Elden Ring Hand-to-Hand combat - STRONGEST Dryleaf Arts Monk Builds (Shadow of the Erdtree Build)

Today we're going to be looking at some of

the most powerful builds for the Dry Leaf

Arts weapons, and there's actually 2 Dry

Leaf Arts weapons. There's the Dry Leaf

Arts and the Dain's Art Footwork.

So we've got 2. The only difference

between the 2 is basically the Dain's

Footwork one focuses on kicking like that,

so you've got kicking, a few elbows, but

it's mostly cooking— I mean kicking. And

then we've also got the Dry Leaf Arts,

which is for focused on palm strikes. So

you've got palm strikes, elbows, a couple

kicks. It's just kind of like a visual

style difference. So for the talismans,

going for the Shard of Alexander, Ritual

Sword Talisman, Godfrey Icon, and Fire

Scorpion Charm. And for the armor, I've

got the Divine Bird Helm. Now this is a

good helm because, as you can see, it

increases your strength and dexterity by

about 3— 3 strength and 4 dexterity. So

it's a nice little bonus helm to have.

And then the Rakshasa Armor, it's also

good armor to increase your damage. And

then Wondrous Physick, Flame Shrouding

Cracked Tear, and Oil Soaked Tear. And

then for the Ash of War, obviously we're

going for the Palm Strike— I mean Palm

Blast. And I put the Fire Flame Art

affinity onto it. So because we've got

like an INT Faith Strength build, it

should scale well with Flame Art. So you

do the Wondrous Physick and then Golden

and Flame Grant Me Strength. So we're

basically buffing fire damage. So we're

buffed up and I'm looking pretty golden

with my oil. Yeah, so we touch the enemy

to soak him in oil, so he's soaked and And

we do a Palm Blast. 7,000 damage.

That's kind of rubbish actually. Usually I

do like 10k. I don't know why it was so

low. Weird.

Maybe I do 10k on this guy. I don't know.

Don't know why it was so low.

And I ran out of oil.

6k. I don't understand why it's doing such

little damage.

Oh, I got the wrong weapon equipped.

I got Dryleaf Arts equipped, which doesn't

have fire affinity on it, instead of the

Dain's Flame Art Footwork. That was the

one I was supposed to have equipped. Let

me do that again. Oh my god,

it's early

in the morning, guys. Give me a break.

Okay, buff up again.

This time— I wondered why it did such

little damage.

Forgot I didn't put the proper one back

on. Okay, am I buffed up now? I should do

like 10k damage. Watch this.

So he's soaked. Oh,

11,000 damage! That's more like it. See,

that's what I wanted. So we can do like

11,000 damage, 2-shot everyone.

Flying kick. Now watch this.

Watch, watch. Are you watching?

I run a stupid Oil-Soaked Tear, runs out

in like 10 seconds. Useless skill. Yeah,

I wouldn't really recommend using the

Oil-Soaked Tear because you can only use

it once and then it runs out. Might switch

it for something else actually.

But anyway, you can one-shot Did he

one-shot? Nearly one-shot him. But anyway,

I'll switch out the Oil-Soaked Tear

because it doesn't, doesn't last very

long.

Maybe Bloodsucking Tear would be

I'm gonna do Bloodsucking, and then

you want to fiddle, get rid of this

because that won't work anymore because

you'll keep draining health. Maybe get a

Crusade Insignia instead. See if this does

more damage. Okay, Palm Blossom.

Yeah, it did about the same. Weird.

And then get this guy. I thought he

wasn't gonna come. He just stood there.

Does about the same damage.

13,000! That's more like it. And then

there's a guy down here. When you get the

Crusade Insignia buff, it does a lot more

damage. 8K, pretty good.

2-shot. And then this guy,

1-shot. Pretty good.

Another really good build for the Dry Leaf

Arts has to be the Divine

Beast Frost Stomp with magic. So if you've

got high INT like me, this does

pretty good damage. So you're gonna switch

it to Magic Shrouding Cracked Tear and

Strength Knot. Fiddle with

these a little bit. I wish I had Magic

Scorpion Charm, but I can't do the quest

because I killed the— I mean, I set the

tree on fire, so I can't progress it

anymore. So I don't know,

maybe this one. And the

rest is okay like that. Oh, I know, I

forgot. Do— what's

it called? Shattered Stone Talisman

increases kicking and stomping skills.

Yeah, that should help for the Divine

Beast Frost Stomp. Then we do Golden Vow,

then we do Wondrous Physick.

And then Frost Stomp

one-shots them with the Frost Stomp.

That's pretty good build as well if you

don't like Palm Blast, can just

stomp them.

That one-shots basically most of them.

Watch this, watch this.

2-shots him.

Probably can't one-shot this guy.

He'll take it. A few shots actually,

nearly 2-shot. Yeah, so Frost Stomp build

for the Dry Leaf Heart is pretty good as

well. And then you've also got Poison

Flower Blooms Twice builds which can

do poison buildup,

or maybe just do standard or heavy.

Which one does most damage? Probably

quality.

No, maybe standard. Don't really like

poison, it doesn't do much. You apply the

poison, it ticks like 10 damage. And then

get rid of this one, put Kindred Rot

Exaltation.

Buff up.

And basically you just do a flying kick.

It's okay, I mean, it's not amazing. That

was rubbish.

God, they do so much damage,

these axemen.

Why is it so weak now?

It says poison flower blooms twice,

but you only do one attack. So it should

be blooms once, not really twice.

Yeah, it's okay, I guess. Give it 6.2 out

of 10. And then you can also do a blood

build with Palm Blast. It's quite good.

And then you want the Lord of Bloods

exaltation with

probably focusing on doing

many attacks instead of one big attack.

So you want to get stuff like maybe

that one.

Yeah, maybe that'll do good.

Buffer.

Ugh, so bored of this game.

Pretty good.

I kicked him off the edge.

The camera is so annoying sometimes, it

just pings all over the place.

I'm not even getting the blood trigger

because they keep dying so quickly, and

the ones that don't die quickly, they keep

staggering me so I can't do my combos.

See, look— oh, I did it!

This guy's just standing there. Yeah,

blood is pretty good with Dry Leaf Arts as

well. But you would need to be tankier

so you can tank those hits. So if you get

heavier armor,

then— and then maybe something like this

one, so you can take those hits and still

keep spamming them with hits.

Still take quite a lot of damage though.

Jesus. Well,

that didn't really work, did it? Oh, fuck