Ranking Soulsborne DLC Bosses 

Ludiwg at #10 is unforgivable sin

Fromsoft just nailed the concept of dlcs. Instead of adding random cosmetics or weirdly paced and priced bits of content, they make a unique climactic endgame challenge with the highest quality stuff, nearly doubling each game's lifespan. Easily best dlcs out there

Lady Maria is incredible. And it's interesting to see the evolution of the badass female enemies. Lady Maria led to Sister Friede. Sister Friede and Maria combined led to... Malenia. And a fun little detail, when we first meet them... they are all sitting in a chair.

Gael is not only the best boss From have created...But one of the best bosses ever! What a incredible design man

Unpopular oppinion but i always love fighting the failiures. It feels like all the time learning parrying is paying off and their score is one of the best in the series. More of a visual and epic fight than a difficult one.

Ludwig at 10 is absolutely crazy

Never really understood why Orphan is so slept on. People always just write him off as a pretty good boss that's just hard as hell, but he's my favorite boss FromSoft every made. The atmosphere, the lore, the aggression, it's all just perfect.

To me, Gravetender and Greatwolf is saved MASSIVELY by its boss music. It’s boss music is one of my favorites in the game

DS2 DLC bosses were either huge Ls or huge Ws, Sir Alonne and Fume Knight are still awesome to this day

Slave knight gael boss is probably the best boss in gaming

I still think the burnt ivory king is the best DLC boss out of the first two games. He’s the most cinematic boss they’ve ever made in my opinion, and the fact that it incentivizes exploration of the whole DLC is pretty sweet. There’s still some bosses from blood borne and DS 3 that are better, but ivory king is the pinnacle of DS 1 and 2

Gael is my favorite too! I love that fight. Outro was on point btw.

The sanctuary guardian is so underrated

Elana was awesome. Love how she summons Velstadt. First time I saw that, I was like "oh sht"

Slave Knight Gael is just too perfect 🤩

My favorite boss in all the games remains Lady Maria. I just get such a thrill everytime i get to fight her and i think shes the peak hunter style fight in the game with the best combat in the series

Great list, and I love seeing Lady Maria get her spotlight! She's also my favorite Bloodborne boss

Lady Maria for me is probably the best boss I've ever fought honestly. Going into it blind, it felt like the most even playing ground possible for a fight in a video game. We equaled hits without me destroying her or vice verse, and it is just beautiful. Of course, once you do it a few times it is super simple, but I still love it. Also best theme song in the series no doubt for me.

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Really agree with what you said about the Blue smelter demon being the perfect size for a boss. I think that’s one of the reasons I love fighting Godfrey so much

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Just to note, "Father" Arieandel is because he's a priest, just like "sister" Friede is named like that because she's a nun. He isn't actually her father.

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i’d put Ludwig at 1 Everything about him is so perfect you can’t even find a flaw

Sir Alonne was easily number one for me. The OST is probably the best track in Dark souls imo. Ivory King followed second.

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I love the respect shown to my boi Blue Coolaid! Still one of my favourite (probably the best) reskins he gets new timings that really did me in the first few times, run back sucks, but pure boss, I really like it!

How I would rank the DLC bosses by how great and fun they are. #1 Fume Knight (Best DLC boss) #2 Slave Knight Gael #3 Burnt Ivory King #4 Knight Artorias #5 Ludwig the Holy Blade #6 Demon Prince #7 Sinh the Slumbering Dragon #8 Sir Alonne #9 Laurence the First Vicar #10 Aava the King's Pet #11 Blue Smelter Demon #12 Orphan of Kos #13 Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower #14 Sanctuary Guardian #15 Elana Squalid Queen #16 Halflight, Spear of the Church #17 Living Failures #18 Darkeater Midir #19 Black Dragon Kalameet #20 Gank Squad #21 Manus, Father of the Abyss #22 Lud and Zallen #23 Champion's Gravetender and wolves #24 Sister Friede (Worst DLC boss)

On my recent replay of DS3 I think Friede finally moved to the top spot in the franchise for me as that third phase is the single best phase of about any video game boss. But that top 4 is so good I think any variation of that would get me to nod along.

I have absolutely no idea why but the Fume Knight is just one of my favourite fights in Soulsborne. His lore is pretty cool, especially if you find little drips of information about him through the main game of DS2 only to figure out he was one of the strongest warriors in Vendricks army, and one of his personal bodyguards who was deemed a rebel. I also kinda headcanon him to related to Artorias (you find Artorias’ greatsword in a neighbouring tower and FK is left handed) so that’s a W at any point, the run back is decent and the actual fight itself is incredibly fun. Learning how to perfectly bait and punish his combos is one of the most satisfying things I’ve done playing video games

For me my top 3 DLC bosses have be Gael, Orphan, and Friede all perfect bosses in their own way. honorable mention to Ludwig

My top 3 is midir, gael, and orphan. Midir is the perfect dragon fight to me, gael is the best knight-esque type fight, and orphan of kos is the perfect beast/non human boss

I'm having a hard time deciding between Lady Maria, Ludwig, and Slave Knight Gael, as the best dlc boss.

Outro was really life changing

The living failures ost is a banger

I thought this came out ages ago. Pretty good list! Here’s mine from least to most favorite: -Gank squad -Lud & Zallen -Halflight -Gravetender -Failures -Aava -Guardian -Elana -Blue Smelter -Laurence -Kalameet -Sinh -Ivory King -Alonne -Artorias -Manus -Maria -Ludwig -Demons -Midir -Gael -Fume -Friede -Orphan

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He’s not dead? I can’t believe it

That outro was top tier

I’ve always felt like fromsoft shines a lot more in its dlc They take their time with the feedback from the main game release and give us the best of content Dlc is clearly not casual territory, it’s meant for hardcore fans and you can tell just by the difficulty amps DLCs always give us exactly what we want from them which is why I’m really eager for Elden ring, i genuinely think that they will sort out all our gripes about balancing with the dlc

Glad to see Lady Maria and Sister Friede made the top 3 :) I also 100% agree with your top 3 for sure!

Gael is a perfection, there's no boss that is more satisfying to fight. His moveset fits your move capability perfectly, like you can fight him with UGS or a dagger and you'll still feel comfortable enough. And his story throught the game and placement in the lore is just brilliant. Best boss ever, not only in souls, but overall the best of all games.

Funny thing is that, I enjoy the Maria fight and tight parry windows so much that while others R1 spam, I just parry the whole time due to how satisfying it is!

Dark Souls franchise has top tier DLC where you're missing out if you don't get the extra content. Just like Witcher 3

Living failures is actually amazing. Because there is a bug where you get hundreds of millions of echoes for killing them a certain way.

Ludwig at 10th place is a crime

Only played Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 from this list. I did Slave Knight Gael first time. Awesome fight, but maybe I need to fight him again to fully appreciate it. Ludwig was actually my favourite.

Imo: 1| Slave Knight Gael 2| Sister Friede 3| Darkeater Midir 4| Ludwig, the Accursed/Holy Blade 5| Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower 6| Knight Artorias 7| Orphan of Kos 8| Black Dragon Kalameet 9| Manus, Father of the Abyss 10| Fume Knight 11| Sir Alonne 12| Elana, the Squalid Queen 13| Sanctuary Guardian 14| Demon Prince (Hot take, I know) 15| Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon 16| Burnt Ivory King (Another hot take, but I just kinda hate this fight) 17| Aava, the King's Pet 18| Laurence, the First Hunter 19| Living Failures 20| Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf 21| Halflight, Spear of the Church 22| Blue Smelter Demon 23| Lud & Zallen, the King's Pets 24| Gank Squad

"I also think Artorias is a good fight. That doesn't mean I want to fight two of them." Elden Ring: "Oh Yeah?"

Sister friede is def my fav out of all the dlcs I played, because I knew about her 2nd phase before going into the fight, so when me and my friend killed her, I turned around and started talking to him saying something like “yeah I knew about her second phase but still that was such a fun fight!” And he goes “uh…..Uh??…..AHHHHHHHHH” and I turn around and friede is in the air with her black flame scythe and I have never felt more fear in a souls game since, so yah, she’s my fav

Laurence is a reskin Boss done right (not including the sounds). Also is he not the ONLY reskin Boss in Bloodborne ? I cant remember others so bonus points for that game

Glad to see some love for Demon Prince(s). Favorite DS3 boss.

Now we’ve seen your ranking of the bosses…now let’s see the themes

Just a little note: I don't think Ariandel is Friede's fathers; I think Father is just a religious title.

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If I had to give my top 3 Soulsborne dlcs would be 1. Burnt Ivory King 2. Old Hunters 3. Ringed City

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The first time i ever fought Midir it took me like 5 hours to beat him. Then i came back on NG+ and beat him on my second or third try. Once you know his moves it really is easy so i actually like where hes placed

Blue Smelter demon over Kalameet is insane

Solid list, I especially like the appreciation for the Burnt Ivory King. Really underrated, but a gimmick boss done right. I dont really share the placement of Blue Smelter tho. In a vakuum, he is a solid boss. But the runback to him and especially the fact that people paid money for it to be a reskin AND being the worst Boss in that DLC really would have warranted a spot on the very low end of the list. (At least for me)

For me id switch midir and sinh. For me, especially in my recent playthrough, midir posed a very big and frustrating problem: the camera constantly locked off, once 3 times in 5 seconds. In general, the camera is really unlucky with this boss. He also is just so all over the place that i have to run for like half the fight to catch up. I dont mind his difficulty but the shit with the camera and his mobility. Sinh on the other side is all over the place too, but he flies most of the time combining it with charges at you so you have plenty of counter opportunities since its most easier to catch up. Also, this much of flying while showering fire on you really did a good job of portraying how a flying dragon would fight you. His lore is very cool, also his entrance. The only thing making him not a rival to the best dragon fights like placidusax and fortissax is sinhs armor. 10 strikes in and your weapons durability is in a critical state.

Living failures are kinda cool ngl

does anyone actually ask you to do an outro? i think the succinct ending to all of your videos is iconic

Inner Ishin is best dlc boss

Taking the tail sword what made kalameet a hard boss for me tbh

I always like your rankings, because although I think they're awful(no offense) they're very unique and I like that about them.

How does one consider Ludwig ro be a worse fight than Midir, Alonne, Fume Knight and the Demon Prince? Don't get me wrong, I like all of these fights, especially Midir, but c'mon it's Ludwig...

I think originally Fromsoftware games intended "Velstaldt The King's Royal Aegis" to serve the Queen; in the system's game flies, he is titled Queen's instead of King's; ironic if u consider his unwavering service to Vendrick. In lore it is stated that he never questioned Nashandra upon her seeking of shelter In Drangliec Castle, possibly out of his unwavering devotion. Once the Queen, she settled the land in quietness. She too revealed her intentions to trick Vendrick; to use his own power to usurp him. He ran through Drangliec castle, to the once Royal crypt (now titled Undead Crypt, they mass-buried-alive the undead here to suppress their uprising) he did so to protect the kingdom, however his subjects viewed this as unfaithfulness. Once Vendrick retired to the Crypt, so too had Velstaldt; to serve him in undeath. In the past, Velstaldt faces towards would-be pillagers/graverobbers and the Queen's subjects. In the present he has turned towards his own King, to protect him further... I love this story, the visual representation of Velstaldts sollum prayer/thought reflection under his holy light is one of my favourite images in the series. Him giving into the embrace of the Darknesses, corrupting black abyss in order to serve Vendrick is one of many underappreciated moments in this videogame. I say this to mention, it's possibly Nashandra (who has quite similar moves/Animations to Elana, The Squalid Queen who summons Velstaldt) means Nashandra might have once summoned him, using him here instead of in Elana Squalid Queen's, or Vendrick's storyline. One more suggestion towards this, The Queen's House: Throne Defender/Throne Watcher have similar physical appearances too Velstaldt (Pale unhuman skin, etc).

Man, EVERYBODY is sleeping on Aava’s introduction! That shit was epic! Alsanna’s monologue as you approach the boss door did an amazing job hyping me up for the boss and making me feel on edge. The fight was okay but that, for lack of a better phrase, in-game cutscene made it five times more memorable!

He’s alive 😮

When are we getting a King's field 2 tier list?

Dark Souls Teostra is indeed underrated 😅

I still think Burnt Ivory being at #12 is slander but I'm at least glad he did get some respect. He is one of my favorite bosses in any game, ever. I much prefer him to both Alonne and Fume Knight. His lore significance, the spectacle, dropping into the arena with the Loyce Knights, the team battle between you and the Loyce Knights and the Charred Loyce Knights, then finally seeing the Burnt Ivory King emerge from a massive portal of flames once only you and one of your Loyce Knights remain after the others sacrificed themselves to shut down the portals summoning more Charred Loyce Knights. That and in my personal opinion the King has the most enjoyable moveset to dodge in the game. Also his boss theme is dope.

This really is the Dark Souls of WatchMojo lists

Yes sir bro reach 100 k big W I've seen this guy's shorts appear here and there the last time I checked him he was at 80k

Blue Smelter Demon that high? Nah I can’t forgive the frustration, still a great video

Ok but the living failures ost tho

In my opinion Ludwig is the best boss in the entire soulsborn series

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I love the Souls Mojo Guy videos

The first two entries are meant to be tackled with summons. Especially lud and zalon

Video idea: coolest boss attack in every soulsborne game

Ludwig at 10 is wild

I saw how ypu reffered to Ariandel as "Friede's father",in case ypu don't know,Ariandrl isn't actually Friede's father,the father in his title likely means "priest" as a corvian NPC also refers to him as "our father".

I completely agree with top 10 being top 10 (although not with the order). I also think that for each game the best boss is a dlc boss, which is on the one hand understandable (image paying extra for bosses worse than the base game), but on the other hand makes me wonder why they wouldn't just make a game with all the great stuff included from the start.

Midir behind fume knight and sister friede is blasphemy. He’s such a good boss definitely my favourite in the series

I hope everyone agrees with this, but I actually enjoyed The Living Failures fight, yes I understand that it's not everyones cup of tea, and yes I would put this low on my list as well (due to other bosses being better), but Living Failures is the only Gank Boss in the DLC that I like, as well as their lore, Music, Arena and etc.

nahhhh no way blue smelter demon above Laurence lmao. Laurence has so many new moves, blue smelter demon is basically just a recolour. It's a good fight but Laurence takes the cake by a long shot

from a technical aspect dodging and hitting with gael, he is the perfect boss.

i think gael and freide is objectively the best fromsoft dlc bosses ever. Id be satisfied just seeing these 2 on top

With this outro thing you starting to remind me of an Italian youtuber, he also hates outros lol

Fume Knight, my beloved.

im a dark souls 4 believer, shit aint done. 4 lords, 4 games, thats my prediction

I think Manus is my fave dlc boss tbh, it's just such a cool fight

Not sure if there is a Vaati video that says otherwise , but Ariandel is not actually Friede's father.

Are the outro complainers in the room with us right now?

Unpopular opinion: Orphan of Kos and Lady Maria are the best DLC bosses. Not just because of the fights but the lore as well.

Nice list, but man that kalameet and ludwig rank hurt me