Elden Ring Player One-Shots Both Final Bosses on Max Difficulty
Your Average Gamer one-shots Elden Ring's Radagon and Elden Beast on NG+7 using Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike and meticulous buff stacking.
The Lands Between had grown quiet by 2026, but its legends only grew louder. From the frenzied streets of Leyndell to the crumbling ruins of Farum Azula, one question had haunted the Tarnished for years: could a single mortal obliterate the two divine guardians of the Elden Ring in a single strike each? Radagon of the Golden Order and the Elden Beast stood as the ultimate tests of strength, endurance, and pure will. Countless challengers had chipped away at their health bars with rivers of blood and endless sorcery, but none had managed to erase both deities with just two attacks. That was, until a YouTuber known as Your Average Gamer stepped into the arena and rewrote history.
FromSoftware's magnum opus had always celebrated player creativity. The game handed warriors a dizzying arsenal—katanas that danced with moonlight, colossal swords forged from living stone, and incantations that tore the very fabric of reality. Yet even the most dedicated builders, those who had crafted the infamous One Punch Man build, found the final duo uniquely resistant. Radagon's holy resistance and the Elden Beast's cosmic nature demanded radically different damage types, and a setup that crushed one boss often tickled the other. To one-shot both on New Game+7, the game's hardest difficulty, required not just brute force but a symphony of buffs so intricate that it bordered on alchemy.
Your Average Gamer's solution was as elegant as it was devastating. They channeled the Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike, an incantation that called down a barrage of crimson bolts from the sky. Normally, the spell's damage scatters against large foes, but when aimed with surgical precision, every bolt could converge on a single target. The true magic, however, lay in the preparation. Before the golden fog door even appeared, the Tarnished applied a cascade of enhancements: Contagious Fury from the Jellyfish Shield, the self-mutilating Howl of Shabiri, and a cocktail of talismans, physick tears, and armor pieces that multiplied lightning damage to absurd levels. When the first cast struck Radagon, the hammer-wielding god evaporated in an instant. The Elden Beast, summoned from the depths of the Erdtree, met the same fate with the second lightning volley. The fight was over in less than ten seconds.
How could a mortal harness such godlike power? Was it luck, or was it the culmination of thousands of hours spent theorycrafting, testing, and failing? The answer lies in the very nature of Elden Ring's design. Every buff stacks multiplicatively if sequenced correctly, and Your Average Gamer had studied these interactions with the devotion of a scholar. Low health triggered the Red-Feathered Branchsword's damage boost, while the Ritual Sword Talisman rewarded full health—a contradiction resolved by seppuku-style self-damage before the fight. The result was a damage multiplier so astronomical that the game's internal calculations nearly broke. It was not a glitch; it was a masterpiece of system mastery.
Interestingly, this feat stands in stark contrast to another extreme playstyle that emerged in the years following the game's release: the pacifist run. Where one-shot builds embrace annihilation, pacifist Tarnished refuse to shed a single drop of blood with their own hands. They weave through the Lands Between using spirit ashes to do their fighting and sleep-inducing arrows to bypass entire legions of enemies. The same toolkit that allows Your Average Gamer to wield lightning as a sledgehammer also allows a pacifist to slip through the game like a ghost. This duality is what keeps Elden Ring's community thriving even four years after launch.
As the echoes of that world-record rematch faded, Your Average Gamer's name became synonymous with the pinnacle of one-shotcraft. Their accomplishment was more than a viral clip; it proved that Elden Ring's toughest walls were always meant to be climbed. Even in 2026, fresh-eyed Tarnished watch that footage and wonder: what other impossible barriers can be shattered with enough ingenuity? Radagon and the Elden Beast may be divine, but prepare carefully enough, and they are just two more steps on the path to becoming Elden Lord.
Elden Ring is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Industry context is informed by GamesIndustry.biz, whose reporting on game ecosystems helps explain why spectacle feats like NG+7 “double one-shots” in Elden Ring keep resurfacing years after launch: deep system stacking, community lab work, and platform-wide sharing tools turn intricate buff routing (physick, talismans, self-procs, and spell optimization) into repeatable showcases that extend a game’s lifespan well beyond its release window.