The way I make the Fingerprint Shield ohko enemies is by equipping the Shard of Alexander, Godfrey Icon, the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and Millicent's Prosthesis. All four of these talismans work with Shield Crash. I have legitimately dealt over 2k damage with this setup. I'm sure monk remembers that day.

there is _one_ benefit to dual wielding shields despite the lack of powerstance l1s: it lets you use the one-handed shield moveset while still being able to block, and that means having _slightly_ better r1 framedata in exchange for _slightly_ worse frame data on the backstep and running r1s on small and medium shields ... but the real advantage is that their two-handed moveset looks kinda dumb. greatshields are appropriately just kinda worse while one-handed and don't look stupid when two-handed, so their big guard boost gets to take full advantage of the two-hand guard boost boost at no cost to style ( which, like. is basically the entire reason you'd ever put a shield in your right hand, so ) oh, yeah, that's another slight reason to dual wield shields: putting any affinity on a shield takes out a chunk of its guard boost, with the penalty actually being pretty severe on elemental affinities _on top_ of said affinities altering the damage block by boosting the appropriate elemental block ( though, interestingly, this includes a lesser boost to "adjacent" elements, like fire affinity boosting lightning and magic affinity boosting holy ) in exchange for reducing the rest. so you can try to get clever by giving your right shield an offensive affinity while picking a different one on your left to better block the damage types you expect to go up against. or realistically, you can slap a heavy or status affinity on your right shield and keep your left shield on standard and enjoy slightly high guard boost. yay.

please note the interaction of the one eyed shield with the arrows reach talisman which gives better tracking on the aow projectile!

Fingerprint shield with bleed is probably the scummiest thing you can do in pvp and I love it 😭

The ants skull plate also gives you tier 2 hardness meaning that similar to when you cloak yourself in lightning attacks will just bounce off

>come home from a long day out >be thinking about a shield character in Elden Ring >see monk post a greatshield video It's like pottery, it rhymes. Guess I'm doing a shield character!

Haligtree Knight Shield with cold affinity on a pure strength build is honestly insane, shield crash sweeps

36:10 yo it’s the wall!

fun thing with the ants skull plate, it has the effect of tier 3 hardness while guarding which causes weapons such as great hammers and greatswords to bounce off of it, even during the shield bash ash of war. if that happens it also secures the hit because of the stun. Hope this helps :3

This gets me hyped for the dueling shields comin in the dlc

I hope the Duel Shied in the dlc will be good

Anytime I see the fingerprint shield I just hear “The Wall” start playing in my head, if you haven’t seen the pvp video look it up😂

Actually we do have a golden colored shield buff called "Immutable Shield" which blocks all elemental damage and status effects.

Dont forget the crouch attacks of the shields. The distance you can have to hit someone is very useful :)

If you hold block you can seemlessly go into the running attack to pressure people because the way you hold the shield is vertical like the running attack instead of horizontal. It's very powerful tech. Jumping R1s are always superior to R2 as well, you can midair block with them as opposed to jumping R2's block only when you land. The bad part about these shields is shield crash is easily backstabbed if the opponent knows how to, running attack can also be backstabbed but it is much more difficult. On running attack they would need to sprint around the attack without rolling and quick 180 and BS you with a fast animation weapon so it is risky or maybe the quickstep pivot but have never seen it happen yet. You can also cancel the special attacks of shields like the flamethrower and rocket launcher with jump if you need to reset, maybe even jump attack to surprise.

The draconic knights asked the DM if they could use their shield as a spell focus. That's why they can cats with it😂

13:20 What youre experiencing is called 'block frames'. This exists on all shields during their attacks, and uniquely occurs on the heavy attacks of the carian knight sword. The damage and stamina damage reduction is entirely dependent on the shield in question, and greatshields happen to be best at this type of trading. This is why back in the olden days some players used shields as a way to trade with a bigger weapon when the situation calls for it, since some attacks on shields have a lot of block frames. The reason why it seems to occur randomly is largely due to high latency, but it is actually very predictable, very much like parrying (in fact, they work identically on a fundamental level).

Fun fact the shield right here 13:59 is actually a gelmir knight shield. You can tell by the symbol in the middle. It's the exact same one on the armor.

My Captain Kaboom character uses the One-Eyed Shield as his signature weapon. I love it so much.

After the first hit Trudy enters his second phase. The guys just start teleporting

11:45 mans swapped 3 weapons against a shield 🤨🤨🤨

Best thing about your videos is that im never bored watching them, they have like 40 minutes and they feel like they have 10min. Bro u are one of my favorite youtubers. Keep it up bro.

Holy ground is good when invading when you can set up a check point with strength/faith regen build.

"And there you go, you have a Bleed Madness build." Ah, the Soul Eater of builds...

Power-Standing greatshields is just the best thing

Er... actually, the Ant's Skull Plate also counts as a tier class Harder then all the other Greatshields, being tier 3. What that means is that One handed Great Sword & Great Hammers will bounce off.

Ngl i don't care if the dragonclaw greatshield is missing it's potential, it does fat dmg, fat poise dmg and lightning dmg and the charged r2 looks awesome coming down with the spikes. I love it!

Fun fact: Golden Greatshield has one of the highest guard boosts of all the greatshields.

by the power of youtube algorithm and my monkey brain pattern recognition did i recognise you halfway through our battle with the poison spiked palisade shield. Dont think you can jump over great shields, great fight.

Eclipse Crest Greatshield is my favorite

shield crash might do more damage, but shield bash can't be guard broken, crash can be

It unironically took me a couple days to farm the haligtree sheild for a cosplay build 😂😭

To be honest, now I wanna go in with the Grafted Scion shield because of a quote I came up with: People may try to slash and stab, but they cannot handle the Golden Slab. Edit: I just got to about 19 minutes in, and I just heard him mention a gatling crossbow. GAEL 2.0?!

The one thing I wish you could do is alter the visage shield and the one eyed shields that way we would have an actual flame thrower and a cannon that doesn’t look like a jar it would get rid of the protective aspects of the shield for less weight load but we’d have some cool looking ash of war guns other than the Jar cannon

14:12 i like to wear the altered eccentrics head. altered ronin armor. then the briar gloves and boots. i like the powerful old man look ig. i first found it while playing with the “gods bane” mod.

I first finished the game using the visage shield eventually combo'd with the eye shield, they cover each others gaps really well (fire giant was a bigger hurdle than malenia believe it or not)

27:43 I feel the same about both the club and the shield they coulda had the ash of war for the club do a wave of lightning like the lightning glaive or something and have the shield being down lightning just like the tree sentinel it’s so stupid that they didn’t do that because people would ACTUALLY USE THEM

The ant greatshield actually has the highest hardness tier of any greatshield so more weapons will bounce off of it.

'Makes it a great shield to have in your off hand' when you have the Jellyfish shield I see what you did there

15:53 Poor guy ,man made one mistake and just fucking ate it man

ayo random question for the ppl, and monk if u decide to respond do u prefer dual wielding or 2handing thrusting greatswords, wut kinda builds are ur favorite/u think are best in pvp askin cuz im trying to settle on what build i wanna do next related to big pokey swords

YEEEES THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!

You should do medium shields next, a few have special abilities like blocking frostbite and long range attacks that deal poison

I have a build that only uses a shield, i run a heavy spiked gs

visage shield with scholars shield and high endurance is a thing of beauty. giving your opponents such a feeling of hopelessness is wonderful

Holy ground is good. Maybe not if you’re using only shields but in pvp it’s great. It gives you more damage negation for all damage types while in the circle on top of the healing.

I really wish there was a cooler move set for the DTS shield

16:50 Damn! Outshielded!

Man I can’t wait to see that dueling shield in the dlc

34:48 how ever ofcourse the dam

Holy ground goes well on a small or lighter medium shield and then you can use a shield crash great shield to keep up the offense, much love monk, you are a cool dude and I'm always in better spirits when you upload🙏

One eyed is my favorite cause of that swing speed man

monk is definitely the shortcat of Elden Ring

36:20 "fromSoftware, what have you done ?"

honestly, monk deserves at least a million subs. great content as always

Christ bless you, might go with crucible horn one

A menace with this type of content

Can someone explain why this man's voice lulls me to sleep so well? I love it.

Curently beating Elden Ring without a shield as my weapon for the first time. Feels weird.

wish we could powerstance shields

The blue man group shield that shoots fire is the best one

man that Raiden guy really had to sweat that hard against a shield build lol

When demonstrating Crucible Horn sheild, the Warrior guy had Briars gauntlets that caused a little camera shake every time they touched you. Do the thorns on that set cause aim-punch still?

You ok man? 14:59 😂

Wasn't the fingerprint shield changed so that the occult affinity removes all madness?

19:05 I can't believe it, that guy actually tried to parry a greatshield... (Also, i'm honestly a bit worried about the Gael crossbow because it might bring back bowglitch...) Edit: 26:59 What i don't understand about it is the fact that it doesn't do pierce damage despite the looks and description...

The ant skull plate shield has the highest hardness of any shield in the game. It has a hardness of 3. This means that any weapon that has a hardness below this and is being 1-handed will bounce off.

Let’s goooooo !!!!!! Finally, he did it Btw, with the fingerprint shield when you proc madness, you have time to do a fully charged heavy attack with the shield while the madness animation plays in Also, fingerprint shield with blood affinity destroys Gideon too

Should have done what you did with the crossbows and given yourself a spear or smthn

You deserved to lose that crucible horn shield fight for hitting the guy during emote

Who remembers when he first did a visage shield video ? That was a banger

Literally you could not have done this video any better time

All I have to do is complete Henriettas quest and defeat mohg oh I'll get right on that -_-

This video made me go great shield only.

Finally, thank you!

Fun fact. If you block the attack during the Shield Bash, and this attack will put you out of stamina, you will still block the attack and will not be guard broken.

Honey come look, new monk dropped

How do you upgrade everything so easily??

what’s the armour set you got on?

When are you going to cover legendary weapon chainsaw?

Love your videos bro 👍❤️ you the man

practicing shield combat im preparation for DLC, i see

At 34:51 there seems to be a mistake in editing

You're my elden savior

How does he have everything at +10/25?

A weapon type I always wanted to come back is finally coming back in the dlc the odachi aka katana greatsword and yes it's confirmed by Miyazaki himself that it's coming.

Great Shields new meta?

All the hearts man!

*new monk vid drops* *my potentially autistic, caffeine ridden brain* YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I really hope spin slash gets nerfed

isnt this a reupload or something?

Who cares about the AoW?! The Dragon Claw needs a power stance moveset!

Ooga booga

Cool, now use everything.

Yoooo

RAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! ✊️✊️

i think i love you

Can't run from riot shield users even in elden ring

Hello 👋

Nah what’s even worse about the crucible horn shield is WHY IN THE FLYING GODDAMN FUCK IT DOESNT DO PIERCE DAMAGE. Come on from soft it literally has a GIANT ASS HORN on it. Its description outright says it’s good for skewering enemies. WHY. NO. PIERCE?!?!?!