We’ve seen no-hit runs, we’ve seen permadeath runs, and we’ve even seen somebody beatElden Ringusing nothing but the power of their own mind. But beating Elden Ring to death with nothing but your bare fists? That takes dedication, especially when you’re already well beyond New Game Plus.
Twitch and YouTube streamerQuestionMarkSis just that kind of dedicated. After reaching Elden Ring’s pinnacle level of 713 (which is where every stat gets maxed at 99), QuestionMarkS continued to challenge himself and Elden Ring by playing through the game without a weapon. Every boss would be defeated using just his bare fists and the tiny amount of chip damage possible by rolling.
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While rolling offers the player the incredible ability to completely mitigate damage with the correct timing, it normally doesn’t have the ability to deal damage. For that, QuestionMarkS uses the Briar armor set. However, for an extra challenge, QuestionMarkS only used the Briar armor’s gauntlets. This allows him to deal one damage point with every roll.
The rest of QuestionMarkS’s questionable build involves improving his survivability as much as possible. The Icon Shield grants passive health regeneration augmented by the Bestial Vitality and Erdtree Heal spells, while the Dragoncrest and Spelldrake talismans provide damage mitigation.
For other bosses that are more easily parried, QuestionMarkS has a buckler with Golden Parry, but for Morgott, the plan was to equip the Briar gauntlets and just keep rolling.For eight. Whole. Hours.
Even on your first playthrough, Morgott has over 10,000 hp. I can’t imagine how much health he has on whatever New Game Plus QuestionMarkS is playing on, but it required a full day’s work dealing one damage at a time to finally take him down. And it relied a lot on that Icon Shield’s healing since there’s no amount of Golden Seeds that’ll give you a Flask deep enough to deal with Morgott’s sword for eight hours.
Elden Ring fans are asking the natural question after watching a Tarnished roll around for eight hours:why?Why do this thing? Is it for the sadistic glee of burning what few hours of life we’re granted to dispatch a fictional character in a video game in the most inefficient way possible?No, according to QuestionMarkS. He did it “for fun.”
And he’s not stopping either. Head on over toQuestionMarkS’s Twitch channeland you’ll see other challenge runs in progress, including his latest challenge of beating Elden Ringusing just the Wraith Calling Bell.
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