Bayle The Dread Vs Old Bosses - Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree 

His pride was wounded too deeply

He was referring to himself

Morgott redeemed himself by doing 3 times better than you'd expect from his scaling. The guy was dodging like a Tarnished there, really surprised me.

Margit: "We'll call it a draw"

​@@JohnnyCheddarhe got turned into dust right?

About that... Was Bayle the one responsible for Placidusax crippled appearance?

@@SakushuRonin08yes, but in turn Placidusax also completely messed up Bayle

@@SakushuRonin08 Yes. Bayle, who was even older than Placidusax, betrayed and challenged him. Bayle went for Placi's heads, but Placi was smarter and went for Bayle's wings and legs to try and immobilise him. However Bayle somehow managed to escape when he realised he wouldn't be killing Placi. Given that he seems to be able to grow magic wings out of sheer spite he probably did so to escape. After that he cannibalised other dragons (including his own children and descendants) to recover much of his former strength while Placi hid away after his god fled.

@@Count.Sarumanconsidering that this likely took place before the dragon god dissapeared, its possible that placi had some of its power. Juts like how Miquella made “radahn” stronger by adding his own power

@@Count.Saruman HOLY SHIT-- THIS IS AMAZING!!! I was looking for some Bayle lore but this is... FUCKING AWESOME!

Ngl if he wasn't fleeing 70% of the fight he probably would have been an S tier.

Technically ripped off 3 since pacidusax talisman shows us a 5 headed dragon

​@@blade5871 his talisman shows 4, his model shows him having 5. He probably lost 1 one before he event fought bayle or becoming the elden lord

ye but bayle like ran away from placidusaxx in their fight

Even though I hate VILE BAYLE with all my heart and don't want to give him credit... I can't lie, he is cool and once I heard he had relations to Placidusax, I even thought he was awesome for a moment lol

Yeah, it was ALMOST lore accurate lol

@@cowhale2488 I think it is indeed lore accurate in their diminished state, because while Bayle has kept sharp and recovered a lot of his old strength by eating other dragons (including his own progeny), Placi hasn't and is out of practice.

@@Count.Saruman if a floating, near-catatonic placi can left bayle with 1/4 health points, i can't imagine a bloodlusted, healthy prime placi

@@brillywinsen6526Well in lore, Prime Bayle and Prime Placi reduced themselves to how they are now by fighting each other, so they would both be crazy in their prime.

​@@brillywinsen6526it was never really stated if Bayle was fighting prime placi or after his god fled placi. He could very well be fighting him at his prime

“Bitch Please” - Bayle the Dread, probably…maybe

​@@The_Lord_Vader"Bitch please." -Dragonlord Placidusax, moments before beating the fuck out of Bayle and sending him to the Shadow Realm, both literally and figuratively.

@@somersaultinggiraffe1901 “GOT YER HEEEEEEEAAAAADDD!!!!” - Bayle the Dread, ripping off and then stealing one of Placi’s heads while being sent to the shadow realm.

⁠​⁠@@somersaultinggiraffe1901”Bitch Please” - They both said in unison as they ripped each other apart limb from limb in their gigantic draw of a match

​@@boredaura1064"Fuck off, AND NEVER COME BACK!"-Placi after finally beating Bayle to a pulp and making him flea

He had to be nerfed so we had a chance to beat him, imagine how terrible he could have been if we had to fought him in his prime

@@eduardobriones3217 true, but even now he kicks ass

he even has Placiduax's head on his neck

​@@eduardobriones3217 I wish we could see the lore fight between him and Placiduax cause apprently it was a tie and each other is the reason they are both missing limbs

@@killakev9589 woah

Don't think doing massive damage is really countering, because any boss with massive damage can do just that, other stuff don't matter. Kinda makes the fight boring. Some of the old bosses landed more hits but still ended up losing to 1 massive hit.

Malenia is also weak to both fire and lightning, so that’s another perk for Bayle.

Yeah the scarlet rot is the only thing that keep other bosses completely impossible to outlive her in those other boss fight videos, like messmer and the new radahn

This isn't balanced at all of course they can't beat him he has way more hp and dmg that first drsgons stunned him multiple times but couldn't kill him

To be honest I thought his health would be higher, but that speed and damage it's insane

But he roaring for the lightning

He should also get some scadutree fragments worth of scaling considering how Bayle is balanced around a certain damage reduction and increase

I was looking for this comment because I felt the same way. The fight was heavily weighted in Bayle's favor because of the intro move Placidusax does in the beginning.

That's disingenuous. Like all of the damage Bayle took was from that one laser barrange so he barely got the chance to use any of *his* phase 2 moves.

I think you can also attribute a lot of it to the water fowl dance because whenever she doesn’t do it she dies but the moment she does it it’s just a massacre

The only reason why she lost is because of bayle dodging her scarlet aeonia, life steal doesn't matter when he can just destroy her health in seconds

​​​@@user-fg6xg5fd4vSame goes with maliketh considering how bad stats have in maliketh such as his HP, lacking of 2nd phase full healthbar, low poise damage, low poise level/stance and low direct hit attacks.... If maliketh also does that exactly same by avoiding her scarlet aeonia completely with his move attacks, he too win

They need to get gud! 😂

It's not realy impressive considering that Elden Beast would canonically be stronger. I mean, a lot of the bosses are canonically stronger yet because of SCALING, Bayle just wins, which is just boring. I like fights with equal scaling

I'm not certain that's 100% true, bales brood is stated to be the drakes (orange electric fire ones) not all the lesser dragons

@@andreybelyshev5093 all of the lesser dragons are drakes. Here's how you can tell, it's basically fantasy creature info: Drakes wings are their arms like bats. Dragon's have normal arms AND separate wings. Plac and his ancient DRAGONS have arms and wings, Bayle and his lesser dragons(drakes) have wing-arms. Though Bale mostly just has nubs with wing tatters on them and grows magical wings out of pure spite and malice. Also like, literally just look at them and compare to their anatomy and aesthetics to the ancient dragons and the drakes and it's pretty blatant. Also the lore just tells you.

@gummyboots that's not really true, a drake is a loose term but it refers to a dragon like creature with 4 limbs and no wings (like a big lizard). In the game there are 2 lesser dragons that are distinctively labeled as drakes, these "drakes" are of bayles brood and you can tell by the orange ligghtning/fire they have. One is also shown in a death match with another lesser dragon so if they were all from bayle I don't think they would be depicted killing eachother. And on an unrelated note the lesser dragons are more like wyverns, as in 2 legs 2 wings, modern fantasy doesn't really care about which is which however

@@andreybelyshev5093to be fair, drake is legit just another word for dragon, Any dragon. afaik DND gave the term drake to the wingless four legged dragons while outside of DND (or most modern fantasy in general) a dragon and a drake are basically two names for “giant winged scary lizard”

@Beepers559 that's why I said modern fantasy doesn't really care about the distinctions, whichever can be called whatever

Me too man. It's very cool because it's also lore accurate Placi has been floating in isolation, while bayle has been cannibalising his descendants and grow stronger And yet, placi managed to bring bayle's HP from more than half to almost 1/4 with that laser attack

@@brillywinsen6526 too bad dlc bosses have inflated stats otherwise it could have been a really cool fight

Actually i was only here bcs of malenia😂

Actually i was only here bcs of malenia😂

​@@himanshupandey8771nobody gives a flying fuck about thay fraud

Real

The music was also spot on with the transformation. Epic

This game is fuckin art bro

8:32

This whole game's absolute CINEMA

That voice actor sure did leave an impression

LMAO I'M CRYING

Seeing something so big dodge that fast is terrifying

Placidusax is also just less aggressive, which is why bayle won. I mean he couldn't even pull of his big lightning nuke.

@@sarwatarannya8786 yeah. We need the aggressive, full-power healthy placi

​@sarwatarannya8786, his lighting nuke is basically useless in these bvb fights, it do very low damage and takes a lot o time to charge

@@zenildoneto7710 i agree! It should do at least 10k damage! I mean look at these SoTE bosses. Some of them can deal 5k damage with a single hit

Also let's not forget the movesets in these videos have the tarnished in mind. They would be fighting way differently in actuality.

Every time Bayle was staggered that was Hoarah Lux doing his grab attack. He was literally WRESTLING THE VILEST, SECOND-MOST POWERFUL DRAGON IN HISTORY INTO SUBMISSION.

@@katamariroller2837 HORAH LOUX’S MOMMA DIDNT RAISE NO BlTCH

He must've decided to try finger, but hole

@@katamariroller2837 MOST powerful, him and placi tied. And remember he wasn't a dragon, he was a DRAKE.

Prime Maliketh with full destined death would’ve whooped his ass ngl and I wish as soon as we fought clergyman on the first couple hits he go into 2nd phase instead of halfway beating him or atleast give him full health regen

@@zm6241and prime bayle would’ve still killed him

@@revenant2160 40/60 I believe prime Maliketh destined death is kill on hit/existence erasure prolly at multiversal potency and I think Maliketh reaction speed which is on par with them since he’s stays Farum azula that surpasses time should be enough i say Maliketh wins high diff

@@revenant2160 since Malikeths prime destined death is existence erasure and its kill on hit and bayle a big ass target I highly doubt it but imagine if bayle had destined death 💀

I honestly believe Maliketh would've won had the Destined Death DOT done the same damage like with the base game enemies

Yeah, it does way less and that makes no sense tbh. Lol

DLC bosses all have increased resistance to everything, looks like only Scarlet Rot still works as usual.

Makes sense they are resistant to it to an extent. After all the difficulty of the doc was made in mind so its not possible to easily defeat the bosses without having scadutree fragments.

@@Toot7. no sense, are you dumb ,this dlc was meant as a challenge for veteran players and of course the bosses are stronger.This was made for actual human players and not boss vs boss battles ,so it makes perfect sense

Honestly its kinda stupid that they waited until the DLC to rebalance those elements, I don't know why they always do this. If you think the damage is busted then rework its functionality on a base level, don't just make it weirdly inconsistent out of nowhere.

Until he faced a lowly tarnished....

@@tonymarino8 with no renown

It’s definitely radahn

@@revenant2160 I had 40 hours when in the DLC when i got to Radahn. Now i have almost 50 and still didn't beat him lol.

Maybe second hardest

Boss AI gets confused fighting something that's not a player. If he were to fight an NPC Boss he'd be aggressive as usual.

Terrifying

Weaker than prime placi though

@@Phantom-bh5ru placi kinda lost 2 or 3 heads from him tho

​@@akaimizu9780and he lost his arms a leg and his wing after sneak attacking placi and he ran away

@@h4g6g36 He never had arms in the first place. He's a Drake.

Oml ur right tho

i cant imagine what it looked like when they first fought. placi was already out of his prime by then, but it wouldve looked so fucking crazy

he get lucky he didn't gate the flower

​@@Arma468Malenia when a boss has enough braincells to dodge her plot armor flower: "I am Malenia, blade of Miquella, and I have never known victory."

​@@Arma468 she lucky, he didn't go lightning laser lmao

Some fights end faster if grab move work of all bosses

@@somersaultinggiraffe1901 malenia without her gimmicks be like:

Nihil chunking with that % max hp damage

He was actually being bullied by a regular ancient dragon and said f-ck this

@@KuraSourTakanHour facts

Placidusax in his prime, yes. Though they were both injured, Bayle came out of it worse

Both mutilated each other and honestly immo both are equally as damaged, Paci lost 3 heads and has his body and broken up. Bayle lost half of 3 limbs and his wings.

​@@cantaro5958he actually only lost 2 heads.

​@@cantaro5958the old Lords talisman depicts him with only 4 heads, he of course originally had 5, but by the time he fought bayle he probably only had 4 left.

@@cantaro5958 but Placidusax is still mostly intact. Bayle is not

“Slow and old. You should never have come to the Land of Shadow.”