Dude that dark blade into life hunt scythe on Yhorm was actually slick as hell

A quick-tip for casting only runs. The saint-tree bellvine when equipped in the offhand increases your cast speed to maximum, you don't need the sage ring or dexterity.

The staff bonk is due to the staff’s length. Shorter staffs = less range, but also easier ‘sweet spot.’ Long staffs act like halberds and scythes with summoned weapons for the most part

"summon weapons are a completely viable PvP build if you're fighting Gamer's Weekend" That.. That killed me

I know that a spellsword is usually a blade and spell user; but you've captured (for me anyways) what a true spellsword actually is. Spells becoming the weapons you use. Looked awesome and

For the mirror images on the crystal mage, you can skip that phase all together if you don't start attacking him until he casts homing soulmass. He can't disappear while the spell is up, so if you can damage him down before it fires off you'll only ever fight the one mage. Just dodge the other spells til he casts it. not sure how the damage is on this build, but for future challenge runs it's worth considering.

26:30 - Midir Laser avoiding pro-tip:

We all heard it very clearly, didn't we? Backlogs literally and explicitly promised us that he WILL do DS1, 2 & 3 fist only next!

Idk if anyone else has suggested this, or if it's actually worth suggesting, but the Crystal Chime might have been useful in this run,

I mean, technically, you could've just summoned some friends and have them drop a good weapon for you... Technically a summoned weapon...

Ok, so about the staff bonk, the reason your staff is deflecting is due to the fact you dont have enough strength to wield your catalysts one handed. When casting spells such as soul greatsword and flash sword you are considered using it one handed, as during the animation you use one hand for it even if you two hand it. The bonk happens to opponents with something called natural armor, and when you fail to meet the stat requirements for your weapon it'll just deflect right off of them. Similar thing happens with the pyromancers parting flame, don't have the stats you get the bounce with some spells.

When you and Frieda traded kills you both had the same death animation. Awesome.

"This spot marks our grave" probably the most heard line of dialogue in a ds3 challenge run...

to be honest, based off technicality, you could’ve used stormruler during yhorms fight because the lore says the special attack is a “blade formed of wind”

“Never would’ve thought an NPC would give me so much trouble, though.” flashbacks to Ymfah trying to beat Wilhelm in the Slav Knight Gael run

Imagine being a massive, building sized knight and a mage walks up to you, figts you and parrys your massive great sword with a casual back hand slap.

One of the hardest-working people in gaming YouTube lol. Sick vid.