I used scarlet aonia + blasphemous blade. The rot works very well. I also yelled a lot, cursed From Software, wondered why I was inflicting so much pain on myself, and questioned the meaning of life. After 48 tries, I beat him. Mimic was the MVP though. I'm sorry I yelled at my mimic so much "hit him!!! What the f*** are you doing?! Help me!!!"
@@gabzsy4924 i rounded it was 473, i like to slamm my head against walls tho and i dont summon, i think with good build against him + mimic u can get it down under 100.
Dryleaf Arts- "How did you beat Radahn?" "He was tough, but even a god has a hard time taking 200 freezing nut shots. I even grabbed and twisted them."
I was using the dry leaf arts but them switched to danes footwork since it does more guard counter damage. i was doing like 3500 damage per guard counter it was insane! Great video, man!
@@jameswtlocs deflect hard tear inside your flask(you get that from the first fournace golem you can encounter), then you 2 hand the weapon and when an enemy attack is about to land, you use L1 to block and then, once you have blocked the attack, you use R2 to do the guard counter
@@saberkiller4567Even PS5 drops some FPS in this bullshit. Not only it makes the fight look way too overdone and messing up with the learning of the moves, it also simply fucks up with whatever console you're on. This really is one of the worst designed bosses ever
Fingerprint Shield. Poking Weapon of Choice. Bleed Grease. Shield Grease. Shield Talismans, Stamina and Stamina Recovery Talismans. 3 Rot Pots to Radahns Face. Ggs. I honestly don't know how else to beat him, outside of spending countless hours learning frame perfect rolls during a laser light show. Fromsofts idea of difficult bosses has ALWAYS been the same. It's the bosses who NEVER STOP attacking.
You say that, but Malenia isn't like that. And she's the next in line for the title after this fucker. She's slow, staggerable, and hardly attacks until you do until phase 2. She's hard for entirely different reasons. And, honestly, 90% of that is just Waterfowl. So I guess it's one of those two, yeah? Either A) never stops attacking and closes distance like a mofo, or B) this would be perfectly doable if it weren't for that ONE fucking attack!
@@GlamadorYeah I went to her right after Radahn in NG+. Felt so confindet and still died like 30 times to waterfowl move. Well but I wanted to meme her with big mouth imp ash. Which is just hilarious. Every shot from that thing knocks her of the feet. I had same RNG happening where she just ragdolls through the arena in phase 1 without ever pulling out one move
Everyone sleeps on Poleblade of the Bud, it's relatively fast and inflicts Scarlet Rot. Radahn is weaker to piercing weapons so this weapon worked well for me🔥
i was already planning a Thorns/Bleed style build but this boss is the ONLY one in the entirety of the DLC that forced me to respec off my current Death Sorceries witch build, thank you for that lol it worked like a charm, cheers mate
Same!!! This is the only boss in the ENTIRE game, except for Rykard because of his gimmick, that made me HAVE to change from my dragon build. I still haven’t beat him, but I’m only like 30-40 tries in. I’m trying to steer clear of the Fingerprint Shield and poke method, but I’m about to cave to an Impenetrable Thorns bleed build. This will probably be the only boss in the whole Soulsborne series that I beat once and have no interest in fighting again. I LOVE phase 1, but phase 2 is just pure, unbridled chaos!
Reporting back to this video to say that THIS GUIDE HELPED ME FINALLY BEAT RADAHN. Specifically the impenetrable thorns one. I've never beat a boss with anything but a sword before now, but that one looked so fun, so I respec-ed into Arcane and Int and after a bunch more tries I finally got it. Thank you so much for this guide man, I'm now using that same build to help friends through other bosses in the game and it's blowing everyone's minds!
Radahn was the first fight where I actually recorded and studied footage of my deaths just to beat him. I do this for no-hit runs but never for just making it out alive. Phase 2 is so oppressive at first that you just die without learning anything. Wound up doing it in like 55 tries with Square Off, but had to learn literally every move the hard way
Cold cross naginata + heavy fingerprint shield helped me. Its special because it has pierce, frost and bleed which he's weak to AND you can attack while blocking. Yep. You can poke radahn during most of his combos. Talismans were two headed turtle, greatshield, golden braid, and dragon rest greatshield. Good luck!! ❤
I was still able to beat NG+7 Consort Radahn with the good old Scavengers Bleed power standing jump attack build, strong base game build still carried me through the DLC
This boss forced me to learn how to use the Buckler shield. It honestly made this fight a joke. Highly recommend it if you’re having trouble (pair it with the Miséricorde)
You can counter act his meteors with Rannis darkmoon if cast immediately after you dodge his jump into the air. Ranni's darkmoon can also be cast immediately after he does his light speed attack if you are near him when he starts it.
Glad i didn't see this video before i beat him. I my lack of self control would've had me cheesing him with the thorns. I can see those getting a huge nerf
Honestly can't believe a video with builds to beat Radahn doesn't include this. Just L1 poke to death, completely ignore his entire moveset, he becomes a complete joke.
Instead of using the smithscript daggers I would recommend using the claws of night because: 1. Claws do more dps 2. Better scaling 3. Way easier to proc bleed or frost So basically, the smithscript daggers are just completely outclassed by the claws of night.
I used sword of light and darkness, multilayered ring of light and Radagon’s rings to destroy this boss both in 1 and 2 phase in ng+, and I was doing 10k damage with Radagon’s rings in first phase and over 4k damage with multilayered ring of light in 2nd phase. So yeah, don’t sleep on holy damage especially in the dlc.
Thank you for the hint! Multilayered rings of light made short work of him. Was running 70 INT 45 FTH so I used the golden order seal to cast the spell while holding the dryleaf seal on the other.
I managed to beat him! Used Cold Milady. Basically didn’t even touch my ashes of war lmao. Wing stance can be good for closing diatances and doing decent damage. But anything can work if you have enough time to land it.
I did a full run with Dragon Communions Incantations only. Even Malenia was down in a few try. I vanished some of the last boss of the DLC. But this Radahn doesn’t seem to be doable with my build. If you try and win, i appreciate a video. Thanks for your build
Also any hyper armor high stagger ash + melanias rune and defensive buffs are strong against him. I havent done him with deflect tear, but i have a feeling thats the real GOAT
I beat him with Deadly Poison Perfume and Poison Antspur with "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice", the absolute nuke when you trigger deadly poison, poison and rot was hilarious!
On my dex/int build, I used Wing of astel + brass shield was the set up I used wing of astel worked wonders on gaius as well (also on romina, but what doesn’t) Brass shield just to block part of that slash-slash-double slash combo which is pretty hard to fully dodge
Best build to beat Radahn is Mohg spear and fingerprint shield.. ..if you're struggling to find openings..you can just attack and guard at the same time.. You can use the Ash of war when you see and opening for big damage Biggest thing to look out for is phase 2...standing in front of him will see you getting your heat stolen It took me around 6 tries to beat him with this build..use your usual bleed set up and you're good to go.
A slept on method to defeating him is slapping carian retaliation on a shield, equipping the dagger talisman and the blade of mercy, and literally just parrying the shit out of him. Any single sword swipe (not the double swipes don’t try to parry those they are not parryable) can be parried with pretty easy and generous timing due to carian retaliation. It’s not how I beat him the first time, but I did it the second time I beat him and it honestly made the fight so much easier. Completely negates a lot of his combos
I went through the whole dlc with moonlight greatsword but I caved after 60 attempts on Radahn and switched to Rakshasa’s great katana. I finally beat him after 137 attempts 💀
when i found the putrescance cleaver i'd already been using a cold infused butchering knife - i had bloodhound step on it but switched to savage lion's claw after the DLC came out. imho i think the cold butchering knife is low key better. the damage is similar, the frost is similar, and you get 1% max hp back every time you land a hit. i don't use the cleaver's weapon art really ever, soooo but i'm also biased, because i've loved the butchering knife since release. something about it, lol. brilliant weapon.
cheers you are very very good. i died so much time.. more than 100 i think but I didn't want to respec. at last, i summon tollier and tiche (she was my mvp), my build is a pure sorcerer, i won with ranni dark moon (can negate the rocks and freeze the bastard) and Night Comet. imho aggro looks low with this spell. My build (19 scaudutree /10 ashes) was mage with carian scepter, staff of lost with huge magic boost for NC, light roll, godfrey talisman (other huge boost for NC, i think the other MVP), graven mass talisman (other boost for magic), radagon and the one from shaman village to negate holy damage. Wondrous physics: enhance magic damage and resistance to every damage. I'm very satisfied, maybe a bit lucky (i succeeded in giving to this bastard, already freeze, the scarlet rot with pots, other big damage). Nobody tried this ? I saw in youtube a guy better than me tbh, winning using my same build, ciao!
Wow, my build was lower than yours (scadutree fragments 17/9 ashes), level 240, and I only respected once for more vigor though but I still beat him eventually (without any summons either). Frost does hella damage for stagger (which I used Ice Spear for), I kept burning his health with the Black Knife, and Bloodhound Claws for the bloodhound step effect when needed. So, yeah...mostly still had a mage/sorcerer build I guess ya could say. The talismans I had was Blade of Mercy, Assassins Crimson Dagger, Ritiual Sword & Shield.
@@Afrocypher9590 ciao cheers to u as well, you did very very good withouth any summon. I had carian scepter and staff of lost with Dryleaf Dane armour, preceptor's trouser, Rennala gauntlets, fire knigth elmet. Withouth NPCs I was dead after few seconds.. (In first moment i tried with sir ansbach and tollier but the General became more than impossible. So tollier + Tiche) ... it was important to have windows to freeze the general, and scarlet rot as well. At this point he became doable. I remark two things, scarlet rot plagues the bastard also in second phase, I'm almost sure of this, and ranny moon can negate the rocks, I'm sure of this. A pure magic build must put to the limit what he has. in this boss fight for my build it was Rannie dark moon + Night comet + enhancing equipment for NC. Invisibility spells with staff of lost and godfrey icon are very good, low aggro and huuuge damage. I had 60 vig, 50 minds, 90 int (waste I know but I'm a sorcerer from baldur's gate time, no change LOL), 40 stamina (other few points in strength and faith just for resistences). level 206. ciao!
@@giannibelardi2970 Oh yeah, thanks & same to you bro. I did use summons for some of the other fights here & there though. But, Consort Radahn is just ridiculous especially with the NPC assistance. For a long time Tiche was my _"Ace in the Hole"_ too, during the 1st playthrough I used Banished Knight Oleg a lot. Never felt ashamed using the game mechanics despite hoe some try to gatekeep how they think it should be played. Funny, I didn't get to use the Scarlett Rot like I wanted. I know in lore it pretty much _"kills"_ him slowly after the battle of Aeonia with Melania but I wasn't sure if that'd take effect here. I used 60 vigor too, nearly 50 intelligence & like 30 sum'n mind & endurance. I swear everything was cool until phase 2, man the amount of times I kept dying only to seem like I had got the hang of it until those flashy light speed after image attacks hit me (smh). When I tell ya I was so done with this game after a while... definitely more harder than base game Festival Radahn. Just f**k him as a boss in general!!! 😂
Thanks for the various tips. I was able to beat him utilizing your first tip about about the impenetrable thorns and it made the fight much, much less of a slog than Malenia. This was my third playthrough of the core game. First time was a sort of janky strength build (random stats put into dumb shit so I could try to use heal spells or magic not knowing theres 2 kinds of magic, they both require different weapons to even use them, and theyre basically useless with the minimal stat investment). Whole game thinking this is some Zelda shit rocking a shield and a stupid lordsworn straight sword I found early in the game and just kept upgrading cause this was my first Fromsoft game and I had no idea how any of the mechanics worked. After that, my thoughts were "that game would have been waaaayyy funner had they explained the fkn mechanics throughout the game" and I played a second time using a hybrid dex / faith build. Also the youtube / reddit elitists brainwashed me into doing it no summon (never again, thats some unenjoyable bullshit lol). After that I wanted to try a pure int / sorcery build plus get Frenzy ending for the Plat trophy. DLC came out before I finished it so I could jump right in kinda halfway through that playthrough. Quickly learned that "damn all the shiny new weapons I wanna play with dont really fit a mostly int build." Eventually get to Radahn and run it for a couple hours solo, w/ Mimic, with Ansbach, w/ Mimic and Ansbach, w/ Mimic, Ansbach and Thollier to get a feel for the fight with various conditions. Results are not ideal. Both NPCs make him insanely tanky, one NPC makes it harder to read and dodge the few patterns Ive got down, the mimic and one NPC can DPS burst him to second phase just to leave me to die, and solo aint no way I can realistically dodge through 100+ combo sequences to sneak in 100+ single attacks. Research online and see a pretty successful tank build, but Id have to respec completely. See another one using the new Troll summon while healing from afar and hiding behind giant shield so thats also a respec. Then I find your video and see the thorn sorcery. At first Im thinking "arcane is my crappiest stat so bleed won't be as effective". After playing around with the with the idea in my head though, I think "I have the staff of the guilty thats been collecting dust. I can upgrade it, throw it in the offhand to make up for the low arcane and drop my useless shield. The mimic will have it too. Ansbach can inflict bleed, and Im good enough at dodging for a bit that I could keep pulling aggro back to me to give the summons time to heal. Also crack the physick to heal allies and I can probably ensure they dont die by the second phase. From there, just play/dodge enough just to pull aggro back to me a few times (use the perfume with the one time damage mitigation if I can get it off), and I think this sounds pretty valid. And it did, quickly. So thank you for the ideas that inspired the strategy. Malenia 1st time w/ Mimic and ROB took like 12 hours split over 4 days, Malenia 2nd time no summon same thing more or less, integrating your idea into what I could do, Consort Radahn 3 hours over 2 days. So thank you for saving me a few more days of pain, you a real one 💯
If your a strength build, you can power stances 2 great stars. The left hand with cold infusion and cold mist to proc frost quickly and the other one should be heavy infused. You then will just use a bleed grease on the heavy infused one or if you have time, blood flame. The boss gives very little window of time for buffs so I recommend just the quick grease. Your best options will be jump attacks and basic R1s. You get a lot of ur health back from this strategy due to its passive. With claw talisman, the new chest piece that boost jump attacks while procing bleed and frost, you should be able to do a lot of dmg
1.Grab the golden braid from the shaman village 2.Get the lords divine fortification from Gideon ofnir after beating malenia 3.Get as many scadutree fragments as you can There you go this combo will give you 90% damage resistance against holy damage, pop the fortification right as he does his big aoe in phase two and ALL of his holy follow ups stop dealing damage to you Turn his phase 2 back into his phase 1 If you want even more safety against him use the mimic tear and give him marikas blessing plus hefty and normal rot pots Once you use divine fortification your tear will also have the same damage resistance as you making him immune to the holy aoes and giving him an easy full heal he can use repeatedly while also rotting radahn which he is very weak to This boss has a lot of ways to deal with him you just have to know which is the best for you
It took me around 50 tries at my first attempt. Couldn't do it. Was about to break and use summons but shifted to shield poke setup. Did it in 2 tries. Then second time it took me another 30 attempts but finally got solo kill with zweihander. Now I can beat him everytime(in less than 5 attempts) with any decent weapon! So those attempts did bear fruit!
5:00 if anyone cares, you dont even have to fight that misbegotten. If you run past him to the putrescent boss, he follows and falls off the ledge you have to jump over, thus giving you the incant. Happened to me 7 out of 7 times.
Claws of night are an insane sleeper on this boss, 2 boint blank ashes proc bleed and if needed can use range on it asaell as the r2 moveset being thrown but the lights where fast acting melee claw set.
I eventually got tired of getting him to down 10% health so the way that i beat him was that i put on the antspur rapier and verdigris greatshield with the greatshield talisman and kindred of rot exultation and proceeded to poke him while blocking absolutely every attack and barely taking any damage
Big hammer from the black knights (sacred infused), perfect block tear, guard talisman, physical and sacred defense talismans, Malenia great rune. just attack with guard counters, 3 of those will stagger. best build for me
I was going through a Dragonborn build where I used both dragon communion, dragon cult and ancient dragon weapons and spells, and it was going well until this boss. I wish it was at least viable without becoming a speedrunner.
Any decent greatshield with the Antspur (blood infused with poison mist ash). You just shield poke him until he drops, not even an issue. The double stack of rot and poison eat him alive and the bleed procs just speed it along. The grab in phase two is literally the only thing he can even hope to win with.
I'm still struggling with this one, but after I spent all larval tears trying out different builds and died 63 times, I do a lot of damage and go easier to the second phase with a faith build. I have equipped the godslayer seal upgraded to its maximum and the blasphemous blade as a weapon. Black flame wall and rotten butterflies from romina do a lot of damage too.
For anyone struggling he didnt actually put the best build to beat him but some in comments has said, its basically shield and poke, you may have to respec your guy but its pretty much easy mode , just get defensive and stamina talismans and holy negation, and make sure to use scholar sheild which is a spell to boost your shield, also upgrade the sheild for highest gaurd boost ( fingerprint or the new moore shield is good, or black shield from rift castle as v high holy negation if your struggling for strength on the first two shields) for poke i used nagakiba spear, but if you have arcane and can get better bleed then any long blade that pokes will do, also second faze pop flask for stamina refill and whatever else you may struggle with. It took a few tries but got it done pretty easy
I still think malenia is a bit harder specially in a first encounter because her life steal is unfair. summoning an ash or shielding still has significant drawbacks against malenia as she can regen of it. if phase 1 malenia is as aggressive as her 2nd phase or as aggressive as radahn then it would be clear cut. I'm not proud of it but in my first playthru against consort Radahn i just hid behind the fingerprint shield, brought 15 health flasks, and poke him patiently with a blood infused messmer soldier spear. Occasionally come guard counters. The same tactic will not work against malenia since she heals of off it and i will simply run out of resources.
I had completely forgotten about the deflecting hard tear. I've probably been making things way harder than they need to be on my dryleaf arts playthrough.
The worst part about learning that dryleaf is good against radahn is that I used dryleaf for most of my dlc run but I was too scared to fight him properly so I just summoned or looked for cheese builds online.
I used high end str build with haligtreecrest greatshield and blood godskinstitcher +24 with mimic. Poking behind greatshield worked very well. Not the most heroic style😅
Funny, I didn't use any of the DLC weapons to beat him. Considering you get most of 'em so late in the game I ain't have time to max any of the good one's out except for a few. But, I used Ice Spear (does hella frost stagger) + Black Knife (to health burn) + Bloodhound Claws (for bloodhound step) + a Greatshield (I think it was the cuckoo one iirc). The talismans I had was Blade of Mercy, Assassins Crimson Dagger, Ritiual Sword & Shield. The 1st phase was easy af after a while but phase 2 is just complete utter bs especially with the after image speed bright yellow flashlight attacks, couldn't hardly see a damn thing & his cheap hit boxes throughout the fight didn't make it any better. Hardest boss I've ever fought in my entire life, but I did it though!
There is an alternative weapon that can be as good, or even better than the Putrescence Cleaver. That's the Death Poker, that weapon helped me a fuckton in the DLC and beating Radahn aswell. It's Ash of War is still busted.
Unfun boss. The idea of a boss being diffcult by being WAY too agressive and punishing is definitely an old joke. Having to FULLY respec is definitely a silly notion, and spending hours to learn the fighting patern just so you can roll 15 times and hit once. Meh. Disappointed, even more so for the fact that the final boss is an boss we enountered already.
I died 50+ trying my best against this boss. Impenetrable thorns... 2 tries. And the 1 try that I died because my cat jumped in front of my screen and refused to move. Thank you.
My build made him fall in second try, a simply wolfchest shield and carian sorcery sword, buff the shield with the shield buff spell and have fun. * Guarding strikes when he uses his aoe stuff like the pull and the leaping strikes. * His normal combos can be easily parryed, even in second phase. * If you cant parry, keep the guarding strikes, but take care of your stamina. Talis: [dragon crest shield/shield talisman/radagon icon/ godfrey icon) Why the icons? Its a int build , it is indeed focused in melee combat, but uses carian sword spells for extra sauce :3
On my second play through I did a magic build and I decided to try carian slicer for this boss because I was struggling a bit and wanted to experiment. I didn't know it was so strong, why does that magic have more dps than anything in the game??? Legit 2-3k damage every time he gave me an opening, more than 4k on longer openings.
2:16 Actually, the Maternal Staff is kinda bugged right now. instead of only applying a portion of it's arc scaling to blood sorceries for a ~40% status boost like the Albinauric Staff or the Dragon Communion Seal it applies the full 165% arcane scaling to the status build up.
I used the death ritual spear and it melted him. I tried the moon veil, great moon sword, thorn spell, comet, moon blade and others. The death ritual spear only took me three times
Unfortunately the Impenetrable Thorns have been nerfed with the latest patch (30th July 2024). The rest of the builds are unaffected though.
Bro I beat him on my 1st one with the thorns and I didn't even know it was meta. And now I can't do it again bc they make it pretty ass 😔
Fucking Miyazaki, spending all his time on UA-cam to find the guys that melt the final boss pretty easily, ridiculous. Thx anyway lol.
As it should have been
This is true. Impenetrable thorns does garbage damage now
NOOOOO
When Radhn walked out I yelled "YES!! I know this guy, he's a friend from work!"
This is heckin epic Reddit Chungus bro! UPDOOT on me!!!
what
@@rubub8455 Its a Thor Ragnarok reference
😂 I'm gonna watch Thor Ragnarok again. Thanks.
@@angelsalvador9425 I understood that reference!
I used scarlet aonia + blasphemous blade. The rot works very well. I also yelled a lot, cursed From Software, wondered why I was inflicting so much pain on myself, and questioned the meaning of life. After 48 tries, I beat him. Mimic was the MVP though. I'm sorry I yelled at my mimic so much "hit him!!! What the f*** are you doing?! Help me!!!"
I remember the good old days of Tiche flying in out of tower and pouncing on enemies. Good times
My mimic became a simp half fight, can’t believe he betrayed me like this
48, jesus it took me 500, i did parry only but it seemed like the best option without summon and built switch off quality.
@@luqqs3047 500?! Bro this surely is a generic number right?
@@gabzsy4924 i rounded it was 473, i like to slamm my head against walls tho and i dont summon, i think with good build against him + mimic u can get it down under 100.
4:03 - Miquella: "You dare use my own spells against me, Tarnished?"
Dryleaf Arts-
"How did you beat Radahn?"
"He was tough, but even a god has a hard time taking 200 freezing nut shots. I even grabbed and twisted them."
What Martial style is that I would love learn that type Martial Arts Irl that has Freezing Testicular Torsion
I was using the dry leaf arts but them switched to danes footwork since it does more guard counter damage. i was doing like 3500 damage per guard counter it was insane! Great video, man!
Yes I posted a video where I did a full run with those weapons, they were really fun.
Wait how do you do the guard counter with fist???
@@jameswtlocs deflect hard tear inside your flask(you get that from the first fournace golem you can encounter), then you 2 hand the weapon and when an enemy attack is about to land, you use L1 to block and then, once you have blocked the attack, you use R2 to do the guard counter
@@ainrun So you don't think he's tougher than Darkeater Midir
Radahn, Consort of 40 fps. Really is the worst thing about this boss
40 fps? i get 5
My Xbox Series S is struggling. This shit shouldn't be happening
@@saberkiller4567Even PS5 drops some FPS in this bullshit. Not only it makes the fight look way too overdone and messing up with the learning of the moves, it also simply fucks up with whatever console you're on. This really is one of the worst designed bosses ever
@@hygormotasantos4035 dude my ps5 can handle everything but really? It's worse than I thought.
@@saberkiller4567 Just defeated him for the first time. Almost got killed cause of those "echo" attacks, FPS on my PS5 goes to waste on these
Fingerprint Shield.
Poking Weapon of Choice.
Bleed Grease.
Shield Grease.
Shield Talismans, Stamina and Stamina Recovery Talismans.
3 Rot Pots to Radahns Face.
Ggs.
I honestly don't know how else to beat him, outside of spending countless hours learning frame perfect rolls during a laser light show.
Fromsofts idea of difficult bosses has ALWAYS been the same. It's the bosses who NEVER STOP attacking.
How do I get the shield if lyndell capital is already ash
@yeab9919 You can get a decent one from an quest NPC just before the boss if you don't have it
You say that, but Malenia isn't like that. And she's the next in line for the title after this fucker.
She's slow, staggerable, and hardly attacks until you do until phase 2. She's hard for entirely different reasons. And, honestly, 90% of that is just Waterfowl.
So I guess it's one of those two, yeah? Either A) never stops attacking and closes distance like a mofo, or B) this would be perfectly doable if it weren't for that ONE fucking attack!
@@GlamadorYeah I went to her right after Radahn in NG+.
Felt so confindet and still died like 30 times to waterfowl move.
Well but I wanted to meme her with big mouth imp ash. Which is just hilarious. Every shot from that thing knocks her of the feet. I had same RNG happening where she just ragdolls through the arena in phase 1 without ever pulling out one move
I beat him with parries, kinda negates most of his combos. That and the deflecting hardtear
This Radahn guy has some pretty cool looking swords, I bet they'd make it easy to kill Radahn if you had them
😂
Nahh
there neat swords he has, but they arnt all that great to use against him also.
Everyone sleeps on Poleblade of the Bud, it's relatively fast and inflicts Scarlet Rot. Radahn is weaker to piercing weapons so this weapon worked well for me🔥
I’m not your poleblade, bud
its awful and the scarlet rot build up is slow to the point of being near useless against consort radahn.
Nah use the Rot Rapier. Way faster
I used antspur rapier for faster scarlet rot buildup
i was already planning a Thorns/Bleed style build but this boss is the ONLY one in the entirety of the DLC that forced me to respec off my current Death Sorceries witch build, thank you for that lol
it worked like a charm, cheers mate
Same!!! This is the only boss in the ENTIRE game, except for Rykard because of his gimmick, that made me HAVE to change from my dragon build. I still haven’t beat him, but I’m only like 30-40 tries in. I’m trying to steer clear of the Fingerprint Shield and poke method, but I’m about to cave to an Impenetrable Thorns bleed build. This will probably be the only boss in the whole Soulsborne series that I beat once and have no interest in fighting again. I LOVE phase 1, but phase 2 is just pure, unbridled chaos!
@@TurnedYapperdid you beat him?
@@SharkSuitJoker I have indeed beat him. Thanks for checking lol
Reporting back to this video to say that THIS GUIDE HELPED ME FINALLY BEAT RADAHN. Specifically the impenetrable thorns one. I've never beat a boss with anything but a sword before now, but that one looked so fun, so I respec-ed into Arcane and Int and after a bunch more tries I finally got it. Thank you so much for this guide man, I'm now using that same build to help friends through other bosses in the game and it's blowing everyone's minds!
That's nice, GGs on the win.
He is the hardest, I have beaten all souls games and platinumed 6 of them. And this guy is the hardest to win legit on 3rd playthrough.
Radahn was the first fight where I actually recorded and studied footage of my deaths just to beat him. I do this for no-hit runs but never for just making it out alive. Phase 2 is so oppressive at first that you just die without learning anything. Wound up doing it in like 55 tries with Square Off, but had to learn literally every move the hard way
the phase 2 is just the phase 1 with lasers after each attack nothing more
Cold cross naginata + heavy fingerprint shield helped me. Its special because it has pierce, frost and bleed which he's weak to AND you can attack while blocking.
Yep. You can poke radahn during most of his combos. Talismans were two headed turtle, greatshield, golden braid, and dragon rest greatshield. Good luck!! ❤
This was one of the most informative videos on the topic, thanks. Every other video is like "mimc, finger shield, poke"
And if it works, so what?
I was still able to beat NG+7 Consort Radahn with the good old Scavengers Bleed power standing jump attack build, strong base game build still carried me through the DLC
Radahn apparently wanted payback for the first fight with him with all the other NPCs ganging up on him.
This boss forced me to learn how to use the Buckler shield. It honestly made this fight a joke. Highly recommend it if you’re having trouble (pair it with the Miséricorde)
Oh my god it’s Gwyn all over again
Yeah for the first phase.. the second is just Michael bay mind wtf
@@scal221 Trust me if you stay right on him at all times he’s pretty free (if you’re parrying). Just takes s bit of practice
Yeah and then they Say its the hardest fromsoft boss
just get better and try to roll at the good timing ???
You can counter act his meteors with Rannis darkmoon if cast immediately after you dodge his jump into the air. Ranni's darkmoon can also be cast immediately after he does his light speed attack if you are near him when he starts it.
Ty, cleared it pretty quick with the thorns build, gonna grind back here and try it with a melee build next
Phase 2 is just so wild 😂
It's a bunch of bs!
@@Afrocypher9590 ahahah you are just trash he is not that hard after 107 tries i beat him in ng+2 and beat him again 2 times more after that
I genuinely found going in with a shield with carian retaliation and an antspur rapier and parrying him to be the easiest strategy for this fight
That is exactly what I am doing except I am golden parrying him
every othyer boss than radhan has been a alright challenge. radhan is all challange
Glad i didn't see this video before i beat him. I my lack of self control would've had me cheesing him with the thorns. I can see those getting a huge nerf
5:28 "Oh i missread that" proceeds to take 0 damage and avoid the attack perfectly😂😂
Don’t forget Fingerprint Shield + Antspur Rapider. Total cheese.
I used mohgwyn spear instead works very nicely
Sword Spear and Bleed Grease did the trick.
And 3 heft rot pots
If you can use the scholars shield or shield grease… yeah gg Radahn it’s over
Honestly can't believe a video with builds to beat Radahn doesn't include this. Just L1 poke to death, completely ignore his entire moveset, he becomes a complete joke.
toxic gamer alert
Instead of using the smithscript daggers I would recommend using the claws of night because:
1. Claws do more dps
2. Better scaling
3. Way easier to proc bleed or frost
So basically, the smithscript daggers are just completely outclassed by the claws of night.
Thanks for the video, I just got the multi layer rings of light and I’m a strength faith build so this is the method I’ll try when I get to him
I used sword of light and darkness, multilayered ring of light and Radagon’s rings to destroy this boss both in 1 and 2 phase in ng+, and I was doing 10k damage with Radagon’s rings in first phase and over 4k damage with multilayered ring of light in 2nd phase. So yeah, don’t sleep on holy damage especially in the dlc.
Thank you for the hint! Multilayered rings of light made short work of him. Was running 70 INT 45 FTH so I used the golden order seal to cast the spell while holding the dryleaf seal on the other.
I managed to beat him!
Used Cold Milady. Basically didn’t even touch my ashes of war lmao. Wing stance can be good for closing diatances and doing decent damage. But anything can work if you have enough time to land it.
I did a full run with Dragon Communions Incantations only. Even Malenia was down in a few try. I vanished some of the last boss of the DLC. But this Radahn doesn’t seem to be doable with my build. If you try and win, i appreciate a video. Thanks for your build
I just beat him last night, used black steel greatshield and meteoric ore blade, definitely a tough fight
Also any hyper armor high stagger ash + melanias rune and defensive buffs are strong against him.
I havent done him with deflect tear, but i have a feeling thats the real GOAT
I beat him with Deadly Poison Perfume and Poison Antspur with "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice", the absolute nuke when you trigger deadly poison, poison and rot was hilarious!
Scarlet Aeonia and Milady was the only thing i needed✨
Fun fact, Multilayered rings of light is boosted by the Goldmask to make that spell even better.
On my dex/int build, I used Wing of astel + brass shield was the set up I used
wing of astel worked wonders on gaius as well (also on romina, but what doesn’t)
Brass shield just to block part of that slash-slash-double slash combo which is pretty hard to fully dodge
Black steel great shield works really well with sacred affinity makes it 100% holy resist
Easiest and most consistent by far is Fingerprint Shield + Poke Blood Anspier Rapier.
It deals bleed and rot while staying safe behind the shield
I use two cross-naginatas, one with bleed and one with frost using chillingly mist. Does the most damage out of stuff I’ve experimented with on ng+7.
Best build to beat Radahn is Mohg spear and fingerprint shield..
..if you're struggling to find openings..you can just attack and guard at the same time..
You can use the Ash of war when you see and opening for big damage
Biggest thing to look out for is phase 2...standing in front of him will see you getting your heat stolen
It took me around 6 tries to beat him with this build..use your usual bleed set up and you're good to go.
2:48 Frostbite increases damage taken by 20%, not 10%.
You infused the Dryleaf Arts with cold to proc frostbite.
I infused the Dryleaf Arts with cold to cosplay Sub-Zero.
We are not the same
A slept on method to defeating him is slapping carian retaliation on a shield, equipping the dagger talisman and the blade of mercy, and literally just parrying the shit out of him. Any single sword swipe (not the double swipes don’t try to parry those they are not parryable) can be parried with pretty easy and generous timing due to carian retaliation. It’s not how I beat him the first time, but I did it the second time I beat him and it honestly made the fight so much easier. Completely negates a lot of his combos
Took me 5 tries to beat. In the end, I had to go with my tried and true Bleed weapon of choice and Bloodflame Blade.
I finally know what to use on Radahn! Thanks!
I went through the whole dlc with moonlight greatsword but I caved after 60 attempts on Radahn and switched to Rakshasa’s great katana. I finally beat him after 137 attempts 💀
Devonias hammer + deflect tear + guard counter, double turtle neck, and two handed sword talismans shreds radahn
when i found the putrescance cleaver i'd already been using a cold infused butchering knife - i had bloodhound step on it but switched to savage lion's claw after the DLC came out. imho i think the cold butchering knife is low key better. the damage is similar, the frost is similar, and you get 1% max hp back every time you land a hit. i don't use the cleaver's weapon art really ever, soooo
but i'm also biased, because i've loved the butchering knife since release. something about it, lol. brilliant weapon.
cheers you are very very good. i died so much time.. more than 100 i think but I didn't want to respec. at last, i summon tollier and tiche (she was my mvp), my build is a pure sorcerer, i won with ranni dark moon (can negate the rocks and freeze the bastard) and Night Comet. imho aggro looks low with this spell. My build (19 scaudutree /10 ashes) was mage with carian scepter, staff of lost with huge magic boost for NC, light roll, godfrey talisman (other huge boost for NC, i think the other MVP), graven mass talisman (other boost for magic), radagon and the one from shaman village to negate holy damage. Wondrous physics: enhance magic damage and resistance to every damage. I'm very satisfied, maybe a bit lucky (i succeeded in giving to this bastard, already freeze, the scarlet rot with pots, other big damage). Nobody tried this ? I saw in youtube a guy better than me tbh, winning using my same build, ciao!
Wow, my build was lower than yours (scadutree fragments 17/9 ashes), level 240, and I only respected once for more vigor though but I still beat him eventually (without any summons either). Frost does hella damage for stagger (which I used Ice Spear for), I kept burning his health with the Black Knife, and Bloodhound Claws for the bloodhound step effect when needed. So, yeah...mostly still had a mage/sorcerer build I guess ya could say. The talismans I had was Blade of Mercy, Assassins Crimson Dagger, Ritiual Sword & Shield.
@@Afrocypher9590 ciao cheers to u as well, you did very very good withouth any summon. I had carian scepter and staff of lost with Dryleaf Dane armour, preceptor's trouser, Rennala gauntlets, fire knigth elmet. Withouth NPCs I was dead after few seconds.. (In first moment i tried with sir ansbach and tollier but the General became more than impossible. So tollier + Tiche) ... it was important to have windows to freeze the general, and scarlet rot as well. At this point he became doable. I remark two things, scarlet rot plagues the bastard also in second phase, I'm almost sure of this, and ranny moon can negate the rocks, I'm sure of this. A pure magic build must put to the limit what he has. in this boss fight for my build it was Rannie dark moon + Night comet + enhancing equipment for NC. Invisibility spells with staff of lost and godfrey icon are very good, low aggro and huuuge damage. I had 60 vig, 50 minds, 90 int (waste I know but I'm a sorcerer from baldur's gate time, no change LOL), 40 stamina (other few points in strength and faith just for resistences). level 206. ciao!
@@giannibelardi2970 Oh yeah, thanks & same to you bro. I did use summons for some of the other fights here & there though. But, Consort Radahn is just ridiculous especially with the NPC assistance. For a long time Tiche was my _"Ace in the Hole"_ too, during the 1st playthrough I used Banished Knight Oleg a lot. Never felt ashamed using the game mechanics despite hoe some try to gatekeep how they think it should be played. Funny, I didn't get to use the Scarlett Rot like I wanted. I know in lore it pretty much _"kills"_ him slowly after the battle of Aeonia with Melania but I wasn't sure if that'd take effect here. I used 60 vigor too, nearly 50 intelligence & like 30 sum'n mind & endurance. I swear everything was cool until phase 2, man the amount of times I kept dying only to seem like I had got the hang of it until those flashy light speed after image attacks hit me (smh). When I tell ya I was so done with this game after a while... definitely more harder than base game Festival Radahn. Just f**k him as a boss in general!!! 😂
Taylew Golem summon and Heal from Afar, stay locked onto Radhan when you wanna heal Taylew since Radhan is almost always in Taylew's face.
Thanks for the various tips. I was able to beat him utilizing your first tip about about the impenetrable thorns and it made the fight much, much less of a slog than Malenia.
This was my third playthrough of the core game. First time was a sort of janky strength build (random stats put into dumb shit so I could try to use heal spells or magic not knowing theres 2 kinds of magic, they both require different weapons to even use them, and theyre basically useless with the minimal stat investment). Whole game thinking this is some Zelda shit rocking a shield and a stupid lordsworn straight sword I found early in the game and just kept upgrading cause this was my first Fromsoft game and I had no idea how any of the mechanics worked. After that, my thoughts were "that game would have been waaaayyy funner had they explained the fkn mechanics throughout the game" and I played a second time using a hybrid dex / faith build. Also the youtube / reddit elitists brainwashed me into doing it no summon (never again, thats some unenjoyable bullshit lol). After that I wanted to try a pure int / sorcery build plus get Frenzy ending for the Plat trophy. DLC came out before I finished it so I could jump right in kinda halfway through that playthrough. Quickly learned that "damn all the shiny new weapons I wanna play with dont really fit a mostly int build."
Eventually get to Radahn and run it for a couple hours solo, w/ Mimic, with Ansbach, w/ Mimic and Ansbach, w/ Mimic, Ansbach and Thollier to get a feel for the fight with various conditions. Results are not ideal. Both NPCs make him insanely tanky, one NPC makes it harder to read and dodge the few patterns Ive got down, the mimic and one NPC can DPS burst him to second phase just to leave me to die, and solo aint no way I can realistically dodge through 100+ combo sequences to sneak in 100+ single attacks. Research online and see a pretty successful tank build, but Id have to respec completely. See another one using the new Troll summon while healing from afar and hiding behind giant shield so thats also a respec. Then I find your video and see the thorn sorcery. At first Im thinking "arcane is my crappiest stat so bleed won't be as effective". After playing around with the with the idea in my head though, I think "I have the staff of the guilty thats been collecting dust. I can upgrade it, throw it in the offhand to make up for the low arcane and drop my useless shield. The mimic will have it too. Ansbach can inflict bleed, and Im good enough at dodging for a bit that I could keep pulling aggro back to me to give the summons time to heal. Also crack the physick to heal allies and I can probably ensure they dont die by the second phase. From there, just play/dodge enough just to pull aggro back to me a few times (use the perfume with the one time damage mitigation if I can get it off), and I think this sounds pretty valid. And it did, quickly. So thank you for the ideas that inspired the strategy. Malenia 1st time w/ Mimic and ROB took like 12 hours split over 4 days, Malenia 2nd time no summon same thing more or less, integrating your idea into what I could do, Consort Radahn 3 hours over 2 days. So thank you for saving me a few more days of pain, you a real one 💯
If your a strength build, you can power stances 2 great stars. The left hand with cold infusion and cold mist to proc frost quickly and the other one should be heavy infused. You then will just use a bleed grease on the heavy infused one or if you have time, blood flame. The boss gives very little window of time for buffs so I recommend just the quick grease.
Your best options will be jump attacks and basic R1s. You get a lot of ur health back from this strategy due to its passive. With claw talisman, the new chest piece that boost jump attacks while procing bleed and frost, you should be able to do a lot of dmg
I had two people help me beat him, and I'm not ashamed. It still came down to either me or him losing the fight.
“Packs a heavy punch, literally” and “fist weapons”
When describing a weapon that literally does not punch. It just has kicks and palm strikes
1.Grab the golden braid from the shaman village
2.Get the lords divine fortification from Gideon ofnir after beating malenia
3.Get as many scadutree fragments as you can
There you go this combo will give you 90% damage resistance against holy damage, pop the fortification right as he does his big aoe in phase two and ALL of his holy follow ups stop dealing damage to you
Turn his phase 2 back into his phase 1
If you want even more safety against him use the mimic tear and give him marikas blessing plus hefty and normal rot pots
Once you use divine fortification your tear will also have the same damage resistance as you making him immune to the holy aoes and giving him an easy full heal he can use repeatedly while also rotting radahn which he is very weak to
This boss has a lot of ways to deal with him you just have to know which is the best for you
I’ve been using my strength/int build and ita got me through most of the dlc except for radahn
For anyone trying the impenetrable thorns route, I completely forgot that you can spam cast the spell to make subsequent casts faster.
It took me around 50 tries at my first attempt. Couldn't do it. Was about to break and use summons but shifted to shield poke setup. Did it in 2 tries. Then second time it took me another 30 attempts but finally got solo kill with zweihander. Now I can beat him everytime(in less than 5 attempts) with any decent weapon! So those attempts did bear fruit!
5:00 if anyone cares, you dont even have to fight that misbegotten. If you run past him to the putrescent boss, he follows and falls off the ledge you have to jump over, thus giving you the incant. Happened to me 7 out of 7 times.
Claws of night are an insane sleeper on this boss, 2 boint blank ashes proc bleed and if needed can use range on it asaell as the r2 moveset being thrown but the lights where fast acting melee claw set.
Thank you. You saved my mental health.
I used the ability of Reduvia with the lord of blood’s exultation, summoning Mimic Tear.
Dual Godskin Peeler Jump-Multihit-Bleedbuilt was the way for me
I eventually got tired of getting him to down 10% health so the way that i beat him was that i put on the antspur rapier and verdigris greatshield with the greatshield talisman and kindred of rot exultation and proceeded to poke him while blocking absolutely every attack and barely taking any damage
We got Ainrun turning family friendly before we got gta 6
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Big hammer from the black knights (sacred infused), perfect block tear, guard talisman, physical and sacred defense talismans, Malenia great rune.
just attack with guard counters, 3 of those will stagger. best build for me
I was going through a Dragonborn build where I used both dragon communion, dragon cult and ancient dragon weapons and spells, and it was going well until this boss.
I wish it was at least viable without becoming a speedrunner.
Any decent greatshield with the Antspur (blood infused with poison mist ash). You just shield poke him until he drops, not even an issue. The double stack of rot and poison eat him alive and the bleed procs just speed it along. The grab in phase two is literally the only thing he can even hope to win with.
Carrian retaliation + miscerode. Ever faithful
I'm still struggling with this one, but after I spent all larval tears trying out different builds and died 63 times, I do a lot of damage and go easier to the second phase with a faith build. I have equipped the godslayer seal upgraded to its maximum and the blasphemous blade as a weapon. Black flame wall and rotten butterflies from romina do a lot of damage too.
My mimic lockin last 5 second and proc bleed. He's the real one
I listen to this when going to bed, would recommend, great voice, great hair
For anyone struggling he didnt actually put the best build to beat him but some in comments has said, its basically shield and poke, you may have to respec your guy but its pretty much easy mode , just get defensive and stamina talismans and holy negation, and make sure to use scholar sheild which is a spell to boost your shield, also upgrade the sheild for highest gaurd boost ( fingerprint or the new moore shield is good, or black shield from rift castle as v high holy negation if your struggling for strength on the first two shields) for poke i used nagakiba spear, but if you have arcane and can get better bleed then any long blade that pokes will do, also second faze pop flask for stamina refill and whatever else you may struggle with. It took a few tries but got it done pretty easy
I still think malenia is a bit harder specially in a first encounter because her life steal is unfair. summoning an ash or shielding still has significant drawbacks against malenia as she can regen of it. if phase 1 malenia is as aggressive as her 2nd phase or as aggressive as radahn then it would be clear cut. I'm not proud of it but in my first playthru against consort Radahn i just hid behind the fingerprint shield, brought 15 health flasks, and poke him patiently with a blood infused messmer soldier spear. Occasionally come guard counters. The same tactic will not work against malenia since she heals of off it and i will simply run out of resources.
I had completely forgotten about the deflecting hard tear. I've probably been making things way harder than they need to be on my dryleaf arts playthrough.
The worst part about learning that dryleaf is good against radahn is that I used dryleaf for most of my dlc run but I was too scared to fight him properly so I just summoned or looked for cheese builds online.
Beat him with the claws of night pretty easy, i reccomend trying them for those who havent, shard of alex and the new throwing talisman buffs the Aow
Cheers! First time seeing multi ring of light - looks interesting.
Which armor is being worn for the thorns build with the fur and the collar?
I used high end str build with haligtreecrest greatshield and blood godskinstitcher +24 with mimic. Poking behind greatshield worked very well. Not the most heroic style😅
Funny, I didn't use any of the DLC weapons to beat him. Considering you get most of 'em so late in the game I ain't have time to max any of the good one's out except for a few. But, I used Ice Spear (does hella frost stagger) + Black Knife (to health burn) + Bloodhound Claws (for bloodhound step) + a Greatshield (I think it was the cuckoo one iirc). The talismans I had was Blade of Mercy, Assassins Crimson Dagger, Ritiual Sword & Shield. The 1st phase was easy af after a while but phase 2 is just complete utter bs especially with the after image speed bright yellow flashlight attacks, couldn't hardly see a damn thing & his cheap hit boxes throughout the fight didn't make it any better. Hardest boss I've ever fought in my entire life, but I did it though!
what ash of war are you using with the fist and if you are not using one how do you deal forst? amazing video!!
The Black Whetblade allows you to put Cold Affinity with any Ash of War.
There is an alternative weapon that can be as good, or even better than the Putrescence Cleaver. That's the Death Poker, that weapon helped me a fuckton in the DLC and beating Radahn aswell. It's Ash of War is still busted.
Unfun boss.
The idea of a boss being diffcult by being WAY too agressive and punishing is definitely an old joke.
Having to FULLY respec is definitely a silly notion, and spending hours to learn the fighting patern just so you can roll 15 times and hit once. Meh.
Disappointed, even more so for the fact that the final boss is an boss we enountered already.
I died 50+ trying my best against this boss. Impenetrable thorns... 2 tries. And the 1 try that I died because my cat jumped in front of my screen and refused to move. Thank you.
I feline your pain 🥁
My build made him fall in second try, a simply wolfchest shield and carian sorcery sword, buff the shield with the shield buff spell and have fun.
* Guarding strikes when he uses his aoe stuff like the pull and the leaping strikes.
* His normal combos can be easily parryed, even in second phase.
* If you cant parry, keep the guarding strikes, but take care of your stamina.
Talis: [dragon crest shield/shield talisman/radagon icon/ godfrey icon)
Why the icons? Its a int build , it is indeed focused in melee combat, but uses carian sword spells for extra sauce :3
Finger print shield and spear…
spam r1….
watch your stamina bar…
double turtles talisman
Put a great shield, put a great spear, put fros, use mimic tear, done enjoy the cheese.
If it’s throb sorcery can’t you use the staff that also builds up thorn sorcerers
On my second play through I did a magic build and I decided to try carian slicer for this boss because I was struggling a bit and wanted to experiment. I didn't know it was so strong, why does that magic have more dps than anything in the game??? Legit 2-3k damage every time he gave me an opening, more than 4k on longer openings.
2:16 Actually, the Maternal Staff is kinda bugged right now. instead of only applying a portion of it's arc scaling to blood sorceries for a ~40% status boost like the Albinauric Staff or the Dragon Communion Seal it applies the full 165% arcane scaling to the status build up.
oh that's very interesting, explains the one hit bleed procs.
RIP impenetrable thorns😢. It now takes more hits to melt his HP down to the next phase
I used the death ritual spear and it melted him. I tried the moon veil, great moon sword, thorn spell, comet, moon blade and others. The death ritual spear only took me three times
I beat him after 7 tries with a great shield and a spear with blood loss, intense and long fight, but working
it was surely a fucking boring ass fight...
im gonna do a whole NG+ with a Ryu build using them dryleaf arts
Radahn is tough, but the hardest one still goes to Isshin the Sword Saint
Everyone felt that scream "F***KIN DIEEEEEEEEE" at 1 HP.