@@ChronosDosGriz yeh gonna agree as soon as you figure out the poisebreak it's just added passivity. The attacks aren't bad to dodge. And poisebreak gives reposte attack for invulnerability. From there it's like two or three hits and then you're back to the duo fight. Scarlet rot is annoying tho
Killing Patches makes you miss out on the funniest moments later on where you can summon him for Radahn only for him to get scared and just fuck off without fighting with a message saying "Patches returned to his world". I died.
Edit: Spoiler for Patches questline He's also got a super troll questline as you'd expect haha - one where he gets you ensnared in a transporter trap and another, in classic Patches fashion, kicking you off a ledge at the tip of Volcano Manor
A note for the invisible Black Knife Assassin: you can purchase a Sentry’s Torch in the same region that cancels out her invisibility. Makes it way easier.
Hey, that’s the name of my arcane character! Also, YES! (I’m not joking btw I have a character named emotional damage in all caps who looks like gigachad. VERY EFFECTIVE)
“Crystalline’s are super easy lol” all I can think is that one three on one gank fight in the Celia hideaway cave where you have to fight a disk, mage, and spear one, all with scarlet rot in a shoebox arena with no cover.
@@MarkHogan994 I beat the first trio there with the mimic summon (which I had summoned for the WAY harder Royal Revenants that are all over that place, thank god ash summons were available for that area, I didn't use it for Malenia but I needed it there lol) and the second trio by just luring them out and fighting them one by one. That said, I fought their mini boss version straight up without summon and they aren't that bad. One of the harder mini bosses for sure but very manageable for a 3 vs 1. The whole Haligtree area is somehow riddled with even harder encounters. I swear FromSoft made that place as hard as they make their DLC areas.
From what I can tell, the Bloodhound is meant to be one of the first bosses you face. For me he was the third after a watchdog and the soldier. He was very hard hitting for my sub level 10 character, and he made me quickly learn about greed vs stupidity in this game.
In this video and his main boss one a big flaw is how late he fought most of the bosses. Like sure Astel might not be that bad, but if you fight him at the earliest logical point to, every single one of his attacks one shots if you haven't been pumping an insane amount of bitch vigor. Same with bloodhound, I fought him extremely early and pretty much had to get a no hit for even a chance of winning.
@@yunglink992 Yeah, definitely. I think it would've been a good idea for DeMod to create a new character and keep it within strict bounds of recommended levels and upgrades for each region for fighting the bosses. Like, I'd personally rank Darriwil about 10 ranks above Alabaster Lord because by time you fight Alabaster Lord, you've likely killed two or three Great Rune Holders, plus cleared Caria Manor. You'd know the value of being aggressive by then and his simple moveset is a piece of cake. Meanwhile, Darriwil is placed super early in the game, has high damage, has an aggressive moveset with many short teleports, forces you to dodge rather than block, etc. He's definitely one of the harder bosses in Limgrave.
@@shadowyking123 Absolutely agree with Darriwil. He was the 3rd or 4th boss I faced, so he stomped me. By the time I fought Alabaster Lord I'd already killed multiple of him as a basic enemy. But I guess that kind of speaks to how this game is almost impossible to rank boss difficulty outside of maybe the late main story bosses, because your choice of progression dictates difficulty more than design does.
@@shadowyking123 Hard agree. Darriwil was a boss I spent a lot of time on because I am not a "veteran" of the series and his speed made me learn quickly or keep dying. He was the first boss that actually gave me any trouble, more because he was the first with a modicum of difficulty. I think Demod did him dirty because he faced what's supposed to be one of the first five bosses you face, not a late game fight. Compare this to the Crucible knight, who's OBVIOUSLY designed for a mid-late game build. You also mentioned Alabaster Lord, who honestly was MUCH easier, because he's very easy to stagger. Ironically my go-to weapon is the Bloodhound's fang, which is perfect for spacing between the Alabaster Lord's attacks, keeping him stun locked. You can't really stun lock Darriwil that early into the game, especially with his reach and speed.
There’s actually a black knife assassin in the early game that’s visible but it starts the fight with only 60% HP. He gives you a talisman that recovers Health when You land a critical hit
There's another black knife assassin in some catacombs in liurnia that gives you a talisman that recovers FP on crits, but it's behind an illusory wall and a tricky puzzle where you need to use a falling blade trap as a lift
I was surprised to not see the crystalian higher. The battle against 3 of them at once (ring, spear, and caster) that all inflict scarlet rot was one of the cave bosses that gave me the most trouble.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who gets creeped out by the Erdtree Burial Watchdog.... The janky move sets certainly add to it too. They and the Deathbirds are just plain nightmare fuel. Certainly more than anything in Bloodborne. At least for me.
The hands at Carian manor and outside Volcano manor entrance are the ones that creep me out the most, hate those skittering things. They have so many fingers and the big ones have this really annoying grab move.
The deathbird in lirunia scared the heck out of me on my first playthrough. Also the one in the consecrated snow area was also a massive pain even in the late game.
It's weird how much your level affects your rankings. I started as a wretch and fought Adan really early on with a loin cloth, a crap shield and a stick. Everything he did would 1 shot me. Then I fought the Bloodhound with a similar setup a couple levels later and thought it was a great boss that was difficult but not unfair. Once I had a not a stick for a weapon I fought a number of the others on this list that are way higher and thought they were much easier than those two.
It does, you are ideally supposed to fight Bloodhound before Adan. In fact I'd go so far as to say that after getting to the church of elleh and clearing the first cave and catacomb nearby, he's probably either the next guy you kill after speaking with Blaidd or a couple bosses later (cave/catacomb bosses that is)
Bloodhound especially is more difficult than he gives it credit for, due to his bias based on being over-levelled and having OP late game gear in the network test. When you are a low level, there's NO doubt he's harder than the beastman, for example.
I'm very ashamed to admit that I died to the Soldier of Godrick when starting out. While I had started out as a Wretch, I have no excuse for loosing to that guy. At least I was able to beat Godrick himself on my first attempt.
Happened to my friend who had no experience with souls games. I beat him myself first try, BUT I made another account and was doing the tutorial. Once I got to him I completely underestimated his capabilities and spammed normal attacks while looking at my second monitor. He caught me off guard and proceeded to unalive me. Lesson learned: anything can and will kill you if you aren't careful
Elden ring was my first souls like game with nothing similar like it before so I will admit dying twice to Soldier of Godrick while trying to get head around all the buttons. That being said now 90 or so hours later I'm only missing ending achievements and one for all achievements in steam so I'd like to think that some learning has happened over the time
I was doing a greatshield + hammer build. Some of their attacks (especially on the spear variant) bounce from greatshields. They also stance-break after 2 guard counters. My first fight with a crystallian was literally block -> guard counter -> block -> guard counter -> riposte -> the end. That fight was over in seconds.
I just love the Tibia Mariner. Like he is basically boney Pinwheel but the fact he is just trying to chill out on a boat like your dad making you go fishing always gave me a chuckle.
I’m glad to see that Crucible Knight hasn’t made the first half of the list. The second phase has killed me more times than I’d like to admit. It can tear you apart, especially as a melee character without a shield. That damn tail swipe blocks so many opportunities to counter.
@@sinogaris9854 I have made the decision that I’m not going to leave the first Limgrave map until I’ve defeated every boss. Dual wielding Uchigatanas so I guess I’ll be in for the long run against ck
@@i.turn.tables6455 Actually the dual wield moveset for Dual Kats is pretty good, you might even bleed the CK, don't remember if you can but you've picked a fun combo.
I always enjoy these rankings to see differences in play style. While I fought bloodhound early and hated the encounter because every hit could kill me I found beating him extremely rewarding. While I don’t think I’ve ever even used a flask fighting the pumpkin heads. It’s neat to see what I handle well vs what others do
The duo Ulcerated Tree spirit fight can actually turn into a TRIO! If you try and run past them straight for the talisman you will trigger all 3 of them to spawn. Scary stuff, not that the duo wasn't. (The fight is in Leyndell post Farum Azula, just before you would have fought the twin omens)
I wish I could watch this but I have dedicated myself to beating Elden ring before watching anything like this and having just made it to the atlus plateue I believe I'm almost at the end. Edit: Well these replies just crushed my dreams
I'd love to see a video where you discuss whether Elden Ring had too many repeated bosses. From what I can see that's a main subject of discussion in the community right now, and it would be interesting to compare it to the Chalice Dungeons in Bloodborne, which also had alot of repeated bosses.
Id also like to see some videos about how ridiculously OP magic builds are in this game. I seriously regret making a strength based class with a greatsword because just like Dark Souls 3, poise is once again tied to your weapon class. Swinging an Ultra Greatsword is fine because it has poise tied to its hits. But swinging a greatsword is just pointless because you get knocked out of every hit, and it swings 50% as fast as a katana. It makes fighting some of the later bosses and encounters just an absolute chore and extremely difficult. Not the fun difficulty, just annoying af. If youre running a greatsword strength build and want to take a stab at some of the late game gank fights like the godskin duo, good luck lol.
@@owenhad8221 stance breaking is the name of the game for larger weapons If you abuse the jump heavy attack and keep the pressure on they actually achieve very decent results. This is coming from someone who played with only greatswords/no magic or shields even for the first playthrough
I think it’s totally fine, there are still far more than any of the games before it. What’s the alternative? just delete all the dungeons with repeated bosses and remove the repeated field bosses from the overworld? Is that better?
@@Emperorhirohito19272 Personally I draw the line at main Bosses who play a big role in the story, unless their is a valid story reason for it to reappear. Sure, in an open world game bosses being repeated are a feature we have to accept, and Elden Ring does it better than alot of the competition. I'm going to give some examples of Bosses I didn't want to see reappear, so big spoilers for the entire game: For example, Astel reappears, Godrick reappears in a Geol, Mohg also reappears, Godfrey must be fought on two occasions before he becomes Hoarah Loux. I can excuse Margit/Morgot reappearing because theirs a story explanation, but I wish the others stayed unique, just to make their main fight more impactful and significant.
Hey Dmod. Love the video and your work in general. (Spoiler Warning) There is actually a three-on-one version of the Crystalian fight where their attacks inflict scarlet rot. It's in a dungeon behind an illusory wall northeast of the Church of the Plague which you go to in the Sorceress Sellen questline. It wasn't particularly enjoyable. But it did feature all three variants of the miniboss with a greater difficulty spike than usual due to having to juggle the rot buildup.
their movesets are weird, but they are trivial if you space yourself correctly tbh. I beat alecto first try by just baiting out her combos running away and then punishing.
There is a dungeon in the Mountain of the Giants region where the boss is a Spirit Caller Snail, but to even have a chance to kill the snail you first have to kill a spirit called Godskin Apostle then a Godskin Noble, all the while in an extremely small boss room with no cover
I'd love to see a Master List of sorts after multiple playthroughs where you includes all variants, giving a general overview on the basic, singular mini bosses and expand on them in later gank entries. But I'm just happy to see rankings on this Channel again TBH.
I actually remember going on Elden ring for the first time fresh off the grave yard and going too the burnt ruins….. what sick bastard made a trap chest where you needed to touch grace too leave at The mine. I remember attacking those miner guys thinking “ what the fuck they take no damage” then those weird ass ants came and now even tho I’m getting too the capital and I’ve already beat rodahn I’m Terrified of the mine. Asides from that man seeing democracy evolve from his old style of rankings is so refreshing I love the little jokes and memes that he’s added along with a serious conversation about which boss he finds most difficult. Just wanted to say thanks democracy for making these kinds of videos I’ve loved em since the first ds3 difficulty ones and I love just how much you’ve grown as a creator. Definitely my favourite souls born TH-camr right next too vaauti
@@CerberusMalt "a bit" is serious understating it. My guess is he's going to steal #1 if the Draconic Tree Sentinel doesn't. Those and the crucible knights are probably the 3 toughest minibosses i've found.
@@CerberusMalt You poor sod :p. Seriously Draconic Tree sentinel hit's like a truck, has massive reach, and some nasty ranged attacks to boot. First phase is harsh but doable. Getting through the lightning buff of the second phase is a nightmare. Killed me more times than anything else so far. Cleared almost everything upto and including the Altus Plateau for reference. Haven't done triple crystellians, most of Mt Glimnir/Deeproot Depths, Shaded Castle, or most of the dragons.
hey demod, can't really watch this video because I don't wanna be spoiled but are you planning on doing a community ranking for the bosses once everyone has had time to beat the game?
Yes, right now I have the first community ranking scheduled for mid-April. Want to give it some time for as many people as possible to finish. I'll likely be posting the poll around the end of March and leaving it active for a week
I'll be posting the end of my boss quality ranking around that time. I'll put the poll there, in a community post on the channel, and shout it out on discord. Good place to be to stay up to date: discord.gg/thedemodcracy
The footage is what is wrong with these rankings. This man blocks most attacks with his face, but since he has a build and is basically playing early game content at the endgame he just says “GG EZ” or “haha here is a quick joke on his unique move”
I loved this video! Honestly, the rank of most bosses completely depends on when you run across them. Most Bloodhound Knights were very difficult for me for example, because I fought some quite early. The dragons on the other hand...
11:16 There are 2 more Black Knife assassins that you missed. Deathtouched Catacombs - this assassin starts with 60% health and absorbs your health when getting critical hits on you. Black Knife Catacombs - this assassin is fought with D the Undead Hunter, and has no special gimmick compared to the other assassins.
There are 2 more Black Knife assassins that *you* missed. At the end of Ranni's quest you unlock an area with an evergaol. In this evergaol you duel a black knife assassin who borrows part of Maliketh's moveset (throws the deathflame projectiles and does a leap-into-deathflame-explosion move). Defeating this one grants you the spirit ashes to summon one of these yourself. In the town in Consecrated Snowfield, on the way to Haligtree, there's a puzzle evergaol where an invisible black knife assassin is stalking the ground and archers are hiding on the roofs. You don't actually need to kill this one though, thankfully.
Ulcerating Tre Spirit duo fight isn't a duo fight, it's a trio fight and its in Lendyell, Capital of Ash, but you don't have to fight them to get the talisman. It's on a rock on the far end of the arena. The talisman is the Erdtree's Favor +2 and it's guarded by three Lesser Ulcerated Tree Spirits.
While re-skins are almost always a negative for me I think fromsoft found the perfect response in sekiro and elden-ring. Mini-bosses are a cool way of offering a rewarding challenge without having to be an insane unique spectacle like most other traditional bosses, personally I really enjoy the idea and think it fits an open world game like this really well.
This is a really good perspective that I hadn't thought of it, and it certainly changes my opinion of the repetition a little bit in a positive direction.
I’ll always take an original boss/mini boss over a reskin but I think the different variations of these mini bosses make things interesting enough and make sense with how large of a game elden ring is. I think fromsoft did a really good job with enemy design in this game
Yeah I agree, plus some of the repeats/reskins made lore sense as well such as multiple watch dogs acting as catacomb guards, Erdtree avatars defending minor Erdtrees and things like Magma Wurms being rare but powerful wildlife in the lands between.
I'm fine with reskins and mini bosses if they are only in dungeons like Bloodborne or if they don't have boss health bar Because personally for me this health bar changes my inner perception from "wow cool enemy I fought before/haven't fought yet, nice" to "man why another reskin with a healthbar"
Funny thing is that on my first playthrough, I was distracted on a call to my elders when I reached Grave Warden. So I just mashed my attack button like a potato and when I ended the call, I look up at my screen and the boss was dead.
When you inevitably make a community poll, I hope you set some of the variants apart! I found the Eternal City Dragonkin to be a joke, but the two other variants (especially the one in the rot lake) were high-tier difficulty for me.
seeing how late you found so many of these makes my brain confused. i explored every inch of stuff before moving on to other areas. But hey everyone plays things differently
let's go new demod video, mini bosses were either good or really bad in my opinion but the main bosses were so good that it didn't matter as much. Can't wait for that quality video of the main bosses
In case of the double Ulcerating Tree Spirit fight, when you go towards the legendary talisman, you get a third Tree Spirit to appear for even more fun. At least they can hurt each other to lessen the work you have to do
I partially disagree about bloodhound knight, but its less because of difficulty, and more because i feel like he is one of the better designed minibosses in the game (Next to burial watchdog, which btw, is much easier imho). Those two feel much more fair and thoughtfully designed than majority of minibosses (and some bosses even)
Yeah lol he went with lvl 60+ in a lvl 10-20 fight and said it was easy, no shit This dude was one of the hardest Minibosses ever if you play the game correctly
@@onkkong5466 no he wasnt lmfao, he was the second boss I beat in elden ring after tree sentinel and he was a breeze, his ai makes him spam the body swing into the roll slam wayyy too often, very easily punishable with good spacing and parry skills.
@@onkkong5466 nah, he wasn't. I guess I was running a str/int hybrid so magic helped but he telegraphs well and he feels like a traditional souls boss. Was a really fun fight though, probably the third or fourth boss I killed (including SoG).
I usually love these lists from demod but I gotta say I think you've missed the point entirely. the bosses are very clearly scaled around an order to which they are meant to be tackled. The bosses in southern limgrave for example are only intimidating if you've done limgrave proper and then went down right after without over upgrading overleveling your character. scaly misbegotten is by no means a difficult boss but of course he's gonna be laughably easy after having killed radahn and having so many levels under your belt he he's prob meant to be fought between soul level 10-20 maybe 15-25 if generous. The core problem with ranking an open world souls game is finding the exact perfectly scaled path through the world and tackling every boss in the order that they scale but nobody is going to do that because it's tedious which kind of just makes ranking them redundant in and of itself.
@@gun_exe8387 that is definitely true and that's a good point I only mean to say it's alot harder to rank the bosses fairly then to just rank them exactly as where you happened to find them randomly through your playthrough
He did the bloodhound dirty, that fight is way harder than most at it's appropriate level. He does high damage and if you use a heavy strength weapon he is a bitch to get in on.
I would litterally switch the positions of fell twins and onyx lord. I killed fell twins with basically no pots, and on first try, I was shocked with how easy of a gank fight it was. onyx lord probably killed me 6 times before I figured out his moves, and I think it took like 10 tries to kill him (although I was underleveled) I'd also put nox priest really low and priest of blood way higher because those dogs fucked me up a bunch of times.
Surprised that Erdtree Avatars didn't make the bottom, especially considering they have the exact same moveset as Asylum Daemon with one extra magical arrows attack.
@@selousmartel8608 Yeah. To put it into perspective, Asylum Daemon (which these are copy pastes of) is the very first boss you fight with no upgrades in the starting area of Dark Souls (which in itself is a reskin of the starting boss in Daemons Souls). These guys get reused a lot in the series as easily killable 'big monster' enemies.
My personal favourite miniboss has to be the Ulcerated Tree Spirits, their visual design of something almost dragonlike but still very tree, and the weird way the move and wind about is incredibly cool to me, and they blend natural elements with slight body horror very well.
I think the one thing that makes the Crystal Cronies memorable is the encounter in the Sellia Hideaway. You gotta fight three variants, and the arena size makes it harder to dodge them all at once especially the mage. That isn't the problem; they would still be manageable, but their attacks bring you closer to contacting Scarlet Rot, a poison variant that gets stronger the more health you have, giving me PTSD to Bloodborne's Frenzy.
Darriwil definitely deserves to be at least above Adan lmao ofc he's squishy and does no damage when you find him late game with 60 vig and tonnes of attack stats. He's supposed to be the first or second evergaol miniboss you fight in limgrave, the first area of the game
Hey demod first off: Nice to see you publishing content for a new Souls Game. Always a highlight for me 😊 One question: How did you distinguish Bosses from Mini-Bosses? Except for the obvious Story Bosses which are unique without a reskin of course.
I was surprised and astonished to not see Miranda the Blighted Bloom or Hero of Zamor on this list early, considering that they're literally 2 of the weakest mini-bosses fromsoft has ever conceived. However, I'm gonna hope and pray that this is purely because Demod didn't find them yet
The invisible black knife assassin can be countered by getting the sentry’s torch. It can be bought from the hermit merchant in the outskirts of Leyndall, near the outer wall battleground grace. You don’t have to torture yourself by tracking the assassins feet while it’s in the water, I’m also pretty sure the assassins grab attack cannot be tracked when he’s invisible since he lunges at you, so it’s hard to know when he does it, just get the sentry’s torch and hold it in your left hand while fighting him.
Just a reminder to everyone there are over 100 boss encounters in this game. Absolutely insane. And yes some are repeats, but there are arpund 80 unique fights. This game is so massive and so good, throughout that massive size, it never really drops the overall quality. Not many games can say that.
Can’t even ride 30sec on horseback without finding something cool to explore. I was so fed up with open world games but horizon and especially elden ring made me forget about that real quick.
I nice little trick I learned against beastman is that in his long combo that leads into the jump attack, if you get hit by the little swing going into the jump, it times your stagger perfectly to parry his falling attack, and the little swing does like no damage, so easy parry
Loved these vids. Wonder how different your rankings would be if you were a mage instead of a sword and board build. Some enemies you had ranked higher I defeated my first try as a mage.
I know you’re on Elden Ring right now, and will be for a bit, I really think you should check out The Messenger. It’s an amazing 2d action platformer with a killer soundtrack, awesome mechanics, and some frickin fun bosses. The game also has a cool style in which you switch back and forth in between 8 bit visuals and 16 bit visuals. I would love to hear your thoughts on it, and it’s pretty doable in a short amount of time. If you don’t bother with any optional collectibles or the free dlc, it should really only take you 9-10 hours to complete the main game. If you want all the optional collectibles, the dlc, and all of the optional collectibles in the dlc, then you’re looking at 20+ hours. I would highly recommend this game, and I would highly recommend doing at least 2 playthroughs. It’s truly amazing
I think dungeons were handled flawlessly. The mini bosses are at worst repetitive and at best pretty great, but with the overall large quantity of bosses in this game, they killed it in quality.
For the invisible assassins, including mini bosses you can use the Sentry's Torch. Even if you don't have the required stats it'll still show you them, and even if you two hand your right hand weapon. Same works for the puzzle before the haligtree
There is a black knife assassin hidden behind a false wall in a catacomb in Liurnia. What made it so tough was the tiny ducking room they put you in against it. Your heart is racing the whole time as every second of battle he’s onto you, the intervals to heal or stupidly small
I’ve reached the point where the only way to get my daily required level of elden ring content involves rewatching these rankings, playing when I get home and keeping streams on in the background at work. Zero regrets
I’ve realized DeMod is the type of person who doesnt appreciate the deeper points of fromsoft games. Even though he just about built his channel off of them. Killing patches without considering he has a quest line lol
I suppose I will find it on the the second part of the ranking but im still putting it here. (Spoil btw!) There is a hidden cave in Caelid, just near the border to the place with all the dragons, the miniboss is straight up one of the hardest I faced so far. Just 3 cristalians, sounds easy enough, but of course they have to inflict scarlet rot. Adding the fact there is a spear, a dancer and a mage, doing this solo was one of my best accomplishment :’)
Personally I've found that the Barricade Shield actually trivializes a lot of boss fights mini or otherwise, cause their attacks bounce off your shield like your attacks do when smacking a stone skin enemy or enemy shield, so guard counters for days and the guard boost from the skill means your stamina isn't taking as much damage and depending on your weapon damage and how much you damage the enemy stance with your guard counter it really makes a number of enemies super easy. Like the bloodhounds and pumpkin heads for instance are made really easy.
I have a huge confession. I legitimately died to the soldier of godric and my first playthrough. I chalked it up to me actually expecting the game to be significantly different from a typical souls game considering sekiro was such an ingenious diversion of the soul's formula, but still very embarrassing.
The legendary talisman is in the late game once the city is... y'know. You can come from the Forbidden Lands grace and go backwards into the city that way and you'll be greeted with not one, not two .. but THREE Putrid Tree Spirits, however only one is visible and the other two are waiting to ambush you underground. You could also run past them and treat yourself to the talisman that's neatly planted onto a branch. I was fortunate enough to get this on my first playthrough after exploring for a long time. I knew the city felt too empty to not have anything in it. I have since gotten all 42 achievements with 145 hours of playtime at the time of accomplishment.
killing patches after all he did for you in the ringed city, all the advices he gave you in ds1, all the love he showed to his compeers in base ds3... ruthless, heartless, cold as ice.
Bloodhound Knight tossed me around in a fashion not dissimilar to an Italian making fresh pizza. This is definitely one of those videos where I feel like I played a different game than this man.
I had trouble with the Stonedigger troll because I was using a dual katana build. No magic. No strong weapons. The Runebear was one of the easiest for me and I have never fought a bear outside yet. No problems with the Watchdog, except the one that had 4 of those small statues with it. That one was the worst.
Dunno if anyone has mentioned it, but with the Erdtree Watchdogs you can actually make them "malfunction" with crystal darts (shown by sparks appearing around their head), causing them to attack their allies, this makes the duo fight in particular a lot easier, as they basically kill each other
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I didn't find the trio Crystalians with scarlet rot in Sellia Hideaway and these comments make me very afraid to go down there
It's not that much of a problem
Have fun!
@@ChronosDosGriz yeh gonna agree as soon as you figure out the poisebreak it's just added passivity. The attacks aren't bad to dodge. And poisebreak gives reposte attack for invulnerability. From there it's like two or three hits and then you're back to the duo fight. Scarlet rot is annoying tho
The duo tree dragons you referred to are actually a trio of them guarding the erdtree favor +2 in Lyndall capital after you beat Malikith.
@@brookehancock6244 spam ice stomp ash of war
Killing Patches makes you miss out on the funniest moments later on where you can summon him for Radahn only for him to get scared and just fuck off without fighting with a message saying "Patches returned to his world". I died.
LOL what a troll
I missed his fight and found it with a greatsword +10 I didn't even notice he wanted me to stop before he was dead 😞
First time I saw that I was both ticked off and laughing. Literally shouted “What did o expect?!”
Edit: Spoiler for Patches questline
He's also got a super troll questline as you'd expect haha - one where he gets you ensnared in a transporter trap and another, in classic Patches fashion, kicking you off a ledge at the tip of Volcano Manor
You also miss the heaviest armour set in the game
A note for the invisible Black Knife Assassin: you can purchase a Sentry’s Torch in the same region that cancels out her invisibility. Makes it way easier.
or use the spirit summons as the invisibility is worthless against them
@@svartrbrisingr6141 and throw a gravitas weapon into the mix, they wont get a moment to breathe, figuratively and very literally
I wish I knew the torch thing…I’ve never been so scared in my life fighting those guys
@@malware9668 thats only usable on a build with some intelligence to my knowledge but might not be a bad idea
@@svartrbrisingr6141 maybe some Gravitas weapon arts could help?
The laughter meme being the only remark of the Solider of Godrick adds an extra layer of EMOTIONAL DAMAGE, *very effective*
Atleast he has some ability to fight you, same can't be said about mist noble.
He's trying his best!
Hey, that’s the name of my arcane character!
Also, YES!
(I’m not joking btw I have a character named emotional damage in all caps who looks like gigachad. VERY EFFECTIVE)
I somehow missed the entire tutorial so you can imagine my surprise when I looked up bosses I missed, went back, and one-shotted him
Clever reference
“Crystalline’s are super easy lol” all I can think is that one three on one gank fight in the Celia hideaway cave where you have to fight a disk, mage, and spear one, all with scarlet rot in a shoebox arena with no cover.
And then the same thing twice in even smaller rooms in the Haligtree, lmfao. At least those ones weren't mini-bosses.
@@MarkHogan994 I beat the first trio there with the mimic summon (which I had summoned for the WAY harder Royal Revenants that are all over that place, thank god ash summons were available for that area, I didn't use it for Malenia but I needed it there lol) and the second trio by just luring them out and fighting them one by one. That said, I fought their mini boss version straight up without summon and they aren't that bad. One of the harder mini bosses for sure but very manageable for a 3 vs 1. The whole Haligtree area is somehow riddled with even harder encounters. I swear FromSoft made that place as hard as they make their DLC areas.
He probably didn’t find it or else it would definitely be higher
I just ran round and kite them one by one. Was easy to dodge their atks, just had to be patient and grind them down individually
@@welcometovalhalla2884 Well, the Haligtree is the game's ultimate optional area. Still hard even by those standards, no doubt there.
From what I can tell, the Bloodhound is meant to be one of the first bosses you face. For me he was the third after a watchdog and the soldier. He was very hard hitting for my sub level 10 character, and he made me quickly learn about greed vs stupidity in this game.
In this video and his main boss one a big flaw is how late he fought most of the bosses. Like sure Astel might not be that bad, but if you fight him at the earliest logical point to, every single one of his attacks one shots if you haven't been pumping an insane amount of bitch vigor. Same with bloodhound, I fought him extremely early and pretty much had to get a no hit for even a chance of winning.
@@yunglink992 Yeah, definitely. I think it would've been a good idea for DeMod to create a new character and keep it within strict bounds of recommended levels and upgrades for each region for fighting the bosses.
Like, I'd personally rank Darriwil about 10 ranks above Alabaster Lord because by time you fight Alabaster Lord, you've likely killed two or three Great Rune Holders, plus cleared Caria Manor. You'd know the value of being aggressive by then and his simple moveset is a piece of cake. Meanwhile, Darriwil is placed super early in the game, has high damage, has an aggressive moveset with many short teleports, forces you to dodge rather than block, etc. He's definitely one of the harder bosses in Limgrave.
@@shadowyking123 Absolutely agree with Darriwil. He was the 3rd or 4th boss I faced, so he stomped me. By the time I fought Alabaster Lord I'd already killed multiple of him as a basic enemy. But I guess that kind of speaks to how this game is almost impossible to rank boss difficulty outside of maybe the late main story bosses, because your choice of progression dictates difficulty more than design does.
@@shadowyking123 Hard agree. Darriwil was a boss I spent a lot of time on because I am not a "veteran" of the series and his speed made me learn quickly or keep dying. He was the first boss that actually gave me any trouble, more because he was the first with a modicum of difficulty.
I think Demod did him dirty because he faced what's supposed to be one of the first five bosses you face, not a late game fight. Compare this to the Crucible knight, who's OBVIOUSLY designed for a mid-late game build.
You also mentioned Alabaster Lord, who honestly was MUCH easier, because he's very easy to stagger. Ironically my go-to weapon is the Bloodhound's fang, which is perfect for spacing between the Alabaster Lord's attacks, keeping him stun locked. You can't really stun lock Darriwil that early into the game, especially with his reach and speed.
@@yunglink992 Bitch Vigor! ahahahah
There’s actually a black knife assassin in the early game that’s visible but it starts the fight with only 60% HP. He gives you a talisman that recovers Health when You land a critical hit
I never seen it but what if he recovered hp if he managed to do that grab attack since he have that talisman
@@arya.n.8252 I do believe that is part of the challenge. You have the edge but however they can heal you if they grab
@@arya.n.8252 I think that's the idea but he almost never tries to land a critical hit
There’s also a Black Knife Assassin that you fight in a shoebox sized arena alongside “D the Undead Hunter”
There's another black knife assassin in some catacombs in liurnia that gives you a talisman that recovers FP on crits, but it's behind an illusory wall and a tricky puzzle where you need to use a falling blade trap as a lift
I was surprised to not see the crystalian higher. The battle against 3 of them at once (ring, spear, and caster) that all inflict scarlet rot was one of the cave bosses that gave me the most trouble.
He made a comment on this and turns out he didn't fight them. But hearing it described he said the thought of dealing with them scares him.
those crystalian in the late game is something else, especially the caster variant
Glad to know I'm not the only one who gets creeped out by the Erdtree Burial Watchdog.... The janky move sets certainly add to it too. They and the Deathbirds are just plain nightmare fuel. Certainly more than anything in Bloodborne. At least for me.
The Burial Watchdog, the Deathbirds, those creepy big headed dog monsters roaming around Caelid…. UGH they are all so damn creepy!!
The creepy little things at Volcano Manor that make weird noises and spam grab moves are genuinely horrifying
The hands at Carian manor and outside Volcano manor entrance are the ones that creep me out the most, hate those skittering things. They have so many fingers and the big ones have this really annoying grab move.
I'm more creeped out by the piles of flesh and bones that just randomly falls on to you as a trap
The deathbird in lirunia scared the heck out of me on my first playthrough. Also the one in the consecrated snow area was also a massive pain even in the late game.
16:00 i'm so happy im not the only one who found this boss really unnerving, i was thinking the exact same thing when fighting the watchdogs.
For me, it’s the way his eyes bulge during many attacks. That, and the eyes look very organic in stark contrast to his stone body.
It's weird how much your level affects your rankings. I started as a wretch and fought Adan really early on with a loin cloth, a crap shield and a stick. Everything he did would 1 shot me. Then I fought the Bloodhound with a similar setup a couple levels later and thought it was a great boss that was difficult but not unfair. Once I had a not a stick for a weapon I fought a number of the others on this list that are way higher and thought they were much easier than those two.
It does, you are ideally supposed to fight Bloodhound before Adan. In fact I'd go so far as to say that after getting to the church of elleh and clearing the first cave and catacomb nearby, he's probably either the next guy you kill after speaking with Blaidd or a couple bosses later (cave/catacomb bosses that is)
Bloodhound especially is more difficult than he gives it credit for, due to his bias based on being over-levelled and having OP late game gear in the network test. When you are a low level, there's NO doubt he's harder than the beastman, for example.
@@anonymousperson8903 yeah I fought him more than Godfrey
@@anonymousperson8903 especially that I fought bloodhound like the first real mini boss fight so I didn't fully understand the mechanics
I'm very ashamed to admit that I died to the Soldier of Godrick when starting out. While I had started out as a Wretch, I have no excuse for loosing to that guy. At least I was able to beat Godrick himself on my first attempt.
Sir, give that soldier a medal
Happened to my friend who had no experience with souls games. I beat him myself first try, BUT I made another account and was doing the tutorial. Once I got to him I completely underestimated his capabilities and spammed normal attacks while looking at my second monitor. He caught me off guard and proceeded to unalive me. Lesson learned: anything can and will kill you if you aren't careful
Elden ring was my first souls like game with nothing similar like it before so I will admit dying twice to Soldier of Godrick while trying to get head around all the buttons.
That being said now 90 or so hours later I'm only missing ending achievements and one for all achievements in steam so I'd like to think that some learning has happened over the time
I feel ashamed i died twice to the that "boss" and i still feel bad at the game 63 hours in but i do feel quite a bit of improvement
Talk about redemption arc!
If you use a weapon that does blunt damage, the crystallian gets even easier, so that’s always fun
I've found the heavy thrust with the zweihander does a bunch too, gets a stagger if you have enough damage output
I was doing a greatshield + hammer build. Some of their attacks (especially on the spear variant) bounce from greatshields. They also stance-break after 2 guard counters. My first fight with a crystallian was literally block -> guard counter -> block -> guard counter -> riposte -> the end. That fight was over in seconds.
I just love the Tibia Mariner. Like he is basically boney Pinwheel but the fact he is just trying to chill out on a boat like your dad making you go fishing always gave me a chuckle.
I’m glad to see that Crucible Knight hasn’t made the first half of the list. The second phase has killed me more times than I’d like to admit. It can tear you apart, especially as a melee character without a shield. That damn tail swipe blocks so many opportunities to counter.
Yep, the two I expect to be high haven't shown up yet, and that's Crucible Knight and the god damn Royal Revenant, I hated that fight so much.
@@sinogaris9854 I have made the decision that I’m not going to leave the first Limgrave map until I’ve defeated every boss. Dual wielding Uchigatanas so I guess I’ll be in for the long run against ck
Dual wielding katanas is pretty strong though as usual. Just for CK I’d recommend to have a fairly high weapon upgrade level for sure
@@i.turn.tables6455 Actually the dual wield moveset for Dual Kats is pretty good, you might even bleed the CK, don't remember if you can but you've picked a fun combo.
Fuck that boss. I hate him so much
I always enjoy these rankings to see differences in play style. While I fought bloodhound early and hated the encounter because every hit could kill me I found beating him extremely rewarding. While I don’t think I’ve ever even used a flask fighting the pumpkin heads. It’s neat to see what I handle well vs what others do
The duo Ulcerated Tree spirit fight can actually turn into a TRIO! If you try and run past them straight for the talisman you will trigger all 3 of them to spawn. Scary stuff, not that the duo wasn't.
(The fight is in Leyndell post Farum Azula, just before you would have fought the twin omens)
but hear me out, what if i actually get the talisman and die after? no reason to come back no? ;3
I was able to sneak past them without triggering them :)
yeah I fought against all three, my pride didnt let me run away xD complete cluster fuck
I simply let the trio killed each other, they have friendly fire
I somehow could fight after each other
I wish I could watch this but I have dedicated myself to beating Elden ring before watching anything like this and having just made it to the atlus plateue I believe I'm almost at the end. Edit: Well these replies just crushed my dreams
Not even close lol
You got a LOT of bosses left to kill
Yea think again lol
You're probably like halfway there. And that's without exploring the whole world
That’s the half way point take your time with it
I'd love to see a video where you discuss whether Elden Ring had too many repeated bosses. From what I can see that's a main subject of discussion in the community right now, and it would be interesting to compare it to the Chalice Dungeons in Bloodborne, which also had alot of repeated bosses.
Agreed. I personally think it’s a huge issue lmao
Id also like to see some videos about how ridiculously OP magic builds are in this game. I seriously regret making a strength based class with a greatsword because just like Dark Souls 3, poise is once again tied to your weapon class. Swinging an Ultra Greatsword is fine because it has poise tied to its hits. But swinging a greatsword is just pointless because you get knocked out of every hit, and it swings 50% as fast as a katana. It makes fighting some of the later bosses and encounters just an absolute chore and extremely difficult. Not the fun difficulty, just annoying af. If youre running a greatsword strength build and want to take a stab at some of the late game gank fights like the godskin duo, good luck lol.
@@owenhad8221 stance breaking is the name of the game for larger weapons
If you abuse the jump heavy attack and keep the pressure on they actually achieve very decent results.
This is coming from someone who played with only greatswords/no magic or shields even for the first playthrough
I think it’s totally fine, there are still far more than any of the games before it. What’s the alternative? just delete all the dungeons with repeated bosses and remove the repeated field bosses from the overworld? Is that better?
@@Emperorhirohito19272 Personally I draw the line at main Bosses who play a big role in the story, unless their is a valid story reason for it to reappear. Sure, in an open world game bosses being repeated are a feature we have to accept, and Elden Ring does it better than alot of the competition.
I'm going to give some examples of Bosses I didn't want to see reappear, so big spoilers for the entire game:
For example, Astel reappears, Godrick reappears in a Geol, Mohg also reappears, Godfrey must be fought on two occasions before he becomes Hoarah Loux. I can excuse Margit/Morgot reappearing because theirs a story explanation, but I wish the others stayed unique, just to make their main fight more impactful and significant.
Hey Dmod. Love the video and your work in general. (Spoiler Warning)
There is actually a three-on-one version of the Crystalian fight where their attacks inflict scarlet rot. It's in a dungeon behind an illusory wall northeast of the Church of the Plague which you go to in the Sorceress Sellen questline. It wasn't particularly enjoyable. But it did feature all three variants of the miniboss with a greater difficulty spike than usual due to having to juggle the rot buildup.
I'm surprised the Black Knife assassins are so low. Alecto alone was harder than most of the actual bosses.
their movesets are weird, but they are trivial if you space yourself correctly tbh. I beat alecto first try by just baiting out her combos running away and then punishing.
He has Alecto higher up actually. She was the hardest of the Knives, honestly. Check the next video and you’ll see his ranking.
You can literally buy a torch and cancel out their invisibility....Just like the torch you can purchase that keeps beasts from attacking you.
There is a dungeon in the Mountain of the Giants region where the boss is a Spirit Caller Snail, but to even have a chance to kill the snail you first have to kill a spirit called Godskin Apostle then a Godskin Noble, all the while in an extremely small boss room with no cover
Watching this has made me realise how many dungeons I've missed.
Same
I'd love to see a Master List of sorts after multiple playthroughs where you includes all variants, giving a general overview on the basic, singular mini bosses and expand on them in later gank entries. But I'm just happy to see rankings on this Channel again TBH.
I actually remember going on Elden ring for the first time fresh off the grave yard and going too the burnt ruins….. what sick bastard made a trap chest where you needed to touch grace too leave at The mine. I remember attacking those miner guys thinking “ what the fuck they take no damage” then those weird ass ants came and now even tho I’m getting too the capital and I’ve already beat rodahn I’m Terrified of the mine. Asides from that man seeing democracy evolve from his old style of rankings is so refreshing I love the little jokes and memes that he’s added along with a serious conversation about which boss he finds most difficult. Just wanted to say thanks democracy for making these kinds of videos I’ve loved em since the first ds3 difficulty ones and I love just how much you’ve grown as a creator. Definitely my favourite souls born TH-camr right next too vaauti
Can safely say if you've beat Radahn you're good to go to the mine. Just careful of the boss, he's a bit of a bitch.
@@CerberusMalt "a bit" is serious understating it. My guess is he's going to steal #1 if the Draconic Tree Sentinel doesn't. Those and the crucible knights are probably the 3 toughest minibosses i've found.
@@darthkarl99 Oof, I think I'm actually about to take on the Draconic and the double Crucible.
@@CerberusMalt You poor sod :p. Seriously Draconic Tree sentinel hit's like a truck, has massive reach, and some nasty ranged attacks to boot. First phase is harsh but doable. Getting through the lightning buff of the second phase is a nightmare. Killed me more times than anything else so far.
Cleared almost everything upto and including the Altus Plateau for reference. Haven't done triple crystellians, most of Mt Glimnir/Deeproot Depths, Shaded Castle, or most of the dragons.
@@CerberusMalt ah okay thanks
hey demod, can't really watch this video because I don't wanna be spoiled but are you planning on doing a community ranking for the bosses once everyone has had time to beat the game?
Same here and I'm pretty sure he will
Yes, right now I have the first community ranking scheduled for mid-April. Want to give it some time for as many people as possible to finish. I'll likely be posting the poll around the end of March and leaving it active for a week
I'll be posting the end of my boss quality ranking around that time. I'll put the poll there, in a community post on the channel, and shout it out on discord. Good place to be to stay up to date: discord.gg/thedemodcracy
@@theDeModcracy yes!
@@theDeModcracy Oh god, I just killed margit and about 4 mini bosses, gotta a long way to go still
That "duo" tree spirit fight is actually a trio. Once you pick up the talisman a third one shoots up from underground.
The footage is what is wrong with these rankings. This man blocks most attacks with his face, but since he has a build and is basically playing early game content at the endgame he just says “GG EZ” or “haha here is a quick joke on his unique move”
if youre ranking the erdtree burial watchdog that high out of fear i wonder where those deathrite birds are going to be ranked
I loved this video! Honestly, the rank of most bosses completely depends on when you run across them. Most Bloodhound Knights were very difficult for me for example, because I fought some quite early. The dragons on the other hand...
this list just let me know that I've missed about 60% of the mini bosses and got pub stomped by their upgraded versions without realizing it
That's relatable. All the fights I went back for were the ones intended to introduce the boss type and I felt so stupid when I realized it
To be fair I did all the mini bosses and trust me you’re not missing anything
Honestly liked the mariner, simply because, I've never fought a boat before 😂
When I fought the Demi-human Chiefs, the second one didn't even aggro until I took out the first one
The pair of tree spirits you mentioned don't even need to be fought for the Talisman, you can just run past them and grab it.
You do realize that spawns a third right...
I found the mariners hilarious, just ripping through the forests on a boat.
"I'd rank the black knife assassin's a lot lower."
You haven't met Alecto yet, have you?
11:16 There are 2 more Black Knife assassins that you missed.
Deathtouched Catacombs - this assassin starts with 60% health and absorbs your health when getting critical hits on you.
Black Knife Catacombs - this assassin is fought with D the Undead Hunter, and has no special gimmick compared to the other assassins.
There are 2 more Black Knife assassins that *you* missed.
At the end of Ranni's quest you unlock an area with an evergaol. In this evergaol you duel a black knife assassin who borrows part of Maliketh's moveset (throws the deathflame projectiles and does a leap-into-deathflame-explosion move). Defeating this one grants you the spirit ashes to summon one of these yourself.
In the town in Consecrated Snowfield, on the way to Haligtree, there's a puzzle evergaol where an invisible black knife assassin is stalking the ground and archers are hiding on the roofs. You don't actually need to kill this one though, thankfully.
@@elifia there’s two actually, and you get grave ghost lvl 9 when killing one
Ulcerating Tre Spirit duo fight isn't a duo fight, it's a trio fight and its in Lendyell, Capital of Ash, but you don't have to fight them to get the talisman. It's on a rock on the far end of the arena. The talisman is the Erdtree's Favor +2 and it's guarded by three Lesser Ulcerated Tree Spirits.
While re-skins are almost always a negative for me I think fromsoft found the perfect response in sekiro and elden-ring. Mini-bosses are a cool way of offering a rewarding challenge without having to be an insane unique spectacle like most other traditional bosses, personally I really enjoy the idea and think it fits an open world game like this really well.
This is a really good perspective that I hadn't thought of it, and it certainly changes my opinion of the repetition a little bit in a positive direction.
I’ll always take an original boss/mini boss over a reskin but I think the different variations of these mini bosses make things interesting enough and make sense with how large of a game elden ring is. I think fromsoft did a really good job with enemy design in this game
Reskins of a good design boss just give you more chance to redo a good fight
Yeah I agree, plus some of the repeats/reskins made lore sense as well such as multiple watch dogs acting as catacomb guards, Erdtree avatars defending minor Erdtrees and things like Magma Wurms being rare but powerful wildlife in the lands between.
I'm fine with reskins and mini bosses if they are only in dungeons like Bloodborne or if they don't have boss health bar
Because personally for me this health bar changes my inner perception from "wow cool enemy I fought before/haven't fought yet, nice" to "man why another reskin with a healthbar"
I’ve been looking forward to this
Funny thing is that on my first playthrough, I was distracted on a call to my elders when I reached Grave Warden. So I just mashed my attack button like a potato and when I ended the call, I look up at my screen and the boss was dead.
The elden call
When you inevitably make a community poll, I hope you set some of the variants apart! I found the Eternal City Dragonkin to be a joke, but the two other variants (especially the one in the rot lake) were high-tier difficulty for me.
seeing how late you found so many of these makes my brain confused. i explored every inch of stuff before moving on to other areas. But hey everyone plays things differently
The fact that your doggo is a corgi shows that you are a man of culture.
let's go new demod video, mini bosses were either good or really bad in my opinion but the main bosses were so good that it didn't matter as much. Can't wait for that quality video of the main bosses
Very hit or miss, though it was nice you could opt in and out of facing them whenever you liked
@@theDeModcracy yeah that's one of the few good things about them but I didn't really care because main bosses were just on another level
In case of the double Ulcerating Tree Spirit fight, when you go towards the legendary talisman, you get a third Tree Spirit to appear for even more fun. At least they can hurt each other to lessen the work you have to do
I partially disagree about bloodhound knight, but its less because of difficulty, and more because i feel like he is one of the better designed minibosses in the game (Next to burial watchdog, which btw, is much easier imho). Those two feel much more fair and thoughtfully designed than majority of minibosses (and some bosses even)
Yeah lol he went with lvl 60+ in a lvl 10-20 fight and said it was easy, no shit
This dude was one of the hardest Minibosses ever if you play the game correctly
@@onkkong5466 no he wasnt lmfao, he was the second boss I beat in elden ring after tree sentinel and he was a breeze, his ai makes him spam the body swing into the roll slam wayyy too often, very easily punishable with good spacing and parry skills.
@@onkkong5466 nah, he wasn't. I guess I was running a str/int hybrid so magic helped but he telegraphs well and he feels like a traditional souls boss. Was a really fun fight though, probably the third or fourth boss I killed (including SoG).
@@sinogaris9854 he is well telegraphed but not as easy as many minibosses considered harder than him in this lisy imho
Just noticed SMT IV Tokyo playing in background
Made me feel at home
Also great video dude!
I usually love these lists from demod but I gotta say I think you've missed the point entirely. the bosses are very clearly scaled around an order to which they are meant to be tackled. The bosses in southern limgrave for example are only intimidating if you've done limgrave proper and then went down right after without over upgrading overleveling your character. scaly misbegotten is by no means a difficult boss but of course he's gonna be laughably easy after having killed radahn and having so many levels under your belt he he's prob meant to be fought between soul level 10-20 maybe 15-25 if generous. The core problem with ranking an open world souls game is finding the exact perfectly scaled path through the world and tackling every boss in the order that they scale but nobody is going to do that because it's tedious which kind of just makes ranking them redundant in and of itself.
true, but there are objectively harder fights, for example crucible knights and bell bearing hunters
@@gun_exe8387 that is definitely true and that's a good point I only mean to say it's alot harder to rank the bosses fairly then to just rank them exactly as where you happened to find them randomly through your playthrough
Yes I think he just ranked them according to his experience as this is the first playthrough. This is why the community ranking is always interesting.
He did the bloodhound dirty, that fight is way harder than most at it's appropriate level. He does high damage and if you use a heavy strength weapon he is a bitch to get in on.
@@johnshifflett4753 I didn't agree with that one either. He is fast and hits like a truck
Double Watchdog fight might just be my least favorite fight in the series, finding it earlier on was a fucking nightmare.
I find Fallingstar beast to be the most rage inducing for me.
Unrelated, but that SMT IV OST makes me so nostalgic, it's so beautiful.
I would litterally switch the positions of fell twins and onyx lord. I killed fell twins with basically no pots, and on first try, I was shocked with how easy of a gank fight it was. onyx lord probably killed me 6 times before I figured out his moves, and I think it took like 10 tries to kill him (although I was underleveled)
I'd also put nox priest really low and priest of blood way higher because those dogs fucked me up a bunch of times.
Surprised that Erdtree Avatars didn't make the bottom, especially considering they have the exact same moveset as Asylum Daemon with one extra magical arrows attack.
@@selousmartel8608 Yeah. To put it into perspective, Asylum Daemon (which these are copy pastes of) is the very first boss you fight with no upgrades in the starting area of Dark Souls (which in itself is a reskin of the starting boss in Daemons Souls).
These guys get reused a lot in the series as easily killable 'big monster' enemies.
@@selousmartel8608 Haha sorry. It's still impressive doing it without being hit though.
My condolences to those who fell to Soldier of Godrick
I was literally wondering “huh I wonder if anyone’s done a mini boss list yet” and this is was posted not even an hour ago. Amazing
YO THE FIRST ONE AND JUST THE MEME HAD ME ROLLING LMAOOOO
My personal favourite miniboss has to be the Ulcerated Tree Spirits, their visual design of something almost dragonlike but still very tree, and the weird way the move and wind about is incredibly cool to me, and they blend natural elements with slight body horror very well.
I hate these guys. Fighting one inside of a living room sized area is absolutely awful
@@nevanreynolds9893 yeah the fight is horribly designed I don’t care how they look if the fight is actually terrible
I think the one thing that makes the Crystal Cronies memorable is the encounter in the Sellia Hideaway. You gotta fight three variants, and the arena size makes it harder to dodge them all at once especially the mage. That isn't the problem; they would still be manageable, but their attacks bring you closer to contacting Scarlet Rot, a poison variant that gets stronger the more health you have, giving me PTSD to Bloodborne's Frenzy.
Darriwil definitely deserves to be at least above Adan lmao ofc he's squishy and does no damage when you find him late game with 60 vig and tonnes of attack stats. He's supposed to be the first or second evergaol miniboss you fight in limgrave, the first area of the game
*SMT 4 Tokyo Overworld Theme?!*
You're a gentleman and a scholar; I subbed.
Hardest mini-boss, no contest, Bell Bearing Hunter, variation 3 and 4. If you've done it with melee, link me video proof
Really glad I'm not the only one who saw Omenkiller coming up the hill and thought "wtf this is just capra demon!"
I must say, the version of Ulcerated Tree Spirit in the catacombs in Radahn's boss area is dumb. Massive area in a small room is just bs to me.
That one kicked my ass lol
The tree spirits guarding a legendary talisman are not a duo, but a trio...fun
There is a crystalin boss where there are 3 of them and they rot you... That one is actually incredibly annoying and unnecessarily difficult.
Not if you have endgame stats like he did. That’s what this list is based off of apparently
@@SoggySlopster He didn't even fight them
Hey demod first off: Nice to see you publishing content for a new Souls Game. Always a highlight for me 😊 One question: How did you distinguish Bosses from Mini-Bosses? Except for the obvious Story Bosses which are unique without a reskin of course.
I was surprised and astonished to not see Miranda the Blighted Bloom or Hero of Zamor on this list early, considering that they're literally 2 of the weakest mini-bosses fromsoft has ever conceived. However, I'm gonna hope and pray that this is purely because Demod didn't find them yet
The invisible black knife assassin can be countered by getting the sentry’s torch.
It can be bought from the hermit merchant in the outskirts of Leyndall, near the outer wall battleground grace.
You don’t have to torture yourself by tracking the assassins feet while it’s in the water, I’m also pretty sure the assassins grab attack cannot be tracked when he’s invisible since he lunges at you, so it’s hard to know when he does it, just get the sentry’s torch and hold it in your left hand while fighting him.
Just a reminder to everyone there are over 100 boss encounters in this game. Absolutely insane. And yes some are repeats, but there are arpund 80 unique fights. This game is so massive and so good, throughout that massive size, it never really drops the overall quality. Not many games can say that.
Can’t even ride 30sec on horseback without finding something cool to explore. I was so fed up with open world games but horizon and especially elden ring made me forget about that real quick.
I nice little trick I learned against beastman is that in his long combo that leads into the jump attack, if you get hit by the little swing going into the jump, it times your stagger perfectly to parry his falling attack, and the little swing does like no damage, so easy parry
25 hours in and i can’t get int he capital yet 😭👍
Give it time, you got this!
@@theDeModcracy thanks
Loved these vids. Wonder how different your rankings would be if you were a mage instead of a sword and board build. Some enemies you had ranked higher I defeated my first try as a mage.
I love elden ring
Me too. I've been living and breathing it since it released lol
I know you’re on Elden Ring right now, and will be for a bit, I really think you should check out The Messenger. It’s an amazing 2d action platformer with a killer soundtrack, awesome mechanics, and some frickin fun bosses. The game also has a cool style in which you switch back and forth in between 8 bit visuals and 16 bit visuals. I would love to hear your thoughts on it, and it’s pretty doable in a short amount of time. If you don’t bother with any optional collectibles or the free dlc, it should really only take you 9-10 hours to complete the main game. If you want all the optional collectibles, the dlc, and all of the optional collectibles in the dlc, then you’re looking at 20+ hours. I would highly recommend this game, and I would highly recommend doing at least 2 playthroughs. It’s truly amazing
I think dungeons were handled flawlessly. The mini bosses are at worst repetitive and at best pretty great, but with the overall large quantity of bosses in this game, they killed it in quality.
I agree. Only had a couple bad dungeon layouts and no boss really bothered me as a reward for my efforts
Eh I still feel like the chalice dungeons did it better.
@@dylanschmeichel2008 I'm 50/50 on them. Half the time I enjoyed the other half I was just getting through them to get to the good ones
@@dylanschmeichel2008 respectfully disagree. The chalice dungeons that cut your healthbar in half can fuck right off lol
Nah all the duo fights are absolute garbage
For the invisible assassins, including mini bosses you can use the Sentry's Torch. Even if you don't have the required stats it'll still show you them, and even if you two hand your right hand weapon. Same works for the puzzle before the haligtree
44.) (0:57) Soldier of Godrick
43.) (1:05) Spirit-Caller Snail
42.) (1:27) Tibia Mariner
41.) (2:09) Crystalian
40.) (2:44) Patches
39.) (3:25) Scaly Misbegotten
38.) (4:12) Demi-Human Queen
37.) (4:45) Esgar, Priest of Blood
36.) (5:29) Bloodhound Knight Darriwil
35.) (6:02) Alabaster Lord
34.) (6:34) Stonedigger Trolll
33.) (7:08) Bols, Carion Knight
32.) (7:44) Grave Warden Duelist
31.) (8:22) Beastman of Farum Azula
30.) (8:53) Night's Cavalry
29.) (9:35) Adan, Thief of Fire
28.) (10:07) Sanguine Noble
27.) (10:36) Roundtable Knight Vyke
26.) (11:14) Black Knife Assassin
25.) (11:58) Omenkiller
24.) (12:34) Runebear
23.) (13:06) Fell Twins
22.) (13:42) Nox Swordstress & Priest
21.) (14:20) Kindred of Rot
20.) (15:01) Perfumer Tricia & Warrior
19.) (15:36) Erdtree Burial Watchdog
18.) (16:26) Mad Pumpkin Head
17.) (17:06) Demi-Human Chiefs
16.) (17:48) Ulcerated Tree Spirit
Thank you
There is a black knife assassin hidden behind a false wall in a catacomb in Liurnia. What made it so tough was the tiny ducking room they put you in against it. Your heart is racing the whole time as every second of battle he’s onto you, the intervals to heal or stupidly small
I’ve reached the point where the only way to get my daily required level of elden ring content involves rewatching these rankings, playing when I get home and keeping streams on in the background at work.
Zero regrets
I love the smt 4 theme in the background. It’s my favorite game
Absolutely did not expect to hear Tokyo from SMT IV in a DeMod video
I’ve realized DeMod is the type of person who doesnt appreciate the deeper points of fromsoft games. Even though he just about built his channel off of them. Killing patches without considering he has a quest line lol
Gotta say I always love the SMT music in the background
I suppose I will find it on the the second part of the ranking but im still putting it here. (Spoil btw!)
There is a hidden cave in Caelid, just near the border to the place with all the dragons, the miniboss is straight up one of the hardest I faced so far. Just 3 cristalians, sounds easy enough, but of course they have to inflict scarlet rot. Adding the fact there is a spear, a dancer and a mage, doing this solo was one of my best accomplishment :’)
11:14 You can actually make him visible by equipping the torch sold by the merchant in the capital outskirts.
Starting at 10:08 has to be my favorite boss music I've heard so far. I find it sad and beautiful at the same time.
Vyke is far more dangerous as an NPC invader when his speed is amped up and he inflicts madness with each attack.
Personally I've found that the Barricade Shield actually trivializes a lot of boss fights mini or otherwise, cause their attacks bounce off your shield like your attacks do when smacking a stone skin enemy or enemy shield, so guard counters for days and the guard boost from the skill means your stamina isn't taking as much damage and depending on your weapon damage and how much you damage the enemy stance with your guard counter it really makes a number of enemies super easy. Like the bloodhounds and pumpkin heads for instance are made really easy.
I have a huge confession. I legitimately died to the soldier of godric and my first playthrough. I chalked it up to me actually expecting the game to be significantly different from a typical souls game considering sekiro was such an ingenious diversion of the soul's formula, but still very embarrassing.
Just return the game at that point and donate your entire house to a homeless man and lay in a dumpster to where you belong
The legendary talisman is in the late game once the city is... y'know. You can come from the Forbidden Lands grace and go backwards into the city that way and you'll be greeted with not one, not two .. but THREE Putrid Tree Spirits, however only one is visible and the other two are waiting to ambush you underground. You could also run past them and treat yourself to the talisman that's neatly planted onto a branch. I was fortunate enough to get this on my first playthrough after exploring for a long time. I knew the city felt too empty to not have anything in it. I have since gotten all 42 achievements with 145 hours of playtime at the time of accomplishment.
Man, keep up the amazing work, ever since DS3 I'm always looking forward to your rankings.
killing patches after all he did for you in the ringed city, all the advices he gave you in ds1, all the love he showed to his compeers in base ds3...
ruthless, heartless, cold as ice.
Bloodhound Knight tossed me around in a fashion not dissimilar to an Italian making fresh pizza.
This is definitely one of those videos where I feel like I played a different game than this man.
44 bosses and there's like 4 of them that aren't shit or rehashed a million times...
Amazing game. Masterpiece.
Lines like "break your offensive fast on dat ass" are why I watch this channel.
There's a torch you can find that makes the black knife assassin visible while you're holding it and yeah, turns it into a cakewalk.
I had trouble with the Stonedigger troll because I was using a dual katana build. No magic. No strong weapons. The Runebear was one of the easiest for me and I have never fought a bear outside yet. No problems with the Watchdog, except the one that had 4 of those small statues with it. That one was the worst.
Damn that SMT theme at the start brings back a lot of memories
SMT IV ost was a nice surprise
Dunno if anyone has mentioned it, but with the Erdtree Watchdogs you can actually make them "malfunction" with crystal darts (shown by sparks appearing around their head), causing them to attack their allies, this makes the duo fight in particular a lot easier, as they basically kill each other