Elden Ring Hand-to-Hand combat - LIGHTNING FISTS Monk Build Guide (Shadow of the Erdtree DLC)

Watch this lightning damage on the Monk

Dry Leaf fight style. Electric punches,

electric kicks, and also rolling lightning

ram that keeps on going until you fall off

the edge. Watch this lightning ram

roly-poly never-ending skill, just keeps

zapping them. And then flying kick,

elbow in the stomach, electric kick. Oh my

God, look at the damage! I just 3-shot him

with my lightning palm strike. Look, they

can't even move. Look, this is— as

soon as they touch me, as soon as they

touch me, they get electrocuted. So today

I want to show you my lightning style Dry

Leaf Arts hand-to-hand combat. First of

all, you want your Ashes of War.

Unfortunately, there's only one Ash of War

that lets you have lightning affinity,

and it's the Lightning Ram Ash of War.

None of the other Ashes of War let you put

lightning. So you've got blood poison,

fire magic, but there's no lightning. So

if you want to do lightning damage, your

only option is Lightning Ram. And then we

choose lightning. Actually, I think

there's only 3 lightning Ashes of War.

There's Lightning Bolt, Lightning Slash,

and Lightning Ram. Can't use Lightning

Slash with the Dry Leaf Arts, it's only

for blades. So yeah, we're going to choose

Lightning Ram. And then for your Wondrous

Physick, we have to put the lightning

damage buff So we've got Lightning

Shrouding Cracked Tear. It increases

lightning attacks. And we also got Stone

Barb Cracked Tear, which makes it easier

to knock enemies down, although you could

replace it with a strength boost if you

want to do slightly more damage. And then

Lightning Ram is really cool because if

you keep pressing the attack button,

you'll just keep indefinitely, infinitely

rolling and rolling and rolling until you

run out of focus points. Also, the good

thing about the lightning affinity is you

do more damage if you're standing in water

and the enemies are standing in water. So

for example, here, if you're going to

fight this boss with all this water

around— there was a boss here, but I

already killed him— you would have done

more damage thanks to the water. So it's

pretty cool little effect in the Elden

Ring game where the water actually does

affect your lightning damage. And then for

the talismans, we're going to change these

actually. So I want to get— I want to get

Shard of Alexander to boost my Lightning

Ram. And then this increases attack power

when your health is max. Obviously you

need Lightning Scorpion Charm, increases

your lightning attack. And I had Crusade

Insignia, increases attack power after

defeating enemies. But I feel like, uh,

Godfrey Icon is probably better to boost

your Lightning Ram if you want to use it.

So So those are the talismans. For the

armor, I guess you could go for something

yellow looking if you want to have like a

lightning theme. I chose the Freya's Helm.

I had to kill that NPC who's actually a

friendly NPC, like a quest NPC. I killed

her and I took her armor, so I don't know

how that's gonna affect my game. But

anyway, you've got lots of different

choices. But if you want to go for buffs

and you don't care about looks, then the

Rakshasa armor set actually increases the

damage you deal. So where is it?

Rakshasa. So you do detail view. So yeah,

increases damage dealt to foes. So if you

want damage, then you should choose that

for your armor set. Where is it? I think

you only need 2 or 3 pieces. We'll go for

all the pieces just to complete the look.

Okay, so now we are fully ready. And the

buffs, you want Golden Vow to increase

your attack power. If you're gonna have a

tough fight, you want to buff up. And then

Wondrous Physick will increase your

lightning attack. And you don't want to do

Lightning Ram on edgeless because you'll

fall off. And then just Kick to the Gut,

Backhand Slap. So the thing is with, uh,

Dry Leaf Arts is you can do it one-handed,

so you can have an offhand like a torch

and then you can still slap people like

that, or you can have your Finger Seal.

So you do one-handed slaps and elbows and

it's slower, but I found that it staggers

enemies faster because it's slower, I

guess. But if you enable double-handed,

you can now block and it's much faster

because now you're using 2 fists. If you

just attack once, it will do 2 hits

automatically like that. So you do faster

attacks, but you stagger more slowly than

when you just have one-handed. So I guess

it's up to you. Also, the attack moves are

kind of different. For example, when you

do a flying heavy attack, it does those

twin kicks like this, whereas if

you got one-handed, it does this, like a

downwards drop kick. And also when you do

a running heavy attack, you do like a

slide which can be linked into an elbow.

So yeah, it's pretty cool how the combos

change depending on whether you have

one-handed or two-handed equipped. So it's

pretty good, you can just like slide in

Elbow him in the bum, kick him,

and then dead in 4 hits. You can also make

them stagger pretty easily like this,

like that. Oh, he didn't stagger though.

Yeah, so it's a pretty good build, but the

funniest thing about the build is when

you're going up against tougher enemies

where you can't really DPS them down fast

enough before they hit you, and you can't

stagger them fast enough because This is

not a cold build which staggers faster.

Lightning Ram is so good. I mean, watch

this, just keep clicking it and keep

rolling into them like that. It will take

4 hits, and when they hit you,

they take damage. See, that guy took

damage. I wasn't even targeting him. So

anything that touches you gets

electrocuted and takes damage as well. So

it's a pretty good way to deal with

tougher enemies, or when you're getting

grouped up Swarmed, you can kind of do

this, roll away. If they hit you, they'll

take damage. Again, watch this.

I thought I was gonna kick them off the

edge. Damn, that guy didn't even let

me hit him. So again, you can do— just

kick him off the edge if you want to. You

can do this as well, watch. Kicked off the

edge. And then this guy, you can just roll

into him like this. Roll and roll. It

takes 2 rolls to kill the normal enemies.

Oh, I knocked him down in one heavy

attack. I think you can stagger them with

one heavy attack. See? And then

special attack. I zapped him out the

window. Damn, look at all the blood.

And then this guy as well. This is my

favorite bit, just roll into them.

I didn't even buff. Oh, they broke me out

of it. Yeah, it's kind of a fragile

build. I would say going for cold or fire

is slightly better than lightning for the

reasons I that fire just does way more

damage, so you're going to be able to DPS

them down faster. And cold, it just

staggers them and builds up frostbite,

which slows them down, also staggers them

much faster. But lightning doesn't really

have the crowd control of cold, and it

doesn't quite have DPS of fire.

So what does it have? I don't know really

what the lightning affinity, affinity is

good for. I think it's just good for

fighting in water, and I'm not sure,

maybe going up against something that has

resistance against cold or fire, you can

use lightning instead.

The lightning ram is good, but sometimes

you get hit whilst doing it and it snaps

Go for two-handed style.

I like how you can time when to do the

attacks instead of just spamming it. You

can leave a little gap like this and it

carries on linking. So I've got all my

buffs. Last time I wasn't buffed. See if I

can do it this time. Yeah,

that was a bit better. Oh, they still got

me. He's got like one bit of health left.

Yeah, I don't really know how to make the

lightning build better. You kind of lack

crowd control, but it's quite fun

to mess around with, I guess.