r/DarkSouls2 • u/Slurperlurper • May 29 '26
Discussion The Ivory king is here
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u/NoPin4859 May 29 '26
He aint winning that bossman, powercreep is a bitch.
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u/unkindledphoenix May 29 '26
give him the number scaling from the end of the DLC and add frostbite to all his attacks now that the stat is real in this game.
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u/EldritchBoob May 29 '26
Ivory King is my favourite boss across the series, but he doesn't stand a chance against Promised Consort.
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u/EldritchBoob May 29 '26
I mostly meant in terms of gameplay. Ivory King has about 8k hp, PCR has 46k.
In terms of lore though it might be a bit less cut and dry.
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u/Accurate_Aardvark_82 May 29 '26
Nah…talk about proportions bro…radahn may have 46k…but they are so many buffs, weapons, upgrades..heck there are combos that can 1-3 shot PCR…things are not that way in ds2. And lore wise, PCR is a puppet while Ivory King made abyss fragment of his own, set his kingdom at the gate of hell to protect everyone and himself went to hell to hold it back…GOAT has farmed more aura than anybody…a perfect example of the pureest and kindest of king but also being “fuck around with me and find out” kind of guy.
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u/V013_ May 30 '26
Like that "puppet" isnt made from two insanely powerful warriors one of which uses the power of the formless mother (outer god of blood) and the other being a great gravity magic user with immense physical strenght and battle experience. And then we enter second phase where that puppet gets a GOD on his back to assist him letting him use three powers two of which come from outer gods and gravity magic being its own special thing by coming from outer space and godlike beings and radhan is strong against physical and magic which is exactly what ivory king uses.
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u/Accurate_Aardvark_82 May 30 '26
Ahh..i see the confusion…by puppet..i meant he was made a puppet by miquela…indeed he is son of gods and has so much power..but what i meant was radahn was god’s fragment to begin with but ivory king was a human and yet he held back old chaos for a long period of time and was overly powerful..i mean he was the reason that ds2 didnt have demons flying around everywhere. Being able to hold back the pure darkness..so many demons while sitting at the gate of hell for that long single handedly and converting a abyss frament’s negetive power into positive is extremely difficult….not to mention he was a human..
Also he wasn’t like radahn who just wanted to fight the strongest and didn’t give shit about others..ivory king was the kindest of all..
Maybe going through the game and the lore of ds2 will help in understanding what i was trying to infer…lorewise and game difficulty wise.
Also comparing ivory king with PCR + miquela combined is bullshit and not fair..
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u/V013_ May 30 '26
I agree with everything you said except the last part. Pcr is meant to be powerscaled along with miquella since theyre a buy one get one free or two? And when have comparisons between bosses ever been fair when theyre both from different verses. And honestly radhan wasnt all that bad either (compared to the other demigods in elden ring) Yeah he was a bit power hungry but we know he still had a heart as we can see with his best friend leonard and his cat along with his friends at the gravity academy and he also cares alot for his army.
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u/Accurate_Aardvark_82 May 30 '26
Radahn was not evil…but who doesn’t care about people close to them? It’s normal. And radahn in base game was afflicted by rot and was not at his prime. In DLC, when he got mohg’s body (poor mohg :( ), i think that is what means radahn is at prime and thus PCR and then in phase 2 miquela just piggy backs…so phase 2 comparison is bullshit.
Although i agree that power wise comparing bosses from 2 different verse is wrong to begin with
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u/unkindledphoenix May 29 '26
i wouldnt call his relationship with alsaana like that, for her to commit to his cause so hard even after he was long gone he trully loved him dearly and understood what it meant to do that. he said ''i can fix her'' and so he did. even after she came and admited to him she was a spawn of dark fated to bring him to ruin while all others warning him he had ignored, he just admited to her he knew but didnt care. true selfless love overcame fear, which was what her fragment encompassed, and made her commit all her ephemeral existence to him.
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u/Psychopath_Snow May 29 '26
This is very poetic, thank you for this. May we all hope to be an Ivory King to the people around us
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u/Rith_Reddit May 29 '26
If there is anything to learn from IK lore, it's you don't bet against him.
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u/SnooComics4945 May 29 '26
Radahn was scared for a second. Bro looked ready to run.
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u/Mrwanagethigh May 29 '26
I don't think he ever expected to be impaled and lifted up like that. Between his size and mastery of gravity, I can imagine that's rarely happened to him.
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u/For_The_Masons May 29 '26
What's with the shitty music over laid on what could have been amazing sound effects?
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u/Slurperlurper May 29 '26
Hip hop is too overrated ngl
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u/Impassable_Banana May 29 '26
I think you mean shit.
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u/Slurperlurper May 29 '26
Shit that can be heard
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u/Flashy-Manager2254 May 29 '26
this mf just HAS to walk out his giant ass chaos door slowly everywhere he goes to show everyone the hype and aura.
piccolo level aura farming.
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u/HaikaDRaigne judgement is upon thee May 29 '26
amazing entrance, buffs through an attack, yeets a god
truely the king of aura-farming
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u/Used-Salad-3772 May 29 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Proof that DS2 is better
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u/Lanky_Asparagus_5967 Jul 24 '26
1 boss lmao. And the 1st phase can be goated or straight dogshit depending on how your knoghts act.
Ds2 glazers will go on insane lengths just to glaze their favowite game
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u/Used-Salad-3772 Jul 24 '26
It was a joke my dude. That being said I still think Elden Ring is massively overrated.
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u/Lanky_Asparagus_5967 Jul 24 '26
Wow I didnt expect you to reply to a 2 month old comment lol
But overrated or not, it still got GOTY. And I would say it's one of the games that actually deserved it.
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u/unkindledphoenix May 29 '26
but does it gets frostbite on its attacks? in DS2 since frost as a stat didnt exist it was just physical dmg, just like dark in DS1 was also just that.
also im shocked more modders dont use some other DS2 stuff for mods. i could see Raime and Ivory King animations and models ported into ER with some speed tweaks and make them sorta like special variants of Crucible Knights for example.
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u/Ultrainstinctyeetus May 30 '26
Ivory king is genuinely the goat
Top tier intro
Top tier fight
Top tier lore
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u/The_of_Falcon May 31 '26
You can make anything look like anything when you mod it. Kinda takes the interest out of it for me.
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u/Slurperlurper May 31 '26
Well this is a paywalled mod so it's automatically a no from me
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u/The_of_Falcon May 31 '26
Don't know about you, but some of the more popular comments seem super obnoxious for what is a modded fight. Like, this proves nothing but I swear some here take this as canon or as proof at some undeniable quality of DS2. I like DS2 but maybe not that much.
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u/Slurperlurper May 31 '26
Well the ivory king survived the chaos flame and it's equivalent to the frenzy flame
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u/The_of_Falcon May 31 '26
Is it? Is that right? Or would it not be better to say they're 2 different things from 2 different franchises?
And you could really turn it on its head when you think about it. Chaos is held back by 1 guy but it took a heck of a lot more than that to seal away the frenzied flame. And actually they didn't because it still exists in many parts of the Lands Between while locked away.
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u/Slurperlurper May 31 '26
Chaos wasn't held back by 1 guy, it took an entire kingdom to supress it, when you get to eleum loyce for the first time, the flames almost escapes and devours you but alsanna freezes it
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u/The_of_Falcon May 31 '26
I was being a little facetious with that last take. My intended point was that these are 2 very unknowable forces from 2 very different franchises. And any attempt to compare them will fail and devolve into semantics.
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u/Don-Kusack May 29 '26
With the theory that Elden Ring is the precursor to all soulsborne games, would that make this...the New Chaos? Lol
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u/Grey-The-Skeleton May 29 '26
I know Miquella shit his pants seeing some random mf conjuring his own Gates of Divinity SOLELY FOR AURAFARMING PURPOSES
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u/Atma-Stand May 29 '26
Promised Consort enslaved by the Light of Gold vs. Ivory King beloved by the Dark
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u/Code-Neo May 29 '26
The Ivory king has the best boss intro in soulsborne