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Man, I could not beat the first boss in the dlc for over 2 hours, bootlegger boogie. Much tougher challenge than anything from the base game- love the dlc but down and dash for miss chalice invincibility roll? Constantly rolled the wrong way into an enemy
Something about Mogh that I feel like lots of people overlook is that he is one of the few bosses (and even enemies) whose delayed attacks feel natural. He basically never just holds a pose for ages mid-attack, with any delays just feeling like a naturalistic side effect of accelerating his massive weapon. Unlike so many other foes, he never feels like he's delaying his attacks for the sake of it.
Yes!!! You are walking into his domain. He feels like he is so in his element. The way he moves and just walks up to you. The way his attacks are delayed, but still flow. I beat him with a str build and he forced me to get on his level. I’ve helped others beat him countless times because he’s legitimately the best feeling, most polished boss in the game. I can’t get enough of it.
Yeah, his attacks don’t feel “delayed” like everyone else. They feel purposeful and heavy, which makes sense considering his trident is huge. He’s still agile with his hands for conjuring blood incants, but it makes sense that his melee attacks would feel slower
the VA did an amazing job. when Morgott talks about each member of his family you can hear in his tone how he feels about each of them. and the transitions between the phases... his distress about his curse is heart wrenching
One aspect of Radahn you didn't mention is how well they incorporated the open world design into the boss. Most especially, you are rewarded for exploration. If you walk into the festival and meet a giant wolf man and a giant pot lad, that's cool and all, but if you walk in and see your old pals Alexander and Blaidd, here to share the "festivities," now _that_ is build up. Not to mention good ol' Patches. I was lucky enough to find him before I fought Radahn, so I couldn't believe it when I saw his summon sign. I thought, "No way, old scumbro showed up too?" And show up he did... and then noped out. That was a joke with the weight of 13 years of knowing and "loving" this guy. You bet your deathbed smalls I laughed.
So glad Morgott is getting more love. A lot of people are overleveled when fighting him and see him as just a reskin of Margit, even though he is so much more.
To be 100% honest morgott is kind of a boring boss once you fight him 3-4 times but I don’t want to start an argument so pls don’t take that the wrong way
The “I don’t know why people think this game is hard, I beat every boss at RL 1 first try blindfolded while being punched in the dong by an orangutan” comments never cease to make me laugh.
Or the plus side, the Orangutan is fun to fight at RL1, especially with dealing with his variety of movements and also the Orangutan shall remember us smoldering with that wretched flame (of ambition)
Morgott is easily my favorite boss in the game, in terms of design, story, character, etc. But after spending 7 hours on Margit, then steamrolling Morgott in one attempt, I was left a little blue balled. My man has glass bones and paper skin, bleed absolutely tears through him in seconds
Tbf that’s exactly why I like Morgott’s fight so much, it’s a boss fight that promotes aggression rather than being cautious like with most other boss fights in the game
@@clarkmannen8789 Agreed! I first-tried Morgott my first playthrough and didn't think much of him. That is until I got to him during my RL1 second playthrough and really experienced his entire moveset and really gained an appreciation for the boss. Was stuck on him forever.
I am hoping for a Convergence like mod where some of these bosses will be balanced by amazing modders. Morgott really need more HP and damage. Radahn restored to his unnerfed state. Rennala also buffed with more HP and more poise as well.
The saddest realization is that, contrary to popular belief, Morgott was loved by at least one of his parents, that being Godfrey, which is shown through his opening cutscene as he holds his son's corpse in his arms before it turns into his guiding grace.
Rykard’s spectacle is easily first place but my favorite boss overall is Radahn he has the spectacle while also being just hard enough to be fun but Rykard is also amazing
@@alfie9662All of the endings are wildly different, I really don’t understand why the Dung Eater, Goldmask, and Godwyn endings didn’t have more unique cutscenes
Mohg is like the most badass-looking villain straight outta From Software and I love him. From the way he makes his entrance to the way he displays his flare, absolutely JoJo levels of badassery.
I'm such a sucker for the atmospheric changes in some of these fights. It starts raining during both Morgott and Placidusax and you fight Radahn until nightfall. It instantly makes a boss fight better to me
There's a couple fights in Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 that are like that as well. In Isshin the Sword Saint's last fight, lightning starts shooting down from the sky and isshin channels it through his spear. In the Dancer of the Boreal Valley fight, the arena starts burning down in the second phase.
I love the fact that Godrick is higher than Malenia, he is my personal top 5, such a good early boss. Radahn is still my top 1 but close behind him is Rykard - this fight is pure spectacle, hellish/lovecraftian atmosphere feels like straight from Bloodborne and he is probably the best gimmick fight in all FS games. Morgott - man I was very disappointed not seeing him on your top 10, one of the saddest but still badass bosses, I just wish he had more HP - I think the second phase with the new health bar would solve this problem... And Godfrey - I love his music in first phase but it is a pity that it was used earlier and he feels a bit less unique, fortunately there is a second phase where it turns into an even bigger GIGACHAD and you feel that you are fighting with a real Elden Lord.
you see , i disagree , i found godrick extremely boring from move set to lore; to each their own.but i find it interesting tho that so many people loved him , i get what people say about him, but to me he was very meh, like he only made me excited to meet godfrey , but except that to me he's just a big ball of twirlling chaos and very easy to defeat. He's not bad at all ,he's just not one of the greats imho. i don't really see what others see in him, i'd actually put him lower on the list ....
I absolutely LOVE Malekith as a boss. In my opinion the most satisfying move to dodge in the game is when he flips 3 projectiles at you and swoops down for the double swing. On my first character I was a dual great hammers build that abused jump attack mechanics. Sadly I think that fight lasted 2 minutes top for both phases. My next run was a dex lightning build and was much harder because I couldn't rely on my lightning to hit him. Such a good fight.
maliketh is easily my favorite in the game. his gigantic size, wicked fast moveset, stunning looks, every single detail is on point. but his moveset is by far my favorite aspect Morgott comes in a fairly close second for all the same reasons
Man I would like maliketh a lot more if after just figuring out what he does I took up the gransax spear and like used only a few shots to kill him before he did much. Just feels like unlike many other bosses he was meant to have double his health. Like malenia or elden beast/rada where the first phase is a whole boss and the second is another. But this isn't the case for him and it really holds him back for being one of my favorites because he is meant to be really strong. And yet I can easily take him out with a large amount of weapons/spells ect really quickly. Vs even some lesser bosses can give problems to those same weapons and such. It didn't help malikeths position in the game makes it harder to refight him vs every other boss who doesn't work like a rock/scissors type of battle.
He would've been better if the game accurately explained how to use the Blasphemous Claw. Once I realised it was for the yellow attacks, he went up in my rankings. I still don't like Beast Clergyman much. His double dagger slash is way too fast.
It's nice to see Godfrey and his son and his biggest fanboy at top 3. Papa Loux makes everything great. Although to me Morgott is by far the best boss which I already explained MANY times with my comment about his story. I'm glad to see so many other members of the community feel the same. All hail Morgott The Omen King, The Grace-Given. The True King of Leyndell and only worthy successor of Godfrey. A true heir. The only Demigod left that is worthy of being called Golden. Morgott the Golden Omen.
Hoarah Loux is the best one for me. Remember you said bosses in ER feel like they were made to battle with summons and all that stuff in your boss design philosophy video? Well I think that doesn't apply to Hoarah Loux, the fight is completely doable alone, it feels like (and it actually is) a duel between the strongest tarnished warriors out there. And the fact that you can avoid some of his attacks by jumping (which is newly added if you don't consider Sekiro) is just amazing design for me. Besides, I always try to make my str character as barbarian as possible and caestus is my favorite weapon, Hoarah Loux is just that, a pure warrior fighting with his bare hands. I just fell in love with this boss battle
I like the Godfrey phase myself but Hoarah Loux just annoys me. He literally never isn't attacking forcing me to trade damage but he can 3 shot me at 60 vigor.
Second playthrough, i fought him alone with a colossal sword in the first phase, and a pair of caestuses in the second, no spells. One of the best fight i've ever had.
Morgott hands down gotta be my fav boss, the adrenaline of fighting him is so fun, the ost, I love that it is a more intense remix of the first ost, his quick slick moves, his monologue are also cool and he's pretty balanced although I do think he's a bit too squishy, overall a very fun and satisfying fight.
He's balanced and incredibly fun but only if you haven't explored much, for a game that really encourages exploration to beat bosses easily he gets WAY too easy. If only they buffed his HP and gave him 2 health bars he'd be way more fun.
I’m so happy to see Hoarah Loux ranking so high on this list. As one of my favorite bosses in the entire series I really did think he was getting the praise that he deserved from the fan base but to know so many people also love him is awesome
My personal top 5 1. Mohg445 lord of cupcakes 2. Fire giant (yeah, I put him here, fight me) 3. Maliketh the “nothing personal kid” blade 4. Regal moose 5. Ernest Khalimov, first elden lord Honorable mentions to radagon, radahn, rykard, Godrick, and morgit gud the grace given
Damn shame Radagon and Elden Beast have to be fought one after the other. Radagon's fight, soundtrack, and cutscene are some of the best gaming moments I've had in YEARS.
I actually really like Elden beast, my issue with the Elden beast radagon fight us the fact that it’s two bosses in a row, if they did it like gherman and the moon presence where you only need to beat them once both would be really good bosses, Elden beast does have some pretty glaring issues, like the attacks that overlap and are near unavoidable, but if it was it’s own boss rather than a one after the other fight those issues would be excusable
They should make Radagon the last boss and then you choose an ending. But if you have all great runes you could restore the whole ER and fight the elden beast. Like the moon presence. Make radagon harder cause with that way I described you would a have a checkpoint between them
@@SolaireOfToast funny cause i died more to him than malenia,there's just something about his attacks that i can't wrap my head around and no matter how much i level up on ng+ and more,he still manages to fuck me up
I think my favorite fight was probably Placidusax because I had fun actually doing it. Did not expect how much fun that'd be. shoutout to crucible knights for preparing me for that swoop the dragon does. Radahn wins most creative. (and I love how adjustable the difficulty of the Radahn fight is. Anyone that can get there can beat him with enough practice.) Hoarah Loux wins street fighter award.
I don't know about other commentors here, but I loved ER's main boss roster. I do think it's a shame that there is no good duo boss in ER, but there are so many bosses that I loved in this game and I would place many of them in a fromsoftware top 20 bosses list. I do have to say though, the consistency in the quality of bosses is worse than their recent titles. Over all I would rate ER's boss roster a little lower than Ds3's(with the two dlcs in mind).
People are too soft on DS3. I prefer Elden Ring’s boss design than having a lot of bosses with redundant phases and fire swords. ER bosses make you think, DS3 makes you roll and roll Not to say that DS3 boss design is bad, but people seem too biased towards it (and the rest of the game, but that’s another discussion
@@nabsthegodgamer5419 Champion Gundyr and Slave Knight Gael are favorite Dark Souls 3 bosses, but I agree, Elden Rings are great. I hope FromSoft makes more balance changes to the spirit ashes and bosses to Elden Ring, I like the ashes, I just think they need to get toned down some more.
Honestly to me ER bosses rival DS2 in *lack* of quality. If we complain that Friede is a BB boss in a DS game then we could say the exact same for Maliketh, Malenia, Margit/Morgott, shockingly enough both of the Godskins and so on, and so on. But at least Friede was surmountable without any cheese, just with pure skill. Never have I experienced a harder learning curve than with Friede, no cap SL1 double broken straight sword Gael was easier, and yet I didn't feel the need to summon Gael for her, nor do anything that would make the fight based on anything but my skill, nor was I really given an option to. Yes, stagger spam works nice and dandy in phase 1 and phase 2 is just a bloodshed with any weapon, but you can't rely on poisebreaking Blackflame Friede because her recovery frames are faster than greatswords and she also staggers a lot harder. And yet, I didn't feel the need to summon Gael or use safe magic on her, the only magic I used was to empower my melee offense, which I'm sorry to say, but that is how magic should be optimal in From games. These games are about thrill, adrenaline and a struggle. With magic as your primary damage source you can deal damage from a safe distance, not having to deal with constant melee attacks unless it is a super relentless boss we're talking about and this allows you to learn the attacks less, and considering that the only parts of dealing damage in From games that take skill are timing and positioning, you just straight up need less skill with magic. To counter the safety and low skill floor of spell casters in these types of games, From has opted to nerf the damage of spells to the point where you're spending a considerable amount of extra time with bosses, giving you much more room to make a mistake, and they also upped the aggression of the bosses, which of course also affected melee, but melee became a tad bit harder with more excitement while magic just became less viable and a tad bit less boring. When it comes to fights like Radahn, the game almost literally forces your hands to use summons, and a lot while at it. Bosses like Malenia can't really be reasonably fought without summons because you need some counter to Waterfowl dance, and if the game refuses to naturally give your kit a counter then you might as well abuse the one you can just pick up. Margit is very hard because he can do ridiculously delayed and stupidly fast attacks *literally at the same time* (in only a single roll duration), but if you use some piss weak spell like Glinstone Pebble he becomes easy and god forbid you summon the spirit outside his boss room the fight becomes a joke. That is ER boss design in a nutshell. Magic, magic and magic. And if that wasn't bad enough, now imagine that magic also creates a mini you which can literally, *literally* solo the hardest boss in the game because you equip it with 2 spells and a decent weapon. What is that? That removes all the thrill, all the adrenaline, all the struggle, all the excitement, all of the spectacle and all of the *skill*. From bosses are usually either spectacle or skill, rarely both and before this game pretty much never neither. This game has truly become an arms race with the good souls players of fights tuned for 1.5+ people and a lot of distraction for the boss AI. This game hasn't given me my O&S, my Artorias, my Manus, my Ivory King, my Sir Alonne, my Champ Gundyr, my Twin Princes, my Nameless King, my Pontiff, my Friede, my Demon Prince, my Midir, my Gael, my Gascoigne, my Gehrman, my Ludwig, my Lady Maria, my Orphan or my Laurence. Those are all the highlights of prior From games, the greatest highlight of this game that I could name is Mohg because he's the only boss that is challenging while not feeling like he was just purely designed for more people. This game flipflops between unfathomably difficult and ridiculously easy and it depends on 1 (2 if you squint your eyes) factor(s): how much magic you use (and whether that magic includes mimic tear...). It very rarely, if ever, truly gives you that vigorous challenge where you need to give it your all without it being bullshit. You either get assfucked by most of the major bosses or literally go AFK and still win, and it all depends on your willingness to use a playstyle that blatantly takes less skill, is safer and is less exciting. When I ever do reruns of this game (which I only do because of Godrick and Mohg) I "cheat" through the game with magic, because I don't care about 99% of the content that is in the game. Limgrave is nice but after the first 2-5 hours (depending on how well you know the map) the game runs out of content mostly and becomes a boss "rush" (as much a rush as any game as unnecessarily oversized as ER is) where the bosses are plain shit a good portion of the time. Elden Ring successfully revolutionized 2 game formulas: Open World and Souls games. It has made Open World games challenge players (which surprise, didn't work before nor did it work with ER, because in terms of quality the "challenge" this game provides is straight up shit for the most part) and it has ruined the Souls formula by leaning too hard into bosses being artificially too difficult for veterans and piss easy for those who are willing to disgrace themselves by using straight up cheats to turn on easy mode. I want to hate this game but I can't because it has some good things to it. I want to love the game, but it is impossible because of the terrible bosses, oversized world, boatload of filler content and the overall lack of a well-thought out nature+challenge that was the trademark of Souls games. I hope Miyazaki takes away the proper conclusions from this game, sees where it outperformed any other and won't hide from the truth of the ridiculous amount of levels on which Elden Ring fails.
@@nabsthegodgamer5419 I do agree that Elden Ring's boss roster is over-hated, like the comparisons to DS2, which baffles me when Elden Ring's main-game has bosses like Radahn, but I think saying it's got a better boss roster than Dark Souls 3 is just overdoing it personally
I'm so happy that people enjoy Morgott so much. I just wish From Soft had made him a bit more difficult, to mark the supposed end of our journey as Tarnished.
This is... actually a great list from the community. Radahn and Godfrey are amazing, and Rykard is THE best gimmick fight they've ever done. Morgott, Maliketh, Placidusax, Godrick and especially Mohg (wish he was a bit higher) are all excellent, too. Good to see Malenia isn't ranked too high as well. She's a great boss but just doesn't compete with the bosses ranked ahead of her imo.
So happy to see that Placidusax made it to top 5. He is one of the only bosses in the gane now that when i fight him, i still get a massive smile on my face. Maliketh and Radahn are in that boat too
I love how Morgott acts as almost a parallel of the player. Both have been shunned by Grace and the Erdtree, as a Tarnished and an Omen. While you seek to destroy the Erdtree, and fix the Elden Ring by doing so, he protects the Erdtree, despite how it led to his own misfortune. You also both become stronger as time passes, with most players having a pretty solid build by the time they finish the capitol, and Morgott revealing his true Arcane Power in response.
Godfrey reminds me so much of isshin from sekiro, like literally they're like brothers, both are these two badass human being hyped and mentioned throughout the game, isshin as this badass best swordsman in japan and Godfrey as this warrior which such deep history, and in the end both of them literally fight you with full honor and go down praising you
I feel as though if he they bugged Morgott a bit to have the same difficulty as Margit does when you come across him, he could easily become a Pontiff or Dancer figure in this game. Personally on my playthroughs I rush the capital so I can enjoy the Morgott fight at a level that brings a challenge. He’s my absolute favourite.
That's why he's the boss i look forward to the most in ng+ runs,with each new playthrough he gets more hp and finally reaches a level where the fight lasts for a while to enjoy it to the fullest
I saw in Zully's video, Leonard follows us underground and tells Radahn where to fall for the meteorite, which is hilarious and at the same time beautiful.
When I played the game blind, I had so much fun with almost every boss. The only boss that managed to make me mad was the blacknife in the evergaol and the triple rotting crystalians. Sucks that I'm alone in loving many of the bosses. Had a great time with bosses like Godskin Duo, Vallient Gargoyles, crucible Knight duo, fire Giant, fia's champions, Elden Beast, and every single remembrance boss. A lot of the things that bothered other people just didn't bother me. Long combos, animation cancelling, delayed attacks, input reading, the boss running away, Duo bosses, power spikes, and everything else that one malenia comment mentioned did not bother me. Things that bothered me in other games like bad hitboxes or not giving me time to heal were issues that I rarely encountered in Elden Ring. Maybe I was lucky, but I'm glad I got to enjoy the bosses of this game and makes up for me hating many of the popular ds2 bosses like Ava, Darklurker, and Smelter Demon.
As a level 1 runner, Maliketh/Gurranq is super obviously the best boss in the game to me and I’m sad that he had the most votes for worst out of the top 5.
Can I ask why you think he’s the best boss ? I haven’t had much experience as I’ve only done three “normal” playthroughs since launch albeit with different builds. I mostly disagree with the community rankings aswell, I think Radahn and Godfrey aren’t close to the #1 and #2 best boss fights in the game.
I can say the same. Maliketh is my personal top 2 thanks to Phase 2 and Phase 2 alone. Though I like his Phase 1 but not too much, his Phase 2 is just one of the best Phase 2’s I’ve got to experience in gaming. From my RL1 experience, my personal best boss in Elden Ring (and also in any souls-like) is hands down the First Elden Lord but I’m interested to see people picking Maliketh as their personal favourite since I love his bossfight as well
godrick should've been higher imo. he's one of the coolest and most balanced bosses in the game. i agree with radahn being nr 1 tho, one of the best bosses in the series
you see , i disagree , i found him extremely boring from move set to lore; to each their own.but i find it interesting tho that so many people loved him , i get what people say about him, but to me he was very meh, like he only made me excited to meet godfrey , but except that to me he's just a big ball of twirlling chaos and very easy to defeat. he's not bad , but i don't think he's one of the greats. i don't really see what others see in him, i'd actually put him lower on the list ....
BIG note regarding elden beast: elden stars has been significantly nerfed, it's still annoying for no-hit runs, but other than that, it's now a non-issue, it can still be an ass in regards to ai rng and whether it'll decide to play melee or swim away the whole time(thankfully for my blindrun, it decide to play mostly melee)
Honestly my favorite boss would still have to be dragonlord plassidusax mostly because the spectacle. Fighting a once mighty lord of dragons in a weakened state while he can still kick your ass combined with his arena music and fight style( especially in the second phase) will always be exhilarating for me
I feel like Malenia's fight would be so much better if her first waterfowl volley was delayed by 2 seconds. If she can pull it out right in my face at LEASTTT give me more than 3 seconds to say my goodbyes
Everything articulates perfectly in Radahn's fight : the music is incredibly well timed, to the point where when the dynamic part played, he was facing me and unsheathed his sword, and even this unsheathing was classy ! His moves are impactful and his second phase starts meteorly well. And lorewise everything serves him : his (nick)name is perfect, the optional presence of the other champions make it a real festival against a respectable adversary, and every detail, from his horse to the stars not being held anymore when he dies gives an unforgettable impression about him.
Radahn hype! My top 3 ended up being Radahn, Godfrey/Hoarax Loux, and Maliketh, so nice to see the community agrees. While I do agree that I think Radahn's nerf was questionable, I believe I do understand Fromsoft's line of thinking in why they did so. Statistically he hit far harder at launch than most of what unlocked as a result of beating him. Considering you had to beat Radahn to access Ancient Ancestor Spirit, Valiant Gargoyles, Fia's Champions, and Lichdragon Fortissax (Barring using the Subterranean Shunning Grounds skip for the latter two which I don't think most people did at launch), they all felt like cake in comparison to him. I needed 30+ vitality to not be 1 or 2 shot by Radahn when learning his fight, not to mention a highly upgraded weapon to not drag out the fight, and with those resources, I was curb stomping Nokron and Deeproot Depths. My belief is that they nerfed him to create a more natural progression of power with regards to Radahn-based progression. Even so, overcoming Radahn at launch was the single most exhilarating sense of euphoria I experienced in Elden Ring, and so I was sad to see the experience neutered.
I've made this argument a couple of times now, but I'll say it one more time. Morgott is one of my least favorite bosses in the game, and Margit is top 3 best bosses for me. The lore is top notch, I think we all agree on that. The problem for me is that Morgott is just so unbelievably lower quality from a combat standpoint than Margit is. What makes Margit so great is that every move he throws at you has weight and reason to it. He feels like a realistic fight where he's genuinely trying his best to win. The second phase where he simply brings out his hammer is one of the most powerful moments in the game for me. Margit is easily the best representation of an early game challenge that could ever be possible for me. Morgott on the other hand took everything I loved about Margit and chucked it to the side. Instead of moves full of heart and impact, he has nothing but easy to dodge spam. He just does a bunch of flashy attacks that accomplish nothing while I half pay attention and eventually win. The Morgott fight honestly feels like a huge shitpost with no difficulty that an 8 year old would make, whereas Margit is a masterfully executed boss that still trips me up on repeat playthroughs.
Beating Malenia for the first time was one of the coolest experiences I’ve had playing a game. I’ve never felt such a pure adrenaline rush after the fact. Seriously everything about that fight is fun. Dodging waterfowl is a sense of accomplishment in and of itself. Great atmosphere, great design, amazing voice lines. Thats how you make a rewarding boss fight.
I just felt a release of pure rage from my body. Like my suffering through that shit show was finally over. Malenia’s actual combat didn’t feel rewarding or fun enough for that signature satisfaction to roll over me upon completion. But hey I guess if you’re you’re here for is a rush after beating hard bosses I can understand why you like it.
I wish there was a way to repeat boss battles on the same playthrough, even if it meant you were rewarded a significantly less amount of runes. Maybe put down a summoning sign in the boss room that you can keep going back to.
I like placidisax he is a fair fight, but the best part is when he spears the ground and the music stops completely until he he done it is so cinematic and I love it
Biggest issue with all these bosses, and Elden ring in general, is input reading. I'm fine with bosses dodging some ranged stuff, but when it becomes nigh impossible to even hit the boss with a large number of sorceries and incantations, it stops being fun.
you need to treat the spells like melee attacks and only do it while the boss is recovering from an attack, doing a fire monk/giant's flame only run and this works for everything including melania.
Elden beast is so underrated. Its the endgame spectical ive always wanted and every time i go into that fight i get goosebumps from the music and watching it gracefully swim away. Yes it can be a little random but i think thats why elden ring has my favorite bosses. Them being random makes them still challenging on subsequent playthroughs which is something that the other games are missing. Even radagon suffers from being to consistent for me. I want the fight to be unfair, im fighting a literal god.
On the whole, Fromsoft do some pretty great bosses. But sometimes they do things that really make you question if they have any knowledge of how to make a boss at all. For example, all the duo bosses like god skin duo goes against every good gank boss fights in the series, making every mistake we always complain about, but they included so many low effort examples. After Elden ring I played through DS3 and found the boss design far more thoughtful and polished.
They know how to do stuff, they jist didnt think that most players will despise using ash summons, right now i see them as same as having a weapon in your hand or spell in your inventory, but i myself dont use them hahahah ohh the hypocricy but all in all i loved the main bosses
because they are more thoughtful in all of their games. elden ring is a package of everytghing put into one. difficult? yes, fun? no, balanced? no, bs? oh yes. you can count the good bosses of elden with 3 or 4 fingers
I was always excited to fight Radahn in every NG+ and it was surprising to witness his change in balance since release to now. To think he had such an impact not only in lore and the community but to the game mechanically. Although he seems to be a “shell of his former self” whenever I see him roar into the skies and preparing for his next attack, I can’t help but imagine there is a piece of his old self still lingering. He doesn’t cry out to be free from his misery but for the glory of combat.
If I had to rank my personal top 5 1 Godfrey/Hoarah Loux 2 Starscourge Radahn 3 Gurranq/Malekith 4 Morgott, Omen King 5 Godrick the Grafted King (yes, really) Honorable mentions for me are Placidusax, Astel Naturalborn, Fortissax and Rykard Edit: I forgot Mohg Lord of Blood, yea, also in the honorable mentions
Nice list! It was really cool to see how much love there was for Godrick. I think I underrate him since he gets swept away in the memory a bit by the end of a 60+ hour playthrough.
@@loneshinobi2682 I am really curious what do you like about it or what is your approach and weapon of choice against it? Because i think it has stupid hitboxes, too much health and resistances, a stupid heavily tracking instant kill move (and a even more stupid variation of it), an stupid anti-melee aoe attack, two annyoing distance attacks and like radahn an annoying distance start of the fight, teleporting (which does nothing than artificially prolonging the fight without contributing anything fun to it) which are all not the best boss mechanics
6:50 Nothing about Waterfowl Dance feels fair. This is an impossible data set to collect, but I want to see how many people figured out the dodge roll for that attack on their own vs just looking it up. My personal opinion is that an attack should have a relatively clear window of safety. You can't dodge roll the first burst from WD, so why would you assume it works on the next two? You can't run away from all 3 either, and stunning her out of it is a huge gambit. I think this funnels people into the next strategy-- out-DPSing her with the use of a summon. I've played and beaten all the Souls games, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Nioh and Nioh 2, all of them multiple times, so I don't want to hear from some turbo fan about how Malenia's waterfowl is designed fine and its a skill issue. Its a readability issue, that attack is supremely unclear and if thats the direction From is going to take their later games I'll be hopping off this train.
On my RL1 I’m doing rn with bloodhound step (only use it for her waterfowl tho) her waterfowl dance is the only thing that kills me because the camera movement on her third flurry can send my dodge in a wrong direction and end up putting me into her attack, stun-locking me to death. It’s annoying that a boss I can otherwise no-hit at this point is still killing me because of how rng it is sometimes to dodge that attack. People try to excuse it because she’s “hard” and “optional”, but imo (not trying to blow my own horn here) once you’ve learnt her she’s genuinely not that hard bar the 50/50 chance you’ll get shagged when she does that one move. That doesn’t make it good or fun, because from my memory it’s the only attack in the ENTIRE SERIES that has no truly consistent dodge pattern, and it’s egregious that it’s still in the game. Take that out, and I’d rate it as great for quality but I’m not going to accept a genuinely bullshit unfair move as a ‘new, difficult challenge’.
@@fahimtajwaar2521 I agree. I feel like a lot of malanias attacks are easily readable and dodgeable but waterfowl is so unfair it based the entire challenge of her fight on one move and I kinda hate that.
Use bloodhound step or roll into the attack. I personally wish she’d have ditched that attack in phase 2 because that’d make her my perfect boss of FromSoftware’s entire catalogue imo.
@@drfabulous2804 I pretty much just keep BHS on to nope the fuck out the moment I see her prepare waterfowl. Eventually you can get a very weak spider sense for when she's likely to whip it out too. Everything else is pretty manageable after several miserable hours of practice, although I wish she gave more openings.
I think maliketh either gets a lot of hate or love. He deserves the love for being such a fun boss with such cool looking attacks that are fun to dodge. One of my favorite bosses in the series
@@BogBilberryBagginsAGD his first phase is just a better version of Morgott’s with similar speed and aggression but less canceling. People confuse low damage for balanced mechanical design with Morgott.
@@abyssalleviathan5148 It's not similar to Morgott at all. With Morgott, you hit him and dodge to the right immediately if you see him move. With clergyman, you hit him and he pulls out a 10 frame attack that takes off 30 levels worth of health before your attack ends, and then runs away.
@@BogBilberryBagginsAGD Morgott’s dagger attack has the fewest start-up frames in the game dude. And he can add it to the end of like 6 different combos (based on my level 1 fight). You guys are confusing low damage and HP with balanced mechanics.
@@abyssalleviathan5148 It also misses half the time, and does about 2 damage when it does hit. Sure, it feels cheap whenever it hits, but the damage is so low that it doesn't detract that much from the fight.
I know this is going to be a kind off-topic but I went back to DS3 really quickly and because of how much damage is dealt in Elden ring I feel so much more confident in that game like I never felt as confident even whenever I was beating the game consistently in 4 hours never felt that confident.
What made Maliketh my favorite was because of the build up and twist leading up to his true reveal. You first meet him as Gurranq, the Beast Clergyman. He's in this mysterious hideout and the ambient music that plays gives me chills everytime, as he requests deathroot. You don't even know why he wants these, but you do so because he gives you cool spells and items as rewards. But it isn't until after 4, he goes berserk, scaring the lights out of you and requires you to fight him before he submits, begging to be forgiven in acting out. If you do spare him, he continues wanting more deathroots. You're on edge after that, knowing he can go berserk any moment. Once you give him all 9, he understands now he cannot contain his lust for death and violence, but remains loyal to you in the end, thanking you for your service. That's all said and good but the payoff to this build up is when you end up facing him in the one place that seemed unlikely for him to be. He recognizes you (even the dialogue where he doesn't recognize you is amazing), and his dialogue seems to be of confusion, confliction, and even some sadness. He does not want to fight you at all, but must because it's his sacred duty to protect what you're after. Then, it happens. You get him to half health and he realizes he is going to die. Knowing he cannot fight you holding back, he does the one thing he really did not want to do- undo the seal and obtain his Destined Death. Once so, you find out he is far more. The cutscene with his robes burning and drawing out the black blade, the one you've befriended ended up being the legend most demigods if not the gods themselves feared. He was Malekith, the Black Blade. He allows himself to become as violent as possible, the most violent creature to ever exist. He embraces his sinful nature in order to stop you from taking his Destined Death, and the fight with him in 2nd phase is wild. While I get for a melee user it's hard to punish him in this state, it just shows how horrifying and fearful it is facing this beast, as he's all over the place swinging the blade and continuing to pressure you non stop. The only downside to this fight is he is a glass canon, he either melts you or you melt him. I wished he had more health but besides that this fight is perfect, stunning, incredible on every front and when he dies- if you befriended him and did his quest, he has some words of sadness to his lady, knowing the Golden Order cannot be restored. Even with the fight where he doesn't recognize you, he does not hate you for besting him, he is only confused as to why you would do this. He doesn't know why you'd seek Destined Death. "To kill what ...?" I love this boss. What a good climax before the finale of Elden Ring. Great boss 10/10
Honestly, the Godfrey fight is amazing and all, but what I really love about him is that he actually respects the tarnished. A lot of the other major bosses are either super arrogant or strait up condescending. Meanwhile, Chadfrey over here is one of the land’s mightiest warriors and still treats the tarnished like a worthy opponent from the get-go. Heck, his last words are praising your strength.
As a Godfrey enjoyer, it makes me happy to see that the top 3 picks were Godfrey, his best child, and his biggest fan. But honestly, Godfrey felt like FromSoftware told the team "We have reused almost every animation throughout the three games sir, there's nothing left for the second to last boss. We have enough time to create new animations, but we have no template." Miyazaki then downs a whole bottle of sake before whispering "Let's give the Lord of Cinder his due."
I was sad to see Placidusax's grandiose af attack went underappreciated. He winds up, and before you notice, the music stops, and then an explosion filled with fire and lightning like no other I have ever seen in a Fromsoft game EVER
I love elden beast and except the range run away thing I wish they never nerfed it. I fought it in so many different runs without summons and never had a bad encounter at all. Personally I’d rank radagon/Elden beast in the top 3. I know I’m pretty much alone with this opinion tho because everyone seems to hate it.
Well when it constantly RNG's to at least a few stamina bars worth of running away several times in a row, it is kind of bad design. I had several encounters with it that I'd get to it, hit it once and it would run away again.
One thing that made me love maliketh and mohg so much more were their builds, By far one of my favorite builds, mohg's spear is by far the most op and cool weapon with by far the best ability. Also maliketh's armor is so cool, as much as holy damage isn't so much good his build is sick with his black blade
How to fix Elden Beast: Just make it seperate like how the Moon Presence is, or how Aldia is. Also make it a secret boss. If you go for the vanilla ending it doesn't attack you, if you try to summon Ranni or burn the tree it attacks you.
Or just enable the goddamn horse. Why the fuck are you giving me a *giant empty arena* and a *giant dragon-like boss* that constantly moves in large jumps across the arena when you don't even let me use the fucking horse there??? It's so obviously designed as an on-horse battle and then it just blocks the summon...
@@skeletonwar4445 eh, i really think the Elden Beast should have been more of a spectacle fight, especially with Godfrey and Radagon coming before it. I just overall think that it never really stood a chance just like Gideon Offnir, who is between Maliketh and Godfrey.
I personally think Rennala is the most underrated boss. Her first phase is the best form of the Deacons fight yet. Her second phase is arguably the most beautiful arena in From Soft history. And she has no B.S. or overly unfair moves. Her summons are actually not that bad since she crouches down and doesn’t attack while summoning, giving the player a chance to get good damage in if they dodge the summon. Her only real problem is that she is too easy when compared to all of the other bosses.
I beat the game for the first time Sunday, and had to replay it yesterday because it somehow scrubbed my progress on my save file before I started a NG+. I got to fight Farum Azula thru RadBeast again and I actually enjoyed the EB fight and I am a pure melee build with no ranged options.What gets lost in a lot of the legit criticism is that duality of this fight, and how it merges the up close and personal fights with the Gigantic enemy fight that is the whole crux of the game! with some of the neater moves and a true necessity of mastering the more common style of combat in Radagon before fighting EB and it’s in and out style of attacking, plus it’s a literal god running away from you because it’s actually scared. How cool is that?!?
Honestly with the Radagon/Elden Beast fight, I think i had an easier time with Elden Beast then I did Radagon. I personally hated the Radagon fight but the Elden Beast only took me a couple tries meanwhile I got demolished like 40 times by Radagon.
Thought I was the only one 😂 Radagon honestly for me is bottom tier just for being an annoying flask drainer before Elden Beast. Left me feeling more frustrated than rewarded.
I’ve never fistpumped in a game as hard as I did when I had 20/2100 HP with no CT left and critted Melania into a Charged heavy with colossal sword and heard her say, “you’re strength, extraordinary!” In a fight where she waterfowled me 5 damn times, 3 in Rot Goddess mode. It took about 15-20 attempts to get there but damn it felt Great! I’ve been a lifelong gamer who got a Super Nintendo for my tenth birthday and I barely squeaked by that encounter and it took all of my quickly diminishing reflexes and skills to do.
Same. For me Radhan and the Fire giant share the same problem for melee users, where you cannot witness how spectacular they truly are when you're always sniffing their butt. I'd rather fight Radhan with summons than doing solo it's much more fun for me that way.
In repeat runs he's a complete pushover. I can't tell if it's the patch that nerfed him to hell or I just adapted to the game better. More than likely the latter
@@Clarity_Control I think it's the fact that on NG+ and NG+2 etc the early-mid game bosses are under-tuned. I'd say it's the patch, what I said, and the guy getting better.
Maliketh was the boss that I was stuck on the longest in Elden Ring. It surely was tiring, but it made me really appreciate the boss. 10/10 my favorite in the game
16:55 Calling Hoarah Loux 'human-sized' is so funny to me, because I know exactly what they mean in terms of soulsborne enemy scale, but at the same time, the dude is like 25 feet tall XD
Personally, Godrick is the best bossfight in the game simply because it’s flawless. No unfair combos/moves, awesome phase change and cutscene, great music, and cool lore as well ofc
@Evil Graham In my opinion, I don’t mind it. Like he said in the video, it doesn’t do much damage, so it’s kinda the game telling you to back up. But it can definitely be annoying if it nips that last little bit of health or ruins that flawless perfect-dodging-flow you were just in. But that’s literally the only thing that isn’t AMAZING about imo, so 9.9/10.
@@Clarity_Control i think its more comparable to margitt's dagger and malenia's kick where it cancels your animation but doesn't deal any damage. Its pretty fair since he also gives you time to replenish stamina and prepare for his actual attacks which are not so hard to dodge but gives easy hits when positioned right.
Idk if his lore is "cool" per say as he was kind of a pussy in the past. Got shit kicked by Malenia and dressed as a woman to escape Radahn but I agree with everything else besides him being the best boss fight, too many great ones for me to put him at the top
I was such an idiot when I first fought Rykard. I spent 3 hours fighting him without the gimmick spear. I kept getting him to phase 2 - 20% health so I kept thinking I was on the right track to beating him. I logged off for the night and watched some Yt vids, one showing a clip of the Rykard fight and the gimmick weapon. Logged back on and beat him first try with the gimmick. Was a super fun fight IMO
Elden beast gotta be one of the most over-exaggerated "bad" boss in the game. He really isn't that bad and him running away is something so many other bosses do. It's just a weird contrast cause Radagon comes before it. Would love it if you could use Torrent in that fight tho it'd be sick
Once I spent more than 5 minutes just trying to run to him and he just teleported away again and again and again without being able to hit him once.. The enjoyment of this boss is completely random. For some he will be fun, but for some he will be the most frustrating trash ever. This fight literally feels like a fight to use Torrent, but they forgot to add that function.
Malenia was the boss that truly tested my patience, taking me 4 1/2 hours, the longest I spent on any boss by double (runner up maliketh). I feel that it isn’t completely fair to say she’s unfair despite my frustration at the time looking back. My final fight with her felt like a deserved win considering I successfully dodged and mitigated her cheesiest attacks (triple cheese and what I affectionately call “the toy soldier attack”) multiple times in her second phase for my win. She demands ridiculous pattern recognition and a game plan but hands down my pick for the most rewarding fight I did. Maliketh bothered me way more considering his health negating projectiles kept clipping through the pillars and nothing frustrates me more than fights where I feel the arena is on the bosses side for all the wrong reasons
In your first ranking, I commented, "Radahn is the best boss in ER for me" and I am glad the community feels the same and it's not just my opinion. I have to say tho that I hate that he was nerfed as it reduced the amount of excitement when fighting him. still an epic fight nonetheless
I think the initial "problem" of Radahn was that you, as the player, where shepherded to kill the three big demigods from the very start thus you would likely encounter them pretty early. And where Renala and Godfrey were beatable even on a low level Radahns high damage punished you very heavy for every little mistake and you felt very powerless.
Maliketh is easily my favorite boss in the game. The max HP reduction feels a bit much and he still has the standard Elden Ring problem of doing too much damage, but the fact that most of his openings are during his attacks makes him feel a lot like a Bloodborne boss. His fight feels the most like a dance out of any boss in the game, which is a feeling that was woefully lacking in literally every other boss in the game except maybe Morgott. And that dance-like feeling is what makes bosses like Gael, Friede, Maria, Artorias, Orphan, and Gehrman some of the best bosses in all of gaming.
Placidusax is (personally) by far my favourite fight, the bosses design is amazing, the setting is beautiful, the music and sound design is unrivalled, the size of the beast adds a godly feel to him, his attacks are so well designed and choreographed, and not only is he a tanky legend but that’s him weakened, the lore being he was the first Elden lord and now he’s been weakened (clearly shown by his severed head and rotting body). Such an amazing fight and a necessary fight for each play through even if it’s an optional one. P.S this isn’t relevant to the fight but the weapons you get for beating him are amazing, maybe not the most op but shooting two yellow lasers out of a dragons head you conjured is never not cool, and the lightning spear is so badass and I use it as a secondary weapon for long ranged fights
Radahn deserves that number 1 spot. When I discovered him, (my first demigod fight) he felt like a final boss. I contemplated leaving and getting stronger to fight this guy, but he seemed doable. About 7 hours later, the warriors and I finally beat him. He was one of the most epic bosses I'd ever fought.
I feel like Malenia is fun if you treat her as a “bring everything you can think of” super boss. I don’t think she seems designed well for solo melee, because well, she isn’t.
That's a solid point. Getting to Malenia has to be the most convoluted path to a boss I've ever seen in any FromSoft game except for maybe Owl Father in Sekiro. I really don't see any way, especially at this point, that you don't make your way to the Haligtree knowing what you're gonna find at the bottom.
@@TheSolarium18 Loretta is underrated af. I still like Malenia despite her issues but if I'm picking favorite bosses, it's either one of the Omens, Radahn, or Godfrey, with Rykard and Placidusax as honorable mentions.
@@kartikayysola For me its Godfrey, followed by Malekith (despite i have issues with his second phase) 3. Loretta 4.Morgott 5.Mogh (would be better if he wouldn’t cover the whole arena with fire) 6. Niall (very cool in no hit trys) 7. Placudisax (feels a little bit too easy but i was always good in fighting big bosses) 8.Rykard (simply because its the best gimmick boss fromsoft ever created and cool visuals) Still i think eldenring would have been better if they would have put more emphasize in stamina management instead of creating very few attack windows. The movesets really should be toned down a bit and stamina should matter again
So glad that I got to see Godfrey/Hoarah at No.2. I love his boss fight so much due to how much fun he is mechanically (Using the combination of jumps and rolls to dodge his combos while landing a hit in the middle of his safe combo transitions) and also he is probably the most fair mandatory boss of the game or even the entire game. Also had to make a personal ranking below: 10. Malenia, Blade of Miquella 9. Radagon of the Golden Order & Elden Beast 8. Godrick, the Grafted 7. Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy 6. Morgott, the Omen King 5. Starscourge Radahn 4. Mohg, Lord of Blood 3. Dragonlord Placidusax 2. Maliketh, the Black Blade (Personal top 5 favourite boss of any souls-like) 1. Godfrey, First Elden Lord/ Hoarah Loux, Warrior (Personal top favourite boss of any souls-like)
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Finished the Cuphead DLC today. If you loved the base game, highly, highly recommend! Ranking to follow shortly.
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Finale:(
Definitely worth the wait. Felt bad about beating it in just a day lol but I couldn’t put it down it was that good.
Man, I could not beat the first boss in the dlc for over 2 hours, bootlegger boogie. Much tougher challenge than anything from the base game- love the dlc but down and dash for miss chalice invincibility roll? Constantly rolled the wrong way into an enemy
Is it worth it on the switch?
Wait Demod dude! Does this mean you won't rank the Elden Ring Areas from worst to best?!?! I was really excited for that video :(
Something about Mogh that I feel like lots of people overlook is that he is one of the few bosses (and even enemies) whose delayed attacks feel natural. He basically never just holds a pose for ages mid-attack, with any delays just feeling like a naturalistic side effect of accelerating his massive weapon. Unlike so many other foes, he never feels like he's delaying his attacks for the sake of it.
This, I’ve never been able to put it into words
Yes!!! You are walking into his domain. He feels like he is so in his element. The way he moves and just walks up to you. The way his attacks are delayed, but still flow. I beat him with a str build and he forced me to get on his level. I’ve helped others beat him countless times because he’s legitimately the best feeling, most polished boss in the game. I can’t get enough of it.
Morgott is mad…
Yeah, his attacks don’t feel “delayed” like everyone else. They feel purposeful and heavy, which makes sense considering his trident is huge. He’s still agile with his hands for conjuring blood incants, but it makes sense that his melee attacks would feel slower
You can see and feel how massive he is. When he sprouts wings, they look like they take massive effort to lift him up.
I will die on the hill that Morgott's "Have it writ upon thy meagre grave" line is one of the most raw pieces of dialogue in this game
Yeah that line goes so damn hard ngl
the VA did an amazing job. when Morgott talks about each member of his family you can hear in his tone how he feels about each of them. and the transitions between the phases... his distress about his curse is heart wrenching
Agree but nothing beats 'BEAR WITNESSS!'
Yeah its metal af
HERE lies the FOOL who thought they could challenge Morgott the KING
One aspect of Radahn you didn't mention is how well they incorporated the open world design into the boss. Most especially, you are rewarded for exploration. If you walk into the festival and meet a giant wolf man and a giant pot lad, that's cool and all, but if you walk in and see your old pals Alexander and Blaidd, here to share the "festivities," now _that_ is build up. Not to mention good ol' Patches. I was lucky enough to find him before I fought Radahn, so I couldn't believe it when I saw his summon sign. I thought, "No way, old scumbro showed up too?" And show up he did... and then noped out. That was a joke with the weight of 13 years of knowing and "loving" this guy. You bet your deathbed smalls I laughed.
Not only that, if you come back to the arena, you can actually find a dungeon around the north end of it.
So glad Morgott is getting more love. A lot of people are overleveled when fighting him and see him as just a reskin of Margit, even though he is so much more.
The truth is Margit is actually the reskin of Morgott when the player discovered his weapon is not a giant cane
To be 100% honest morgott is kind of a boring boss once you fight him 3-4 times but I don’t want to start an argument so pls don’t take that the wrong way
I did kill him in less that 10 secounds.
Aswell as that being a thing that can happen
Morgott is actually the best boss.
The “I don’t know why people think this game is hard, I beat every boss at RL 1 first try blindfolded while being punched in the dong by an orangutan” comments never cease to make me laugh.
Makes it worse when the Orangutan is putting your foolish ambitions to rest.
@@goroakechi6126 You are a legend hahahaha!
Or the plus side, the Orangutan is fun to fight at RL1, especially with dealing with his variety of movements and also the Orangutan shall remember us smoldering with that wretched flame (of ambition)
Morgott is easily my favorite boss in the game, in terms of design, story, character, etc. But after spending 7 hours on Margit, then steamrolling Morgott in one attempt, I was left a little blue balled. My man has glass bones and paper skin, bleed absolutely tears through him in seconds
He’s an incredible RL1 fight
Tbf that’s exactly why I like Morgott’s fight so much, it’s a boss fight that promotes aggression rather than being cautious like with most other boss fights in the game
@@clarkmannen8789 Agreed! I first-tried Morgott my first playthrough and didn't think much of him. That is until I got to him during my RL1 second playthrough and really experienced his entire moveset and really gained an appreciation for the boss. Was stuck on him forever.
I am hoping for a Convergence like mod where some of these bosses will be balanced by amazing modders. Morgott really need more HP and damage. Radahn restored to his unnerfed state. Rennala also buffed with more HP and more poise as well.
@@clarkmannen8789 what does rl1 mean
The saddest realization is that, contrary to popular belief, Morgott was loved by at least one of his parents, that being Godfrey, which is shown through his opening cutscene as he holds his son's corpse in his arms before it turns into his guiding grace.
If I loved my newborn son I wouldn't banish him to the sewers for all time. Dunno about you guys but that seems a little mean
@@jeff3221he didnt have a choice. they were all pawns of the Greater Will
@@jeff3221 he himself got banished and did nothing about it
@@GabryyLG Marika cast him out. Marika is clearly not a thrall of the greater will given that she shattered the Elden Ring.
@khadizaanwarjolly5779 yeah but he got banished to another land, not to a literal sewer
Ryker's spectacle was unbelievable. Even though the fight was quite easy, he's still my favorite boss.
Totally agree, what a show
Rykard’s spectacle is easily first place but my favorite boss overall is Radahn he has the spectacle while also being just hard enough to be fun but Rykard is also amazing
The first time i did Radahn i found an incredible fight, nowdays my favorites are placidusax and rykard
@@therock4799 it's easy fights but the scenario/soundtrack/ atmosphere are so great
Rykard*
The fact that Rykard and the Volcano Manor doesn't have a game ending attached to it should he a crime
I concur. Feel like Mohg and his blood cult should have had one too.
Agreed on both comments
My personal opinion the endings in the game felt copy pasted with a new skin. The flame ending and age of stars ending are the most interesting
@@alfie9662All of the endings are wildly different, I really don’t understand why the Dung Eater, Goldmask, and Godwyn endings didn’t have more unique cutscenes
Mohg is like the most badass-looking villain straight outta From Software and I love him. From the way he makes his entrance to the way he displays his flare, absolutely JoJo levels of badassery.
Jojo is badass??
Weeb
@@zephyrken4390 Yup. With his stand, The Hierophant - Formless Mother.
General Chadhan demonstrating his dominance over the other demigods even in the community rankings
Special shoutout to Leonard for carrying the legend
"Radahn is a God among Chads"
@@kartikayysola and leonard the carrier of chads
@@AskwhoQ Radahn: And then we'll jump out of the planet to land as a destructive meteorite
Leonard: YES MY GENERAL
@@kartikayysola Leonard goes under the sand but he does follow the player so Radahn knows where to land which is still some chad shit
@@AskwhoQ yeah I know, I watched Zullie's vid, but I just love that meme of Radahn and Leonard as Chads saying that lmfao.
Morgott's voice actor is amazing on stage, too. I've seen him as Cassius at the Globe and he was great.
I'm such a sucker for the atmospheric changes in some of these fights. It starts raining during both Morgott and Placidusax and you fight Radahn until nightfall. It instantly makes a boss fight better to me
There's a couple fights in Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 that are like that as well.
In Isshin the Sword Saint's last fight, lightning starts shooting down from the sky and isshin channels it through his spear.
In the Dancer of the Boreal Valley fight, the arena starts burning down in the second phase.
@@utisti4976 And Gael, how he draws in dark clouds and lightning ⛈
I love the fact that Godrick is higher than Malenia, he is my personal top 5, such a good early boss. Radahn is still my top 1 but close behind him is Rykard - this fight is pure spectacle, hellish/lovecraftian atmosphere feels like straight from Bloodborne and he is probably the best gimmick fight in all FS games. Morgott - man I was very disappointed not seeing him on your top 10, one of the saddest but still badass bosses, I just wish he had more HP - I think the second phase with the new health bar would solve this problem... And Godfrey - I love his music in first phase but it is a pity that it was used earlier and he feels a bit less unique, fortunately there is a second phase where it turns into an even bigger GIGACHAD and you feel that you are fighting with a real Elden Lord.
Honestly, Godrick is my personal favorite boss in the game. Mostly due to his presentation, design, music and fair difficulty.
He deserves it
@@MalevolentStudios true, his design is just another level, and also he has one of the best OSTs in the game
@@4K1R4-00 Im actually currently working on a video detailing why he is a perfect boss.
you see , i disagree , i found godrick extremely boring from move set to lore; to each their own.but i find it interesting tho that so many people loved him , i get what people say about him, but to me he was very meh, like he only made me excited to meet godfrey , but except that to me he's just a big ball of twirlling chaos and very easy to defeat. He's not bad at all ,he's just not one of the greats imho. i don't really see what others see in him, i'd actually put him lower on the list ....
I absolutely LOVE Malekith as a boss. In my opinion the most satisfying move to dodge in the game is when he flips 3 projectiles at you and swoops down for the double swing.
On my first character I was a dual great hammers build that abused jump attack mechanics. Sadly I think that fight lasted 2 minutes top for both phases. My next run was a dex lightning build and was much harder because I couldn't rely on my lightning to hit him. Such a good fight.
Maliketh*
@@DS_DoggerX Appreciate that
@@StrappingYoungLadam king
maliketh is easily my favorite in the game. his gigantic size, wicked fast moveset, stunning looks, every single detail is on point. but his moveset is by far my favorite aspect
Morgott comes in a fairly close second for all the same reasons
Maliketh is easily my favorite too. His design, lore, and attacks are way too cool
Funny that both need more health.
Man I would like maliketh a lot more if after just figuring out what he does I took up the gransax spear and like used only a few shots to kill him before he did much. Just feels like unlike many other bosses he was meant to have double his health. Like malenia or elden beast/rada where the first phase is a whole boss and the second is another. But this isn't the case for him and it really holds him back for being one of my favorites because he is meant to be really strong. And yet I can easily take him out with a large amount of weapons/spells ect really quickly. Vs even some lesser bosses can give problems to those same weapons and such. It didn't help malikeths position in the game makes it harder to refight him vs every other boss who doesn't work like a rock/scissors type of battle.
He would've been better if the game accurately explained how to use the Blasphemous Claw.
Once I realised it was for the yellow attacks, he went up in my rankings. I still don't like Beast Clergyman much. His double dagger slash is way too fast.
yep, he is cool....looking but thats about it.
he mechanics, gimmicks etc are exactly whats wrong with elden ring, sadly
Babe wake up, DeMod posted another ranking
I remember when he said he didn't want to do anymore souls rankings. His channel was at a standstill so he came back to it
@@Codamans When he said that I thought: That's not happening.
@@Cptsuccess oh yea same. Was only a matter of time
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It's nice to see Godfrey and his son and his biggest fanboy at top 3. Papa Loux makes everything great. Although to me Morgott is by far the best boss which I already explained MANY times with my comment about his story. I'm glad to see so many other members of the community feel the same.
All hail Morgott The Omen King, The Grace-Given. The True King of Leyndell and only worthy successor of Godfrey. A true heir. The only Demigod left that is worthy of being called Golden. Morgott the Golden Omen.
Morgott is dope. One of my favorite bosses and characters in the game. I just wish he had more health
radahn better
Eh, Morgott's basically an Uncle Tom.
man, why is it that the "story" just got deleted after i uninstalled the game. probably the structure of the game itself
@@Exel3nce Never played a Souls game before?
Hoarah Loux is the best one for me. Remember you said bosses in ER feel like they were made to battle with summons and all that stuff in your boss design philosophy video? Well I think that doesn't apply to Hoarah Loux, the fight is completely doable alone, it feels like (and it actually is) a duel between the strongest tarnished warriors out there. And the fact that you can avoid some of his attacks by jumping (which is newly added if you don't consider Sekiro) is just amazing design for me. Besides, I always try to make my str character as barbarian as possible and caestus is my favorite weapon, Hoarah Loux is just that, a pure warrior fighting with his bare hands. I just fell in love with this boss battle
I like the Godfrey phase myself but Hoarah Loux just annoys me. He literally never isn't attacking forcing me to trade damage but he can 3 shot me at 60 vigor.
Second playthrough, i fought him alone with a colossal sword in the first phase, and a pair of caestuses in the second, no spells. One of the best fight i've ever had.
Morgott hands down gotta be my fav boss, the adrenaline of fighting him is so fun, the ost, I love that it is a more intense remix of the first ost, his quick slick moves, his monologue are also cool and he's pretty balanced although I do think he's a bit too squishy, overall a very fun and satisfying fight.
He's balanced and incredibly fun but only if you haven't explored much, for a game that really encourages exploration to beat bosses easily he gets WAY too easy.
If only they buffed his HP and gave him 2 health bars he'd be way more fun.
I’m so happy to see Hoarah Loux ranking so high on this list. As one of my favorite bosses in the entire series I really did think he was getting the praise that he deserved from the fan base but to know so many people also love him is awesome
My personal top 5
1. Mohg445 lord of cupcakes
2. Fire giant (yeah, I put him here, fight me)
3. Maliketh the “nothing personal kid” blade
4. Regal moose
5. Ernest Khalimov, first elden lord
Honorable mentions to radagon, radahn, rykard, Godrick, and morgit gud the grace given
4th one is puntastic!
Based Fire Giant enjoyer. I respect it
Mohg number 1. Hell yea
fire giant is kino
So basically
1. Pedo
2. Foot fetish
3. Edgelord
4. Git Gud
5. WWE
Damn shame Radagon and Elden Beast have to be fought one after the other. Radagon's fight, soundtrack, and cutscene are some of the best gaming moments I've had in YEARS.
I actually really like Elden beast, my issue with the Elden beast radagon fight us the fact that it’s two bosses in a row, if they did it like gherman and the moon presence where you only need to beat them once both would be really good bosses, Elden beast does have some pretty glaring issues, like the attacks that overlap and are near unavoidable, but if it was it’s own boss rather than a one after the other fight those issues would be excusable
Exactly, Radagon feels to weak. They need to seperate those 2 and buff Radagon, because he feels more like a Minior Boss
@@SolaireOfToast agree Radagon should have a second fase and more moveset he's very cool but fighting him over and over gets boring
They should make Radagon the last boss and then you choose an ending. But if you have all great runes you could restore the whole ER and fight the elden beast. Like the moon presence.
Make radagon harder cause with that way I described you would a have a checkpoint between them
@@SolaireOfToast funny cause i died more to him than malenia,there's just something about his attacks that i can't wrap my head around and no matter how much i level up on ng+ and more,he still manages to fuck me up
I think my favorite fight was probably Placidusax because I had fun actually doing it. Did not expect how much fun that'd be. shoutout to crucible knights for preparing me for that swoop the dragon does. Radahn wins most creative. (and I love how adjustable the difficulty of the Radahn fight is. Anyone that can get there can beat him with enough practice.) Hoarah Loux wins street fighter award.
I don't know about other commentors here, but I loved ER's main boss roster. I do think it's a shame that there is no good duo boss in ER, but there are so many bosses that I loved in this game and I would place many of them in a fromsoftware top 20 bosses list. I do have to say though, the consistency in the quality of bosses is worse than their recent titles. Over all I would rate ER's boss roster a little lower than Ds3's(with the two dlcs in mind).
Misbegotten Warrior and Perfumer is a pretty good duo fight
People are too soft on DS3. I prefer Elden Ring’s boss design than having a lot of bosses with redundant phases and fire swords.
ER bosses make you think, DS3 makes you roll and roll
Not to say that DS3 boss design is bad, but people seem too biased towards it (and the rest of the game, but that’s another discussion
@@nabsthegodgamer5419 Champion Gundyr and Slave Knight Gael are favorite Dark Souls 3 bosses, but I agree, Elden Rings are great. I hope FromSoft makes more balance changes to the spirit ashes and bosses to Elden Ring, I like the ashes, I just think they need to get toned down some more.
Honestly to me ER bosses rival DS2 in *lack* of quality. If we complain that Friede is a BB boss in a DS game then we could say the exact same for Maliketh, Malenia, Margit/Morgott, shockingly enough both of the Godskins and so on, and so on. But at least Friede was surmountable without any cheese, just with pure skill. Never have I experienced a harder learning curve than with Friede, no cap SL1 double broken straight sword Gael was easier, and yet I didn't feel the need to summon Gael for her, nor do anything that would make the fight based on anything but my skill, nor was I really given an option to. Yes, stagger spam works nice and dandy in phase 1 and phase 2 is just a bloodshed with any weapon, but you can't rely on poisebreaking Blackflame Friede because her recovery frames are faster than greatswords and she also staggers a lot harder. And yet, I didn't feel the need to summon Gael or use safe magic on her, the only magic I used was to empower my melee offense, which I'm sorry to say, but that is how magic should be optimal in From games. These games are about thrill, adrenaline and a struggle. With magic as your primary damage source you can deal damage from a safe distance, not having to deal with constant melee attacks unless it is a super relentless boss we're talking about and this allows you to learn the attacks less, and considering that the only parts of dealing damage in From games that take skill are timing and positioning, you just straight up need less skill with magic.
To counter the safety and low skill floor of spell casters in these types of games, From has opted to nerf the damage of spells to the point where you're spending a considerable amount of extra time with bosses, giving you much more room to make a mistake, and they also upped the aggression of the bosses, which of course also affected melee, but melee became a tad bit harder with more excitement while magic just became less viable and a tad bit less boring.
When it comes to fights like Radahn, the game almost literally forces your hands to use summons, and a lot while at it. Bosses like Malenia can't really be reasonably fought without summons because you need some counter to Waterfowl dance, and if the game refuses to naturally give your kit a counter then you might as well abuse the one you can just pick up. Margit is very hard because he can do ridiculously delayed and stupidly fast attacks *literally at the same time* (in only a single roll duration), but if you use some piss weak spell like Glinstone Pebble he becomes easy and god forbid you summon the spirit outside his boss room the fight becomes a joke. That is ER boss design in a nutshell. Magic, magic and magic.
And if that wasn't bad enough, now imagine that magic also creates a mini you which can literally, *literally* solo the hardest boss in the game because you equip it with 2 spells and a decent weapon. What is that? That removes all the thrill, all the adrenaline, all the struggle, all the excitement, all of the spectacle and all of the *skill*. From bosses are usually either spectacle or skill, rarely both and before this game pretty much never neither. This game has truly become an arms race with the good souls players of fights tuned for 1.5+ people and a lot of distraction for the boss AI. This game hasn't given me my O&S, my Artorias, my Manus, my Ivory King, my Sir Alonne, my Champ Gundyr, my Twin Princes, my Nameless King, my Pontiff, my Friede, my Demon Prince, my Midir, my Gael, my Gascoigne, my Gehrman, my Ludwig, my Lady Maria, my Orphan or my Laurence. Those are all the highlights of prior From games, the greatest highlight of this game that I could name is Mohg because he's the only boss that is challenging while not feeling like he was just purely designed for more people. This game flipflops between unfathomably difficult and ridiculously easy and it depends on 1 (2 if you squint your eyes) factor(s): how much magic you use (and whether that magic includes mimic tear...). It very rarely, if ever, truly gives you that vigorous challenge where you need to give it your all without it being bullshit. You either get assfucked by most of the major bosses or literally go AFK and still win, and it all depends on your willingness to use a playstyle that blatantly takes less skill, is safer and is less exciting. When I ever do reruns of this game (which I only do because of Godrick and Mohg) I "cheat" through the game with magic, because I don't care about 99% of the content that is in the game. Limgrave is nice but after the first 2-5 hours (depending on how well you know the map) the game runs out of content mostly and becomes a boss "rush" (as much a rush as any game as unnecessarily oversized as ER is) where the bosses are plain shit a good portion of the time.
Elden Ring successfully revolutionized 2 game formulas: Open World and Souls games. It has made Open World games challenge players (which surprise, didn't work before nor did it work with ER, because in terms of quality the "challenge" this game provides is straight up shit for the most part) and it has ruined the Souls formula by leaning too hard into bosses being artificially too difficult for veterans and piss easy for those who are willing to disgrace themselves by using straight up cheats to turn on easy mode.
I want to hate this game but I can't because it has some good things to it. I want to love the game, but it is impossible because of the terrible bosses, oversized world, boatload of filler content and the overall lack of a well-thought out nature+challenge that was the trademark of Souls games. I hope Miyazaki takes away the proper conclusions from this game, sees where it outperformed any other and won't hide from the truth of the ridiculous amount of levels on which Elden Ring fails.
@@nabsthegodgamer5419 I do agree that Elden Ring's boss roster is over-hated, like the comparisons to DS2, which baffles me when Elden Ring's main-game has bosses like Radahn, but I think saying it's got a better boss roster than Dark Souls 3 is just overdoing it personally
I'm so happy that people enjoy Morgott so much. I just wish From Soft had made him a bit more difficult, to mark the supposed end of our journey as Tarnished.
YOU WISH MORGOTT WAS HARDER????
This is... actually a great list from the community. Radahn and Godfrey are amazing, and Rykard is THE best gimmick fight they've ever done. Morgott, Maliketh, Placidusax, Godrick and especially Mohg (wish he was a bit higher) are all excellent, too. Good to see Malenia isn't ranked too high as well. She's a great boss but just doesn't compete with the bosses ranked ahead of her imo.
So happy to see that Placidusax made it to top 5. He is one of the only bosses in the gane now that when i fight him, i still get a massive smile on my face. Maliketh and Radahn are in that boat too
I love how Morgott acts as almost a parallel of the player. Both have been shunned by Grace and the Erdtree, as a Tarnished and an Omen. While you seek to destroy the Erdtree, and fix the Elden Ring by doing so, he protects the Erdtree, despite how it led to his own misfortune. You also both become stronger as time passes, with most players having a pretty solid build by the time they finish the capitol, and Morgott revealing his true Arcane Power in response.
Godfrey reminds me so much of isshin from sekiro, like literally they're like brothers, both are these two badass human being hyped and mentioned throughout the game, isshin as this badass best swordsman in japan and Godfrey as this warrior which such deep history, and in the end both of them literally fight you with full honor and go down praising you
I feel as though if he they bugged Morgott a bit to have the same difficulty as Margit does when you come across him, he could easily become a Pontiff or Dancer figure in this game. Personally on my playthroughs I rush the capital so I can enjoy the Morgott fight at a level that brings a challenge. He’s my absolute favourite.
Fighting him at RL1 was absolutely exhilarating. What a fantastic boss
That's why he's the boss i look forward to the most in ng+ runs,with each new playthrough he gets more hp and finally reaches a level where the fight lasts for a while to enjoy it to the fullest
I saw in Zully's video, Leonard follows us underground and tells Radahn where to fall for the meteorite, which is hilarious and at the same time beautiful.
When I played the game blind, I had so much fun with almost every boss. The only boss that managed to make me mad was the blacknife in the evergaol and the triple rotting crystalians. Sucks that I'm alone in loving many of the bosses. Had a great time with bosses like Godskin Duo, Vallient Gargoyles, crucible Knight duo, fire Giant, fia's champions, Elden Beast, and every single remembrance boss. A lot of the things that bothered other people just didn't bother me. Long combos, animation cancelling, delayed attacks, input reading, the boss running away, Duo bosses, power spikes, and everything else that one malenia comment mentioned did not bother me. Things that bothered me in other games like bad hitboxes or not giving me time to heal were issues that I rarely encountered in Elden Ring. Maybe I was lucky, but I'm glad I got to enjoy the bosses of this game and makes up for me hating many of the popular ds2 bosses like Ava, Darklurker, and Smelter Demon.
As a level 1 runner, Maliketh/Gurranq is super obviously the best boss in the game to me and I’m sad that he had the most votes for worst out of the top 5.
Can I ask why you think he’s the best boss ?
I haven’t had much experience as I’ve only done three “normal” playthroughs since launch albeit with different builds. I mostly disagree with the community rankings aswell, I think Radahn and Godfrey aren’t close to the #1 and #2 best boss fights in the game.
I can say the same. Maliketh is my personal top 2 thanks to Phase 2 and Phase 2 alone. Though I like his Phase 1 but not too much, his Phase 2 is just one of the best Phase 2’s I’ve got to experience in gaming.
From my RL1 experience, my personal best boss in Elden Ring (and also in any souls-like) is hands down the First Elden Lord but I’m interested to see people picking Maliketh as their personal favourite since I love his bossfight as well
godrick should've been higher imo. he's one of the coolest and most balanced bosses in the game. i agree with radahn being nr 1 tho, one of the best bosses in the series
He's the second best boss for me
you see , i disagree , i found him extremely boring from move set to lore; to each their own.but i find it interesting tho that so many people loved him , i get what people say about him, but to me he was very meh, like he only made me excited to meet godfrey , but except that to me he's just a big ball of twirlling chaos and very easy to defeat. he's not bad , but i don't think he's one of the greats. i don't really see what others see in him, i'd actually put him lower on the list ....
He's too easy to me. Out of all the bosses in the game I clear him the quickest every time
Even my first playthrough
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BIG note regarding elden beast:
elden stars has been significantly nerfed, it's still annoying for no-hit runs, but other than that, it's now a non-issue, it can still be an ass in regards to ai rng and whether it'll decide to play melee or swim away the whole time(thankfully for my blindrun, it decide to play mostly melee)
Thanks for including the voice of the Elden Beast enjoyers :D
always love the ranking videos seeing how other people basically experienced the game and i am excited to see what's gonna come next
The feeling is mutual and from the many rankings across TH-cam and now the community, the Elden Ring experience between players is greatly diverse.
@@summerstrail7466 yeah that's for sure
Honestly my favorite boss would still have to be dragonlord plassidusax mostly because the spectacle. Fighting a once mighty lord of dragons in a weakened state while he can still kick your ass combined with his arena music and fight style( especially in the second phase) will always be exhilarating for me
There’s that end of Radhan’s fight too with the sky lighting up with falling stars. Talk about spectacle from beginning to end. Damn I love that fight
I feel like Malenia's fight would be so much better if her first waterfowl volley was delayed by 2 seconds.
If she can pull it out right in my face at LEASTTT give me more than 3 seconds to say my goodbyes
Everything articulates perfectly in Radahn's fight : the music is incredibly well timed, to the point where when the dynamic part played, he was facing me and unsheathed his sword, and even this unsheathing was classy ! His moves are impactful and his second phase starts meteorly well.
And lorewise everything serves him : his (nick)name is perfect, the optional presence of the other champions make it a real festival against a respectable adversary, and every detail, from his horse to the stars not being held anymore when he dies gives an unforgettable impression about him.
Radahn hype! My top 3 ended up being Radahn, Godfrey/Hoarax Loux, and Maliketh, so nice to see the community agrees.
While I do agree that I think Radahn's nerf was questionable, I believe I do understand Fromsoft's line of thinking in why they did so. Statistically he hit far harder at launch than most of what unlocked as a result of beating him. Considering you had to beat Radahn to access Ancient Ancestor Spirit, Valiant Gargoyles, Fia's Champions, and Lichdragon Fortissax (Barring using the Subterranean Shunning Grounds skip for the latter two which I don't think most people did at launch), they all felt like cake in comparison to him. I needed 30+ vitality to not be 1 or 2 shot by Radahn when learning his fight, not to mention a highly upgraded weapon to not drag out the fight, and with those resources, I was curb stomping Nokron and Deeproot Depths. My belief is that they nerfed him to create a more natural progression of power with regards to Radahn-based progression. Even so, overcoming Radahn at launch was the single most exhilarating sense of euphoria I experienced in Elden Ring, and so I was sad to see the experience neutered.
To me elden beast feels like a more engaging and perfected version of the ancestor spirit fights.
Yes! Cannot agree more!
Really hope From properly received fan feedback and gives us some of their most epic bosses ever in the DLC
Placi has the best attack in all of From history!!
That teleporting smoke on the horizon swoop electricity swipe is EVERYTHING!
I've made this argument a couple of times now, but I'll say it one more time.
Morgott is one of my least favorite bosses in the game, and Margit is top 3 best bosses for me.
The lore is top notch, I think we all agree on that. The problem for me is that Morgott is just so unbelievably lower quality from a combat standpoint than Margit is.
What makes Margit so great is that every move he throws at you has weight and reason to it. He feels like a realistic fight where he's genuinely trying his best to win. The second phase where he simply brings out his hammer is one of the most powerful moments in the game for me. Margit is easily the best representation of an early game challenge that could ever be possible for me.
Morgott on the other hand took everything I loved about Margit and chucked it to the side. Instead of moves full of heart and impact, he has nothing but easy to dodge spam. He just does a bunch of flashy attacks that accomplish nothing while I half pay attention and eventually win.
The Morgott fight honestly feels like a huge shitpost with no difficulty that an 8 year old would make, whereas Margit is a masterfully executed boss that still trips me up on repeat playthroughs.
All i can say is that im proud of this community for placing morgott so high on the list, i think he may even be the best if he gets an HP buff.
Radahn, Maliketh, & Mohg hands down the most memorable from my playthroughs.
They’re my top 3 too
Beating Malenia for the first time was one of the coolest experiences I’ve had playing a game. I’ve never felt such a pure adrenaline rush after the fact. Seriously everything about that fight is fun. Dodging waterfowl is a sense of accomplishment in and of itself. Great atmosphere, great design, amazing voice lines. Thats how you make a rewarding boss fight.
Best boss in the game
I just felt a release of pure rage from my body. Like my suffering through that shit show was finally over. Malenia’s actual combat didn’t feel rewarding or fun enough for that signature satisfaction to roll over me upon completion. But hey I guess if you’re you’re here for is a rush after beating hard bosses I can understand why you like it.
I wish there was a way to repeat boss battles on the same playthrough, even if it meant you were rewarded a significantly less amount of runes. Maybe put down a summoning sign in the boss room that you can keep going back to.
I like placidisax he is a fair fight, but the best part is when he spears the ground and the music stops completely until he he done it is so cinematic and I love it
Biggest issue with all these bosses, and Elden ring in general, is input reading. I'm fine with bosses dodging some ranged stuff, but when it becomes nigh impossible to even hit the boss with a large number of sorceries and incantations, it stops being fun.
you need to treat the spells like melee attacks and only do it while the boss is recovering from an attack, doing a fire monk/giant's flame only run and this works for everything including melania.
Elden beast is so underrated. Its the endgame spectical ive always wanted and every time i go into that fight i get goosebumps from the music and watching it gracefully swim away. Yes it can be a little random but i think thats why elden ring has my favorite bosses. Them being random makes them still challenging on subsequent playthroughs which is something that the other games are missing. Even radagon suffers from being to consistent for me. I want the fight to be unfair, im fighting a literal god.
On the whole, Fromsoft do some pretty great bosses. But sometimes they do things that really make you question if they have any knowledge of how to make a boss at all. For example, all the duo bosses like god skin duo goes against every good gank boss fights in the series, making every mistake we always complain about, but they included so many low effort examples. After Elden ring I played through DS3 and found the boss design far more thoughtful and polished.
They know how to do stuff, they jist didnt think that most players will despise using ash summons, right now i see them as same as having a weapon in your hand or spell in your inventory, but i myself dont use them hahahah ohh the hypocricy but all in all i loved the main bosses
because they are more thoughtful in all of their games. elden ring is a package of everytghing put into one. difficult? yes, fun? no, balanced? no, bs? oh yes.
you can count the good bosses of elden with 3 or 4 fingers
@@Exel3nce i would argue that all the remembrance bosses are good, fight me.
I was always excited to fight Radahn in every NG+ and it was surprising to witness his change in balance since release to now. To think he had such an impact not only in lore and the community but to the game mechanically. Although he seems to be a “shell of his former self” whenever I see him roar into the skies and preparing for his next attack, I can’t help but imagine there is a piece of his old self still lingering. He doesn’t cry out to be free from his misery but for the glory of combat.
If I had to rank my personal top 5
1 Godfrey/Hoarah Loux
2 Starscourge Radahn
3 Gurranq/Malekith
4 Morgott, Omen King
5 Godrick the Grafted King (yes, really)
Honorable mentions for me are Placidusax, Astel Naturalborn, Fortissax and Rykard
Edit: I forgot Mohg Lord of Blood, yea, also in the honorable mentions
Nice list! It was really cool to see how much love there was for Godrick. I think I underrate him since he gets swept away in the memory a bit by the end of a 60+ hour playthrough.
@@theDeModcracy it’s really validating to see I’m not alone in the community with my appreciation of Godrick!
Astel is as bullshit design as malenia
@@TheSolarium18 I just don’t agree. But you’re certainly allowed to think that
@@loneshinobi2682 I am really curious what do you like about it or what is your approach and weapon of choice against it?
Because i think it has stupid hitboxes, too much health and resistances, a stupid heavily tracking instant kill move (and a even more stupid variation of it), an stupid anti-melee aoe attack, two annyoing distance attacks and like radahn an annoying distance start of the fight, teleporting (which does nothing than artificially prolonging the fight without contributing anything fun to it) which are all not the best boss mechanics
6:50 Nothing about Waterfowl Dance feels fair. This is an impossible data set to collect, but I want to see how many people figured out the dodge roll for that attack on their own vs just looking it up. My personal opinion is that an attack should have a relatively clear window of safety. You can't dodge roll the first burst from WD, so why would you assume it works on the next two? You can't run away from all 3 either, and stunning her out of it is a huge gambit. I think this funnels people into the next strategy-- out-DPSing her with the use of a summon. I've played and beaten all the Souls games, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Nioh and Nioh 2, all of them multiple times, so I don't want to hear from some turbo fan about how Malenia's waterfowl is designed fine and its a skill issue. Its a readability issue, that attack is supremely unclear and if thats the direction From is going to take their later games I'll be hopping off this train.
On my RL1 I’m doing rn with bloodhound step (only use it for her waterfowl tho) her waterfowl dance is the only thing that kills me because the camera movement on her third flurry can send my dodge in a wrong direction and end up putting me into her attack, stun-locking me to death.
It’s annoying that a boss I can otherwise no-hit at this point is still killing me because of how rng it is sometimes to dodge that attack.
People try to excuse it because she’s “hard” and “optional”, but imo (not trying to blow my own horn here) once you’ve learnt her she’s genuinely not that hard bar the 50/50 chance you’ll get shagged when she does that one move. That doesn’t make it good or fun, because from my memory it’s the only attack in the ENTIRE SERIES that has no truly consistent dodge pattern, and it’s egregious that it’s still in the game.
Take that out, and I’d rate it as great for quality but I’m not going to accept a genuinely bullshit unfair move as a ‘new, difficult challenge’.
@@fahimtajwaar2521 I agree. I feel like a lot of malanias attacks are easily readable and dodgeable but waterfowl is so unfair it based the entire challenge of her fight on one move and I kinda hate that.
Use bloodhound step or roll into the attack. I personally wish she’d have ditched that attack in phase 2 because that’d make her my perfect boss of FromSoftware’s entire catalogue imo.
@@drfabulous2804 I pretty much just keep BHS on to nope the fuck out the moment I see her prepare waterfowl. Eventually you can get a very weak spider sense for when she's likely to whip it out too. Everything else is pretty manageable after several miserable hours of practice, although I wish she gave more openings.
I think maliketh either gets a lot of hate or love. He deserves the love for being such a fun boss with such cool looking attacks that are fun to dodge. One of my favorite bosses in the series
He also deserves every smidgeon of hate for his awful first phase
@@BogBilberryBagginsAGD his first phase is just a better version of Morgott’s with similar speed and aggression but less canceling.
People confuse low damage for balanced mechanical design with Morgott.
@@abyssalleviathan5148 It's not similar to Morgott at all. With Morgott, you hit him and dodge to the right immediately if you see him move. With clergyman, you hit him and he pulls out a 10 frame attack that takes off 30 levels worth of health before your attack ends, and then runs away.
@@BogBilberryBagginsAGD Morgott’s dagger attack has the fewest start-up frames in the game dude. And he can add it to the end of like 6 different combos (based on my level 1 fight).
You guys are confusing low damage and HP with balanced mechanics.
@@abyssalleviathan5148 It also misses half the time, and does about 2 damage when it does hit. Sure, it feels cheap whenever it hits, but the damage is so low that it doesn't detract that much from the fight.
"Mother and father who never loved him-" did you see Godfrey's opening cutscene 🤨
I know this is going to be a kind off-topic but I went back to DS3 really quickly and because of how much damage is dealt in Elden ring I feel so much more confident in that game like I never felt as confident even whenever I was beating the game consistently in 4 hours never felt that confident.
elden ring is a joke compared to other souls
games
@@_CrimsonBlade do you prefer dark souls 3 over elden ring, if so should i buy ds3?
@@malfunctioner9227 yea ds3 is better in my opinion
@Isaiah Wood67 circle, L2, circle L2,circle ,L2,circle L2,circle L2,circle L2,circle,circle ,circle…L2
@Isaiah Wood67 at least ds3 isnt in some shitty empty ass open world
What made Maliketh my favorite was because of the build up and twist leading up to his true reveal.
You first meet him as Gurranq, the Beast Clergyman. He's in this mysterious hideout and the ambient music that plays gives me chills everytime, as he requests deathroot. You don't even know why he wants these, but you do so because he gives you cool spells and items as rewards. But it isn't until after 4, he goes berserk, scaring the lights out of you and requires you to fight him before he submits, begging to be forgiven in acting out. If you do spare him, he continues wanting more deathroots. You're on edge after that, knowing he can go berserk any moment.
Once you give him all 9, he understands now he cannot contain his lust for death and violence, but remains loyal to you in the end, thanking you for your service. That's all said and good but the payoff to this build up is when you end up facing him in the one place that seemed unlikely for him to be. He recognizes you (even the dialogue where he doesn't recognize you is amazing), and his dialogue seems to be of confusion, confliction, and even some sadness. He does not want to fight you at all, but must because it's his sacred duty to protect what you're after.
Then, it happens. You get him to half health and he realizes he is going to die. Knowing he cannot fight you holding back, he does the one thing he really did not want to do- undo the seal and obtain his Destined Death. Once so, you find out he is far more. The cutscene with his robes burning and drawing out the black blade, the one you've befriended ended up being the legend most demigods if not the gods themselves feared.
He was Malekith, the Black Blade.
He allows himself to become as violent as possible, the most violent creature to ever exist. He embraces his sinful nature in order to stop you from taking his Destined Death, and the fight with him in 2nd phase is wild. While I get for a melee user it's hard to punish him in this state, it just shows how horrifying and fearful it is facing this beast, as he's all over the place swinging the blade and continuing to pressure you non stop. The only downside to this fight is he is a glass canon, he either melts you or you melt him. I wished he had more health but besides that this fight is perfect, stunning, incredible on every front and when he dies- if you befriended him and did his quest, he has some words of sadness to his lady, knowing the Golden Order cannot be restored. Even with the fight where he doesn't recognize you, he does not hate you for besting him, he is only confused as to why you would do this. He doesn't know why you'd seek Destined Death.
"To kill what ...?"
I love this boss. What a good climax before the finale of Elden Ring. Great boss 10/10
The fact that every Demigod ranked higher than Malenia put a smile in my face
Honestly, the Godfrey fight is amazing and all, but what I really love about him is that he actually respects the tarnished. A lot of the other major bosses are either super arrogant or strait up condescending. Meanwhile, Chadfrey over here is one of the land’s mightiest warriors and still treats the tarnished like a worthy opponent from the get-go. Heck, his last words are praising your strength.
As a Godfrey enjoyer, it makes me happy to see that the top 3 picks were Godfrey, his best child, and his biggest fan.
But honestly, Godfrey felt like FromSoftware told the team "We have reused almost every animation throughout the three games sir, there's nothing left for the second to last boss. We have enough time to create new animations, but we have no template."
Miyazaki then downs a whole bottle of sake before whispering "Let's give the Lord of Cinder his due."
His best child is godwyn.
@@SudhamsuSharmaneodonly Yeah but Godwyn is dead and he doesn’t have a boss fight, unless we get one in DLC.
@@zaynthemane thank you
I was sad to see Placidusax's grandiose af attack went underappreciated. He winds up, and before you notice, the music stops, and then an explosion filled with fire and lightning like no other I have ever seen in a Fromsoft game EVER
Elden Ring has some of the best bosses ever, the "main bosses" are incredible.
ty for including my radahn comment demod, you literally got me into souls i love you.
I love elden beast and except the range run away thing I wish they never nerfed it. I fought it in so many different runs without summons and never had a bad encounter at all. Personally I’d rank radagon/Elden beast in the top 3. I know I’m pretty much alone with this opinion tho because everyone seems to hate it.
Well when it constantly RNG's to at least a few stamina bars worth of running away several times in a row, it is kind of bad design. I had several encounters with it that I'd get to it, hit it once and it would run away again.
One thing that made me love maliketh and mohg so much more were their builds, By far one of my favorite builds, mohg's spear is by far the most op and cool weapon with by far the best ability. Also maliketh's armor is so cool, as much as holy damage isn't so much good his build is sick with his black blade
How to fix Elden Beast: Just make it seperate like how the Moon Presence is, or how Aldia is. Also make it a secret boss. If you go for the vanilla ending it doesn't attack you, if you try to summon Ranni or burn the tree it attacks you.
You can't get to Radagon without burning the tree. At least without glitches.
@@darthkarl99 i mean with the frenzied flame, but yeah, my bad on not phrasing it properly.
Or just enable the goddamn horse. Why the fuck are you giving me a *giant empty arena* and a *giant dragon-like boss* that constantly moves in large jumps across the arena when you don't even let me use the fucking horse there???
It's so obviously designed as an on-horse battle and then it just blocks the summon...
@@skeletonwar4445 eh, i really think the Elden Beast should have been more of a spectacle fight, especially with Godfrey and Radagon coming before it. I just overall think that it never really stood a chance just like Gideon Offnir, who is between Maliketh and Godfrey.
I personally think Rennala is the most underrated boss. Her first phase is the best form of the Deacons fight yet. Her second phase is arguably the most beautiful arena in From Soft history. And she has no B.S. or overly unfair moves.
Her summons are actually not that bad since she crouches down and doesn’t attack while summoning, giving the player a chance to get good damage in if they dodge the summon.
Her only real problem is that she is too easy when compared to all of the other bosses.
My top five is:
1. Morgott, the omen king
2. starscourge radahn
3. Dragonlord Placidusax
4. Maliketh, The Black Blade
5. Godfrey/Hoarah Loux
I beat the game for the first time Sunday, and had to replay it yesterday because it somehow scrubbed my progress on my save file before I started a NG+. I got to fight Farum Azula thru RadBeast again and I actually enjoyed the EB fight and I am a pure melee build with no ranged options.What gets lost in a lot of the legit criticism is that duality of this fight, and how it merges the up close and personal fights with the Gigantic enemy fight that is the whole crux of the game! with some of the neater moves and a true necessity of mastering the more common style of combat in Radagon before fighting EB and it’s in and out style of attacking, plus it’s a literal god running away from you because it’s actually scared. How cool is that?!?
Honestly with the Radagon/Elden Beast fight, I think i had an easier time with Elden Beast then I did Radagon. I personally hated the Radagon fight but the Elden Beast only took me a couple tries meanwhile I got demolished like 40 times by Radagon.
Thought I was the only one 😂 Radagon honestly for me is bottom tier just for being an annoying flask drainer before Elden Beast. Left me feeling more frustrated than rewarded.
I’ve never fistpumped in a game as hard as I did when I had 20/2100 HP with no CT left and critted Melania into a Charged heavy with colossal sword and heard her say, “you’re strength, extraordinary!” In a fight where she waterfowled me 5 damn times, 3 in Rot Goddess mode. It took about 15-20 attempts to get there but damn it felt Great! I’ve been a lifelong gamer who got a Super Nintendo for my tenth birthday and I barely squeaked by that encounter and it took all of my quickly diminishing reflexes and skills to do.
Surprised Radahn is so high up. In my experience, he's more spectacle than fight.
Same. For me Radhan and the Fire giant share the same problem for melee users, where you cannot witness how spectacular they truly are when you're always sniffing their butt. I'd rather fight Radhan with summons than doing solo it's much more fun for me that way.
In repeat runs he's a complete pushover. I can't tell if it's the patch that nerfed him to hell or I just adapted to the game better. More than likely the latter
A combination of both, really
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It’s the patch, his damage feels significantly toned down.
@@Clarity_Control I think it's the fact that on NG+ and NG+2 etc the early-mid game bosses are under-tuned. I'd say it's the patch, what I said, and the guy getting better.
Maliketh was the boss that I was stuck on the longest in Elden Ring. It surely was tiring, but it made me really appreciate the boss. 10/10 my favorite in the game
So glad morgott is top 3. Such an amazing boss and character
16:55 Calling Hoarah Loux 'human-sized' is so funny to me, because I know exactly what they mean in terms of soulsborne enemy scale, but at the same time, the dude is like 25 feet tall XD
Personally, Godrick is the best bossfight in the game simply because it’s flawless. No unfair combos/moves, awesome phase change and cutscene, great music, and cool lore as well ofc
Almost agree. His tornado attack is way too fast and undodgable
@Evil Graham In my opinion, I don’t mind it. Like he said in the video, it doesn’t do much damage, so it’s kinda the game telling you to back up. But it can definitely be annoying if it nips that last little bit of health or ruins that flawless perfect-dodging-flow you were just in. But that’s literally the only thing that isn’t AMAZING about imo, so 9.9/10.
Fight is a little too easy imo like even under leveled it’s not challenging he doesn’t feel like a boss
@@Clarity_Control i think its more comparable to margitt's dagger and malenia's kick where it cancels your animation but doesn't deal any damage.
Its pretty fair since he also gives you time to replenish stamina and prepare for his actual attacks which are not so hard to dodge but gives easy hits when positioned right.
Idk if his lore is "cool" per say as he was kind of a pussy in the past. Got shit kicked by Malenia and dressed as a woman to escape Radahn but I agree with everything else besides him being the best boss fight, too many great ones for me to put him at the top
I was such an idiot when I first fought Rykard. I spent 3 hours fighting him without the gimmick spear. I kept getting him to phase 2 - 20% health so I kept thinking I was on the right track to beating him. I logged off for the night and watched some Yt vids, one showing a clip of the Rykard fight and the gimmick weapon. Logged back on and beat him first try with the gimmick. Was a super fun fight IMO
Where is Rick.
as someone whose always felt a connection to space and the stars, Starscourge Radahn will always be one of my favorite bosses in video game history
Elden beast is such a satisfying fight. Its like a victory lap.
Elden beast gotta be one of the most over-exaggerated "bad" boss in the game. He really isn't that bad and him running away is something so many other bosses do. It's just a weird contrast cause Radagon comes before it. Would love it if you could use Torrent in that fight tho it'd be sick
It's not just the running away, it's the running away and the multiple attacks that leave you occupied while the beast isn't.
Once I spent more than 5 minutes just trying to run to him and he just teleported away again and again and again without being able to hit him once.. The enjoyment of this boss is completely random. For some he will be fun, but for some he will be the most frustrating trash ever. This fight literally feels like a fight to use Torrent, but they forgot to add that function.
Malenia was the boss that truly tested my patience, taking me 4 1/2 hours, the longest I spent on any boss by double (runner up maliketh). I feel that it isn’t completely fair to say she’s unfair despite my frustration at the time looking back. My final fight with her felt like a deserved win considering I successfully dodged and mitigated her cheesiest attacks (triple cheese and what I affectionately call “the toy soldier attack”) multiple times in her second phase for my win. She demands ridiculous pattern recognition and a game plan but hands down my pick for the most rewarding fight I did. Maliketh bothered me way more considering his health negating projectiles kept clipping through the pillars and nothing frustrates me more than fights where I feel the arena is on the bosses side for all the wrong reasons
In your first ranking, I commented, "Radahn is the best boss in ER for me" and I am glad the community feels the same and it's not just my opinion. I have to say tho that I hate that he was nerfed as it reduced the amount of excitement when fighting him. still an epic fight nonetheless
I think the initial "problem" of Radahn was that you, as the player, where shepherded to kill the three big demigods from the very start thus you would likely encounter them pretty early. And where Renala and Godfrey were beatable even on a low level Radahns high damage punished you very heavy for every little mistake and you felt very powerless.
Maliketh is easily my favorite boss in the game. The max HP reduction feels a bit much and he still has the standard Elden Ring problem of doing too much damage, but the fact that most of his openings are during his attacks makes him feel a lot like a Bloodborne boss. His fight feels the most like a dance out of any boss in the game, which is a feeling that was woefully lacking in literally every other boss in the game except maybe Morgott. And that dance-like feeling is what makes bosses like Gael, Friede, Maria, Artorias, Orphan, and Gehrman some of the best bosses in all of gaming.
Placidusax is (personally) by far my favourite fight, the bosses design is amazing, the setting is beautiful, the music and sound design is unrivalled, the size of the beast adds a godly feel to him, his attacks are so well designed and choreographed, and not only is he a tanky legend but that’s him weakened, the lore being he was the first Elden lord and now he’s been weakened (clearly shown by his severed head and rotting body). Such an amazing fight and a necessary fight for each play through even if it’s an optional one.
P.S this isn’t relevant to the fight but the weapons you get for beating him are amazing, maybe not the most op but shooting two yellow lasers out of a dragons head you conjured is never not cool, and the lightning spear is so badass and I use it as a secondary weapon for long ranged fights
Radahn deserves that number 1 spot. When I discovered him, (my first demigod fight) he felt like a final boss. I contemplated leaving and getting stronger to fight this guy, but he seemed doable. About 7 hours later, the warriors and I finally beat him. He was one of the most epic bosses I'd ever fought.
6:53 *looks at water fowl dance* ...define fair
I feel like Malenia is fun if you treat her as a “bring everything you can think of” super boss.
I don’t think she seems designed well for solo melee, because well, she isn’t.
That's a solid point. Getting to Malenia has to be the most convoluted path to a boss I've ever seen in any FromSoft game except for maybe Owl Father in Sekiro. I really don't see any way, especially at this point, that you don't make your way to the Haligtree knowing what you're gonna find at the bottom.
Its a shame that one of the best solo-melee designed bosses is shortly before her loretta of haligtree
@@TheSolarium18 Loretta is underrated af. I still like Malenia despite her issues but if I'm picking favorite bosses, it's either one of the Omens, Radahn, or Godfrey, with Rykard and Placidusax as honorable mentions.
@@kartikayysola For me its Godfrey, followed by Malekith (despite i have issues with his second phase)
3. Loretta
4.Morgott
5.Mogh (would be better if he wouldn’t cover the whole arena with fire)
6. Niall (very cool in no hit trys)
7. Placudisax (feels a little bit too easy but i was always good in fighting big bosses)
8.Rykard (simply because its the best gimmick boss fromsoft ever created and cool visuals)
Still i think eldenring would have been better if they would have put more emphasize in stamina management instead of creating very few attack windows. The movesets really should be toned down a bit and stamina should matter again
I remember that first week when Elden Ring was out, and everyone thought Radahn was this game’s Gael or Orphan. Boy were we wrong lol
Malenia was such a good boss it was so epic going into the boss room pressing LT 15 times and killing her
A fellow blasphemous blade enjoyer i see
@@MorizonPlays nah Mohgs big fork
@@LargeMoe well thats more on from software and how they balance their weapons I didn't have the luxury to do that with my build :l
So glad that I got to see Godfrey/Hoarah at No.2. I love his boss fight so much due to how much fun he is mechanically (Using the combination of jumps and rolls to dodge his combos while landing a hit in the middle of his safe combo transitions) and also he is probably the most fair mandatory boss of the game or even the entire game. Also had to make a personal ranking below:
10. Malenia, Blade of Miquella
9. Radagon of the Golden Order & Elden Beast
8. Godrick, the Grafted
7. Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy
6. Morgott, the Omen King
5. Starscourge Radahn
4. Mohg, Lord of Blood
3. Dragonlord Placidusax
2. Maliketh, the Black Blade
(Personal top 5 favourite boss of any souls-like)
1. Godfrey, First Elden Lord/ Hoarah Loux, Warrior
(Personal top favourite boss of any souls-like)
Malenia is in the bottom 5 for me. I'm down for life steal OR waterfowl dance, not both. She was kinda bullshit to me.