Effortless Radahn cheese?

[Lahoo Eckbert]

I beat him once with my first character but I can't be bothered with my current one(and I can't with this int/dex character anyway) so I'm wondering if there is a cheese to beat the guy?

[НяШкО_МуР]

It makes no sense in cheesing as he is the final boss, and defeating him is not obligatory. There is no continuation after that. So you either skip it or keep trying until you vanquish that fella.

[Dizzy Ladybug]

greatshield poke with status effects i guess, or maybe use that thorn spell from close up.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by dizzy ladybug:

greatshield poke with status effects i guess, or maybe use that thorn spell from close up.

Thorns is faith.

[Kensei]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv7ZYFhYmX4&t=1s

Spam scarlet rot. Or if you don't want to respec, spells that will inflict frostbite. You could do a mix of frostbite and bleed if you're int dex.

It's not really a cheese, but scarlet rot, frost and bleed work well. Presumably poison does too since with Thioller's participation.

[JellyPuff]

Parry, bleed, rot, frostbite, stacking resistances (phys + holy) or shields with high holy def for attacks, like Miquella's Light.

Weapons, that can really spam bleed seem to be the most braindead, like dual bleed Nagikaba or Cross Naginata. Those can kill him in under a minute even at high NG.

[Spirehawk]

run forward, get him to stop shooting and go melee, run all the way back to the cliff wall and jump up onto a rock out of his reach, pepper him with arrows until he dies.

edit: realized you probably meant dlc xD

[SirDopa]

git gud

[Chris1]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Originally posted by dizzy ladybug:

greatshield poke with status effects i guess, or maybe use that thorn spell from close up.

Thorns is faith.

Thorns is faith but it is cast with a sorcery stave which probably scales the best with INT. Also the bleed scales with arcane. Slap the holy +10 tear in with a +5 holy talisman and basically any character no matter the stats can cast it. Increase your arcane with outer god talisman and the silver mask, and you can probably bring down the final boss in just a handful of casts.

[Sonnenbank]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Originally posted by dizzy ladybug:

greatshield poke with status effects i guess, or maybe use that thorn spell from close up.

Thorns is faith.

Thorns requires faith
but is a spell
that scales with arc >-<

[Lahoo Eckbert]

Originally posted by НяШкО_МуР:

It makes no sense in cheesing as he is the final boss, and defeating him is not obligatory. There is no continuation after that. So you either skip it or keep trying until you vanquish that fella.

It's not optional if you want Thoiler or Ansbach's gear.

[Detective Costeau]

Haligtree greatshield+spear or thrusting sword of your choice is a pretty solid cheese if you have the stats for it.
Plus the image of this superpowered holy berserker demigod uselessly flailing away at a dude with a big shield is funny to me. Status effects are nice but not needed, you can grind him down with simple damage if you're stubborn about it.

[Lahoo Eckbert]

Yeah so I killed him by summoning a mimic with rot pot in the quick bar. Mimic luckily used enough rot pots and I just outlasted Radahn as he died to rot. Truly an obnoxious boss design. Near impossible to kill easily.

Also good luck summoning mimic, he usually never lets you get it off, and when you do, mimic aimlessly wonders around for the most part and the boss almost never keeps aggro on the mimic. I'm guessing Mimic's AI is tempered with to make him useless.

[pocbame]

Fingerprint Greatshield (with barricade shield + greatshield talisman) + antspur rapier is effortless cheese. There are other strategies of course but they require effort.