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
Wow, both people I watch to become more knowlegeble on puns and expressions... I mean, it would blow my head, if there was a collaboration of some sorts.. There might have been, I just need some time for life outside YT
The fact that you don't have 100k yet is mindblowing to me. I've seen so many of your challenge runs and the quality of your vids definitely deserves it
I checked, in disbelief, and found this to be true and that I had never subscribed myself, which I thought I had quite a while ago. 100k and more easily deserved.
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
The way to pronounce Oedon is actually told to the player by Gherman. If you listen to his dialogue after you kill the blood starved beast, he pronounces it as "Oh-den"
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.
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
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!!
Only other options that I could think of: 1 - Get 3 of the Max Formless Odeon Runes from false depth chalices for 35 bullets (7 shots) 2 - Unlimited shooting glitch (Turbo Cheese mode)
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.
I was watching this and started to doze off (not bc you’re boring I was eepy love you sir Leeds) but when I say “Incase you’re wondering, enemies get one shot” woke my ass up
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.
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 think it's unlikely they'd vicarry us to victory" doesn't quite roll off the tongue, personally "... I think it's unlikely they'd carry us to vicary" sounds a little better.
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.
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.
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.
Is it just me or is it that the reason he was getting mixed results on damage on Darkbeast Paarl is because he was getting headshots and a counter hit when he wasn’t buffed, but he missed the head when he was buffed
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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)
I wish Bloodborne let you stack the blood bullets higher than five cus then it would just be an endurance run. Idk if that would make it possible but it would help theoretically
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.
Gawd it 430 am I'm free today and i find UA-cam auto this and i immediately want to hop on because i have a build intended to use this. Aisha the a twinblade wielding church maiden who's twinblade uses like a javlin to nuke yharnem streets aka yhe church cannon. So it'll be a strength tinge build with 40 vit 20 endurance 20 ski 50 str & 50 ting unfortunately this breaks the 125 build requirements i usually set and she'll weild a str converted rakuyo and church cannon with the loch sheild
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.
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 was fully expecting JK to refer to the first boss as "canonfodder Gascoigne" but he didn't :( well... at least it can still be my own headcannon...
You have too high expectations of me 😂
@@JKLeeds Regardless, the video was still a blast!
Wow, both people I watch to become more knowlegeble on puns and expressions... I mean, it would blow my head, if there was a collaboration of some sorts..
There might have been, I just need some time for life outside YT
Cannonfather Gasgoigne does have a ring to it
Your dedication to puns is incredible
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
The fact that you don't have 100k yet is mindblowing to me. I've seen so many of your challenge runs and the quality of your vids definitely deserves it
Wow, thank you! That's lovely to hear
I checked, in disbelief, and found this to be true and that I had never subscribed myself, which I thought I had quite a while ago. 100k and more easily deserved.
@@JKLeeds i am proud to say I'll be joining your subscription
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.
The workaround with the Witches of Hemwick is exactly what makes watching challenge runs so much fun. Really really nice run!
Cannon: Daniel
Church Cannon: The Cooler Daniel
Yeah, I've read that you can use the CC like a mortar
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
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.
the pause after "marrow victories" was a notable gesture at shame, good stuff
"...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
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.
17:16 ReBourne Ultimatum was the best wordplay. I could've sworn i heard Moby's Extreme Ways coming on too
10 seconds in and there’s already a canon pun, i love this channel
The way to pronounce Oedon is actually told to the player by Gherman. If you listen to his dialogue after you kill the blood starved beast, he pronounces it as "Oh-den"
Also the friendly guy in oedon chapel also just refers to the building by its name so you can hear it there
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.
Putting a tab up for this incase i don't get notified like last time.
10:38 Finally someone mentions the Hemwick Witch trick! JK always bringing out the obscure stuff ♥
I was pretty happy with it!
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
Definitely the punniest Bloodborne challange run I've ever seen, you got yourself a new subscriber.
Kinda wish we got occasional jump stares like on streams.
Maybe next time now I have a better camera 📷
28 minutes of cannon puns. I'll subscribe just for that
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 👍
"what happened to Logarius?"
"Didn't you hear? He became a Martin."
I'm all down for you giving yourself whatever you need to do a run. They're entertaining one way or another.
They would believe in RNJeasus
Only other options that I could think of:
1 - Get 3 of the Max Formless Odeon Runes from false depth chalices for 35 bullets (7 shots)
2 - Unlimited shooting glitch (Turbo Cheese mode)
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.
Hey for Wet Nurse, you can probably double hit the Nurse in the Shadow Phase. It would be hard but possible
Been bingewatchin your stuff as of lately, love the puns and presentation of the videos. Keep it up man
Ngl this is nuts, the actual math this took to pull off is insane
I was watching this and started to doze off (not bc you’re boring I was eepy love you sir Leeds) but when I say “Incase you’re wondering, enemies get one shot” woke my ass up
What blasted fun, thanks for another great video JK!
Thanks for watching!
I was not expecting it to be a basic arithmetic class for half of the video but I thoroughly enjoyed it anyways
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.
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 👍🏻
the dedication. You deserve a sub
"... I think it's unlikely they'd vicarry us to victory" doesn't quite roll off the tongue, personally "... I think it's unlikely they'd carry us to vicary" sounds a little better.
Man, that first joke about the church lore flew right over my head like a cannonball the first time I watched the video
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.
Appreciate the use of the TimeSplitters and GoldenEye OST
Also Monkey Island! Was very happy about that
Martyn Logarius is canon, how could it not be, this is the canon run
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.
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
Love the perfect dark music as the background music 🎶 💜
Awesome game
Bloodborne bring new meaning to the concept of Hand Cannon.
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.
Is it just me or is it that the reason he was getting mixed results on damage on Darkbeast Paarl is because he was getting headshots and a counter hit when he wasn’t buffed, but he missed the head when he was buffed
This was the last thing i needed to pick up for platinum back in the day
Your dedication to the puns is nothing short of inspiring
You should do one using only the logarius wheel
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.
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.
Love the timesplitters: FP theme usage
Was going to comment this, Great game.
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.
"My faith in god is my greatest weapon, and it loads grapeshot."
Already strained my eyes within the first minute from rolling them too hard at the puns, that's a very promising start
I still can’t believe you don’t have over 100k subscribers, your videos are amazing!
Maybe praising the firebomb goddess, that’s the church they would run
Cannon only is one of my favorites! My top 1 was fire stake driver.
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 👌
Church Derp would pray for sulver bullets, blood echoes and bone marrow ash
Imagine doing a challenge run like this if backing up your save wasn’t a thing, I could never.
someone's probably already said it, but you can use a glitch with the whirligig to spam infinite cannonballs.
When you said shadows I thought it was going to be an ad for Raid Shadow Legends
I can't believe someone finally brought up the witches friendly fire
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.
You can move inventory to equip faster without having to go through multiple screens
after that painful pun at the start, youd best cannonize someone in the healing church lol
The damage difference is because large enemies have different defence on different parts of their body
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.
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
Just grab the whirligig saw upgrade for the cannon.
I know we're supposed to be sad about the result, but I admit my thoughts were more "woo! It's not the challenge runner run-failed fakeout bit!"
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)
Don't think i didn't notice that sweet TimeSplitters: Future Perfect OST at the beginning dude
I'm glad you did 😌
@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😭
10:58 it is mentioned by ymfah in his cannon only video.
I wish Bloodborne let you stack the blood bullets higher than five cus then it would just be an endurance run. Idk if that would make it possible but it would help theoretically
i think the clones that mergo uses can be hit at the same time as the real one, theoretically saving the run
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.
When you said you were going to do something controversial, I thought you were going the whirligig saw route.
Dude you're my favorite streamer these days. Keep up the good work!
Love the timesplitters theme in the background ❤ TS4 or rewind when?
They'd believe in themselves.
Great run. Lots of unexpected moments, the largest of being you're not yet at 100k.
C'mon folks get J to 100K. Leeds.
D-did you just make a Canaanite pun? Nice.
This is the cannon way to play through the game
Well this run must have been an absolute blast also maybe this can be continued in elden ring with the jar cannon
With every dad joke, I can see JK looking straight into my soul xD
My man really rolled up to the gun fight with a cannon strapped to his arm.
Sounds like the consequence of reading berserk
I thought I was subscribed already, but apparently I wasn't. Good thing you reminded me, I definitely fixed that mistake!
you can get the high tier runes with reverse depth chalices, might feel very slightly less cheaty than using save Wizard
Gawd it 430 am I'm free today and i find UA-cam auto this and i immediately want to hop on because i have a build intended to use this. Aisha the a twinblade wielding church maiden who's twinblade uses like a javlin to nuke yharnem streets aka yhe church cannon. So it'll be a strength tinge build with 40 vit 20 endurance 20 ski 50 str & 50 ting unfortunately this breaks the 125 build requirements i usually set and she'll weild a str converted rakuyo and church cannon with the loch sheild
Ahah always love when you sneak in N64 soundtracks 😎
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.
Killing everything with the church cannon just personifies "I'll defeat you with the power of Christ at mach screw you!"