Elden Ring’s unlikely hero “Let Me Solo Her” is the perfect exemplar of the game’s multiplayer community

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It’s a tough and lonely life out in the world of Elden Ring. From the lowliest soldier to the most impossibly massive boss, pretty much everything roaming the Lands Between is out to kill a humble Tarnished. Perhaps that’s why one player in particular has become something of a folk hero in the community.

The player in question, simply named “Let Me Solo Her,” has garnered a lot of love across the Elden Ring fandom, especially in the game’s subreddit. Wearing nothing but a loincloth and a helmet shaped like a pot and wielding two katanas, Let Me Solo Her — or “the Jarnished” to those who appreciate a good pun — has placed his summon sign on the doorstep of the hardest boss in the game: Malenia, Blade of Miquella. This fight is a tall order for even the most experienced of players, but by all accounts Let Me Solo Her simply strolls in and proceeds to absolutely wreck the source of the Scarlet Rot one-on-one.

It might seem counterintuitive for the fans of such a punishing game to rally around someone who basically beats the hardest boss in the game on your behalf. The clarion call of “git gud” has been indelibly associated with FromSoftware’s games since the original Demon’s Souls, and Elden Ring’s launch saw discourse still raging about the idea of including an easy mode. But the popularity of Let Me Solo Her is, if anything, perfectly exemplary of the core philosophy of Elden Ring’s multiplayer.

Indeed, the implementation of multiplayer in the game seems almost laser-focused on jolly cooperation. Even though players can still invade each other’s worlds, Elden Ring offers a lot more control over when and whether it happens and provides plenty of opportunities to make the experience a little less tiresome,