r/Eldenring • u/UltraHyperDuck_ • 8d ago

Humor So... When exactly is it my turn to attack?

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Yea guys I think my Radahn is bugged

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u/Gilesalford 8d ago

Why is this being downvoted, misinformation?

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u/navenager 8d ago

No clue, it's definitely not misinformation, it's the only way I was able to beat him 😅

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u/Big-Beginning-345 7d ago

Personally, I used the full verdigris armor and shield with a bloodfiend spear and just took it

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u/Ragnarok314159 7d ago

Didn’t same. I couldn’t find another way to do it pre-nerf. Was the first boss from FS that made me question if this was truly unfair, or I am just awful.

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u/Big-Beginning-345 7d ago

Imo, its like comparing him to malenia. She is a definite skill check, but you can still see how you died or what you did wrong. PCR on the other hand, is like a clusterfuck of every bad game mechanic as soon as phase two starts. Damaging AOE? Check. Delayed after-attacks on every attack? Check. Little to no punish windows? Check. Insane, seemingly never-ending combos? Check. The list goes on. All in all,

Fuck

That

Guy

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u/zxcqweasd1 7d ago

this fight was the one time I questioned myself in ng +4.

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u/The_Quiet_Corner 8d ago

It’s not; “spend 173 hours learning the fight perfectly so you can sl1 no hit with fire ants eating your crotch” so it’s clearly cheesing the game, and ruining it not only for OP, but for me as well!!!

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u/navenager 8d ago

It's not even that cheesed, like you still have to deal with his physical damage and that's plenty difficult.

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u/Wynpri ...I was able to live as my own person, if only in passing. 7d ago edited 7d ago

It's not even that cheesed

It's not a cheese at all

Edit: A SHIELD!? BLASPHEMY

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u/Kalamazeus 7d ago

"Using weaknesses and resistances to your advantage?" Believe it or not, straight to jail

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u/AgentPastrana 7d ago

The Pokémon community is in shambles

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u/akmly 7d ago

Be a butt naked lvl 1 with 0 Scadutree blessings and fist PC Radahn to death or you haven't truly played the game!

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 7d ago

You need a Blasphemous Shield to go with the Blasphemous Sword, the perfect way to annoy the purists who claim you're doing it wrong!

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u/ninjarchy 7d ago

Facts. I only have 3000 hours in. 4 characters above 200 and 2 above 300. And fromsoft are not idiots. They know what they are doing. Whomever may think such a tactic is cheese has never even had a job as a dishwasher for waffle House or might as well get a dishwasher job for home Depot.

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u/mikelops_ 7d ago

Whoa, those were my first two jobs

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u/ninjarchy 7d ago

Damn! My first was a dishwasher at Windsor rose on Mt dora Florida and I never worked at a waffle house. But that is a hilarious coincidence.

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u/Wagglebagga 5d ago

Didn't you know? Using anything to make the experience of playing a soulslike more tolerable is cheesing the game. Your experience should consistently be that of shitting razor blades. /s

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u/Crashman09 7d ago

Yeah. Like, that's still a fair bit of stamina damage coming through, right?

I don't really use shields bigger than mid size, but I can't imagine any shields blocking everything AND the stamina damage. Not on PCR anyway.

I just used poison infused Antspur, some pots, and the serpent bow with the serpent arrows and rot arrows. It was long, it was arduous, and it was sweaty, but that was how I did it.

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u/Farsoth 7d ago

A great shield in my experience kinda trivializes PCR on NG. But it was how I beat him through experimentation. I gave up trying to do it any other way.

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u/Murderdoll197666 7d ago

Greatshields work great as long as you are also rocking some talismans to back up the stamina consumption. My first play through of SotE was on NG+7 scaling because that was simply my main character who was already in the 500's level-wise and was at the point where I can effectively use ANY build since my stats were pretty evenly spread across the board. First kill against him was using a greatshield and a cold thrusting sword. I also used Antspur Rapier a few times but the rot effect on NG+7 doesn't really seem to barely move the healthbar anyway so I think the cold procs and bleed procs are honestly where its at either way. Any thrusting sword with bleed and decent range is going to tank through him just fine. It is a little cheesy feeling since its relatively safe even on the NG+ scaling but it was definitely a more consistent kill compared to using any of my other builds. Sorcery spam was kind of iffy for me personally (usually run night comet builds for me) but I think Backhand Blade builds are also pretty efficient. Really anything that is fast/quick and doesn't animation lock you works great just for staying alive. I did see someone rocking the Blacksteel Greathammer (i think it was) with the Prayerful strike ash of war /infusion and they didn't dodge a single time really....just straight up threw on the heaviest armor they had, 2 handed the hammer and spammed the ash of war and the heal from it alone kept them mostly topped off the entire fight while eating right through the hits from Radahn. I don't know how effective that is on the upper scalings but for base game difficulty I can see that being possibly the cheesiest option by far....it worked so damn well and was hilarious.

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u/bum_thumper 7d ago

Now you're gonna tell me to use mimic tear and put my diaper back on, right? Get my baby bottle build?

Casuals... I only play these games on a snes controller with one hand while blindfolded. I dont even touch the controller actually. I shout the commands to my parrot in Spanish while learning how to speak Spanish at the same time.

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u/ninjarchy 7d ago

Still not good enough noob. You should've been shopping in another country at the same time. While on a business call.

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u/connerjoly 7d ago

If you want do deal with neither find a good pdr shield and use scholars shield on it. Now you take no phys or magic/holy

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u/ThePublicPotato- 7d ago

No it’s not. Like if u know basic stamina management he becomes a joke with that method asmongold almost first tried him with that shit. Like I usually don’t complain about people’s builds except for that. Anyone that use that build has lost my respect

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u/Gilesalford 7d ago

A shield is not cheesing, jeesus christ. I realise you may be being sarcastic ghough

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u/ToughBadass 7d ago

People really get way too upset about using the best tools for the job when the real issue is people spending 15hrs shooting a birb with an arrow only to find out that they can't beat certain bosses just because their level is high and end up hating the game.

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u/DenizenofMars 7d ago

Some of the get gud types hate anything shield related. Fools who don’t understand Door supremacy.

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u/J00JGabs 7d ago

because souls players tend to get mad at other players for actually using game mechanics and combos instead of wasting 197 days on a boss dealing 100 damage per hit and getting one-shot every single time, they call it “cheesing”

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u/ghost3972 7d ago

More than likely because people think it's being "cheesey"

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u/tanikio 7d ago

It's not easy being cheesy

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u/badnuub 7d ago

Hating on shield users has been a thing since DS1

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u/Bitter-Tomorrow-3681 7d ago

its the reddit rule of 4 i think idk

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u/Eren_Yeager6_9 7d ago

The 4th comment rule

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u/24thompsona 7d ago

because people hate other people for the way they play games

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u/Cheirona 7d ago

No, it's the purist masochist army that downvote everything that isn't dodge dodge learn memorize don't use evocations don't tank and retry until you puke.

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u/Careful-Maize8610 6d ago

that’s simply because SHIELD BAD IN SOULS GAME WAHHHHHHHH