Elden Ring Hand-to-Hand Combat - How to Build a Boxing Monk Build (Shadow of the Erdtree Build)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I'm going to be showing you the new

unarmed fighting style in Elden Ring. It

combines punching and kicking. So first of

all, to get it, you have to go to this

place. You want to open your map and then

you want to go to the High Road Cross,

and there's going to be a little NPC

standing there. Now if you can get to High

Road Cross, you just want to make a little

trip down here down across there to Morth

Ruins. And at Morth Ruins, there's an NPC

that you have to fight in order to unlock

the unarmed fighting skill. So as you can

see, he's not here for me because I

already killed him, obviously. Um, but

usually he'll be standing here, and in

order to initiate the fight, you have to

go to your gestures. You choose this

gesture, May the Best Win, and you just

perform it in front of him. A little duel,

and when you beat him, you get the Dry

Leaf Arts. Uh, here it is. It looks like

bandages. I maxed it out to 24. And then

you can also change the Ashes of War. So

originally, by default, it comes with this

Ash of War. It comes with, uh,

Palm Blast. Now you can also change the

affinity on Palm Blast, so I like to have

fire. I'll show you why in a minute. And

Palm Blast just does this. You charge it

up, it does very long charge up,

but it does extremely high damage. And it

just does— there's a palm attack, that's

about it really. If you just click it

without charging, it's pretty fast. And

you can put some other ashes onto the

fists, the Dry Leaf Fists. There's not a

huge selection, so you got a few roars—

Barbaric Roar, War Cry, some of the

ground-shattering stomps, Storm Stomp,

Endure, a few buffs. And you've got the

fire stuff like Flaming Redmanes, Golden

Vow, Frost Stomp, Life Fist Steel.

And that's it really, not many to choose

from. So I would say there's 2 builds for

these Palm Dry Leaf Arts fighting style.

You can focus on the Palm Blast to make

that really powerful, or you can just

ditch that and then get something else

like a buff like War Cry or Barbaric War.

Raw to make your combos do more damage.

So first of all, I want to show you how to

maximize damage on the Palm Blast. I like

to go for the fire affinity because I did

insane damage using fire, and you want to

choose talismans that focus on fire

damage. So I've got— hold on, we've got

fire Scorpion Charm increases fire attack,

Shard of Alexander increases skills power,

and Godfrey Icon enhances charged spells

and skills. And this does actually work

with Palm Strike. I tested it out. And

also you can choose this one to give you

some defensive capabilities when you get

hit, or you can go for— where is it?

Oh, where is it? Ritual Sword Talisman

increases your attack power when you're at

max health. So with this combination— oh,

don't forget, uh, incantation spells

So to increase fire attack even more, you

can do Flame, Grant Me Strength, and also

Golden Vow increases attack power. And

also for your flask, you can put the Flame

Shrouding Cracks, increases fire damage.

And that's how you do great fire damage.

So let's go test it out. Oh, before we

test it out, I want to show you the

moveset. So you got click, click, click,

light attacks. You've got heavy attacks,

does like these palm attacks.

That's one-handed. So if you do your

double-handed to equip double-handed, you

are now fighting double-handed. You can

also block now, and you do slightly

different attacks and combos. So you do

these spin attacks, push. Now the

interesting thing is if you got War Cry or

the other raw buff, he'll do different

combo moves. I'll show those in a minute.

So just show some fighting quickly. Wait,

let's punch him, punch him.

What else can you do? There's a goat over

here. You can kick the goat up its

backside, do like a flying kick like that.

If you run, jump, and do heavy attack,

he'll do a different move like,

like this. Watch. So you do jump, light

attack, he does 2 palms. You do jump,

heavy attack, he does Spin Kicks.

Okay, let me show you how to do max damage

with Palm Blast. Okay, so I did like 5,500

damage doing this. You want to— you want

to do all your buffs: Flame Grant Me

Strength, Golden Vow,

Wondrous Flask. Now that should be all

your buffs really. And then double-handed,

crouch so you don't get detected, charge

up your max Palm Blast Oh,

5,690 damage. That's pretty good.

Now if you chucked an oil pot, increases

fire damage by another 50%, you could have

done like 7,000 damage probably. So again,

with the fire affinity, you do these

really cool fire attacks, and if you boost

your fire damage, you'll do even more

damage thanks to the affinity.

So that's how you boost Palm Blast to do

max damage. Now that's if you want to do

max damage on like a slow one-hit attack

like this. I mean like this.

Whoops. So if you want to focus on slow

charged one-hit attacks, then Palm

Blast is really the, the best attack to

use with the Dry Leaf arts. Now if you

want to focus on combos, like combos,

quick combos pounding your enemy, you want

to do a slightly different build. So you

might want to ditch Palm Strike

altogether— I mean Palm Blast altogether—

and then get either War Cry or Barbaric

Roar. I don't really know the differences

between them. They both seem to do the

same thing but slightly differently. So

try War Cry first with fire affinity. You

could also do blood and make blood build

up and then do like a blood punching

build, but I like fire because I've got

more things that buff fire. So when you do

normal attacks with their normal heavy

attacks like this, watch,

he'll do a kick. So he'll do, he'll do

these kicks like that, or double-handed,

he'll do these spin kicks for the heavy

attack. And then if you run heavy attack,

we'll do a spin kick. You see the spin

kick? That is the default attack move.

Now if you activate War Cry Now this is

default move, spin kicks. Now you activate

War Cry, you'll now do a different move.

You do this shoulder barge and then heavy

punch, which is pretty cool even when you

sprint. So you do like a— wait,

you do a— it's weird,

I swear you did something different. That

might have been Barbaric War. Not raw—

roar, not war. I can't say the word

properly. So anyway, if you do War Cry and

then you do like a heavy attack, he'll

barge them, stunning them, and then finish

it with a heavy punch. So that's a

different moveset depending on the buff

you have, which is pretty cool if you want

to change the movesets. So look, you can

do like a charge and then smash in the

face. And then you can also block and

do counterattacks. Oh, I died.

And then interestingly, if you change the

Ashes of War to Barbaric

Roar instead of War Cry, put fire again,

you'll do a different moveset. So the

default was like spinning attacks like

this. You gotta make sure to equip

So I'm one-handed right now. Every time

you spawn at the Site of Grace, you gotta

do it again. It's annoying. So now I'm

two-handed because I can block. So default

heavy attacks when you have two-handed are

those spin kicks. Yeah, so when you do

Barbaric Roar, it is now like

a double-fisted swing that finishes

with an uppercut and a hammer down like

that. So you got 3 different heavy attack

combos. You got the default one, and then

you can have War Cry or Barbaric Roar to

have like different combos there. I don't

really know which one's better for which.

I guess these ones are heavy, heavier

attacking. Also this one, when you sprint,

it— why doesn't it do it anymore? When you

sprint, it's weird. I did like a sliding

tackle before. I don't know how to do it

now. And you can do some pretty

interesting builds if you're focusing on

combos instead of palm blast. So I've

currently got these talismans all focused

on HP regeneration. So you've got Godskin

Swaddling Cloth, you get HP back

on successive attacks, you get HP back on

defeating enemies, Taker's Cameo, you get

critical hits restore HP, and Rotted

Winged Sword Insignia increases attack

power with successive attacks. So with

this we can do some major healing healing

power. So if you just check my current

health, you can see it go up again without

using any potions.

And it's also healing any damage I might

be taking, because you're gonna do melee

and you're in the thick of things, you're

gonna take a lot of beatings. So look at

my health just constantly regenerate

itself, it's really cool.

Oh, and just quickly, I'm wearing the

heaviest armor I can so I don't get

staggered or pushed around easily, and I

can raise my poise really quickly. So I

can charge up heavy attacks. So look at my

health, I'm just regenerating my health

like a beast. So yeah, the unarmed

fighting style is pretty cool. There's

loads of different ways you can use it

depending on the talismans and the ashes

you apply to them. Yeah, it's pretty good.