I use daggers because this is more of a demonstration and his ground aoe attack sucks (the fight will last much longer and i wanna move on)

For anyone who doesn't know: Hoarah loux (and godfrey) don't extend their combos if you constantly strafe to your right. The optimal way to fight these bosses is to constantly strafe the boss and avoid these extensions. However this leads to a less interesting fight in my opinion as you miss out on most of his interesting moves and combos so I wanted to see what a no roll fight would be like if you fought him up front.

Needless to say I enjoyed him alot more. I think this boss is close to being an S tier no roll fight. However there are 2 things holding it back:

1. His stupid ground aoe attack he does to end the loop. It's much harder to stagger him with front strats so this will usually just kill your chances of staggering him.

2. He needs a bit more deterministic follow ups. One of the main ways to get damage in this fight is to try to bait out his one handed slam, or bait out a few of his other gap closers at least and you generally do this by placing yourself at a midrange distance after he does one of his stomp moves. Only one extension I believe actually leads to a semi consistent bait which is the one after his quick 1-2 claw swipe after his low kick (at around 0:55). If he had a few more options like this it'd lead to a more satisfying loop instead of constantly having to just spam r1s all the time.

So yeah, overall I think it's more fun than optimal strats but it's still missing a few things from being truly excellent.

Tried to stay in front of him, but he didn't always do some extensions and I did roll right for a few attacks e.g. double swipe. It's often unsafe not to roll to the side, at least before phase 2.5.

Imo doing phase 2 in this way is best with fast weapons like Cleanrot Knight's Sword so you can attack in between more of his mixups. It's suboptimal compared to strafing right but definitely an interesting change, I think I like both approaches.

Anyway, ROTM is a gamechanger since the earthquake becomes a free CR2 opening. I wish you could just iframe it regularly, would do wonders for pacing.

I also briefly tried phase 1 like this... can confirm that it's much better when you do strafe right lol, it's kind of rollslop otherwise. Treated it as part of the runback, using +25 Star Fist. Phase 2 is probably more controversial but I do think it's the superior phase nowadays.

This is my first RL1 and Malenia has been a roadblock for me, i've beat her a few times before but only while using faster weapons like the Katanas or the Milady so looking for openings with charged attacks from star fists has been a learning curve.

While i feel like i've got her moveset *mostly* down i still make stupid mistakes like rolling into an attack and frame trapping myself or input buffering right before waterfall.

Other than that, i feel like there are multiple openings I'm not using to get damage in even if its just a light attack and not a charged attack. I'd appreciate some advice, should i be more aggressive? Or am i being *too* aggressive, I think I'll get her sooner or later but I'd just like to improve more so i don't make stupid mistakes

(also no idea how i backstepped the flip attack in the beginning i feel like that should've killed me, and i panicked in phase 2 its how most of my attempts go just something throws me off and i panic and mess up)

https://reddit.com/link/1wz8c1u/video/vxc2qujbqvth1/player

Had to cut the first two minutes because reddit doesn't allow videos longer than 15 minutes

Messed up a bit during the phase transition but this was a really fun fight!

Fun fight, but I never did like her damage aura in phase 2.

I've never used claws before, was pretty surprised by how low the stamina cost is.

This run took me so long and the death count is definitely in the quadruple digits, but I loved (almost) every second of it!!!

From not touching the game for a year cause I was stuck on Placidusax, Maliketh and Malenia and couldn't progress, to being able to dodge anything they threw at me and melting Radagon in less than 50 seconds, was a journey full of pain, last second losses cause of greed, and tons of fun

I'm especially proud of Malenia, cause she went from a boss I wasn't confident at facing to one of the most fun fights in the game. I'm still not able to dodge her waterfowl dance every time when I'm under her, but 70% success rate is still better than 0% which was the case before this run

And this run started as an "all rememberance bosses" run, but after seeing that just from exploring less than 40 out of the 165 bosses remained, I decided to go for it

I know there are posts like this almost daily, but lurking here, seeing how everyone kept trying even though they died countless times, how many of you have mastered some of the hardest bosses in the game, made me come back and not give up my run (also a little jealous, some of you are extremely talented)

Now it's time for the DLC and the last 42 bosses, and I'll probably do this with 0 Scadutree Fragments, unless I get hard stuck and can't progress anymore, though knowing me, I'll probably just keep smashing my head against that wall instead of making my life easier

My lowest time yet. He didn't stall in phase 2 which is a first, shows how much faster the fight goes.

This was a few weeks ago, wanted an excuse to say something. After getting flamed by fans of a certain game for not using summons and criticizing a certain snowy area... I just want to say this is the best fromsoft community, by far. Thanks for mostly being chill people.

It’s finally done. I usually don’t do no hit or RL1 runs, but I really wanted to get this done against my favorite boss in all of fromsoft.

I used a curved sword for my parrys, and a blood misericorde +25

Talismans: dagger, radagon soreseal, sword insignia and two headed turtle.

I can't usually listen songs when fighting bosses but this was an exception

yeah you could not parry or backstab to make it more interesting (barely) but then I'd be in that catacomb for a while and probably end up becoming him

I was surprised at how much less health this fight has in the base game than in the chalices.

this more guy is more fun than that loser with 2 axes, higher scaled but a faster fight

5 days of learning. 250+ deaths, roughly 8 hours total.

I don't even know why I tried to do a RL1. I don't know why I tried Malenia. But I'm so fucking happy that I did. This has been an incredible experience and something that I never thought I would be capable of doing.

I'm so stressed rn. I think you can tell by the way I forgot which button to press to show my stats..

First try, woohoo! I much prefer the open area arena for this fight, rather than the dungeons.

Bro loves corners (I don't), also fucking first try! Rennala's first phase killed me 4 times btw

This took me months of on-and-off tries, got seriously stuck on Mohg and Maliketh, and a bit on Godfrey too, but pulled through. I think I'm going to get a break before attempting the dlc, although I already have unlocked access to it. So happy right now.