Elden Ring’s religion stat is beauteous flexible to physique around, peculiarly due to the fact that developer FromSoftware baked truthful galore incantations and spells into the game. Still, it tends to spot precise small usage astatine precocious levels, arsenic YouTuber Your Average Gamer enactment it successful an email to Kotaku Dot Com, folks claim it’s not arsenic bully arsenic different in-game stats similar the health-defining vigor. In an effort to beryllium the masses wrong, Your Average Gamer took their ardent content successful religion and enactment it to the test. Not lone did they instrumentality connected the hardest trouble possible, they besides perfectly demolished a assortment of bosses, including ones similar Radagon and the Elden Beast, successful a azygous attack. It’s nuts!

Matthew “Your Average Gamer” Farnkopf is simply a YouTuber dedicated to putting unneurotic “crazy Elden Ring builds.” They’ve got a video connected destroying Malenia successful 90 seconds, another breaking down the effectiveness of Godrick the Grafted’s Great Axe, and a antithetic 1 connected the eventual presumption effect build. In short, Matt has spent a batch of time with Elden Ring since it dropped connected February 25. And yet, it’s inactive notable they were capable to find a one-shot physique almighty capable to instrumentality retired 2 of the game’s hardest bosses, Radagon of the Golden Order and the Elden Beast, with an assortment of instrumentality and incantations connected New Game Plus Seven, the highest trouble enactment Elden Ring presently has to offer. Every circular of caller crippled positive retains each your cogwheel and stats portion expanding the wide harm output and wellness excavation of the enemies astir you, meaning Your Average Gamer’s tally is immoderate earnestly gnarly shit.

It looks similar Matt’s conscionable throwing things to beryllium throwing things during the fight, but there’s really an bid to the madness. As they explained successful a abbreviated video detailing what they’ve dubbed the “ultimate PvE build,” Matt archetypal casts the Howl of Shabriri and Golden Vow incantations for immoderate archetypal presumption effects, similar madness buildup for onslaught powerfulness and onslaught negation, respectively. They past poison themselves to summation their quality stat and temporarily boost lightning onslaught damage, the second is particularly important erstwhile paired with the sole onslaught spell Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Strike, a late-game quality you find successful the labyrinthine bequest dungeon Crumbling Farum Azula. After a speedy buffing session, Matt turns to their cogwheel for adjacent much buffs—the Gravel Stone Seal to up the harm of Dragon Cult/lightning-related incantations, the Jellyfish Shield for 20% accrued harm for 30 seconds, and the Kindred of Rot’s Exultation Talisman to rise onslaught powerfulness by 20% for 20 seconds erstwhile there’s poisoning oregon rot nearby, among others—before entering the conflict arena to amusement the last bosses what’s up.

It was curtains erstwhile Matt stepped successful beforehand of Radagon. They formed the Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Strike, a multi-hitting onslaught that sends down respective bolts of lightning to onslaught successful a determined area, and watched arsenic the hammer-wielding god’s wellness barroom melted distant successful seconds. The aforesaid happening happened to the colossal Elden Beast, and y’all, I’m gagging RN.

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Matt told Kotaku implicit email that they wanted to dispel the story permeating the game’s assemblage that “faith [builds aren’t] astir arsenic bully arsenic magic.” It took them “nearly 20 hours of proceedings and error” to find the close operation of cogwheel and incantations to bash the indispensable harm to slay Radagon and the Elden Beast successful 1 shot, and the results were stunning.

“I was chiefly inspired to beryllium that thing that galore said couldn’t beryllium done could really beryllium done…even connected the hardest difficulty,” Matt said. “When I pulled this disconnected connected Journey Three, that gave maine anticipation that it was technically possible. Once again to beryllium however almighty religion tin be!”

Matt, to enactment it plainly, loves faith. It’s 1 of their favourite stats to conception characters around, and a cardinal taxable to the crippled overall. Still, getting things conscionable close to execute this feat was rather the headache, thing that forced them to “quit 2 abstracted times” due to the fact that of however time-consuming it was becoming. Regardless of the frustrations, Matt said they were “glad [to have] stuck it out” successful the end.

“So I’m physically disabled,” Matt said. “I person ongoing day-to-day tummy issues that tin get/have gotten terrible astatine times. I had conscionable gotten implicit a flare-up of Colitis that I had to spell to the ER for. After failing truthful galore times passim respective hours, I recovered myself perchance going backmost into different flare-up. So I relaxed, calmed myself down, and spaced retired my time. From past connected I acceptable hours I would bash it and took the unit wholly disconnected myself. The infinitesimal I said ‘Okay, if idiosyncratic other does it that’s fine,’ I was capable to relax. Shortly after, I was capable to execute it anyways!”

Doing a one-shot termination successful Elden Ring is awesome but not wholly new. There was one Redditor backmost successful April who killed the notorious Tree Sentinel successful 1 hit and another speedrunner that created a glass-cannon physique to bonk bosses with a azygous plaything of their hammer successful May. While it whitethorn not beryllium that fresh, slaying FromSoftware’s infamously challenging enemies successful 1 deed is inactive a chill show to see. I privation I were diligent capable to bash this.

While Matt’s beaten Elden Ring respective times now, he’s not done with the game. They’re hoping FromSoftware adds caller contented successful the signifier of “very challenging bosses, overmuch similar Dark Souls 3's DLC” oregon “another precocious crippled spike that would trial america yet again.” Until then, Matt is trekking done the Lands Between erstwhile much looking for caller builds to experimentation with.

“I’ve retired the lightning build/character,” Matt said. “He’s benignant of a bequest to maine now. I’m starting a caller physique fresh, and I’m going to absorption connected exploring and the adjacent chill physique I tin travel up with. Elden Ring is simply a fantastic game, and the assemblage is amazing! And retrieve ‘Seek Lightning!’”

It’s worthy noting that portion FromSoftware dropped spot 1.06 for the game, Matt said their eventual PvE physique is inactive effectual against the game’s bosses. If you wanna effort retired Matt’s afloat physique for yourself, present you go:

• Gravel Stone Seal oregon Golden Order Seal
• Jellyfish Shield
• Mushroom Crown
• Fetid Pots
• Neutralizing Boluses
• Blood Sword for Health Damage
• Godfrey Icon
• Lightning Scorpion Charm
• Kindred of Roy’s Exultation
• Red-Feathered Branchsword
• Ancient Prayer publication (for the incantation)
• Lightning-Shrouding Cracked Tear
• Intelligence-knot Crystal Tear
• Howl of Shabriri Incantation
• Golden Vow Incantation