Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Ever struggled with Dark Souls, Bloodborne or Elden Ring? Trying to Git Gud before Nightreign? Here's everything I wish I knew when I started playing Fromsoftware games.

0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Understanding The Roll
0:45 - Roll On Release
1:48 - I-Frames and Equip Load
2:52 - Roll At The Last Moment
3:49 - The Roll Catch
5:05 - Snap Attacks
6:23 - Blocking
7:45 - Don't Be Greedy
8:25 - Only Attack Once
9:41 - Healing Mistakes
10:30 - Treat Healing Like Attacking
11:14 - Levelling
14:27 - There's Something You're Missing...
19:16 - Parrying
23:48 - AI Manipulation
26:15 - Strafing
27:18 - Unlocking Your Camera

A massive shoutout to the many creators that I have learnt from over the years and, without whom, this video would not have been possible: LobosJr, Distortion2, GinoMachino, Ymfah, Nemz38, SquillaKilla, Catalystz & The Happy Hob, to name just a few.

Mods used for footage:

Elden Ring:
JohnDiSanDonato's ER Practice Tool
Frans Bouma's Elden Ring Photo Mode Tool
The Grand Archives' ER CE Table
FSR Frame Generation and Temporal Super Resolution (ERSS-FG)

DS3:
JohnDiSanDonato's DSIII Practice Tool
The Grand Archives' DSIII CE Table
DS3 Debug FPS

DS2:
DS2 Light Engine

DSR:
Dark Souls Re-Remastered
Debug Menu

Bloodborne (Central Yarnham section):
Vertex Explosion Fix
Fix All Effects NO Crashes for INTEL

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