Dual-wielding god solos Elden Ring's hardest boss in 15 seconds... on New Game +7
An Elden Ring(opens in new tab) player player has knocked out the game's most difficult boss on its highest difficulty, New Game+7, in a mere 15 seconds. The speed kill was completed by RS_Lionheart(opens in new tab), and takes down Malenia by just… walking in and beating the absolute crap out of her.
Using an extensive suite of damage-boosting effects in a buff-up routine that takes about 45 seconds of the entire video, something like three times as long as the fight itself, RS_Lionheart knocks out Malenia in an impressive 15.7 seconds. In the words of Malenia herself: «Your strength, extraordinary...»
RS_Lionheart's 15-second kill got a lot of attention when posted over on Reddit(opens in new tab), where it inspired a lot of commentary. Such gems as «I would have died and retried 3 times in the amount of time it took you to apply the buffs» and «Ok, so I'm halfway there: I actually manage to end the fight after 15 seconds consistently. Now how do I win?»
Another player, jdyhrberg(opens in new tab), was then inspired to take down Malenia in 10 seconds(opens in new tab) using a build based on RS_Lionheart's—though that takedown was at NG+1, so it's not a candidate to break Lionheart's time.
RS_Lionheart's Malenia-killing build made use of a lot—a whole lot—of buffs synergized together into big piles. You can find a full list in a Reddit comment(opens in new tab), but the short version is… Frenzyflame Stone, Black Dumpling helm, Golden Vow, Cerulean Flask, Cragblade on the left hand, Bloodboil Aromatic, Mushroom Crown, another Cerulean Flask, Physick of Thorny Cracked Tear and Stonebarb Cracked Tear, self-inflicted poison via Roped Fetid Pots, Kindred of Rot's Exultation, White Mask, then a nice Seppuku with Lord of
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