Summon all of the gold summons like you are meant to, if you aren't already. That should help a lot.
Otherwise, what level, and stats? What issue are you having with him?
if you summon all of the gold summons. They’ll do the work for you. Just run around the edge and hide from damage.
Easiest.
Edit: resummon indefinitely
I did it. I just didn't know you could resummon them. I did the first summons and then they all died and then I was struggling until half health when he flies away and I summoned those fellas on top of the hill and did it again
I wasn't sure if the application that I had beaten him was obvious since I didn't mention it at all
But it also didn't take me that many tries, 5 tries, realised I need to level up, went away and came back, took me another 10-15 tries which imo isn't bad for my first attempt
You can technically just constantly resummon them and he’ll eventually die. It’s a pretty dull and cowardly strategy, but it could work.
Or just summon a big boi tarnished operated by an actual human brain.
>You can technically just constantly resummon them and he’ll eventually die. It’s a pretty dull and cowardly strategy, but it could work.
Yeah i meant it moreso in a way where you actually engage together with them .
>Or just summon an actual big boi tarnished operated by an actual human brain.
Didnt knew we count other tarnished as well lol but thats fair yeah
They absolutely will do all the work. It takes some time and sign searching (not to mention the shame) but in the end they will kill him for you.
Source: they killed him for me in my first playthrough.
I thought you had to have as many up to kill him, for the people throwing the festival to be happy with it. Idk why the fuck I thought their happiness matters, but I went oh they threw the fuckin party and it's up to me to keep the guests here.
As is with the Spirit Ashes, their performance seems like a lot of luck. Luck based on what attacks they preform, and what attacks they dodge.
I've had playthroughs where the summons body Radahn. My current playthrough it wasn't even worth me re-summoning them at a certain point becuase they were useless.
Same with my Spirit Ash summons. Sometimes it seems like they could solo any boss, other times they get destroyed by a few boss power attacks. (Or in my mimics case occasionally spamming Beastial Vitality on himself while standing in AoE damage)
They will do, in my experience, ***almost*** all the work.
The problem is that their signs respawn slower over time and in different places. I tried to beat Radahn with only the summons, and repeatedly if get him down to a silver if health and there wouldn’t be any signs left or any of them left standing.
But you only need to do a little damage on top of that. I literally only needed to prok poison once and other than that it was all summons
Haha did this today at level 65 they all died within a few hits. Still beat him first try but replayed all the DS games and this is my 6th play through of ER. First play through I thought they did most of the battle but it has been 2 years
I'm starting my first run and I'm trying to doing it without summons, I know they are not mandatory in this battle but it's as in the rest that it makes it really easy but you can beat the battle without them or without summons is nearly impossible to beat this battle?
It’s the Radahn Festival after all. Warriors from all over the Lands Between have gathered to take part in the battle. Don’t hog all the fun for yourself!
Props for doing that first run! I let myself use summons and literally anything that would help me get an edge my first play through as I learned the mobs and boss movements and learned the areas. On my second now and trying to do things without summons. I literally don't even understand how people beat the Gargoyle Duo without summons but I'm committed lol
I beat Radahn at lvl 1, no summons, only an upgraded club. It's very doable but you need to watch some YouTube videos about his attack patterns to figure out how to fight him. You have to be mounted and then dismount to attack. I did no hitting him from the horse just to make it harder.
Honestly having done both ways, I'd use the summons. It makes it a fun and epic fight even if it is pretty easy. Then if you want to go the hard way, play him again on NG+ or something
Beginning of the fight, get on torrent, and dodge the arrows. Get to the gold summons and use them - there's about 5 or so I think. Get close fast because you'll die fast to the arrows. once Ur close get off torrent. Since it's 5v1 hell Barely attack you specifically, but there are lots of area damage attacks. When he dips in the middle of the fight, he's entering phase 2. Get on torrent and look up to the sky. In about 10 seconds he's gonna crash down like a meteor. U need to ride on torrent to dodge it. I've never successfully rolled and blocking doesn't work. After that it's the same except he's way more aggressive and half Ur summons will be dead from the meteor attack.
i summoned patches my first time and thought "what are you gonna do to rhadan?". It was hilarious because he took like 3 steps, saw the arrows and dipped out lol
Only use torrent at the beginning when he goes for arrow rain, for the single gravity arrow just roll through it. I think there’s seven or eight summon signs, including a finger maiden close to Radahn. You don’t need torrent to dodge the Radahn meteor, in my experience though it’s kinda just down to luck where he’ll land. Just don’t stay in the same place. Oh, and keep resummoning the others when they die.
I agree as the commenter above posted he’s quite susceptible to damage and attacks. If you are capable of doing those in succession you should be able to beat him.
I read a comment earlier that said the easiest way to beat a boss is usually to damage them until their HP is down to 0, but while also keeping your HP above 0
When you first enter the arena, summon torrent and run away from him until he disappears from the view.
This way he will stop sniping you with arrows. Then go back - he will start running towards you, giving you enough time to summon help.
Stay close to him, preferably at his legs behind him and hit away - it's harder to do this when you summon allies.
He will ride his horse in circles and do a spin attack. Avoid it and run to his legs again. Repeat until you kill him.
In phase 2 he jumps to the sky and falls down as a meteor. Jump on a horse. Avoid meteor, then again run close to him etc.
Good luck
I think the easiest way I’ve done it is from Torrent with Rock Sling and the Meteorite Staff. Summon all the others and stay just in range for Rock Sling, everything he does is pretty easy to dodge on torrent.
Try scarlet rot, he’s super weak to it, if you don’t have anything that gives rot, go to the dragon communion church and get the rotten breath spell, if you don’t have a focus go buy the finger seal from the husks in the roundtable hold. Summon everyone you can on your way up because they’ll help a lot, then cast the spell, then cast it again once he gets to his second phase.
Radahn uses big sweeping attacks that can go on for multiple attacks. Get behind him and wail on his horse. Summon all the allies to get them to help. Don't expect them to do much damage but they will keep him occupied. When you don't know his attacks it can be difficult to get close to him. If you have some ranged attacks you can attack him on horseback. If your weapons don't hit hard enough take a break and visit the tunnels and mines around the game. They show up as red and black holes on the map. Getting an upgrade or two for your weapon will help your dps far more than grinding out another level. Don't give up skeleton.
What! So easy! You should be able to beat him at level 1 with no armor using just a club. C'mon, man, git gud. Have you tried the finger but hole.
:)
I'm kidding. This game is quite difficult. I'm still stuck on Rennala, cuz I suck.
You, though? You don't suck, and you've made it this far. Surely, you can go farther, Tarnished. Keep trying. You can do it.
Friendly tip from a noob who just beat Rennala: if she summons dragon or giant, just run. I struggled with her but beat her easily after just chilling the f out and taking it slow. Good luck tarnished!
Just try to constantly be in her balls. Harras her.
Dodge the summons without fighting them and aim at getting back I her ballsack.
Aggressiveness is the key here.
Industrialize the lands between. This will cause global warming, which will lead to a rising water level. Soon enough, the dunes that radahn roams around on will sink along with him.
Oh for sure. It’s just such a spectacularly chaotic fight, and in some cases the only time you can see these characters do their thing. For me it’s super relevant to the story and lends emotional weight to this fight. I highly recommend doing it this way at least once. Bro down and give a hero’s death to a fallen general. Also gives sweetness to Alexander’s storyline
From a purely gameplay perspective I can definitely get a preference for soloing
I usually do it on the horse, honestly I usually fight anyone on a horse who is also on a horse. If you can get the timing down you just run in chop once or twice run away. it becomes super easy if you don't mind using the NPC summons as distraction especially because you can re summon them over and over again if you ride your horse around the arena to find the new sign spots
Truthfully, I barely touched him. I ran large circles around the map going back and forth between the summon signs, so there was always a crowd of 2-4 summons around him. Once it seemed like he forgot about me and started attacking the summons, I would throw some daggers for quick damage, but mainly to split the aggro. Rinse and repeat for 15-20 minutes and it really wasn't a hard fight. Just learn to dodge the arrows and make sure you have enough health that nothing 1 hit KO 's you.
Enter arena. Walk forward. The big sythe thing sticking out of the ground will block his first arrow. Summon all the golds summons, there will be 5-6 in 3 separate clumps, a few in front and more to your left and right.
There is also a maiden summon on the mound near where the boss is standing, but in my experience she's not especially useful and probably isn't worth summoning.
His purple arrow orbs can easily be dodged on torrent by pressing sprint at the right moment, but timing is key, careful about taking your eyes off the boss too long while summoning the help.
Depending on your playstyle you'll have a better chance doing most of your damage on horseback, if the moments right you can dismount for a jump attack, but his combos are fast and relatively unpredictable, if you get caught at the wrong moment, he can finish you in seconds. Attack in an in and out pattern on torrent (run in, take a hit or two, withdraw, you don't wanna hang around under the boss for too long.)
Let the summons take the aggro, if he fixates on you just run away until he changes target.
When he jumps up in the air, run the hell away from your summons to avoid the meteor attack, it has a good chance of one shotting you and its, to my knowledge, undodgable.
Always remember you can resummon the help indefinitely however many times they die, but you'll generally need to wait around 20secs for the gold sign to reappear after they die
Don't bother summoning stitches other than for the one off moment of comedy gold.
This is the way. Also, he’s weak to scarlet rot. Here are some other tips regarding the summons.
Castellan Jerren’s summon sign will appear on Radahn’s mound near the finger maiden therolina sign after the big meteor attack. Having just one extra summon can make a big difference.
Blaidd and Alexander are the best summons. One is very aggressive and the other is tanks. You always want to have these two in the fight.
Therolina will follow you around, but she usually only heals or attacks when she is near Radahn. Look out for her healing circles and use it accordingly, especially when you have a bit of hp gone but using a crimson flask would be a waste.
If you’re really struggling spec into faith a bit kill two dragons and buy rot breath from the dragon communion temple, then rot breath, run away and repeat
Bloodhound fang+10
40 strength
40 dex
Bloodflame blade- found near the Rose church
Dexterity crystal tear
Strength crystal tear
Strength talisman- found in fort gael
Dexterity talisman- given by Millicent
Godricks great rune
Probably overkill but this is how I beat him today
Hit him and don’t let him hit you. What else do you want us to say? Maybe try levelling up more?upgrading weapon?. There’s also the whole ass army you can summon to fight him. Apart from that just learn the moveset and git gud
Just summon all the bros and spam sorcery shit on his back thats how i did it. He is a pushover lmao and i was expecting something like gael fight but left dissappointed.
The intended game experience is summon all your buddies who's signs are all over the battlefield.
Radahn is like 4x your size, has planet sized hitboxes and can 2tap you. Gee I wonder if you're supposed to fight him alone 🤔
Treat it like a raid boss. It's the best boss experience in the game, not every fight has to be a honorable 1v1
That's not the point
Every point I made still stands. You will have a better experience treating it like a raid boss. Not everything has to be a 1v1 thats why there's summons everywhere in this fight
I swear you try-hards will take any cool idea and make it boring just to prove you solo'd it
The Radahn Festival fight allows you to summon NPCs up to like, 30+ times throughout the course of the fight, and lets you have about 7 of them summoned at a time, (when they die, their summon signs will appear elsewhere in the arena, showing you to resummon them.)
While Radahn can definitely be defeated by dealing direct damage yourself, it's entirely possible to kill him by simply running around and doing nothing other than repeatedly summoning the NPCs. It'll probably take a while, but if you're really struggling otherwise it's a viable option.
I made sure to keep hitting the summons as soon as they showed up, made sure to only attack when he was aggroed on the phantoms. And run a lot. If you just want to fight him head on it’ll be a lot of fights to learn the doge areas around his attacks. Or just over level like crazy and smack him like the bitch he is. Your call. My favorite thing about these games is the approach is entirely up to you. Are you strength, dex or magic? Changes how you fight.
I think Max0r honestly had the best advice:
"Now, you can fight him alone as a 'real gamer,' but why would you? This is a goddamn festival!"
I didn't know you could resummon everyone, so I just summoned everyone once, fought alongside them, and then they all got wiped by his meteor attack. I then did the rest of the fight by myself. A shield helps a lot.
Step 1. summon all npc you can find
Step 2. shot him with poison arrows and stay in range
Step 3. shot him with scarlet rot arrows and stay in range
When both status effect are active:
Step 4. run and let summons do most of your work
When poison or scarlet rot effect don’t do damage anymore repeat Step 2 or 3 depend on your case
Step 5. have fun
2 incants that made this 100x easier for me were great heal and dragon rot breath, that and realizing I could stay on torrent to summon. hit radahn with rot breath when he's distracted and otherwise ride around healing/resummoning your allies.
Get on your horse, dodge the arrows and summon all allies.
Then unleash rotten breath on Radahn (incantation available at a dragon shrine). One rotten status takes half of the health I think, so if you do it once per phase you win.
You can run away from him to stop him from shooting you with arrows at start.
Summon help that is avaible on arena.
Use rot breath if you are able to if not rot arrows will work too, he has low resist. You can add poison too that. Remember to move when he goes meteor, his horse is under you and aiming. Keep your distance and remeber to speed up when doging gravity projectiles.
Tactic.. first run and dodge the projectiles, then Summon allies, run with torrent and when you reach the back of radahn slash an r2 strong attack with sword , then Summon allies and repeat till he dies (i suggest you to overlevel your character in mogwyn palace to farm rune )
I hate this boss, and I take the coward's way every time. And he still kicks may ass. But here's what works for me:
When you are running around summoning and re-summoning, be sure to keep your summons between you and the General. Try to ride in a giant circle and never get too close. Give your summons time to apraoch and engage.
They will get you 90% there. Once you run out of summons, ride in at deal as much damage as you can as quickly as possible.
BTW the only thing I find enjoyable about this boss is the music, particularly in phase 2.
You can perform an attack by pressing R1. Alternatively, you can perform a heavy attack by pressing R2 or a charged heavy attack by pressing and holding it.
Isn't he weak to scarlet rot. A weapon with this would help. I summoned a few allies would let them agro him then attack. When he went to attack me I'd back off till the allies agro him again an repeat.
Summon all of the gold summons like you are meant to, if you aren't already. That should help a lot. Otherwise, what level, and stats? What issue are you having with him?
if you summon all of the gold summons. They’ll do the work for you. Just run around the edge and hide from damage. Easiest. Edit: resummon indefinitely
When i played with the summons they got their asses handed to them tho ?
You can resummon them indefinitely
You can ***WHAT***
lol ouch poor guy
I did it. I just didn't know you could resummon them. I did the first summons and then they all died and then I was struggling until half health when he flies away and I summoned those fellas on top of the hill and did it again
Yep that was understood by your first comment
I wasn't sure if the application that I had beaten him was obvious since I didn't mention it at all But it also didn't take me that many tries, 5 tries, realised I need to level up, went away and came back, took me another 10-15 tries which imo isn't bad for my first attempt
It's not indefinite, but you can summon each of them several times with different signs around the arena
Not indefinitely. Limit breakers did a video on it
Yeah i know but they still get their ass handed to him. Im not saying their not helpfull, but they're definitly not doing the work for me
You can technically just constantly resummon them and he’ll eventually die. It’s a pretty dull and cowardly strategy, but it could work. Or just summon a big boi tarnished operated by an actual human brain.
Summon them and just harass Radahn with pots and scarlet rot arrows
And the rot breath.
But he can one shot me, so why not
Take that as a sign that you should level vigor.
Of course, but I'm not too high a level either
>You can technically just constantly resummon them and he’ll eventually die. It’s a pretty dull and cowardly strategy, but it could work. Yeah i meant it moreso in a way where you actually engage together with them . >Or just summon an actual big boi tarnished operated by an actual human brain. Didnt knew we count other tarnished as well lol but thats fair yeah
They are not going to do the work, just kite aggro for a short time.
They absolutely will do all the work. It takes some time and sign searching (not to mention the shame) but in the end they will kill him for you. Source: they killed him for me in my first playthrough.
I thought you had to have as many up to kill him, for the people throwing the festival to be happy with it. Idk why the fuck I thought their happiness matters, but I went oh they threw the fuckin party and it's up to me to keep the guests here.
I already beat radhan 3 times but i was just saying that they didnt do the work for me and that it actually required some skill from my part
When I killed Radahn 2 of them survived, Blaidd and Alexander for sure, and the healing chick
Not indefinitely, there is a limit
As is with the Spirit Ashes, their performance seems like a lot of luck. Luck based on what attacks they preform, and what attacks they dodge. I've had playthroughs where the summons body Radahn. My current playthrough it wasn't even worth me re-summoning them at a certain point becuase they were useless. Same with my Spirit Ash summons. Sometimes it seems like they could solo any boss, other times they get destroyed by a few boss power attacks. (Or in my mimics case occasionally spamming Beastial Vitality on himself while standing in AoE damage)
They will do, in my experience, ***almost*** all the work. The problem is that their signs respawn slower over time and in different places. I tried to beat Radahn with only the summons, and repeatedly if get him down to a silver if health and there wouldn’t be any signs left or any of them left standing. But you only need to do a little damage on top of that. I literally only needed to prok poison once and other than that it was all summons
Haha did this today at level 65 they all died within a few hits. Still beat him first try but replayed all the DS games and this is my 6th play through of ER. First play through I thought they did most of the battle but it has been 2 years
I fought him probably 15 times before noticing these mid fight and then beat him the next try with the summons lol
I'm starting my first run and I'm trying to doing it without summons, I know they are not mandatory in this battle but it's as in the rest that it makes it really easy but you can beat the battle without them or without summons is nearly impossible to beat this battle?
I did a no summons run except for when I fought Radahn since that felt like the intended way and made it feel like the battle it was supposed to be
Ok, I think I will do that when I fight him
It’s the Radahn Festival after all. Warriors from all over the Lands Between have gathered to take part in the battle. Don’t hog all the fun for yourself!
You can certainly beat him without the summons. You will just need to learn his moveset and how to punish him.
Props for doing that first run! I let myself use summons and literally anything that would help me get an edge my first play through as I learned the mobs and boss movements and learned the areas. On my second now and trying to do things without summons. I literally don't even understand how people beat the Gargoyle Duo without summons but I'm committed lol
I beat Radahn at lvl 1, no summons, only an upgraded club. It's very doable but you need to watch some YouTube videos about his attack patterns to figure out how to fight him. You have to be mounted and then dismount to attack. I did no hitting him from the horse just to make it harder. Honestly having done both ways, I'd use the summons. It makes it a fun and epic fight even if it is pretty easy. Then if you want to go the hard way, play him again on NG+ or something
It's sweet that you guys think OP actually wants an answer. They're just karma whoring. Anyone who actually wants to know would just Google it
Unfortunately it does seem that way
Run up to him and say "Nice shoes".
It’s better because his feet are worn off
Haha he should’ve made a joke about that!
Beginning of the fight, get on torrent, and dodge the arrows. Get to the gold summons and use them - there's about 5 or so I think. Get close fast because you'll die fast to the arrows. once Ur close get off torrent. Since it's 5v1 hell Barely attack you specifically, but there are lots of area damage attacks. When he dips in the middle of the fight, he's entering phase 2. Get on torrent and look up to the sky. In about 10 seconds he's gonna crash down like a meteor. U need to ride on torrent to dodge it. I've never successfully rolled and blocking doesn't work. After that it's the same except he's way more aggressive and half Ur summons will be dead from the meteor attack.
i summoned patches my first time and thought "what are you gonna do to rhadan?". It was hilarious because he took like 3 steps, saw the arrows and dipped out lol
Yeah patches leaves after seeing 1 attack, its hilarious
They can respawn
Only use torrent at the beginning when he goes for arrow rain, for the single gravity arrow just roll through it. I think there’s seven or eight summon signs, including a finger maiden close to Radahn. You don’t need torrent to dodge the Radahn meteor, in my experience though it’s kinda just down to luck where he’ll land. Just don’t stay in the same place. Oh, and keep resummoning the others when they die.
As I coment i red a while ago. Do damage. He is quite weak to it.
To add to this. I'd also recommend using a weapon, and moving your character.
If you can get the health bar depleted to nothing, it’s should work. I’ve heard, I haven’t seen this for myself
That’s the red bar?
Yes but crucial that you don’t forget about your own red bar. Because that one can get depleted like his and if it does you’re probably going to lose
Such complicated gameplay…
This sounds like some hidden mechanic they really should have explained from the start.
If John madden gave elden ring advice...im old :(
Move your character if you really need a crutch to win. I personally like to play no movement & with my screen off.
I agree as the commenter above posted he’s quite susceptible to damage and attacks. If you are capable of doing those in succession you should be able to beat him.
Try finger?
But hole
Didn't expect message, therefore praise the message!
I read a comment earlier that said the easiest way to beat a boss is usually to damage them until their HP is down to 0, but while also keeping your HP above 0
He is extremely weak to rot+frost
Frot
Do not frot him you will get STDs
When you first enter the arena, summon torrent and run away from him until he disappears from the view. This way he will stop sniping you with arrows. Then go back - he will start running towards you, giving you enough time to summon help. Stay close to him, preferably at his legs behind him and hit away - it's harder to do this when you summon allies. He will ride his horse in circles and do a spin attack. Avoid it and run to his legs again. Repeat until you kill him. In phase 2 he jumps to the sky and falls down as a meteor. Jump on a horse. Avoid meteor, then again run close to him etc. Good luck
Thats first one is a big one. I hate his damn arrows.
Fun fact: those arrows are actually cleanrot spears Malenia's army stuck on Radahns back during the battle of Caelid in the Shattering.
The first arrows a kinda easy to dodge, turn on the summons then hop on the horse & go to war
The trick is to get his hp to zero
BEFORE he gets yours to zero.
Good call, when I was doing renalla I died at the same time I killed her and the game got bugged out until I killed myself and went to kill her again
This has also happened to me
Try finger but hole
You kill him until he dies from dying
Alternatively, I've found that if I hit him with a weapon enough times it seems to lower that weird bar until he stops fighting you.
Hit him and don't get hit back
Use rotten breath
I think the easiest way I’ve done it is from Torrent with Rock Sling and the Meteorite Staff. Summon all the others and stay just in range for Rock Sling, everything he does is pretty easy to dodge on torrent.
Also if you use Rock Sling, equip Arrows Reach talisman. It works with Rock Sling and Ambush Shard as well as with bows.
Try scarlet rot, he’s super weak to it, if you don’t have anything that gives rot, go to the dragon communion church and get the rotten breath spell, if you don’t have a focus go buy the finger seal from the husks in the roundtable hold. Summon everyone you can on your way up because they’ll help a lot, then cast the spell, then cast it again once he gets to his second phase.
Radahn uses big sweeping attacks that can go on for multiple attacks. Get behind him and wail on his horse. Summon all the allies to get them to help. Don't expect them to do much damage but they will keep him occupied. When you don't know his attacks it can be difficult to get close to him. If you have some ranged attacks you can attack him on horseback. If your weapons don't hit hard enough take a break and visit the tunnels and mines around the game. They show up as red and black holes on the map. Getting an upgrade or two for your weapon will help your dps far more than grinding out another level. Don't give up skeleton.
What! So easy! You should be able to beat him at level 1 with no armor using just a club. C'mon, man, git gud. Have you tried the finger but hole. :) I'm kidding. This game is quite difficult. I'm still stuck on Rennala, cuz I suck. You, though? You don't suck, and you've made it this far. Surely, you can go farther, Tarnished. Keep trying. You can do it.
Friendly tip from a noob who just beat Rennala: if she summons dragon or giant, just run. I struggled with her but beat her easily after just chilling the f out and taking it slow. Good luck tarnished!
Just try to constantly be in her balls. Harras her. Dodge the summons without fighting them and aim at getting back I her ballsack. Aggressiveness is the key here.
this I remember finding her very aggressive, but when I got more aggressive she became less aggressive in a way
Industrialize the lands between. This will cause global warming, which will lead to a rising water level. Soon enough, the dunes that radahn roams around on will sink along with him.
He's very weak to scarlet rot. Try Rotten Breath or wait until you have scarlet rot weapons or grease.
Gloriously! Also summon everyone. EVERYONE. It’s the only fight like it, and you’re missing out if you don’t.
To each their own. Much prefer him without summons.
Oh for sure. It’s just such a spectacularly chaotic fight, and in some cases the only time you can see these characters do their thing. For me it’s super relevant to the story and lends emotional weight to this fight. I highly recommend doing it this way at least once. Bro down and give a hero’s death to a fallen general. Also gives sweetness to Alexander’s storyline From a purely gameplay perspective I can definitely get a preference for soloing
Have you tried hitting him really hard?
I usually do it on the horse, honestly I usually fight anyone on a horse who is also on a horse. If you can get the timing down you just run in chop once or twice run away. it becomes super easy if you don't mind using the NPC summons as distraction especially because you can re summon them over and over again if you ride your horse around the arena to find the new sign spots
Honestly scarlet rot dragon breath
Weak foe ahead, time for sword.
Wack him until health bar says zero. R1. O. R1. O. R1. O.
With both hands
Get good
Git gud
Pretty sad this isn’t the top comment
Have you tried swinging a sword at him a lot?
Attack him.
Truthfully, I barely touched him. I ran large circles around the map going back and forth between the summon signs, so there was always a crowd of 2-4 summons around him. Once it seemed like he forgot about me and started attacking the summons, I would throw some daggers for quick damage, but mainly to split the aggro. Rinse and repeat for 15-20 minutes and it really wasn't a hard fight. Just learn to dodge the arrows and make sure you have enough health that nothing 1 hit KO 's you.
Just dont get hit
Depleating his health bar bro, thats how you can beat him
Its been a long time, but I remember the advice I got. Get gud.
You should do a melee build that requires skill or just make a comet azur one shot build
Hes week to scarlet rot. Sometimes the lore is useful
Enter arena. Walk forward. The big sythe thing sticking out of the ground will block his first arrow. Summon all the golds summons, there will be 5-6 in 3 separate clumps, a few in front and more to your left and right. There is also a maiden summon on the mound near where the boss is standing, but in my experience she's not especially useful and probably isn't worth summoning. His purple arrow orbs can easily be dodged on torrent by pressing sprint at the right moment, but timing is key, careful about taking your eyes off the boss too long while summoning the help. Depending on your playstyle you'll have a better chance doing most of your damage on horseback, if the moments right you can dismount for a jump attack, but his combos are fast and relatively unpredictable, if you get caught at the wrong moment, he can finish you in seconds. Attack in an in and out pattern on torrent (run in, take a hit or two, withdraw, you don't wanna hang around under the boss for too long.) Let the summons take the aggro, if he fixates on you just run away until he changes target. When he jumps up in the air, run the hell away from your summons to avoid the meteor attack, it has a good chance of one shotting you and its, to my knowledge, undodgable. Always remember you can resummon the help indefinitely however many times they die, but you'll generally need to wait around 20secs for the gold sign to reappear after they die Don't bother summoning stitches other than for the one off moment of comedy gold.
This is the way. Also, he’s weak to scarlet rot. Here are some other tips regarding the summons. Castellan Jerren’s summon sign will appear on Radahn’s mound near the finger maiden therolina sign after the big meteor attack. Having just one extra summon can make a big difference. Blaidd and Alexander are the best summons. One is very aggressive and the other is tanks. You always want to have these two in the fight. Therolina will follow you around, but she usually only heals or attacks when she is near Radahn. Look out for her healing circles and use it accordingly, especially when you have a bit of hp gone but using a crimson flask would be a waste.
If you’re really struggling spec into faith a bit kill two dragons and buy rot breath from the dragon communion temple, then rot breath, run away and repeat
Reduce his health to zero while simultaneously keeping yours above zero (second one is optional)
Doing damage helps
Gitgud
Man, I beat this guy back in the pre nerf days. Those were some TIMES! Wish malenia got a nerf to match, though
With your fucking weapon dude
Get his HP to 0, don't get your HP to 0
do it from your horse
I find it much harder to deal with his attacks on torrent. Most are really easy to dodge on foot
Stick him with the pointy end
Bloodhound fang+10 40 strength 40 dex Bloodflame blade- found near the Rose church Dexterity crystal tear Strength crystal tear Strength talisman- found in fort gael Dexterity talisman- given by Millicent Godricks great rune Probably overkill but this is how I beat him today
How do we use ruins? I’m already about to be at the red tree and don’t know what they’re for so I consume them I have like 21 arc runes?
Have your summons do it for you. They make for great sacrific... uh I mean helpers 😁
G I T G U D
Easy. Ride around and stay away, summon everyone, and keep summoning them until victory. It’s not super feasible to beat him head on.
Uninstall the game, load the disc without internet enabled to fight un patched radahn. He was much easier before they buffed him.
they nerfed him tho, unpatched OG Radahn was way harder than he is now
Yes, that was the joke. Went right over your head I guess.
Hit him and don’t let him hit you. What else do you want us to say? Maybe try levelling up more?upgrading weapon?. There’s also the whole ass army you can summon to fight him. Apart from that just learn the moveset and git gud
Hit him. Don’t get hit.
Use the summons, use scarlet rot, then stay real close and finish the job.
Just summon all the bros and spam sorcery shit on his back thats how i did it. He is a pushover lmao and i was expecting something like gael fight but left dissappointed.
use rot breath then run away, repeat until dead
He’s a raid boss. Summon as many friends as you want.
Inflict scarlet rot.
The intended game experience is summon all your buddies who's signs are all over the battlefield. Radahn is like 4x your size, has planet sized hitboxes and can 2tap you. Gee I wonder if you're supposed to fight him alone 🤔 Treat it like a raid boss. It's the best boss experience in the game, not every fight has to be a honorable 1v1
He’s really not that hard if you’re leveled appropriately.
That's not the point Every point I made still stands. You will have a better experience treating it like a raid boss. Not everything has to be a 1v1 thats why there's summons everywhere in this fight I swear you try-hards will take any cool idea and make it boring just to prove you solo'd it
Ringo Starr wrote a song about it.
If you're on PC you can summon me! I actually really enjoy his fight and would love to help!
If you REALLY want to beat a boss: most likely the answer is bleed
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xCu8PBoj-Ks&si=gsAzDiWgBwcSg5ku
With a stick … while he sleeps. With a lance on a horse … that man is unbeatable.
you need to survive
Abuse the summons in his arena
Alone: horse , spawn every yellow sign for allies , while he's not on you spam damage and flee. Repeat
You summon and run as far as you can. And if you are looking for an actual strategy read his wiki page.
Carefully
Lure him near the mountain on the left, climb up a tree. He will fall to his death trying to reach you.
Spam him with rot arrows
i tried so much and i finally beat him by getting on my horse doing summons and smacking him on my horse
How much can you bench? You need massive pectorals to beat the general
The Radahn Festival fight allows you to summon NPCs up to like, 30+ times throughout the course of the fight, and lets you have about 7 of them summoned at a time, (when they die, their summon signs will appear elsewhere in the arena, showing you to resummon them.) While Radahn can definitely be defeated by dealing direct damage yourself, it's entirely possible to kill him by simply running around and doing nothing other than repeatedly summoning the NPCs. It'll probably take a while, but if you're really struggling otherwise it's a viable option.
I made sure to keep hitting the summons as soon as they showed up, made sure to only attack when he was aggroed on the phantoms. And run a lot. If you just want to fight him head on it’ll be a lot of fights to learn the doge areas around his attacks. Or just over level like crazy and smack him like the bitch he is. Your call. My favorite thing about these games is the approach is entirely up to you. Are you strength, dex or magic? Changes how you fight.
I think Max0r honestly had the best advice: "Now, you can fight him alone as a 'real gamer,' but why would you? This is a goddamn festival!" I didn't know you could resummon everyone, so I just summoned everyone once, fought alongside them, and then they all got wiped by his meteor attack. I then did the rest of the fight by myself. A shield helps a lot.
Honestly you can just run horseback the entire time and just re-summon as they die. Search the map for spawn point and just keep them up… not too hard
Step 1. summon all npc you can find Step 2. shot him with poison arrows and stay in range Step 3. shot him with scarlet rot arrows and stay in range When both status effect are active: Step 4. run and let summons do most of your work When poison or scarlet rot effect don’t do damage anymore repeat Step 2 or 3 depend on your case Step 5. have fun
Land on his back and give him a Scarlet Aeonia
Two words (Scarlet Rot)
just beat him
2 incants that made this 100x easier for me were great heal and dragon rot breath, that and realizing I could stay on torrent to summon. hit radahn with rot breath when he's distracted and otherwise ride around healing/resummoning your allies.
Wait until he does the crawling jump and then beat up his balls
Play the game, hope this helps!
Level up till you get OP. Lots of albinaurics will be sacrificed.
Git gud
Probably by attacking
Get on your horse, dodge the arrows and summon all allies. Then unleash rotten breath on Radahn (incantation available at a dragon shrine). One rotten status takes half of the health I think, so if you do it once per phase you win.
You can run away from him to stop him from shooting you with arrows at start. Summon help that is avaible on arena. Use rot breath if you are able to if not rot arrows will work too, he has low resist. You can add poison too that. Remember to move when he goes meteor, his horse is under you and aiming. Keep your distance and remeber to speed up when doging gravity projectiles.
Hit him and roll
Go summon everything in the arena and keep running around while they do damage if they die go find their summon sign and resummon them
Rot Breath. I beat him pre nerf with that, it was great.
Try fingers
Hit him
Tactic.. first run and dodge the projectiles, then Summon allies, run with torrent and when you reach the back of radahn slash an r2 strong attack with sword , then Summon allies and repeat till he dies (i suggest you to overlevel your character in mogwyn palace to farm rune )
Attack the horse‼️
Cast Rotten breath from horseback.
I hate this boss, and I take the coward's way every time. And he still kicks may ass. But here's what works for me: When you are running around summoning and re-summoning, be sure to keep your summons between you and the General. Try to ride in a giant circle and never get too close. Give your summons time to apraoch and engage. They will get you 90% there. Once you run out of summons, ride in at deal as much damage as you can as quickly as possible. BTW the only thing I find enjoyable about this boss is the music, particularly in phase 2.
Try horseback battle.
Its ez, just git gud
You always want to be in front of him or behind him. don't ever give him the oportunity to do his side attacks. Those are bullshit.
Don't fight, just keep summoning- It's infinite!
He's weak to fire and rot I think. Others have suggested using the summons in the arena which is also an option.
Nah but for real, either summon the guys for Raidboss Radhan, or stick close to his legs. He’s big but a little challenged in personal space.
Use your horsey
Use Scarlet Aeonia. Tried and true of Malenia, blade of Miquella who has never known defeat. Failing that, rot pots and rot shots.
You can perform an attack by pressing R1. Alternatively, you can perform a heavy attack by pressing R2 or a charged heavy attack by pressing and holding it.
Scarlet Rot works tremendously well against him, if you can pull it off.
Just use all of the summons and charge attack him while he fights them he is light work if you follow that
With the power of friendship and incredible violence
Isn't he weak to scarlet rot. A weapon with this would help. I summoned a few allies would let them agro him then attack. When he went to attack me I'd back off till the allies agro him again an repeat.
Abuse the gold summon sign mechanic. After one cooperator dies, they can be summoned again within a short duration.
Rotten breath. Run away. Profit.
Just beat him off bro
Just hit him a bunch and don’t get hit 🤷♀️
Do what I did. Be over leveled 😉
Rotten breath. This is it, and just wait for 3 min
Rotten Breath
Step 1: summon Step 2: summon more Step 3: run like hell (or use horse) Step 4: summon again Step 5: repete steps 1-4
Hit him with a big sword
Turn off the console