Elden Ring Player Wins Boss Fight After Dying

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An Elden Ring player managed to defeat one of the game's bosses just after dying to it following a long and grueling fight. There have been many cases in not just Elden Ring, but other FromSoftware titles, where the player and the boss both die at the same time, sometimes one after the other. It's a perfectly timed event where both attacks connect and cause both to perish at the same time, which thankfully leads to a victory on the player's part, as long as they don't randomly die again right after spawning back in, giving them the win even when they are warping to the nearest Site of Grace or Marika's Stake.

The gargoyles can be a rather difficult boss fight to go up against, especially when the gargoyle pounds Elden Ring players to dust by a jumping glitch. However, there is a variant of the gargoyle that can be even more difficult to fight due to its tanky nature and heavy-hitting attacks known as the Black Blade Kindred. There are only a couple in the game, but they can put up quite a fight, with one tip usually being to summon a particular NPC.

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It was this NPC partner that gave victory to one player as they died to Elden Ring's Black Blade Kindred. Posting to r/Eldenring, user uwuttlavv uploaded a video of them going up against the Black Blade Kindred alongside an NPC co-op partner known as Millicent, earned through doing some of her questline, with many fast attacks to distract the enemy with. During the fight, just as the player was about to kill the Black Blade Kindred, the foe did a spinning slash that destroyed the player's health, killing them near-instantly. However, while the player is dead on the floor, their partner Millicent runs up and kills the