My main problem is i can't fucking SEE

Radahn had to be nerfed twice💀

That attack is so powerful not even ongbal could dodge it. He had to play until he got a run where radahn never did that attack in the second phase.

Really not a fan of this bossfight. The first phase is basically perfect, was really fun, had well defined patterns that you can learn. The second phase is atrocious, your screen gets flashbanged every few seconds, and when it's not that, it's Miquellas luscious 3m long hair obscuring Radahn's attacks, making you unable to figure out what he's doing.

So even "nerfed" he's still bullshit? Good to know, thanks Scott!

reviewers died to it more but from a no hit perspective its actually stronger now. you used to be able to clean roll through the first two hits with one roll and now its a frame trap that is impossible to reliably dodge (reliably being the key word here)

I think the damage numbers are a bit high during the second phase, but it's honestly nothing compared to the visual clutter that Miquella kindly provides, it made it SO difficult to even read what Radahn was doing, which didn't help given that I was already struggling to even make it to the second phase so I could barely learn his attacks. Still think the fight is good but man a lot of those 74 attempts were literally just trying to figure out what he was actually doing.

Oh and the infamous "Miquella's nuke" attack that one-shotted my FPS from stable 60 to crumbling 16. The most destructive type of attacks.

It's just really disappointing how the first phase is pretty much a perfect masterpiece of a fight and then the second phase just becomes so obnoxious because you can't see anything

I didn't get spoiled because I heard that people were putting spoilers in thumbnails frame 1 after the embargo lifted, and stayed away from the suggestion feed until I cleared the dlc, but Scott, there's a reason why you have more people complaining about it in the comments than giving you props. Your video is about the last boss, and the thumbnail clearly shows a person with a large frame holding two swords. Only one character, much less boss, fits that bill

I was under the impression that Messmer was the final boss and that fight is absolutely incredible. Then I got to this and low key hate it

I still haven’t even beaten Radahn. This boss makes Malenia look like Pinwheel I swear. It’s not even the fun kind of difficult like Messmer, Rellana and Bayle were in this DLC, where sure they’re super hard but learning the moveset is awesome. I’ve been on him for two days now, while taking breaks between. Phase 1 is fine, I think the meteor attack and double slash attack are a bit weird to dodge but that’s a minor. I’ve legit no hit Phase 1 before at this point. Phase 2 is just not it, the boss barely gives you any windows to attack yourself while he does a zillion combos, so many attacks have lingering AoEs with all the stupid light pillars so you always get roll caught, and there’s SHIT ALL OVER THE SCREEN SO I CANT EVEN SEE WHAT HE’S DOING HALF THE TIME. I’ve fought this boss so many times and I still don’t have dodging the flippy attacks or the nukes down to a science it’s crazy. Malenia has like 1 super bullshit attack while Radahn’s out here with 10 hahaha

Fun fact: they actually nerfed this in calibration patch 1.12.1. That means that if you never went online after downloading the DLC you were on calibration patch 1.12, so some players (like me) did experience this attack stunlocking them

The thumbnail is still a very obvious spoiler btw. Not that I care, but I know lots of people do.

In all my attempts on this boss even when I finally beat him. I still do not know how to not take damage from that attack. His first swing I dodge but his second comes out so fast I do not understand how to avoid it.

I always get clipped by the second hit of that triple slash. If that move one shotted in the release game, I would have left a negative review like all the other scrubs.

Not to be that guy but anyone who played Elden Ring can guess who is on your "anti-spoiler thumbnail"...

I honestly think if this boss had its health reduce by around 10% and some of the attacks made much more manageable and readable(Looking at you cross slash, and phase two light attacks.) and also gave you some more opportunities to attack and stance break then this fight would be top 10 best souls fight easily As it stands however it feels like it's genuinely impossible unless you're using a bleed build with some mimic tear, impenetrable thorns, or some insane cheese. It's not fun to learn his moves when you get locked into a combo and die because you can't get out. This is the only boss in the DLC I genuinely think they made a mistake on with the rest being decent to incredible (Especially Messmer and Bayle). Update: I decided to try to practice this boss using the posture bar mod and holy shit its actually much more managable than I thought. I don't think his health or damage needs to be adjusted, however I defintely do think they need to adjust the readability and dodgeablity of some of the attacks. The cross slash is practically impossible to consistently dodge to the point i just tank through it and I defintely think they need to tone down some of the light effects because it can be very diffcult to see what the boss is doing at times. But yeah if you're on PC, get the posture bar mod installed it will make your life so much easier. Honestly a stupid decision they made was not showcasing the stance meter of bosses. The boss regains his posture really quickly though.

I had to put on sunglasses for the 2nd phase otherwise my eyes would physically hurt

i already thought that double hit into x slash was the worst thing about the fight, it used to be WORSE???

Deflection physick is the way. Dodge on release is most of the reason people dodge attacks late. You end up pressing circle in time but not quite letting go in time. Whereas with deflection you just fast twitch press l1 when you perceive any movement and if its a delayed attack just calm down and press l1 in time with the attack.

Appreciate the effort to not spoil things in thumbnails/titles

After my first 10 or 15-odd attempts at Radahn I hopped out of the DLC and decided to fight Radabeast out of curiosity to see how the difficulty compared. Using the exact same build I beat them on my first try in 2 and a half minutes, and I needed to heal a grand total of twice. What's more I'd only actually beaten Radabeast 3 times previously, and I hadn't fought them in well over a year. It's absolutely unreal how much more difficult the DLC is than the base game, but for the most part I actually think it's a good thing. Visual clutter in Radahn's second phase aside, given that this might very well be the end of Soulslikes as we know them, at least for a while, it feels appropriate to go out with a bang.

You're kidding me, I feel even more shit realizing now that move was nerfed. In the present version, I cannot dodge this move consistently if my life depended on it. Even if you dodge the first swing, the second swing will always catch you during your roll, you have to be literally frame perfect in order to dodge it and I've only pulled it off like twice in my attempts

you mean HES NERFED?!?!!???

Literally everyone can tell who that is in the thumbnail.

1:24 the randomly sometimes not combo-ing is probably due to the player position, if the player was positioned further to the right of the 2nd swing it probably bought you a few extra frames that was just enough time to roll out.

bro i had trouble with him so i wanted to summon some ashes and he wont even let you summon them

Just FYI that thumbnail is completely useless.

that 3 slash combo still an insane move in my 7hrs of attempts i never once managed to dodge the first hit and then the second no matter which direction i rolled i had just accepted that move was free damage for him even on my successful attempts

Yeah I don't know if this was just a reviewer thing because it operated the same way when I played on the release ps5 version

They nerfed but still is the shittiest attack in his arsenal, because it frames trap you. I was really happy when I discovered that you can dodge that attack, consistently using the backstep talisman. However, it has an aoe after effects on phase 2, so it doesn't work. I swear this is probably the one boss where casual players, souls streamer/content creator and challenge/hitless runners agree that it is too difficult

That attack still guarantees damage unless you are psychic and run away before the first swing comes out, bc the 2nd swing's hitbox is so large, I couldn't find a single direction to roll where I would either be outside of the 2nd swing's hitbox or rolling as early or late as possible. I've since finished it, it took 2 hours, but it wasn't very satisfying.

Brother WHAT!? I thought the only change was the arena getting darker? That's ridiculous.

I'd be interested in knowing what blessing level the reviewers were when they fought him as well. I was rank 17 when I beat him the other day. I ended up beating him using repeating strikes on a bleed lance, a great shield, and old reliable mimic tear with a +7 summons blessing.

"B-b-but the developer's VISION! Nerfing fights is bad something something artistic integrity!" And he'll be nerfed again, bet

The triple cleave being unrollable solely made me switch to parrying him to kill him. Obviously its dumb that it could stunlock you like that but its infinitely more dumb that if you roll the first hit the second hit always catches you. Maybe there's some position you can roll to that avoids the second swing but I never found it.

Your "anti-spoiler" thumbnail is just fuzzy Radahn. Congratulations. 🏆

One of the fights that I had to do parry only. That’s the only thing that made this fight bearable for me.

I don't know what's happening in this boss fight, but whenever I get to phase 2 my framerate tanks. I have turned off ray tracing lowered graphics and still as soon as the holy fucking light comes out it takes half my frames away. Ignoring that it's super hard to see anything because of the particle effects I suddenly have to play at like half FPS on a 3080. Like what?

Is that triple slash the one-shot you were talking about in your spoiler-free review video? Where you mentioned one guy at level 19 for the Scadu blessing being BARELY able to hang on with a sliver of health?

they don't call him "scourge" for nothin

I was fighting his normal version (1.12), so this sequence of hits were also bane of my existence. I for life couldn't manage to perfectly dodge them in first phase. He stun locked me and either took 90 percent of my health or kill me if my healthbar was lower. Actually, in second phase light beams helped with this combo - thanks to them I was able to avoid last swing by rolling. I'm probably in minority, but I love this boss fight - It's by fucking mile the hardest things I ever done in video game. He took me almost 26 hours (solo of course, no summons, no mimic and no buffs, just reverse swords and 17 blessings). Malenia looks like a baby in comparison to him,

I loved this fight. After I stopped summoning Ansbach.

The camera bosses really soured this DLC for me. I really enjoyed the Rellana fight, probably my favorite boss of the DLC and shes one of the first you'll ever encounter. Finding the second dancing lion was like getting kicked in the nuts lmao

That attack is still insanely hard to avoid. Not only does your dodge need to be borderline frame-perfect, but the direction you roll matters too. That being said, it is possible to avoid, since he’ll only do it after certain moves, so you know it’s something he could throw. I’m sure someone’s gonna figure out what exactly is the trigger for it pretty soon

The best way to deal with that attack is to parry it, but I just couldn't get the timing right consistently

They finally took out the flashbang pf the namco bandai just to give us this second phase to blind us for good.

my problem is enduring a tactical nuke in the second phase

When I get hit by the 2nd hit I can't ever roll away

I hated Radahn on release more than anything in the game and now its a slap in the face to have to deal with him again

lol i still get stunned by this combo if it hits me like 90% of the time does that mean ps5 is using the review version?

Honestly, my biggest issue was the framedrops in the second phase

Thanks for the no spoiler thumbnail, but the damage has already been done by many others sadly

Biggest issue, outside of the meteor and the x slash attack hitboxes, is the clutter. If they improve hitboxes and tonw down the effects a bit, it'll be muxh better. But right now, it's an 8/10 in my opinion. Great boss with some issues.

I appreciate the antispoiler attempt but I instantly recognized Radhan's shape :/ Bummer I managed to get no spoilers so far!

Ive never complained about boss difficulty since the conception of fromsoftware games, that the honest truth. But this boss is fuckin ridiculous. Melania is a joke compared to this version of Rahdan

Cool insight! Thanks! Glad they fixed that. I love this fight!

After spending a LONG time on both phases the first phase I feel only really has this attack and the sphere grab as what I’d call bs attacks. The nerfed version of this attack I feel you still can’t avoid getting hit by as if you roll away from the first hit you don’t have time to avoid the second hit which is really annoying but thankfully it doesn’t do too much damage. When I was getting good at the fight this was the only attack I couldn’t consistently dodge every hit of and was my only hit on my run I won on for the first phase. The only other issue is his sphere attack that comes out WAY too fast for how much range it has. Yes you can avoid this if you are thinking about and ready for this specific attack for the entire phase but it’s just feels unfair to get hit by with how much range it has. You can avoid it if you are on your game but if you are doing ANYTHING that you can’t immediately roll after to avoid this attack you’re getting hit no matter where you are. Phase 2 on the other hand has some many problems from frame killing to eye ball killing to half the attacks just feeling entirely unfair. He’s easily the hardest fight in the dlc but also really the only one I feel I beat by dealing with his bs not actually getting good.

His swords do mainly Phys and Magic damage. I think having these two resists are more worth than Holy.

Thank god someone said something about this, I loved the final boss but that specific move he would spin 180 degrees double hit losing half my health to him every time he did that, still managed to pull through though.

after doing him a couple of times honestly this is the only attack I still have a problem with. Like , it just feels downright impossible to react to in time and dodge it. No, it feels like I can't even dodge it at all because I always get hit with the follow up

You're telling me his giga fast frametrap triple slash thats nearly impossible to consistently dodge used to TRUE COMBO ALL OF ITS HITS?

You should change the thumbnail. It's still obvious who it is

i hate to tell you but literally everyone can tell thats radahn in the thumbnail lmao, good video as always. Just hoping lots of people don't get spoiled

I was getting stunned by that combo, anytime I’d roll the first 1, the second one would hit me before I could dodge again and the 3rd was guaranteed. I be him last night, but this fight was stupid, it wasn’t fun and the only thing I could think the whole time I fought him. Was “as soon as I beat this boss I can get back to enjoying the game.”

You can’t see shit, you can’t dodge with taking a hit (Gravity attack pulls you in and he slams down with an unavoidable aoe) and it just lasts longer than necessary it needs work still even plus if you have to summon an Thoiller to be useless nerf Radong health he’s as a character not a fighter and I just to complete his quest good lord

I was fuming pulling my hairs out at those 3 attacks. Even in the live version. I beat him but still haven't found a way to dodge that attack. So even if only hit by 1 of the 3 it's guaranteed damage and I hate that. I tried dodging in all directions, delay the dodge to the latest moment and nothing works. I've only avoided all 3 attacks twice and that is thanks to the terrain.

Deflecting physick is so good for the dlc and this fight

I still find the double swipe into slash with two swords to be LUDICROUSLY hard to dodge, getting the timing to dodge it without taking damage is insanely tight, if i dodge the first i always get hit by the second so i just treat it as guaranteed damage, its tough to swallow that it was even worse before,,,

The depths of his designer's foolishness...!

They removed a move from him?

My favourite part is when he decides to tank your pc down to 10 frames. No Scott it's not the Raytracing, the dlc actually just has performance issues

That double sword slash is still impossible to dodge for me, if I dodge the first I'll still get clipped by the second, and it's driving me insane

Other than this I love this fight. No frame issues on ps5 but I see how PC players get nuked by it. That and the triple slash mentioned in the video are the only real flaws I see though, albeit his lights could be changed so that they can't really be seen when you dodge correctly (which is almost always directly into radahn.) I wish that people would start some movement to cause newer players to get over themselves, because almost every non-fps related complaint i've seen is pure skill issue and they get really, REALLY hateful and defensive about it when you tell them something isn't bad because it beat them up.

theres something like that combo that powerstanced running l1 of curved swords has, basically if you poise is too low or too high it will combo, but if its within a certain range it doesnt, might be something like that

I haven't beat Shadow of the Erdtree, but I was leaked the final fight and random clips while scrolling on Facebook. I got through most of the game without spoilers though so whatever.

I like that FromSoft took the community's reaction to Malenia being the hardest boss in the game to "We can do better" and we got a roided younger Radahn

THIS IS INSANE

dont let this distract you from the fact that Scott hasn’t made a sequel for Through the Portal yet

I kinda liked this boss, but only after equipping the deflect

I killed him with my powerstance greatsword build. It was pretty hard but i had more problems with malenia patch 1 than this fight. Took me around 50 tries with no summons/ashes.

Haven't reached it yet but I can't wait to get demolished, after humiliating Rellana and doing the same with Midra by parrying them to death I need a boss to curb stomp me.

It's wild how bs the fight still feels with this insanity nerfed. I don't think I would've had the patience to beat him if I had to deal with this crap.

You know that forehand attack from his left hand is not even that fast. The problem is the input delay in this game. I feel it is actually slower than malenia’s forehand attack. When i bought a new tv elden ring is the only game that i have to change my tv settings for. I used to beat malenia regularly but suddenly i cannot even pass 50% of first phase. That i go to settings and turn everything down and i beat her easily again. So im just wondering, what if that only made things better but never really fix the whole problem

I do like his first phase, not crazy about the visual mess of the second. Genuinely a polarizing final boss.

Probably controversial but i really like this fight, the second wave is just like gael as in the moves require especial direction to avoid the light Yeah one attack seems hars to avoid but other than that its a perfect fight

Cool that they nerfed it, I still can't dodge the second slash on the nerfed version LOL

That ain't a fun little tid-bit. That's terrifying! I JUST basked in the glory of defeating him after over 100 deaths. It's funny... Every boss I found incredibly hard just ends up popping up in recommended with 'no hit' in the title. Happiness buff instantly sapped :D

The 2nd phase of this fight genuinely feels like it's not supposed to be in this game. The attacks are just absolutely insane and the visual clutter makes me feel like im fighting an armored core boss. I absolutely hate the 3 swing attack, and the shadow clone attacks are borderline undodgeable. For the sake of this games health, this boss NEEDS a nerf of some kind. Less health, less damage, ill take anything at this point. I typically try not to use spirit ashes but this boss is really pushing my limits

Um that attack still combos, if you try to roll the first one the second and third hits combo, and i’m pretty sure i’ve been full combo’ed by all three attacks before, it’s still a problematic attack to the point where you have to deflect or block one of the first two hits to not get true combo’ed. It doesn’t one shot if you get hit by it but it’s still a brutal attack especially when the light pillars are concealing your view of the boss animations. Not sure what version of the game you’re playing on but that’s been my experience on xbox. Also the big light beam explosion that he pulls from the ground still can one shot after his slam attack super combo, but not the other one for some reason.

No scott i don't think i will be playing the DLC lol. Too busy doing my 3857284728286th sekiro run.

I honestly do predict that more people will warm up to this boss over time. Right now, people may still be salty over the difficulty of it, since it is one of the hardest bosses they've ever made. Think back to Malenia though! Many complained about her at the start until more people started figuring her out, and in present day she's much more adored overall. While the hair and light obscuring the boss does inflate the difficulty, you can still use your knowledge of the timings from the first phase to dodge most of the 2nd phase attacks. That being said, this may be unintentional and is kind of unnecessary in my opinion - I do think that they should patch these things to be less obstructive. My only real 'problem' with the boss is that I don't think there should be any attacks that are unreactable and unavoidable using only movement. The two swings into the double cross seems to be meeting that description. Even then though, there are other ways to avoid it such as blocking, deflecting, backstepping with the talisman and so on. Overall, this is still one of my favourite bosses in all of Souls. I would place its difficulty in a similar tier to Malenia, remembering how difficult it was the first time I fought her. Give it a while, and I expect this boss won't feel nearly as hard as it does right now. It happened with Malenia, and it'll probably happen again.

Gave you a like for heing considerate with your title and thumbnail

I just defeted Radhan with f’in rng and almost every attack is stun you. So no, evety f’in attack is stun you and every combo is “one” shot you. Bad boss.

Me who unknowingly reach the final boss: "THAT'S THE FINAL BOSS?!?" Im sad that it took me this much to reach him, but at least the rest of world wont be easier or faster to finish " i hope so "

This boss is straight up not well designed. The first phase is doable even if annoying due to him constantly attacking, but the second one, they just shit the bed. Miyazaki is dead to me. He's senile now. The funny thing he can't even play the game himself. I bet he's thinking "oh wow, those westerners just eat up whatever sadistic shit I pull out out, i must give them more". Yeah, no thanks. You can keep your Elden Ring 2. I'm not falling for that again. DS3 was the last game that was very difficult yet fair. I don't want every single fight to be Pontiff.

I just beat Radahn and after completing I'm super torn. I think this fight is SO CLOSE to being the perfect from soft fight. It demands a ton from the player but nothing that's unrealistic. HOWEVER, the triple slash is absurd. You should not get punished for rolling an attack and for whatever reason they designed that attack to punish you no matter what. if the answer is "oh just stand in this hyper specific spot and the second swing will MISS you" then the attack isn't good. I shouldn't have to strafe part of a lightning fast attack pattern in such a specific way. Let me dodge the fking attack like basically every other attack in the game. But the thing that hurts the fight the most, and it seems many agree, is the lack of visual clarity in the second phase. You can't barely see anything that's happening. If you end up behind him and he does a fast slash you're fucked cause you're being blinded by beautiful golden locks. If these two things were changed I honestly think Radahn/Miquella would be my favorite boss fight in any game ever. Its such a satisfying fight to master, if only there wasn't so much stuff outside of player control to deal with.

Yeah, like this final boss is just shit design, it isn't about difficulty for me, the constant phase 2 flashbangs, starting attacks while visual effects from previous attacks are still going, the imfamous 3fps nova attack that then the boss sometimes will immedicably go into new attacks while you have no fps. I beat this boss in 5 tries because after getting to phase 2 on the first try, and seeing what miyazaki thinks is okay to do to my eyes, i just greatshield shitted on him.

Two of the fights in the DLC were bugged severly Midra wouldnt take any damage in second phase at one point and start his second phase too early. Gauis is just bullshit literally.