A 5th backstab montage, and the 4th video showcasing "helpers" to roll in backstabs. Roll in backstabs are probably one of the most reliable backstab you can pull off in ER, so it's very usefult to have a tool that forces your opponents to roll into you.
Glintstone Nails is definetly not as good as giant golden arc and fire serpent. Why ? That's because the recovery out of the spell is quite big. Sometimes, in order to get the grab, you have to swith to off dagger. But it's the only spell i found for now that forces a roll in. I experimented with glinstone arc and rock sling but the recovvery is even more atrocious on both even with max cast speed.
Freyja curved great sword is here for looks tbh, I experimented a bit with different wake ups, as expected, gravitationnal missile is nuts, but spinning gravity thrust is also a great one !
I hope you enjoy, let me know in the comments if you have any ideas for baits that I have yet to cover.
The magic backstab bait, another great fisher tool ! STR/INT - Elden Ring PVP, arena and invasionsCosimo Medicis2024-09-20 | Happy Friday everyone !
A 5th backstab montage, and the 4th video showcasing "helpers" to roll in backstabs. Roll in backstabs are probably one of the most reliable backstab you can pull off in ER, so it's very usefult to have a tool that forces your opponents to roll into you.
Glintstone Nails is definetly not as good as giant golden arc and fire serpent. Why ? That's because the recovery out of the spell is quite big. Sometimes, in order to get the grab, you have to swith to off dagger. But it's the only spell i found for now that forces a roll in. I experimented with glinstone arc and rock sling but the recovvery is even more atrocious on both even with max cast speed.
Freyja curved great sword is here for looks tbh, I experimented a bit with different wake ups, as expected, gravitationnal missile is nuts, but spinning gravity thrust is also a great one !
I hope you enjoy, let me know in the comments if you have any ideas for baits that I have yet to cover.
Take care ev and thx for watching👌
Music : This City Made Us, The ProtomenBro thought he was Him... #eldenring #pvp #nightreign #eldenringpvp #fromsoftware #invasion #animeCosimo Medicis2025-07-29 | ...Derusting after nightreign ! #eldenring #pvp #eldenringgameplay #gaming #eldenringpvp #nightreignCosimo Medicis2025-07-27 | ...Derusting from Nightreign - Elden Ring pvp Dex/FaithCosimo Medicis2025-07-24 | Hey you all after a month of nightreign I really missed this game, but it took some getting used to again, sprinting in particular ! I'm glad I did thou, there's nothing quite like er honestly. To get back into fishing I wanted to revisit the Giant golden arc backstab and the cool bs too ;). Pest spear is honestly so sweet, such a good wakeup it's crazy !
Anyways I hope you all like it ! My wife has only two month left until the pregnancy is done, so I will try to make content until I can basically ^^
today we have a special treat here at Cosimo di Medicis ! pest thread and pest spear backstab! The concept is the same as the giant golden arc backstab, but you absolutely need to handy tech recover out of spell to quickly grab the back.
The spear and thread serve the same purpose. One does more damage and goes longer, the other cost less FP. the recovery is about the same.
The gist of it is that you can not only cast this from a medium distance to catch roll ins, but also as a wake up! If they roll away you can frametrap, if they roll in ...
It's a very fun set up and Also it's super good, I highly recommend it! I made a themed build around Arachne from the Greek mythology around it too. Leda's sword felt right with it because it's a sewing needle 🪡 ;)
If you wanted you could put spear talisman on for this build, the pest thread and spear, and leda ash of war both do counter damage. there a hidden sinergy;) I didn't use it myself because I just prefered using dagger tali most of the time due to my playstyle.
Anyways I hope you have as much of a blast watching this as I had making it !
This week I felt like revisiting the myriad build I had and all of it's quircks :) I ended up finding some fun stuff to try out ! By having the Carian sorcery sword I now don't Have a L2 stick anymore, with means that some weapon that have a bit of a weak ash of war become more usable (like st Trina Velvet sword which has critical modifier and is the longest ss in the game). The one I settled with is wing of pastel because of its R2's. I use it to bait roll ins just like you would with a whip. Even thou you don't have access to a block cancel here, it doesn't matter cause on the 2nd main slot I Have a sharp misericord to cast assassin approach, with means I can hand tech out of a lot of stuff to grab the backstab.
There's also a lot of magic combo's in here like glintblade trio, myriam's to make them lose sight of the blades, to astel r2 to carina piercer. Or fleeting Microcosm to gravitational missile.
I feel like there's still so much to experiment with this build, I even have an idea to optimize the stats of it and its playstyle in the future, so keep an eye out !
Anyways I hope you like it and if you got any cool magic combo I could try out put it in the comments :p
Surprise surprise, turns out rings are a great backstab bait for rolls in ! It's really consistent too, you just have to wait and see if the opponent starts rolling in. This dex/faith builds really has so many backstab tools it's crazy... If you haven't yet I suggest you try that Halo scythe out, aside from being the longest of its class it's aow is really good and underrated !
Soundtrack : youtube.com/watch?v=MtPsAf3bgAARivers of Blood backstab bait ! #invasion #eldenring #backstab #eldenringgameplay #eldenringpvpCosimo Medicis2025-05-05 | ...Rivers of blood little secret... Elden Ring PvpCosimo Medicis2025-05-05 | Hey everyone,
In the veine of my last vid about making roll ins bait with ashes of war in multiple parts, I was thinking of what ashes of war in multiple parts can be avoided with a roll in. And wouldn't you know it, the infamous rivers came to my mind. At first I just wanted to bait the roll in for that aow last part, but something even better came to my mind. If you stun someone after the first part, you can catch the roll in they queue in for the second part. What follows is a game about conditioning people to think you are going to do that second part of the aow.
It's not as good as the blink I showed in my last video, but it's really fun ! Also turn's out kat and board is really good ! That guard counter catchs jumps too, and its really fast and stuns everything !
I hope you like this video, nightreign is just around the counter, but wether it's good or bad, I still have sooo many ideas and fun stuff to show in er, so stick around !
Just 2 weeks ago, I thought it was done, I couldn't find any more backstab stuff that no one tried before, that I tarnished that well... But I was wrong :)) after looking at the different ashes in the game I tried giving blinkbolt another try, another chance as in because you can't do a reverse blink backstab sadly.
For backstabbing blinkbolt is sadly useless, the recovery out of it is veeeery long even with the block cancel. But for whatever reason, both the death knight twin axes and the Death Knight's Longhaft Axe have a faster recovery out of the blinkbolt part of the ash of war. And it got me thinking... What do you have to do to dodge the second part of the death knight twin axes ?
Thats right you guessed it ; roll in. This is a roll in bait backstab video, it's the gift that keeps on giving ! Both weapons require you to roll in, but the twin axes version is more threatening and will give you the ability to catch more experienced players. The long haft version on the other hand is better for pvers because they will learn quicker that you have to roll into it.
It's a really good mix up and I highly recommend giving it a try !
0:00 Tech showcase 0:22 Arena and invasions 6:09 build showcase
crédits : my good friend matik who helped me test all of thisUsing Myriam’s vanishing to rollcatch backstab #invasion #eldenring #backstab #gaming #eldenringpvpCosimo Medicis2025-04-26 | ...Vortex of putrecences and Myriams vanishing stuff #invasion #eldenring #backstab #gamingCosimo Medicis2025-04-23 | ...A song of Ice and Fire - Elden ring PVP Int/Faith buildCosimo Medicis2025-04-23 | Hello everyone,
I come to you with a cool idea coming from : youtube.com/@UCmvufoYKROQj2dUbM092lyQ His pitch was, Miriam's vanishing into Vortex of putrescence into rellana's twin blade aow R2, which connects quite often and is really consistent. But in youtube.com/@UCFhSH_7MjeKjg5j-t4vx_QQ last vid he showed off vortex of putrescence wake up. So I thought I would combine the 2 and do myriam's backstab, vortex of putrescence wakeup and rellana' aow. It's veery deadly
Ok build making talk. This is a minimal stat int/faith build for the sorceries I was interested in. What I'm more into was a way to get max cast speed. So I went 27 dex with radagon and milicent prothesis, and used exalted dragon flesh to get those 8 points in des missing to get max cast speed. the exalted also give's me enough points to one hand gazing finger and hardswap the aow without fat rolling.
I hope you enjoy this vid ! Take care u all !
Timestamp : 0:00 Invasion's 6:03 build showcase
Soundtrack : youtube.com/watch?v=c5f10GNDeGcWatchdogs staff backstab bait #invasion #eldenring #backstab #eldenringgameplayCosimo Medicis2025-04-12 | ...Watchdogs Staff is underrated... Elden ring pvpCosimo Medicis2025-04-12 | Well I finally found a new roll in bait...
It was there all along dang, the crozier ash of war is so good to get roll in backstab seriously ! This is my rl 61 strength build, it's good because I just get crazy resistance from all the stat boost I get. Anyways enjoy the invasions and build is at the end !
I wanted to spin around the general discourse around duskbood and bring back the topic of Bloodborne pvp and it's many problems.
I also try to bring my own perspective and knowledge around the lore of duskbood. It's in my opinion going to aggregate undead mythos from around the world, and it's already showing a bit.
I reference Timothy's Snyder's lessons on modern Ukraine at Yale's university : youtu.be/zhCK5uGJ3Tw?si=3Y7tXKrFs8AbT8dC It's a strong recommendation from me you should listen to all of the lessons ( real life lore)
time stamps : 0:00 intro 1:40 Bloodborne pvp issues 4:31 Duskblood iteration on the system 6:37 Vampires and dusk lore speculations 8:39 The historic origins of vampires : the unquiet ones... 16:26 Closing thoughts and OutroMyriam’s vanishing is goated ! #eldenring #darksouls #invasion #backstab #sorcery #fromsoftwareCosimo Medicis2025-04-01 | check out the tutorial as well : youtube.com/watch?v=LUcFu4OL8jEBackstab dissected #4 Rollcatch backstab and estus punish backstab - elden ring pvpCosimo Medicis2025-04-01 | Hello everyone,
Back again with some elden ring backstab tutorial on how to get roll catch backstabs and estus punish backstab more efficiently. In this video I try to teach you how to use myriad vanishing to its fullest potential. I think it's probably the most fun sorcery in the game, and I'm so glad the dlc gave it to us. I don't even mind the nerf ! I also talk backstab wake up with glint blade trio so I hope you all like it !
Time stamps : 0:00 Intro and build (rl 81) 1:23 Rollcatch backstab : the basics 2:45 Using myriad to rollcatch bs 3:15 Using myriam as a “worse” roll in 5:08 Heal punish backstab 6:26 Commentary and evolution of the build 13:18 Lore of the build 17:03 OutroBogatyr cosplay buildCosimo Medicis2025-03-22 | A bit of a different vid today, I hope you like it.
It's been a while since I invaded at rl 60, because of the downscaling problem there, so ive been meaning to make a tank strength to be able to survive more effectively. Grafted blade is such a god send for that. I thought about visiting the classical Kiev knight for a while and because cossacks were a bit too bloodborned themed, I went with the bogatyr aesthetic.
I hope you all like it, its a fun build for sure, and ill probably do some more invasions with it in the future !
A bit of different video today, a few months ago a discovered how good standard infusion was on the new dlc weapons that are infusable. A bit like the treespear with the holy bundle, but even worse honestly... The damage that this does at just weapon upgrade 10 is ludicrous... The new drawstring don't really help has well, they are a direct damage upgrade and a duration upgrade... The build I made here isn't even the best you could make to take advantage of it, but it's honestly already too good, I can just face tank anything that comes my way, even over leveled phantoms... (Rune level 46)
Anyways, I advise discretion when using this but yeah, twinks are eating good lol :^)
This build is supposed to be a rl 81 dex int, but it's still not completely done 😅, I may do a follow up on it with updated stats ;)
At first I wanted to do some roll in baits with the glintstone nails, but honestly I had way more fun reverse Miriam's vanishing ! That spell is so good fo a fisher ! You can literally mind control people to get the perfect backstab angle ! It's much more than just a spell combo trick ! Also I'm using the glintblade staff and the spells as wake up to panic the hosts as a wakeup. It's really effective and really really fun! I struggled with dex int because I thought the spells weren't as good as utility for backstabs until this honestly, expect more coming from me !
Time stamps: 0:00 invasion start 6:58 build showcase
I'm trying a new format here with simple commentary clips over invasions :) Tell me if you enjoyed it, I will try to make it more and more polished as time goes ! I hope you all like it !
timestamps : 0:00 Storyteller POV 0:45 First invasion 4:39 Build showcase 5:35 invasion commentary 11:54 level 81 range and activity 15:28 nightreign discussion 18:09 dex faith stuff and conclusion
soundtrack : Dual wielder : youtube.com/watch?v=mFhAf2y1wAE&pp=ygUfZHVhbCB3aWVsZGVyIC0gYWNlIGNvbWJhdCA3IG9zdA%3D%3D Shostakovich no 15 : youtu.be/QLng0R1FzC4 Devil may cry 4 ost :youtu.be/rXk2XGGkD-Y ace combat 7 hangar music : youtu.be/fIScZNMrTtcMaking blade of mercy talisman work ! rl46 dex arc - Elden ring invasions montageCosimo Medicis2025-02-06 | Hey everyone, I wanted to experiment with the blades of mercy in this vid. It was originally Fel's idea at first, so I ended up finishing my build before him :) No but seriously, if you still haven't played around with this tali, you really should. Unlike kindred of rot exultation, the buff resets itself every critical you land, and the buff applies to the subsquential critical. It makes landing wake ups so much more satisfying, or you can also swap the tali. It's definitely a better talisman than the dagger tali imo, as it rewards aggressive fishing plays.
I really tried to make blade of Ansbach work with this build, but the damage is just reeeaaally bad. Maybe if you want I could try to find I use for it, tell him if that interest you down there :)
Soundtrack : youtube.com/watch?v=lfYx3zUoCuA youtube.com/watch?v=RtdYOfOKIzM youtube.com/watch?v=4uhJlIKby18Through fire and thunder, rl 46 dex faith - Elden ring pvp invasion montageCosimo Medicis2025-02-03 | Hey you all, I've decided to go through another character through the dlc and complete the game. This time by using my 46 dex faith build. Before the dlc dropped I was using dragon king crag blade and the backstabs linked to the hts weapon class. But the dlc introduced queenlign, and I've yet to see someone talk about how BUSTED that weapon is at lower rl standard infused. It out damages even the flame art or fire infused with the flame spear buff when bundled (without the counter damage). How ? Well when standard infused it keeps the base damage of the physical part AND the flame part (welcome back dragons layer axe from ds3). The same applies for the bugs and the dagger. It is truly insane and slept on atm.
Also red lightning ritual pot is prob way better than the yellow version one, and lets not talk about the flower gravel stone...
I hope you enjoy, I have another vid almost ready to go this week, I will see you all then :)A Twink journey - Elden ring Pvp montage rl 25Cosimo Medicis2025-01-04 | Hey everyone, Happy new year ! work kept me busy for the last 3 month, but I calmed down finally. I've been hard at work and completed the whole dlc at 25 thou ! Why ? for no reason, I don't even plan on using light of miquella on this build... It was great fun honestly but some bosses gave me a real hard time (metyr and radian mostly).
I found some pretty cool tech during the course of making this montage, I will probably make a dedicated vid on how to exploit assassin approach and assassin gambit to the fullest in a soon to be vid.
I hope you like this vid, and I hope you had great holidays !
Back again with some elden ring backstab tutorial on how to bait people to roll into you. Last time I showed you all how to roll in backstab people by block cancelling, this video is in direct continuation of last one, but there are no block cancel in this one, and thus, no dropped input :)
Time stamps : 0:00 Intro 3:00 Block cancels 3:46 Smithscript cirque, more distance on a weapon 4:40 Giant golden arc showcase and the counters to it 6:18 Build 6:45 Invasion commentary 16:00 Outro
I caught Covid so I'm stuck at home for a bit :^), I wanted to showacase here the rancor consumables from the dlc. Feafty rancor pot on an int/faith is proprerly insane, and call of Tibia is an amazing wake up (it struggles against high poise thou). the New bairn consumable also does good damage, but the cast time is quite long sadly.
I hope you enjoy today's vid, and see you later this week end probably :)
Happy Friday, a bit of a busy week for me so i couldn't issue a vid tuesday, but i still have a lot of ideas ! I also have to confess I have been taking back my old bloodtinge bloodgems addictions... It's october ya know 🥴
If you guys are intersted in some bloodborne, I have been farming for a 2kat build and have a bit of footage :)
Anyways next montage will be spooooky, so stay tuned :)
Later and thx for watching !Backstab dissected #2 Roll in backstab block cancel, DEX/FAITH. Commentary/tutorial - Elden Ring PVPCosimo Medicis2024-10-01 | Hello everyone,
A bit of a longer video today, I try to showcase an old backstab tech and set ups that are linked to this specific backstab. Keep in mind the longer the weapon the more viable it is.
Time stamps : 0:00 Intro 1:00 Wavedash bait roll in's 1:43 Block cancel flaws in ER 2:40 Great spear cancelable attacks 4:50 Halberd cancelable attacks 6:36 Great Katana cancelable attacks 7:23 Sword and board cancelable attacks 8:06 Greatsword cancelable attacks 8:48 Heavy thrusting sword cancelable attacks 10:24 Voice over duels 14:19 Voice over invasions 19:59 Outro
I hope you enjoy the vid, comment below if you think of another weapon I haven't showcased that works for this backstab.
Big thx to Matik for getting backstabed over and over for me :)
Thx a lot for watching :)A tense invasion ! #eldenring #pvp #backstab #invasionCosimo Medicis2024-09-27 | full video here : youtu.be/mPsgkUh0L5k?si=a0cX5cgZW1RHpkDkMaking backstabbing fun ! Dex/Arc and Faith/dex - Elden Ring PvP, Invasions and ArenaCosimo Medicis2024-09-27 | Hi everyone,
Happy week-end, this is my 6th fishing montage now, I wanted at first to see if swarm of flies was a good roll in bait, but it honestly isn't sadly. But I got some really cool invasions and duels this week that i had to showcase ! Honestly these Dex/Arc and Dex/Faith builds are just so much fun ! But yeah giant golden arc is still the king of roll in baits in my opinion and obsidian lamina is well... goated for backstabs. I also try to show off a bit the sprite stone potential on a arcane build.
Speaking of consumables, next montage will be all about that so stay tuned !
Anyways enjoy the vid everyone, i had a lot of fun making it :)
Soundtrack : Final Mission~Quantum Burst - Kenji KawaiBackstab dissected #1, 2 backstab tech and Obsidian Lamina DEX/ARC - Elden Ring PVP, InvasionsCosimo Medicis2024-09-24 | Hi everyone,
It's my first commentary so be indulgent :^) I try to explain the backstabs associated with the obsidian lamina, and how do they differ from a normal reverse quickstep backstab.
I hope you enjoy the format, and don't hesitate to give me feedback, im working on a bigger project at the moment, and I want to experiment before i issue it.
A 4th backstab montage, and the 3rd video showcasing "helpers" to roll in backstabs. Roll in backstabs are probably one of the most reliable backstab you can pull off in ER, so it's very usefult to have a tool that forces your opponents to roll into you.
Giant Golden arc is tied with fire serpent for me as the best bait for roll ins. They both have ups and downs, the downside of giant golden arc is that instead of rolling it you can jump it (Thou be careful if you get stunned out of the jump by mistiming it, you are vunerable to a backstab grab, I showcase it in the video, try to find it and tell me in the comments ;) ).
The main weapon I'm using is the sacred relic sword because, for one its r1 isn't that bad, so if you miss the grab, you aren't stuck with a bad move (contrary to light gs). 2nd, it's one of the few weapons that has a crit modifier wich aint bad at all ! Finally, its the 2nd longest gs in the game.
This video took less time to make because of the fact that I was way more lucky on grabbing the footage (wich is also a testament on how good this is), so I hope you try it out.
I wil continue to try to find other roll in baits, but dlc stuff has sure given us plenty here !
Anyways thank you everyone, and I hope you enjoy watching this video !Smithscript Cirque and more backstabs, INT/FAITH build - Elden ring PVP - Patch 1.14Cosimo Medicis2024-09-14 | Hi everyone,
Back again with another montage, this time on a INT/FAITH build. Thanks to the DLC this build got a lot of cool tools, from the DLC. One of those tools is the smithscript Cirque. The scaling from int or faith on E is bad, but cold infuse it and you will get a menace of a weapon that deals insane damage close or medium range ! I added in also most of the ring spells in the game in order to have a theme, but the star of the show is definetly the smithscript cirque and it's ability to make people roll into you.
Yes you guessed it this is a roll in backstab video once again, there are a few things that incite this type of bait in the game, and I inteded to showcase all of them :)
Thanks to @RedSetGoYT for testing out the backstabs with me and to @bellmonk for allowing me to use his fights, you guys are kings !
I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it !
I have cooked up a new set up to fish for backstabs, it works similarly to fishing backstab with the whip (but Cosi, you can't bs with a whip) by baiting a roll in, you can position yourself to get a backstab pretty consistently.
So here, fire serpent isn't only used to set up combo's and frame trap people with the impaler spear (which is the longest btw) but also to bait out roll in's. Then after the backstab you can set up a wake up with the messmer's orb (btw it's also very good for corners).
All and all this dex faith is a lot of fun, lots of tool available, special mention to the fire coil that just compliment fire serpent sooooo well (and they do so much damage on the build, I could probably go deathless by just spamming those things).
I hope you enjoy the vid, thx everyone !
I want to thank @RedSetGoYT who helped me test out the backstabs, you can spot him somewhere in here :)STR/FAITH build, the fisher invader bait - Elden ring PVPCosimo Medicis2024-09-01 | Hi everyone, this video took a while to make fresh out of my vacations, my fish were rusty, but, that build doesn't care about that because quickstep backstabs are just so easy to learn and perform !
The main idea of the build in itself, is to leverage the fact that the sword of damnation also gets buffed by the dagger talisman. Out of a backstab, the swap is very tight, but if you get it, it is basically death (duh honestly you could make a gs of damnation only build and get better results, but that's boring)
I went with the fire knight greatsword as my quickstep weapon because I also wanted to add in another backstab tech on the grill, but honestly I'm not consistent at that tech yet, so that will have to wait for another video :)
I also tried to add in soem of the backstabs I kow how to perform (the rollcatch bs, the roll bs, the roll in bs...), I hope you enjoy the video, take care everyone !
Soundtrack : The Unsung War - Ace Combat 5 - Epic Metal Cover youtu.be/DHTRQTXyFuAObsidian Lamina with a twist... - Elden Ring PvpCosimo Medicis2024-08-03 | This is the Fisher's best friend and my current favorite weapon in ER. On paper it's worse than all the others scythes in the game and is mostly a Dexterity weapon. It's weapon art, while the I-frames are good, is quite reactable. The damage pales in comparaison to a grave scythe or a normal scythe...
But, you can use the 1st part of the aow as a backstep to fish for backstabs, "ravioli style", true enough, out of the Qs part of the aow, the r1 comes out as a crouch R1.
It's a very versatile tool and you can backstab almost any chain of attacks in the game with it.
I hope you enjoy my montage 😉How to counter the most broken build in elden ring, Spread crossbow with Thiollier hidden needleCosimo Medicis2024-07-17 | The talismant combo shown here completly negates the thiollier's needle cheese. Also in order to avoid the follow up hit of the needle, you just need to jump the sleep.Its crozier good🧀Cosimo Medicis2023-05-18 | ...Late night 🍕 😩Cosimo Medicis2023-05-18 | ...Its pizza time 🍕🍕🍕😋Cosimo Medicis2023-05-17 | ...