Every Incantation Ranked! Elden Ring Spell Tier List Patch 1.10  

Still waiting on the stonesword key usage tier list

Unknown fact about swarm of flies: it can stun Malenia every tick of damage, so it’s pretty much useless against everything except the hardest boss in the game where it shreds her health bar and leaves her vulnerable to attacks.

And at 00:23 seconds in, this list gets immense credibility by a) establishing this list is specifically applying PvE not accounting for PvP and b) showing what stats were used for the data on this list. And that, fellow Tarnished, is how you make a solid tierlist and gather good data. Youwy, you're the goat, my man. A certified LORD.

The main thing i like about swarm of flies is that if you immedietly cast it right after a critical attack they will almost always face tank the full spell allowing you to immedietly proc bleed after the critical attack

One of the things about Bloodflame blade you forgot to mention is that the bleed buildup continues on an enemy while the fire is ticking. This is one of the most important aspects of the enchantment. If you want to see it in action, take a Nagakiba with Repeating Thrust and Keen affinity (I had 20 points in Arcane for this). Put bloodflame blade on it. Go the the Subterannean depths and use the Ash of War on one of the Omen dudes. If every hit lands, he won't bleed immediately but a second or 2 later he will proc blood loss because the bleed continued to build while the fire was damaging him. This is exceptionally handy as bleed begins to slowly tick down on bosses if you don't keep hitting them with a bleed weapon. That 2 seconds can be the time you need to dodge an attack and counter.

I just started a faith build today and this timing was just perfect. Thank you good sir

You can proc Law of causality by using night maiden mist. That doesn’t make it any better but it’s kind of funny.

This was a fantastic list nobody is gonna agree on everything but your description off the bat was solid and reasoning for each was great good job man im impressed

i still kinda miss pyromancies being a separate magic type

I'm happy that the youtube algorithm brought me to this video even if I don't speak English, great video, I can't even imagine the work involved. greetings from Argentina

Great video mate. Just starting a faith build and am glad to see it won't be hopeless, I'm already enjoying lightning spear and bloodflame blade but still have a lot more incantations to amass by the looks of it.

Ahhh yes, the beginning of *"Youwy Semi-Debunks Rusty. ER Ranking Videos"* series has officially begun!

“Glorified skeleton killer” yes, that’s what it’s intended to be

Thanks for the amazing upload!

Love this ranking! Happy 2024 man \[T]/

awesome vid as per usual!

In terms of Black Flame Blade, I was just doing a bit of testing in the Underground Roadside with a +25 Nagakiba against the Omens. I tested out a 80 Dex Keen build with BFB, 80 Arc Occult build and 60/45 Dex/Arc Blood build. Consistently the 80 Arc Occult build out damaged the other 2. Single hits between the Dex and Arc builds were fairly close with the Dex build doing slightly more damage but with the quicker Blood Loss buildup from the Arc build the Omens would die a lot quicker and in fewer hits. Especially when paired with Spinning Slash, the Arc build out performed the Dex/BFB build.

i’m glad the Blood incantations are extremely good now. I remembered wanted to make a faith bleed build when the game just came out, I found out about them all over the days with videos and so on. Sadly they were all kinda ehh except for the weapon buff and swarm of files.

I swear youwy is psychic, everytime I'm thinking of something he makes a video about it

I bought the game at release but could only play it now, thanks for uploading updated content and so much at it 🌹

Great video Rusty!

God thank you for talking about how dumb it is that people reset frost I never understood why people started thinking that's a good idea

Amazing video! this helped a lot thanks.

Thanks for the awesome video 👍🏽

We are getting closer to the ranking of all the 308 weapons in Elden ring

My only problem with Catch Flame is how close I have to be to the enemy. The entire point of being a caster is to fuck shit up before it can even get near me.

Best explanation so far thank you Youwy

2:41 i feel like elden stars is a bit too low cause while it does suck at doing damage i found that it's main use is doing poise damage and the fact that you can launch it then follow it into battle, for example i found that this spell dominated mohg cause of how much it melted his poise

Babe wake up new definitive best take on incantation’s dropped

Maybe it's just me but I really like black flame ritual. The effect may seem lacking against single enemy due to the FP cost but it helps me get out of many multi enemy situations because they will almost always run into it. It has fast animation, deals decent percentage damage and stuns enemies for some good seconds, meanwhile I can either heal, charge up something else, or just let the spell finish the job for me.

1:02:00 Also AI ignores it in terms of dodging, so best incantation when they can avoid other stuff Edit: Winner does not surprise me. Absolute beast

Nice video bro 🔥🔥

Thank you for this video bro

I personally prefer black flame fireball over Lightning spear as it's just so efficient at dealing damage, especially lategame. It's also worth noting that the godslayer's seal has the best scaling in the game until you get like 60+ faith

very good video - keep it up 👍👍

ive found a single use for law of causality and its in my ranged builds whenever i am going into an area where i know there are ambush dogs/rats/imps etc, often they manage to surround and stun lock you to death (i am a pretty newish player) so this delayed shockwave helps get them off and gives me space to figure out a way to fight them

Its like michael zaki had a slight feeling of guilt over all the poison swamp areas so he started to give more options to heal. But in the middle of that process he came to his senses and instead decided to troll us with so many useless poison heal spells

Flame cleanse me also removes frostbite due to the self fire damage which is just a neat design. Doesn't move it higher though

Swarm of flies deserves better!!! This is slander! I have consistently used it to great effect when defeating Malenia every time

This guy is by far one of the best Elden ring game informers. Really like your content bro👌🏾

i dont like the argument of the lesser dragon breaths>named ones bc fp cost: 17% is an absolutely massive damage increase for incantations that do so much damage. With such slow attacks you need them to hit as hard as possible It is more than worth 25% more FP

i just beat malenia for my first time last night after about 50 tries, so seeing her tossed in the air by aspect of the crucible horns was immensely satisfying for me lol

Great work)

I didn't know I needed this but I did

Thanks for adding boss spoilers in the video. Its good to show respect. But also where do you get that armor set you use in the video

Surprised about Death Lightning. I found it pretty good and it carried me against Godfrey in a pure Lightning Damage run. It casts faster than ADLS, has a 360° radius so you don't have to worry about lackluster tracking like with Frozen Lightning and the damage massively outperforms Lightning Spear.

You’re wrong about blackflame ritual. It’s not meant to be a main. You need to know that alone it’s as bad as you say, but it’s more of a complementary spell and a great one that you shouldn’t miss. By itself it won’t do better than other incantations and in fact costs a lot of fp, it’s difficult to land due to hitboxes, doesn’t last too long and is shadowed by scouring blackflame against most main bosses. However I’ve found out some things. It becomes a great option to apply the percentile and raw damage to enemies like avatars, tree spirits, ancestor spirits, grafted scions, lions, lobsters, crabs, fingercreepers (in all three variants) and runebears due to their size, vulnerability to fire and amount of pressure they do to you. Most of them move a lot but that is compensated by size and you figuring out the best casting spots. But you need to have radagon icon and endure aow if you want a better experience. I got the elite runebear in consecrated snowfield killed easily by casting this while having a dagger with endure, and the three ulcerated tree spirits consecutively. Burn o flame does a lot of damage but leaves you open and you aren’t guaranteed to cast the spell properly in many situations. Tree and draconic sentinels and nights cavalry also are vulnerable despite their fire resistance and mobility due to their size. Radagon wolves are an odd case. There are instances when it’s good but it’s just better to cast other spells because they move too much, or cast an uncharged version. Normal mounted enemies are destroyed by this. If you need to kill mounted albinaurics this allows you to get them stunned and you can attack them with ease. You don’t know how much satisfaction that brings after so many times I struggled and died cheesed by a magic bow and wolf. Duo and multiple enemy fights become easier because most targets block each other when moving and blackflame ritual will deal damage and has some decent stagger, and when this doesn’t work it still becomes guaranteed damage like against crucible duo and the two commanders. I don’t think you would use scouring flame as a main in the crucible fight because they close distance fast enough to not let you cast it, but against the two phantom banished knights it’s better combined with ritual. Normal sized enemies are a different story. All soldiers, dogs, ancestral followers, and beastmen are destroyed by it, but scouring flame does waaay better in that regard, except against basilisk where you’ll prefer ritual bf. Black knife assassins and cemetery shades move a lot but they do that to jump back at you, so this spell stuns them. If you’re annoyed by alecto then this is your spell. Against omen, leonine misbegotten, knights in general and kindred of rot it’s only a means to stagger them. They can get an attack so don’t get confident with it. You can counter this by casting scouring bf after ritual, one of the best combo spells I’ve found in pve. From this you need to know that this is a situational spell as you’ve seen. It’s rare to see instances where damage is its perk. You also need to vary between charged and uncharged versions depending on the moment’s needs. You’ll figure out how each situation is managed by yourself. And most importantly it only becomes solid in ALL the examples I mentioned when it’s combined with something else, whether it’s an a or s tier spell or a weapon. In my case I use guardian swordspear with bf tornado to combo, but you can use a sacred affinity gs with sacred blade, or blasphemous blade. I also hated this spell when I first used but after a lot of testing I know it’s a great complementary spell that deserves better.

There are 2 other weapons besides Sword of Night and Flame that scale off of Int/Fth Fire/Holy infused Clayman's Harpoon Magic infused Erdsteel Dagger And kind of in a roundabout sense, Tree spear (Really op when buffed with Scholar's Armament with Azul's Staff)

Idk why but his red character is annoying

250 hrs played and I never thought to try and spell parry my own rebounding spell. Thats sick as hell.

the intro was funny... you should include more sections like that in your videos.

For 80/80 str/faith which seal is the best? Clawmark or erdtree? I don't care about specific buffs some seals give. I just want one

I don't think Elden Stars was truly designed to be a damaging move in the traditional sense. The health damage it does is minimal but the poise damage it can do is really great. Been using it with my current build which focuses on poise damage and if I can get it off at the start of a boss fight, mix it with some of the other poise-damaging moves I have and the bosses are usually on their knees pretty quickly and ready for a riposte.

You sound like C3PO. Keep up the great work

Now obviously love the video, rankings like these are always fun to hear what the argument is for or against them but seriously some of you need to chill on the whole Rusty hate. Like this isn’t a competition or a dunk on Rusty for his list. Youwy just wanted to make the list, and even if it was in spite or because of Rusty’s list, at least it’s not in malice. Seriously we’re all on the same community and do these videos for different reasons. Some of us like to entertain our audiences with numbers, some of us with hot takes to actually bait people to comment, which obviously works. That aside though still very good video Youwy, I wasn’t sure if I would agree with these but this is actually pretty accurate to how I view the Incants

is a solid tier list the only thing I don't agree with is swarm of flies in D yes after the nerf it does 0 damage but it chases enemies over a long distance and in combination with a weapon or other enchantment it causes bleeding very easily and because i chases enemies you can just move away and cast it a few times and it will have safe damage, it is not used as the main source of damage but on the other hand it complements an arcane build very well

tk so much for all the data

The only proper use case for vykes dragonbolt isnt riding med-heavy rolls, but light-med rolls, that way the buff feels like it does more than "letting you play normally with a bit of extra armor on for a bit", i mean it only will add some distance to your roll, but at least that's an advantage and not just normal gameplay (i say normal because most players will go for that med roll) And imo the way to reset frost is near the end of the debuff, with a nuke

Damn I had no idea that Theo's Magma does such insane damage. Killing Radagon with it in 2 hits is hilarious

Surge Flame is good if you have a frost weapon in your main hand. As it easily applies fire damage to help reset frost build up which allows you to build it up again quicker.

I’m pretty sure they recently buffed the swarm of flies, I’ve been using it with my bleed build and I cannot stress this enough, nothing procks bleed faster than that little spell there, 2 casts with 80 arc and the base faith and everything gets bleed. Obviously some weapons and ash of wars are better but you cannot go wrong with this spell, I tend to cast it twice before anyfight and 9/10 times my enemy or boss gets their first bleed proc as I begin my normal attack combos, and for any enemy who doesn’t get their bleed counter will ideally they it after the first two hits after casting the spell. As a spell to use by itself it is bad but in tandem with anything bleed it’s actually hella good.

Surge o flame is basically 1 fp for every flame partical it shoots.

are you using the dlc set with mods or were they aways in the game and i didnt know

This ranking video is awesome. Doing sorcery next would be pretty nice

great stuff

Much appreciated.

Fun video. Idk about Rejection, Shadow Bait, Whirl O Flame being C tier. Also upgrade your mind lvl, like you have no reason too have that little mana 😆You do not mention the stamina usage that much which can be very punishing

Weapons list in the future? What tier could the Pike be, how valuable is having the longest reach

Started ER on Christmas. Accidentally found out how OP Dragonmaw was on my 1st playthrough. Finished Foreskin Duo first try. I'm still trembling from it. This is unfair. Turned my dex/faith build into faith/arcane.

Elden stars works as an Extrem Light Pollution when duel begins, and it always hits hard for once at least😂 . Dont judge it

What armor are you using in this video?

Lords Heal is amazing for co op- if you don’t know what your getting summoned in for it gives a lot of help in a lot of areas

Flame cleanse me also deals 15 fire damage. It cleanses already procked frostbite :)

something that Honed Bolt has over other lightning incantations is that it won't miss even while clearly going through the target like all other lightning incantations, even ADLS, INFURIATINGLY does so. Seriously, it pisses me off so much to cast the spell and the lightning bolts just missing because the enemy was 1cm off where the bolt has exactly to hit. When they hit they're amazing, but a lot of times they just won't, and it even doesn't matter sometimes if the enemy is big, they will still miss, and even so it kinda sucks to me that most of the times they will just be good on big enemies. These spells are way too inconsistent for me to rely on them too much, but they're still good.

I WISH... 'Dragon Claw' was cheaper but did less damage. I want a 'Catch Flame' for pure dragon incants. Even with the FP cost buff its still expensive. While it hits like a truck there isn't enough of a difference between it and Dragon Maw for it to have the specs it has.

How to do the attribute points when playing with seals in both hands? Thank you

Youwy is definitely not doo-doo trash

Question how’d you get that armor even though it was removed

valid ranking nice

What armor are you wearing in this video mate?

How much fp diff is there between glinstone breath and the smaraged one ? Is it the fp diff that Makes the Diff between them ? Like its Not Even A its B and glinstone is S

I thought using fire damage completely reset frostbite, meaning you could proc it again with the same ease as you did the first time.

5:35, dualwield fast bleed/frost weps and use this buff.

flame surge, the surge oh flame of ds3, was top 3 pvp spells. that is likely this one is nerfed to be slower

I understand why insescapable frenzy is so low on the list, but it's so goddamn fun to bully Gideon and the Mimic Tears with it.

1:04:50 now thats a lot of damage

Finally! The TRUE Objectively good tierlist. Flame grant me strength and golden vow being S-tier is so simple yet makes so much sense

Law of Causality is just heart-breaking... The only use I ever found for it was baiting players in while I used Holy Ground (whilst under the effect of Last Rites), and it would catch them while they tried to punish me... But sadly it does 200-300 damage no matter what. They should have had it work similarly to either Tears of Denial from DS3 (saves you at 1hp) but adding the explosion to protect you from being combo'd/punished, or Second Chance from DeS (which works like Tears of Denial, but after reaching 1hp it restores half of your HP) while also giving the explosion... Hell, they could have it activate from being in combat for x amount of time. The fact it needs 5 hits within quick succession is stupid.

Whats the current best build do u think?

When he said "look how much damage it does to radagon, it just fucks him up" and saw the damage i started laughing so histericaly

bro finally pulled through

AN interesting thing about Pllacidusax's Ruin is how in interacts with terrain height differences. If your target is on a slight elevation from you it hits much more consistently. a handful of well timed fully charged casts can kill Malenia really fast. But the timing and spacing are really tricky.

26:46 you pair it up with Giantsflame take thee in 1-2 punch

What armor is that, the blue chestpiece with the helmet and patterned scarf? Some kind of mod?

Fit goes hard (feel free to screenshot)

Rusty will react to this on stream and criticize it

I doubt I will nitpick any of your opinions because those are opinions but saying swarm of flies is bad for bleed procs is a matter of build because with 60 arcane and a +10 dragon communion seal I was getting most things to bleed in one cast and if it was something with high robustness I might have to get to 4 casts if they are getting out of the clouds too quickly. I'm thinking you may have to revisit that for yourself, not for making a "correction" but so you don't have to miss out on having a solid ranged bleed option for people. Although, the thing I'm pointing out is from NG not NG+ and that might actually make the difference so I suppose I'll have to get my bleed build to NG+ so I can know the difference.

I suck at this game but I used Giantsflame take thee to bully Melania and defeat all the Night’s Cavalry. It’s also my go to when i panic. I think it should be a little higher.

Giant Flame Take Thee should be at S tier, in the top 5, maybe in top 3. It is good charged and uncharged, do decent stance damage and it is the one that does most damage without having to get close to the enemy and charge for 3 hours like Ancient Lightning Strike

1:05:39 you did NOT have to do yourself dirty like that 😭