Beast Clergyman / Maliketh The Black Blade [RL1, +0, no sprint/roll/block/parry/buffs/aux]

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Published 2024-03-19
featuring Mantis Blade poise abuse in base ng.

phase 1 is rng or at least I couldn't figure it out. I did make some progress because if you stand at the right distance in front of him, he won't do his quick backstep sling. You can dodge any attack he can do at that range (I think, at least) but the problem is I'm not sure how to be safe after punishing some of them, without just staggering him.

In the starting area you can basically just walk at him though, so you can be extremely aggressive and get away with it to get past the phase quickly. Unfortunately he can force you away from there.

Once you're out in the open it's not game over but I usually got hit after some time unless he just did the good attacks and I reacted properly and got staggers asap. You have to react really fast to jump over the double slash.

Phase 2 however is extremely fun and as far as I can tell entirely consistent, with some potential for cool strategies like punishing roar and walking in on his ground thrust explosions. I redid the kill 3 times just to show those off.
I may do an endurance focused phase 2 only kill. rl1 +0 ng+7 sounds good.

All Comments (9)
  • @je-dm2zy
    Hey bro, there's an absolutely insane version of Maliketh on nexus "Death straight up" . A channel Cellthegamer recently did a showcase of it titled "super maliketh". Interestingly the modder ,on their nexus page, mentions you(along with ongbal, bluehood and jordien) as one of the few people he believes can defeat that version of maliketh with a vanilla setup/build. Any interest in trying that?
  • @1recyclebin1
    missed the punish on roar, I expect a redo smh