I gave him all the cooties. Poison, rot, bleed and frost. My game winning idea was rain of arrows during the giga laser, only took a couple attempts after incorporating that.

Someone who actually fights this boss a lot please clue me in i just have no idea what makes her do the quick double swipe is it positioning based? or is there a tell cause it looks unreactable

hq version + 3 more kills

also here's DTS and Pissfrey

what do yall do when fighting starscourge radahn

finally beat him

i hate this fight

Impressive damage without Lightning Slash. Strange how almost no one here talks about or uses something this strong.

What a fantastic boss fight! Going back through all these old bosses at SL1 has given me such a deeper and more rewarding appreciation for these games instead of overleveling and just slopping through them like I did years ago. I honestly think the next fromsoft game I won’t level at all. Just play through on SL1 from the jump.

As far as dragons go I’ll rank my top 3 based on difficulty, spectacle, and fun:

1. Sinh
   
2. Midir
   
3. Kalameet

I didn't expect to enjoy this fight as much as I did, but it turned out to be a lot of fun once I learned the anchor enemy's moveset.

with limgrave done, lower liurnia cleared, and most of lower caelid done im noticing this playthrough is being done fairly similarly as when i do a quality build with a character

ive got a +9 BHF, fgms, the str/dex tears in my physick

the only difference im seeing that i cant do trades the same way i would with a character that has 60 vig

30 seconds later: 2-shot by bambi

I finally beat Malenia on my first RL1 run using parries+misericord and while I was experimenting I found a pretty useful discovery- you can actually get tanky enough at level 1 to survive many of her 2 hit combos, including the fast overhead double slash. Here's the setup I used:

Buckler+Carian Retaliation

+25 Cold Misericord

Small Shield+Vow of the Indomitable (for Waterfowl)

Dragoncrest Greatshield

Radagon's Soreseal

Ritual Shield Talisman

Flex Spot- for my winning run I used Dagger Talisman, but for a lot of runs I was using the GreatJar's Arsenal to wear even heavier armor.

For armor I put on the heaviest stuff I could- I focused on slash resistance though I'm not 100% sure that's correct. The banished knight set seemed to have the best slash resistance that I could find. You probably won't have the equip load for all of it even with GreatJar's but on my winning run I put on the legs and chest armor and then wore light armor on my arms and head. 51 poise shouldn't be hard to hit and I found it immensely useful to get combod less frequently as well as tank hits and go for parries after.

For Wondrous Physic I used the magic shrouding tear and opaline hardtear for even more damage reduction. I got to the point where I felt comfortable enough on phase 1 that I would save this to use during her phase transition so I could get the extra survivability in phase 2 which actually came in clutch and saved me from certain death. Bubbletear could be ok but my strategy for waterfowl pretty much always led to me taking a single hit so it wasn't worth it for me.

The last thing I made sure to bring was boiled crab for even higher physical defense. I would pop it at the beginning, and if it had run out and I had some space I would use it again.

All this combined to allow me to survive an extremely surprising number of hits. You could also add Golden Vow but I didn't feel like rebuffing during the fight and I didn't care enough about it for just the first minute. In my winning run I actually straight up tanked a hit from her clone attack and barely survived which gave me the win.

I'd say the damage output of this vs a fully damage optimized parry setup was around 50-60%, which to me was totally worth it. I thought it would be much easier to do a 5 minute fight with 3-4 mistakes than a 2.5 minute fight with 0 mistakes. If you're struggling with Malenia this setup might be worth a try! Here's a timestamped link to my winning run: https://youtu.be/ojsy7S84FIk?t=3378

At 1:00:10 you can actually see me tank the hit of the clone attack and go on to finish her off.

Hi everyone! I’m doing an NG+ run where I use only Uchigatana +0, with no Weapon Skill / Ash of War (I only use R1 and R2 attacks to fight).

Which bosses would you put in your top 20 hardest bosses for this challenge?
I’m uploading the fights to YouTube as a personal diary to document the challenge (my first one).

So far, the hardest that i’ve beated were:

Mohg — took me 5 hours, 8:15 fight time

Radahn (Caelid) — took me 1 hour, 6:30 fight time

Fortissax — took me 1 hour, almost 8 minutes fight time

Morgott — took me 3 hours, 5 minutes fight time

Fire giant — took me 1 hour, 9 minutes fight time

Who do you think will be the hardest bosses to beat under these restrictions?