The ULTIMATE Guardian Guide to Beating EVERY Nightlord | Elden Ring: Nightreign
My long awaited and highly requested guide to dominating every Nightlord in this game as the bird man! In today’s video I’m going to teach you Guardian specific matchup problems, guard counter openings and how to deal with bosses that he struggles with! Please consider liking and subscribing the video and help me get to 10k subscribers!
⏱️ – TIMESTAMPS -⏱️
0:00 – Intro
1:45 – Gladius
3:35 – Everdark Gladius
4:50 – Gaping Jaw
6:49 – Everdark Gaping Jaw
7:20 – Sentient Pest
9:13 – Everdark Sentient Pest
10:12 – Augur
10:44 – Everdark Augur
11:50 – Libra
12:55 – Everdark Libra
13:38 – Fulghor
15:36 – Everdark Fulghor
16:10 – Caligo
17:43 – Everdark Caligo
18:20 – Heolster the Nightlord
22:10 – The Balancers
25:05 – Enhanced Balancers
26:06 – The Dreglord
28:10 – Outro
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LINKS:
Guardian MASTERY Guide → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQvk87BilM&t=225s
Beating Nightreign by ONLY Blocking → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm-BRCratcM
MUSIC USED:
A Remembrance of the Guardian – Soma Tanizaki
Gladius, Beast of Night – Tai Tomisawa
Adel, Baron of Night – Soma Tanizaki
Gnoster, Wisdom of Night – Tai Tomisawa
Maris, Fathom of Night – Shoi Miyazawa
Libra, Creature of Night – Shoi Miyazawa
Fulghor, Champion of Nightglow – Tai Tomisawa
Caligo, Miasma of Night – Soma Tanizaki
Heolster the Nightlord – Shoi Miyazawa
Weapon-Bequeathed Harmonia – Elden Ring Nightreign The Forsaken Hollows
The Dreglord – Elden Ring Nightreign The Forsaken Hollows
Distant Banjo – ConcernedApe
Pelican Town – ConcernedApe
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37 Comments
bird up! thanks for this!
I am a guardian main, but against the ed balancers I have to swap with one of the broken ones, every time I get bloodloss, my shield go down and somehow i die.
They gotta fix it
I actually have everdark caligo on farm with guardian. the trick is, this isn't a guard counter fight. you want to punish with strong weapon skills. it's time to play guardian as a yoked stamina combo player. anything with decent fire splash, or a straight up ranged skill is what you want to look out for. in the fight itself, you can double hand swap between your shield for advancing on him, and then swap to your weapon and wail on him. faith mod is of special note here, because you can just find a fireball seal and toss them like a professional baseball player.
the balancer trails are weird but you can block em, just for whatever reason the hitbox is backwards from where youd think it'd be
so unfair. guardian should have that balancer halberd where it can have that ranged slash like storm ruler
Birb (Guardian) and Nerd (Scholar) deserve all the love! They might not be the best in DPS, but in the right hands, they can hold their own.
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Those "hoof slams" from Fulghor, you have just enough time to do fully charged GCs between them, so long as you have the stamina
Call me crazy but dormant whips and guardians Dexterity relic. They get long reach with their guard counters and deal strike damage. Whipped balancers on depth 4 so dirty
Don't forget about the things Guardian ult can interrupt. It's really good at stopping everdark ghost moth's red laser ult, for example
"Lorewalking" lol I've heard it be called RP walking because of MMOs for so long, I love that
Wow, I LOVED the tech for the possessed moth red rain attack. Can't wait to try it. Just another thing that makes the bird OP, I suppose. 💅
Fantastic video, Brophades!
Let's be real, partial hp restoration after taking damage is probably the one relic that is useful on every melee nightfarer. Casters are a little too squishy for it, and the spell casting time plus travel time makes it unlikely youll be able to take advantage of it, but The (Melee) Boyz? Chunk those motherfuckers and get your hp back.
He’s bottom tier for dmg all he can do is have a shit block and revive
Its so BEAK
This video made me realise how different my playstyle for Guardian is. I run improved Mind and Faith with dormant great spears and no shockwaves on Steel Guard, so I can't use over half of the advice presented. 🥲
Regardless, this is an excellent guide and I'll definitely keep it in mind for future use. Proper use of blocking is an incredible safety blanket that has saved me many times while playing Revenant and Recluse.
Elemental mitigation for chip damage [and relevant Greatshields] per boss;
Gladius : Fire [Redmane, Visage, Guardian's]
Adel : Lightning [Dragonclaw, Ant Skull, Icon]
Fulghor and Libra : Holy [ Erdtree, Crucible, Haligtree]
Gnoster, Maris and Caligo : Magic [Silver Mirrorshield, Eclipse, Cuckoo]
Heolstor : Whatever he feels like at the time, but leans to Magic
An appropriately statted shield, a couple of weapon/boss perks for affinity negation, and post-damage regain relic effect can give you enough mit to get away with blocking some of the elemental attacks.
I guess the executor is just a better guardian if your strategy is to use mostly guard counters. The cursed sword uses little to no stamina and with relics you can do insane damage with counter and posture damage, also the crit build is goated. But i just love the bird. He just looks so menacing yet has a gentle heart.
A fun thing I like to do against Heolstor's orb attack is to just shield-poke and tank the attack with hp restoration upon thrusting counterattack + partial hp restorarion 😂
Thanks mate! 🤘 Guardian is super fun when you figure him out, even if you're only mediocre like me. 😄
I just made a "Nightreign Legendary" playlist, and this is the first video in it.
do you have a video of the relics you use im never sure how to build the bird
Guardian is one of those characters i wanted to get good with but just found its so overwhelming. Like some bosses have small guard counters opening and it just makew his play style inconsistent especially if your team dmg is bad
i recently started trying guardian again (like a few hours ago) and damn hes really really strong. i remember playing him a while ago and not really enjoying him, mainly due to me not exactly liking his playstyle (and me not fully understanding it) and i swear he has been like buffed to hell and back. on my first time trying him in deep of night solo (depth 3 which i just got done with right now) i managed to get suprisingly close to killing everdark gladius.
Anyway thank you for both being the reason i started properly trying scholar and now guardian again
Great video. A few tips..the upper mine by has a pumpkin head right at the start for a SS to UPGRADE your shield which is the most important thing for G. I have specific builds for every NL mainly affinity negation. Executor has a yellow relic for Hp AND ult regain. Use it. For ED Caligo I run dormant crossbows which almost always will get you the pulley, then look for any buffs to ranged combat. GG
Now try this in Depth 5.
Why dont you counter-ult ED Adel & Caligo?
Goated video to eat dinner to. 10/10
I love birdman getting some love
How do you dodge Adel’s throws if you’re not far enough to avoid it?
6:21 sorry Mr. Bird I can’t hear you over the banger playing in the background
It will never fail to piss me off that the “charged attacks with halberd summon a whirlwind” relic effect doesn’t apply to charged guard counters.
Like they gave him the ability to CHARGE his guard counter with ONLY halberds.
Then they add a relic effect that says “CHARGED attacks with HALBERDS SPECIFICALLY generate whirlwinds”
Like why wouldn’t they pair those two together. It’s not even just that it’s an obvious choice to add a little extra flair to Guardian’s signature move.
The wording implies it should work. Changing it so it worked with charged guard counters wouldn’t even feel like a buff, it would honestly kinda feel like a bug fix.
You see I could manage my vigor buuuut I found wraiths while walking and now have become lobotomized
Edit: You know I was too busy trying to not die to notice the balancer main weapon change thanks for the advice
This makes me want to solo each boss as the bird.
BIRD UP!
Guardian is so ass, so bad in most of the cases, if you are new and climbing DON and see the fucking bird in your team know its a -400/-800
eagle american lovers just doing mental gymnastic to avoid calling weakest character in the game "ass"
You forgot to mention Dreglord has a combo in which he pulls his weapon towards him that hits from behind you so it'll hit behind your shield. Pretty key move to point out
Nice video sir!
i never use the sheilds when i play him