Can you beat DARK SOULS III with only Firebombs? 

What backlogs thinks we learned: DS3 can be beat with firebombs. What we actually learned: you can negate the arrow storm

I can see this series expanding to literally any game that has firebombs or equivalent and honestly I'm here for it.

ok wtf, i just binged your last two dark souls firebomb runs, and then 10min after I finish the last one you post this? Absolutely amazing

I also wanna yell out "I'm the king of the bone zone!" Before dying horribly.

There is a way to get a leg up on the Greatwolf. He appears in two locations in the painted world outside his boss room. If you deplete about 2/3 of his health, you can "kill" him in both appearances. Then, when he shows up for the real fight, his health will be slightly reduced, by about 20%, I think. I know the wolf isn't the main issue, but that might help with the drain on your resources he causes and give you a few bombs extra for the spartan.

"...this run is finished. Hopefully my Goddess lets me rest now." Ms. Lemon: Laughs in Yharnamite

Fun fact about 11:55 It can actually be either Siegward OR Patches who rescues Greirat in Irythill. Evidence: If in Firelink, Patches has dialog about Greirat after he has been sent to plunder Irythill. If you don't rescue Sigward from the well, or fail to advance his storyline before sending Greirat out, he (Rat) will still be saved as long as Patches is alive. If neither Patches nor Siegward are alive, Greirat will die in Irythill.

14:15 Gotta say... i wasnt especting a high lord Tony even thought it was kinda obvious... Also the "bye tony!" Into a "fuck youuuuuuu" was conedy gold

In my head cannon, Lemon picks up the broken ceramic from the bombs, and shivved all the unbeatable bosses to death.

Some quick testing, and I found a way to transport bombs to the Nameless King: 1: Stand on the corner of the bell-lever platform, above where there are protruding pillars/platforms directly below. Walk as far out as you can without falling onto the pillars below (not terribly precise, there is a fair bit of leeway), 2: Drop the stack(s) of bombs. Do it right, and the drop item is in midair, above the lower pillar. 3: Return for more bombs, repeat until necessary amount is piled up. 4: Drop down onto the pillars below. Pick up one of the mid-air stacks, and drop it back on the pillar. Repeat until all bombs are on the pillar. 5: Drop down onto cloud layer. Move the bombs up to the fog wall. Be careful about the placement; the fog wall is of the thicker variety, if you place them in the center, you can't reach them. Off to the right side of the fog wall (before entry), however, there is an area where you can grab them again. (Off to the right, but not completely up against the right stone wall). Depending on the exact placement, the bombs may be easily picked up from the boss arena, or they may only be reachable as long as you are moving into the fog wall. Now get back in there and get this done properly, Lemon. You deserve no rest for such sloppy work.

For the bloodborne run, you’ll probably want to get the accused brew as that’s a Molotov equivalent and will help deal with bosses like Laurence.

You could place firebombs by the Nameless King’s fog wall by summoning another player and having them place the bombs, before they black crystal out and restart the process. The only issue would be invaders ruining the fun. For Friede, the arena gets bigger in phase 2 so maybe that’s why the fog wall is thicker in phase 1. Maybe you could even reach the bombs in phase 2?

Could you have stacked the firebombs in the sister boss room before the fight begins? It would mean you would have to first try the boss but would, potentially, give you all the necessary ammunition to do it.

Do you have some objection to backing up saves in runs like these? Would have saved you a lot of time in the Yhorm fight.

Soooo not sure if you know but their is a save state mod which speed runners use to practise bosses. Could have saved you some time getting and setting up the boss.

Iirc the untended graves are basically an alternate reality where the fire was not linked and faded away completely. As to why it can be accessed through some random basement in Lothric Castle however, I have no idea.

I know this is an old video but I just wanted to say: no, your Dennis nedry impression did not go unnoticed. A+ reference. Also this series is a lot of fun. Thanks for the good times

Oh and Bloodborne is impossible for sure with just molotovs. If you want a run with molotovs in it you can do consumable only. Oh and don't worry consumable only Bloodborne is not easy.

1:05 I was lowkey expecting you to say you are only able to use firebombs and firebombs accessories. King of the logs

I see Lemon employed the tactics of the brave sir Robin for this run

Wait until he finds out he could've used the Skull Ring from Ludleth to keep Yhorm's aggro

“Greirat sends his regards” Thank you. Love seeing love for the great Grey Rat. Rest easy King, I will stay safe

A truly spectacular one. Merry Boxing day to Lemon, Ms. Lemon, and everyone in the comments

13:30 I would pay for a mod that made the skeletons talk like this

Just started watching, but holy cow I love the intro bit so much :D Expertly done ^^

I love dark souls 3 a lot, but build variety is it’s weakest point. Kudos to beating vanilla Dark Souls 3 with only firebombs, but the fact you could handle chunks of the dlc’s of the other games with only firebomb’s elevates them more in my eyes.

I'm pretty sure Patches saves Greirat while dressed as Siegward(to protect his mean guy identity) and giving the armor to Siegy has no bearing on Greirat coming back. Edit: looked it up. It's either or. Siegward will save him if he's there, Patches will save him if you tell Patches where Greirat is.

13:58 "...at least it's quiet." "HOW YOU DOIN', MEATBAG!?" lol'd irl

Lemon is quite right about the overhang (as he showed). Alternately, if you are a sorcerer or just happen to have a decent intelligence, the Golden Scroll allowed Orbeck to sell Twisted Wall of Light. It negates all of Aldrich's ranged attacks (yes, the Moonlight Arrow-storm is a spell) and I think it may work on his Lifehunt Scythe (though I never bothered to risk it). No good in a firebomb only run, but useful if his projectiles are kicking you around his sludge pit.

Yo kudos though for even trying the optional bosses! If I was doing something like this I would coward out and not even attempt anything other than the bare minimum amount of bosses to clear the game. Pity about the Yhorm fight. The moment I saw that happen I was like "oh no please tell me Lemon backed up his save first". Oof.

*beep boop* feed the algorithm *beep boop* Excellent content, good on you for persevering. +1 for Fallen Knight set. I think every character I've run through ds3 has worn it for at least part of the run.

I know this isn't related to the video but i want to say thanks for getting me into Salt and sanctuary. I beat it recently and had a blast with it, thanks to your wiki i did not suffer that much with massive island (i always getting lost in big maps without a map).

Love all the content you do. Can't wait for Salt and Sacrifice!

28:25 they DELIVERED on the dragon fights in elden ring

To all these "Can I beat DS3 with only...?" the answer is yes 90% of the time. It is still amazing to see it accomplished!!! It is limiting so many features of the game, yet the person is skilled enough to defeat the whole game!!! Thank you for your video!

Jesus, the amount of "well gonna have to do it all over again" in this run, you are a mad lad. I feel obligated to like and subscribe for such effort lol

Your patience really is the stuff of legends

Thanks for making my day lemon. I’m sorry you had to sit through so much torment but you did a really good job on the video.

your patience in the face of sheer agonizing grind is the stuff of L E G E N D S thank you so much for the great content

17:04 thanks a lot my man! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH SO MANY TIMES I HAVE DIED TO THE ARROWS!! NOT THE ARROWS!!! NOT THE BEE- I mean

I watch a lot of challenge runs, but this, especially the bombs by the door, is above and beyond. Well done you.

This is probably one of the more masochistic Soulslike challenge runs I've seen.

The amount of effort put in this run man. Thank you so much ♥

so excited to watch this, been in the car for hours. Thanks for making my day better dude!

this was great fun

If I remember, BloodBorne Molotov only is literally Impossible without cheating, a consumable only is the same

"I'm gonna have my engineers invent a *COMBUSTABLE LEMON* that burns your house down!" -A genius/god.

Him: manages king of the storm with firebombs Me: cant consistantly get into phase 2 and almost always dies do to the camera

I love these videos! It's hard to find youtubers like this, that have the dedication to runs. WP

I was thinking this run was gonna be bad for your mental health, but then you re-did the entire thing for Dragon Slayer Armor, and i realized you died in the inside early in this run getting real close to the other madman ymfah there my dude, be careful

holy shit that was impressive. i'm also noticing you got way better at video making! congrats on everything man, it's been a joy watching your channel grow. kudos on the perseverance

I admire your dedication to entertain us with suffering. Good job.

absolutely incredible. Don’t expect you to want to do this run anymore after what you’ve endured but if you still wanted to give the dlc a go, you could try summon in phantoms to only drop you some bombs. Once again epic video with story and everything!

35:01 - Yo, what is this song!? I come back to these vids over and again Lemon, love your work.

Those skeletons sure sound canadian!! Btw backlogs we’d be fine if u just started an earlier save instead of having to restart the entire game when you mess up.

Technically, firebombs and lightning urns are classified as "projectiles" in the game. Same classification they share with “Dung Pie” and “Stalk Dung Pie” .. maybe the Gravetender can fall to this one.. by the way, sorry about my english and greetings from Argentina! Keep it up man!

so its a consumables only run but with less consumables?

This has the vibes of Lobosjr's first Dark Souls 1 "Use What You See" Randomizer run. Had to restart it twice due to being essentially soft-locked out of progress, slow walking without the stats to weild weapon.

So. I just finished the game yesterday and I kinda fell in love with the game. I'm definitely going to play the other ones too and I just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying watching your videos after surviving several heart attacks from the game

Now for demon souls

Another amazing run. Thank you for your struggles and patience in making this.

That Pontiff ember restoration right at the peak of the emote was so satisfying i had to watch it a few times

For the wolf npc boss you could use crystal skulls to make him agro on them not allowing him to dodge your bombs

I'm convinced Andre is a remnant of the Blacksmith Deity.

I love the armor in DS3. Some of my favorite in the series. That deserter chest piece with its torn cloth is one of my favorite. As well as the Xanthus chest. And this has my favorite helmet in all of Soulsborne, Hodrick's helm. Kinda like the Abyss Watches helm, but not as pointy and it's tilted to the side with a mask/collar that looks great with just about everything.

32:08 you can't believe how shocked I was when I played greedfall and one of the best companions just have the same voice

Thanks to you, I now call every skeleton in a video-game Tony.

Lemme just say this, The Thumbnail for this video is beautiful

The overhang cancelling Aldrich's arrow attack entirely makes that fight sooooooo much better, thanks for showing us how to do that mate!

Why do i enjoy watching you so much lol i mean i look forward to a new dark souls challenge from you more than any other youtuber

I really appreciate your dedication to the challenge.

The limit on how many bombs you could at at a given time significantly increased the difficulty

Imagine needing to grind weeks just to beat Vordt, the boss that you can easily punch to death within like 2 minutes. Anytime I’m struggling on a Fromsoft game I comeback to this video. It makes for some damn good motivation

The amount of effort put into this vid is unreal you deserve more

The intro for this was perfect

This is pretty late but if you kill the sif 3.0 both times you encounter him before the boss arena he actually starts the fight with less health

You could probably get more bombs for the nameless king fight if you first dropped them on the ledge and then you could probably reach them and grab them after you dropped off the ledge and you could move them to the boss door.

I can really resonate with the "I can see the code" comment on the Dragonslayer Armour boss fight, it doesn't happen with every boss I fight but there are some hard fights where halfway through the fight, I already know it is the one. Nameless King, Radagon/Elden Beast and Hoarah Loux were a few where it happened

Not enough people are praising the fact that you beat this run TWICE just to beat Yhorm

Fun fact: those 23 seconds of that elevator ride can easily fit in Bulls on Parade's intro by Rage Against the Machine. I use it everytime I fight Dragonslayer Armour. I don't know why but it suits the fight's mood as well.

32:05 best description ever.

Carl... I almost cry when he fall.

"better luck in Elden Ring, buddy" little did he know...

another instalment of my favourite youtube series, "man hurts himself with video games at the behest of his beloved wife"

This man's wife is a wizard, and her spellbook is the Anarchist's Cookbook.

I love this series it has kept me occupied while I am quarantined

This was much needed during the holiday weekend!

_Light Crusader OST starts playing_ *Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.* For real, you have very good taste.

Free aiming significantly reduces the chance an npc will dodge a projectile. Dodging the grave tender then throwing a bomb at his feet (probably in melee range to make aiming easier) should work consistently.

"Who will save us now" Props if you caught reference

28:12 I know the feeling. I experienced it with the tree sentinel in ER

Good stick reference. First video of yours I've seen and pretty dang entertaining

I've been holding off on watching your DS3 runs until I completed at least one run myself; now, it's time to catch up

5:32 this is a common misconception about how scaling works in this game, scaling is effectively bracketed in such a way that each level of scaling is at its peak efficiency at certain stat levels relevant to it's scaling. as an example, Yorshka's chime has the best scaling of all miracle catalysts, but it's spell buff is lower than other catalysts until the player reaches at least 50 faith. Also, you're missing out on another damage booster: the dragon torso stone provides a brief 10% buff to damage that stacks cumulatively with the other damage boosting gear.

Theres a reason ds3 pvp was bleeding thunderbombs and dark bombs. They work well and can be thrown based on the angle of the camera.

Noticed that Jurassic park "stick stupid!" Line. Clutch.

This is awsome, the your dedication and time on this is fantástic (sorry on my bad inglich, i am brazilian)

6:42 CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE

Love your vids lemon keep up the good work honestly the best challenge youtber ever

Just found your channel way late. Based as hell my dude. Reminds me of Freeman's Mind lol