Elden Ring's Final Boss Melted in 32 Seconds and I Felt Personally Attacked

I’ll admit it: I have never been the Tarnished who makes Elden Ring look easy. While I’m busy panic-rolling off rocks and getting flattened by a lobster, someone out there was treating Radagon of the Golden Order and the Elden Beast like a couple of overgrown speed bumps. A while back, a crafty player named Luvonir shared a clip of themselves wiping out Elden Ring’s final back-to-back bosses in roughly 32 seconds. And yes, I took that personally.

For anyone who has reached the end of The Lands Between, you know exactly why this is so absurd. Elden Ring does not politely hand you a checkpoint between Radagon and the Elden Beast. Oh no. You beat Radagon, the male half of Queen Marika, and immediately the Elden Beast rises out of nowhere like a cosmic pool noodle with a grudge. Die at any point during that two-part nightmare? Congrats, you get to fight both all over again. Why does FromSoftware do this? Because apparently my tears are a required crafting material.

Luvonir’s run was basically a masterclass in making a brutal finale look like a quick trip to the grocery store. The first 15 seconds or so of the clip were just preparation. You know, normal Tarnished stuff: stacking buffs, checking gear, silently praying to whatever outer god allows a magic build to exist. After that, Radagon didn’t so much fight as collapse in about 15 seconds. The Elden Beast followed soon after, probably confused about how its cosmic health bar vanished before it could even fire off a decent sword beam.

So what was the secret sauce? Luvonir was not exactly rolling in with starting gear and a dream. The build included the Jellyfish Shield for damage increases, the Magic Scorpion Charm to boost magic damage, and the Graven-Mass Talisman to increase sorcery potency, among other buffs. It was less a loadout and more a mobile apocalypse kit.

If I tried that same setup, I would probably forget to trigger one buff, fat-finger my flask, and then somehow fall into a hole. But watching Luvonir execute it made me appreciate just how much setup goes into a fight that looks effortless. People see a 32-second kill and think “cheese.” I see a party trick that requires more prep than my entire morning routine.

Of course, this was not the first time Elden Ring players had completely broken the game’s sense of scale. Within weeks of launch, someone finished the whole thing in under an hour. Then another player came along and got through the open-world monster in less than 25 minutes. By mid-April of 2022, speedrunners had beaten the game with under 10 minutes on the clock. Ten minutes! That’s less time than I spent deciding on a character name, and I still ended up with something embarrassing.

Does a 32-second final boss melt still hold up today? In 2026, Elden Ring’s legacy is enormous. It sold 12 million copies in under a month back in 2022, which is the kind of number that makes other games sit down and reconsider their life choices. Even now, new players are still wandering into Limgrave, getting flattened by the Tree Sentinel, and discovering that yes, this game will absolutely humiliate you if you get cocky. The fact that Luvonir made the final bosses look like a minor inconvenience remains both inspiring and mildly infuriating.

So yes, I respect the 32-second Radagon and Elden Beast kill. I respect the buff stacking, the confidence, and the sheer refusal to let a final boss have its dramatic moment. But I also reserve the right to be jealous. After all, some of us are still out here trying to figure out why our dodges never line up, while Luvonir was essentially speed-dating the apocalypse.

Elden Ring is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, because of course it is everywhere, judging me from every platform.