Elden Ring maestro plays a saxophone to style on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, wins battle of

I've been delightfully proud of (and fearing) the community ever since its first and final DLC released last month. 's final boss—spoilers, naturally—seems as though it should be a legendarily difficult encounter, sharing a throne with the infamous Malenia (reportedly the blade of Miquella, sources confirm) in FromSoftware's rogues gallery.

I personally y trying to put him down, having to swap up my build to equip a greatshield and rock Scarlet Aeonia which was, at least, thematic. So of course, the wider community has proved me scrub-tier by , getting , and deploying a . I should've known spritzing a legendary warrior with cologne was the optimal strategy, silly me.

To add to my wounds, someone's gone and beat it with a saxophone now. Just like Prometheus, the metaphorical eagle continues to peck out my liver on a daily basis.

YouTuber and Dr Decomposing ( on Twitter) has, in a follow-up to his no-hit saxophone run back in , tackled Promised Consort Radahn with nothing but the power of jazz and a mind-boggling controller setup (thanks, ).

"Everyone was telling me how utterly impossible the Final Boss of Shadow of the Erdtree was going to be," the fine doctor rightfully brags. "Outrageous moveset, impossible dodges, etc … It only took me a dozen attempts on the saxophone."

A dozen attempts. Yep, that stings. In case you're wondering how Dr Decomposing controls his snazzy Tarnished with music, each input (as explained on his Twitch) is mapped to a different note. You can actually hear that play out in the video above as, when faced with Radahn's flurry of phantom strikes, he makes good use of the Deflecting Hardtear to timed-block his way through an otherwise nightmarishly hard attack.

In terms of his [[link]] build, Dr Decomposing is using the aforementioned hardtear, which basically for a few minutes, combined with the : "The Carian Thrusting Shield has WILD scaling with STR when made Heavy. That + Deflect Tear + Guard Counter Boost talisman makes for an absolute powerhouse of a tank build once you learn the attack timings."

That tracks as a supremely effective strategy with everything I know about this boss from my own brutal experience. While , it's also extremely difficult—builds that focus on either tanking [[link]] or parrying him appear to be having far less trouble. Now we just need to see .