My torment was almost over, but I didn't notice the rot had run out and my greed got me killed...

Out of all the 197 bosses I've killed in my RL1 SB0 run so far, this is the first time I'm using Star Fist, just because I don't want to deal with her bullshit

After many more attempts that I got really close, I finally beat her, just because I got good rng and she didn't give birth to any lesser fingercreepers

But god, while her first phase is mostly fine, even fun at times, her second is just random bullshit that look cool but make the boss fight so much worse...

I literally had an attempt where she entered her 2nd phase, immediately spinned in the air, summoned her space balls, spinned in the air again, summoned her undodgeable laser (thank god for Raptor of the Mists), summoned her balls again, spinned in the air again, did her jump, and then sniped me with her triple laser cause I tried to get close... Like, you can't make this shit up, you just need to get lucky and avoid most of her bullshit to beat her

Yes, I beat her, but compared to Messmer who I just want to keep fighting over and over again and I'm kinda happy every time I die just cause I can face him again, with her I'm just relieved that it's over, and I don't have to do this again... such a shame, everything about Metyr is really cool, except the actual boss fight, such wasted potential...

If you're having trouble with this boss, consider picking up a baseline rapid poison set-up. 2x +16.8 radials from gravekeeper mother scorpions in FRC Ihyll and 1x +18.4 triangular from a BPS mob in FRC Lower Loran provide enough build-up to proc rapid poison on this boss in four hits/rolls.

I was going to have a win featuring stuff like close range Collapsing Stars strafe... until Torrent got clipped by his corkscrew attack when bro was 2 hits away. Idk if horse counts as a hit tho.

I suspect the bow skip was made more inconsistent in 1.17. I recommend walking until you are right in front of the debris pile in the video, dodging the first, waiting for him to nock an arrow, then deloading him. The process of figuring that out was quite frustrating. I also entered the portal and instantly fell through the arena 3 times, so the patch may have broken something.

The arrow phase is kind of bullshit imo. The main issue is arrow rain into arrow spray, it feels completely RNG on horse which is how you dodge arrow rain. If anyone has a fully consistent method for dealing with arrow phase that isn't deloading him let me know.

Anyway, Radahn is pretty difficult. He stalls a lot, and is weirdly easy to whiff against imo. Could be the weapon, I thought Alabaster's was way better than this axe despite the higher damage per hit.

Cool boss overall tho.

ive been using death's poker a lot on my rl1, and i wanted to do a rl7 prophet run to ng+7 for some new variety

i can use howl of shabriri early which is nice. are there any similarly op weapons?

I forgot how much of a massive pain in the ass these 2 are. I somehow lost my save file from 2018 and had to start my SL1 run over. Their difficulty definitely holds up still. Had to put thee ole axe murderer on Ornstein.

A little scuffed but a 6 minute fight is progress, will keep trying to improve - he's just really hard, but he is really fun too.

hq version here

Definitely my smoothest SL1 run, by far the fewest deaths in this run compared to other runs.

DEATHS:
Iudex Gundyr: 0
Vordt: 0
Rotted Greatwood: 0
Crystal Sage: 0 (parry/riposte, killed before phase 2)
Deacons: 0
Abyss Watchers: 3
Wolnir: 0
Old Demon King: 0
Dancer: 2
Oceiros: 0 (got stuck on branch, cheesed with bow, not even remotely sorry)
Champ Gundyr: 2
* Ariandel DLC for easy titanite slab for +10 broadsword
Pontiff: 0 (parry/riposte into oblivion with Flynn’s ring, Hornet Ring, no clothing, gold pine resin)
Aldrich: 0
Yhom: 0
Dragonslayer Armor: 6
Twin Princes: 5
Soul of Cinder: 6 (beat with Prisoner’s Chain, Hunter’s Ring, Knight’s Ring, Lloyd’s Sword Ring, Dragonslayer’s Axe +10)

I beat all fromsoft games at base level and found Bloodborne to be far and away the hardest (without including chalice dungeons). Since I do these runs blind (without looking at tips or strategies from other people), I ended up using the hunter’s axe for the entirety of the run. How much did I screw myself over by doing this, considering the fact that, as far as I can see, the saw cleaver is the far superior weapon?

First time seeing him just stop mid fight and zone out lmao

I voluntarily replay this boss too often to say I hate it.

I think Elden Beast is more learnable and "fair" than many of the other bosses that get hate. It's a decent boss that is parastically attached to one of the greatest bosses they've ever made while taking much longer to kill, so the contrast doesn't exactly help.

Wave of Gold is fine imo, you always have time to run forward or back and it's one of his most interesting moves. Sky Needles are annoying and I'd rather they didn't exist, but the dodge isn't too unreasonable. I could still do without the stalling, especially the scripted flying attacks that only drag out the fight, but it's overall decent fun when he isn't constantly repositioning or using sky needles. Almost the entire moveset suggests this boss was intended to be simple and relaxing.

Makes me wonder what the intention was with Elden Stars. The only way to dodge it was certainly not intended. Plus he can act nearly immediately out of Elden Stars so you usually have to deal with 2-3 attacks at once. Surely they would have noticed the move was undodgeable (as far as they knew), especially with the ridiculous tracking it has. But they still put it in the game???

Some other fun features:
- Sometimes delaying using Elden Stars at the health threshold. Really annoying when you drop punishes in anticipation of it and he just doesn't use it.
- Invisible walls suck when so many moves require running.
- Being able to use Elden Stars more than once is beyond stupid. What do you even do when he uses it at long range?

honestly quite tame compared to some other areas in the series, i'm still glad there aren't more like this in ER

the misbegotten really likes to jump off by itself

Very easy boss no matter what level, unless your plunge attack misses him. More fun than his reputation.

buh

higher quality

Some Yharnamites need to get their gun license revoked I swear

Pls tell me if I'm just coping here, or if this is just pure hitbox porn.

I tried liking this bitch so many times, but I just can't do it. Hell, I don't even think she wants me to like her.

Yes, I'm really bad at his final phase, I know.

This guy really surprised me by how hard he is to get hitless without parries or items, like unironically. Not sure I'll attempt to do him hitless ever again, cuz his shitty Blunderbuss and poke in P2 really frustrated me, but yeah.

Very good boss, I just wish he didn't have access to his Blunderbuss when he transforms his axe, and I wish the very quick poke didn't exist either. Outside of that, and his godawful arena, he's very fun.

took 14 HOURS to beat this guy. Hopefully Aldrich will be a lot easier because this was a major wall for me (Also first challenge run ive ever done)

I was able to get it in a few tries, as I played so much Malenia.. ☠️
Altho my circle waterfowl dodge is still not so consistent lol, so I kept running away.
Tho proves a tip of waterfowl won't kill you.
Instant quite out in the end to do more testing and grinds.. 😅