The Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC that launched last month is arguably the hardest piece of content that developer FromSoftware has ever released, and sparked plenty of passionate debates online about damage scaling, long boss attack chains, and overall difficulty, even amongst Soulsborne veterans. Of its 10 major boss battles, the one the vast majority of its players agree is the most challenging is the expansion's final fight — a brutal struggle against a boss that's got upwards of 50,000 HP, lethal damage output, a moveset so aggressive players can barely get just one or two hits in between combos, and resistances to most damage types in his second phase.
Even when faced with a boss this hard, though, unbelievably skilled Souls challenge runners have done what unbelievably skilled Souls challenge runners always do — make us mere mortals look like wimps by sending that boss to kingdom come with no stat improvements from levels, no weapon or Scadutree Fragment upgrades, and other self-imposed limitations. Now, though, one masochistic Elden Ring player has successfully completed the wildest challenge run I've seen yet: beating the DLC's final boss without any levels, upgrades, or status effects whatsoever, all without taking a single hit, in an absolute marathon of a fight that lasted over 30 minutes.
