Testing EVERY GREATSHIELD as a weapon (Elden Ring)

Some Greatshields are borderline broken in Elden Ring...

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Wooden Greatshield
02:40 - Lordsworn's Shield
03:51 - You probably remember this...
06:12 - Manor Towershield
07:36 - Crossed-Tree Towershield
09:46 - Inverted Hawk Towershield (ANNOUNCEMENT)
12:06 - Dragon Towershield
13:52 - This shield is CLEAN
15:23 - Gilded Greatshield
16:06 - Cuckoo Greatshield
17:20 - Redmane Greatshield
18:33 - Golden Greatshield
20:10 - Haligtree Crest Greatshield
21:29 - Icon Shield
22:37 - INNATE BLEED!!!
25:39 - Crucible Horn Shield
27:11 - THIS MAKES ME MAD
29:16 - Eclipse Crest Greatshield
30:32 - Ant Skull Plate
32:17 - ANTI-MAGE TECHNOLOGY
34:16 - Jellyfish Shield
36:07 - FromSoft what have you done?
37:56 - Visage Shield
39:35 - One-Eyed Shield
41:03 - Thanks for watching!

[TFGRhinehart]

The way I make the Fingerprint Shield ohko enemies is by equipping the Shard of Alexander, Godfrey Icon, the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia and Millicent's Prosthesis. All four of these talismans work with Shield Crash. I have legitimately dealt over 2k damage with this setup. I'm sure monk remembers that day.

[hi-i-am-atan]

there is _one_ benefit to dual wielding shields despite the lack of powerstance l1s:

it lets you use the one-handed shield moveset while still being able to block, and that means having _slightly_ better r1 framedata in exchange for _slightly_ worse frame data on the backstep and running r1s on small and medium shields ... but the real advantage is that their two-handed moveset looks kinda dumb. greatshields are appropriately just kinda worse while one-handed and don't look stupid when two-handed, so their big guard boost gets to take full advantage of the two-hand guard boost boost at no cost to style ( which, like. is basically the entire reason you'd ever put a shield in your right hand, so )

oh, yeah, that's another slight reason to dual wield shields: putting any affinity on a shield takes out a chunk of its guard boost, with the penalty actually being pretty severe on elemental affinities _on top_ of said affinities altering the damage block by boosting the appropriate elemental block ( though, interestingly, this includes a lesser boost to "adjacent" elements, like fire affinity boosting lightning and magic affinity boosting holy ) in exchange for reducing the rest. so you can try to get clever by giving your right shield an offensive affinity while picking a different one on your left to better block the damage types you expect to go up against. or realistically, you can slap a heavy or status affinity on your right shield and keep your left shield on standard and enjoy slightly high guard boost. yay.

[dordohronkey]

please note the interaction of the one eyed shield with the arrows reach talisman which gives better tracking on the aow projectile!

[Frostbyte]

The ants skull plate also gives you tier 2 hardness meaning that similar to when you cloak yourself in lightning attacks will just bounce off

[therearefederalagentsoutsi]

Fingerprint shield with bleed is probably the scummiest thing you can do in pvp and I love it 😭

[chazza]

fun thing with the ants skull plate,
it has the effect of tier 3 hardness while guarding which causes weapons such as great hammers and greatswords to bounce off of it, even during the shield bash ash of war. if that happens it also secures the hit because of the stun. Hope this helps :3

[realbloodydoves]

>come home from a long day out
>be thinking about a shield character in Elden Ring
>see monk post a greatshield video
It's like pottery, it rhymes.
Guess I'm doing a shield character!

[a.ah.]

Haligtree Knight Shield with cold affinity on a pure strength build is honestly insane, shield crash sweeps

[ar.]

This gets me hyped for the dueling shields comin in the dlc

[DTPandemonium]

If you hold block you can seemlessly go into the running attack to pressure people because the way you hold the shield is vertical like the running attack instead of horizontal. It's very powerful tech. Jumping R1s are always superior to R2 as well, you can midair block with them as opposed to jumping R2's block only when you land. The bad part about these shields is shield crash is easily backstabbed if the opponent knows how to, running attack can also be backstabbed but it is much more difficult. On running attack they would need to sprint around the attack without rolling and quick 180 and BS you with a fast animation weapon so it is risky or maybe the quickstep pivot but have never seen it happen yet.

You can also cancel the special attacks of shields like the flamethrower and rocket launcher with jump if you need to reset, maybe even jump attack to surprise.

[man-wryl]

I hope the Duel Shied in the dlc will be good

[Diogenes]

Fun fact: Golden Greatshield has one of the highest guard boosts of all the greatshields.

[majorasmask]

My Captain Kaboom character uses the One-Eyed Shield as his signature weapon. I love it so much.

[overlordflame]

Dont forget the crouch attacks of the shields.
The distance you can have to hit someone is very useful :)

[ggmlansklol]

Best thing about your videos is that im never bored watching them, they have like 40 minutes and they feel like they have 10min. Bro u are one of my favorite youtubers. Keep it up bro.

[thatonesaxophoneguy]

Fun fact the shield right here 13:59 is actually a gelmir knight shield. You can tell by the symbol in the middle. It's the exact same one on the armor.

[SputnicWasTaken]

Ngl i don't care if the dragonclaw greatshield is missing it's potential, it does fat dmg, fat poise dmg and lightning dmg and the charged r2 looks awesome coming down with the spikes. I love it!

[JustTryingToYoutube]

Anytime I see the fingerprint shield I just hear “The Wall” start playing in my head, if you haven’t seen the pvp video look it up😂

[Kalamir]

Er... actually, the Ant's Skull Plate also counts as a tier class Harder then all the other Greatshields, being tier 3.
What that means is that One handed Great Sword & Great Hammers will bounce off.

[pokijuubmnkjnl]

After the first hit Trudy enters his second phase. The guys just start teleporting