Just to mention in case anyone suggests it - the cannon blast does NOT count as fire damage so using Oil on enemies does NOT increase the damage - You can't leave items on the ground at all in Bloodborne so leaving bullets at the fog gate isn't possible
So, i think there is a way to kill mergo, so when mergo goes onto the shadow realm it seems like its clone attacks add a extra counter hit. I remember that someone was able to use it ( i think it was baron castle or the backlogs.)
I assume this was tried but in the small chance it wasn't is bloodborne simular to dark souls where you could place bullets outside the fog wall or are they unreachable
@@jacobvincent8677 The Hunter's Dream isn't the same as a Bonfire. You can't refill your inventory without resetting the map. Maybe you could leave bullets at the fog wall and then collect bullets that are naturally spawned around the map but there are no bullets in the Nightmare of Mensis so it wouldn't matter even if you could
Regarding the "getting the third rune" thing: The way you made and edited the video, I think we all were under the assumption you hit a wall (writing this a you're fighting Ludwig after getting the third rune). At that point in any challenge runm I personally feel like it's way more fun to have the runner explore and explain "OK, these are the things we could theoretically do within the confines of the game to maybe still turn this around; this run isn't legit anymore, this is just for the sake of sciene".
I call that the Mythbusters method - here's the challenge as initially presented. Is it feasible, yes or no; now let's see what it WOULD take to make it happen.
awesome run. Gave me the vibe of the ds1 throwing knife run while being on the opposite end of the damage spectrum. Honestly, challenge runs whose viability is up in the air are extra special. So much suspense. Overall this video was a blast looking forward to the next one
I appreciate that after you were able to get started you did not continue hacking things in to make the first few fights doable. It would be easy to go overboard and say oh we need to plus three so I also added extra shards
"...One of the hardest bosses in the run" - mentioning the f*cking WITCHES OF HEMWICK! WAT!? The absolute madness some challenge runs become, man... XD P.S: Old subscriber here
There is still one thing you've missed - leveling bloodtinge to 99. Yes, probably wouldn't do much, but that was still worth coming to cum-dungeon for farming.
Timesplitters Future Perfect main menu theme took me off guard in the background, the nostalgia hit so hard that I couldn't concentrate on the run for a short while lol.
Using chalices as you do, you could stack three +5 bullets runes for a total of 7 canon shoots. This would leave the Wet Nurse at 500hp if you landed the 7 counter hits😅😅 Love your content. Keep it up!!
So let me be clear. You canonically cannoned your way through the game, using a canonical cannon, which fires cannon balls. This sounded way better in my head.
Tbh hearing the usual "subscribe" deal doesn't motivate me to sub in most cases, but I've watched so many of your videos by just browsing that it just makes sense to. Hoping that 100K goal gets blasted.
when the nurse casts shadows around it, a double of it spawns with linked healtbar, in theory landing a counter there should count as double the damage you normally do, allowing for a win. certainly its challenging though.
Glad we have a man like you who keeps the older souls games alive with these challenge runs, keep up the great work Mr. Leeds! even in defeat you didn’t fail to entertain us 👍🏻
I wish there was a rune that increased the number of bullets you got when turning your blood into them. That would increase the number of shots you can use quite a bit I imagine. ...I feel like it's the sort that they would have, so I'm surprised that there isn't one.
He said no exploits. He allowed the cummm dungeon to remove grind the same way we all do, but outside of that tried to not use exploits. Also infinite ammo feels like it would be even easier than a normal run, not like a weird challenge run at all.
With the whirligig saw glitch you'd be able to do it easily, but it's a glitch and it'd require using another weapon, so this rule set wouldn't allow it regardless.
His church is an offshoot of the cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster after their first schism over what type of cheese should be put on their nightly pasta communion.
I think there may be one way to push your damage to the next level on this weapon. Since you're using the Church Cannon in the left hand, you should be able to carry a melee weapon in your right hand and equip it with poor man's blood gems to get a damage boost at low health. The best weapon to use for this strategy would be the Reiterpallasch because you can still access hyper-mode easily with the following steps: Create blood bullets, lose health, enter Reiter trick-mode and fire a single bullet with R2, create more blood bullets, lose health, repeat until hyper-mode is engaged. Take my suggestion with a grain of salt because I don't know if the poor man's blood gem damage boost affects guns, and I don't have the means to test this right now.
It's a good idea but unfortunately the poor man's gems only affect the damage of the weapon they're equipped to, so it wouldn't affect the gun you hold in your other hand.
I had no idea the witches could hurt each other with that aoe move. They're never alive long enough for me to see it that often. Literally blew my mind! Another bit of trivia that probably wouldn't be useful for runs like this; Ebrietas' aura buff in phase 2 actually very slowly damages her. And I mean slooooowwwly
The church should worship sniping enemies with things that shouldn't be used to snipe. Because that was the number one usage of this cannon when PVP existed in Bloodborne.
Starting this one out with a bang(er), huh? A pun in the first 10 seconds is a new record, I feel. I actually learned from this video that apparently, beasthood doesn't affect shot damage? I never even thought about that interaction in all my playthroughs, so as random as it is, this video made me very conscious of that. It's a shame too, because I feel for 10 shots a bang, the cannons do way too little damage by the end. They are supposed to be "the ones that do damage", but on a normal playthrough trying to use them for that just feels unsatisfying (I used the regular cannon on my very first run)
Wait a fucking minute. Is that Time Splitters music I hear? Easiest subscribe of my life, Mans knows Time Splitters exist, one of the goats. Lookin forward to watching the rest of your videos :3
So I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this but if you could get to the phase change on Mergo's wet nurse, both her and her clones take damage from any explosives allowing you to deal double damage by hitting both with a single shot. Unless there's something I missed it seemed like you were able to get to her phase change with two shots left so she should be theoretically possible.
Once again, I have stumbled upon private correspondence between Shrek's cousin and the chicken from Moana. Even though the intro makes it clear that this was never meant for my eyes, I cannonot tear them away.
AFAIK the second witch is definitely present from the very start of the fight. It just doesn't do anything so its hard to find, but you don't need to kill or even injure the first one for the second to appear
I actually think that this Run is possible! If Mergo goes into her Nightmare Phase u can Hit her AND her Afterimage... That would do even More DMG. I saw it in the Backlogs Firebomb only Run of Bloodborne.
Ahh that's a shame. The only thing I can really think of is using Communion Runes for extra Blood Bullets since on (standard guns at least) they scale better for pure bullets, but that was probably factored in somewhere.
Just to mention in case anyone suggests it
- the cannon blast does NOT count as fire damage so using Oil on enemies does NOT increase the damage
- You can't leave items on the ground at all in Bloodborne so leaving bullets at the fog gate isn't possible
So, i think there is a way to kill mergo, so when mergo goes onto the shadow realm it seems like its clone attacks add a extra counter hit. I remember that someone was able to use it ( i think it was baron castle or the backlogs.)
For the witches couldn't you have gotten them close together and hit them both? Might edit later for more questions.
I assume this was tried but in the small chance it wasn't is bloodborne simular to dark souls where you could place bullets outside the fog wall or are they unreachable
@@jacobvincent8677 The Hunter's Dream isn't the same as a Bonfire. You can't refill your inventory without resetting the map. Maybe you could leave bullets at the fog wall and then collect bullets that are naturally spawned around the map but there are no bullets in the Nightmare of Mensis so it wouldn't matter even if you could
Babazaki sucked a D on logic classess again
Of course you can beat the game with the Church Cannon, it fires entire churches!
True story
You cant fire churches silly, they dont even work jobs in the first place
Ahh I see a fellow enjoyer of the Emperors Retribution...... also known as a Warhammer 40K Titan 😂
I appreciate the pause after every pun for my own, personal groan of discomfort to pass so I don't miss anything said after. :D
I aim to please 🙂
After all you waited long for the d
Cannon: Daniel
Church Cannon: The Cooler Daniel
Yeah, I've read that you can use the CC like a mortar
Regarding the "getting the third rune" thing: The way you made and edited the video, I think we all were under the assumption you hit a wall (writing this a you're fighting Ludwig after getting the third rune). At that point in any challenge runm I personally feel like it's way more fun to have the runner explore and explain "OK, these are the things we could theoretically do within the confines of the game to maybe still turn this around; this run isn't legit anymore, this is just for the sake of sciene".
I call that the Mythbusters method - here's the challenge as initially presented. Is it feasible, yes or no; now let's see what it WOULD take to make it happen.
@@GrimSavant Beautiful analogy here. That's basically it.
16:13 I always love when you do sudden cuts as an enemy is lumbering on screen and your character is about to get their shit wrecked.
The workaround with the Witches of Hemwick is exactly what makes watching challenge runs so much fun. Really really nice run!
Was waiting for him to mention the witches hurting eachother. Saw it in a Ymfah video. But that video ended in like a full auto cannon glitch.
Was weird that he said he had never seen this in a video before. There is no way he doesn't watch Ymfah right?
I actually haven't watched much ymfah 😅
@@JKLeeds :O very surprising. I think you are missing out in terms of pure entertainment, but to each their own! Also entertaining vid man, good work.
awesome run.
Gave me the vibe of the ds1 throwing knife run while being on the opposite end of the damage spectrum.
Honestly, challenge runs whose viability is up in the air are extra special. So much suspense.
Overall this video was a blast
looking forward to the next one
p.s. Martin Logarius 10/10
I appreciate that after you were able to get started you did not continue hacking things in to make the first few fights doable. It would be easy to go overboard and say oh we need to plus three so I also added extra shards
10 seconds in and there’s already a canon pun, i love this channel
"...One of the hardest bosses in the run" - mentioning the f*cking WITCHES OF HEMWICK! WAT!? The absolute madness some challenge runs become, man... XD
P.S: Old subscriber here
That's what I love about them 😂
The gimmick bosses are the hardest more often than you might expect in runs like this
the pause after "marrow victories" was a notable gesture at shame, good stuff
17:16 ReBourne Ultimatum was the best wordplay. I could've sworn i heard Moby's Extreme Ways coming on too
10:38 Finally someone mentions the Hemwick Witch trick! JK always bringing out the obscure stuff ♥
I was pretty happy with it!
Definitely the punniest Bloodborne challange run I've ever seen, you got yourself a new subscriber.
There is still one thing you've missed - leveling bloodtinge to 99. Yes, probably wouldn't do much, but that was still worth coming to cum-dungeon for farming.
Putting a tab up for this incase i don't get notified like last time.
Timesplitters Future Perfect main menu theme took me off guard in the background, the nostalgia hit so hard that I couldn't concentrate on the run for a short while lol.
Using chalices as you do, you could stack three +5 bullets runes for a total of 7 canon shoots. This would leave the Wet Nurse at 500hp if you landed the 7 counter hits😅😅
Love your content. Keep it up!!
Um... no?
You can't get more than one chalice rune on one save
If you try the chest in which the rune was, it will be replaced with madmans knowledge
@almondbread8255 I think that with chalice dungeons you actually can
@@Death7_ nope. you can only get one of each tier, unless you do a duplication glitch, which requires an enemy to drop the rune.
@SuperNinjaMan55 oh, good to know 👍
Your dedication to the puns is nothing short of inspiring
Kinda wish we got occasional jump stares like on streams.
Maybe next time now I have a better camera 📷
I was not expecting it to be a basic arithmetic class for half of the video but I thoroughly enjoyed it anyways
"If this guy built in church, what would he believe in?"
I think he'd believe in this world's cannon events.
"My faith in god is my greatest weapon, and it loads grapeshot."
Appreciate the use of the TimeSplitters and GoldenEye OST
Also Monkey Island! Was very happy about that
I'm all down for you giving yourself whatever you need to do a run. They're entertaining one way or another.
What blasted fun, thanks for another great video JK!
Thanks for watching!
So let me be clear. You canonically cannoned your way through the game, using a canonical cannon, which fires cannon balls. This sounded way better in my head.
28 minutes of cannon puns. I'll subscribe just for that
What an explosive run JK.
It was a blast
@@JKLeeds Hopefully this run didn't cause you to develop a short fuse.
@@JKLeeds truly blew me away
Tbh hearing the usual "subscribe" deal doesn't motivate me to sub in most cases, but I've watched so many of your videos by just browsing that it just makes sense to. Hoping that 100K goal gets blasted.
the dedication. You deserve a sub
Been bingewatchin your stuff as of lately, love the puns and presentation of the videos. Keep it up man
Hey for Wet Nurse, you can probably double hit the Nurse in the Shadow Phase. It would be hard but possible
when the nurse casts shadows around it, a double of it spawns with linked healtbar, in theory landing a counter there should count as double the damage you normally do, allowing for a win. certainly its challenging though.
Love the perfect dark music as the background music 🎶 💜
Awesome game
Church Derp would pray for sulver bullets, blood echoes and bone marrow ash
Maybe praising the firebomb goddess, that’s the church they would run
Love the timesplitters: FP theme usage
Was going to comment this, Great game.
Glad we have a man like you who keeps the older souls games alive with these challenge runs, keep up the great work Mr. Leeds! even in defeat you didn’t fail to entertain us 👍🏻
I wish there was a rune that increased the number of bullets you got when turning your blood into them. That would increase the number of shots you can use quite a bit I imagine.
...I feel like it's the sort that they would have, so I'm surprised that there isn't one.
I still can’t believe you don’t have over 100k subscribers, your videos are amazing!
Church of derp praises hot chips
They would believe in RNJeasus
You miss the glitch with the saw, which allows you to shoot the cannon endlessly.
He said no exploits. He allowed the cummm dungeon to remove grind the same way we all do, but outside of that tried to not use exploits.
Also infinite ammo feels like it would be even easier than a normal run, not like a weird challenge run at all.
With the whirligig saw glitch you'd be able to do it easily, but it's a glitch and it'd require using another weapon, so this rule set wouldn't allow it regardless.
His church is an offshoot of the cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster after their first schism over what type of cheese should be put on their nightly pasta communion.
Martyn Logarius is canon, how could it not be, this is the canon run
I think there may be one way to push your damage to the next level on this weapon. Since you're using the Church Cannon in the left hand, you should be able to carry a melee weapon in your right hand and equip it with poor man's blood gems to get a damage boost at low health. The best weapon to use for this strategy would be the Reiterpallasch because you can still access hyper-mode easily with the following steps: Create blood bullets, lose health, enter Reiter trick-mode and fire a single bullet with R2, create more blood bullets, lose health, repeat until hyper-mode is engaged.
Take my suggestion with a grain of salt because I don't know if the poor man's blood gem damage boost affects guns, and I don't have the means to test this right now.
It's a good idea but unfortunately the poor man's gems only affect the damage of the weapon they're equipped to, so it wouldn't affect the gun you hold in your other hand.
This was the last thing i needed to pick up for platinum back in the day
Church of the fire bomb is the only church needed
This is the cannon way to play through the game
I had no idea the witches could hurt each other with that aoe move. They're never alive long enough for me to see it that often. Literally blew my mind! Another bit of trivia that probably wouldn't be useful for runs like this; Ebrietas' aura buff in phase 2 actually very slowly damages her. And I mean slooooowwwly
@JKLeeds I have been watching you for a while and you made me like dark souls and deadass didn’t notice how your not at 100k yet it’s bs😭
they would believe in anthropology
The church should worship sniping enemies with things that shouldn't be used to snipe. Because that was the number one usage of this cannon when PVP existed in Bloodborne.
You can move inventory to equip faster without having to go through multiple screens
The damage difference is because large enemies have different defence on different parts of their body
Starting this one out with a bang(er), huh? A pun in the first 10 seconds is a new record, I feel.
I actually learned from this video that apparently, beasthood doesn't affect shot damage? I never even thought about that interaction in all my playthroughs, so as random as it is, this video made me very conscious of that. It's a shame too, because I feel for 10 shots a bang, the cannons do way too little damage by the end. They are supposed to be "the ones that do damage", but on a normal playthrough trying to use them for that just feels unsatisfying (I used the regular cannon on my very first run)
My man really rolled up to the gun fight with a cannon strapped to his arm.
Sounds like the consequence of reading berserk
Wait a fucking minute. Is that Time Splitters music I hear? Easiest subscribe of my life, Mans knows Time Splitters exist, one of the goats. Lookin forward to watching the rest of your videos :3
If this guy created a religion they would 100% worship derpy puns
With every dad joke, I can see JK looking straight into my soul xD
Cannon only is one of my favorites! My top 1 was fire stake driver.
When fighting Gascoigne did you have Perfect Dark music playing 👁️👄👁️
I'm jamming so hard this is great lol 13:34
So I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this but if you could get to the phase change on Mergo's wet nurse, both her and her clones take damage from any explosives allowing you to deal double damage by hitting both with a single shot. Unless there's something I missed it seemed like you were able to get to her phase change with two shots left so she should be theoretically possible.
Already strained my eyes within the first minute from rolling them too hard at the puns, that's a very promising start
D-did you just make a Canaanite pun? Nice.
Love the timesplitters theme in the background ❤ TS4 or rewind when?
I'm sorry, but killing the oedon chapel dweller is unforgivable. 😢😢😢
When you said shadows I thought it was going to be an ad for Raid Shadow Legends
The easiest bullet farm is the first wheelchair guy with boosted arcane you get 4 everytime
Puns so bad i get a charlie horse in my calf. 😂😂😂 its why I'm here.
Just grab the whirligig saw upgrade for the cannon.
Paused the video after the marrow joke and will not be watching further.
It’s time to dish out some beats! Some beats! Some beats!
7:10 bad starvin marvin
Martyn, Ian... What a bunch of normal lads.
I suppose this time you really could tell which witch was which witch.
Once again, I have stumbled upon private correspondence between Shrek's cousin and the chicken from Moana. Even though the intro makes it clear that this was never meant for my eyes, I cannonot tear them away.
after that painful pun at the start, youd best cannonize someone in the healing church lol
you can get the high tier runes with reverse depth chalices, might feel very slightly less cheaty than using save Wizard
He's from the church of ABOBA and I will not be convinced otherwise
AFAIK the second witch is definitely present from the very start of the fight. It just doesn't do anything so its hard to find, but you don't need to kill or even injure the first one for the second to appear
Nah it definitely doesn't appear til you deplete 50% of the first Witch's health. Tested this thoroughly 👌
Made a huge mess in my crusty sock watching this video.
I actually think that this Run is possible! If Mergo goes into her Nightmare Phase u can Hit her AND her Afterimage... That would do even More DMG. I saw it in the Backlogs Firebomb only Run of Bloodborne.
Study of Derpology. Everything Derp. I derp. You derp. He/she/me derp.
Hey wait, u can redo the same chalice if u gather materials. So technically u can have 3 +5 bullets runes.
Well this run must have been an absolute blast also maybe this can be continued in elden ring with the jar cannon
Hear me out, you summon a friend with the same cannon and stats
Btw there is a whirligig saw glitch that allows inf shots
Leeds always has the puns. That never fades.
Using the word “derp” in 2024 is a bold choice
Oh man is that some Timesplitters 3 I hear right at the start
"Oh hi blue! 😊" 💥 🔫
Great run. Lots of unexpected moments, the largest of being you're not yet at 100k.
C'mon folks get J to 100K. Leeds.
Imagine doing a challenge run like this if backing up your save wasn’t a thing, I could never.
Ahh that's a shame. The only thing I can really think of is using Communion Runes for extra Blood Bullets since on (standard guns at least) they scale better for pure bullets, but that was probably factored in somewhere.
I think that having more vials to create more bullets is worse because you can only have 5 at a Time
Killing everything with the church cannon just personifies "I'll defeat you with the power of Christ at mach screw you!"