Elden Ring - Dragonlord Placidusax Boss Fight (4K 60FPS) 

it actually makes sense, since the Elden Ring universe is the successor to the Dark Souls universe, those dragons the nameless king tucked away at the dragon keep survived and lived trough the dark age that followed. And as we know dragons are very adaptable beings, meaning that with time they embraced the lightning gifted to them by the nameless king and converted it from their biggest weakness into their ultimate weapon. That´s my theory at least Edit: I've given up on the theory at this point, so no need to further discuss it. I'm leaving the comments just because I'm too lazy to delete everything.

@@mrgopnik5964 ummmm good theory but nowhere is it proved canon that Elden Ring is successor to Dark Souls tho. In Miyazaki's own words, "the world of Elden Ring is different to Dark Souls"

@@chronoshindou9848 different doesn't mean it isn't connected. The biggest proof of this connection is Patches. How would we explain his existence in Elden Ring if the words are not connected?

@@mrgopnik5964 The fact that the Gravel stones and dragon wound grease descriptions both make reference to the fact that the ancient ancestors of elden rings dragons had immortal stone scales but current dragons do not, but the scales of their ancestors can be used to mortally wound them I think is a reference to dark souls ancient dragons and their stone scales of immortality

@@mrgopnik5964 ummm gag character? You can absolutely kill Patches in every game yet somehow he's magically alive in the next game lol. Patches ain't a credible source lol. And also you are basically trying to say that Miyazaki himself lied when he said Elden Ring isn't connected to Dark Souls. Dev's words >>> PS: I ABSOLUTELY DON'T MIND YOU MAKING HEADCANONS AND THEORIES. Just don't try to tell everyone it's the right one.

That attack gives me chills! The audio is so sick with the way the music even quiets just so you can hear him slamming the lightning stake in the ground beckoning a time explosion...and the arena looks ancient and threatening! The size of Farum Azula must have been HUGE before the meteor hit which is fun to imagine. Placidusax being a Elden lord and a time dragon is just icing on the cake with how awesome he already is! This boss was fucking amazing. After i finished it, i was smiling from fhe fact that Fromsoftware gave us another epic dragon fight. Midir was my favorite fight from Dark souls 3 though so i may be biased. Also, the composer Yuka Kitamura just KILLS dragon themes, she nails it every time, I love her lol

Yeah the choice of stopping the music is great.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was inspired by a certain attack by another legendary dragon in monster hunter world iceborne.

@@omegawario7479 pretty sick Sapphire attack too

ahem, safi jiiva bomb from monster hunter iceborne :D if we are tlaking about nuke moves.

To be fair he once was an immensely powerful being. Now he is just a shadow of his former self, even though he is still powerful af

@@amoneyqt8096 I swear we better go back in time I wanna fight this dude when he had all of his heads and not ravaged by time.

If you read the description of the “Ancient Somber Smithing Stone”, it’ll tell you that the dragon lord’s throne isn’t in this time or something along the lines of that. The smithing stones I’m assuming, the Ancient ones, are from him.

His rememberance does say that he lives beyond time. I don't think it's too inaccurate to say that nature itself fears Placidusax

Time is afraid of him, nature is afraid of him, the goddamn music is afraid of him and I most definitely am afraid of him

Fun but sad fact for you. Placidusax actually had 4 heads. There's a medallion that you can find that represents him, and the medallion has 4 heads. Also, if you look at him from the front in the boss fight, look at the bottom and you'll find a long neck-like appendage that seems severed like the more obvious 3rd. I'm like you. I hope they would show us his prime one way or another.

Hopefully in the future DLC. Curious to see him at his primal glory!

There is Arena DLC in future so prepare to die

you could say placidusax is... tarnished

So it can have an extra 10k health? No thank you

I love those super flashy over-the-top moments ever since Kalameet's eye-attack and Manus' phase 2 Dark Magic. Midir, Demon Prince (Spirit Bomb or Laser Beam), Blackflame Friede, Ludwig Holy Blade, God Devouring Serpent, Gael (lightning)... so damn epic!

the only one? dude he literally resets and does it everytime sometimes multiple times a life for me. maybe im getting dick rng but this boss fight is blatantly awfully designed. To lack such fundamental fairness and waste such a cool looking fight on that is saddening

@@FTWGamerTrue he only does it after hes

@@FTWGamerTrue mad cus bad lmaoo Use Holy damage negation buffs and learn to dodge by running, then how to close distance and DPS when you have an opening. You are literally the personification of mad cus bad lol

@@FTWGamerTrue mad cuz bad

😂🤣🤣

Kevin was the life of the party, ichi and ni really let themselves go after he died :'(

It actually have four heads

Me too thanks.

Godzilla reference

@@magmality or the two fingers :D

Mannnn you're so right bro I fell in love with the music it's so haunting and mesmeric

Idk, kinda disappointed, with that dragon's name I expected some smooth jazz and shit

@@BlazeReborn2 a dragon name flaccid 😂

Unlike the dragon god in demon's souls..

Yesss this fight is so cinematic

Notice how the lightning in the background disappears too, he becomes the storm itself

​​@@Morrov yeah yeah! Never realized until today that the moment he started phase 2, the sun is completely gone. No thunders, no clouds, just a grey-colored sky And when he died, the sky became clear. The sun shone, and no more storms

Its up there with Gael for me. 10/10

My favourite part is when he said "It's placidusing time" and then he placidusaxed all over the tarnished.

This could've been the final boss in any other games. But of course classic Fromsoft makes it an optional boss lol

Yeah looks cool. Almost uninstalled at Fire Giant, DID delete save data and uninstall at Godskin Duo. Game sucks 99% of the time bit the designs never fail to amaze

Easy bossfight

@@wolftales5203 you are weak

@@wolftales5203 lol i dont know why ppl cry about the fire giant, went at ng+1 against him lv 150 first try as the first gameplay, the fire hurts tho

I agree on soundtrack and setting. They have been wasted though due to the additional awful design to this fight. The moveset is epic but such a large amount of shit shouldn't be able to one shot you. 3rd phase is literally 95% watching this boss do cool shit that can one shot you and maybe occasionally getting a hit in-between him literally teleporting back and forth. Looks extremely cool but 3rd phase is incredibly broken. This together I might have been able to bear. To not put a grace outside is the thoughtless and weak game design that ruins one of the coolest looking bosses ever. Some may say dark souls was always like that suck it up. They literally chose to add a mechanic this game that admits that shit is stupid. Whats the fucking point of adding stakes if you don't out them behind the hardest fights. Blatantly bad design even admitted by them pretty much. Sorry for venting on you but I wish I could be able to look past those flaws and love it like you

Same, I was grinning from ear to ear every time he unleashed his laser beam attack, it was the most over the top amazing shit trying to sprint at him while avoiding the chaos going on all around. Absolutely phenomenal fight

@@ethanalspencer7294 Indeed. My favorite part is when he disappears cuz I was like "Whoa where'd he go???" And then I see lightning and them BOOM clothes line as I wasn't ready. For me that was a super cinematic moment.

Same, even though he glitched out and stopped moving near the end of my fight with him after he did his constant teleport slashing move, He is easily one of my favorite fights in Elden Ring.

@@Qballiz2kool Yeah, you know it's good when even a bug doesn't hurt the fun.

Dude when he slams his giant spear into the ground and the music stopped for his massive aoe attack i about lost it I has giggling so much, such an awesome fight

Supposedly he was an Elden Lord prior to the age of the Erdtree

@@AlbertusSalvatierra imagine the stories he could tell

@@Zhtrik Ikr? There’s a mini-boss called than Beastman that’s supposedly from the city in the sky. I wonder if it was something like an age of monsters prior to an age of man.

@It is I Dio! Actually it looks like he used to have 4 since there’s one stump to the right of the two heads and dragging remains of another neck right under him

I think he's actually missing two heads, I'm pretty sure I saw a second severed neck hidden near his chest

Agreed, Placidusax gang rise up! All hail the Lord of lightning, the Elden Lord that ruled before the Erdtree!

I think you mean best dragon fight in all of gaming history

Yes, but will he piss me off as much as khalameet?

@@altramen7045 well he doesn't have that bs grab attack so that's a good start, and he doesn't spam any breath attacks. He's more similar to Midir than Kalameet, and he has some sick teleporting attacks that take a little bit to get used to cause he has 2 different attacks he can use while teleporting, they have 2 very different and obvious telegraphs though. Overall relatively easy and such an amazing looking boss with beautiful music and flashy AF attacks. The music cutoff when he does his biggest attack is amazing

What about Fortissax?

Dunno if peak but theyre great spectacles

But Placidusax now is sick and about to dying. Shattered heads, torn wings, and glowing gold wounds began to open all over his body. I hope in upcoming dlc we get prime Placidusax with more hp and attacks. It will be amazing as related to his title

Hraezlyr from God of War 2018 is up there, along with a bunch of dragons from the Monster Hunter series

I really love the music

The hell does ds2 has to do with elden ring

@@AbyssDark The fact that ds2 sucked an Elden ring is avoiding making the same mistakes.

@@theinternetsightseer2935 I still don't understand the comparison

@@AbyssDark Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls 2. If you still can't draw the comparison then you should play it. Again.

As they say, running away is a perfectly valid tactic. As a mage personally, I was very well acquainted with this strategy.

@@TheGravityShifter as a colossal sword user. This tactic was not new to me 🤣🤣

@@S3N_Gaming Fair enough lol

Training with midir at dark souls 3 paid off on that moment

@@maskedguy3033 Absolutely. I only had it happen to me one time but immediately reminded me of Midir. His lasers are even crazier though. I just spammed dodge roll and prayed lol

Funny? Since when this part of the game "funny" 👁️👄👁️

@@spongeman1512 since stopping and watching tiny Mushroom men trip in the distance, and now goats rolling like it’s Limb Bizkit in 2000.

And the most amazing part is that they made it next to impossible to find. Why hide such a glorious fight. It had 0% completion on the trophy list for the longest time. I THINK cowboy was the first to find him.

what? placidusax has nothing on safi'jiiva

Midir better

@@russelld2925 the dark souls games are known for having secret dragon fights. kalameet and midir were both a little bit cryptic to find without a guide.

No wtf

Yup literally just did that now. The ash of war wrecks him.

Just came here to say thanks, I haven’t been able to beat him after multiple attempts, would always get him down to like 30% health and he does the fire laser beams and he’d kill me. I used maliketh’s black blade+9 and +10 mimic tear, and we finished him before he could even get to that point.

I destroyed him using the incantation version

My personal favorite thing to use against this dragon, is ancient dragon lightning strike

Use shard spiral or pest threads as a mage

true, I waste my time going to him only to die in 30 secs

that's specifically bc of the lore. there are no marika stakes in the whole area bc farum azula was built before the time of her reign

@@lukelmaooooo same reason there's no stake of marika next to rennala i guess. Still inconvenient lol.

​@@lukelmaoooooThere are no stakes of Marika in all legacy dungeons.

"I never quite realized....how beautiful this world is....im coming everyone, im coming"

hope you doing aight brotha

Honest question, from 1-10 with 10 being the hardest how hard is this game??

@@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes its a 9 Or 10. Its not unfairly difficult but about as non-artificially difficult as it gets.

@@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes you going to die a lot but it’s worth it in the long run when u do beat Watever boss ur fighting

@@Nrzpokrter lmao even agheel is better than midir. midir suffers from too much health and he always goes away from you making it boring and lengthy while this boss will make medium distance sometimes but will come to you instead

Someone's mad they died to Midir too many times

@@TehKoolaidkid No, it’s just this crazy thing called having a personal preference. Neither one was that hard I just far prefer THIS fight, it was much more enjoyable and entertaining in my opinion.

@@Kro-RissaVirus Just curious, what exactly do you like better about Placidusax? Obviously the presentation, visual design and soundtrack blow Midir right out the water, but gameplay-wise Midir forces you to engage with the fight far more personally with how you have to attack his head. In the Dragonlord’s case you just slap his bum a whole lot, and I thought his fire was a bit more unfun with how it forces you to flee rather than dodge through (like Godrick’s flame breath). Though I do really like his teleport mechanic, I just wish you were rewarded more for dodging well unlike Midir where every attack gives you some sort of opening.

@@fransiscofranco641 Where I’m hitting him to do damage has zero impact on my enjoyment of a boss. I’ve never once stopped and thought about where I’m hitting the bosses to have some kind of impact that makes fights “personal”. I think Midir is fine I just prefer the way this one plays out and feels more.

Kevins officially dead

Boy has nothing to do with Ghidorah. This.. THIS is an *ELDER DRAGON*

@@GrievyRZ Ghidorah: Bitch I killed Venus!

@@Zhtrik Average Monsterverse fan vs. Average Showa enjoyer

yes, but mechanicly no that much.

@@ValentinPagliari Skill issue

@@janogabor7697 I have defeated them all in solo fights, but some like Malenia´s one is more luck than skill.

@@ValentinPagliari Skill issue

​@@Nrzpokrter lmao you fanboys are mentally challenged

I’m surprised folk don’t appreciate this attack as much. The way the heads move with awareness of one another is so fluid. Not to mention the timing of the music

Fr

Git gud

@@KevD720 original

you know its gonna be ruff when your runes sit outside the boss arena 😅

As someone who has fought and loves both, they have their strengths. Placidusax is a much more visually spectacular fight with a lot of cool attacks but he's a lot slower, less aggressive and much easier. Midir might not have the same mind blowing visual design but his fight is a lot more active and engaging, requiring much tighter reactions and reading by the player. Both however are fantastic and the peaks of the games they come from in my opinion.

Hopefully some DLC shows a few bosses in their prime.

*damages malenia until half hp* Malenia: aight ima make this quick *jumps in air and proceeds to do 10000 slashes that u almost can't dodge + getting full hp again almost*

Bandit got it easy

@@bigsmall2842 Hardest boss in the entire game throughout for melee imo was radahn. Unless you got pure luck on your side with him focusing adds and his combos that shit was horrible

@@chazz3726 ong

@@bigsmall2842 morgot was so easy, I had dual 14+ uchigatana and inflicted bleed on him extremely fast which got him to second phase in a few hits. Second phase I killed him very quickly. The draconian tree sentinel at the entrance was harder to beat.

Aphrodite was but a fleeting moment. Elden Ring is forever!

Good observation

Imagine this thing in it's prime... Chills

two heads that never try to bite. haha

The dragonlor talisman shows 4 heads

@@GrievyRZ He had 3 severed necks so idk

Lol just tried this and it's horse shit

Just did this after reading it thank you

Honor a Lord Placiduxas

Juat to clarify this for people, he wasn't Elden Lord. He was the Last Dragonlord. He was there before the time of the Elden Beast, therefore he was never Elden Lord. The Elden Beast was sent through Farum Azula by the Greater Will and only after Marika got far enough, an Elden Lord, Godfrey, was selected. Theu are pretty obvious about this stuff, since there are multiple dragonlord and Godfrey is called THE FIRST ELDEN LORD, by the way. You'd be surprised how the obvious easily flew over other people's heads.

@@asdergold1 He's the Elden Lord figure, as noted by his associated items, but he's not an Elden Lord outright, since the concept had yet to actually exist during his era. The meteorite that struck Farum Azula doesn't have to be the star that the Elden Beast arrived on either.

@@nightscout9979 It is the Elden Beast, mate.

@@asdergold1 The Lands Between have been hit by several meteorites, and Farum Azula has been crumbling since the earliest eras of known history, whereas the Crucible era, before the Erdtree, was apparently recorded to some extent compared to Farum Azula's possible heyday.

@@asdergold1 this is Erdtree propaganda

Yes but it should have state of marika instead of having to go the fking 3 werewolf route all day

@@prozac5314 Absolutely. No idea why most have a grace or marika by them, but the odd one like this does not. Infuriating.

@@stewartdutton8525 neither did Rennala. Kinda annoying

Most of the late game bosses are horribly designed and use cheap tactics to punish the player like Flask catching attacks,moves tracking you in physically impossible ways,horrible camera views and too many attacks that rely on pure RNG on whether you get hit or not.

@Isaiah Wood67 nah they do input read and the AI punishes you for it. a fair number of fights in the game have a lot of rng in regards to what move set they use and when. it absolutely affects the outcome of a fight. i dont think placidusax is one of those bosses though. he feels pretty fair, but challenging.

I got it on ps4 and the graphic quality really isn't all that different

A reminder that this game was made with the expectancy to be played on 8th gen consoles. It runs perfectly on ps4, and load times are quick

Fallen Ghidorha 👌

@DOOMZILLA, Ghidorah was an invader, a destroyer of worlds. Our dearest dragon lord is a force of nature. A living, walking, intelligent natural disaster. The wiser choice is to compare him to an Elder dragon from the Monster Hunter franchise.

Yeah i almost dont mind if that hit me. Its so cool

Or you can backup your save before you fight them.

@AzraelSoulHunter Yeah, my friends are all on console though, so it's a bit more complicated there, but you right, I should get some save games saved on my pc version

@@ZephyrusAsmodeus I did quite a few of them so if any DLC requires me to be at certain point I should be fine.

Bitches love my lasers