
This single-blow build can make the player feel a bit like One-Punch Man like this Elden Ring fan, rushing into melee with bosses and devastating them with one tremendous swing. However, it does require the player to use several consumable items, such as Exalted Flesh and the Bloodboil Aromatic before each battle.

This is an Elden Ring build that still requires certain talismans and a couple of weapon buffs, but is overall less reliant on armor pieces. Focused around strength rather than intelligence, this allows the player to devastate bosses with a single swing from the Giant Crusher hammer. The AoE effect of the spell also means that it is significantly more useful against multiple enemies or dodgy opponents like Elden Ring's most annoying bosses than other one-shot builds in the game.Īnother awesomely powerful is the Giant Crusher build, a one-shot build that involves much less magic and much more swinging of an oversized hammer. This build requires inflicting poison and madness on the player's own character, switching headgear, and applying buffs in a very specific order, but the end result is the ability to kill any boss in the game even at the maximum endgame level in a blinding and theatrical lightning storm. One wild build often shorthanded to the Dragon Lightning build, has the player strike down bosses with the Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike, a powerful incantation that calls bolts of red lightning in a massive area. Related: Elden Ring's Infamous Fire Giant Punched To Death In Lengthy Battle

This includes activating some of the best Elden Ring gear abilities and spells, and using consumable items to squeeze every drop of power possible out of the player before passing through the fog wall. Even this is not enough however, and prepping before a boss fight always involves a significant amount of player buffing before entering the arena. One-shot builds, as they are known, require characters to invest stats in a specific way to maximize attack power.
