There are damage buffs involved.
An Elden Ring (opens in new tab) player player has knocked out the game’s most difficult boss on its highest difficulty, New Game+7, in a mere 15 seconds. The speed kill was completed by RS_Lionheart (opens in new tab), and takes down Malenia by just… walking in and beating the absolute crap out of her.
Using an extensive suite of damage-boosting effects in a buff-up routine that takes about 45 seconds of the entire video, something like three times as long as the fight itself, RS_Lionheart knocks out Malenia in an impressive 15.7 seconds. In the words of Malenia herself: “Your strength, extraordinary…”
RS_Lionheart’s 15-second kill got a lot of attention when posted over on Reddit (opens in new tab), where it inspired a lot of commentary. Such gems as “I would have died and retried 3 times in the amount of time it took you to apply the buffs” and “Ok, so I’m halfway there: I actually manage to end the fight after 15 seconds consistently.
