‘Let me solo her’ defeats 1,000th Malenia in heroic fashion
theverge.comThe tale of “Let me solo her” has reached an epic milestone: 1,000 Malenias defeated. The Elden Ring folk hero livestreamed the event, dispatching the thousandth Goddess of Rot in a manner that demands it be recounted to the masses.
The tale of “Let me solo her” began last month, when whispers of a strange warrior started making the rounds on Reddit. Players, stymied by a boss considered one of the hardest in FromSoftware history, would call for help, summoning a pot-helmeted, semi-nude warrior who would dispatch Malenia with relative ease. After that, “Let me solo her” would return to his world with a cheerful wave to await the next summons from a Tarnished in trouble. And from there, the legend was born.
“I chose Malenia to help others because I fell in love with her design,” “Let me solo her” said in an interview with IGN. After more than 200 unsuccessful attempts to beat her, when he finally triumphed, he decided to lend his strength to others so they wouldn’t have to struggle as he did.
In the IGN interview, “Let me solo her” estimated he had defeated Malenia around 300–400 times. In a span of less than a month, that number ballooned to over 980. So close to the 1,000th kill, “Let me solo her,” who has YouTube account under the name Klein Tsuboi, decided to stream the push to 1,000.
Even in a world of no-hit, level 1, and pacifist runs, “Let me solo her” makes fighting Malenia look easy. The bleed status effect is his primary ally against Malenia, taking a huge chunk out of her health bar at semi-regular intervals.
In his interview with IGN, “Let me solo her” explained that he’s not perfect every time and sometimes falls to his sworn enemy. The 1,000th fight looked like it might be one of his rare failures as
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