A player attempting to find an easy method to finish the Great Jar encounter in Elden Ring finds their cheese strategy being countered with an attack that appears impossible for players to pull off. Considering how difficult it can be to earn the Great Jar Arsenal from this encounter, this is far from the only example of a player attempting to cheese through this difficult fight.
This latest clip comes courtesy of Reddit user No_Salary_4715, who posted the short video to the Elden Ring subReddit, specifically under the humor tag. So, even the original player is a good sport about how this fight went, with the summoned adversary seeming to leap up from beyond a death plane in order to land a victory.
In the video, the player can be seen fighting against a randomly summoned enemy from the Great Jar encounter, with the build of the adversary being based on one of Elden Ring's online PVP players. However, in order to attempt to cheese this adversary and beat the enemy easily, the player stands on one of the roots that extends out past the cliff side where the fight takes place. While the intention is to have the enemy fall off the cliff while aiming for the player, the result is that the adversary actually jumps back onto the root and knocks the player to their death.
The original strategy being shown in the video is one of several popular ways to cheese these enemies for the Great Jar encounter by tricking them or forcing them off the cliff with spells like the Aspect of the Crucible Incantations. What makes this specific situation so strange and comical for players familiar with Elden Ring's movement is the way the adversary managed to jump from what should have been its death up to the root where the player waited. A jump like the one shown normally wouldn't be possible, even when considering the leaps capable of weapon arts like the Wolf's Assault that the enemy is using. So, it almost looks like the game saw the cheesing and decided to respond in kind.
This type of glitchy behavior from enemies in Elden Ring is nothing new for players that have continued to put hours into the game. That isn't to say that FromSoftware didn't put the game together well enough by launch, but more that the large scale and scope of this latest title makes glitches more common than with smaller projects. Still, moments like this where a player is killed by a strange bit of movement can be partly frustrating and partly humorous for both the player and anyone who might come across the clip.
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