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My first playthrough was Brick Hammer + Battle Hammer, then NG+ they both grew up into 2 x Giantcrushers, as a strength enjoyer it was like reaching Nirvana.
it is so nice how you fight, no panic rolls, just jumping, keep calm, dodge ... and here I'm with over 450 hours, finished the game multiple times, up to 100% but still panic roll like a dumbass
@@willfultrain6779 According to the item description, it was used in the war against the giants. Would’ve been awesome to see it finish off the final one. Gino shooting it with a cannon was pretty cool tho, even if it was a miserable fight
@@daveys_gaming_corner Could he not have gotten it and then used it later? I thought you could only use one build per zone, not one build specific to that zone.
Barbaric Roar is totally slept on. Bit slow for bosses, but it makes all landscape enemies insanely easy since you can just poise through their attacks and usually stagger/stun them as well with the 3 hit combo. Love it
Gino single handedly revived my love for Elden Ring again and then the DLC was announced lol Want to try my hand at these challenge/specific thing runs.
I did a dex build on my first playthrough and whenever I play now I go for unga bunga str weapons. I love the watchdog staff. I unga therefore I bunga.
Ruins greatsword is a hell of a lot of fun. My first playthrough I was using Bloodhound's Fang (didn't we all lol), and I wasn't a huge fan of the move set. When I picked up the Ruins Greatsword and gave the AoW a try I remember cackling like a mad woman. You feel like a giga chad lining mobs up and mowing them down with a single L2, and you can score multiple hits on large bosses if you line it up right. If you're a strength build struggling in the Haligtree, that sword will save you a world of grief: it's very good for knocking mobs off of branches and platforms, and for making use of choke points. And it's also great for breaking enemy guard when they're using a shield. In NG+ you can break through the 99 cap by two-handing, and dumping points into int will add (some) magic damage and open up access to spells. Overall, it's just a solid weapon.
Yeah Ruins Greatsword was the first weapon I tried that just felt 'right'. Also was nice cuz I got stuck on the bosses that drop it for a while so it felt very earned to use! Ended up going with it for most of my first playthrough.
I'm fighting for my life whenever I get to Maliketh. Desperately trying to avoid all his moves. Then I watch you just walk around him like he is not even there. You're too good Gino 😭😂
I like that you actually use starting character besides just using the wretch for every build it makes the play through more interesting and also more relatable for most ppl first playthroughs
Gino was the first Elden Ring player I watched on UA-cam. After watching many others, I honestly think Gino is the best at this game as far as I can tell. This dude is a beast.
Holy shit I literally thought to myself like 3 days ago, ”I wish there was a strength version of this series,” and then you post this a couple days later! So sick!
@ginomachino you should leave a pinned comment of your regional to do lists for these build videos. That would be dope so people could take similar approaches.
I deadass loved using the grafted great sword. The grafted greatsword (I call it the GOT Sword) looked so cool and does just an absurd amount of damage. I
I'm ready for the all support build. Uses spirits of all types, I enjoy Great shield soldiers. Golden vow, erdtree blessing, Various buffs, rally standard, icon shield, deathbed dress, royal remains in other slots, mohgs rune, old lord talisman, erdtree +2, dragoncrest greatshield, ritual shield. A fun weapon for this build could be great stars, for any non summon places.
golden land is a crazy ash of war, if you have high faith it does thousands of damage and a ton of poise damage, and inherits aux/on-hit effects from weapons, one of my favorite skills for sure.
Poise damage NEVER scales with ANY stat that you have. So if it deals tons of poise damage on high faith, so it does on low faith, as long as you meet the requirement.
I like to imagine Maliketh saying "I will not have it stolen from me again." is not referring to the Black Knife Assasins, but every other challenge run up to this point where he gets his ass whooped-
Gino: This is why you don’t run to the side on the fire breath attack, you should run between the legs instead it’s much safer. Also Gino: *runs to the side and takes no damage, then runs between the legs and dies instantly*
My buddy and I found that if you have 1 person (and mimic) running 2 colossal weapons and jump attacking, and another running phantom slash with mimic, the amount of attacks per second perma stun Melania to the point she cannot leave the ground. The most hilarious fight I have ever done in elden ring and I will never do anything else to kill her anymore lol.
Loving these runs man, thoroughly entertaining. After doing these like one stat or one weapon type runs have you thought of doing runs that are more thematic, or allow for a bit wider build and weapon variety, while still having some restrictions that make it challenging? I feel like combining the expertise on various weapons and strategies you've gathered after all this playtime would be really cool to see.
From what I remember, the Eclipse Shotel is pretty good in pvp if you run two of em and manage to buff up. The weapon art locks the character's movement for a while tho, so a lot of people will just swing on you lol. Oroboro made a build on em near the beginning of the game's lifecycle, so idk if they were touched in the patch history
Once I found out that the only merchant who has any relevance as far as quests or anything else goes is Kalé, I just kill them all. The massive convenience gain of having all the vendor stocks in the game at Roundtable is wild
After watching this video i decided to do a run with Great mace + cragblade + stormhawk Deenh (+30% stagger) and it's insanely good. Just finished godrick in less than 30 seconds. Beginning of phase 2 I stunned him with 1 jump r2 while he was doing the fire breath and killed him on the crit. Strength is so much better than Dex it's not even close.
since it was talked about: the eclipse shotel might surprise you by how mid it is, which is head and shoulders better than how most people consider it. i think people look at it and go "lol deathblight," but both parts of the aow _do_ actually deal holy damage, so the deathblight is really more of a cherry on top for pvp it's a perfectly functional split damage holy curved sword. hell, probably one of the better ones even, what with not having to deal with sacred affinity tanking its dex scaling and physical damage. truly, a high honor like none other
Not sure if or how it would work or if it would work, but I just got done watching an anime called "I put all my stats into defense so I won't get hurt." Anime was literally as it says. Fun 24 episodes, wondering if defense only run would be plausible
Took Gino 2 years to beat this game as the mindless bonk machine I have always been, clearly this means I am better at the game than the best Souls player (please don't look at my 300 attempts over 4 days at the limgrave tree spirit, let me have it)
You like fighting runebears? My sleep paralysis demon would be a runebear / revenant duo boss fight, because when fighting either of them, I might as well be paralyzed.
I'm still in my first play through and I haven't faced Melanie, the elden beast or the banished night yet. So slow I NEVER get bored of playing yet. The only thing I hate is when a least dangerous enemy kills me.
The iron cleaver is S scaling strength weapon I would recommend trying out one time it has really good DPS with its quick attacks and one of the most hilarious R2s to look at
I did a full tarnished, run no looking things up. No, getting help starting out as the naked man with a club. First piece of equipment I found was actually ruin's great sword. Cause I went down instead of up and nothing dropped. I got to like level 30 before I found an extra piece of equipment. I parrot it with the ruins, great sword. And used it both of them the rest of the game. My second play through after I new game plus I used double godskin peelers with bleed and sepuku. Jump power was mad with them
1:11:16 i think the ash of war is as good as it feels because of the weapon size and how it is a heavy hitter. If it was on something like a short sword or dagger or something small and not heavy hitting, i bet it would suck pretty bad
I did my first ED playthough with STR colossal weapons (around 220hs). Boy did I have a bad time before they fixed the recovery frames and animation speeds. It was so enfuriating that whenever you R1, any enemy would recover before you would finish the attack animation. You'd always trade DMG. It was so freaking annoying. I ended up using DEX/ARC and breeze through the game on my PC playthrough right after. They took like a month to start fixing STR builds.
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@@GlorytotheImperiumi bet you liked your reply didnt you
@@mengeng7454 no
Health is wealth!
Gino: "That's the thing about Yhorm, you can fight him with any build and have a very reasonable time with him"
Skumnut: *kicks a giant to death*
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean, Gino punched him to death so
Also rolled him to death in one of his runs. Glad Skums getting more attention
who's Skumnut?
@@kajek777 another content creator who does some just ridiculous runs
As a strength lover, this video fills me with joy
Indeed
Ah a fellow bonk brother
Unga and bunga
Average no brain cookie cutter strength build with radahn helmet. Get a personality
@@multiplefelonies9540calm down man it is not that serious
My first playthrough was Brick Hammer + Battle Hammer, then NG+ they both grew up into 2 x Giantcrushers, as a strength enjoyer it was like reaching Nirvana.
Bro did 1 hit every 5 minutes lul
2 giant crushers and full bull goat set. the "try me ****" build
@@badassraregaming4982 Yes, those are my absolute favorites, they are the easiest to bully in pvp.
@@badassraregaming4982or the "get backstabbed 9000" build in pvp
@@Rumcajs981woe, law of regression be upon ye
"You can't parry my ass, dude"
- Gino
Oh no just gotta take it head on! Cruel fate 🤤
when does he say that ? xD
@@andreiracz201727:59
@@cfl_finn4831delete this
@@cfl_finn4831it’s been 4 months have you changed for the better or worse
Strenght make me happy, happy good.
Good.... is good.
Hehehehe
B O N K
unga bunga frfr
@@TheSuperSpud "translate to english" XDDD
@@xavior2k lol what
Did it change
it is so nice how you fight, no panic rolls, just jumping, keep calm, dodge ... and here I'm with over 450 hours, finished the game multiple times, up to 100% but still panic roll like a dumbass
He has about 5× those hours in ER and almost 9k across all souls games, so don't feel too bad about it!
Not using Giant Crusher aganist fire gaint is such a missed opportunity lol
Man, I was hoping he would because it's literally crushes giants.
@@willfultrain6779 According to the item description, it was used in the war against the giants. Would’ve been awesome to see it finish off the final one. Gino shooting it with a cannon was pretty cool tho, even if it was a miserable fight
Yea but he is region locked
@@daveys_gaming_cornerthe giant crusher is in altus no?
@@daveys_gaming_corner Could he not have gotten it and then used it later? I thought you could only use one build per zone, not one build specific to that zone.
The turn around from stream to video is amazing. I was so used to waiting 1-2 months to get a video version of the run. You love to see it
"I really like fighting these guys [runebears]." Everything you need to know about Gino right here.
Barbaric Roar is totally slept on. Bit slow for bosses, but it makes all landscape enemies insanely easy since you can just poise through their attacks and usually stagger/stun them as well with the 3 hit combo. Love it
Try with Nagakiba for big bleed, or claws for max style
Gino single handedly revived my love for Elden Ring again and then the DLC was announced lol Want to try my hand at these challenge/specific thing runs.
I did a dex build on my first playthrough and whenever I play now I go for unga bunga str weapons. I love the watchdog staff. I unga therefore I bunga.
"Maybe we won't have a 2 hour long fire giant montage."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Watching the stream and then watching the video is a Chad move
i hate fire giant, i hate him so much
@@Fraustyyonce u learn moveset it gets way easier still a pain in the ass though
@@yh1762 yep you're right, the somersaults sometimes one shot me that's honestly the only thing i hate
@@Fraustyy YEAAA THOSE MF ANNOYING AS HELL
Ruins greatsword is a hell of a lot of fun. My first playthrough I was using Bloodhound's Fang (didn't we all lol), and I wasn't a huge fan of the move set. When I picked up the Ruins Greatsword and gave the AoW a try I remember cackling like a mad woman. You feel like a giga chad lining mobs up and mowing them down with a single L2, and you can score multiple hits on large bosses if you line it up right. If you're a strength build struggling in the Haligtree, that sword will save you a world of grief: it's very good for knocking mobs off of branches and platforms, and for making use of choke points. And it's also great for breaking enemy guard when they're using a shield. In NG+ you can break through the 99 cap by two-handing, and dumping points into int will add (some) magic damage and open up access to spells. Overall, it's just a solid weapon.
Yeah Ruins Greatsword was the first weapon I tried that just felt 'right'. Also was nice cuz I got stuck on the bosses that drop it for a while so it felt very earned to use! Ended up going with it for most of my first playthrough.
youre beautiful gino
You too bb
He Looks hot ik
Ayo😂
Very
This is true
Nothing else to say
Best part of this run is the "Get bricked and butt slam Renala"😂😂😂
I'm fighting for my life whenever I get to Maliketh. Desperately trying to avoid all his moves.
Then I watch you just walk around him like he is not even there. You're too good Gino 😭😂
I have a Strength only character as well. He uses the Prelate's Hammer and is bright red so I named him the Crimson Chin.
“I feel like killing everthing man”
-Gino again probably
i saw a video where a dude killed morgott and then backed out and killed him again
I like that you actually use starting character besides just using the wretch for every build it makes the play through more interesting and also more relatable for most ppl first playthroughs
My favorite part of these vids is seeing my own chat message in it lmao
timestamp?
@@YaBoiBlantyre A few times, I'm not gonna find em again lol. They were inconsequential to anyone but me.
And me @@Gandhi_Physique
@@Gandhi_Physiqueand me
I'm subscribed but don't watch the videos to balance out those pesky non subscribed viewers 👍
Thank you, watched it for you it's good
D riding
Most sane Shinji pfp user
Doing the lords work
Why aren't you inside a ROBOT?
babe wake up, new gino masterpiece just dropped
IT HATH ARRIVED!
THE BONKENING COMETH!!!
I genuinly love the confidence he has in the play through, more than most cause you can tell just how much he loves strength builds, I love it
Gino was the first Elden Ring player I watched on UA-cam. After watching many others, I honestly think Gino is the best at this game as far as I can tell. This dude is a beast.
-"i really like to cook"
We know, Gino... we know...
Gino: Surely this will not become a fire gigant 2h montage
Me, seeing that he reached fire gigant and there's still half of the segment on the video:
1:56:14 ngl that james bond ahh shot cracked me up
Holy shit I literally thought to myself like 3 days ago, ”I wish there was a strength version of this series,” and then you post this a couple days later! So sick!
2-4 hour videos that are ALWAYS a banger
You should make a guide on the location of all the somber smithing stones, because all the other ones are outdated
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16:11 the rust status effect would be lockjaw and turn off the bosses dialogue for the rest of the fight
@ginomachino you should leave a pinned comment of your regional to do lists for these build videos. That would be dope so people could take similar approaches.
FYI i've begun creating my own
bro did you know with the great club. You can put black flame on it and then every hit with Golden Land will proc black flame :)
For real?
@@kiwialforde9913 really :)
shhh dont let from hear this
This is like seeing a whole Cameo for me man. Give that boy Dogo a Grammy for the best acting I've ever seen 4:23
As a STR enjoyer, I had big expectations for this run and I'm not disappointed 😂
Can't wait for the vigor only run.
The fight against the Scion at the start was the cleanest fight i have ever seen
Love your videos and every time I watch through your videos for example the master run I am just impressed. Keep going.
Keep it up man. Just recently got into the game but pretty much found you right away, and love all your stuff
i love watching him play a regular strength playthru
i love the anchor. my first DLC playthrough was starfist for all bosses + anchor for consort.
The stomp sweep was my favorite on the Cathedral Knight greatsword
I deadass loved using the grafted great sword. The grafted greatsword (I call it the GOT Sword) looked so cool and does just an absurd amount of damage. I
Whoever edits these videos is a pro.
I'm ready for the all support build. Uses spirits of all types, I enjoy Great shield soldiers. Golden vow, erdtree blessing, Various buffs, rally standard, icon shield, deathbed dress, royal remains in other slots, mohgs rune, old lord talisman, erdtree +2, dragoncrest greatshield, ritual shield. A fun weapon for this build could be great stars, for any non summon places.
Hey Gino, love your content. Have you ever thought about doing a run by only using "spirit ashes?"
Even lvl 10 spirit ashes wouldn't be able to kill most of the bosses is the issue
golden land is a crazy ash of war, if you have high faith it does thousands of damage and a ton of poise damage, and inherits aux/on-hit effects from weapons, one of my favorite skills for sure.
Poise damage NEVER scales with ANY stat that you have. So if it deals tons of poise damage on high faith, so it does on low faith, as long as you meet the requirement.
@@Rumcajs981 im just saying it does a bunch of scaling damage then the full combo does a bunch of poise damage, worded it badly
The most satisfying part of using colossal weapons is saying “bonk” each time you hit something
Between you, Tulok, Cloud, and Bushy, you guys are my favorite eldentubers
God these videos are so relaxing and chill to watch thank you man
I like to imagine Maliketh saying "I will not have it stolen from me again." is not referring to the Black Knife Assasins, but every other challenge run up to this point where he gets his ass whooped-
The actual wine cellar is downstairs where you get Hookclaws. And there’s one axe guy roaming there.
Gino: This is why you don’t run to the side on the fire breath attack, you should run between the legs instead it’s much safer.
Also Gino: *runs to the side and takes no damage, then runs between the legs and dies instantly*
My buddy and I found that if you have 1 person (and mimic) running 2 colossal weapons and jump attacking, and another running phantom slash with mimic, the amount of attacks per second perma stun Melania to the point she cannot leave the ground. The most hilarious fight I have ever done in elden ring and I will never do anything else to kill her anymore lol.
Gino making this game look like you can change to easy mood. Gino really is the goat
Loving these runs man, thoroughly entertaining. After doing these like one stat or one weapon type runs have you thought of doing runs that are more thematic, or allow for a bit wider build and weapon variety, while still having some restrictions that make it challenging? I feel like combining the expertise on various weapons and strategies you've gathered after all this playtime would be really cool to see.
How u can have actual have commentary while playing elden ring is a real talent
I HAVE A CRAZY VIDEO IDEA! NO HIT RUN BUT YOU HAVE TAUNTERS TONGUE ACTIVATED THE WHOLE TIME. Or just somethin fun with the tongue active
That Godrick fight was ridiculous 😂
From what I remember, the Eclipse Shotel is pretty good in pvp if you run two of em and manage to buff up. The weapon art locks the character's movement for a while tho, so a lot of people will just swing on you lol. Oroboro made a build on em near the beginning of the game's lifecycle, so idk if they were touched in the patch history
Once I found out that the only merchant who has any relevance as far as quests or anything else goes is Kalé, I just kill them all. The massive convenience gain of having all the vendor stocks in the game at Roundtable is wild
After watching this video i decided to do a run with Great mace + cragblade + stormhawk Deenh (+30% stagger) and it's insanely good. Just finished godrick in less than 30 seconds. Beginning of phase 2 I stunned him with 1 jump r2 while he was doing the fire breath and killed him on the crit. Strength is so much better than Dex it's not even close.
Was really hoping to see some jar cannon melee action on horse back.
since it was talked about: the eclipse shotel might surprise you by how mid it is, which is head and shoulders better than how most people consider it. i think people look at it and go "lol deathblight," but both parts of the aow _do_ actually deal holy damage, so the deathblight is really more of a cherry on top for pvp
it's a perfectly functional split damage holy curved sword. hell, probably one of the better ones even, what with not having to deal with sacred affinity tanking its dex scaling and physical damage. truly, a high honor like none other
(almost) every boss: I have killed hundreds before you how else could this be different
Gino: hehe BONK
Man I’ve learned so much from these runs
Giant's Hunt wrecks Melenia and is hilarious on NPCs. Underappreciated IMO.
I’m kind of surprised Gino didn’t make his character look buff as fuck for this run, considering!
Something i do is use the pireblood metal instead of the memory of grace, you dont lose any runes and just neeed to teleport again afterwards
I learn new things about Fromsoft games everytime I watch this.
I did not know Yhorm was immune to fire
the ease with which you evade waterfowl is incomprehensible
I love region-locked runs. This brings diversity and flavour to the playthrough. Thanks
12:00
Wine is stored in the balls
I think that's blood
Fun fact. Some wines are aged in old bourbon barrels depending on the flavor they want.
I think a one weapon per boss run would be pretty cool to see
Big weapons equal big fun in my book. Trying out a dex build for the first time definitely doesn’t feel the same to me.
Not sure if or how it would work or if it would work, but I just got done watching an anime called "I put all my stats into defense so I won't get hurt."
Anime was literally as it says. Fun 24 episodes, wondering if defense only run would be plausible
Bro your Ideas for UA-cam Should be A national Treasure❤
Took Gino 2 years to beat this game as the mindless bonk machine I have always been, clearly this means I am better at the game than the best Souls player (please don't look at my 300 attempts over 4 days at the limgrave tree spirit, let me have it)
"mAGiC iS OVerPoWereD" 😆 Strength User in Elden Ring.
dude is genuinely so wholesome
8:40 Grandpa Margie forgot what he was attacking for
I love the fact that every time he fights Rykard he has something new to say about how bad he is
gino I swear on my life you are the reason I am able to play this game still. you make it look so fun every time you post.
You like fighting runebears? My sleep paralysis demon would be a runebear / revenant duo boss fight, because when fighting either of them, I might as well be paralyzed.
I'm still in my first play through and I haven't faced Melanie, the elden beast or the banished night yet. So slow I NEVER get bored of playing yet. The only thing I hate is when a least dangerous enemy kills me.
Watchdog Staff is such a great strength weapon too that doesn't get highlighted much. Should try that out!
It’s prolly the best rl1 weapon honestly
I’m so happy I already pre ordered the new dlc I can’t wait to play. I love your content Gino keep up the good work
The iron cleaver is S scaling strength weapon I would recommend trying out one time it has really good DPS with its quick attacks and one of the most hilarious R2s to look at
Fun fact: You can powerstance a great hammer and a great axe, despite them being different weapons.
Congrats on the success Gino, you’ve earned every bit of it man!
I did a full tarnished, run no looking things up. No, getting help starting out as the naked man with a club. First piece of equipment I found was actually ruin's great sword. Cause I went down instead of up and nothing dropped. I got to like level 30 before I found an extra piece of equipment. I parrot it with the ruins, great sword. And used it both of them the rest of the game. My second play through after I new game plus I used double godskin peelers with bleed and sepuku. Jump power was mad with them
1:11:16 i think the ash of war is as good as it feels because of the weapon size and how it is a heavy hitter. If it was on something like a short sword or dagger or something small and not heavy hitting, i bet it would suck pretty bad
The misbegotten pulled a “cool move, mind if I use it?”
New gino video always means a good night
I did my first ED playthough with STR colossal weapons (around 220hs). Boy did I have a bad time before they fixed the recovery frames and animation speeds. It was so enfuriating that whenever you R1, any enemy would recover before you would finish the attack animation. You'd always trade DMG. It was so freaking annoying.
I ended up using DEX/ARC and breeze through the game on my PC playthrough right after. They took like a month to start fixing STR builds.
I've been waiting for this one since you announced it! Time to bonk