Elden Ring is hard, and its Shadow of the Erdtree DLC has proven even harder. However, one player has beaten the expansion’s toughest boss with just a single hit that dealt over 105,000 damage.
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Twitch streamer Ainrun set up a build that would take advantage of numerous afflictions and talismans to grant absurd damage boosts and land the devastatingly strong attack. There are many ailments that actually cause stat boosting consumables and items to trigger, such as the sacred bloody flesh, which increases damage by 18 per cent when the user suffers blood loss.
We did it, my magnum opus – Radahn 105,000 damage with 1 melee weapon hit pic.twitter.com/UGl7MsSGor
— Ainrun (@Ainrun_ttv) July 22, 2024
By combining the effects on many items that grant extra attack damage when the player suffers a negative effect, and talismans and other items that increase damage and damage when player health is low, Ainrun was able to deliver the crushing blow to Radahn. Not only did the attack immediately trigger Radahn’s second phase, but it ended it immediately too, as the damage seemingly spilled over.
Ainrun replayed and paused the footage of their attack to show exactly how much damage they did, and we can see it’s 105,527. For others wanting to try this build, it took Ainrun several tries before they were able to successfully defeat Radahn this way. In their full Twitch stream, you can watch almost two hours of failed attempts before their successful one around one hour and 53 minutes into the VOD.
If you want a more relaxing experience, there’s one mod that turns Shadow of the Erdtree into Pokemon. The mod does this by allowing you to call on fallen bosses to help out in future battles, meaning each fight will get easier as you collect the strong bosses beforehand.
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