5 Best Builds to Beat Promised Consort Radahn 

Unfortunately the Impenetrable Thorns have been nerfed with the latest patch (30th July 2024). The rest of the builds are unaffected though.

When Radhn walked out I yelled "YES!! I know this guy, he's a friend from work!"

I used scarlet aonia + blasphemous blade. The rot works very well. I also yelled a lot, cursed From Software, wondered why I was inflicting so much pain on myself, and questioned the meaning of life. After 48 tries, I beat him. Mimic was the MVP though. I'm sorry I yelled at my mimic so much "hit him!!! What the f*** are you doing?! Help me!!!"

Dryleaf Arts- "How did you beat Radahn?" "He was tough, but even a god has a hard time taking 200 freezing nut shots. I even grabbed and twisted them."

4:03 - Miquella: "You dare use my own spells against me, Tarnished?"

Radahn, Consort of 40 fps. Really is the worst thing about this boss

I was using the dry leaf arts but them switched to danes footwork since it does more guard counter damage. i was doing like 3500 damage per guard counter it was insane! Great video, man!

Everyone sleeps on Poleblade of the Bud, it's relatively fast and inflicts Scarlet Rot. Radahn is weaker to piercing weapons so this weapon worked well for me🔥

Fingerprint Shield. Poking Weapon of Choice. Bleed Grease. Shield Grease. Shield Talismans, Stamina and Stamina Recovery Talismans. 3 Rot Pots to Radahns Face. Ggs. I honestly don't know how else to beat him, outside of spending countless hours learning frame perfect rolls during a laser light show. Fromsofts idea of difficult bosses has ALWAYS been the same. It's the bosses who NEVER STOP attacking.

This Radahn guy has some pretty cool looking swords, I bet they'd make it easy to kill Radahn if you had them

This was one of the most informative videos on the topic, thanks. Every other video is like "mimc, finger shield, poke"

i was already planning a Thorns/Bleed style build but this boss is the ONLY one in the entirety of the DLC that forced me to respec off my current Death Sorceries witch build, thank you for that lol it worked like a charm, cheers mate

You can counter act his meteors with Rannis darkmoon if cast immediately after you dodge his jump into the air. Ranni's darkmoon can also be cast immediately after he does his light speed attack if you are near him when he starts it.

I managed to beat him! Used Cold Milady. Basically didn’t even touch my ashes of war lmao. Wing stance can be good for closing diatances and doing decent damage. But anything can work if you have enough time to land it.

Ty, cleared it pretty quick with the thorns build, gonna grind back here and try it with a melee build next

Also any hyper armor high stagger ash + melanias rune and defensive buffs are strong against him. I havent done him with deflect tear, but i have a feeling thats the real GOAT

Don’t forget Fingerprint Shield + Antspur Rapider. Total cheese.

I genuinely found going in with a shield with carian retaliation and an antspur rapier and parrying him to be the easiest strategy for this fight

Reporting back to this video to say that THIS GUIDE HELPED ME FINALLY BEAT RADAHN. Specifically the impenetrable thorns one. I've never beat a boss with anything but a sword before now, but that one looked so fun, so I respec-ed into Arcane and Int and after a bunch more tries I finally got it. Thank you so much for this guide man, I'm now using that same build to help friends through other bosses in the game and it's blowing everyone's minds!

This boss forced me to learn how to use the Buckler shield. It honestly made this fight a joke. Highly recommend it if you’re having trouble (pair it with the Miséricorde)

I finally know what to use on Radahn! Thanks!

Radhan is a beast and enjoyed the 50 plus times it took me to beat him! Thank you Software, for not making him easy! ❤

Cold cross naginata + heavy fingerprint shield helped me. Its special because it has pierce, frost and bleed which he's weak to AND you can attack while blocking. Yep. You can poke radahn during most of his combos. Talismans were two headed turtle, greatshield, golden braid, and dragon rest greatshield. Good luck!! ❤

This is really good video.

Phase 2 is just so wild 😂

Cheers! First time seeing multi ring of light - looks interesting.

Radahn was the first fight where I actually recorded and studied footage of my deaths just to beat him. I do this for no-hit runs but never for just making it out alive. Phase 2 is so oppressive at first that you just die without learning anything. Wound up doing it in like 55 tries with Square Off, but had to learn literally every move the hard way

Thank you for the hint! Multilayered rings of light made short work of him. Was running 70 INT 45 FTH so I used the golden order seal to cast the spell while holding the dryleaf seal on the other.

I listen to this when going to bed, would recommend, great voice, great hair

Carrian retaliation + miscerode. Ever faithful

I beat him after 7 tries with a great shield and a spear with blood loss, intense and long fight, but working

Glad i didn't see this video before i beat him. I my lack of self control would've had me cheesing him with the thorns. I can see those getting a huge nerf

If your a strength build, you can power stances 2 great stars. The left hand with cold infusion and cold mist to proc frost quickly and the other one should be heavy infused. You then will just use a bleed grease on the heavy infused one or if you have time, blood flame. The boss gives very little window of time for buffs so I recommend just the quick grease. Your best options will be jump attacks and basic R1s. You get a lot of ur health back from this strategy due to its passive. With claw talisman, the new chest piece that boost jump attacks while procing bleed and frost, you should be able to do a lot of dmg

i reached 24 faith with the crystal tear which gives you an extra 10 points. my current faith is 22. I cant use the impenetrable thonrs. any idea how to make it work?

Everyone felt that scream "F***KIN DIEEEEEEEEE" at 1 HP.

1:38 saying "sorcerers will like that" doesnt work cause it takes FAITH

Black steel great shield works really well with sacred affinity makes it 100% holy resist

The worst part about learning that dryleaf is good against radahn is that I used dryleaf for most of my dlc run but I was too scared to fight him properly so I just summoned or looked for cheese builds online.

Great video. 👍I beat him by bonking him with an oversized sunflower.

Thank you. You saved my mental health.

I was at it for few hours with an int build. got frustrated, specced into thorns and got him on first attempt. T_T

Scarlet Aeonia and Milady was the only thing i needed✨

If it’s throb sorcery can’t you use the staff that also builds up thorn sorcerers

what armour is he using in the dryleaf arts section?

How did you do su much damage with putrescent cleaver? I barely do half of what youre doing!

On my dex/int build, I used Wing of astel + brass shield was the set up I used wing of astel worked wonders on gaius as well (also on romina, but what doesn’t) Brass shield just to block part of that slash-slash-double slash combo which is pretty hard to fully dodge

RIP impenetrable thorns😢. It now takes more hits to melt his HP down to the next phase

2:16 Actually, the Maternal Staff is kinda bugged right now. instead of only applying a portion of it's arc scaling to blood sorceries for a ~40% status boost like the Albinauric Staff or the Dragon Communion Seal it applies the full 165% arcane scaling to the status build up.

I used sword of light and darkness, multilayered ring of light and Radagon’s rings to destroy this boss both in 1 and 2 phase in ng+, and I was doing 10k damage with Radagon’s rings in first phase and over 4k damage with multilayered ring of light in 2nd phase. So yeah, don’t sleep on holy damage especially in the dlc.

0:47 "FAITH TWO"

What chest piece do you have on during the Dryleaf Arts portion?

reduvia with the highest poise armor, can't change my mind.

Easiest and most consistent by far is Fingerprint Shield + Poke Blood Anspier Rapier. It deals bleed and rot while staying safe behind the shield

Any decent greatshield with the Antspur (blood infused with poison mist ash). You just shield poke him until he drops, not even an issue. The double stack of rot and poison eat him alive and the bleed procs just speed it along. The grab in phase two is literally the only thing he can even hope to win with.

Does this still work for fools doing this in New game plus seven getting three shot with Moore's armor and 99 vigor. I'm so cooked I'm burnt.

what armour is he using at 2:09

putrescent cleaver is such a nice weapon

If you really can't be bothered, use heavy armor, fingerprint shield with scholar buff and that one spell that buffs holy resistance, there you're trivialized entire boss.

I beat him with Deadly Poison Perfume and Poison Antspur with "The Poison Flower Blooms Twice", the absolute nuke when you trigger deadly poison, poison and rot was hilarious!

A slept on method to defeating him is slapping carian retaliation on a shield, equipping the dagger talisman and the blade of mercy, and literally just parrying the shit out of him. Any single sword swipe (not the double swipes don’t try to parry those they are not parryable) can be parried with pretty easy and generous timing due to carian retaliation. It’s not how I beat him the first time, but I did it the second time I beat him and it honestly made the fight so much easier. Completely negates a lot of his combos

The best build is porcupine and its not even close 😎

Broooo!!!! The thorns… appreciate you 🥹. I finally beat that MF’r haha 🙌🏾

We got Ainrun turning family friendly before we got gta 6

when i found the putrescance cleaver i'd already been using a cold infused butchering knife - i had bloodhound step on it but switched to savage lion's claw after the DLC came out. imho i think the cold butchering knife is low key better. the damage is similar, the frost is similar, and you get 1% max hp back every time you land a hit. i don't use the cleaver's weapon art really ever, soooo but i'm also biased, because i've loved the butchering knife since release. something about it, lol. brilliant weapon.

Claws of night are an insane sleeper on this boss, 2 boint blank ashes proc bleed and if needed can use range on it asaell as the r2 moveset being thrown but the lights where fast acting melee claw set.

hey man do you have the build for the putrescence cleaver?

Do you have a link or screenshot of your Dryleaf Arts build for the talismans, armor, ashes of war, etc that you had equipped?

Sword. Lance. All you need.

This boss is my new Manus

I beat him with the Claws of Night. The weapon skill works really well at close range against him.

We need a sunglass tailsman

how do you do the guard counter with the dryleaf arts? ive been trying for a while but still havent been able to do it even though i have the deflecting hard tear. Do i need something else for it or do i just need to get good?

I love/hate this fight. At the peak I was cursing these two as the lothric fight homage that they are. Yet I love it lol

When he does his Jesus elevation aoe my computer drops to 6fps

Whats the build you used for the impenetrable thorns? i seem to not be doing as much as damage

I had two people help me beat him, and I'm not ashamed. It still came down to either me or him losing the fight.

Thanks for the various tips. I was able to beat him utilizing your first tip about about the impenetrable thorns and it made the fight much, much less of a slog than Malenia. This was my third playthrough of the core game. First time was a sort of janky strength build (random stats put into dumb shit so I could try to use heal spells or magic not knowing theres 2 kinds of magic, they both require different weapons to even use them, and theyre basically useless with the minimal stat investment). Whole game thinking this is some Zelda shit rocking a shield and a stupid lordsworn straight sword I found early in the game and just kept upgrading cause this was my first Fromsoft game and I had no idea how any of the mechanics worked. After that, my thoughts were "that game would have been waaaayyy funner had they explained the fkn mechanics throughout the game" and I played a second time using a hybrid dex / faith build. Also the youtube / reddit elitists brainwashed me into doing it no summon (never again, thats some unenjoyable bullshit lol). After that I wanted to try a pure int / sorcery build plus get Frenzy ending for the Plat trophy. DLC came out before I finished it so I could jump right in kinda halfway through that playthrough. Quickly learned that "damn all the shiny new weapons I wanna play with dont really fit a mostly int build." Eventually get to Radahn and run it for a couple hours solo, w/ Mimic, with Ansbach, w/ Mimic and Ansbach, w/ Mimic, Ansbach and Thollier to get a feel for the fight with various conditions. Results are not ideal. Both NPCs make him insanely tanky, one NPC makes it harder to read and dodge the few patterns Ive got down, the mimic and one NPC can DPS burst him to second phase just to leave me to die, and solo aint no way I can realistically dodge through 100+ combo sequences to sneak in 100+ single attacks. Research online and see a pretty successful tank build, but Id have to respec completely. See another one using the new Troll summon while healing from afar and hiding behind giant shield so thats also a respec. Then I find your video and see the thorn sorcery. At first Im thinking "arcane is my crappiest stat so bleed won't be as effective". After playing around with the with the idea in my head though, I think "I have the staff of the guilty thats been collecting dust. I can upgrade it, throw it in the offhand to make up for the low arcane and drop my useless shield. The mimic will have it too. Ansbach can inflict bleed, and Im good enough at dodging for a bit that I could keep pulling aggro back to me to give the summons time to heal. Also crack the physick to heal allies and I can probably ensure they dont die by the second phase. From there, just play/dodge enough just to pull aggro back to me a few times (use the perfume with the one time damage mitigation if I can get it off), and I think this sounds pretty valid. And it did, quickly. So thank you for the ideas that inspired the strategy. Malenia 1st time w/ Mimic and ROB took like 12 hours split over 4 days, Malenia 2nd time no summon same thing more or less, integrating your idea into what I could do, Consort Radahn 3 hours over 2 days. So thank you for saving me a few more days of pain, you a real one 💯

I used a keen uchigatana and a keen nagakiba dual wielding with no armor. Then I used mimic tear at the start of second phase. I died to him a lot doing the fight without mimic so by the time I used mimic I knew the fight pretty well. Once I started using mimic tear, I beat him second try.

Taylew Golem summon and Heal from Afar, stay locked onto Radhan when you wanna heal Taylew since Radhan is almost always in Taylew's face.

Devonias hammer + deflect tear + guard counter, double turtle neck, and two handed sword talismans shreds radahn

What talismans and crystal tears did you use for the sorcery build?

If I don't summon ansbach or throllier, will they still show up at the end?

I used high end str build with haligtreecrest greatshield and blood godskinstitcher +24 with mimic. Poking behind greatshield worked very well. Not the most heroic style😅

My mimic lockin last 5 second and proc bleed. He's the real one

My build made him fall in second try, a simply wolfchest shield and carian sorcery sword, buff the shield with the shield buff spell and have fun. * Guarding strikes when he uses his aoe stuff like the pull and the leaping strikes. * His normal combos can be easily parryed, even in second phase. * If you cant parry, keep the guarding strikes, but take care of your stamina. Talis: [dragon crest shield/shield talisman/radagon icon/ godfrey icon) Why the icons? Its a int build , it is indeed focused in melee combat, but uses carian sword spells for extra sauce :3

Amazing video. In the smithscript dagger section, it looks like you’re able to just stand there and tank radahn’s holy attacks like the big ass explosion he starts phase 2 with or the continuous afterimage strikes that follow after he attacks with his meteor. How?

I didn’t know this was a “git good“ video

Ludwig is hands down the hardest boss in all souls games for me. Second being orphan.

I’ve beaten him about 40 times now through co-op just helping people, i’d say nothing comes close to a status effect shield poke build using the fingerprint shield and scholar’s armament

Me running at him with nothing but a antspur rapier and the highest defense possible

Im happy that you got good views this video

I was using a Frost banished knight sword did the job fine enough

Best build to beat Radahn is Mohg spear and fingerprint shield.. ..if you're struggling to find openings..you can just attack and guard at the same time.. You can use the Ash of war when you see and opening for big damage Biggest thing to look out for is phase 2...standing in front of him will see you getting your heat stolen It took me around 6 tries to beat him with this build..use your usual bleed set up and you're good to go.

He is the hardest, I have beaten all souls games and platinumed 6 of them. And this guy is the hardest to win legit on 3rd playthrough.

There is an alternative weapon that can be as good, or even better than the Putrescence Cleaver. That's the Death Poker, that weapon helped me a fuckton in the DLC and beating Radahn aswell. It's Ash of War is still busted.

I used Moore set with Moore shield plus nine and the rotknight blade plus 25 with bleed on it after 6 tries I beat it

It is so crazy i beat every big boss in three or less attempts and firsttried bayle. But i think Radahn will break me.

Putrescence cleaver is the new Yhorm machete

Can I restart the DLC ?? 😢

1.Grab the golden braid from the shaman village 2.Get the lords divine fortification from Gideon ofnir after beating malenia 3.Get as many scadutree fragments as you can There you go this combo will give you 90% damage resistance against holy damage, pop the fortification right as he does his big aoe in phase two and ALL of his holy follow ups stop dealing damage to you Turn his phase 2 back into his phase 1 If you want even more safety against him use the mimic tear and give him marikas blessing plus hefty and normal rot pots Once you use divine fortification your tear will also have the same damage resistance as you making him immune to the holy aoes and giving him an easy full heal he can use repeatedly while also rotting radahn which he is very weak to This boss has a lot of ways to deal with him you just have to know which is the best for you