Elden Ring Player Clears Entire Game With No Damage Taken

gamerant.com:

With Elden Ring arriving as the latest challenge for fans of FromSoftware's style of game design, some skilled players are now working towards winning with different levels of mastery. While Elden Ring speedruns have become commonplace for fans of the game, some special challenge runs have still remained too difficult even as players become experts of the Lands Between.

One of these players, however, has finally broken through one of the most difficult challenges and managed to beat Elden Ring without taking a single hit from any source. It should also be noted that among runners, this type of run is referred to as a «damageless run,» which has a few differences from the more commonly seen «no-hit run» that only requires players to avoid hits from enemies.

Elden Ring Players Speculate About Radahn's Missing Feet

The player who managed to accomplish the feat first is Twitch streamer SekiroShadow, or Seki for short, who grew a following as a no-hit and speedrunner for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. However, with Elden Ring's collection of bosses offering a completely new challenge, Seki has spent the last month routing and practicing no-hit and damageless runs in that game, including attempts after patch 1.03's rebalancing. This has led to the player finally achieving the world's first no-hit and damageless run of Elden Ring on a recent stream, a recording of which is also available on their YouTube channel.

In the case of the damageless run of Elden Ring, there doesn't appear to be much difference between the no-hit run, as unlike other FromSoftware titles there aren't many pieces of gear that require players to take damage to reach top meta. So players like Seki will likely keep from splitting the two runs, instead challenging