Flamberge has unique heavies if one-handed btw***

No one noticed how when we got to the blasphemous blade the opponent had the Serpent hunter Spear? Talk about how things come Togethaaaaa.

bonus notes: swordd of milos grants 5 fp everytime something dies near you, and this stacks with the sacrificial axe and ancestor horn charm for a total 12 fp per death. the inseperable sword does bonus damage to undead type enemies, giving it a slight advantage over a knights GS with sacred blade. inseperable also sheathes at the hip, unlike most greatswords which sheath on the back. finally, alabastor lord's sword does bonus damage to gravity type enemies, like Astel or other alabastor lords.

Marais definitely deserved an AoW like Moonveil where it has 2 different attacks depending on whether you follow up with a heavy or light attack. The heavy is the spin, whipe a light would be the ranged swings.

Knight’s Greatsword still has access to a bunch of true combos. In fact 1.09 gave one-handing true combos too making it very scary to approach.

Greatswords are the Goatswords

“Flamberg doesn’t really have anything unique about it” my brother in Christ. It has unique heavies.

My favorite Greatsword will always be the Iron Greatsword. Solid damage, good Strength scaling, and even a 73% Phys damage absorption

Ordovis is my go-to. Crucible knight build in general is badass and powerful. Plus with a bit of compromise in the faith and strength you could easily wield the absolutely broken Blasphemous Blade

@9:36 100% agree, Claymore with the "sexy GS moveset" of Light Attacks with an alternating Heavy (Thrust Slash Thrust and so on and so forth) would be the ideal moveset on a GS, that and have its 1-handed Heavy combo from Dark Souls 1 of Thrust then upwards Slash.

The Knight's Greatsword should in fact have the Claymore R2, in fact it deserves it more than the Claymore because the blade shape is more conducive to thrusts (The blade is longer and tapers to a narrow point, if it was a real sword design the Knight's Greatsword would be superior in thrusting attacks when compared to a Claymore) Change my mind

The two handed move set of the Knight's Greatsword is currently my favorite. Jumping light attack combos into standard light attack, and second light attack combos into third light attack if you unlock and turn your character left. So good for setting up ashes of war to roll catch like piercing fang or flaming strike. Also great for status effects when using ashes of war like chilling mist or poison mist.

My favorite part of these testing videos is seeing you be a good sport

Blasphemous Blade is the overall best. It just does too many things. Length, ranged stagger/damage/fire/healing on hit...AND health on kill.

Claymore is the best overall, but the Iron Greatsword is also excellent for a Strength build. Very high AR and the highest poise damage of any GS, plus it gets great strength scaling on Blood and Cold infusions. The regular horizontal R2 is underrated. It comes out very fast and Impaling Thrust can animation cancel into it, giving the IGS a poke and a brutal combo at the same time.

Knights Greatsword for me, purely based on looks. I built a character completely around using the Darkmoon Greatsword, but when I finally acquired it I didn't like how it looked, so I went back to my Knights Greatsword. I also used the Iron Greatsword a fair bit because it definitely hits harder.

not sure if it is anymore, but a Seppuku Occult Flamberge used to be a one hit bleed machine

It may not be the best, but I will always love the bastard sword for drip, low weight for a gs, and the sweep R2, especially with how fast it became after the buff.

Curved greatswords honestly just feel better to me but I can't deny greatswords are solid in ER. Other than the mlgs I could never get myself to use greatswords in previous games

17:20 was the coolest drop down moment, bro was the main character

Mine favorite GS is gotta be the bastard sword. I started loving it after seeing ER trailer with the trailer mascot using it. My main character (Vargram), uses the BS, with iron roundshield for the cosplay!

My favourite normal Greatsword is the Banished Knight’s Greatsword Beautiful design, light attack animations are great looking, and I will always love normal weapons as they allow for any ashes of war you wanna use on them

This feels like the most appropriate video to comment this on, but you really give ChaseTheBro vibes in the best of ways. I definitely found a new souls, or I guess Elden Ring channel to add to my favourites, keep up the amazing work! ^_^

Sword of milos is underrated as hell. If you hold it with blasphemous blade, you gonna get both HP and FP and you can debuff enemy with it. Plus the non enchanted heavy attack of SoM is kinda busted for closing gap

What I love about the Banished Knight's Greatsword is that in addition to a cool moveset it is the fastest greatsword in ER I believe. Scales equally great all ways and does great with cold infusion, especially when power stanced. Took me through the dlc power stanced. Also solid infusions on everything really. But I recommend power stanceding, cold, +25 ones. Busted

Im a big fan of the Iron Greatsword. Hits like a truck and it looks great. Running it heavy infused with flaming strike is great so you can use greases or the fire buff ✌️

Thank you for not being the typical dill dough eating invader and hiding behind enemies. I applaud you sir.

I love the Flamberge, it's so light, scales super well with Dex even on a cold infusion, and then you can use repeating thrusts or double slash to apply frost and bleed at the same time. Looks really clean too

God the claymore, flamberge and knights greatswords are all so excellent.

I just started elden ring about 3 weeks ago I only use the greatswords And only one magic thingys (its the one where it cover it in fires and does bleed build up) Idk still getting use to the game But i love the greatswords

Ok I know I’m probably like 7 months late, but Ordovis’s greatsword, I did a Crucible knight cosplay with Shard of Alexander, Godfrey Icon, Dragoncreast shield talisman, and Sacred Scorpion charm. You can oneshot most people in PVP with the fully charged ash of war as it deals like 2-3k damage if it lands properly. Bonus it has tons of hyper armor on it

Greatswords are my go-to, banished knight and flamberges are my favorites but the iron greatsword is a hefty hitter

Bro had to use so many larval tears My favorite is the iron greatsword, personally along with the gargoyles black blade

Can confirm, i do in fact call it waves of piss

I had a lot of fun duel wielding the Golden Order Greatsword and the Inseperable Sword.

13:07 THAT LAUGH

Knights greatsword because it has a beautiful moveset that doesn't slam against the ground.

Nonenchanted, definitely the Bastard sword. Picked it up in DS3 at the start of my first playthrough, and I used it through the whole game. Claymore is definitely a close second thanks to DS1. Enchanted, it’s a tie between Dark Moon, and Blasphemous. I just can’t help but love those two equally

I like me some flamberge action. Keen flamberge with bloodflame is fun. It's not op or something, but I am having a lot of fun with it.

I was rocking the banished knight greatsword with storm blade for the longest time. Great weapon and weapon skill combo.

finaly someone giving the executioner sword the love it deserves, from the moment I fought Elemer I fell in love with the sword.

Hollowslayer had Claymore's moveset with knight's light chain. I miss that thing so dearly.

Your notification came up and I legit felt myself jump

Blasphemous Blade is my comfort weapon

Oh golden order greatsword my beloved

Flamberge is basically just early game rivers of blood especially with blood infused double slash

Stamp is best used with the unique Knight moveset because you can skip the first hit of the light chain and start off with the second (instead of doing the super slow and telegraphed AoW attack) which true-combos into the third hit at a 90° angle. Claymore is definitely the best Greatsword due to the three different thrust attacks on it and you can add a fourth with the AoW by putting Impaling Thrust or Piercing Fang (my go-to) on it. It's also my favourite of the normal Greatswords. Flamberge is visually one of my favourites but sadly it's very weak on almost every build. Best choice for an Arcane build, though, due to the innate bleed. Forked Greatsword just underperforms in every scenario compared to Flamberge and especially its reach is horrendous. Ordovis' is a trading machine due to having an AoE with almost infinite hyper armor. Eochaid's is my personal number 1. It sadly doesn't have any thrusts but its unique R2 can be used for mix-ups because it's the same motion as an R1 but slightly slower. The AoW has insane damage potential but no guarantee to hit completely, you can trade with it though which makes it even better.

Honestly I'm more than ready to start a playthrough and use the Iron Greatsword with Piercing Fang. Weapon hits like a truck, and PF is PF so y'know, goated weapon

Got the lordsworn early on and decided to beat the game with it.. love it for the enhanced backstab/riposte

The Claymore is pretty much the Basic Bitch of Greatswords but ... sometimes that's just what one needs ^^

I love using the Bastard sword for it's looks. It's simple, but size and general look just looks cool. I just wish it sheathed at the hip like in the trailer and you could have unsheathe AOW on it.

im literally in love with your content bro! godspeed

as a suggestion for anyone wanting to use greatswords and you've not a lot of experience fighting with them i would reccomend offhanding a faster weapon, sometimes it pays to have a dagger/rapier/curved sword of some kind just sitting in your offhand with even just quickstep on it so that when speed is a major factor you can get that quick strike in that finishes someone off while still having the benefit of a weapon that hits extremely hard for its weightclass.

Blasphemous Blade is the best for PvE and PvP (sometimes) in my opinion.

The only reason you’d pick the Forked Great-sword over the flamberge is the 1 handed Heavy attack is a decent overhead to stop jump ins. Both have overhead light attacks though. It’s not the best argument but it *is* something for the Fork.

in souls i've always been a huge fan of the flamberge (i'm a dex main so understandable i guess lol) so i just can't pick any other than the flamberge

Favorite has to be the Darkmoon. I just wish it had the DS2 Greatsword Flippy Moveset since that's a vastly more realistic and historically accurate moveset than the traditional DS1 style Greatsword moveset. The Alabaster Lord's Sword's version of Gravitas should have a unique Heavy Attack followup that's a big stab. That's what the actual Alabaster Lords do and it would give the weapon art some more personality in addition to a much needed buff to its effectiveness. Forked Greatsword is trash just like the enemies that wield it.

Stormblade on greatswords is so good

The flamberge has a unique single handed R2 attack.

design team did an insane job with weapons in elden ring, but i wish ashes of war were more unique for some weapons, like D's gs, that only gets sacred blade while being the most beautiful sword in the game

This just in: You can... GIVE people things in PvP. That's... Actually kinda cute. I'm also really glad I ended up leaning towards greatswords over halberds for my Paladin build, since there's a lot of Faith-centric Greatswords. 'Course, with my guy going for the Frenzyflame ending, I'd probably have a better time using Vyke's spear, but... Meh.

Late to the party on this comment, but i gotta rep my favorite sword ever. The magic damage buff you get from Helphens Steeple is a flat buff, so if you twink it down to a low level invasion build, thats a mid-late game magic damage buff in early game invasions!

The dks1 claymore with its insane one handed heavy pokes I miss it so much

the troll's roar AOW followup has nearly infinite hyper armour. it's not a duel AOW, it's very much an invasion AOW. you invade a group (ideally a full three people) and show them how much damage the roar does to everyone. they will think twice about approaching you all at once now. but they think that's all they have to worry about. so you miss. on purpose. roar when they're far enough away that they think you whiffed, and begin charging the followup. they will come running at you all at once to try and punish the roar, only to take the much more damaging downswing, often one-shotting phantoms or low-vigor hosts.

Yeah, my favorite has to be the executioner's greatsword as it's cost effective and when you add the insignia and prosthesis you become a drilling machine.

So powerstance GS setup. Baemore and BK/K***ht’s GS. 2H for the desired moveset. Also flaming strike on a flippy moveset GS looks so clean.

The death poker might scale with dex but int is a better option(at least in pve) as you get most out of buffing your AOW which scales with int.

The Inseparable Sword can actually get so much AR, it’s ridiculous

i feel like milos sword was made for pve and could've been better if you got the homing projectiles dungeater did

There's a reason they call the best greatsword the "Slaymore".

I use heavy iron greatsword in pve and banished or knights in pvp.

gotta appreciate this man's spacing

I feel like I have never seen this man lose

ngl that poison vs frost fight was nice asf

Sword of milos is actually crazy good...for PvE. The highest physical damage in the class, buffs and debuffs at once and has innate bleed. Carried me through Ng+5 and 6. Sure you can go crazy with magic and flask buffs and get higher ar with other weapons but if you just want to go in and hit guy, sword of milos is peak

Good ol claymore, always the first great sword I use

As soon I went in Australia letting the turkey jump of the kliff to obtain the death poker I knew godrick didn't stand a chance. 10 out of 10 cheese when cheesable .

Meteoric Ore Blade. Alabaster, but better. I believe it’s also the only STR-favored katana as well.

Blasphemous blade supremacy 🗿

27:00 the umbrella sword ☔☔

My favourite is the Ordovis Greatsword. The AoW comes put really fast and it is a nice roll catch. Also the Damage and the Poise Damage are great.

I think I might have been in this video because a while ago, I did that exact banished knight build.

What weapon class do you plan on doing next? I hope it’s spears!

Well holdup now, I've dual wielded the forked greatswords, utilizing the seppuku ashen art with dual buffs. Js, that jumping dual attack was sheeeeeeesh and almost always proc'd bleed.

Banished knight greatsword is good for newbies, especially if you kill the knight in fort haight for RoB strike ash of war and make bleed build, here's anti gank weapon

Flamberge is superior in everyway to the forked greatsword, put bloody slash on it and watch the damage in amazement.

My favorite greatsword is the banished knight one

The only thing wrong with the Marais sword is that going heavy in Strength with 20+ Arcane seems like something you would only do for that one weapon, so it's good if you love it but you're going to be married to it.

Favorite: Deaths Poker Least favorite: Blasphemous Blade.

Dawg I’m so late to the party but what is his armor combination? It looks so clean man.

Day 11 of asking monk to do the godskin apostle build

lordsworn gang 🔥

Would you guys recommend a Vagabond just use a claymore instead of both longsword and halberd, or swap the halberd out for like a crossbow or something?

Seen the death poker do some crazy stuff

Quality Claymore with Quickstep

Stamp is such a lovely ash.

Deaths Poker master race. I dual wield it with Helphens steeple

True combo's exist now.

My favorite is a tie between Death Poker and Moonlight Greatsword

banished night greatsword. dual wielded two cold ones in my last playthrough