As somebody who struggled to beat Elden Ring on its customary issue, I’m continuously amazed by the streaming group’s potential to wrestle FromSoftware’s RPG to the bottom with a reality-defying variety of limbs tied behind its again. Whether that is MissMikkaa beating the sport all through to NG+7 with a stage 1 character, or Ainrun smashing via Shadows of the Erdtree with only one well being, religion, and stamina level.
Yet, as reported by GamesRadar, streamer and Elden Ring maestro Skumnut has just lately taken the collective embarrassment of FromSoftware’s RPG to a complete new stage. Earlier this week, Skumnut beat Elden Ring with out taking a single hit, which would not usually be a lot to shout about on the earth of high-level Elden Ringing, save for the actual fact Skumnut was enjoying at NG+1000.
If you are sat there considering, “I did not know Elden Ring may very well be performed at NG+1000”, that is as a result of it will possibly’t. Normally, new-game plus runs of Elden Ring are capped on the +7 mark. Skumnut, nevertheless, was enjoying a modified model of the sport that unshackles it from this limitation, beefing-up its issue to the equal of NG+1000.
This means each boss within the recreation has over 500,000 HP, with equally scaled harm and resistances. To offer you an thought of how absurd that’s, Elden Ring’s remaining boss, the Elden Beast, has 22,127 HP on a regular run of the sport. Consequently, Skumnut needed to whittle down each a kind of monstrously inflated well being bars with out being hit as soon as. If he bought a lot as his toes tickled by an AOE assault, he’d should restart the run.
Needless to say, this took just a few makes an attempt—115, to be exact. Yet even that was constrained to a three-week interval, much less time than it took me to beat Elden Ring on the primary go. Skumnut’s technique concerned utilizing talents like Black Flame Tornado, which offers share harm to enemy well being relatively than a hard and fast quantity. You can see an instance of this within the video under, displaying the ultimate moments of Skumnut’s run when he felled the Elden Beast.
ELDEN RING NG+1000 with UNCAPPED NG+ scaling NO HIT has been achieved. Every boss 500k+ HP. First on the earth, in all probability the final. Attempt 115 was all the time the chosen one. Only took 3 weeks. GG.Thats why they name me the Elden Ring sicko. pic.twitter.com/X0gh5igNDsJanuary 19, 2025
“That’s why they name me the Elden Ring sicko”, boasted Skumnut of his run, which he additionally acknowledged is the “first on the earth” and “in all probability the final.” While it actually appears the previous is true—no one has arisen to problem Skumnut’s declare—I’ve discovered by no means to doubt the Elden Ring group’s potential to exceed itself, and I’m certain there are quite a few Beast-bashing whizzkids gazing upon Skumnut’s achievement with envious eyes.
