7 Bosses You Snuck Up Behind Like a Total Hero 

If you're a boss, better look out behind you! No wait, DON'T do that. Then we can sneak up on you like total legends. AHA!

I'm not much for boss-battles in games, but these I can really get behind

A true victory isn’t won in battle, it’s won in the totally embellished story you make up later at the pub about how epic the fight was and how many spin kicks you did

Me vs. every orc in Shadow of Mordor not immune to stealth.

When Ellen mentioned the last phase of the David fight, I was shocked. I used my "eagle vision" to find David; I never thought to actually listen to him stepping on broken plates.

As they say: "Discretion is the better part of valour." You know what we call people who forget that saying? Dead.

Nightmare fuel characters that really just want to be friends (mimikyu)

This is why bosses should be more attentive to their surroundings. I mean, you’re an evil genius hell bent on world domination but you can’t peel your eyes away from your 35th binge watch of Friends as I sneak up on you? No worries, I get it.

I've played Dishonored 2 many times and only now have I realised that Delilah was hiding above the entryway in the painted world

I'll never get tired of talking about Mister Freeze. It’s such a perfect stealth fight.

6:17 “Flopplegangers” no, I certainty will not accept that.

"Probably should have let Oracle finish..." LMAO, I can just imagine Babs being like "Bruce, wtf?!"

This list should be titled “how I beat every boss if I can.”

Anybody else notice that Ellen said “Ethan” instead of “Sebastian” when talking about the evil within? 😁

The second phase of Konstantin boss fight in Rise of the Tomb Raider, after he crashes his helicopter. He takes all of Lara's weapons, except her climbing axe and you have to stealth melee him to death.

While it’s insanely difficult, it’s totally possible to stealth kill, or even stealth loot and then leave, Daud in the original Dishonored. How? Quick-saves. Lots of quick saves.

Q: How many ice-puns can Ellen fit into one segment? A: Yes.

Thank you, Luke. Guy Fieri going super saiyan is an image that will haunt my nightmares for years to come.

Does this count as any boss Ellen plays in a scary game, as she is instantly and always crouched

In Breath of the Wild, I make a habit of sneaking up on Lynels by air and dropping right on their backs. When you do that, you get to spam attacks on them while they try to buck you off. While this is basically just a Flurry rush, the important part is the fact that weapons don't lose durability when you do this, so you can pull your strongest weapon out for some free damage and still have enough of that weapon to break over the guy's face during the battle proper.

Jump scare at 5:08 for my scaredy-cat homies

11:15 "Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!"

Stealth kills are why I really appreciate when a game like Skyrim gives those character name tags when you look at someone from a distance. Stealth archer is definitely the most OP skill set in the game, but I want to know that's a baddie before I shoot them. "Let's see, is that by any chance just a normal miner trying to make a living in this mine? (Seems like you would run into one of those when you're constantly investigating mines after all!) Ah, nope, another bandit. Die Bandit!" I mean silly me right? Thinking that you would ever encounter anyone other than bandits or cultists or various monsters in all these mines! Except those 3 times that it's actually an npc waiting to offer you a quest. But they often respond to those first 2 or 3 head-shots with an "Ow! What was that for?! Hey, stop it! " So, no worries!

"Look mate, you've got a FLAMETHROWER, let's not talk about FAIRNESS here"

I need to find a way to work "flopplegangers" into a conversation

Hey, we need efficiency! If I can reduce the amount of time I have to spend on the boss by a couple of minutes by forgoing any morals, I will happily do so!

Kilkreath temple in Skyrim, the boss and his minions, if one does a sneak archer build and you don't go into the boss chamber, you can snipe all the minions and boss pretty quickly from a distance without getting wrecked

What about Phaedra (the 4th Colossus) from Shadow of the Colossus? You have to hide underground until he leans down so you can climb his reigns or tail.

The legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild: A Hinox always carries three rare weapons on him, instead of fighting him, you can wait till he sleeps, put on your stealth gear, sneak up and grab the goods.

(In announcer voice)IN THIS CORNER, WE HAVE ELLEN ROSE STANDING AT BLEEP AND WEIGHING BLEEP POUNDS. IN THE OTHER WE HAVE NICHOLAS CAGE, STANDING AT BLEEP AND WEIGHING BLEEP POUNDS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE. Ding ding

The fight with The End (an old sniper) in Metal Gear Solid 3 is a good one. Pop up out of the grass carelessly and you'll likely get a tranq dart through the chest. It took a while to finish the first time I played since the map was fairly large and working my way around it to get the drop on him was slow-going. Of course, finding him in the first place was also a challenge due to his camouflage. It's probably my favorite boss fight in the series.

Ah yes, Sekiro shadows dice twice. Who doesn’t love that masterpiece?

It's interesting how David and Liam can handle getting knifed in lethal areas of the body so well.

Alternate title: "7 Bosses Mike Has a Hard Time With"

In every single play through of Dishonored I have never ever seen this... And looking at it now you can see all the stone statues are bloody looking that way. Back onto Game Pass it is!

Jane: Remember your ABCs - always stay crouching! Ellen: Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN

Shoutout to Ray Sunshine and Big Squish!

What about Konstantin from Rise of the Tomb Raider? You literally had to use MacGyver-style grenades to distract him so you could attack him from behind with your climbing axes. Especially since in the prior cutscene he stole your weapons and all that.

The End, MGS3. This is still the greatest stealth boss fight of all time. Sneak up behind him and get him to drop his photosynthesis camo.

So, like Bane in Arkham Origins? Edit: oh would you look at that, Mr Freeze showed up

Can’t believe Ellen challenged Nicholas Cage to ritual combat

I was reminded of the fact that in Skyrim, you could sneak up and 1 shot just about any boss. Take the guy doing the murders in Windhelm for example. You can catch up with him mid-murder attempt in the market and sneak kill him with no one saying anything.

The Mr. Freeze fight in Batman was the very first fight I ever did in any of the games in the series. My friend was stuck and couldn't manage it so he handed me the controller out of frustration. Unfortunately I didn't know anything about his tools so I spent a lot of time sneaking around and just hitting him.

“Floppelgängers”. Luke, I love you.

If you know anything about slings during the period Davis and Goliath is set, the story takes on a whole new meaning as in trained hands those things were really effective weapons and it was widely known how effective they were. Goliath never stood a chance so the message becomes something more akin to don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

Hello, Metal Gear SOlid 3, The End! That's literally the entire point of the fight, sneak up on him before he sneaks up on you.

The Evil Within 2 is one hell of a game. I enjoyed every second of it

I didn't see the end from metal gear solid 3 on here

What about The End from MGS3? I remember spending over an hour sneaking my way behind an (albeit not so helpless) old man.

I’m surprised I didn’t see the Tower from Shadow of Mordor. That boss is one of the only enemies in the franchise Talion can’t just smack in the face.

The End from Metal Gear Solid 3, yes you can beat him by counter sniping him but the best way is to sneak up behind him, hold him up for his items and double tap him in the back of the head like a true worlds greatest soldier would :D

I always need to take a good breather after the David fight. That shit stresses me out.

"Morals be damned, Gimme that Grass!" The exact thing I say when watching anti-drug commercials.

Sneaking behind the final bosses - every Thief game ever.

13:27 When you haven’t played a game in a while and forgot the controls. Oof.

Splintercell Blacklist, Sadiq. Ill never forget how many times I've snuck up behind him, just for him to get spooked and run on the otherside of the final area.

Like I always say if it gets the job done abuse the heck out of it...until it gets patched.

I killed the final boss in AC3 by sneaking up to a building behind him, killed the guard who has a gun, took the gun and shot at him, killing him immediately. Felt very anti-climactic. Was supposed to go through the horde of soldiers he had in front of him, I think.

“The old hero looks like if Guy Fieri figured out to go super saiyan.” Hmmmmmm Up next on “Diners, drive ins and Death to all scrubs!!” Lol

"what's this?" "It's deer..." "I asked what it was, not how much it cost"

I never finished thief because of the asylum level, I wasn't ready for a horror game

Monsters that I sneaked up on? Pretty much all of Skyrim.

Although there are lot of Zelda bosses that are beaten by stabbing in the back (or butt/tail), for the Stalblind in A Link Between Worlds you have to actually HIDE in his shield, so you can then stab him in the back. Like a hero.

I'm so glad Delilah in Dishonored 2 was on the list because I always go for the "choke out the real one" option every time, but also shout out to Delilah again in the earlier Brigmore Witches who is almost as much as a headache but can also be taken out simply by replacing a painting while she's not looking, and Granny Rags in the original Dishonored who (if you already know how to beat her) can be snuck around and have her locket destroyed before she even knows you're there. I don't think the Granny Rags one counts as non lethal ghosting but sure is easier in the whole "oh god i'm being eaten alive by rats" alternative.

Every enemy in splinter cell lol love that game fingers crossed for splinter cell 2021

Toughest early boss fights that were completely underestimated. I don't remember if this has been done before or not, I feel like it may have been but I also feel it hasn't. My vote honestly goes to the very first guardian in the blades of time game, as that one was pretty rough if you didn't know what you had to do or couldn't lock on properly fast enough before it completely blasted you out of existence. This one was extremely infuriating as two minutes later you I lock the "rewind time" ability you this have the rest of the game.

Honestly, first thing I thought of was doing sneak attacks on sleeping dragon priests in Skyrim

What about Venom Bane in Origins? You have to hide from him the entire time

What about Burk from Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Missing Link?

Two, four, six, eight That Sekiro snake is really great! 'Great' meaning large or immense I'm using 'great' in the superlative sense!

I really want the ABCs joke on a t-shirt now. ^_^ Most of my characters are stealth characters who always be crouching.

I‘m surprised nit a single Sly Cooper Boss fits that definition. You‘d think in a game all about sneaking and thieving the boss fights would be less...fighty

Keep up the fantastic work. It has really helped during the ongoing lockdowns

After a year of lockdown I'm thinking being trapped forever in a painting of dogs playing poker would be a step up. Because dogs. And poker.

Soon as he is looking through the key hole and that jumpscare popped up my soul just left for a second

Jack the Ripper in the eponymous AC Syndicate DLC is a prime example of that. He is pretty much immune to all frontal attacks, can easily dodge all of your tools (he is also immune to the fear tools and the voltaic bomb). The only way to win is to lose him in a smoke bomb, cause him to go different way than you are, and sneakily wait in a corner to reach you so you can use the brutal takedown (which is FAR more violent than "Assassinate"). Do that three times and he will summon handful of goons (who, I can tell you, have unforgiving battle skills but have none of Jack's defenses). Repeat the sneaky brutal takedown one more time when you get to be alone with Jack again and you will be able to free Jacob. Because yeah, Evie and Jack are the only playable characters in the DLC. You cannot however freely switch like you would in the main game. Fun fact: the Jack the Ripper DLC events happened only a few years before the birth of Lydia Frye, Jacob's granddaughter and main character of the World War I sequence. So it is safe to assume that Jacob had a child who was very much scared for their father's death while Aunt Evie had to search for her brother, make sure Aberline doesn't betray the Assassins, disrupt the maddening effect Jack had on gangs, and make London a tiny bit safer for prostitutes (as safe as it can be when a serial killer is targeting them specifically).

"I learn from my mistakes, Batman. Do you?"

At the "end of the game"? Did somebody actually finish Thief!?

9:07 "Remember your ABC's People: Always Be Crouching" We'll never forget this as students of Ellen's Fear Academy 2020.

Also Whesker in Resident Evil 5. In order to hit him in the first fight, you need to catch him off guard by shooting him in the back. In the second fight you need to turn off the lights, then shoot him in the back.

Luke's joke about crouching is on point, it really is tiresome 😂

Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, basically every single one of Noir’s boss fights involves sneaking up on the boss

How about The End in MGS 3? Poor man is geared up for a long drawn out sniper duel, so you sneak up behind him and fire darts into his back

The giant serpent kill in Sekiro is easily one of the most satisfying stealth kills in any game.....

In most stealth games you just stab everyone in the back.Bosses,enemies,civilians.Ignore that last one I totally never stabbed anyone except for enemies.

Ellie from the last of us 2?!? She was much more menacing than David because she was actually stealthy.

I got very excited when I read the title. I love these situations!

When they said "morals be damned give me that grass" I felt that 🍃

Wait so sneaking behind a boss and taking them down from behind is not the most heroic way to do it? *I've been playing Assassin's Creed wrong*

Wow. The entire Liam fight in The Evil Within 2 I was just running around shooting him and waiting for the ammo to respawn.

In dishonored 2, my first playthrough was full stealth (non ghost), yet when I reached Delilah I just ran up to her (fake) and killed her, then killed the other clones... And finally she appeared and killed her for the nth time... Took me a few tries to do it, and after the third try I realized what I should be doing... Yet, in a bloodthirsty fury I took the challenge instead and went with the full frontal assault anyway

Aww Ray Sunshine II and Big Squish! Always get nostalgic when I see those two 🤗

I'm surprised skyrim isn't on this list. The game is practically begging you to backstab malaketh.

Is this a new business venture for dob, to earn more money he can throw into the sea? ;) didn't know they did more stuff on this channel

Almost any boss in Amalur, if you drop your smoke bomb mid fight, you go completely invisible and they stop searching for you, so then stabby-stab,stabbidy stab them (with those awesome stealth stab animations.)

IMO, LoU's David is the best work Nolan North has done (and he's done a lot of usually good to great work), the best villain in any Naughty Dog game, and one of the best boss fights I've played. Especially playing on Survivor/Grounded it's such a tense experience--but it retains a lot of its power even if you were to go play on Easy, the character and set-up are just that well-done.

huh? no ancient wyvern from dark souls III? it's nearly impossible to kill, unless you run all the way around the area, and plunge him

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"Sekiro: Shadows DICE Twice?" that made me giggle more than it should, lol

There's also that first boss you face in Alpha Protocol (can't remember what his name is, but he's the terrorist's bodyguard); if you are able to get up close to him without him spotting you, you can just shove him off the bridge without having to fire a single shot. It's pretty tough, but quite satisfying when you pull it off.