Best Build To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

The Tarnished’s journey in Shadow of the Erdtree culminates with them facing the legendary hero, and now Miquella’s consort, Radhan. Being the final boss among the ten remembrance bosses, Promised Consort Radhan poses a great challenge for the Tarnished, and he grows even more dangerous in his second phase.

Embraced by Miquella, Radhan throws at the Tarnished a flurry of fast-paced melee attacks combined with holy spells in his second phase, requiring pinpoint precision when trying to roll through them. However, with everything in Elden Ring, there’s always a way around the toughest of the challenges, and if you’ve been having a difficult time overcoming this seemingly impossible boss, the following build guide should come in clutch.

Updated on January 2nd, 2025 by Vincent Arogya: This guide has been updated to include two additional builds, offering more diverse strategies to defeat Promised Consort Radahn. These additions include a spear build equipped with a frost-based ranged Ash of War and a Multilayered Ring of Light incantation build for faith-based characters.

Best Character Attribute Distribution To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

It’s recommended that you’re at rune level 180 or above when challenging Promised Consort Radhan. For a character at rune level 190, the following attribute distribution will allow you to maintain a decent poise, equip heavy weapons, and put on better armor:

If you’re above level 190 or have extra runes to spare, it’s recommended to spend them on upgrading your endurance. Any additional stamina will help you block for a longer duration without being staggered.

Additionally, with the Scadutree Fragments buffed in patch 1.12.2, you can comfortably beat Promised Consort Radahn at Scadutree level 15 and Revered Spirit Ash level at 7.

Best Armor To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

Radhan’s attacks deal a lot of poise damage and withstanding them is necessary if you want to punish the boss with this build. Poise governs your resistance to being staggered and interrupted by enemy attacks. While there are several armor sets in the game that comfortably increase your poise, they also come at the cost of heavy equipment load.

This build aims at keeping your equipment load to medium, allowing you to medium-roll and dodge the boss’ attacks. Fortunately, the following armor pieces allow you to gain 60 poise while staying at medium equipment load:

Best Weapons To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

The selection of weapons included in this build will allow you to tank Radahn’s flurry of attacks, while also dealing decent damage and inflicting the blood loss and scarlet rot status effects:

• Antspur Rapier

  : Dropped when defeating the NPC Maleigh Marais found northwest of the Shaded Castle. The Antspur Rapier is a thrusting weapon that already inflicts scarlet rot buildup, but it can also be infused with a secondary affinity, allowing you to deal two status effects with a single weapon. It’s recommended that you infuse the Antspur Rapier with the
  Ash of War: Blood Blade

  and choose the blood affinity. Given how thrusting swords work, you can use this weapon while protecting yourself with a shield.

• Fingerprint Stone Shield

  : The Fingerprint Stone Shield may not be the most impressive looking shield in the game, but it is by far one of the best greatshields that you can acquire in the game. This greatshield completely negates physical damage while providing excellent resistance against magic, fire, lightning, and holy damage. You can acquire the Fingerprint Stone Shield by descending into the Leyndell Catacombs. You can also use the
  Verdigris Greatshield

  as it’s only slightly weaker than the Fingerprint Stone Shield.

• Any Sacred Seal: While not necessary, you can also include a sacred seal of your choice to cast Flame, Grant Me Strength and the Golden Vow incantations to buff your damage output for 30 seconds. When choosing a Sacred Seal, ensure that it requires the minimum amount of faith to be effectively equipped. The
  Finger Seal

  and
  Clawmark Seal

  are great options.

Make sure your weapons are upgraded to the max to gain as much leverage as possible in the boss fight.

Best Talismans To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

Even with the best armor and weapon of choice, the full potential of a build is incomplete without the right selection of talismans. Talismans allow you to tweak a build to meet certain standards, such as increasing damage negation, increasing poise, or even dealing additional damage. The following talisman stack greatly boost your physical and non-physical damage negation while also increasing the damage you deal to the boss:

Best Wondrous Flask Of Physick Combination To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

The Wondrous Flask of Physick allows you to combine two tears to obtain special buffs. In Promised Consort Radahn’s case, you’ll want to prioritize damage output while also negating the damage you receive. Luckily, the following two tears allow you to capitalize on this strategy:

1. Thorny Cracked Tear

   : Dropped from a Putrid Avatar near the Minor Erdtree southeast of Ordina, Liturgical Town in the Mountaintops of the Giants. Consuming this tear increases damage output of successive attacks for three minutes.

2. Opaline Hardtear

   : Dropped from a Putrid Avatar near the Minor Erdtree north of Fort Faroth in Caelid. Consuming this tear negates all damage taken by 15% for three minutes.

Best Great Rune To Pair With This Build

While not mandatory, you could consider pairing Godrick’s Great Rune
with this build to add five additional points to all your attributes. The additional points will translate into scaling your weapon’s damage output, increasing stamina, and boosting poise, all of which are a welcome addition to an already solid build.

However, if you’d only like to increase your maximum health and stamina, you could consider equipping Radahn’s Great Rune
as it provides even better stat boosts than Godrick’s Great Rune.

Best Spirit Summon To Use When Fighting Promised Consort Radahn

The Mimic Tear is by far the best summon you could use when trying to beat Promised Consort Radahn. However, you could use other alternatives like a maxed out Black Knight Commandar Andreas or the Dung Eater.

Summons can be great at drawing away the boss’s aggression, allowing you to reapply the buffs or use your healing flasks.

Buffing Routine & Attack Strategy

This build prioritizes simplicity and effectiveness, so the buffing routine is going to be minimal as well. Before you traverse the fog wall, pop the Wondrous Flask of Physick and then cast the Golden Vow and Flame, Grant Me Strength incantations. This buffing routine provides you with the following buffs:

• Increases damage output.
• Negates physical damage.
• Increases attack power with successive attacks.

The combination of a shield and a thrusting sword allows you to poke at Radahn while remaining behind the safety of your shield. So, the basic attack strategy involves holding onto the block input while spamming light attacks. Your primary form of damage will result from the Antspur Rapier’s bleed affinity and scarlet rot build-up.

You may also need to momentarily disengage for a while to restore your stamina before re-engaging with the boss. You may not always be successful in summoning your spirit ash upon traversing the fog wall, so the ideal approach would be to summon a spirit ash when the boss transitions to phase two.

Alternate Builds To Beat Promised Consort Radahn

In addition to the highly defensive Fingerprint Stoneshield and massive damage-inflicting Antspur Rapier, the following builds are also capable of quickly taking down Promised Consort Radahn. However, these builds do sacrifice the defensive aspect, which is the hallmark of the main build in this guide:

Cross-Naginata Build

The Cross-Naginata
scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and offers a decent melee range. You can find this spear in Gael Tunnel where a giant land octopus hangs above the cave, waiting for an ambush. The spear was recently buffed to inflict increased poise damage, making it an excellent choice against Promised Consort Radahn
.

To take the weapon’s damage-dealing potential to the next level, consider applying the cold affinity and infusing it with a powerful ranged Ash of War, like the Ice Spear Skill
. The Ice Spear skill allows you to use the Cross-Naginata as a ranged weapon, ensuring that you’re consistently applying the frost status to the boss.

Also, consider two-handing this spear to activate the +50% strength buff, and feel free to use any armor set that grants you at least 60 poise while keeping your equipment load at medium.

Finally, equip the following talismans to complete the build:

Multilayered Ring Of Light Build

The Multilayered Ring of Light
incantation is a powerful holy-based spell that boasts excellent range, both in terms of distance and as well as width. The Multilayered Ring of Light is also highly effective against Promised Consort Radahn during his first phase. You can acquire this spell upon defeating the Misbegotten Crusader in the Stone Coffin Fissure.

You can maximize the damage output of the Multilayered Ring of Light by pairing it with the Dryleaf Seal
to gain a 15% boost to the spell’s damage output.

Completing this incantation build are the following four talismans:

Finally, for the Wondrous Flask of Physick, combine the Holy-Shrouding Cracked Tear
and Greenburst Crystal Tear
to enjoy increased holy damage output and stamina recovery, respectively.