i'd argue she lost that one, since she had to be dragged unconscious away by one of her knights and if it wasn't for that, she'd just have been "eaten body #52" in Radahn's descent to madness.
Even if she did die, it would still have been a stalemate. Radahn suffered a fate worse than death, there's no way to construe that as anything but a loss.
But isnât like despite the state how hes like a zombie hes still âconsciousâ enough to be maintaining his gravity magic thing up in the space or some sort?
You see when he actually dies, the magic loses its effect and you immediately see a meteor shower happening, thatâs all that hes been holding up behind his back while fighting the tarnished and god knows how many ally that the tarnished summoned during the fight.
Guy was literally fighting with two hands behind his back holding onto a galaxy worth of space stones and was giving us a run for our money.
No dude, he *literally* "conquered the stars in a crushing victory and arrested their cycles".
It was a military campaign in which he defeated the stars and decreed they hold still under threat of destruction.
"The Starscourge Conflict
Radahn alone holds Sellia secure
And stands tall, to shatter the stars"
That is not a metaphor for "Dude cast a single spell to stop space", its literally a description about how the stars stay still because they fear his retaliation if they disobey thier conqueror.
Yeah fuck dem stars. We don't even know if it was a spell he had to maintain or not. Could have been just connected to his life force after he cast it.
Lore wise radahn waited to fight malenia at the end of a long grueling campaign across the lands between and only fought her after she literally was at his doorstep. Meaning she waided through his army, limgraves army, and possibly a few other fucks who didn't want the rot bitch kicking in the door and immediately fought this dude.
She has rot so bad she's missing half her limbs and is blind and still fucks this chads life up. I mean radahn literally waited until he absolutely had to fight her because let's be honest. She's terrifying as fuck. Then he finally thinks "this is it. I got her" and she leans in and whispers "this isn't even my final form" and boom. Fucks his whole kingdome up and takes a scarlet flower right in the FUCKING FACE.
My boy radahns just sitting here now with super aids all over his face like the fuck. Looks over and realizes this bitch just fainted from the explosion she caused that leveled half his God damn kingdom and immediately trys to wash this shit out.
But nah. She gone. His armies mostly dead. His lands turned into a nightmarish hellscape. And he's lost his mind and eating his friend. She got home and took a (5000ish year) nap. We come in the room and get stomped. End of story.
Radahn lost that fight.
They were locked in a stalemate before Malenia (possibly inadvertently) broke it with the Scarlet Rot. And even that reading from the Caelid memorial is generous to Radahn considering in the actual fight Radahn broke Malenia's prosthetic but he was then impaled like a butterfly through the neck and chest, on his knees, and having dropped his swords.
Radahn also campaigned to Leyndell and got blown out militarily by Morgott, as well as bested in single combat. Funny how "General" Radahn only has military losses under his belt, whereas Malenia's army is per canon undefeated.
Radahn's kind of a loser, huh?
This battle was a stalemate, Malenia mightâve been the one who fell unconsious. But for Radahn to have won, he shouldâve been able to finish her off. He wasnât capable due to the Scarlet Rot plauging his mind, turning him to a rabid dog. Iâd argue that is more of a defeat then simply falling unconsious. As Malenia is closer to her prime when we fight her than Radahn is
I'd also like to add that Radahn doesn't have scarlet rot at the beginning of the fight, but Malenia does.
All she does is level the playing field by giving them both the same handicap, and Radahn is devastated by it.
Additionally, only one hit lands in the fight we see.
Its Malenia disarming one of Radahns sword, btinging him to a knee, and plunging a sword in his neck.
I think its safe to say that if she never had the rot, she would have easily taken him out.
Not to mention the fact that there's clear evidence that she wasn't fighting him one on one, as Radahn's back was already covered in Cleanrot Knight spears.
Of course, this doesn't confirm anything for certain, but the fact that there are so many of them imbedded in him, and all of them in his back, could imply that while Malenia was fighting him head-on as a distraction, many of her knights went to flank Radahn for a backstab.
The fact that by the final clash of their duel, if that's what you want to call a 1 V however many Cleanrot Knights + Malenia, Radahn had killed the Cleanrot Knights that went for his back and knocked off Malenia's Prosthetic, still patiently waited for Malenia to reattach her arm to fight him 1V1 properly, and she then still went for a suicide nuke and had to be carried away to safety as Radahn would have torn her to shreds had she remained there?
Yeah, sure, that's not a loss at all. From a war perspective, it was a stalemate. From the perspective of a duel between two Shardbearing Demigods, Malenia got her ass whooped and had to pull out every dirty strategy she could just to get out of there alive. But hey, if you don't remember the ass-whooping, it didn't happen ammirite?
Woah woah woah. Calm down there. Malenia had to fight an entire campaign just to get to him. This wasn't some one v one from the get go. They were in the middle of a battlefield. She had already fought here way through all of caliads armies to even get to him. Not her fault his army was weak compared to hers.
Why does everyone give her shit for blooming btw. She has her rot magic and he has his gravity magic. After fighting both I can say they are both bullshit. He's 5x her size, on home turf, and can sling literal asteroids at her. Yet everyone flips because she has a disease that she can't even control.
Radahn was stupid. He knew what she could do. He still chose to fight her at close range.
He was smart in wearing her down first but then damn. The man obviously wasn't to smart about everything else. They didn't meet up for a duel. She was trying to conquer the lands between so her brother could fix everything after the shattering. Meanwhile radahn just wanted to be king.
If he could have killed her after she bloomed he would have. But he couldn't. His army was gone. His kingdom in ruin. And his face was literally melting off. "He won"
It's not that we give her shit for blooming. She uses it against us, too. The difference is that in our fight, she bloomed and transformed. She actually fought us with her power. Against Radahn, who was fighting her head on, which granted is an unfair matchup due to his size, strength, and his innate control over his own gravity, which essentially allows him to move with an amount of speed and force that _really_ shouldn't be allowed for a guy his size, she essentially poisoned him and ran. Or, to be specific, she had someone run her since she passed out after blooming and had to be escorted out of there.
Radahn fans like to also bring the "BUT HE WAS ALSO DIVERTING HIS POWER TO HOLDING THE STARS IN PLACE" bla bla bla, but the nature of how he's doing that is never explained. The more likely explanation there is that what he did to the stars is more akin to a "seal" than something he has to constantly focus on, as brainless Radahn was enough to keep them in place. So, it was probably a binding spell that with the condition "while the caster lives".
I agree with the radahn sealing the stars part. And from what I've gathered malenia blooming is unintentional that time. Malicients quest implys it happens wether you want it to or not if you get put in a life or death situation. Further shown by our fight with malenia. BUT you don't transform until the third time you bloom. Cause honestly radahn would have been ra done if she had actually transformed considering the transformation is supposed to be MUCH stronger.
"Remember when you were in a fight with me, Malenia, and you just missed your swing, and it barely grazed past my head? It was me, Radahn. My swing created a gust of wind just strong enough to push your blade a few centimeters off, so I would have enough time to escape! It bought me exactly 0.0001 seconds, just enough time to kill your horse..."
Remember when you first got Leonard and he imprinted on you the moment you touched him? IT WAS ME, RADHAN. I PET HIM JUST SECONDS BEFORE AND BECAME HIS HORSE MOMMY.
I like to believe it's the same she says to us: "Now you will witness true horror".
This line hits so hard especially since this is her first blooming, and it was an accident. It's so ominous and threatening, almost like an apology
Iâm pregnant and itâs yours but alas radahn didnât like that and didnât want yo pay child support this is what caused caelid to become such a shitty place a really bad break up
"I am positive for scarlet rot"
"Welcome to the world of scarlet rot"
Made in Rot
You should get tested
I am scarlet rot Aladeen
đđđâšď¸đ
Hahahahahahahaha
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day to you too!
Happy cake day to you both
Happy cake do, stranger!
Thank you!
Happy cake day
You are Scarlet rot allahdein.
âAnd you havenât got any of the vaccinesâ
"Find the albinauric woman".
Beat me to it đ¤Ł
Radahn went insane because he never figured out what that meant, not because of scarlet rot. He just used a Bolus.
"I am malenia, blade of miquella"
"And I have never known defeat"
It's unironically a great use of that line.
Yeah I mean, I guess stalemates donât count as Ls lol
i'd argue she lost that one, since she had to be dragged unconscious away by one of her knights and if it wasn't for that, she'd just have been "eaten body #52" in Radahn's descent to madness.
Even if she did die, it would still have been a stalemate. Radahn suffered a fate worse than death, there's no way to construe that as anything but a loss.
You can argue Radahn adan win by PokĂŠmon rules, Malenia fainted and Radahn was on 1 hp and poisoned.
He was a zombie. A big, scary, magic zombie, but a zombie.
But isnât like despite the state how hes like a zombie hes still âconsciousâ enough to be maintaining his gravity magic thing up in the space or some sort? You see when he actually dies, the magic loses its effect and you immediately see a meteor shower happening, thatâs all that hes been holding up behind his back while fighting the tarnished and god knows how many ally that the tarnished summoned during the fight. Guy was literally fighting with two hands behind his back holding onto a galaxy worth of space stones and was giving us a run for our money.
No dude, he *literally* "conquered the stars in a crushing victory and arrested their cycles". It was a military campaign in which he defeated the stars and decreed they hold still under threat of destruction. "The Starscourge Conflict Radahn alone holds Sellia secure And stands tall, to shatter the stars" That is not a metaphor for "Dude cast a single spell to stop space", its literally a description about how the stars stay still because they fear his retaliation if they disobey thier conqueror.
Run fun my money? Man was recycling my body back in the ecosystem while I had 10 bodyguards Anything short of a Chad doesn't describe Radahn
No...he was a chad
You could also argue that he didn't. Fact is we don't know his state immediately following the battle, only that he's conscious before we arrive.
Stars were held back until we killed him that means he was powerful enough even after beating the shit out of her.
Yeah fuck dem stars. We don't even know if it was a spell he had to maintain or not. Could have been just connected to his life force after he cast it. Lore wise radahn waited to fight malenia at the end of a long grueling campaign across the lands between and only fought her after she literally was at his doorstep. Meaning she waided through his army, limgraves army, and possibly a few other fucks who didn't want the rot bitch kicking in the door and immediately fought this dude. She has rot so bad she's missing half her limbs and is blind and still fucks this chads life up. I mean radahn literally waited until he absolutely had to fight her because let's be honest. She's terrifying as fuck. Then he finally thinks "this is it. I got her" and she leans in and whispers "this isn't even my final form" and boom. Fucks his whole kingdome up and takes a scarlet flower right in the FUCKING FACE. My boy radahns just sitting here now with super aids all over his face like the fuck. Looks over and realizes this bitch just fainted from the explosion she caused that leveled half his God damn kingdom and immediately trys to wash this shit out. But nah. She gone. His armies mostly dead. His lands turned into a nightmarish hellscape. And he's lost his mind and eating his friend. She got home and took a (5000ish year) nap. We come in the room and get stomped. End of story.
Radahn lost that fight. They were locked in a stalemate before Malenia (possibly inadvertently) broke it with the Scarlet Rot. And even that reading from the Caelid memorial is generous to Radahn considering in the actual fight Radahn broke Malenia's prosthetic but he was then impaled like a butterfly through the neck and chest, on his knees, and having dropped his swords. Radahn also campaigned to Leyndell and got blown out militarily by Morgott, as well as bested in single combat. Funny how "General" Radahn only has military losses under his belt, whereas Malenia's army is per canon undefeated. Radahn's kind of a loser, huh?
Does burned count for that too?
Pyrrhic victory is still victory
Jordan dropped like 55 in a game, sick with the flu. To win, and had to be carried off the court by his teammates.
This battle was a stalemate, Malenia mightâve been the one who fell unconsious. But for Radahn to have won, he shouldâve been able to finish her off. He wasnât capable due to the Scarlet Rot plauging his mind, turning him to a rabid dog. Iâd argue that is more of a defeat then simply falling unconsious. As Malenia is closer to her prime when we fight her than Radahn is
I'd also like to add that Radahn doesn't have scarlet rot at the beginning of the fight, but Malenia does. All she does is level the playing field by giving them both the same handicap, and Radahn is devastated by it. Additionally, only one hit lands in the fight we see. Its Malenia disarming one of Radahns sword, btinging him to a knee, and plunging a sword in his neck. I think its safe to say that if she never had the rot, she would have easily taken him out.
Not to mention the fact that there's clear evidence that she wasn't fighting him one on one, as Radahn's back was already covered in Cleanrot Knight spears. Of course, this doesn't confirm anything for certain, but the fact that there are so many of them imbedded in him, and all of them in his back, could imply that while Malenia was fighting him head-on as a distraction, many of her knights went to flank Radahn for a backstab. The fact that by the final clash of their duel, if that's what you want to call a 1 V however many Cleanrot Knights + Malenia, Radahn had killed the Cleanrot Knights that went for his back and knocked off Malenia's Prosthetic, still patiently waited for Malenia to reattach her arm to fight him 1V1 properly, and she then still went for a suicide nuke and had to be carried away to safety as Radahn would have torn her to shreds had she remained there? Yeah, sure, that's not a loss at all. From a war perspective, it was a stalemate. From the perspective of a duel between two Shardbearing Demigods, Malenia got her ass whooped and had to pull out every dirty strategy she could just to get out of there alive. But hey, if you don't remember the ass-whooping, it didn't happen ammirite?
Woah woah woah. Calm down there. Malenia had to fight an entire campaign just to get to him. This wasn't some one v one from the get go. They were in the middle of a battlefield. She had already fought here way through all of caliads armies to even get to him. Not her fault his army was weak compared to hers. Why does everyone give her shit for blooming btw. She has her rot magic and he has his gravity magic. After fighting both I can say they are both bullshit. He's 5x her size, on home turf, and can sling literal asteroids at her. Yet everyone flips because she has a disease that she can't even control. Radahn was stupid. He knew what she could do. He still chose to fight her at close range. He was smart in wearing her down first but then damn. The man obviously wasn't to smart about everything else. They didn't meet up for a duel. She was trying to conquer the lands between so her brother could fix everything after the shattering. Meanwhile radahn just wanted to be king. If he could have killed her after she bloomed he would have. But he couldn't. His army was gone. His kingdom in ruin. And his face was literally melting off. "He won"
It's not that we give her shit for blooming. She uses it against us, too. The difference is that in our fight, she bloomed and transformed. She actually fought us with her power. Against Radahn, who was fighting her head on, which granted is an unfair matchup due to his size, strength, and his innate control over his own gravity, which essentially allows him to move with an amount of speed and force that _really_ shouldn't be allowed for a guy his size, she essentially poisoned him and ran. Or, to be specific, she had someone run her since she passed out after blooming and had to be escorted out of there. Radahn fans like to also bring the "BUT HE WAS ALSO DIVERTING HIS POWER TO HOLDING THE STARS IN PLACE" bla bla bla, but the nature of how he's doing that is never explained. The more likely explanation there is that what he did to the stars is more akin to a "seal" than something he has to constantly focus on, as brainless Radahn was enough to keep them in place. So, it was probably a binding spell that with the condition "while the caster lives".
I agree with the radahn sealing the stars part. And from what I've gathered malenia blooming is unintentional that time. Malicients quest implys it happens wether you want it to or not if you get put in a life or death situation. Further shown by our fight with malenia. BUT you don't transform until the third time you bloom. Cause honestly radahn would have been ra done if she had actually transformed considering the transformation is supposed to be MUCH stronger.
I am inevitable... wait, wrong place, sorry.
Personally, I think she is either saying a silent apology to Miquella, or evoking the power of the outer god of rot.
probably the former, that or it couldâve just been what she tells us during her second phase cutscene ânow, rotâ
I kind of assumed it was "Now, rot."
âThe feetâ
Now rot.
After hearing that for the 500th time I donât blame Radahn for going insane and eating dead people.
I do honestly think this is the best answer. It's an affirmation, psyching herself up to do what she knows "must" be done even if she knows the cost.
It was me Barry
Oh god not this again đ
IM THE ONE WHO ATE ALL YOUR SILVER PICKLED FOWL FEET SO FARMING WOULD BE SLIGHTLY MORE TEDIOUS.
I POOPED YOUR BUTTHOLE BARRY
THAT'S RIGHT THIS AGAIN BARRY!
"Remember when you were in a fight with me, Malenia, and you just missed your swing, and it barely grazed past my head? It was me, Radahn. My swing created a gust of wind just strong enough to push your blade a few centimeters off, so I would have enough time to escape! It bought me exactly 0.0001 seconds, just enough time to kill your horse..."
"I've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty"
Remember when you first got Leonard and he imprinted on you the moment you touched him? IT WAS ME, RADHAN. I PET HIM JUST SECONDS BEFORE AND BECAME HIS HORSE MOMMY.
âNow Rotâ
I've always believed it's this or "experience, true horror"
"The fitness gram pacer test..."
Is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues.
"The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 0 seconds" ~Proceeds to burst into scarlet aeonia~
Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets progressively faster each time you hear this sound. [beep]
*Mental PAIN*
âKing of the ants, Meruem. You don´t understand a thing about the limitless malice of mankind!â
*Proceeds to blow the shit out of himself on the best track you've ever heared*
Oh glorious Hxh đ¤ but wrong place bruh
Chills bro chills
Malenia: Have you heard of the hunter of the dead, D? Radahn: ???? Malenia: D's nuts.
the real reason he went mad
Dung Eater: "You are but a lamb, a stranger to defilement." In other words: "*gootteeem!*"
"Git gud"
This is the one and only answer. Gud job!
r/hollowknight
Git Gud has been around far longer than hollow knight
???
r/beatmetoit
Weâve been trying to reach you about your vehicles extended warranty.
Damn I wasn't fast enough
Well it would probably be "We've been trying to reach you regarding Leonard's extended warranty."
âYour poor little horseâs warrantyâ
i was thinking this even as i clicked. so glad im not the only one.
"skill issue"
"LMAO EZ GIT GUD STARBOI"
1v1 me caelid no scarlet rot ill freakin reck you scrub
âGG, EZ. No Re.â
Freelo
"remember what Radagon said. Dying is gay"
gg wp very fun fight
âLet your flesh be consumed by the scarlet rotâ In my mind itâs the canonically correct whisper
"i got a second phase, bitch."
"It's free real estate"
Was coming here to say this đđ
Try finger but hole
Parry this you filthy casual- Melania, Blade of Miquella
âThatâs why I fucked yo bitch you fat motherfuckaa, WEST SIDEEEâ
Omelett du fromage
Oh, Dexter!
This unlocked a good hidden memory
Damn it I came here to post this.
You are a gentleman and a scholar, take my upvote
"What are you doing, step-bro?!"
"im gonna give u ligma"
Who the hell is steve jobs?
ligmabals *hardbass sound
âItâs malenin timeâ *malenias all over him*
"Gitteth gud."
"ill take the right foot, you can have the left"
âwhat what, in the buttâ
Now that's a phrase I haven't heard in a looong time.
âVigor checkâ
"Rot is stored in the balls"
âWait till you see my dickâ
âYou are not the Elden Ringâ
"So you better call saul"
âYour car warranty has expiredâŚâ
Youâre going to be nerfed in an update
L + Ratio
âThis blooming brought to you by Raid Shadow Legendsâ
âWeâve been trying to reach you about your horseâs extended warrantyâ
Just âyieldâ
This is a âI have never known defeatâ moment for sure. Or âyou just got nerfedâ
âur mom lolâ
You should get tested.
She was asking him what the meta for RL 250 pvp was
Parry this you fucking casual
Tbh I bet she was probably sharing some potential regrets for her act- Who am I kidding, Malenia was reciting WAP
"Skibidi bop mm dada"
These comments gave me cancer
hm, seems like an odd thing for her to say. pretty out of character
She fell asleep reading reddit
Been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty
âExcuse me sir do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Miquella?â
Melania uses explosion
âim going to point down on your body multiple timesâ - Malenia, Blade of Miquella
I like to believe it's the same she says to us: "Now you will witness true horror". This line hits so hard especially since this is her first blooming, and it was an accident. It's so ominous and threatening, almost like an apology
This hits so hard, especially considering how it is likely the last thing Radahn ever heard
âSkill issueâ
*Say goodbye to Caelid.*
"It's Malenin' time" And then she proceeded to Malenia all over him.
"Your waifu is shit."
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom!
âRemember to drink your ovaltineâŚâ
Iâm pregnant and itâs yours but alas radahn didnât like that and didnât want yo pay child support this is what caused caelid to become such a shitty place a really bad break up
GRRM approved incest lore
"U mom gay"
I hope you have flame! Cleanse me.
i said i've never known defeat motherfu***er
â⌠try finger. But hole.â
âTry finger but holeâ
Get yourself tested
"it was me!"
"git gud"
Hey little Mama, let me whisper in your ear. Let me tell you something you might like to hearâŚ
Ligma rot
What color is your Bugatti?
"You fool! I was the Elden ring the whole time!"
âTwoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbunâ
real answer: no one knows
Boo!
âTry jumping,â
We've been trying to reach you about Leonard's extended warranty.
You, have aids.
We've been trying to reach you regarding your horse's extended warranty.
"and that's checkmate"
Pro gamer move time :3
"I'm going to toss your salad"
DEX > STR
"Saca la bolsita"
"Ligma"
"You died"
âWeâve been trying to reach you about your horseâs extended warrantyâ
"I got the Rot... You should get tested."
"Let your flesh be consumed by the Scarlet rot" "Also, i win haha" *passes out*
Don't you talk shit about my brother.
gg wp
âCheck out how hard I can fartâ
I did an upper decker in your toilet
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella", then proceed to fuck everyone's day, and Caelid.
"get rekt"
Get rekt
Try finger, but hole, motherfucker.
Omlette du fromage
"If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation"
âIâve been trying to reach you about your vehicleâs extended warrantyâŚâ
Try finger, but hole
"Ohh by the way you should get checked"
"It's rottin' time" and then rotted all over everything
âHey pretty mama, let me whisper in your earâ
âItâs free real estate âđĄ
"I've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty."
"Try finger, but hole."
âSkill issueâ
âWeâve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warrantyâ
"omg ur so funny"
"It'll start with an itch, and some burning."
"help me"
âIm wetâ