It’s no lie to say I’ve fought this fight 50 times, got to the final phase knowing I only needed ten hits, got 7 at most. I watched this video then beat her on the very next attempt, thanks!
I have beaten her hitless, I don't know how many times I fought her but far over 50. 😆I had to start with a new savegame (a cloud-related problem with this game), Even then it took me around 4 hours to beat her hitless again. AR is not even that difficult, it mostly is just the player making dumb mistakes like being too greedy and taking risk where you shouldn't.
I know its been 10 months but I would reccomend 2 abyss shrieks and 2 nail hits or just 3 abyss shrieks if you have enough soul Edit: with shaman stone equipped
Smaller channels always have the best advice. It annoys me how mediocre videos of how to beat a boss has millions of views when the ones that are actually helpful and helped me win aren’t as promoted
Took me 50 hours to finally beat absolute radiance in radiant mode! Some additional advices for future people. phase 1-4, if the light beam reached more than half way, just Desolate Dive, if you don't 3 spells will come at you at the same time lol. Whenever an attack ends or reached 50% of the area, pay attention to her face, if her eyes shine bright, she is going to use Triple Beams or sword burst. If you see spike floor, just Desolate Dive it, gives you more space to deal with other BS. phase 4 is the RNG phase, if you get bad rng and absolute radiance decided to have a picnic in a distance for 3 minutes, then it's not your fault. Since there aren't many chances to attack her, I would go aggressive if she's at the middle 4 platforms, use the edge of Abyss Shriek to hit her once if she's at a terrible location. Save at least 1 Desolate Dive for safety. The orbs, stay at the bottom, you want to lead the orb into the side platforms, then run back and lead the next one to the ground you're standing on, then repeat. phase 5, the cursed jump, the light beam is a bit random before the platform 7:59, after that, a ringing sound will start playing, this is when the absolute radiance attack starts to track you, so you should bait her attack. You have about 0.3 second to react. 3 things to focus on: 1.if you're getting sniped at your current location, dash away and jump back to the same platform 2.if the beam is at your next destination, then wait for next turn. 3.make sure you get enough height and stay within jumping distance of your current platform, so that you don't hit the wall or fall into the void. For the last phase, if you're not a pogo fan, a very consistent way is to just dodge with dash, less RNG and don't need to deal with the boss spawning at random place. What you want to do is to lead the orb into the platform. if the orb spawns on the same side as you, dash to the middle and jump back to the platform, the orb will either hit the opposite platform or go into the void. if the orb spawns at the opposite side or middle, wait for it to spawn and come at you, then dash to the next platform, the orb should hit the first platform. (here you can either jump to attack absolute radiance or just Abyss Shriek, but get ready for the next orb!) Weird case, if the orb spawn in you, do not attack! you should dash ASAP and jump upward to go back to the platform and Desolate Dive, the orb will most likely not hit the opposite platform, so you want to lead it upward to buy some time. Final tip, pray to Lord Markoth for good RNG! Good luck you got this!
A tip for the climb phase is to patiently wait for a laser to appear than as soon as it disappears jump to the next platform. It is very slow though cause you have to time it.
Thanks for advice, and for cheering us up :) Small technical hint from me, is to shrink up brightness in settings, it can be overbright so you won't able to see some attacks.
Thanks for the tips on the climbing part, I died about 4 times in this part and today I managed to pass after 11 days of trying. My hands were shaking and my heart was racing, I've never had an experience like this playing a video game.
Some tips id give as someone who found this fight extremily easier to do with out spells: the second phase where there are multiple platforms and same as first one, its the easiest one ever. If you get lucky and radiance teleports onto one of 2 spefic platforms, you can land lots of nail hits, and with quick slash you can end this phase almost immeadiatly and end up going into the climb phase with more health. The worst attack she can do when you are right under her is the sword attack and even then its usally simple enough to dodge them by just moving left and right. The easiest attack to dodge when you are under here is the beam attack. You know exactly where they will be and if youre on the right platform you can just move right and left to dodge while getting a lot of hits in with your nail. The only thing you dont want to do is chase her. Wait for her at the bottom middle platform and if you see her at the one too the right then feel free to move to that one if you think youll have enough time. If she does orb attack, dodge it like normal. Its genraly important to know how to dodge the orb attack while being able to get one or two nail swings in safely. That will help a lot for the last phase where you need to kill her with the nail while being chased by orbs. The pogo strat definetly helped but also know how to hit her normally while dodging. I always practiced the pogo strat for the end phase but after just barely scraping by in the markof fight i was too nervous and shaky to do the pogo strat. So just keep in mind you will defintly be nervous after just doing all of the hard bosses before this one.
the three rules for difficult bosses rules 1. heal per chance 2. dash through not away 3. FIGHT YOUR FIGHT NOT THEIRS Those saved me on Pure Vessel. I don't like jumping and pogoing like crazy I'm not good at it. I love sharp shadow, so i used it to hit PV through its attacks. It was hard but i did defeat PV with this man's help. Now on my way to the flasy moth
Thanks a lot for the tips! I ended up just dodging and nail hitting this one. Got to about 1 in 3 consistent in practice, then equipped fragile heart & wayward compass instead of shaman stone and blasted my way to the top. Nothing stopping me from getting 100% achievements now!
I've fought her for months and even beaten her double damage and haven't been able to beat her a single time after hours of trying tonight. All I want is consistency. Her inconsistency is the reason she's one of my lowest ranked bosses in this game.
I had to sub cause your breakdowns are pretty thorough I've yet to do NKG but I managed to do vanilla Radiance thanks to your words, albeit just barely
Thanks man, this seems very helpful. I'll update this when I beat her. Edit: LMAOO a few hours later I beat her for the first time in the Hall of Gods, practiced her until I beat her 20 times, then tried POH and omg I did it! Hell yeah dude!
Great guide. I love how there’s lots of footage of every attack so that the viewers get an idea of what you’re talking about. A few comments/bits of feedback I can give are: At 8:39 it might be very hard for a player who’s just learning AbsRad to understand what you mean at all. It could have been more useful to show a slow mo replay of you doing it and talk over that instead of just footage of you climbing up. 13:03 the orbs aren’t actually the issue when you’re in the air. The attack that gets you is the vertical sword wall.
I was feeling pretty hopeless practicing this boss, but I saw your Pure Vessel vid and it helped me git gud at him so I came back to see if you had more. Maybe 10 attempts after watching this, out of nowhere, I reached the last phase and just killed it thanks to that pogo strat. Many thanks, I may just see that p5 ending yet
here's another tip for dodging the triple lazar attack. the lazars absolute radiance fire follow a pattern. the lazars fired spin in a clockwise or counter clockwise pattern meaning that you can always predict the 3rd lazar. the first lazar is random. the second one you can just stay where absolute radiance fired the lazar the first time. the 3rd you can predict be looking at how much the second lazar rotated. a great example of this is at 2:44 where the lazars spin counter clockwise
This guide was really helpful and i managed to beat the non-pantion version relatively quickly after watching it, but quick focus is actually incredibly useful. Once you get a hang of how the fight flows, you can heal consistently after most attacks, especially in the third (platform) phase.
I have gotten to abs rad like 3 times and always died at the end, I should be done with this challenge soon. Tips for those still struggling: honestly for learning, the healing charms are really usefull imo, I just can't tank through that much damage with so little healing and limited soul. Deep + quick focus are a really good combo for the fight, the main problem is that you can get hit while focusing making you lose even more health. I also add quick slash and grubsong for more sould and dps ( still works fine on pure vessel but the small range is kinda off-putting ). You can apso use the strategy that helped me win ( shown below ) The most annoying parts are the climb and final phase. They arent exactly hard but the beams duting climb are very inconsistent: sometimes I do it perfectly and another time I mess up and die. The last attack is technically the easiest but the orbs tend to move really weirdly and at the point you reach this phase you are extremally nervous Update 8.01.2023 I BEAT PANTHEON 5!!! 🥳 I used quick slash, long nail, strenght, soul catcher and grubsong. It was very stressfull and at the end I had 2 hp but I was able to do it. Huge thanks to all the helpfull videos! And for those still trying: I believe in you! Try the fight dozens of times up unyil you feel ready. Losing is hard but the challenge is possible
The charms I use and find useful are shamans, strength, quick slash, grubsong and dream nail for pantheon 5, grubsong gives you some extra soul as you get hit and honestly healing charms are not useful on a boss that's as fast as absrad, you're going to lose more hp than gaining hp in the long run, if you can't dodge all the time I would recommend using melody and switch it out with quick slash. Melody you get by banishing Grimm, melody has a chance to block an incoming hit. Also practicing absrad in the hall below the pantheons is great cause you will eventually learn how a move can be dodged, like the spikes coming from the sides you can actually just jump over them if you jump at a good time and you don't have to waste a dash on them, you can also jump to it's height and do shade soul or abyss shriek cause it pauses you at the height and you do dmg.
@@K-7Maylis update 8.01.2023 I DID IT!!! 🤩 My setup for pure vessel and abs rad was quick slash, long nail, strenght, soul catcher and grubsong. This allowed for heavy dmg and decent healing ( soul can be a big problem for the last fight ). There were some bs artacks but I learned not to get greedy and how to heal I have officialy completed the entire game and all the side-quests, including path of pain. The only things remaining are stuff like beating bosses on radiant, finishing the bindings, steelsoul etc. I don't have the nerves for any bindings on 5th pantheon but the others are possible ( only the 2 charmless remain So wiith that out if the way, I am happy awaiting silksong 😁
@@kovexplayCongrats! For steel soul you only need to do 100% to get the achievement so therefore you can pick and choose what you feel like you can beat without trouble, I skipped Markoth on Steel soul cause I didn't dare walk around with the old nail only for his fight to get easier but what I did do was try to get max health as fast but at the same time as carefully as possible, Mawlek mask is one of the last ones just cause he's not a problem with upgraded spells and if you feel comfortable doing any pantheons that also means you can skip a %, shade cloak is heavily recommended but don't try to beat Hornet Sentinel with low equipment if you're not prepared for it. The enemies that do double dmg you very much want to skip trying to kill, they killed my first run. Colosseum 1 and 2 are something you can do on steel soul but you prob want to be more prepared when doing the 2nd, do the 3rd if you wish but it's honestly not worth. Always heal if you take a hit and be careful not to get hit by an enemy then fall into spikes cause that's also double dmg.
@@K-7Maylis actually, I don't even have to do steelsoul but I might try it one day. The thing is, for some reason not all pc achievements are present on consoles ( i have a ps5 ) so I'm already done "completing" hollow knight ( 5th pantheon was the only thing left for that ) Plus once again I can try radiant bosses to improve my skill and be even closer to the "full" completion on the main save. Let's also not forget that I play other games and I still have to worry about school 😅
@@kovexplayHow weird I thought all platforms had all achievements. I beat Steel Soul before I was able to beat pantheon of the knight so it's not as hard as it seems first glance, ofc it's a lot more stressful but the feeling of having actually beat it was amazing.
Some tips from personal experience: 1. Take Damage To Spikes/Falling When It is really hard to dodge the Glowing orbs. IFrames are SO useful in the fight, Use Descending Dark A Lot 2. Only attack at the beginning of the fight, And after absrad does an attack cause most of the time Absrad won’t do an attack right after an attack. 3. QUICK FOCUS, With Quick Focus Feel free to triple heal after the laser circle attack and double heal After the sword circle attack with no consequence. 4. Use Soul, If you have a lot of soul and your at full health use it for spells, If you took damage, save it for healing. 5. In the climbing phase use dash A Lot, Use it when jumping from platform to platform, For Every Platform except the first 5 or 6 platforms. Hope it helps
Finally beating absrad consistently now thank you so much!!! The final phase was killing me every time. Now I just have to try not to choke when I fight her at the end of p5 lol
I’m not even kidding. I just beat her after watching this video. I cannot believe it. I paused the game to watch this and right after I tried again and did it.
thx because of this video i was able to beat finally the last challange in hollow knight and now i finally 100% the game the 2 phase was my biggest problem to beat because i chased her and took way to mutch dmg for no reasion doging and waiting is way more efficent btw a little advice that u didnt coverd in this video if your shadecloce is up u can dash and destroy the orbs with it if u hit them
Was struggling to even make it past the first phase and would always die on the platform phase, then I watched this video and made it to the end of the climb phase before dying first try. I can do this
After watching this video, I decided to tackle P5 and beat it! The feeling of destroying Absolute Radiance is like no other. The best advice I can give is go slow and don’t get overconfident
@@literaldoorknob god damn,that happened to me last night because bastardoth wore me down with his toothpicks last fight.I am now practicing Abs Rad and then give the pantheon another shot
hes very wrong about deep focus and quick focus. the easiest charm combo by far, if you just wanna beat the final pantheon is: deep focus, quick focus, grubsong + either fragile strength or shaman stone, its preferance, but having the other 2 makes this way easier, sure it will take a while, but after having killed 50 bosses in a row, i will prefer a longer, safer fight, over a quick and risky fight tenfold. btw the quickfocus deepfocus combo is also insanely good at getting to absolute raadiance in the first place, or beat the other pantheons with bindings to get more lifeblood, its really really good, you will not believe how good it is until you try it, its like cheating thats how good it is, i will get to absolute radiance in the pantheon 10/10 times, while getting hit constantly, it doesnt matter, you dont need to play well at all if you can heal 2 at once. if you however are going for radiant absolute radiance, then i would recommend this charm set up: shaman stone, soul catcher, spell twister, fragile strength and soul eater. you want as much soul gain as possible, since abyss shriek is your best form of dealing damage, in phase 2 you can actually just stand on the bottom platform the entire fight, dodge attacks and wait until she comes to either side or the platform your on, abyss shriek can hit her at all 3 spots, after phase 1 you will always have full charge plus all 3 soul vessels which is more than enough damage to exclusively end phase 2 with abyss shriek only. if you dont do it like this then you have get close to her when she comes down, which is always super risky, even if you use descending dark, since your timing needs to be perfect to , if your too early or too late, you will easily get hit. abyss shriek on the other hand is super safe since you can attack her from the platform your on and then dodge whatever attack is coming your way, since your far enough away to react, and also you will deal a shitload of damage with abyss shriek, way more than descending dark would do, so its better offensively and defensively.
Ah you see, the boss cannot hit me once it is dead so I just bury the nail in its face as fast as I can. :) I am quite good at dodging, but for me, waiting until the boss is in that perfect position to get one spell off deals a lot less damage than bullying it with nail slashes at every tiny opening, to the point where the spells hardly seem worth it (being locked in place while the knight casts a spell kills my dodging skills like nothing else, and gets me hit far too often). Like he said, play what works for you. Everyone has their own way of doing this, and not one of them is universal.
I prefer keeping jumping and swinging nail when she is using her beam brust or sword brust. Its obvious where the attack will hit and she stands still so you can get a ton of hits while not actually putting yourself at risk.
many people think that the best sniper ever is Simo Häyhä but contrary to popular belief, the actual best is absolute radiance whenever i get to the climbing phase.
Goddamn Radiance is one of those bosses that takes DAYS to beat. I stoped counting how many times I tried and just started going by days lol. I try over and over for like 30 min then take a break. Still yet to beat her
Literally my favorite tip from this is to NOT RUSH THE FIGHT. That is what she wants, she has 2 attacks to punish you, and it's even worse if you try to during the second phase when she teleports literally everywhere. Just don't even bother, stick to one spot and BE. PATIENT. This fight will try to break you as muchas it can, just take your time, and you'll be out of there slower then normal, but not all the way back to vengefly king.
No. No. No. No. No. You have to be Kidding me if she always goes to the middle when the fight is over it has been there for me for like 7 times 😭 and i always got sniped by those stupid orbs :(
Thanks so much for these tips! They helped me a lot, I managed to defeat her for the first time today! Now all I have to do is defeat her in the Pantheon. :)
I feel like players who are struggling with radiance shouldn’t use spells too much. You shouldn’t use 3 shrieks in general. It’s a waste of 50% soul capacity. (And you may not even have all soul shards.) You should use it to heal instead because you’ll likely be damaged.
9:13 an alternative strategy that I felt was easier was waiting for the projectile to spawn and immediately shade cloak dashing past it to the next platform. When you do that, in most cases, the projectile immediately hits the platform and you can get a hit in if Radiance is close enough. See this for reference: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9rg8UBKtt1o.html&ab_channel=CrankyTemplar
I Asked my brother how hard this boss fight is and said it’s really hard The furthest he got was halfway even though he has the charms he needs and a fully upgraded nail he can’t defeat it it’s been two years since he last played hollow knight he gave up
I tried to do the pantheon of Hallownest for the first time like an hour ago, I reached to AbsRad in the first try with full HP and full Soul. I got completely destroyed in less than a minute. 💀 AbsRad is hard.
12:53 how do you do that, everytime i try i just fall back down before 2 hits, and u dont even do a max jump and still do it somehow, the only way i can do it is if i spam my character left and right and that works but when swords start coming from the ceiling its not good to do that, i wanna do it ur way but idk how
My build is gonna be mark of pride quick slash unbreakable strength and sharp shadow as i believe the extra shadow dash distance will help with beams and also i just feel comfortable with this build Also would practicing normal radiance help with this one?
It’s an old guide I know, but is there any way to like see her attacks through the bright light? I cannot see her spawning orbs sometimes because of how darn bright everything is!
this fight need a ton of practice but there is one unfair attack that will always hit me its the orb for some reason it spawns inside me i don't get it and sometimes she mix attacks and become undogble like the moving lazer with the 8beams
i have 22 lifeblood hearts so i can practice with him, but not even this helps me... I can't defeat his last phase. i hit him more than 10 times and he KILLS ME
I have had the worst luck. currently playing on ps5 and my game is running at half speed/slow mode. I have no idea how to fix it. i beat radiance multiple times in hog but p5 is impossible with the slow mode/input delay.
10:35 I find this advice very incorrect, after I got my butt kicked, I changet to quick focus,deep focus and soul eater, (before I had quick slash, health, shamon stone and strength) and beat him on 3rd try
Still nothing. Moving back and forth against the beams on phase 1 and 2 doesnt work for me. I hate this stupid boss, cant even beat it on the hall, even less on pantheon 5
Wheres enraged guardian made easy? How do you expect us to get the final mask if enraged gaurdian. A hard mid game boss. To be beaten like a piece of cheese?
I hope ur not serious. Pretty sure I could beat them one handed on radiant within half an hour. Just shade dash through him if you have it, otherwise jump over him. Attacks are very telegraphed and easy to avoid.
@@ADuckWizard Yeah, radiance is hard. I'd practice pure vessel, helps get used to reacting quickly. Also ascended markoth/xero and even no eyes can be good for practicing parkour while fighting. I struggled on reg rad for a while, ended up doing a bunch of hall of gods, came back and beat her like first or second try.
I mean.... is it the final time to save hallownest? the lore for Godhome kinda hurts imo. The Dreamers sacrificed so much.... only to be irrelevant, because the "real" solution is in the sewers.... like ew.
Do you remember your thoughts on this guide? Is there one specifically you like for strats? Have been trying to standardize my strats throughout grinding radiant and feel like everyone gives different advice, and virtually nobody discusses damaging the boss or the climb in much detail. Have been putting in the hours and seeing a lot of improvement but worry that I'm inadvertently practicing mistakes.
