How did you beat Consort Radhan?

[NOOBSURVIVES YT]

This question is for people who didn't summon (other players). did not changed their stats and weapons and kept true to their main build. Did not used shield poke or other cheese methods.
it's okay if you summoned NPC and spirit ashes. how long did it took you to beat and how many tries?
People who did use shield poke how many times did you failed before you decided to just give up and kill him that way.
I am fighting him in new game + as intelligence user and it's hard.

[Sonnenbank]

Mimic and Thorns Spell
3 tries

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3289299839

Not proud of it but its porbably the easiest method availible currently after shield poke

[McMarc]

First playthrough: Greatshield and Devonias Hammer, blocking+guardcounters, boss dead in about 3 hours of attemtps.

Second playthrough: Knights Lightning Spear, dodge->zap->repeat, boss dead in less than an hour.

Third playthrough: Bleed Backhand Blade with deflecting hardtear. Even though it was my 3rd ride with Radahn, this took me the longest with probably about 5 or 6 hours of attempts spread over multiple days.

No ash summons because I like the pain

[Fineous🔥]

Same approach as his Caelid persona, rot and more rot then god slaying incantations to eat good chunks of his total HP, bloodflies and frenzy flame blast together with Greyoll roar to reduce his damage while increasing his taken damage a 10%.

I play mainly as caster so no shield poke but still used a blacksteel shield (great holy negation) for P2, together with holy resistance talismans and a Reduvia for mid range bleed procs.

Used a caster mimic and summoned Thioller and Ansbach to finish their quests. Now that makes things EXTREMLY HARDER.....NPCs buffed his HP to 100k.....lol but after 4 hours i managed to keep rot up without downtime and never stopped casting black flame fireballs or blood flies. All of this while shielding and dodging some combos, also used a uplifting aromatic to protect me and my minions from the holy meteor (i wasted a lot of time and precious FP healing them during all the fight...).

This was a pre Scooby-Doo blessing buff kill in NG+ Max with 13 (or 14 cant remember) blessings...before there was any feedback or video around the internetz but played my first Shadow of the Erdtree clear blind anyways.

I keept the same loadout for all my 4 kills but managing to be able to light roll while keeping amazing mitigation thanks Maliketh armor and i can still use the great shield.

[toughnails]

Originally posted by McMarc:

First playthrough: Greatshield and Devonias Hammer, blocking+guardcounters, boss dead in about 3 hours of attemtps.

It took you 3 hours of attempts with a greatshield? How? I won 2nd try. I used Blood Sword Lance instead of a colossal weapon though, 1 handed colossal is very suboptimal.

[ZTL-Altima]

Parry/riposte and antspur pokes. Did not even had to learn his most BS moves, just survive. Had 5 healing left if I remember correctly.

"Secret" is to dodge or parry his most used stuff, which is the same as first phase.

[Deverti]

he s definitely a tough cookie. likely spent more time on him than any other boss in any of the souls games.

scadu 16, lvl 130 over here on his first demise.
he received the buckler + misericorde treatment.

edit:
you asked about attempts and whatnot. not sure but i roughly spent 3-4 hours on him.

[Old Captain Yon]

Gaius spear, Fingerprint, blood infused, rot pots, Mimc and sir Ansbach. What a gimmick boss. I ain't dodging that rollcatch aoe fest

[McMarc]

Originally posted by toughnails:

Originally posted by McMarc:

First playthrough: Greatshield and Devonias Hammer, blocking+guardcounters, boss dead in about 3 hours of attemtps.

It took you 3 hours of attempts with a greatshield? How? I won 2nd try. I used Blood Sword Lance instead of a colossal weapon though, 1 handed colossal is very suboptimal.

I did not use a poke weapon and played with guard counters instead, meaning I was NOT in invincible block+poke mode all the time. Also my blessing was only at around lvl 12, so things werent as easy as they could have been. I'm sure it would have taken way less time if I used one of the go to cheese builds like you did.

[Key]

I'm boring so I always use the same stuff, it took me something like 70-80ish tries? I didn't really count, but pretty much an entire afternoon+evening. I used knight armor, longsword with square-off and a kite shield. RL 125, 70 str/60 vigor, 20 blessings, I don't use ashes, not because I need by e-peen to be big, but because I can't enter that flow state if the boss keeps switching aggro all the time.

We're at the point where it's 100% memorization. Skill matters very little as every attack will roll-catch if you dodge on reaction. Getting killed super fast just slows the learning process, as you're pretty much guaranteed to die and start over every time you see a chain of attacks you've never seen before as you have to already know how to avoid the attacks to react. Trying to increase difficulty more and more changed Souls combat from a skill-based rythm game to a trial and error memory game.

I'm not sure if I'm ever gonna fight him again in future playthroughs tbh, I genuinely think they went overboard this time, it's such a tedious fight it left a sour taste in my mouth.

[erogg]

Iron Ball, Scadu Level 18, RL 150, no summons
Primarily a strength build with some faith for buffs
Took me around 3-4 hours to beat him

[Angel]

I let him beat me up for 4 hours just to let him think he was tough before deciding to have more than 0hp while making his 0

[Dollmaker]

First time: Malenia build, relied heavily on Scarlet Aoenia
Second time: Str/Int build, mainly used a Radahn cosplay for irony.
Third time: Mohg build, revenge.
Fourth time: Mage build, Rennala cosplay.

[Evilinferno]

1st char 60 arcane/33 faith build: Occult Raptor Talon's, no halp just golden vow + flame str buff, suffered for about 7-8 hours, had fun because most boss combo's could still be punished unlike with slower weps
Did alot of co-op after with bloodfiend arm/imp thorns since it fit the arcane/faith build i already had and i didn't want hosts to suffer the low claw damage despite the bleeds
2nd char 70 Int build: Dark Moon Greatsword, no halp just golden vow and charged atk spam, took about an hour, had to play it like a thorn's mage with how few openings you get with a slower weapon and staying in melee range also added more damage

Light roll makes dodging alot more forgiving, Medium roll has an easier time dodging his potential one shot lightspeed dash move tho...

[Mr_Blank]

Backhand blades worked wonders for me but were difficult to get in the rhythm of for this fight. I used a mimic the first time so I’m doing one last playthrough where I go solo on every fight.

[Solkin]

beat it in NG+ as Rani Moon/cold sorcerer level 215 mainly int
learned to dodge phase 1 the hard way, punish possible for cold storm spell and rani moon when he's doing the meteore jump
summon mimic just before end of phase 1, to be full health at the start of phase 2.
juggle aggro with mimic and some comet on phase 2.

tears for magic damage and reduce incoming damage

do not use NPC, he has way too much HP if an NPC is involved and sir ansbach is just a f***ing joke, runing around the map unable to hit Radanh.

took 30 tries i guess, i should'nt have started the dlc with a NG+, the learning phase is hard ^^'