radahn being most vunlerable to scarlet rot is quite amusing

Mother of Fingers weaknesses: •Paper Cuts •Car Doors

Gaius being weak to Holy is a neat detail since he's Albinauric

So you're telling me I just need to get in their and fight Radahn man to man? I see not much has changed

I saw that the Scadutree Avatar looked like a giant Sunflower so I hit it with Roiling Magma as a joke. instantly became my go to for shredding its health bars.

I feel like being able to use Mohg’s shackles in the final boss fight should’ve been put in. Considering he’s in Mohg’s body and all

Just a note: Radahn does take more damage from pierce attacks than any other physical damage

Everyone is melted by rolling sparks. Edit: ...nerfed.

don’t forget that bosses in water take more damage from lightning due to the aoe that is created on the ground! this includes scadutree avatar, mother of fingers, rellana, and putrescent knight

every boss have a weaknesses Radahn: good luck

Radahn is susceptible to the Rot but the tick damage isn't good. Bleed is great but you need to attack him a lot of times to proc it. But having both makes the best of both worlds. The real hard counter to Radahn are Greatshields and Thrusting weapons and a ton of defensive buffs. Golden vow + Divine Fortification + Sorcerer's Shield as buffs negates nearly all damage as long as you block with a shield. Then use a Thrusting weapon. The best is Anstpur upgraded with a blood enchatment so that it deals not only Rot but Bleed as well. Now, just hold L1 and press R1 a lotta times to win. Just don't forget to recover endurance.

Thats why kung fu fists finger but hole finger mother so fast

The hefty fly pots do DUMMY damage against rahdan!

Every other boss: So this guy is weak to- Radahn: Good luck…

Radahn vulnerable to Rot is just lore accurate

I used lightning for the scadutree avatar because it's in a lake, and the bonus damage was amazing

For the sunflower, aim for the head. It takes a significant amount of extra damage from it. The best time to do this is when it attempts its grab attack since it will keep its head low for a while. The perfect time for a heavy hitting ash of war or charged attack. Midra has the poise of a wet napkin. I was two shot poise breaking him with a charged attack from the black steel greathammer, and you can land a charged attack while he is getting up from a crit. Metyr's lasers deal magic damage, so barrier of gold will make them take a lot less of your healthbar, namely her big rotating double laser attack. Promised Consort Radahn is an absolute monster. If you have the faith I would suggest getting the Lord's Divine Fortification incantation. It removes the majorty of the damage from the laser spam and lets you face tank his nuke with barely any damage as long as you have average defense and are playing a lower ng. The best strategy I know to beat him is grabbing a greatshield. The fingerprint shield is the obvious choice, but I use the black steel greatshield. It weighs less, has lower requirements, and about 9% more holy resist. You should also invest in 12 int for scholar's armament, which will make your shield significantly more effective. He has some pretty extreme stamina draining attacks that hit your shield like a truck so I suggest learning those and dodging them and block poking his smaller attacks that he spams at you. Always keep an eye on your stamina bar and back off when needed. Getting greedy will quickly leave you with an empty stamina bar and an empty healthbar not long after. Good luck tarnished, I know you can conquer the DLC!

You can kill redahn super easily with the fingerprint shield and hog riders spear

Vow of the indomitable on a greatshield makes the dlc pretty much a cakewalk

ok guys i have a fullproof build, impenetrable thorns, that is all

Consort Radahn does have a vulnerability in his 2nd phase moveset; using Lord's Divine Fortification drastically reduces the damage of all beams of light. It's even more reduced with Golden Braid and Pearldrake Talisman +3.

This community is awesome. We started together being shocked by the difficulty and already guys are no hitting Messmer and even Prime Radhan

Thanks for this! I didn't test the stats on my first run. I struggled at first with the final big boy Red, but tried a combo and style I've never done. Big shield, ³ thrusting swords, ice needle, flame one and the rot one with bleed applied. I felt a little guilty, but stuff it, next time around I'll get him fair and square.

You can parry Radahn’s aggressive combos in both phases. Or you can use either Fingerprint or Verdigris greatshield and poke him with a thrusting sword with bleed on it and you’ll just out-tank him.

Messemer is weak to the ever marching expanse of time that cripples him into the meaningless dust they are destined to become. UwU

frostbite debuff disappears the moment the enemy takes fire damage,dont forget that

“…and, good luck.”

They’re all weak to rolling sparks 🤣🤣🤣

Flame skewer great katana cooks for scadutree

"sca-DOO-tree" good god, dude

He failed to mention this about Radahn (as well as many of the other bosses of the DLC), but he's pretty susceptible to holy damage and bleed as well. Frost works on just about everything in the DLC, so that will also be a really good thing to use.

For radahn, I found it best to use a very quick bleed weapon. That way you hit fast and get damage chunks off. Blood backhand blades do good.

The fact he’s vulnerable to rot is a nice touch of lore and a good game mechanic as well imo.

Prime Radahn also succumbs to frost quite well. I used a cross naginata infused with cold and that helped me apply both bleed and frost for quick buildup of damage.

Rot breath & fingerprint shield carried me through most of the DLC tbh. Just because I love using it to fuck around in PvP, and it seemed like every boss I fought was weak to rot with the exception of a couple

So basically second phase radahn is just Fu@$ around and find out.

That isn't prime radahn tho. It is mohg's body and radahn's soul

Bleed works well on Radahn. It’s how I finally got him.

everyone else: clear weakness that make sense Redahn: luck and prayer

Finally, someone pronounces Scadutree as written on the screen, not as written on some ancient welsh standing stones in a swamp somewhere

For Radahn, use a greatshield with a good thrusting weapon (bleed or rot) and have good talismans. Rotten wing sword insignia for repeated attack buff, great shield talisman for better guard, dragon crest great shield talisman for damage reduction, and 4th is up to you! Ez low diff fight once you learn when to dodge, recover stam, and so on.

Trick is ROT EVERYTHING!! Nothing can resist the power of the ROT

Something worth noting, Radahn is actually weak to holy on his first phase. Second phase also only makes his defense as high as the other elements, 40% across the board. And his pierce damage is also lower comparatively. Leda's Sword might be a good pick. I personally like to go with the Euporia.

Fire and ice I’ve heard this one before…wait a minute Rellana the perfect swords for that fight

Fun fact, in canon Radahn is being healed of Rot and other conditions by Miquella. If you manage to get a frost status, the condition also fades much more quickly. Likely due to Mohg's burning blood shtick. So Bleed is the best bet. Though, thematically, I wish phase 2 Radahn would have been succeptible to sleep. Would have been poetic

I'm working on an Arcane run for the DLC. Any mention of "bleed" excites me.

"... and good luck." Yeah no sh*t brother that freaking final boss is a menace. Beat him today after around 3 hours and I can't say I mastered him or know why I beat him this time

Poison works pretty well on Radahn, I was using a Poison Anspur for the dual Rot/Poison and in the second phase the rot never procced, but the poison did consistently.

Correction: the final boss of the dlc is not prime radahn, if anything it’s a weaker version of him.

Scarlet Aeonia triggers rot immediately on him in both phases if you're able to trigger it without him canceling it out. I use it immediately after rolling when he does his gravity spin attack. I usually get hit twice afterwards, but it's worth it if you can heal somehow.

Hitting your thumb while hammering a nail explains why Mother of fingers is weak against strike damage.

Mother of fingers is also a little weak to lightning from water being in the arena. The shockwave can hit the small hands as she summons them in.

Radahn can be bled as well, it just takes a while. More than anything homie is weak to parrying haha.

Pro tip for Radahn: If you're really struggling and just want it over, I had an extremely easy time by respeccing into a shield-poke tank. 49-50 Strength 60 Endurance 27 Faith Greatshield Talisman Pearlshield Talisman or Golden Braid Old Lord's Talisman Two-Headed Turtle Talisman Verdigris Shield/Fingerprint Shield ANY spear, great spear, thrusting sword, or large thrusting sword (Note: Pearlshield Talisman is not Pearldrake Talisman) 27 Faith is for Golden Vow and Lord's Divine Fortification. Become immune to holy damage. You're now tanky enough that you probably don't even need 60 Vigor, but you should probably have no less than 40 Vigor. If you got spare levels for Arcane, bleed and poison on your poking stick of choice is a good idea. Hells, actually, bleed and poison infusion is still good even if you don't have high Arcane.

It's also worth mentioning Metyr's arena is in water, so lightning can also do the job well. Was running an Ancient Dragon spell build against her, did quite well!

i found that blackflame is pretty good for radahn since it does % max health damage. this means his MASSIVE health pool (if you choose to summon thiollier and pureblood knight ansbach) isn’t a problem. still gotta deal with even HITTING him though in his second phase

The flower is also weak to magic damage. Was able to tank it's health with moonveil and most glintstone spells

All bosses weakness: me and my mimic tear spamming the shit out of them with reduvia+10

Flame of Redmane can melting sunflower. Make some distance so the flame could spread to get multiple hits and aim to the flower. With proper fire damage buff, you will need 3-4 hit. (If not hitting stem or branch)

They'll all fall to my colossal great sword

Rot is written in the stars, the same stars he punted as a teen

Radahn also has a slight weakness to thrusting damage but it’s only 20% lower than all other damage types but if you’re desperate enough any small advantage is a no brainer. Also first phase has zero holy damage resistance so if you need to demolish first 40% hp you know what to use my suggestions are antspur rapier or any holy aligned poking weapon

I didn't expect mother of fingers to be weak to strike damage, that's good to know for my second character

Man, my buddy and I had two bosses back to back where I was stuck forever while he breezed through, then the reverse happened. Gotta tell you, the Frenzy spell that fires out that single long distance shot trivialized the Tree avatar, since it just went directly for its head from a massive distance. Turned it onto kindling

Consort radahn is weak against fingerprint shield guarding and using Anstpur Rapier for bleed and rot, you'll proc both relatively easily just watch your stamina, shield blocks basically everything except a direct nuke in the second phase, as well as his midair teleport attack if you're strafing left

Trick to Rahdahn: put on your heaviest armor, level up either verdigris or fingerprint shield to max as well as either the bloodfiend great fork or regular fork with blood affinity. And poke while standing behind the shield. Never drop guard except to rebuild stamina. Talismans: golden braid, lord of blood (or greatshiel talisman for extra d), pearl shield, double turtle. Edit: do not worry about weight and fat rolling or damage boost etc. Just keep locked on and keep the shield up no matter what. You're welcome.

Antsur Rapier was the weapon to help me beat Radahn. The scarlet rot build up is 👌

Some bosses can be shredded by using the ice projectile ash of war or just a cold infused weapon and then throwing a fireball/hitting them with a flame weapon when the effect procs so it resets instantly. I beat Messmer, Metyr and Midra relatively easy with them. They're all weak to frost damage, especially messmer. Same goes for holy slash one enemies that are weak to holy like putrescent knight, death rite bird, ghostflame dragon. It's a mid range option and when you hit them with the blade and the projectile at the same time it can do absolutely crazy damage. If you're struggling with radahn, I found out his first phase is somehow weak to holy too, so the golden wave ash of war on the sword that is made out of his dads spine does A TON of damage to him, 2-5K HP per cast. It's still making his second phase take so much damage that the HP bar gets yellow, but it's only half as effective and the boss is way too fast, also it has high FP cost. So I'll probably have to either perfect his moves or try something else, and I've tried everything at this point. I wish he wasn't that hard because I really like the presentation, design and music of prime radahn, he just feels so unreasonably overpowered compared to the rest of bosses. But hey we got the only two demigods in their prime at once.

Killing Radahn with Rot is funny to me, especially since the DLC introduced the Comically Large Rot Pot

2nd phase radahn is more resistant to rot than 1st phase because he (and any boss) becomes more resistant after the first rot and this resistance carries to the 2nd phase. You could avoid rotting him on 1st phase since that one is the easy part of the fight and keep it for the 2nd half. In addition to that: Commander Gaius is also very weak to fire and the tree avatar is resistant to black flame.

Thank you for the Gaius tip! I'm an Int/Fai build, so I can have huge magic negation with adequate holy dmg

Romina also has very low poise. So hitting her with 3 or 4 well placed power attacks (hold R2 on PS5) will stagger her, allowing for easier critical hits. Blasphemous Blade works wonders on her. Stagger her, critical strike and when she's open or far enough way, use Taker's flame for or an easy 3k damage.

Radahns greatest weakness is the fact that he's extremely susceptible to being parried in his first phase, Major telegraph attacks, If you can Parry him into his second phase this boss becomes almost trivial that's exactly how I beat him

Borealis’ mist and the good old heavy hammer helped me with Radahn fase 2

First phase Radahn is weak to holy damage (due to the fact that he is a living undead, in the body of Mogh), but when Miquella is entering the scene that doesnt work any more.

Radahan is still pretty weak to both rot and poison in second phase as well. I am cooping and have an Antspur rapier with poison damage on it as well. I proc both statuses continuosuly on him and helped quite a few people overcome this final hurdle if the host is skilled enough to survive his comet attack.

If Metyr was the mother of toes, she would have been weak to Lego damage

That does explain why I was able to frost her in one full dragon ice breath(minty)

For Radahn just get a chunky armor set, get the best great shield u got and some shield grease and use the Antspur rapier with bleed on it and you can just sit there and tank his attacks taking little to no chip damage from the holy in phase 2.

From what I’ve noticed: radahn is literally weak only to bleed. Everything else he resists.

If you want actual help level faith up to 15 for flame, grant me strength for a 20% boost to physical and fire damage and a 10% increase to damage resist and pick up the golden vow ash of war and put it on a dagger in your off hand for an extra 11.5% damage. Golden vow lasts about 50 seconds and f,gms lasts for about 30, but you can usually just knock a huge chunk of health off the bosses before they run out. I wouldnt try reactivating them mid fight if your going solo no spirits.

Such complicated explanation for what uninevitably leads to Verdigris Shield + Bleed Thrusting Sword

I loved that at Radahn at second phase is just "Good Luck"

Radahn consort of miquella have one weakness that keep in the second phase: trusting damage So you can pick up the Antspur rapier for him

Metyr is also technically weak to lightning because the entire arena floor is water, same as the hippos.

Consort Radahn is also slightly weak to Holy Damage in his first phase and pierce damage in both phases. And by that I mean he has 0 holy and pierce resistance while he has 40% resistances to EVERYTHING else. Hefty Rot Pots will generally speaking rot him easily in both phases.

Using Rykard's Rancor against Scadutree avatar was DISGUSTINGLY effective ngl

Gave my mimic a repeating crossbow with Black Key Bolts in one slot and burred bolts in the other. Whole time Ansbach, Thiollier and I was facing Radahn head on, Mimic was riddling him with rot and bleed. Only reason I beat him was because mimic inflicted him with rot during phase 2… At 25% health the other three were dead and it was just me. It totally saved me.

Commander gaius' weakness is getting him stuck on the trees and killing him with moghs spear

From my fights with radahn, bleed, poison and rot worked pretty well

Metyr: Hammer of the Crucible and Tesla Cybertruck specifically. Radahn: Allegations Midra: A mirror Gaius: Gordon Ramsey

those black knights from rellana castle get easily staggered by lightning

bro forgot about the shield poker build, or. "THE WALL."

For Metyr her arena is also covered in water so lightning damage is also a good option. The new lightning spear incantation especially does a number on her

Radahn in phase 1 is weak to scarlet rot and holy damage, and in phase 2, those weaknesses are both gone. However, no matter what phase, he will take more damage from Pierce than any other physical type.

Radahn is also weak to bleed in his first phase. If you time it, you can take a good chunk of his health bar away from the second phase!

Rahdan is also suseptible to bleed. He's also has resistances to everything except holy.

I’m a faith bunk build through and through, but for young radon I’m a heavy shield poke build with lots of stamina lmao. I’ve played every dark souls DLC and I’ve never had to use a shield. This motherfucker broke my spirit.

Radahn is weak to pierce damage and bleed... The Milady with a Bleed Wing Stance or Blood Tax Ashes of War work great in this fight. The Wing Stance + R2 is a huge pierce damage poke with some good poise damage behind it too

Greatest weakness: Mimic Tear summons and Impenetrable Thorns. Goes for all the base game bosses as well LOL