I find it funny that people cope that Malenia isn't difficult, yet she's one of the ONLY bosses in all dark souls games where people's entire builds are built entirely around eventually fighting her. Or people end up changing a build they've used for the ENTIRE game to finally kill her. And then swap back. So yeah, she's hard. She's a run defining boss which can ruin your build if it can't handle her.
Yep she is difficult alright, for first blind playthroughs especially. I ran a Golden halberd for the whole game until I fought her- then switched to Maliketh's Black Blade and killed her in 3-4 attempts. But I had no need to change builds at least, STR Ungabunga ftw.
,,run defining boss which can ruin your build" She's optional,why would you ruin your build to fight her then switch back,i find that as nonsense. You either know about her and fight her willingly or say ,,nah i won't change my build only for a boss" and move on. Ruining a build is a thing for main bosses, like running into elden beast using literally any status effect build ,like bleed,frostbite etc. So you NEED to change your build to fight them on a more equal ground (or just power through) ,it's a must in order to continue the game. While it can be a reason to change your build, she is not a run defining boss.
Yeah, my spirit summons carried my dumbass, I feel like I cheated fighting Radahn and Malenia because not only I used all the summons in fighting Radahn, I've also used mimic tear with ROB in fighting Malenia, I've felt dirty after I killed her. I need to solo ER in NG+.
@@deathrodamus9608 nah, if the game is gonna be cheap and unfair so am I. You can’t tell me just waiting for long ass combos to end before you can even engage is good gameplay. Miyazaki went way too far with his “fuck the player” mentality on this one
@@FlyinTools lol yeah, the delayed attacks and long combos are kinda annoying at some point. But still, I wanna try to beat them with my dodging and parrying skills alone.
For me the elden ring was very difficult during the initial phase but after 3-4 hours into the game it became miraculously a little bit easy. I defeated Margit in 2 tries but died 14-15 times from the hands of tree sentinel
I defeated sentinel in like 3 tries(other then horse bashing on the side he got one of the easiest patterns to dodge and he for some reason never used ranged attack) but margit destroyed me,all that delayed attacks that suddenly go super fast are so disgusting,i have never panic rolled so much.
Orphan of kos takes me a consistent 40+ tries every time I fight him. Malenia was the number one hardest during my first playthrough but I can first try her consistantly now, unlike orphan that still beats my ass every bloodborne playtrough XD
I never beat him congrats I spent around 1 month fighting him 10-15 times a day before I finally just called it quits. Over 120hours in one playthrough just to not beat the final boss 😂
As someone who has played every souls game, when using everything to your advantage, ER is definitely the easiest. Including Soulslikes, LoP is by far the hardest!
@@baharavi not exactly, it all depends. Definitely RNG based on that, for example, Nameless Puppet has never given me a minute of reprieve. Neither has Laxasia, Manus, Romeo, or Swamp Monster. That’s at least from my experience. If you’re lucky, then maybe.
@@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy I don't think luck/rng had any part in it. The effectiveness of throwables is largely based on factors like leveling up motivity/technique to increase damage, and upgrading p organ to hold more quantity, using spector to distract, and exploiting a bosses elemental weakness, it's also crucial to time your dodges well. The only boss i had trouble with was the parade master, which took me 8 attempts to defeat, because at that point you cant buy throwables yet. I beat the rest of the bosses on the first attempt, except the nameless puppet which took me 2 attempts. I was admittedly quite over leveled throughout the entire game. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the game. Game of the year for me hands down.
Yeah she’s definitely hard but a very satisfying to beat because you just gotta learn how to over come her it took me 2 days to beat her I tried about 1-2 hours each day luckily I had a good frost intelligence build so it did good damage
I used cold naga with double slash+ flame art uchi and the moment she was close to me or finished combo i would just attack then spam l2 or just spam l2 and after nearly 150 tries i killed her super easily because with 103 frost build up i get her to frostbite every 4-6 hits and then reset it with uchi,i learned you need to be aggressive because if you make it too long you will start making mistakes and she will just outheal you and win.
@@aYiN_N0N3xTeNc3dang that’s a lot of tries for a dex build I beat her under 20 tries with blasphemous blade and a ton of fire incants (mainly flame of the fell god)
@@Bulbmin1 honestly i was too scared,i was at first overconfident but when she pulled waterflow first time,i played so passive and just thinked about her waterflow because even with 51 vigor and medium armour+dragoncrest shield talisman she kills me,when i learned to dodge it properly i hit second wall which was her clones in second phase and i finally killed her with 4 out of 13 flasks left.
@@aYiN_N0N3xTeNc3 I was scared too but once I realized my attacks did like a tenth of her health I got a little overconfident but yeah I only died once to water fowl I actually died more to the phantoms that water fowl because I had blood hound fangs in my back pocket for blood hound step I did get kinda lucky on my successful attempt since she was kinda passive but I only had 40 vig and was pre-Gideon but black blade incant also carried me since it melted her health
I struggled more with Laxasia from Lies of P than her, even with throwables she didn’t give much time second phase to use them. She moves so fast just like Malenia, both bad ass female bosses
Thanks for actually showing a realistic view of how hard this game is and not that those unrealistic level 1 videos that i see everywhere where obviously a person lived like a hermit for a 100+ hours until they finally figured out how to master a boss.....and that "imma give it 10 more tries" line is soooooo relatable. "10 more" ends up being 30 more for me before i quit and come back later on most times lol
I was a few months late, but it was worth it. Your experience was everything I hoped for 😄 Enjoy your break until you're cleansed by the Messmer's flame.
the first time i fought malenia, i went into the arena, watched the cutscene and as soon as the cutscene was over, instantly died before i could push a button.she litterally one two hit me .0001 seconds after the cutscene ended.
If you don't use summons or cheeses, Elden Ring might be the hardesr but a lot of this is due to bullshit mechanics and what feels like "difficulty for the sake of difficulty" rather than always being fair
Purification flask and that attack is canceled but I know what you mean the first run I did I used RoB (I know the cheese weapon) and I struggled more with Mogh than Melania since I didn’t know the purification flask existed at that time
I was stuck on her for such a long time died way too many times and then I found the perfect build great stars hammer with stormcaller with extra bleed affinity cake walk afterwards
Absolutely up for debate! While i think shes difficult sometimes, all I need is a level above 100, a mimic tear/black knife tiche and a maxed out weapon and shes instantly eons below Demon of Hatred
I died only 6 times to Malenia. I died more to Midir. Died more to Ludwig. Died more to Radagon and Elden Beast. Died more to the Godskin Apostle on the bottom of the Divine Tower of Caelid ffs. I haven’t even BEATEN Orphan of Kos or Laurence yet. Or Isshin Sword Saint or Demon of Hatred. Or Kalameet but I only tried him like 3 times. Malenia isn’t shit.
Was a mad lad and went with the lightest load out so I could have that far roll. Though process was just don't get hit. Still took me about 50 tries later.
@@justarandomguy983 yeah what's the point of going to pretty much every area of the map before even killing the bosses? idk this is just not the best experience at all (speed running don't count obviously) the only area i rush to is to kill the dragon and i don't do that every time
It's one of the easiest soulsborne to beat at SL1 (RL1) and I always use the following rules: melee only, no cheese, no npc or human summons, no spirit ashes, pure solo. Bloodborne was the hardest by far due to the chalice dungeons, main game is easy and DLC wasn't too bad.
@@dylandooley8494 only if you have a summon, without it only a couple end game bosses die to it, the rest either pressure you out of it or dodge it completely
first run i used +10 mimic to ease every fight because i got killed by margit over 60 times because i was severely underleveled both gear/character and realized leveling is more important in this game than others, ng+1 i saw some rune farm location (moghwyn dynasty) and leveled myself to 250 with elden beast sword after that i run first ng+ pretty easy. When you get used to malenias waterfowl dance she becames basic dash boss with lifesteal and rot and don't even say second phase is hard she gives you free hits with that bloom move don't get distracted with rotussy and deal with her.
Word to my fellow strength bros, waterfowl dance is MUCH more manageable when you combine blocking and dodging, especially if you're rocking a colossal weapon 💪💪💪
Personally I'd say Malenia is not as difficult as Orphan of Kos in terms of moveset (at least for her first phase), but what sways things in her favor is that she recovers HP on every hit she lands, while Orphan is set up specifically to give players a reward for getting better at the fight, specifically recovering Bullets and HP on a successful Visceral Attack (which only gets multiplied if you're using Blood Rapture and Oedon Writhe). However, her second phase is where she definitely takes the crown for being stronger than Orphan (and by extension, every other From Software boss), because there are some scenarios which almost guarantee a loss if you A) don't know what's about to happen, or B) know exactly what's about to happen, but don't know a reliable method to avoid it. But man, I just love fighting Malenia. I can reliably take her out in the first phase without taking any damage, but her second phase still has a few moves that can overwhelm me. I deliberately don't kill her on every run I make in my main file just because I don't feel like I truly mastered her yet, and I don't want to stop improving.
I find this interesting. I think friede/orphan/malenia compete for hardest. But for different reasons. Friede feels almost uniquely fast for a humanoid boss in ds3 and it starts to feel like a marathon of evasion. Screw up too many times you probably wont even see phase 3. Simple enough. Kos is by far the hardest in my opinion. But thats only because kos is better prepared to deal with the tools your hunter can acquire. His moveset actually has an answer to every weapon and ability. Given his pace and the consistency of battle results i just cant give the ribbon to anyone else. Melania is a pushover. But only if you have beaten her. I think shes the hardest to learn. She has a uniquely powerful ability to skyrocket your blood pressure with the heal on hits, the over the top edgelord walks, and the pass/fail mechanic in waterfowl. But once you realize the heal on hit is compensating for a mostly passive attitude, and either summon or figure out waterfowl, it might as well just be another gimmick boss. Amazing for anyone that wants a good katana vs katana fight though. Get some practice with katana guard counters and your own passive heal and youve got an infinite katana fight.
It depends. Elden Ring is hard, but can be broken the easiest. If you know what you're doing, it can be quite easy, especially considering its open world and you can get powerful before fighting any big bosses. For me, I consider Sekiro the hardest, especially if your a big souls player, as you kinda have to forget and relearn a lot of mechanics. Also, I feel that a few Elden Ring bosses are only hard because of a few broken attacks (ie: Malenia and her waterfoul dance and clone rush attacks) meanwhile with Sekiro they were difficult due to actually being mechanically challenging
I mean malenia isnt hard just for waterfall, id argue most er bosses are more mechanically complex and challenging than sekiro bosses, since you have the stamina management coupled with normal dodges, jump dodges, dodges to certain directions to avoid damage, dodging by running away, manipulating boss attacks( stuff like maliketh doing certain attacks depending if you dodge away from him or to him), theres just a lot more to it while sekiro is a lot more streamlined asking you to do less things but more precisely.
Eh... waterfoul can be dealt with by properly dodging it. Like that video does. It's entirely consistent if you pick it up. And I beat her without really learning it. I don't see how it's 'broken'.
I dunno if i would call Sekiro the hardest, but it's definetively the fairest - to the player, but also to the bosses. Both sides have a rather minimal amount of Ridiculous Unfair Bullshit. (There is still some, like firecracker or Mortal Draw spam, but it's more the exception than anything). Elden Ring meanwhile, it's the total opposite, both the player and the bosses have boatloads of Ridiculous Unfair Bullshit - how difficult the game is amounts to how willing you are to use it.
@@Broken-bj8ly "Elden Ring meanwhile, it's the total opposite, both the player and the bosses have boatloads of Ridiculous Unfair Bullshit - how difficult the game is amounts to how willing you are to use it." Basically perfectly describes Elden Ring's balance. If you don't embrace the potential power creep with all of the games mechanics, you will end up STRUGGLING in the latter half of the game. Embrace it? And you could end up with a very easy game.
Malenias waterfoul attack isnt bullshit, its old school secret boss super attack, its powerfull and you must always be aware of it, but its consistent and can be dealt with. Personally i used a shield to tank the first hit then i dodged the rest, i didnt have to look online for it.
They could have taken out Water Foul and I genuinely think she’d be my favorite souls boss. But the way it forces you to play a very specific play style to even avoid Water Foul easily puts this fight at a B for me
You should have just used Raptor Talons on Malenia, dude, you can pretty much perma stun and bleed her until you run out of stamina. You would have still died from time to time to Bullshit Dance, but otherwise you would have beaten the shit out of her. Without that bs move (and maybe with some damage nerf) she would be a good, fair fight. The lifesteal is not the problem. I got much angrier fighting Maliketh, Hoarah Loux and Radagon. Those were some aoe spamming, aggresive grabbing spider-man c**ksuckers. I enjoyed the video btw, cheers :)
Problem with ER is that it has the most op weapons + summon. With right preparation every boss is easy. Unlike the old titles where overleveling is the key to easy boss run (At least for the most part), in ER you just need weapons. For me Sekiro is the most balanced, and Bloodborne dlc is hardest especially on NG+ runs.
I’ve nigh mastered Malenia’s moveset, all EXCEPT the Waterfowl Dance. If I’m already far enough, I can dodge it no problem. But if she uses it pointblank, it’s nearly a guaranteed death. And even if you don’t die, it’ll cost you 2~3 flasks just to recover it all. I know it’s possible to dodge it pointblank, but it’s very hard. And obviously, you can mitigate the move by using Bloodhound step, but I don’t use that sort of thing. It’s such a bs move that just kills off the entire run if you’re in the wrong position at the wrong time due to its RNG. I don’t know who let bro cook with that move in FS.
The first time i went up against her i beat her on 7th try. Ng+1 took me fucking 11 hours (2x2hour break time) cause im doing a no spirit ashes run. Everything else have been a walk in the park. Im not even mad.
There's a couple crouch attacks and jump attack opportunities people don't know you can do in ER, creating much, much more openings than there was in other souls gamea, like horizontal slashes from her can be crouch poked or jumped, stabs can be crouch poked and jumped, overhead atacks can be strafed or dodge attacked, some riskier than others, but if you find these openings pretty much all bosses get stance broken pretty quickly. It is what people mean when they say be aggressive. Or just make an endure tank and trade her, she has both low poise and relatively mid stance hp, though some attacks have hyperarmor. Still need to run away from her water fowl, though unless you freeze pot her out of it. It's just extremely unclear and the game doesn't tell you about partial i-frames at all either. My biggest gripe is radagon + beast to this day though, because you have to outright reset like 90% of the builds you played up to that point because of their sheer resistances, only strike damage is good for both so you have to either have to incorporate strike/fire for radagon then physical for beast or hope you have their movesets down to a tea to outlast them, which, for me, after maybe 50 playthroughs, i still to this day can't do with most builds as i mostly play casters and they all tend to run out of fp before the end. Just beast himself requires about 700 fp to take down, and that's if you don't miss, which is frankly only doable with like 2 or 3 spells ruining the whole "play your way" thing lol. It forces you to have super high mind and int/fth/arc but then you're not super tanky meaning your like 6 Crimson tears will be running out quickly. At least Malenia is consistently beatable with pretty much every build i made so far.
Souls fans don't use every instance of someone expressing difficulty with a boss as an opportunity to say how easy you thought the game was challenge: insurmountable difficulty
Yeah, it is if you play without summons (although all the games but Sekiro have some degree of summoning). The late-game bosses are scaled higher and have more punishing and varied move-sets than any other game beside late-game Sekiro (especially when you compare main-game bosses, Elden Ring's DLC isn't out yet and that's always is the hardest content of each game). Accounting for all mechanics, Sekiro is the hardest because it has no RPG systems. The hardest content to complete overall is the gauntlets in Sekiro and the defiled chalice in Bloodborne (imo, Bloodborne maintains its' difficulty moreso than the other games because of the damage modifier for missed dodges and how many one and two-shots are in the game).
After playing dark souls and blood borne I would say Elden Ring bosses are harder but the player character we have in Elden ring is way more powerful than in the other games
Isshin the Glock saint is by far the toughest fight in any fromsoft game that doesnt have mechs, malenia is plenty fair, it just checks players who dont have a proper build
I find it funny that people cope that Malenia isn't difficult, yet she's one of the ONLY bosses in all dark souls games where people's entire builds are built entirely around eventually fighting her. Or people end up changing a build they've used for the ENTIRE game to finally kill her. And then swap back. So yeah, she's hard. She's a run defining boss which can ruin your build if it can't handle her.
Yep she is difficult alright, for first blind playthroughs especially. I ran a Golden halberd for the whole game until I fought her- then switched to Maliketh's Black Blade and killed her in 3-4 attempts. But I had no need to change builds at least, STR Ungabunga ftw.
Worth noting that pure caster will delete her though, so that's at least one build that gets a free pass with her.
,,run defining boss which can ruin your build" She's optional,why would you ruin your build to fight her then switch back,i find that as nonsense. You either know about her and fight her willingly or say ,,nah i won't change my build only for a boss" and move on. Ruining a build is a thing for main bosses, like running into elden beast using literally any status effect build ,like bleed,frostbite etc. So you NEED to change your build to fight them on a more equal ground (or just power through) ,it's a must in order to continue the game.
While it can be a reason to change your build, she is not a run defining boss.
It's maybe difficult in elden ring but not in dark souls games lol
@@Red-no4zo I dont know anyone who finished this game and didnt kill her
25:30 We saw that Age of Stars achievement popup. You can't hide the simping!
LMAO😂 it is the coolest ending tho! fuck the golden order!
@@sion7651age of perfect order:
dlc radahn: “Allow me to introduce myself”
He's easier for me lol
PCR: 8 hours
Melania: 22 hours
thank god I'm not alone
Bro Elden Ring is the easiest of the games if you use everything at your disposal, but hardest if you don't
Yeah, my spirit summons carried my dumbass, I feel like I cheated fighting Radahn and Malenia because not only I used all the summons in fighting Radahn, I've also used mimic tear with ROB in fighting Malenia, I've felt dirty after I killed her. I need to solo ER in NG+.
It isnt the hardest even if u dont use anything
So long as you don't use spirit summons its the hardest by far lmao.
@@deathrodamus9608 nah, if the game is gonna be cheap and unfair so am I. You can’t tell me just waiting for long ass combos to end before you can even engage is good gameplay. Miyazaki went way too far with his “fuck the player” mentality on this one
@@FlyinTools lol yeah, the delayed attacks and long combos are kinda annoying at some point. But still, I wanna try to beat them with my dodging and parrying skills alone.
For me the elden ring was very difficult during the initial phase but after 3-4 hours into the game it became miraculously a little bit easy. I defeated Margit in 2 tries but died 14-15 times from the hands of tree sentinel
I defeated sentinel in like 3 tries(other then horse bashing on the side he got one of the easiest patterns to dodge and he for some reason never used ranged attack) but margit destroyed me,all that delayed attacks that suddenly go super fast are so disgusting,i have never panic rolled so much.
sentinel boss is so fuckn easy. margit was harder for me. i hated his throwing dagger spell he just suddenly casted
Orphan of kos takes me a consistent 40+ tries every time I fight him. Malenia was the number one hardest during my first playthrough but I can first try her consistantly now, unlike orphan that still beats my ass every bloodborne playtrough XD
Yeah, he was very hard. All the screaming from the boss is off-putting as well.
witchers fight music goes hard not gonna lie
1:57 Every single one of us went through this thought when playing a Souls game.
True
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@@CappaTron dw i’ll binge all the videos i missed today 🙏
Isshin Ashika, the sword saint. Even after beating him he still lives in my head rent free.
He took me 6 att skill issue
Good for you
@@heathermelton5688he’s the fairest hardest boss and I’d argue malenia is easier and people complaining about waterfowl are doing something wrong
@@ScorpionismZero he is not the hardest boss are you high
I never beat him congrats I spent around 1 month fighting him 10-15 times a day before I finally just called it quits. Over 120hours in one playthrough just to not beat the final boss 😂
As someone who has played every souls game, when using everything to your advantage, ER is definitely the easiest. Including Soulslikes, LoP is by far the hardest!
If you use throwables, lies of p is the easiest of all
@@baharavi not exactly, it all depends. Definitely RNG based on that, for example, Nameless Puppet has never given me a minute of reprieve. Neither has Laxasia, Manus, Romeo, or Swamp Monster. That’s at least from my experience. If you’re lucky, then maybe.
Yeah, my GOTY for sure. Freaking loved that game.
@@fallasleep9472 same here, I actually have it in my top 5 souls games INCLUDING FROMSOFT
@@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy I don't think luck/rng had any part in it. The effectiveness of throwables is largely based on factors like leveling up motivity/technique to increase damage, and upgrading p organ to hold more quantity, using spector to distract, and exploiting a bosses elemental weakness, it's also crucial to time your dodges well. The only boss i had trouble with was the parade master, which took me 8 attempts to defeat, because at that point you cant buy throwables yet. I beat the rest of the bosses on the first attempt, except the nameless puppet which took me 2 attempts. I was admittedly quite over leveled throughout the entire game. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the game. Game of the year for me hands down.
I can't believe it
I have been waiting for ages for this video
Yeah she’s definitely hard but a very satisfying to beat because you just gotta learn how to over come her it took me 2 days to beat her I tried about 1-2 hours each day luckily I had a good frost intelligence build so it did good damage
I used cold naga with double slash+ flame art uchi and the moment she was close to me or finished combo i would just attack then spam l2 or just spam l2 and after nearly 150 tries i killed her super easily because with 103 frost build up i get her to frostbite every 4-6 hits and then reset it with uchi,i learned you need to be aggressive because if you make it too long you will start making mistakes and she will just outheal you and win.
@@aYiN_N0N3xTeNc3dang that’s a lot of tries for a dex build I beat her under 20 tries with blasphemous blade and a ton of fire incants (mainly flame of the fell god)
@@Bulbmin1 honestly i was too scared,i was at first overconfident but when she pulled waterflow first time,i played so passive and just thinked about her waterflow because even with 51 vigor and medium armour+dragoncrest shield talisman she kills me,when i learned to dodge it properly i hit second wall which was her clones in second phase and i finally killed her with 4 out of 13 flasks left.
@@aYiN_N0N3xTeNc3 I was scared too but once I realized my attacks did like a tenth of her health I got a little overconfident but yeah I only died once to water fowl I actually died more to the phantoms that water fowl because I had blood hound fangs in my back pocket for blood hound step I did get kinda lucky on my successful attempt since she was kinda passive but I only had 40 vig and was pre-Gideon but black blade incant also carried me since it melted her health
I struggled more with Laxasia from Lies of P than her, even with throwables she didn’t give much time second phase to use them. She moves so fast just like Malenia, both bad ass female bosses
Definitely the hardest boss in that game for me 😭
laxasia was a lot easier but def the hardest in lies of p
Elden Ring is can either be really difficult or really easy depending what weapon build you use and how you play :)
Thanks for actually showing a realistic view of how hard this game is and not that those unrealistic level 1 videos that i see everywhere where obviously a person lived like a hermit for a 100+ hours until they finally figured out how to master a boss.....and that "imma give it 10 more tries" line is soooooo relatable. "10 more" ends up being 30 more for me before i quit and come back later on most times lol
I was a few months late, but it was worth it. Your experience was everything I hoped for 😄
Enjoy your break until you're cleansed by the Messmer's flame.
I have been binge watching all your vids and I have to say I love your humour and editing!
Dude Rick just standing there… I lost it 😂
the first time i fought malenia, i went into the arena, watched the cutscene and as soon as the cutscene was over, instantly died before i could push a button.she litterally one two hit me .0001 seconds after the cutscene ended.
Hey man I just wanted to say your videos are really nice and fun to watch, you make me laugh every time. Thanks. Keep up the good work. 👍💪
Would love to see you play Lies Of P brodie💯
I had more trouble getting to Malenia than beating Malenia tbh xD
I was genuinely anxious watching you, especially as you were hanging on an eternity with that small lifebar left on her. Impressed you solo this.
If you don't use summons or cheeses, Elden Ring might be the hardesr but a lot of this is due to bullshit mechanics and what feels like "difficulty for the sake of difficulty" rather than always being fair
The commentary is just gold!
15:18 "Thats so cheap!" *voice crack* "put me down" XDDD
Great to see another video from you was really great ❤️
Real homies know the hardest boss is actually Mohg. That Nihil ability forces you to waste 3 heals.
There is a physik flask thing that cancels that and Melania healing hit is a worse boss gimmick in my opinion.
Purifying crystal tear neutralizes that ability
Purification flask and that attack is canceled but I know what you mean the first run I did I used RoB (I know the cheese weapon) and I struggled more with Mogh than Melania since I didn’t know the purification flask existed at that time
I was stuck on her for such a long time died way too many times and then I found the perfect build great stars hammer with stormcaller with extra bleed affinity cake walk afterwards
This was the second I got the platinum in, and it was pretty easy overall because it has so many tools at your disposal.
(first was 2: Scholar)
Absolutely up for debate! While i think shes difficult sometimes, all I need is a level above 100, a mimic tear/black knife tiche and a maxed out weapon and shes instantly eons below Demon of Hatred
I died only 6 times to Malenia. I died more to Midir. Died more to Ludwig. Died more to Radagon and Elden Beast. Died more to the Godskin Apostle on the bottom of the Divine Tower of Caelid ffs. I haven’t even BEATEN Orphan of Kos or Laurence yet. Or Isshin Sword Saint or Demon of Hatred. Or Kalameet but I only tried him like 3 times. Malenia isn’t shit.
Love your videos so much bro. My favourite UA-camr without a doubt
The Rick Grimes insertion made me laugh my ass off 😂
Was a mad lad and went with the lightest load out so I could have that far roll. Though process was just don't get hit. Still took me about 50 tries later.
Genuinely one of my favorite content creators
Elden ring is way easyer than the other games cause of it's open design. You can get a +10 somber weapon before you even see Margit.
Bro same on bloodborne 🚬🗿 that doesnt make them boring
@@Nameless.Knight never said it's boring but ok
but to get a +7 weapon you need to beat a boss harder than margit (and further in progression)
@@justarandomguy983 yeah what's the point of going to pretty much every area of the map before even killing the bosses? idk this is just not the best experience at all (speed running don't count obviously) the only area i rush to is to kill the dragon and i don't do that every time
your commentary is amazing LOL
It's one of the easiest soulsborne to beat at SL1 (RL1) and I always use the following rules: melee only, no cheese, no npc or human summons, no spirit ashes, pure solo. Bloodborne was the hardest by far due to the chalice dungeons, main game is easy and DLC wasn't too bad.
LOVE your content man, you're hilarious. Have you tried Lies of P? You will enjoy that one while waiting for the Elden Ring DLC.
If we remove spirit ashes, summons, bleed, sleep pots, bb, comet azur and other op spells then maybe.
That’s what I did my playthrough on but I think her difficulty is way behind isshin and a little behind kos and even maliketh based on my experience
shes still easy
comet azure isn't that good without summons, almost everything is carried by either some ash of war or summons.
@@Ghorda9 yes it is that good what are u talking about it can shred the hardest bosses in the game in 10 seconds
@@dylandooley8494 only if you have a summon, without it only a couple end game bosses die to it, the rest either pressure you out of it or dodge it completely
DLC is coming and it's possible that DLC would be most difficult boss ever created in any souls game.
CappaTron, my guy you earned a new subscriber. Love your sense of humour. You are funny as fuck, been binging your soulsborne videos lately. Keep up.
L take in the title cappatron but I am still in love with you
first run i used +10 mimic to ease every fight because i got killed by margit over 60 times because i was severely underleveled both gear/character and realized leveling is more important in this game than others, ng+1 i saw some rune farm location (moghwyn dynasty) and leveled myself to 250 with elden beast sword after that i run first ng+ pretty easy. When you get used to malenias waterfowl dance she becames basic dash boss with lifesteal and rot and don't even say second phase is hard she gives you free hits with that bloom move don't get distracted with rotussy and deal with her.
RIP Alexander. Best jar bro. You died a warrior.
Man did no one struggle on Midir or what
I struggled way more on Midir than her
for people struggling with waterfall: first jump-> run second jump-> dodge beneath it nd run
my fav way to deal with waterfowl = roll first flurry into block into roll x2
Bro is NOT zanny with them thumbnails 🗣️🗣️🙅♂️🙅♂️🙅♂️
I love how he changes outfits every clip during exploration😂
Word to my fellow strength bros, waterfowl dance is MUCH more manageable when you combine blocking and dodging, especially if you're rocking a colossal weapon 💪💪💪
Personally I'd say Malenia is not as difficult as Orphan of Kos in terms of moveset (at least for her first phase), but what sways things in her favor is that she recovers HP on every hit she lands, while Orphan is set up specifically to give players a reward for getting better at the fight, specifically recovering Bullets and HP on a successful Visceral Attack (which only gets multiplied if you're using Blood Rapture and Oedon Writhe). However, her second phase is where she definitely takes the crown for being stronger than Orphan (and by extension, every other From Software boss), because there are some scenarios which almost guarantee a loss if you A) don't know what's about to happen, or B) know exactly what's about to happen, but don't know a reliable method to avoid it.
But man, I just love fighting Malenia. I can reliably take her out in the first phase without taking any damage, but her second phase still has a few moves that can overwhelm me. I deliberately don't kill her on every run I make in my main file just because I don't feel like I truly mastered her yet, and I don't want to stop improving.
If you want to beat Malenia without honor then use mohg spear and +10 red mane knight ohga spirit ash.
This is after they nerfed her a bit with a patch. Basically I kept trying until I had an attempt where she didn’t use the waterfall dance as much.
I did it with 26 vigour before doing forge of the giants. Now I know why it took my 40 hours and over 1000 deaths
"As soon as i can hit you, you're done" Every Strength Build when fighting 2nd Phase Maliketh
How do people not know of the blasphemous blade when fighting her. She is a cheese right after u get hands on that weapon.
17:33 is so cinematicly depressive, you got god dodge from malenia big bro lmao
19:55 *me waiting for morgott to stop doing backflips*
17:10
Even the gods themselves have to warm up it seems
I find this interesting. I think friede/orphan/malenia compete for hardest. But for different reasons.
Friede feels almost uniquely fast for a humanoid boss in ds3 and it starts to feel like a marathon of evasion. Screw up too many times you probably wont even see phase 3. Simple enough.
Kos is by far the hardest in my opinion. But thats only because kos is better prepared to deal with the tools your hunter can acquire. His moveset actually has an answer to every weapon and ability. Given his pace and the consistency of battle results i just cant give the ribbon to anyone else.
Melania is a pushover. But only if you have beaten her.
I think shes the hardest to learn. She has a uniquely powerful ability to skyrocket your blood pressure with the heal on hits, the over the top edgelord walks, and the pass/fail mechanic in waterfowl.
But once you realize the heal on hit is compensating for a mostly passive attitude, and either summon or figure out waterfowl, it might as well just be another gimmick boss.
Amazing for anyone that wants a good katana vs katana fight though. Get some practice with katana guard counters and your own passive heal and youve got an infinite katana fight.
knew you were a man of class when I heard the God of War theme
Elden ring is the hardest just for one boss, Rick, soldier of god
most fun elden ring video i've watch
It depends. Elden Ring is hard, but can be broken the easiest. If you know what you're doing, it can be quite easy, especially considering its open world and you can get powerful before fighting any big bosses. For me, I consider Sekiro the hardest, especially if your a big souls player, as you kinda have to forget and relearn a lot of mechanics. Also, I feel that a few Elden Ring bosses are only hard because of a few broken attacks (ie: Malenia and her waterfoul dance and clone rush attacks) meanwhile with Sekiro they were difficult due to actually being mechanically challenging
I mean malenia isnt hard just for waterfall, id argue most er bosses are more mechanically complex and challenging than sekiro bosses, since you have the stamina management coupled with normal dodges, jump dodges, dodges to certain directions to avoid damage, dodging by running away, manipulating boss attacks( stuff like maliketh doing certain attacks depending if you dodge away from him or to him), theres just a lot more to it while sekiro is a lot more streamlined asking you to do less things but more precisely.
Eh... waterfoul can be dealt with by properly dodging it. Like that video does. It's entirely consistent if you pick it up. And I beat her without really learning it. I don't see how it's 'broken'.
I dunno if i would call Sekiro the hardest, but it's definetively the fairest - to the player, but also to the bosses. Both sides have a rather minimal amount of Ridiculous Unfair Bullshit.
(There is still some, like firecracker or Mortal Draw spam, but it's more the exception than anything).
Elden Ring meanwhile, it's the total opposite, both the player and the bosses have boatloads of Ridiculous Unfair Bullshit - how difficult the game is amounts to how willing you are to use it.
@@Broken-bj8ly "Elden Ring meanwhile, it's the total opposite, both the player and the bosses have boatloads of Ridiculous Unfair Bullshit - how difficult the game is amounts to how willing you are to use it." Basically perfectly describes Elden Ring's balance. If you don't embrace the potential power creep with all of the games mechanics, you will end up STRUGGLING in the latter half of the game. Embrace it? And you could end up with a very easy game.
Malenias waterfoul attack isnt bullshit, its old school secret boss super attack, its powerfull and you must always be aware of it, but its consistent and can be dealt with. Personally i used a shield to tank the first hit then i dodged the rest, i didnt have to look online for it.
10:47 lmaooo I wheezed, legit my face the first time that happened
Nice One man I love it Waiting For New DLC :D
They could have taken out Water Foul and I genuinely think she’d be my favorite souls boss. But the way it forces you to play a very specific play style to even avoid Water Foul easily puts this fight at a B for me
Legit laughed out loud at the 19:40 squeak, like it’s the first time I’ve heard it 😂
You should have just used Raptor Talons on Malenia, dude, you can pretty much perma stun and bleed her until you run out of stamina. You would have still died from time to time to Bullshit Dance, but otherwise you would have beaten the shit out of her.
Without that bs move (and maybe with some damage nerf) she would be a good, fair fight. The lifesteal is not the problem.
I got much angrier fighting Maliketh, Hoarah Loux and Radagon. Those were some aoe spamming, aggresive grabbing spider-man c**ksuckers.
I enjoyed the video btw, cheers :)
0:14 this belongs in the Louvre Museum
Me never playing a single souls game except for ER I would say the hardest boss would be Malenia followed by the crucible knight
Elden Ring was the easiest. Leveling to be OP was too easy, and spirit ashes can basically beat the game for u
My build is entierly built around hard hiting slashes from my dark greatmoon sword and I have 0 vigor melania is going to be pain
"I'm giving you all of your health back. can you let me get mine ?" 😂😂
Well..
You kind of predicted the Miquella thing- 25:34
It's not even in the running for the hardest. The hardest boss is malenia and I beat her in the second try.
ur a hidden gem of a youtuber
Problem with ER is that it has the most op weapons + summon. With right preparation every boss is easy. Unlike the old titles where overleveling is the key to easy boss run (At least for the most part), in ER you just need weapons.
For me Sekiro is the most balanced, and Bloodborne dlc is hardest especially on NG+ runs.
Demon of Hatred should be somewhere on this list as well.
Frost pots just on top agienst melania u just throw a single pot at her when she jumps up and it cancels the waterflow dance xD
This is the 4th time to watch your videos. You are legendary funny
I’ve nigh mastered Malenia’s moveset, all EXCEPT the Waterfowl Dance. If I’m already far enough, I can dodge it no problem.
But if she uses it pointblank, it’s nearly a guaranteed death. And even if you don’t die, it’ll cost you 2~3 flasks just to recover it all.
I know it’s possible to dodge it pointblank, but it’s very hard. And obviously, you can mitigate the move by using Bloodhound step, but I don’t use that sort of thing.
It’s such a bs move that just kills off the entire run if you’re in the wrong position at the wrong time due to its RNG. I don’t know who let bro cook with that move in FS.
Bro struggled against the easiest end game boss (Godfrey) more than one of the most erratic.
The easiest end game boss is placidusax in my opinion
@@lordofcinder8884 oh he smoked me, the way he was so stationary threw me off.
The first time i went up against her i beat her on 7th try.
Ng+1 took me fucking 11 hours (2x2hour break time) cause im doing a no spirit ashes run.
Everything else have been a walk in the park.
Im not even mad.
i think i wiped melania naked with a freeze dagger and bandit curved sword with bloody slash at around level 112
There's a couple crouch attacks and jump attack opportunities people don't know you can do in ER, creating much, much more openings than there was in other souls gamea, like horizontal slashes from her can be crouch poked or jumped, stabs can be crouch poked and jumped, overhead atacks can be strafed or dodge attacked, some riskier than others, but if you find these openings pretty much all bosses get stance broken pretty quickly. It is what people mean when they say be aggressive. Or just make an endure tank and trade her, she has both low poise and relatively mid stance hp, though some attacks have hyperarmor. Still need to run away from her water fowl, though unless you freeze pot her out of it.
It's just extremely unclear and the game doesn't tell you about partial i-frames at all either.
My biggest gripe is radagon + beast to this day though, because you have to outright reset like 90% of the builds you played up to that point because of their sheer resistances, only strike damage is good for both so you have to either have to incorporate strike/fire for radagon then physical for beast or hope you have their movesets down to a tea to outlast them, which, for me, after maybe 50 playthroughs, i still to this day can't do with most builds as i mostly play casters and they all tend to run out of fp before the end. Just beast himself requires about 700 fp to take down, and that's if you don't miss, which is frankly only doable with like 2 or 3 spells ruining the whole "play your way" thing lol. It forces you to have super high mind and int/fth/arc but then you're not super tanky meaning your like 6 Crimson tears will be running out quickly. At least Malenia is consistently beatable with pretty much every build i made so far.
i really wanna be like you when i grow up
“Turns out his bf is a little harder”
Whether intended or not, it makes me spit my water out laughing lol and now I’m subbing 😂
I beat her in the first 10 attempts modded weapons are cool when it’s a scythe that has teleport rolls and staggers and bleeds
Souls fans don't use every instance of someone expressing difficulty with a boss as an opportunity to say how easy you thought the game was challenge: insurmountable difficulty
Yeah, it is if you play without summons (although all the games but Sekiro have some degree of summoning). The late-game bosses are scaled higher and have more punishing and varied move-sets than any other game beside late-game Sekiro (especially when you compare main-game bosses, Elden Ring's DLC isn't out yet and that's always is the hardest content of each game). Accounting for all mechanics, Sekiro is the hardest because it has no RPG systems. The hardest content to complete overall is the gauntlets in Sekiro and the defiled chalice in Bloodborne (imo, Bloodborne maintains its' difficulty moreso than the other games because of the damage modifier for missed dodges and how many one and two-shots are in the game).
After playing dark souls and blood borne I would say Elden Ring bosses are harder but the player character we have in Elden ring is way more powerful than in the other games
I don't think anybody was debating this.
I just blasphemous bladed and mimic teared everything. Easy. Before that, mooveil and blacknife t summon.
Only hard if you make it hard mate.
You cheated yourself, congratulations.
I'm.confused, I really don't think Elden Ring is harder than Sekiro or Bloodborne, even Lies of P is way harder....
Isshin the Glock saint is by far the toughest fight in any fromsoft game that doesnt have mechs, malenia is plenty fair, it just checks players who dont have a proper build
You can cheese kindred by ball hugging him and dodging like crazy