Ranking All 69 Elden Ring Shields From Worst To Best...

🌏 Get an Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ nordvpn.com/rustyvpn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ *VIDEO PATCH NOTES 1.01* Upward Adjustments: - Rickety Shield's incredibly low weight went mostly unrecognized in the argument. Willing to boost this one up to 63 but only because it can be made good with other ashes, not because the shield itself is good in any way. Downward Adjustments: - 11:44 The description example highlighted does not thoroughly communicate that the shield has good fire negation, specifically using the word "boosts", insinuating that it is an effect given to the player even though no such thing occurs. Red Thorn has been moved to 66. Bug reports: - Cuckoo Greatshield does not come with Contagious Fury as a default. This does not affect its current placement. Adjusted Ranking: 69 - Perfumer 68 - Marred 67 - Pillory 66 - Red Thorn 65 - Hawk Crest 64 - Black Leather 63 - Rickety 62-1 remain unchange

You did rank all weapons. I respect that. But you didn’t do the biggest challenge possible, and that’s ranking all enemies.

Playing devils advocate, the rickety shield is actually really good for min-maxing your build by allowing you to slap on carian retaliation or golden parry while only having to make room for 1 myazaki unit of weight

Rusty, think it through: if you are a church soldier, the last thing you need to defend against is Holy, because it's the guy's on your side who have all the Holy attacks. It is more important to defend against the Magic heretics. The shields having inverted resistances to the faction makes perfect sense.

No, you're right. Brass Shield mogs all the competition. Not only does it have near-greatshield level stats while retaining the ability to parry, it is also the only holy-looking medium shield that doesn't look like overdesigned silverware.

Can’t wait for rusty to rank all versions of Elden Ring

Rusty descends deeper into madness after each upload

45:20 it is worth noting that at +25 and with a holy infusion, this shield reaches 98.75% holy absorption. You take 1.25% damage from Elden Stars while blocking with it, before your own holy negation comes into play. In other words, you effectively take 0 damage from the final boss's big signature move, and nullify half of the rest of his kit to boot.

Rickety shield has a lot of value in the fact that it is the lightest shield. It's obviously terrible as a functioning shield but ashes of war can be very valuable and you can put a shield AOW on it and it works just as well as any other shield, just for less weight investment. Put a parry, holy ground, or vow of the indomitable on it and it serves a very solid purpose. It's the same idea when people put golden vow on a dagger, use it, then switch to their real weapon.

Can't wait to see where the 'duelist shields' from the DLC are gonna place

We need a general enemy ranking

On launch the turtle shell shield had 100% physical reduction, barricade shield spell that came with it lasted 10 seconds, and combined with passive stamina regen it was pretty great, those bonuses outweighing an otherwise middling shield. Then they nerfed it to only 87 physical reduction, and the spell to only last 6 seconds, and it became worthless instantly. Such a shame. It was a massive nerf, probably a result of pvp before they started balancing that separately from the main game, same with the fingerprint shield.

Coil Shield has another advantage not mentioned in this vid - the snake attack can go through walls rather than bouncing off like normal weapon attacks. A huge advantage if you want to cheese something to death.

48:50 - you can actually two-hand the Fingerprint Shield using a SL1 character (with Radagon Soreseal, Strength Talisman, Omensmirk Mask and the Strength tear). It's use in such a run is completely situational (giving it Bleed affinity + Shield Crash, it melts through NPC invaders and Fia's Champions), but I had my fun doing it.

So... uhh... slight issue with rickety shield... It's the lightest shield in the game, yet it can have it's AoW changed. So you can put Carian Retaliation or Golden Parry on it, both of which have the best parry stats in the game. Rickety shield gives you the best parry in the game, at the measly cost of 1 weight, making it unironically one of the best small shields.

9:43 I watched this entire video, then during my next session of Elden Ring I got this shield as a drop from a tomb skeleton. I couldn’t remember you saying anything about any scripture wooden shield so I thought you might have missed a shield, and I came back and watched this again and nope. You covered it. But that brief period of time when I thought a YouTuber might have forgotten to rank it is the most interesting this shield has ever been.

Me this whole video: "Oh yeah, that one exists, doesn't it?"

can't wait for him to redo all of his lists and rankings when shadow of the erdtree drops

I love the Spiked Palisade Shield. With the Great Stars and Briar armor, its perfect for what I call the "Tetanus Titan" build

It is absolutely hilarious to me how I picked up the brass shield right at the beginning of my playthrough, and it was my go-to shield the entire game, purely because it was aesthetically really good (and was a medium shield). I tried other shields and was like “nah they don’t feel right” and I had no idea it was actually just objectively the best shield. Sometimes fashion does work out in games 😂