With claws and fists you can benefit from two handing and dual wielding at the same time, and the balls are the only ones with good strength scaling, plus hardly anything resists strike so naturally they have some nutty potential.
@@KLIXORthe Venemous Fang is also super nasty with the occult infusion. Probably can get better scaling with other infusions but it procs poison almost instantly, which is great with kindred rot talisman. Piercing damage is also really good against most bosses as well
Boy am I happy you showed up in my recommended feed...this was the most insane video I've seen in a while! you just made a game that takes me weeks to beat look elementary
@@sigmaeastwood9558 you can become extremely overpowered in dark souls 3 with pyromancy in under an hour same with all the souls games. sekiro i’m not sure, but you basically said “if you know how to play a game you can make it look easy” lmao applies to nearly every game
@@sigmaeastwood9558 you can not do what this guy does or even come close if you don’t understand boss patterns. same thing applies to ds3. if you’re not decent at the game you can’t trivialize it like he does or else everyone would be doing it. it’s not all about the weapon upgrade
@Sigma Eastwood you don’t need to kill dancer to get op, it does help tho. Dragon slayer axe, dark hand, sellsword twinblades, exile greatsword, there’s plenty of stuff that makes ds3 trivial
I did a fist weapon centric run to experiment with all of the fist weapons a while back, man the iron ball and starfist are so absolutely cracked! Like jeezus, the charged R2 annihilates both health and posture, probably the fastest RadaBeast kill I've done so far. Grafted Dragon also has some silly applications, used them to 4-shot Radahn with the AoW. Also Malenia no-hit with Iron Ball is pretty free, I had no hitbox issues with her and unintentionally no-hit on my first attempt.
@@Lkasssx axe talisman and spiked cracked tear (for big charged R2), beyond that use whatever you wish. I just ran stuff to boost damage, fights tended to be very short since the damage came out so fast due to how quick the charged R2s are and how much damage + poise damage they dealt. Stonebarb Cracked Tear is also worth considering if you know the openings to abuse, as the effect is short, but can reduce how many hits you need for a stagger
Gino and gideons little spat made me laugh so hard and idk why . "Sorry friend . Wait a minute your not my friend. Sorry fxxker . Wait actually I'm not Sorry" 🙏 lmao.
10:10 fists are pretty powerful and quite popular right now. with the new patch you can hit a 3-hit true combo and roll catching is pretty easy as well but you are probably right about them not being meta
It's really tough to get the hitbox down, but it's so worth it since the last fight is easily the most frustrating in the game and this makes it fun again
you got your Iron balls from murdering Boggart I got mine from my friend as he sat dying in his chair next to his boiling crabs with his very soul cursed by the feaster of feces. We are not the same.
I wish the devs had made these balls out of either brass or gold (gold ball is a euphemism in japan for testicals). Brass would make sense though, since it has greater density than iron; it's not as sturdy, and would require more repairs, but it would pack more of a punch than iron balls
My favorite build I've ever used was the star fists with a shout for flying/long range. It was always satisfying to beat enemies with a fist weapon and id leave my fur furcalling to get some pvp players who were often surprised how strong the build was. Just an overall enjoyable experience and I'd love to do it again
I'm very late on this one; But jumping L1s were and still are, brutal on the Iron Stars. Honestly might be worth a re-run to focus on that and feel the difference combined with some R2s
If u vow -> fgms -> crag then you don't need to drink a blue until after crag for some reason. Using vow then crag means you can't fgms without drinking but idk why
I cheesed the game with quit outs so hard in my rl1 run. Got past the first few birds in the farum azula lightning run, quit out, got past a few more, quit out, got behind the dragon, quit out, poison mist while he’s unaware and move on 😂
Learned a lot more from just watching these carefully thought out strats and never fail to surprise me, good stuff 👍🏻 I’m curious tho how many hours? Cuz the amount of knowledge on each boss, timing, calculations is amazing 🙌🏼
He's got like 1200+ hours. Not sure where Gino says it but IGN interviewed him a little while back and that # was mentioned. Probably closer to 1300 now idk.
very insane weapon to use a no hit run, i do no damage runs, but cant do it with weapon with short range, or have to be used for both hands (cause i use shields) very nice man, u inspire me to try it, i would probably do it with claw weapons though, instead of fist.
On my first playthrough when I met old Boggart I knew there and then that i was going to steal his shit equip the balls , helmet , trousers and no shirt and immediately go RP invade
I tried out the caestus and the fact that it was multiple hits that miss because of hitbox made me default to iron balls I wish caestus had a different heavy charge
Legendary weapons made out of the flesh of gods themselves that can channel the energy of the stars, < two regular iron balls.
I mean, a pair of iron balls is what made Horah Loux the First Elden Lord.
its not even wrong though which is the most depressing part. so many of the legendary weapons are like...not that good
me go BONK
@@everythingsalright1121 the fuckin bolt of gransax. It makes sense since it takes the dragons 20 years to do anything but it’s really underwhelming.
@@ApatheticHamsterfaith strength build, one of my fav ranged options, since I can pump out 2000 damage a bolt with it
Only a man with balls of steel would be able to complete this challenge good job man
Well actually, its balls of iron
@@Izzy_the_moderator Metal?
@@Izzy_the_moderator balls of Bogard
@@bluegrassdude7532 By Bogard’s Balls! Look at the Balls on Bogard!
Iron nuts
I just noticed for the first time, after 300 hours in the game myself, and watching so many runs.
Radahn doesn't have feet.
Ive always noticed. I was confused untill i learned more about the story.
The Fire Giant has ears in his armpits
@@LikeTheBirb huh
@Sabizos this is truly the comment ever
@@LikeTheBirb better ears than his nose there 🤔
Can honestly say I never in a million years would of thought the iron balls were that OP.
With claws and fists you can benefit from two handing and dual wielding at the same time, and the balls are the only ones with good strength scaling, plus hardly anything resists strike so naturally they have some nutty potential.
@@KLIXORthe Also have great poise breaking.
@@KLIXORthe Venemous Fang is also super nasty with the occult infusion. Probably can get better scaling with other infusions but it procs poison almost instantly, which is great with kindred rot talisman. Piercing damage is also really good against most bosses as well
The iron-balled OP using OP iron balls. THE IRON-Y!
You underestimated the power of BOGGART'S BIG BALLS OF STEEEEELLL
dude is so chill i forgot it was a no hit run
Bro what’s next a no hit no hit run?
I mean theoretically you could.. but of course it would be hell so..
Bro’s gonna beat the game without touching the controller
@@never_ever_closer that is possible with twitch chat game control
no hits, no walks, no runs
@@never_ever_closer lobos jr. actually beat ds1 on an electric guitar
You sounded so excited while theorycrafting midrun. I'd love to see a super optimized iron ball run - see how fast you can get it.
Boy am I happy you showed up in my recommended feed...this was the most insane video I've seen in a while! you just made a game that takes me weeks to beat look elementary
@@sigmaeastwood9558The same can be said about nearly every game in existence lmao
@@sigmaeastwood9558 you can become extremely overpowered in dark souls 3 with pyromancy in under an hour same with all the souls games. sekiro i’m not sure, but you basically said “if you know how to play a game you can make it look easy” lmao applies to nearly every game
@@sigmaeastwood9558 you can not do what this guy does or even come close if you don’t understand boss patterns. same thing applies to ds3. if you’re not decent at the game you can’t trivialize it like he does or else everyone would be doing it. it’s not all about the weapon upgrade
@Sigma Eastwood you don’t need to kill dancer to get op, it does help tho. Dragon slayer axe, dark hand, sellsword twinblades, exile greatsword, there’s plenty of stuff that makes ds3 trivial
My toxic treat being thinking I can do this "if I just tried".
Nice work as always! Thanks for the videos
What's next, Erdsteel Dagger no-hit run?
I know it's not OP, but what isn't on the possibility list at this point?
For Gino, probably nothing. Catalyst r2 bonk no-hit run incoming 😂
I did a fist weapon centric run to experiment with all of the fist weapons a while back, man the iron ball and starfist are so absolutely cracked! Like jeezus, the charged R2 annihilates both health and posture, probably the fastest RadaBeast kill I've done so far.
Grafted Dragon also has some silly applications, used them to 4-shot Radahn with the AoW.
Also Malenia no-hit with Iron Ball is pretty free, I had no hitbox issues with her and unintentionally no-hit on my first attempt.
what talismans and flask works best with iron ball?
@@Lkasssx axe talisman and spiked cracked tear (for big charged R2), beyond that use whatever you wish. I just ran stuff to boost damage, fights tended to be very short since the damage came out so fast due to how quick the charged R2s are and how much damage + poise damage they dealt. Stonebarb Cracked Tear is also worth considering if you know the openings to abuse, as the effect is short, but can reduce how many hits you need for a stagger
@@Lkasssxfor soul level 1 I use blue dancer ritual sword axe talisman and radagon soreseal with strength and charged attack tears
Gino and gideons little spat made me laugh so hard and idk why .
"Sorry friend .
Wait a minute your not my friend.
Sorry fxxker .
Wait actually I'm not Sorry" 🙏 lmao.
When you learn how to hitless Elden ring so you don't have to level vigor
I just saw the run with ordavis sword, where he specifficaly states that he will do a run with iron balls, here we are
Thank you for showing what the items you pick up/equip do. It helps to make parallels to the other souls games ive had a chance to play
Great content, great series, keep it up! I love catching these live.
impressive as always, glad to see you upload more vid' on YT so i can catch up with your challenges :D
I need a boss kill compilation from this run with Jesse Pinkman saying “HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!!”
So glad you uploaded this one this run was hilarious and also crazy, keep killing it Gino
I can't believe how powerful these things are. Really great damage.
The intro and the added details for pick-ups and such is great!
Ornamental straight sword no hit run and you have to fight the grafted Scion the first time
I wish he would show stats, talismans, and all the buffs he was using at the end of the video or something
10:10 fists are pretty powerful and quite popular right now. with the new patch you can hit a 3-hit true combo and roll catching is pretty easy as well
but you are probably right about them not being meta
anybody else see that his character was just slowly sliding the the right on the bridge? 0:40
Man, fist weapons feel sooooo good these days. They were decently fun even before 1.08, but still.
1:42 "Ma flail... bring me ma flail. Friede, what stops thine ears? Please... my flail, right away."
It's really tough to get the hitbox down, but it's so worth it since the last fight is easily the most frustrating in the game and this makes it fun again
Gotta feel bad for gideons bones....he always knows in them and they get broken consistently because of it
Can we get an F for gideons bones
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Got this video randomly recommended and now I'm already subscribed
Amazing video
i looked down at my phone and looked back up and you had killed radagon and elden beast LMAO gg
you got your Iron balls from murdering Boggart I got mine from my friend as he sat dying in his chair next to his boiling crabs with his very soul cursed by the feaster of feces. We are not the same.
I drink about two gallons of milk a week. Milk is amazing.
Comment for the algorithm gods. Awesome run as always keep it up
4:01 Thank you! I forgot I had a cup of tea brewing
and yes I do
27:27 naaaah the disrespect is crazy😂 waiting for him to stand up is diabolical
A fist-type weapon run! This greatly pleases me!
You need to kill Big Boggart for it! This greatly saddens me!
Who would win:
A literal god thats traveled the stars and conquered worlds, or
two iron balls
9:08 Godrick laughing at the fact that he is already dead.
People say sorc is overpowered, but at the higher skill levels, melee outclasses sorc.
Thank you for defining what routing means, every time you’ve said it before watching this vid, I had no clue what you meant
He asked if we drink milk regularly while I was holding a glass of milk😅
im addicted to this no hit stuff
How can you be addicted if you didn’t take a hit? 😎
@@Gnix1996 that was good. btw is because i use syringes
Gino is like "what's a second phase?" and "this isn't MY blood."
I'm sorry he sent the Draconic Tree Sentinel off the cliff!?
RIGHT?! like 5 runs hundreds of hours in IDK you can do that.
This guy has some balls! Nice one man \o/
29:45 that came out of nowhere, lol. But I'll take that advice.
oh no... the amount of boggart death this video must have caused...
I wish the devs had made these balls out of either brass or gold (gold ball is a euphemism in japan for testicals). Brass would make sense though, since it has greater density than iron; it's not as sturdy, and would require more repairs, but it would pack more of a punch than iron balls
Does anyone have the full build laid out because this looks so awesome and I want to try it myself.
wretch, do the setup in the video, pump strength
Did this lunatic just say "Should we route this first" and then proceeds to do an unroutet no hit run with 2 Balls ?
i like how them fists weapons hit harder than the ultra weapons lol
"Maybe I'm gonna take a bunch of days off [this bet]"
*Proceeds to BARELY win the bet on December 31st at like 10pm lmao*
Good stuff man. Been watching since the fingering every boss video. Waiting for more.
My favorite build I've ever used was the star fists with a shout for flying/long range. It was always satisfying to beat enemies with a fist weapon and id leave my fur furcalling to get some pvp players who were often surprised how strong the build was. Just an overall enjoyable experience and I'd love to do it again
I never knew the background was a green screen since it looked so good.
Bro said “hot chip challenge ain’t nun” calling dat bluff
Radagon / eb took me two weeks of attempts my first playthrough. This was satisfying to watch
Great videos man awesome editing
i drink like 6 cups of milk a day and my friends say its weird too.
Holy that damage in the end
Loved using this weapon, other than it having slight hitbox issues
When two iron ball fists hit as hard as a colossal hammer.
This vid was great, I’m subing
Bro you just DESTROY everything with this weapon🤣
after castle sol i played the game with the veteran's prosthesis and never looked back
malenia's a bitch tho lmao
i love her but it took me 14 hours to beat her my first time
I'm very late on this one; But jumping L1s were and still are, brutal on the Iron Stars. Honestly might be worth a re-run to focus on that and feel the difference combined with some R2s
If u vow -> fgms -> crag then you don't need to drink a blue until after crag for some reason. Using vow then crag means you can't fgms without drinking but idk why
I cheesed the game with quit outs so hard in my rl1 run. Got past the first few birds in the farum azula lightning run, quit out, got past a few more, quit out, got behind the dragon, quit out, poison mist while he’s unaware and move on 😂
I wouldnt say thats a cheese like its a rl1 run its really impressive while im over here not being able to beat malenia with no vigor lmao
I love watching these kinds of videos they are the best
duke nukem's favorite elden ring build
LOVE you take advice and give cred to your chat, I thought you were initially a little snobby but I can tell now your a super humble cat. 🤘🌌👽🤖🥁👾🇺🇸
weapon only run. (kills bosses with other weapons)
Your videos are so good man
when they say you have big balls and you take it litterally
a ghiza wheel run would be cool
Learned a lot more from just watching these carefully thought out strats and never fail to surprise me, good stuff 👍🏻 I’m curious tho how many hours? Cuz the amount of knowledge on each boss, timing, calculations is amazing 🙌🏼
He's got like 1200+ hours. Not sure where Gino says it but IGN interviewed him a little while back and that # was mentioned. Probably closer to 1300 now idk.
My favorite weapon in ER being used to its full potential, an awesome run :]
Congrata on completing the steel ball run, man.
OMG ITS THE STEEL BALL RUN!
Elden ring no hit includes skipping tutorial boss? Do any of the other souls games allow that, or is it because tutorial boss is to hard to no hit?
there are different categories, 0 hit doesn't mean all bosses, like in this video, and anyone can make their rule for their run if you want
Radahan's poor horse. Come on man, even if it's iron defficient, a suppository that size isn't the answer.
very insane weapon to use a no hit run, i do no damage runs, but cant do it with weapon with short range, or have to be used for both hands (cause i use shields) very nice man, u inspire me to try it, i would probably do it with claw weapons though, instead of fist.
I love the editing
Love these bro keep it up
were is melina boss fight
Finally, we've found who had the balls of steel as the legends said.
coming back to elden ring to make a OP boxer build, thank you for this video
On my first playthrough when I met old Boggart I knew there and then that i was going to steal his shit equip the balls , helmet , trousers and no shirt and immediately go RP invade
Awesome stuff man
It would be cool to see this run replicated doing a No Hit, No Rolls run
I tried out the caestus and the fact that it was multiple hits that miss because of hitbox made me default to iron balls
I wish caestus had a different heavy charge
bro i’ll watch this mf and get all confident, just to go play and get my shit rocked each time. he makes this shit look so easy😭
Here is how I think they intended to play. The game is like here's a area. Complete the area, go to next area, repeat.
Truly ballin’
Also, could you do a run with halo scythe? It’s one of my fav weapons
I think he already did. Check out his Twitch highlights. twitch.tv/ginomachino
Isnt star fist better tho? Has bleed and slightly more range, strength scaling too
It is, it’s just that routing is better for Iron Balls since you can get it before Leyendell
I LITERALLY did this last night but not the no hit run lmao just used the iron ball
fists didnt need a buff, they just needed to be able to hit the bosses
my least favorite part of no hit runs is that no one wears pants
Missed opportunity to call this the Steel Ball Run