Elden Ring player achieves "the hardest one-shot kill" in the game, downing an 89,000 HP boss after 8 hours of punishing trial and error: "It's absolute hell"

Elden Ring Rykard.

Of all the Elden Ring challenges out there, defeating serpent demigod Rykard in just one hit might stand as the most impressive to date – or, at least, it's certainly up there.

Now that the FromSoftware RPG has been out in the wild since 2022, players have found all sorts of creative ways to challenge themselves. Heck, folks have managed to tackle no-hit saxophone runs and more… if you can believe it. There have also been plenty of attempts at one-shot boss takedowns – and successes, as Reddit user Cheppitos survives to prove.

In his latest post, he announces that he's not just killed any boss in a solo hit, though.