ELDEN RING - Rune Level 1 NG+7 - ALL BOSSES, MELEE ONLY, NO DAMAGE
31BOSS TIMESTAMPS DOWN BELOW.
All Remembrances and required optional bosses in Elden Ring at the highest difficulty and lowest level. No summons, no spells, no parrying.
The hardest challenge Ive ever completed in any FROMSOFT game.
Apart from the required damage on Mohgs NIHIL attack, all fights are done without taking a single hit.
Apart from Malenia and Niall where throwing knives see some use, all fights are done melee only.
BOSS LIST:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Grafted Scion
1:28 - Margit, the Fell Omen
2:45 - Godrick the Grafted
4:22 - Royal Knight Loretta
6:32 - Starscourge Radahn
8:38 - Regal Ancestor Spirit
11:13 - Astel, Naturalborn of the Void
15:07 - Red Wolf of Radagon
16:04 - Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon
18:53 - Magma Wyrm Makar
20:17 - Draconic Tree Sentinel
22:02 - God-Devouring Serpent
23:15 - Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy
25:01 - Godfrey, First Elden Lord (Golden Phantom)
27:19 - Morgott, the Omen King
29:10 - Fia's Champions
32:37 - Lichdragon Fortissax
36:15 - Commander Niall
39:14 - Loretta Knight of the Haligtree
41:33 - Malenia, Blade of Miquella
44:09 - Malenia, Goddess of Rot
47:48 - Mohg, Lord of Blood
51:28 - Fire Giant
54:07 - Godskin Duo
56:57 - Dragonlord Placidusax
1:02:30 - Beast Clergyman
1:03:07 - Maliketh, the Black Blade
1:05:00 - Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing
1:07:32 - Godfrey, First Elden Lord
1:08:37 - Hoarah Loux, Warrior
1:09:54 - Radagon of the Golden Order
1:12:13 - Elden Beast
1:17:07 - Remembrances, ending
Top 5 hardest fights:
1 - Radagon / Elden Beast
2 - Malenia Blade of Miquella
3 - Dragonlord Placidusax
4 - Mohg Lord of Blood
5 - Maliketh the Black Blade
The run in total took 131 hours
Base NG took around 35 hours
And finally NG+7 took around 40 hours.
This challenge runs purpose isnt to roll over each boss as easily as possible. Speed kills on level 1 are of course possible and you can melt the hardest foes in under a minute with the right setups and buffs. That to me defeats the purpose of a run like this. The point to me is to learn each bosses moveset as best as I can. I definitely didnt master all the bosses to the point that they would be easy - more like that I can beat them consistently.
Saying this, Im completely aware of the contradiction when looking at Radahn and Morgott for example. Both die under 2 minutes due to excessive bleed damage. Radahn especially simply isnt fun to fight under normal circumstances. His fight is a prime example of a great concept that doesnt exactly work in 1v1 gameplay. I wish it did and I wish it wasnt a pain in the ass to try it without bleed or other fast damaging weaponry, but that isnt the case.
The recording process for this video was a pretty big nightmare but hopefully this upload works completely. Recording wasnt exactly easy since the games technical state is a mess. The first upload was bugged so Im hoping this version of the video is a cleaner one.
The challenge itself is very approachable on NG but the further you go of course the harder it gets, not only in terms of health but poise values and stagger timings. Due to this fact you need to learn many bosses all over again on higher NG+ cycles even if you mastered them on previous ones. Hoarah Loux and Radagon especially were always tricky because their second phases get insanely tight with dodge timings and you can no longer rely on staggering.
In fact, Id say the strategy I have against Radagon is some of the best damage you can do against him, on base NG he practically melts under the power of the frost hammer.
The challenge after NG falls off quite hard but picks up very fast around NG+4 or so.
The boss design itself is either amazing or middling, I dont really have a fight that I outright despise in this run, unlike every other game ever made by FROMSOFT. There is one that I blatantly chose not to include because I consider it one of the worst fights FROMSOFT has ever done - the Twin Gargoyles. I could write a whole essay on just how bad that fight truly is but thankfully the game has other paths so you can reach the other remembrances. Doing this challenge made me truly appreciate the boss design that I previously disliked, doing something like this shows just how tightly designed some fights like Maliketh are - and it does in fact feel absolutely ecstatic to dodge all of his moves perfectly.
Elden Ring was already becoming one of my all time favorite games but after this run its solidified, boiling the game down to its absolute basics makes me appreciate it that much more.
Oh, and yes, I was using a +24 weapon on Radagon & Elden Beast the entire time. This is what a small-ish mental breakdown and slight tilting does to a gamer after 10 hours of attempts. Truth be told I didnt even notice it, only after I killed them I realized my mistake and slapped my forehead COMICALLY hard.
Feel free to ask me anything in the comments.
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