Clever Elden Ring Player Tricks Invader Into Killing Themselves

gamerant.com:

Elden Ring has a highly competitive and vigorously robust online multiplayer PVP community. All of the different possible character builds, weapons, spells, and other tactics in Elden Ring make it the perfect game for the quick PVP invasion mechanic from other Soulsborne games.

There are countless videos all over the internet about various PVP strategies, different builds that are particularly good during invasions, and demonstrations of carrying out a successful invasion and other such things. However, sometimes, players discover unorthodox ways to outplay each other during these PVP encounters.

Heartbreaking Elden Ring Clip Shows Player Dying Right Before Reaching New Site of Grace

Redditor ZiggyThePineapple finds himself in a situation in which they are being invaded by another player near one of Elden Ring's elevators and a narrow walkway where running away and escaping is not an option. Unsure of their ability to defeat the invader in combat, and after taking a massive hit from just one attack, ZiggyThePineapple runs back to the elevator, presses the switch, waits for it to descend just a bit, and jumps down onto it. In the heat of pursuit, the invader follows and jumps down as well, but the elevator has been descending for a longer period of time, so the distance is larger, causing the invader to die due to fall damage.

Fall damage is killer in most FromSoftware games, and although the magical abilities of the player's spirit steed, Torrent, diminish the threat a bit, Elden Ring also has its fair share of high cliffs and buildings, falling off of which spells doom. Of course, Torrent is unable to be used during online multiplayer, so the invader here has no choice but to fall too far and too fast and take too much