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

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I

recently got the Dry Leaf Arts and I maxed

it out to level 24, and I made a pretty

cool build focusing on coldness and ice

and Palm Blast. And I got this really cool

build I want to show you today. Okay, so

first of all, what you want to do is use

the default affinity— I mean, Ash of War—

that came with it, Palm Blast, and you

want to choose cold. Now I've tested out

lots of different things. Fire does lots

of damage, but cold does lots of damage

too. But the good thing about cold is it's

staggers the enemies faster than fire

does, and it can also do like a frostbite

buildup thing which makes them go really

slow, and then you can just pummel them

into oblivion. As for my armor, I'm

wearing the Maliketh armor suit with the

Black Knight helmet. I just got the Black

Knight helm and Maliketh's armor because

it looks pretty cool. Yeah, it looks

pretty good. And for talismans, okay, so

what you want is you want Godfrey Icon.

This is going to really buff your skills,

which is going to be Palm Blast.

Alexander Shard, it also buffs the attack

power of skills. And Charge Axe

Talisman enhances charge attacks. So we're

going to be charging up heavy attacks to

try and stagger tougher enemies. And also—

no, not this one. And I think also Ritual

Sword Talisman buffs your HP when— I mean,

buffs your attack power when your HP is at

max. And actually, yes, attack power does

affect it does affect Palm Blast.

So if you have more attack power, you do

more damage with Palm Blast. Also for the

Wondrous Physick, because cold is like a

magic attack, it does magic damage, it

does more damage when we have the Magic

Shrouding Cracks tier boost magic attacks,

and also Strength Knot Crystal tier boost

strength. So we've got all these buffs.

And also don't forget Golden Vow. So we've

got this spell Let me show you a spell

quickly. Golden Vow, it buffs

your attack and defense. Okay, so we got

lots of buffs, we've got lots of flasks in

case we need extra damage. That's the

one-handed attack pattern, and then you do

double-handed like this. Looks a bit

different. So you press one attack and

he'll do a combo of 2, and then you can

also block like that as well if you need

to block. But then you can't do your

incantation. So I usually do my

incantations, Golden Vow, buff my attack

power. I don't really need any more buffs

right now because watch this. So what you

can do is you can sneak up on enemies,

charge up a Palm Blast, and I one-shot

them. 4,800 damage. Oh my God. And then

again, watch this guy. So even if you get

attacked, you can still do a Palm Blast.

Oh well, I thought he's going to attack

me, but you can still charge up the Palm

Blast if you— even if you're getting

attacked. Damn, I'm doing nearly 5,000

damage and I haven't even buffed up fully.

I haven't taken my flask and, uh,

that's the only buff. I've only got 2

buffs actually. Yeah, Golden Vow and the

flask. So you don't even need Palm Blast

for these guys because you can just punch

them and the ice will just freeze them.

See, he's frostbitten now. He won't be

able to do much, but I can usually kill

these guys in 6 hits. So 1, 2, 3, 3, 4,

5, 6, and he goes down. If I do heavy

attacks, it'll be like 1,

2, 1, 2.

See, they get knocked down so easily. Now

I really struggled against these 2, and it

took me a long time to find a build and

the skills and the attack combo to take

these 2 down. I finally found something

really good. So those knights standing on

the right— the one on the left goes down

really quick, but the one on the right is

like one of those really tough knights,

and they've got quite health, they do a

lot of damage, and they do a lot of fast

attacks. So it's really hard to even get

an attack in without getting smacked in

the face a lot. And so you want to go

fully buffed, put on Golden Vow again in

case it's worn off, pop your flask, pop

some FP because you're gonna need that,

go back to two-handed, and now aim for him

and crouch so you're stealthed, and then

stand here and then charge up a Palm

Blast. You basically nearly one-shot him.

You just charge up another one. The good

thing about it is it knocks them down,

and then whilst they're knocked down, you

can charge up a second one and basically

two-shot almost anything in the game. It

does so much damage. I don't really know

how to do more damage. You need magic

power and strength— I mean, attack power—

to really buff it. So this is already

buffing it, this is buffing it. I don't

know if the charge attack is it should be

buffing the heavy attack, but we do do

heavy attacks sometimes. You could choose

Rotten Winged Sword Insignia to increase

your combo attacks instead of increasing

the charged attack damage. I prefer going

for the heavy attack because it is quite

useful sometimes. So again, here you can

just start charging it up and just nuke

them. Look, let's just one-shot them. And

then these guys over here, watch, this is

pretty funny because you can just blast

them off the edge. Watch this.

Bye-bye! Oh, I missed that guy. Usually I

can blast them both off the edge. Oh crap,

he's doing a lot of damage. Hold on. So

what we can do is kick in the face,

charge up heavy attack. See, the heavy

attacks are really useful sometimes to

really stagger them. The punches stagger

them pretty easily. So there's a tough guy

here. What we're gonna do is Golden

Foul. I think it wore off. Yeah, there's

an enemy over there. Charge up Palm Blast.

You can probably 2-shot him. 2-shot him.

Oh, nearly 2-shot. Punch in the gut.

Clothesline. It took me so long to kill

these guys before I figured out this

build. And then you got a guy over there

with stupid arrow things. So annoying. So

basically just run towards this guy whilst

he shoots at you. You might be able to

charge up palm attack. Oh, just blast him

backwards. Charge up another one, and then

you've staggered him. You can just finish

him off easily. Look at that. This build

is so good. Frost with

the palm blast, buffing the palm blast

with all your talismans. God, it took me

ages to get past to this bit with the,

uh, Dry Leaf Arts. Now there are these red

guys over there, I want to show you how to

take those out because they were quite

tricky for me with my previous build. So

you've got some little ninja guys are

going to come out here, I can Palm Blast

them too. Palm Blast is so good, it

one-shots little guys, it two or

three-shots tough guys, and then you can

just Frost Combo these little guys.

God, this Dry Leaf thing is so good. And

then you want to buff up here. Where's my

Golden Vow? Golden Vow,

go double-handed. Check your FP.

If you run out of FP mid-fight, you're

kind of screwed. So these guys used to be

pretty tough for me. I don't know if

they'll still be tough. Oh, he got me.

Charge it up now, and then start

charging now again. Now, now, now, now.

Oh, and charge up another one. Don't do

attack. It's tempting to try to do like a,

like a special Chris attack, but that

won't do much damage. Oh, I got his

greaves! I've been collecting these.

They've got weird armor. They're very tall

and skinny and weird looking. I've got his

hat. And his jacket, but it looks kind of

weird. Actually, the greaves look pretty

cool. Look at this. So I was wearing

Maliketh's leggings, and now I'll wear

this. It's got like dangly bits, and it's

got like a red look. I quite like that.

Yeah, I quite like that. Looks pretty

good. Oh damn, look at my legs. I got some

sexy ass legs there. Shiny thick thighs.

Mmm. So there's this area here in this

room. There's a lot of red guys. So if you

want to test if your build's any good, I

like fighting these red guys or the big

knight guys. So what you want to do is,

um, Golden Vow, really boost your attack

power up. I don't really need the flask

here because these guys aren't too hard.

Charge up now as soon as they start coming

for you. Charge up the— oh, I nearly

knocked him off the edge. And charge up

again. It doesn't have to be right on

them. It does have like a range, like it's

got a short range that you can blast them

with. They don't have to be touching your

hand for it to work. And then heal up. I

used to really struggle with those guys

with my Great Katana build. Oh, I've got a

red guy over here, so charge up a fire

blast— I mean a palm blast. Oh, he

interrupted it. They can't usually

interrupt it, that was weird. Yeah, it's a

really fun build to play around with.

Look, you just blast these guys off the

edge. Bub— what? Every time

I've done that, they fly off the edge,

but this time they fly— flew the other

way. What's this guy gonna do?

Hmm, how should I handle him? How about

kick in the face? So you can 2-shot

him with heavy attacks.

And then you can just light combo him.

It takes 5 hits to do the frostbite

Oh, look at that, it's so good. They can't

even do anything.

And then pop your flask. Oh, I got a

smithing stone. It's pretty good farming

smithing stones here too if you want to do

that. And then I'm going to 2-shot this