Elden Ring Doot Champion DrDeComposing Has Officially Murdered the DLC’s Most Brutal Boss With a Saxophone [IGN]

Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware certainly didn’t pull any punches when setting the difficulty of Elden Ring’s first and only piece of DLC. The time following Shadow of the Erdtree’s June 21 launch has seen countless players struggle with the extreme challenge posed by the new content. Their plight has triggerest the creation of a slew of mods designed to make the DLC easier, along with the release of an official update that rebalanced the DLC’s difficulty scaling system.

Warning: mild spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree follow.

The final boss of the DLC — Promised Consort Radahn — represents a particularly brutal challenge, which is arguably up there with the toughest any FromSoftware game has to offer. Radahn ranked top in IGN’s list of the toughest Shadow of the Erdtree bosses, with even legendary Elden Ring co-op hero ‘Let Me Solo Her’ — now ‘Let Me Solo Him’ — admitting that his hands were shaking upon finally putting the monstrous boss down.

And yet a Twitch streamer going by the name DrDeComposing has managed to dispatch the Super Saiyan-esque version of Radahn using a modified electric saxophone as a controller, after only a dozen attempts.

Everyone was telling me how utterly impossible the Final Boss of Shadow of the Erdtree was going to be. Outrageous moveset, impossible dodges, etc

…

It only took me a dozen attempts on the saxophone.

THE WORLD’S FIRST (afaik) ALT CONTROLLER DLC RUN HAS BEEN DOOTED!🎷 pic.twitter.com/nUzPmfgsNx

— Dr. Doot 🎷 (@DrDeComposing) July 1, 2024

“Everyone was telling me how utterly impossible the final boss of Shadow of the Erdtree was going to be,” said DrDeComposing in a victory post on X/Twitter. “Outrageous moveset, impossible dodges, etc. It only took me a dozen attempts on the saxophone. THE WORLD’S FIRST (afaik) ALT CONTROLLER DLC RUN HAS BEEN DOOTED.”

DrDeComposing’s weapon of choice is a Roland Aerophone AE-10 electric saxophone, each tone from which triggers a button press mapped to a virtual controller. The only doot-free input used during the climactic battle came by way of a nubbin-like analog stick located on the back of this very unconventional controller.

The streamer was able to use this real-world legendary armament — and his Tarnished’s Carian Thrusting Shield — to weather Radahn’s relentless attacks until he was able to find an opening to unleash the final doot of violence that ended Miquella’s consort. DrDeComposing had previously performed a ‘hitless doot run’ of Elden Ring’s base game, in which he took down all seven great rune wielding bosses, including the infamous Malenia, Blade of Miquella, without taking a single hit.

For more Elden Ring content why not read up on how one player is defeating Shadow of the Erdtree bosses using electrical signals from her brain to manipulate a virtual controller, or find out about the player who beat the entirety of the DLC without levelling up once.

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