I feel like this is a boss that should've had a second HP Bar, his second phase is SO COOL, easily my favorite fight in the whole game, but its over so fast
yeah i keep hearing how people consider this boss hard but it was super squishy because it "starts" with basically ~40% health.. maliketh moveset and overall design is prob my fav in the game alongside radahn but it almost felt underwhelming im honestly not even trying to be elitist.. elden ring is my first souls game, i prob spent 3 hours fighting margit and like 2 hours fighting malenia, but I killed maliketh first try
This boss fight didn't feel short at all to me; felt like countless hits before he finally died and it wasn't always easy to find an opportunity to land a safe attack (with a colossal sword). Elden Ring has a lot of high dmg builds/weapons that kind of break certain encounters. I hated this fight because the second phase felt hard for all the wrong reasons; after learning his attack patterns, almost all the deaths I had were due to either not being able to see where the next attack was coming because of all the magic effect clutter on the screen while he's leaping around, or because my target lock broke from him either going behind a pillar or getting stuck in one, making him phase out and reappear in a different part of the arena (which happened a LOT to me).
PLEASE, NO. I'm still struggling with this motherfucker and I'm so sad. I can't ever get to hit him because he's a FUCKING BIRD FLYING THROUGH THE AIR LIKE "HAHA U CANT HIT ME SWORD GO BRR"
I honestly want a full version of maliketh. He probably had 2 health bars in development but they probably thought that was two much. A rematch with no beast clergyman phase would be a cool super boss.
I agree. Maliketh would be really cool if we only had to fight him instead of the clergyman. The beast clergyman felt a bit obnoxious into an otherwise cool fight.
Nah the beast clergyman phase needs to happen bc the lore reveal that hes actually maliketh. Just think maliketh should restart at full hp for phase 2.
@@funkgoeson4936 I was gonna say I like the idea of a legend like Maliketh stepping down to the role of a simple clergyman. But it’s obvious there’s something more to him when fighting him, deceiving you to think he’s a low tier boss. Just wish he had two full phases, I love how aggressive he is in the first phase too!
I don't think there's anything "wrong" with using a strong/easy strategy and I hate gatekeepers as much as the next guy. Still, it feels kind of bad watching him steamroll through my favorite boss in the game. I would know because I was way too strong when I got to Morgott, completely destroyed him, and felt like I cheated myself out of a really cool experience after the fact.
Asmon has said before one of the reasons he likes playing these types of games is to make the most op broke builds possible, to make the game look like a joke.
same I absolutely rolled him with a bleed build and seeing him go down that fast made me respec into a full strength guts sword build just so i can experience the cool ass fights
I remember struggling hard with the Draconic Tree Sentinel before Leyndell just a few days before I got here, but when I fought the one before the entrance to Malekith I beat him with ease on my first try, and it was mostly because I had learned him and my skills were so much better this time. That made me think I was ready for Malekith himself, but I could not have been more wrong! I fought him hours without any success! It was a pretty humbling experience.
Same thing happened with the Full Grown fallingstar Beast. He best me very easily when I fought him at he crystal tunnel in Caelid but I had learned his moveset so well that I was able to beat the full grown version on my first try
i mean depends on you opinion but he already is lmfaoo he wins every single 1v1 against any boss you put him up against so he could already be the hardest boss in the game
Every souls verse have their own legendary feared warrior. The penetrator, Artorias the abysswalker, Ishin Ashina, Ludwig The Accursed... And come this guy. I LOVE THE PATTERN!!!
i feel like that is more Radahn well tbh this game has so many badass warriors you have Maliketh and Malenia hell even blaidd and ofc you can forget the warrior himself Hourax loux
@@mistywww3199 I think in terms of just the aesthetic of "famed warrior", I think Houraz Loux takes it for sure, as in someone who gained fame not through their blood or title but through demonstrated strength. Exact same thing with Isshin Ashina, etc...
To be fair if you are going for a strength build with big weapons, its the best way to scale the damage especially with the raptor cloak and the claw talisman
I genuinely think Maliketh and Hoarah Loux were the two dopest bosses in the entire game. Maliketh gave me far more trouble than Malenia did. And Maliketh's Black Blade is my favorite colossal sword in the game. Physical/holy with high AR, weapon art has insane hyperarmor and chunks like crazy.
Same, Malenia took me more tries, but now I can consistently beat her. I honestly don't even remember how I beat Maliketh and am terrified of facing him in NG+
@@SeiPR727 I just fought Maliketh on NG+3 about an hour ago. He killed me three times before I could beat him, and most of that was me hiding behind the pillars to heal. His damage is insane. Every NG+ I start, my vigor stat seems more and more useless.
The gatekeeping in this community is pretty intense. I love elden ring but they make so many broken builds possible because it's the way they made it. People can use them if they want or not if they want the challenge. That's the beauty of 'single player', your playthrough has fuck all to do with anyone else.
Souls community in general is extremely obnoxious about these stuff. I mean broken builds are a staple in RPG, this isn't something exclusive to Fromsoft games.
I agree, I think the gatekeeping in souls games is ridiculous. I think the reason it's there though is because of the discrepancies between builds. People get annoyed when players brag about how good they are when they beat a boss with their broken build. However, it has no impact on someone's own experience with the game so i'm not sure why ppl care.
@@Kaltoriastw literally. Then they say things like “why cant I just do this” because all they’ve been doing is the same one move over and over and hoping it works
@@ShaesKyu yeah I hate strawmen too, what assholes; always saying the dumbest things I presume they are saying. All the while I imagine they are doing something that contradicts the things I’m pretending they said.
I have the same feeling for most incantations actually. The best example everyone mentions (rightfully so) is elden stars. But there are more like flame of the fell god or borealis mist just to name a few. I think the dmg doesnt justify the high costs or casttime for these spells. But i agree, the beast spells are weak, they have no hyper armor while cast, they mostly dont stagger enemies and they have a high casttime for their low dmg. I am so much better of doing lightning spells or like the commenter above mentioned with dragon spells. Btw. I think the best incantations are black blade, golden vow, fire grant me strength and rotten breath (not ekzykes dumpsterfire because you cant use that on a horse and it costs way more to cast for almost the same dmg the rotten breath does)
The peak of asmongolds elden playthrough was some time between finishing godric and radahn, because asmond was relatively underleveled and had to actually learn the boss mechanics to progress. In the endgame all he does is backwards panic roll and running jump attacks until he gets lucky enough to kill the boss before it kills him. But he rarely is needing to adapt or learn the fight. Its not "gatekeeping", to say that overcoming a challenge makes for a more entertaining stream than killing every boss with ease to the point you don't have to adapt or overcome anything. In some cases we aren't even able to see the full arsenal of what a boss can do because he kills it in 5 jump attacks.
There has to be a balance of course. He used an OP build and took this guy out before he ever had to really learn his moveset. Then there are other steamers that spend 4+ hours bashing themselves against a brick wall of a boss, and you're just bored after the first 1 hour wishing they would just cheese it, cause every time you try to give them some advice to help them improve their chances, they get pissed at you. They're actually just pissed and tired at the game, but they will take it out on you. This was more common with Souls vets not wanting to adapt to some of the new mechanics.
I had that issue with Malenia. Her healing and waterfowl dance fucked me up and I had to pour all my intelligence into vigor in order to tank the hits. I was dumber than a box of rocks
Personally I wish this boss had way more health, as well as every boss respawns after a bit, don’t like having to beat the game again just to fight a boss again with a different build
I think you should be able to use remembrance’s at certain locations like maliketh’s would only work in his arena because of the pillars, but you could fight a boss like Godfrey/radahn in the dragon lords arena or smth like that
Maliketh deserves to have a full HP bar, and a bit more increased health. He's too deadly of an opponent and the description of his rememberance proves it.
It also says this wasnt even his full power, hes nothing but a shadow of what he used to be, in terms of raw power his former self was probably the strongest being in the entirety of the lands between, including hoarah loux, malenia, radhan and radagon
@@eugenegrindfor5090 he doesn't control the stars u dumb radahn fanboy. He is only holding them in place with magic. It litterly says that everyone was scared of Maliketh
@@eugenegrindfor5090 it doesn't say that anywhere u fucking liar. Ride radahn D harder lmao, he doesn't control the stars he holds them in place with magic. As soon as he dies the stars fall which proves that it was a spell.
@@bigsmall2842 I was around lvl 115 and with a +9 Blasphemous Blade (special weapon) and that was not the case for me at all, i had to hit him 32 times exactly for him to die (yes i watched a recording of my fight with him and counted each attack XD)
Spent a couple hours with this guy. Was a fun fight, Maliketh had me on edge. I found out that this Blasphemous Claw I had would stun him for a bit if I used it during his golden slash - really obscure knowledge omg - but it felt epic as hell to land. Dope fight
I think Maliketh just needs to have more HP while toning down his oneshot. It's better to have a longer fight where the boss doesn't oneshot people with 50 vigor. But I feel like that was part of their balancing strategy. Everything lategame can pretty much oneshot you which is probably meant to counteract the increased player power. I'd prefer if every late boss was just tankier with less oneshots instead. Investing too much into vigor is boring.
@@vergil8833 I'd have to disagree, not necessarily about the hp part but more on the damage part. I like the high damage, makes the fight more trilling knowing that if I get hit then the next one will definitely kill me.
I went hard into faithdex hybrid with dual scythes and light armor. Upgraded three different scythes to near max refinement, and didnt have any runes or materials left to quickly level a better weapon. Suffice to say that really bit me in the ass with this boss and pretty much all subsequent ones. The slow attack speed and mediocre single-target damage of the scythes made every boss after this one an absolute slog. I was doing maybe 400 damage per attack while the boss cleared half my hp each hit, but I would rather beat my head against a wall for two hours and defeat the boss on my own terms than than take a small detour to farm runes, respec, and level a different weapon.
The sentinal is so damn annoying my god this is the understatement of the year lol. My first few attempts I can enter and then roll forward and the Clergyman is slowing Walking towards me but after three or so attempts he is straight up just running and then I’m getting hit through the mist by the Sentinal… it’s all too much.
You actually have good reason to try and kill the Sentinel - because not only does this make it so he won't respawn and give you trouble anymore. But you'll also get his unique armor set that you can use for some Elden Bling.
@@jancelpinales5228 I have been testing this and it seems like a lot of status effects glitch a multi-phase boss’s health bar, the ancestral spirit head does it too with melania if you get the right set up.
Honestly? Downward jump attack with dual weapons is busted. If you get two very very high damage weapons, you can ALWAYS jump attack even with no stamina left. Once you're airborne, the game has no animation for failing to attack via stamina, so even if you use your very last bit of stamina to jump, you have hyper stamina and can do a double fking downard attack for free. And spam it. It does RIDICULOUS damage with frostbite in one hand and bleed in another. It's like... quite literally busted. Split damage in Elden Ring is actually op as fk. It's like DS1 all over again.
@@StudioMod whatching the stream he didn´t grind, the game just showers you with exp, i stoped when i got to level 150, but i could easily keep leveling up until lvl 180 maybe even near 200 if i used all my rune items, without stoping to grind.
When he says “cower before Malekith the black blade” in that tone after he kills you….that’s the most chilling dopest coolest moment ever. Even the demigods are scared of him. You better run
I struggled so much with this boss in its second phase, took me 50 tries at least and I thought I'd find solace in RUclips comments thinking people would be going through the same thing but it's everyone saying how easy squishy he is lmao. I've never cussed so much in my life when I actually killed him I wasn't even happy was more disappointed that he made me his play thing for 5 hours
I just think a lot of people tend to have very OP dmg by this point in the game. This is easily one of the hardest bosses in the game if you have to properly execute the mechanics several times over before you can do enough dmg to kill him. I'd say he and Malenia are the two hardest bosses in that regard (aside from a few cheap gank fights that force you to just run around and wait for a random chance to land something), but people can't afford to make as many mistakes against Malenia, because even if they can survive her dmg, she heals every time they fail to dodge or parry.
Is this your first souls game? If so then it's understandable that you struggled against him - considering how fast he is I guess people got caught panic rolling. I found his move set to be straightforward once you get the timings down, it took me two hours in total to beat him at level 60.
@@angelslayer9567 His movement around the arena is fast but I don't consider his attacks to be fast at all. Literally the only thing that made the fight particularly difficult imo, is the visual obstruction and camera angles. In terms of timing, I think he's by far one of the easiest bosses in the game to avoid attacks from, once you know what his combos are. The main thing that can be a pain before you know his moves are the aoe attacks he does at the end of his melee combos, since those quite literally come out of nowhere if you don't know they are coming, especially that huge spherical slash after he swings his sword around in the air.
For me this was the 3rd hardest boss in the game, and took me 5 hours. I was using rivers of blood + uchigatana and good no hit the first phase. But it takes so long to do the 2nd phase because you cant get bleed off on him easily. So I end up running out of heals, which is why it took me so long.
if Miyazaki really gave this guy more hp and a full hp in second phase. I might be stuck in Farum Azula for about a week. the tree sentinel in front of him is an absolute ass, and the guy he's guarding is even worse.
Absolutely hated his first phase, it was just bad. I absolutely love his second phase, it had a good kit, it felt fast, dodging his attacks felt like dancing, learning his moves felt great his design is beautiful. 7/10 boss.
All of his attacks in the first phase are all physical damage so if you have a good shield and decent stamina you can tank all of his attacks. That’s what I did. I hugged him the whole match, tanking his hits with the shield, and when he finished a combo I countered. It can be a little slow but you’ll eventually see more moments where he’s open (like when he misses with a beast incantation). Plus, I believe he is also weak to fire damage. Of course the shields useless in the 2nd phase so I switched to two handing my weapon then and began dodging like crazy.
This boss straight up made me think "I might not be able to finish Elden Ring" long story short; I beat him with help from another player (not a Comet Azur spam one either) and I am now approaching Maliketh on NG+
I thought the same thing because I didn’t wanna respec to some op build. Luckily a few more tries I managed to beat him without respecing or summons/magic. I refused to beat these bosses with something op in the first play through. Was running a cold estoc but I had no int to scale up the damage. It was a great feeling beating this boss the way I wanted.
Where did you get that? That's incorrect. He's not cursed but bound to farum azula. To retrieve the part of the rune of death that ranni stole is an easy feat for maliketh, he'll just go to the lands between and eat godwyn and all the black knives but he doesn't why? Because if he goes outside Farum Azula the rune of death will be free, and destined death will rejoin the elden ring. So he sends a copy, a projection of himself to collect death. Marika is perhaps the smartest person in the game, she literally trapped her strongest enemy, and the strongest warrior of the greater will in a place he could never leave cuz death needs to stay sealed (He's an enemy cuz he can turn against her like Blaidd did). Still in his remembrance it says she betrayed him. I think this betrayal they're talking about is the night of the black knives. The black knives are Numen and are said in their armor i think "...have close ties to marika..". She and ranni and rykard orchestrated the betrayal of Maliketh. Anyway the thing you said is wrong, about whatever he touches dies. We would've needed to do a hitless maliketh then to win against him 😂.
Play however you want, no judgement. But if this is how you play then you've got no right to call someone out for any of the other "easy mode" bs. Unga bunga jump spam is just as cheesy as a summon, magic or moonveil.
@@shinsoatimaku Idc. Go to Asmons video "Asmongold's Take on Elden Ring DESTROYED By A Fan" and skip to the 4:50 mark. This same reductive take was used by the idiots he was arguing against. My point still stands
@entombedentity the inly thing moonveil still has is range but tbh probably has the same range or almost as nagakiba 😂 the damage has been reduced to average and people now use way too many buffs before having it reach even close to being broken I don't see it now granted I haven't been in thr old meta as I said but there are still a list of weapons that overtake it never seen anyone complain about blasphemous blade but for some reason everyone hates on moonveil for its past not even for what it is now
Was wondering that same thing. Also, I've NEVER seen Maliketh get stuck on those pillars before. At least in my experience, the moment he recognizes I'm behind something he skirts around it to slash me. He almost felt braindead in this vid😥
Honestly, I feel like Maliketh is easier than Beast Clergyman cuz Maliketh is less erratic and he throws a lot less RoCk. Though i’d say the main move that makes Maliketh dangerous is his mid-air swings.
and his moves are actually telegraphed and easy to dodge once you see them and not just spamming any fucking ability every second like clergyman does shit so anoyying shouls had phase two be phase one
Because Malekith is not optional, they avoid making broken bosses that are necessary for story progression, that's the default design. That's why Malenia and Mohg are super strong.
it doesn't though. It's still maliketh inside the tattered clothes, he hasnt evolved in any form, he just gets a new blade and adapts to using it. but malenia transcends into a god, literally, so its fitting that she gets another bar. however i will say that malenia recovering HP makes zero sense since all she does is pure physical with her blade, while it would make sense for maliketh to steal life into himself with his blade
Now I'm stuck at Elden Beast, never got so stuck in a boss fight like Radagon/Elden Beast. I bodied Maliketh, Morgott, Godfrey and Malenia (was much more harder than the others but I wasn't stuck on her for more than 3 hours). But I just can't kill Elden Beast.
Bodied Malenia😂😂😂 only stuck 3 hours on Malenia, my dude literally destroyes her completely and utterly , what a chad man , only 3 hours, havent seen somebody body her like that before😂😂😂😂😂
People looking at builds like this and saying 'its not even that broken yall arent making good builds' yet im fighting these bosses with a broadsword. 😂
@@persimmonss I would like to replay the game at a more balanced level like this. But also I don't feel like running through the huge world to get everywhere again. D:
@@internetspectator6051 well after I came back from my 130 hour playthrough it took less than 20 hours to go through the whole game no cheese no summon.
The comment section be like: "now do it blindfolded" I'm surprised that I seem to be one of the few that struggled, I kept getting hit and having to panic heal before damage over time killed me, which left me wide up to get wrecked, over, and over again.
@@RostockerBursch this is what I love about the souls community you don't like people using the good weapons in the game and then state play on ng7 with a broken sword only etc to make it hard. If the game was hard there's be no need to play through it 7 times for a difficulty spike and if there's weapons that are strong then obviously people will use them either knowingly or unknowingly. People can use whatever weapon they like. I got moaned at by the community when I beat dark souls 1 using the gravelord blade on my play through, I enjoyed the sword and thought it looked cool and to me it didn't feel op since it wasn't one or two shotting bosses but apparently it is an op sword and means I didn't play the game properly. I've never played a souls game through more than once so whatever weapons I pick are because I like them same with armour. I didn't find dark souls 1 hard at all and that was even before getting the gravelord sword. I played other games way harder so dodging was second nature. Bloodborne I enjoyed way more and think it was the better game. I used the blade from the tower woman forgot her name because I liked it and enjoyed her fight. Again people said that I used an op weapon. I according to the community wasn't going to see a difficulty spike until ng7 and I was supposed to use the starting weapon. It's a starting weapon for a reason because you're meant to upgrade. A game requiring ng7 for a difficulty spike isn't a hard game. I still thoroughly believe these games would benefit from a hard mode because I don't enjoy them enough to play through seven times just for a slightly harder version. I don't really like the community of these games because all you do is moan at players for not using certain weapons or builds. You hate magic users even though magic has many drawbacks. You hate people like me who only play through once. The community is a fairly toxic community and this is what drives many players away from these games. I know I prefer to play dark souls offline and when I play elden ring I'll do it offline and use whatever weapon I like the most
@@THETHC123 he played this fight well but watching a lot of his other ones and other streamers they get hard carried by being way overleveled and dont even learn the boss mechanics. I mean even for this fight the dude was doing 1200-1300 a hit lol
Did anyone else find maliketh easier solo?? I died so many times when I used summons and as soon as I went in solo I swear he was WAY less aggressive. Phase 1 was harder solo but phase 2 so much easier
I didn't use summons but Maliketh was so damn aggressive he basically permanently jumped around without pause. I was surprised at how chill he was here with Asmongold. Phase 1 was super easy in comparison.
This community is absolutely hilarious when it comes to gatekeeping, hypocrisy and double standards. I haven't seen anything quite like it. I see all over reddit and RUclips people complaining about how strength builds aren't viable, how they suck and the only way to use them is with either roll poking, squat poking or jump attacks. They kick and scream for it to be buffed. But then the exact same people are here in the comments saying that jump attacks are cheese and break the game and ruin the experience. You people need to make up your minds.
Can you cite specific examples of this happening or is this an argument you made up in your head? I never see the types of gatekeeping you're referring to, only people complaining about it.
@@jimmystrudel so I can't what? Edit, realized that you were still asking me to hold your hand through a guided tour of the comment section. Nevermind.
best way i found was just keep sprinting into him and when he backs up and you sprint into him again you can get some attacks off after he uses his attacks
I was so excited for asmons elden ring content when he said he was not gonna use something broken for his playthrough to steamroll but he did and IMO it made for some pretty lack luster content but im extremely happy to see how much he loved the game and hopefully he decides(which I know he 100% won’t) to do a level 1 playthrough doing all the bosses😭
Maybe he didn't think it was op it's kinda hard in these games not to be op at some point unless you intentionally use the starting gear and don't level up otherwise it does get super easy
My first playthrough i cheesed just about every boss and rushed the game to see how the story is told now that im done im replaying the game as normal and it’s a massive difference, im more immersed and the game is more fun and beautiful… also there’s a shit ton of stuff i over looked, there’s so much shit in this game it’s fucking ridiculous. (I highly recommend for you “cheesers” out there to replay the game normally without summons at least once to see how much more fun it is)
So what did you learn? Dont be a fucking typical speed blaster in games trying to follow the trend of "I got there first!" - And enjoy the games for the beauty they provide.
@@diro9655 i didnt do it to “be there first” i just wanted to learn the story and watch speedrun videos because i love speedrun videos but i got impatient and i didnt like dodging all of the spoilers
@@gabrielm.846 i did it so i could watch more videos about it on youtube without it getting spoiled, i still got to see the beauty of it the second playthrough, i didnt get much spoiled for my second playthrough since theres so much in the game
I usually use mimic tear after I die like 30times. It does cut out the satisfaction but on my first playtrhough I just wanted to see the rest of the game
For people criticizing him for using jump attacks only, blame FromSoft. They made dual-wield attacks in this game basically worthless. The wind-up and recovery is WAY too long for the bosses in this game. They attack and jump back constantly, making slow dual-wield attacks basically a death sentence. Jump attacks have high damage and short recovery, making them the only useful way to fight these insane bosses. He isn't using any summons either. And the build he is using isn't even CLOSE to the most broken crap in this game.
@@kingkunta3753 "you sound like a weakling with poor timing". There's literally not enough frames in a dual attack to hit the bosses and not get hit in return. Timing has nothing to do with it. It's just frame data.
Does the Soreseal make a lot of difference in this part of the game? Been running it since the beginning, thought it was only like a 7% damage increase.
People will find a way to complain about anything that you do. If you didn’t beat the game using only your fists while blindfolded with the power in your house turned off you didn’t beat the game. People are idiots enough said.
Why do people get so butthurt just because someone complains about OP stuff in the game? Is it an ego thing or something? Can't tolerate the idea that some playstyles are easier than others? Whats the point in getting mad over something so true. All games have difficulty modes, souls games included. People only get mad ifyou say you play on hard when you really play on normal or easy so whats the point in being so mad about it? If someone goes after you for playing the game on easy mode then it is likely because you've been fronting. Like with Asmon, he knows what hes doing when he acts like everything in the game is easy. Thats inviting easy mode accusations. It's an equal exchange. Don't let your ego be reliant on the game just because of it's hard reputation if you play a way that makes the game easier. It's not gonna be healthy. The rules have always been simple. Play the way you want but don't act like an unethical (cheesy) playstyle is ethical. This has never changed, theres just more new people around.
@@vergil8833 you cant knock asmon because he never once used a summon. if we are being honest here, his build is total shit. i mean hes using golden halberd still lol you can get that at the very beginning of the game. if he was plus ten mimic tearing every boss id say you have a point
@@erich1380 his build is not shit, golden halberd is literally broken. It invisibly scales with all stats, vigor mind and endurance included. His powerstanced halberds does more damage than my powerstanced ultra greatswords.
@@erich1380 You don't honestly think that weapons you can get early on are worse than those you can get later, do you? This is not WoW. Weapons from late game don't actually have automatically higher numbers than those you can get early. You can upgrade any weapon to be viable. The Golden Halberd has been a bugged weapon his whole playthrough since it scaled with every stat in the game behind the scenes. I think it's fixed now but that matters little when you already have 99 strength and jump attack while power stancing halberds. And I don't think the thing about summons matter either. Sodapoppin didn't use summons either yet he trivialized most bosses with the big lazer. He didn't cheese any less just because he didn't use a mimic summon aswell. Multiple OP things can exist at the same time. Some things can be more OP than others, that does not make the less OP things not OP. The Halberd overperformed compared to other strength weapons, thats why Asmon used it. That would have been fine if it wasn't for the fact that he avoided using the guts sword that he actually wanted to use in favor of the halberd. None of it actually matters, it just makes it all less praiseworthy. That is all. Anyone can play however they want, they just shouldn't act like it is on the same game difficulty as those who did it in a harder way. Like choosing difficulty modes in other games.
Guys you have to realize that when it comes to soulsborne games or pretty much any game in the souls born series The difficulty doesn't even matter until you get to the 7th gameplay it's easy to be op in the very first gameplay that's when you see with the bosses are actually capable of any accomplishment until then is feeble
2 things need fromsoft do for make maliketh a better boss battle: Double the HP Pool, like Malenia first and Second Phase Remove the bottom pillars so the projectiles he shoot did not hit that Broken Pillars
All the mainstory bosses of Elden Ring after Godrick need +50% HP. Mechanically most are good, but they are so flimsy that you don't really have to engage with the mechanics and can just facetank them.
The eternal issue with player choice. Sadly especially in this day and age let people create their own characters and everyone will be broken in 2 days of youtube watching. Im starting to lean more and more towards the opinion if you want your game to have any meaningfully difficulty or design make it like sekiro and give players very limited choices so they get the intended experience.
@@ezaf5989 the issue is that normal mobs deal almost the same damage as bosses within certain area. make bosses harder so that it doesn't feel like boss is just a regular mob with bonus hp
Malekith is just designed weirdly as a boss. His Phase 1 is just the NPC you can meet in Caelid, but with a boss healthbar. It feels underwhelming, and the only difficulty that Phase 1 offers are his optional Rock Sling follow-ups at the end of his combo's which catch you out if you try to punish him aggressively. I'd rather them have committed to the whole reveal aspect of the fight by making Beast Clergymen an actual NPC you fight with no healthbar, and then bringing out Phase 2 for the real boss fight with a full healthbar when you damage him enough. Phase 2 is much more engaging visually and mechanically anyways.
I know he hates when people say this but he was over leveled as fuck. I was doing not even half the damage he was doing and he was one shotting me with almost all those attacks
Here are the weaknesses of each of the main bosses Margit: lots of chances to heal & get hits in because of his slow movement Godrick: same thing Red wolf: glass cannon Rennala: can be stunlocked easily Radahn: easy to dodge(if horse is used) Draconic tree sentinel: getting close Rykard: extremely slow Godfrey(apparition): is easy to dodge at close range Morgott: same as ghost Godfrey Fire giant: can be frost bitten easily Godskin duo: can be slept easily Mohg: also moves very slowly Malenia: has low poise & low aggression Maliketh: is a Glass cannon Gideon Ofnir: says a long speech that can be used to stunlock Godfrey: same as yellow Godfrey Radagon/Elden Beast: haven’t fought him yet
When given the opportunity, gamers will optimise the fun out of a game. Differenc eis that I'm sure Asmon optimised the hell out of the game, being overlevelled, using (from what I've heard) an overtuned build, and a cheesy way of fighting through jump attacks, but so long as he's having fun, no one should really judge him. Be glad that he's happy since telling him he's a pussy or playing the game wrong will only make him feel like he's failing as a creator and a player. Just because he did everything he could to avoid the struggles and trials a lot of players go through doesn't mean he's playing the game wrong or that you think he's playing it wrong. It's a single player game and he's the only player, so as far as anyone's concerned, whatever he's doing is the right way. Now can it be considered lame? Sure, but that's your opinion, so keep it to yourself if it doesn't bring anything worthwhile to the community.
He uses an average strat meant for the start of the game. He dodges really well, and has a ton of health. So what. There are so many weapons that completely remove boss fight diff and golden vow isn’t it.
I absolutely agree! But where I see the need of people to gatekeep with asmon is the fact that as a creator he repeatedly called himself a souls god, an elden ring god, the best player etc. One time it's a joke, 80% of your titles it's something you believe in or just use to much without understanding that not like twitch on youtube people might not know him and so not know his humor! Add to this the fact that he is gatekeeping the hell out of elden ring too calling people pussy to play a way or another... Personally I won't judge anybody on the gameplay. But somebody talking trash of magic, summons... players and then proceed to runaway, jump attacks, runaway and getting hit so much time with a half screen health bar and call himself a god... I can't have any consideration for somebody like that!
facts n everyone in the comments saying "he needs a buff" or "nerf the player" there so fucking clueless its hilarious just get to ng+7 and they would change thier minds
See the problem with these battles is that damage is limited to each individual player so some of these battles are more of an endurance race....not everyone will have this level or damage. Most of my difficult battles are due to my weapon dealing little damage, and the battle turning into " how long can you last without messing up " type of situation. The longer battles last the more likely you are to mess up, and we all know in elden ring....one wrong turn, and you're DEAD lol
Ong I was able to beat maliketh and Godfrey back to back but radagon I hated it I was doing so much beefy damage but he did more damage and the delay attack didn't make it better and it was just a matter of killing him quickly because elden beast was even worse just swimming away and range attacks
0:34 LOL... one of my very few criticisms of elden ring is jump attacks. There is no reason not to abuse them, unless you have dignity i guess. I wish they would have made them insanely costly on stamina like running R2 in DS3 or something. They are broken. Pretty cheese
I feel like this is a boss that should've had a second HP Bar, his second phase is SO COOL, easily my favorite fight in the whole game, but its over so fast
yeah i keep hearing how people consider this boss hard but it was super squishy because it "starts" with basically ~40% health.. maliketh moveset and overall design is prob my fav in the game alongside radahn but it almost felt underwhelming
im honestly not even trying to be elitist.. elden ring is my first souls game, i prob spent 3 hours fighting margit and like 2 hours fighting malenia, but I killed maliketh first try
Agreed. After I beat him I imediately looked up Maliketh lore videos. Who is THIS PIMP???
This boss fight didn't feel short at all to me; felt like countless hits before he finally died and it wasn't always easy to find an opportunity to land a safe attack (with a colossal sword). Elden Ring has a lot of high dmg builds/weapons that kind of break certain encounters. I hated this fight because the second phase felt hard for all the wrong reasons; after learning his attack patterns, almost all the deaths I had were due to either not being able to see where the next attack was coming because of all the magic effect clutter on the screen while he's leaping around, or because my target lock broke from him either going behind a pillar or getting stuck in one, making him phase out and reappear in a different part of the arena (which happened a LOT to me).
PLEASE, NO. I'm still struggling with this motherfucker and I'm so sad. I can't ever get to hit him because he's a FUCKING BIRD FLYING THROUGH THE AIR LIKE "HAHA U CANT HIT ME SWORD GO BRR"
Definitely, or give him an hp buff because it's too small
You can see the sheer terror in his eyes the moment he thought that his jump-attack strategy was not going to work against this boss
It's all he has. I hate his attitude toward this game.
@@BrainOfStoneliterally every vid I’ve watched of this guy it’s the same fight every time
I don't know if I'd call it a strategy... He's just doing the same attack over and over and complains when it doesn't work first try.
@@KarpetBurn That on itself is a strategy. A pretty pathetic one but a strategy nonetheless
@@Neqlin average fromsoft d rider when someone plays the game the way they want to play it.
I honestly want a full version of maliketh. He probably had 2 health bars in development but they probably thought that was two much. A rematch with no beast clergyman phase would be a cool super boss.
I agree. Maliketh would be really cool if we only had to fight him instead of the clergyman. The beast clergyman felt a bit obnoxious into an otherwise cool fight.
Beast clergyman is a cool fight. But it should not be put into malekiths battle.
It should be another boss before malekith or sum
Nah the beast clergyman phase needs to happen bc the lore reveal that hes actually maliketh. Just think maliketh should restart at full hp for phase 2.
@@funkgoeson4936 I was gonna say I like the idea of a legend like Maliketh stepping down to the role of a simple clergyman. But it’s obvious there’s something more to him when fighting him, deceiving you to think he’s a low tier boss. Just wish he had two full phases, I love how aggressive he is in the first phase too!
Well that’s BS it didn’t stop them from giving Malenia 2 health bars at the top of life steal
I couldnt even discern how that move killed him the first time, it was like he flew across the whole length of the arena with a swordstrike
No you got it, that is exactly what happened
he didnt dodge
Also Maliketh likes to clip through the map lmao
"i can't discern it" discerns it
Artorias + Gael + Ludwig + furry
I mean….. yea pretty accurate
Why do people compare every single boss to those three, Maliketh has literally nothing to do with those bosses
@@cjham5272 Artorias: wolf-like
Gael: Gains extra powers from blood
Ludwig: gains a weapon and becomes less beast-like
@@diegomo1413 he moves like gael and artorias too. Having sommersaults ptsd lol
Gutts + berserker armor + dragonslayer + deathfire
I don't think there's anything "wrong" with using a strong/easy strategy and I hate gatekeepers as much as the next guy. Still, it feels kind of bad watching him steamroll through my favorite boss in the game. I would know because I was way too strong when I got to Morgott, completely destroyed him, and felt like I cheated myself out of a really cool experience after the fact.
Asmon has said before one of the reasons he likes playing these types of games is to make the most op broke builds possible, to make the game look like a joke.
@@Glados1080 I get that. At the end of the day we probably just play these games for different reasons.
same I absolutely rolled him with a bleed build and seeing him go down that fast made me respec into a full strength guts sword build just so i can experience the cool ass fights
@@dumpsta-divrr365 and that's completely fine, it's the beauty of elden ring imo. The freedom you have to do whatever you want
@@dsssds8200 I fought him full strength guts sword build and rolled him in a couple tries, I liked him
I will never get over how absolutely gorgeous this game is.
I remember struggling hard with the Draconic Tree Sentinel before Leyndell just a few days before I got here, but when I fought the one before the entrance to Malekith I beat him with ease on my first try, and it was mostly because I had learned him and my skills were so much better this time. That made me think I was ready for Malekith himself, but I could not have been more wrong! I fought him hours without any success! It was a pretty humbling experience.
Man I had a much harder time with the sentinel guarding his area than I ever did with maliketh
Same thing happened with the Full Grown fallingstar Beast. He best me very easily when I fought him at he crystal tunnel in Caelid but I had learned his moveset so well that I was able to beat the full grown version on my first try
The tree sentinel killed me more times than Maliketh did! I actually had to go around him to fight Maliketh and after that I fought the sentinel
@@megoodatgame8535 fallingstar beasts have been kinds ez to me, just hit them till they die?
@@skinless5136 I have no idea what build you are using but they are normally not that easy
If maliketh had a full health bar he would be the hardest boss in the game.
That's probably why they didn't make his phase 2 full HP. He is way too powerful and versatile. He can beat even Malenia with only 35%-40% HP.
I wish they would’ve, I honestly think he’s the coolest boss in the game
i mean depends on you opinion but he already is lmfaoo he wins every single 1v1 against any boss you put him up against so he could already be the hardest boss in the game
Gave me the most trouble of any boss my first playthru
Same story with hoarah loux
Every souls verse have their own legendary feared warrior. The penetrator, Artorias the abysswalker, Ishin Ashina, Ludwig The Accursed...
And come this guy.
I LOVE THE PATTERN!!!
Dark souls 3? Pontiff?
@@Endeva09 i think that tittle goes to either nameless king or dragonslayer armor
@@_SUPERN0VA_ ah yes, good point.
i feel like that is more Radahn well tbh this game has so many badass warriors you have Maliketh and Malenia hell even blaidd and ofc you can forget the warrior himself Hourax loux
@@mistywww3199 I think in terms of just the aesthetic of "famed warrior", I think Houraz Loux takes it for sure, as in someone who gained fame not through their blood or title but through demonstrated strength. Exact same thing with Isshin Ashina, etc...
I love that asmons only tactic is jump attack lol
To be fair if you are going for a strength build with big weapons, its the best way to scale the damage especially with the raptor cloak and the claw talisman
Jump attack is the best way to attack with heavier weapons. It's all the damage with none of the wind-up.
@@DelerothVT I wanna try a strength build I've been mostly dex
@@spinyslasher6586 it has a significant end lag tho
Not much better then a normal attack
@@thatdamncrow9197 but deals way, way more damage than a normal attack. Especially on a dual wielded weapon.
I spent 4 hours trying to defeat Maliketh, it was a pain.
Lol I spent like 6 minutes
Took me 3 days
@@akiltircuit7515 Going on to my 3rd day does it get any better🙃
@@positiveguy4743 Yes, it does…
@@SierraLimaSL sure buddy
I genuinely think Maliketh and Hoarah Loux were the two dopest bosses in the entire game. Maliketh gave me far more trouble than Malenia did.
And Maliketh's Black Blade is my favorite colossal sword in the game. Physical/holy with high AR, weapon art has insane hyperarmor and chunks like crazy.
And it has the sickest design in the game. That black&gold armor combined with deep red aura is just chef's kiss.
Same, Malenia took me more tries, but now I can consistently beat her.
I honestly don't even remember how I beat Maliketh and am terrified of facing him in NG+
@@SeiPR727 I just fought Maliketh on NG+3 about an hour ago. He killed me three times before I could beat him, and most of that was me hiding behind the pillars to heal. His damage is insane. Every NG+ I start, my vigor stat seems more and more useless.
Destined death shreds anything it hits
@@Evravon just wait till ng+ 7 where even wt bull goat armour and my 65 vigor you will never live more than 2 hits and your dead
The gatekeeping in this community is pretty intense. I love elden ring but they make so many broken builds possible because it's the way they made it. People can use them if they want or not if they want the challenge. That's the beauty of 'single player', your playthrough has fuck all to do with anyone else.
Souls community in general is extremely obnoxious about these stuff. I mean broken builds are a staple in RPG, this isn't something exclusive to Fromsoft games.
@@spinyslasher6586 I wouldn´t say the communit in general is like that, they are not, the problem is these obnoxious tards are really loud.
I agree, I think the gatekeeping in souls games is ridiculous. I think the reason it's there though is because of the discrepancies between builds. People get annoyed when players brag about how good they are when they beat a boss with their broken build. However, it has no impact on someone's own experience with the game so i'm not sure why ppl care.
@@Kaltoriastw literally. Then they say things like “why cant I just do this” because all they’ve been doing is the same one move over and over and hoping it works
@@ShaesKyu yeah I hate strawmen too, what assholes; always saying the dumbest things I presume they are saying. All the while I imagine they are doing something that contradicts the things I’m pretending they said.
Damn that hurt my soul when he did a jump attack and it took a 5th of Maliketh's HP.
Me on my 30th attempt not even past a third of his hp
Asmongold:
Tbf he’s using a pretty op build
Tbh, he is too overleved for the fight.
Look at the damage he is giving, his health and his endurance.
It is way too much.
I mean look at his build 😂 he does more dmg in a faster laps of time than 3 autos of my db katana
When I saw melikath in his armour I was like oh so that's where artorias has been, he looks more like guts now then ever!
if only beast incantations are half as strong as meliketh's. Ours is so scuffed lmao
yeah, but at least dragon incants are OP asf to make up for it kekw.
The bolder is actually good u can spam it
@@blastphemii wind up is too slow really. Overall beast is just.. pepega
I have the same feeling for most incantations actually. The best example everyone mentions (rightfully so) is elden stars. But there are more like flame of the fell god or borealis mist just to name a few. I think the dmg doesnt justify the high costs or casttime for these spells. But i agree, the beast spells are weak, they have no hyper armor while cast, they mostly dont stagger enemies and they have a high casttime for their low dmg.
I am so much better of doing lightning spells or like the commenter above mentioned with dragon spells.
Btw. I think the best incantations are black blade, golden vow, fire grant me strength and rotten breath (not ekzykes dumpsterfire because you cant use that on a horse and it costs way more to cast for almost the same dmg the rotten breath does)
@@reeno1357 flame, cleanse me is super good too. The only reliable way to cure (read: survive) scarlet rot and it’s very cheap and easy to obtain.
the first phase should be its own fight somewhere at the start of the zone, and the second phase should be in that arena.
facts first phase is so stupid and dumb
The peak of asmongolds elden playthrough was some time between finishing godric and radahn, because asmond was relatively underleveled and had to actually learn the boss mechanics to progress. In the endgame all he does is backwards panic roll and running jump attacks until he gets lucky enough to kill the boss before it kills him. But he rarely is needing to adapt or learn the fight. Its not "gatekeeping", to say that overcoming a challenge makes for a more entertaining stream than killing every boss with ease to the point you don't have to adapt or overcome anything. In some cases we aren't even able to see the full arsenal of what a boss can do because he kills it in 5 jump attacks.
There has to be a balance of course. He used an OP build and took this guy out before he ever had to really learn his moveset. Then there are other steamers that spend 4+ hours bashing themselves against a brick wall of a boss, and you're just bored after the first 1 hour wishing they would just cheese it, cause every time you try to give them some advice to help them improve their chances, they get pissed at you. They're actually just pissed and tired at the game, but they will take it out on you. This was more common with Souls vets not wanting to adapt to some of the new mechanics.
who cares
it’s all fun and games till the beast clergyman gets the power of death and anime on his side. oh and a giant ass fucking sword.
Meanwhile I am on Day 2 of this boss. I seriously need to rebirth at this point.
I had that issue with Malenia. Her healing and waterfowl dance fucked me up and I had to pour all my intelligence into vigor in order to tank the hits. I was dumber than a box of rocks
I beat this guy with the wolverine claws at +10. The bloodhound step really helped me.
"It's a super easy boss."
Lol, didn't you notice all the bloodstains around the arena?
The cliffs at the Chapel of Anticipation must be insanely hard
Personally I wish this boss had way more health, as well as every boss respawns after a bit, don’t like having to beat the game again just to fight a boss again with a different build
I don't want them to naturally respawn, but it would be nice if you could manually summon them again.
@@GuyFromJupiter kind of like Bonfire Ascetics
Help a fellow, get summoned
I think you should be able to use remembrance’s at certain locations like maliketh’s would only work in his arena because of the pillars, but you could fight a boss like Godfrey/radahn in the dragon lords arena or smth like that
And, we know that they can do it, sekiro does exist after all
That shot when Maliketh pulls out the blade, slowly revealing his terrifying face. Goosebumps. Also Asmon's face as it happens is priceless lol
Maliketh deserves to have a full HP bar, and a bit more increased health. He's too deadly of an opponent and the description of his rememberance proves it.
It also says this wasnt even his full power, hes nothing but a shadow of what he used to be, in terms of raw power his former self was probably the strongest being in the entirety of the lands between, including hoarah loux, malenia, radhan and radagon
@@jancelpinales5228 radhan can just nuke him lol with stars bigger than the planets
@@eugenegrindfor5090 he doesn't control the stars u dumb radahn fanboy. He is only holding them in place with magic. It litterly says that everyone was scared of Maliketh
@@hugo-pg5tv IT LITTERALY SAYS THAT EVERYONE IS SCARED OF RADHAN. HE DOES CONTROLS THE STARS YOU SLOPPY TWINK
@@eugenegrindfor5090 it doesn't say that anywhere u fucking liar. Ride radahn D harder lmao, he doesn't control the stars he holds them in place with magic. As soon as he dies the stars fall which proves that it was a spell.
Some bosses health pool is a bit small. Especially after transformation
No, Asmon build is just overpowered
he is pretty overleveled. Isn't he like 150+, most people fight Meliketh at 110-130
@@Banana-cc5rx 150 isn't crazy overlevelled for farum, especially if you're a grinder
@@CDLightt for an endgame boss Maliketh doesn’t have that much health tbh. I had a +25 greatsword and was mauling him on my first playthrough.
@@bigsmall2842 I was around lvl 115 and with a +9 Blasphemous Blade (special weapon) and that was not the case for me at all, i had to hit him 32 times exactly for him to die (yes i watched a recording of my fight with him and counted each attack XD)
miyazaki knows wolf + sword = fucking cool as hell
Spent a couple hours with this guy. Was a fun fight, Maliketh had me on edge. I found out that this Blasphemous Claw I had would stun him for a bit if I used it during his golden slash - really obscure knowledge omg - but it felt epic as hell to land. Dope fight
Sometimes bosses gets nerfed but in this timeline players needs a huge nerf
Indeed😂
I think Maliketh just needs to have more HP while toning down his oneshot. It's better to have a longer fight where the boss doesn't oneshot people with 50 vigor. But I feel like that was part of their balancing strategy. Everything lategame can pretty much oneshot you which is probably meant to counteract the increased player power. I'd prefer if every late boss was just tankier with less oneshots instead. Investing too much into vigor is boring.
No. Nerf yourself. No one is forcing you to use anything you consider to be OP.
@@vergil8833 100% agree tankier with less one shots would be a much nicer overall experience
@@vergil8833 I'd have to disagree, not necessarily about the hp part but more on the damage part. I like the high damage, makes the fight more trilling knowing that if I get hit then the next one will definitely kill me.
Strength builds 6 tapping every main boss then calling every other build no skill easy mode lmfao
ikr he hits like a truck and still has an ego bout it?
@@slothminion4620i mean he still dodges attacks pretty well nothing wrong with dealing good dmg?
After the hell of fighting him as a faith build, it was very satisfying seeing asmon BODY him
@Captain_Morgan >implying i was using weapons that can
@Captain_Morgan exactly what I had to do.
I went hard into faithdex hybrid with dual scythes and light armor. Upgraded three different scythes to near max refinement, and didnt have any runes or materials left to quickly level a better weapon. Suffice to say that really bit me in the ass with this boss and pretty much all subsequent ones. The slow attack speed and mediocre single-target damage of the scythes made every boss after this one an absolute slog. I was doing maybe 400 damage per attack while the boss cleared half my hp each hit, but I would rather beat my head against a wall for two hours and defeat the boss on my own terms than than take a small detour to farm runes, respec, and level a different weapon.
The only problem in this boss fight, is the distance between spawn and the actual boss area. + the Sentinel that can screw your back.
The sentinal is so damn annoying my god this is the understatement of the year lol. My first few attempts I can enter and then roll forward and the Clergyman is slowing Walking towards me but after three or so attempts he is straight up just running and then I’m getting hit through the mist by the Sentinal… it’s all too much.
@@nicholasglowka7285 if you kill the sentinel he doesn’t spawn again
You actually have good reason to try and kill the Sentinel - because not only does this make it so he won't respawn and give you trouble anymore. But you'll also get his unique armor set that you can use for some Elden Bling.
I accidentally oneshotted his second phase while using the black knife, it cutscene glitched his healthbar to near empty, it was sad :(
Funny enough considering that not only does he have a high resistance to holy damage, but the fact that you literally beat him whit his own power
@@jancelpinales5228 I have been testing this and it seems like a lot of status effects glitch a multi-phase boss’s health bar, the ancestral spirit head does it too with melania if you get the right set up.
Holy hell his damage is insane! This shows me I built a shit character lol.
Likewise 😂
Honestly? Downward jump attack with dual weapons is busted. If you get two very very high damage weapons, you can ALWAYS jump attack even with no stamina left. Once you're airborne, the game has no animation for failing to attack via stamina, so even if you use your very last bit of stamina to jump, you have hyper stamina and can do a double fking downard attack for free. And spam it. It does RIDICULOUS damage with frostbite in one hand and bleed in another. It's like... quite literally busted. Split damage in Elden Ring is actually op as fk. It's like DS1 all over again.
I’m pretty his 99 strength was most of his damage 😂
@@myRailgunYT That too lmao. He's very VERY over leveled somehow. Must have been really grinding.
@@StudioMod whatching the stream he didn´t grind, the game just showers you with exp, i stoped when i got to level 150, but i could easily keep leveling up until lvl 180 maybe even near 200 if i used all my rune items, without stoping to grind.
When he says “cower before Malekith the black blade” in that tone after he kills you….that’s the most chilling dopest coolest moment ever. Even the demigods are scared of him. You better run
I just realized the destined death looks just like marika/radagon hanging from the elden rune at the end
I struggled so much with this boss in its second phase, took me 50 tries at least and I thought I'd find solace in RUclips comments thinking people would be going through the same thing but it's everyone saying how easy squishy he is lmao. I've never cussed so much in my life when I actually killed him I wasn't even happy was more disappointed that he made me his play thing for 5 hours
I just think a lot of people tend to have very OP dmg by this point in the game. This is easily one of the hardest bosses in the game if you have to properly execute the mechanics several times over before you can do enough dmg to kill him. I'd say he and Malenia are the two hardest bosses in that regard (aside from a few cheap gank fights that force you to just run around and wait for a random chance to land something), but people can't afford to make as many mistakes against Malenia, because even if they can survive her dmg, she heals every time they fail to dodge or parry.
Get gud and don’t panic roll
@@UltramarineDad Yeah Idk why people thought he was challenging, maybe they're not playing the game properly? Idk
Is this your first souls game? If so then it's understandable that you struggled against him - considering how fast he is I guess people got caught panic rolling. I found his move set to be straightforward once you get the timings down, it took me two hours in total to beat him at level 60.
@@angelslayer9567 His movement around the arena is fast but I don't consider his attacks to be fast at all. Literally the only thing that made the fight particularly difficult imo, is the visual obstruction and camera angles. In terms of timing, I think he's by far one of the easiest bosses in the game to avoid attacks from, once you know what his combos are. The main thing that can be a pain before you know his moves are the aoe attacks he does at the end of his melee combos, since those quite literally come out of nowhere if you don't know they are coming, especially that huge spherical slash after he swings his sword around in the air.
lmfao 😂 1:05 chat “use your eyebrows bro wtf” i’m dead
The pillar made this boss far more easy since you can hide behind it to heal
For me this was the 3rd hardest boss in the game, and took me 5 hours. I was using rivers of blood + uchigatana and good no hit the first phase. But it takes so long to do the 2nd phase because you cant get bleed off on him easily. So I end up running out of heals, which is why it took me so long.
God I wish this boss had more HP or second HP bar. That boss fight one of my favorite.
He does have way more Health everyone playing the First Journey, Maliketh is Harder on the 3rd Journey
if Miyazaki really gave this guy more hp and a full hp in second phase. I might be stuck in Farum Azula for about a week. the tree sentinel in front of him is an absolute ass, and the guy he's guarding is even worse.
Absolutely hated his first phase, it was just bad. I absolutely love his second phase, it had a good kit, it felt fast, dodging his attacks felt like dancing, learning his moves felt great his design is beautiful. 7/10 boss.
Just wait for him to use a beast incantation. It’s a free punish.
Honestly, maliketh is best fight in the game with Godfrey in second imo
@@skinless5136 well everybody has a different taste right ? I for example really loved to fight against placidusax and mohg. That are my favorites.
@@diegomo1413 i am always open for tips so thank you ✌🏻
All of his attacks in the first phase are all physical damage so if you have a good shield and decent stamina you can tank all of his attacks. That’s what I did. I hugged him the whole match, tanking his hits with the shield, and when he finished a combo I countered. It can be a little slow but you’ll eventually see more moments where he’s open (like when he misses with a beast incantation). Plus, I believe he is also weak to fire damage. Of course the shields useless in the 2nd phase so I switched to two handing my weapon then and began dodging like crazy.
This boss straight up made me think "I might not be able to finish Elden Ring"
long story short; I beat him with help from another player (not a Comet Azur spam one either) and I am now approaching Maliketh on NG+
I also finally succumbed to summoning another player because Mali was kicking my ass pretty hard.
I hope your vigor is around 60. If not, you uh... really don't want to get hit.
you don't use "I beat" and "help from another player" in one sentence.
I thought the same thing because I didn’t wanna respec to some op build. Luckily a few more tries I managed to beat him without respecing or summons/magic. I refused to beat these bosses with something op in the first play through. Was running a cold estoc but I had no int to scale up the damage. It was a great feeling beating this boss the way I wanted.
@@jewii3824 yeah he can, don’t be elitist
Maliketh was so squishy, was a legit 5/6 hitter for str builds
I'm sorry, but during Malekith transformation I can't stop laughing at how the chat reacts to your reaction 😂 🤣 😆
A little fun lore fact is that Maliketh is cursed by destined death, which means anything he touches instantly dies. He's basically the grim reaper.
Where did you get that? That's incorrect. He's not cursed but bound to farum azula. To retrieve the part of the rune of death that ranni stole is an easy feat for maliketh, he'll just go to the lands between and eat godwyn and all the black knives but he doesn't why? Because if he goes outside Farum Azula the rune of death will be free, and destined death will rejoin the elden ring. So he sends a copy, a projection of himself to collect death. Marika is perhaps the smartest person in the game, she literally trapped her strongest enemy, and the strongest warrior of the greater will in a place he could never leave cuz death needs to stay sealed (He's an enemy cuz he can turn against her like Blaidd did). Still in his remembrance it says she betrayed him. I think this betrayal they're talking about is the night of the black knives. The black knives are Numen and are said in their armor i think "...have close ties to marika..". She and ranni and rykard orchestrated the betrayal of Maliketh. Anyway the thing you said is wrong, about whatever he touches dies. We would've needed to do a hitless maliketh then to win against him 😂.
@@justsomeotherguywithamusta6810 I said it is in the lore, obviously they won't make a boss that instantly kills you in one hit.
Play however you want, no judgement. But if this is how you play then you've got no right to call someone out for any of the other "easy mode" bs. Unga bunga jump spam is just as cheesy as a summon, magic or moonveil.
Moonveil isn't a cheese lmfao idk how it was back then but it was definitely nerfed by the time I arrived cause I can list so many weapons better rn😂
@@shinsoatimaku Idc. Go to Asmons video "Asmongold's Take on Elden Ring DESTROYED By A Fan" and skip to the 4:50 mark. This same reductive take was used by the idiots he was arguing against. My point still stands
@entombedentity the inly thing moonveil still has is range but tbh probably has the same range or almost as nagakiba 😂 the damage has been reduced to average and people now use way too many buffs before having it reach even close to being broken I don't see it now granted I haven't been in thr old meta as I said but there are still a list of weapons that overtake it never seen anyone complain about blasphemous blade but for some reason everyone hates on moonveil for its past not even for what it is now
@@shinsoatimaku I dont care. Thats not the point im making. Get outta here with that " Um, Actually 🤓" bs.
@@entombedentity so then what is the point you are making discuss it instead of acting like a baby
I have watched this several times but... how come he doesnt get max health reduction after being hit by the black blade slash?
Was wondering that same thing. Also, I've NEVER seen Maliketh get stuck on those pillars before. At least in my experience, the moment he recognizes I'm behind something he skirts around it to slash me. He almost felt braindead in this vid😥
@@reavemasamune8873 His gimmick is that your max health gets reduced for a bit when you get hit by him.
Honestly, I feel like Maliketh is easier than Beast Clergyman cuz Maliketh is less erratic and he throws a lot less RoCk. Though i’d say the main move that makes Maliketh dangerous is his mid-air swings.
Im still upset that they nerfed his second phase. They slowed him down quite a lot. He used to be pretty erratic in the second phase
and his moves are actually telegraphed and easy to dodge once you see them and not just spamming any fucking ability every second like clergyman does shit so anoyying shouls had phase two be phase one
Such a good fucking game. I wish I enjoyed my second playthrough as much as the first. First play through was so good
Not gonna lie.. it would make more sense if he gained Health after entering second phase than Malenia
Because Malekith is not optional, they avoid making broken bosses that are necessary for story progression, that's the default design. That's why Malenia and Mohg are super strong.
@@gsczo that's true, honestly I don't know what was and wasn't optional, I just beat bosses as I came across them
it doesn't though. It's still maliketh inside the tattered clothes, he hasnt evolved in any form, he just gets a new blade and adapts to using it. but malenia transcends into a god, literally, so its fitting that she gets another bar.
however i will say that malenia recovering HP makes zero sense since all she does is pure physical with her blade, while it would make sense for maliketh to steal life into himself with his blade
Now I'm stuck at Elden Beast, never got so stuck in a boss fight like Radagon/Elden Beast. I bodied Maliketh, Morgott, Godfrey and Malenia (was much more harder than the others but I wasn't stuck on her for more than 3 hours). But I just can't kill Elden Beast.
What level are you
whatever you do do not use weapons that deal holy dmg... cuz holy dmg actually heals elden beast... also physical dmg works the best...
@@Kenkuli I'm level 124 rn, my build is a Dex/Str, and I use quality and frostbite with a godskin peeler and twinblades.
Bodied Malenia😂😂😂 only stuck 3 hours on Malenia, my dude literally destroyes her completely and utterly , what a chad man , only 3 hours, havent seen somebody body her like that before😂😂😂😂😂
@@kamirostorino9416 holy damage does not heal elden beast
This is the first time he's seen the erdtree burnt and he doesn't even notice it.
People looking at builds like this and saying 'its not even that broken yall arent making good builds' yet im fighting these bosses with a broadsword. 😂
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What the hell is his level, dude?! This seems so much more balanced for him.
He did the hardest area and boss before coming here so he should be a pretty high lvl and have maxed out weapons
@@persimmonss I would like to replay the game at a more balanced level like this. But also I don't feel like running through the huge world to get everywhere again. D:
@@Dabedidabe it seems like a pain in the ass at first but if you just take your time and enjoy the game it goes by quickly
@@persimmonss stop the cap, the game does not go by quickly. game is long af.
@@internetspectator6051 well after I came back from my 130 hour playthrough it took less than 20 hours to go through the whole game no cheese no summon.
"Behold, Dog!"
The comment section be like: "now do it blindfolded"
I'm surprised that I seem to be one of the few that struggled, I kept getting hit and having to panic heal before damage over time killed me, which left me wide up to get wrecked, over, and over again.
If you don’t jump atk like him or you don’t use 1shot spell as a mage ofc you will struggle,let them feel strong 😂
God damn. He was incredibly lucky lmao. All of malekiths projectile attacks got obstructed. And his panic rolling worked for no reason lmao
He beat the boss fair and square. He was actually really good at dodging Maliketh's attacks, and he punished when he could.
There’s still going to be people complaining that he didn’t do it with a level 1 dagger or whatever the weakest build is lol.
using one of the best scaling weapons while being overlevel in ng isnt any good. bet he would suck in ng+6.
@@RostockerBursch this is what I love about the souls community you don't like people using the good weapons in the game and then state play on ng7 with a broken sword only etc to make it hard.
If the game was hard there's be no need to play through it 7 times for a difficulty spike and if there's weapons that are strong then obviously people will use them either knowingly or unknowingly.
People can use whatever weapon they like.
I got moaned at by the community when I beat dark souls 1 using the gravelord blade on my play through, I enjoyed the sword and thought it looked cool and to me it didn't feel op since it wasn't one or two shotting bosses but apparently it is an op sword and means I didn't play the game properly.
I've never played a souls game through more than once so whatever weapons I pick are because I like them same with armour. I didn't find dark souls 1 hard at all and that was even before getting the gravelord sword. I played other games way harder so dodging was second nature.
Bloodborne I enjoyed way more and think it was the better game. I used the blade from the tower woman forgot her name because I liked it and enjoyed her fight. Again people said that I used an op weapon.
I according to the community wasn't going to see a difficulty spike until ng7 and I was supposed to use the starting weapon.
It's a starting weapon for a reason because you're meant to upgrade.
A game requiring ng7 for a difficulty spike isn't a hard game.
I still thoroughly believe these games would benefit from a hard mode because I don't enjoy them enough to play through seven times just for a slightly harder version. I don't really like the community of these games because all you do is moan at players for not using certain weapons or builds. You hate magic users even though magic has many drawbacks. You hate people like me who only play through once.
The community is a fairly toxic community and this is what drives many players away from these games. I know I prefer to play dark souls offline and when I play elden ring I'll do it offline and use whatever weapon I like the most
@@THETHC123 he played this fight well but watching a lot of his other ones and other streamers they get hard carried by being way overleveled and dont even learn the boss mechanics. I mean even for this fight the dude was doing 1200-1300 a hit lol
2nd phase deserves a full hp bar and you can’t convince me otherwise
Maliketh and Malenia. Two hardest bosses in the game in my opinion
Maliketh was harder for me than Malenia. His range was dumb
how much vigor does he have because almost all his second phase hits pretty much killed me
Imagine Maliketh with high hp, it would be such a hard fight.
Is it just me or does Asmongold look sad, confused and concerned at the same time always
Probably because he’s played WoW his whole life
Why this guy always looks like he trying to hold back tears 😂
“Let’s go where’s my stuff” we’ve all been there till we lose it and have to open up your last can of whoop ass
it took me two fucking days to beat maliketh and I just watched a streamer beat him in six minutes
Literally gave the last boss 2 health bars but not this one ...
Did anyone else find maliketh easier solo?? I died so many times when I used summons and as soon as I went in solo I swear he was WAY less aggressive. Phase 1 was harder solo but phase 2 so much easier
I didn't use summons but Maliketh was so damn aggressive he basically permanently jumped around without pause. I was surprised at how chill he was here with Asmongold. Phase 1 was super easy in comparison.
This community is absolutely hilarious when it comes to gatekeeping, hypocrisy and double standards. I haven't seen anything quite like it.
I see all over reddit and RUclips people complaining about how strength builds aren't viable, how they suck and the only way to use them is with either roll poking, squat poking or jump attacks. They kick and scream for it to be buffed. But then the exact same people are here in the comments saying that jump attacks are cheese and break the game and ruin the experience. You people need to make up your minds.
Can you cite specific examples of this happening or is this an argument you made up in your head? I never see the types of gatekeeping you're referring to, only people complaining about it.
@@jimmystrudel Took about 2 seconds to scroll through the comment section and find it mate, give it a try
@@KyloB oh so you can't?
@@jimmystrudel so I can't what?
Edit, realized that you were still asking me to hold your hand through a guided tour of the comment section. Nevermind.
@@KyloB Keep making stuff up kiddo.
I guess the best way to defeat Maliketh is to get him stuck behind the pillars during his relentless attacks.
they buffed him way more since this
I hate this boss' first phase, he literally avoids getting melee against the player so he can spam projectiles
best way i found was just keep sprinting into him and when he backs up and you sprint into him again you can get some attacks off after he uses his attacks
Imagine maliketh had that stupid healing mechanic Melania has lmao
I don't know if maybe I was underleveled, but I feel that Asmongold played this game constantly with 20 levels more than necessary
Dude's facial expressions and reactions alone are proof enough that this isnt a blind playthrough.
I was so excited for asmons elden ring content when he said he was not gonna use something broken for his playthrough to steamroll but he did and IMO it made for some pretty lack luster content but im extremely happy to see how much he loved the game and hopefully he decides(which I know he 100% won’t) to do a level 1 playthrough doing all the bosses😭
Maybe he didn't think it was op it's kinda hard in these games not to be op at some point unless you intentionally use the starting gear and don't level up otherwise it does get super easy
Asmon’s eyes as the phase 2 cinematic plays is everything! 🙌🏼
My first playthrough i cheesed just about every boss and rushed the game to see how the story is told now that im done im replaying the game as normal and it’s a massive difference, im more immersed and the game is more fun and beautiful… also there’s a shit ton of stuff i over looked, there’s so much shit in this game it’s fucking ridiculous. (I highly recommend for you “cheesers” out there to replay the game normally without summons at least once to see how much more fun it is)
So what did you learn?
Dont be a fucking typical speed blaster in games trying to follow the trend of "I got there first!" - And enjoy the games for the beauty they provide.
Why would you want to cheese and breeze through it only to play it again to realize how dumb of a decision you made lmao
@@diro9655 i didnt do it to “be there first” i just wanted to learn the story and watch speedrun videos because i love speedrun videos but i got impatient and i didnt like dodging all of the spoilers
@@gabrielm.846 i did it so i could watch more videos about it on youtube without it getting spoiled, i still got to see the beauty of it the second playthrough, i didnt get much spoiled for my second playthrough since theres so much in the game
I usually use mimic tear after I die like 30times. It does cut out the satisfaction but on my first playtrhough I just wanted to see the rest of the game
For people criticizing him for using jump attacks only, blame FromSoft. They made dual-wield attacks in this game basically worthless. The wind-up and recovery is WAY too long for the bosses in this game. They attack and jump back constantly, making slow dual-wield attacks basically a death sentence. Jump attacks have high damage and short recovery, making them the only useful way to fight these insane bosses. He isn't using any summons either. And the build he is using isn't even CLOSE to the most broken crap in this game.
you sound like a weakling with poor timing if you think dual wield attacks are worthless lol
@@kingkunta3753 "you sound like a weakling with poor timing".
There's literally not enough frames in a dual attack to hit the bosses and not get hit in return. Timing has nothing to do with it. It's just frame data.
@@JackBlack-wi8pz i mean i've been getting by just fine but sure, blame the frame data lol
i cant believe this is what 500+ hours of souls games looks like 😭😭😭😭 this guy panic rolls more than my mom first fighting margit
Co op is so much tougher in the later stages. That or maybe because I just have 25 vigor with a soreseal equipped.
Level up vigor and take off the soreseal
@@PulseBladeenjoyer I'd have you know, I have 30 vigor now. I'm pretty much a tank now.
@@Trizzle2Jernts good! Now pump vigor even higher! Go to forty or fifty!!
@@Trizzle2Jernts 30 vig aint shit
Does the Soreseal make a lot of difference in this part of the game? Been running it since the beginning, thought it was only like a 7% damage increase.
The fight was only short once, every other time maliketh was down to keep going
People will find a way to complain about anything that you do. If you didn’t beat the game using only your fists while blindfolded with the power in your house turned off you didn’t beat the game. People are idiots enough said.
Why do people get so butthurt just because someone complains about OP stuff in the game? Is it an ego thing or something? Can't tolerate the idea that some playstyles are easier than others? Whats the point in getting mad over something so true.
All games have difficulty modes, souls games included. People only get mad ifyou say you play on hard when you really play on normal or easy so whats the point in being so mad about it? If someone goes after you for playing the game on easy mode then it is likely because you've been fronting. Like with Asmon, he knows what hes doing when he acts like everything in the game is easy. Thats inviting easy mode accusations. It's an equal exchange.
Don't let your ego be reliant on the game just because of it's hard reputation if you play a way that makes the game easier. It's not gonna be healthy.
The rules have always been simple. Play the way you want but don't act like an unethical (cheesy) playstyle is ethical. This has never changed, theres just more new people around.
@@vergil8833 you cant knock asmon because he never once used a summon. if we are being honest here, his build is total shit. i mean hes using golden halberd still lol you can get that at the very beginning of the game. if he was plus ten mimic tearing every boss id say you have a point
@@erich1380 his build is not shit, golden halberd is literally broken. It invisibly scales with all stats, vigor mind and endurance included. His powerstanced halberds does more damage than my powerstanced ultra greatswords.
@@grasssnail8348 so you're saying it's top three best weapon in the game?
@@erich1380 You don't honestly think that weapons you can get early on are worse than those you can get later, do you? This is not WoW. Weapons from late game don't actually have automatically higher numbers than those you can get early. You can upgrade any weapon to be viable.
The Golden Halberd has been a bugged weapon his whole playthrough since it scaled with every stat in the game behind the scenes. I think it's fixed now but that matters little when you already have 99 strength and jump attack while power stancing halberds.
And I don't think the thing about summons matter either. Sodapoppin didn't use summons either yet he trivialized most bosses with the big lazer. He didn't cheese any less just because he didn't use a mimic summon aswell.
Multiple OP things can exist at the same time. Some things can be more OP than others, that does not make the less OP things not OP.
The Halberd overperformed compared to other strength weapons, thats why Asmon used it. That would have been fine if it wasn't for the fact that he avoided using the guts sword that he actually wanted to use in favor of the halberd.
None of it actually matters, it just makes it all less praiseworthy. That is all. Anyone can play however they want, they just shouldn't act like it is on the same game difficulty as those who did it in a harder way. Like choosing difficulty modes in other games.
Imagine if the expansion is going back in time when everyone was in thier prime. Radan is going to be the new difficulty.
Guys you have to realize that when it comes to soulsborne games or pretty much any game in the souls born series The difficulty doesn't even matter until you get to the 7th gameplay it's easy to be op in the very first gameplay that's when you see with the bosses are actually capable of any accomplishment until then is feeble
7??? Lmfao no
facts and then you get to ng+7 and get gang raped by anything and everything and just die in one combo
2 things need fromsoft do for make maliketh a better boss battle:
Double the HP Pool, like Malenia first and Second Phase
Remove the bottom pillars so the projectiles he shoot did not hit that Broken Pillars
All the mainstory bosses of Elden Ring after Godrick need +50% HP. Mechanically most are good, but they are so flimsy that you don't really have to engage with the mechanics and can just facetank them.
only if you are a cringe bad player and level vigor. imagine making the game easy for yourself and then complaining about it
The eternal issue with player choice. Sadly especially in this day and age let people create their own characters and everyone will be broken in 2 days of youtube watching. Im starting to lean more and more towards the opinion if you want your game to have any meaningfully difficulty or design make it like sekiro and give players very limited choices so they get the intended experience.
@@ezaf5989 the issue is that normal mobs deal almost the same damage as bosses within certain area. make bosses harder so that it doesn't feel like boss is just a regular mob with bonus hp
@@havald7179 What is difficult in passing the game without a summons ?
Malekith is just designed weirdly as a boss. His Phase 1 is just the NPC you can meet in Caelid, but with a boss healthbar. It feels underwhelming, and the only difficulty that Phase 1 offers are his optional Rock Sling follow-ups at the end of his combo's which catch you out if you try to punish him aggressively.
I'd rather them have committed to the whole reveal aspect of the fight by making Beast Clergymen an actual NPC you fight with no healthbar, and then bringing out Phase 2 for the real boss fight with a full healthbar when you damage him enough. Phase 2 is much more engaging visually and mechanically anyways.
Asmo: "It's fine I'm not worried"
My inner monologue: "You should be"
I know he hates when people say this but he was over leveled as fuck. I was doing not even half the damage he was doing and he was one shotting me with almost all those attacks
The only way you should be doing this kind of damage should be with a glass cannon build. His health bar is the size of texas.
Here are the weaknesses of each of the main bosses
Margit: lots of chances to heal & get hits in because of his slow movement
Godrick: same thing
Red wolf: glass cannon
Rennala: can be stunlocked easily
Radahn: easy to dodge(if horse is used)
Draconic tree sentinel: getting close
Rykard: extremely slow
Godfrey(apparition): is easy to dodge at close range
Morgott: same as ghost Godfrey
Fire giant: can be frost bitten easily
Godskin duo: can be slept easily
Mohg: also moves very slowly
Malenia: has low poise & low aggression
Maliketh: is a Glass cannon
Gideon Ofnir: says a long speech that can be used to stunlock
Godfrey: same as yellow Godfrey
Radagon/Elden Beast: haven’t fought him yet
Jesus christ you do so much damage yet complain that mages have it easier?
that “you’ll be elden lord yet” for me cooming fr
When given the opportunity, gamers will optimise the fun out of a game. Differenc eis that I'm sure Asmon optimised the hell out of the game, being overlevelled, using (from what I've heard) an overtuned build, and a cheesy way of fighting through jump attacks, but so long as he's having fun, no one should really judge him. Be glad that he's happy since telling him he's a pussy or playing the game wrong will only make him feel like he's failing as a creator and a player. Just because he did everything he could to avoid the struggles and trials a lot of players go through doesn't mean he's playing the game wrong or that you think he's playing it wrong. It's a single player game and he's the only player, so as far as anyone's concerned, whatever he's doing is the right way.
Now can it be considered lame? Sure, but that's your opinion, so keep it to yourself if it doesn't bring anything worthwhile to the community.
"everything he could" lmao in his defense he doesnt use summons or magic except his buff weapon art
He uses an average strat meant for the start of the game. He dodges really well, and has a ton of health. So what. There are so many weapons that completely remove boss fight diff and golden vow isn’t it.
I think most people calling him a pussy are just kidding. The same way asmon says that summons and spells are for pussies.
I absolutely agree! But where I see the need of people to gatekeep with asmon is the fact that as a creator he repeatedly called himself a souls god, an elden ring god, the best player etc. One time it's a joke, 80% of your titles it's something you believe in or just use to much without understanding that not like twitch on youtube people might not know him and so not know his humor! Add to this the fact that he is gatekeeping the hell out of elden ring too calling people pussy to play a way or another... Personally I won't judge anybody on the gameplay. But somebody talking trash of magic, summons... players and then proceed to runaway, jump attacks, runaway and getting hit so much time with a half screen health bar and call himself a god... I can't have any consideration for somebody like that!
This is one of the dumbest comments I've read and I fully regret ever laying my eyes upon it.
Maliketh on NG+7 is a real pain
facts n everyone in the comments saying "he needs a buff" or "nerf the player" there so fucking clueless its hilarious just get to ng+7 and they would change thier minds
See the problem with these battles is that damage is limited to each individual player so some of these battles are more of an endurance race....not everyone will have this level or damage. Most of my difficult battles are due to my weapon dealing little damage, and the battle turning into " how long can you last without messing up " type of situation. The longer battles last the more likely you are to mess up, and we all know in elden ring....one wrong turn, and you're DEAD lol
Ong I was able to beat maliketh and Godfrey back to back but radagon I hated it I was doing so much beefy damage but he did more damage and the delay attack didn't make it better and it was just a matter of killing him quickly because elden beast was even worse just swimming away and range attacks
0:34 LOL... one of my very few criticisms of elden ring is jump attacks. There is no reason not to abuse them, unless you have dignity i guess. I wish they would have made them insanely costly on stamina like running R2 in DS3 or something. They are broken. Pretty cheese
God damn watching him play this game pisses me off 😂
6:23 That felt personal