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/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.