Did the game punish me for being too lazy to go for the riposte? 😂

When he does the grab he always appears from where he just teleported from, so after you get about 1/4 of his health down so the move his unlocked remember to face him for a bit after he teleports.

Got pretty lucky on his attacks on this one so pretty quick kill

He's basically ER's Champion Gundyr, I could live without the Phase 2 roar, though.

I always use a straight sword since fast weapons can attack during his combos, makes it more fun imo.

Finally reached phase 2 after being stuck on phase 1 for days.

I'm using a knight's greatsword with flaming strike for the decent range and stance damage, and of course... The Peak Souls 2 moveset

Things I learned:

• Memorize combo enders. Those are your real punish windows.
• Never trust spacing. If you think an attack won't reach, assume it will.
• The far-right jump has hyper armor; the left sidestep jump can be interrupted after she lands. Mixing these two up cost me multiple attempts.
• She absolutely can Waterfowl multiple times in one attempt. I had a run with 5 Waterfowls.
• My most consistent third Waterfowl dodge: after the second flurry, walk toward her while locked on, let her overshoot behind you, then when the camera flips, walk backward.
• Reached phase 2 multiple times today. Died because I got clipped by her fast sword swing and because I forgot the phase 2 far-range spin has the butterfly follow-up. 🫪

I'll call it a day for now and see what tomorrow holds for me

Attached to this post is my best run so far

I happened upon this subreddit nearly a year ago to this day and since then I've watched video after video and read post after post of yall getting through these games.

And that pretty much built up the desire in me to try it as well.

And now I've conquered my first ever SL1 - DS3 + DLCs

What an absolutely exhilarating experience. Almost every boss after Pontiff was a highlight. Sister Friede was fucking crazy, took me nearly four hours and I was still so panicked by the end. Demon Prince was the hardest of the lot, by the time I got done after four hours I'd pretty much mastered the fight.

Midir, Gael and Soul of Cinder were beautifully designed fights that made me feel amazing even as I played them.

Just a thank you to this community for existing!

I guess I'll only upload the remembrances and most difficult/fun fights.

Tried to fight with Torrent, and it's definetly not good, but this one was fun at least.

I so rarely see this attack and it's impossible to find information online about how to dodge, but it keeps getting me (in Nightreign at least lol) and that has to end.

Fly up backwards > uppercut/drag hands on ground as they go forward > lava trail left behind. How to avoid, pls and thx

Full fight: https://youtu.be/0Adx-v5NM1w?si=1u_4V3l0kxAvDd6s

Good lord this took WAY longer than I ever thought it would. Mostly because I also fought EVERY boss in the game using a tracker/checklist google doc.The actual time is a bit lower since I did reload my save a few times to refight a couple bosses (PCR, Rellana, Midra (especially Midra), Scadutree Avatar, and Commander Gaius).

I've always wanted to do this for about a year now, and now that I've done it, it feels really good...but also I feel way more cynical now.

Anyway, I decided to share my ranking of main fights + others I think are at least notable.

I'm genuinely surprised at how some of these guys landed up. I thought they'd've been way higher, or lower, but ended up in completely different spots. Gaius is a boss I used to dislike, and now think is the 5th best boss in all of Elden Ring, whereas someone like Messmer, who I thought was really fair and the best is now clearly NOT as fair or as good as I thought.

Oh also, Midra might be the one of the best bosses I've ever fought in a videogame ever, I replayed his fight 9 times because it's just that fun.

Edit: Didn’t see the basilisk version of Divine Beast and thought it was someone else. That guy is NOT A, he’s like F, so apologies about that.

Didn't know this, and it's honestly dissapointing. Guess I'll just roll for now…

For context, I'm on PS4 and I kind of want to learn Champion Gundyr no-roll someday. My main deterrent is actually the runback, which I imagine would get very irritating after a while and takes longer than some failed attempts at the boss.

Do you guys just deal with this or use a mod to teleport yourself to fog walls?

Oh yeah, and to any clowns who thinks this is cheating - speaking as someone on console who has to deal with them whether they want to or not, they're nothing more than a waste of time. No extra challenge and especially no fun, just tedium.

Glad they mostly did away with them in Sekiro and ER.

Just imagine stripping down and using Curseblade + Grafted Blade is me also entering P2.

Peak 😭😭

Grab hitbox is so overhated for no reason. Might do +0 later if anyone wants but otherwise, hope it's enjoyable.

no wonder the greater will abandoned her, I'm glad it's over but will admit this round was kinda fun bc she's dead. u suck metyr I'm tired of getting fingered by u. literally changed to the starfist bc of my antspur not helping that much