the funny thing about that Bayle cheese is that almost the exact same method works on King Allant in Demon's Souls. If you have the thief ring and don't move when you enter the boss arena, he'll walk around a bit before stopping with his back turned to you and you can walk up and poison mist him to death. Funny the exact same cheese strats work 15 years and 7 games later.
Bosses with aggro ranges that aren't quite big enough for their arenas with stealth and left-hand weapons getting the buffs from right-hand weapons are glitches that they just can't seem to get rid of.
this is so funny from miquella's perspective imagine you're busy ascending to godhood and then you suddenly notice your consort is in peril? and you go and check on him but he's just reenacting blair witch project while slowly rotting away and you're like what the hell? and drape yourself over his back. and then you see a tree. right there. and you die.
@@jyrxz4945 as you can probably surmise from context clues, I was replying to someone who claimed Pine was just using LMSH in the video to clout chase They have since deleted their comment
Jumping up and down together and using the mimic veil being valid cheese strats for Consort Radahn proves once and for all that goofy co-op is the true intended way to play fromsoft games
So Radahn doesn't see anyone enter the arena, walks to the back, stares at the wall, suddenly phase transitions, sees a tree, gets confused and just dies Not even kind miquella could forsee this
Imagine Igon's disappointment, when he hears how you defeated his arch enemy. Bro was out for an epic battle, man versus monster, the impossible feat of besting goliath and in the end Bayle died from a mild cold
You could also throw a hefty rot pot slightly closer to him you gotta hit it just right but if you still got unseen from and assassins gambit on the cloud will rot him
Radahn be like: "OUCH, WAS THAT A POT?! WHO DID THAT..-" *scarlet rot procs* "oh no NO NO NO, NOT AGAIN!" *jumps off the arena to put himself out of his own misery.*
build variety in this game is so lovely. if you're skilled at character building and have good gamesense this challenge isn't even very hard (not in an insulting way btw, i think its sick and requires its own skillset of ingenuity and intellect)
@@FakeHeroFang this. i'm on RL1 at Radabeast in the base game and just started the DLC. getting one-shot at this point in the game by everything is mentally exhausting.
You could have made the Mesmer fight even easier If you had started Yimir’s quest and blown the first finger ruin this allows you to summon the black knight lady inside the arena as well as hornsent.
the easiest way to beat him is to have a deflect tear, mimic and heavy armor with giant crusher and prayerful strike with malenia's rune, and just trade with him over and over. with the rune and prayerful strike you'll heal 40% of your health on each hit and it lowers you hitbox and makes you have pretty much infinite poise, and if an attack isnt going to be doable, you deflect it with the tear and go back to spam. literal joke of a fight if you want to make it one.
I've been absolutely suffering through a 0 scadutree run for weeks and just took a break before the final boss. Seeing this video has inspired me to get back in there and finish the fight. Thanks FerrousFruit
As someone who does tons of challenge runs in these games, I LOVE these types of videos. I feel like most people see level 1 runs as running in with a club no armor and a bunch of damage buffs and hitlessing bosses,and while something like this 8 better if you want to deeply understand the boss movesets, if you’re doing a level 1 Toruń for the sake of doing a level 1 run there are plenty of options, from super cheesy stuff like this, to even just using ritual shield, dragon crest great shield, and decent armor to tank hits (yes this set up allows you to tank most small attacks on level 1, assuming you are leveling up your scadutree blessing) and I love to see people going at level 1 runs in creative ways instead of just running in naked with a club
I think something to remember about this kind of challenge run is that "knowledge is a skill." The whole first part of the video isn't accessible to a player who goes in blind. Just a heads up to the gatekeepers who'd go "but see this is all possible, so never say anything about game other than "everything is perfect!" "
About the Radahn meteor attack, it will target the host where he was standing at the start of the jump. So you can take reduced damage by running far away
'Without being good at the game' while displaying wildly specific knowledge and creative problem solving. My guy, that is the definition of being good at the game lol. Everything else is just reflexes.
the dueling shield was how I killed the final boss of the dlc, with Malenia's greatrune active you heal for nearly 100% of the damage you're taking, and the guard poke keeps you from being pushed back into the light lasers in phase 2, because you're fully locked in place while you're guard poking. While it took nearly 20 full hours of attempts, it was hilarious to effectively completely ignore all mechanics of the fight on the winning run, and just walk forwards holding L1 and tapping R1 every time he attacked. The only dodges you need to do are his AOEs that will do enough stamina damage to break your guard- specifically, the last hit in his combo that ends with an overhand slam into an uppercut that sends a lightwave outwards.
how did it take you 20 hours to figure out you can use healing miracles and shield grease to make the boss irrelevant bro how, all you need to do is pay attention!
Ah, I knew you'd come. To stand before the Elden Ring. To become Elden Lord. What a sad state of affairs. I commend your spirit, but alas, none shall take the throne. Queen Marika has high hopes for us. That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity.
Now beat it whilst 300 fire ants are devouring on you’re skin, your feet are being chewed by 6 rabid baskerhounds, no eyes, ears or mouth, you must instead smell to play the game, and you have to play ‘through the fire and flames’ on a trumpet with only 2 working keys.
You are a godsent!!! I have a lv25 character with +3 weapons that killed every boss except miquella because I just couldn't find out how to handle the phase transition. I was really hoping someone would discover some way, and here you are! Thank you a lot
Hey Iron Pineapple, I love the challenge runs! I have another challenge run for you. Elden Ring, but you can't use the same attack twice. This includes no summons as summons use the same repetitive attacks. No buffs as well. Only if you're up for the challenge though.
It'd be so cool in videos like this if you talked more about how you learned or discovered these strats! Shout-outs to the other people in the community you learned from, or chat about your process in working some of it out would be so interesting.
Dude you play like I try to, every trick, every tool, and you make it work. Tbh the best parts of Elden Ring are being pulled into a random boss fight and putting your skills to the test for host and glory. Love the content Pine, you are a good voice for the Souls community.
I'm surprised more people don't know this, but for that attack where Radahn jumps up and Laser Beams the arena, I just sort of ran up near the Divine Gate, toward the top right corner and nothing ever hit me. Seemed consistent when I did it. 🤷♂
These kinds of videos are actually why I love Elden Ring. The amount of utility you can get from random items in the game turns the whole thing into more of a strategy or puzzle experience than any sort of skill based game. Of course, you can still win by gitting gud, but I like that it’s just another way to play. Really cool that strategy and build planning is rewarded so much in this game.
@@DemonLordSparda this is still a SL1 run. You're essentially putting everyone else who ever did one of these down by saying "all it requires is some gameplay knowledge". I agree that knowledge is a huge part of this, but I also think knowledge is part of skill. Is knowing how to use and using poison strats particularly skillful? No. But would you also say that knowing to press the parry button at a specific time requires no skill whatsoever? Probably not.
@@tigrexkiller1548the literal point of this video, as stated by the video author, is to beat it without skill and with just game knowledge. It is not putting anyone down to say that he did that Obviously it required some skill because every human action requires skill. But it was much more heavily focused on game knowledge than skill, which is the point. As someone who has beat the game RL1 melee only, i do not feel insulted in the slightest by a video like this because i understand larger context If you have enough game knowledge and use every tool than yes, infinitely less skill is required to beat it. That is fundamentally how the game is built
@frazfrazfrazfraz it's pretty obvious that SL1 runs require the use of cheese and knowledge. Heck, I wouldn't have finished DS3 or BB on SL1 without cheese and knowledge. And I dont think anyone is insane enough to attempt a SL1 run on their very first playthrough. But don't you think its a little disingenuous to say "im not that good" and then play through most of base game and all of the DLC at SL1? Its probablt just him being modest or absolutely memeing on his viewers (which wouldn't be surprising tbh), but if he genuinely thinks hes just using knowledge and isnt "that good" id like to know who gaslights him because I could use some of that.
@@tigrexkiller1548 SL1 runs absolutely do not "require' the use of cheese, plenty of people have done it without that There are people who have beat every boss level 1 melee only without even rolling, blocking, or parrying
You're not fooling anyone Pine. You keep saying you're not good at these games, and yet you have so much cleverness, tenacity, and ingenuity and you pull it off anyway. I would never be able to figure all those crazy buffs and combinations for myself. I just hack at everything with Moonveil until it dies.
I beat the dlc at level 1 a couple nights ago. Most of the dlc bosses weren’t too bad, golden hippo, scadu avatar, and metyr were miserable to fight. But consort radahn is HARD. Took me 1,274 attempts to finally beat him. Malenia took me about 200 and she’s the boss that killed me the second most
Radahn goes stupid man. Not even bothering to kill him on my torch playthrough, I'll do everything else for fun but fuck if I'm fighting the same boss for 10 hours😑
Personally I liked the avatar on my rl1 no scadu blessings run, I felt he was fair all throughout. Metyr and golden hippo however can suck it. Radahn is a great boss if only the cross slash didn't exist.
DLC was the right amount of challenging to the point you where forced to learn the move set and dodge or in this case jump at the right time (unless you want to cheese it). I would argue that this DLC is a lot more fun then the base game because of how difficult it was
This proves that build variety in the dlc is SUPER helpful! I went through like 5 different new weapons/builds (lots of things I liked using were strength/dex so I could swap a lot) depending on the situation compared to the base game where I just stuck with at max 2 weapons and not much variation. Swapping around playstyles to adapt to enemies felt REALLY good!
What a hell of an ending! Fucking incredible lmao🎉 Big thanks to the special guest and well done, Iron Pineapple, your previous Elden Ring inspired me to try the game despite me not being very good at souls games! I’ve had a ton of fun with it
Hell yeah, love for the Smithscript Spear! I had a blast integrating that weapon into my normal build/playstyle as a ranged option. I actually put Spectral Lance on it because it has more range and incredible damage, but the basic horseback option is also great for picking off enemies.
8:19 "Shockingly don't die from it" That's the absolute worst part about Gaius. the damage just seems so random. One time you are barely scratched, other times you just get one shot
I noticed his attacks have a lit of different parts to them, like his boar might hit you with both hoofs and it deals huge damage or with just one if you position differently, or his gravity upwards thrust has the thrust itself and the aoe which deals less damage.
@@Hollow__Heart i think his thrust attack can deal a lot of dmg to you, because the counter mechanic with the thrust weapon, if you miss the roll and he rolls catch you during animation, he will deal more dmg than before.
@@KABLAMMATS I believe counter damage in this game is only applied when a thrusting attack catches someone mid attack, not mid roll or any other action, no?
This whole video is (Steven He) “Emotional Damage” for me. I struggled so hard with some of these bosses at an endgame level even after collecting a good amount of the available Scadutree fragments. You may not be the best Souls player, but you sure are really smart about your builds and finding some cheese when needed.
Hopefully they do something similar to DS2, where bleed procs were on a timer, so you could still get satisfying chunks of damage without just obliterating the bosses. Frost kinda fills that niche in Elden ring, but it ends up just being worse since bleed does the same thing but more consistent.
@@Lost1ntheSauc3iirc, bleed in DS2 does flat damage (not % of max hp) which is kind of terrible for late game (and even mid game). A cooldown on bleed doesn't sound right, maybe look into an older game like DS1? Some bosses there are incredibly weak to bleed and it's effective on them, others are resistant, some immune. I think they just need to make bleed not that effective on literally anything fleshy, mess around with resistances where appropriate. Then again, if you just casually use a weapon with bleed on it, it's not that OP. It's when you specifically craft your build around it when it starts to melt everything. So maybe they don't need to change much at all.
I hope it isn't and the game isn't balanced around huge easily attainable %damage procs. I mean, it'd be fine it's not the only damn thing (save for rot which can't compete) that does it. Edit: Maybe bleed is specifically the answer to make the game more accesible in the sense that they want the game to be as hard as you want it to be, bleed builds being the easy mode.
@@mikairu2944 that’s definitely a good point. The difficulty level being completely controlled through gameplay is pretty cool. I don’t really do pvp so that’s my only real concern. Idk if bleed is good for pvp or if they balance it separately from pve
dark souls 2 had really good balancing ngl, only overpowered things were forbidden sun and climax, but they had the downside of being late game and both having only 1 cast
you may not be "good" at the game in the conventional sense, but your creativity and willingness to try new things is honestly one of your greatest strengths and it's reflected not only throughout this whole video, but on your channel as a whole. banger vid, pine.
@@anonisnoone6125 i have both recordings of messmer and rellana attempts on lv1,i did both of them on lv1 with relative ease i have yet to get to radahn
One thing I did on npc fights is use the discus shield to spam throw on them since it out a lot of enemies into a stunlock and interrupts their attacks. Kinda happy you made this video I'm almost done with my own sl1 and while I'm not as good as others it has helped me a lot and made me learn some neat things like dragoncreat talisman +scadu blessings and the ritual shield talisman actually less mensurvive a few hits against bosses.
I am working on a similar playthrough, but at Level 1, no upgrades, no Scadu upgrades and in case anyone else ever tries it again and is watching this video for ideas here's a couple more strats. To get in through Mogh I used a caster build with Glintblades and/or Rock Slings and Rot Breath. I found that if you setup Latenna at the door and rot Mogh as he tries to move on her you can flee to his end of the room and he will pursue you all the way there, if you hide behind the back left pillar by one of the fog walls (only works on the left, not the right in my experience) his AI doesn't consistently attempt to close in for melees and his blood spray is almost always just blocked by the pillar. This leaves you fairly safe on most attempts to find a good timing for poison/rot application with any ranged material before you speed up the damage with casts. In phase two he will often go back to melee attacking but the safest strat is still to hold the corner, flee when he tries to close and return to the corner when he isn't directly next to you to try and keep his AI attempting ranged attacks that mostly don't hit. This does have weird random fail-states but it is much less difficult than no-damage no-hit Mogh IMO. Regarding Gaius, I preferred using the basic Rot Breath attack. If you lure Gaius to the South-Eastern-most wall ridge (the near right corner pillar as you enter) with him on the South side and you on the North side you can safely stand in the corner on your side and rot him by aiming directly at them through the wall as he can't reach you in phase one. When you approach phase 2 you can use Godrick's Great Rune and Radagon's Scarseal to have enough health and stamina to two-hand block all of his new wall piercing attacks with the Silver Mirrorshield. Using Warming Stones occasionally between Gaius' attacks lets you safely block as long as possible as they may attack randomly while you apply the third dose of rot when you feel safe. Setting up each attempt sucks but not having to retreat from the wall is critical in making this not the worst gamble ever every attempt IMO. Some people recommend other ridges or the spot Iron was in but these spots all favor Iron's strat and are dangerous for rot attempts and often lead to breakouts if the fight takes too long in my experience. Regarding Rellana, fighting them with these restrictions sucks IMO and the existing cheese for them that has gone around is casting Flame of the Fell God through the rear door of their arena (which you reach by back-dooring the area with a spirit spring) does not work as you can only cast it with the Physick and all wearable buffs which doesn't last long enough for you to deal enough damage. In a fit of desperation I found that you can use the Halo Scythe ash of war through the fog wall and find the boss based on the sounds of misses vs hits. Between that and the Blessed Blue Dew Talisman you can infinitely attack them until they die. Regarding the Scadutree Avatar, I haven't beaten it yet, but the strat Iron uses is not feasible with the additional restrictions IMO as you take too long to kill it and you can be hit/flinched off the ledge completely randomly. Maybe this is doable without upgrades but I feel like you'd need a lot of luck based on my current experience. I haven't passed Messmer yet so I can't offer any suggestions beyond that yet. Hopefully this helps some random viewer in the future. haha
throwing messmer's spear on horseback at the drakes in Jagged Peak has convinced me that there is a whole new *style* of gameplay in ER that needs to be fully explored, it was one of *the* most fun experiences i've had in the DLC (i even equipped the lance talisman!!!)
Yep, the difficulty was WAY overstated. There's SO many tools to use that people are avoiding. Even without many of the tools (solo, melee only, no ashes of war) I beat the whole DLC while having my own company and a 3 month old baby. It's hard, but it's not too hard.
The problem isn't even that it's hard, it's that some bosses r just poorly designed and a lot of the fanboys just refuse to even consider criticism for it. I used the tools like summons if I knew the fight was just bad but when u try the bosses alone for a while, u realise the problems some of them have.
been watching you for a minute man, you're up there with gino for my favorite souls youtubers. keep up the great work man, i can see the time and effort you put into all your vids.
"I'm not that good.***" ***note: but I have beaten the game and the DLC at least several times, so I'm already practiced these fights and also have tons of experience with the game's mechanics
The jump spam cheese gave every BL2 Challenge runners a little chub seeing their favorite boss cheese in another game. (In the event you didn’t know the Bloodwing Boss fight can be super easy cheesed as jump spamming breaks it’s A.I so it just kinda stands/flies still)
Wow I'm at a loss for words with some of that amazing boss cheese haha. Absolutely loving the dlc challenge run videos, just as sweet as the base game ones. Amazing work man, keep it up!
The combo of the thumbnail, title, and being only 4 hours old really confused me until I realized this was a sequel. Also, I've used the Antspur Rapier in probably 80% of the DLC boss fights and seldom hear it talked about, really surprised to see who else uses it.
The thing I love the most about Fromsoft, high enough skill can beat game knowledge (Even if you deal 1 damage and receive 300% damage back, being able to dodge everything means you'll win eventually) AND high enough game knowledge can beat skill (Being unable to dodge bosses and learn attack patterns doesn't mean you won't make it as long as you keep trying and learning the bosses weaknesses and what works where)
the funny thing about that Bayle cheese is that almost the exact same method works on King Allant in Demon's Souls. If you have the thief ring and don't move when you enter the boss arena, he'll walk around a bit before stopping with his back turned to you and you can walk up and poison mist him to death. Funny the exact same cheese strats work 15 years and 7 games later.
It even works on Promised Consort, albeit with a very specific strat.
Zero Lenny with the 2009 gamefaq guide still giving to the future in 2024 lmao
@@colemcgrath644The fact that noone expected it to work in the remake and it did was still the funniest shit
@@Lost1ntheSauc3he did it in the video
Bosses with aggro ranges that aren't quite big enough for their arenas with stealth and left-hand weapons getting the buffs from right-hand weapons are glitches that they just can't seem to get rid of.
meme mimic veil being the ultimate god defeating item is absolutely hilarious
Godrick redeemed
Godrick was onto something
Marika's mischief strikes again
@@thekingbelow Two of Marika's children beating the allegations in a single DLC? It's more likely than you think...
Bruh, man was playing prop hunt with a god. And god lost!
"His build consisted of three separate Antspur Rapiers"
I love how you just start describing it, the same as you do with your own strats- great video.
this is so funny from miquella's perspective imagine you're busy ascending to godhood and then you suddenly notice your consort is in peril? and you go and check on him but he's just reenacting blair witch project while slowly rotting away and you're like what the hell? and drape yourself over his back. and then you see a tree. right there. and you die.
100% i was waited for a Godhood achieved or He Ascended death screen when they faded out cuz it looks like theyre walking up to the gate/door thing.
In other words, its EXACTLY like the Blair witch project
Ah yes, the Godrick strat:
(1) be a coward (mimic veil),
(2) cheese your way to victory,
(3) command everyone to kneel before you.
Godrick the Goated
what’s funnier, it is always accompanied with Godrick’s great rune
Even funnier cus Godrick CANONICALLY did this shit to Radahn
12:40 the fact it took basically 2 in-game days for the poison to kill him is hilarious
Surprise guest at the end is awesome.
@@mitsuri3096wait, you think Pine needs to steal clout from LMSH when his channel is like 10x the size?
...k 😂
@@TheSidetrackYTwhat are you yapping about
@@jyrxz4945
Bro's answering to a guy named @mitsuri3096. Presumably he commented something about Iron Pineapple stealing views from LMSH.
@@jyrxz4945 He's obviously replying to someone who maybe said Pine was stealing clout from LMSH.
@@jyrxz4945 as you can probably surmise from context clues, I was replying to someone who claimed Pine was just using LMSH in the video to clout chase
They have since deleted their comment
Jumping up and down together and using the mimic veil being valid cheese strats for Consort Radahn proves once and for all that goofy co-op is the true intended way to play fromsoft games
I like to think that radahn and miquella had an argument mid air when they started jumping and radahn just done with miquella's shit
Good old-fashioned jolly co-operation! \[T]/
The jumping up and down was so funny
So Radahn doesn't see anyone enter the arena, walks to the back, stares at the wall, suddenly phase transitions, sees a tree, gets confused and just dies
Not even kind miquella could forsee this
Holy... Poisoning Bayle is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
Poison Mist is unironically the best cheese in the game, lol
Imagine Igon's disappointment, when he hears how you defeated his arch enemy. Bro was out for an epic battle, man versus monster, the impossible feat of besting goliath and in the end Bayle died from a mild cold
The more things change, the more it resembles poisoning Allant from across the room.
You could also throw a hefty rot pot slightly closer to him you gotta hit it just right but if you still got unseen from and assassins gambit on the cloud will rot him
@@TySama0 Always has been, est. 2009.
just reading the title without being good meanwhile bro, has completed some of the hardest challenges known to Elden ring
thats what im saying, hes no longer a casual player.
but the strats he used are super easy to pull up. So a noob could beat the game without knowing a lot.
That's the point. He doesn't know the bosses super well, but he finds ways to beat them anyway without fixing that.
clearly have 0 idea of what you're talking about. I love IP as much as the next guy, but dont go sucking him off for stuff he hasnt done lol.
Not really
Radahn be like: "OUCH, WAS THAT A POT?! WHO DID THAT..-" *scarlet rot procs* "oh no NO NO NO, NOT AGAIN!" *jumps off the arena to put himself out of his own misery.*
THE LITTLE CROCHET PINEAPPLE I CAN'T EVEN
i know, right?
Is it a wooble?
Bro needs a few extra pairs of shades and he's even more perfect
My explosion of "WHAT?! FUCKING WHAT?! WHAT?!" at the meteor part lmfao that is hysterical that was even a thing
Your RL1 videos are the best examples of "work smarter, not harder."
The irony of the final boss being defeated by a tree.
The true Erdtree
build variety in this game is so lovely. if you're skilled at character building and have good gamesense this challenge isn't even very hard (not in an insulting way btw, i think its sick and requires its own skillset of ingenuity and intellect)
The easy part of SL1 is minmaxing damage, the hard part is always figuring out how to survive in the endgame
It was always like this on every soulslike, but they took it to the next level on Elden Ring.
@@FakeHeroFang this. i'm on RL1 at Radabeast in the base game and just started the DLC. getting one-shot at this point in the game by everything is mentally exhausting.
You could have made the Mesmer fight even easier If you had started Yimir’s quest and blown the first finger ruin this allows you to summon the black knight lady inside the arena as well as hornsent.
Her name is Jolan
As someone who has legitimately given up on trying to beat Radahn, that last cheese gave me a good chuckle.
Use mimic tear + bleed infused Bloodfiend's arm. 2 bonking bleed guy make Radhan a joke.
@@AhnafShakilMd.FahimFaisal That's the strat with which I finally succeded, actually. Great strat!
Greatshield + poke is completely free too. You don't even need to summon as he can barely touch you through the shield.
I parried him, turn his strength into weakness.
the easiest way to beat him is to have a deflect tear, mimic and heavy armor with giant crusher and prayerful strike with malenia's rune, and just trade with him over and over.
with the rune and prayerful strike you'll heal 40% of your health on each hit and it lowers you hitbox and makes you have pretty much infinite poise, and if an attack isnt going to be doable, you deflect it with the tear and go back to spam.
literal joke of a fight if you want to make it one.
Poison mist and Assasin's Gambit on Bayle was the kind of creative cheese that makes me love this game even more.
I've been absolutely suffering through a 0 scadutree run for weeks and just took a break before the final boss. Seeing this video has inspired me to get back in there and finish the fight.
Thanks FerrousFruit
I don't think scadutree blessings even help anymore after a certain ng+.
Rl1 or no ?
@lordcraigdragneel136 No, I have levels. Just no scadu or spirit blessings.
@anonisnoone6125 Unsure, I didn't start the dlc with a NG+ character. I'll take your word for it
@@anonisnoone6125 they do, i'm in ng+7 and they work perfectly
The awaited sequel has come
@@TheTrueMCGamer i see
As someone who does tons of challenge runs in these games, I LOVE these types of videos. I feel like most people see level 1 runs as running in with a club no armor and a bunch of damage buffs and hitlessing bosses,and while something like this 8 better if you want to deeply understand the boss movesets, if you’re doing a level 1 Toruń for the sake of doing a level 1 run there are plenty of options, from super cheesy stuff like this, to even just using ritual shield, dragon crest great shield, and decent armor to tank hits (yes this set up allows you to tank most small attacks on level 1, assuming you are leveling up your scadutree blessing) and I love to see people going at level 1 runs in creative ways instead of just running in naked with a club
I think something to remember about this kind of challenge run is that "knowledge is a skill." The whole first part of the video isn't accessible to a player who goes in blind. Just a heads up to the gatekeepers who'd go "but see this is all possible, so never say anything about game other than "everything is perfect!" "
Elden Ring is a really good souls-like game ngl
Never heard of that game
Is it on game pass tho 🤔
very obscure tho
About the Radahn meteor attack, it will target the host where he was standing at the start of the jump. So you can take reduced damage by running far away
i cannot believe Radahn is so terrified of trees he literally just kills himself, absolutely hilarious LOL
childhood trauma
'Without being good at the game' while displaying wildly specific knowledge and creative problem solving. My guy, that is the definition of being good at the game lol. Everything else is just reflexes.
Reflexes are the only thing you can't look up and copy
the dueling shield was how I killed the final boss of the dlc, with Malenia's greatrune active you heal for nearly 100% of the damage you're taking, and the guard poke keeps you from being pushed back into the light lasers in phase 2, because you're fully locked in place while you're guard poking. While it took nearly 20 full hours of attempts, it was hilarious to effectively completely ignore all mechanics of the fight on the winning run, and just walk forwards holding L1 and tapping R1 every time he attacked. The only dodges you need to do are his AOEs that will do enough stamina damage to break your guard- specifically, the last hit in his combo that ends with an overhand slam into an uppercut that sends a lightwave outwards.
how did it take you 20 hours to figure out you can use healing miracles and shield grease to make the boss irrelevant
bro how, all you need to do is pay attention!
Ah, I knew you'd come.
To stand before the Elden Ring. To become Elden Lord.
What a sad state of affairs.
I commend your spirit, but alas, none shall take the throne.
Queen Marika has high hopes for us.
That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity.
Now beat it whilst 300 fire ants are devouring on you’re skin, your feet are being chewed by 6 rabid baskerhounds, no eyes, ears or mouth, you must instead smell to play the game, and you have to play ‘through the fire and flames’ on a trumpet with only 2 working keys.
ok
Without being good of course
@@strolok7793 ofc can’t forget about that.
And only this method can be considered a true playthrough. Otherwise it doesnt count.
OMFG YOURE LETTING HIM PLAY WHILE HES ALIVE?!!!!!!!??! THATS CHEATING A TRUE SOILS PLAYER WOULD BEAT WHILE BEING DEAD
You are a godsent!!!
I have a lv25 character with +3 weapons that killed every boss except miquella because I just couldn't find out how to handle the phase transition. I was really hoping someone would discover some way, and here you are! Thank you a lot
beating elden ring with the power of moxie and covid
Hey Iron Pineapple, I love the challenge runs! I have another challenge run for you. Elden Ring, but you can't use the same attack twice. This includes no summons as summons use the same repetitive attacks. No buffs as well. Only if you're up for the challenge though.
One a scale of mild mozzarella to moldy blue cheese, the amount of cheese in this video is a solid parmasan
Mr iron pineapple, your 1st video of this kind got me into souls games. Thank you and I’m so excited for another installment
"A man can not kill a God..."
No but some farts and a tree can
Playing through the base game for the first time. This takes away some of the dread of whats to come. Thanks fam
This might be the greatest intro to a video ever created
It'd be so cool in videos like this if you talked more about how you learned or discovered these strats! Shout-outs to the other people in the community you learned from, or chat about your process in working some of it out would be so interesting.
If I had a nickel every time Radahn got tricked by the Mimic Veil I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s strange that it happened twice.
Dude you play like I try to, every trick, every tool, and you make it work. Tbh the best parts of Elden Ring are being pulled into a random boss fight and putting your skills to the test for host and glory. Love the content Pine, you are a good voice for the Souls community.
I'm surprised more people don't know this, but for that attack where Radahn jumps up and Laser Beams the arena, I just sort of ran up near the Divine Gate, toward the top right corner and nothing ever hit me. Seemed consistent when I did it. 🤷♂
It lands wherever he jumped up from and doesn't actually have that huge a radius, you can just walk away, same with original Radahn
These kinds of videos are actually why I love Elden Ring. The amount of utility you can get from random items in the game turns the whole thing into more of a strategy or puzzle experience than any sort of skill based game. Of course, you can still win by gitting gud, but I like that it’s just another way to play. Really cool that strategy and build planning is rewarded so much in this game.
Love how these videos basically turn elden ring into a strategy game
"Im not that good"
Well that was a fucking lie.
I don't think any of his strats required any gameplay skill, just some knowledge of mechanics. So I think it counts.
@@DemonLordSparda this is still a SL1 run. You're essentially putting everyone else who ever did one of these down by saying "all it requires is some gameplay knowledge".
I agree that knowledge is a huge part of this, but I also think knowledge is part of skill.
Is knowing how to use and using poison strats particularly skillful? No. But would you also say that knowing to press the parry button at a specific time requires no skill whatsoever? Probably not.
@@tigrexkiller1548the literal point of this video, as stated by the video author, is to beat it without skill and with just game knowledge. It is not putting anyone down to say that he did that
Obviously it required some skill because every human action requires skill. But it was much more heavily focused on game knowledge than skill, which is the point.
As someone who has beat the game RL1 melee only, i do not feel insulted in the slightest by a video like this because i understand larger context
If you have enough game knowledge and use every tool than yes, infinitely less skill is required to beat it. That is fundamentally how the game is built
@frazfrazfrazfraz it's pretty obvious that SL1 runs require the use of cheese and knowledge. Heck, I wouldn't have finished DS3 or BB on SL1 without cheese and knowledge. And I dont think anyone is insane enough to attempt a SL1 run on their very first playthrough.
But don't you think its a little disingenuous to say "im not that good" and then play through most of base game and all of the DLC at SL1?
Its probablt just him being modest or absolutely memeing on his viewers (which wouldn't be surprising tbh), but if he genuinely thinks hes just using knowledge and isnt "that good" id like to know who gaslights him because I could use some of that.
@@tigrexkiller1548 SL1 runs absolutely do not "require' the use of cheese, plenty of people have done it without that
There are people who have beat every boss level 1 melee only without even rolling, blocking, or parrying
I never thought you could cheese bayle or even radahn.
I love the creative problem solving behind these LVL 1 videos that you make. It's so entertaining to watch the strategies unfold.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO I KEEP REWATCHING THE OLD ONE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS!
You're not fooling anyone Pine. You keep saying you're not good at these games, and yet you have so much cleverness, tenacity, and ingenuity and you pull it off anyway. I would never be able to figure all those crazy buffs and combinations for myself. I just hack at everything with Moonveil until it dies.
I beat the dlc at level 1 a couple nights ago. Most of the dlc bosses weren’t too bad, golden hippo, scadu avatar, and metyr were miserable to fight. But consort radahn is HARD. Took me 1,274 attempts to finally beat him. Malenia took me about 200 and she’s the boss that killed me the second most
Radahn goes stupid man. Not even bothering to kill him on my torch playthrough, I'll do everything else for fun but fuck if I'm fighting the same boss for 10 hours😑
@@Lost1ntheSauc3did him on a torch playthrough, not fun, he’s even harder on sl1 so you probably took the easy way out to keeping your sanity
Personally I liked the avatar on my rl1 no scadu blessings run, I felt he was fair all throughout. Metyr and golden hippo however can suck it. Radahn is a great boss if only the cross slash didn't exist.
@@krissman123 the other problem with radahn is miquellas hair blocking the view of the boss so you can’t see what his next move is
Grats man!
DLC was the right amount of challenging to the point you where forced to learn the move set and dodge or in this case jump at the right time (unless you want to cheese it).
I would argue that this DLC is a lot more fun then the base game because of how difficult it was
God hearing Igon shouting in the background of the Bael segments of the video was peak comedy
This proves that build variety in the dlc is SUPER helpful! I went through like 5 different new weapons/builds (lots of things I liked using were strength/dex so I could swap a lot) depending on the situation compared to the base game where I just stuck with at max 2 weapons and not much variation. Swapping around playstyles to adapt to enemies felt REALLY good!
Yeah ok. That last cameo was pretty nice, and unexpected. You win Pineapple, it was a great vid.
Good job on creating a sponsered segment that's actually entertaining, gave me a chuckle.
The sequel I never knew I needed
This has got to be my favorite video of yours. It's so fun to watch and I know you had a lot of fun doing it the whole time!
6:13 the aslum brainrot has gotten another one
only the Man can save us now
What a hell of an ending! Fucking incredible lmao🎉
Big thanks to the special guest and well done, Iron Pineapple, your previous Elden Ring inspired me to try the game despite me not being very good at souls games! I’ve had a ton of fun with it
gotta love that opening
Hell yeah, love for the Smithscript Spear! I had a blast integrating that weapon into my normal build/playstyle as a ranged option. I actually put Spectral Lance on it because it has more range and incredible damage, but the basic horseback option is also great for picking off enemies.
8:19 "Shockingly don't die from it"
That's the absolute worst part about Gaius. the damage just seems so random. One time you are barely scratched, other times you just get one shot
I noticed his attacks have a lit of different parts to them, like his boar might hit you with both hoofs and it deals huge damage or with just one if you position differently, or his gravity upwards thrust has the thrust itself and the aoe which deals less damage.
@@Hollow__Heart i think his thrust attack can deal a lot of dmg to you, because the counter mechanic with the thrust weapon, if you miss the roll and he rolls catch you during animation, he will deal more dmg than before.
@@KABLAMMATS I believe counter damage in this game is only applied when a thrusting attack catches someone mid attack, not mid roll or any other action, no?
Okay... you got me to watch the whole sponsored bit. Nicely done! Very creative
Damn, the Poison Mist cheese strikes again.
Video should have ended with you two jumping up and down to cancel his meteor attack. Amazing.
5:30
Truly a chad spirit 😂
This whole video is (Steven He) “Emotional Damage” for me. I struggled so hard with some of these bosses at an endgame level even after collecting a good amount of the available Scadutree fragments. You may not be the best Souls player, but you sure are really smart about your builds and finding some cheese when needed.
Bleed still being this strong is pretty wild. I wonder how it will be included in future games.
Hopefully they do something similar to DS2, where bleed procs were on a timer, so you could still get satisfying chunks of damage without just obliterating the bosses.
Frost kinda fills that niche in Elden ring, but it ends up just being worse since bleed does the same thing but more consistent.
@@Lost1ntheSauc3iirc, bleed in DS2 does flat damage (not % of max hp) which is kind of terrible for late game (and even mid game). A cooldown on bleed doesn't sound right, maybe look into an older game like DS1? Some bosses there are incredibly weak to bleed and it's effective on them, others are resistant, some immune. I think they just need to make bleed not that effective on literally anything fleshy, mess around with resistances where appropriate.
Then again, if you just casually use a weapon with bleed on it, it's not that OP. It's when you specifically craft your build around it when it starts to melt everything. So maybe they don't need to change much at all.
I hope it isn't and the game isn't balanced around huge easily attainable %damage procs. I mean, it'd be fine it's not the only damn thing (save for rot which can't compete) that does it.
Edit: Maybe bleed is specifically the answer to make the game more accesible in the sense that they want the game to be as hard as you want it to be, bleed builds being the easy mode.
@@mikairu2944 that’s definitely a good point. The difficulty level being completely controlled through gameplay is pretty cool. I don’t really do pvp so that’s my only real concern. Idk if bleed is good for pvp or if they balance it separately from pve
dark souls 2 had really good balancing ngl, only overpowered things were forbidden sun and climax, but they had the downside of being late game and both having only 1 cast
I haven't played a single minute of soulslike games in my life and I still enjoy these videos.
ggs
you may not be "good" at the game in the conventional sense, but your creativity and willingness to try new things is honestly one of your greatest strengths and it's reflected not only throughout this whole video, but on your channel as a whole. banger vid, pine.
from my own lv1 playthrough of dlc, it appears that lions claw mixed with frozen arnament great sword makes the whole experience WAY easier
How'd this fair against Radahn's bs?
chumps build
@@anonisnoone6125 well im yet to reach him but i defeated messmer and rellana with relative ease,i posted both of these fights on my channel
@@anonisnoone6125 i have both recordings of messmer and rellana attempts on lv1,i did both of them on lv1 with relative ease
i have yet to get to radahn
@@ProducedByRIFT we'll use whatever the hell we want to beat the game bud.
One thing I did on npc fights is use the discus shield to spam throw on them since it out a lot of enemies into a stunlock and interrupts their attacks. Kinda happy you made this video I'm almost done with my own sl1 and while I'm not as good as others it has helped me a lot and made me learn some neat things like dragoncreat talisman +scadu blessings and the ritual shield talisman actually less mensurvive a few hits against bosses.
CURSE YOU BAYLE 11:47
Enough for fuck sake enough
BEHOLD, A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR
A strategy Wallace would be proud of.
So much delicious cheese
"without being good" says the man whose entire job is playing this kind of game and has done this exact kind of thing before.
lol, seppuku at midra had literally 0 effect cause you took too long buffing that the attack buff was over before you even attacked
Elden Ring was my first souls game. Elden Ring DLC is difficult, but not too hard. I'm almost done with the dlc. Love it!
play ds2 its kind of like elden ring, and really fun!
@@TheMagnificentMoose-s7y don't play scholar of the first sin play vanilla.
@@TheMagnificentMoose-s7y that's b8
@@SuleX00-ov5ipbad take
@@SuleX00-ov5ip I’ve never played vanilla. R u saying it’s better or worse? Ds2 isn’t that bad if you use the environment to your advantage
I am working on a similar playthrough, but at Level 1, no upgrades, no Scadu upgrades and in case anyone else ever tries it again and is watching this video for ideas here's a couple more strats.
To get in through Mogh I used a caster build with Glintblades and/or Rock Slings and Rot Breath. I found that if you setup Latenna at the door and rot Mogh as he tries to move on her you can flee to his end of the room and he will pursue you all the way there, if you hide behind the back left pillar by one of the fog walls (only works on the left, not the right in my experience) his AI doesn't consistently attempt to close in for melees and his blood spray is almost always just blocked by the pillar. This leaves you fairly safe on most attempts to find a good timing for poison/rot application with any ranged material before you speed up the damage with casts. In phase two he will often go back to melee attacking but the safest strat is still to hold the corner, flee when he tries to close and return to the corner when he isn't directly next to you to try and keep his AI attempting ranged attacks that mostly don't hit. This does have weird random fail-states but it is much less difficult than no-damage no-hit Mogh IMO.
Regarding Gaius, I preferred using the basic Rot Breath attack. If you lure Gaius to the South-Eastern-most wall ridge (the near right corner pillar as you enter) with him on the South side and you on the North side you can safely stand in the corner on your side and rot him by aiming directly at them through the wall as he can't reach you in phase one. When you approach phase 2 you can use Godrick's Great Rune and Radagon's Scarseal to have enough health and stamina to two-hand block all of his new wall piercing attacks with the Silver Mirrorshield. Using Warming Stones occasionally between Gaius' attacks lets you safely block as long as possible as they may attack randomly while you apply the third dose of rot when you feel safe. Setting up each attempt sucks but not having to retreat from the wall is critical in making this not the worst gamble ever every attempt IMO. Some people recommend other ridges or the spot Iron was in but these spots all favor Iron's strat and are dangerous for rot attempts and often lead to breakouts if the fight takes too long in my experience.
Regarding Rellana, fighting them with these restrictions sucks IMO and the existing cheese for them that has gone around is casting Flame of the Fell God through the rear door of their arena (which you reach by back-dooring the area with a spirit spring) does not work as you can only cast it with the Physick and all wearable buffs which doesn't last long enough for you to deal enough damage. In a fit of desperation I found that you can use the Halo Scythe ash of war through the fog wall and find the boss based on the sounds of misses vs hits. Between that and the Blessed Blue Dew Talisman you can infinitely attack them until they die.
Regarding the Scadutree Avatar, I haven't beaten it yet, but the strat Iron uses is not feasible with the additional restrictions IMO as you take too long to kill it and you can be hit/flinched off the ledge completely randomly. Maybe this is doable without upgrades but I feel like you'd need a lot of luck based on my current experience.
I haven't passed Messmer yet so I can't offer any suggestions beyond that yet. Hopefully this helps some random viewer in the future. haha
21:28 was the funnest thing ever!! XDD!!!
That must’ve been the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!!!
Bruh are you on like 20x speed how tf did you get to 21:28 so fast 😭
throwing messmer's spear on horseback at the drakes in Jagged Peak has convinced me that there is a whole new *style* of gameplay in ER that needs to be fully explored, it was one of *the* most fun experiences i've had in the DLC (i even equipped the lance talisman!!!)
Yep, the difficulty was WAY overstated. There's SO many tools to use that people are avoiding. Even without many of the tools (solo, melee only, no ashes of war) I beat the whole DLC while having my own company and a 3 month old baby. It's hard, but it's not too hard.
The problem isn't even that it's hard, it's that some bosses r just poorly designed and a lot of the fanboys just refuse to even consider criticism for it. I used the tools like summons if I knew the fight was just bad but when u try the bosses alone for a while, u realise the problems some of them have.
Sseth's video on elden ring is basically it. No game is hard because games are fundamentally NOT hard. They're games. LIFE is hard.
@@OwlScowling congrats on the baby! And the company of course lmao
@@anonisnoone6125 i like every boss in the dlc except radahn, i cant find the problems that the internet finds
@@anonisnoone6125 what are some examples outside Radahn?
been watching you for a minute man, you're up there with gino for my favorite souls youtubers. keep up the great work man, i can see the time and effort you put into all your vids.
"I'm not that good.***"
***note: but I have beaten the game and the DLC at least several times, so I'm already practiced these fights and also have tons of experience with the game's mechanics
The jump spam cheese gave every BL2 Challenge runners a little chub seeing their favorite boss cheese in another game. (In the event you didn’t know the Bloodwing Boss fight can be super easy cheesed as jump spamming breaks it’s A.I so it just kinda stands/flies still)
Who ever reads this i hope you're going to be succesful in the future.
Was not expecting Another Crab's Treasure music in an Elden Ring video.
2 views bro fell off
XD!!!!!
Can’t stop laughing
Whoever made that Scadutree fragment map is GOATed. Too bad I got to Radahn before I used it lol
1 view in 23 seconds? Bro fell off
We have a real original comedian here
Wow I'm at a loss for words with some of that amazing boss cheese haha. Absolutely loving the dlc challenge run videos, just as sweet as the base game ones. Amazing work man, keep it up!
I can't wait to see all the other characters you've done, I especially can't wait to see the overloaded run continue
Not sure if its said enough but you're good at editing. things transition smoothly into what you're saying and it matches super well.
Always a blessed day to have another upload from our favourite solid ore coated 🍍
The combo of the thumbnail, title, and being only 4 hours old really confused me until I realized this was a sequel. Also, I've used the Antspur Rapier in probably 80% of the DLC boss fights and seldom hear it talked about, really surprised to see who else uses it.
The thing I love the most about Fromsoft, high enough skill can beat game knowledge (Even if you deal 1 damage and receive 300% damage back, being able to dodge everything means you'll win eventually) AND high enough game knowledge can beat skill (Being unable to dodge bosses and learn attack patterns doesn't mean you won't make it as long as you keep trying and learning the bosses weaknesses and what works where)
I absolutely love that you use the japanese version of the Sonic CD OST in your videos! Its such a funky, high energy production
It was a joy to watch some of the bosses that brought me so much pain being mocked, ty Pine
13:54 showing off that sword like a beauty UA-camr