Ranking All 126 Elden Ring Armor Sets From Worst to Best...

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The value of a set of armor is determined by many stats, conditions and isolated variables that seem unimportant by themselves, but are worth more than the sum of their parts when put together. Some armor sets are excellent against a very specific type of damage while others could offer really great poison or frost resistance. Heavier armor sets give the player an absurdly high poise value while lighter sets allow you the movement range of a caffeine-addled kid in a trampoline park.

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00:00 Begin!
01:25 F-Tier (126 - 112)
08:55 D-Tier (111 - 90)
19:42 C-Tier (89 - 63)
31:56 B-Tier (62 - 39)
42:28 A-Tier (38 - 15)
53:38 S-Tier (14 - 1)

[Rusty._]

*Video Patch Notes 1.01*
I guess I just need to accept youtube's chapter system will throw a fit if the video is too long, so I had to organize everything in "tiers" instead.
Individual timestamps:
01:25 126 - Bloodsoaked
02:01 125 - Marionette
02:44 124-123 - Festives
03:22 122 - Juvenile Scholar
03:57 121 - Albinauric
04:36 120 - Fia
05:14 119 - House Marais
05:49 118 - Old Aristocrat
06:23 117 - Ruler
06:53 116 - Traveler's
07:20 115 - High Page
07:55 114 - Fur
08:30 113 - Aristocrat
08:40 112 - Guilty
08:55 111 - Raya Lucaria Sorcerer
09:26 110 - Champion
10:06 109 - Shaman
10:35 108 - Chain
10:47 107 - Malenia
11:26 106 - Commoner
12:05 105 - Zamor
12:41 104 - Nomadic Merchant
13:13 103 - Sage
13:28 102 - Kaiden
13:56 101 - Iron
14:18 100 - Consort
14:34 99 - Prophet
15:09 98 - Sanguine Noble
15:29 97 - Blue Silver
15:53 96 - Lazuli
16:25 95 - Spellblade
17:05 94 - Elden Lord
17:40 93 - Snow Witch
18:07 92 - Prisoner
18:35 91 - Page
19:06 90 - Bloodhound
19:42 89 - Mausoleum Soldier
20:11 88 - Highwayman
20:32 87 - Duelist
21:11 86 - Eccentric
21:47 85 - Exile
22:14 84 - Drake Knight
22:37 83 - Goldmask
23:08 82 - Mausoleum Foot Soldier
23:21 81 - Raging Wolf
24:01 80 - Royal Remains
24:20 79 - Queen's
24:52 78 - Mausoleum Knight
25:21 77 - Bandit
25:51 76 - Finger Maiden
26:21 75 - Carian Knight
26:48 74 - Leather
27:15 73 - Rotten Duelist
27:50 72 - Errant Sorcerer
28:16 71 - Godskin Apostle
28:39 70 - Haligtree Soldier
29:07 69 - Black Knife
29:53 68 - Perfumer Traveler
30:03 67 - All-Knowing
30:14 66 - Alberich
30:39 65 - Perfumer
30:57 64 - Fire Monk
31:20 63 - War Surgeon
31:56 62 - Omenkiller
32:33 61 - Redmane Surcoat
33:02 60 - Mushroom
33:33 59 - Depraved Perfumer
34:11 58 - Raya Lucaria Soldier
34:26 57 - Vagabond
34:35 56 - Raptor
35:04 55-54 - Godrick & Leyndell Soldier
35:41 53 - Noble
36:00 52-51 - Azur & Lusat's
36:35 50 - Battlemage
36:59 49 - Blue Cloth
37:29 48 - Hoslow
38:02 47 - Haligtree Knight
38:36 46 - Blackflame Monk
39:16 45 - Fingerprint
39:49 44 - Nox Monk
40:11 43 - Guardian
40:40 42 - Traveling Maiden
41:12 41 - Astrologer
41:39 40 - Knight
42:10 39 - Twinned Knight
42:28 38 - Confessor
43:00 37 - Redmane Knight
43:39 36 - Night Maiden
44:12 35 - Godskin Noble
44:57 34-31 Regional Knights
45:59 30 - Vulgar Militia
46:32 29 - Nox Swordstress
47:08 28 - Land of Reeds
47:38 27 - Briar
48:22 26 - Maliketh
48:54 25 - Night's Cavalry
49:25 24 - Preceptor
49:56 23 - White Reed
50:21 22-18 - Foot Soldiers
51:55 17 - Royal Knight
52:29 16 - Blaidd
53:02 15 - Bull-Goat
53:38 14 - Cleanrot
54:15 13 - Malformed Dragon
54:55 12 - Scaled
55:22 11 - Beast Champion
55:55 10 - Radahn
56:20 9 - Banished Knight
56:47 8 - Lionel
57:18 7 - Veteran
58:02 6 - Ronin
58:44 5 - Fire Prelate
59:14 4 - Omen
59:23 3-2 Crucible Tree/Axe
59:55 1 - Tree Sentinel

[Mr_Sunday_Gary]

“A list of 126 anything objectively cannot be simple”
I would like to introduce you to a list of numbers starting at 1 and ending at 126.

[DeadSparkMan]

For anyone wondering why Rusty loves 51 Poise :
Most enemy attacks in the game either deal 50, 100 or more than 133 Poise damage. 50 are most basic hits like dog bites, Margit's dagger, soldier straight swords... So 51 Poise lets you tank at least ONE hit from normal enemies !

[ehhg]

Vyke’s armor having shitty lightning negation is absurd that man fucked a lightning dragon and throws around lightning bolts like he’s trying to power the fucking earth

[libertyprime]

Drake Knight set users when I stroll up with the Kendrick Knight set: 😨

[Lordchunkyboi]

It’s almost time for the DLC weapon rating

[phalamy]

Fun fact: While the Mausoleum sets are overall worse due to the lack of helmet, the individual pieces actually all have better stats than their non Mausoleum knight counterparts to somewhat accommodate for it

[Neptunequeen]

Nodding vigorously at the description of Scaled set. I rode that bad boy till the wheels fell off. Every time I tried to switch to something else I would eventually come crawling back. That's definitely the look I most associate with my first blind playthrough.

[bunzglazing]

How the hell does vyke’s armor set have 13 lighting resistance when he befriended dragons and coats himself in lighting? Absurd.

[purplehaze]

I love how, the entire time, the Tarnished has this vacant thousand-yard stare while posing for the armor shots.

[dorianrobinette]

Respect for the darkest dungeon reference with the highwaymen set.

One of my characters is actually an unclean giant cosplay, and a friend of mine has reynauld in his character line up. We also once encountered a shield breaker cosplay putting their sign down at radahn. I briefly once made one of my characters the flagellent. My buddy briefly had another of his characters as the bone commander enemy.
We did way more cosplays from that game than I realized, yeesh.

[sarahbecknell]

Colten!! So good to see your channel thriving! Hope you are well!

[Krynis]

One of these days I want to make a meme character that is entirely based on the #1 for every one of your videos.

[Gruso]

Armor vid from Rusty, Trinas Torch vid from Chase, all within a day of the DLC release. Truly Christmas in June.

[Levyathyn]

Impressive work; a lot of time consumed to bring this to me, a lot of nice graphics and referential resources I can use, and I'm even more happy it was entertaining to watch and that my current set build is made out of only top-20 level pieces.

[SereneJoy]

Just wanted to say that I love your videos, they're very good for me to listen to in the background, and this one's no exception!
Also, I just realised that all the nice shots of all the armors also makes this video, as well as your other Elden Ring ones, actually really good as reference videos for how the armor looks and stuff! There's other videos like that that also show it on the male player model, but I just find it neat that this one can work like that too since I've been meaning to get around to learn how to draw the armors and stuff in this game.
Hope you're having a good day!

[Galaxy-hdhv]

18 months ago I was sat in a Macdonald's and saw a red sleigh with Elsa and the Grinch go into the drive through. We live very different lives

[warlordofdawest]

The amount of instant gratification I felt when I saw the tree sentinel set at #1 made me feel like a proud parent, or a drunk man who's favorite sports team just won the playoffs, I spent an unhealthy amount of time fishing for good armor sets for my tank-paladin build, resolutely ignoring the bullgoat set's 99 poise, and when I saw the tree sentinel set, I knew it was the best I was gonna get, and to see that a youtuber agreed with me on this means that I'm going on to the next chapter of my life a little more conceited than before,
Thanks Rusty

[doorknobsoup]

Good fuckin work with this one. Exceptionally high quality for a video that's so long on a topic thats so hard to be definitive.

[IKAR_]

Congratulations on 600K Rusty keep up the amazing work you do on you're videos! 👏🏻👏🏻