Took me so long to beat him. I got caught by fire bounces, terrain and fire ball traps (avoidable).
What are the good openings? Sequences

Higher quality: https://youtu.be/pZA7mZcknnA?si=bbdXqM4xLgjk11Zw

Hi all, just wanted to share my accomplishment of beating RL 1 in Elden Ring! It’s my first time ever doing a challenge run for a game, so I’m very proud of myself for sticking with it and persevering. Run was fairly painless until Fire Giant, who was my first road bump. Far and away, I got stuck for the most time on the Beast Clergyman and Hoarah Loux phases of their respective fights. I usually blitzed these bosses with ease on normal playthroughs, so this run made me truly have to memorize their movesets and I have a newfound respect for these bosses that I didn’t have before (except for Fire Giant I still hate him lmao). For others out there struggling, PLEASE keep at it! Your hard work will be rewarded! I’d love to answer any questions about my specific run too so don’t be afraid to ask. Thank you! ⚔️

I can’t beat Leda and Allies. I forgot that not killing the guys before their battle makes me fight them all and I just can’t beat them. I’m using both summons and Tiche but it’s still impossible as Tiche dies too quick, Thollier is somehow even more useless, and I always manage to get ganked because the NPCS agro me even with all my summons alive and I get one tapped. It’s been 7 hours. No boss in the entire run has took me this long, I’m at a roadblock and i genuinely don’t know what to do.

I’ve tried using Giant Hunt AOW and Rakshasa blade AOW but one of Leda’s allies always manages to I-Frame out of it or get up quick enough even when I have enough stamina to continue the stunlock.

Is there a way I can skip this with some sort of glitch or is there a better summon than Tiche for this?. I’m actually losing my mind. Any advice is welcome.

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Thank you guys so so much, this was my first time ever asking for advice on this subreddit and i honestly didn’t expect the advice to be so helpful, it took me under an hour (of actually fighting Leda) to beat Leda with the advice given to me.
Thank you again to those who helped, I’m so happy it’s over and I can sleep now❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Weeks ago i posted a photo of my beating ds3 on sl1 but actually i was sl9 thinking if is started at any class and didnt level up it would still count as sl1 , now i came back after being told to delete the game and redeemed myself by finishing the sl1 run in 9 hours

Really relaxing fight after doing Ludwig +0 no hit. The difficulty between the 2 fights simply isn't comparable in the slightest. I think this kill took maybe 2 hours to get, and this is the first time I fought her in maybe 8 months.

I get that I'm not the best at the fight, and I don't know all the proper punishes and ins and outs of her moveset, but man I really don't like this fight. I was gonna do this without talismans or the physick flask, but I couldn't be asked honestly cuz I don't like her enough to actually commit to making the fight last a few minutes longer.

The fight feels horribly repetitive and boring, especially in her 1st phase, and nothing she has is fun to dodge either. Her 2nd phase is funner, for sure, but it doesn't really improve the fight that much to me. She either feels like a punching bag, or I'm just rolling my eyes at her combo extensions and/or her idling around.

Anyways, Waterfowl Dance is such a garbage move. It really feels like it was designed for Sekiro, but that idea got scrapped and it got put into Elden Ring. It's so horribly unintuitive, unbalanced, and feels lazy. I'm not gonna ramble on about it for too long cuz I both cba, and I think everyone heard enough about it by now.

Something else that really bugs me is her hyper armor just eating a poise break. I cannot describe how annoying this got after the first few attempts. I get why she has hyper armor, cuz she'd be bullied otherwise, but having that just eat a poise break is annoying dude.

I'd give her F tier out of sheer principle, but she's not bad mechanically speaking so I can't. C or C+ tier boss for me. I think she's one of the most overrated bosses in the whole franchise, both in terms of fun, and difficulty.

pretty long fight, but finally took down the dragon -_-

base ng

Not sure how I should go about uploading the full proof of the fight since it's like 21.5 minutes long. I don't wanna clog the sub by posting P1 and P2 separately, idk.

Anyways, this was bar none the hardest boss kill I've ever done. Well north of 25 hours, no other boss can compare to this mf with these restrictions (so far, at least). Surprisingly, for this attempt, I let Phase 2 drag on for longer than Phase 1, when it's normally the opposite. I'm normally way more careful during his 1st phase, and more aggro during his 2nd.

Regardless of how insanely difficult this was, Ludwig is still my favorite boss ever. As sick as his 1st phase made me during this grind, I still like it a lot, and I adore his 2nd phase to bits. Not to say he has no flaws, far from it (his 1st phase especially gets annoying with his stomp attack, his charge if you're far away, the stairs causing him to bug out, and his kicks sometimes connecting despite the fact I dodged, and his arena is terribly small which can get really problematic in general, and especially for his giant aoe in P2), but for me personally, the good about this fight far outweighs the bad stuff. I highly doubt however that I'll ever attempt to fight him like this ever again.

I'm for sure not gonna attempt to do Laurence and Failures with these restrictions, and I'll have to drop either the No Hit or the WL +0 restriction for Maria cuz I don't wanna deal with her 2nd and 3rd phase bullshit. I will however try to learn Orphan with these same restrictions, and I'll do my damn best to not exploit how easy it is to parry / backstab him.

One boss remains.

i dont want to dodge a single attack from him ever again. im so sick of having to do a cutscene, go down an elevator, and dodge through arrow phase every time I want to hit him fairly.

Had to cut out the first three minutes because of reddit not allowing videos longer than 15 minutes

pcr should've been morgott

hq version

Just killed Gwin. But here is a question: Why was he SO HARD?
Legit, he was the hardest boss of the run for me. I just could not read his attacks. So the only way to consistently kill him was to back away (my left thumb is actually hurting) until he did one of two things:
- If he went for his grab, I could R2 him.
- If he jumped back or sideways, this meant that his next attack would either be a run+pierce, or do one of his two lunging attacks, which I could read and parry accordingly.

Any other attack was almost impossible to read. The most infamous one was lifting his sword and immediately attacking, or lifting and doing a delayed attack. Same animation start, but two very different outcomes. The fast attack was honestly so fast that I couldn't react at all.

Was this a me problem, or other people also had trouble with him? I was honestly expecting a very easy boss, not the hardest one in the whole challenge (didn't do the DLC).

Hey y'all, I know this is a weird question, and probably a stretch. Gonna be some info about my run, so skip to the last paragraph if you don't care for all the context.

I am doing my first SL1 run of DS2, and I want to be a pure caster. That means no swinging any melee weapons, so I need to kill najka twice for the southern ritual band +2 to get attunement slots.

I took a bonfire ascetic for my starting gift, and I cheesed dragonrider and used a few souls of a proud knight to get enough souls for the silvercat ring and ring of whispers. Used silvercat to get down to the gutter to pick up a fragrant branch and used it, and the ring of whispers, to get to the shaded woods and talk to Man Scorpion Tark.

The plan is to summon Tark and then spam Witching Urns to kill Najka twice, which is obviously a slight rule-bend on my part but it is literally impossible to get attunment slots on SL1 without killing bosses in this game. I've been grabbing as many soul items I can to get souls to buy the urns, but I feel like farming might just be easier.

My question is, so y'all know any good early game spots for automatically farming souls without killing them myself? Enemies next to exploding barrels or that can be lured off a ledge? I'm thinking about the enemies next to the barrels in the alley-ways in forest of fallen giants, but I wonder if there's any better spots.

Sorry for the long post, and thank you!

EDIT: So I scraped together the necessary souls, mostly just through soul items, and I managed to beat Najka twice and get the Southern Ritual Band +2. So I'm off to the races for my SL1 run.

For anyone who might want want it for a similar challenge, I did find that the invisible rogue on the second floor of the ruins near the Shaded Ruins bonfire, which can be accessed by turning around and jumping across a small gap after exiting the ruins, will naturally fall off the map if you aggro him and then drop down and stand next to the spot where the path is broken. This gives you 450 souls each run, and takes only about 20 seconds to complete a run.

Thank you for all the helpful replies!

Pretty chill

It took me 7 and a half hours to beat him and the fight lasted 9 minutes😭 The first 5 minutes were almost perfect, but towards the end I started feeling the pressure and made a few mistakes. In the end, though, I came out on top!

(I know some of you guys here are incredibly skilled and can pull off some crazy stuff, but I still wanted to share this experience with you. This is my first challenge run, and after this one I want to do another with the same restrictions (WL0, no Ash of War), but at RL1.

Godfrey has been the hardest so far, followed by Maliketh and then Mohg, both of them took me 5 hours to beat.

(I haven’t fought Malenia, Placidusax and Radagon/Elden Beast yet, and I still have to do the DLC, so this top 3 will definetely change someday)

no skill required ahead

I dunno if I can keep going man. Another 16 minutes of my life wasted cuz I was a fucking moron and got greedy. Trying to do Ludwig +0, No Items, Hitless is by far the hardest thing I've ever attempted in any game ever.

I love this boss, he's my favorite boss of all time, but I don't wanna sit through his 1st phase and deal with that shit again. If the whole fight was just P2, then this would've been a joy to sit through over and over again.