yeah i keep hearing how people consider this boss hard but it was super squishy because it "starts" with basically ~40% health.. maliketh moveset and overall design is prob my fav in the game alongside radahn but it almost felt underwhelming im honestly not even trying to be elitist.. elden ring is my first souls game, i prob spent 3 hours fighting margit and like 2 hours fighting malenia, but I killed maliketh first try

Agreed. After I beat him I imediately looked up Maliketh lore videos. Who is THIS PIMP???

This boss fight didn't feel short at all to me; felt like countless hits before he finally died and it wasn't always easy to find an opportunity to land a safe attack (with a colossal sword). Elden Ring has a lot of high dmg builds/weapons that kind of break certain encounters. I hated this fight because the second phase felt hard for all the wrong reasons; after learning his attack patterns, almost all the deaths I had were due to either not being able to see where the next attack was coming because of all the magic effect clutter on the screen while he's leaping around, or because my target lock broke from him either going behind a pillar or getting stuck in one, making him phase out and reappear in a different part of the arena (which happened a LOT to me).

PLEASE, NO. I'm still struggling with this motherfucker and I'm so sad. I can't ever get to hit him because he's a FUCKING BIRD FLYING THROUGH THE AIR LIKE "HAHA U CANT HIT ME SWORD GO BRR"

Definitely, or give him an hp buff because it's too small

It's all he has. I hate his attitude toward this game.

@@BrainOfStoneliterally every vid I’ve watched of this guy it’s the same fight every time

I don't know if I'd call it a strategy... He's just doing the same attack over and over and complains when it doesn't work first try.

@@KarpetBurn That on itself is a strategy. A pretty pathetic one but a strategy nonetheless

@@2TypeAB average fromsoft d rider when someone plays the game the way they want to play it.

I agree. Maliketh would be really cool if we only had to fight him instead of the clergyman. The beast clergyman felt a bit obnoxious into an otherwise cool fight.

Beast clergyman is a cool fight. But it should not be put into malekiths battle. It should be another boss before malekith or sum

Nah the beast clergyman phase needs to happen bc the lore reveal that hes actually maliketh. Just think maliketh should restart at full hp for phase 2.

@@funkgoeson4936 I was gonna say I like the idea of a legend like Maliketh stepping down to the role of a simple clergyman. But it’s obvious there’s something more to him when fighting him, deceiving you to think he’s a low tier boss. Just wish he had two full phases, I love how aggressive he is in the first phase too!

Well that’s BS it didn’t stop them from giving Malenia 2 health bars at the top of life steal

No you got it, that is exactly what happened

he didnt dodge

Also Maliketh likes to clip through the map lmao

I mean….. yea pretty accurate

Why do people compare every single boss to those three, Maliketh has literally nothing to do with those bosses

@@cjham5272 Artorias: wolf-like Gael: Gains extra powers from blood Ludwig: gains a weapon and becomes less beast-like

@@diegomo1413 he moves like gael and artorias too. Having sommersaults ptsd lol

Gutts + berserker armor + dragonslayer + deathfire

That's probably why they didn't make his phase 2 full HP. He is way too powerful and versatile. He can beat even Malenia with only 35%-40% HP.

I wish they would’ve, I honestly think he’s the coolest boss in the game

i mean depends on you opinion but he already is lmfaoo he wins every single 1v1 against any boss you put him up against so he could already be the hardest boss in the game

Gave me the most trouble of any boss my first playthru

Same story with hoarah loux

Man I had a much harder time with the sentinel guarding his area than I ever did with maliketh

Same thing happened with the Full Grown fallingstar Beast. He best me very easily when I fought him at he crystal tunnel in Caelid but I had learned his moveset so well that I was able to beat the full grown version on my first try

The tree sentinel killed me more times than Maliketh did! I actually had to go around him to fight Maliketh and after that I fought the sentinel

@@megoodatgame8535 fallingstar beasts have been kinds ez to me, just hit them till they die?

@@skinless5136 I have no idea what build you are using but they are normally not that easy

Asmon has said before one of the reasons he likes playing these types of games is to make the most op broke builds possible, to make the game look like a joke.

@@Glados1080 I get that. At the end of the day we probably just play these games for different reasons.

same I absolutely rolled him with a bleed build and seeing him go down that fast made me respec into a full strength guts sword build just so i can experience the cool ass fights

@@dumpsta-divrr365 and that's completely fine, it's the beauty of elden ring imo. The freedom you have to do whatever you want

@@dsssds8200 I fought him full strength guts sword build and rolled him in a couple tries, I liked him

Dark souls 3? Pontiff?

@@Endeva09 i think that tittle goes to either nameless king or dragonslayer armor

@@_SUPERN0VA_ ah yes, good point.

i feel like that is more Radahn well tbh this game has so many badass warriors you have Maliketh and Malenia hell even blaidd and ofc you can forget the warrior himself Hourax loux

@@mistywww3199 I think in terms of just the aesthetic of "famed warrior", I think Houraz Loux takes it for sure, as in someone who gained fame not through their blood or title but through demonstrated strength. Exact same thing with Isshin Ashina, etc...

Lol I spent like 6 minutes

Took me 3 days

@@akiltircuit7515 Going on to my 3rd day does it get any better🙃

@@positiveguy4743 Yes, it does…

@@salamonsalman sure buddy

To be fair if you are going for a strength build with big weapons, its the best way to scale the damage especially with the raptor cloak and the claw talisman

Jump attack is the best way to attack with heavier weapons. It's all the damage with none of the wind-up.

@@DelerothVT I wanna try a strength build I've been mostly dex

@@spinyslasher6586 it has a significant end lag tho Not much better then a normal attack

@@thatdamncrow9197 but deals way, way more damage than a normal attack. Especially on a dual wielded weapon.

And it has the sickest design in the game. That black&gold armor combined with deep red aura is just chef's kiss.

Same, Malenia took me more tries, but now I can consistently beat her. I honestly don't even remember how I beat Maliketh and am terrified of facing him in NG+

@@SeiPR727 I just fought Maliketh on NG+3 about an hour ago. He killed me three times before I could beat him, and most of that was me hiding behind the pillars to heal. His damage is insane. Every NG+ I start, my vigor stat seems more and more useless.

Destined death shreds anything it hits

@@Evravon just wait till ng+ 7 where even wt bull goat armour and my 65 vigor you will never live more than 2 hits and your dead

Souls community in general is extremely obnoxious about these stuff. I mean broken builds are a staple in RPG, this isn't something exclusive to Fromsoft games.

@@spinyslasher6586 I wouldn´t say the communit in general is like that, they are not, the problem is these obnoxious tards are really loud.

I agree, I think the gatekeeping in souls games is ridiculous. I think the reason it's there though is because of the discrepancies between builds. People get annoyed when players brag about how good they are when they beat a boss with their broken build. However, it has no impact on someone's own experience with the game so i'm not sure why ppl care.

@@Kaltoriastw literally. Then they say things like “why cant I just do this” because all they’ve been doing is the same one move over and over and hoping it works

@@ShaesKyu yeah I hate strawmen too, what assholes; always saying the dumbest things I presume they are saying. All the while I imagine they are doing something that contradicts the things I’m pretending they said.

Tbf he’s using a pretty op build

Tbh, he is too overleved for the fight. Look at the damage he is giving, his health and his endurance. It is way too much.

I mean look at his build 😂 he does more dmg in a faster laps of time than 3 autos of my db katana

The cliffs at the Chapel of Anticipation must be insanely hard

yeah, but at least dragon incants are OP asf to make up for it kekw.

The bolder is actually good u can spam it

@@blastphemii wind up is too slow really. Overall beast is just.. pepega

I have the same feeling for most incantations actually. The best example everyone mentions (rightfully so) is elden stars. But there are more like flame of the fell god or borealis mist just to name a few. I think the dmg doesnt justify the high costs or casttime for these spells. But i agree, the beast spells are weak, they have no hyper armor while cast, they mostly dont stagger enemies and they have a high casttime for their low dmg. I am so much better of doing lightning spells or like the commenter above mentioned with dragon spells. Btw. I think the best incantations are black blade, golden vow, fire grant me strength and rotten breath (not ekzykes dumpsterfire because you cant use that on a horse and it costs way more to cast for almost the same dmg the rotten breath does)

@@reeno1357 flame, cleanse me is super good too. The only reliable way to cure (read: survive) scarlet rot and it’s very cheap and easy to obtain.

facts first phase is so stupid and dumb

@Captain_Morgan >implying i was using weapons that can

@Captain_Morgan exactly what I had to do.

I went hard into faithdex hybrid with dual scythes and light armor. Upgraded three different scythes to near max refinement, and didnt have any runes or materials left to quickly level a better weapon. Suffice to say that really bit me in the ass with this boss and pretty much all subsequent ones. The slow attack speed and mediocre single-target damage of the scythes made every boss after this one an absolute slog. I was doing maybe 400 damage per attack while the boss cleared half my hp each hit, but I would rather beat my head against a wall for two hours and defeat the boss on my own terms than than take a small detour to farm runes, respec, and level a different weapon.

they buffed him way more since this

ikr he hits like a truck and still has an ego bout it?

@@slothminion4620i mean he still dodges attacks pretty well nothing wrong with dealing good dmg?

It also says this wasnt even his full power, hes nothing but a shadow of what he used to be, in terms of raw power his former self was probably the strongest being in the entirety of the lands between, including hoarah loux, malenia, radhan and radagon

@@jancelpinales5228 radhan can just nuke him lol with stars bigger than the planets

@@eugenegrindfor5090 he doesn't control the stars u dumb radahn fanboy. He is only holding them in place with magic. It litterly says that everyone was scared of Maliketh

@@hugo-pg5tv IT LITTERALY SAYS THAT EVERYONE IS SCARED OF RADHAN. HE DOES CONTROLS THE STARS YOU SLOPPY TWINK

@@eugenegrindfor5090 it doesn't say that anywhere u fucking liar. Ride radahn D harder lmao, he doesn't control the stars he holds them in place with magic. As soon as he dies the stars fall which proves that it was a spell.

There has to be a balance of course. He used an OP build and took this guy out before he ever had to really learn his moveset. Then there are other steamers that spend 4+ hours bashing themselves against a brick wall of a boss, and you're just bored after the first 1 hour wishing they would just cheese it, cause every time you try to give them some advice to help them improve their chances, they get pissed at you. They're actually just pissed and tired at the game, but they will take it out on you. This was more common with Souls vets not wanting to adapt to some of the new mechanics.

who cares

The sentinal is so damn annoying my god this is the understatement of the year lol. My first few attempts I can enter and then roll forward and the Clergyman is slowing Walking towards me but after three or so attempts he is straight up just running and then I’m getting hit through the mist by the Sentinal… it’s all too much.

@@nicholasglowka7285 if you kill the sentinel he doesn’t spawn again

You actually have good reason to try and kill the Sentinel - because not only does this make it so he won't respawn and give you trouble anymore. But you'll also get his unique armor set that you can use for some Elden Bling.

I don't want them to naturally respawn, but it would be nice if you could manually summon them again.

@@GuyFromJupiter kind of like Bonfire Ascetics

Help a fellow, get summoned

I think you should be able to use remembrance’s at certain locations like maliketh’s would only work in his arena because of the pillars, but you could fight a boss like Godfrey/radahn in the dragon lords arena or smth like that

And, we know that they can do it, sekiro does exist after all

No, Asmon build is just overpowered

he is pretty overleveled. Isn't he like 150+, most people fight Meliketh at 110-130

@@Banana-cc5rx 150 isn't crazy overlevelled for farum, especially if you're a grinder

@@CDLightt for an endgame boss Maliketh doesn’t have that much health tbh. I had a +25 greatsword and was mauling him on my first playthrough.

@@bigsmall2842 I was around lvl 115 and with a +9 Blasphemous Blade (special weapon) and that was not the case for me at all, i had to hit him 32 times exactly for him to die (yes i watched a recording of my fight with him and counted each attack XD)

Funny enough considering that not only does he have a high resistance to holy damage, but the fact that you literally beat him whit his own power

@@jancelpinales5228 I have been testing this and it seems like a lot of status effects glitch a multi-phase boss’s health bar, the ancestral spirit head does it too with melania if you get the right set up.

Maybe he didn't think it was op it's kinda hard in these games not to be op at some point unless you intentionally use the starting gear and don't level up otherwise it does get super easy

Was wondering that same thing. Also, I've NEVER seen Maliketh get stuck on those pillars before. At least in my experience, the moment he recognizes I'm behind something he skirts around it to slash me. He almost felt braindead in this vid😥

@@reavemasamune8873 His gimmick is that your max health gets reduced for a bit when you get hit by him.

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Maliketh was harder for me than Malenia. His range was dumb

Probably because he’s played WoW his whole life

I just think a lot of people tend to have very OP dmg by this point in the game. This is easily one of the hardest bosses in the game if you have to properly execute the mechanics several times over before you can do enough dmg to kill him. I'd say he and Malenia are the two hardest bosses in that regard (aside from a few cheap gank fights that force you to just run around and wait for a random chance to land something), but people can't afford to make as many mistakes against Malenia, because even if they can survive her dmg, she heals every time they fail to dodge or parry.

Get gud and don’t panic roll

@@cristianchelaru8053 Yeah Idk why people thought he was challenging, maybe they're not playing the game properly? Idk

Is this your first souls game? If so then it's understandable that you struggled against him - considering how fast he is I guess people got caught panic rolling. I found his move set to be straightforward once you get the timings down, it took me two hours in total to beat him at level 60.

@@angelslayer9567 His movement around the arena is fast but I don't consider his attacks to be fast at all. Literally the only thing that made the fight particularly difficult imo, is the visual obstruction and camera angles. In terms of timing, I think he's by far one of the easiest bosses in the game to avoid attacks from, once you know what his combos are. The main thing that can be a pain before you know his moves are the aoe attacks he does at the end of his melee combos, since those quite literally come out of nowhere if you don't know they are coming, especially that huge spherical slash after he swings his sword around in the air.

He did the hardest area and boss before coming here so he should be a pretty high lvl and have maxed out weapons

@@persimmonss I would like to replay the game at a more balanced level like this. But also I don't feel like running through the huge world to get everywhere again. D:

@@nswmeeuwes89 it seems like a pain in the ass at first but if you just take your time and enjoy the game it goes by quickly

@@persimmonss stop the cap, the game does not go by quickly. game is long af.

@@internetspectator6051 well after I came back from my 130 hour playthrough it took less than 20 hours to go through the whole game no cheese no summon.

Indeed😂

I think Maliketh just needs to have more HP while toning down his oneshot. It's better to have a longer fight where the boss doesn't oneshot people with 50 vigor. But I feel like that was part of their balancing strategy. Everything lategame can pretty much oneshot you which is probably meant to counteract the increased player power. I'd prefer if every late boss was just tankier with less oneshots instead. Investing too much into vigor is boring.

No. Nerf yourself. No one is forcing you to use anything you consider to be OP.

@@vergil8833 100% agree tankier with less one shots would be a much nicer overall experience

@@vergil8833 I'd have to disagree, not necessarily about the hp part but more on the damage part. I like the high damage, makes the fight more trilling knowing that if I get hit then the next one will definitely kill me.

Im still upset that they nerfed his second phase. They slowed him down quite a lot. He used to be pretty erratic in the second phase

and his moves are actually telegraphed and easy to dodge once you see them and not just spamming any fucking ability every second like clergyman does shit so anoyying shouls had phase two be phase one

best way i found was just keep sprinting into him and when he backs up and you sprint into him again you can get some attacks off after he uses his attacks

There’s still going to be people complaining that he didn’t do it with a level 1 dagger or whatever the weakest build is lol.

using one of the best scaling weapons while being overlevel in ng isnt any good. bet he would suck in ng+6.

@@thorbenhinzmann this is what I love about the souls community you don't like people using the good weapons in the game and then state play on ng7 with a broken sword only etc to make it hard. If the game was hard there's be no need to play through it 7 times for a difficulty spike and if there's weapons that are strong then obviously people will use them either knowingly or unknowingly. People can use whatever weapon they like. I got moaned at by the community when I beat dark souls 1 using the gravelord blade on my play through, I enjoyed the sword and thought it looked cool and to me it didn't feel op since it wasn't one or two shotting bosses but apparently it is an op sword and means I didn't play the game properly. I've never played a souls game through more than once so whatever weapons I pick are because I like them same with armour. I didn't find dark souls 1 hard at all and that was even before getting the gravelord sword. I played other games way harder so dodging was second nature. Bloodborne I enjoyed way more and think it was the better game. I used the blade from the tower woman forgot her name because I liked it and enjoyed her fight. Again people said that I used an op weapon. I according to the community wasn't going to see a difficulty spike until ng7 and I was supposed to use the starting weapon. It's a starting weapon for a reason because you're meant to upgrade. A game requiring ng7 for a difficulty spike isn't a hard game. I still thoroughly believe these games would benefit from a hard mode because I don't enjoy them enough to play through seven times just for a slightly harder version. I don't really like the community of these games because all you do is moan at players for not using certain weapons or builds. You hate magic users even though magic has many drawbacks. You hate people like me who only play through once. The community is a fairly toxic community and this is what drives many players away from these games. I know I prefer to play dark souls offline and when I play elden ring I'll do it offline and use whatever weapon I like the most

@@THETHC123 he played this fight well but watching a lot of his other ones and other streamers they get hard carried by being way overleveled and dont even learn the boss mechanics. I mean even for this fight the dude was doing 1200-1300 a hit lol

I also finally succumbed to summoning another player because Mali was kicking my ass pretty hard.

I hope your vigor is around 60. If not, you uh... really don't want to get hit.

you don't use "I beat" and "help from another player" in one sentence.

I thought the same thing because I didn’t wanna respec to some op build. Luckily a few more tries I managed to beat him without respecing or summons/magic. I refused to beat these bosses with something op in the first play through. Was running a cold estoc but I had no int to scale up the damage. It was a great feeling beating this boss the way I wanted.

@@jewii3824 yeah he can, don’t be elitist

Because Malekith is not optional, they avoid making broken bosses that are necessary for story progression, that's the default design. That's why Malenia and Mohg are super strong.

@@gsczo that's true, honestly I don't know what was and wasn't optional, I just beat bosses as I came across them

it doesn't though. It's still maliketh inside the tattered clothes, he hasnt evolved in any form, he just gets a new blade and adapts to using it. but malenia transcends into a god, literally, so its fitting that she gets another bar. however i will say that malenia recovering HP makes zero sense since all she does is pure physical with her blade, while it would make sense for maliketh to steal life into himself with his blade

He does have way more Health everyone playing the First Journey, Maliketh is Harder on the 3rd Journey

if Miyazaki really gave this guy more hp and a full hp in second phase. I might be stuck in Farum Azula for about a week. the tree sentinel in front of him is an absolute ass, and the guy he's guarding is even worse.

What level are you

whatever you do do not use weapons that deal holy dmg... cuz holy dmg actually heals elden beast... also physical dmg works the best...

@@Kenkuli I'm level 124 rn, my build is a Dex/Str, and I use quality and frostbite with a godskin peeler and twinblades.

Bodied Malenia😂😂😂 only stuck 3 hours on Malenia, my dude literally destroyes her completely and utterly , what a chad man , only 3 hours, havent seen somebody body her like that before😂😂😂😂😂

@@kamirostorino9416 holy damage does not heal elden beast

Funny enough I beat godskin dúo on my first try, but I spended like 2 and a haf hours on draconic tree sentinel

Likewise 😂

Honestly? Downward jump attack with dual weapons is busted. If you get two very very high damage weapons, you can ALWAYS jump attack even with no stamina left. Once you're airborne, the game has no animation for failing to attack via stamina, so even if you use your very last bit of stamina to jump, you have hyper stamina and can do a double fking downard attack for free. And spam it. It does RIDICULOUS damage with frostbite in one hand and bleed in another. It's like... quite literally busted. Split damage in Elden Ring is actually op as fk. It's like DS1 all over again.

I’m pretty his 99 strength was most of his damage 😂

@@myRailgunYT That too lmao. He's very VERY over leveled somehow. Must have been really grinding.

@@StudioMod whatching the stream he didn´t grind, the game just showers you with exp, i stoped when i got to level 150, but i could easily keep leveling up until lvl 180 maybe even near 200 if i used all my rune items, without stoping to grind.

Level up vigor and take off the soreseal

@@PulseBladeenjoyer I'd have you know, I have 30 vigor now. I'm pretty much a tank now.

@@Trizzle2Jernts good! Now pump vigor even higher! Go to forty or fifty!!

@@Trizzle2Jernts 30 vig aint shit

Does the Soreseal make a lot of difference in this part of the game? Been running it since the beginning, thought it was only like a 7% damage increase.

I didn't use summons but Maliketh was so damn aggressive he basically permanently jumped around without pause. I was surprised at how chill he was here with Asmongold. Phase 1 was super easy in comparison.

Where did you get that? That's incorrect. He's not cursed but bound to farum azula. To retrieve the part of the rune of death that ranni stole is an easy feat for maliketh, he'll just go to the lands between and eat godwyn and all the black knives but he doesn't why? Because if he goes outside Farum Azula the rune of death will be free, and destined death will rejoin the elden ring. So he sends a copy, a projection of himself to collect death. Marika is perhaps the smartest person in the game, she literally trapped her strongest enemy, and the strongest warrior of the greater will in a place he could never leave cuz death needs to stay sealed (He's an enemy cuz he can turn against her like Blaidd did). Still in his remembrance it says she betrayed him. I think this betrayal they're talking about is the night of the black knives. The black knives are Numen and are said in their armor i think "...have close ties to marika..". She and ranni and rykard orchestrated the betrayal of Maliketh. Anyway the thing you said is wrong, about whatever he touches dies. We would've needed to do a hitless maliketh then to win against him 😂.

@@justsomeotherguywithamusta6810 I said it is in the lore, obviously they won't make a boss that instantly kills you in one hit.

If you don’t jump atk like him or you don’t use 1shot spell as a mage ofc you will struggle,let them feel strong 😂

Moonveil isn't a cheese lmfao idk how it was back then but it was definitely nerfed by the time I arrived cause I can list so many weapons better rn😂

@@shinsoatimaku Idc. Go to Asmons video "Asmongold's Take on Elden Ring DESTROYED By A Fan" and skip to the 4:50 mark. This same reductive take was used by the idiots he was arguing against. My point still stands

@entombedentity the inly thing moonveil still has is range but tbh probably has the same range or almost as nagakiba 😂 the damage has been reduced to average and people now use way too many buffs before having it reach even close to being broken I don't see it now granted I haven't been in thr old meta as I said but there are still a list of weapons that overtake it never seen anyone complain about blasphemous blade but for some reason everyone hates on moonveil for its past not even for what it is now

@@shinsoatimaku I dont care. Thats not the point im making. Get outta here with that " Um, Actually 🤓" bs.

@@entombedentity so then what is the point you are making discuss it instead of acting like a baby