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.

[Dr.Acula]

Antsur Rapier + Fingerprint shield and using mimic.

Took quite a few attempts where I mostly failed in phase 2. basically just tried to hit him as many times as necessary to apply scarlet rot and then survive.

[Seijana]

I didn't. It's not fun, not fair and with my build not possible. I have better things to do even within Elden Ring than that crap.

[Wheee333ee33e3e]

First time L2 spam with lion's claw. Realised I didn't play the dlc, was just an L2 simulator. Replayed the entire dlc and changed build to fire knight's greatsword with rkr. The crouch and roll r1 is an instant poke, which is amazing, r2 can charge a poke. Used crucible armour. You can trade on his lightest attacks, which is always worth it if you have rkr up, which isn't that often unfortunately.

Talisman were Dragoncrest, braid, two handed and spear.

The only other thing I did is pump to 15 faith and cast golden path after drinking faith physick. I used opaline hardtear as my other half.

Felt a lot less unfair the 2nd time when you really learn his moveset.

A good tip is to tank his nuke in his 2nd phase. Heal up and cast buffs to bait him into doing his nuke, then run to him and you can pull off a heavy attack. Tank the nuke, and you can pull off 2 heavy attacks when he lands. Should get him down to 40%.

At 30% (health bar below name), you can increase aggression massively, as he'll very likely jump up for his meteor. You can get off 2-3 heavy hits if you time it right and are lucky. That'll get him down to only 2-3 hits to win after he lands.

After he lands, I found I died very often due to getting greedy. Not sure if it's something in the code, but he always ends up with just a sliver of health left. Always stay at maximum health and play very conservative.

Its just being much more careful with phase 2 than phase 1. Phase 1 is training mode, to learn all his attacks and learn how to deal with them. Phase 2 demands a near perfect understanding of all his phase 1 attacks, and a good understanding of his additional phase 2 attacks.

Watch no hit runs to understand what to do much better.

A big part of luck is his meteor sling. That attack is pretty hard to deal with in phase 2, and if he does it too much, you're unlikely to win.

[Gurren Lagann]

Really like this boss. My build, ng7 noHit https://youtu.be/3vaGF_2KPjg

[VithaR]

At Level 125 with Vagabond for Meta PvP with 66 Str holding a Heavy Cleanrot with Chilling Mist Ash of War and not using the 2h damage Talisman because i did not find it.
I used Light Roll and it took ~3 hours.

[Kuukuna]

Started my 2nd character (always deprived/wretch for these games) in march 2022 before Barricade Shield nerf. Leveling vig, end and str to their soft caps and +5 dex talisman so I could use lance. Lance + Fingerprint Shield + Barricade Shield was the plan to 100% save file. 100h+ save got corrupted and made me drop the game until DLC came out, but remaking the character for the next playthrough was always my plan. Barricade Shield nerf (it barely reduced stamina damage taken when blocking anymore) made me skip that ash of war and use something else though.

Took 4 attempts to beat Radahn. Died to grab once and twice to the meteor, fourth time I chugged damage reduction bubble mixture and made a sad attempt to run away. Still got hit, but survived and managed to kill him without too much trouble. Malenia was much harder for this type of character.

[Bankai9212]

Simple summoned help 2nd time I've done that. I do see the thorn spell being good (until from nerfs it because why not). That and turtle strat.

[Bankai9212]

Origineel geplaatst door Kuukuna:

Started my 2nd character (always deprived/wretch for these games) in march 2022 before Barricade Shield nerf. Leveling vig, end and str to their soft caps and +5 dex talisman so I could use lance. Lance + Fingerprint Shield + Barricade Shield was the plan to 100% save file. 100h+ save got corrupted and made me drop the game until DLC came out, but remaking the character for the next playthrough was always my plan. Barricade Shield nerf (it barely reduced stamina damage taken when blocking anymore) made me skip that ash of war and use something else though.

Took 4 attempts to beat Radahn. Died to grab once and twice to the meteor, fourth time I chugged damage reduction bubble mixture and made a sad attempt to run away. Still got hit, but survived and managed to kill him without too much trouble. Malenia was much harder for this type of character.

Malenia is her life steal, but she can be staggered to become a joke.

[Kuukuna]

Origineel geplaatst door Bankai9212:

Malenia is her life steal, but she can be staggered to become a joke.

I wouldn't call Malenia a joke

[Bankai9212]

Origineel geplaatst door Kuukuna:

Origineel geplaatst door Bankai9212:

Malenia is her life steal, but she can be staggered to become a joke.

I wouldn't call Malenia a joke

Compared to the second phase for Radhan, malenias moves are pretty easy to grasp. The issue again is mainly her life steal effect which can drag the fight. Only real dangerous attacks is water flow and the other attack she gets in her second phase. Otherwise like I said she can be staggered. Radahn can't gains a ton of aoe and visual clutter to make dodges difficult.

[Aria Athena]

Radahn was harder for me, cause in phase two I couldn't see ♥♥♥♥, yet I have still to fully dodge the bs waterflow.

[Bankai9212]

It has odd timing most at least run away for the first volley and least it has a very obvious tell.

[Kuukuna]

There's a difference calling something easier than the final boss of the DLC and calling something a joke. Miranda flower, Soldier of Godrick and Watchdogs are jokes.

[Muninn]

Pure jealousy at the fact that i'm not Miquella's consort

[Bankai9212]

Origineel geplaatst door Kuukuna:

There's a difference calling something easier than the final boss of the DLC and calling something a joke. Miranda flower, Soldier of Godrick and Watchdogs are jokes.

Context I said "staggered to become a joke." Not referring to the fight itself as one, since only a few ashes or war can even do that let alone consistently or hr using water fall to break out of it. Most vids that last a few minutes use this to great effect.