Can you beat the Elden Ring DLC using ONLY parries and deflects? 

also yes i rolled/jumped a few times on earlier rellana attempts, wasn't sure exactly how i wanted to do the challenge at first but i settled on no rolls/jumps by the time i won that fight and kept it that way for the rest of the run

When the deflecting hardtear dropped, I knew this was imminent.

Bro released a whole movie

22:31 when i'm at a funeral 18 years from now and the announcer is talking about the 65 year old person who died an unfair death

Time on each boss (approximate): Rellana: 5 hours 17 minutes Golden Hippo: 19 minutes Jori: 45 minutes Midra: 2 hours 15 minutes Gaius: 24 minutes Divine Lion: 1 hour 10 minutes Romina: 15 minutes Putrescent knight: 17 minutes Scadurtree Avatar: 58 minutes Metyr: 48 minutes Messmer: 6 hour 11 minutes Leda and Dane: 1 hour VILE BAYLE: 8 hours 3 minutes Radahn: 1 hour 41 minutes

deflecting meteor radhan would be crazy

I love how the run starts off with the Wolverine npc somehow dying right after the Marvel Snap sponsor lmao

you made this so much harder than it needed to be lmao why didn't you just use armor and greatshields

Finally, the true sekiro run

Watching him deflect Commander Gaius' charge attack and immediately one shot him with a guard counter gave me immense pleasure.

Tahnk you so much Aggy for letting me do the thumbnail for this INSANE video!!!

42:55 at first I was like "wow someone is really trying to backseat aggy who do they think they are" And then I realized it was chris lmfaooo

Hacks the game to one-shot the furnace golem. Some guy in chat: "Nice crit."

Bosses when using grabs: “parry this you filthy casual”

ZeroLenny did a run of just using the deflecting hardtear guard counter run of both the DLC and the Base Game. I highly recommend it for those who liked this run

"how do I guard counter a scarab?" Is one of the greatest questions humanity has asked

I wanna see rellana’s twin moons

The intense Q-Tip discourse in your chat during the Divine Beast fight was hilarious

And Rusty just dropped Tear tier list where he said that people absolutely would do challenges off of deflecting hard tear XD

It only took Aggy 2 years to learn that the AoW Buckler Parry is what gives the buckler a more forgiving parry, not the shield itself. Once you switch to Golden Parry or Carian Retaliation, it behaves like a normal shield.

i kinda wished that the deflect hardtear was an actual talisman, you can give it more dmg vulnerability or no rolling, i want to deflect. :C

after deciding to play the DLC using as many parries as possible, I can confidently say that nothing feels quite as good as that first run when you finally learn the bosses patterns and parry them like 12 times in a row.

Tip for anyone who is interested in learning to parry: For many attacks, you have to look at the enemy's hand, not their weapon to get the timing right.

All the of the bosses: "this f*ing guy man" 😂

Love seeing more Elden Ring DLC videos from Aggy. Can’t wait to see him fall into brainrot with multiple challenge runs like he did with the base game

Aggy can have my "hardtear" any time 😍😍😍 Great stuff Aggy keep it up gamer :)

I’m so grateful someone else has the time to do these goofy ahhh runs. Cool to see, but not something I would ever personally do lol.

Broooo it’s 2 am and now your forcing me to watch this whole ass cinematic experience, I gotta wake up tomorrow 😭😭

Lenny and Aggy both doing this! Awesome.

"you made this so much harder than it needed to be lmao why didn't you just use armor and greatshields"

0:27 HOL UP

I honestly feel so much more validated watching this. Been doing a parry only run for bosses to get good and it's been brutal.

Maaaaaaaad props for the editing on these videos. Seriously just as good as the gameplay!

Asking "what is your problem" to Messmer is gonna get you an answer long enough to fill a youtube essay, man got issues.

You know its good when the DLC version of the challenge is a LONGER video than the original

Hey mister Aggycus, I just wanted to say, thank you! I got the DLC when it released, made it to the final boss, gave it a few shots, and decided "NAAAHHHH, F*** THIS BULL****"! Didn't even know about the deflecting tear before watching this video. Parry wasn't really working out all that well for me, but I made a build around counters and grinded the boss for the last two days. I owe my victory to you! Ended up winning the final fight with only guard counters. Still used rolling though, I'm not a masochist :D

Every time I look to the right, the timer is magically an hour ahead

1:39:47 Just recently I told people on Gino's stream that Leda can be parried 100% consistently but they didn't want to believe me (just because I missed one parry out of a dozen). It's a very simple AI manipulation and I knew Aggy would discover it by himself. He's too goated to not figure it out.

Yes. And honestly the parry build I finished a few days ago and the sekiro build I finished today might be the most fun I've had in Elden Ring, even after 700+ hours and 20+ different builds.

I feel like jumping and recovery rolls should have been allowed, since Wolf can jump and recover as well. But u still did it man.👍 I am convinced Miyazaki just doesn’t give a shit about fleshing out the parry mechanism in this goddamn game.

Deflecting hardtear is definitely the most fun with thrusting shields, milady and the black steel greathammer. This tear is definitely my favorite addition in the dlc, I've been having so much fun experimenting with Deflect and guard counter builds

2:02:16 MaxisKay with the cinema quality cuts 👏🏻💯

40:54 was the craziest 1-2 punch I’ve ever seen in this game 💀💀

apparently golden parry has 3 active parry frames which is LESS THAN A DAGGER and only 1 more than curved swords, fists etc. Daggers have 4 and carian retaliation has 6. I swear it used to be higher and apparently it got nerfed at one point which makes sense. The only reason to use it now is the range.

That art in the thumbnail is crazy

57:17 From my understanding, Divine Beast triggers the combo attacks after it's had a chance to cycle through all three stages. This makes the healing affect it gets after the grab much more punishing becuase it doesn't save you from the harder moveset

Obviously a whole different beast when you're doing it without dodge rolls, but parrying Rellana on my first SOTE playthrough was some of the most fun I've had in the entire game.

"Hesitaion is defeat" - isshin, the sword saint.

deflecting the multi hit element attacks from divne beast and lord of chaos was like watching that one 2004 street fighter video of the guy perfect blocking that chun li kick move

I wish Gaius had unique boss music.

The only part of this challenge I saw live was the 8 hours of Bayle. Afterwards I watched PCR attempts for nearly two hours and went to bed. In the morning I found out he beat Radahn right after I stopped watching.

yeah the timing window for parry seems wrong in elden ring, but if you look at arms movement instead of the weapon itself it’s easier to time it right idk how but it works

The fact it took like, a 6th of the video's runtime to beat Rellana is pretty funny honestly.

I remember I saw his stream and he had just gotten to Mesmer and then I woke up the next morning and he was still there

1:19:05 most if not all of the pot dudes are next to a bunch of enemies. You could have had one of them attack you and guard counter. If they just HAPPENED to get hit by the aoe of the hammer thats not on you.

One shot a furnace golem with a +0 Misericorde? Aggy is him

I didn’t know the whole 2 hours would just be Rellana.

I dont think anyone would’ve blamed you if you used the quick roll you get on your back

30:36 the micolash scream

Honestly the deflecting hardtear could do with an extension on its duration. Something like 7-8 minutes would make it a bit more flexible of a choice imo.

A trick I found out with Midra parrying: if you hit him with a fast enough R1, if he staggers, he resets to a normal swing combo for easy parry. If he doesn't stagger, it's either the grab or the fast frenzy burst. Obviously, Aggy would've not managed to use that tech in this but for those who want to parry this boss, it's consistent.

You, Chris & Gino make me want to be better at Souls-Like games :)

Fromsoft please let me guard w/ Rellana's twinblades, I wanna play like this. The moveset is too fun to pass up, but no stance dmg is so rough

0:45 if only you could lightning counter 😂😂😂

aggy did the hardest Elden ring challenge and then said “nah im not done yet”

not sure if every1 is aware, but if you get 4 deflects in a row without attacking it gives you 20% per deflect that stacks up to 80% and then caps, basically making the tear act as both royal knights resolve and sekiro block at the same time.

I loved parrying most of the bosses in the dlc, but arguably the most satisfying ones were Midra and Rellana. The final boss was fun as well, but it was so stress inducing, it was crazy. Messmer parries have some strange timing to them that I can't really figure out either, but I might just have to git gud at it

18:35 to much relatable lol

This run for me was all about stamina regeneration and elemental damage negation

the deflecting hardtear is by far the most fun thing they added to the game imo. honestly hope they tune it down a bit and just make it a base mechanic next game

I didnt even finish de dlc cause is so hard and this guy already doing things like this

When I saw how tough rellana was I knew this was gonna be a crazy run. Good shit aggy

I think it would be fair to say that it's easier to beat Sekiro without parries, rather than trying Elden Ring with shit parry mechanics

I just used the deflecting tear against Radhan (the final boss) but I used it quite diferent from you. I used a weapon at 2 hands and blocked (deflect) the attacks, and when I see an opening I counterattack (the one you use when you block and receive an attack and inmediatly press strong button). I went to second phase in less than 10 seconds (if you counterattack twice his posture breaks easly and I found it easier than try to parry him). Now I want to try a sekiro Run (nothing but katanas), wish me luck!

Your custom battles are the highlight of my RU-vid feed. Always thrilled to see a new upload!

On my second playthrough I decided to try and parry Rellana with a +5 Starlined Katana just to see what it was like. By insane accidental luck on my third attempt, I somehow parried her 10 times in a row to get 5 crits back-to-back and put her well into phase 2. It was honestly kinda annoying because I wasn't too serious about beating the fight with parries, but after that I knew I had to stick with it and eventually beat her that way. Came back later with +20 blood smithscript backhand blades and got it that way pretty quick lol

Thanks for asking! No, I cannot

I was wondering why Aggy didn't use the deflect tear in his first playthrough, looks like he was waiting to fully commit to the Sekiro playstyle

The fact I can barely do these bosses even just without a summon and you’re doing this is crazy lmao

25:08 GG, your patience with that boss bro. I changed strategy about 4 or 5 times to finally beat her

So I guess Aggy just recently learned for the first time how the parry timing generally works in this game? Seems like even the best players don't know all the game mechanics, that makes me feel a lot better about my own mistakes xD

A 2 hour Aggy vid, my Thursday night is saved

I sometimes think how tf can he spend so long on a boss, and then I remember that it's his job, and that I've been doing the same exact thing for 8 hours a day for years so yeah

The Promised Consort Radahn fight was absolutely awesome!

How can you tell that an item is interesting? If multiple challenge runners independently did the same run and upload videos at the same time :D. It's a good idea though, doesn't get boring by having multiple people do it, especially as the approaches are different.

Funny fact, you can deflect Radahn nuke and that make things so easy, did it accidently and honestly its way easier

as someone who already uses a guatd counter build, i should probably look into using this especially since i dont use a shield lol

It’s like Sekiro all over again!!!

That cover art is an acceptable form of clickbait.

My man made it out on the trending page with this one

You're definitely right about the parry timing being completely nonsensical. This is the reason I absolutely adored playing through Lies of P. The guard/perfect guard system in that game is the best I've seen from any souls-like and honestly, even better than Sekiro's. It combines the rally mechanic of bloodborne with the parry timing (instant) of Sekiro to create a masterful combination which rewards skill and also allows for correction if you mess up (and have the skill to correct it). Elden Ring was never meant to have a parry system and it shows.

Sekiro mod be looking good

Maxiskay is back, bless🙏🏾

man aggy im so glad you blew up the way you did. love the content, thanks for always delivering!

I wish the editor left the winning attempt for each boss mostly unedited

'this deflecting hardtear is amazing' **gets stuck on rellana for 5+ hours**

I wish they made that tear a talisman :( i'd love to just run around with the big bonk stick and not take damage

dropping everything just to watch this.

First Lenny, now Aggy!! The deflect tear is such good content!!

50:33 sick timing with the kill and music