I went into this fight knowing I would die. It's funny because I saw many, many videos of how difficult Ludwig is for a first boss, so I just figured it would take me multiple tries to take his ass down. So I studied up on how to get 2 NPC summons, preferably Confederate Valtr, Master of the League and Confederate Younger Madaras Twin. However, after summoning the Younger Madaras Twin, I was unable to summon Valtr. I figured it was a glitch or something as I kept going back and forth trying to activate the summon. Because of this, I figured I would be dying several times with just one summon and contemplated how many times I'd have to recover my lost souls, though they weren't really that many. And lo and behold, THIS happens!!! I had no idea I would whoop Ludwig's ass the first go at it! I thought I was playing pretty shitty here.