Elden Ring: Players Share Their Ride-or-Die Fashion Souls Builds

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 314)

• Swap the gauntlets and greaves for the Scaled set and it's perfect.

  それの手甲と足甲を鱗シリーズにすれば完璧よ

  — @レタス太郎-n7s18 likes

• I mained the cloth Banished Knight head and chest with Scaled arms and legs.

  失地騎士の布ありの頭と胴に鱗の腕と足を愛用してた

  — @アルト_レイヴン1 likes

• Banished Knight set (cape on, no stole). Say what you want, I just love it.

  失地騎士シリーズ(マント付きでストール無し) なんだかんだで好き

  — @機械天使アンゲルス13 likes

• Vagabond armor with a Greatsword. Peak adventurer vibes.

  放浪騎士にグレソ。圧倒的冒険者感

  — @user-cz6px4qs9j81 likes

• Looks like the lead striker of some mercenary company.

  どっかの傭兵団の切り込み隊長やってそう

  — @かり-y5g14 likes

• I love how the light Vagabond armor gives off that on-a-journey feeling — it's got real Dark Souls 3 unnamed-knight energy.

  放浪騎士(軽装)の旅してる感めっちゃ好き ダクソ3の無名騎士味を感じる

  — @Gell_or_Sound2 likes

• Light Vagabond armor — it's got a leather waterskin and a skinning knife and other tools tucked on the back, so it really feels like you're traveling. I love it. Head's the bucket helm.

  軽装の放浪騎士 背中に革の水筒や解体用のナイフなんかの道具が収まってて、旅してる感があって大好き。頭はバケツ

  — @のむヨーグルト-c7k0 likes

• I run the Vagabond set with a Heater Shield and the Iron Greatsword.

  放浪騎士シリーズにヒーターシールドと鉄の大剣を持たせてるわ

  — @Nekko12291 likes

• Black Knife set. It's light, so you get decent defense while still keeping a light-roll — which means it's peak, always has been.

  黒き刃装備 軽いおかげである程度の防御力を持たせつつ軽量ローリングできる、つまりずっと神である

  — @hina-hina-hina57 likes

• It also muffles your footsteps, so I mained it too! Plus it looks cool!

  足音消す効果もあって私も愛用してました！あとかっこいい！

  — @mmi-f7j7 likes

• The Black Knife Assassin was just right for my stat spread too.

  黒き刃の刺客がステ振り的にもちょうどよかった

  — @kani-h3w0 likes

• I wanted to dance gracefully amid the blood with a bleed Lordsworn's Sword and the Black Knife armor…

  出血レディソードと黒き刃の鎧で血と共に華麗に、舞いたかった…

  — @user-qkthuht2 likes

• I ran Night's Cavalry with just a Cuckoo Knight helm on top. Night's Cavalry is honestly so badass.

  夜騎兵に頭だけ誓約騎士にしてたわ。夜騎兵はマジでかっけぇと思う。

  — @Liry-101047 likes

• I do the Berserk thing too — Night's Cavalry set with a Greatsword and Lion's Claw. The fluffy fur around the neck is special, you know? So stylish.

  俺も夜騎兵セットにグレソ猛獅子斬でベルセルクしてるわ。いいよな首元のもふもふ感とか特別で。スタイリッシュだし

  — @MNB-e6e2 likes

• Cuckoo Knight head and legs with a Death Knight chest and arms — that combo looked cool, so I used it.

  誓約騎士の頭と脚、死の騎士の胴体と手の構成かっこよくて使ってた

  — @HARU15.9282 likes

• Take the Night set and swap just the head for Maliketh's and it looks insanely cool.

  夜シリーズの頭だけマリケスに変えるとクソかっこいい

  — @じゅじゅん-i9v1 likes

• The Fingerprint chest is so good… that part that looks like a scarf is irresistible.

  指跡の胴いいよね…あのマフラーみたいになってるのたまらん

  — @ハリ湖の引きこもり4 likes

• Mine was the Night Maiden set — the cat-ear-looking bit is cute, and I loved watching something that adorable steamroll demigods.

  夜巫女だった、猫耳みたいなのが可愛いのとそんなのがデミゴッドを蹴散らしていくのを眺めて楽しんでた

  — @ユウヤ-x9h11 likes

• The Confessor look is handsome. It's squishy, but I don't care.

  密使はイケメン。柔いけど気にしないのだ

  — @七つ星.111 likes

• I totally get maining gear that has no lore attached to it — and it's exactly those pieces that are versatile and fun to style. The set that made me go 'wait, I just GET this cool armor for free?!' was the full Crucible set. My character's short, so without a greatsword and shield it does feel a bit floppy, I'll admit.

  物語がない装備を愛用するのぐう分かる、しかもそういう装備に限って汎用性が高くてオシャレしがいがある。 「こんなにカッコいい防具をそのまま貰っていいんですか！？」ってなったのは坩堝一式、身長が低いから大剣と盾も装備しないとなんかへにょへにょ感否めないけど。

  — @hashigatomaraneya6 likes

• Gotta be the Samurai with the Land of Reeds set — fought the whole game with a Nagakiba.

  やっぱ侍で葦の地セットよ装備は長刀でずっと戦ってたわ

  — @アライアン10 likes

• Full Nox set with just an Alberich head was my go-to fit.

  ノクス一式に頭だけアルベリッヒにするのがいつもの服装

  — @taitya--n58275 likes

• Lord Dane's hat plus the Exile armor is stupidly cool. Pair it with a light straight sword and the Sword of Night and Flame and it's super stylish.

  ダンの帽子+流刑兵の鎧がバカかっこいいんだわ 軽量直剣銀バサにすれば超スタイリッシュ

  — @always金欠3 likes

• Mixing your own original combo is the way — Battlemage head, Hoslow's chest, and Cuckoo Knight arms and legs.

  やっぱオリジナルに組み合わせるのが良いよな、戦鬼シリーズの頭にホスローの鎧、腕と足は狐牢の騎士で組んでた

  — @キノキノも遊ばない-d6y0 likes

• Knight set → Veteran's set with a bucket head → Lone Wolf Knight set. My gear just kept getting heavier and tankier.

  騎士シリーズ→宿将シリーズにバケツヘッド→孤狼の騎士シリーズ だんだん重く硬くなる装備よ

  — @LAKIA.3 likes

• My character was a grizzled old man, and I still went hard on a full Ranni cosplay.

  見た目おっさんでラニ様コスで頑張った

  — @音元1 likes

• I adventured wearing Roderika's hand-me-down red hood and a dress matching Latenna's, with a whole headcanon of 'we're besties forever, right?'

  ローデリカのおさがりの赤ずきんと、ラーヤとおそろいのドレスを着て「私たちズッ友だよね」という脳内設定で冒険してたわ

  — @YS_handlename0 likes

• Radahn's armor had great stats so I used it forever — and sometimes I'd throw on the Mushroom set in the rot swamps.

  ラダーン防具が性能良くてずっと使ってた 時々腐敗沼でキノコ纏ってた

  — @moton3572 likes

• Lol that it ends on the bamboo-shoot one.

  最後たけのこなの笑う

  — @nanasino882821 likes

• Kind of looks like okra too.

  オクラにも見える

  — @shadow_of_yharnam-candle-z1x4 likes

• There's a bamboo shoot sprouting at the very end lmao.

  最後タケノコ生えてて草

  — @yuhyuh82541 likes

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