This is definitely one of the games ever made.

Asmon's reaction to getting parried and oneshotted looking disbeliefed along with McCool's laughter is something so funny to witness haha

"It's one guy? It's just one guy, how hard can it be?" this phrase fucking seared my soul, having to relive the two hours I spent fighting that sorry excuse for hard drive space

Lmao best part is him having to kill an npc after accidentally attacking. "I just feel like such a piece of shit guys, I really do --- *Loot pops up* You know what guys, he shouldn't have been there, he really shouldn't have been there."

Can't believe he didn't collect ANY golden seeds for his flasks lol

20 hours in and still has not read items or learnt that he can get boss weapons... Classic DS1 Asmon

asmon: "why do they keep giving me grease" McCool: "maybe they pulled it off you hair"

I like Asmongold by himself, but Asmongold with someone taunting him in real-time is really special.

McConnel: "Is that Sif?" Yes, and apparently he went back to college to get a degree in ass kicking

"XQC was stuck on this for 4 hours. " Asmon : Why "I made it up to make you feel better. " LOL

Soulsborne players in a nutshell: "Wait, she's dead?" 😲 "Did she drop anything?"

13:55 that's definitely how I feel. That boss wasn't a "sweet I beat it! I feel so good!" Its just a "thank God it's over I hated every second of that"

Pro tip: put your flasks in your pouch, so instead of cycling through your items with the down button, hoping you don't accidentally go one past the flask you want, you only need to hold Y and tap a direction to use the flask you want! It's so much faster. For example, I put health on left button, FP on right button, physick on down, and Torrent's whistle on up.

I like how he locks him self out from spesific really cool boss fights and rewards by killing all side story NPC

The 15 seconds that follow 11:28 is what it is all about. This is soulsborne in 15 seconds. I can actually feel that _“oh no…”_ at the end.

"She's dead?" *not even one second later* "Did she drop anything?" The duality of man 😂

17:40 no, your problem is you keep using your horse like it has the movement opportunities your character does, but you actually have you fully rotate it to turn it around, and it’s a lot faster/bigger than you are simultaneously

The knight NPC in the academy died to fall damage for me. I panicked, ran past him, tripped the elevator, he ran onto the elevator, hit me once, I bailed off because i was at like 1/10 health and then he jumped off after me and died. I didnt even have to hit him once. 😅🤣

There is nothing more entertaining than when Zack is truly having a lot of fun playing a game, he’s happy and full of life, and when McConnell joins the stream. So happy to see you in such a good place right now, Zack. The laughter and positivity you produce for everyone is very much appreciated! :) especially during this category 5 shit storm that is the current state of our country and the world. Keep it up man! Please don’t ever stop playing video games lol

God, McConnel’s laugh makes it soooo much better!

"how hard can 1 guy be?" famous last word in any fromsoftware games

I don’t really know this guy but I found him when he reacted to a dark souls speed run and this guy has the most funniest facial expressions 😂

19:10 “why do they keep giving me grease?” “they pull that out of your hair, or something?” Hilarious 😂

I love when he’s beaten by paladin like npcs. Feels so good.

7:25 No, no.. first you have to find Dracula's Rib, then you stand at the edge of the dropoff, hold the rib, and kneel... and a wind funnel will come up and carry you away.

You can use a Celestial Dew at the Church of Vows to make hostile NPCs non-hostile again.

Tip dump for the friendos The Statue guard dog fight has a method to it, a method that applies to basically any Xv1 fight actually, with some exceptions depending on enemy design. They're both long animation enemies so all you gotta do is sprint close and then away from one and then beeline the other and attack it. Preferably sprinting to the melee focused one because that triggers it's AI into winding up and attacking you so once you've gotten close and dipped out again you've effectively tricked it into restricting where it can move for the next few seconds, A soft stun pretty much, because it will wind up, and it can only now move as far as it's attack hasrange, separating them briefly. Rinse and repeat. You do this with Mobs as well, run close to one without attacking it to trigger an attack and then charge the other, Or keep baiting attack responses by entering and exiting range until they've moved away from each other. Its a spin on the FPS concept of winning 2v1s. "First rule of a 2v1 is, don't take a 2v1." Separate the enemy and take multiple 1v1s. In FPS games that's done by moving around cover in such a way that only one enemy has line of sight on you at a time, which lets you duel and kill them before peeking the second one and killing them in a second duel. 2 enemies simultaneously in play, but only engaged one on one so they can't gank you. In a game like elden ring you replace cover with forcing animations without ever committing to the fight until enemies have been staggered into waves that can't hit you at the same time. Alternatively you can use a spirit to distract one and just wail on the other, it's effectively the same thing but if you consider spirits cheap you can do it this way on your own (Weird flex when the game throws two enemies at you but okay) This same strategy works on the twin crucible knight/ordovis(I say this cuz if the dogs are giving you trouble then those two will fuck you up) Redmanes flame makes that fight much easier though because you can trigger them both into an attack, back out of their range and then free aim a wall of poise breaking flames from just outside their attack range while they're still locked in the previously baited attack, which can hit both of them, without allowing them to reactively attack you because you started to charge a spell like they're designed to do, and because that attack lingers and moves outwards you can walk well back and send the flames out as they're walking towards you, they'll meet it halfway and take the hit. Super effective against the twin dogs too but, they're manageable without it just by baiting one and attacking the other. You really don't want to trigger the knights second phases at the same time though, If you can trigger the shield knights phase 2 first then you can bait the Wing attack where it flies past you, just dodge through the attack and he'll land massively separated from the other one which you can then attack or, use that to give you a window to trigger the spear one into an attack so that his range of motion is restricted while you fight the shield one with some space etc. Long story short, stop trying to get hits on a 2 v 1 pair when they're standing within range of each other, you WILL get slapped by the other guy. Works on mobs too, just run close and away, trigger a couple swings in your direction to limit movement and counter attack in that gap. And for the love of god drop some armour if you're fat rolling. Protection is great but you don't need it if you don't get hit to begin with and dodging ranged attacks is really easy when you're not fat rolling, You can basically just spam roll for constant I frames to close distance and then attack one then roll more. If their attacks aren't synchronized, try to use a throwing dart to hit one, staggering him. Chances are when he recovers he'll be firing in sync with the other guy now and you'll dodge both of their attacks with the same roll making it even easier. If you use a heavy weapon, Carry bone darts (If you can't be fucked to farm crystals for that kinda dart bone darts will do) because they give you consistent and fast damage output that you can basically use as a quick attack. Once you have the bones available for purchase at round table you can literally farm a bunch of runes, buy a metric shit tonne of thin bones and have the darts permanently bound to square (X on Xbox I think?) I have 600 stored away from a single farm session, and if an enemy is strong against your weapons damage type they may be weak against the darts. The crystal duo for example was taking more damage per dart hit than my fucking 18+ katana was doing a swing so it had even more utility than just additional damage. Heavy weapons have great power but even their fast attacks are slow, so run darts to replace your fast attacks and abuse the fuck outta heavy attacks whenever you actually have the chance, it's a hell of a lot better than just spending most of your fights dodging and then landing one or 2 hits max every time an enemy cycles through their combos on you.

I take everything slow, scope out every situation I can nice and easy. So it's insane to me when I see people just blow up into a new area and get mad when they instantly die

Now we know how the bosses feel when we spam them with Glintstone Pebble.

19:15 Asmon going through the 5 stages of grief in less than 3 seconds

I know the feeling of getting frustrated with a particular boss. Happened to me with the Ulcerated Tree Spirit (the one that gives you the Oleg summon). Every time I walked into the boss room, it would immediately rush at me with the grab almost before I was even done with the animation of going through the fog door. But it made it so satisfying when I came back later with the Sword of Night & Flame and just wrecked the thing with the R2 weapon art. To a lesser extent I had frustrations with the Magma Wyrm that drops the Moonveil katana as I just kept getting combinations of bad luck (like getting stuck on the boss's body so that you just get dragged through it's "charge" attack for what is essentially an OHKO. At the same time, there have also been bosses I just trivialized, like the Cemetery Shade (by the time I actually stumbled on the thing I was overleveled), as I just outright one-shot the thing with the R1 weapon art from the Sword of Night & Flame. The Erdtree Avatar as well (the first one Asmon fought), I managed to beat the thing without getting hit even once. I'm sure other bosses will give me trouble down the road though, Flying Dragon Agheel for instance I expect will be infuriating.

28:46 lol the way he hit at that time when the you died screen showed up , looks like he pointing at your corpse and was saying " WHAT ARE THOSE?!" 😂😂.

I've been playing for 12 hours and have yet to find the area this video starts in lol. That's how truly open this game is.

Absolutely love these streams.

25:59 you use a shield with high magic resistance or with an ash of war that increases magic resistance and walk towards them with a shield up…. Or you use one of the Myriad of ranger options to a strength build such as crossbow (or bow), crystal dart, bone dart; ect. If what your doing doesn’t seem to be working …. Think what can I do differently to make this more manageable.

Double cats were a nightmare to me aswell, i went there underlevelled aswell with i think a +6 standard weap the later run i met them at lvl 70 with +14 big boi hammer, smashed tham for good

i loved the way he just gets disenchanted in the end

I love seeing asmon play souls like games he is just entertaining as hell

24:44 - the shush, followed by the onslaught of magic fired at him and the "when do they run out of mana?" made me crack up! haha

That rennala fight makes me so mad, I try doing the same thing and when she’s below half she just spams the summons after every hit

Did Asmon already go to the Murkwater Cave in Limgrave where he can find a very familiar face for soul players? Beware of killing the encounte though, cause if you do you might miss out on some stuff.

The laugh after he got parried was beautiful

0:38 OOF!

Got to love how he talks shit about magic then proceeds to get bodied by it.

This guy is absolutely hilarious what a legend.

9:30 had me laughing pretty hard when you changed your tune once you saw the loot.

“That was legitimately challenging…that was-*sees the next boss from afar*…👁💧👄💧👁”

9:43 Lmao in the one souls game Fromsoft adds a forgiveness mechanic he decides to just kill the NPC immediately versus letting it go awhile and checking back later… likely having learned about the forgiveness mechanics by then. Hope everyone else learns from this at least lol.

Elden ring looks though, may have to try it out. Thanks to you asmongold!

I've noticed not many players use the jump attack it's great for breaking guard

Dude watching your dark souls 3 videos hilarious man gave me the final push to get into the series myself and than you bro they are legendary games bro..keep the grid going 👍

Good job editor ,pls keep up the good work and upload of this cut version, I can't watch his Livestream :'(

Asmongold is and always been the most entertaining person on twitch. We love you asmon ❤

Asmon is easily my go-to Elden Ring content creator

That transition from the intro to the video was perfect

at 10:12 there is a moment he runs back and all my mind was flooded with was visons of marvels vision in my vision lmao

Hopefully Asmond didn't or doesn't miss the entire Siofr River region accessible from the Limgrave region near your starting point at the beginning of the game.

I feel like mcconnell was the highlight of elden ring so far. Love listening to him and asmon chat and make fun of life :) would love to see more mccool. Asmon, awesome streams this year bro I hope they continue going BIG DICK 💜

I went nowhere near the Erdtree Avatars until I was lv 70-80, I still can't take down the Putrid avatar with my Uchigatana double wielding DEX build. I'm not a great soulsborne enthusiast, but I love this game.

McCool's laughter in the DS play throughs or elden ring made it all worth it

I love to watch Asmon playing this game but I can’t imagine playing it myself. Even during the stream the game is giving me anxiety and unnerving feeling caused by the world being so vast and yet so empty and lonely. I know there is a lot of enemies, I can’t quite explain what I feel. PS: I don’t hate the game, I think it’s amazing. I admire everyone playing and beating it because to me this is one of the hardest game there is.

i spent 5 hours on the game and am still in the starter zone, i don't even know how to progress, i had to give up on it for the day

15:25 He was so happy to get it but never carried on using it, anyone remember why? He loved it in the other Souls games.

magic build looking pretty damn cool if u can get this things that keep blasting him

What infuriates me is seeing how much damage you got on Rennala. Magic has been my primary tool in Elden ring and that boss has given me more pain and annoyance than any other so far. Great vids tho, a lot of fun to watch when I’m not trying to get through the game myself.

18:33 I don't know if he ever went back, but he missed a very important item for getting into the magic academy in that area (its where the dragon was sleeping at the beginning). I only mention this as I remember seeing a clip of him talking about not knowing where the academy was. Also in regards to whether or not to use a horse, some fights are just easier on foot such as the erd tree guardian you were on as there attacks are just really to doge into and get free hits.

i love Asmond and Mcconnel stuff. they work so well togheter i love it

I remember in the new game plus, I just didn't want to try to fight that knight properly, and just want to try kamehameha that guy to death

The Carian Knight before Rennala's elevator is still bugged to this day btw. Trying to riposte him after a guard break leads to him recovering instantly and parrying you. Fun times.

*R1 spams NPC with a parrying shield * *gets parried * Asmond: *pikachu surprised face *

I love the music and setting for Rennalas second phase!!

"Wtf was that" -- Me for the last 300+ hours spent on this game.

I hope Asmon start coop. Seeing him playing with people and having people invading him would be so fun to watch

Would help if he didn’t just roll and spam R1 😂 😆 He’s too stubborn to use the mechanics haha

I remember asmon playing ds3. Look how far he's come

6:15 dude, i can't.... LMAAAAAOOO

Elden Ring is a Masterpiece

would be better if mcconnel didnt show up

Wish someone would upload the full vods on youtube.

Out of all the games ever made, this is one of them.

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That knight boss at the start of the video... I tried to run away from him, and he followed me out on the stairs and got crushed by the falling stones. Accidental cheese.

Man, you crack me up with your facial expressions when getting killed 😂😂. Much love from England

I like how he and Lobos both had the same idea of comparing the academy guys to burger king.

i love watching asmon play elden ring, the only ever video ive watched is his mount off L but this series has me hooked

The boss souls are the only ones you really don’t want to loose because you can’t regard them for a second time unlike the normal enemy’s that spawn around the world. The bosses have double and triple souls most of the time vs having to farm random enemy’s for hours to get the same amount.

bro i hated going through teh academy, the only saving grace was that bosses were pushovers a bit, the mobs honestly carried the difficulty there

Oh god, if you get claustrophobic then I want to see you fight the boss behind the very first stone key entrance 😂

No matter how crap my day is watching this guy is just hilarious definitely makes my days better 😆😆😆

Whenever I can’t beat a boss my favorite thing to do is watch other people not beat bosses alway puts me in a better mood 😭

9:20 "I feel like such a pos" *sees gear D dropped...."Yah know he shouldn't have been there" 🤣🤣🤣

Love when even the castle just shits all over buddy... 🤣🤣🤣👌🏽

Yep the carian knight is pretty tough especially if you get caught in there combo

160 hours in still got so much to do still have to unlock mountaintops the snow field and mohagyn palace maps huge

that first guy did the same thing to me after using moonveil special at the start one shot me i was like wtf

There's nothing more annoying that when you're pummeling an enemy and kicking his arse, then he suddenly fights back and kills you with a combo out of nowhere.

Ik this is old but this just had me laughing so hard I was crying and my wife was wondering if I was gonna be ok lmaoooo this dude is too funny

McConnell is a good friend. The acting to set asmon up for the joke is on point.

Him vs the Deathrite Bird is pretty good too.

Hi, Looking to get this as I don’t want to start division 2 on Xbox x again. I know it’s difficult but is this worth a play?