Elden Ring Great Katana combat - How to Build a FIRE Samurai Great Katana (Shadow of the Erdtree)

Flaming Strike and Slash. Oh, I nearly

one-shot this guy. Oh my God, the damage

is crazy. I made this really cool build

using the Flaming Strike Ashes of War with

the Great Katana, and I made this kind of

fire-based playstyle. It's pretty cool.

I'm gonna show it to you today. So what

you want to do is get the Great Katana and

then put on the Flaming Strike Ash of War

with the fire affinity. Put the Flame

Shrouding Cracked Tear on the Wondrous

Physick. And also you want an incantation,

Flame Grant Me Strength, and also Golden

Vow to give yourself some extra fire

damage. And then as for the talismans,

you want Godfrey Icon, boosts spells and

skills. Uh, Sacred— I mean, not this one,

you want the Fire Scorpion Charm, raises

fire attacks. And then Ritual Sword

Talisman boosts attack power when you're

at full HP. And Shard of Alexander boosts

the attack power of skills. So the really

cool thing about Flaming Strike is you can

do this. So you first shoot out flames and

do a heavy attack to do a strike through

the flames and set your weapon on fire,

which I assume does extra fire damage if

it's on fire. I haven't really tested it.

So to do maximum insane damage, you want

to buff everything— Flame, Grant Me

Strength, Golden Vow.

Drink your flask so you got 3 buffs, and

then you want to go 2-handed, sneak up on

enemies, and then do Flaming Strike.

Actually, the Flaming Strike on its own is

enough to kill most of the enemies in one

shot, but if it's

not, you can do a second strike like this,

like this, and then strike through

the fire for a second blow, do like 7,000

damage in total. So yeah, it's a pretty

good tactic to take down most of the

enemies in the game. You don't even need

to use it, you can just use normal basic

attacks, will 2-shot these trash mobs

easily. Watch, I'm doing a basic attack,

1, 2, and then for a heavy attack does

even more damage. You can nearly one-shot

him, knock him down. And then for these

tougher knights, you do Flaming Strike,

heavy attack, nearly one-shots him,

staggers him as well. With every blow,

you're staggering him. A few more blows

would have knocked him down if he didn't

die. So that's a pretty good way. I want

to do like a build where you can easily

stagger enemies, but it's going to require

a different Ash of War. Maybe I'll do it

in a different video. So again,

Flame Strike,

slash— I missed that one. There you go.

And then here as well, just knock them

off. Well, I tried to.

So yeah, that's the fire build. It's

pretty good. And I tried out lots of

different fire builds, and I found that

Flame Strike is probably the highest

damage I did Flames of Redmane as well,

but that didn't do as much damage. So

watch this. Oh my god, heavy attack.

No, he interrupts. He interrupts you quite

a lot with the shield. So yeah, if you

want really high-powered fire damage, I

think Flame Strike is probably one of the

best ones. But you can try out some

different ones, like, um, Eruption is

pretty good too. Flame Spear unfortunately

is kind of rubbish. I really wanted to

like Flamespear because it's really cool.

Look at this, shoot out this beam of

flame, like a laser beam of flame, but it

does really bad damage. It also sets your

sword on fire. I'll show you it quickly.

It just doesn't really do very good

damage. It can't even one-shot the light

mobs, but it's good if you want

like a ranged attack. Watch this.

Oh, it did one-shot him. That's weird.

The last time I tested it, I wasn't able

to one-shot them. I don't know what I'm

doing differently. Watch this, watch.

Oh, I nearly pushed him off the edge. Oh,

he fell off the edge, idiot. Can't even

stand upright. And then 2

shots, Flame Strike.

See, it doesn't quite one-shot them,

but it's quite a nice way to get an opener

on bosses. Sometimes bosses, they like to

run away from you, so that's a good ranged

Yeah, the damage is a bit disappointing

with Flame Spear. I don't even think I

could beat these guys. It just doesn't do

enough damage. It does stagger them.

Oh, I hate that guy with

the spinning blades. He's so quick. And

then you have Flames of the Redmane. I

used to use this a lot. I think they

nerfed it because it doesn't feel as

powerful as it used to. So it does this,

shoots out a wave of flame in front of

you. It used to be so powerful. I

basically did nearly all of the bosses in

the base game just spamming Flame of the

Redmanes. So buff up,

Golden Vow,

Wondrous Physick. Oh, I know how you could

do even more damage, but you need to

change your armor set. Watch this. One

shot.

Nearly— he was blocking, so it didn't

count. Otherwise it would have one-shot

him. And one-shot this guy.

Oh, he interrupted me. One-shot.

Pop your flask.

Nearly one-shot. And one-shot this

guy. Nearly. So yeah,

probably, probably can kill these 2 pretty

easily. Just spamming Flame the Redmanes

like this. It also knocks them down after

a few. Look at that, he can't even move

because I keep spamming it. You just keep

spamming it and they keep getting

staggered. It's a pretty good spell,

especially against bosses, because

sometimes the bosses do so much melee AoE

you don't really want to get close to

them. Let your mimic summon tank him

whilst you just stand there spamming Flame

of the Redmanes.

Watch this. Oh, they definitely nerfed it.

The range has been nerfed. I remember it

used to have really good range, like you

didn't have to be right in front of the

enemy. I think they definitely nerfed it.

And there's also some pretty good strikes

with the katana. So you got a lot of

strikes like Wild Strikes, Sword Dance,

Double Slash, and Spinning Slash. I found

that— I can't remember now. I think

Double Slash was pretty good. They all do

basically the same thing, like this: slash

slash slash slash slash, and then overhead

slash. So that was one of them. I'll show

the other ones. You've got Wild Strikes,

put fire onto it.

So you've got slash slash slash slash.

You basically just keep slashing, it never

ends. So you can just carve

up all the enemies. You gotta keep

pressing the button though, it's kind of

annoying. Oh wait, you can just hold it

down. Oh, you just hold down the button

and it keeps slashing. I might try this

out, see if it's any good. Okay, so I'm

fully buffed up. I'm I'm just gonna walk

towards these.

Oh my God, you can 2-shot them with this!

Wow, it's pretty good actually.

It's like non-stop slashing.

Why does it remind me of that episode in

The Simpsons when Bart and Lisa fight and

then they're just spinning their arms

around, walking slowly towards each other,

and he's like, if you get hit, it's your

fault.

Wow, I got hit pretty hard and

it didn't interrupt my spinning. And

you've also got Sword Dance, which is more

of a spinning and then overhead slash.

It's okay, I might try it out as well,

why not. So basically it just does that

and then overhead slash for the third

attack. It's got a good range, it lunges

at the enemy, so if you want to catch them

off guard, it's got good range on it.

Yeah, I quite like Sword Dance. It's

pretty cool. I think it does more damage

than Wild Strikes. Wild Strikes is like

the name implies, just wildly randomly

slashing. This one has more finesse, more

damage. So watch this overhead slash. Oh,

I didn't finish off. Oh, that one's bugged

out. Aha, you can't hit me.

I can't see. I hate it when you get

cornered in the stupid camera. You can't

see what's going on.

I don't know what happened to this guy.

He's just watching his friend get

butchered. Yeah, Wild Strike's pretty

good. Quite like it.