Is Promised Consort Radahn the hardest, most bullshit boss ever released in a AAA game? I’m struggling to think of anyone worse.

>>713758425 (OP)
Mysterious Figure in birth by sleep, especially as Terra

>>713758425 (OP)
I genuinely don't know what the intended strategy is on this boss, I just fight it 25 times until I bruteforce it.

>>713758425 (OP)
Git gud scrub
https://youtu.be/JeBOIYnVq54

>>713759067
He has an improved roll talisman on right? Otherwise, he can't dodge the cross slash

Probably, but not for good reasons.

I fought him with no blessings so I got to really understand the fight. First phase is straightforward. Second phase, he nerfs your framerates and punishes rolls that were successful in phase 1. You can also get caught with proper rolls if you are fighting on the wrong terrain.

Some of his phase 2 moves like the rock hurl followed by the clone attack are unintuitive to dodge unless you follow a guide. It's also not a fun attack to dodge, since it just wastes time.

Radahn is a bit easy to parry, since he has so few attacks, which makes the challenge a bit easier. It's almost essential to do this on low health runs because of the terrain issue and rolling. A "no parry" defeat of Radahn is essentially its own challenge for people playing at low health.

But Malenia is still harder overall, imo. I could mention bosses like Sigrun or Ozma, but they are much more fairly designed with readable attacks and clear counters.

>>713759898
I believe you get more I-Frames if you're light rolling, and maybe more with Dex.

>>713758425 (OP)
Easier than Rellana

>>713759967
No, light roll has the same I frames as medium roll it just covers more distance. Dex doesn't affect roll at all

>>713760029
His pre nerf original version? Not even close hes an order of magnitude harder than Rellana

>>713758425 (OP)
DMC3 Vergil was harder.

>>713760239
nah, he's hard but not that hard, especially with trickster

Someone hasn't played Nightreign.

>>713758425 (OP)
Eigong phase 3 was harder for me. Not AAA I guess though.

>>713760898
This guy's really easy though. Adel was much harder for me.

>>713761008
Eigong is a good fight though, that's the difference.

>>713758425 (OP)
He's hard no matter what.
But especially so if you refuse to interact with the mechanics at a higher level and just try and brute force everything.

He's fat and doesn't dodge, so you can really build up status on him, so Arcane builds in particular can melt his health bar - Bleed/Poison/Frostbite.
Great shields are well known for doing extremely well against him too. But they're just extremely good across the entire game.
While he loves to get in your face, the arena is big enough that you can really get a lot of mileage out of just running away if you're a bow or caster. Hit the bricks!
Spirit ashes are best saved for phase 2 imo, as they tend to take too much pointless damage on phase 1, which isn't that hard in the first place.
You can even basically skip phase 1 with some Rot Pots as Radahn has very little resistance to them.

>>713760898
I beat this guy first time. Radahn took me over 6 hours

>>713761198
Adel is so spastic its hard to tell what the hell he's doing sometimes before he turns and eats you.

Singleplayer maybe a contender.
There are way harder bosses in multiplayer though. Legit bosses that the sweatiest motherfuckers on the planet spent days on.

>>713759898
cross slash was patched to be dodgeable not long after dlc was released

>>713760898
I've only fought this guy once but despite losing he didn't feel so bad, my deaths were just from trying to jump something that it turned out couldn't be jumped and not realizing that his arrow rain actually moves since the first time he did it I guess it was targetting the Guardian who was standing still right in front of him.
I do regret picking Recluse for the attempt though because even good spells struggle to hit him and the best spell I found was fucking black flame, it was a truly cursed run for loot with a couple bosses I guess glitching out and not even dropping any.

>>713761692
>not long after dlc was released
It was 4 months before they nerfed him

>>713758830
This and the double fight are probably the worst boss fights of all time. In general the boss fights in NG2 are trash and another reason why NGB is the best.

>>713758425 (OP)
I think he's fine after the nerf, still probably the hardest in From's catalogue

>>713760898
He's genuinely pretty easy
Adel was harder

Now when they release whatever the hell Purple Libra is, then we might have the new consort

>>713758425 (OP)
Not even the hardest thing in a FromSoft game. The last bonus level in The Adventures of Cookie & Cream forces you to complete two randomly generated slide puzzles under a time limit.

>>713758425 (OP)
Not even close

>>713762732
you can solve slide puzzles algorithmically so once you spend 5 seconds learning that they're easy

IIRC OG C'thun from WoW was technically unbeatable, and the first kill came from abusing debuff stacking.

>>713762732
Would you consider The Adventures of Cookie & Cream a AAA game?

>>713758425 (OP)
I don't know man, I killed him in 2 hits with impenetrable thorns, sounds pretty easy to me

>>713763038
an unbeatable boss is not hard, it's unbeatable there's no difference in trying to beat C'thun in WoW than there is in trying to beat a muncher in Mario

>>713762947
How?

>>713760898
The amount of people I see eat shit from his explosive greatbow attack is astounding. Just surge sprint towards him and he'll miss, the arrow has a lead on where it will hit. It's not hard.

>>713758425 (OP)
No, he's easy as shit as long as you use your brain.

>>713763626
too lazy to try to explain but like 10 years ago i was wondering so i looked it up and found a youtube video of some girl explaining it, so just look for soemthing like that, it's sort of like rubik's cubes, the only "difficult" part once you know is figuring out what the picture is supposed to be
which tbf some games have some bullshit ones but anything that's moderately clear it's ez
i will warn you though once you know you can never go back, the soul will be gone forever, it's the danger of being a metafag

>>713763085
Yes, of course. Cookie & Creamlikes will definitely be the next big fad in a few years.

>>713764007
>use your brain.
You mean you googled the best way to cheese him

>>713758425 (OP)
Nothing personal, kid

>>713764007
>>713764251
Is it really this easy? I gave up on this DLC but if the shield is really that OP I might just go and finish it out of spite

>>713763038
It was killable everyone was just shit at the time. I know it was easier in classic because the average player was better and tier pieces actually did shit but if you got your buffies and sweated hard enough OG c'thun was doable.

>>713764459
greatshield + poke status weapon trivializes the entire game

>>713764459
Respecing to a poke bitch does indeed make the fight pretty easy.

>>713764459
Fingerprint shield is almost god mode. Pretty much the only things that can kill you are grab attacks and Malikeths drain.

>>713764617
>respeccing
>he's not already a strength build

>>713764007
>shield poke build
>using your brain
lol, ok you got me to respond

>>713764459
They also nerfed Radahn into the ground so there's that

>Team up with a Raider and an Executor
>Executor has the Evergaol relic and so the moment we drop he pings a nearby Evergaol
>Head over there because why not
>He opens it, it's a Dragonkin Soldier
>After Raider and Executor die like three times I ping a nearby camp to fuck off to so we can get some damage and health and not waste time fighting this stupid thing
>Level up at the camp, return and kill the Dragonkin Soldier
>Ping the only other lightning camp on the map, I'd like to try and dual wield before we start grinding at the castle
>Executor pings the castle instead
>Raider heads over with me to take on the camp
>Executor heads to the castle, dies to something, then disconnects cause we're nowhere near him
>Proceed with Raider to clear out the entire castle, beat the shit out of Loretta on the top, butcher Nameless King and Morgott after, then punch Fulghor's lights out
That's what you fuckin get!

>>713764963
what the fuck are you babbling about

>>713765006
I killed him on my zweihander build in 15 tries
and then on my dex/arc build in 5 tries with parrying and blood buildups

>>713765006
There's no other Nightreign thread in the catalog so I'm reusing this Elden Ring thread as one, close enough.

>>713765148
I kind of want them to add pre-nerf Radahn to Nightreign to see if he's easy with Nightreign's mechanics

>>713765425
considering just how weak he is to deflect tear, a good executor should just destroy him
also being able to get people up from being oneshot should help a bunch, same with all the i-frames nightreign shits out on things like ironeye

>>713765425
PCS is more of a puzzle boss really, the trick is figuring out which of his afterimage attacks is real, then dodge that one. He throws so much visual bullshit at you that people panic and spam dodge then wonder what killed them. That's Miquella's entire battle strategy, to throw the enemy off and make them lose their focus.

>>713765604
Astute. I've seen almost no one else mention this. Even the fake ones do damage, but It's mostly negligible if you block with anything, including a weapon.