not sure what the exact logic behind it is, but it's a nice feature. It probably bases it off the system that determines blocking knockback strength.
Deff thought this was clickbait. I was wrong. Great vid man. Also to anyone reading this, if you don't wanna dump TONS of points into stamina to make it more like Sekiro (cuz that's the one drawback of deflecting which Sekiro obviously doesn't have, a stamina bar) than you should deff equip the two headed turtle talisman. Makes a world of difference on a deflect build like this imho.
Between Two-Headed Turtle, Deflecting Crystal Tear, and the tear that transfers damage dealt into a small amount of health was a wonderful Sekiro-style challenge run.
@@DizzyEyes94 Absolutely ! If you are on PC try out the latest version of the Reforged mod. If you're looking for something truly Sekiro-like in Elden Ring.
@@AlphaSeagull Can I interest you in an off-hand Golden Greatshield? (for practice at least, don't know if there's enough space for a greatshield in your build) For me, 100% physical damage meant I could even block like Sekiro now.
@@wolfgaunt didn't lnow that. I was thinking of a general DLC hardtear build, so I focused on 100% physical resistance, weight and guard boost more than 100% elemental resistance. Also, does the holy affinity lower physical resistance?
@@sharif47 It does lower it, but only by 5%, same with the other elemental affinities. It's pretty perfect against Radahn. You can fully block through light of miquella, and any other holy attacks he does and still block 95% of all his physical damage. I believe the only other shield that can get 100% resistance to an element is the fingerprint stone shield with either of the fire affinities for 100% fire resistance.
I’ve been waiting for this video. From anyone. For a month now I’ve searched “Deflecting hardtear guide”. I wanted a nerdy informative video in the Rust_Bucket style. Thanks.
Look for Chrightt on TH-cam, he also has excellent guides and builds based on them. He stumbled onto a similar deflecting/EGA build for stance breaking like in this video and fleshed it out. My favorite of his though is his dragon monk build.
Hey I remember you! You made the video about HP and defense, not sure why I didn’t sub back then, but I will most certainly sub now. (I am now invested in your success and await future uploads)
According to the sheet it matches Troll's Hammer, Anvil Hammer, Devonia's Hammer, and Gazing Finger. Colossal weapon poise MVs were already all over the place, and they kept this up for the DLC I guess. There's also a bug with one of the hand to hand weapons that causes the guard counter to double hit and deal like 40-50 poise total.
Never been a fan of how they made all buffs multiplicative, just feels so sweaty when you see people quickswitch 8 talisman, 5 weapons and 10 buffs just so they can oneshot assuming they can land a hit within 10 seconds before buffs are already running out.
I used bloodfiends bloody arm on 60 arcane with cragblade on most dlc bosses. Nial was the most fun, 2 guard counters into riposte into free charged heavy that gave me enough stance damage so a single guard counter would stance break again. I could loop that for the whole fight and would constantly proc bleed to refresh lord of blood's talisman. Very strong and fun build that doesn't need a lot of buffing to pump out q lot of damage very quickly.
I am screaming at the vigor pronunciation moment. Haven't seen your other videos yet but obviously at some point it was the drama in the comments. People in the comments, when somebody mispronounces a word it's because they learned it from their own reading and experiences rather than somebody telling it to them. It's just a testament to them being more broadly read than the people around them speak. I'm so here for the absolute fuck off response that you gave. Excited to learn more about in dur antsy and the other stats
Spear talisman isn't adding to guard counters. It only affects attacks that land while they are in an attack animation. Maybe if they recover super quickly from your guard counter and swing again, it might kick in but it's not guaranteed by any means.
Oh shit, I didn't realize the Deflecting Hardtear's boost to Guard Counters stacked with multiple consecutive deflects. That's actually how I thought it *should* work, but didn't realize it actually did lmao
FAQ: "I'm not doing as much damage"
Unfortunately there's lots of delicate factors to this build you can get wrong if you don't know what to do. If you're not dealing as much as I am in these clips, it could be one or more of the following factors:
-You're not deflecting. You need to block right when the attack hits you (similar to Sekiro if you've played it) in order for it to count as a deflect. You'll know it counted thanks to a small visual/audio indication and you'll take less stamina/HP damage than usual.
-Royal Knight's Resolve ran out. The buff needs to be reapplied every attack and only lasts like 10 seconds, so take too long and you'll be missing an +80% boost. Same goes with all your buffs, they're not gonna last forever, and the deflect buff can run out too if you take too long between deflects
-The attack didn't count as a counterhit. The enemy moveset is a big factor for whether or not you can perform a counterhit, and sometimes it won't be possible even with a fast guard counter weapon.
-I have 20 Scadutree blessings in the video, so keep in mind that a 0 blessing character would do about half this damage to the DLC bosses, which is why I included non-dlc clips as well.
Keep in mind 26k is not a value you can get all the time, but if using it right, you can get a lot of damage all the time and upwards of 26k if you're lucky. I strongly suggest checking out my Backhand Blade video I uploaded after this one, since a bug fix made those even stronger for Guard Counters and you don't need to rely on coutnerhits anymore.
You passed the V-eye-gor check!!
Seriously tho I meant what I said on the defense vid, great information, well explained and demonstrated without a bunch of nonsense filler. Sorry for chirping at ya for vig, good on ya for making a bit from it!
so proud of him
You just gave him the V word pass.
Vigga
@@yittmashups all my 10 kansas homies get the V pass
My Larval Tears quake in fear
on my last one and my laziness to get more is stronger than radahn
There is a larval tear glitch on ps5
😼
Wait how bro @@Matt_Zoran
@@Matt_Zoranreally?
Man hit Midra for over 40k and it was less than half of his HP. That's a beefy boi
Midra has the highest HP in the game after all
@@kubomagico8853 Fine with me. More time to enjoy the fight! I might be a minority but I don't think I disliked any of the remembrance bosses in the DLC .
@@pheenmachineI don’t like Redahn and Miquella, defeating that boss has destroyed me.
Wait what? I thought he had like 30k hp because I melted him só Hard
@@IIIDynamixhe has crazy hp, but meh resistances and bad stance
5:17 best segment in the video
8:20 cutting to the next frame isn’t fooling anyone. We all know what happened next
"i am Malenia, blade of Miquella"
nah bro he just deflected XD
Yes, we all know he spammed L1 to block it
Peak Sekiro mentality if you ask me
@@Idek1415 who shit in your cheerios this morning pal?
It was a joke bro@@Idek1415
Every streamer that suffered through a parry/deflect only run banging their heads against the wall for not knowing this beforehand.
Laura 🛐
Or because they didn't bother to use two handed guard counters before the tear.
@@dvdivine1962where the fun in that
@@Cats_on_fire Anyone can have fun with their own way. What you think everyone has to like only strawberry?
@@thepainphantom I wasn't saying that. I just like kicking my nuts in for no reason. Proverbial speaking
You don't necessarily need to deflect 4 attacks to get to the highest boost. A lot of boss attacks are strong enough to boost you up multiple tiers at a time! I'm not sure what the exact logic behind it is, but it's a nice feature. It probably bases it off the system that determines blocking knockback strength.
So, attack level then. It's also what determines how long stagger lasts.
Deff thought this was clickbait. I was wrong. Great vid man.
Also to anyone reading this, if you don't wanna dump TONS of points into stamina to make it more like Sekiro (cuz that's the one drawback of deflecting which Sekiro obviously doesn't have, a stamina bar) than you should deff equip the two headed turtle talisman. Makes a world of difference on a deflect build like this imho.
Between Two-Headed Turtle, Deflecting Crystal Tear, and the tear that transfers damage dealt into a small amount of health was a wonderful Sekiro-style challenge run.
@@DizzyEyes94 Absolutely ! If you are on PC try out the latest version of the Reforged mod. If you're looking for something truly Sekiro-like in Elden Ring.
I’m gonna start calling it Mihnd now
Just like Michael Mihnd
5:28 10 kansas, really need it for the build
My dyslexic ass read katana 💀
as soon as you adressed the "vigor" topic i was like "okay, cool." but what came after killed me. keep up the good content!
If you didn't know...
2:33 You can deflect this and reduce most of the damage.
3:23 You can also deflect the last attack and then guard counter.
Yeah unfortunately I'm just bad at deflecting 😂
@@AlphaSeagull Can I interest you in an off-hand Golden Greatshield? (for practice at least, don't know if there's enough space for a greatshield in your build)
For me, 100% physical damage meant I could even block like Sekiro now.
@@sharif47 A blacksteel greatshield with a sacred affinity gets 100% holy damage negation
@@wolfgaunt didn't lnow that.
I was thinking of a general DLC hardtear build, so I focused on 100% physical resistance, weight and guard boost more than 100% elemental resistance.
Also, does the holy affinity lower physical resistance?
@@sharif47 It does lower it, but only by 5%, same with the other elemental affinities. It's pretty perfect against Radahn. You can fully block through light of miquella, and any other holy attacks he does and still block 95% of all his physical damage.
I believe the only other shield that can get 100% resistance to an element is the fingerprint stone shield with either of the fire affinities for 100% fire resistance.
That intelligence pronunciation sounded like german. I love it
German from which planet?
europe
Im german no it doesn't at all 💀
@@oroshi296 The Black Lodge
@@m.h.lockesteppe9834 ecnegilletni
In-telly-gen-ceee 😂😂
You earned the quickest like ever when you said ‘test me comment section’ 😂💀 That whole bit was gold
8:53 that nut shot dropped poor radahn lol
Dante is proud. People learned about Royal Guard + Release lmao
Dante in Elden Ring, call that Royal Guard's Resolve
"this party is getting crazy"
-me when I parry Radahn's nuke(I take only 5% damage in Ng+7)
I love how this guy explains crazy numbers of Elden Ring. I'm about to create a new pvp character based in this mechanic, Wobbuffet shall i name it
Oh look, Isshin Ashina
Elden ring glock when?
Now It's Itchin A China. Woo Kong
@@reflectcard6258 Invisible Wall-Kong
Did not know Deenh boosted stance damage, great vid
Deenh rules, and they recently buffed him so he doesn’t get staggered by a light breeze.
@@IliumGaming they also buffed the duration so it's a genuinely viable alternative to Golden Vow and Rally
I’ve been waiting for this video. From anyone. For a month now I’ve searched “Deflecting hardtear guide”. I wanted a nerdy informative video in the Rust_Bucket style. Thanks.
Look for Chrightt on TH-cam, he also has excellent guides and builds based on them. He stumbled onto a similar deflecting/EGA build for stance breaking like in this video and fleshed it out. My favorite of his though is his dragon monk build.
I've started so many characters with the intent to parry, they all end the same. Not, parrying.
“Kansas”
@AlphaSeagull you should def make shorts from those pronunciations. Those will hit!
@@EStephensII @ fail, laugh at this user
5:00 big respect, well played
i love elden ring because you could take literally any weapon or concept of damaging someone and scale it to do almost one shot damage
Except for bare fists
Remember if it bleeds we can kill it nothing is impossible to make useful especially if you put a shit ton of buffs on it
@@SaHaRaSquad you've just challenged some fucking crazy unhinged math person to at least get to 2nd phase Consort Radahn in a single strike
@@SaHaRaSquad ds2 enjoyers cursing fromsoft rn.
just found this and genuinely love this editing style, I'm really suprised you're not bigger. Subbed!
That's what she said
Hey I remember you! You made the video about HP and defense, not sure why I didn’t sub back then, but I will most certainly sub now.
(I am now invested in your success and await future uploads)
This is one of the best guides I’ve ever watched. Thank you
"You're using deflect tear wrong", * proceeds to stacks a million buffs* Right
*misses the part where you get up to 271% more damage just by drinking physick*
@@AlphaSeagull fair enough, you have a point, but the thumbnail is a clickbait, which is understandable
@@Mozgodrobil no? Did I not deal 26k damage?
@@Mozgodrobilhow is it clickbait you Neanderthal?
omg a youtuber with a "not annoying" voice, and who gets straight to the point???!!!!
instant sub
You're by far my favorite math TH-camr
I know I said I'd do a math video next, but Black Myth Wukong look kinda crazy tho 👀so that might be next instead
ahahaha
That's fine you enjoy brother.
You are an insane person. NEVER STOP this is amazing
Idk how fromsoft though Bloodfiend's arm's guard counter having the most poise damage is balanced when the weapon is already amazing for bleed
Right??? I was looking at those Motion Value chart like huh, 🎵 one of these things is not like the other🎵
they love bleed but hate blackflame, gotta love the double standards with the hidden blackflame nerfs
@@Stangrex wait what blackflame stuff was nerfed, and when
@@mfspectacular DLC bosses have a newly added flag that make them take less blackflame/destined death based % damage.
According to the sheet it matches Troll's Hammer, Anvil Hammer, Devonia's Hammer, and Gazing Finger. Colossal weapon poise MVs were already all over the place, and they kept this up for the DLC I guess.
There's also a bug with one of the hand to hand weapons that causes the guard counter to double hit and deal like 40-50 poise total.
I love this just everything makes it look like such a strong and fun playstyle!
I lost it during the stat names. Well played. Rest of the setup is well explained too, ggs.
Subbed for detailed explanation, attention to detail, all that
First video of yours I've ever watched, and the bit where you pronounced all the stats had me laughing so hard
Amazing video quality man i can’t wait for more
“Oh that’s interesting I’ve never used the defle- OH MY GOODNESS”
Never been a fan of how they made all buffs multiplicative, just feels so sweaty when you see people quickswitch 8 talisman, 5 weapons and 10 buffs just so they can oneshot assuming they can land a hit within 10 seconds before buffs are already running out.
@@stavik96 that's a fair point of view
Actual insane video, I was doing some testing myself but man you just did everything right here.
Now I gotta try this, lmao.
Great vid man, just discovered your channel and you earned a sub just from this vid!
I subbed for that vigor skit, that was funny
Loved the pronunciation
okay the vigor bit was really funny and exactly the kinda joke i'd make with my friends. earned a sub for that alone.
This video is terrific.
Mans pronouncing stats like run for the cube pronounces everything. I commend that.
oh rad, people are finally figuring out that guard counters are awesome.
"You deny your blade it's purpose"
ahh video
Nice video, very well presented. Cheers from Germany
Beginning portion explaining the damage:
“Whoa, that’s a lot of words. Too bad I ain’t readin em.” 🗿
the way he get vigor correct and messes up everything else is jus comical; bravo
5:25 nah mate im new but im giggling my ass off to this one. cheers on you for that comeback T.T XD
Not gonna lie, the drip goes crazyyyyyyyy
You're using it wrong! I gave mine to Gideon so he'd have a lovely paper weight in his office at the roundtable hold
I f*cking love this style of video
Who would've thought that one of the most overlooked mechanics in the game is actually so strong
Liked bc Tchaikovsky music intro enjoyed bc I learned something
finally I can run the big sword drip build with minimal effort
Buff stacking always made my head hurt but this is another level
I don't think we're in Arcane anymore, Toto.
1:27 What is this website ?!
It's quite literally on the screen at the timestamp you posted.
@@reanamet1901 Yeah I know but when I try to access it, it gives me an error.
@@TrueXiarnotry searching "Elden Ring Weapon calculator" it should be one of the first results
Only crazy buff video , i liked smh
The vigor bit was an immediate sub for me
The 10 kansas killed me, good stuff
My friend jokingly referred to the way I guard and counter hit as "playing punch out" and I can't stop chuckling thinking about it.
Ah yes. The power of compound interest.
"Without doing crazy nonsense..." smh that buff routine 😂
@@raferosen9277 well, most things that can deal 20k+ has actual hardswapping so
Great analysis
That vigor bit was funny. well done
I used bloodfiends bloody arm on 60 arcane with cragblade on most dlc bosses. Nial was the most fun, 2 guard counters into riposte into free charged heavy that gave me enough stance damage so a single guard counter would stance break again. I could loop that for the whole fight and would constantly proc bleed to refresh lord of blood's talisman. Very strong and fun build that doesn't need a lot of buffing to pump out q lot of damage very quickly.
Pronouncing every other stat like that after making a big deal out of pronouncing vigor properly was the best gag in the video. 10/10
turns out i wasn't using it wrong, i just happened to be using it exactly correct
I am screaming at the vigor pronunciation moment. Haven't seen your other videos yet but obviously at some point it was the drama in the comments. People in the comments, when somebody mispronounces a word it's because they learned it from their own reading and experiences rather than somebody telling it to them. It's just a testament to them being more broadly read than the people around them speak. I'm so here for the absolute fuck off response that you gave. Excited to learn more about in dur antsy and the other stats
Spear talisman isn't adding to guard counters. It only affects attacks that land while they are in an attack animation. Maybe if they recover super quickly from your guard counter and swing again, it might kick in but it's not guaranteed by any means.
@@shksprcolonist this is correct, spear talisman only affects counterhits, no relation to if it's guard counter or not
IT’S PRONOUNCED R-KANSAS, YA IDGIT!
you had me at viggle-sticks
Oh shit, I didn't realize the Deflecting Hardtear's boost to Guard Counters stacked with multiple consecutive deflects. That's actually how I thought it *should* work, but didn't realize it actually did lmao
well constructed video
Thanks for posting
This video could have potential for an Elden Ring one-shot challenge :)
Literally, my favorite play style makes me feel like Dante with royal guard.
3:10 even the tower was surprised by the numbers kkkk
the vygor thing bothered me the first time too but that joke just destroyed me so all is forgiven
Awesome video
Is this the new Dank Holes game I've been hearing so much about?
Can someone remind me which flash game back in the day used the song at 0:12?
Monkey
yk it’s devious when the creator likes the comment but doesn’t tell you anyway😭
Probably tons, it's a super commonly used classical song
Bomb squad
1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilivich Tchaikovsky. It is in the description
Cool math, I just bonk 'em with the Giant Crusher
Nice video! gained a sub
Kansas = Wizard of OZ = Magic = Arcane
Makes total sense!
Clicked for the Elden ring, subscribed for the future math content
Thank God, now I can finally beat the DLC.
8:50 I’m gonna start calling Concert Redone now
I'm glad you made this video- the only way I beat radahn the first time was deflecting and guard countering w the sunflower 😂
I blocked Miquella’s divine explosion with this
Finally I can make an astolfo cosplay build that’s actually good
Oh god now they are vigor checking the bosses
You genius I love you