Elden Ring player kills Malenia in 15 seconds on NG+7, and then one-hits her for good measure

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The Elden Ring community's campaign to make normal players feel bad at the game is still very much ongoing, with local Tarnished RS_Lionheart out here killing Malenia on New Game +7 in a record-setting 15 seconds before straight-up one-hitting her on a follow-up run.

Lionheart posted their NG+7 speedrun a few days ago, and it's still the world record at the time of writing. In the YouTube (opens in new tab) description of the video, they offer "good luck" to anyone who wants to try to beat their record. 

The setup for this blisteringly fast kill involves two Bandit's Curved Swords scaled for bleed damage via the Cragblade Ash of War. Lionheart is rocking 99 Strength, Dexterity, and Arcane for maximum physical and bleed output, and dozens of buffs are then carefully layered in to take their damage to absurd extremes. The start of the video is an absolute clown fiesta of icons, particle effects, and consumables – so much so that Lionheart has to repeatedly swap equipment just to stack even more buffs. I reached out to talk more about their process here, and it sounds as finicky as you'd expect. 

"When I look into each buff, I am always weighing damage vs. duration," Lionheart explains. "I always try to do them in descending order of duration, so that, for example, my Blood Loss and Poison Buffs, which only last 20 seconds, come towards the end of the sequence. To work out and test all of this, I have several different characters on multiple accounts who have levels ranging from 1 - 350, allowing me to test a variety of different builds. I have every single spell, incantation, and Ash of War basically memorized at this point, so it's just a matter of setting a goal and trying to see if it's possible." 

The one-hit run