Thoughts on Radahn?
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i dont think
syrbd
you will never be
Descartes btfo
i dont speak, i float in the air wrapped in a sheet
then you aren't
Same. I just consume, it's easier.
DESCARTESFAGS SWITCHING FROM ARE TO WERE.
Your usual fromdrone moron
most intelligent Ganker user
If you didn't beat him pre-nerf, you didn't beat the game.
there was no nerf.
check the patchnotes. They nerfed him for a short time then reverted those changes.
There was a nerf. His 'bug fixes' reduced the hitboxes of a lot of his attacks
The fucking speararrow shot man, that move was a sniping and it was kino. Now I can get torrent and just run around.
>wanted to twink out my frist character for some invasions at lvl 45 with +5.
>Going for blood infusions
>Have to kill this fucker pre-nerf
>Everything one shots me, including his arrows.
He's exactly as hard as he used to be. The different hitboxes are only really noticeable if you have a bunch of phantoms summoned at once.
He used arrows, so he didn't beat me.
>Beat him the night before the nerfs
Ez.
Not true at all. I was watching my friends play it and they were all using summons and dying for hours.
If you summoned during the fight you didn't beat him.
>FESTIVAL OF COMBAT
>ITS GONNA BE A FESTIVAL OF COMBAT
>ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE HERE
>ALL THE GREATEST WARRIORS
>BUT YOU CANT SUMMON THEM EVEN THOUGH ITS COOL AND LORE FRIENDLY AND THEY CANONICALLY HELP YOU FIGHT HIM
if you didnt summon, you didnt beat him
Honestly I don't think I disagree. I don't think I've ever really summoned for him, because the fight is so blasted fun one on one, but I can honestly see it being justified by the writing. Maybe in my next NG cycle I'll make it a party.
NPCs are just way more important in elden ring because of the story. there's basically no logical justification outside of "because i want it to be more challenging and i think its more fun 1v1" to not summon certain characters in certain spots.
>NPCs are just way more important in elden ring
Huh?
like, summons are actual NPCs in the story and not literal whos. they have a vested interest in the outcome of certain things and like in the case of radahn, actively reference fighting in the battle. You have to be a psychopath to not summon Melina the one time you can actually bring her out
>summons are actual NPCs in the story and not literal whos
half the npc summons in the game are literal whos
This. I've never been able to avoid summoning Melina for the Morgott fight, despite him being one of the best fights in the game.
morgott's a terrible fight, all he does is dash around and input read
In my summoning headcanon, if you get your ass Mohgged by Mohg, and then go to the Haligtree, there'll be an option to talk to Malenia and you can tell her where Miquella is. Then when you return to the palace, you can summon her.
God I wish
He's too easy when summoning therefore it doesn't measure up canonically to the legend therefore it's not canon therefore you didn't beat the fight.
I like how his AI breaks when you summon as if his fight isn't actually finished
you didn't beat him, you should leave the thread
Now if only there was a festival for Rot Twin
Call it Melania Mania
Not only did I summon every single one of them, I also let them kill the bastard whilst I looked on from afar, resummoning anyone who died.
it's the other way around, actually
imagine going to festival of beating radahn's ass and there's plenty of warriors, and game heavily suggest you to use summons to have epic fight and you just ignore it. if you didn't summon you have no soul and are a gay
>NOOO YOU GUISE DIDN'T BEAT HIM BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FIGHT HIM WHEN HIS ATTACKS DID 10 MORE DAMAGE
I don't understand this autism. He will always kill you in 2 hits or instantly with the meteor if you're overleveled, or oneshot you if you fight him at the "appropriate time".
Really weird to have this mistaken pride too when I know most of you morons summoned.
The eldenchud spammer at release was in full damage control for the game being shit, he had a script of like 10 things he'd say to try and gaslight people into thinking that the game was actually good and one of them was "you didn't beat the REAL game"
The logic also doesn't stand up when anyone who wants to experience pre-nerf Radahn can simply play at a somewhat lower level than what they did pre-nerf. It's not like these nerfs made his attacks like 50% slower or anything like that.
All these posturing cunts who cry about Radahn nerfs can easily experience an even harder Radahn by beating him at LV1.
they didn't just change his damage, they nerfed his whole attack programming.
well the boss isn't finished just like the game so maybe they were trying to patch him to be finished
Proof?
i saw it in a dream.
I beat him on my first try on the first week, no summons. I was a mage though.
>I beat him on my first try on the first week, no summons.
Hmm...
>I was a mage though.
So you didn't beat him then, okay.
Did I beat him if I won with a crossbow and some melee?
I can dodge his attacks but the camera is fucking awful when you're close to him
>beat him pre-nerf
>with whorefrost stomp
I beat him pre-nerf the same way I beat him nowadays. Summoning everyone and shooting arrows at him.
I beat him pre-nerf and without any summons. Same for the entirety of Code Vein.
you mean when they buffed him and then nerfed him? that's not a nerf that's nothing schizo chud
I mean I beat him in his release state, before the first patch of the game, you worthless obsessed gay
>Redditors still believe he was nerfed
Massive cope.
Mightiest demigod of the shattering
was more fun before the nerf. it really needed to be a fuck you fight since your able to summon a disposable army to battle with him.
You're supposed to summon for this fight. That's the whole point of the festival.
The only reason people were having trouble with him pre-patch was because retards kept trying to solo him because they think this is Dark Souls.
I havent fought him since launch but phase 2 felt near impossible with greatsword unless I had all the flunkies summoned and even then theyd die in like 5 seconds
>The only reason people were having trouble with him pre-patch was because retards kept trying to solo him because they think this is Dark Souls.
How true is this honestly?
But yes, the way that summons are obviously intended to be the 'correct' way to approach fights and not easy mode makes arguments for an honorable approach kind of silly.
It's not true at all. Most people were using summons and were still getting bodied left and right because Radahn on release was super tanky and had massive hitboxes that could devastate all your summons at once.
Only some progamers (or Ganker tryhards) were actuslly trying to solo him on release
Post nerf summons trivialize the fight, he's supposed to be like a raid boss.
Whats weird is that the autists that refuse to use summons(despite the game heavily giving you the green light) for the Rhadan fight would gladly use the Serpent killer for the Rykard fight.
fromdrones are stupid as fuck, they also think jump attacks are "cheating" because they weren't in previous souls games
if rolling wasn't in demon's souls and was added in elden ring, they would also think of it as cheating
I still look back fondly on my first time beating Radahn pre-nerf solo. Most memorable moment in ER.
Played it again post-nerf and beat him easy first try. That was depressing. They massacred my boy because you shitters are shit.
I soloed him prepatch, he wasn't that bad
of course I was probably overleveled, he did kill me a lot of times
i defeated him solo prenerf,best bossfight in the entire game,rest of bossfights are fuckng trash thou
Would argue that you're supposed to summon for the first phase, but once he crashes down during the start of the 2nd phase and killing all summons, it's you vs him.
Reasons:
1: The NPCs talk as if you killed him solo
2: It's fucking kino that way
>youre supposed to watch the NPCs beat the boss for you
The npcs stand no chance against Radahn. You summon them for the sake of the EVENT
Basically this, but if people want to have fun their own way so be it.
what was nerfed?
after 3 deaths from spears i wasnt expecting, i killed him on my first actual fight with him by bringing him to the top of a hill where he couldnt effectively attack below him. bad music, forgettable fight.
hitbox size and damage
they reverted the damage nerf later but kept the smaller hitboxes
They also nerfed his HP, and that nerf was kept
While the hitbox nerf was good because some hitboxes were BS, Radahn really could use a bit more HP
forgettable? really now?
i think i only remember where i fought him because i saw my own clip a few times looking through recordings.
You play like a complete shitter. Jesus.
thanks, i found the game pretty easy.
im not sure what people are talking about with nerf and prenerf.
he seemed pretty easy to me.
>roll r1
>roll roll roll r1
>man, why is the souls combat so boring
>I'm bored
>the game is unfair.... no I will not use ahses of war that low profile/ hyper armor... that's... uh... um...
I quit when I died a couple of times and realised you gotta jog down that shit, then all the way back up to get smoked by his ion cannon beam whilst summoning bros.
Couldn't be fucked with that nonsense, and couldn't even really see what the fuck was going on either.
I did like how that one bro just noped the fuck out after I summoned him though.
most kino fight in the game and if you don't like it because of its gimmick you're everything wrong with the fanbase
I love the idea behind the fight, hope the expansion have more gimmick bosses such as this.
Cool guy, cool fight. Using the horse is a trap.
It's Canon that one of the reasons he researched into gravity magic so much was so that he could use it to reduce how heavy he was for his horse. His horse probably loves him and is the most well treated animal in the game
Reddit tier history
He actually doesn't jump into space with Leonard (his horse's name), his leg pushes Leonard safely underground before jumping and then they reunite when he lands.
It's kinda dumb because he's supposed to be a mindless beast by the time the Festival takes place. It'd make more sense if he was just crawling like Wolnir.
Their bond transcends madness.
his instincts of battle are all that remains
Kek is that an actual lore point or is that just what the ingame models do?
Not sure if it's lore (well other than the horse being named Leonard), but the model does actually push Leonard under the map until Radahn lands.
You would never know about that without dissecting parts of the game you’re never supposed to see so not canon. Sorry lord chud.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
I USED HACKING SOFTWARE TO DECONSTRUCT THE GAME TO MAKE FANFICTION VIDEOS
ACK
I mean you can literally see him step on Leonard and push him underground in-game without any 3rd party tools or manipulation.
>what the ingame models do
the lorechud for Ganker made a video about it
More of ingame models. Due to how the meteor attack works, it's easier to aim for the horse than the player; so they teleport the horse to under your character, then do the attack.
That's actually a really smart way to do it than just aiming the meteor to the player. The horse can stop for a while before the meteor is launched so running away can actually save you without needing to keep a track of player movement.
Zoomers all have ADHD, you can't expect them to read more than one sentence, especially when it contains anything higher than 2nd grade vocabulary.
No wonder they can't do anything else than shit on a game they've never played.
>not realizing chud fanfiction transcends the actual game
Here. Have a (You).
It’s easier to fight him with a horse
nah
>Radahn ruined because some fucking geek gays kept going around telling every streamer about his epic lore and wholesome gravity horse
What the fuck is their problem? Every fucking stream and let's play
>ruined
What? Just ignore every soijakmoron and chad larper - they're the absolute bottom of the barrel and often the two sides of the same coin.
I like how his swords have magnetic field lines engraved on them
it's gravity, not magnetic
Nerfing him was one of the biggest mistakes ever made. They turned him into a jobber. Making him powerful as fucking hell fit the theme so well, don't even care if it was too hard to do underleveled. If I was able to beat it then so were others
I think nerfing him was actually a sensible decision considering he's supposed to be a midgame boss and that he blocks the entirety of Nokron (and Deeproots Depths by extension, altough you can get to those two places without killing him) + the Ranni quest
That said the nerfs may have been a twd excessive
> enter arena
> sprint on torrent summoninh everyone I can
> just keep sprinting to resummon as they die
> beat him without ever touching him
IMO his release stats should be buffed, not nerfed. There's a goddamn FESTIVAL of War and only the most experienced players should be able to beat Radahn solo. The rest should be spamming summons since that's what makes the fight unique. I did some testing a long while back (after the nerfs) and he just jobs hard if you summon those NPCs.
We're all very impressed by how much of a tryhard you are anon, but no, Radahn should have been buffed from the release. He's a midgame boss you need to kill for one of the endings not a hidden lategame superboss
I'm a tryhard because I'm advocating for the use of summons? Come on, dude.
>He's a midgame boss you need to kill for one of the endings not a hidden lategame superboss
He's a fucking legend that's been hyped up by several NPCs as well as the trailers+intro. Now he's just a weak jobber.
Almost like holding the stars while fighting an army while also dying of rot means he is not as strong as he was in his prime
And also it's untrue that the problem with release Radahn was retards trying to solo him. Between the bigger hitboxes, damage and HP Radahn could absolutely sweep most players and the NPC summons along with it. It was far too strong for his position in the game. He's not Malenia my guy
>He's not Malenia my guy
Well yea, he's stronger. Or at least he used to be before he got rotfucked
Keyword here: used to
In the game, Malenia is mostly at her full power, especially in phase 2. Radahn lost his mind and is rotting from the inside
Malenia is an optional endgame boss. Radahn is scaled to be fought before Morgott and one of the endings is locked behind him.
From a lore and game design standpoint, makes no sense that Radahn should be comparable to Malenia
>Radahn could absolutely sweep most players and the NPC summons along with it
Good. That's how it should be.
I'm glad I beat him without summoning before the nerf. And then mutiple times after, but honestly I don't really like the fight. I don't like this DS2 trend of bosses which have spin to win attacks and then occasionally spaz out and spin like a fucking beyblade for 5-10 seconds at a time.
>I beat him without summoning before the nerf
Not something to be proud of.
The whole reason he was nerfed was because people are retards and wanted him to be easily beatable without summons, but having to use summons to beat him was the whole fucking point. Radahn is so strong that it takes an entire band of heroes to take him down. This is canon.
>DS2 trend
retard on Ganker hasn't actually played the game he's badmouthing, shocker!
Looks cool, fun lore, overhyped fight, ost sucks.
Wish we could fight him pre-rot.
Incredible fight, both a spectacle but also fun. Got even better after they fixed his hitboxes and turned his damage back on, just a shame they didn't turn back his HP as well, tho for that ideally I'd like an alternative way to get to Nokron, or just straight up an alternative to Ranni quest that doesn't involve siding wit her.
I wish Rykard got the same treatment.
uh wrong pic but I guess that's fine
He's a big guy
For his horse
Like most of the great rune bosses it’s a gimmick fight of some sort, so it’s inherently trash. How did From manage to fuck up Radahn, Rykard and Rennala? As for Radahn, it’s just another shit encounter where you can’t see what’s going on, and summoning people in as thematic makes Radahn more annoying as he’s such a large fucker you can never see where he’s aiming. His meteor thing is a fun idea but that’s where it ends. 1/10 wouldn’t fight again for fun.
Another large flailing retard boss in a game full of retard flailing enemies and bosses. His entire story and concept is cool and the meteor move is metal as hell though, I'll give them that. But he's just another jank-ass fromsoft fight. I wonder why they went back to make souls shit when Sekiro was so... fluid and comprehensive. They went back to hitting big enemies on the feet and the camera fucking spazzing out when these large but unbelievably fucking fast enemies charge right at you every time. The gargoyles and the giant tree dragon things are some of the worst fucking enemies they've ever designed gameplay wise.
Needs more health
I beat him before the nerf. I beat him after the nerf. His fight is more fun after the nerf. Lore and design wise he is cool as fuck.
this, though I'd prefer he'd have the pre-nerf HP
Not at all an unpopular opinion but he got nerfed way too much. I’m one of those “buh buh no summons or you didnt beat it” shitheads and I even play without using a horse in combat and yet he still wasn’t even that difficult pre-nerf. Frankly he didn’t need a nerf at all. He felt perfect as he was. He wasn’t too tanky or too damaging to be unreasonable but he also felt like the raid boss he was supposed to be
>or too damaging to be unreasonable
his 4 big purple homing balls in phase 2 that we can't even see when were in melee range used to do like 1k dmg each. they absolutely were unreasonable
blame the stupid gays who tried to solo him, got filtered, then cried about it
it'd be like if blizzard nerfed raidbosses because some goofy dorks keep failing to solo them
actually stupid as fuck, soulsfags are inbred apes
Everything about Elden Ring is shit
ok man
I did full co-op with a friend for my first playthrough. My friend said he'd seen some ghosts walking around with armor that had a big mane on it, and that he wanted it. From promotional material, I knew that was Radahn's. Early on in our adventure, before we'd done Stormveil, we traveled north through all of Liurnia. My friend had heard from his friend, that there was a boss who dropped a great curved sword at Liurnia's northern tip, and he wanted it. So we went together in search of this boss (which was, of course, Magma Wyrm Makar). We got a bit lost in Liurnia, but for the most part went straight to Magma Wyrm Makar. After defeating him, we checked out what was past the elevator, to of course discover Altus. We didn't want to advance too far in this direction, since we'd yet to do Stormveil and had barely done anything in Liurnia.
We returned to Stormveil and finished it. Afterwards, I spoke with Gideon, and learned of the various rune bearers. He of course told me of Radahn, and that he was in Caelid. I realized we could go there immediately and fight him, so I told my friend. He was excited to get the armor he had wanted, so we set off into Caelid. I imagined that we would spend much time there and clear most of Caelid before finding Radahn, but one of the first places we went to was Fort Gael. I spied it early on from eastern Limgrave, and had wanted to go there for some time. Of course, we were teleported straight to Redmane Castle, and from there, the gateway by the foot of the impassable bridge took us straight to the castle's heart. Though we did not know it at the time, we had already triggered the festival of combat by riding the elevator past Makar. So within about an hour of defeating Godrick, we were already standing outside of Radahn's arena.
We fought him, just the two of us, with no additional summons. My friend wanted to get the armor as a final reward for defeating him in both our worlds, so we started off by fighting Radahn in my world. It took us all of Saturday to defeat him, and then all of Sunday to defeat him again in my friend's world. He was by far the hardest boss in our first playthrough, even moreso than Malenia. My friend wore his armor and used his swords for almost the entire rest of our 200+ hour playthrough.
Radahn's blades are so good. It's weird how they're actually a very decent counter to Malenia's anime autism, I wonder if that's intentional.
>that room with like 30+ claymen
>I start to just run past everything because it's clearly a waste of time to fight them all
>friend herds them all together and clears the entire room with 2 WAs
>very decent counter to Malenia's anime autism, I wonder if that's intentional.
I mean, canonically he was kicking her ass so hard that she was forced to pull her bootleg Poorman's Rose out from her ass in order to to win.
You can see in the cinematic, he calmly waits for her to get back up and charge before drawing his weapons, aims for her prosthetics both times, he's not trying to kill her and can afford to go non lethal (until the rot WMG)
Anyways I like the fight a lot. I found it really easy on repeat playthroughs, but that's probably just because it was one of the only fights that I actually had to learn in my first playthrough, since co-op mostly trivializes the game. Wish he had a bit more health, maybe, you can do so much free damage to him during his phase transition it's obscene.
kino story anon
I like him alot, he's the boss that makes the best use of Elden Rings unique features for a large fight you wouldn't really get in other Souls games. They definitely went overboard with the nerfs though
Fantastic design and moveset, great setup, great arena, but he's too easy, way to easy, even solo.
Lost against Malenia
Nah, she lost so hard she shat herself giving everyone around her stds.
Finlay
Malenia's cumsocket
>lose like a bitch
>unleash a bioweapon
cunt
you are simping for a woman who's literally rotting
your cock would probably fall out if it ended up inside of her
you can't """simp""" for a fictional woman god damn retarded zoomer gay
>maleniagarden gnome immediately resorts to semantics
uh huh
you are simping for a guy who would eat you alive
you see a surrogate to the father figure you never had in your childhood, he sees his afternoon snack. all the reddit gold you farmed posting about radahn and his little horsey doesn't mean anything to his charred brain matter, he'll chow down on you, your screams will fall on ears that went deaf centuries ago.
yea guess who pulled out the fucking aimbot at the last second and made radahn lose his mind
malenia's rot powers are NOT hers
they are hers, she is a pureblooded empyrean after all unlike Radahn the mutt. Empyreans get patronized by outer gods. She invokes her powers willingly.
"pulls an aimbot" is pure copium. if she had an "I win" button and she held back from pressing it for that long, then she was merely keeping her power level in check so she doesn't kick radahn and his donkey outside of the lands between to the moon.
>She invokes her powers willingly.
she is CURSED with scarlet rot and had it suppressed by miquella's needle
she was willing to give her life up to "win" the fight, and in the end she nuked an entire zone and couldn't even finish off radahn, while she herself was brought to the haligtree because plot armor while her dear brother was being ravaged by a fucking blood pedophile
so much for being the blade of miquella
it's not plot armor - Malenia only lived the fight because Finlay carried her unconscious aids ass back to the Haligtree.
>Finlay carried her
well, why would he be there?
because he saw an entire zone getting nuked with rot?
well that does make sense if i think about it
>well, why would he be there?
*she
Because Malenia's entire army/regiment was battling Radahn's forces in Caelid. And Finlay was one of the lucky few who survived the nuke.
They're both dead.
Everything in fromsoft games is plot convenience, because they don't actually make the game for the plot, they make the plot then make the game and anything that gets cut or moved around doesn't get rewritten. Then loretrannies fill in the blanks with fanfiction
>muh miquella
don't care.
>muh plot armor
inadvertent admission that she won.
Caelid is a waste. Radahn is figuratively dead. Malenia isn't. end of discussion.
>Malenia isn't
not until i beat the shit out of her rotting ass with an underleveled claymore
>has a shitskin character to match himself IRL
not surprised you're a radahnchud, probably a muzzie too.
he is asian, specifically a jomon chad
because he uses katanas
you are coping hard my bro
being a zipperhead is hardly an improvement and only drives home the point that only orientals simp for radahn, cocksucker.
>katana user
let me guess, you also summoned mimic to the fight, didn't you?
?
The other anon won because you're seething and he isn't.
Nice HRT moodswings
Malenia got knocked out after that
if whats-his-name didn't drag her away afterwards Radahn would get back up and eat her alive
radahn=easy
malenia=hard
malenia won.
Malenia lost the fight, gave up holding back the rot to get a cheap "you didn't win" in and had to be dragged back to her brother's tree to avoid death.
Rad Dan kicked her ass, kept holding back the stars the whole time too.
>malenia was in universe Pic related all along
Lmao even her nuke couldn't beat CHADan. Had her simp not saved her, radahn would have finished her off
Only good boss fight in the game.
he was ok, kept running away from me tho
I can't take him seriously because of the tiny horse. Why did they kill the atmosphere of the whole thing by including that?
unironically filtered
you expected a giant horse? I get the lore is cheesy but considering he mastered gravity it kinda fits
>i hate fun
He's just kind of eh. Really unmemorable theme, and he moves too lucidly to believe or creatively take advantage of the idea that his mind is gone. I think From Soft was way, way, way too committed to the idea of him riding a horse and it hurts the fight. He's also a prime example of the notion that FS should have ported 1:1 the posture and perfect deflect system from Sekiro
>But ER has stance
Yes but perfect deflects that raise posture that lead to a stance break should have been in and Radahn is a good example of that. His string combo, love the sounds, love how he moves there, is just another rolly polly thing you gotta do.
tl;dr Radahn is everything wrong with ER: half-baked idea of story, gameplay, and gimmick.
>muh sekiro parrys
Sekiro works because you have one (1) weapon. Not really a good option when you have several classes of weapons that would have different timings for parrys
>Not really a good option when you have several classes of weapons that would have different timings for parrys
What are you talking about the block frames are the same for every single weapon the moment you press L1 with two hands on your weapon. But if it pleases you then limit it to shields. The point is ER would flatly be better if it gave the player more options to deal with attack onslaughts from bosses 1 on 1. But at this point it gets into preference territory and the game was obviously designed with spirit ashes in mind, and if I don't like it I should play something else.
I think if you want to play Sekiro you should play Sekiro
And besides the fact it would look silly as well that you could block with a Greathammer as fast as you can with a dagger, block frames are just half of the system. The timing of sword attacks in Sekiro is tuned to the speed of the enemies, good luck tuning all weapon classes speed to work like that
>I think if you want to play Sekiro you should play Sekiro
I do play Sekiro but I also want more combat options in Elden Ring.
>the fact it would look silly as well that you could block with a Greathammer as fast as you can with a dagger
You already can.
>good luck tuning all weapon classes speed to work like that
They already are the exact same.
Because otherwise you're left with roll Souls and if you think that looks good or is enjoyable then you're part of the problem.
>Because otherwise you're left with roll Souls
Right, right, because they game doesn't also have
>blocking
>weapon arts
>Torrent (who lets you zoom in and out of combat to skirmish)
>throwable consumables
>ranged weapons
>status effects
>magic
>miracles
>pyromancy
I don't think we played the same game, anon.
>a dagger and greathammer are just as fast bro
I accept your concession
>the game was obviously designed with spirit ashes in mind, and if I don't like it I should play something else.
Why do people keep repeating this dumb meme? Is this some weird cope?
The game absolutely wasn't designed with spirit ashes in mind because those summons COMPLETELY trivialize the vast majority of encounters.
Then make it so the player loses his arm to grafting at the start so you get a prosthetic defensive tool which can be equipped with shields, bucklers, daggers and fist weapons.
4 parry categories instead of one per weapon.
Anyone has that pic of Radagon/Marika hammering away at the Elden Ring but the pic was drawn in the Tolkien/Silmarillion style?
Weaker than Malenia
Absolute gigachad and a really epic fight. Poor lad deserved better, but that's the same for half the characters in this game.
dragon rot
The gimmick fights in this game are meh to me.
They are not bad, but not that enjoyable to me either.
Cool boss. His most fun mechanic is summoning heroes to help you while they dont stop dying.
Sadly, people try to kill him 1vs1 for le epicness, expending 2 hours of trys and missing the "me and the boys" mechanic.
I will give Rahdan 3 more healthbars to enjoy this fight more.
>I will give Rahdan 3 more healthbars to enjoy this fight more.
Based, I wish that was the case.
>missing the "me and the boys" mechanic.
This. I beat him solo, but it wasn't as cool as everyone trying to fight him.
This.
When I beat him the second time, it was Alex and Blaidd that were still alive with me as we delivered the final blow
So kino
my favorite boss in the series by far
The sheer amount of
>actually I'm MEANT to beat it with summons
cope always brings a smile to my face
well you canonically are
cant decide if the tony horse is stupid or kino
He's a normal sized horse
>GIGANTIC BOSS
>WHEN HE SWINGS, THE GROUND TREMBLES AND EVERYTHING EXPLODES
>A FUCKING METEOR, TOO
its ok though ill just do this tiny funny little 1 meter roll and i will negate all this apocalyptic, catastrophic damage down to zero.
why are japanese games so retarded?
Because it's a video game and being ultra realistic doesn't make it fun, not that a westoid would understand
i have never been more proud of myself to be a westoid who finds these moron games to be retarded as fuck.
It'd be nice if the meteor smash would be only avoidable by
-having a shitload Hp
-or hiding inside Alexander (so he gets smashed in the process and then vents about him being weak post fight)
It's sad to see From make such a huge game and there's barely any strat to most bosses.
impressive but gimmick fights are trash.
very cool guy
got filtered by the homing balls on release and still haven’t gone back
cool guy, absolutely shit fight
the exact opposite of malenia
Reminder that Radahn is a stolen character from berserk call geiserick
Half the characters in Miyazaki's games are stolen from Berserk
Reminder that you're a retarded gay and you need to stop spamming this incorrect garbage.
Radahn is Raoh from Hokuto no Ken (which predates Berserk), period.
more proof
Radahn is Alexander the Great you gay weeaboos.
retarded cuck, don't reply to me ever again
Man don't you remember the collective ass ravaging from Berserk shitters when Miura admitted Guts was inspired by Kenshiro?
>THAT'S A HECKING BERSERK REFERENCE
Unironically have a nice day.
>REFERENCE
>clearly stealing content
I beat him on my second try with some basic ass STR build and the guts sword.
Second easiest shardbearer. Beat him solo with the Grafted Blade and barely any armor.
>jobs to shattering morgott
>they still think he had a chance against Malenia
radahnkeks are hilarious
holy fuck since when does malenia have access to computers?
since she ordered a JDAM on radahn's head while kicking her legs back and having her feet licked by her army of simp slaves
I think this is the best ER boss, man fucking filtered chuds while he was using his power to hold the stars and help his little horse
10/10, I wished he would be full health for his 2nd phase and much much harder
Every boss "filters" in elden diarrhea because they're all flask checks
camera alone makes this fight objectively bad
funny thing, placidusax doesn't have this issue because the camera pulls back for him
in other words, miyazaki knows how to make the camera work on big bosses, but he just doesn't want to
Radahn was controlling your camera with his powers, this is intended
Yeah I used to laugh at bad camera posters but elden ring is a joke
I can't tell what he's doing so I just wait until I vastly outlevel him and spam r1.
a fight against him before he goes rot mode would be cool
Really good as character, worst boss in whole game.
No matter how many times I beat this game, this fight just rings all the wrong bells
>have to walk to him every time
>too big to fit on screen
>too big to see attacks
>too big to hit consistently
>hard to understand attacks with bullshit hitboxes (sometimes swords go through you, sometimes you get hit by a fart)
>at the time it's logical to fight him he still oneshots you
I beat him pre-patch a couple times and I'm still proud.
I beat him pre patch without even knowing about the summoning so I guess I’m a god and stuff.
Radahn is borderline perfect. He's massive, but not so big the camera gets lost, and you can always see what he's doing, as opposed to death rite birds or Astel. The music is hype as hell, the arena is lonely and despairing, and the run up the beach just as the music swells floods you with adrenaline every time. Sure, he can be hard if you fight him around level 40-55, but none of his moves feel like bullshit, especially after the unfortunate nerf.
He was the first boss I decided I was absolutely not going to summon for, and when I succeeded, I had the biggest stupid smile on my face, and a +6 Winged Scythe in my hand. What a great fight.
>stolen design
>in a shitty game
>outside of the presentation at the start of the fight the actual fight is retarded AOE spam
>perfect
She canonically won.
I canonically beat her ass though.
>Win fight
>But you made a wasteland in the process
>Everyone near you is dying because you smell like shit
>On top of that, you failed to protect your brother and gets Mohgged
>Spend the rest of your days crying in a corner until someone comes and kills you
I don't know if this is a win tbqhwyf
A win is a win.
>cheat in a fight
>win
Nah, it was actually a draw because Malenia had help from the outside.
Explain how she cheated? What established rules of combat did she break?
Finlay saved her (hence my outside help comment). If the post-bloom Malenia was just lying there on the ground, Radahn would just eat her so that makes it a draw in my book.
Would you say Radahn beat her if Malenia was about to bloom but some no-name Redmane knight did a
>GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT
and somehow blocked the aids nuke? I wouldn't call that a win.
>uses rot
she simply didn't beat the game.
Except Radahn won, which is why Malenia had to nuke Caelid to cover her retreat.
If radahn won why was he so much easier to beat?
because of incompetent developers who thought they were designing a sekiro boss
because narrative, the tarnished canonically only beats him alongside a small army. dude had been non-stop fighting for god knows how long and there were festivals dedicated to fighting him, while malenia just sat and home and healed after their encounter
he cute
Why did people who rushed the game and only experienced 60% of the content feel so proud of using rotten breath on him?
Nah bro they changed his hitboxes and tracking trust me bro, I don't have any actual video evidence this is the case but trust my headcanon.
Based, before they nerfed him into the ground because casuals couldn't beat him even with all the npcs you can summon.
one of the coolest enemies in the game in both lore, story, and style. he has it all.
Incredibly overrated fight.
The first 1/3rd of the fight will always and forever involve just running up to him with virtually no variation.
>when you start off far away he fires his single purple arrows, and as you get closer he fires his Aldrich line of arrows or his shotgun (not that these differences matter anwyay since you're dodging these literally the same way, so they might as well be the same move at the end of the day)
The whole idea of summoning NPC allies to the fight feels neat at first, but then you realize it adds RNG in the boss's tracking and makes him more unpredictable to deal with. Not to mention resummoning them every time you retry the fight gets old.
Eventually, when you do get up to him, the camera is shit since From Software refuses to zoom out their camera, so the boss is always covering like 60% of the screen.
The actual fight when close involves a ton of waiting, especially when he gets to his star sword phase (like wasting time waiting for his Monster Hunter Valstrax comet crash move).
10/10 design in terms of his visuals and look.
5/10 in terms of execution. I'd bump him up to a 7/10 if there was a version of him without the annoying first part that always involve you running up to him.
>From Software refuses to zoom out their camera
I find this specially fucked up in Elden Ring considering there are so many fuchuge bosses AND the camera zooms in on NPC interactions.
I wonder if it was ever an actual feature that got cut.
Peak of the game and everything after him was downhill.
this, provided he was (You)r 3rd shardbearer and Caelid was (You)r 3rd area
every piece of content from Altus onward was lazily tacked on, boring, and stupid. And Malenia sucks penis as a boss forever and ever until they finally nerf that bullshit waterfowl dance.
You're generally correct with the exception of Leyndell, Volcano Manor and the poison swamp castle thingy. I liked those.
I never did volcano manor because mt gelmir was so obviously unfinished I didn't go back
Gelmir is meh (tho it's the best out of all post Caelid surface zones) but the Manor and Rykard are both great fights.
gelmir is the most incompetently designed area in the entire game besides maybe shunning grounds
>Leyndell
sucked dick
>Volcano Manor
was actually cool, the whole area along with the boss and boss arena gave me nice DS3 vibes
>Shaded Castle
sucked dick, huge waste of time.
again, I was already burnt out by the time I got to Altus, and I did Volcano Manor before Leyndell, so all of this might contribute to my opinion of those parts of the game sucking dick, but it is what it is.
Disagree on some parts but can't really argue with
>I was already burnt out by the time I got to Altus
since that happend to me on 3/3 of my runs. The game really is too big, shame they went in such direction.
I think that’s what people mean when they say mountaintops is shit. Altus is draining because it’s just an orange limgrave and you’ve already done blue and red limgrave. By the time you finish leyndell you just want to skip to the good content. The open world is draining as fuck
Draining is the word for it. I enjoy the breadth of the world but having to obsessively check every corner of every massive area is so tiresome
Radahn would've won if he had one of these.
Poor lad forgot to craft or buy some.
He obviously couldn't afford the 500g crafting set. Either that or the satan merchants refused to trade.
one of the very few ER boss fights that tries something different so it deserves some praise just for that
The first time I fought him, I cheesed him with rot arrows and rode around on the horse until he died.
Pre-nerf Radahn is one of the greatest boss fights in videogame history
Kino boss, I fought him on horseback. The nerf did him dirty
They only nerfed the cheese that made him even more of a complete joke then he already is though.
So is there any actual video or number evidence comparing Radahn "pre-nerf" to current Radahn to back up any of these claims or is this yet another case of shitters desperate to feel superior to other people?
no it's literally one chud on his phone and pc spamming the thread with "radahn was nerfed"
he's been doing this for over a year
The changes aren't huge, I think. They changed the tracking on his purple arrow, the only way to avoid it was to roll, whereas now if you strafe it perpendicularly on Torrent it will miss. And I think some of his hitboxes were reduced.
Comparisons please or it's all in you guys' heads as far as I'm concerned.
The fact it was literally in the patch notes of the first patch, retard.
Where, moron?
For 1.01 I see nothing specific.
1.02 nothing either.
1.03 talks about Radahn but about how they reverted an unintentional nerf to his damage and fixed a bug with his grace.
Show me actual comparisons with release Radahn and current Radahn or you're a dipshit who just wants to look cool even though you fought the same exact boss everyone else did if they beat him past early April.
They hotfixed radahn and buffed him but it's not in the patch notes, they then reverted what they did because it broke him, then later fixed his hitboxes. So by reverting a hotfix buff the chud claims they nerfed him
this schizo chud has been obsessed with it for a year, it's actually pretty sick
There’s no proof anon, just people larping like they’ve always done for the past year.
At best you’ll get clips with a half a frame timestamp where people will claim on their life that the hitbox is 0.001% bigger in the pre nerfed fight or the tracking is slightly better in their deluded minds
I looked up what "pre-nerf" means.
Turns out they reverted all nerfs except for his projectile precision and some attack hitboxes.
Meanwhile people here larp like his HP or damage was halved.
It's just the "muh difficulty/you didn't beat it" crowd. Pay them no mind.
yes the same guy has been spamming for a year that they nerfed him because he can't cope with his radahn worship threads not getting replies anymore
>projectile precision and some attack hitboxes.
Where is this even stated?
All I see for all the patch notes including "Radahn" on the wiki is that in 1.03 they fixed an unintended nerf to the damage of some of his moves and then fixed a bug with the grace in his arena.
his sword hitboxes were fucked up, or so the chud has been spamming for a year
It's just mind boggling to me.
The game is popular, and especially this boss. All this talk about nerfs and not a single video comparing hitboxes, no one checking numbers with cheat engine or mods or anything.
Using google I see a redditfag debunking the "they nerfed his HP" claims so I'm not keen on believing any of this unless there's empirical evidence.
All these gays saying "he feels weaker when I fought him again" I feel like can just be chalked up to them using stronger armor/gear and being better at the game.
you're dealing with an actual schizophrenic, he doesn't have to prove anything if he believes it
He makes me want there to be an actual raid boss where like 20 players fight a boss with like a couple million health
It's unrealistic because the connectivity wouldn't survive that kind of thing but it's a cool thing to think about
if you beat elden ring you didn't beat the game
>Dev comes up with a cool boss/arena that's based on summoning a shitton of warriors at a FUCKING FESTIVAL OF WAR and people take pride in not summoning at all.
Imagine being this fucking autistic that you can't play the battle as it was clearly intended, just so you can wank you e-peen on an anonymous foie gras stuffing board
Meanwhile none of these people fought Rykard without the Storm Rul-I mean Serpent-Hunter.
>people
It's one chud, he can't cope with nobody caring about the game so he fabricates controversy with fake narratives about nerfs in order to pretend like he's not a friendless schizophrenic in his mother's basement
when i was playing, i didnt understand how the game's multiplayer worked since i had not seen a single summon sign and when i would place mine down, i was never summoned. I was never invaded and didnt know how to invade. So when i fought Radahn, i honestly had no idea what those signs were for.
"who the fuck are these people... the jar?"
>he played the game blind and missed out on multiplayer because he didn't level appropriately in an open world game
sucks to be you
i never needed their help
though what likely cut me off from most of the playerbase was that i went through almost all of the left side of the map with a +4 lord great sword and great axe, before i got the executioner axe at the atlas plateau. game threw so many souls at me with dungeons that i always felt over leveled.
maybe summons would get more use if the game was designed better and summoning wasn't baby mode
le epic lore isn't an excuse for shit design
Did anyone summon patches, and when he saw Radahn he just left back to his world? I had a chuckle
yeah I screamed "WE DID IT REDDIT!"
It was funny seeing people get fucking mogged by the meteor
>can use the horse
>boss becomes a joke
why would i ever bother with the summons when fighting horseback with a big ass sword is so fucking op?
WOAH IS THAT ALEXANDER?! A-A-AND PATCHES?! NO FUCKING WAY THEY GOT LIONEL TOO HOLY SHIT ALL THE WARRIORS ARE HERE THIS IS JUST LIKE ENDGAME
trying too hard
Admit it, you thought this to yourself didn't you? This is on you.
your text isn't green so you look and talk like this 🙂
he, malenia, mohg who's a cutie and radagon were the only good fights in my first monkey full STR playthrough and i only used flasks on malenia cause she also could heal, if the boss can't heal so can't i, simple as
Radahn was a ton of fun.I was actually starting to get a little bored of all the combat and gameplay being pretty much the same thing, but then I get to this boss battle, and it just feels so different. Pulled me right back in
Basic enough boss, as a fight he doesn't stand out too much except for his meteor body slam and needing a camera that zooms out a lot more akin to Rykard.
Lorewise he's a champ, though admittedly he does come off as having the same mental fuckery as me without the depressing thoughts.
Peak souls
That's not DS3
>Thoughts on Radahn?
GeNerRal RaDahN, the famed Red Lion and scourge of the stars, is a ferocious warrior. He fought Malenia and her rot to a standstill in the Caelid Wilds to Limgrave's east. And now Caelid has been engulfed by the scarlet rot, even approaching the region is no mean feat. I've heard survivors of Radahn's army are still in the wilds, staving off the rot with fire. And if it's true, I suspect Radahn is still there as well, in Caelid. Though I doubt he much resembles his former self anymore...
radahn's armor is gaiseric's armor, it's copy paste as always
extremely overhyped boss that isn't fun. He's a nice spectacle, I guess, but his gameplay is shit.
Awful boss if you fight him the intended way (summoning the NPCs). Soloing him is more manageable but his attacks are way too delayed for me to say it's a good boss.
t. beat him pre-nerf
Radahn is strong
won't let you move on
rippin' off da bong
he'll wreck u wit his schlong
bestial like king kong
he's got it goin' on
if u think he dead u wrong
he likes his islands long
Fucking hated him, mostly because the first time I fought him was pre-nerf while I was severely underleveled, but mostly because I had to dodge literally every attack with his janky ass animations.
>Hey I got a great idea, giant boss!
>Great idea!
>And lets put him on a horse so not only do we have the problem of having no way to see his cues when you're in melee range, but it'll look goofy as fuck when he actually does attack
>Fantastic job! Best boss in the series.
Yes I am still mad.
He's easy as fuck unless you do him early. I beat him on my first playthrough at roughly lv70. 2nd playthrough at lv50, both times with BH fang +6
Despite the maleniachuds the thread is actually good, love that big lad on his small horse, I don't think Malenia has done anything as cool as holding back the stars in her lore but she's still cool with her anime attack and being a outer god cum socket.
can you let the thread die moron?
talking to yourself is pretty pathetic
zipperheads are not human, therefor your opinion is invalid.
He was a hero and one of the few demi-gods that didn't fuck up the world so badly like the others.
Melania is a fucking cheater. Harlot of Fowlplay.
The only cheating part about her is that she literally cannot die until she does her first scarlet aeonia in phase 2.
Which is fucking crazy, because From was talking about giving her a third form for you to face.