I used scarlet aonia + blasphemous blade. The rot works very well. I also yelled a lot, cursed From Software, wondered why I was inflicting so much pain on myself, and questioned the meaning of life. After 48 tries, I beat him. Mimic was the MVP though. I'm sorry I yelled at my mimic so much "hit him!!! What the f*** are you doing?! Help me!!!"
@@gabzsy4924 i rounded it was 473, i like to slamm my head against walls tho and i dont summon, i think with good build against him + mimic u can get it down under 100.
Dryleaf Arts- "How did you beat Radahn?" "He was tough, but even a god has a hard time taking 200 freezing nut shots. I even grabbed and twisted them."
@@saberkiller4567Even PS5 drops some FPS in this bullshit. Not only it makes the fight look way too overdone and messing up with the learning of the moves, it also simply fucks up with whatever console you're on. This really is one of the worst designed bosses ever
I was using the dry leaf arts but them switched to danes footwork since it does more guard counter damage. i was doing like 3500 damage per guard counter it was insane! Great video, man!
@@jameswtlocs deflect hard tear inside your flask(you get that from the first fournace golem you can encounter), then you 2 hand the weapon and when an enemy attack is about to land, you use L1 to block and then, once you have blocked the attack, you use R2 to do the guard counter
Fingerprint Shield. Poking Weapon of Choice. Bleed Grease. Shield Grease. Shield Talismans, Stamina and Stamina Recovery Talismans. 3 Rot Pots to Radahns Face. Ggs. I honestly don't know how else to beat him, outside of spending countless hours learning frame perfect rolls during a laser light show. Fromsofts idea of difficult bosses has ALWAYS been the same. It's the bosses who NEVER STOP attacking.
You say that, but Malenia isn't like that. And she's the next in line for the title after this fucker. She's slow, staggerable, and hardly attacks until you do until phase 2. She's hard for entirely different reasons. And, honestly, 90% of that is just Waterfowl. So I guess it's one of those two, yeah? Either A) never stops attacking and closes distance like a mofo, or B) this would be perfectly doable if it weren't for that ONE fucking attack!
@@GlamadorYeah I went to her right after Radahn in NG+. Felt so confindet and still died like 30 times to waterfowl move. Well but I wanted to meme her with big mouth imp ash. Which is just hilarious. Every shot from that thing knocks her of the feet. I had same RNG happening where she just ragdolls through the arena in phase 1 without ever pulling out one move
Everyone sleeps on Poleblade of the Bud, it's relatively fast and inflicts Scarlet Rot. Radahn is weaker to piercing weapons so this weapon worked well for me🔥
i was already planning a Thorns/Bleed style build but this boss is the ONLY one in the entirety of the DLC that forced me to respec off my current Death Sorceries witch build, thank you for that lol it worked like a charm, cheers mate
Same!!! This is the only boss in the ENTIRE game, except for Rykard because of his gimmick, that made me HAVE to change from my dragon build. I still haven’t beat him, but I’m only like 30-40 tries in. I’m trying to steer clear of the Fingerprint Shield and poke method, but I’m about to cave to an Impenetrable Thorns bleed build. This will probably be the only boss in the whole Soulsborne series that I beat once and have no interest in fighting again. I LOVE phase 1, but phase 2 is just pure, unbridled chaos!
Honestly can't believe a video with builds to beat Radahn doesn't include this. Just L1 poke to death, completely ignore his entire moveset, he becomes a complete joke.
You can counter act his meteors with Rannis darkmoon if cast immediately after you dodge his jump into the air. Ranni's darkmoon can also be cast immediately after he does his light speed attack if you are near him when he starts it.
This boss forced me to learn how to use the Buckler shield. It honestly made this fight a joke. Highly recommend it if you’re having trouble (pair it with the Miséricorde)
Reporting back to this video to say that THIS GUIDE HELPED ME FINALLY BEAT RADAHN. Specifically the impenetrable thorns one. I've never beat a boss with anything but a sword before now, but that one looked so fun, so I respec-ed into Arcane and Int and after a bunch more tries I finally got it. Thank you so much for this guide man, I'm now using that same build to help friends through other bosses in the game and it's blowing everyone's minds!
Radahn was the first fight where I actually recorded and studied footage of my deaths just to beat him. I do this for no-hit runs but never for just making it out alive. Phase 2 is so oppressive at first that you just die without learning anything. Wound up doing it in like 55 tries with Square Off, but had to learn literally every move the hard way
I used sword of light and darkness, multilayered ring of light and Radagon’s rings to destroy this boss both in 1 and 2 phase in ng+, and I was doing 10k damage with Radagon’s rings in first phase and over 4k damage with multilayered ring of light in 2nd phase. So yeah, don’t sleep on holy damage especially in the dlc.
I managed to beat him! Used Cold Milady. Basically didn’t even touch my ashes of war lmao. Wing stance can be good for closing diatances and doing decent damage. But anything can work if you have enough time to land it.
I was still able to beat NG+7 Consort Radahn with the good old Scavengers Bleed power standing jump attack build, strong base game build still carried me through the DLC
Also any hyper armor high stagger ash + melanias rune and defensive buffs are strong against him. I havent done him with deflect tear, but i have a feeling thats the real GOAT
Glad i didn't see this video before i beat him. I my lack of self control would've had me cheesing him with the thorns. I can see those getting a huge nerf
2:16 Actually, the Maternal Staff is kinda bugged right now. instead of only applying a portion of it's arc scaling to blood sorceries for a ~40% status boost like the Albinauric Staff or the Dragon Communion Seal it applies the full 165% arcane scaling to the status build up.
Cold cross naginata + heavy fingerprint shield helped me. Its special because it has pierce, frost and bleed which he's weak to AND you can attack while blocking. Yep. You can poke radahn during most of his combos. Talismans were two headed turtle, greatshield, golden braid, and dragon rest greatshield. Good luck!! ❤
I was going through a Dragonborn build where I used both dragon communion, dragon cult and ancient dragon weapons and spells, and it was going well until this boss. I wish it was at least viable without becoming a speedrunner.
I beat him with Deadly Poison Perfume and Poison Antspur with "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice", the absolute nuke when you trigger deadly poison, poison and rot was hilarious!
Instead of using the smithscript daggers I would recommend using the claws of night because: 1. Claws do more dps 2. Better scaling 3. Way easier to proc bleed or frost So basically, the smithscript daggers are just completely outclassed by the claws of night.
A slept on method to defeating him is slapping carian retaliation on a shield, equipping the dagger talisman and the blade of mercy, and literally just parrying the shit out of him. Any single sword swipe (not the double swipes don’t try to parry those they are not parryable) can be parried with pretty easy and generous timing due to carian retaliation. It’s not how I beat him the first time, but I did it the second time I beat him and it honestly made the fight so much easier. Completely negates a lot of his combos
Thank you for the hint! Multilayered rings of light made short work of him. Was running 70 INT 45 FTH so I used the golden order seal to cast the spell while holding the dryleaf seal on the other.
I died 50+ trying my best against this boss. Impenetrable thorns... 2 tries. And the 1 try that I died because my cat jumped in front of my screen and refused to move. Thank you.
My build made him fall in second try, a simply wolfchest shield and carian sorcery sword, buff the shield with the shield buff spell and have fun. * Guarding strikes when he uses his aoe stuff like the pull and the leaping strikes. * His normal combos can be easily parryed, even in second phase. * If you cant parry, keep the guarding strikes, but take care of your stamina. Talis: [dragon crest shield/shield talisman/radagon icon/ godfrey icon) Why the icons? Its a int build , it is indeed focused in melee combat, but uses carian sword spells for extra sauce :3
Unfun boss. The idea of a boss being diffcult by being WAY too agressive and punishing is definitely an old joke. Having to FULLY respec is definitely a silly notion, and spending hours to learn the fighting patern just so you can roll 15 times and hit once. Meh. Disappointed, even more so for the fact that the final boss is an boss we enountered already.
Took me 221 tries to parry him to death with a Dex character. It looks like if you’re very high Rune Level that the great shield + poke strategy may be the easiest…
I had completely forgotten about the deflecting hard tear. I've probably been making things way harder than they need to be on my dryleaf arts playthrough.
1.Grab the golden braid from the shaman village 2.Get the lords divine fortification from Gideon ofnir after beating malenia 3.Get as many scadutree fragments as you can There you go this combo will give you 90% damage resistance against holy damage, pop the fortification right as he does his big aoe in phase two and ALL of his holy follow ups stop dealing damage to you Turn his phase 2 back into his phase 1 If you want even more safety against him use the mimic tear and give him marikas blessing plus hefty and normal rot pots Once you use divine fortification your tear will also have the same damage resistance as you making him immune to the holy aoes and giving him an easy full heal he can use repeatedly while also rotting radahn which he is very weak to This boss has a lot of ways to deal with him you just have to know which is the best for you
From software veteran here. Beaten Bloodborne 9 times. DS3 7 times, the other titles and of course Elden ring. The last boss of the DLC is absolutely terrible. I mostly 1 shot if not 2 shot bosses of the DLC without looking into them before playing. Rahdan requires you to respec, re gear, change ashes, change physick literally everything just to beat him. On top of that his AI is programmed to attack and close the distance almost 90% of the time whenever you use a potion, cast or summons. Add on top of this you have to perfectly doge/avoid fast series of 4-7 attacks. If you miss one you have to heal and if you have to heal you can’t attack before the next assault. Bad gaming design. Like it’s just terrible. I have never said this about from software I’m a simp for them. But F from software this is just garbage.
He's a great boss. There is no need to respec or change your build. Changing physick and ashes is something you should be doing anyway to match the area or boss you're facing. That's not a bad thing and it's not exclusive to Radahn. It's not bad game design. You literally just have to learn his moveset. He's mostly the same in both phases.
The worst part about learning that dryleaf is good against radahn is that I used dryleaf for most of my dlc run but I was too scared to fight him properly so I just summoned or looked for cheese builds online.
I'm still struggling with this one, but after I spent all larval tears trying out different builds and died 63 times, I do a lot of damage and go easier to the second phase with a faith build. I have equipped the godslayer seal upgraded to its maximum and the blasphemous blade as a weapon. Black flame wall and rotten butterflies from romina do a lot of damage too.
Melenia kicked my ass first play through. I foolishly started NG+ before jumping into the DLC, to make my way through all the bosses to get to Consort Dick Bag. I then saw a build that required Melenia’s Great Rune, so I had to go whomp whomping my way through the Haligtree to face her again, and she wiped the floor with me 7 times again before I got my groove back and beat her. Consort Dick Bag is still whooping my ass, I’ve tried every strategy. And so here I am.
The only Build that I've seen working on him reliable was: Blood Antspur Rapier, Finger Stone shield (or any shield that is similar with it). Holly Vow and Scholar Shield (Glint stone staff and finger seal for these two). As for talisman I went for Green Turtle, Lord of Blood Exultation, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and Erd tree Favor +1 (you can get better one but that's the one i had). And that's the build, basically all you do is hold your shield and poke at him until he dies. If you need more help, you can throw your mimic at him too.
My mind is going insane as I might never beat this boss. Ive used rot and blood on my weapons along with Ansbach and my +10 Mimic Tear and I can’t beat him. I’ve beaten every souls boss except for Demons souls and Bloodborne because I’m on Xbox. I don’t know what to do.
If your a strength build, you can power stances 2 great stars. The left hand with cold infusion and cold mist to proc frost quickly and the other one should be heavy infused. You then will just use a bleed grease on the heavy infused one or if you have time, blood flame. The boss gives very little window of time for buffs so I recommend just the quick grease. Your best options will be jump attacks and basic R1s. You get a lot of ur health back from this strategy due to its passive. With claw talisman, the new chest piece that boost jump attacks while procing bleed and frost, you should be able to do a lot of dmg
I eventually got tired of getting him to down 10% health so the way that i beat him was that i put on the antspur rapier and verdigris greatshield with the greatshield talisman and kindred of rot exultation and proceeded to poke him while blocking absolutely every attack and barely taking any damage
There is an alternative weapon that can be as good, or even better than the Putrescence Cleaver. That's the Death Poker, that weapon helped me a fuckton in the DLC and beating Radahn aswell. It's Ash of War is still busted.
On my dex/int build, I used Wing of astel + brass shield was the set up I used wing of astel worked wonders on gaius as well (also on romina, but what doesn’t) Brass shield just to block part of that slash-slash-double slash combo which is pretty hard to fully dodge
Best build to beat Radahn is Mohg spear and fingerprint shield.. ..if you're struggling to find openings..you can just attack and guard at the same time.. You can use the Ash of war when you see and opening for big damage Biggest thing to look out for is phase 2...standing in front of him will see you getting your heat stolen It took me around 6 tries to beat him with this build..use your usual bleed set up and you're good to go.
Unfortunately the Impenetrable Thorns have been nerfed with the latest patch (30th July 2024). The rest of the builds are unaffected though.
Bro I beat him on my 1st one with the thorns and I didn't even know it was meta. And now I can't do it again bc they make it pretty ass 😔
Fucking Miyazaki, spending all his time on CZcams to find the guys that melt the final boss pretty easily, ridiculous. Thx anyway lol.
I used scarlet aonia + blasphemous blade. The rot works very well. I also yelled a lot, cursed From Software, wondered why I was inflicting so much pain on myself, and questioned the meaning of life. After 48 tries, I beat him. Mimic was the MVP though. I'm sorry I yelled at my mimic so much "hit him!!! What the f*** are you doing?! Help me!!!"
I remember the good old days of Tiche flying in out of tower and pouncing on enemies. Good times
My mimic became a simp half fight, can’t believe he betrayed me like this
48, jesus it took me 500, i did parry only but it seemed like the best option without summon and built switch off quality.
@@luqqs3047 500?! Bro this surely is a generic number right?
@@gabzsy4924 i rounded it was 473, i like to slamm my head against walls tho and i dont summon, i think with good build against him + mimic u can get it down under 100.
When Radhn walked out I yelled "YES!! I know this guy, he's a friend from work!"
This is heckin epic Reddit Chungus bro! UPDOOT on me!!!
what
@@rubub8455 Its a Thor Ragnarok reference
😂 I'm gonna watch Thor Ragnarok again. Thanks.
@@angelsalvador9425 I understood that reference!
Dryleaf Arts-
"How did you beat Radahn?"
"He was tough, but even a god has a hard time taking 200 freezing nut shots. I even grabbed and twisted them."
What Martial style is that I would love learn that type Martial Arts Irl that has Freezing Testicular Torsion
4:03 - Miquella: "You dare use my own spells against me, Tarnished?"
Radahn, Consort of 40 fps. Really is the worst thing about this boss
40 fps? i get 5
My Xbox Series S is struggling. This shit shouldn't be happening
@@saberkiller4567Even PS5 drops some FPS in this bullshit. Not only it makes the fight look way too overdone and messing up with the learning of the moves, it also simply fucks up with whatever console you're on. This really is one of the worst designed bosses ever
@@hygormotasantos4035 dude my ps5 can handle everything but really? It's worse than I thought.
@@saberkiller4567 Just defeated him for the first time. Almost got killed cause of those "echo" attacks, FPS on my PS5 goes to waste on these
I was using the dry leaf arts but them switched to danes footwork since it does more guard counter damage. i was doing like 3500 damage per guard counter it was insane! Great video, man!
Yes I posted a video where I did a full run with those weapons, they were really fun.
Wait how do you do the guard counter with fist???
@@jameswtlocs deflect hard tear inside your flask(you get that from the first fournace golem you can encounter), then you 2 hand the weapon and when an enemy attack is about to land, you use L1 to block and then, once you have blocked the attack, you use R2 to do the guard counter
@@ainrun So you don't think he's tougher than Darkeater Midir
Fingerprint Shield.
Poking Weapon of Choice.
Bleed Grease.
Shield Grease.
Shield Talismans, Stamina and Stamina Recovery Talismans.
3 Rot Pots to Radahns Face.
Ggs.
I honestly don't know how else to beat him, outside of spending countless hours learning frame perfect rolls during a laser light show.
Fromsofts idea of difficult bosses has ALWAYS been the same. It's the bosses who NEVER STOP attacking.
How do I get the shield if lyndell capital is already ash
@yeab9919 You can get a decent one from an quest NPC just before the boss if you don't have it
You say that, but Malenia isn't like that. And she's the next in line for the title after this fucker.
She's slow, staggerable, and hardly attacks until you do until phase 2. She's hard for entirely different reasons. And, honestly, 90% of that is just Waterfowl.
So I guess it's one of those two, yeah? Either A) never stops attacking and closes distance like a mofo, or B) this would be perfectly doable if it weren't for that ONE fucking attack!
@@GlamadorYeah I went to her right after Radahn in NG+.
Felt so confindet and still died like 30 times to waterfowl move.
Well but I wanted to meme her with big mouth imp ash. Which is just hilarious. Every shot from that thing knocks her of the feet. I had same RNG happening where she just ragdolls through the arena in phase 1 without ever pulling out one move
I beat him with parries, kinda negates most of his combos. That and the deflecting hardtear
This Radahn guy has some pretty cool looking swords, I bet they'd make it easy to kill Radahn if you had them
😂
Nahh
there neat swords he has, but they arnt all that great to use against him also.
Everyone sleeps on Poleblade of the Bud, it's relatively fast and inflicts Scarlet Rot. Radahn is weaker to piercing weapons so this weapon worked well for me🔥
I’m not your poleblade, bud
its awful and the scarlet rot build up is slow to the point of being near useless against consort radahn.
Nah use the Rot Rapier. Way faster
Phase 2 is just so wild 😂
This was one of the most informative videos on the topic, thanks. Every other video is like "mimc, finger shield, poke"
i was already planning a Thorns/Bleed style build but this boss is the ONLY one in the entirety of the DLC that forced me to respec off my current Death Sorceries witch build, thank you for that lol
it worked like a charm, cheers mate
Same!!! This is the only boss in the ENTIRE game, except for Rykard because of his gimmick, that made me HAVE to change from my dragon build. I still haven’t beat him, but I’m only like 30-40 tries in. I’m trying to steer clear of the Fingerprint Shield and poke method, but I’m about to cave to an Impenetrable Thorns bleed build. This will probably be the only boss in the whole Soulsborne series that I beat once and have no interest in fighting again. I LOVE phase 1, but phase 2 is just pure, unbridled chaos!
Don’t forget Fingerprint Shield + Antspur Rapider. Total cheese.
I used mohgwyn spear instead works very nicely
Sword Spear and Bleed Grease did the trick.
And 3 heft rot pots
If you can use the scholars shield or shield grease… yeah gg Radahn it’s over
Honestly can't believe a video with builds to beat Radahn doesn't include this. Just L1 poke to death, completely ignore his entire moveset, he becomes a complete joke.
toxic gamer alert
You can counter act his meteors with Rannis darkmoon if cast immediately after you dodge his jump into the air. Ranni's darkmoon can also be cast immediately after he does his light speed attack if you are near him when he starts it.
This boss forced me to learn how to use the Buckler shield. It honestly made this fight a joke. Highly recommend it if you’re having trouble (pair it with the Miséricorde)
Oh my god it’s Gwyn all over again
Yeah for the first phase.. the second is just Michael bay mind wtf
@@scal221 Trust me if you stay right on him at all times he’s pretty free (if you’re parrying). Just takes s bit of practice
Yeah and then they Say its the hardest fromsoft boss
Reporting back to this video to say that THIS GUIDE HELPED ME FINALLY BEAT RADAHN. Specifically the impenetrable thorns one. I've never beat a boss with anything but a sword before now, but that one looked so fun, so I respec-ed into Arcane and Int and after a bunch more tries I finally got it. Thank you so much for this guide man, I'm now using that same build to help friends through other bosses in the game and it's blowing everyone's minds!
That's nice, GGs on the win.
I genuinely found going in with a shield with carian retaliation and an antspur rapier and parrying him to be the easiest strategy for this fight
That is exactly what I am doing except I am golden parrying him
Radahn was the first fight where I actually recorded and studied footage of my deaths just to beat him. I do this for no-hit runs but never for just making it out alive. Phase 2 is so oppressive at first that you just die without learning anything. Wound up doing it in like 55 tries with Square Off, but had to learn literally every move the hard way
I used sword of light and darkness, multilayered ring of light and Radagon’s rings to destroy this boss both in 1 and 2 phase in ng+, and I was doing 10k damage with Radagon’s rings in first phase and over 4k damage with multilayered ring of light in 2nd phase. So yeah, don’t sleep on holy damage especially in the dlc.
We got Ainrun turning family friendly before we got gta 6
Okay
I beat him after 7 tries with a great shield and a spear with blood loss, intense and long fight, but working
I managed to beat him!
Used Cold Milady. Basically didn’t even touch my ashes of war lmao. Wing stance can be good for closing diatances and doing decent damage. But anything can work if you have enough time to land it.
Ty, cleared it pretty quick with the thorns build, gonna grind back here and try it with a melee build next
The best build is porcupine and its not even close 😎
I was still able to beat NG+7 Consort Radahn with the good old Scavengers Bleed power standing jump attack build, strong base game build still carried me through the DLC
Scarlet Aeonia and Milady was the only thing i needed✨
Also any hyper armor high stagger ash + melanias rune and defensive buffs are strong against him.
I havent done him with deflect tear, but i have a feeling thats the real GOAT
0:47 "FAITH TWO"
Black steel great shield works really well with sacred affinity makes it 100% holy resist
Carrian retaliation + miscerode. Ever faithful
Glad i didn't see this video before i beat him. I my lack of self control would've had me cheesing him with the thorns. I can see those getting a huge nerf
2:16 Actually, the Maternal Staff is kinda bugged right now. instead of only applying a portion of it's arc scaling to blood sorceries for a ~40% status boost like the Albinauric Staff or the Dragon Communion Seal it applies the full 165% arcane scaling to the status build up.
oh that's very interesting, explains the one hit bleed procs.
Cold cross naginata + heavy fingerprint shield helped me. Its special because it has pierce, frost and bleed which he's weak to AND you can attack while blocking.
Yep. You can poke radahn during most of his combos. Talismans were two headed turtle, greatshield, golden braid, and dragon rest greatshield. Good luck!! ❤
I was going through a Dragonborn build where I used both dragon communion, dragon cult and ancient dragon weapons and spells, and it was going well until this boss.
I wish it was at least viable without becoming a speedrunner.
I beat him with Deadly Poison Perfume and Poison Antspur with "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice", the absolute nuke when you trigger deadly poison, poison and rot was hilarious!
Everyone felt that scream "F***KIN DIEEEEEEEEE" at 1 HP.
Instead of using the smithscript daggers I would recommend using the claws of night because:
1. Claws do more dps
2. Better scaling
3. Way easier to proc bleed or frost
So basically, the smithscript daggers are just completely outclassed by the claws of night.
Thank you. You saved my mental health.
Thanks for the video, I just got the multi layer rings of light and I’m a strength faith build so this is the method I’ll try when I get to him
A slept on method to defeating him is slapping carian retaliation on a shield, equipping the dagger talisman and the blade of mercy, and literally just parrying the shit out of him. Any single sword swipe (not the double swipes don’t try to parry those they are not parryable) can be parried with pretty easy and generous timing due to carian retaliation. It’s not how I beat him the first time, but I did it the second time I beat him and it honestly made the fight so much easier. Completely negates a lot of his combos
4:05 Distructo Disk!!!!
Taylew Golem summon and Heal from Afar, stay locked onto Radhan when you wanna heal Taylew since Radhan is almost always in Taylew's face.
I had two people help me beat him, and I'm not ashamed. It still came down to either me or him losing the fight.
This is really good video.
He is the hardest, I have beaten all souls games and platinumed 6 of them. And this guy is the hardest to win legit on 3rd playthrough.
reduvia with the highest poise armor, can't change my mind.
Thank you for the hint! Multilayered rings of light made short work of him. Was running 70 INT 45 FTH so I used the golden order seal to cast the spell while holding the dryleaf seal on the other.
Took me 15 min to beat him, no summons, just fingerprint shield and bloody helice, this would not fly with malenia 😂
It's the only way I could think of. Learning all the rolls is way too much trouble
actually, its harder with npc summon 😓
I use two cross-naginatas, one with bleed and one with frost using chillingly mist. Does the most damage out of stuff I’ve experimented with on ng+7.
Broooo!!!! The thorns… appreciate you 🥹. I finally beat that MF’r haha 🙌🏾
The thorns were nerfed like a week ago, the bleed build up decreased frok 72 to 17
“Packs a heavy punch, literally” and “fist weapons”
When describing a weapon that literally does not punch. It just has kicks and palm strikes
Devonias hammer + deflect tear + guard counter, double turtle neck, and two handed sword talismans shreds radahn
Cheers! First time seeing multi ring of light - looks interesting.
Easiest and most consistent by far is Fingerprint Shield + Poke Blood Anspier Rapier.
It deals bleed and rot while staying safe behind the shield
I died 50+ trying my best against this boss. Impenetrable thorns... 2 tries. And the 1 try that I died because my cat jumped in front of my screen and refused to move. Thank you.
I feline your pain 🥁
Put a great shield, put a great spear, put fros, use mimic tear, done enjoy the cheese.
I was at it for few hours with an int build. got frustrated, specced into thorns and got him on first attempt. T_T
I listen to this when going to bed, would recommend, great voice, great hair
I love/hate this fight. At the peak I was cursing these two as the lothric fight homage that they are. Yet I love it lol
I’ve been using my strength/int build and ita got me through most of the dlc except for radahn
My build made him fall in second try, a simply wolfchest shield and carian sorcery sword, buff the shield with the shield buff spell and have fun.
* Guarding strikes when he uses his aoe stuff like the pull and the leaping strikes.
* His normal combos can be easily parryed, even in second phase.
* If you cant parry, keep the guarding strikes, but take care of your stamina.
Talis: [dragon crest shield/shield talisman/radagon icon/ godfrey icon)
Why the icons? Its a int build , it is indeed focused in melee combat, but uses carian sword spells for extra sauce :3
Unfun boss.
The idea of a boss being diffcult by being WAY too agressive and punishing is definitely an old joke.
Having to FULLY respec is definitely a silly notion, and spending hours to learn the fighting patern just so you can roll 15 times and hit once. Meh.
Disappointed, even more so for the fact that the final boss is an boss we enountered already.
Took me 221 tries to parry him to death with a Dex character. It looks like if you’re very high Rune Level that the great shield + poke strategy may be the easiest…
We need a sunglass tailsman
Sword. Lance.
All you need.
My mimic lockin last 5 second and proc bleed. He's the real one
I finally know what to use on Radahn! Thanks!
I had completely forgotten about the deflecting hard tear. I've probably been making things way harder than they need to be on my dryleaf arts playthrough.
1.Grab the golden braid from the shaman village
2.Get the lords divine fortification from Gideon ofnir after beating malenia
3.Get as many scadutree fragments as you can
There you go this combo will give you 90% damage resistance against holy damage, pop the fortification right as he does his big aoe in phase two and ALL of his holy follow ups stop dealing damage to you
Turn his phase 2 back into his phase 1
If you want even more safety against him use the mimic tear and give him marikas blessing plus hefty and normal rot pots
Once you use divine fortification your tear will also have the same damage resistance as you making him immune to the holy aoes and giving him an easy full heal he can use repeatedly while also rotting radahn which he is very weak to
This boss has a lot of ways to deal with him you just have to know which is the best for you
From software veteran here. Beaten Bloodborne 9 times. DS3 7 times, the other titles and of course Elden ring.
The last boss of the DLC is absolutely terrible.
I mostly 1 shot if not 2 shot bosses of the DLC without looking into them before playing.
Rahdan requires you to respec, re gear, change ashes, change physick literally everything just to beat him. On top of that his AI is programmed to attack and close the distance almost 90% of the time whenever you use a potion, cast or summons.
Add on top of this you have to perfectly doge/avoid fast series of 4-7 attacks. If you miss one you have to heal and if you have to heal you can’t attack before the next assault.
Bad gaming design. Like it’s just terrible.
I have never said this about from software I’m a simp for them.
But F from software this is just garbage.
He's a great boss. There is no need to respec or change your build. Changing physick and ashes is something you should be doing anyway to match the area or boss you're facing. That's not a bad thing and it's not exclusive to Radahn.
It's not bad game design. You literally just have to learn his moveset. He's mostly the same in both phases.
@@JF-vz1ju hard disagree
It should’ve been godwyn
I didn’t know this was a “git good“ video
The worst part about learning that dryleaf is good against radahn is that I used dryleaf for most of my dlc run but I was too scared to fight him properly so I just summoned or looked for cheese builds online.
putrescent cleaver is such a nice weapon
Finger print shield and spear…
spam r1….
watch your stamina bar…
double turtles talisman
"he's hotter than gael, scissor freida"
9:42 did dude just DEFLECT THE NUKE???
Yeah I love doing that cause it gives you a huge punish window!
I think the only reason I struggled so bad is because my frames drop on like every attack
For anyone trying the impenetrable thorns route, I completely forgot that you can spam cast the spell to make subsequent casts faster.
I'm still struggling with this one, but after I spent all larval tears trying out different builds and died 63 times, I do a lot of damage and go easier to the second phase with a faith build. I have equipped the godslayer seal upgraded to its maximum and the blasphemous blade as a weapon. Black flame wall and rotten butterflies from romina do a lot of damage too.
RIP impenetrable thorns😢. It now takes more hits to melt his HP down to the next phase
Radahn harder than Gael? Yes
Better? Hell nah
Melenia kicked my ass first play through. I foolishly started NG+ before jumping into the DLC, to make my way through all the bosses to get to Consort Dick Bag.
I then saw a build that required Melenia’s Great Rune, so I had to go whomp whomping my way through the Haligtree to face her again, and she wiped the floor with me 7 times again before I got my groove back and beat her.
Consort Dick Bag is still whooping my ass, I’ve tried every strategy. And so here I am.
The only Build that I've seen working on him reliable was:
Blood Antspur Rapier, Finger Stone shield (or any shield that is similar with it). Holly Vow and Scholar Shield (Glint stone staff and finger seal for these two). As for talisman I went for Green Turtle, Lord of Blood Exultation, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and Erd tree Favor +1 (you can get better one but that's the one i had). And that's the build, basically all you do is hold your shield and poke at him until he dies. If you need more help, you can throw your mimic at him too.
But why did you need to fight her again. You keep the great runes from your previous run, you just need to restore the power of them in a divine tower
You cant access isolated divine tower until she dies.
Ludwig is hands down the hardest boss in all souls games for me. Second being orphan.
Radhan is a beast and enjoyed the 50 plus times it took me to beat him! Thank you Software, for not making him easy! ❤
My mind is going insane as I might never beat this boss. Ive used rot and blood on my weapons along with Ansbach and my +10 Mimic Tear and I can’t beat him. I’ve beaten every souls boss except for Demons souls and Bloodborne because I’m on Xbox. I don’t know what to do.
Dont give up
UPDATE: I BEAT HIM
@@dominicpatti687 Let go!!! GG
Putrescence cleaver is the new Yhorm machete
If your a strength build, you can power stances 2 great stars. The left hand with cold infusion and cold mist to proc frost quickly and the other one should be heavy infused. You then will just use a bleed grease on the heavy infused one or if you have time, blood flame. The boss gives very little window of time for buffs so I recommend just the quick grease.
Your best options will be jump attacks and basic R1s. You get a lot of ur health back from this strategy due to its passive. With claw talisman, the new chest piece that boost jump attacks while procing bleed and frost, you should be able to do a lot of dmg
Which armor is being worn for the thorns build with the fur and the collar?
Me running at him with nothing but a antspur rapier and the highest defense possible
Me with the Great Katana on my Dex/Arc and Black Knight Hammer on my Str/Fth chars: “hmmm interesting”
I might try the thorns on my Int/str char
I eventually got tired of getting him to down 10% health so the way that i beat him was that i put on the antspur rapier and verdigris greatshield with the greatshield talisman and kindred of rot exultation and proceeded to poke him while blocking absolutely every attack and barely taking any damage
There is an alternative weapon that can be as good, or even better than the Putrescence Cleaver. That's the Death Poker, that weapon helped me a fuckton in the DLC and beating Radahn aswell. It's Ash of War is still busted.
On my dex/int build, I used Wing of astel + brass shield was the set up I used
wing of astel worked wonders on gaius as well (also on romina, but what doesn’t)
Brass shield just to block part of that slash-slash-double slash combo which is pretty hard to fully dodge
Radahn is not hard he's just garbage, like perfect example of a boss that is supposed to look good on tiktok instead of being a fun fight
This boss is my new Manus
Best build to beat Radahn is Mohg spear and fingerprint shield..
..if you're struggling to find openings..you can just attack and guard at the same time..
You can use the Ash of war when you see and opening for big damage
Biggest thing to look out for is phase 2...standing in front of him will see you getting your heat stolen
It took me around 6 tries to beat him with this build..use your usual bleed set up and you're good to go.
You know what?
Screw it, time to Sekiro Miquella!