 Usually when it comes to games I like to think that I know my way around, but every now and again you do find the rare one-off boss that does humble you. So far during my time in Elden Ring, yeah there have been a few experiences here and there, but nothing too bad. That is of course until I encountered Blackblade Kindred. I'm not even gonna lie, it got so bad that while I was live streaming my chat was begging me to move on. They were saying I was too underleveled that I would never do it, but deep down I knew I could. But I guess I just never thought about how long this boss fight was going to take me exactly because it was a lot of time. Now that he knows that I know that he's a boss, he's kind of swinging on me. Which is okay, you know that's fine, that's fair, I'm not gonna take that from him or anything. But I also know that he runs at the beginning, so I can do this. If I double jump slash, he'll run away. He didn't run. I feel like I'm kind of confused why he didn't run. What in the fucking 360 swing? He's a good sword-wielder too, yeah. It's true, another being that wields a sword in this world. I'm gonna hope for a run start here so I can get my runes. There we go. Get the run start. Oh! Alright, well 10k runes ain't even that much anymore, you know how it is. Is that not your quadruple slice starter? There it is. There's the guy I know and love, the fucking, the man with the quadruple slice plan as they call him. Way early roll by me! Alright, I'm actually gonna go on record and say I think I prefer his axe phase. He's a tough one, harder than the dragon. Get new armor, police. I don't know where to get armor. In my sweet cape, what would you have me do without my sweet cape? I'm going to simply win. Your souls? No, I didn't have any. They're just imaginary. Oh, it buffered three again, that's so annoying. How long did it buffer that, man? Alright, one. I'm gonna meticulously count this. Alright, no buffer. We out. Now we get to do some real sword play. Oh! Cut me in twain! I hadn't seen that move before. Alright, here we go. Back at it again. Oh! Wait, can't we just pretend like that didn't happen? Alright, you know what? I needed to start like that to humble me. Oh my god, he's going with the fucking chaotic swing. His greatest move in the game. And there's the axe! Seems to be getting cooked. It simply is what it is. I'll beat the shit out of this thing. I'm getting cooked for now. Watch me work. Oh, it's pretty good. Oh, buffer of the inputs! Alright, always roll left with that move is something I have in my head now. Decent opening. Let's play some defense. And then he just starts pretending. Why he walking like that? I just hate, I don't even mind how he walked. I'm just mad that at some point he's just like, you know what? Fuck sword play. I'm swinging. Bro, have some respect for the arc. I might have buffered a third input here. Bro, I clicked that third input mid jump swing. Damn! The buffer is crazy. Leave. This is a 0-10 matchup. I don't run. I might have buffered a third input. I'm going to hope I didn't think of it. Get some real sword play. This guy is ridiculous. Yeah, bro, get your axe. I prefer your axe. Oh, he just started scraping the ground. Oh, we've got a lot of learning about the axe. This dude is a bitch. Actually, skirt! Hold on. Now we're ready. I'm high. We're dead. Oh, we're alive. Even with the buffered. Actually, you know what? I will face you up here, coward. Wow! Why did that slice kill me? Use your summons for distractions? Oh, man. You just disrespected my entire family. I don't summon. I'm not changing my... I don't summon. I don't... I'm dead. I don't live in boss fights. Oh, my fucking diagonal slice. See, when he goes fucking crazy. I didn't get to roll. Can you sweep the armor through some of the moves? Maybe, but he gets pretty hard. I think I'm better off just trying to not get hit. This motherfucker will kill me. I'll fight you up here, coward. I'm not afraid. He has a move for every situation. He's gonna hit me with the diagonal swing. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, what's the matter? Oh, and you hide your face, you little cheat and ass coward. This guy's a bitch. Axe phase. I'm expecting him to go across the ground. Oh, a fucking tornado attack. Okay, tornado attack. That's gonna add some difficulty to the axe phase. Not gonna lie. That's an attack that was new. Maybe try to fight on... He's spitting. I forgot Winston was even an option in this fight. Perhaps I've been playing it all wrong. All right, well, we have to dodge that first. Winston is for dragons. Bro, Winston is for... Winston's that guy, bro. He helps with dragons, but he can help here, too. Uh-oh. I buffered a third input. Classic. I can't get away from this motherfucker to summon my horse. Get Winston before attacking? No, no, no, no. I still want my double slice. I still want my double heavy open. And I will achieve my watch. This is gonna be the perfect run. Not in the terms of us killing him, but in terms of what I envisioned. Buffer? Oh, God. Bro, I'm dead-ass, not even gonna use Winston. I'm just gonna out-sword play this man. Y'all thought I was messing around, too. All right, now we run. It might actually be too hard to avoid among Winston. Ah, but we could just out-pace him. Ugh, the axe is so... It is gonna be hard to... Actually, maybe we can double jump. All right, still hope, still hope, still hope. Damn, he fucking killed with... Oh, my God, he cracked me like a nut, dude. What the fuck was that? Jesus Christ. Fuck it, Winston got bodied. All right, let's try the Winston open. What's a Winston opener look like in this cool world? About half of what he did. God, he just fucking will bash that horse's brain and the horse ain't the answer, bro. Hmm, you know, he's a possible answer. If it was multiple choice, he'd definitely be on there. I'm trying to see what he's got. Oh, he dropped his... Ah, it is gonna be a tough sword play fight, I think. I don't know, I think we're just gonna have to go one-to-one, mono-e-mono, dude. Jesus Christ. Am I... Is it possible to do that? Am I that good at the game? Let me use a bit of Winston. Winston. Love to see it. If I could get more, more like that, then this boss might be easy. I'm gonna double jump Winston. Nope. Yeah. Also, maybe Heavy's on the horse isn't the way to go. Please stop. You can't beat him. I don't think you understand how much that just makes me want to ram my head against this wall even more. Oh, no, the ungodly buffer. Also, I read somebody cheesed him at the door. I'm gonna do that. Ah! Oh, no! Aw, what's the matter? Big bitch can't fit through the... Oh, the diagonal slice! Nothing bitch made about cheesing. What the fuck? Sword of Night and Flame, maybe? This is the only sword I own and the only sword I want. He accidentally jumped off a cliff for me. What? Guys, these are all strategies you have to mention. To the cliff! I should have probably been looking at him. But now, dude, I'm gonna beat his ass. All right, so I'll back him up on a cliff and I'll make him fucking jump, dude. This shit gonna be a breeze. Oh, my God, he's multi-fucking. I have to roll at him, but I really wanted to... All right, dude, that's too far from there anyway. Don't be a bitch and fight him like a man. This is fighting him like a man. I got a sword, no summons. All of my gatekeeping is in place. But pushing him off a cliff, that's just fucking gaming. Winston can actually help us get to the cliff. Perfect spot. Oh, man, I almost fell off a cliff. Come on, you big bitch. Oh, he was so close. Is it really possible? Holy shit, dude. I almost fucking got his ass. Come with me, bitch. Yoo-hoo! Over here, dude. Oh, come on, dude. Don't be that way. Oh, what a baby, dude. There he is. Come on. There he is. There's my guy. Come on. Come on, bitch. He fucking pushed me! What did he throw? All right, you guys want a real run? Let's do a real run real quick. Just to make sure my sword plays up to snuff. Uh-oh. Real run over. If he can fall off a cliff, that's the strategy I want to use. That's the strategy I love. I love that idea. But if he takes real sword skill, then I'll do that too. We can do both. I'm going to lead him over to a cliff. Who is this? Who the fuck? Who the fuck is Sirdeniel over here? All right, I'm going to play him one-to-one, one-to-one mono sword against sword until he switches the axe. Oh my God, I hate this guy. He can speed up and slow down. He truly is good at the game. Stay under his legs until I get cracked over the head, dude. Cracked over the head. In it. In it. God. Oh, I'm alive. Oh, the triple tornado attack. I only saw two. Get his back to the cliff, and jumps back with the red sword. Perhaps we go back to the cliff strat. I don't know how I would get his back to the cliff. Oh, he fucking scraped the ground. He's staying away, dude. He is, he is fucking staying away. You know what? I don't even need... I'm going to 1v1 this little bitch. If I saw anything during my last performance, is that it's possible. All I have to do is believe. And not fight. All right, get down here. Right this instant, young man. Yeah, I'm not sure why we're going to the axe phase already. I didn't... No way there's a second part to that attack. It's hard to tell when I'm under his day, dude. Fuck. Axe phase has a lot more openings to punish, but I would like to do a little more damage when he has his sword. This dude is an aggressive ass boss, but I'm going to take him down. Oh, he damn it. All right, chat. Everybody get comfortable. This is going to be the run, but it's going to be a back and forth battle. All right, dude, I can feel the run. I just don't know how many hours away it is. Ah! Fucking... I can't believe it. He's good. He knows everything about Okoi and me with a sword. Black blade kindred. You know what? I think this guy is a kindred spirit, dude. This is me in my ultimate form. Oh, hell, yeah, we got a little... Ooh. A little opener, a little something for the whole family to enjoy. I am going to try to get a free hit in here. This is my last word. Get two sips. All right, you're right. Hey, you good? You good? You good? I rolled into it again. I hate that attack. All right. Chat, I'm initiating three runs. The final three, chat. Behold, chat. This is run one of three. Watch and learn. This is how a master plays the game. Try not to get too impressed, chat. Yep. Yep, yep. Ooh, he tried to Okoi. Wow. I've never seen him frame one punish with the axe. Oh, that was a beautiful run. That was a beauty of a run, too. Sometimes I lose the door. That was a beauty of a run. Damn. All right, I'm taking this thing's ass. I can't see. Am I dying? I'm dead. Oh, we almost clashed blades. Oh, never mind. My sternum. Roll, motherfucker, please. Nice. All right. No, we're not fighting the axe up here, dude. What the fuck? But he's not going to let me. He's going to use all his punishable attacks up here. Can we please go downstairs where the axe is better? Sword, I fight on sta- Okay, two. That's two, by the way. All right. This is the final run, chat. Four hours and 30 minutes of stream have led up to this. Every bit of knowledge we've gained over the past two hours of attempts. We're going to use it all now. Nice. It's a damn shame. I keep fucking swinging. Oh, we jumped the punish. All the Okoi move got jumped. I can't get to his fucking eyes. Don't bring it. The wall should eat this. Okay, good. Otherwise, we were dead, by the way. Not to scare any of you guys. Jump that shit. Bring out the axe. Make sure to dodge it. Gonna try to fly at us. Dodge that shit. Oh, shout out to my fucking great-grandfather who inputted that attack three years ago. He passed it down to me. All right. I'm initiating the fourth attempt. Yep, opening the fucking ancient fourth bottle, dude. You guys didn't think there'd be a fourth try here, but here it is. This is the forbidden one. Honestly, I shouldn't even do this on stream. If these tactics were to leak to the Elden Ring community, it would be chaos. But I have to do it. Oh, my God. I'm not gonna get it again. Life can be so fucking cruel. Sippy Cup animation. He's going for the axe. All right, get down, get down, get downstairs. I rolled it to the- All right, hold on. Three is such a limiting number. It's actually always been five. Let's do this shit. Oh, baby. And we actually got the stagger for once in our lives. And the game didn't fuck us. He's going for the axe. Oh, that second swing goes hard. All right, one more try. All right, one more try. I can't leave, dude. I can't leave. I can't prime myself. God, please. It's just because I'm dying to the stupid axe. If it was anything else, I would have ended, but this mother fucker. No way. No, no, no. All right, this is it. This is the fucking big one. This is the one they've been warning you about. I'm done twitch-acting with this bitch. Roll that. I'm in the zone. I'm in the- Oh, I'm not locked on. I can't fucking see. I'm probably about to get stabbed. He's beating my ass, and I can't even see it. Almost fucking died. Jump punished that. I'm godlike. Jump it. Into here. Oh my goodness. Battle always good enough. I didn't notice. Last attempt. Beautiful. Couldn't have fucking drawn that up any better myself. Oh, don't even fucking try that shit, dude. He's fucking a lot. One more. This one's going to be fucking the last one. Okay, I'm just not happy with my attempts, man. Like, that doesn't even count. I think it's just because I've been doing it too much. My bail stacks have overloaded. God, this boss is such a bitch. I'm dead. All right, I'm putting it up. I'm revealing what should have been revealed longer ago. Yeah, final run for real edition. I think we're ready. We're back, baby. We're back in the world of Elden Ring. It's been a while, Chad. Let me check this buff out. Ooh, that do feel a little faster. I wonder if I would have even noticed if you guys hadn't pulled me down. That, I feel like I definitely would have noticed the light attack. All right, Chad, we've taken weeks off of Elden Ring because I made a promise. I promise that the next time we return to Elden Ring would be the day that this black blade user falls, dude. There can only be one blade user here, bro, and it's going to be me. Let's fucking get this shit. First, let me just see if I, you know, obviously we're going to go with a few learning attempts here. Can I get three? No, you can't ever get three. You got to roll left on that. That was obviously a learning attempt. I did three jump attacks. I know you can't. Maybe now with the buffs, though, we can get in a quick normal swing. I'm feeling good all right. Hold on. Wait a minute. I'm already feeling pretty loose. I thought this was going to be a five-hour stream because we stream until we beat this guy. Can I get one swing? Roll left. Nice, beautiful. Now we want him to fall off the stairs because that'll give us a free hit. That's beautiful, baby. Maybe a quick swing. The fucking, who could forget the iconic double back step into a stab maneuver. Truly fucking iconic. I love that move. Love that move. I could have went my whole life without ever seeing that move again, but I'm glad I didn't. Also, shout out for the spawn point facing me backwards. That's definitely not going to get old. This is the run. Oh, he didn't start. Oh, not feeling calm, but in kindred. Come here, bitch. Already got your number. Oh, that's bullshit. All right, he's going to try to do the back step. Ooh, then the old nutcracker, huh? I fucking did a way too early roll. He scared me. I got it. I got the... Oh, that's the optimal starter. They do have it. The sternum blaster. No sternum blaster. No sternum start lift. Oh, here we go. Here's the big boy phase. Here's where men get the real damage in. This axe is actually for... This axe is a bitch made move right here. I forgot about the... Okay, the fire tornado attack. I didn't know the opening. Didn't know the opening. Didn't know the opening. I will say, chat, another thing I'm noticing, maybe it's because of the speed boost. I haven't buffered any attacks yet. I don't know. I was bitching and whining and crying about that a lot. But I haven't buffered any so far. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy kindred. Easy. Oh, I'm doing it. No way. Nice. Come here. Come here. Bring that ugly-ass mug here, boy. The sternum startler. Yeah. Yeah, I got him. Oh, I got him looking goofy now. Oh, no. I would say if I was bitch made. I'm going to go... I regret. I regret. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. God, that felt like such a good run. I don't even know what attempt number this is, but I'm going in. Oh, I buffered an input. And again, chat. A lot of people are going to be thinking to themselves, you know, you got to go level... This boss isn't even that hard. Just go level up. Come back. But again, a part of the challenge is, I'm not going to do that. I simply will not do that. Right now I am level 55. I'm almost 24 hours of game time, and I'm not going to go level up. I'm going to keep fighting Kindred until I beat him at level 55. I'm not leveling up. The next time I level up, we'll be with the souls this guy gives me. Well, optimal, optimal, we look... Yeah, going to have to send that clip into the Elden Ring devs, because I don't know if that hitbox was legitimate. I do remember one axe attack that was really fucking obnoxious. I don't remember what it looks like. I think he just drives... That's the one! That's the one! That's the one that he comes... That's the one! That's the one right there. That's the one I was talking about. Imagine doing something other than a heavy jump swing. Never that. Could not be me, honestly, except it is at certain points of the fight for strategic purposes, but other than that, could not be me. Just adds too much done. Like right here, that's a light swing. You don't have time for anything else. I'm sorry, but what the fuck were that? Oh, little dumbass. Headshot! Headshot! Oh, that was fucking beautiful! This is the kind of run you'd love to see. Okay, I can heal that. I'm going inside. Oh, what's the matter? A little baby upset? Yeah, come here. Stay mad, bitch. No, I don't want to play against your axe form. Oh! I still ain't do shit to convince me to come outside, though. Look at him running for me. Look at him run. Look at him scared. Oh, my brother. Oh, why does it have to be the tornado attack? Oh, not optimal. Love it here. Still a very good start, and it shows that our fail stacks are really starting to build up to something special here. Can I just go for three? I knew this bitchass was going to get stunned. I'm just going to take this. Lots! There we go. Risk. Show no fear. Okay, no fear. No fear. Okay, boys. Let's bring it home. We've danced this dance a thousand times. Come on. Come on. I literally don't even see you as a challenge anymore, bro. One slip-up is all I need. The next time you get stunned, it is done, dude. Now, there's a lot of risk in the sword phase. We cannot tell a lie. There's the risk. Oh, I told you I wouldn't let that shit happen to me. The one-shot move! The fucking one-shot move! I put it out of my mind. I had no fear, so I forgot the fear. Holy fucking class! That was anime! Too bad I'm going to heal instead of hitting him, but... Oh, that could have gone fucking terrible. I can't... I can't risk that. I would love to go for a double there, but I won't. Come on. Let's keep it simple, Kendra. We don't need to do anything too crazy. No! Maybe we're going to have some tag. Get stunned! Do I... Do I greed? What the fuck? I'm greeting! I'm not greeting. That fucking killed me! That's not real. That's not real. That's not real. I couldn't even tell it was a fire attack or I would have ran like... That's not real, dude. That's not real. That's not real. I didn't even greed for real. I said it. I thought about it, but I didn't think that was too greedy. Maybe I stand to... I didn't even consider that too greedy, man. She's greedy, man. All right, all right, all right, all right. My fail stacks are at an all-time fucking high right now, though. I was actually playing so patient with this motherfucker, too. Come on, bitch. Just die, dude. What the fuck? I don't think that should have hit me, but whatever. Woo-hoo! Fuck that thing, because I'm still not even... Wow, I did live it. Try me, bitch. That attack should not hit. That was not real. Oh, my God. Double heal. Greed, greed, greed, greed. Yeah, I get a little greedy sometimes. Poke. Speaking of greed, do I go for it? I ain't no bitch. Oh, ignore an asset. Where you going? Hey! That's the fire. I ran, I ran. That's the fail stacks kicking in, baby. That's what fail stacks look like. That's what the fuck I'm talking about. This shit means something to me, man. Oh, no. That was my last demon. My last demon to fight. I'm gonna greed. It's been an honor, kid. But fucking die! Get out of my game! Yeah. You know, the scenery's kind of beautiful with him gone.