Final Fantasy Mystic Quest had a funny one: If your main character cast Cure on the end-of-game boss, it would heal him so much that it would buffer overflow to a huge negative number and take off about 90% of his health.
@@marhawkman303 I know in FF7, there's a boss in Cosmo Canyon where if you give them either an elixer or phoenix down, you turn a ghost into a living creature again and can then do damage to it. Interesting twist!
In Final Fantasy VI the spell Vanish makes a character un-hittable with physical attacks, but always hit with magic. Doom, on the other hand, will instantly kill someone, but has a very low hit chance. Combined…
How about Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3? He's afraid of frogs, glowing mushrooms will absorb his electric attacks, and you can make him mistake you for his lover, even if you put on the disguise right in front of him.
Litterally went to check the last vid to make sure he wasn't mentioned, then was going to comment that here 😅 I mean... he is TECHNICALLY in this video too, but from a different game and with yet another super strange weakness 😅
I still play Snake Eater from time to time, never know Volgin is afraid of frogs and glowing mushroom can absorb his attack, guess I'll try this trick next time I play the game again
@ferd617 The split of the Sheikah and Yiga tribes after Hyrule pushed out the Sheikah who still used the Ancient Ways/Technology after the fight with Calamity Ganon. The Kingdom feared the Sheikah and their technology. Some decided to take up simple means of living like farming, but some still actively showed resentment towards the Kingdom and pledged allegiance towards Ganon. I wish it wasn't so black and white though. Like, have some tribe defect from the Sheikah for that but not be Ganon's minions/allies. And then have some that simply went into hiding.
The best thing about Radahn (from what I remember reading in the wiki) is that he loves his horse so much that he learned magic to allow Leonard to still be able to carry him despite his size.
@@SeraphimCramer I'd have to read the wiki again but I'm pretty sure they've been together forever and he wanted Leonard to remain by his side (his under side obviously) and keep him company despite it all, rather than getting rid of him and finding a bigger/stronger horse
It's less of a weird weakness and more of an oversight, but at one point in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, you gain an ability that allows you to reverse your gravity and stand on the ceiling. However, most boss fights aren't designed to factor this in, so you can absolutely trivialise some of them by just standing on the ceiling where they can't reliably hit you and firing off ranged attacks.
iirc this is especially useful against Valefar. Have the Aegis Plate equipped, Invert, and you can whack his head pretty easily while only a few of his attacks can reach you.
Fun fact: the reason for Maz Koshia being distracted by bananas during phase 1 is because for phase 1 he is programmed using the code for the Yiga clan members who are all obsessed with bananas. Whenever you fight a yiga clan member, if you drop some bananas they will drop what they're doing and zero in on them. I was wrong. It is just an easter egg stemming from how the Yiga clan used to be Shrikah, and so Sheikahs are also into bananas.
@@MrShukaku1991 Yeah. Pretty sure the reason they had him use the Yiga techniques was because of how Yiga were originally Sheikah and so they would share techniques.
It also makes sense from a meta standpoint, because it's a longstanding tradition in Zelda games to make the final/hardest boss fight have a silly weakness that just destroys them. OoT Ganondorf always losing the energy ball Dead Man's Volley when reflected by an empty bottle, OoT Beast Ganon being destroyed by Deku Nuts, Twilight Princess Ganondorf being distracted by the fishing rod, Demise in Skyward Sword getting distracted and crushed by the Bug Net, and so much more.
Hey@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor , do you think this technically means that a large majority of the Sheika have an addictive love of bananas and would that mean if BotW still got updates there'd be a hilarious Easter Egg where at least a quarter of the Sheika you encounter (other than the Yiga) would reward/praise you if you give them bananas?
The final boss of Mother 3 can be beaten by casting a certain sequence of spells: because each spell is accompanied by a particular tone, you have to play a song.
When I saw Elden Ring, I figured you would mention the Royal Revenants - you can poise break them by using a healing spell, which turns a pretty terrifying enemy into an absolute cakewalk.
Same! While I was co-oping with a friend, heading to Carian Manor, we encountered the revenant in the nearby ruins and he mentioned their weakness to healing spells. I popped off to Roundtable to learn Heal from Brother Cohryn (pretty sure I spelled that wrong), which takes a measly 12 Faith to use, and back we went to the ruins. Where the revenant went down in two “hits” of healing. Neither of us expected it to be THAT effective and we just sat there for a second, speechless.
Man, that Capra Demon was such a pain. The dogs and the small arena gave me fits to the point that I'm pretty sure the developers meant for you to do it this way.
The quick way to do it (without throwing faeces) is to actually rush down and slay the dogs ASAP. After the dogs are dead, the demon is easy due to how obvious and slow his attacks are. The way the developers intended the players to win the fight is probably by running up the stairs, draw away the dogs kill them up there, then kill the capra demon.
@@perlundgren7797 as luck would have it, the only thing that died when I did it was the Capra demon. As soon as he died the dogs ran out and killed me.
I always found it funny that you could 1-shot the Phantom Train in FF VI by using a phoenix down on them, because reviving an undead enemy is the same as using Doom on a living one
Just like the Gerogero (fake president Deling second form) in FF8. I didn't think of it during the first playthrough, so it was really comedic to see the boss die instantly during subsequent playthroughs.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the PS2, you’re put up against Malfoy in a duel to practice your Expelliarmus spell, however I found that you can utterly break the fight by bouncing the ball back at Malfoy, then hitting him with Diffindo, which travels instantly to where you cast it, and stunlock him so he can’t repel the ball.
The arm that Stan Gimble uses isn't a fake arm, it's a real one. Floppy and rubbery, yes, but fake? No siree. He holds it by the exposed bone like the handle of a sword, and the player can take it as their own weapon after the fight.
In the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, during the final duel with Ganondorf, if you pull out your fishing rod the King of Evil will get distracted and stare at it giving you the opportunity to get a few cheap shots in. I guess living in a desert he hasn't seen one before and is curious what it is?
I think they might've patched that. I stood on the shore for about 30 seconds when he went to meteor form and he only appeared as his meteor form when I moved far enough inland.
In Elden Ring, I killed the Ulcerated Tree Spirit at the Haligtree by standing on top of the branches beyond the reach of the boss and sniping him with arrows until he died. The Ulcerated Tree Spirit cannot reach beyond a certain distance of the branches that leads to the boss arena, but your arrows can :P
Lifeforce (arcade version), the Intruder boss (burning lizard). You can basically make it curl around itself like a circle and just sit in the middle making slight adjustments and holding down the fire button until it dies.
Speaking of Legend of Zelda bosses with wierd weaknesses: There was that time I absolutely crushed Dark Link at the end of LoZ 2 with the awesome power of: "Standing on the left side of the screen!"
There is an better weaknesses to exploit in Vampire the masquerade bloodlines. When a boss is a human you can just walk right up to them and drink their blood, they cant fight back and you get a nice meal in the process.
this reminds me of an old video that talked about annoying "forced stealth missions". there's one mission in Vampire the masquerade where you have to get through a building full of armed guards WITHOUT KILLING ANY OF THEM. it's extremely frustrating UNLESS your character knows the "seduction" ability, then you can use that to incapacitate the guards without killing them.
@@ericb3157 If you’re talking about the museum, how did you make the seduction work? I always just have to stealth my way through and take a few tries to turn off the cameras without being detected
in Lobotomy corporation the red mist can be defeated by sending an employee to a bomb shelter. Long story short, the shelter will make other monsters in the facility escape and attack anything, including the red mist. Sure you will basically be sending the rest of your employees to die but at least you doin't have to do anything to beat a boss fight.
Cobra on the Spectrum (yeah, I'm old!) was a difficult game, with the final boss being a rock hard fight against a fast, well armed foe.... Unless you picked up the 'invincibilty pill' last, in which case you can just walk up to him, do one head-but, and it's game over! Just remember to do the head-but, if you walk through him to kill him, the game won't recognise the kill and will run on forever.
Me: *struggles with radahn several times before managing to kill him the intended way* Several Months Later: "Oh yea, you can totally make him drown if you stand on the shore of the map" Me: *internal screaming intensifies*
If I was a boss, bananas would not tempt me, and a squirt gun would only annoy me more. Distract me with an adorable kitten, though... I think that would work.
My mom and I didn't go against Ganon until after almost 2,000 hours of playing because we were too busy exploring. (Yes we did defeat all the shrines and the ancient beasts) 😂😂
Ah yes Star Scourge Radahn. Has gravity magic and the ability to fight against celestial bodies. Drowns in a puddle. Are we sure he's not a One Piece character...
Mike shouting "SO CONVENIENT!" in the background is the kind of marketing technique that should be on all manuals from now on. Effective, simple and compelling!
Did they remove the old cheese of him stumbling off the cliff? I tried it on my second play through just to see if it worked but haven't played in months. At least this way you have to half kill him.
In Okami, Crimson Helm normally hits you a bunch while charging really fast all over the place, making it hard to hit him. However, you can just run up to him and use a bunch of small Exorcism Slips and just defeat him in seconds.
Dung Pie reminds me of the guy you meet in the "A Bird in a Cage" mission in Nioh 2 who is extremely hungry and you can give dung balls, noble dung balls, or elixirs... and if you feed him enough he'll give you a lumicite fragment.
Beating Ness' Nightmare with Flash in Earthbound will always be a little weird and funny. Then again you can beat the King Statue in Mother 3 using the same strat. These bosses are quite hard, otherwise.
And speaking of Earthbound, let’s not forget one particularly nasty boss: Belch, the living pile of puke! Needless to say, he was a massive challenge… unless you exploited his own weakness: his love of fly honey.
As much as it may be a "weakness" for him, the water pistol is a really slow way to beat the Man On Fire. Luring him under a water tower and blowing up the supports, knocking him into a shallow pool with a shotgun, or just getting into a jeep and ramming him off the cliff much easier ways to get rid of him. I do like the "OOF" noise he makes when you squirt him, though.
I don't know that this counts as a weakness because this is clearly what's intended, but in Lenna's Inception, there's a hidden pistol with a single bullet that you can find after completing the game's final dungeon and backtracking to the others using its power. You can quite literally one-shot the final boss with it.
i can say i never knew about maz koshia having that vulnerability to bananas, he was a very tough fight and i can say, i beat him without using that weakness (and now that i know of it, beating him without using it makes it more satisfying)
Fallout 4: All synths have recall codes. This includes the very first Courser you have to fight at Greenetech Genetics because you need his brain for the molecular relay. If you manage to find out his recall code and recite it to him, you circumvent a pretty tough fight.
I would add the thirst zapper from the Colter boss fight in Fallout 4 Nuka World. You have to use the squirt gun to short out his power armour before you can really actually start hurting him
At the end of Just Cause 3 when you're fighting Di Ravello in a volcano, you can just tether his helicopter to the ground and make him crash into the lava. You can end the fight instantly with the weapon you've had the entire game
The Dahaka from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. There's something oddly satisfying about using the water sword to defeat the enemy that's been chasing you down all game.
In Blue Dragon. There's a Water Dragon boss battle where the key strategy to surviving the ultimate tsunami attack is by turning your party into the mushroom monsters called Kelolons.
The Fear from Metal Gear Solid 3. If you toss spoiled food ok the ground he will hoover it up and get sick leaving him open for attacks. Also The Sorrow fight as long as you didn't kill anyone that fight is a brisk walk through waist high water with no threats to speak of.
Hahaha the rahdan cheese is most likely an oversight than intended play. I thought they were gonna talk about how easy he is to proc scarlet rot on and just hang back and let the poison + summons do the fight for you. Ocassionally popping a few scarlet rot arrows at the boss.
It's because his horse travels directly beneath you in the ground while he's doing his meteor impression, a way for the game to know where to aim him when he crashes back down.
The yiga clan were once Shiekah, and they absolutely love bananas to the point of always carrying at least one with them. The monks are Shiekah, so one of them loving bananas actually tracks with the established lore.
About the Maz Koshia fight, the Shekiah tribe's close realitives, the Yiga Clan have a similar weakness! If you drop bananas next to a Yiga Blademaster they can't help but to snack on those bananas! It's the same with all the Yiga clan members! Give them bananas, and they will eat them all up!
I remember in Paper Mario Origami King and cheesing the scissor boss (who can one-shot you) by using freeze every other turn to make sure he couldn’t attack and then hitting the on switch to activate the ability to freeze and attacking him and then repeating.
Since the link didn't take me to the other video about bosses with weird weaknesses, I will suggest one that did appear on a previous list (but because you, Andy, specifically said "preferably none that were on THIS list", I'm free to use this): the fishing rod in Twilight Princess. Maybe this will teach you to use the right link. Hmm, maybe wrong links are the weird weakness of Outsidexbox.
@@ferd617 yeah, but he followed that up with “check back here” and points to not the previous video. I checked that video, it didn’t mention the fishing rod, so I put it here. If he didn’t plug the wrong video, you’d have a valid point. But since he did, I can be an ass and get away with it.
The dung pie is quite a broken item. It works on tons of enemies, notably Havel, and a number of other actual bosses as well. The poison arrows are similarly broken, they can be used to poison enemies even if they are out of the maximum range of your bow, as long as the arrow hits, it will accumulate poison, and most enemies will not even react to being hit with them if they cause no damage due to being out of range.
I wish I knew Mazs weakness, I luckily managed to beat him the first time I fought him but I still lost so many weapons. Maz and yiga would get along for there love of bananas, I wouldn't be surprised if Max was actually a yiga member
A neat trick I remember is in Bravely Second. One of the bosses there can take control of one of your party members to turn them against you temporarily, but his normal self technically has no HP while they're doing this (they can't be targeted at that point tho). However, a player class you get earlier on has undo style skills, one of which can make a tagets HP back to what it was up to 3 turns prior. In short, just wait out his takeover power, and as soon as he reurns to his main self, cast undo to make his HP what it was while he was controlling someone else, killing him instantly.
Another good one is in Shovel Knight. Tinker Knight, the boss of the Clockwork Tower, is a two-phase boss fight. In phase 1, he just runs around and throws wrenches, and once you deplete his HP, he jumps into his tank and goes all out. Within the Clockwork Tower, you can find a Relic called the Mobile Gear, which is normally meant for mobility. However, bring it to the Tinker Knight fight, and you can use it to one-shot phase 1. As evidenced in the prequel campaigns, the Mobile Gear was created by Tinker Knight himself (he uses it in phase 1 of his fight in those campaigns), so Tinker Knight is weak to his own weapon
@@benjaminoechsli1941 the addition of these mountain dew™ gamers™ was obviously for relatability. As I am suffering from literal actual in fact liver failure™
When you said defeat Gimble with a chair, I thought you were referring to the way you can kill two birds with one stone by selecting Gimble for the Replanting a Lily quest.
One that REALLY NEEDED to be in this video was Yu Yevon from Final Fantasy X, normally a super difficult battle as he heals himself for the limit broken Max amount after taking any amount of damage, but, if you inflict the status ailment Zombie, instead of healing himself, he’ll just do damage to himself, making so he eventually just kills himself
In vampire bloodlines towards the end a character gives you a hand grenade, the only one in the game. Surprise surprise, it's pretty effective on one of the final bosses an eldritch Chinese monster of sorts. The holy hand grenade, the great equalizer.
As someone with a modicum of Spelunky skills, all of my kudos to whomever got that capture. As someone with a lisp, I'm glad I didn't have to describe a prosthetist.
Interesting, because the way you defeat Colter in the Nuka World DLC of Fallout 4 is with a squirt gun The way you defeat the Doom Train FF6 is with a Phoenix Down
Idk if you mentioned this, but the General has another weakness incase you don’t feel like dragging him all the way to the water. Ironically, though he is already infected, he is weak to scarlet rot.
Monk Maz Koshia woulb be United Fruit Company’s dream mascot. I mean that strength combined with his love for bananas? No thirtworld Country would defy them
1 really fun one i have is in the game called : "Wildermyth". Where there is a boss called "Eluna" and she is a tough cookie that spawns tons upon tons of enemies, whilst you have to wail on her to force her to a certain zone where you can finally retreat. How this works is that every point of damage you deal to her, she will act and move 1 space for every point of damage you did. However, due how this is programmed, you can trivalise this fight by stacking large amounts of DOT. Because every time you do damage, she gets a turn, which triggers the DOT, which gets her moving REALLY fast. There are also a bunch of other bosses in that game but this one i remeber because she was a PAIN to get moving at first...
Maz Koshia hasnt eaten anything in 10.000 years, abd with Bananas being the Favorite Fruit of the Anchient Shiekah, I can only understand that he is hungry
Several of the bosses in the Naruto Ninja Council games for GBA have hidden weaknesses based on their canon fights - Ebisu is taken out instantly by Naruto's Sexy jutsu, Kiba is heavily damaged if you deliberately mistime the activation of Kagebunshin so that Naruto farts, Kakashi can automatically hit Zabuza with Raikiri if he first uses the canine summoning move on him. Plus there's a whole hidden minigame bossfight of Gamabunta against Gaara if you let everyone except Naruto get knocked out and then use toad summoning
I would need to double check but Master Belch and Barf from Earthbound has a major weakness. Fly honey. Chuck a jar at him and he won't even bother attacking you for a long time. If you're smart and find both you're set for each time you fight him.
In Kingdom Hearts 2 the single hardest secret boss, yes, even harder than Sephiroth, Lingering Will could be cheesed with a very specific setup that ended up letting you short hop and hit him with a singular air attack which briefly stunlocks him, then doing it again until his 9?+ health bars are gone.
One of the classic weird weaknesses would be Minecraft’s final boss, the Ender Dragon Jean. The best way to kill her is with beds. Seriously. For anyone who isn’t somehow aware, beds explode in the nether and end dimension, with more strength than a block of tnt. Beds instantly explode on a right click, and if you position yourself and the bed just right, you can deal massive damage while taking almost none of your own. This one of the many reason why the game can be beaten in 10 minutes. Also, although Blazes aren’t bosses, they can be very annoying to fight at times. Thankfully, they’re made almost exclusively if fire, so you can bring snowballs and throw them to deal damage. It’s not super efficient, you can carry more arrows than snowballs and using a bow and arrow deals more damage, but the option is there.
Super Mario 64 has a couple, mainly the one where if you ground pound while one of the stone slab monsters is trying to crush you, you go through them and get the hit without taking damage. Including the boss one, makes it even easier.
Honestly i just think it's hilarious to say "hardest boss in breath of the wild" ..the regular 4 bosses are easier than a rat in a souls game hahaha..with elementary school use of your gadget mechanics to injure them
I'm sure it doesn't need to be said but yeah, that other comment isn't real. Don't click anything, don't reply to it, just report it (if it's still there, hopefully it won't be for long)
In Final fantasy IX there's a boss called Soulcage who's actually an undead so healing hurts him but if you use the spell Life on him he will die instantly.
funny everything in that zone can be killed by items or healing them. the stroper tree thing carry's a Soft you can steal and using it on it, kills it. Boss in Ipsen's castle can be made to kill itself by having steiner use the Flame Sword + added effect passive skill to inflict the Heat status, next time it attacks it dies. 9 has a lot of fights you can cheese in various ways which is nice.
Queen Slug-For-A-Butt from the original Earthworm Jim. You can literally kill her in one hit just by using the head grapple that's inside her. Otherwise, she takes forever as a boss.
Prior to the echo keyword nerf in hearthstone, the Whisperer in the Witchwood's Monster Hunt. This spooky ghost makes all spells echo, and Tess Greymane's hero power gives you a 0 mana, 1 damage spell until you actually start playing spells, and before the aforementioned nerf, you could spam tiny rocks as many times as needed to kill it
I still remember how surprising it was to discover that Intangier in Final Fantasy 3/6 was actually vulnerable to instant death spells as Invisibility rendered the user immune to physical harm but weak to magics that they are normally resistant to. That it made itself invisible was the real kicker.
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A man on fire who is no longer on fire is just a miserable little pile of secrets.
But enough talk, HAVE AT YOU
Nice!
You win!
Perhaps the same can be said of all exploited weaknesses.
But what is a man on fire but a miserable burning pile of ashen secrets??
FINALLY. The eggplant/water drop mystery has been laid to rest.
Doin' the Lord's work Mike.
I texted a girl explaining what I love about Spelunky, and she blocked. Can't imagine why
Doesn't explain the eggplant volcano combo
@@kiriuxeosa8716 That was a licensed property of Disney ™, I believe.
@@bustinarant Eggplant Volcano was Thanos' nickname in college. So I guess you're right, now that Disney owns Marvel.
No matter the meaning of the message, its author probably wants to explore a cave.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest had a funny one: If your main character cast Cure on the end-of-game boss, it would heal him so much that it would buffer overflow to a huge negative number and take off about 90% of his health.
heh, some final Fantasy game have bosses that are undead by default and can be healed to death as intentional character design. :p
@@marhawkman303 Yep. With at least one of them isn't it impossible to beat them without using healing?
@@marhawkman303 I learned that against Gi Nattak. That's why I thought the end boss of FFMQ was undead too, but no - just poorly playtested 😁
@@marhawkman303 I know in FF7, there's a boss in Cosmo Canyon where if you give them either an elixer or phoenix down, you turn a ghost into a living creature again and can then do damage to it. Interesting twist!
In Final Fantasy VI the spell Vanish makes a character un-hittable with physical attacks, but always hit with magic. Doom, on the other hand, will instantly kill someone, but has a very low hit chance. Combined…
How about Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3? He's afraid of frogs, glowing mushrooms will absorb his electric attacks, and you can make him mistake you for his lover, even if you put on the disguise right in front of him.
Also for a dude that literally conducts and controls electricity, surprisingly susceptible to getting struck by lightning. What a scrub lol
I never knew about the glowing mushrooms trick, that's neat I'm about to go try that.
Sounds like a great candidate😂
Litterally went to check the last vid to make sure he wasn't mentioned, then was going to comment that here 😅 I mean... he is TECHNICALLY in this video too, but from a different game and with yet another super strange weakness 😅
I still play Snake Eater from time to time, never know Volgin is afraid of frogs and glowing mushroom can absorb his attack, guess I'll try this trick next time I play the game again
The banana thing is a callback to the Yiga Clan since they defected from the Sheikah where they probably got their banana obsession.
Right. The Sages are from pre-schism Shiekah society, so the love of bananas was still present.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 I do love a good schism.
Potassium triumphs again!
@ferd617 The split of the Sheikah and Yiga tribes after Hyrule pushed out the Sheikah who still used the Ancient Ways/Technology after the fight with Calamity Ganon.
The Kingdom feared the Sheikah and their technology. Some decided to take up simple means of living like farming, but some still actively showed resentment towards the Kingdom and pledged allegiance towards Ganon.
I wish it wasn't so black and white though. Like, have some tribe defect from the Sheikah for that but not be Ganon's minions/allies. And then have some that simply went into hiding.
The best thing about Radahn (from what I remember reading in the wiki) is that he loves his horse so much that he learned magic to allow Leonard to still be able to carry him despite his size.
Couldn't have just kept him in a really nice stable & taken him for walkies like a chihuahua? It's pretty clearly still a struggle to carry him
@@SeraphimCramer I'd have to read the wiki again but I'm pretty sure they've been together forever and he wanted Leonard to remain by his side (his under side obviously) and keep him company despite it all, rather than getting rid of him and finding a bigger/stronger horse
@@stone5against1 Yep. He even actively pushes Leonard out of harms way within the animations for some of his attacks.
@@SeraphimCramer Also, does Radahn sound like the sort of guy stable enough to have a stable where he could safely keep a horse?
He also can't swim.
If you want more MGS3 shenanigans, you can quite literally get The Fear to repeatedly eat expired food to beat them
I did that so many times with him. He starts to cuss you out. It's very funny to watch.
Ever since I found about that I _only_ fight him that way.
@@crummymonk4917 we'd be friends irl
Good to know
The "literally" seems like a superfluous qualifier there, how would one _metaphorically_ get The Fear to eat expired food?
It's less of a weird weakness and more of an oversight, but at one point in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, you gain an ability that allows you to reverse your gravity and stand on the ceiling. However, most boss fights aren't designed to factor this in, so you can absolutely trivialise some of them by just standing on the ceiling where they can't reliably hit you and firing off ranged attacks.
~Oh, what a feelin', when we're cheesing on the ceiling~
iirc this is especially useful against Valefar. Have the Aegis Plate equipped, Invert, and you can whack his head pretty easily while only a few of his attacks can reach you.
In Radahn’s defence, he has been being eaten from the inside out by an elder god’s fungus infection
Fun fact: the reason for Maz Koshia being distracted by bananas during phase 1 is because for phase 1 he is programmed using the code for the Yiga clan members who are all obsessed with bananas. Whenever you fight a yiga clan member, if you drop some bananas they will drop what they're doing and zero in on them.
I was wrong. It is just an easter egg stemming from how the Yiga clan used to be Shrikah, and so Sheikahs are also into bananas.
I mean, given he uses several techniques specifically used by the Yiga, it does make some sense.
@@MrShukaku1991 Yeah. Pretty sure the reason they had him use the Yiga techniques was because of how Yiga were originally Sheikah and so they would share techniques.
It also makes sense from a meta standpoint, because it's a longstanding tradition in Zelda games to make the final/hardest boss fight have a silly weakness that just destroys them.
OoT Ganondorf always losing the energy ball Dead Man's Volley when reflected by an empty bottle, OoT Beast Ganon being destroyed by Deku Nuts, Twilight Princess Ganondorf being distracted by the fishing rod, Demise in Skyward Sword getting distracted and crushed by the Bug Net, and so much more.
Hey@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor , do you think this technically means that a large majority of the Sheika have an addictive love of bananas and would that mean if BotW still got updates there'd be a hilarious Easter Egg where at least a quarter of the Sheika you encounter (other than the Yiga) would reward/praise you if you give them bananas?
@@dextreme7186 I could see easter eggs like some of them carrying bananas but not the stuff of giving them bananas for a reward
The final boss of Mother 3 can be beaten by casting a certain sequence of spells: because each spell is accompanied by a particular tone, you have to play a song.
When I saw Elden Ring, I figured you would mention the Royal Revenants - you can poise break them by using a healing spell, which turns a pretty terrifying enemy into an absolute cakewalk.
Same! While I was co-oping with a friend, heading to Carian Manor, we encountered the revenant in the nearby ruins and he mentioned their weakness to healing spells. I popped off to Roundtable to learn Heal from Brother Cohryn (pretty sure I spelled that wrong), which takes a measly 12 Faith to use, and back we went to the ruins.
Where the revenant went down in two “hits” of healing.
Neither of us expected it to be THAT effective and we just sat there for a second, speechless.
To be fair, there's so many bosses in various games across the decades that you can beat by healing/reviving them. It's not unique to this boss.
There's also the one guy(deep into the game) who summons two helpers and you can use the charm effect to turn them against their creator.
Man, when Mike went to eat the snack I honestly expected Ellen to suddenly appear and be like, "Guess what game boss I'm going to talk about now?"
It would've been very much Outsidexbox. 🙂
Man, that Capra Demon was such a pain. The dogs and the small arena gave me fits to the point that I'm pretty sure the developers meant for you to do it this way.
The quick way to do it (without throwing faeces) is to actually rush down and slay the dogs ASAP. After the dogs are dead, the demon is easy due to how obvious and slow his attacks are. The way the developers intended the players to win the fight is probably by running up the stairs, draw away the dogs kill them up there, then kill the capra demon.
Firebombs over the wall are quicker. Just saying
@@sambakich7494 And also practical if you don't want to cheese the actual demon but just get rid of a dog or two.
@@perlundgren7797 as luck would have it, the only thing that died when I did it was the Capra demon. As soon as he died the dogs ran out and killed me.
@@sambakich7494 that is perfectly stupid in the best way
I always found it funny that you could 1-shot the Phantom Train in FF VI by using a phoenix down on them, because reviving an undead enemy is the same as using Doom on a living one
No thanks, I think I'll stick to Suplexing the train instead
And in FF X, there’s a fight where you have to turn *your own party members* into zombies to survive the boss’s instant death spells.
Lots of Final Fantasy games have a boss you can beat either by healing or reviving them
Just like the Gerogero (fake president Deling second form) in FF8. I didn't think of it during the first playthrough, so it was really comedic to see the boss die instantly during subsequent playthroughs.
@@nightmarethrenody8232 can't forget the final boss fight against an undead/zombie and using a good ol megalixir
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the PS2, you’re put up against Malfoy in a duel to practice your Expelliarmus spell, however I found that you can utterly break the fight by bouncing the ball back at Malfoy, then hitting him with Diffindo, which travels instantly to where you cast it, and stunlock him so he can’t repel the ball.
The arm that Stan Gimble uses isn't a fake arm, it's a real one. Floppy and rubbery, yes, but fake? No siree. He holds it by the exposed bone like the handle of a sword, and the player can take it as their own weapon after the fight.
Yep! And you can even give it to a secret character for some cash!
In the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, during the final duel with Ganondorf, if you pull out your fishing rod the King of Evil will get distracted and stare at it giving you the opportunity to get a few cheap shots in. I guess living in a desert he hasn't seen one before and is curious what it is?
Pretty sure this was mentioned in the previous video about this
I love doing that to him. It's so funny!
Hey, someone swings a fishing rod around when you're fighting them and you'll be staring at it too, wondering what the hell they're gonna do to you.
In the original Link’s Awakening, the Boomerang can one shot DethI’s final form
Wow, genuinely hadn't heard about that Radahn cheese, I'll have to give that one a go on the next playthrough
I think they might've patched that. I stood on the shore for about 30 seconds when he went to meteor form and he only appeared as his meteor form when I moved far enough inland.
In Elden Ring, I killed the Ulcerated Tree Spirit at the Haligtree by standing on top of the branches beyond the reach of the boss and sniping him with arrows until he died. The Ulcerated Tree Spirit cannot reach beyond a certain distance of the branches that leads to the boss arena, but your arrows can :P
Lifeforce (arcade version), the Intruder boss (burning lizard). You can basically make it curl around itself like a circle and just sit in the middle making slight adjustments and holding down the fire button until it dies.
Speaking of Legend of Zelda bosses with wierd weaknesses: There was that time I absolutely crushed Dark Link at the end of LoZ 2 with the awesome power of: "Standing on the left side of the screen!"
Also in MGSV, you can beat Quiet by dropping heavy objects on her like a cartoon character
That was in the first video
You can do that to anyone who'll stay still long enough
I still love how, in Wild Arms 3 the Kraken (who's living in a well in a desert town) is weak against water of all things.
That is definitely not something I'd ever try. 🧠
There is an better weaknesses to exploit in Vampire the masquerade bloodlines. When a boss is a human you can just walk right up to them and drink their blood, they cant fight back and you get a nice meal in the process.
This*
this reminds me of an old video that talked about annoying "forced stealth missions".
there's one mission in Vampire the masquerade where you have to get through a building full of armed guards WITHOUT KILLING ANY OF THEM.
it's extremely frustrating UNLESS your character knows the "seduction" ability, then you can use that to incapacitate the guards without killing them.
@@ericb3157 If you’re talking about the museum, how did you make the seduction work? I always just have to stealth my way through and take a few tries to turn off the cameras without being detected
@@willieoelkers5568 oh, i never actually played it, but i think you need to be a specific "bloodline" for it to work.
@@ericb3157 Oh, I see. Yeah, there’s a few stun effects that are very good for sneaking
5:12 I'm so glad you featured footage of that Stylish.
Anyway, fun video! Thanks for uploading!
I do love the way Radhan goes full Thanos at half health, except instead of throwing a moon at you from the heavens, he simply throws himself.
TFS Nappa: He yeeted himself...
in Lobotomy corporation the red mist can be defeated by sending an employee to a bomb shelter. Long story short, the shelter will make other monsters in the facility escape and attack anything, including the red mist. Sure you will basically be sending the rest of your employees to die but at least you doin't have to do anything to beat a boss fight.
That exploit still works to this day?
Edit: no nevermind i read this wrong, i mistaken it to having her getting stuck on a door
I had no idea babaganoush was made of eggplant, now I learned something about a dish I like in the last place I expected.
Cobra on the Spectrum (yeah, I'm old!) was a difficult game, with the final boss being a rock hard fight against a fast, well armed foe.... Unless you picked up the 'invincibilty pill' last, in which case you can just walk up to him, do one head-but, and it's game over! Just remember to do the head-but, if you walk through him to kill him, the game won't recognise the kill and will run on forever.
I like Gimble's dialogue when playing as a Malkavian.
I like all dialogue when playing as a Malkavian.
3:48 As a Swiss I was so outraged by this statement until I noticed that you were referring to our literal red flags. 🙊😂
Me: *struggles with radahn several times before managing to kill him the intended way*
Several Months Later: "Oh yea, you can totally make him drown if you stand on the shore of the map"
Me: *internal screaming intensifies*
If I was a boss, bananas would not tempt me, and a squirt gun would only annoy me more. Distract me with an adorable kitten, though... I think that would work.
My mom and I didn't go against Ganon until after almost 2,000 hours of playing because we were too busy exploring. (Yes we did defeat all the shrines and the ancient beasts) 😂😂
Ah yes Star Scourge Radahn.
Has gravity magic and the ability to fight against celestial bodies.
Drowns in a puddle.
Are we sure he's not a One Piece character...
Weak to gravity, lmao
So he ate the press press fruit?
Considering how long one piece is I wouldn't be surprised
No, he's Bruce Willis in a Shyamalan movie
Mike shouting "SO CONVENIENT!" in the background is the kind of marketing technique that should be on all manuals from now on. Effective, simple and compelling!
always interesting to see the ways people come up with to cheese bosses, i like the one from Elden Ring the most
Did they remove the old cheese of him stumbling off the cliff? I tried it on my second play through just to see if it worked but haven't played in months. At least this way you have to half kill him.
In Okami, Crimson Helm normally hits you a bunch while charging really fast all over the place, making it hard to hit him. However, you can just run up to him and use a bunch of small Exorcism Slips and just defeat him in seconds.
I just fought this boss not too long ago
Lemme go start a new save file
Oh god, I gotta use that cheese against Radahn on my current Elden Ring run xD
Dung Pie reminds me of the guy you meet in the "A Bird in a Cage" mission in Nioh 2 who is extremely hungry and you can give dung balls, noble dung balls, or elixirs... and if you feed him enough he'll give you a lumicite fragment.
Baldr from Devil Survivor on the DS /3DS. You kill him, the Norse God of Light and self proclaimed invincible demon with a cellphone phone charm.
Beating Ness' Nightmare with Flash in Earthbound will always be a little weird and funny. Then again you can beat the King Statue in Mother 3 using the same strat. These bosses are quite hard, otherwise.
And speaking of Earthbound, let’s not forget one particularly nasty boss:
Belch, the living pile of puke!
Needless to say, he was a massive challenge… unless you exploited his own weakness: his love of fly honey.
Fake arm? I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Gimble's actual arm! Note the claw prosthetic thing he has where that arm used to be.
As much as it may be a "weakness" for him, the water pistol is a really slow way to beat the Man On Fire. Luring him under a water tower and blowing up the supports, knocking him into a shallow pool with a shotgun, or just getting into a jeep and ramming him off the cliff much easier ways to get rid of him.
I do like the "OOF" noise he makes when you squirt him, though.
Forgot about lechuck’s weakness to root beer. Thought Andy as the resident monkey island fanatic would be all over this
I don't know that this counts as a weakness because this is clearly what's intended, but in Lenna's Inception, there's a hidden pistol with a single bullet that you can find after completing the game's final dungeon and backtracking to the others using its power. You can quite literally one-shot the final boss with it.
i can say i never knew about maz koshia having that vulnerability to bananas, he was a very tough fight and i can say, i beat him without using that weakness (and now that i know of it, beating him without using it makes it more satisfying)
Fallout 4: All synths have recall codes. This includes the very first Courser you have to fight at Greenetech Genetics because you need his brain for the molecular relay. If you manage to find out his recall code and recite it to him, you circumvent a pretty tough fight.
What. FML.
I feel like they're churning out all their present backlog so they have a clear upload schedule for spooktober
General Raam in GOW UE can still be bugged out to stick to a box in the final fight, even 16 years later lol
I would add the thirst zapper from the Colter boss fight in Fallout 4 Nuka World. You have to use the squirt gun to short out his power armour before you can really actually start hurting him
At the end of Just Cause 3 when you're fighting Di Ravello in a volcano, you can just tether his helicopter to the ground and make him crash into the lava. You can end the fight instantly with the weapon you've had the entire game
The Dahaka from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. There's something oddly satisfying about using the water sword to defeat the enemy that's been chasing you down all game.
In Blue Dragon. There's a Water Dragon boss battle where the key strategy to surviving the ultimate tsunami attack is by turning your party into the mushroom monsters called Kelolons.
The Fear from Metal Gear Solid 3. If you toss spoiled food ok the ground he will hoover it up and get sick leaving him open for attacks.
Also The Sorrow fight as long as you didn't kill anyone that fight is a brisk walk through waist high water with no threats to speak of.
Hahaha the rahdan cheese is most likely an oversight than intended play. I thought they were gonna talk about how easy he is to proc scarlet rot on and just hang back and let the poison + summons do the fight for you. Ocassionally popping a few scarlet rot arrows at the boss.
It's because his horse travels directly beneath you in the ground while he's doing his meteor impression, a way for the game to know where to aim him when he crashes back down.
The yiga clan were once Shiekah, and they absolutely love bananas to the point of always carrying at least one with them. The monks are Shiekah, so one of them loving bananas actually tracks with the established lore.
About the Maz Koshia fight, the Shekiah tribe's close realitives, the Yiga Clan have a similar weakness! If you drop bananas next to a Yiga Blademaster they can't help but to snack on those bananas! It's the same with all the Yiga clan members! Give them bananas, and they will eat them all up!
I wonder if Eggplant Yamma is a reference to Kid Icarus, where Eggplant Wizard would turn Pit into an Eggplant?
Almost certainly, seeing as getting turned into an eggplant in the original Kid Icarus is basically a death sentence.
I remember in Paper Mario Origami King and cheesing the scissor boss (who can one-shot you) by using freeze every other turn to make sure he couldn’t attack and then hitting the on switch to activate the ability to freeze and attacking him and then repeating.
Since the link didn't take me to the other video about bosses with weird weaknesses, I will suggest one that did appear on a previous list (but because you, Andy, specifically said "preferably none that were on THIS list", I'm free to use this): the fishing rod in Twilight Princess. Maybe this will teach you to use the right link.
Hmm, maybe wrong links are the weird weakness of Outsidexbox.
One problem with this: He doesn't say that. He specifically says, "Don't put ones that were in the previous list", in fact. (Exact words. 15:50)
@@ferd617 yeah, but he followed that up with “check back here” and points to not the previous video. I checked that video, it didn’t mention the fishing rod, so I put it here.
If he didn’t plug the wrong video, you’d have a valid point. But since he did, I can be an ass and get away with it.
Nice touch to use Stanley Gimble's Doppelganger as the presenter of the Stabley Gimble's section.
Huh. Never thought me saying "I throw shit at my problems" would be so literal...
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That Spelunky Eggplant thing is a *really deep cut* reference that I hella enjoy.
10000 years and maz love for bananas hasn't passed. damn.
The dung pie is quite a broken item. It works on tons of enemies, notably Havel, and a number of other actual bosses as well. The poison arrows are similarly broken, they can be used to poison enemies even if they are out of the maximum range of your bow, as long as the arrow hits, it will accumulate poison, and most enemies will not even react to being hit with them if they cause no damage due to being out of range.
I wish I knew Mazs weakness, I luckily managed to beat him the first time I fought him but I still lost so many weapons. Maz and yiga would get along for there love of bananas, I wouldn't be surprised if Max was actually a yiga member
A neat trick I remember is in Bravely Second. One of the bosses there can take control of one of your party members to turn them against you temporarily, but his normal self technically has no HP while they're doing this (they can't be targeted at that point tho). However, a player class you get earlier on has undo style skills, one of which can make a tagets HP back to what it was up to 3 turns prior.
In short, just wait out his takeover power, and as soon as he reurns to his main self, cast undo to make his HP what it was while he was controlling someone else, killing him instantly.
Another good one is in Shovel Knight. Tinker Knight, the boss of the Clockwork Tower, is a two-phase boss fight. In phase 1, he just runs around and throws wrenches, and once you deplete his HP, he jumps into his tank and goes all out. Within the Clockwork Tower, you can find a Relic called the Mobile Gear, which is normally meant for mobility. However, bring it to the Tinker Knight fight, and you can use it to one-shot phase 1. As evidenced in the prequel campaigns, the Mobile Gear was created by Tinker Knight himself (he uses it in phase 1 of his fight in those campaigns), so Tinker Knight is weak to his own weapon
ULTRAKILL has a funny little one, the hideous mass boss can be instantly killed by a bar of soap you can find on top of a roof
Clearly the enemies in that game are Gamers™ who don't have time to bathe. 🤢
@@benjaminoechsli1941 the addition of these mountain dew™ gamers™ was obviously for relatability. As I am suffering from literal actual in fact liver failure™
"More red flags than a Switzerland home game." Absolutely sent me. I live there now and I appreciate good Switzerland joke.
When you said defeat Gimble with a chair, I thought you were referring to the way you can kill two birds with one stone by selecting Gimble for the Replanting a Lily quest.
One that REALLY NEEDED to be in this video was Yu Yevon from Final Fantasy X, normally a super difficult battle as he heals himself for the limit broken Max amount after taking any amount of damage, but, if you inflict the status ailment Zombie, instead of healing himself, he’ll just do damage to himself, making so he eventually just kills himself
In vampire bloodlines towards the end a character gives you a hand grenade, the only one in the game. Surprise surprise, it's pretty effective on one of the final bosses an eldritch Chinese monster of sorts. The holy hand grenade, the great equalizer.
As someone with a modicum of Spelunky skills, all of my kudos to whomever got that capture.
As someone with a lisp, I'm glad I didn't have to describe a prosthetist.
Interesting, because the way you defeat Colter in the Nuka World DLC of Fallout 4 is with a squirt gun
The way you defeat the Doom Train FF6 is with a Phoenix Down
15:08 I just noticed all of the clones got stunned as soon as he saw a banana.
Idk if you mentioned this, but the General has another weakness incase you don’t feel like dragging him all the way to the water. Ironically, though he is already infected, he is weak to scarlet rot.
Speeds up the process, I guess. 💀
Monk Maz Koshia woulb be United Fruit Company’s dream mascot. I mean that strength combined with his love for bananas? No thirtworld Country would defy them
1 really fun one i have is in the game called : "Wildermyth". Where there is a boss called "Eluna" and she is a tough cookie that spawns tons upon tons of enemies, whilst you have to wail on her to force her to a certain zone where you can finally retreat. How this works is that every point of damage you deal to her, she will act and move 1 space for every point of damage you did. However, due how this is programmed, you can trivalise this fight by stacking large amounts of DOT. Because every time you do damage, she gets a turn, which triggers the DOT, which gets her moving REALLY fast. There are also a bunch of other bosses in that game but this one i remeber because she was a PAIN to get moving at first...
Maz Koshia hasnt eaten anything in 10.000 years, abd with Bananas being the Favorite Fruit of the Anchient Shiekah, I can only understand that he is hungry
Several of the bosses in the Naruto Ninja Council games for GBA have hidden weaknesses based on their canon fights - Ebisu is taken out instantly by Naruto's Sexy jutsu, Kiba is heavily damaged if you deliberately mistime the activation of Kagebunshin so that Naruto farts, Kakashi can automatically hit Zabuza with Raikiri if he first uses the canine summoning move on him. Plus there's a whole hidden minigame bossfight of Gamabunta against Gaara if you let everyone except Naruto get knocked out and then use toad summoning
Diablo 2’s very first boss Andariel, a demon born of the fires of hell, her greatest fear and weakness.....is fire.....
If you EVER put eggplant into my pasta sauce we’re going to have a problem.
I would need to double check but Master Belch and Barf from Earthbound has a major weakness. Fly honey. Chuck a jar at him and he won't even bother attacking you for a long time. If you're smart and find both you're set for each time you fight him.
7:00 I loved this moment. It felt like a nod to those flying a-holes from Sekiro
When I first happened to me in both games, I wasn't even mad 😆
In Kingdom Hearts 2 the single hardest secret boss, yes, even harder than Sephiroth, Lingering Will could be cheesed with a very specific setup that ended up letting you short hop and hit him with a singular air attack which briefly stunlocks him, then doing it again until his 9?+ health bars are gone.
One of the classic weird weaknesses would be Minecraft’s final boss, the Ender Dragon Jean. The best way to kill her is with beds. Seriously.
For anyone who isn’t somehow aware, beds explode in the nether and end dimension, with more strength than a block of tnt. Beds instantly explode on a right click, and if you position yourself and the bed just right, you can deal massive damage while taking almost none of your own. This one of the many reason why the game can be beaten in 10 minutes.
Also, although Blazes aren’t bosses, they can be very annoying to fight at times. Thankfully, they’re made almost exclusively if fire, so you can bring snowballs and throw them to deal damage. It’s not super efficient, you can carry more arrows than snowballs and using a bow and arrow deals more damage, but the option is there.
Super Mario 64 has a couple, mainly the one where if you ground pound while one of the stone slab monsters is trying to crush you, you go through them and get the hit without taking damage. Including the boss one, makes it even easier.
That's less of a weird weakness and more of a weird glitch, since you're still hitting him in his weakness (aka his back)
@@sinteleon Yeah your right, didn't think of it that way.
my weakness is whenever the professor assigns homework
Someone contact Professor Snape for this guy
Same, I start burning into ash whenever I get homework
Oh man, you just reminded me ive got so much homework do today... is there an easy way to defeat homework? Like... bananas?
Honestly i just think it's hilarious to say "hardest boss in breath of the wild"
..the regular 4 bosses are easier than a rat in a souls game hahaha..with elementary school use of your gadget mechanics to injure them
That "An On-fire man?" bit felt less like Mike calling the joke and more like Mike purposely stopping Andy from giving up spoilers lol
I had absolutely no idea about the Capra Demon cheese. I’ve always taken him out on the first try but I’m going to do this my next playthrough.
Wow that chair thing makes me wanna try Masquerade. That's some super cool interactivity especially in an older game.
I'm sure it doesn't need to be said but yeah, that other comment isn't real. Don't click anything, don't reply to it, just report it (if it's still there, hopefully it won't be for long)
In Final fantasy IX there's a boss called Soulcage who's actually an undead so healing hurts him but if you use the spell Life on him he will die instantly.
funny everything in that zone can be killed by items or healing them. the stroper tree thing carry's a Soft you can steal and using it on it, kills it. Boss in Ipsen's castle can be made to kill itself by having steiner use the Flame Sword + added effect passive skill to inflict the Heat status, next time it attacks it dies. 9 has a lot of fights you can cheese in various ways which is nice.
Killing Undead with healing items is really a repeating theme in Final Fantasy
Queen Slug-For-A-Butt from the original Earthworm Jim. You can literally kill her in one hit just by using the head grapple that's inside her. Otherwise, she takes forever as a boss.
Prior to the echo keyword nerf in hearthstone, the Whisperer in the Witchwood's Monster Hunt. This spooky ghost makes all spells echo, and Tess Greymane's hero power gives you a 0 mana, 1 damage spell until you actually start playing spells, and before the aforementioned nerf, you could spam tiny rocks as many times as needed to kill it
I thought the MGSV boss was going to be Quiet and her allergy to supply drops to the face
pretty sure they did her the first time
Perfectly explains why people slap me when I use the eggplant and water drop emojis together. They've never played Spelunky.
I still remember how surprising it was to discover that Intangier in Final Fantasy 3/6 was actually vulnerable to instant death spells as Invisibility rendered the user immune to physical harm but weak to magics that they are normally resistant to. That it made itself invisible was the real kicker.
oh, i'll have to try that sometime!
And it starts invisible too. I believe its been removed from later versions though.