Giant Elden Ring boss defeated with bare hands in five-hour RPG brawl

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Some of the hardest Elden Ring boss fights are intimidating enough when you’re tooled up to the nines with the fanciest weapons and magic, so taking on one of the most gargantuan foes in the FromSoftware RPG game using nothing but your bare hands seems like a feat reserved for only the most dedicated player. Luckily for us, Twitch streamer GinoMachino is just such a player – eschewing the best Elden Ring builds in favour of his two meaty paws.

Weaponless runs have long been a staple challenge of FromSoftware games such as Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but in some cases there are ways to bump up your damage somewhat via stat scaling or bonus damage on backstabs and ripostes. There’s no such joy in Elden Ring, leaving challenge run fan GinoMachino often dealing single-digit damage numbers to some of the game’s most durable bosses.

While he is able to make fairly steady progress, things get especially tough when he reaches the mammoth Fire Giant. Boasting a huge 43,263 health pool, GinoMachino’s 8 to 12 damage slaps must have felt like the light pitter-patter of rain falling on its weathered, leathery skin. In case you don’t fancy the mental mathematics, that’s between 3605 and 5408 hits in total to bring down the blazing behemoth – something GinoMachino pulls off over the course of an astonishing five and a half hour scrap.

So I've managed to kill Fire Giant using only bare fists and it took 5 and a half hours pic.twitter.com/RtMl6SH42x

— GinoMachino (@GinoMachino) <a href=«https://twitter.com/GinoMachino/status/1577836406172532736?ref_src=» https: rel=«noopener»>October 6, 2022

Seemingly not satisfied with this marathon, he was back at it again less than 24 hours later, this time against the Godskin Duo. The notorious dual