Elden Ring Hand-to-Hand combat - How to Build an ICE STOMP Monk Build (Shadow of the Erdtree Build)

Here is my Dry Leaf Arts Ice Monk build.

Ashes of War, you want to put on Divine

Beast Frost Stomp with the cold affinity.

As for the talismans, you want Godfrey

Icon, you want Shattered Stone Talisman,

which is actually a new talisman. It's

really good, increases the potency of

kicking and stomping skills, which The

Divine Beast Frost Stomp is a stomping

skill. Ritual Sword Talismans boost your

attack power when max HP. Shard of

Alexander boosts attack power skills. For

the Wondrous Physick, we have Magic

Shrouding Cracked Tear to increase magic

damage, and also Strength Knot Crystal

Tear to increase strength. And then for

incantations, we have Golden Vow,

gonna boost your attack power, and then

pop your flask if you need some extra

damage. Okay, so it's a really good skill.

It's called Divine Beast

Frost Stomp, and basically it just slams

down all these ice spikes in front of you.

It looks really cool. Not only does it

look really cool, but it does insane

damage. And even without using this Frost

Stomp, because you've got the cold

affinity, you can build up frostbite on

enemies, and also your attacks are just

really fast and they can apply frostbite

and start building up on the enemy to,

um, to inflict, to inflict

frostbite, which temporarily kind of

freezes them. And you can stagger enemies

way quicker because of the cold affinity.

So yeah, it's really good build. I

actually use this build to defeat the

Midra boss who does madness. I couldn't

defeat him with a fire build, but when I

switched to a cold build, I was able to

defeat him pretty easily. I think the

reason why cold is easier to beat bosses

with is because you can stagger— basically

all the bosses are like humanoid forms and

they can be staggered, and you just

stagger them way faster when you've got a

frost build. And you might lose some

damage, it's not like pure DPS build, but

what you get in return is you get to

stagger them more often and you can use

that opportunity to either attack them

more with some slower heavy-hitting

attacks, or just back off and do a bit of

healing. So Divine Beast Frost Stomp,

really powerful, can do loads of damage

AoE, and it stuns them a little bit. So

with the Dry Leaf Arts, you've got 2

methods of fighting. You've got the

one-handed style. One-handed style is

slightly slower, but it staggers the

enemies faster or more easily because

you're slower hitting, so you have to hit

less to start triggering a stagger. So

it's a bit slower. The sprint heavy is

like this, it's like a flying kick,

flying kick. And the sprint jump attack

heavy attack is like a downward kick. If

you do double-handed, you start attacking

much faster like that. The sprint heavy

attack is like a double kick, double spin

kick. And the jump heavy attack looks like

this. Spin jump kick as well. So it's

pretty good to do stuff like, like this

and knock him down pretty quickly before

he can even move, basically. Now watch

this, we're gonna sneak up on these guys

and just spam Frost Stomp, basically like

this. And we can probably 2-shot— oh,

1-shot that guy. It does 2 sets of damage.

It does the initial stomp and it does like

a follow-up if they stay in the dagger— in

the ice daggers.

Fuck, you need to go, mate.

So anyway, I was saying Frost Stomp

doesn't just do one wave of damage, it

does 2 waves if they stay long enough in

the daggers of icicles. So watch this.

See, it killed that guy but it didn't kill

this guy. Oh, I can't even

aim at him. So yeah, it's a pretty good

build. You got a good Ash of War ability

and you've got good powerful combo attacks

to deal with anyone left standing. It's

pretty good. So I'm currently starting to

trek through this area of the map, the

Dragon's Pit. I haven't tested out this

build really apart from just grinding on

random enemies that I've already beaten

before, so we're gonna do like a blind

playthrough in the beginning part of

Dragon's Pit with this build to see if

it's actually Any good? So yeah, we just

run through this bit. I've never done this

dungeon before. I don't know what this

enemy is. Oh, there's one behind me. Oh my

God, oh my God, what the hell is he doing?

Oh, there's another one there. Let's just

run. I'm not fighting 3.

I can actually AoE them. Oh, I one-shot

them. This one's kind of tough, but you

just spam. Why is he not coming?

Just spamming. Oh my god,

oh, I ducked under that one. I don't know

if I can stagger him, he's pretty big.

Okay, so that was not very clean, but we

managed to get through it. Okay, moving.

Might do a Golden Vow for some extra

damage. Never done this dungeon before.

See what it's like. I think I go down

here. There's an enemy over there.

Frost Stomp. I'm out of FP, but I'll

just use Putt. Soften him up with

some stomping. Ouch, ouch.

Where's my potion? Potion. I can't

stagger him. Stomp him.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I nearly jumped off the

cliff. Oh, I kicked him in his balls.

Ouch. Oh, I got him. These guys are pretty

tough. Stupid archer over here. Get rid of

him.

If you can't stun them, you are kind of

screwed. You gotta be extra careful. Run

down here, jump off here. You know, these

dungeons are so dumb because you can

literally just run through the whole thing

and not bother fighting. That's what I

usually do. I don't usually fight them

because they can't stop you from running

through it. Okay, nothing down there.

And what's in here? Nothing.

They don't even chase you. Look, they give

up straight. What'd you do here? Don't

even know what I do. Okay, I guess we go

the other way. Nothing here.

What's that say? Be brave.

Okay. Oh, what are they doing?

My icicles keep getting stuck,

but you can just spam it if they— I think

they're stuck. Oh, they one-shot me

nearly. Oh my God, we're back at the

beginning. Oh my God, and then everything

respawns. I can't be bothered, just jump

through, through everything. I hate these

stupid dungeons. You missed.

Going in here.

Oh, I nearly fell off. Jump off here.

Do I go this or what? That Shadow

Realm rune. Go this way.

Which way was it? This way. That way.

Down here. This time we go up instead of

down.

Go this way.

What's here? Ooh, very pretty.

I have a bad feeling about this. Oh my

God, oh my Jesus. Is that a boss or what?

I can't even summon my mimic. What kind of

boss is this? Can I do a frost stomp?

Do a fro— oh, he's gonna tail whip me.

Ow! Is it— why is it doing such little

damage? I can't even see

him.

Yeah, this is gonna be tough. I'll

probably just switch to my great katana

because the damage is rubbish. I'm pretty

sure I can't stagger this.

What? How'd I die so quickly in the magma?

Oh,