Bro its actually bugged or smthing like its body or hitbox is like undodgeble sometimes,i swear i recorded and rewatched some perfect dodges and it still got attacked
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listen to this, went in first time, summoned the mimic tear, the guys isn't that hard but killed me at a very low point of his health, while the death animation for me was playing, my mimic finished the job, when i came back to the checkpoint, he was gone and i got the rewards, nice mimic, what a life saver.
Way too common... Happened so many times in the main game for me... That one time when you fight commander niel or someone on top of a castle with 2 of his bodyguards... I struggled there for so long until the same exact thing you mentioned happened
Just roll, use sword or something fast and throw in some magic or incants. Use summons if u can. And that’s it. No need to be “The Wall” like a noobie 😂
I had to respec into magic for this bastard. - Summon a summon that keeps it distracted. - Get the tears that give you infinite FP, and boost consecutive hits. - Use Meteor of Astel.... too melt the bastard.
Whenever you meet an NPC , exhaust their dialogues.. go to a next site of grace and come back to then NPC and talk to them again to make sure they don't say anything new. This works everytime.. also Before going to Shadow keep , talk to every NPC .. when u reach shadow keep "a seal has broken message pops up and that makes NPCs to to their 2n d phase.
@@adarshmohanty9074 So that's what that message meant, oh well no summons available for me, and I could've sworn I'd maxxed their dialogues... dammit am hating this boss.
@@adarshmohanty9074 Actually after breaking the seal when reaching the Castle, that's when their dialogues opened up and let me finish them, now they are appearing to be summoned....
You can also use falling star beastjaw colossal weapon's skill attack.. it is very fast and you can spam it from the far easily. I beat him yesterday just like that. let NPC mimic distract him and hit him with this skill.
I can't think of anything I did that was particularly weird, but I looked for videos on this guy to see his fight because I killed him in probably about 15 seconds. For whatever reason the pest-threads spell chewed him up instantly. I also had on the usual golden vow+flame grant me, but he died so fast I just assumed he was super squishy like red wolf.
Defeated this hippo in less than 3 minutes by summoning Hornsent (not sure why I only had one npc but oh well) then did buffs. Equipped shabriri woe talisman. Summon mimic upon entry (obviously) Then once your away from hippo, unequip the talisman so that the Agro stays on your mimic, then spam dragon rot from afar.
@@yogeshdhiman563 I was just under leveled so it was super annoying and I was getting blasted with damage. I didn’t want to go through dark light again so I just kept getting tossed around until I got as able to pull it off.
Ty so much! I had no idea about the summons, despite already having their dialogues exhausted, they weren't showing up bc I had to pass time. Made it so much easier
I took your summon advice, went back and maxxed out the shield guys... then used them with the 2 golden summons... Wasn't getting any joy using lightning, he is weak to bleed, but that meant I needed to get at him. Instead I went first art Milady and stayed out the way until he beat up most of the summons. I really hate how he always targets the player not the summons. Also, why does one of hits take half my health, but barely hurt the mimic tear? Makes zero sense that!!
@@SirDaz yeah it’s pretty dumb. He’s just a poorly designed boss, probably the worst one in Elden Ring. If ur running a faith build with all the talismans and damage buffs for lightning, it does a ton of damage to him. But if bleed works better for you, maybe try the blood flies? You can use that to apply bleed from a distance.
@@thecomicman6890 sadly I'm a melee build, and that really sucks against him. I did divine dancing lion first go, rellana in about 5... Lost count against the hippo, so just glad I got a lucky win there.
@@SirDaz If the shield summons didn’t work, maybe try black knife or mimic? I haven’t approached him with a melee build yet so I don’t know what the strat is. He has too many dumb moves with stupid hit boxes, especially that grab.
@@thecomicman6890 mimic was my first thing, the loss of life usually resulted in quick death, getting away from his first 2 attacks was luck. The shield guys did work, and they kept him busy enough to get past him. 👍
As always, awesome Cheese lol. Btw, I used Ekzykes Decay along with Roar Medallion and Flocks Canvas. It destroyed him VERY FAST lol. Surprised me how quick actually as I'm going through the dlc in NG+6, so these bosses are a real pain in the A S S lol
Its easier to have shabriris woe on your mimic and use a ranged weapon art like falling star beast jaw, death ritual spear or just radahns bow. Have your mimic use multiple attack weapon like beast claw, malikeths black blade or hand of malenia. Killed first try. Its a little to setup so use physick with opaline hardtear and bubbletear to take a hit or two to get shabriris woe unequiped.
The guru never fails I thought I had exhausted all the dialogue for those NPCs - another reason to use the summons and progress their storylines. Madness works great too and bestial sling.
I use the bird Denh to distract it, then I bash it with the moonlight greatsword, which staggers it .. however, it keeps killing me right near the end just as I only have a couple hits left
Ive been struggling so hard and I was wondering how there is no summons when the hippo gives me almost no time between attacks. Thanks for the video I will try this out im sure it will be easy 4v1.
Yeah i had a huge issue with this then i figured out you have TWO summons plus the mimic tear at your disposal. Killed him first try after dying 50+ times with just the mimic tear (that he mostly ignored 😂)
Weird fight. Crazy hitboxes and not sure if I had a glitch but the Hippo absolutely refused to target a Spirit Summon or Leda, the only target he would lock onto was Hornset and I tried multiple times.
It’s been the same with every boss for me I think they must’ve done a nerf on summons agro cause my summons don’t get targeted anymore even with shabriris woe on with mimic
honestly I don't know what the big deal is. I went into the DLC at level 350 and I've been mopping the floor with everything so far. strength and dexterity build. The rusted anchor in one hand and a pickaxe in the other, all fully upgraded. spear talisman, great shield talisman, rotted winged sword talisman and claw talisman to maximize the destruction. just gave the impaler his lunch. smashed his lower jaw clean out his ass. no issues so far.
@@DEMON_SUNGODuse the same method used in this video to cheese the boss same talisman same tears but use a better thrusting weapon, also use ash of war with bleed aspect on the thrusting weapon to increase the damage, guaranteed first try win unless…”blood stain, therefore seek skill” 🤣 enjoy
i swear on my life. use two great swords and jump attacks. will stagger like 5 times. use flame grant me strength,golden vow, for buffs, and stone barb cracked tear
I was fking hitting nothing with giant crusher istg its making me mad like i heavy charge and the camera will glitch and hit nothing but air and half of stamina is gone nd this obese boss just doesnt stop
I only was able to summon one helper, had to manage, before the battle, i blessed him with Golden Vow, as soon as i crossed the fog gate, i summoned a strong Spirit Ash i had, barely blocked his first attack because the dumbass just charges at you, giving you little chance to do anything, but the Great shield i used blocked that attack. I kept poking at him while the other 2 helpers kept attacking him and distracting him, we got him to like less than a quarter of his health, Spirit Ashes went down, but the NPC managed to break his stance, allowing me to give him a second critical blow, the hippo went for the NPC and killed him, but he got his health to only 2 hits, which i landed. This strategy made the battle easy, but the boss is stupid, very stupid, badly designed and unfair, these are Sekiro-type bosses, which don't fit in this game. Sekiro can deflect and move very fast, he can also dodge, but in this game, dodging is rolling and that often gets you killed. Like you have a huge monster that moves extremely fast that you can barely tell its moves, in this battle, i did nothing but block and poke, rolled a couple of times, but i am not even satisfied with this win, hell, that's been happening a lot to me with the DLC bosses. In the base game, killing a though boss felt great, all of them, but here? Sorry, not so much, feels they made the difficulty a meme.
@@hallohaun4097 mohgs spear for me, rivers of blood for mimic has pretty much carried me all the way. Only the final few bosses have more aggressive moves so it’s harder to setup
I usually never summon but jesus christ this boss is literally BUGGED. Completely impossible on solo. Did they even test it? Because the golden hippos in the overworld are fine but this one is totally unfair.
I never have hated a boss more in my life
Me too bro Fuck that Hippo
Same here bro
You haven’t gotten very far in the dlc then lol 😂
@@christianvasileff4998 people can have different most hated doesn't mean they haven't got far
@@christianvasileff4998 yeah not all of us are nerds like u
so far im fighting bosses without summons and without cheesing but i’m sorry this boss is actually so dumb there’s no way
Weak, git gut noob. Totally skill issue
Bro its actually bugged or smthing like its body or hitbox is like undodgeble sometimes,i swear i recorded and rewatched some perfect dodges and it still got attacked
@@azazel5626 Yeah lol
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listen to this, went in first time, summoned the mimic tear, the guys isn't that hard but killed me at a very low point of his health, while the death animation for me was playing, my mimic finished the job, when i came back to the checkpoint, he was gone and i got the rewards, nice mimic, what a life saver.
Way too common... Happened so many times in the main game for me... That one time when you fight commander niel or someone on top of a castle with 2 of his bodyguards... I struggled there for so long until the same exact thing you mentioned happened
@businessgamerprb5398 Same thing happened to me at the exact same fight lol
Same thing happened to me fighting Rellana
Pro tip, use bleed weapon! The damn hippo weak to bleed
Rivers of blood it is.
@@Wamrage76 Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well
@@Wamrage76this, beat first try with this + mimic tear
Reduvia is a good option cause of the range
Bro it did not work
Camera angles are the real boss fight behind the fog wall with this one. Pretty shitty all in all.
Have you seen Asmon's build with "The Wall?" Does it really work for most the bosses?
Just roll, use sword or something fast and throw in some magic or incants. Use summons if u can. And that’s it. No need to be “The Wall” like a noobie 😂
I had to respec into magic for this bastard.
- Summon a summon that keeps it distracted.
- Get the tears that give you infinite FP, and boost consecutive hits.
- Use Meteor of Astel.... too melt the bastard.
😂😂 im a faith build, i used unendurable frenzy. Beasts enemies Seems weak to fire
Yeah, neither one showed up for me when I fought this boss.
Exhaust there dialogue it worked for me
Whenever you meet an NPC , exhaust their dialogues.. go to a next site of grace and come back to then NPC and talk to them again to make sure they don't say anything new. This works everytime.. also Before going to Shadow keep , talk to every NPC .. when u reach shadow keep "a seal has broken message pops up and that makes NPCs to to their 2n d phase.
@@adarshmohanty9074 So that's what that message meant, oh well no summons available for me, and I could've sworn I'd maxxed their dialogues... dammit am hating this boss.
@@adarshmohanty9074 Actually after breaking the seal when reaching the Castle, that's when their dialogues opened up and let me finish them, now they are appearing to be summoned....
Are you not doing the npc questlines? NOOB.
Killed it first try, 10 Scadutree Blessings + Summons + Mimic + Rotten Breath and Blasphemous Blade. No shield whatsoever.
Now I see this AFTER I kill it? Damn
@@ghiaccio1024 you and me both
You can also use falling star beastjaw colossal weapon's skill attack.. it is very fast and you can spam it from the far easily. I beat him yesterday just like that. let NPC mimic distract him and hit him with this skill.
I can't think of anything I did that was particularly weird, but I looked for videos on this guy to see his fight because I killed him in probably about 15 seconds. For whatever reason the pest-threads spell chewed him up instantly. I also had on the usual golden vow+flame grant me, but he died so fast I just assumed he was super squishy like red wolf.
These are low key some of the funniest youtube videos.
Defeated this hippo in less than 3 minutes by summoning Hornsent (not sure why I only had one npc but oh well) then did buffs. Equipped shabriri woe talisman. Summon mimic upon entry (obviously) Then once your away from hippo, unequip the talisman so that the Agro stays on your mimic, then spam dragon rot from afar.
If you find a way the cheese, the inquisitor, I will proclaim you, God
That was a super stinky boss
Wasn't that manageable? I thought it was somewhat easy as compared to other main bosses.
@@yogeshdhiman563 I was just under leveled so it was super annoying and I was getting blasted with damage. I didn’t want to go through dark light again so I just kept getting tossed around until I got as able to pull it off.
Even when I don't need help I come back to this page just to listen to this guy talk for a bit
I never thought i would have to take out rivers of blood again
It’s clear the Elden ring team doesn’t know the difference between a hippo and a rhino
Neither of them are a giant porcupine either 😅
I believe it’s a RinoPottumousSnuffleupagus 😁
It's not a rhino. It's a hippo with a horn. The horn is the only rhino-like thing about it
@@WacoTx-jo4iq In all fairness, a Rhino is just a Hippo with a horn.
dawg I had no idea I could summon the ladies. Thank you.😭😭😭
Ty so much! I had no idea about the summons, despite already having their dialogues exhausted, they weren't showing up bc I had to pass time. Made it so much easier
Your boss kill tips are always great!
if you have faith, i highly recommend pests threads, it does a decent amount of damage against bigger enemies like the hippo
dropped him in like 30 seconds with astels wing, had him basically stun locked the whole time
Nice one, dumb boss tho. Still got him.
You can also use the shield summon dudes (4 of them) and use ancient dragon lightning strike to deplete his health (he’s very weak to lightning)
I took your summon advice, went back and maxxed out the shield guys... then used them with the 2 golden summons... Wasn't getting any joy using lightning, he is weak to bleed, but that meant I needed to get at him. Instead I went first art Milady and stayed out the way until he beat up most of the summons. I really hate how he always targets the player not the summons. Also, why does one of hits take half my health, but barely hurt the mimic tear? Makes zero sense that!!
@@SirDaz yeah it’s pretty dumb. He’s just a poorly designed boss, probably the worst one in Elden Ring. If ur running a faith build with all the talismans and damage buffs for lightning, it does a ton of damage to him. But if bleed works better for you, maybe try the blood flies? You can use that to apply bleed from a distance.
@@thecomicman6890 sadly I'm a melee build, and that really sucks against him. I did divine dancing lion first go, rellana in about 5... Lost count against the hippo, so just glad I got a lucky win there.
@@SirDaz If the shield summons didn’t work, maybe try black knife or mimic?
I haven’t approached him with a melee build yet so I don’t know what the strat is. He has too many dumb moves with stupid hit boxes, especially that grab.
@@thecomicman6890 mimic was my first thing, the loss of life usually resulted in quick death, getting away from his first 2 attacks was luck. The shield guys did work, and they kept him busy enough to get past him. 👍
Red lightning incantation fucks that thing up faster than anything else and i used black knife dagger/tiche spirit to also burn its health away quick
As always, awesome Cheese lol.
Btw, I used Ekzykes Decay along with Roar Medallion and Flocks Canvas. It destroyed him VERY FAST lol. Surprised me how quick actually as I'm going through the dlc in NG+6, so these bosses are a real pain in the A S S lol
Its easier to have shabriris woe on your mimic and use a ranged weapon art like falling star beast jaw, death ritual spear or just radahns bow.
Have your mimic use multiple attack weapon like beast claw, malikeths black blade or hand of malenia.
Killed first try.
Its a little to setup so use physick with opaline hardtear and bubbletear to take a hit or two to get shabriris woe unequiped.
This morning i about chucked my controller through my TV. Sounder minds prevailed.
Is fire strong against this thing? I saw some people on Reddit saying it’s weak against fire
The guru never fails I thought I had exhausted all the dialogue for those NPCs - another reason to use the summons and progress their storylines. Madness works great too and bestial sling.
Another fine cheese. I believe it’s a Buchette with ash French goat cheese. Thank you once again guru!
Thanks man! yu saved my life with that advice to avoid the first attack!
thats one angry angry hippo!
If you have the erdtree blessing you can keep your summon and the npc’s alive since it heals overtime
The main issue is that his hit box doesn’t exist, a lot of attacks just go through him
I use the bird Denh to distract it, then I bash it with the moonlight greatsword, which staggers it .. however, it keeps killing me right near the end just as I only have a couple hits left
Ive been struggling so hard and I was wondering how there is no summons when the hippo gives me almost no time between attacks. Thanks for the video I will try this out im sure it will be easy 4v1.
Red mane and horn summon signs don’t appear and they aren’t at the sites of grace what did I do?
Yeah i had a huge issue with this then i figured out you have TWO summons plus the mimic tear at your disposal. Killed him first try after dying 50+ times with just the mimic tear (that he mostly ignored 😂)
Weird fight. Crazy hitboxes and not sure if I had a glitch but the Hippo absolutely refused to target a Spirit Summon or Leda, the only target he would lock onto was Hornset and I tried multiple times.
It’s been the same with every boss for me I think they must’ve done a nerf on summons agro cause my summons don’t get targeted anymore even with shabriris woe on with mimic
@@mikemyers7172 I haven't noticed it on any other bosses tbh, very interesting though.
I died to it once and now i cant enter the boss fog. No prompt. Left and came back. quit out. Still cant go back in. What is this
My boy is back
I take damage without the hippo near me and i would role and he would kill me mid roll like wtf hes sooo buggy.
honestly I don't know what the big deal is. I went into the DLC at level 350 and I've been mopping the floor with everything so far. strength and dexterity build. The rusted anchor in one hand and a pickaxe in the other, all fully upgraded. spear talisman, great shield talisman, rotted winged sword talisman and claw talisman to maximize the destruction. just gave the impaler his lunch. smashed his lower jaw clean out his ass. no issues so far.
Yeah i wonder if it has anything to do with you being 350..truly a mystery
Didn't know I could have companions!! Thank you!
Tyrannicon I need your cheese advice for the last boss in the DLC 🙏
Yeah I am stuck on that boss rn you play on ps5?
@@DEMON_SUNGOD I do! Same username
@meowzzies Great add me - DemonSungod. If you help me I'll help you..
@@DEMON_SUNGODuse the same method used in this video to cheese the boss same talisman same tears but use a better thrusting weapon, also use ash of war with bleed aspect on the thrusting weapon to increase the damage, guaranteed first try win unless…”blood stain, therefore seek skill” 🤣 enjoy
I'm all for cheesing this unfair fights
The whole game is unfair so why not
this is the first boss ill be using summons against and im on ng+2. im so sick of these big chaotic hitbox bosses
Holy shit i just had a glorious fight with Rellana and now i have to fight a hippo that turns into a hedgehog of death
What were they thinking making this monstrosity of a boss? What I hate most about it is the grab attack
Beat him 4th try using +10 rellana sword and +10 black knife tiche
Can someone tell me how tf he can get 2 summon
I give up... 38 fkn times, different spells, buffs, swords, shields... I've tried everything.
Rellana took 3 tries and I'm already at like 10 with the hippo
Ancient dragon lightning destroys the hippo. Whole fight took less than a minute. I didn’t have the extra summons
Beat it first try with my mimic and more or less ur set up. Many thanks
Dude, I beat him 3rd. Try to get gu-
47 tries... divine beast... :(
i swear on my life. use two great swords and jump attacks. will stagger like 5 times. use flame grant me strength,golden vow, for buffs, and stone barb cracked tear
I’m literally just sat waiting for a bayle the dread solution haha 😅
@@whysotilted5500 bayle sucks cock, avoid him for now and save him for last, you'll save yourself the stress and anger.
*Stares in Blasphemous Blade
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Mod Tree.
I can make it even easier. Use Ancient Dragon lighting strike after you distract it. Took me 3 hits and it was rune ash
Guru what happened to your mage build ?
I beaten this boss, but didn’t even know you could summon help for it 😂😅
I was fking hitting nothing with giant crusher istg its making me mad like i heavy charge and the camera will glitch and hit nothing but air and half of stamina is gone nd this obese boss just doesnt stop
Half the time, I can’t even sprint to the right. The game simply won’t let me. Has anyone experienced this?
I defeated this boss using two magic spells (Shard spiral and Adula moonblade)
Omg ❤❤❤❤❤ i didn’t even know about the summons tysm i dies on this boss 200 times
One of the easiest bosses in the DLC in my opinion. Bleed build with Bloodblade Dance absolutely annihilated him with 0 summons.
How is it that you sound more and more drunk with every tutorial, yet you make the game seem easier and easier?
I didnt struggle with this hippo, it did HOWEVER catch me off guard but gs lions claw is stupid good
The new DLC do not have trophies what's going on does every DLC have trophies or not
Okay, the animations of the hippo look SUPER similar to something. Does anyone know what it might be?
I only was able to summon one helper, had to manage, before the battle, i blessed him with Golden Vow, as soon as i crossed the fog gate, i summoned a strong Spirit Ash i had, barely blocked his first attack because the dumbass just charges at you, giving you little chance to do anything, but the Great shield i used blocked that attack. I kept poking at him while the other 2 helpers kept attacking him and distracting him, we got him to like less than a quarter of his health, Spirit Ashes went down, but the NPC managed to break his stance, allowing me to give him a second critical blow, the hippo went for the NPC and killed him, but he got his health to only 2 hits, which i landed.
This strategy made the battle easy, but the boss is stupid, very stupid, badly designed and unfair, these are Sekiro-type bosses, which don't fit in this game. Sekiro can deflect and move very fast, he can also dodge, but in this game, dodging is rolling and that often gets you killed. Like you have a huge monster that moves extremely fast that you can barely tell its moves, in this battle, i did nothing but block and poke, rolled a couple of times, but i am not even satisfied with this win, hell, that's been happening a lot to me with the DLC bosses. In the base game, killing a though boss felt great, all of them, but here? Sorry, not so much, feels they made the difficulty a meme.
fromsoft never really nailed animal monster fights tbh
Mohgs spear plus 10 mimic tear plus 10 and 80 arcane. Job done.
@@matholmes for me, bleed didn't do much against him, at least not until his health was at 50%.
@@hallohaun4097 mohgs spear for me, rivers of blood for mimic has pretty much carried me all the way. Only the final few bosses have more aggressive moves so it’s harder to setup
summon the 2 guys..then use malikeths sword with your mimic..spam and enjoy.
I usually never summon but jesus christ this boss is literally BUGGED.
Completely impossible on solo. Did they even test it? Because the golden hippos in the overworld are fine but this one is totally unfair.
I think my favorite part of this dlc is people finally realizing how broken of a summon black knife tiche is xD
wtf?
you are late like 3 years buddy
Guys ancient dragon lightning strike works as a charm
I keep on dying to the attack where he spins forward with his golden spikes. Literal one shot death 😔
The shield can block that move.
I can't summon freya even though i exhausted her dialogue and done a bit of her quest.
Same
Turtle beats hippo
Can’t wait for you to make one on Metyr Mother of Fingers vid, because she’s cooking me right now
The Guru forges ever forward in a powerful way!
Crushed him with the 4v1 hahaha didn’t even need a shield just stand back and hit them with the blas. Sword
an this stupid hippo keeps chasing me even with 2 summons and 1 ash, like I'm the only one there. it sucks
This thing one taps me when it spins in the air
Worst boss I’ve ever faced I’m praying on this hippos downfall
Somehow I got in the other side of the boss’s room.
is like 120 level too low for the dlc?
No it's around the recommended amount, 120 to 150.
@@Tyrannicon Thanks!
It's super weak to dragon lighting attack
Shard spiral kills him in like 10 hits.
I must have missed mr hippo have to look for him
The guru again offers us the finest 🧀
Already beat it man the timing just went with my summon duel wield and somehow won
I don't have those AI summons how do get them to appear
Speak to them like I explained in the video.
i struggled like hell on this boss. Wish you uploaded this earlier lol
This is worse then that bull from sekiro