it's a little pet peeve of mine when people say souls names wrong im not trying to be a dick here so im sorry if i seem like one but a lot of people say Friede wrong they say it like "Freed" its actually pronounced like "Frieda" just try it out loud for a bit it'll sound much better
I remember having the Sister Friede fight being constantly at the back of my mind while I was chilling on a beach. I couldn't beat her before we left for a vacation 😂
@@nishbhattacharyya4217wdym, I don’t think we’re talking about the same boss here. Mist noble took me like 100 tries to get past his 4 stages, maybe urs was glitched
Every soulsborne player knows the DLC of any soulsborne game is a reality check for every player. The DLC from Bloodborne was absolutely hell to me, and I'm not talking just about the bosses (it's my favorite DLC). Basically, they are a reality check for those who got cocky thinking "I beat the game, I can beat anything!"
Really surprised to not see Owl (Father) and Isshin Ashina on this list. Also, I don't think it's fair for Sekiro since it is the only game in the series that allows You to fight the already-beaten bosses and since most people end up mastering them, they don't realise how hard they ACTUALLY are 😅
Agreed. I went back to platinum every fromsoftware game. and without a doubt Hirata Owl and Isshin were in my top 5 hardest bosses. For me it would prob be something like Isshin, Orphan, Owl (hirata), Demon of Hatred, and Malenia.
Hey man he's still figurin' it out ....I personally recommend the Holy Grease aka Priest taint sweat instead, works wonders on endgame enemies....totally....
Radagon/ Elden Beast and maliketh are also massively effected by if you have holy resist. If you do, they become so much easier, if not then yeah brutal.
I honestly dont think malicath is that hard. I died more often to the draconic tree sentinal guarding his door (~5 deaths) than himself (2 deaths) on my first playthrough. And even now with NG and a new character I dealt with him pretty easily, at least if compared with other bosses on and off this list. JUST USE THE PILLARS to cover yourself from the spin attacks and youre golden
I remember malekith took me two evenings to get down, but once I got it and had finally beat him, I was suprised to notice I only used one flask and that was on the first stage. Felt otherworldly afterwards. Malekith remains my fav fight from Elden ring to this day
Bit unconventional, but the boss I struggled with the most in the entire series was the amygdala in the chalice dungeon that you have half health and take like 2x the damage. worst day of my life.
@@ZombiezKey BB generally is the second easiest Fromsoft game however, chalice dungeon is godly hard with bad design bosses for no reason except make Plat the game is much much harder than it should be! man!! The original Amygdala in his arena suck ass! you don't and cant see half of the boss most of the time I would believe you if you said Amygdala Chalice version is the hardest!
@@EnkiduSA17 yeah bloodborne is great, but maaaan those chalice dungeons are just not it. idk about it being the second easiest though. Personally I’d put sekiro as the easiest cuz I pretty much first tried every boss except the final boss(es). Then ds3, ds2, and then bloodborne. I think? I’d have to really think about it tho.
Well obviously with Maliketh, if you get hit you’re basically instantly dead. So it’s not surprising you no-hit the second phase since it practically requires you to.
Couldn't agree more, Kalameet was the boss that taught me how to play souls games basically xD like armor don't mean shit if you don't know how to dodge bosses attacks properly. I'm currently playing Elden Ring for the first time having a blast, i'm almost getting to Malenia can't wait to fight her and see if she is everything everyone talks about.
Manus was way harder than kalameet. Kalameet breath attacks are easy to dodge. Every single of its melee attacks are blockable and you have stamina remaining to attack especially when using green blossoms from chester.
@@nolt1738 Every boss is easy with a shield tho. I find Manus's moveset to be very predictable and easy to dodge, even without the pendant, whereas Kalameet took me way longer to master, but YMMV.
Agreed, dark souls 1 was my first of the souls game and that guy gave me the biggest struggle trailed by Ornstein and Smough. I actually killed Manus within two attempts.
I'm surprised that Laurance isn't on this list because he is such an endurance test with a massive health pool and the damage of being hit by a flaming truck. Easily Bloodborne's toughest boss, even harder than Orphan of Kos.
100% agree. I have more trouble with him than Orphan of Kos, who I feel is a little overrated however still a fun boss fight. As difficult as it is, Laurence still makes me more hyped up and excited to fight him every time I do another DLC run.
A pity we can’t actually do that; Malenia belongs in a game like Sekiro, not a fuckin’ Souls game. It just doesn’t mesh together & blend all that well.
@@MaCoqAttack which actually reminds me: FromSoft WAS working on the DLC for Sekiro, but we unfortunately never got that, because they scrapped the idea as soon as production for Elden Ring began. So now I’m actually twice as pissed off since I would’ve preferred a Sekiro DLC more. In the base game, everyone & their grandma’s mother’s giant-ass dogs talked about Tomoe; even Genichiro & Isshin spoke about her. And do we ever get to see her? Well, *NO.* Because that idea was scrapped too, and now we’ve got Malenia. No surprises there. 😒 But it would’ve been nice seeing Tomoe in Sekiro; I’m just irritated & disappointed that we didn’t (as is to be expected of FromSoft scrapping their ideas).
I think the Maneaters deserved a mention. The narrow bridge with no rails. A second Maneater enters the fight. The fact they have ranged magic, and their freakin dash!
Demon's Souls was my first Fromsoft game. And the first time there was a two for one boss fight. Common place now, but at the time it blew me away, and aside from the False King, they gave me the biggest challenge (in that game).
@@Aruneian For Flamelurker just use magic weapon, he is ultra easy and I was let down with the fight after hearing so many things about how hard he is. Any Mind Flayer on ng+ killed me more than Flamelurker. Have you played Sekiro? I played Sekiro before Demon's Souls and I think he is just Sekiro boss in souls game, he is very rhythmic boss.
The weird thing is that I was expecting the Maneaters to be horribly difficult as a melee character, but strangely I never really had a problem with it. I've only beaten the game twice, so I may have just gotten good RNG. I had most trouble with the Penetrator, Flameluker, and False King Allant
Maneater is definitely hard, but they stepped up the difficulty of that gank boss in Elden Ring. yeah I'm looking at you, Valiant Gargoyle Duo, Crucible Knight Duo, and Foreskin Duo.
Radagon is my favorite fromsoft boss ever. Plenty or room to punish his attacks, the whole fight is about timing, jump mechanic incorporated beautifully, also he is incredibly cool and challenging
the combo is easy if you just stay a meter or two away from him when you're not attacking, it would give you enough space to move out of range of the follow up attacks.
Malenia was EASILY the hardest for me! I still don’t know why everyone says waterfowl dance is the only thing that makes Malenia hard! I find a lot of her sword combos to be incredibly hard to predict and she can kill you in two to three hits with nearly all of her attacks. Also she is the other fight along with Midir where summoning can actually make the fight harder due to her healing from hitting the spirit ashes.
Using a summon like Black Knife Tiche makes her a little easier imo. Whenever im low on health, i just run away and drink from my flasks while my summon keeps her busy. Once you learn how to roll from her sword combos, they aren't too bad but her Waterfowl Dance will never fail to screw me up.
@@Hear.myvoice Not AT ALL true in my opinion. Waterfowl is FAR from her only hard attack! Her 4 hit sword combo that she does a lot is extremely hard to consistently dodge, her scarlet clone attack is arguably just as if not more difficult to dodge than waterfowl, her Scarlet Aeonia divebomb is difficult to learn how to dodge and can one shot you regardless of vigor level, and her various aerial attacks in phase two are extremely unpredictable and do insane damage! There are MANY reasons why Malenia is such a hard boss and Waterfowl is far from the only one.
@@jameslough6329 For me she is a very easy boss except for her dance move 🤣 90% of my deaths happened because of it... I wouldn't call it a hard boss, I would call it an easy boss with one hard move. I accept your opinion but for me she will never be more than this.
@@jameslough6329life steal is the cheesiest mechanic in any game and malenia is no different, she’s not hard at all, every one of her sword attacks can be dodged with relative ease and if you know how to dodge waterfowl it just becomes, which move is she going to use and dodging accordingly, with every other boss you have to know which direction to dodge or when to hit or take a hit in order to get damage malenia is only is she hits dodge backwards and you probably won’t get hit, it’s not hard it’s cheese and that’s what makes it one of the worst fights in the series, if you think she’s hard and fun more power to you I don’t think she’s hard I think she’s an unfun cheesy boss who has one hard move
I’m now realizing that when this guy starts to talk he starts off with a high note then ends his sentence with a low note. This happens every time he speaks.
You are not the only one. I hate this "lowering your pitch on the end of the sentence trend" that a lot of youtubers are doing lately. And yeah, it is annoying in this one, a lot.
It’s been dope seeing your progress with making videos and compilations dude. you got me into all the other souls games after elden Ring just based off watching your boss rankings 🙌
Funnily enough the way Isshin was described in this video is how I would describe Malenia at this point. She turned me into undead sashimi some 70 times when I attempted her solo in my second playthrough, and I had to get every move down just to stand a chance. In my recently finished 4th playthrough she was a first try win with a nearly hitless Phase 1. And that was after choking on Mohg and the Fire Giant.
Malenia was one of the biggest struggles for me my first play through, but to be honest. She is hard carried by waterfowl. Also her AI is actually pretty exploitable. She is aggressive when you perform actions that make noise. But if you hang back and play it safe, it becomes easier. Pretend she's Daredevil and you'll see what I mean.
Yea, everything that isn't waterfowl is easy to dodge. If they just toned down the tracking on the first volley of slashes she'd be fine but the fact that you can't dodge or run to the side real quick is too much.
@@YiddishDancingClown That's what I was thinking. Mechanically she isn't difficult. But her gimmicks are what hype her up. Personally I find Mogh, Apostle, and Beast Clergy to be mechanically harder
The big Sekiro bossfights seem to be the ultimate difficulty out of all the games. Demon, Isshin, and Owl Father are all just so intense, you only beat them by getting the most gud, and white knuckling them. To me anyway. Obviously stuff like Maliketh and Midir and Friede are pretty close behind. Super glad you mentioned Fume Knight and Blue Smelty, cause the boss combined with the bossrun are genuinely difficult. And Artorias is also genuinely difficult. I just beat him with a dagger only build with the Bandits Knife and damn if it didn't take like 15+ attempts, all long arduous fights.
@@talentroller4413 every boss in sekiro is the same bro same timings and sekiro parrying gives some leeway, especially adding in the resurrections. Easy game
Ludwig the Holy Blade was incredibly difficult for me. I didn’t play the DLC until I had started a NG+ account and that was a big mistake. Doesn’t help that I returned to the game for the DLC years after I had originally beaten the base game.
yep i did it first on ng+1 rushed to the dlc way under leveled Ludwig was a nightmare it was so hard to get to stage 2 and it’s relentless one miss timed dodge and you get combo’d. those circumstances probably warped my experience but he was the hardest boss for me in bloodborne hands down still #1 though so epic
Wait until Laurence on NG2+ raises his ugly fire-ridden head But that fight's sorta bs....Whirligig at max stats to make him pay for turning all of Yharnam into beasts inadvertantly isn't enough He's the hardest on later NGs due to ridiculous health/damage shenanigans I literally first tried OoK (so happy about that...hehe, I just exploited Augur of Ebrietas backstabs) But second and third NGs took a few dozen tries each
Bro what is the point of this comment though? She has waterfowl dance therefore she is hard. She'd still be harder than 90% of souls bosses if you removed waterfowl simply because of how much damage she does and how much she life steals.
@@Crowback354Waterfowl brings her to unfair levels. That move is really badly designed and it's the reason why she's the hardest boss in Elden Ring and probably the whole series. For me, if she didn't have waterfowl, i wouldn't consider her that much of a threat.
This video just proves everyone has different struggles when it comes bosses. To me nameless is still the hardest and took me the longest to beat. I think the order in which we play souls games also has an impact since DS3 was my first.
@@actualfrog6 Bruh u hit his bracelets. It's ez to break them and if one bracelet breaks, it deals around 1/4 of his HP. The whole fight is basically u destroy his bracelets and u win.
Im shocked to see the Orphan over Ludwig, at least with the Orphan you can somewhat predict what he's going to do, but that first phase of ludwig is brutally hard to try to figure out how to predict and dodge his stuff
@@Doomguy-ut9nf im level 100 rn and in ng+ and i feel like he's not as difficult to beat as people make him out to be. 1. Phase is relatively easy, and second phase just kinda depends on luck
I consider Lawrence to be the hardest boss in BB, i beat Orphan in my 4th try, Lawrence i tried 21 times, got my ass handed to me, went back leveled an came back later, and after that it took me 10 more tried to finally get him, ludwig was a first try beat for me.
For me Kalameet is way harder than both Artorias and Manus. It took me like 8 tries on my first playthrough, while Artorias only took 2 and Manus like 5. But the boss that gave me the most trouble in any soulsborne game (aside from Malenia) was Fume Knight. It took me 38 tries to beat him on my first playthrough. It was rough. I would also put Burnt Ivory King on there since he killed me about 15 times.
Malenia was the only boss in Elden ring that made me put the game down, I had to take a break, and come back another day to try again. She was also the only one to make me use my larval tears trying to find a build that worked against her. She very nearly ruined the game for me, but that feeling when I finally beat her was Amazing!
For me, I wasn't even happy when I beat her. I was just frustrated. I honestly hate her fight a lot solely because of that damned waterfowl. I don't understand how people could defend it as being an alright attack to have in the game. When I finally did beat her, it felt like pure dumb luck and I certainly didnt feel like I deserved it. I'm not the biggest fan of Elden Ring as a whole. I mean it's a fantastic game and I love it for what it is, but as far as the souls games and the others, it ranked at the bottom of my list for a number of reasons.
@@Gandalf_the_Whitecompletely agree. First boss in a From game where I had to change my build, cause I thought my normal one just wasn't enough. Once I beat her It was just luck that she didn't spam waterflow another time. She may be hard but there are a dozen better bosses in each Sekiro and DS3
Says a lot that Demon's Souls doesn't even rate an honourable mention on this list. And what it says is that Demon's Souls was a game that was mainly hard for its _level design,_ with the bosses mostly being the icing on the pain cake rather than the whole dessert. The only bosses in the game that would realistically be considered "hard" are Maneaters, Flamelurker and False King Allant, but some of the levels are sheer agony, even by the standards of later games.
Only thing missing gotta be Lawrence. Fucker has enough HP to break your weapons and enough damage to two-shot basically any build. Add AOE spam in phase two and followup damage to most attacks and he is the second hardesr Bloodborne boss for sure
Some advice: Bone Ash Set and all health/fire resistance runes makes him significantly easier since a lot of the fire damage from the aoes is stripped off. Plus with a little grinding of the chalices or the winter lanterns before Orphan you can shred his health pool kind of quick.
Hardest Bloodborne boss for me. I hate it. I got so annoyed I went off and killed the Orphan of Kos before I returned to Laurence. Finally using lead elixir in his final phase is what got me through to the end. The fight is a miserable one for sure and the run to get him is also annoying af. Rolling ball of fire and putting an executioner right in the doorway is aggravating, especially since it's hard to get the bastard to move his fat ass out of the way.
Pre-nerf Radahn was my second longest boss fight ever at 5.5 hours. Malenia was the longest at 22 hours. Really puts it to perspective for me how unforgiving she is
Good list, as always my consistent friend. I recently began my second play through of Elden Ring. I'm excited to see which bosses still give me trouble.
@@ChuckFinelyForever DS2 is clunky. I often felt I was battling the controls more than the actual fights (even with ADP leveled). Fume Knight isn't terrible once the timing and moves are sorted, but I find him to be one of the few memorable fights in DS2. There are SO many bosses in that game, and only a handful stand out in anyway.
@@JohnDWJ I never leveled ADP so my hate for the game is pretty infinite but I struggled more with the mobs than the bosses. Fucking path to the blue smelter still haunts my dreams along with the frigid outskirts.
@@ChuckFinelyForever Yes. DS2 was all about mobs. Artificial difficulty to the absurd. I rage quit on my first play through at the Shrine of Amana (made the mistake of being a magic user). I picked it up again a few years later as a fighter (which was slightly more fun). It took me a good long while to find any enjoyment in that game. I did eventually, but it is by far the weakest least replayable in the series.
I just started working on my second attempt at Bloodborne. Very excited. It’s soooo fun. I’m yet to beat the game and I couldn’t beat Orphan of Kos or Lawrence. Gotta try again.
Malenia is weird for me, sometimes I struggle and sometimes I win with only using like 2 flasks, it feels like some fights she spams waterfowl dance and that one move where she shoots out phantoms, and other times, she recovers slowly and uses the slow recovery attacks constantly, and tghe big flower thing makes the fight even easier
I haven’t beaten every boss in the series (I’ve only completed Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring), but the boss that I consider the hardest out of those three is Orphan of Kos. He’s so aggressive and you have to be very patient, especially if you’re using a weapon that takes more time to swing (for example, Ludwig’s Holy Blade). But he felt totally fair and he’s one of my favorite bosses in the series, only beaten by Ludwig and Gael. Keep in mind that I also did use spirit summons for Elden Ring so Malenia wasn’t as hard. But at least I didn’t use Rivers of Blood +1,000.
Whether you use a summon or rivers of blood makes it just as easy. It's pretty silly of you to talk as if you are ''beyond'' using a broken weapon, as if you accept proper challenge, then use summons which diminish the achievement just as much in terms of difficulty. Why even shit talk rivers of blood in the first place if you are using something that makes it just as easy? Should I look down on you then as well since I didn't use rivers nor a summon? ''At least I didn't use Rivers of blood or summons +10000000''.
I played every souls game apart from Demon’s Souls because I don’t have PS5. For me Malenia is the hardest boss. I beat the whole game with shield and katana, but as you know malenia heals when she hits anything, so I had to use dual katanas. I was also using mimic tear, but couldn’t beat her even after 53 tries. She completely broke me, so I decided to use rivers of blood and killed her after 5 attempts. I’m telling you this is the worst boss in souls games. She is absolutely broken.
Malenia is 100% still the hardest. Waterfowl alone seriously does it for me Fromsoft has never included an attack that requires such incredible precision to evade. Most attacks are pretty simple to dodge after a while, but waterfowl is like a challenge run every time she pulls it out. You’re lucky if you only get hit twice
@@eliwilson8242 To my knowledge, Waterfowl Dance can be fully dodged even from melee range. It is not easy but its possible. If you dodge behind her the moment she starts her first series of slashes, you can avoid the damage 100%. I just took a greatshield with me to deal with Waterfowl Dance, which too was a death sentence if you were out of stamina.
Sometimes i think midir is bad because he is just tanky af and two shots you with his attacks. Same like for example fire giant. A boss shouldnt be hard because he oneshots you or has to much hp. I think you can make every boss hard with doubling hp and damage.
Actually Fire Giant is bad because he is too much bugged. After learning how to use Torrent on this fight and when not to attack he is not that hard except for the bugs and obsticles in your way.
Yeah man git gud. You don't understand boss fight design. What matters is how long the fight is and not the hp. If the boss doesn't give you many windows for attacks, then he should have less hp. So that the entire fight length is normal. But if the boss, like Midir, gives you a window to attack him like after every convo, where you can get 4hitz easily, he should have more hp. Midir doesn't have too much hp, ths time it takes to no hit him is 4-5 minutes, which is fine
I thought flamelurker was impossible in my first playthrough. I didnt know how the game worked so I thought that i had to beat him in order to continue. This thing was almost as hard as Malenia.
Agreed, flamelurker was a wall for me. Honorable mention atleast. Especially due to the grindiness of demons souls. I can also see a new player getting stuck on allant being contantly downleveled lmao.
I have to disagree with Friede, but that’s probably because I’ve conditioned myself from like…50 attempts on the first playthrough to recognize and react to every single one of her gimmicks. Invisible: Snow plume up? She’s jumped behind you. Dust cloud left, plume right? She went right. Dust cloud right, plume left? She went left. You didn’t catch her when she was invisible? Listen for the rising, tense sound. As soon as it stops, roll before she snags you. Phase 2: Focus Ariandel’s legs. As soon as Airandel starts to glow, disengage and find Friede before she heals him. _Always_ keep one eye on Friede, and make sure Ariandel is between the both of you. Phase 3: You can parry the startup to her big Blackflame explosion if you’re feeling extremely bold, and are close enough. Her quick slashing combo that seems to never end? Literally just run away from her. If you’re far enough, she’ll end it in an upswing and slam. Then go in and slap her. The cross-map, neck-snatching grab attack? JUST before she gets in range, roll backwards. You’ll end up behind her, and can get a free backstab during her recovery. Also, one thing I never see people doing in boss fights is RUNNING SIDEWAYS. Running is way better than people give it credit for. Rykard’s fire spam. Just run. Magic projectiles. Just run or zigzag. Malenia speed combos. Run backwards. Elden Beast? Run. Genichiro bow? Run. Etc. etc.
8:23 I find Ludwig in dlc way harder than orphan, he's too big and hard to predict, his size and sudden agression makes it hard to know what to do next, the whole screen gets occupied and hes fast asf.
I can relate to almost every of your picks but i would include the godskin duo. Beating them without summons or sleeping pots was a true nightmare for me.
What weapon/upgrade level did you have? I didn’t have my weapons (dual twinblades) fully upgraded my first play through, and going in with them fully upgraded definitely made it more manageable
Malenia no shit took me 400 attempts to beat. Had to get completely naked to get the best dodge, so getting hit was just not an option. Such a respectable fight; no doubt the hardest thing I’ve ever done in gaming
Malenia, Maliketh, Orphan, and nameless king were the only bosses I ever had to try again another day. So I definitely agree with those. Honestly though, boss difficulty is mainly about playstyle and level. Some of the hardest bosses for me in ER were side bosses that I was just fighting a little too early. ER can either be the easiest or the hardest depending on your level. Also, if you took out water fowl dance for Malenia she would be the worst boss....
I'm with you on #2 and #1. I do think Orphan can be somewhat trivialised if you know what to do but I suppose you could say that for anyone. For me Laurence is probably harder than Orphan.
Laurence is usually harder if you take multiple playthroughs into account....but it's not the "fun" type of difficulty Orphan is a much more fun fight, similar to Ludwig or Maria....Laurence is Cleric Beast but there's lava so you have to be anal retentive about your movement in addition to your attack animation timing....*sigh* Here he lost his bottom half and he's leaking magma everywhere....Plus here's another +10k health OST's a banger though....like with every BB DLC boss so take it as you will
Just finishing up DS3 now, working on Midir now and Sister Friede is DEFINITELY the hardest boss on that game and I haven't even beaten the dragon yet. She was absolutely unreal, I was so damn proud of myself for beating her. Malenia is just silly. Clear #1 out of all the ones I've played. Just beat Midir. Harder than Gael. Not harder than the Nameless King and definitely not Friede. Good ranking.
yeah im stuck on friede, can get to phase 3 consistently but then i just get wrecked in that phase, and i cant play the other dlc without beating her otherwise i might have just skipped her
@@itachileesan I dont blame you. I was maybe 3-4 days on her. Leveled up maybe 10 times and maxed out 2 different weapons trying to beat her. Good luck to you!
@@ShadowOfLaw Is usually the solution when you're stuck on a boss imo; but you kinda have to develop that comfort level where you're feeling right to move ahead and punish her at almost every opportunity because you've been getting railed attempt after attempt.
You have an insane amount of patience and discipline to have slayed all these bosses solo. It's mind blowing. I've slayed a handful of bosses myself, but Nameless King and Midir is just torture.
Maliketh is always very difficult for me because of how much he jumps around, it’s very hard to predict him and his attacks hit so hard. He has a pretty small health bar, but he makes up for it with his aggression.
It is such a wasted boss they gave him only half health. That boss deserved to have a full size health. He is easy when you can abuse columns and wait for an opening.
@@Windiewalker do not hide behind columns and wait for an opening, the fight will go a lot faster if you stick to him, get under him and jump attack his sweeps if you're too far to get under, you should be attacking him at the same time he attacks you.
As someone who played elden ring as a mage and not an optimized one which most bosses one shot me here are my top 5 hardest bosses. 5. Raenalla, with high magic resistance you have to change to a play style that won't match your build 4. Godskin Noble, his fast reaction and being able to close distance quickly is a challenge for spell casting 3. Pre nerf Radahn, his massive health pool, constant running around and big hitboxes especially early in your playthrough were a huge undertaking 2. Elden Beast, having to fight 2 bosses especially when Radagon is as aggressive as he is was challenging however elden Beast has Magic resistance as well as constant movement, don't even get me started on elden stars as that will make spell casting virtually obsolete. 1.Maelinia, like ember said I stopped playing the game for a couple months because of how long I was stuck on her, the healing off damage was a huge debuff for me as a big asset to a mage is the spirit summon so you can take the heat off yourself on more aggressive foes so using certain summons would be more difficult than going without, waterfall dance would one shot me on the first two swings, she would constantly dodge incoming projectiles only occasionally getting clipped, huge lunge moves would make casting as well a gamble as she might just decide to get right in your face
I think Malenia´s difficulty is very artificially raised by the passive lifesteal she has, which is a weird ability to give her since it requires no preparation, buildup or cooldown on her part. If not for that one, I bet she would have globally been perceived as way easier than others in this list.
She's a statistically hard boss but not a mechanically hard boss. Base combined hp in each form before any lifesteal she has more hp then Gael and all 3 phases of Feide combined. She can just ignore staggers at seemingly random and requires being parried 3 times before you can get your parry crit(Yes these are real mechanics she has). Meanwhile water fowl might as well be random given its BS nature even if you can mitigate most of it. If you gave her the normal stats she really wouldn't be a hard boss at all outside of waterfowl even with life steal.
The lifesteal is a mechanic so that spirit summons and shields become useless. It's basically a forced skillcheck by the game. If you fight her solo you really don't notice the lifesteal that much. Her Waterfowl Dance is really the only thing making her the hardest boss. If that wasn't there, Radagon and Maliketh would be way harder, hell, maybe even Godfrey
Elden ring 🤣🤣🤣 bro elden ring was the easiest!!! I would put Isshin Sword Saint on the 1st place! I mean 4phases, specially the last 2 phases were so unpredictable and so hard! (From a all souls platinplayer)
I seriously don’t know how to rank DS3’s bosses. On my first playthrough Friede was insane, nameless king was absolutely brutal, the demon prince was the definition of hell and Midir was straight up impossible. Then I completed Elden Ring (without summons on NG+6) and Sekiro. After all these years I came back to DS3 and tried to finish the remaining bosses. I first tried every single one of them. They are really easy in comparison to the later games. At least my skill level rose after playing them. Especially Elden Ring is DS3 but harder. So how do I rank them? I lost countless hours to Friede and the others but also first tried them after not touching the game for 2 years. I didn’t even warm up before fighting. It’s confusing.
They didn't take waterfowl dance out because if they did, Malenia would be a complete pushover. Even with it, just chucking a frost pot at her stuns her out of it, and by that point, you should have a good enough build to burn her down fast enough that she only does it twice, or three times if you're unlucky. I think mohg is another honorable mention for his random fire puddles and damn near undodgeable fire attacks that take half your health. Especially in ng+ cycles. Honestly as hard as malenia by ng+5
Father owl was very hard. First play through took 50 attempts considering I went to the boss with only 6 prayer necklaces. Man the way he caught you against the wall with his firecracker will instantly end the fight. It was hard
That waterfowl dance absolutely destroyed me every time. The first and only time I beat malenia was by having her execute that move on my mimic summon and then she didn't use that move in the second phase. that move always destroyed me.
These people don’t know the struggle. Being a little kid and magic sucking so you HAD to get close 😂 I f’ing hated watching all my health deplete within seconds
It took me 2 tries with Malenia. But this was because when I tried to take her on the first time, she wiped me out in the first second, while I was summoning the Mimic Tear. The 2nd attempt was where summoned two other players to help me out. She was one of those bosses where I knew right away that I’d need help with. My 2nd attempt seemed my like sheer luck, when looking back on it. But I was glad that the players that helped me out then knew what they were doing.
Maliketh, Kalameet, Elden Beast and Midir were the hardest ones for me by far. I sincerely never found Malenia, Friede or Kos to be that hard. They're honestly really fun fights, as is Gael, especially on low levels. Props to Dragonslayer Armour too, it is a monster one on one and is such a balanced and well made boss, recently tried it at SL30 caestus+frozen weapon which was quite difficult and rewarding.
I agree with almost everything about this list, and the only thing I’d add, to possibly honorable mentions is Sir Alonne, trying to beat him taking 0 damage for that alternate ending is really difficult
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Can you make a video about your personal favorite souls-borne characters?
Or your favorite build for each game
it's a little pet peeve of mine when people say souls names wrong im not trying to be a dick here so im sorry if i seem like one but a lot of people say Friede wrong they say it like "Freed" its actually pronounced like "Frieda" just try it out loud for a bit it'll sound much better
When are you streaming :(
I remember having the Sister Friede fight being constantly at the back of my mind while I was chilling on a beach. I couldn't beat her before we left for a vacation 😂
That's the dark souls spirit lmao
That happened to me with orphan of kos
Lmfao 😂 I know that feeling like game-planing before you get home
too relatable
Us bro . Took me about 87 runs before i got her
0:47 bro was spot on 😭
That sister of Rennala ( i forgot her name ) beat my ass so time that I leave the game for 2 weeks.
I'm a bit surprised Mist Noble didn't make the list. That boss is brutal. Took me hours to beat..
He probably can’t rank it since he had to use glitches to skip it like 99.8% of people
Nah bro more bout that pinwheel
He's the easiest boss in sekiro
@@nishbhattacharyya4217wdym, I don’t think we’re talking about the same boss here. Mist noble took me like 100 tries to get past his 4 stages, maybe urs was glitched
try killing him with only jumps, it'll take forever..
Bro actually predicted ER DLC difficulty
😂😂
Every soulsborne player knows the DLC of any soulsborne game is a reality check for every player. The DLC from Bloodborne was absolutely hell to me, and I'm not talking just about the bosses (it's my favorite DLC). Basically, they are a reality check for those who got cocky thinking "I beat the game, I can beat anything!"
Really surprised to not see Owl (Father) and Isshin Ashina on this list. Also, I don't think it's fair for Sekiro since it is the only game in the series that allows You to fight the already-beaten bosses and since most people end up mastering them, they don't realise how hard they ACTUALLY are 😅
Agreed. I went back to platinum every fromsoftware game. and without a doubt Hirata Owl and Isshin were in my top 5 hardest bosses. For me it would prob be something like Isshin, Orphan, Owl (hirata), Demon of Hatred, and Malenia.
Ucan do that in ds2
@@Mohamed-lh9hc yeah but its limited, in sekiro you can do it whenever you want
Isshin ashina is so much easier than sword saint isshin tho
tip for isshin ashina second phase: strafe around his fire attacks, and dodge ichimonji double at the last second
I love how you used blood grease on Radagon, despite his complete immunity lol
i think thats shirrakos footage not his
Hey man he's still figurin' it out ....I personally recommend the Holy Grease aka Priest taint sweat instead, works wonders on endgame enemies....totally....
Radagon/ Elden Beast and maliketh are also massively effected by if you have holy resist. If you do, they become so much easier, if not then yeah brutal.
I honestly dont think malicath is that hard. I died more often to the draconic tree sentinal guarding his door (~5 deaths) than himself (2 deaths) on my first playthrough. And even now with NG and a new character I dealt with him pretty easily, at least if compared with other bosses on and off this list. JUST USE THE PILLARS to cover yourself from the spin attacks and youre golden
Radagon is literally an almost first try kill boss 😑
@@Hear.myvoiceafter his nerf before that he was irritating to beat
Yeah the holy resist talismans make radigon and elden beast a complete joke
@@afkennedy3995 what lvl/build when u were there though?
DLC Prime Radahn: Smokin’ on yo top 5
primse radahn smokin on all souls bosses lolllllllll
The fact that he predicted the elden ring dlc 😂
I remember malekith took me two evenings to get down, but once I got it and had finally beat him, I was suprised to notice I only used one flask and that was on the first stage. Felt otherworldly afterwards. Malekith remains my fav fight from Elden ring to this day
Good thing he only has one health bar.
Bit unconventional, but the boss I struggled with the most in the entire series was the amygdala in the chalice dungeon that you have half health and take like 2x the damage. worst day of my life.
@@ZombiezKey BB generally is the second easiest Fromsoft game however, chalice dungeon is godly hard with bad design bosses for no reason except make Plat the game is much much harder than it should be! man!! The original Amygdala in his arena suck ass! you don't and cant see half of the boss most of the time I would believe you if you said Amygdala Chalice version is the hardest!
@@EnkiduSA17 yeah bloodborne is great, but maaaan those chalice dungeons are just not it. idk about it being the second easiest though. Personally I’d put sekiro as the easiest cuz I pretty much first tried every boss except the final boss(es). Then ds3, ds2, and then bloodborne. I think? I’d have to really think about it tho.
Well obviously with Maliketh, if you get hit you’re basically instantly dead. So it’s not surprising you no-hit the second phase since it practically requires you to.
Kalameet is often forgotten in this kind of lists. It's the boss that took me the longest in DkS1 and personally, i think he's the hardest DLC boss.
Couldn't agree more, Kalameet was the boss that taught me how to play souls games basically xD like armor don't mean shit if you don't know how to dodge bosses attacks properly. I'm currently playing Elden Ring for the first time having a blast, i'm almost getting to Malenia can't wait to fight her and see if she is everything everyone talks about.
@@ricardobarbosa2773 Malenia does not dissapoint, trust me. Good luck!
Manus was way harder than kalameet. Kalameet breath attacks are easy to dodge. Every single of its melee attacks are blockable and you have stamina remaining to attack especially when using green blossoms from chester.
@@nolt1738 Every boss is easy with a shield tho. I find Manus's moveset to be very predictable and easy to dodge, even without the pendant, whereas Kalameet took me way longer to master, but YMMV.
Agreed, dark souls 1 was my first of the souls game and that guy gave me the biggest struggle trailed by Ornstein and Smough. I actually killed Manus within two attempts.
I'm surprised that Laurance isn't on this list because he is such an endurance test with a massive health pool and the damage of being hit by a flaming truck. Easily Bloodborne's toughest boss, even harder than Orphan of Kos.
Agree
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100% agree. I have more trouble with him than Orphan of Kos, who I feel is a little overrated however still a fun boss fight. As difficult as it is, Laurence still makes me more hyped up and excited to fight him every time I do another DLC run.
Nah, laurence is easy
The Crow Hunter was the hardest boss in that game for me. Orphan was 7-8 tries. Ludwig was harder than Orphan.
When Melania does that thrusting attack I just want to mikiri counter it
A pity we can’t actually do that; Malenia belongs in a game like Sekiro, not a fuckin’ Souls game. It just doesn’t mesh together & blend all that well.
@@AlastorAltruistGaming Malenia in Sekiro would be such a fun fight :D
@@MaCoqAttack which actually reminds me: FromSoft WAS working on the DLC for Sekiro, but we unfortunately never got that, because they scrapped the idea as soon as production for Elden Ring began. So now I’m actually twice as pissed off since I would’ve preferred a Sekiro DLC more. In the base game, everyone & their grandma’s mother’s giant-ass dogs talked about Tomoe; even Genichiro & Isshin spoke about her. And do we ever get to see her? Well, *NO.* Because that idea was scrapped too, and now we’ve got Malenia. No surprises there. 😒 But it would’ve been nice seeing Tomoe in Sekiro; I’m just irritated & disappointed that we didn’t (as is to be expected of FromSoft scrapping their ideas).
I still can’t believe how right he was about people getting absolutely destroyed in the Elden ring DLC. We all really get humbled from it did’t we?
I think the Maneaters deserved a mention. The narrow bridge with no rails. A second Maneater enters the fight. The fact they have ranged magic, and their freakin dash!
Demon's Souls was my first Fromsoft game. And the first time there was a two for one boss fight. Common place now, but at the time it blew me away, and aside from the False King, they gave me the biggest challenge (in that game).
Definitely maneaters and Flamelurker if played pure melee and no magic
@@Aruneian For Flamelurker just use magic weapon, he is ultra easy and I was let down with the fight after hearing so many things about how hard he is. Any Mind Flayer on ng+ killed me more than Flamelurker. Have you played Sekiro? I played Sekiro before Demon's Souls and I think he is just Sekiro boss in souls game, he is very rhythmic boss.
The weird thing is that I was expecting the Maneaters to be horribly difficult as a melee character, but strangely I never really had a problem with it. I've only beaten the game twice, so I may have just gotten good RNG. I had most trouble with the Penetrator, Flameluker, and False King Allant
Maneater is definitely hard, but they stepped up the difficulty of that gank boss in Elden Ring. yeah I'm looking at you, Valiant Gargoyle Duo, Crucible Knight Duo, and Foreskin Duo.
Radagon is my favorite fromsoft boss ever. Plenty or room to punish his attacks, the whole fight is about timing, jump mechanic incorporated beautifully, also he is incredibly cool and challenging
Bro that manus combo is ruthless
Lmao Fr
the combo is easy if you just stay a meter or two away from him when you're not attacking, it would give you enough space to move out of range of the follow up attacks.
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Malenia was EASILY the hardest for me! I still don’t know why everyone says waterfowl dance is the only thing that makes Malenia hard! I find a lot of her sword combos to be incredibly hard to predict and she can kill you in two to three hits with nearly all of her attacks. Also she is the other fight along with Midir where summoning can actually make the fight harder due to her healing from hitting the spirit ashes.
Using a summon like Black Knife Tiche makes her a little easier imo. Whenever im low on health, i just run away and drink from my flasks while my summon keeps her busy. Once you learn how to roll from her sword combos, they aren't too bad but her Waterfowl Dance will never fail to screw me up.
Because her only hard combat move is the waterfowl dance.... She has nothing else in my opinion and that's why I don't like her.
@@Hear.myvoice Not AT ALL true in my opinion. Waterfowl is FAR from her only hard attack!
Her 4 hit sword combo that she does a lot is extremely hard to consistently dodge, her scarlet clone attack is arguably just as if not more difficult to dodge than waterfowl, her Scarlet Aeonia divebomb is difficult to learn how to dodge and can one shot you regardless of vigor level, and her various aerial attacks in phase two are extremely unpredictable and do insane damage!
There are MANY reasons why Malenia is such a hard boss and Waterfowl is far from the only one.
@@jameslough6329 For me she is a very easy boss except for her dance move 🤣
90% of my deaths happened because of it... I wouldn't call it a hard boss, I would call it an easy boss with one hard move. I accept your opinion but for me she will never be more than this.
@@jameslough6329life steal is the cheesiest mechanic in any game and malenia is no different, she’s not hard at all, every one of her sword attacks can be dodged with relative ease and if you know how to dodge waterfowl it just becomes, which move is she going to use and dodging accordingly, with every other boss you have to know which direction to dodge or when to hit or take a hit in order to get damage malenia is only is she hits dodge backwards and you probably won’t get hit, it’s not hard it’s cheese and that’s what makes it one of the worst fights in the series, if you think she’s hard and fun more power to you I don’t think she’s hard I think she’s an unfun cheesy boss who has one hard move
The Series Continues....
U already know!
I’m now realizing that when this guy starts to talk he starts off with a high note then ends his sentence with a low note. This happens every time he speaks.
You are not the only one. I hate this "lowering your pitch on the end of the sentence trend" that a lot of youtubers are doing lately. And yeah, it is annoying in this one, a lot.
@@macdealer7936 it bothers me a lot
I think that’s more just a human pattern when speaking in long form and formulated sentences.
It’s been dope seeing your progress with making videos and compilations dude. you got me into all the other souls games after elden Ring just based off watching your boss rankings 🙌
Let’s gooo I love to hear that!!!
Funnily enough the way Isshin was described in this video is how I would describe Malenia at this point. She turned me into undead sashimi some 70 times when I attempted her solo in my second playthrough, and I had to get every move down just to stand a chance. In my recently finished 4th playthrough she was a first try win with a nearly hitless Phase 1. And that was after choking on Mohg and the Fire Giant.
Not having isshin on the list is batshit insane
That prediction about Shadow Of The Erdtree at the start was spot-on
Malenia was one of the biggest struggles for me my first play through, but to be honest. She is hard carried by waterfowl. Also her AI is actually pretty exploitable. She is aggressive when you perform actions that make noise. But if you hang back and play it safe, it becomes easier. Pretend she's Daredevil and you'll see what I mean.
Honestly, waterfowl is my biggest issue with that boss. Sometimes I can dodge it, other times it just deletes me.
Millenia lmao
Yea, everything that isn't waterfowl is easy to dodge. If they just toned down the tracking on the first volley of slashes she'd be fine but the fact that you can't dodge or run to the side real quick is too much.
@@YiddishDancingClown
That's what I was thinking. Mechanically she isn't difficult. But her gimmicks are what hype her up.
Personally I find Mogh, Apostle, and Beast Clergy to be mechanically harder
Who the fuck is Milennia?
The big Sekiro bossfights seem to be the ultimate difficulty out of all the games. Demon, Isshin, and Owl Father are all just so intense, you only beat them by getting the most gud, and white knuckling them. To me anyway. Obviously stuff like Maliketh and Midir and Friede are pretty close behind. Super glad you mentioned Fume Knight and Blue Smelty, cause the boss combined with the bossrun are genuinely difficult. And Artorias is also genuinely difficult. I just beat him with a dagger only build with the Bandits Knife and damn if it didn't take like 15+ attempts, all long arduous fights.
I wouldn’t say that any of the sekiro bosses deserve to be on this top 10 list due to how easy they are by just parrying, jumping, and dodging.
I defeated all sikero bosses and only used L1
It's so fuking easy
Except you can say that for ds and bloodborne too just dodge bro.... such a braindead comment@@LittleCaesars777
@@talentroller4413 every boss in sekiro is the same bro same timings and sekiro parrying gives some leeway, especially adding in the resurrections. Easy game
Ludwig the Holy Blade was incredibly difficult for me. I didn’t play the DLC until I had started a NG+ account and that was a big mistake. Doesn’t help that I returned to the game for the DLC years after I had originally beaten the base game.
yep i did it first on ng+1 rushed to the dlc way under leveled Ludwig was a nightmare it was so hard to get to stage 2 and it’s relentless one miss timed dodge and you get combo’d. those circumstances probably warped my experience but he was the hardest boss for me in bloodborne hands down still #1 though so epic
Wait until Laurence on NG2+ raises his ugly fire-ridden head
But that fight's sorta bs....Whirligig at max stats to make him pay for turning all of Yharnam into beasts inadvertantly isn't enough
He's the hardest on later NGs due to ridiculous health/damage shenanigans
I literally first tried OoK (so happy about that...hehe, I just exploited Augur of Ebrietas backstabs)
But second and third NGs took a few dozen tries each
To be honest, the only moves that make malenia so hard is Waterfowl Dance and to some extent the clone attack in Phase 2.
The lifesteal too
@@cozence And the massive health bar, And the super high damage. She's broken in nearly every way if you fight her in Dark Souls way.
Bro what is the point of this comment though? She has waterfowl dance therefore she is hard. She'd still be harder than 90% of souls bosses if you removed waterfowl simply because of how much damage she does and how much she life steals.
@@Crowback354Waterfowl brings her to unfair levels. That move is really badly designed and it's the reason why she's the hardest boss in Elden Ring and probably the whole series. For me, if she didn't have waterfowl, i wouldn't consider her that much of a threat.
@@Crowback354 nah, her other moves are easy to dodge and are very well telegraphed
In walks Consort Radahn.......
Number 1?
@@Brightmarionne 100%
I’m insanely surprised that father owl wasn’t on here
And now here comes R.v2 (trying not to spoil)
Wait till you see the last one.
@@kaj9786i’m on it. Thats legitimately the hardest boss ever in soul games
@@shelbythomas1141it is
Now lets move on to the number 1 spot, If you didn't already guessed It, we have Pinwheel!
Real
Now imagine the rank if the bed of chaos didn’t save your progress…
Easily hardest boss in nearly the whole gaming industry
Welcome til souls mojo, today we are breaking down our list for the 10 hardest souls bosses
This video just proves everyone has different struggles when it comes bosses. To me nameless is still the hardest and took me the longest to beat. I think the order in which we play souls games also has an impact since DS3 was my first.
huh really?.. i've killed nameless king in my very first game using estoc..
for me the hardest is wolnir, he killed me in instant
@@actualfrog6 This is the first time I've heard someone struggling against Wolnir lmao😂
@@lohitsai12 yea i dont know theres a trick to beat him, i hit his arm and torso and i deal more like 6-13 damage then he killed me with his magic
@@actualfrog6 Bruh u hit his bracelets. It's ez to break them and if one bracelet breaks, it deals around 1/4 of his HP.
The whole fight is basically u destroy his bracelets and u win.
Losing my sanity with Friede was all part of the experience
Friede made me go to bed really mad a couple times. 😂 But she's more of a fun time now, even on SL1 NG+2. Demon Prince on the other hand...
margit the fell omen needs honorable mention
Margitt and Morgot if they have more heath then that gonna be a nightmare 😂
Im shocked to see the Orphan over Ludwig, at least with the Orphan you can somewhat predict what he's going to do, but that first phase of ludwig is brutally hard to try to figure out how to predict and dodge his stuff
What level would you recommend for ludwig? Im stuck on him rn, and im around level 40rn and i feel like im just chipping away at his hp
You are fighting him wayyy too low man. I recommend fighting him once you reach toward the endgame. So around lvl 80ish
@@Doomguy-ut9nf im level 100 rn and in ng+ and i feel like he's not as difficult to beat as people make him out to be. 1. Phase is relatively easy, and second phase just kinda depends on luck
I consider Lawrence to be the hardest boss in BB, i beat Orphan in my 4th try, Lawrence i tried 21 times, got my ass handed to me, went back leveled an came back later, and after that it took me 10 more tried to finally get him, ludwig was a first try beat for me.
For me Kalameet is way harder than both Artorias and Manus. It took me like 8 tries on my first playthrough, while Artorias only took 2 and Manus like 5. But the boss that gave me the most trouble in any soulsborne game (aside from Malenia) was Fume Knight. It took me 38 tries to beat him on my first playthrough. It was rough. I would also put Burnt Ivory King on there since he killed me about 15 times.
Malenia was the only boss in Elden ring that made me put the game down, I had to take a break, and come back another day to try again. She was also the only one to make me use my larval tears trying to find a build that worked against her. She very nearly ruined the game for me, but that feeling when I finally beat her was Amazing!
But did you do it without summons?
For me, I wasn't even happy when I beat her. I was just frustrated. I honestly hate her fight a lot solely because of that damned waterfowl. I don't understand how people could defend it as being an alright attack to have in the game. When I finally did beat her, it felt like pure dumb luck and I certainly didnt feel like I deserved it.
I'm not the biggest fan of Elden Ring as a whole. I mean it's a fantastic game and I love it for what it is, but as far as the souls games and the others, it ranked at the bottom of my list for a number of reasons.
@@Gandalf_the_Whitecompletely agree. First boss in a From game where I had to change my build, cause I thought my normal one just wasn't enough. Once I beat her It was just luck that she didn't spam waterflow another time. She may be hard but there are a dozen better bosses in each Sekiro and DS3
Consort radahn is definitely the hardest
Says a lot that Demon's Souls doesn't even rate an honourable mention on this list. And what it says is that Demon's Souls was a game that was mainly hard for its _level design,_ with the bosses mostly being the icing on the pain cake rather than the whole dessert. The only bosses in the game that would realistically be considered "hard" are Maneaters, Flamelurker and False King Allant, but some of the levels are sheer agony, even by the standards of later games.
Only thing missing gotta be Lawrence. Fucker has enough HP to break your weapons and enough damage to two-shot basically any build. Add AOE spam in phase two and followup damage to most attacks and he is the second hardesr Bloodborne boss for sure
Some advice: Bone Ash Set and all health/fire resistance runes makes him significantly easier since a lot of the fire damage from the aoes is stripped off. Plus with a little grinding of the chalices or the winter lanterns before Orphan you can shred his health pool kind of quick.
Hardest Bloodborne boss for me. I hate it. I got so annoyed I went off and killed the Orphan of Kos before I returned to Laurence. Finally using lead elixir in his final phase is what got me through to the end. The fight is a miserable one for sure and the run to get him is also annoying af. Rolling ball of fire and putting an executioner right in the doorway is aggravating, especially since it's hard to get the bastard to move his fat ass out of the way.
Pre-nerf Radahn was my second longest boss fight ever at 5.5 hours. Malenia was the longest at 22 hours. Really puts it to perspective for me how unforgiving she is
Malenia nearly made me quit like 3 times 😂 i never understood how ppl could straight up quit a game over one fight until her lmao
Good list, as always my consistent friend. I recently began my second play through of Elden Ring. I'm excited to see which bosses still give me trouble.
I thought fume knight was a weird choice, I never found him difficult at all
@@ChuckFinelyForever DS2 is clunky. I often felt I was battling the controls more than the actual fights (even with ADP leveled).
Fume Knight isn't terrible once the timing and moves are sorted, but I find him to be one of the few memorable fights in DS2.
There are SO many bosses in that game, and only a handful stand out in anyway.
@@JohnDWJ I never leveled ADP so my hate for the game is pretty infinite but I struggled more with the mobs than the bosses. Fucking path to the blue smelter still haunts my dreams along with the frigid outskirts.
@@ChuckFinelyForever Yes. DS2 was all about mobs. Artificial difficulty to the absurd. I rage quit on my first play through at the Shrine of Amana (made the mistake of being a magic user). I picked it up again a few years later as a fighter (which was slightly more fun). It took me a good long while to find any enjoyment in that game. I did eventually, but it is by far the weakest least replayable in the series.
Gonna need a new one now huh
I just started working on my second attempt at Bloodborne. Very excited. It’s soooo fun. I’m yet to beat the game and I couldn’t beat Orphan of Kos or Lawrence. Gotta try again.
I've only ever beat him once and it was with my arcane build...but now I beat him again cause I want to do a beast claw build
good luck brother 👊
I had to change from axe to Kirkhammer sword for faster attacks to beat OoK. And it worked very well, the sword has surprisingly long range aswell.
@@yuomovaeh3028 I use Moonlight Greatsword and Ludwig's Holy Blade.
The game is just farming simulator I don’t know how anyone can enjoy it especially with the most mid bosses of the whole series
Malenia is weird for me, sometimes I struggle and sometimes I win with only using like 2 flasks, it feels like some fights she spams waterfowl dance and that one move where she shoots out phantoms, and other times, she recovers slowly and uses the slow recovery attacks constantly, and tghe big flower thing makes the fight even easier
thats rng my boy
@@JTarnished I know but it shouldn’t be, I consistently struggle with orphan rather than just getting an easy fight
I haven’t beaten every boss in the series (I’ve only completed Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring), but the boss that I consider the hardest out of those three is Orphan of Kos. He’s so aggressive and you have to be very patient, especially if you’re using a weapon that takes more time to swing (for example, Ludwig’s Holy Blade). But he felt totally fair and he’s one of my favorite bosses in the series, only beaten by Ludwig and Gael. Keep in mind that I also did use spirit summons for Elden Ring so Malenia wasn’t as hard. But at least I didn’t use Rivers of Blood +1,000.
I've only played DS1, DS3, and ER. I think Malenia is the hardest of the three games. Sure, there are ways to cheese her, but I don't like cheese.
Whether you use a summon or rivers of blood makes it just as easy. It's pretty silly of you to talk as if you are ''beyond'' using a broken weapon, as if you accept proper challenge, then use summons which diminish the achievement just as much in terms of difficulty. Why even shit talk rivers of blood in the first place if you are using something that makes it just as easy?
Should I look down on you then as well since I didn't use rivers nor a summon? ''At least I didn't use Rivers of blood or summons +10000000''.
I played every souls game apart from Demon’s Souls because I don’t have PS5. For me Malenia is the hardest boss. I beat the whole game with shield and katana, but as you know malenia heals when she hits anything, so I had to use dual katanas. I was also using mimic tear, but couldn’t beat her even after 53 tries. She completely broke me, so I decided to use rivers of blood and killed her after 5 attempts. I’m telling you this is the worst boss in souls games. She is absolutely broken.
@@Zindril I haven't used Rivers, but summons do not make it easy. I have tried. The only thing they do is give Malenia more health.
I have Rivers of Blood…while you still do pretty amazing damage from blood loss the fight is no push over
I feel like Manus was fast because it was a dlc boss released while they were probably already making Bloodborne in the backround.
Malenia is 100% still the hardest. Waterfowl alone seriously does it for me Fromsoft has never included an attack that requires such incredible precision to evade. Most attacks are pretty simple to dodge after a while, but waterfowl is like a challenge run every time she pulls it out. You’re lucky if you only get hit twice
@theprofanedblackknight6096 interesting take. Can you evade waterfowl every time now?? I always found it borderline impossible without BHS
@@eliwilson8242 To my knowledge, Waterfowl Dance can be fully dodged even from melee range. It is not easy but its possible. If you dodge behind her the moment she starts her first series of slashes, you can avoid the damage 100%.
I just took a greatshield with me to deal with Waterfowl Dance, which too was a death sentence if you were out of stamina.
@@aggis3237 interesting. I’ll have to really try to master that move when I play through again for the DLC
Only day 1 Elden Ring players can remember how hard Radahn was before they had to nerf him.
I got to admit “The nameless king” was my nightmare boss 😱 it took me like 2 weeks to get him down so to this day he’s still the hardest for me lol
I feel like Sekiro's Inner Fights should've at least been mentioned, especially Inner Father with that damn mist raven
You could put Inner Father, Genichiro and Isshin in a top 5 list by itself
Personally i that at the time you fight inner bosses you are already skilled enough to take them on without too much trouble.
inner father is just owl father with like 2 new moves and mist raven for phase 1
just treat as if you're in phase 2 the whole fight
No boss of sekiro deserves this list they’re all easy😂😂😂
@@LittleCaesars777lol i bet you cant easily beat them
Going for the platinum trophy in Demon Souls at the moment, and the Maneaters boss arena is the bane of my existence.
Sometimes i think midir is bad because he is just tanky af and two shots you with his attacks. Same like for example fire giant. A boss shouldnt be hard because he oneshots
you or has to much hp. I think you can make every boss hard with doubling hp and damage.
Actually Fire Giant is bad because he is too much bugged. After learning how to use Torrent on this fight and when not to attack he is not that hard except for the bugs and obsticles in your way.
@@griffithdasilvathats right, but isnt it also that fg does too much damage and has too much health, which makes him more ennoying than he should be.
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Yeah man git gud. You don't understand boss fight design. What matters is how long the fight is and not the hp. If the boss doesn't give you many windows for attacks, then he should have less hp. So that the entire fight length is normal. But if the boss, like Midir, gives you a window to attack him like after every convo, where you can get 4hitz easily, he should have more hp. Midir doesn't have too much hp, ths time it takes to no hit him is 4-5 minutes, which is fine
Having the dragonslayer as the second stage of THAT fight in dark souls 1 Was insanely difficult
I thought flamelurker was impossible in my first playthrough. I didnt know how the game worked so I thought that i had to beat him in order to continue. This thing was almost as hard as Malenia.
Agreed, flamelurker was a wall for me. Honorable mention atleast. Especially due to the grindiness of demons souls. I can also see a new player getting stuck on allant being contantly downleveled lmao.
Personally felt like maneater is harder than flamelurker for me especially that dive attack from air
I have to disagree with Friede, but that’s probably because I’ve conditioned myself from like…50 attempts on the first playthrough to recognize and react to every single one of her gimmicks.
Invisible:
Snow plume up? She’s jumped behind you.
Dust cloud left, plume right? She went right.
Dust cloud right, plume left? She went left.
You didn’t catch her when she was invisible? Listen for the rising, tense sound. As soon as it stops, roll before she snags you.
Phase 2: Focus Ariandel’s legs. As soon as Airandel starts to glow, disengage and find Friede before she heals him. _Always_ keep one eye on Friede, and make sure Ariandel is between the both of you.
Phase 3: You can parry the startup to her big Blackflame explosion if you’re feeling extremely bold, and are close enough.
Her quick slashing combo that seems to never end? Literally just run away from her. If you’re far enough, she’ll end it in an upswing and slam. Then go in and slap her.
The cross-map, neck-snatching grab attack? JUST before she gets in range, roll backwards. You’ll end up behind her, and can get a free backstab during her recovery.
Also, one thing I never see people doing in boss fights is RUNNING SIDEWAYS. Running is way better than people give it credit for. Rykard’s fire spam. Just run. Magic projectiles. Just run or zigzag. Malenia speed combos. Run backwards. Elden Beast? Run. Genichiro bow? Run. Etc. etc.
you don't need to look at dust to tell where she went, you can hear her feet land when she jumps
I still can't believe he didn't include the hardest boss in elden ring
Rick, solider of God
That thing about the dlc was so true for elden ring
Top 10 best elevators in the souls series
#1 would be the elevator trap in sens fortress
8:23 I find Ludwig in dlc way harder than orphan, he's too big and hard to predict, his size and sudden agression makes it hard to know what to do next, the whole screen gets occupied and hes fast asf.
Orphan is faster, has about double the health, does a lot more damage and is much more aggressive
I can relate to almost every of your picks but i would include the godskin duo. Beating them without summons or sleeping pots was a true nightmare for me.
What weapon/upgrade level did you have? I didn’t have my weapons (dual twinblades) fully upgraded my first play through, and going in with them fully upgraded definitely made it more manageable
Malenia no shit took me 400 attempts to beat. Had to get completely naked to get the best dodge, so getting hit was just not an option. Such a respectable fight; no doubt the hardest thing I’ve ever done in gaming
Promised consort ☠️☠️
How is this list now with shadow of erd tree
Malenia, Maliketh, Orphan, and nameless king were the only bosses I ever had to try again another day. So I definitely agree with those. Honestly though, boss difficulty is mainly about playstyle and level. Some of the hardest bosses for me in ER were side bosses that I was just fighting a little too early. ER can either be the easiest or the hardest depending on your level. Also, if you took out water fowl dance for Malenia she would be the worst boss....
Melania took me 4 tries (w summons). The elden beast took over 30, respected twice, and leveled significantly before I was able to kill.
I absolutely hate Elden Beast. I was super disappointed that FromSoft used one of their worst bosses for the final boss of Elden Ring.
elden beast just runs away, hes not even a good fight. you probably died because he just used elden stars, like me and everyone else
I'm with you on #2 and #1. I do think Orphan can be somewhat trivialised if you know what to do but I suppose you could say that for anyone. For me Laurence is probably harder than Orphan.
Laurence is usually harder if you take multiple playthroughs into account....but it's not the "fun" type of difficulty
Orphan is a much more fun fight, similar to Ludwig or Maria....Laurence is Cleric Beast but there's lava so you have to be anal retentive about your movement in addition to your attack animation timing....*sigh* Here he lost his bottom half and he's leaking magma everywhere....Plus here's another +10k health
OST's a banger though....like with every BB DLC boss so take it as you will
I think defiled watchdog of the old Lords is harder than half of this list. My god that fights brutal
Just finishing up DS3 now, working on Midir now and Sister Friede is DEFINITELY the hardest boss on that game and I haven't even beaten the dragon yet. She was absolutely unreal, I was so damn proud of myself for beating her. Malenia is just silly. Clear #1 out of all the ones I've played.
Just beat Midir. Harder than Gael. Not harder than the Nameless King and definitely not Friede. Good ranking.
yeah im stuck on friede, can get to phase 3 consistently but then i just get wrecked in that phase, and i cant play the other dlc without beating her otherwise i might have just skipped her
@@itachileesan I dont blame you. I was maybe 3-4 days on her. Leveled up maybe 10 times and maxed out 2 different weapons trying to beat her. Good luck to you!
@@LucieOne thanks :)
Friede attacks are extremely punishable, you need to fight more aggressively.
@@ShadowOfLaw Is usually the solution when you're stuck on a boss imo; but you kinda have to develop that comfort level where you're feeling right to move ahead and punish her at almost every opportunity because you've been getting railed attempt after attempt.
You have an insane amount of patience and discipline to have slayed all these bosses solo. It's mind blowing. I've slayed a handful of bosses myself, but Nameless King and Midir is just torture.
here’s my top 5 hardest bosses in souls games (imo)
5: manus or O and S
4: demon of hatred
3: sister friede
2: orphan of kos
1: malenia
Welp, this list certainly needs an update after Shadow of the Erdtree
Maliketh is always very difficult for me because of how much he jumps around, it’s very hard to predict him and his attacks hit so hard. He has a pretty small health bar, but he makes up for it with his aggression.
It is such a wasted boss they gave him only half health. That boss deserved to have a full size health. He is easy when you can abuse columns and wait for an opening.
@@Windiewalkerno thanks. Any more HP and im a goner
@@Windiewalker do not hide behind columns and wait for an opening, the fight will go a lot faster if you stick to him, get under him and jump attack his sweeps if you're too far to get under, you should be attacking him at the same time he attacks you.
He's actually pretty easy if you position right. Just hard to figure that out
As someone who played elden ring as a mage and not an optimized one which most bosses one shot me here are my top 5 hardest bosses.
5. Raenalla, with high magic resistance you have to change to a play style that won't match your build
4. Godskin Noble, his fast reaction and being able to close distance quickly is a challenge for spell casting
3. Pre nerf Radahn, his massive health pool, constant running around and big hitboxes especially early in your playthrough were a huge undertaking
2. Elden Beast, having to fight 2 bosses especially when Radagon is as aggressive as he is was challenging however elden Beast has Magic resistance as well as constant movement, don't even get me started on elden stars as that will make spell casting virtually obsolete.
1.Maelinia, like ember said I stopped playing the game for a couple months because of how long I was stuck on her, the healing off damage was a huge debuff for me as a big asset to a mage is the spirit summon so you can take the heat off yourself on more aggressive foes so using certain summons would be more difficult than going without, waterfall dance would one shot me on the first two swings, she would constantly dodge incoming projectiles only occasionally getting clipped, huge lunge moves would make casting as well a gamble as she might just decide to get right in your face
I think Malenia´s difficulty is very artificially raised by the passive lifesteal she has, which is a weird ability to give her since it requires no preparation, buildup or cooldown on her part. If not for that one, I bet she would have globally been perceived as way easier than others in this list.
She's a statistically hard boss but not a mechanically hard boss. Base combined hp in each form before any lifesteal she has more hp then Gael and all 3 phases of Feide combined. She can just ignore staggers at seemingly random and requires being parried 3 times before you can get your parry crit(Yes these are real mechanics she has).
Meanwhile water fowl might as well be random given its BS nature even if you can mitigate most of it.
If you gave her the normal stats she really wouldn't be a hard boss at all outside of waterfowl even with life steal.
I hate her lifesteal gimmick, but lore-wise it actually makes sense. It's based on how she 'fights against her rot' by moving and fighting.
Fr without her life steal she’s the easiest boss. Everything breaks her poise and she’s super weak to elements
The lifesteal is a mechanic so that spirit summons and shields become useless. It's basically a forced skillcheck by the game. If you fight her solo you really don't notice the lifesteal that much. Her Waterfowl Dance is really the only thing making her the hardest boss. If that wasn't there, Radagon and Maliketh would be way harder, hell, maybe even Godfrey
@@Noelci035Take away her waterfowl and she’s still wayyy harder than every boss.
I've clocked more time chasing down the Elden Beast than actually fighting it.
Dawg was right, Eden ring dlc beat our ass 😭😭
I remember when I was fighting Isshin, I was sweating and I used all the revives and recovery items.
Elden ring 🤣🤣🤣 bro elden ring was the easiest!!! I would put Isshin Sword Saint on the 1st place! I mean 4phases, specially the last 2 phases were so unpredictable and so hard! (From a all souls platinplayer)
Can’t believe you didn’t include soldier of godrick.
Laurence :(
Orphan of Kos makes Artorias feel like a turtle.
I don't know what one liner brings out the most trauma for me. It's a tie between "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella" and "Hesitation is Defeat"
Summoning for Midir is fun when all/most in the fight know how to do it. Fun to toast at the end
I seriously don’t know how to rank DS3’s bosses. On my first playthrough Friede was insane, nameless king was absolutely brutal, the demon prince was the definition of hell and Midir was straight up impossible. Then I completed Elden Ring (without summons on NG+6) and Sekiro. After all these years I came back to DS3 and tried to finish the remaining bosses. I first tried every single one of them. They are really easy in comparison to the later games. At least my skill level rose after playing them. Especially Elden Ring is DS3 but harder. So how do I rank them? I lost countless hours to Friede and the others but also first tried them after not touching the game for 2 years. I didn’t even warm up before fighting. It’s confusing.
They didn't take waterfowl dance out because if they did, Malenia would be a complete pushover. Even with it, just chucking a frost pot at her stuns her out of it, and by that point, you should have a good enough build to burn her down fast enough that she only does it twice, or three times if you're unlucky. I think mohg is another honorable mention for his random fire puddles and damn near undodgeable fire attacks that take half your health. Especially in ng+ cycles. Honestly as hard as malenia by ng+5
Father owl was very hard. First play through took 50 attempts considering I went to the boss with only 6 prayer necklaces. Man the way he caught you against the wall with his firecracker will instantly end the fight. It was hard
Inner Father is even more brutal thanks to his Mist Raven attack.
Maliketh is easy with a strike weapon. I love how we all experience the game differently because of the variety of builds
Its so crazy that I beat Malikath on the first try and I was lost words but all the other play throughs he's been a complete pain!
I had that experience with fucking Gideon. Easiest boss in the game as long as you can kill him while he's talking, if not...
That waterfowl dance absolutely destroyed me every time. The first and only time I beat malenia was by having her execute that move on my mimic summon and then she didn't use that move in the second phase. that move always destroyed me.
Sister Friede and Midir. As an offline only player I never really felt the need to farm embers until these two showed up 😂
These people don’t know the struggle. Being a little kid and magic sucking so you HAD to get close 😂 I f’ing hated watching all my health deplete within seconds
It took me 2 tries with Malenia. But this was because when I tried to take her on the first time, she wiped me out in the first second, while I was summoning the Mimic Tear.
The 2nd attempt was where summoned two other players to help me out. She was one of those bosses where I knew right away that I’d need help with.
My 2nd attempt seemed my like sheer luck, when looking back on it. But I was glad that the players that helped me out then knew what they were doing.
I will definitely put Mohg in my honorable mentions on the boss tier list lol.
Maliketh, Kalameet, Elden Beast and Midir were the hardest ones for me by far. I sincerely never found Malenia, Friede or Kos to be that hard. They're honestly really fun fights, as is Gael, especially on low levels. Props to Dragonslayer Armour too, it is a monster one on one and is such a balanced and well made boss, recently tried it at SL30 caestus+frozen weapon which was quite difficult and rewarding.
Maliketh was the absolute bane of my life for so long. Think I was in triple digits by the time I beat him.
I agree with almost everything about this list, and the only thing I’d add, to possibly honorable mentions is Sir Alonne, trying to beat him taking 0 damage for that alternate ending is really difficult