Can I Beat Elden Ring With 0 Equip Load? 

Lots of comments about equip load not changing i-frames. Equip load does change i-frames, I don't know where this misconception came from that it doesn't but every bit of frame data analysis shows that fat rolls have less i-frames than med and light rolls. eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Equip+Load

"Great Godfrey, didst thou witness?" he asks after killing a naked, frail man that can only throw weak fireballs at him. I just love how these challenge runs make Godrick look even more like a looser

I liked the "use each spell only once" thing, I wanna see a sorcery version of that.

You can’t lie to me, I know it took like 7000+ tries to beat Rick, Soldier Of God

Challenge run idea Elden ring but I can only use what I get out of chests

"IT IS THE MORNING! GO TO SLEEP" As a naked man sprints away from the Bell Bearing Hunter - I felt that.

Love the run, was hoping to see noble presence used against Malenia. It's a hilarious spell against her, the belly bump reliably knocks her down.

I love how in these challenge runs you always add a little extra spice. Like I had already seen a zero equip load run, but the added restriction that you can't use the same weapon/incantation on more than one boss really made it unique. Good show!

This man deserve a bigger following. The content is some of the best I've seen

Random info, you can kill o'neil without actually USING anything. You can just bait him to go for a walk by the rot geysers and they'll damage him. Or, could have bought poison stones from the shore merchant and used them to poison him. Those stone items are absolutely useless in a normal playthrough, but a weightless "only use once" run is perfect for them.

I love the editing in these videos, especially the attempts counter + when you die in a boss phase you skip the next fight to the point you died at in the previous try, very clever and great to watch.

Thanks for making these videos, I’m sure it becomes difficult to keep coming up with challenges but you keep supplying us with content. Bushy is the best

These vids are so well produced! Love em! Especially after a stressful day, that's just so nice to watch! Thank you! You definitely need more subscribers!

This run was the most entertaining yet because of how much extra content you had to do! Awesome stuff my man!

Quick note, if you were wondering why Enemies can cast so fast, it’s because having a higher Dexterity allows you to cast spells faster

Other than the obviously modded Soldier of Godrick kill, great run, honestly really cool to see all these under used spells shine.

31:00 lightning spear REALLY benefits from virtual dexterity. Radagon’s icon or offhand Azur’s staff makes it -lightning- fast. Wrath of gold too. Not applicable in this run but still

The editing with the popups of items obtained, # of attempts, etc. is always appreciated by me! Thanks for all the content Bushy!

I had an idea for an Elden Ring challenge run, definitely not as hard as ones you've already done but I think it could be interesting: Elden Ring but you have to beat Rememberance Bosses with their Rememberance Items. So against Godrick, for example, you'd only be able to use the Axe of Godrick and Grafted Dragon. Additionally you can only use those Rememberance Weapons until you get to the next Rememberance boss at which point you have to swap. Would also be interesting because depending on the Rememberance you may have to Respec at Rennala pretty often. How you do it is one of 2 ways, either you just give yourself the weapons beforehand via console or you can even go a step further and get every Rememberance Weapon in a new game then do the challenge itself in NG+. EDIT: Bonus points if you also only use the Equipment of Champions from Enia for Armor and Arrows with no additional Sleep Pots or anything else.

Impressive challenge, I love the additional twist with not being able to use the weapon anymore after using it :) On the note of: "I don't think there's another boss where I can use Poison Mist" - In my casual playthrough I used it against Godrick the Grafted, who is very easily poisoned. And curiously enough, you even avoid his 2nd phase, because he only begins it after taking at least 1 direct damage. So I still have the dragon head hanging on the side after knocking him out Edit: Wrote the wrong boss name

"The Flame of Frenzy"'s bolts target the ground a few meters in front of your character, so if you had used it with a bit of range between you and Margit, you propably could've hit more than twice the bolts than you did point-blank

Im surprised how enjoyable this one, its way more enjoyable than all malenia, i guess its not about how difficult a run, more about how diverse the build or content is. I hope to see this same run done but with sorceries

The Solider of Godrick fight had me on the edge of my seat. People keep forgetting that he is the true final boss

your character looks like jordan peterson

I believe the godslayer seal has the best incant scaling till ~70 faith (maybe ~80) where the erdtree seal becomes better. If you factor in int and arc than it may change.

When you said each spell and weapon once, I was nervous that you were going to get rid of both the spell AND the catalyst for each boss, and just thought "are there even enough incantation catalysts in the game for that?"

Watching this drunk was a whole nuther experience

Poison mist also works on commander o’ nial in the rot swamp in cailed

I really liked this one. Seeing a bunch of stuff highlighted that I don’t see very often is always fun to watch.

Missed out on some satisfying attacks. Pest threads on rykard does thousands. Pest threads pierce and hit multiple times, and he is huge. Therefore, big damage. Did work great on elden beast but rykard is even crazier

Forcing yourself to change spell each time really made this more interesting. Great job.

Gotta say your editing continues to impress me so much! The gameplay is tight and sometimes really funny but the real star is showing all the items you pick up and in this particular video showing which spells you've already used. Truly a great style man, keep it up!

I have an idea for next run, debuff run. You could only equip items, armor, armaments and talismans that give a negative tradeup of some kind.

Very cool adding the weapon/spell swap clause. I tried watching other 0 load runs but it always ends as a cipher pata run and that's just normal. Really cool take on it!

The bonus of 'I cant repeat a weapon after defeating a boss" is great, keeps you cycling fresh ideas. gg my guy

You seem so happy and excited in this, definitely my favorite episode of this dope series so far

I like how Bushy has to add another restriction to make this challenge actually challenging, plus we get to see lesser used spells

Awesome run, using so many different incantations really made it fun to watch!

Underrated and one of my favorite Elden Ring channels

Your content is so underrated I don’t know why you don’t have at least like 400k subs

for at the 26:20 area, the more times you proc a boss, the higher their resistance to aforemention proc grows. say for example you were fighting commander o’neil with swarm of flies. 1 swarm of flies would proc him but after that the resitance will be higher, meaning it could take 3 or 4 now

This was a very fun and challenging run to watch! Kudos Bushy

11:52 'my favourite turtle abandoned me!' I died laughing lol

I've watched a good number of your runs and this one was the most interesting! Amazing spell showcase and very creative

I mean technically poison mist is still in the usable pool for spells. seeing as you killed the tree sentinel without starting the fight, there WAS NO boss health bar on the bottom of your screen lol.

Your zero equip load and max equip load are basically an Ornstein and Smough/Godskin Duo Pair. Like, if you try and melee the max, the zero stays back and casts at you while the max swings at you. If you try and keep your distance from the max, The zero chases you down, and the max switches to range and lasers you with arrows and whatnot. I'd probably call them their name, with "The Burdened" and "The Unburdened" as their titles. And the big one would be Unburdened, the skinny one would be burdened. You'd think it would be the other way around, but the max load just walks everywhere like he just don't care, and the zero is never not dodging, like he's constantly afraid. To be extra evil, I'd probably make The Burdened use whatever you were weakest against from his moveset. If you were weak to fire, he hits you with fire, weak to lightning, he hits you with lightning, that sort of thing. You could even give them a buddy transformation when you take down one, like O&S. If you take out the biggun first, the little guy picks up his weapon. Except it's weightless, he swings it wicked fast. If you take out the little one first, the big one freaks out, and becomes able to run and roll even with the foot thick armor and massive weapon. Either that, or he starts casting at you like the light guy did, targeting your weakness. But he does weapon enchantments. You're weak to lightning, he coats his weapon in it. Weak to fire, and he light's it. Maybe he doesn't just coat his weapon in it, but his entire body, and every once in a while he'll do the fattest, slowest roll, but if he makes contact with you doing it, you get smushed. I'd probably make it so the big guy was way harder to kill, with loads of health and absorptions, but the fight where you kill the little guy first is way harder than the one where you kill the big guy first. That way you can either deal with trying to keep the little guy alive while he's constantly poking you, or deal with a crazy strong powered up big guy. And of course, they'd have different drops depending on who you took out first. And I'd probably make their titles switch after you took the first one out. The unburdened starts caring, and becomes burdened by the loss of his friend. The Burdened no longer cares, has nothing to lose, and becomes unburdened.

I did this run, and it's great fun, but I did switch around a couple of incantations. So to everyone looking to try something like this themselves: skip the Rotten Breath for Rykard, that sucks balls. The one you really want is Malekith's Black Blade, because that hits Rykard multiple times, and each time ticks him down. It's way easier, and way more FP efficient, so you have more margin for error.

Seeing these type of runs always make me awe cuz against some tougher bosses I often rely on spirit ashes and lots of damage/ defense. That extra challenge of unable to repeat usage of spells is rly impressive too.

Great run! Absolutely love these challenges. The videos could even be longer, to see a bit more of the parts between the fights.

Great run as always! I would’ve thrown in some oil pots for extra damage with the fire incantations but you do you. keep up the good work!

"that's so bad!" Catch flame: "C'mere Radagon!"

Thanks for your easy to follow explanations, one step at a ti. It makes learning less overwhelming!

Yooooooooo, ain't no way you get this, you mad man genius 🤣

Wow, great job. Not only did you do incantations only, you did only one per boss. Amazing!

I like how in the rannala fight he casually just punches the kids

6:37 Him: I'm gonna beat the game with 0 equip load Margit: Put these foolish ambitions to rest

So basically eldrn ring but I cosplay a naked Harry Potter

Do you think a true fist only run would be doable? Looking at you fire giant

@36:25 sounded like Gostoc’s laugh when he slams the door behind you

Your channel is awesome. I just discovered you a few days ago and your videos give me a good laugh

O niall can actually be done pacifist, with the spouts, lure him out and didnt even need a spell for it

The Flame of Frenzy does way more damage if you unlock and stare at the ground. Most of the damage comes from small aoe impacts where the bolts hit.

The flame of frenzy has better damage if you free aim it. Aim down if the enemy is close, aim up if you need range. Lightning strike can be cast multiple times in succession and even combos with honed bolt.

I haven't watched your channel for too long but I can say Anastasia and her jump attack will always get you apparently 🤣 great challenges and content !

Challenge idea you can only use items locked behind stonesword key areas and obviously your allowed picking up stone sword keys

How about beating the game with a weapon that you don’t have the stats for? Poison mist also works for fallingstar beast if you get in his arena in the right spot and sneak up to him

22:08 „did that bird just die from fall dmg“ 😂😂😂😂

Some of da best Elden ring content on yt bushy ❤️

This definitely proves spells are not as easy as people think them to be. At least not incantations.

Wouldn't using Spirit Summons technically work in this challenge? - Doesn't go into equip load so you'd still be at 0. - Plenty of good spirit summons anyway so they'll be useful against bosses.

this was a really dope run bushy, love the content recently

I have to say man, you really edit these challenge runs so well. Keep up the work man 🔥

why do you look like smallant

I really feel like the 'no reusing spells rule' wasn't particularly needed.

You can use poison mist on the Tree Sentinel Duo and Commander O'Niel as well. Poison apparently doesn't agro anyone when applied as long as it's not from a direct attack, so anyone you can sneak up on without agroing you can use it on as well

This was incredibly fun to watch. One of your best videos.

You can also use the Wraith Calling Bell, as it's an item so no weight, and is a reliable way to do damage from max lock on range. 7fp per cast, 1 shots deers and birds for crafting material, can usually 2 shot a soldier, and if not restricted by no load like here, can be enhanced with Ritual Sword, Graven Talismans, and Magic Scorpion charm. With magic increasing physic, and all of those talismans it can put out respectable damage, even before other spell buffs!

That's a very cool run! Love to see it!

Lmao, Gideon 😂 Really cool challenge, you using one incantation per boss is fun to watch

"my man is magic as fuck" just cracks me up every single time

(For clarification before I say this, I’m fairly early in the video) But with an equip load zero build can’t you also use any throwing daggers or pots and perfumes as well? I understand why you wouldn’t want to because it kinda turns into a run used dominantly by single use items and not focusing on the zero build part. But I feel like you could have a rule where you can only use them for one boss, much like the weapon.

first vid of you i watched. loved it ♥

This video shows you how surprisingly viable a lot of the incantations are, what a journey

From the challenge I was ready for you to use the good spells then switch to a trash one for the last hit but you did the challenge exactly like I hoped you would you have my sincere gratitude 🙏

I quite like the Cipher Pata these days. It's a fast weapon for faith builds, and the weapon art shreds. Usually use it on "mostly casting" builds where I just want a backup weapon.

With that last kill you earned sub. This run was fantastic.

34:04 Bushy re-enacts DS 1 PvP

4:47 "That's how we take out Margit." LMAO

I like the crossing out of spells in editing, I only watched some of the streams but it was fun

Very nicely done! Look forward to the next one :)

Love how after everything, you get to use one of the best strategies for the final boss

Giving Gideon madness fits so well

16:34 "That's not bad." *cuts to almost being one shotted by an attack*

I never knew the naturalborn grab was supposed to have a purple ball thing, my characters always just like float

I LOVE your channel keep up the good work

hey bushy congrats on your success with elden ring, you were one of my favorite content creators for Gwent back in the day

26:30 This might be a glitch/intended mechanic ever since 1. 03 Elden Ring, Blood Flies has a random chance of not causing blood loss upon filling the blood loss meter. This is a way of nerfing it I presume or they mest up the coding since 1.03 and just didn't notice... You can notice this by letting the blood flies of the faceless mask invaders hit you with some blood flies. You will notice that after the first proc every consecutive filling of that bleed bar has a random chance of having the blood loss stun effect but no damage / the blood loss blood explosion effect but no damage / damage with no stun... basically any combo of the 3 effects that happen on blood loss.

14:20 for some reason him just laying that girl out with a punch to the back of the head had me dying lmao

Love to see catch flame bringing us home.

Great video as always, cheers from Germany and happy new year 🎶✌