Elden Ring - Boss Fight - General Starscourge Radahn (Maybe 55th Attempt lol, with Screenshots and Video)

General Radahn pictured above and below:

He's a massive guy who learned incredible gravity magic so he could still ride his favorite tiny horse even though he obviously outgrew it ... talk about love.

Here's some quick info on the game:

(Actual post is BELOW this intro info!)

[GAMEPLAY] In Elden Ring, players control a customizable player character on a journey to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. The game is presented through a third-person perspective, with players freely roaming its interactive open world. Gameplay elements include combat using several types of weapons and magic spells, horseback riding, and crafting.

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[STORY] Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional landmass ruled over by several demigods. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested as the physical concept of order. When Marika eventually shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began warring over pieces of the Ring in an event called the Shattering. Each demigod possesses a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. As one of the Tarnished, the player must traverse the realm to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord.

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Today's post is about my battle against the infamous General Starscourge Radahn in the South East of Caelid.

(If you don't have time to read the screenshots, be sure to check out the full video at the BOTTOM of the page!)

Weeks earlier I'd exhausted maybe 40+ attempts but could not defeat him, even with the help of allies!

Now after many other battles and much leveling up, it only required around 10 attempts to finally defeat him for a total of around 50+ attempts haha

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I found it funny that near the transporter than teleports your Elden Ring character to the General Radahn fight there's huge pool of blood stains from other players

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Here I go running into the desert of death where the big general himself is waiting for me.

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Despite having leveled up a lot since my last series of attempts, I summon as many nearby cooperators as I can spot.

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While dodge-roll is good enough to escape these purple energy cannon attacks from Radahn, I thought it looked cool to Bloodhound Step out of them.

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SOLJAR you have been summoned to join the festival against Radahn -- prepare yourself!

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I swear these spears only hit you if you're on a horse.

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Never mind, somehow riding through the middle of them works too.

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Blaidd the Wolf is such a cool-looking character, love his wolf-themed gear.

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Haha I guess running straight through them works too -- how weird.

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Here I go teleporting through these -- giant magic purple arrows!

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The sequence of you and all your cooperators running up the hill to face General Radahn feels pretty epic -- all of us little guys verse the giant floating dude.

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It feels only appropriate to use the spell that nearly defeated him in the lore before.

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Look how menacing this guy looks with those colossal swords.

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His gravity attacks are incredible and this is him fighting while he's losing his mind to scarlet rot due to his fight with the other champion demigod Malenia.

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Fighting him means getting thrown around a lot but it feels worth it because you're challenging a pretty tough guy.

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Elden Ring is beautiful -- the landscape, the characters, the bosses, and especially the effects from attacks like this gravity special from General Radahn.

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I summon our mount Torrent and ride away while the Scarlet Rot effect eats away at Radahn.

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You can't see it from this distance but Radahn's on his own little horse too.

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At the half-life marker, Radahn flies up into the air like Superman and disappears for a moment.

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It's a very ominous feeling as you look up into the sky and wait for him to return.

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Radahn blasting back into the arena like a goddamn meteor!

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After he lands and wipes most of the cooperators out I ride around and attack him, while searching for any last cooperator signs to help out.

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Here's Radahn throwing multiple meteors at me.

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He knocked me off my horse -- we're in the end game now.

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Torrent and I return back to the fold and I eye blast Radahn with Frenzied Burst.

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It's very effective but I see one last guy with a flaming sword getting in some good strikes at Radahn's leg ... who is this final cooperator?

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Even at the end, seeing this humongous dude ride toward me with his massive swords in the air is super menacing.