rykard is one of the most visually incredible bosses in a fromsoft game to date because its incredible how little visuals i have during his storm of red skulls

Shout out to Hunter, his editing is S tier for those who don't always have time to watch the streams

2:11:57 For those who didn't know Erdtree Seal is the strongest pure faith seal in the game but due to the different scaling curves the Godslayer Seal is better up until 70 faith.

Next Stat Run: All stats in order AKA the ultimate quality build. Wretch starting class. First level to Vigor, second level to Mind, etc. until everything is 11. Then do it again for 12, 13, and so on.

Shoutout Hunter, the checklists were an amazing idea and were really cool to see how Gino was putting all the builds together

Rickety Shield my beloved

29:30 really showcasing just how strong Frozen Lightning Spear is. Super underrated spell. The damage it does is nuts because it does lightning damage AND frost buildup. Having access to both of those damage types makes it a fantastic spell for nuking bosses. It's riskier to use because you need to get in close for both hits to get the full damage but oh man is it worth it.

48:42 quick thing just in case: No, you don’t have to do any of Castle Morne. Irina will die and Hyetta will spawn in Liurnia the instant you go to any Site of Grace after speaking to Irina and agreeing to give the letter to Edgar. Ayyy, Chat knew. I’m glad. I found that out last year when I decided to Platinum the game and stumbled across that little fact.

14:00 The Erdsteel Dagger almost double the damage if you infuse it with Flame Art affinity, it still scales with Faith and the damage near 650 on a +25. I used on a Machete Cosplay Run and it was really good with charged attacks

The Rancor killing you at the grace was the perfect end to that Rykard saga. Another really fun run to watch.

I wish I could be as Chill as Gino is with FromSoft games. "Surely I won't lose 70K runes" "surely i won't get blasted" "Surely this won't kill me" etc. etc. When I lose a lot of runes/souls i get HEATED. And even in large enemy groups I get super annoyed and also heated. I wanna be as chill as Gino is

When I found the FOURTH color of lightning on my first playthrough as a Prisoner I immediately booted up a Prophet. The variety is unbeatable and definitely better than an entire catalogue of different shades of blue

1:20:16 "Now this fight might be a little tough." (dies instantly) beautiful edit. No notes

Highlight of the run @ 2:23:40 He can write a book about what's wrong with rickard... and dead after killing it finally, while resting.

Region locking plus trying a wide variety of tactics made this probably the most entertaining run I've seen. Great work! 👍

Awww, this brings back memories. My first run was a faith-based glass cannon build with a focus on godslayer incantations 😌

3 hours of amazing entertainment to fulfil my mindless brains needs. I'm gonna watch this all the way.

I really like the little checklists marking stuff that needs to be done. It contextualises everything ur doing so u can maybe miss like 2 mins of the video and not have to mentally catch up lol

I love these types of runs ❤!!

When Gino said “birds are too easy” I just remember Jevs run where he died by those birds and he screamed “WHY DO THE BIRDS HAVE FUCKING BLADES ATTACHED TO THEIR TALONS” 😭🤣

Always a good day when Gino uploads a Elden Ring video longer than 1h. Keep it up. They are fantastic!

The little checklists are actually so perfect cause i’m lowk tryna do some of these challenges as this helps a lot oml

I'm surprised no one mentioned the shabriri spell just south of Limgrave. It's pretty great for the early game bosses

Shout out to the editor, done good work. Always enjoy when Gino drops a video.

Pro tip for an incantation only run: Catch Flame is the best incantation in the game with insane DPS, and you can cheese the entire game with it. 🙃🙃🤷🏼‍♂️

It's funny watching all these super good ER players make incantation builds like it's a novel concept, considering that is 99% of what I normally play 😂

I'm surprised Gino didn't leave the Fire Giant Spells for the Haligtree. Burn, O Flame! and Flame of the Fell God go extremely hard against Malenia. He could've been done in like 1-3 attempts. At least the Crucible Knight spells were also really fun. P.S. Looking forward to the Bows Only run.

I did an entire run using nothing but the winged scythe, and I’ve gotta say, it’s effectiveness varies WILDLY. sometimes you do oodles of damage with multiple bleed procs, but other times you do 173 damage with a +10 weapon. Not to mention radagon feels like he’s built to laugh at that weapon specifically, since he resists holy and slash damages a lot, as well as being immune to bleed.

The level of ease he parried the attacks are insane

I love these region locked runs, such a great showcase for all the variety in the game.

I've recently just been binge watching all your other runs, so happy that a new one came out! ❤

Man you make this game seem so easy, every time i'm thinking "doesn't seem that bad, i can do that, just learn the moveset" then i get smashed by fire giant for rolling to early. Love you contentent keep it up !

Some handy things that will hopefully help (No Spoilers), sorry if it's been repeated a bunch by other people: -On the map, there will be locations marked with dark spots with an orange/red aura (there is one in the Northwestern corner of Agheel Lake, the lake with the giganto crabs on the eastern end). These marks are mines which have upgrade materials which spawn as white and yellow crystals/rocks -The upgrade materials have numbered tiers. So a Smithing Stone [2] is higher than a Smithing Stone [1]. It can be easy to confuse tier of stonr with quantity. And Somber Smithing Stones are different from the regular variety -Weapons scale with a letter system like a tier list, with S being highest and A just under that etc. When you get weapons you want to scale the damage of, focus on the stat with the better scaling letter. They are shown in the same menu as the requirements to weild the weapon. Ashes of War can change the scaling of weapons to better suit your wants, but weapons tend to scale best with certain stats (fast weapons scale with Dexterity and big slow weapons with Strength) -Similar to the mines, there are obeliak marks in the gray areas of the map (once you've travelled the area enough to clear the fog). These are map piece locations -You may not encounter it for a while, but you can jump over shockwave attacks. They are more easily jumped than avoided by invulnerability frames from rolling -You have the right idea about those golden lines coming from Graces. They vaguely point towards graces closer to story progress, but exploration is key to success. -one of the tricks to dodging is wait for the attack to come forward. Many enemies delay their draw back animation to catch you after a roll. You have pretty good invulnerability window (rule of thumb is you're invincible while your feet aren't on the ground dueing the roll animation) -Endurance will give you more stamina and equip load, so you can wear hwavier armor qithout goong into Heavy Load, which will severely hinder your dodge ability. Medium Load is a great balance between speed and good protection from armor. 20-25 Endurance is generally high enough for most builds unless you want the heaviest armors -Stuns on bosses happen from posture damage. Light, fast attacks don't do a lot, the spinning slash/storm stomp does an okay amount. Heavy attacks (Right trigger/R2) can be charged to do more posture damage, but you may find smaller weapons still don't stun very often. There is a signature sound when larger bosses are staggered, mich like the back stab, you can get very close to the glowing spot, and press right bumper (R1) to do a critical attack -Some weapons have a status effect. It will be listed at the bottom such as Bleed (50) or Frost (45). That is yhe type and amount of buildup they apply. The statuses can be very handy, but any enemies that appear to be ghosts/phantoms/illusions (or made entirely of stone) will likely be immune to them -You will be disappointed if you expect a clear, laid out story. FromSoft doesn't really do that. An incredible story is there, but you want just happen across it in general play. You will be very unlikely to complete any NPC quests or unlock alternate endings without outside resources. That isn't a slight against you, but the nature of the cryptic storytelling Hopefully that wasn't overwhelming. There's just a lot I wish the game communicated more clearly

Great runs indeed, you always try a lot of different things. Big fan of the editing in your videos, very clean and 'simple' , and pleasant to watch.

Watching Gino Play makes me want to pay better attention to their attacks. It took me so long to kill crucible Duo but watching him inspired me to keep trying. Amazing gamer. I die so much but I know its my own fault most of the time. Watching him fight that crucible knight and I recognized his attacks made me happy.

Watching this run was a blast. Had a good laugh at many parts of the video :D shout out to the editor

Glad to see my boy Frozen Lightning Spear getting some love. Used it a lot on my first casting playthrough.

I love your videos Gino keep up the good work!

The amount of set up having to be done just at the start with little pay off compared to other builds like INT is just lovely. Also I miss hexes, black flame incantations could have been so much better if some were weapon types like the curved greatsword spell from ds3, hell even the holy incantations margit uses like the hammer/sword/lance

It's finally here!

Great run! Awesome to see all the incantations and their effectiveness.

As always absolutely stellar work on all fronts, props to Hunter too. As per usual this will require at least a second viewing 🤘 ❤

A shame he chose Aincient Dragon Lightning for Rykard. He's very doable with spells that have better range. Ice Lightning Spear would've worked very well. Status, Multi hit, and Range.

I have never watched any Elden ring videos before and I started watching yours when I start to play game and you make it look so easy while I struggle on the “easy” bosses but man I am hooked on your videos and have gone back and watched mostly all of them I really enjoy the game just now and my viewers all like it as a die a lot and rage and they laugh 😂 keep up the cool videos idea my friend they are very unique and cool 😊

The goat hitting Gino during the lansseax fight was soooo funny 😂😂😂

for the fire storm incantation, you can epuip caestus and endure and then cast the spell, the only thing to stagger me out of it is bleed/frost OR radahn's meteor landing, everything else you poise through and get off a huge spell

I really enjoy the region lock runs. Forces you to go to different parts of the map you normally wouldn’t for extra runes or an armament you normally wouldn’t use because there’s a better version in the next region

24:07 "wha- what is wrong with you" I was laughing so hard

I'm loving these videos/runs I've been binge watching them lately and this new format with the editing showing the route/quest or next items to be obtained I do very much enjoy, I have been noticing the production quality go up recently with a lot of souls-bourne-ring creators and it's just awesome to see. Keep up the amazing work.

It is crazy how good elden ring is. They really went above and beyond with increasing all kind of Spells etc, i do not know a game that has so many ways to be played. Aweseome vid ty.

My favorite part of these runs is hearing Gino's thought process for when to use what attack in a boss's moveset.

If I were leveling only faith I would start confessor over prophet just to have a little higher on the other stats since they’re never going up. Super cool run.

The editing as well as your commentary makes me engaged the entire video!

2:23:50 that shit was such a cherry on top from the elden ring gods after finally besting rykard i coulsnt help but die laughing lmaooo like wtf

Pest threads has always been such an underrated incantation. Even on PvP is amazing to distract enemies and if it hits it deals good damage

Without a doubt one of the most underrated incants is pest threads. I think I'm the only person I've actually seen use it in game. Thing especially melts big bosses. Took out elden beast so fast my jaw dropped

The cut in the middle of the laugh at the very end was perfect😂

Another Gino classic, perfect for the back half of my work shift

Not a Stat run but should maybe be challenging still. Region lock, All Major bosses (so all the Great Rune bosses if confused), Somber Smithing Stone Halberds only. Part of the challenge for this run is the limited number of Somber Smithing Stone upgrading Halberds since there is much more plain Smithing Stone upgrading Halberds and there are a few regions (i think 3?) that have no Somber Halberds so it requires going to regions you may not have wanted to go + they are slow timing weapons for the most part

Took me a couple days to watch the whole thing but awesome vid. Loved how you kept changing up spells for different areas and what not.

gino you are awsome. It has become part of my daily routine to watch your videos before going to sleep. It is very enjoyable and fun for me

The incantation you get from Malekith is pretty good against Rykard. It does percentage-based damage, it can hit his body multiple times, and the jump lets you clear the lava.

Man you make dodging waterfowl look sooooo easy. I had to just tank that with the shield. Hunter's editing is amazing too. GG

Ah, Frozen Lightning Spear - the perfect gift for a boss that has 80% lightning resist.

Hell yes! I’m super excited to see you both work together.

I played the “Slayer Build” in Goblin Caves and had a lot of fun. You can use the lantern in offhand to proc the duel wield buffs, for a lower movement speed penalty.

The videos are perfect, thanks for the content as usual!

Malenia won't get stunned when she has hyperarmour. She can still take poise damage but if her poise gets to zero, her poise will just recover instead of stance breaking. She has hyperarmour when she jumps backwards. That's why she can't be stunned @3:08:45.

I love your videos. There have been times where your mental health message has pulled me from the brink but also times like right now where I'm feeling great. But the contrast of the two situations really helps to put things in perspective and it genuinely helps every time I hear it.

One super important note about the golden order incants is how heavily they scale with intelligence. I made a build focused around SoNaF and golden order incants, and at 50 for each int and faith, Discus of Light (at 3 fp per cast), was doing about 800 damage a hit to astel, without any significant buffing procedures, other than physik and and goldmask headpiece.

Being able to just chuck a huge fucking rock at people will always be my favorite thing

And when i thought my day couldn't get any better. keep up the fire work gino

Bro I’ve been waiting for this run!

Can't wait for an "Elden Ring But I'm ONLY Using DLC Items!" video.

Frozen lighting spear had always been one of my favorite incantations, I like using that with the dragon halberd to build frost even more

The editing was peak this video! Keep up the great work!

Any "only run" would be amazing gino since you are doing it!!

The content just keep getting better, and i dont even know how it can be posible

i like how in the chapters on this video the whole second half the video is just godskin duo

Elden Ring: "oh no no no, you can't just jump from that cliff, even if you used your magic horse double jump to break the fall! That's too high >:(" Also, Elden Ring: 15:15

Hey man! Would love to see the rest of Convergence archetypes explored in the future! 🎉🎉🎉

Dude has grown so much love just to sit after stressful day and watch these vids

very excited for this run. love the pure stat build challenges--i've been playing through seamless coop with a squad of one-stat goons. its been awful and amazing

Lmfao Gino. You're supposed to fight him with the spear 😂😂 that's why it feels stupid 😂😂❤

9:51 already got me there cracking up. "Birds are too easy man, they got to make them harder"

Sick video. Thanks for all the great content

“Who puts a sword in the ground on a stone area” …. Merlin: 😊

Haha super cool run and nice to see almost all the incantations used. I was waiting for you to try Elden Stars though! That homing & continuous attack helped me on my 1st playthrough a lot :) And I never knew Burn O Flame! was so busted o.O

It sucks his dreams were shattered completely. But his skill with cotton candy is insane. Hopefully he can be happy again.

I love that the faith build basically turns you into some evil nun. Good attention to detail on the artists part.

35:30 killing dragons and the wildlife tries to take you out😂

Melania's hyper armor is so stupid. Half the time she's made of glass, and half the time she is immortal.

6:59 I actually killed Elden Beast with a +25 Erdsteel Dagger on my first playthrough lmao. It just looks cool and works. I also used the cipher pata and coded sword.

Ds3 anri straight sword is special in the fact it primarily scales with luck and is intrinsically blessed

The loss of the 1.2 million runes hurt my soul despite it being of no use since he already had 99 faith.

Gino notification always puts a smile on my face :)

Like the editing a lot, makes the run so much easier to enjoy

Watching u clear fort that easily was crazy that shot spanked me for HOURS

He’s so Canadian lol. He doesn’t get upset or angry, just flustered. And says sorry a lot 😂 it’s cute

Watched the whole thing, good shit brother