YouTuber Pulls Impossible “All‑Hit” Run — Beats Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on Hard Mode Without Dodging or Parrying

YouTuber ymfah has posted an “all hit” playthrough of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, completing the game on its hardest difficulty without using dodges, parries, jump dodges, or gradient counters.

https://www.youtube.com/@ymfah/videos

What the run was: an all hit playthrough on the hardest difficulty.
How ymfah handled combat and systems like Pictos and Lumina.
Which exploits were used and that the run includes post‑game bosses.
Where to watch the full playthrough and a supercut of the run.

What ymfah did

In this run ymfah allowed every enemy hit to land. Specifically, they avoided all defensive options the game offers: no dodging, no parrying, no jump dodging, and no gradient countering. The playthrough was completed on the game’s hardest setting.

Why that matters

Parrying in Clair Obscur grants characters AP, which are then consumed to unleash more powerful skills. By not parrying, ymfah reduced the amount of AP available and therefore used fewer high‑damage skills. As the player explains in the video, that leads to a “vicious” cycle of dealing less damage while taking the most damage possible from enemies.

How they won anyway

Rather than relying on defenses, ymfah leaned on the game’s Pictos and Lumina systems. They used those systems to boost stats and passive buffs, focused on enhancing characters’ free aim attacks, and stacked damage multipliers—quoted in the video as “like it’s Balatro”.

The run also uses a known exploit: skipping the Évêque encounter early to farm enough experience points, then returning later when the party was stronger. Despite that, ymfah finished the main game and defeated the post‑game bosses, completing the full all‑hit playthrough.