give this man the dlc already😭

Grass tier list coming next

F Tier 91. Sky Shot 90. Storm Wall 89. Enchanted Shot 88. Kick D Tier 87. Mighty Shot 86. Shield Bash 85. Barrage 84. No Skill 83. Storm Stomp 82. Lifesteal Fist 81. Prelate Charge 80. Shared Order C Tier 79. Holy Ground 78. War Cry 77. Thops's Barrier 76. Golden Slam 75. Poison Moth Flight 74. Gravitas 73. Spinning Weapon 72. Carian Greatsword 71. Sacred Ring of Light 70. Storm Assault 69. Carian Retaliation 68. Vow of the Indomitable 67. Stamp Sweep 66. Earthshaker 65. Parry 64. Charge Forth 63. Golden Land 62. White Shadow's Lure 61. Determination 60. Poisonous Mist B Tier 59. Assassin's Gambit 58. Raptor of the Mists 57. Shield Crash 56. Golden Parry 55. Troll's Roar 54. Sacred Order 53. Through and Through 52. Repeating Thrust 51. Loretta's Slash 50. Barbaric Roar 49. Bloodhound's Step 48. Beast's Roar 47. Quickstep 46. Stamp (Upward Cut) 45. Lightning Slash 44. Eruption 43. Thunderbolt A Tier 42. Rain of Arrows 41. Piercing Fang 40. Blood Tax 39. Vacuum Slice 38. Waves of Darkness 37. Hoarfrost Stomp 36. Ground Slam 35. Glintstone Pebble 34. Sword Dance 33. Sacred Blade 32. Flame of the Redmanes 31. Glintblade Phalanx 30. Lightning Ram 29. Hoarah Loux's Earthshaker 28. Phantom Slash 27. endure 26. Double Slash 25. Bloody Slash 24. Spinning Slash 23. Seppuku 22. Stormcaller 21. Chilling Mist 20. Spectral Lance S Tier 19. Barricade Shield 18. Prayerful Striker 17. Carian Grandeur 16. Braggart's Roar 15. Spinning Strikes 14. Blackflame Tornado 13. Wild Strikes 12. Impaling Thrust 11. Royal Knight's Resolve 10. Square Off 9. Unsheathe 8. Storm Blade 7. Ice Spear 6. Flaming Strike 5. Giant Hunt 4. Cragblade 3. Blood Blade 2. Lion's Claw 1. Golden Vow

We need your version of a weapon tier list. That is the final step.

Carian Retaliation was nerfed in the first or second patch of the game. It used to be like every offensive Ash of War where the item level would increase the damage of the projectiles + the Scaling of the shield if it was Magic infused. This made so that a single deflect of of Wraith calling bell would deal 2000 damage.

Storm wall does deflect guranq physical small rocks spell, which is clearly OP, should have been S tier, incredible use.

Carian Retaliation only uses FP when you parry spells with it. Normal parries are free. So its just a better version of golden parry. It should be at least A tier imo

Literally the best Elden Ring content creator when it comes to knowing straight facts about shit.

Sword Dance has another advantage over double slash, which is the travel distance. While double slash only works right in the enemy’s face, sword dance covers insane ground.

Can't wait for the DLC AoW tier list! (shoutout Steven)

Putting Repeating Thrust at 52 while showing footage of you deleting Malenia with it is why I love this content. Absolute madlad

Holy crap I was just about to continue watching your previous ash of war ranking vid from 10 months ago and now I see this. Amazing!

Maaaaan finally the Ash of war rating came out!! Was waiting with bated breath for this. Easily the most reliable opinion/option on YT for souls content.

i love steven

No Skill S tier. It does one thing. It does it perfectly.

Thank you so much for this!! There’s so many awesome ashes of war; this video made me realize Im missing quite a few of them

Great, well informed list as always, I do think you underrated Piercing fang a bit though. For instance, let's compare it to Giant's Hunt. If on a Nightrider Glaive, both do the exact same stance damage, PF has more range, is easier to hit, has faster recovery frames and only does slightly less damage than GH. Now I get Giants Hunt can toss enemies, but that doesn't come into play against most bosses and enemies. Most enemies die in one shot from either move and most bosses aren't sent flying from GH so you benefit more from the range and faster recovery frames of PF. Now I get the argument of Impaling Thrust over over PF (faster, same stance damage, less FP), but I still think you're underestimating just how useful that extra range is. As you know, in ER it is much safer to keep your space from most enemies and especially Bosses. PF almost has the same range as something like Ice Spear allowing you to hit and run. Also PF can be used to get a strong hit off while distancing yourself from an enemy. If used while in an enemies face it's easy to hit the enemy while sliding past them to safety. So it's positioning utility is huge. And I haven't even mentioned yet it ignores shields! That's not a small deal, shielded enemies are some of the strongest and most annoying enemies in the game, especially the shielded Crucible Knights which PF makes short work of. Honestly, I find Giants Hunt to be the overrated AoW on your list. No matter the scenario it's outclassed by something else. If an enemy can be thrown, then Lions claw can pancake them and outclasses it with its hyper armor and tracking (LC can also be put on the Giant Crusher which hits harder and does more poise damage). If an enemy can't be thrown or will just die in one hit (majority of cases), then Piercing Fang or Impaling Thrust are just better as they do the same poise damage and in the case of PF has more range and less recovery frames and in ITs case is much less FP and faster with much less recovery Frames. I get this is all nit picky as your list is good. But for the aforementioned reasons I think I feel Giants Hunt should be ranked more where Piercing Fang is and Piercing Fang should maybe be where Impaling Thrust is moving up Impaling Thrust a few spots (though I personally would put PF the highest due the range, positioning utility and guard penetration). If you read this Youwy, ty for reading and hopefully being open minded about this.

What a great video! Thank you 🙏🏻

Really good list, I can barely fault it on anything. The only things I'd change are moving up carian retaliation and sword dance, and moving down white shadows lure. The top 10 is pretty much spot on to how I'd order it, and I hope more people take reference to this video. Very good job

Solid choices. But the for me the n.1 is ALWAYS gonna be Braggart's Roar. It can be equipped to ANY weapon class, you can choose ANY affinity, it lasts 60 seconds, it counts as a weapon buff so it can stack with all the other aura/body buffs, and if you are dual wielding, you can stack the defense and the stamina regen (not the damage though), for a ridiculous total of 20% damage negation (like having an extra dragon greatshield talisman for all types), 40% increased stamina regen and 10% more physical damage. Also i HEAVILY disagree (and always will) with your blood blade opinion vs Reduvia. Reduvia has a much faster animation, does not cost HP, and even though in lower levels it will be doing less damage, in higher levels it will out damage ANY other weapon, even with 99 arcane, and since it is a dagger and weighs nothing, you can have it in your off hand to cast the ash of war, when in need of projectile, and then switch to your main weapon that has another ash of war.

lets gooo been waiting for this video for a while 😁

Nice list Youwy!

No disagreeing with the kick placement but I'll forever love it because it can immediately stance break shielding Crucible Knights and Grafted Scions. No ash of war does that.

Keep up the good work Steven!

This is very informative. There's so many ashes of war to choose from so I appreciate you trying them all for us so we know which ones to look out for.

Thanks for this video, gives so much inspiration

these are so useful, thanks

great vid! love hearing about ashes of war in depth like this, i barely experiment with them so i’m glad you did the heavy lifting for us pet peeve, “most amount of damage” should just be “most damage”. both are correct, but one is less words lol

Also a little frame check on storm blade, its startup animation, the first attack, is slightly faster than a 2 handed great-sword light attack, so while recovery to roll out is longer, you can still use it very reliably as an alternative to lights and heavies

I think the purpose of Poison Moth Flight is more for activating the poison medallion multiple times. Poison your enemy -> Get the damage buff from talisman -> (Once the buff wears out) use the AOW and remove the poison -> repeat. Also, good job Steven!

i wish we’d get an aow that was just throwing the weapon around like elemer can

Nice list Youwy! May I suggest possibly adding a new tier outside the standard structure just called 'utility' or something like that. This way, you can put stuff like different parries, no skill, that alluring skill skill, quickstep/bh step, etc here and not worry about ranking them against the other skills. As they really are more subjective depending on situaition and build as opposed to more damaging AoWs that are easier to compare.

Carian Retaliation below Parry was unexpected. Carian Retaliation gives you Golden Parry frames without consuming FP when parrying melee attacks. Arguably the best melee parry in the game for that reason. Still though, given how you were evaluatiing Carian Retaliation, it totally makes sense why you ranked it that way.

When Banished Knights use Storm Stomp, they have a heavy follow up with additional damage that backs them off and it's a CRIME that this is not present in the player version of this skill, that would be super cool

Thank you for this video

Love your videos haha

Here we go!!!

Gravitas has a good use for crowd control. It does 26 stance damage, so a hit from gravitas and an R1 from a large weapon like a greatsword (as in the weapon type) is enough to stance break alot of smaller enemies. So you can equip the crimson/cereleun dagger taliamans and chain stance breaks against groups of smaller enemies. Try it with a one-handed greatsword against the Mohgwyn Palace albinurics, it's the best strategy I've found for them that isn't Wave of Gold. Gravitas is also amazing for killing invisible scarabs. Personally, I'm bringing Gravitas on a Claymore into the DLC.

Great list, learned a lot and will be trying out some new builds soon. Will you be making a souls games scythes ranking video? I'd click play so fast

Thank you, Steven

The holy ground is good if you're going to endure trade charged r2s, even more damage absorption during endure is always great

HAIL! You've done it! I merely asked for a "best ashes for each weapon type." But you went the extra mile. Thank you soooo much! Thy dedication befits a crown... 👑

Was doing another fist run today and found that lifesteal fist is actually good on Crucible Knights, not so much for the damage of the skill itself, but for the fact it momentarily stuns them and allows you to get in 1-2 charged R2s.

One hour ranking video from youwy? Hell yeah

Quick step is actually amazing when you use it while locked on since it can grant you a free backstab when you time it right, using it with the misericorde was extremely broken.

Great video as always. Do you have a video for the build(s) you're taking into the DLC?

I know this is probably intentional to get more watchtime but I wish there were timestamps for each AoW because I keep coming back to this video whenever I wanna hear your thoughts on a particular AoW.

The amount of data and some niche information you know like reduvia‘s bloodblade scaling with AR instead of arcane is just impressive

A weapon tier list, please, but a serious one, not like Rusty. 😄

I almost thought the 30% hp restore on prayerful strike must be a typo the first time i saw it

Finally a content creator that acknowledge how powerful Square Off is, and not put it at the bottom of the list, cough cough. Although you kind put the wrong image for Square Off at 59:27 there

2:27 when the guy went for a swing an it just cuts to him dead lmfaoo

Nice video. Do a parry specific video please.

I like using poison moth flight on a katana. I already have regular bleed, but with this one I have bleed on command and ability to reset the amulet effect. Two poisoned katanas do so much percent damage that it just doesn't matter how fat the boss is. There's not so many bosses in the game that immune to both bleed and poison.

Need the unique skill tier list as well my guy. Cheers

I just 100 percent’d the game. This video makes me wanna start another fresh start play through. God I love Elden Ring

Yes He finally did it! Btw Shoutout Steven

In regard to holy land if u land the slam the sing is garunteed to hit and knockback human enemies but best use is with weapon buffs since they carry over to projectiles. Bloodboon blade or godslayer blade being my favorite

I like to use Impailing Thrust as a "Square Off Substitute" for Greatswords. This thing on a claymore just Stun Locks Dragons like there's no tomorrow

This list destroys all of Rusty’s lists so much you should change your name to WD-40… keep kickin’ ass and takers flames 🔥

Tip about Flaming strike : i believe it's the only way to buff a weapon that has an affinity on it (for example flame art)

Been warming up to the rapper's talons recently and was wondering what you thought the best claw centric ash of war was.

you need to disable rebar or sam for elden ring(depending on what gpu you have) i notice you get massive slowdowns during certain animation effects like the godskin duo ghost flame particle effect. i disabled sam and it fixed the slowdown i would get from the skeleton re-animation particle effect

Fym prelate’s charge is number 81

Maybe the wiki is wrong (unheard of, I know) but Storm Wall seems to only lose to Retaliation and Golden Parry in terms of active frames, with buckler parry just coming out slightly faster than all of those so it's way better than regular parry, especially for medium shields I tend to use it a fair amount, honestly. It basically always gets replaced once I reach Altus and can pick up GP (which you might not want to immediately do if, say, you want to collect the stuff at redmane castle early, etc...) but because you can immediately ride to and pick it up in Limgrave, it's always a solid stepping stone for those situations in which you do want the option to parry (various knights, etc...). If you want to just have a parry tool, I usually pair it with the shield of the guilty which is equally immediately available and is just super light (plus it looks good) If you haven't started as a bandit, and thus, have the buckler, I feel like this is the best early game parrying option so I feel it being this low is a bit unfair ALSO: "No Skill" is probably the best Ash in the game. If only we could put it in ALL of the torches...

Thanks bro 🤍

Addtional downside for Hoarfrost Stomp: in some areas the frost just go underneath of the ground, being just a waste of fp.

#62 Don't forget you can save the FP/Spell Slot and just use the Mimic Graces to lure enemies as well. #57 If you Infuse the Spiked Palisade Shield with a poison-infused Shield Crash, then buff yourself with Golden Vow, Howl of Shabriri, Stonebarb/Thorny Cracked Physick, the Godfrey Icon, Shard of Alexander, Curved Sword Talisman, Blue Dancer Charm and the Commander's Standard, not only does it clap cheeks and bully people like it owes you money, the poison proc not only gives it Arcane scaling, but the poison proc resets the bleed proc and vice versa so you're squeezing out a couple more bleed procs per fight, then if you do what I do and pair it with the Sword of Milos for the debuff that makes the enemies hit by it's Weapon Art take more damage the Spiked Shield actually kinda slaps in NG. Struggles against high mobility/high stagger res type enemies obviously, but aside from those this thing does work. Oh and I chose the Blue Dancer Charm over the Ritual Sword Talisman or the Wing Talismans because since the Spiked Shield doesn't have 100% physical defense, every time you go in the enemy breaks your Ritual Sword buff, making it basically useless. And I haven't gotten to Melenia yet on my Spiked Shield guy to see if the bounce hits from Shield Crash counts as "successive attacks" for the Winged Talismans. If they do indeed work with it though, then I'd replace the Blue Dancer Charm with the Rotted Winged Sword Insignia. Unless I'm doing Light armor, at which point I think BDC takes the lead. But that's only by like 2% at Light equip load so Rotted is probably over-all better.

Carian retaliation have the same exact frames as golden parry but it's free and it can parry magic with a small amount of FP.

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Holy shit you actually do playthroughs with every one of those things? That's some amazing dedication to research, it's amazing I still feel like you're giving outclassed ashes of war way too hard of a time for being outclassed personally tho but idk, nobody probably dived into it deeper than you so

First of all, thanks for the video What is the name of the armor you wear which is red in some places and black in others

Parrying was my way to go against Morgott for my lvl 1 run , it was way easier that way and since playing Sekiro I just love to parry everything lol

#36 can be buffed with raptor claws (increased jump damage)

Drink every time he says "HYPAH AMAH"

>"#81 Prelate's charge. it sucks" >Proceeds to annihilate Steven and Malenia with it 😂

Hope Steven got extra pay

You can have braggots roar on a side weapon and still get the buff

I didn't know Storm blade rated that high. I used it all throughout my 3rd playthrough (for Platinum) as a Dex Nagakiba/Bleed Storm build. 1st playthrough - Faith/Str - Blaphemous Blade build 2nd playthrough - Str Guts Build with Lions Claw

2:26 theres just a cut and then the dude is laying dead on the floor thats crazy

I've seen peple doing around 4-6k damage consistanly to bosses with Golden Land.. And even around 2.7-3k damage against high holy resistant bosses. Also the projectiles fly further than even frenzied burst, so it's a very good sniper option for 16fp.. And with great stars every projectile heals hp.. So with a full use of Golden land you can recorver 10% hp and against a group you can recover 10-16% health which can make trading viable against groups. I think you should test Golden land a bit more and let us know your opinion.. It's might be one of the things that can make a holy damage build actually viable..

i remember looking up storm wall and it has better parry frames than regular parry but worse than golden or carian. Definitely should be higher than regular parry at least

i know its a detail but the icon of the ash of war from 11 to 10 doesnt change

Carian Grandeur has hyperarmor if you use a greatsword or CGS

I wish we could put Square Off on Regular Greatswords like DS3, it really is a killer Ash of War, but I rarely use Straight Swords.

Tbh I tested blood blade and Reduvia on my maxed level character and Reduvia did much faster bleed build up then Blood blade

The spell is also in Stormveil castle

Yes, my favorite ash of war is in 8th place thank you so much

I feel like one of the core issues with ER PvE Tier Lists is that ER is not a boss rush game but people seem to almost exclusively put the things they're rating up against bosses. Some things are just really good while traversing an area but not great against a singular high-poise enemy with multiple thousand HP. Something like Gravitas, for example, isn't great in general but spamming it against a boss is just making it look way worse than it is. It's perfect against flying enemies and groups, especially when you have horizontal attacks to follow it up with. Storm Assault is great because of its poise damage but bosses have too much poise to be staggered by it, normal enemies do not. Holy Ground is terrible for boss fights for the things mentioned in the video and it requires too much FP to be worth it in general but why was there no mention of it being a method of regaining health while going through a level without needing any points in Faith? Sure it gets outclasses by Bestial Vitality (Holy Ground has the same amount of healing and faster but is limited to a small area and less FP efficient) but it's still a heal that's not connected to your Crimson Flask and you can use it with the Astrologer Starting class if need be (lowest Faith at 7, Bestial Vitality requires 12). None of this really makes them good Ashes of War but not mentioning these points makes them look a lot worse than they really are.

after the dlc, most of the ash of war in base game a side couple from S tier seem to be complete out classed.

Golden land has to be the most confusing aow. it's a ranged attack, but if you want to use the strong attack, it has to be immediately

For me none beats Unsheathe on a Keen Nagakiba

I love these videos, but can you use a different font or leave a space between the number and "FP" when listing the cost. Half the time a skill had 0 fp as its cost, I was trying to figure out what OFP meant thinking all the characters were letters :D. Otherwise, I love the video!!!

Golden Land has several damage ticks from when you initially slam the weapon in the ground from the weapon itself, but not the circle. If an enemy is struck, they'll be staggered repeatedly until the explosion which will knock them down (unless it's a larger enemy, of course). It's a trading tool, so i like to use it with Holy Ground active for either PvE or PvP. Also, unless they've changed it (i didn't check since I used Sacred infusion), the projectiles could apply buff effects--most notably bleed or poison. But that's a more niche ranged use since I'd rather just amplify the holy scaling since I like to be at melee range when using this ash... and also because I don't like the Great Club in this game, sadly. I think it's underrated and probably the best of the hammer slam ashes--way better than waves of darkness imo.

Bandit curved sword vs scavenger curved sword ? Which one better

Doesn't bloodhound step cancel recovery animations? It's my favorite ash in the entire game, I use it for repositioning because I'm a INT/FAI caster, with seal/staff in the left hand and dagger/whip with BHS in the right hand. I'm sad it's so low, but okay 😢

Even on an INT build, I prefer Ice Spear over Glintstone Icecrag. Ever since release I preferred it. Just so much more damage and it actually deals posture damage. Also, before watching this, I was thinking about which build to do next for the DLC and it was going to be between bleed, pure INT and the Greatsword + FTH. Jumping attacks, or Lion's Claw with the Greatsword just feels too good.

Love the Video and wanted to know where square off was placed but i missed it and can't find it. So does someone know which number it is?

“Number 69,nice😊” 15:18

hello, kind of new player here (ive beat the game once, but thats about it) (i watch your videos cuz, idk?) i was wondering could you do a ranking of all the somber smithing stone weapons?