Did you play nIoh 1, a lot of people are dissatisfied the didnt include double bosses. I really enjoyed Mezuki and Gozuki. Edit: Shit I disagree on 4/4 so far, Im not watching the rest, lets go for an objective list.
@@MildsandThatYac they could've just made them still do the moves but with lower damage. the boss friends in nioh 1 all have their full moveset and it doesn't really change anything since you fight like 3x the enemies on paired sequences anyways
I really appreciate you re-doing your ranking for nioh 2, it's clear that you played the game more and now have a better understanding of it. All in all nice video and very good ranking :) Keep it up
Human bosses is basically you melt them or get melted . You really can't really trading blows since they are hit like a train with unlimited stamina and some with inhuman poise. That is way I don't really enjoy fighting them. The yokai bosses is very fun.
I’m the opposite lol. For human enemies you can basically play it like sekiro and go full aggro to get their ki down and get a deathblow so those fights always seem more fun to me. A lot of the Yokai are boring to me because they just seem a bit more janky than the human enemies
My experience with this game was weird. I struggled immensely with the snake boss, to the point where I thought about quitting the game all together. But when I finally beat it, and admittedly struggled a few rounds with the next boss, I breezed through the rest of the game, barely losing to any of the other bosses in the game. I don’t know if something clicked or I just got extremely lucky. But there were only 3 bosses that took me more than one try to beat.
That’s my experience with most souls like(?) games, I struggle really hard at the beginning, then there’s one major roadblock boss which essentially forces me to get better with the fundamentals, and then the rest of the game is noticeably easier (though still difficult lol) Edit: I’d also like to add that the major roadblock boss for me was also the snake cunt
This was the same story with my dad playing this game, he just farmed for 100 hours just to beat this boss. However, he was thinking of getting the game refunded because of the very first Enki 💀.
That was pretty much my experience with Nioh 1. First boss Onryoki was easy. A typical big monster souls borne like fight. Then Hino Enma showed up and she handed my my ass like... 30-50 times at least. When I finally beat her my hands were just shaking from rage and adrenaline. Then the next boss Nue made me re-do 10 times or so. Then the other bosses were not as bad. I still failed a few times here and there but nothing was as infuriating as Hino Enma. I think its just the shift in momentum from boss to boss. Both Onryoki and Mezuki are pretty typical souls borne like bosses. Hino Enma was different because she was damn fast and had legit mix ups to her offense plus a paralysis power which instantly kills you. Yatsu No Kami was different because of the poison puddle gimmick and because of the snake dark realm gimmick that could get you in trouble.
@@TheDocbach Funnily enough, having played Nioh 2 before Nioh 1 made Nioh 1 feel like a cake-walk. I could finish missions while being way lower in level than the game recommended me for missions, I would kill bosses in less than a minute each and in general it felt like such an easy game. However, that one damn mission where you have to charge into that war between your clan and the enemy one (I don't remember the name, it's in Japanese and I last played the game 7 months ago), I was raging so hard since I was supposed to run and never stop, I couldn't afford to fight, cause every single archer and cannon guy was aiming just at me for some weird reason. That mission was just hard because they tried too hard.
@@ender8166 I thought that mission was cool. I believe your talking about the battle of sekigahara. Otani was cool but Shima sucked. And gasha was alright
26:02 When you mention the tone for the mission Kasha appears in, think about what the yokai represents. A sadistic demonic cat on a flaming chariot that takes souls to hell, that is her core concept. In the mission, Honno-ji is completely aflame and Nobunaga is dead, a man who called himself “the Demon King” and used many brutal tactics. It seems kind of fitting that in this sea of fire, that the yokai to appear would be the one to claim the brutal “Demon King” and bring him back to hell. And I guess the music is supposed to more of represent her own sadistic cheerful nature and fast paced movement.
Lightning Gods of Yomi has special place in my heart. My friend who was attempting to beat this boss for 6h straight, destroyed his Consol and gamepad in rage. Said he won't be playing any more games ever. This boss killed gaming for him lol
Lol honestly fair response, though none of the bosses in this game was a massive struggle for me. The game just in general at times has fuelled a deep rage within me.
She's difficult but not that For the story, i was being depressed while the first time i fought her, i wanted to die, i used everything against her, buff + anti debuff, ally, yokai mode several time, amrita eating hahaha for beating her
like he said, if you dont make use of all of the mechanics in the game, it will warp your view of the bossfights, the reason nightmare bringer is actually hard is because you cannot inflict confusion on him, you can only inflict purity or corruption on him, no confusion means the fight is infinitely harder than every other boss who can basically be instant killed by inflicting confusion, like otakemaru for example. no confusion means less anima gain, less damage, less ki damage, the boss will recover their ki, weaker grapples, basically you wanna use confusion if you can. nightmare bringer is not the only one tho, Yoshitsune also is immune to confusion, and Yorimitsu is immune to purity im pretty sure, which can counter your entire build as well if you wanna use izanagi for example. also i would mention that some bosses have pretty unfair 1 frame instant grab moves that basically one shot you in the depths, saito can do this, the bomb guy can do this, yorimitsu also has an attack like that, ofc it depends again, if you use an axe then it can sometimes be impossible to dodge these since your attacks are so slow, with other weapons you can get away in time just fine. its also not just grab moves, some bosses also have attacks that can be burst countered but are so insanely fast that you cant even react to that, especially not with brute spirits, again saito has a move like that, his dual sword whirlwind spin for example, he flashes red and instantly the damage is already happening, there is zero time to react and in the depths that move does about 3x 12k damage, i dont think its possible to survive that, which means i agree with his placement as one of the worst xD
I recently found out a friend of mine was playing nioh, and saw him MELT bosses I had so much trouble with. It turns out, my build just sucked, I liked tanky armor with high defense, but it turns out dps-ing your way through the game is just so much more effective it makes the game so much easier.
Shitaba’s theme is perfect. It’s literally the best theme from the original game meant to represent a tragic boss which he is. You’re putting him out of his misery and dishonor
I just wanna add that Onriyoki was also in the same mission you fight yoshitatsu where he is a bit strong since he is literally (the way i fought him) the second enemy so no yokai abilities no shift. He is actually quick there since the room is relatively small and his overall move set functions better. He is still squishy and predictable but breaking his ki is much harder without cheese or heavy weapons. So he would rank higher for me there. But overall great video
one thing nioh really wants you to learn is to use flux to restore stamina, using full ki pulses and flux properly and quickly essentially makes it so that you never run out of stamina while still being able to constantly dodge and attack even while in dark realm. I went from doing fights slowly with some pauses to I have yet to stop attacking and my health bar hates me because im not ki pulsing to flux low stance fast enough to dodge attacks.
I think it's exactly what they expect, that you will miss these stamina replenishing moves in the first playthrough and maybe even the second, where it's still perfectly possible without it feeling very punishing, since it feels much like any other souls game. But yeah, it's not very fast and later on you kinda die without them, so it teaches you to use them the hard way.
So glad you put tsuchigumo that low. It felt unfun cause i didnt feel like i stood a chance with the constant barrage of ki damage he was dishing out to me. Gave me no room to even attack i had to just spam spirit stones and yokai shift to win cause i was just fed up
Another detail about number 7, the location and element is similar to the Nioh 1 where it’s all ice and your fighting the ice lady (I have ptsd of that mission and boss) so I found it cool we face a female fire boss in a fire stage opposite yet similar to a female ice boss in a ice covered mission
Actually, Ancient Nyotengu is a character from the Ninja Gaiden games.. but she also makes appearances in the Dead or Alive games for... *Ahem* ...Obvious reasons. As for the human bosses, there is an imbalance but I think it comes down to the weapons. They have different combos and techniques that can trivialize a fight... like I went into some of the human fights using a katana and they were much harder. (I do also like them for lore value and plus I did play Samurai Warriors way before Nioh so that extra bit adds to the lore.)
His opinion on the bosses ability to fuck you over sounds like he's basing them on a difficulty that isn't Wise/Nioh, in which case yeah, you'd sweep through a pretty good portion of them, especially with certain Grace sets.
I love Tate Eboshi, clearly one of my favorite fights as well. I think my only issue with the fight is that her attack when she jumps very high in the air to slam back on the ground with a large crystal AoE hits like a f*ing truck. You either have to block it, and it will most certainly break your guard so you'd better have Faster Winded Recovery somewhere on your gear, or you can dodge in high stance towards her (it's fast, but the crystals actually protude outward from the center of her impact, if you dodge back you're very likely to get hit if you are too close). Dodging with dual katanas' enhanced low stance dodge also works if you are mid-range when her slam hits, but you have to dodge backwards in this case since there are still less i-frames on the low stance dodges than on the high stance roll. I remember grinding for her switchglaive art of combat, Arc of Chaos (which is pretty OP on top of looking cool af btw), and most of my deaths were due to this particular attack. Otherwise, i think she has a really cool design, music and fun pattern to learn with a quick pace for sure. She really checks if you're playing Nioh or Dark Souls, pretty much like said in the video. Also, she pretty damn thicc, wish she could crush my head between her thighs like she crushed my character for hours with her slam attack tho.
I completely disagree on Azai being in "great" tier. I'm only in 5th location yet, but that bossfight is the worst I've encountered yet. It's not even hard, it's boring and forcing you into a blocking playstyle. I'm talking about his phase 1 and your total inability to hit him unless he does something first. You just stand around and wait for him to slowly walk towards you and attack or do a jump/dive move that's too hard to dodge (and I tried a LOT to do that, dodging that move is just way too inconsistent), so you have to resort to heavy armor and a high blocking weapon, so you do a single high stance strong attack that does the most Ki damage, because you dont have time to do anything else, since just a second later he brings his shield wing up again. And if you accidentally do one too many attacks you just get staggered and either take damage straight up (which I preferred to do), or you block and get your ki insanely depleted and take even more damae. The battle only actually starts being even remotely fun in Dark Realm, when he's not blocking constantly and you can actually play around his moves, but outside of Dark Realm this fight is very, VERY boring.
In new game plus sometimes enemies will glow pink or purple. And i think the purple glowing Ninja Yoki (Dual Sword and Kusarigama wilding) is an entire challenge for itself.
The only bosses I really have a problem with are Lady Osakabe, Gozuki/ Mezuki duo, and Kamaitachi. The first 2, precisely for the reasons mentioned in your video, but also Kamaitachi. The fight is really just you chasing it all around the arena.
My top 10 in Nioh 2 is 1. Otakemaru(main) 2.Tate Eboshi 3. Shuten Doji(DITC) 4.Lady Raiko 5.Minamoto no Yoshitsune 6.Nightmare Bringer 7.Kashin Koji 8.Shibata Katsuie 9.Yomi 10.Otakemaru(TFS)
Man, coming back to see the boses. I honestly played so much of Nioh 2 that I don't remember what my first encounter felt like because of how easy it is to stray with a broken build and just end up no braining most of it until you reach a point where those tactics no longer work as well with NG++++s and Underworld stuff
Pleasantly surprised to see Tate Eboshi there, not my personal favourite but I do love it. Also good to see Yomi, Kashin and Shibata high up, most of what I see people say about them is that they're annoying bosses. Was this playthrough on a new or an existing character ?
I think Gozuki and Mezuki are weak and simple enough that putting them together is the only way to make a challenge of them. Like Throne Watcher and Defender. I don't hate either.
Yep, except much better than the watcher & defender since you actually have the tools to properly fight two bosses at once, instead of very drawn out hit and run tactics.
i wouldnt say hes late game, he4 first appears in your twins fortress' basement. the variant your showing here appears late game though, the level getting up to him is a lot tougher lol. i always use him as a farm for amrita. use sloth, and water sword with the extraction talisman and knock his ki down so he drops more money and damn is he a goldmine.
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To be fair, do go back and finish the gauntlet and fight the proper William. A BITCH of a gauntlet to get to him but holy fuck is it him at his proper level and is a rewarding fight when you ACTUALLY beat him.
that doesn't help players who like to play aggressively since it revolves more around you dodging till you close distance which isn't easy since he fly and spam his skills bring in skeleton soul core is a much better tip
If the boss is ever easy or hard in this game it’s because it was either meant to be for the story or you need to upgrade your build. The difficulty doesn’t even matter lol it’s just there to scare you
Me: "come on, mezuki and gozuki weren't that bad, I did kinda enjoy it" Him: "it's bullshit and horseshit" Ah, I now understand why you HAD to rank them that low hehe, btw they're also in a main mission, golden castle, the one with Osakabe, it's either them or Yatsu no Kami Personally, I'd have split Otakemaru (main game) on 2 health bars or increased his HP, felt we fought each part for a too short time PS: 19:51 that's an interesting mezuki
Ryomen Sakuna reminds me of Flexile Sentry. Kasha has got chariot wheels. Kashin Koji is a sorcerer and he summons a clone of his exact form. Sounds like someone was a disgruntled customer. Nah, I'm just stretching it.
I think they really should have toned some of the bosses to have more ki. And maybe tune down their damage for a bit. I'm not in higher new game loops but I feel like they damage is always too high and so easily to be knocked out of stamina. Which makes it often optimal for me to play very aggressive rather than try to learn the move set. My experience is always either me getting one or two tapped or they die really quick. Maybe at least make the lower NG bosses less damaging would be great? Maybe it's because my character has no health, is it better to get some viger in this game as well rather then just meet the armor requirements?
Man there are some things about Nioh I love and some I hate but let me tell you as a dark souls lover and now playing elden ring the pacing of these fights are more my style. Fast etc. There are some combat things elden ring could use from nioh such as fatigue if you stam out. To make stamina actually have meaning. And blocking which instead of being bad for a main wep becomes more important to stop attack chains and counter play. I love the quick dash dodge way better than the rolling. I wish they added the dash with one button press and to mitigate dodge spam in Elden ring. They do the roll after 1 dash. So it goes dash and if you dodge again to soon you will roll... yes you get I frames but it's more an evasion rather than just a counter movement in a way. Idk wdyt
For me personally the problem is - every boss in this game is decent to great, at the first battle Then comes farming I want to collect all smithing texts and boss arts in the game and this has ruined some bosses for me Most notably ren hayabusa He couldve been a great kinda super boss, with his speed and unique atacks but if i have to kill him 100+ times cause he refuses to drop umbral bullet and falcon claw smithing text, well the most consistent strategy is cheese, highlithing his worst aspects namely his only real danger comes from his fist moveset because his ki is so bloated because hes a boss he can go 100% aggresive, wich means a swift death unless you can keep him on the defensive while his fists are out. If taken as a single boss fight to learn and overcome hes a 9/10, if you want to farm him hes a 3 And this does apply for a lot of bosses
Cuphead DLC release date got dropped, are you gonna play it when the time comes? I remember cuphead being how I found your channel and your tips in expert mode ranking vid were what got me though my S-rankings
From what I understand, Nioh 2 has made human bosses significantly easier because they take far more Ki damage, am I wrong ? If not then that's a shame because I was hoping my success run with Imagawa was a fluke.
When i first play Nioh 2, Shibata Katsuibe stoped me. I tried completely change my build and used other weapon instead of sword. When a respec skill points and realize that its not working like in Nioh 1, i stop playing. Now i play again with kusa and i m curious how it will works on this asshole.
Is it still possible to cheese Saika with thrown weapons? When he goes in the air, you could stun him with kunai and get a final blow on him in Nioh 1.
I despise Kashin Koji with every fiber of my being, though I guess that’s mostly due to my playstyle and poor RnG w/ the clones. My personal Top 10 though 1. Kasha (She’s the most fun for me, plus her Yokai shift carried me throughout the game) 2. Yoshitsune 3. Benkei (Side Mission) 4. Tate Eboshi 5. Yorimitsu 6. Otakemaru (Main) 7. Nagamasa 8. Yatsu no Kami 9. Shibata Katsuie 10. Nightmare Bringer
Im A bit late but how was nightmare bringer too easy? I beat yorimitsu first try In both fights (and I didnt exactly even cheese her by abusing human boss weaknesses), I beat shibata on my second try, I beat eboshi within 5 tries and I beat dlc shuten doji within 5 tries too. Nightmare bringer on the other hand must have been nearly 20. I figured out In the end that sticking To his side can make dodging A ton of his Stuff really easy but even by sticking To him which could be argued is cheesing him he can catch you Off guard really easily and burst you down really Hard. He felt like the only true challenge In the game for me.
But there came a time when I learned all his moves and how to dodge them or counterattack him, thus making the taste of victory even better for knowing that I had overcome him
I hate most the human bosses. I hate how they get an instand stagger recovery mid combo and immediately counter attack with 0 reaction window and hyper armor... Not to mention the block simulator humans are anyways.
Snake boss near the start of this game is 100x harder than everything in elden ring, no question. I've 100% ER 3 times but this snake has killed me maybe 2500 times. Most annoying, terribly designed boss I've ever seen in any game in my life.
You’re lucky you didn’t play it in the beta demo it was way way worse, they toned it down because people said it was too hard for an early boss. It was the hardest for me to beat though, took like 47 attempts after that game was easy tbh
For the worst one nioh has rarely done gank fights 💀 someone did not play the depths in nioh 1 don’t do it it’s not fun they throw two bosses at you every time they feel like it
this ranking was meh, the fact u dont realize u can block to end pretty much any stunlock immediately made it invalid for me. As every boss is WAY easier when u know that.
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The reason Nioh 1 is harder is they trained more Nioh 2 is in the past so they have less training
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@@Archdeacon.Krieg. bad logic, cause in the past there was many more battles and big names just roaming around. Also everyone is older in Nioh 1.
Did you play nIoh 1, a lot of people are dissatisfied the didnt include double bosses. I really enjoyed Mezuki and Gozuki.
Edit: Shit I disagree on 4/4 so far, Im not watching the rest, lets go for an objective list.
The most disappointing about these bosses is when they're decided to join your missions they just forgot how to do those "boss things"
That would make the game too easy
They still hit pretty well, but have really low hp, true
@@MildsandThatYac they could've just made them still do the moves but with lower damage. the boss friends in nioh 1 all have their full moveset and it doesn't really change anything since you fight like 3x the enemies on paired sequences anyways
This is why Sanada Yukimura is the King. He actually goes into his super form.
I really appreciate you re-doing your ranking for nioh 2, it's clear that you played the game more and now have a better understanding of it. All in all nice video and very good ranking :) Keep it up
Human bosses is basically you melt them or get melted . You really can't really trading blows since they are hit like a train with unlimited stamina and some with inhuman poise. That is way I don't really enjoy fighting them. The yokai bosses is very fun.
I’m the opposite lol. For human enemies you can basically play it like sekiro and go full aggro to get their ki down and get a deathblow so those fights always seem more fun to me. A lot of the Yokai are boring to me because they just seem a bit more janky than the human enemies
Some yokai feel like dark souls bosses. Some of the human bosses felt like annoying ass Elden ring npc invaders.
Glad to see the DLC shuten doji get some love. He's a real menace
My experience with this game was weird. I struggled immensely with the snake boss, to the point where I thought about quitting the game all together. But when I finally beat it, and admittedly struggled a few rounds with the next boss, I breezed through the rest of the game, barely losing to any of the other bosses in the game. I don’t know if something clicked or I just got extremely lucky. But there were only 3 bosses that took me more than one try to beat.
That’s my experience with most souls like(?) games, I struggle really hard at the beginning, then there’s one major roadblock boss which essentially forces me to get better with the fundamentals, and then the rest of the game is noticeably easier (though still difficult lol)
Edit: I’d also like to add that the major roadblock boss for me was also the snake cunt
This was the same story with my dad playing this game, he just farmed for 100 hours just to beat this boss. However, he was thinking of getting the game refunded because of the very first Enki 💀.
That was pretty much my experience with Nioh 1. First boss Onryoki was easy. A typical big monster souls borne like fight.
Then Hino Enma showed up and she handed my my ass like... 30-50 times at least. When I finally beat her my hands were just shaking from rage and adrenaline. Then the next boss Nue made me re-do 10 times or so. Then the other bosses were not as bad. I still failed a few times here and there but nothing was as infuriating as Hino Enma.
I think its just the shift in momentum from boss to boss. Both Onryoki and Mezuki are pretty typical souls borne like bosses. Hino Enma was different because she was damn fast and had legit mix ups to her offense plus a paralysis power which instantly kills you. Yatsu No Kami was different because of the poison puddle gimmick and because of the snake dark realm gimmick that could get you in trouble.
@@TheDocbach Funnily enough, having played Nioh 2 before Nioh 1 made Nioh 1 feel like a cake-walk. I could finish missions while being way lower in level than the game recommended me for missions, I would kill bosses in less than a minute each and in general it felt like such an easy game. However, that one damn mission where you have to charge into that war between your clan and the enemy one (I don't remember the name, it's in Japanese and I last played the game 7 months ago), I was raging so hard since I was supposed to run and never stop, I couldn't afford to fight, cause every single archer and cannon guy was aiming just at me for some weird reason. That mission was just hard because they tried too hard.
@@ender8166 I thought that mission was cool. I believe your talking about the battle of sekigahara. Otani was cool but Shima sucked. And gasha was alright
26:02 When you mention the tone for the mission Kasha appears in, think about what the yokai represents. A sadistic demonic cat on a flaming chariot that takes souls to hell, that is her core concept. In the mission, Honno-ji is completely aflame and Nobunaga is dead, a man who called himself “the Demon King” and used many brutal tactics. It seems kind of fitting that in this sea of fire, that the yokai to appear would be the one to claim the brutal “Demon King” and bring him back to hell. And I guess the music is supposed to more of represent her own sadistic cheerful nature and fast paced movement.
Lightning Gods of Yomi has special place in my heart. My friend who was attempting to beat this boss for 6h straight, destroyed his Consol and gamepad in rage. Said he won't be playing any more games ever. This boss killed gaming for him lol
Fucking lol
Lol honestly fair response, though none of the bosses in this game was a massive struggle for me. The game just in general at times has fuelled a deep rage within me.
It's no cake walk on highger difficulties but he should've just used a stress ball or sth😅
Use lightning stop talisman.
I like how you use "horseshit and bullshit" to describe Mezuki and Gozuki
Tate Eboshi is absolutely god tier
She is but Shuten Doji and Yorimitsu are next level
She's difficult but not that
For the story, i was being depressed while the first time i fought her, i wanted to die, i used everything against her, buff + anti debuff, ally, yokai mode several time, amrita eating hahaha for beating her
@@MrAkira273Nothing that 3, scampuss can't take care of.
best waifu
Bro ren Hayabusa and jin Hayabusa
like he said, if you dont make use of all of the mechanics in the game, it will warp your view of the bossfights, the reason nightmare bringer is actually hard is because you cannot inflict confusion on him, you can only inflict purity or corruption on him, no confusion means the fight is infinitely harder than every other boss who can basically be instant killed by inflicting confusion, like otakemaru for example. no confusion means less anima gain, less damage, less ki damage, the boss will recover their ki, weaker grapples, basically you wanna use confusion if you can. nightmare bringer is not the only one tho, Yoshitsune also is immune to confusion, and Yorimitsu is immune to purity im pretty sure, which can counter your entire build as well if you wanna use izanagi for example. also i would mention that some bosses have pretty unfair 1 frame instant grab moves that basically one shot you in the depths, saito can do this, the bomb guy can do this, yorimitsu also has an attack like that, ofc it depends again, if you use an axe then it can sometimes be impossible to dodge these since your attacks are so slow, with other weapons you can get away in time just fine. its also not just grab moves, some bosses also have attacks that can be burst countered but are so insanely fast that you cant even react to that, especially not with brute spirits, again saito has a move like that, his dual sword whirlwind spin for example, he flashes red and instantly the damage is already happening, there is zero time to react and in the depths that move does about 3x 12k damage, i dont think its possible to survive that, which means i agree with his placement as one of the worst xD
I recently found out a friend of mine was playing nioh, and saw him MELT bosses I had so much trouble with. It turns out, my build just sucked, I liked tanky armor with high defense, but it turns out dps-ing your way through the game is just so much more effective it makes the game so much easier.
Shitaba’s theme is perfect. It’s literally the best theme from the original game meant to represent a tragic boss which he is. You’re putting him out of his misery and dishonor
If it didn't exist in the first game I might agree but I think he deserved more than a reused track, personally.
@@magicat7356agreed, wholeheartedly.
Shibata is absolutely insane for a new player ...I wonder who would win in a fight between him and General Radahn from Elden Ring
I'd say it depends on the map. If its played in Radahn's arena then Shibata loses but if it's in Shibata's map, bye bye Radahn
@@EftelingguardRadahn is a literal Demi-god.
@@iboildogsalive6535Yep...I think he would wipe the floor with Shibata...Although it would be fun fight to watch! lol
Saito toshimitsu was the most annoying in my opinion. His damn omnyo spamming shit followed by his damn attack's with the odachi😠
I just wanna add that Onriyoki was also in the same mission you fight yoshitatsu where he is a bit strong since he is literally (the way i fought him) the second enemy so no yokai abilities no shift. He is actually quick there since the room is relatively small and his overall move set functions better. He is still squishy and predictable but breaking his ki is much harder without cheese or heavy weapons. So he would rank higher for me there. But overall great video
actually yoshitatsu has all 3 yoaki shifys and in later side missions will use all 3 if you dont kill him fast enough
19:48 Man Mezuki sure has shrunken...
And when did he grow wings??
Oh... uh... oops.
one thing nioh really wants you to learn is to use flux to restore stamina, using full ki pulses and flux properly and quickly essentially makes it so that you never run out of stamina while still being able to constantly dodge and attack even while in dark realm. I went from doing fights slowly with some pauses to I have yet to stop attacking and my health bar hates me because im not ki pulsing to flux low stance fast enough to dodge attacks.
Yep. Most players never flux 2 and never realise they aren't playing the game properly
I think it's exactly what they expect, that you will miss these stamina replenishing moves in the first playthrough and maybe even the second, where it's still perfectly possible without it feeling very punishing, since it feels much like any other souls game. But yeah, it's not very fast and later on you kinda die without them, so it teaches you to use them the hard way.
@@joesheridan9451 doesn't help that description of flux 2 missleads most players into thinking it's just a base ki upgrade to flux 1
Nyotengu is also from the Dead or Alive games so it's a pretty cool reference to have her in the game.
She originally. like Hayabusa, is from Ninja Gaiden.
So glad you put tsuchigumo that low. It felt unfun cause i didnt feel like i stood a chance with the constant barrage of ki damage he was dishing out to me. Gave me no room to even attack i had to just spam spirit stones and yokai shift to win cause i was just fed up
Another detail about number 7, the location and element is similar to the Nioh 1 where it’s all ice and your fighting the ice lady (I have ptsd of that mission and boss) so I found it cool we face a female fire boss in a fire stage opposite yet similar to a female ice boss in a ice covered mission
Actually, Ancient Nyotengu is a character from the Ninja Gaiden games.. but she also makes appearances in the Dead or Alive games for... *Ahem* ...Obvious reasons.
As for the human bosses, there is an imbalance but I think it comes down to the weapons. They have different combos and techniques that can trivialize a fight... like I went into some of the human fights using a katana and they were much harder.
(I do also like them for lore value and plus I did play Samurai Warriors way before Nioh so that extra bit adds to the lore.)
Quick correction, Nyoten is from DOA originally, she has ties to another important Tengu but I have no idea if that one is a NG boss or a DOA boss.
His opinion on the bosses ability to fuck you over sounds like he's basing them on a difficulty that isn't Wise/Nioh, in which case yeah, you'd sweep through a pretty good portion of them, especially with certain Grace sets.
You can run into onryoki in the second mission at the bottom of that pit at the very beginning of the mission
I love Tate Eboshi, clearly one of my favorite fights as well.
I think my only issue with the fight is that her attack when she jumps very high in the air to slam back on the ground with a large crystal AoE hits like a f*ing truck. You either have to block it, and it will most certainly break your guard so you'd better have Faster Winded Recovery somewhere on your gear, or you can dodge in high stance towards her (it's fast, but the crystals actually protude outward from the center of her impact, if you dodge back you're very likely to get hit if you are too close). Dodging with dual katanas' enhanced low stance dodge also works if you are mid-range when her slam hits, but you have to dodge backwards in this case since there are still less i-frames on the low stance dodges than on the high stance roll.
I remember grinding for her switchglaive art of combat, Arc of Chaos (which is pretty OP on top of looking cool af btw), and most of my deaths were due to this particular attack. Otherwise, i think she has a really cool design, music and fun pattern to learn with a quick pace for sure. She really checks if you're playing Nioh or Dark Souls, pretty much like said in the video.
Also, she pretty damn thicc, wish she could crush my head between her thighs like she crushed my character for hours with her slam attack tho.
I completely disagree on Azai being in "great" tier. I'm only in 5th location yet, but that bossfight is the worst I've encountered yet. It's not even hard, it's boring and forcing you into a blocking playstyle.
I'm talking about his phase 1 and your total inability to hit him unless he does something first. You just stand around and wait for him to slowly walk towards you and attack or do a jump/dive move that's too hard to dodge (and I tried a LOT to do that, dodging that move is just way too inconsistent), so you have to resort to heavy armor and a high blocking weapon, so you do a single high stance strong attack that does the most Ki damage, because you dont have time to do anything else, since just a second later he brings his shield wing up again.
And if you accidentally do one too many attacks you just get staggered and either take damage straight up (which I preferred to do), or you block and get your ki insanely depleted and take even more damae.
The battle only actually starts being even remotely fun in Dark Realm, when he's not blocking constantly and you can actually play around his moves, but outside of Dark Realm this fight is very, VERY boring.
In new game plus sometimes enemies will glow pink or purple. And i think the purple glowing Ninja Yoki (Dual Sword and Kusarigama wilding) is an entire challenge for itself.
The only bosses I really have a problem with are Lady Osakabe, Gozuki/ Mezuki duo, and Kamaitachi. The first 2, precisely for the reasons mentioned in your video, but also Kamaitachi. The fight is really just you chasing it all around the arena.
For the lady, listen to her audio cues.
My top 10 in Nioh 2 is
1. Otakemaru(main)
2.Tate Eboshi
3. Shuten Doji(DITC)
4.Lady Raiko
5.Minamoto no Yoshitsune
6.Nightmare Bringer
7.Kashin Koji
8.Shibata Katsuie
9.Yomi
10.Otakemaru(TFS)
My anxiety when his health was low and he wasn't healing 📈📈📈📈
Man, coming back to see the boses. I honestly played so much of Nioh 2 that I don't remember what my first encounter felt like because of how easy it is to stray with a broken build and just end up no braining most of it until you reach a point where those tactics no longer work as well with NG++++s and Underworld stuff
Yeah! I strongly agree with this tier list. So that is why I like it a lot. Nice work.
nice clarification/emphasis on playstyle & subjectivity :)
comparing william in nioh 2 with yukimura is super fair.. living weapon spear is super rough to battle.. except masamune, he is even more rough
Pleasantly surprised to see Tate Eboshi there, not my personal favourite but I do love it. Also good to see Yomi, Kashin and Shibata high up, most of what I see people say about them is that they're annoying bosses.
Was this playthrough on a new or an existing character ?
It was on two different characters, one was new and one was old but I had previously dropped the character early on
I think Gozuki and Mezuki are weak and simple enough that putting them together is the only way to make a challenge of them. Like Throne Watcher and Defender. I don't hate either.
Yep, except much better than the watcher & defender since you actually have the tools to properly fight two bosses at once, instead of very drawn out hit and run tactics.
Remember when this dude played Cuphead? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The only boss that I would hope most people would agree with that I absolutely hate is ryu
The kusarigama pull absolutely cheeses him
i wouldnt say hes late game, he4 first appears in your twins fortress' basement. the variant your showing here appears late game though, the level getting up to him is a lot tougher lol. i always use him as a farm for amrita. use sloth, and water sword with the extraction talisman and knock his ki down so he drops more money and damn is he a goldmine.
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Nagamasa - codename "Mezuki" - i like it :)
To be fair, do go back and finish the gauntlet and fight the proper William. A BITCH of a gauntlet to get to him but holy fuck is it him at his proper level and is a rewarding fight when you ACTUALLY beat him.
hey magicat i have a tip for saika's fireballs, put your left thumb on the thumbstick and hold it in literally any direction, hope this helps :)
that doesn't help players who like to play aggressively since it revolves more around you dodging till you close distance which isn't easy since he fly and spam his skills bring in skeleton soul core is a much better tip
@@_XxARONxX_ aggressive players when they literally have To dodge:
@@t0q14s9 might as well say git gud scrub no actual advice was given.
At some points the game is just plain unfair (I'm looking at you DoN Ren Hayabusa ) but that makes the kick you get even more rewarding
You got lucky with nobunagas ai. In my playthrough, his fight was a bullethell
If the boss is ever easy or hard in this game it’s because it was either meant to be for the story or you need to upgrade your build. The difficulty doesn’t even matter lol it’s just there to scare you
Ren hayabusa was kicking my azz definitely fire
Me: "come on, mezuki and gozuki weren't that bad, I did kinda enjoy it"
Him: "it's bullshit and horseshit"
Ah, I now understand why you HAD to rank them that low hehe, btw they're also in a main mission, golden castle, the one with Osakabe, it's either them or Yatsu no Kami
Personally, I'd have split Otakemaru (main game) on 2 health bars or increased his HP, felt we fought each part for a too short time
PS: 19:51 that's an interesting mezuki
Ryomen Sakuna reminds me of Flexile Sentry. Kasha has got chariot wheels. Kashin Koji is a sorcerer and he summons a clone of his exact form.
Sounds like someone was a disgruntled customer.
Nah, I'm just stretching it.
I think they really should have toned some of the bosses to have more ki. And maybe tune down their damage for a bit. I'm not in higher new game loops but I feel like they damage is always too high and so easily to be knocked out of stamina. Which makes it often optimal for me to play very aggressive rather than try to learn the move set. My experience is always either me getting one or two tapped or they die really quick. Maybe at least make the lower NG bosses less damaging would be great?
Maybe it's because my character has no health, is it better to get some viger in this game as well rather then just meet the armor requirements?
Which boss would you say is the hardest for me it’s Tate Eboshi, Saito Toshimistu or Ren Hayabusa
DLC Shuten Doji for sure
Kukai. That dude is a menace.
@@misterlobsterman For sure..kukai is ridiculous💀
Man there are some things about Nioh I love and some I hate but let me tell you as a dark souls lover and now playing elden ring the pacing of these fights are more my style. Fast etc. There are some combat things elden ring could use from nioh such as fatigue if you stam out. To make stamina actually have meaning. And blocking which instead of being bad for a main wep becomes more important to stop attack chains and counter play. I love the quick dash dodge way better than the rolling. I wish they added the dash with one button press and to mitigate dodge spam in Elden ring. They do the roll after 1 dash. So it goes dash and if you dodge again to soon you will roll... yes you get I frames but it's more an evasion rather than just a counter movement in a way. Idk wdyt
My favorites are yohitsune, yorimitsu, otakemaru and azai
For me personally the problem is - every boss in this game is decent to great, at the first battle
Then comes farming
I want to collect all smithing texts and boss arts in the game and this has ruined some bosses for me
Most notably ren hayabusa
He couldve been a great kinda super boss, with his speed and unique atacks but if i have to kill him 100+ times cause he refuses to drop umbral bullet and falcon claw smithing text, well the most consistent strategy is cheese, highlithing his worst aspects namely his only real danger comes from his fist moveset because his ki is so bloated because hes a boss he can go 100% aggresive, wich means a swift death unless you can keep him on the defensive while his fists are out.
If taken as a single boss fight to learn and overcome hes a 9/10, if you want to farm him hes a 3
And this does apply for a lot of bosses
Tate Eboshi is literally Lady Death incarnate.
number 15 mezuki is my favorite variation of nagamasa
Tate Eboshi best boss in the game and waifu :D
Nice ranking but why did you put original Otakemaru higher than DLC Otakemaru?
Presentation. DLC Otakemaru has better moveset for sure but it's just less cool.
This tier list would completely change if it was an endgame list. Human enemies are fun and extremely hard compared to yokai at that point.
Do you plan to rank Elden Ring bosses/areas, etc? :D
yes
Could you do this for Nioh 1
I was expecting yoshitsune to be alot higher but ig we all have our opinions
magicat are coming back to cuphead dlc on june 30 2022
edit:removed grammar mestake
"bullshit and horseshit" gud one
Cuphead DLC release date got dropped, are you gonna play it when the time comes? I remember cuphead being how I found your channel and your tips in expert mode ranking vid were what got me though my S-rankings
Yeah
they can't even do lessor enemies gank right, why the fuck do they think there should be two bosses in the same room
need a re-rating for the depths 26-30 boss iterations
I dare you to do a top 10 cuphead video on the new DLC
Have you ever played Nioh I will good ol' Billy?
From what I understand, Nioh 2 has made human bosses significantly easier because they take far more Ki damage, am I wrong ?
If not then that's a shame because I was hoping my success run with Imagawa was a fluke.
Saika was worse in nioh 1 because like 60 percent of the room was on fire and we know how much environment fire damge does to us
When i first play Nioh 2, Shibata Katsuibe stoped me. I tried completely change my build and used other weapon instead of sword. When a respec skill points and realize that its not working like in Nioh 1, i stop playing. Now i play again with kusa and i m curious how it will works on this asshole.
Rarely Dabbled in gank bosses? There are so many of them between one and two.
Especially nioh 1
Is it still possible to cheese Saika with thrown weapons? When he goes in the air, you could stun him with kunai and get a final blow on him in Nioh 1.
Is it me or does Nightmare Bringer look like Berial from DMC4
I despise Kashin Koji with every fiber of my being, though I guess that’s mostly due to my playstyle and poor RnG w/ the clones.
My personal Top 10 though
1. Kasha (She’s the most fun for me, plus her Yokai shift carried me throughout the game)
2. Yoshitsune
3. Benkei (Side Mission)
4. Tate Eboshi
5. Yorimitsu
6. Otakemaru (Main)
7. Nagamasa
8. Yatsu no Kami
9. Shibata Katsuie
10. Nightmare Bringer
Top 5
5 Minamoto Yoshi
4 Minamoto Yori
3 Yomi
2 Otakemaru (dlc)
1 Gozuki (ng level 1) lol
Hey, there. Have you thought of taking a look at a game by Deck13, known as The Surge?
I've heard a fair bit about it but not really interested right now, doesn't seem like my kinda game. But who knows, maybe one day
@@magicat7356 Okay. But it does show Deck13 has improved from... *That* game
Tatarimokke is alot easier when u use fist lol the red orb wasnt much of a problem for me
So basically you want a mod with only dark mode and burst counters don’t you ;)
Do you play late game at all, human boss like nobunaga, williams are tanky as hell.
Toshimitsu was super difficult for me
how the fuck did tate eboshi get #1?
Best boss in the game that’s why
Im A bit late but how was nightmare bringer too easy? I beat yorimitsu first try In both fights (and I didnt exactly even cheese her by abusing human boss weaknesses), I beat shibata on my second try, I beat eboshi within 5 tries and I beat dlc shuten doji within 5 tries too. Nightmare bringer on the other hand must have been nearly 20. I figured out In the end that sticking To his side can make dodging A ton of his Stuff really easy but even by sticking To him which could be argued is cheesing him he can catch you Off guard really easily and burst you down really Hard. He felt like the only true challenge In the game for me.
Why would anyone run past Gozuki at the beginning?
Enenra is my most hated boss. Pissed me off enough to make me snap the game in half
I lost many times to the yokai of flames and ashes (I think it's Enenra), I even had to learn the onmios spells (water magic) to be able to defeat him
But there came a time when I learned all his moves and how to dodge them or counterattack him, thus making the taste of victory even better for knowing that I had overcome him
Literally just dodge to the left and he can't hit you lol
@edsonsantos9081 I finally beat him. Whooped his ass too.
@yaboi2500 I already beat him but I appreciate it nonetheless.
I honestly disliked every boss, but that's after fighting all of them on every difficulty so... Yeah...Way Of the Nioh changed me..
What weapon is best for humans
I have a question, how good is splitstaff vs humans
Very, splitstaff is a very versatile weapon. If you master it, it can be very satisfy weapon
I hate most the human bosses. I hate how they get an instand stagger recovery mid combo and immediately counter attack with 0 reaction window and hyper armor... Not to mention the block simulator humans are anyways.
I can tell this guy didn't play Nioh 1 with #43 lol
EDIT: Kasha is definitely good. Lightning gods however is shit
If you run dry on video ideas there is a cuphead dlc early next year
Snake boss near the start of this game is 100x harder than everything in elden ring, no question. I've 100% ER 3 times but this snake has killed me maybe 2500 times. Most annoying, terribly designed boss I've ever seen in any game in my life.
You’re lucky you didn’t play it in the beta demo it was way way worse, they toned it down because people said it was too hard for an early boss. It was the hardest for me to beat though, took like 47 attempts after that game was easy tbh
Owl is the blood stave beast
sounds like this guy hasn't face some of these bosses in the depths
You're correct
@@magicat7356don’t do it 😂
For the worst one nioh has rarely done gank fights 💀 someone did not play the depths in nioh 1 don’t do it it’s not fun they throw two bosses at you every time they feel like it
gozuki and mezuki are funny
Why you marked only 2 bossess as dlc? It was confusing bro. :/
In the DLC, Shuten Doji and Otakemaru are different like Shuten Doji being much quicker and dealing more damage in the DLC
this ranking was meh, the fact u dont realize u can block to end pretty much any stunlock immediately made it invalid for me. As every boss is WAY easier when u know that.
Nagamasa isn't Mezuki 😂