Ranking 41 Dark Souls 2 Bosses from EASIEST to HARDEST  

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Eh they don't hold a candle to the GOATSKIN duo tbh

I actually unironically enjoyed graverobber trio :/

​@@subhuman1637Same.

Kid just shut up

​@@ramrodbldm9876nah they don't need to.

Scholar of The First Sin added that feature, you played that or the original?

@@dc_arni2003 Actually both, but the majority was definitely the original, so that probably explains why I didn't remember it.

First SL1 playthrough and hitless, not casual playthrough Of course in a casual, pursuer would be mid way through, challenging at first, but really easy once you know the strafes, while congregation and covetous demon would be the 2 easiest

Too easy to cheese. It demands almost no practice to pull it off.

Pursuer is definitely one of those bosses liable to end you if you’re unprepared, but once you know his generous parry timings and where he shows up at. He becomes quite easy.

@@TheSket Yes but second easiest? No chance.

@@dc_arni2003 maybe. I struggled very hard on my first playthrough and then no hit him on my second. He’s just one of those bosses that has a very predictable and easy to manipulate ai’s that just make him very abusable if you’ve got the knowledge

Yeah but summoned phantoms will actively make the boss fight worse by reducing your damage. Unless you summon real players that have good builds, but offline it sucks.

Yup. Kinda miffs me that of all DS2 armor sets they added to DS3, THAT was one of the like two sets they chose.

Cancel me if you want but I think humanoid with a weapon fights are the best fights

Go ahead cancel me I’m just stating my opinion

​@etho4576 "I'm just stating my opinion guys, no need to try and cancel me" "NO ONE IS TRYING TO CANCEL YOU OMGG" "Well geez.... ig I won't state my opinion since you wanna cancel me so bad"

​@@etho4576Cope and seethe

the best fights (in my opinion) feel like duels between two skilled combatants. Giant monster battles are cool until you have to wrestle with the camera.

Kinda disagree on that one, i mean... The fact that we can just skip the area and choose not to fight the gank squad is a plus point to me😂 On the other hand, fighting BoC is required to beat the game.

Gank Squad is 100% optional. They're not required to beat the DLC, they don't drop exclusive items, there's nothing beyond them. Compared to Bed which is mandatory and just drops a humanity. I'd take gankers anyday

If you can beat Sir Alonne, you can beat Fume Knight. They're both manageable, especially this late in the game. By that point you probably know how to dodge and how to react to boss attacks. The only attack that can catch someone off guard is Fume Knight's very slow swipe with the buffed greatsword. It's so slow that you don't expect it to be that slow the first time you see it.

24:20 considering the dragon shrine exists, I’d say their mounts might be there

29:35 Lorewise I’m pretty sure the lost sinner is the one who restarted/unleashed the flame of chaos beneath eeluem loyce.

38:08 I thought it said somewhere that she cut off her own head to stop it from becoming a monster? Also One theory I’ve heard is that she’s bathing in sindhs poison bubbling up through the earth, which is why she looks draconic, since she’s undergone some form of dragonification

41:45 Slight correction, the archdrake set originated from the drakeblood knights, the invaders of shulva. They definitely could have knowledge of those rituals, but it’s not certain. Also for the whip it might be a representation of its nature instead of its physiology. You can get artorius’s sword from the abyss watchers and they are mostly spiritual descendants

If you have a weapon that does chip through shields, like the mail breaker, or maybe the shotel or something, you can deal damage that way. Basically, Freja is "guarding" with 100% absorption in all elements on the severed head areas, and if you can penetrate that, it does damage.

Yeah, this Souls is probably the most unfair one of the series. Some stuff is just not ok. It had lots of good ideas though, and some bad ideas. The execution of these ideas wasn't always good.

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The problem with DS2 is that it is just overshadowed by the other, better souls games. Dark souls 1 is a classic, DS3 is nearly flawless and demon souls was the first. DS2 is just in a weird spot where it just lacks what the other games have unfortunately. So maybe the game is underrated, but in the context of a fromsoft game, I think it's properly rated

@@falinkspropaganda4753yeah, DS2 is fairly regarded as the weakest Souls game, but it’s still a great game. It has a ton of flaws and pretty weak boss roster, but it’s got amazing build variety, weapons, fashion, and atmosphere.

@@falinkspropaganda4753 you should go back and play it. Do your best to drop your preconceptions. It’s a fantastic game. Realistically the only problem with it is that the original release is a hot mess. But scholar of the first sin has been out long enough that judging the game on the original release is just intellectually dishonest. Scholar has a vast myriad of challenging fights and environments, a number of technical maneuvers like animation cancels that give a further depth to weapons found lacking in the other souls games, and more unique world mechanics like Pharos lockstones and all the different bonfire burning mechanics. It’s by no means perfect and definitely has some aggravating downsides and a couple downright diabolical sections (looking at you Gulch) but all in all it has a great many upsides that not only get overlooked but I get the feeling they just aren’t known because many in the community go into the game straight up assuming it’s a bad game because of its launch, even to this day! Regardless I do implore you to go back and playthrough the game and try your best not to compare while you play. Just take it for what it is and if you actually do it I think you’ll see what I mean when I say it’s underrated.

@@thrxshx I’m not convinced it’s seen as the weakest for any reason other than a lingering sentiment from a troubled release. I think demon souls is… fine. It labored in relative obscurity even in sections of the souls community until the remake for a reason, ds1 is fine but a number of the major boss fights really don’t live up to the hype for someone who played it after ds3 was released. Ds3 kinda hard to beat though, when you have fights like midir, Gael, lady friede, soul of cinder (being everything gwyn was but better and harder in most every way), pontiff, etc. it makes you a challenge to live up to.

​​@@TheSketeven if ds1 has weaker bosses compared to DS3, it's still a hell lot better than ds2 imo . I can definitely see demon souls (not the remake) being the worst in the series, but not by a wide margin

An update - apparently the ruin sentinels, the chariot, the gargoyles (!!!) and the lost sinner are harder than the Prowling Magus. At this point the author either does not consider the magus as a boss at all (I'd agree) or just trolling. So far it's the lamest tier list I have ever seen.

30:52 No, it is unironically here. Above all those bosses. That's it, dislike and check out, this list is brain dead.

**disagrees on one entry in the list** "worst list ever"

Most of Pursuer's attacks (dashes and even the grab) can be avoided by sticking to him and walking to his left.

Yeah I also destroyed him without any problems at all. I guess he may be harder if you go to him earlier than I did.

The Old Iron King's only real tricks are knocking you into the lava, getting you to roll into the lava, and iirc if you touch his hand when he's doing the beam it's and instakill/absurdly high damage. So like, he CAN get you if you're not careful. Unlike some bosses who will only get you if you put the controller down to take a call or something

Imo the greatsword is a good weapon early to late game it is easy to upgrade hits hard and has a cool moveset, The only downside is that it's pretty slow and you will struggle with fast enemies and in tight spaces.

In undead Wharf near the upper level in the house w the blind creatures, there is a Greatsword in the chest.

honestly the club is p good iirc. It's damage is kinda eh, but it has relatively high counter damage for it's class. After the pursuer you can go the nest behind it and get transported to the lost bastille. After a little puzzle with the blacksmith there, you can get maybe the best basic "hammer" class weapon from him, iirc it has like A str scaling. All of the ultra greatswords are relatively str oriented, and transfusing the pursuers soul from a merchant in the lost bastille is also pretty good and early. The pursuers ultra greatsword also has high counter/instability damage for it's class. After that, you should just find more decent to good str weapons thru exploration.

Greatsword is awesome and pretty powerful. It has a fantastic poise damage as well so it stuns most enemies.

Old Knight Hammer is a beast since you can get it from the old knights in heide that use it for mid game gyrm great hammer is a beast and later game sacred chime hammer (its a boss weapon so you need to kill the boss first and trade his soul for it)

In Dark Souls 1, in the upper Undead Parish, before the gargoyles, there's a room with one of Seath's goons and a bunch of club hollows. That room is basically Prowling Magus, but probably harder because you can actually get mobbed

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Don't forget the Balder Knight on the stairs.

"based on difficulty from the perspective of a first playthrough, SL1 run and Hitless run"

Ancient Dragon is one of the easiest boss fights if you know the strat. Just hit his toes lol, easiest shit

@@mekacrab Yeah, it's so easy that if you are even the slightest bit out of position over a LONG fight when it attacks you are dead in a single hit. Then you get to run all the way back again and the run sucks too.

@@Rem694u2 how can you be out of position when you can just stay in 2 spots the whole fight ?

@@mekacrab Because when he flies up in the air it blows fire down over 3/4 of the entire area and kills you instantly.

@@Rem694u2 Again, there is an easy strat which consists of just going to where his tail his, or his tail's shadow I guess whenever he jumps. With the strats he sucks ass

I'think that the bosses are okay my problem is the run backs to them it is by far the worst aspect of the game , still love it though.

It's not like any of the bosses take more than 3 tries. On my first playthrough the only ones that took more were probably Lost Sinner because I fought her early, and then the graverobbers in sunken king DLC (fuck them). Fume knight isn't especially hard, but a lot of bosses are worse than him, so him being decent makes him a high ranked boss. He has probably more diversity in his moveset than most bosses.

Lud and Zallen's problem is the walk to the boss. This is bad design. You basically have to walk for at least 3 minutes, assuming you know which way to go in this hellhole and avoiding the fkn harry potter horses. They dropped the ball on this area, not even putting a closer bonfire.

Lud & Zallen are at least neat because you get to wach Vengarl just butcher two of something that was a pretty good foght for you.

Thank you 🤖

lmao, what a nice compliment