I went into this video thinking, "Is this much different than a SL 1 run?" I quickly began to realize the mental damage of seeing your level increase, yet never becoming any stronger was well worth it
Resistance is a stat. That is about it. Also the issue with Tartarus Demon is his feet have hit boxes that cause small damage waves making dodging weird.
Interesting about the Taurus demon, thanks for that tidbit of knowledge! also, agree about resistance being a stat, devs were like "we need one more...resistance??"
@@DoomWolfOfficialthe best guess I can give you is that it the small damage boxes that occur is to prevent you from getting stuck underneath him or being forced under the terrain. They have just enough knock back to prevent that.
It's mainly also a lingering hitbox. His downward strike has a lingering hitbox and so does his extended overhead slam. Wait a little after he attacks before aproaching. Sadlyy, this is objectively jank. Ds1 is still best souls imo, but just gotta be aware of this. If only the game had a remaster that could fix such things!
@@DoomWolfOfficial My guess would be that Resistance was supposed to be a more important stat and got toned down. Maybe in some state of the game levelling up other stats did not increase your non poison and non bleed resistances and only resistance did that. but that ended up not being good for the game but they didn't cut resistance entirely.
At 3:09, for a split second you can see the bandit enter a falling animation due to dark souls scuff, and because you were next to him, the damage you took was due to him falling on top of you! Thank you dark souls, very cool. Also I never really explored the dlc at all other than the bosses, so thanks for putting in the bit about the blue titanite slab, I never knew that before!
that doesn't surprise me about the bandit 'falling' oh dark souls lol glad I could tell ya! Theres also a regular titanite slab _in_ Kalameet's arena, in case you didn't know :)
First I thought, "hmm at least it levels defenses too, not just the poison resist" then I realized, every single other stat does that too. So it really is just poison resist.
The Capra's sword didn't hit you, his arm did. The Capra Demon is actually a really nice guy, and his muscles did no damage to you, only gave you a brief hug : )
The slow descent into madness, outlined by every single pun that could be fit in there just goes to show how little this run left of your mental resistances.
To explain resistance in DS1: Whether casual or pvp, it’s a dump stat. Leveling up any other stat increases your resistances/defenses to physical attack by 1 point while resistance increases by 2-4 The thing is there is a hard cap that will not increase your defenses more without putting armor or ring You will reach that cap leveling up anything else aka straw that matter to you You will reach that cap leveling up even just one other stat
By the time I get to the Taurus demon, I’ve usually done so much running around that the plunge attack knocks out 90% of its health, and I’ll still lose if I whiff the second attack 😂
3:19 if you tap . on your keyboard you can go frame by frame... and yes indeed, he did not hit you because you were hunched over. In fact only the hilt of his weapon could have hit you in the first place in that position as the entire blade went passed you altogether. So that was actually an example very good hit detection 3:58 you just couldn't resist, could you?
so what you're telling me is with careful planning and execution, a no walk no hit run might be possible? and even with 99 resistance I couldn't have stopped from making that joke :P
@@DoomWolfOfficial Of course! If for nothing else I am a highly sophisticated and cultured individual 🤓 Also what a coincidence that we both do level 1 runs in souls games and both like MDB XD
Fun Fact: I’m nearly 100% sure the Gargoyles inspired 1-4 (Cerberus Boss Fight) in ULTRAKILL. They’re both giant enemies made out of stone that emerge from the nearby area to combat the player. Once Cerberus goes down to about half health, a second appears, at half health too. Once they’re both down, the player progresses, leaving the area behind to a new one. Has no one else seen this??
I'd say it's more of a coincidence. In Ultrakill, I see the boss fight as a way to teach the player how cerberi work, since they become quite common as normal enemies afterwards. You can't say the same about the Gargoyles since you will only meet one (or two, I don't really remember) solo non boss Gargoyle.
2:45 The Taurus demon’s hit boxes are broken :) I watched a video showing how janky his (and a few other bosses) hit boxes are veryyyy broken and questionable. The “shock wave” after his hammer hits is actually delayed… so when you think you’ve dodged it… you haven’t. It’s very interesting!
YOU SIR ARE A HERO! Also, I love the Souls RUclips community. Especially the smaller channels that are (deservedly) growing in popularity. You guys are awesome.
Thanks, but we all know JK leeds is the true hero, I just have the deep pockets ;) it's been fun growing and talking to everyone, and I love that awesome creators are now growing too!
I actually put 25 points into resistance on my first playthro because I had ALOT of trouble with poison, and I also saw it increased physical resistance as well, so I boosted it to 30 😅
@@mr.tamoshanter50 I'm RPing a hollow soldier who reversed hollowing and am using just the hollow soldier set and a long sword ... it's not actually that bad.
You're (and other ds challenge runners) videos are like fuel for the fire of my passion about dark souls Btw the humour has gotten so much better than earlier days
@@DoomWolfOfficial Was a bit anxious about keeping second part of my comment since it can be viewed as criticism in pessimistic eyes but your positive take of it assured me not everyone look for worst in my words and neither shouldn't i (except sometimes wich i should ofc) So Thanks🤝
Such a great video, i really enjoy how the souls comunity put themselves into insane and mindblowing chalenges just to try more and more experiences of these great games. Also great humor you post in this video, i don't get entertained like this a while in a video, loved it ❤
Glad to see someone else who gets hit by Taurus Demon, tried fighting him "legit" on the circular arena recently just for fun and thought I lost all my DS skills 😂
As someone who only knows FromSoft games via challenge runs... I legitimately did not know Resistance was a stat. I've been watching challenge runs for years now, and it's never come up before. ... I think that tells me all I need to know about Resistance.
13:02 the reason Sif doesn't give you the ring even if you save her before the fight is because she thinks that if you enter the abyss, you will end up corrupted like Artorias. She fights you to protect you and to make sure that you can actually survive the abyss with your sanity.
I have a soft spot for dumb/ useless stats. If you gave me the option to level my Florpty stat, which does nothing except make my character slowly change color, I'd level it.
My dude, I love your videos, I hardly comment anywhere on RUclips but every time I'm on a video I just do it because push the algorithm Another banger, well done
Resistance also gives an extra boost to base defence. I have tried playing as a Havel hard tack, and it was kinda fun basically healing my way through Lordran.
@@DoomWolfOfficial Had all three. Unga bunga big bonk taking slaps from artorius to the face, laughing it off, and returning the favor. Only stopped 'cus I was bored.
The funny thing is, leveling other stats also increases resistance. So by the end of the game on a normal playthrough you will likely already have reached the soft cap
Yeah I know, I'm mostly joking. I enjoy the thought of what would a resistance playthrough even look like. So thanks for answering that curiosity I guess lol.@@DoomWolfOfficial
Regarding Sif, I always wished that Artorias in the DLC would drop the ring as well, giving you the option to spare Sif. But at the end of the day, this is Dark Souls. Happy endings do not exist!
3:24 that's indeed what happened, an R1 with the reclub made you duck and your model's hitboxes as well, ducking is actually a legitimate strat on no roll boss kills
3:20 That's nothing like a DS2 hitbox because it's actually good and pretty clean. I think the reason it missed is because; a) you were slightly hunched over from your attack animation; and b) because you were very close to the boss and that attack is meant to punish you at mid-range. If it were a bad hitbox (like in DS2) it would've hit you when you weren't even near it.
Fair, someone else did mention that the thing I did was a technique used by no hit/roll/block runners where basically with perfect spacing and timing the hit box gets shifted to avoid damage
3:08 I'm not an expert at all but I think that was the damage from when an enemy falls on you! Maybe the Thief Hollow 'fell' from his doorstep onto you? Idk, who cares, great video man.
You sir, are a hero But yeah great video, saw it before JKLeeds sent us here. Oh yeah and you aren’t the only one who struggled with the Taurus demon hitboxes, honestly I find ds1 hitboxes to be worse than ds2 hitboxes, but the could be because I got my agility up really quickly
Sif fights you even if you save her because she knows Artorias got corrupted by the Abbys, and she will keep you from suffering that fate even if it means fighting you.
Hey, thanks for saying “Can **I**” instead of “Can **YOU**” beat dark souls while only leveling resistance, AKA slightly better SL Lvl - Playthrough! Definitely makes the whole “Challenge” part more of a “Challenge” instead of just the answer being “yes because countless people already have”
@@DoomWolfOfficial We were so close to breaking him. You thwarted all our hard work . . . or lured him back from the edge so he can ruin himself with even more outlandish challenges.
Great video😂 !!! The algorithm gods of RUclips just presented me with your video! Thank you for the work you put into making this great content and the effort you put into responding to viewers!! You go above and beyond most content creators!!!Keep it up bro. You got a new sub from me!
I looked back at my first character a few years after beating it. It had like 75 Resistance and fast rolled in full Havels. I had really high Int to help boost my Pyromancy and the incredibly powerful Titanite Demon Catching Pole (you know it's good, it has 4 whole damage types!). It was like level 250. This run reminded me of it.
Resistance at level 20 is actually pretty useful. You'll notice Blightown is a lot more bearable like all points in the game where poison is a factor in difficulty.
Yeah it would be but since there aren't very many places that inflict poison I would still argue that's too situational and the point would be bet fit elsewhere haha
My only Resistance, HP and Stamina, spear-and-shield Spartan is, to this day, one of my favorite runs ever. I could only die from gravity, everything else was *nothing*
I also tend to get clipped by the Taurus Demon a lot. After the first plunge, I tend to run away so I can get enough time to climb the ladder and go for another. My mind's eye allows me to see nothing but the ladder, so I pretty much always get whacked spamming rolls going past him.
I seem to remember resistance increased defenses in general, but that each level acted as 1/3 a level in resistance, and the difference of 1.3 vs 0.3 after natural leveling was basically miniscule. Well, that and DS1 defense really needs armor to force attacks into a lower damage formula.
That's the same way I do bed of Chaos, makes it feel a lot less bullshit, but it is still bullshit as it's bed of chaos. But yeah, glad to see others use it too
There's a joke about resisting the urge to click subscribe in here somewhere.
Your resistance is so high I have to click the like button twice to ensure it stick.
i didn't level it high enough then.
Jokes on you, i cannot resist pressing the subscribe button
It floats down
I soul dupe glitch so dont worry. 99 sub easy.
"Spare no expense" old white beard man with mosquito cane from Jurassic Park 1
"I no-hit the gargoyles...and I felt nothing."
This man challenge runs.
accurate comment is accurate lol
Relatable isn't it
Rat.
Love your videos too
Glad DS community is still vibrant
@@mr.tamoshanter50 why do they not call him "grapefruit" then?
I went into this video thinking, "Is this much different than a SL 1 run?" I quickly began to realize the mental damage of seeing your level increase, yet never becoming any stronger was well worth it
leveling up, only to feel no noticeable change in my character really took a toll on me haha
And there’s no way to restat in this so your stuck with the resistance forever 😂
McGuyver somehow "agrees?"
it makes you mentally build resistance
@@Skankhunt-hl9zj dsr respec tool
You didn’t meet too much Resistance from the bosses on this run 😉
yessss the power of the puns fuels me!
Luv u JK
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How much did mytha from dark souls 2 level her resistance stat for poison 🤔
Resistance is a stat. That is about it.
Also the issue with Tartarus Demon is his feet have hit boxes that cause small damage waves making dodging weird.
And it does.... Something?
Interesting about the Taurus demon, thanks for that tidbit of knowledge!
also, agree about resistance being a stat, devs were like "we need one more...resistance??"
@@DoomWolfOfficialthe best guess I can give you is that it the small damage boxes that occur is to prevent you from getting stuck underneath him or being forced under the terrain. They have just enough knock back to prevent that.
It's mainly also a lingering hitbox. His downward strike has a lingering hitbox and so does his extended overhead slam.
Wait a little after he attacks before aproaching. Sadlyy, this is objectively jank.
Ds1 is still best souls imo, but just gotta be aware of this.
If only the game had a remaster that could fix such things!
@@DoomWolfOfficial My guess would be that Resistance was supposed to be a more important stat and got toned down. Maybe in some state of the game levelling up other stats did not increase your non poison and non bleed resistances and only resistance did that. but that ended up not being good for the game but they didn't cut resistance entirely.
12:43 'He floats down' 😂😂😂😂 everyone at the office loved that one!
it always cracks everyone up!
I lol'd preety hard
Is this the ign joke
It's the best dark souls joke every told is what it is!!!
HAHAHA
At 3:09, for a split second you can see the bandit enter a falling animation due to dark souls scuff, and because you were next to him, the damage you took was due to him falling on top of you! Thank you dark souls, very cool. Also I never really explored the dlc at all other than the bosses, so thanks for putting in the bit about the blue titanite slab, I never knew that before!
that doesn't surprise me about the bandit 'falling' oh dark souls lol
glad I could tell ya! Theres also a regular titanite slab _in_ Kalameet's arena, in case you didn't know :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial I had no idea about that either! Thanks again!
"Sir we need another stat for the list"
Miyazaki: "you got this one" 👍
That is kinda how it feels huh haha
First I thought, "hmm at least it levels defenses too, not just the poison resist" then I realized, every single other stat does that too.
So it really is just poison resist.
Lazy michealzaki couldn’t even add another actual stat
0:03 CAP! I can see TWO weaknesses of yours!
you right lol
The Capra's sword didn't hit you, his arm did. The Capra Demon is actually a really nice guy, and his muscles did no damage to you, only gave you a brief hug : )
That's fair, he is a bro chillin with his dogs
LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The resistance stat is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
it is the dark side of the souls community, those who would delve deep into ...resistance
The slow descent into madness, outlined by every single pun that could be fit in there just goes to show how little this run left of your mental resistances.
you're right, I should have put more puns in! lol
To explain resistance in DS1:
Whether casual or pvp, it’s a dump stat.
Leveling up any other stat increases your resistances/defenses to physical attack by 1 point while resistance increases by 2-4
The thing is there is a hard cap that will not increase your defenses more without putting armor or ring
You will reach that cap leveling up anything else aka straw that matter to you
You will reach that cap leveling up even just one other stat
Yeah but I just wish it did more, like imagine if it increased all resistances? but in a more balanced way? idk
considering you can beat the game without leveling anything, I'm gonna go ahead and say yes you can
you underestimate my ineptitude lmao
@@DoomWolfOfficial I'm keeping that
By the time I get to the Taurus demon, I’ve usually done so much running around that the plunge attack knocks out 90% of its health, and I’ll still lose if I whiff the second attack 😂
The duality of dark souls lol
12:42 HAHA! HE FLOATS DOWN! CLASSIC! I loled pretty hard
right! SOOO FUNNY! :)
I heard your “it floats down” joke at MLBF and I just wanna say I appreciated it 😂👍🏻
I'm glad my friend, that joke always makes the office crack up!
3:19 if you tap . on your keyboard you can go frame by frame... and yes indeed, he did not hit you because you were hunched over. In fact only the hilt of his weapon could have hit you in the first place in that position as the entire blade went passed you altogether. So that was actually an example very good hit detection
3:58 you just couldn't resist, could you?
"Couldn't resist"
Even with only leveling resistance
Oh the irony
so what you're telling me is with careful planning and execution, a no walk no hit run might be possible?
and even with 99 resistance I couldn't have stopped from making that joke :P
@@DoomWolfOfficial the joke is the reason you can't have level 100 resistance 💀
I didn't know you before and while this run is basically a SL1 challenge run i really liked your style and humor. Well done! 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend :)
And yeah, it's SL1 with extra steps (defense) :P
"You sir are a hero" - JK Leeds, climbing out of the pit of despair. He should have leveled resistance too...
No amount of resistance could help with throwing knives only, the poor soul lol
That Mah-Dry-Bread reference was wonderful thank you. Apart from that great video man!
Glad you got the reference my friend :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial Of course! If for nothing else I am a highly sophisticated and cultured individual 🤓
Also what a coincidence that we both do level 1 runs in souls games and both like MDB XD
Fun Fact: I’m nearly 100% sure the Gargoyles inspired 1-4 (Cerberus Boss Fight) in ULTRAKILL.
They’re both giant enemies made out of stone that emerge from the nearby area to combat the player.
Once Cerberus goes down to about half health, a second appears, at half health too.
Once they’re both down, the player progresses, leaving the area behind to a new one.
Has no one else seen this??
I've never played ultrakill so I am not sure, but maybe!
I'd say it's more of a coincidence. In Ultrakill, I see the boss fight as a way to teach the player how cerberi work, since they become quite common as normal enemies afterwards. You can't say the same about the Gargoyles since you will only meet one (or two, I don't really remember) solo non boss Gargoyle.
My lack of sleep is gonna have to lack a bit more. Doom Wolf just dropped a video!
okay but promise me you'll get sleep after haha
Passed out 20 minutes after I finished the video
2:45 The Taurus demon’s hit boxes are broken :) I watched a video showing how janky his (and a few other bosses) hit boxes are veryyyy broken and questionable. The “shock wave” after his hammer hits is actually delayed… so when you think you’ve dodged it… you haven’t. It’s very interesting!
yeah his hitboxes are...not a good time lol
You sir, are a hero. For everyone.
Haha thanks my friend, but it's all JK leeds, im just the man with deep pockets :)
Deep Pockets and a big heart, You 'Are' a hero.@@DoomWolfOfficial
YOU SIR ARE A HERO!
Also, I love the Souls RUclips community. Especially the smaller channels that are (deservedly) growing in popularity. You guys are awesome.
Thanks, but we all know JK leeds is the true hero, I just have the deep pockets ;)
it's been fun growing and talking to everyone, and I love that awesome creators are now growing too!
I actually put 25 points into resistance on my first playthro because I had ALOT of trouble with poison, and I also saw it increased physical resistance as well, so I boosted it to 30 😅
it can be useful, its just the least useful out of all the stats in general (said post first playthrough haha)
@@mr.tamoshanter50its not a mistake,its *F A S H I O N*
Same lmao. The rats with poison were making me so mad so i just leveled resistance a bunch lmao
@@mr.tamoshanter50 I'm RPing a hollow soldier who reversed hollowing and am using just the hollow soldier set and a long sword ... it's not actually that bad.
Aha 'he floats down' had the whole office laughing
yep, they were rolling! A real knee slapper!
@@DoomWolfOfficial😂
You're (and other ds challenge runners) videos are like fuel for the fire of my passion about dark souls
Btw the humour has gotten so much better than earlier days
I'm glad you enjoy our videos :)
and thanks! I want to keep growing and getting better so I appreciate you saying that :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial Was a bit anxious about keeping second part of my comment since it can be viewed as criticism in pessimistic eyes but your positive take of it assured me not everyone look for worst in my words and neither shouldn't i (except sometimes wich i should ofc)
So Thanks🤝
You Sir.... are a HERO✊
haha thanks, but it was all JK leeds, I just lent my pockets :)
Regardless sir. You are a beacon of jolly cooperation
Truly one of the stats of all time... I couldn't resist saying that.
it's accurate tho lol
Such a great video, i really enjoy how the souls comunity put themselves into insane and mindblowing chalenges just to try more and more experiences of these great games.
Also great humor you post in this video, i don't get entertained like this a while in a video, loved it ❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial absolute goat to reply in almost every comment.
it floats down🤣🤣🤣 you've got the whole office laughing
right! its a real knee slapper!
2:50 I am so happy to hear Im not the only one, I always do have some issues dodging whenever I fight him even after beating the game dozens of times.
a lot of people are agreeing with this, I guess we all have issues with him haha
I came to applaud the MDB joke about the Pinwheel drop, made me goofy laugh to hear it in a Souls challenge run😂
I'm glad people get the reference :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial if I'm the only mf that got it, I needed you to know someone did😅
@@CLC.420you're not the only one xD
Truth
It's great to see your channel grow 🖤
Well deserved with the quality content 🤘
Comment to feed the hungry algorithm
Thanks my friend, I'm just glad people enjoy the videos :)
when Pinwheel gives you the Father Mask you know you're worthy...
its uncursing the run lol
Ah, I was so bummed when the post popped up and I realized I had to wait another day, but still, always excited for your runs!!
haha well I hope you enjoy it now my friend :)
@DoomWolfOfficial it was amazing! I couldn't resist my enjoyment haha
Glad to see someone else who gets hit by Taurus Demon, tried fighting him "legit" on the circular arena recently just for fun and thought I lost all my DS skills 😂
yeah idk what it is, i've hitlessed every boss in every game at least once, but Taurus demon always gets me haha
HE FLOATS DOWN!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!
always has the office in tears!
As someone who only knows FromSoft games via challenge runs... I legitimately did not know Resistance was a stat. I've been watching challenge runs for years now, and it's never come up before.
... I think that tells me all I need to know about Resistance.
it is indeed all you need to know about resistance lol
13:02 the reason Sif doesn't give you the ring even if you save her before the fight is because she thinks that if you enter the abyss, you will end up corrupted like Artorias. She fights you to protect you and to make sure that you can actually survive the abyss with your sanity.
I know, or rather, I've heard this, not sure if it's the canonical reason but it works for me lol
"It floats down"
So true, so true.
it had the whole office laughing!
12:43 Omg he floats down! Funniest thing I’ve heard all year!
It always gets em down at the office!
I have a soft spot for dumb/ useless stats. If you gave me the option to level my Florpty stat, which does nothing except make my character slowly change color, I'd level it.
yo, I would 10000% level a stat that does nothing but turns my character into a walking strobe light lol
Earn another subscriber, love seeing more souls challenges , keep it up my man
I'm just glad you enjoy the videos my friend :)
Yo! HE FLOATS DOWN. A classic lol.
Right! always cracks the office up!
Coming from JK Leeds Demon Souls video, you sir ARE a hero!
Also gonna stay for more of your videos, got me really hooked :D
Haha thanks, but we both know jk Leeds is the real hero! I just have deep pockets ;P
Everyone in my house laught wenn you said he floats down!
it really do be that funny!
I just coulnt resist laughing!
No amount of resistance levels is gonna be enough to be able to not laugh at that joke
My dude, I love your videos, I hardly comment anywhere on RUclips but every time I'm on a video I just do it because push the algorithm
Another banger, well done
Thanks my friend, I'm just glad you enjoyed the video :)
3:23 that was the phantom hit you got earlier next to thief. Time is truly convoluted in lordran
even the ghosts are getting shots in lol
If anyone can resist watching this then they leveled resistance to much
haha, nice one my friend
Resistance also gives an extra boost to base defence. I have tried playing as a Havel hard tack, and it was kinda fun basically healing my way through Lordran.
that's true, and actually is helpful, but i'll say it's more helpful to have ..health, or damag elol
@@DoomWolfOfficial Had all three. Unga bunga big bonk taking slaps from artorius to the face, laughing it off, and returning the favor. Only stopped 'cus I was bored.
Bloodshield and gargoyle tail axe would have given you even more poison resist
probably, but I dind't wanna look through all the weapons and stuff I had collected to see lol
This was a great challenge video! Never used resistance myself either.
glad you enjoyed it :)
So, which mask did Pinwheel drop when you beat him?
I wish I would have shown it! Mask of the Father!
"You Sir, Are a Hero!"
Also another DS challenge runner! Lovely subscription taken!
haha thanks, but really it's all JK leeds, I just had the pockets :)
and thanks :)
Hehehehehehe it floats down hehehehehe
everyone at the office always laughs when he does that!
2:45 me too honestly, I always thought that his hitbox was active after he finished his attack and that’s why I always got hit.
I feel like that's it, like the hitbox is active, or added, to simulate a 'shockwave'
The funny thing is, leveling other stats also increases resistance. So by the end of the game on a normal playthrough you will likely already have reached the soft cap
yeah, it's just not worth it to dump into resistance when ...everything else exists lol
Considering many people have soul level one'd this game, my immediate response to the title was "well... yeah. I bet so"
Well the challenge is can _I_ do it, so it's a test of my skill...ignore the fact I also have a video of me doing it at SL1 lmao
Yeah I know, I'm mostly joking. I enjoy the thought of what would a resistance playthrough even look like. So thanks for answering that curiosity I guess lol.@@DoomWolfOfficial
12:45 omg the whole office is cracking up at that one!
Right ! It's a classic haha
Hey man ive recently been binging your videos, amazing content! Very underrated channel. Best wishes and much love from Serbia!🥰🥰🥰
Thank you my friend, glad you enjoy the videos :)
That reference to MDB was UNEXPECTED. Are we all inside the same RUclips rabbit hole? XD
BTW, nice video, new sub :)
Glad you enjoyed it, and glad you got the reference! :)
Regarding Sif, I always wished that Artorias in the DLC would drop the ring as well, giving you the option to spare Sif.
But at the end of the day, this is Dark Souls. Happy endings do not exist!
That would definitely be another way to get it! And a nice little reward for people that did the dlc early, oh well!
3:24 that's indeed what happened, an R1 with the reclub made you duck and your model's hitboxes as well, ducking is actually a legitimate strat on no roll boss kills
Man, that is some precise movement done intentionally, hats off to no roll runners lol
It floats down!! That’s so funny - I never thought of it like that before!
right! it cracks the office up every time haha
On request of JK-Leeds: You Sir, are a Hero!
JK-Leeds is the real here, I'm just a man with the pockets haha
I love the IGN guide reference. ZeroLenny really had lightning in a bottle for those IGN/Gamefaqs guide videos.
it is a pretty funny series haha
13:00 You can roll through the atacks, but you can't roll through the feels
true lol
3:20 That's nothing like a DS2 hitbox because it's actually good and pretty clean. I think the reason it missed is because; a) you were slightly hunched over from your attack animation; and b) because you were very close to the boss and that attack is meant to punish you at mid-range. If it were a bad hitbox (like in DS2) it would've hit you when you weren't even near it.
Fair, someone else did mention that the thing I did was a technique used by no hit/roll/block runners where basically with perfect spacing and timing the hit box gets shifted to avoid damage
3:08 I'm not an expert at all but I think that was the damage from when an enemy falls on you! Maybe the Thief Hollow 'fell' from his doorstep onto you? Idk, who cares, great video man.
That is probably what happened lol
The puns and jokes made me have to sub 🙏 love watching dark souls content
glad you enjoyed the video my friend :)
The mahdrybread reference earned an instant like
I'm glad people are seeing the reference :)
Btw if you have to two hand riposte, move a bit to the left to face the mob, or wait a second for it to slowly face you again
see I find it better to go right (the enemies left), but who knows
You can’t hit the button right away either, it’s better to wait a tiny bit
Capra demon fight should be called camera demon fight
accurate comment lol
13:00 Sif fights you to stop you. She doesn't want you to continue to fight the Four Kings. She already lost one master to the Abyss.
This is true (not sure if canonically true or just community true), but it doesn't make it any easier lol
You sir, are a hero
But yeah great video, saw it before JKLeeds sent us here.
Oh yeah and you aren’t the only one who struggled with the Taurus demon hitboxes, honestly I find ds1 hitboxes to be worse than ds2 hitboxes, but the could be because I got my agility up really quickly
haha thanks my friend, and that's a bold claim! Though for some instances I can see it being true
I did NOT expect an MDB reference in a Dark Souls video, but it is very much welcome 😂
Glad to see other MDB enjoyers haha
7:40 Another MDB enjoyer! Love this joke, no matter how long it's been. Commenting for the RUclips algorithm.
Haha awesome! Yeah it's a good bit he does, and thanks!
Both times you were in blighttown you were wearing clothes with high poison resistance so the bulk of it was from the armor not the resistance stat.
I mean, yeah, but doesn't that just re-iterate how useless the stat is? lol
Sif fights you even if you save her because she knows Artorias got corrupted by the Abbys, and she will keep you from suffering that fate even if it means fighting you.
This is true, I mean idk if it's canonically true because sif can't talk, but true lol
Hey, thanks for saying “Can **I**” instead of “Can **YOU**” beat dark souls while only leveling resistance, AKA slightly better SL Lvl - Playthrough! Definitely makes the whole “Challenge” part more of a “Challenge” instead of just the answer being “yes because countless people already have”
its funny you say that because regardless if I put "I" or "you" I still get comments saying yes lol
I'm laying here half asleep and thought I somehow jumped to a MahDryBread video thanks to that darn mask joke at 7:39.
lol well, that's where the inspiration came from so glad it was an effective call out ;)
YOU SIR ARE A HERO!
Also amazing video!
haha thanks, but it was all JK leeds, I just lent my pockets :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial We were so close to breaking him. You thwarted all our hard work . . . or lured him back from the edge so he can ruin himself with even more outlandish challenges.
Great video😂 !!! The algorithm gods of RUclips just presented me with your video! Thank you for the work you put into making this great content and the effort you put into responding to viewers!! You go above and beyond most content creators!!!Keep it up bro. You got a new sub from me!
thanks, glad you enjoyed the video my friend :) and getting to talk to everyone is my favorite part of making videos!
I love your ds1 videos pretty much the most
I'm glad you enjoy them my friend :)
appreciated that quote to MDB helix fossil joke!
I'm glad :)
The taurus demon bit, freaking same, I guess he dies so fast I never learned its hitboxes(?). But I have hidden that for years
That's fair, half the time when I play it's like sub 3 hits to beat him so It's never a true issue lol
I looked back at my first character a few years after beating it. It had like 75 Resistance and fast rolled in full Havels. I had really high Int to help boost my Pyromancy and the incredibly powerful Titanite Demon Catching Pole (you know it's good, it has 4 whole damage types!). It was like level 250.
This run reminded me of it.
But...pyro doesn't scale with anything in ds1 (except the pyro gloves level)
Either way, sounds like a fun build! :)
@@DoomWolfOfficial I know that now! The pyro fist says it scales with Int though and I never questioned it
@@DoomWolfOfficial
Isn't Dex speeds up cast animation a bit up to value of 50?
I love the fact that all dark souls challenge runners are all, like besties
basically, it's a great community haha
Ayyyy, it floats down!
A classic joke!
Follow that one guide that tells you to become a stone-armor-wearong Greatbow Archer
giant dad?
Resistance at level 20 is actually pretty useful. You'll notice Blightown is a lot more bearable like all points in the game where poison is a factor in difficulty.
Yeah it would be but since there aren't very many places that inflict poison I would still argue that's too situational and the point would be bet fit elsewhere haha
My only Resistance, HP and Stamina, spear-and-shield Spartan is, to this day, one of my favorite runs ever. I could only die from gravity, everything else was *nothing*
Tbf leveling those three things would make you a physical tank, add some good ol shield poke and you'd be neigh invincible haha
I also tend to get clipped by the Taurus Demon a lot. After the first plunge, I tend to run away so I can get enough time to climb the ladder and go for another. My mind's eye allows me to see nothing but the ladder, so I pretty much always get whacked spamming rolls going past him.
it is fun going for a second plunge on him, sometimes i get stuck in the corner though lol
Yeah, I also have problems with dodging taurus demon for some reason. Our parasocial relationship's bond just got stronger now.
lol we just share one braincell I guess
I seem to remember resistance increased defenses in general, but that each level acted as 1/3 a level in resistance, and the difference of 1.3 vs 0.3 after natural leveling was basically miniscule.
Well, that and DS1 defense really needs armor to force attacks into a lower damage formula.
It does increase defense at a rate faster than other levels but it's basically better to put point into anything else lol
You SIr, are a hero! ^^ Also nice vid as always.
JK leeds is the real hero :) and thanks!
That's the same way I do bed of Chaos, makes it feel a lot less bullshit, but it is still bullshit as it's bed of chaos. But yeah, glad to see others use it too
right! its just like 3 degrees less BS lol