He beat the last boss with the power of friendship. Like a true gigachad.

5:49 this part had me crying because the wierd footlicking lady is supposed to creep you out but gigachad just smiles back xD

"I'm not a masochist" -> proceed to make a run constantly overloaded and with no horse You are tricking no one my friend

I didn't expect the cutscene at 5:46 to make me laugh that hard! That smile back at the scholar is somehow just too funny. 🤣

The way gigachad stared at Rennala's minions had me DYING

Made possible by my guy Alexander's sacrifice. Raise a glass 😔

I love the story implication. Melina: "I offer you an accord." Character: "Nah." _Leaves alone and succeeds anyway_ ... xD

I love the attitude of this run. Nothing is off the table, there’s no right or wrong, honorable or dishonorable way to beat a boss (other than by leveling of course), just beat the game in whatever ways work.

In case anyone wasn't aware, the Godskin apostles/nobles are EXTREMELY weak to sleep. One sleep pot will put them asleep for a couple of minutes. So the fight is a 1v1 if you use them. The fact you can carry like 15 at that point really turns that fight into a cakewalk. In fact you can hit them with a pot on wakeup and have them stun locked the entire fight.

"I'm not a god player" Proceeds to explain how he beat Margit on his 3rd try with a level 1 build

You had me at “without being good”. In the middle of a lvl 1 run and I needed halp

"I'm not that great at Elden Ring." "I simply dodged Margit normally. It took me three tries lmao" Actual gigachad

Iron: "Im not good" Also Iron: "Yea I beat these bosses 3rd try with no stats or cheese"

The "(without being good)" part is what really turns this from a challenge run into a tutorial.

This run made possible BY THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP. The most powerful weapon in this game

The strategy you used for the tree sentinel is what I used on the that "star beast" thing you fight in some crater and usually these strats feel too dirty but when I need it, I must justify it with the thinking of "this game has no problem instant killing me and pulling dirty tricks, so I should do the same"

I'm enjoying this so far because it feels like exactly how a real person would have to barely survive if they were isekai'd into the game.

The "I'm Sorry" after killing Alexander was so genuine.

When the music kicked in and the friend came up from the summon sign all I could think was "DID SOMEBODY ORDER A BIG ASS CAN OF JOLLY COOPERATION?"

Commander O’Nieal can also be lured out into the rot swamp outside his little area and killed with the rot spurts. Pretty sure you can jump over Godfrey’s slam attack too

There is a REALLY easy way to dodge those "undodgable" whole arena AOEs in the battle with Godfrey the First Elden Lord, just jump over them. Works every time consistently and also really shows how From Soft took into account all the ways of dodging in the game, not just rolling like in previous games. This method also works for like 95% of the ground stomp/ground based AOE moves in the game so keep this in mind as well. Hope this helps someone!

Note: Godfrey’s room wide shockwave attack can be dodged by jumping. Any “earthquake” style attack can. You can also jump over the closing ring of light the Elden Beast creates.

12:08 Nah man ain't no way you said that 💀

In the case of the Elden Beast's chasing attack, you may be able to use the crimsonwhorl bubbletear to soak up the damage. It heals you for 5% max hp instead of taking damage while it's active

Tip for the homing orb: there is a crystal tear that converts non-physical damage into health. The effect doesn’t last long, but if you slam a physic right before the orb, it will actually heal you and you can just wail on the elden beast

16:36 fun fact: even if tiche did kill maliketh at the last second right here, it still wouldn’t have counted because maliketh’s death dialogue is so god damn unnecessarily long that the victory banner would never appear before he was sent into the loading screen. I only know this because it happened to me while practicing for sl1. Thanks from, just one step ahead of us.

Sounds like the key is to dodge toward every boss instead of away.

Nice, loved it. I’m glad you stuck through and beat it

12:09 This part was honestly my favourite, you set it up perfectly because of how you were casually explaining and then just "Then I woke up in Ohio". hilarious lol

The idea of the last weapon being friends made me laugh so hard love this video

IIRC, the Godskin Duo is susceptible to sleep pots. This gives you time to apply poison, buff yourself, and set up a combo, and you can leave one of them snoozing so you only have to deal with one at a time. That said, Trina's Lilies are in limited supply as they don't respawn. You can get unlimited by farming them from Cleanrot Knights, but this can be a little tedious.

Your grey lv1 god not only has the heroic physique of the Gigachad but also the smug of Jetstream Sam

I was straight faced the entire video until… “and then I woke up in Ohio” I laughed so hard. Totally caught me off guard

This is only the beginning of the challenge runs my friends, after a few months or so some mad lads will be beating the game with donkey Kong bongos with a ddr mat while taking no hits and not rolling and only using the torch.

you casually killing godrick at lvl 1....me dying everytime at lvl 59..... (Update: i did it..., i know my build is bad but i like it!!!)

It's so interesting coming back to this over a year later. These early versions were truly the wild west of Elden Ring, almost none of these cheese tactics work anymore.

I’d love to get the sliders for this character. The smile on his face is just too funny to not do a run with.

the virgin max level casual vs the lv 0 chad tarnished

You forgot to grab the single, most important item for any RL1 playthrough - the ritual shield talisman. Lots of bosses, including Godfrey, Gurranq and Malenia would've stopped one-shotting you with that equipped

After watching all of your playthrus it truly is a testament to how well thought out and amazing this game is! Along with other FS titles

"I let Melina burn the Erdtree and then woke up in Ohio" as a native Ohioan, this is extremely accurate

Can you beat Elden Ring with only Bleed & Pre-nerf Hoarfrost Stomp?: Yes Can you Beat Elden Ring with only Bloodhound Step?: Yes.

some quick math for those who care: The soreseal causes you to take 15% more damage from all sources. +5 vigor at level 1 takes you from 414 HP to 522, as seen at 1:28 which is an effective 26% increase. +5 endurance also gives you about 16% more equip load, letting your wear more armor. It's hard to justify ever removing something that good, especially since it helps with weapon prerequisites and doesn't require beating any bosses.

Bro I cannot tell you how much watching you do these series have helped my performance in Elden ring. You show so many good ways to cheese bosses that I’ve never seen before lmaoo

16:37 I think everyone felt his pain at this moment. That moment the boss has 1% HP and you die. The healing was just adding insult to injury.

There's a few things you can do to make this much easier 1. Godskin minibosses are HILARIOUSLY weak to sleep. You can outright sleeplock the bigger variant with a Saint Trina sword, and probably the pulley crossbow too with sleep bolts 2. You can trivialise the Maliketh fight by beating Rykard first. Bernahl will invade you at a side area of Farum Azula, and killing him will give you a reusable consumable that lets you easily parry all of Maliketh's downward aerial thrust attacks. And if Rykard proves to be a problem, you can stunlock him by spamming the 1st hit of the serpent spear's weapon art. Just turn all your flasks into FP ones and he's toast.

I'm pretty new to the game and I was having trouble with one of the Erd tree dudes until I summoned a random to help. Definitely a viable strat, that dude carried me hard haha. Great video!

Absolutely brilliant. Wonderful ingenuity. Please try again after all of the fixes. This is some of the best FromSoftware UKposts content.

I actually like that he didn't hold the game or challenge sacred. It's refreshing. Cheese, bend the rules, get it done no matter what. I liked that.

21:45 You can use Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear to tank the homing orb damage move, it converts all non-physical dmg into hp, healing you instead of damaging your nerves.

Awesome video man. I’ve been considering a RL1 run but I’m barely average but this has inspired me to go for it. Thanks dude. New sub ✌🏻

What a great video. Not only did you show how to do a hard challenge like this as a fun “casual” player, but it had the perfect ending. Ultimate challenge overcome by playing with a friend in a game, perfect ending :)

Fun fact: you can also take commander O’Neil to the scarlet rot geysers outside his arena and kill him that way. They do 750 damage and if you can line him up to get hit by 2, it’s a very easy fight

Fun fact for those playing along at home: The commoner's garb at 12:43 is a rare drop but you can also get it guaranteed. There's a Site of Grace just inside the entrance to Stormveil Castle, right next to the crank which opens the gate. If you enter the castle through said gate, you can get there by running up the ramp and then turning left as soon as you can to get on to a path leading to a doorway. The site of grace is on your right as you enter. If you run to the opposite end of the room, there's another doorway leading outdoors to a balcony area which has the commoner's garb item.

The moment where one of those kids crawling looks up and smiles and Iron is looking back with a smile got me rolling 🤣🤣🤣

The draconic tree sentenil kill helped me a lot thanks for getting me into lyyendel!

The best way i've found to avoid the Elden Beast's Elden Stars (the funny homing holy projectile spamming nightmare) is to use the Crimsonwhirl Crystal Tear. Mixing it into your Physick makes you absorb all non-physical damage you take into HP, and it lasts around 15 to 20 seconds, almost the entire duration of the attack. It's obtainable before the Fire Giant boss fight and It could also work pretty well to tank some fire hits from him if you are also struggling. Best part is that if you are into PVPing, and despise the magic spam, you can also use it to look like you're hacking and just walk through the magic projectiles.

12:16 You can actually cheese this by using the Sword of St. Trina. It'll put one of the Godskin Duo enemies to sleep, which will cause them to not fight for a whole two minutes or until woken up. You can just then fight them one by one.

You could have made the Godskin Duo fight so much easier on yourself. They're highly susceptible to the sleep status, and stay asleep for a long time. Sleep one, fight the one that's awake. You can get the recipe for the Sleep Pot very early on, in Limgrave, just south of Summonwater Village.

Alexander!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!! How could you?!? If you need his death, it's not worth the play.... He's too much of a bro, bro.

The fact that the Fire Giant can be killed that easily by fall damage is absolutely hilarious. Gonna have to try that later.

A consumable item that would have been really useful that you missed was the Uplifting Aromatic perfume that gives you another bubble, and can be used multiple times in a fight. If you find perfumers cookbook 1 you could probably do this challenge on the current patch.

with Maliketh, using mimic makes him spaz out even more 😂

I admire super plays but also love your play and the idea behind it. WP!

"Don't work hard , work smart. Literally sits there for 16 min to poison the boss to death " xD Loved the video!! Great video! :D

Iron Pineapple: "I'm not good." Beats Margit and Godrick in three tries with zero leveling and wretch build. Me: Hmmm.

Great Video, a lot of time and effort in making this, the last part made me laugh so much. Cheers! hahaha.

i acually love how u dont have that challenge run mentality and u r more chill about things like summoning friends to help out

I’ve been doing a LV1 run post patch 1.03 so the ice stomp was heavily nerfed and the magic shield no longer works so I’m stuck on godricks spirit. The poison mist carried me hard, I have you to thank for this :)

The Godskin Duo is extremely susceptible to sleep: Just use a bow with sleep arrows or the Sword of St. Trina. As they are sleep, you can also use mist spells like Night Maiden's Mist and Poison Mist that do not wake them up. You can also sleep just one of them and focus the other one if you want a one on one fight. Edit: Night Maiden's Mist does wake up enemies, but still shreds these 2, so its still recommended.

First video I ever watched and I was hooked on your content. W video

I love this thumbnail so much.

I like how his every strategy was either nerfed or removed in the last patch

Iron Pineapple: *Telling everyone that he’s not a god tier souls player* me: “How many lies have I been told by the council?”

Your content is bleddy brilliant. New sub right ere

Thank you for showing that it's not always about being great at a game.

Knowledge is power, and you my friend have done that throughout the play through. Doesn't matter how cheap or how cheesy the way you beat the bosses. The fact that you found a way for each boss all the way to the end earned you a sub!

So fun fact, you can find Bernahl in Farum Azula, he'll invade you and when you beat him you get a special item that allows you to parry Malekith's Black Blade attacks.

I love your solution for Elden Beast! And I really enjoy all your content!

Homing orb can be outranned and you have to strave like a bit into it so you use the mechanic that the orb cannot switch up on you that fast. a bit tricky, but its like with the most home missles in elden ring, mostly you can just dodge them by running into the right direction :) GG Was a really good vid :)

The unavoidable final boss move can be avoided with a simple trick any build can do: by running in small circles. that's it, just run in a small circle and the tracking will try to rain down onto you and into the ground right behind where you were.

@IronPineapple 21:45 There's a mixture that you can put in the Physick flask that completely negates this attack. It turns all non-physical damage into heals instead of damage, and it's the only reason I can get through the fight. Everything else, I was able to learn to dodge eventually. It's called the "Crimsonwhorl Bubbletear".

always appreciate your ska background music choices

5:49 Chadman's stare back got me lmao

meanwhile: serpent hunter requires 0 stats and has insane damage even with no stats. + you can use it in combination with a greatshield & poke while blocking. would need all the strength boosting equipment & flask though

Some moves are meant to be jumped over. Seeing that jumping is so convenient in this game and not in the others it really took some getting used to. Great video!

This video got me inspired to do a RL1 run as well. Got my character gigachad and everything. Just beat Godrick, got the clip on my channel and everything and i ended up realizing after like 9 failed attempts, the one i saved where i killed him was a Flawless kill. Love your content. Gives me hope to grow as a Souls Player even more

Full of really good tips. Thank you!

Godfrey's second phase was so cool that I had to go and max out the caestus just to fight him the way it was meant to be.

I am actually attempting my level 1 run on elden ring, actually on Godfrey, first elden lord bossfight (not the golden guy) and i have to admit i have learned some things about the level 1 run, even if it's late. Anyway i would love to share some other tips with everyone who will attempt the run. 1. Get the marika's scarseal talisman in siofra river, u will boost by 3 points Mind, Intelligence, Faith and Arcane. Location: @ 2. Get the talismans that will boost your single stats by 5 points, there are 4 in the game and you can get them "early". I will list them from easiest to hardest to get them. +5 Faith: Purified ruins, Liurnia, into the chest in the underground room. Location: @ +5 Strenght: Fort Gael, Caelid, into the chest on the roof before the watch tower. Location: @ +5 Dexterity: Church of the Plague, Caelid, Millicent gives it to you after giving her the golden needle as a part of her quest. Location: @ +5 Intelligence: Divine tower of Liurnia, Liurnia, to reach the tower u will need to progress Ranni's questline. Location: @ 3. List of some the best armor pieces that can increase your stats or give you some interesting bonuses, as i did before i will rank them from the easiest to get in my opinion and i will link you some coordinates to get them. - COMMONER'S SIMPLE GARB: Stormveil castle, Limgrave, near the front door lever. Let Gostoc give the signal to get the main gate open and speed up the process. +1 Faith. Location: @ - RULER'S MASK: found northeast of the Abandoned Coffin site of grace, Altus Plateau, on a corpse on a carriage. +1 Faith. Location: @ - RAPTOR'S BLACK FEATHERS: Sage's cave, near the abandoned coffin site of grace, Altus Plateau, in a chest behind an illusory wall. Increases the jump attack power. Location: @ - SILVER TEAR MASK: Mimic tear bossfight, Nokron. +8 arcane, +8 discovery but decreases the physical damage. - TWINSAGE GLINTSTONE CROWN: Raya Lucaria academy, Liurnia, dropped by a Crystallized Crab. +6 Intelligence but reduces Health and Stamina. Location: @ - OKINA'S MASK: near church of repose, Mountaintop of the Giants, dropped from the invader okina. You can cheese him by baiting him to fall from an edge behind the church. +3 Dexterity but less concentration. Location: @ - WHITE MASK: mohgwin dinasty mausoleum, Siofra river, dropped by killing one of the three Nameless White Mask NPC invaders - i do not recommend to get it just cause of the monsters that will follow you with the npc, but it can be interesting in the run for a bleeding build. +10% damage when the bleeding stacks uo near you on yourself. Location: @ 4. Get some ashes of war that can help you during the run, the 3 i recommend: - ICE STOMP: Liurnia, near the Caria manor, dropped from the invisible scarab in the small lake. Location: @ - SEPPUKU: Mountaintop of the giants, in the frozen lake. Location: @ - BLOODHOUND STEP: Dragonbarrow, dropped by the night's cavalry on the small bridge. Location: @ 6. Get the dragon communion seal, it can be found at Fringefolk Hero's Grave, and buffs Dragon Communion Incantations by 15%: @ Head to Fort Faroth, kill the big dragon with a bleeding weapon and get 5 dragon hearts: @ Then move to the Cathedral of dragon communion in Caelid ( @ ) and get the scarlet rot incantation and the ice incantation from the altar. Due to your talismans and armor pieces mentioned before you will be able to use them both. Very powerful against almost every boss, gives u the chance to end every fight relatively fast if u then move to a melee fight or with much less risk if you want to keep your distance from the boss. Get the poison mist near Castle Morne to cheese some bosses in stealth mode without letting them move and with 0% risk of loosing: @ Get the swarm of flies incantation in mohgwin dinasty mausoleum for a bleed build: @ 7. Get the Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearings and the Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearings to easy upgrade your weapons. Locations for the smithing stones bell bearings: @ Locations for the somber stones bell bearings: @ 8. A small list of some of the talismans that can give u some benefits for the builds you would be using: - FLOCK'S CANVAS TALISMAN (Greatly raises the potency of Incantations): @ - LORD OF BLOOD'S EXULTATION (Blood loss in vicinity increases attack power of 20%): @ - MILLICENT'S PROSTHESIS (+5 dexterity, raises attack power with successive strikes - one of the hardest to get due to the path you have to follow): @ - MARIKA'S SORESEAL (+5 Mind, Intelligence, Faith, and Arcane - one of the hardest to get due to the path you have to follow): @ - KINDRED OF ROT'S EXULTATION (Poisoning or rot in vicinity increases attack power of 20%): @ - RED-FEATHERED BRANCHSWORD (+20% attack power when HP is low): @ 9. I will list some builds I created with all the items listed before, just to let you know how your playstyle may change during the run or inspire you to get new builds setups. (NOTE: you NEVER want to remove the Radagon's soreseal talisman from your builds, so i will not mention it in the builds below.) - EXTREME BLEEDING SETUP: Okina's mask, +5 Dex talisman, uchigatana & nagakiba both with seppuku - optional talisman: Lord of Blood's Exultation. -- EXTREME BLEEDING - MID RANGE SETUP VARIANT: Silver tear mask, marika's scarseal/soreseal talisman, +5 dexterity talisman, rivers of blood katana, dragon communion talisman, swarm of flies. - MID RANGED ICE AND SCARLET ROT: Marika's scarseal talisman, shard of Alexander talisman, Flock's Canvas Talisman, commoner's robe, ruler's mask, dragon communion seal, dragon communion spells, Uchigatana with ice stomp. - MID RANGED ICE AND SCARLET ROT VARIANT: Marika's soreseal talisman, shard of Alexander talisman, Flock's Canvas Talisman dragon communion seal, dragon communion spells, Uchigatana with ice stomp: mid ranged ice and scarlet rot build with light weight. If you made it here, thank you for your time, i appreciate that cause i spent a lot of time writing this little guide while im in bed with covid-19. Keep it up my fellow tarnished boys! post scriptum: i'm Italian, i hope i wrote everything the most correctly and clearly possible for you.

The shield move is awesome Pineapple!!

I respect the ending of this video, I actually got a good laugh out of it

This is what I love about these games, I just recently got all the achievements and now I wanna make a few challenge builds like this

the realization tht he almost never jumped to dodge make me realize two things: 1: it's no surprise people find the game harder than it is. 2: he is the god gamer he claims to not be.

I love just coming back and watching this video every so often

7:05 never have truer words been spoken

Watching that Draconic Tree Sentinel slowly die with poison was hilarious

Fun Fact: the strat where you cast poison mist on the draconic sentinel also works on old king Allant in Demon Souls, both in the original and the remake! If you stand still when you start the fight then Allant will not aggro onto you and will walk to the middle of the arena, where he will then turn around. Walk up to him and cast poison mist (or whatever it's called in Demon Souls) and bad bing bada boom he's dead.

fun fact you can force rennalas summons to despawn, each summon has a specific attack they will do before they despawn, the giant being his swing, the dragon his fire and then dive, the wolves their chain, and the black knife assassin his chain.

Great video, well done ! "Don't work hard, work smart" Yes, I'm, working on it.