
Original article: Last month's Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is, to say the least, brutally difficult — even by FromSoftware standards. Of all of its arduous battles and encounters, though, none are quite as formidable as the expansion's final boss. With a ridiculously meaty HP pool of 46,134, resistances to nearly every damage type, and a lethal moveset with deadly combos and narrow counter-attack windows, many players agree that he's the hardest in Soulsborne history.