I recommend levelling up the spear, use the flame drake talisman and then go as close to him as possible to his belly. He wont hit you there as much and you can easily take his first phase out. In his second phase, use mimic tear ashes. You clone will have the spear ability aswell. Don't bother spamming L2 ability, just use it once or twice when under his belly, then hit him with light attacks and repeat. You can kill him within 20-30 seconds like that. Just dont be scared of the lava around him, the damage it does is basically nothing with the flame drake talisman. I was kinda surprised how easy it was using this method.
@@funtimewithhuskyman5601 you should use a armor that’s a bit more tanky, then spam dodge or practise to dodge his jump attack. If you leveled the spear enough he won’t have enough time to make more than one jump.
Use the flame drake talisman. It makes the lava so much more tolerable. You can just kind of summon some ashes and just walk next to the snake and kill it. (Phase 1)
With mimic tears and using the talisman+1 my summon pretty much competed the first phase by itself with minimal damage. First time using the talisman I beat both phases.
Same here. Lost my mind after seeing that there is a phase 2 after 10-15 attempts. I could never dodge his ground attack- I just kept getting hit and replenishing my health with flasks and then the Serpant Sword was a game changer- finished him in 2 tries.
REAL TIP HERE: equip a shield that you can use so you can shield poke whit the spear this way you have an infinite amount of fast light atacks whitout the 3 hit chain the spear alone have, and at the same time you can eat a hit for free does the same damage faster, break is stance and get you protected in the worst case.
I know I'm a few months late to the party but I was finally able to beat him after I watched your video. I didn't really appreciate how little damage my magic and other attacks were doing until I started to really lean into using the serpent spear. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I had no idea that the L2 attack with that weapon could be so effective. After 2 days of smashing my head against the wall, I was able to get him down after watching your video in about 6 attempts.
I used my greatsword and man was it miserable to go against this boss, the damage was really bad and it was really hard to hit him in 2nd phase. When I realized you had to use the spear I got him the 1st try.
Ngl he kinda ugly but that’s probably how the devs intended Rykard to be and the fact Tanith tries to eat his brain afterwards (if you rest and go back to the arena)
To cheese him get the spear, leave room, level it up to at least plus 4, and summon mimic tear with it with mimic at least level 4, let the mimic keep aggro and you spam the aow and fight will be over fast, obviously if you level spear and mimic even higher the fight is exponentially faster
@@GamingPIPI if i remember correctly i would usually hold it until your character finishes the move but i think you can just press it and still get the follow up
@@qvin7enit's very dodgeable. i was trying to kill rykard while tanking lava, the damage was very low (i wasn't using spear) but the serpent did nothing except for running away, standing still and spinning. sometimes i didn't even use roll or jump and his spin still didn't hit me
Small tip: serpent hunt has a continuation of the attack just immediately press the weapon art button after the first press it does way higher damage but takes a ton of fp
All you have to do is put on your heaviest armor, for me it was the bull-goat armor, and put on the flamedrake talisman. Allocate all your pots to health and just run up to him and stay right next to him while spamming light attack. Idk if this will work for everybody as my build already had a lot of endurance and strength.
Use the ashes of tiche and sit under his stomach and spamm right bumper and when he spins to whip his tail run away also use the flamedrake talisman+2 or just use a furcalling finger and summon people to help you before entering the boss arena because you can all use the same spear and the same spear snake ability
I struggled with him for a bit. Even after leveling up some. I did not know about, nor did I know I had a mimic tear. I used that, and heavy charged slashes that does more damage than the FP slash move. Mimic survived half of the second round, and I was able to stun rykard after two hits and finally was able to finish him off
God bless these comments. Late to the party here, but with the Serpent-Hunter +6, Flamedrake Talisman +2, Vig 46, Str 38, Dex 19 I was able to stand next to him in both phases and just hack him to bits. Took about 30 seconds to do both phases.
+9 the spear first Use mimic tear and make sure it survives first fase then keep spamming attacks while it keeps the agro on second fase When it dies you will be almost done with fight, 15 hits and you won
I got really mad for the first 4-5 attempts, trying to kill the snake with stormblade ... than I switched to my claw-weapons and went straight ahead to the belly ... with flame drake talisman definitely very easy than - especially with a lot of bleeding build up. Rykard is another thing though. Mimi tear seems extraordinary useful there.
For anyone struggling with it I just had a lot of health and kept myself stuck to him He rarely hit me but you just gotta roll sometimes(I didn't use the spear bc I didn't know it would do that )
I smithed up the spear and stood back, the special attack is insane only in the boss arena, huge sweeping wind spear thing took him out in less than a minute. I didn’t stand in lava once and Mimic +10 died quickly. My usual tricks had me trying this boss a dozen times before using the spear.
Damn. Just came across this video when I was doing this well yeah I didn’t bother to check the spear out thinking it will have requirements so I just tanked through both phases with managed to get a hang it and surprisingly even tho it wasn’t my first try I’ve completed both phases in under 6min. It’s still one of my biggest achievements to this date Lmao.
FML i went rune farming to level up my astrologer stats and just brute forced the gravity rocks at him. I didnt know astrologer can use big swords like that.
I will give a good tip: High strength and dexterity and the first phase defeat this yourself and the moment u defeat him summon mimic tear and heal quickly and then it's basically cheating because you're conflicting very much damage and he'll die quickly might take maximum 2 tries Edit: the serpent slayer is close to perfect weapon to be using against him
The trick is, is not to spam the weapons Ash of War skill. Wait a moment or two between each use until Rykard resets to an upright position. While this boss is knocked off balance from this weapons L2 damage, it is immune to being staggered from L2 damage. If you can time it so the L2 hits just as it is reset and about to attack, it should only take 3 hits to stagger it.
@@ringsofjade I grabbed the Serpent Spear, upgraded it twice. Went back, let my pet get agro (Mimic Tear works good if you have it. I equipped myself with a 2H sword with Lightning, then swapped to the Serpent Sword after I spawned my Mimic Tear). Then stood just ahead of where I picked the Serpent Spear up, quite aways away from Rykard. Then just timed the Serpent Spear's special attack, so I was casting it just as he is recovering from the previous attack which stuns him. You cannot spam the special attack, one has to pause a bit until he has recovered from the previous beam special attack. He pretty much telegraphs when he's about to lunge at you, so quickly strafe right or left. Once he makes a lunge at you he cannot correct if you move quickly right or left.
First Phase is pretty easy I did it without getting hit you should you your mimic tear ashes at the start of the second phase and he will pay no attention to you so itll make the second phase really easy as well
Can I just say. This is probably my favorite fight so far(I haven't beaten the game yet). The whole concept of the fight is amazing. Using a spear designed to kill snakes against a serpent God who wants to eat the other gods. The execution of the fight is amazing. I actually feel evenly matched against him with the spear. Rykard may not be the final boss, but it sure as hell feels like it. I love this fight.
I beat him by equipping heavy armor (until u fat roll) tem got very close to him, heavy weight makes u get stunned less so u just stand in lava spamming the ash of war in both phases, pretty ez way If u can't kill him normally.😂
I recommend levelling up the spear, use the flame drake talisman and then go as close to him as possible to his belly. He wont hit you there as much and you can easily take his first phase out. In his second phase, use mimic tear ashes. You clone will have the spear ability aswell. Don't bother spamming L2 ability, just use it once or twice when under his belly, then hit him with light attacks and repeat. You can kill him within 20-30 seconds like that. Just dont be scared of the lava around him, the damage it does is basically nothing with the flame drake talisman. I was kinda surprised how easy it was using this method.
Thank you so much I was stuck on this boss for like 2 days now and with this I did it on my 1st attempt
TY
bro thank you so much. i struggled really hard with him but finally did it!
Then he jumps leaving destruction and more lava after hid landing, so this basically kills me every time using this method.
@@funtimewithhuskyman5601 you should use a armor that’s a bit more tanky, then spam dodge or practise to dodge his jump attack. If you leveled the spear enough he won’t have enough time to make more than one jump.
I hate two phase bosses
Me too
"I hate two phase bosses", this one creepy nun from ds3 dlc: 👀
Me three dude! Man when I found out (insert elden ring boss here) I was dying inside!
I hate 2 phase bosses who have a whole other health bar like malenia rykard and the eldin beast
@@speedonfleekdemon7890 elden beast and radagon are easy tho my fight with them was under a minute
Use the flame drake talisman. It makes the lava so much more tolerable. You can just kind of summon some ashes and just walk next to the snake and kill it. (Phase 1)
Same works for Phase 2. I didn't even need the talisman. When he charges keep doing attacks he will stagger.
With mimic tears and using the talisman+1 my summon pretty much competed the first phase by itself with minimal damage. First time using the talisman I beat both phases.
So half of your guide on "how to beat Rykard" is about how to get to him and once you do, "avoid his attacks and hit him with the spear" wow
Yea I like this guys vids but I wanted to know how to dodge the part where snake goes underground and throws lava 2 miles in every direction😂
@@dragon1v u can guard whit any shield and dont take damage
haha what a shitty guide or perhaps non guide.
With the serpent slayer sword this boss is incredibly easy lol
@@Nisowyd what level are u doing this man
Bro I was fighting him without the spear and finally killed him after like 15 tries, when I saw phase 2 I almost deleted the game😂😂
Same here. Lost my mind after seeing that there is a phase 2 after 10-15 attempts. I could never dodge his ground attack- I just kept getting hit and replenishing my health with flasks and then the Serpant Sword was a game changer- finished him in 2 tries.
@@surajpatil8670 I was spamming dragon communication😂😂
REAL TIP HERE:
equip a shield that you can use so you can shield poke whit the spear this way you have an infinite amount of fast light atacks whitout the 3 hit chain the spear alone have, and at the same time you can eat a hit for free
does the same damage faster, break is stance and get you protected in the worst case.
Struggled so much, did this and did it in one go
I know I'm a few months late to the party but I was finally able to beat him after I watched your video. I didn't really appreciate how little damage my magic and other attacks were doing until I started to really lean into using the serpent spear. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I had no idea that the L2 attack with that weapon could be so effective. After 2 days of smashing my head against the wall, I was able to get him down after watching your video in about 6 attempts.
Get this weapon to +10 and snakeman is no more
Gotcha
Damn this actually really helped me, i completely forgot that i could upgrade the spear lol
Thanks
I simply equipped it as only weapon and then summoned mimic tear to wield it for me after which I reequipped my sorcery gear to hit it at range.
+10 is overkill if you’re only using for this boss. I didn’t level it at all
I suggest leveling it up first the spear that is after you die the first time as much as you can to do massive damage
Great video. Entertaining, humorous, and instructive. Also thanks to those who added their advice in the comment section. What a great group of folks!
I used my greatsword and man was it miserable to go against this boss, the damage was really bad and it was really hard to hit him in 2nd phase. When I realized you had to use the spear I got him the 1st try.
same xd
Managed to beat him using ungainly bunga great sword and a mimic tear. Never realised I had to use the serpent hunter spear for this boss!
Idk if anyone knows this, but it’s ability can also do a upwards stab if you press L2 again
The only thing I have a problem with is the head underneath attack, I just can't dodge it.
Video starts @3:18
Shout out to the player that I summoned who helped me beat Rykard. They gave me 99 lords runes and 99 heroes runes after we beat it. Thanks for that.
Ngl he kinda ugly but that’s probably how the devs intended Rykard to be and the fact Tanith tries to eat his brain afterwards (if you rest and go back to the arena)
Great job for using like 80% of the video to explain how to get to the boss your making a guide to defeat, 10/10
Do a vid on the complete exploration of Crumbling Farlum Azura
Thank you so much. I thought that this spear is useless but didn't even think about using it on the boss 😅
the video starts at 4:50 btw
To cheese him get the spear, leave room, level it up to at least plus 4, and summon mimic tear with it with mimic at least level 4, let the mimic keep aggro and you spam the aow and fight will be over fast, obviously if you level spear and mimic even higher the fight is exponentially faster
With the serpent hunter If you hold left trigger again right after the first use, he has a follow up hit that does almost double the damage
got it the 1st try after knowing this, thanks man
Wow!
Hold or press?
@@GamingPIPI if i remember correctly i would usually hold it until your character finishes the move but i think you can just press it and still get the follow up
@@juicy4145 yup i figured it out, this will make the fight MUCH easier!
Anyone with a bleed build just use that and tank the lava
I did that and beat it first try because it can’t really hit you
he does a spin attack that’s undodgeable that close
@@qvin7enit's very dodgeable. i was trying to kill rykard while tanking lava, the damage was very low (i wasn't using spear) but the serpent did nothing except for running away, standing still and spinning. sometimes i didn't even use roll or jump and his spin still didn't hit me
@@hairless33 yeah ik i made this comment on my first playthrough it’s a very easy fight to me now
I first got him down to his 2nd phase died used the serpent spear and upgraded to 8 and destroyed him in 1 try
Small tip: serpent hunt has a continuation of the attack just immediately press the weapon art button after the first press it does way higher damage but takes a ton of fp
How to cheese him: use mimic only in phase two, spam R1 or L2. He will go for your mimic which gives you the opportunity to kill him.
you just explained whats happening there is no tips or tricks disliked
How do you doge the attack where he shoves his head into the ground and destroys it? 😭
you block
That start is amazing
Reminds me of yhorm with the weapon specifically designed to melt him
All you have to do is put on your heaviest armor, for me it was the bull-goat armor, and put on the flamedrake talisman. Allocate all your pots to health and just run up to him and stay right next to him while spamming light attack. Idk if this will work for everybody as my build already had a lot of endurance and strength.
Use the ashes of tiche and sit under his stomach and spamm right bumper and when he spins to whip his tail run away also use the flamedrake talisman+2 or just use a furcalling finger and summon people to help you before entering the boss arena because you can all use the same spear and the same spear snake ability
As always great video..
I struggled with him for a bit. Even after leveling up some. I did not know about, nor did I know I had a mimic tear. I used that, and heavy charged slashes that does more damage than the FP slash move. Mimic survived half of the second round, and I was able to stun rykard after two hits and finally was able to finish him off
Thanks so much man I was really struggling because I never met the ghost and was just using my regular weapon!
God bless these comments. Late to the party here, but with the Serpent-Hunter +6, Flamedrake Talisman +2, Vig 46, Str 38, Dex 19 I was able to stand next to him in both phases and just hack him to bits. Took about 30 seconds to do both phases.
I’m level 88 and beat him 2nd try after realizing I need to use the serpent sword. He’s pretty weak
Thanks brother tarnished,,I beat Rycart with yr advice. Thanks. God bless you🙏
Equip a Flamedrake talisman, then run into the lave, stand right beneath him and keep attacking from there.
Won first try after hearing this
I literally just stood in lava and spammed prayerful strike and killed it in my second go. Didnt even try the spear
+9 the spear first
Use mimic tear and make sure it survives first fase then keep spamming attacks while it keeps the agro on second fase
When it dies you will be almost done with fight, 15 hits and you won
sounds boring
this guy was one of the easiest bosses with a summon, just get a mimic ash and let him tank all the damage
I got really mad for the first 4-5 attempts, trying to kill the snake with stormblade ... than I switched to my claw-weapons and went straight ahead to the belly ... with flame drake talisman definitely very easy than - especially with a lot of bleeding build up. Rykard is another thing though. Mimi tear seems extraordinary useful there.
For anyone struggling with it
I just had a lot of health and kept myself stuck to him
He rarely hit me but you just gotta roll sometimes(I didn't use the spear bc I didn't know it would do that )
If you keep running past the iron maiden and through the magma you can find a neat shortcut
I smithed up the spear and stood back, the special attack is insane only in the boss arena, huge sweeping wind spear thing took him out in less than a minute. I didn’t stand in lava once and Mimic +10 died quickly. My usual tricks had me trying this boss a dozen times before using the spear.
Tried this boss more than 30 times and failed
Got him with first try after seeing this video
Thanks alot
I don't know what I did wrong but patches was already dead an I had his bell an I didn't fight him so he wasn't in the castle
I can’t dodge the flaming skulls at all
If you have bleed build (blood flame) have min 8 healing flash and go near him with a clone an cheese him
Damn. Just came across this video when I was doing this well yeah I didn’t bother to check the spear out thinking it will have requirements so I just tanked through both phases with managed to get a hang it and surprisingly even tho it wasn’t my first try I’ve completed both phases in under 6min. It’s still one of my biggest achievements to this date Lmao.
Thank you for suggesting a non cheese method. I truly think cheating bosses saps the fun and tutorials on YT try to avoid the “git gud” part
Its the second phase that keeps getting me
not throwing that second ash throw is killing me dude…
did this get nerfed? i walked in, spammed the serpent hunter ash of war, boss just stood there, smoked both phases. 1 health and mana flask used
I never even thought of using the blade I just killed him from bleed and my mimic tear
FML i went rune farming to level up my astrologer stats and just brute forced the gravity rocks at him. I didnt know astrologer can use big swords like that.
Rykard made me queasy when i saw phase 2. Gross!
You dont need to do all the manor contracts, just the first one to get the key to the door to get to the boss room
I will give a good tip: High strength and dexterity and the first phase defeat this yourself and the moment u defeat him summon mimic tear and heal quickly and then it's basically cheating because you're conflicting very much damage and he'll die quickly might take maximum 2 tries
Edit: the serpent slayer is close to perfect weapon to be using against him
Thank you so much i leveled up the weapon to plus 9 and i killed him in 2 min
A summon with this spear at with no upgrades makes this boss a breeze
The first 3 minutes are there to optimize the UA-cam ads.
U forgot to mention
If the ash of war has a follow up ;)
I looked at the video and rage quit after dying one more time 😆
What I don’t know is how to dodge that earthquake move when he buries his head in the ground.
Same
Bro just described the fight and yapped
I entered the area before his entrance and It doesnt let me leave
I got so sad when I got to his second phase, died, went back, and everything was reset. I get it, like obviously the boss resets, but I’m sad
I didn’t even try and use the weapon for my first 10 tries- and then when i did it took only one try😅
The trick is, is not to spam the weapons Ash of War skill. Wait a moment or two between each use until Rykard resets to an upright position. While this boss is knocked off balance from this weapons L2 damage, it is immune to being staggered from L2 damage. If you can time it so the L2 hits just as it is reset and about to attack, it should only take 3 hits to stagger it.
The aow takes too long. He always comes in and grabs me everytime I try to do it
@@ringsofjade I grabbed the Serpent Spear, upgraded it twice. Went back, let my pet get agro (Mimic Tear works good if you have it. I equipped myself with a 2H sword with Lightning, then swapped to the Serpent Sword after I spawned my Mimic Tear). Then stood just ahead of where I picked the Serpent Spear up, quite aways away from Rykard. Then just timed the Serpent Spear's special attack, so I was casting it just as he is recovering from the previous attack which stuns him. You cannot spam the special attack, one has to pause a bit until he has recovered from the previous beam special attack. He pretty much telegraphs when he's about to lunge at you, so quickly strafe right or left. Once he makes a lunge at you he cannot correct if you move quickly right or left.
You crack me up bro thank you for that. This game is a trip haha
This fight is stupid easy as soon as you use mimic and the spear and just spam that shift attack or whatever it's bound to, to stunlock him.
First Phase is pretty easy I did it without getting hit you should you your mimic tear ashes at the start of the second phase and he will pay no attention to you so itll make the second phase really easy as well
Actual video starts at 3:15
The only time I've ever wanted to avoid a virgin
i just wanted to join against the gods!
why is there not a join him option!
First phase was easy second phase I'm having a lil trouble grrr
My spear doesn’t have wind that comes out
What I did was just level up the serpent hunter then use mimic tear then just annihilated him
I’m not doing to good mentally after this one boys.
Don't know why you had to cut how many runes you get.
I used mimic and it was stun locked the whole fight
Can I just say. This is probably my favorite fight so far(I haven't beaten the game yet). The whole concept of the fight is amazing. Using a spear designed to kill snakes against a serpent God who wants to eat the other gods. The execution of the fight is amazing. I actually feel evenly matched against him with the spear. Rykard may not be the final boss, but it sure as hell feels like it. I love this fight.
Good comment
1. get mimic tear....2. level it up to 9 or 10....3. beat everyones ass
Take the spear and upgrade it then sit back and spam L2/LT attacks
I beat him by equipping heavy armor (until u fat roll) tem got very close to him, heavy weight makes u get stunned less so u just stand in lava spamming the ash of war in both phases, pretty ez way If u can't kill him normally.😂
I got mad and upgraded this spear to +6 and killed him with normal attack super easy lol😅 rykard didn't even have time to summon his skulls
ty i almost killed him i gave up watched this vid and now ima wait to kill him xD
whoever is struggling to beat rykard should quit the game
🤓-how I imagine you look
sure kumar
Frikken snake was hard enough. No need for this to be a two phase fight. It’s like Miyazaki wants people to lose all day long.
Dude is getting utterly wrecked in this video while talking
Takes a very long time for you to get to the point
the last npc you need to kill easier than rykard bro
so no tips, just have a crazy health bar and use the weapon that is right in front of you when you enter
I kill it with greatsword...forgot about the spear:))) second phase left me with trauma..trying now again...
definetly just use mimic, spam great serpent hunt while hes agrod on ur minion, easiest win of my life
Man this was easy, in the second phase just spam the skill while your mimic just distracts him. Killed him first try
The girl at 7:17 is the best thing about this video lol