Dark Souls 3 - Sister Friede and Father Ariandel Boss Fight (4K 60FPS) 

Also the Guardian Ape in Sekiro, but it lacks the epic and dark vibe of Sister Friede, cause the ape is a middle boss, but the troll for the player was really nice there too

I thought nothing could ever top Lothric, younger prince and Lorian, elder prince and the game was hold my ember

Me killing her in phase 1: Well that was easy for a DLC boss.....oh, shit. Me killing her in phase 2: Okay, that was a decent challenge.....oh, uhh Phase 3: You Died.

2 years ago I literally die70 or more times on this boss, fml so hard

@@javierperezjp2025 the attempt that becomes the victory though, highest dopamine rush of my life. I spent about as many times on her as you did. Fight was *hell* to progress on

I was gonna comment this. No one else seemed to notice that he actually does avert his eyes, but you can see it at the beginning of the phase 2 cutscene.

After all this time, I never noticed he did that.

No it isnt

Yea he's... cute

He looks like a little kid lol. Made me wish you didn't have to kill him soon after

Yes! His sadness turning to rage! Sad fight for sure

@@CatManDoom84 It makes it harder, but I only fought Friede

I didn't feel bad, she's a bitch when she goes invisible

@@CatManDoom84tbh I was kinda apologizing cause of how genuine it is I was even starting to question whether we were the hero or not

​@@acrazyweeb7225Well... good news... we (the ashen one) are the heroes. The painted worlds are destined to burn so that a new painter can paint a new world. Such is the cycle of a painted world. Sister Friede wants to halt this natural order and leave the painting to rot. A corvian resident even tells us that Father Ariandel is being manipulated by Sister Friede. Sister Friede further wants to halt this cycle by imprisoning the new painter.

They dropin that new mixtape

That shot is absolute Art.

One of the hardest shots I’ve ever seen in gaming

Agreed, also reminds me of ornstein and smough, not sure if it was intentional but I think it was cool

This shot, the shot at the beginning of Gael’s second phase, and the Dancer’s reveal are my absolute favorites in the game.

All these mentioned are great, but you are forgetting “Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt.”

Yeah, and opposite - hot shot 1:34

I’ve never played this game but my jaw dropped

Isshin on Sekiro and this boss the hardest bosses of from IMO

It saddens me we didnt get even a single three phase boss in elden ring with some cool bosses like Malekith and Godfrey cut short because of piss poor balancing of the game.

​@@devanshtyagi1403 Probably in future DLC.

@@javierperezjp2025 friede is harder than nameless king and Gael? Lmao get good buddy

@@forkliftcertifed123 i said IMO, dont you see?

Yeah you’ve never known terror tho until black flame friede has locked you into a 20 hit combo lol

@@HeartOfHallownest Gotta love that infinite stamina!

@@just_cade fr

she fights very much like gehrman from bloodborne. she even uses some of his moves

@@MrEel-mp3yf People do say that she is a Bloodborne boss in DS3. The speed of her is more like BB, and faster than anything else in DS.

no, he had 9 heals in second phase and 8 left at the end of phase 1

@@z01k1 LOL and?

@Viper Hareous makes you wonder what Ng they were on man

Lore wise, the furtive pygmy is supposed to be the strongest as all main playable characters are his descendents. The ashen one being the last playable characters means that he's the strongest playable character. Gael is on par with the chosen undead who's basically the soul of cinder. May not reflect in the gameplay (health scaling of the dlc) but according to the lore, Gael is just an undead powered up by the dark soul who's more than capable to link the flame if given the opportunity. It should also be noted that Gwyn and the nameless king are equally powerful (some say that the king is stronger) and Gwyn was the first lord of cinder so the nameless king can hypothetically be as strong as Gael/the chosen undead. Sister fride is an unkindled one, those who failed to link the flame like the ashen one and is canonically weaker than all the lords of cinder.

Oh, if it weren't for the gods, the dragons would be the strongest. It's like rock paper scissors. Dragons weak to gods gods weak to humans Humans are supposed to be weak to dragons (but dragons can succumb to the dark just like how humans can forget that they have the dark soul)

No what are you talking about Frieda is weaker than all the lord soul users, Manus, and probably vendrick too

@@kwamemwangs2173 until she becomes Black Flame, empowered by whatever primordial flame Ariandel has.

If only Elden ring had soundtracks on the level of quality as the bangers in DS3. Even a joke boss in Bloodborne Living Failures has Godlike OST particularly the second half just goes hard.

elden ring had some high highs like hoarah loux who is up there with ludwig for me, but some really low lows in the realm of dks2. you can tell over half of the bosses were there as padding to make up for the sheer scale of the game. dark souls 3 was a better package than elden ring for me.

@@prostate7462 Do you know the difference between a boss and a mini boss?

@@Nrzpokrter i'm not talking about the minibosses in the caves or the evergoals, i treat those like the chalice dungeons of elden ring. i'm talking about the two loretta fights, the two ancestor spirits, the two commander nialls, the godskin dudes... the optional bosses that have their own unique area/dungeon

@@prostate7462 Well its kinda unfortunate that they are reskinned a few times (tho its understandable considering the game's size) but individually those are great fights. Loretta, Spirit, both Godskins individually are all really good bosses.

Lutar com ela umas 300 vezes, você quis dizer kjk

I had so much problems with her 3rd phase with dex build. Her 3rd phase is literally bloodborne tempo but DS3 characters are not so fast. It turned out you can stagger her with strength weapon and literally almost mindlessly trade hits with her. Also advantage of a strength weapon for that fight is that when you initiate your hit you cant be staggered by her anymore. So if she hits you while you are trying to hit her, she takes the hit and just quickstep back giving you time to heal.

Really? This short ass dlc with only two bosses (one being filler) was the best you ever played?

Dlc cool but it was just reused level from Dark Souls 1 but just larger. I love Dark Souls 3 but i have to admit. Its just Dark Souls 1 fanservice simulator.

yup... and we enjoyed every second of it....

Ringed City was 100 times better

@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 Epic as Hell

Interesting, my perspective was that I thought that in the paintings when the fire doesn’t alight the world, it grows cold and stagnant and everything begins to rot… essentially the opposite to what the first flame does to lothric. And she is preventing change and fire to the painted world because she is traumatized by her failure to link the first flame and she has denounced and lost everything including her faith in the sable church and abandoned her two little sisters. She thinks she is doing right but esentially is causing the painted world to rot, hence why the father is chained to that chair? I could be totally wrong

@@NandeskaGaming you're completely right mate, what this guy said is poetic, but ultimately bollocks

@@NandeskaGaming you are right Freide is a clear villain here, and the Father is sorta a victim of hers because she enchanted him and gaslighted him into abandoning his duty to let the world burn when it starts to rot, and instead made him hurt himself with his "flail" to douse the flames in his lordvessel with his blood, whenever they start showing up. The OP commenter misunderstood the lore.

Take a in game screenshot and just edit the photo nicer. Plus it looks better cause its not super up close

Malenia is harder but Friede is cooler.

Friede was harder lol what

@@colleengray2696 if you soloed malenia she is 100% harder. if u use summons or mimic then its easy mode fight.

Friede is better in all way than Melania. Malenia if she doesn’t have this water flurry attack , She will be one of the best fight.

@@latinoviking even with that friede is harder

Yes and its a begining of the best dlcs in the series - Ringed City where all bosses are epic. (apart from the Church spear)

Facts bro. She's a really close runner up for twin princes for me

Same here

Gael for me. I literally just intentionally die to him in the end to fight him again he is so cool. :D Unfortunately I usually first try him nowadays.

Even if you use fast weapons, like twinblades or straight swords, she is nightmare. Friede is just the hardest boss of series (counting also bosses of Elden Ring).

@@suchar7175 I fought both and Malenia for me is like 2 times harder

@@kadriann1104 actually, I must admit that Malenia is minimum as hard as Frieda if not harder. I didn't fight her yet, when i wrote this comment

Defeat her took me almost hour with mimic. Without mimic, I doubt that I would be able to finish her today... Really amazing fight - music, arena, second phase, her appearence and that sick spun combo, I can't even figure out how to avoid it, I feel sorry for no hit runner in this fight. Malenia is another FromSoft's masterpiece.

@@suchar7175 Her phase 2 attacks are so beautiful

So you expected to have the same easy fight in Elden Ring? you didn't think got a moment that FromSoft wanted to make Elden Ring a lot harder than previous souls games to improve on it. that's the excitement of the game. is that it doesn't feel like every other souls games. it must always get better. I can garuntee you if Melania was any easier than this then you'd start complaining of the lack of complexity and difficulty level because it seemed to eassy to beat her

@@Life0fDrew I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks damage values are too much in this game and would like to see them toned down. Hell, another player could so much damage to another player, that even those who invest in Vigor could go down in 2 to 3 hits. So it's not just a problem in PvE; PvP also tends to end too quickly in most cases.

@@Life0fDrew The entire lategame balance is just plain bad, not just Malenia. I'm talking about the snowfield + haligtree. The capital was tough but fair, but beyond that everything started having a shitton of health and can 2 shot you even at 40+ vigor

@@GawainW I mean I understand and I get that. Sometimes a specific build that you have can seem lackluster but everything can be countered in my opinion in game. In Late game Zones. You have to have all your equipment leveled up and mechanics down to a T. I think it's fun. And it makes the game more exciting in my opinion, and bosses should have a lot of life for the soul reason that their end game bosses and it takes skill to beat them. It's possible! Maybe I just like a hard game. Challenges my brain 🧠 but to each their own

Sister Friede is also aesthetically cooler than Malenia by a lot

Pun intended ?

Malenia is hard but unlike Elden Ring DS3 doesnt have all that overtuned stuff like bleed or mimic tear and all that. Pure strength on Elden Ring feels way easier than pure strength on DS3 and I remember spending a whole friday on Fride while Malenia was like a 7th try

You can cheese Malenia quite easily in Elden Ring. BHS and swamp flies can cheese her off. I felt this boss in DS is a lot more harder.

@@astPred If you're not using Mimic tear and going Melee only, Malenia is far harder than Friede. I beat Friede first try, maybe I just got lucky but I found her easy enough to bully. Malenia on the other hand took me close to 100 tries , shes an absolute nightmare and you need to be properly spec'd and have learnt all her moves off if you want to stand a chance. That healing mechanic means she will punish any mistake you make far more than any boss FromSoft has ever made

I spent 2 days on Malenia as a Giant Crusher user even with a Mimic. Eventually i had to summon Tiche +10. Then it only took about 8 attempts.

@@astPred its subjective i replayes ds3 after elden ring killed every boss in ds3 and the dlc in 30 hrs did gael first time

I was just thinking this the other day. I’m not sure what it is, but I think playing DS3 will in some way help me. Currently 100 hours in and sitting on 2-3 bosses that have me absolutely tearing my hair out.

@@TheGamerApocalypse I just finished my first playthrough in ds3 level 101 91hrs in. It was a long journey but I killed every boss so it was worth it :D

Same Now i am guess i am continuing my journey to NG+9 Hey experience the boss 8 time is still not enough for me for how beautiful and epic the fight was

Me too, perfection

Sekiro still better

I so fucking agree!!!

Yeah beat Gael, Midir and SOC under 30 min., it took me 2 hours to beat her.

3 hours is insane

For real…by the time I’d finally killed her I’d given up hope…I didn’t have the summons and solo’d her first time NG+3 with the slow Guts sword…and it took me over 34 attempts😓 The first time she went 3rd phase and I had one potion left I was like, “There’s no way…”

Too damn difficult. Especially the last phase.

​@@issi529 She Killed Me More Than Malenia Could Ever Do. She İs The Hardest Fromsoftware Boss After Maliketh İn My Opinion

@@DarkkSorcerer I agree. She is indeed one of the hardest of them all.

Buddy, I hope you haven't lost much. In this game, at the end of the 2 DLC there is my favorite boss from all the games From. I hope you have a good time!

play bloodborne next! it's easily the best soulsborne imo

@@ineedscissors6176 I actually played a good chunk of it over PS+ Premium Streaming recently and it was amaaaazing... Right until the stream kept breaking and I wasn't able to play more than five minutes in one go. Don't know what caused it, since I had been playing for 30 hours already by that time, but it became basically unplayable and that's not how I wanted to experience the rest of the game. Plus the streaming version had no online features and was the 1.0 version of the game. Might honestly get a used PS4 just to play it properly

and its a shit run too. Dude sucks balls

@@Justin-xy2ko fr that some skill issue right there

honest merchant mod, full ornstein build but with the nameless king weapon and the sunligth spear. you can go through ds3 as if was sekiro and you will have a blast, go to lvl 80 and finish the game without leveling after that.

I think you’re taking it too far with that one. We haven’t even seen any DLC’s yet for Elden Ring.

@@eligreg99 This is a great stupidity. The studio's most ambitious game with the biggest budget, a difference of 6 years with DS3 can't beat the boss at the age of 5 years? By the way, some Sekiro bosses from the base game could already do this. That's because the average quality of the bosses of these two games is much higher than the bosses of Elden Ring.

Absolutely Maidenless take

@@LuM4rex u sound dvmb asf ER bosses would bish slap any DS bosses only friede can compete ER bosses r much faster n stronger than DS bosses even BB is better than DS bosses besides friede she's the only exception everybody else r easy n weak asf idky y'all DS fanboys always trynna start sum lol

@@corpsie1241 Then I was flogging nonsense, and now I realize it. And you're a real fool if you haven't figured it out until now. Just think about what we're arguing about. A pure subjective impression of the game, and personal experience of passing.

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Bro do you actually think the guy watches the cutscene every time he fights the boss?

Hmm

This boss took me the longest of all bosses lmao , it took a whole 8 hours 🤣

midir?

She's easier than Yhorm if you whip out an UGS and catch her with R1s

general radahn without summons

Literally just use a spear. This is one of the *easiest* bosses.

Seems weird right ?

probably died

It's just a showcase of the boss fight in a better resolution, it's not a speedrun that needs to be done in one take. Would you really rather watch a showcase video of a boss with all the failed attempts?

@@loafofbravei occasionally watched video from this channel and i think all time this channel about perfect or effortless passing bosses

You can watch the snow to know where she went

@@chanhlv Ohh didn't know about that. I'm way too focused on the sounds 🤣.

This is exactly how I felt. Friede has long combos and devastating attacks that give you a huge window to punish if you manage to dodge, and she has a lot of weaknesses to balance out her strengths. Malaria? She can just chain her attacks with no room for retaliation if you get bad rng. Low poise? Gone in phase 2. Backstab? Nope. Parry? You have to do it 3 times to get a single reposte because why not. And of course, the life leech that goes through shield even with 100% physical protection. But it's ok because she undresses herself people will simp for her anyway.

I get that; but Malenia is an optional boss. She’s there, I think, for players who want to test themselves past the point of fairness.

I agree whole heartedly. Melania- as cool as she looks, is an absolutely garbage and unfun fight.

@@johndeighan2495 True, but she could've been designed to be a tough but fair fight, like the Nameless King from DS3, he's optional, and he's by far the hardest boss in DS3's base game, yet fighting him still feels fair (at least compared to Malenia).

Eh, while I still vastly prefer friede, malenia was a great fight. As someone who died 115 times to her, the only thing I hate about the fight is waterfowl dance when she does it close to you. I can consistently dodge it if I am away from her, but you need to be almost frame perfect to dodge it up close. I don't necessarily mind the healing mechanic or the fact that she has few weaknesses because the fight demands mastery. I wish I liked her as much as Friede or Maria, who are my favorite bosses in all of gaming, but I still think she is enjoyable.

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