asmon asked “has he fought anything yet?!” and someone in chat said “He’s fighting the clock” lol

he's not teleporting, he's parrying the distance between him and his target

buys elden ring on steam- beats game in 19 minutes- refunds elden ring

Imagine the TERROR you'd feel if you were a boss and saw a naked guy two handing an axe coming straight for you outta nowhere

imagine being the guy who accidentally discovered the zip trick. Poor dude just trying to grind his way out of low level with shitty hardware, then zips 2km to the next zone in the blink of an eye

Distortation has got to be one of the all time greats for these games. He’s consistently been killing these speed runs for years. Super impressive.

Margit: i'm gonna wait here and put to rest his dream (Tarnished has become the elden lord) Margit: AYOO WHAT!?

I love how 10 mins into the first run, teleporting everywhere, flying into the sky, and stomping a great enemy into dust, Melina turns up going "oh shit my bad, sorry i doubted you, Torrent knew from the start but I didnt know you were a god"

I love how Asmon freaks out every time the dude gets ready to do the Zip glitch lao

For anyone who thinks Dist's time was that fast simply because of glitches and exploits, you likely wouldn't feel that way if they saw the man routing, practicing, and optimizing the hell out of each segment. A Speed run is the culmination of that practice, and runs like these should always be celebrated. Also, Dist is insane and pretty much not human.

His chat always goes full brain dead whenever there is a speedrun on the screen

I find that ax thing funny, because within 10 hours of playing, I found that ice stomp ash of war and a different ax from Stormville and combined them, not knowing there was literally a weapon that was basically identical sitting in the middle of the lake

people that think if theres glitches it shouldnt count have literally never seen a speedrun of any game ever

This speedrun is actually insane, distortion rarely has reactions like this, it really shows how insane this time is.

As someone who has been playing this game on a 12-year-old computer, my heart bleed a little bit every time someone made a joke about the resolution.

Asmongold's ability to regain his mind after It exploding is very impressive

chat getting mad at any% will forever be the dumbest take on this planet

So cool to see Asmongold reacting to an Elden Ring speedrun. I was actually racing Dist to be the first sub 20 live (you can hear him mention me "Mitch" a few times in the video), and Dist barely squeaked it out before me, that's why you can hear how relieved he was, he knew I was right on his tail. Big congrats to Dist, he's a living legend in the souls community, and always clutches out these insane runs. I would have had the world record with an 18:24, but unfortunately my OBS just showed a black screen for about a minute of gameplay and it didn't count. Missed my chance to have Asmongold react to my video lol, but big GG to Dist, he earned it.

Dist2 is an absolute legend. The amount of effort and dedication he puts in to get his runs is nothing short of amazing. Dunno why chat was getting so worked up...There's multiple categories of speedrunning and this is one of them.

I was messing around, and idk if this would help speed runners, but I teleported to Margot (capital fight) and noticed I didn’t have the right sword to test, I left his fight, and when I loaded in, it turned into the Ash capital and Godfrey was behind the door instead. Didn’t have to kill Maliketh. Idk if I can re create it or not. Havnt tried

The cooming at the end explains alot about speedrunners. When the dopamine hits your brain and then goes all the way down to your member lmao.

This was the last run of his night too, insane.

Usually speedrunning has multiple categories. The three most prominent are: Unrestricted, which means that any glitch or skip works, so long as you beat the game. Standard Glitchless, which means that you can use skips, but not glitches. The only thing required is that you beat the typical required Bosses without using glitches. Standard All Bosses, where you have to fight all of the major bosses, whether they are mandatory or not. Depending on the game, this could also be split into Unrestricted and Glitchless.

Asmon has a really good grasp on what speedrunning is all about. Made me happy to hear someone this big respect speedrunners this much.

The greatest boss he was fighting in this speed run was the clock, losing requires him to not beat the fastest speed run time.

lol the volcano manor shortcut was my fav from my playthrough, patches tells you about it

During the Maliketh fight he was also using the glitch which made it so that royal knights resolve boosted any and all things damage, including other ashes of war, in this case, an 80 percent increase to hoarfroast stomp.

so many uploads to keep me busy ty editors

All the hate is coming from people who don't follow speedrunning. Dist CRUSHES any% speedruns and has been doing that for YEARS on multiple different games. He also does all bosses/all remembrances style speedruns and is top tier at those as well. Glitch exploitation has literally always been a part of speedrunning...people who disparage it genuinely don't understand what speedrunning is about. Dist is a legend.

Insane run, mad respect to dist and whole speed runners community. Man they make it look easy.

Asmon, if you want some explanation on those damage numbers I can explain what all happened for him to melt bosses that quick First thing, level 1 is actually totally viable, because a vast majority of damage comes from the level of your WEAPON, not your own level. Anyone with a +10 weapon will deal more damage than anyone at RL700 without weapon upgrades. In fact, damage scaling is so low in this game I would argue it's basically useless to invest in offensive stats until you already have 60VGR. The Icerine hatchet's Hoarfrost Stomp skill had the overall highest DPS of any skill in the game (nerfed in 1.03) which is pretty nutty by itself, but the trick to it's damage doesn't end there The other weapon he was using was a Godskin Stitcher with an Ash of War called Royal Knight's Resolve, which gives an 80% damage buff to your weapon until you attack with it (or lasts 8s). However, prior to 1.03 it was bugged to actually increase ALL your damage by 80%, not just that weapon, yet the buff still didn't go away when you attacked with a different weapon, making it by far the strongest single buff in the game, so that 80% buff was also applying to Hoarfrost Stomp the entire time through Maliketh and the final boss. Now this ash of war can be applied to any weapon, but the reason for Stitcher in particular is because in the run, you don't match the requirements to use it, which for some reason doesn't stop Royal Knight's Resolve from activating but it DOES make it cost no FP to use, so he actually saves a bit of FP using it this way So basically, he had a maxed out weapon dealing the highest DPS that was then boosted by an additional 80%, which is why the bosses died that fast. Though both of these skills were fixed after 1.03, there's still something important to learn here. Your build itself (the weapon, it's upgrades, your buffs, etc) will always ALWAYS be much more important than your level alone, and this lesson applies to EVERY build in the game

It didn't take long for speedrunners to completely abuse that game too. xD I'm always amazed at the way they're able to discover and take advantage of glitches.

I've been watching on and off Distortion2 since that amazing DS2 Broken% in 16:20, (2014) easily the best soulsborne speedrun I've watched in my life. Dist is an absolute GOD, he has run a million games and gets at least one WR on each and every one of them.

I love these games so much, I hope they're always this broken. Block using your weapon near a rock? Oh game freaks out for no apparent reason and you get skyrocketed. At least the farum azula glitch kind of makes sense though, like you're in the area but he makes the game register that he just got there Im assuming so it just puts him in the starting part after Fire Giant.

I was so excited to see the speedrun for this game, since so much of the game can already be skipped organically, how much more can you skip in a speedrun?

The guys reaction after he beat it was priceless.

I gotta say, I almost never watch twitch, so from the news and drama, I always thought Asmongold would be kind of an a$$. I am honestly pleasantly surprised to find out he is such a chill dude to watch interesting stuff together... I really like how his reactions feel legitimate and he doesn't overreact to hype things up. Keep up the good content, m8

There’s really only one thing that came to my mind with the bell and magic swords spam killing all the bosses. That one scene from Monty Python holy grail. DING! Bring out the dead! This really made me laugh, killing every boss in the game by ringing a dang bell, freaking golden, man.

It is harder to ding ding (relatively) renalla cause she has a lot of range based magic and summoning at her disposal. But she does get staggered to any attack so just going full agro is way easier on her than magic. Learned this the hard way lmao (I've never used ding ding though just magic in general).

This dude is gonna live 2 years less than before he did this speed run from the amount of stress he was experiencing

Such an amazing run. GG Dist

Is there a way to get that set his wearing at 9:10 ? I know there's a way to get the astrologer set since, but i already have it since I started as an Astrologer, but i really like that blue set

It's SOOOO much more insane now with no fighting, just like 10ish warps to the end and a couple warps with extra inputs to "kill" a couple bosses. No horse or deaths either outside of one at the end that also kills the boss sending you to credits lol. It's sub 6 mins now.

The original video is Distortion2 probably the best Souls runner on twitch imo

I'm glad asmon knows more about how speedruns work now, so instead of being impressed by the fact that he runs past bad guys like with DS1, he can be impressed by the guy teleporting halfway through the map like the rest of us

The last time I seen one of these types of vids from Asmon was for Dark Souls 1, this is like a little blessing, it's embarrassing how giddy I am about this.

I watched this a couple days back but because I am now rewatching it I noticed the somber 7 that was picked up in the manor and I've been looking for one for a while now

"How fast can you beat a game" is an obvious question on peoples minds. "How fast can you beat a game with chatter 5003's rules for what is ethical, Fox only Final Destination", is not. Also note the 70 hour savefile Dist has, he took his time playing through the game normally too.

how are people still complaining about exploits in speedruns? do your homework before saying 'InvAliD RuN"

For people here in the comment section disparaging Distortion's "SPEED RUN" it's called any% for a reason! You aren't allowed to use mods/ external programs etc. Only use what the game has, be it glitches or OP weapons. Your aim is the fastest time possible to clear the game. Is it a valid speedrun? yes. Is he cheating? In speedrun definitions, No. Is he a skilled gamer? Watch him beat Malenia lvl 1 no clothes with only parry and dodges. watch?v=649x7gTYWwo

To be fair, I did the same exact thing to Renalla with a Claymore in my right hand and an Uchigatana in my left hand. I would Bloodhound Step to gap close, then use the katana to gain a small stagger, followed up by the full Claymore rotation. Renalla falls quick once you get on top of her.

You know the falling comet after Rahdan? That was this legends entire Elden Ring run.

Most of you people having a tantrum about any% speed runs probably don't know that nobody asked you. 😢

I finished my first game at 120hrs, these guys are amazing for finding these glitches.

I'm not usually a big fan of any% speedruns, but this one was pretty good. Any% No Major Glitches is generally a much more entertaining category though.

*Approaches ledge while blocking menacingly*

often speedrunners exit out of dark souls games to reset the enemies so they stop chasing you. try this in your own game its EXTREMELY useful

Fucking love his facial expression’s!!!! Priceless, makes me laugh all the time!!!

11:54 Theres just something about the gameplay, calming music and the stunned reaction thats just too funny

BRO 18:50 INTO MY GAME I WAS STILL TRYING TO KILL THAT TREE SENTINEL BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO 😭

12:50 the only teleport that is NOT a bug.

This game has so much potential for even faster speedrun possibilities, so many hidden parkour skips. Love it!

Also you can always skip Margit and the whole storm veil castle with the route to the right along the mountains. Shortcut to liurnia

This guy also beat Melania at level 1 with Parries and Critical hits. Insane skills.

It's funny when people complain about Any%. Like this is what it is, there are other categories. And personally I prefer to watch the other categories or glitchless, but an Any% is fine sometimes too just to see runners squeeze through the cracks in the duct tape holding the game together. :)

22:45 the reason why he ding ding's to summon a goblin guy is because summons break the AI of the Phase 2 boss.

dist is the reason i started speed running the souls games... ever since i saw his ds1 speedruns, hes just great!!!

2:10 I don't think its the resolution exactly, I think its based off of framerate, which is why they change the resolution to be so low. Its probably going to be banned eventually since its a hardware / frame rate based exploit

90% of the comment section have never heard of Any% speedruns, or even literally any other speedrun category in existence aside from a normal playthrough.

Pepega chatter - "Every glitch has already been discovered by someone else, 0% originality to this run." Yes because beating the game the way it was designed to be beaten is so much more original dude

15:13 Asmon.EXE has malfunctioned LMAO!!!

that tree zip reaction fucking killed me

Speed runs are so fun to watch. A complex game that took everyone hours just for op Speed runners to do it in minutes

Hey Asmongold, the world is crazy right now and it’s impossible to get away from the constant stream of negative content. Thank you for making content that lets me feel like a happy kid again. I appreciate you.

That flying glitch was used in AC odyssey speed runs aswell.

This just proves that Distortion is one of the Elden Ring speedrunners ever.

Mad Respect for Distortion, He`s in another level of pure skill and strats. Too smart for the average player.

I love when people react to seeing a speedrun. it reminds me of anime when side characters react in awe at the power of the main character.

I dont know it there is anything better in the universe than asmon reacting to souls games

after playing with controller for almost 40 hours, I definitely feel like I have a crap ton more control on m&kb, could also just be my controller grip but how people are so precise With controller is insane

After reading the comments here(and in the video), alot of people don't know that this is an any% speedrun. Go to a glitchless speedrun category if you don't want to see glitches or exploits.

He should watch zerolennys latest video. He beat elden ring torch only

It would be cool if you guys could link to the actual videos and not just the channel :))

These games have always had weird mechanics you find during speed run vids. Dark Souls 1 you can roll off the cliff once you get to the main camp and land at the final boss.

6:50 in and I still haven't seen a fight. SpeedRUN, indeed. 😅

To all the Andy's in his chat talking about distortions skill, he could do this barebones glitchless and still slap all your effort. Dude is a God.

I love how people find out these little tricks like stance holding the sword to mass jump across the screen….unbelievable

The best moment is when Asmongold understand that it’s teleport time. “What’s this weird shit?Oh no…” LMAO

Chat saying hes maidenless when you literally hear him talk to his girlfriend lmfao

"elden ring needs a easy mode"...meanwhile speedrunners...

Whenever asmon gets excited his eyebrows do a lil dance

my man Distortion even cancelled his flight because he knew he was going to hit this one. He could just feel it in his bones, absolutely insane guy

People complaining it's not a real speedrun probably aren't that into speedrunning. Any% speedrunning means using any means given in the game to complete it as fast as possible, even if it means exploiting mistakes in the game's coding. For those that aren't interested in standard speedrunning, there are extra categories like glitchless, all main bosses, etc. that they may like more, but saying any category doesn't count as speedrunning isn't really up to them to decide.

Proof this game doesn't need a easy mode

I don’t even want to finish Elden ring anymore now Ding Ding

When cutting the space with your katana is not a Sekiro speedrun, but an Elden Ring one...

Oh my god dude yes, I recognised that "I'm gonna fall asleep in 5 seconds" bro this run is the stuff of ACTUAL legends. I'm mad keen to see how much it can be shaved down by the speedrun community

Hahahahaha hearing Asmongold saying “he’s under leveled for this area” is damn hilarious to me! These speed runners are no joke, man.

I think this is the most emotion I've ever seen in Dist.

Dude was breaking all the laws of the game