Elden Ring Hand-to-Hand combat - How to Build a FIRE KICKS Monk Build (Shadow of the Erdtree Build)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today we're going to be looking at this

really cool fire build for the Dryleaf

Arts, focusing on the Ash of War Dryleaf

Whirlwind. You can do a combo of

devastating kicks combined with

the Dain's Footwork, which focuses on

kicks as well. We have pretty powerful

martial arts style that focuses on kicking

people in the face. So for the build,

we're gonna go for the Rakshasa armor the

Golden Chicken Head Helmet, and, um,

yeah, maybe not these, uh, Godfrey Icon,

Shard of Alexander, and also the Fire

Scorpion Charm give you bonus fire damage,

and Crusade Insignia. So for the Wondrous

Physick, we're gonna go for— not

that— and go for, hmm,

the Flame Shrouding Cracked Tear, and also

Maybe oil-soaked

here. Okay, and then we're gonna switch

Crusade Insignia to Sword Ritual Talisman

because that's better. Ritual Sword

Talisman. So anyway, go and get Dryleaf

Whirlwind. It's really easy to get. I just

got it just now, even after I finished

DLC. It was here. You spawn here and then

you go up there and it's literally on the

edge of a cliff. This is so easy. So then

pop your buffs, Flame, Grab Me Strength,

Flask, Golden Vow.

Now the Whirlwind kicks does 3 kicks—

2 kicks and then 3rd kick, which is like a

slam down kick. So what you want to do is

go and soak him in oil. This gives you 20%

buff to fire damage. And you do Whirlwind,

you can one-shot them easy like that. And

watch this, watch. It's so good.

It's really good for

kicking them and

then just buff up. Pretty good.

So it's kind of like Palm Blast, whereas

Palm Blast charges up and does one massive

bit of damage, this just does 3 bits of

damage that stack up. To do a total of

damage that's nearly as good as palm

damage— Palm Blast, or is it Palm Strike?

It also staggers them, so you can kind of

stun-lock them with successive Whirlwind

kicks. So watch this,

it will stagger them. It takes about

probably around 2 Whirlwinds Yeah,

not super smooth, but I think you get the

So that's one way of doing the Dry Leaf

Arts fire style with the whirlwind kicks.

Yeah, pretty good. So you go back to this

grace, and you can also try a Palm Blast

with the Flame Art affinity. And, uh,

quite like Bloodsucking Tear seems to do a

lot of damage with the Flame Shrouding

Tear. And then you can't use Sword Ritual

Talisman anymore, so you switch that for

the Crusade Insignia. And it's pretty much

the same. Palm Blast I find is much better

because you charge it up It does massive

damage, so you buff up.

Flame, grant me strength.

Flask, might take an FP potion,

and then charge up the Palm Blast.

9,000 damage, that's pretty good damage.

10,000 damage.

2-hit him, blast him out

the window. 13,000 damage. Did you

see that damage?

9,000 damage. And watch

this, watch. Oh my god,

I just one-shot every single enemy in this

room. Now keep your health buffed up

because we're draining health from the

blood-sucking Cracked Tear.

Now one-shot this guy.

One-shot,

8,600. That is the true power of a fire

Dry Leaf build. You just one-shot

everything.

It makes the game a joke, really.

It also knocks them back, so whilst

they're knocked back and trying to get up,

you can just charge up another palm blast

and then they get up straight into a new

palm blast. Watch this, watch.

Why am I not locking onto him? Weird.

And then heal up here.

You can use the table and chairs as cover

whilst he's shooting. Charge up Palm

Blast. I wonder if you can push him into

the fireplace and he goes on fire. That'd

be pretty funny. And there, we just

cleared the zone. Zero deaths. Gonna move

on to the next zone. We've got some little

imp guys.

Ouch. Kick him in the face. And then we

got a red guy. See how good this build is?

I'm literally unstoppable. So you

want to sneak up on the red guy. They look

so creepy. Look how skinny and tall, long

their arms are. The body proportions in

this game is like— the person who designed

the people in this game don't— they don't

understand realistic body proportions.

They didn't go to school of anatomy when

they learned their arts degree or

whatever. I mean, look at this. Why is his

neck so long? Why is his arms so long

compared to the legs? Everything just

looks weird and freaky.

So you sneak up on this guy, do a Palm

Blast. Oh, nearly one-shot.

Damn, I hate it when he charges up that

attack. And then we go down

here. Yeah, so this is a good fire

build for Dry Leaf Arts, highly

recommended.

Rakshasa armor gives you bonus damage.

Golden chicken gives you strength and dex

bonus. I feel kind

of sad I finished the DLC. I've done

everything now. Killed the last boss. I

think I've killed every boss. Nothing to

do now. Waited 2

years for the DLC to come out and it's

over in just 2 weeks.

That's what you get for no life in games.

Palm blast him.

This area was so annoying because you go

up and up and up, it's never-ending.

What happened?

Like, you go up this way, but you can also

go up through the church district

entrance. So if you go here,

there's an entirely different set of steps

and and ladders and lifts that take you

right to the top.

Who the hell built all this? I mean, why

are there those weird connecting bridges

that go up diagonally? Maybe there's a

staircase inside of them. What's the point

of all these spires? It seems like such a

weird design. Oh shit, I thought

I was gonna die.

Oh, what's that? Oh, it's just a big crab.