elden boy

it seems most people enjoyed the video! but two small things seem to bother people:

1. I said it doesn't matter if you think Old Kratos is weaker or stronger than Young because it just doesn't. I also want to placate to both sides as it is somewhat debated about in a lot of spaces and didn't want this video to focus on Kratos vs Kratos when it wasn't important.

2. I do say Caelid as Kylid. I have zero idea why, I guess in my head it was just more fun to say it that way as I did all my playthroughs and it just stuck with me. Hope that doesn't bother people too much!

He’s never really shown an affinity for gaming but I’m sure with his reaction time it’d be no problem at all once he learned the controls.

One peculiar thing about Kratos is that, as a God of War, he gets stronger the more he fights - he's practically a Broly in that regard. So I imagine the world and enemies of Elden Ring would be like a never-ending stream of zenkai boost for him.

I know I’m late, but the developers have confirmed that Kratos has definitely become far stronger, he’s just more disciplined with his actions

Kratos is not weakened. He’s a pacifist. He holds back a lot because he has matured beyond his rage and resentment.

No matter the outcome, Kratos vs. Radahn would be a spectacular battle

Kratos is not weak, he has grown older, he has more experience, and has learned from past mistakes. He now holds back, because he rather not go all out and cause unnecessary destruction and death if he can avoid so.

I always see kratos as being stronger in base then young kratos. The only difference being that young kratos has stacked equipment like the power of hope and blade of Olympus while also being bloodlusted. Old kratos is always holding back it seems.

Kratos fighting rahdan would be legendary. Kratos would parry that star chaser attack.

You weren't powerful enough to beat the allegations 😔

Cory Barlog confirmed that Kratos' strength increases with age and that he would defeat his younger self without question

Kratos vs The Dark Souls pantheon would’ve been a lot more contentious. With some of the top-god tiers being able to sustain or fuel constructs, which arguably collapses multiple universes onto each other while also distorting their time and space. And with even dragons existing before time and maybe space.

1:52 bro seriously fail that QuickTime event 💀

I love how canonically, the Tarnished is killed by all these bosses multiples times, only to come back and try again.

so most people don't know this but Kratos is actually stronger than his past self, it may seem like he is "worn down" or "weakened" but that is (mostly) because he doesn't want to go back to his past self, I've also heard that he only uses 30% of his power but that may not be true

If a random nameless character can beat Elden Ring so can Kratos

One argument in the Elden Ring verse’s favor is that, in the Elden Beast fight, the arena is made up of hundreds of Erdtrees. If we take this to be a representation of multiple realities (which is incredibly likely), then the Elden Beast functions on the level of multiversal threats, something which it’s super debatable Kratos can at all contend with. By that logic, not only could the Elden beast have a good chance of defeating Kratos, so does Malenia, from the fact that not only did she resist the goddess of rot for so long, but she had also become the goddess of rot’s physical avatar in phase 2, making Kratos deal with a power being brought down to his comprehension.

not that I think it changes much but saying “Kratos is immune to scarlet rot, because he has the fire of gods within him” or something, I don’t think is super accurate. The fire giant literally has the fell god, a god of fire, inside of him and he can be scarlet rotted.

Fire staves off scarlet rot but it doesn’t disable it.

17:13 The tarnished is by no means a nobody as they are able to kill every boss without any assistance from the runes etc.

If we’re going by in-universe rules, here are the things that would be capable of stopping him: Destined Death, Scarlet Rot, Unalloyed Gold, The Flame of Frenzy if he’s arrogant enough to try and harness it, and possibly cosmic beings like Astel depending on the full extent of that thing’s power (technically it should be able to teleport people into space, that’s where Astel summons its meteors from).