Ranking the Armored Core 6 Bosses from Worst to Best 

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"Balteus. It's an Autonomous PCA Craft." Is gonna be some people's "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella"

“Every armour got a core.” -John Core

I love Iguazu's voice actor. He sounds like an angsty anime villain, and the fact that this almost laughable character became so awesome and is the true final boss just sent me when I played.

Obviously they aren’t really comparable, but this has become one of my favorite fromsoft games. I can’t wait for future AC games

So the three best bosses in the game are: + Mechliketh + Sentient Petrol + A guy too butthurt and salty to die

17:44 I actually like the dialogue in this fight lol… I like how desperate Walter sounds for you to win, and it makes you feel you are up against impossible odds. But yeah, I guess the opening dialogue can be a bit annoying after hearing it a bunch

Iguazu is such a great character because we all have had that friend who can never admit they are wrong no matter what, as though it would crush their very existence to admit they have a flaw. Shoutout to the English voice actor Griffin Burns.

"so i hope ill make some people reassess and fight this boss again" EUAHGHGHHAGHG thanks snail

Walter definitely works as a final boss when throwing kamehamehas around.

I died in my first attempt at ALLMIND Iguazu, cause I was literally choking on my own laughter realising fucking Iguazu of all people is the penultimate final boss of ACVI.

really good ranking video, way better than Rusty's tbh. No idea why he thought he needed to include any of the basic AC fights

Iguazu turtling and spamming is so like Iguazu though

Balteus was the boss that made me fall in love with the game. Everything's perfect, love the music, the rain, the missiles, the difficulty, the techno music (too bad he feels 25% less intense now, at least I'll always have my 1.0 disc). 2nd favorite is Ibis or Cel 240, dodging the 2nd phase felt like a Souls boss, plus his design is just fucking cool. 3rd is Allmind followed closely by Ayre (I think I mainly prefer Allmind because it was a much harder fight for me). 5th on my first playthrough was Sea Spider, but its' lasers got nerfed a lot as well. I think I prefer Enforcer and Arquebus Balteus over it now (I got stuck for quite a while at Snail's Balteus on my first playthrough, that laser attack is S-tier). Overall, I loved the boss fights in the game, they were the highlight for me. Like Magicat, this was a game I never asked for but am happy it exists. The movement and flow of combat is just so good. I love firing my guns while assault boosting into a staggered opponent then using my left shoulder weapon bay to melee them. When I execute everything perfectly, I feel like I'm juggling every input, my energy level and various cooldowns. I also enjoyed how Fromsoftware approached ng+ and ng++ in AC6. I really hope that they continue to try unique things for ng+ cycles in future games.

Magicat, please release my family.

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Great list. I felt differently about some of them, mainly sea spider which I loved, but hearing others different perspectives and experiences is always so cool, and the explanations you gave made a lot of sense

I agree with the list, solid placing. I would add Raven AC mini boss to the list also. The one you fight at the spaceport. He is a fun and iconic AC that's relevant to your progress as well.

With the Sea Spider I've found that just hovering above it makes it very trivial. When it floats in the air, you can even land on it for a short while.

My favorite part of arquebus balteus is how pathetic snail sounded as we killed him

My favorite ranking channel drops a vid for my new favorite game. All around W

About the Enforcer: It destroyed me whenever I stayed at midrange. For me, getting in close and harassing it with shotguns and the laser blade was the way to go. Yes, its melee attacks are dangerous, but I found them relatively easy to dodge at close-range.

I beat Sea Spider first try because I used a lightweight jumpy build. If you jump above it or fly around it will almost never hit you.

This game’s voice acting is so good that never did I think about turning the voices off, even after dying a million times to ibis

At balteus i had 2 regular machineguns and 2 of those railguns you get early on. Everything barely fit on my jumpy legs but it worked. Balteus seemed impossible to me at first with that loadout but suddenly out of nowhere those railguns were hitting like a freight train and i completely burned through his shield before he could even hit me. It's as if i found the secret build no one was using.

Didn’t expect this! How exciting!

I was so thoroughly satisfied with this game.

Nice video. I just rolled credits on the final play through and I’m impressed. Favorite from soft game next to Sekiro.

I love how Snail's tirade usually starts when he uses his laser super move. His rant with the lasers everywhere and the music going crazy puts the biggest smile on my face every time!

My wife started repeating "not like this!" Every time I dies to Ibis 😂. Even when I reset before the voice line played

Man fighting Ibis for the first made me feel I was playing dark souls for real lol Also fighting Balteus early game when you barley had any parts was hard as hell but when you unlock stun needles he folds like the other bosses lol

5) Ice worm (purely because of Rusty) 4) Balteus (most iconic boss in the game) 3) Allmind (best final moss from theme perspective) 2) Ayre (best final boss from "fight itself" perspective) 1) CEL 240 (I don't know why but I just wanted to fight him more during my first completion)

your list is my favorite so far, its basically exactly how I would rank them, except I would switch Ayre and ALLMIND/Iguazu. For me Ayre was far and away the hardest boss in the game but also my favorite. The music and the somber tone and the way she fights is exactly how you would expect her to somehow. But both are insanely awesome.

I loved this game, tried beating all bosses without healing which was hell, and also semi-successful. Managed to eventually find builds that worked on everything but the True ending final boss and Ayre. Did beat both without healing eventually, but had to use two stun needle launchers, which makes both bosses cakewalks. Those 2 bosses are so much more fun when you cant just instantly stagger them and take out 1/4 of their health bar. I cant wait for AC7 now, call me a armored core fan cause I definitely am going back to play some of the older titles now.

The way that the Arye fight starts makes sense, she doesn’t want to hurt you at first but the longer the fight goes on the more willing she is to kill you.

With Allmind I found that all I needed to was focus fire on them & the phase shifts would take care of the extras

pretty good ranking

For me it wasn't much about learning the moveset but more about positioning and reaction. But i used an overaggressive playstyle, so that may be it.

This game fucking rules! I enjoyed every boss and AC fight(Except the escort mission cuz fuck that). Even the fights that seem like unfair ganks are still really fun

15:28 "its an autonomous PCA craft" is all I heard for 3 hours before raging that I didnt know this boss's name. How do you search for a boss clear build when you dont know their name?

Those two shots you hit Allmiguazu with during his mech exploding was so hilariously well-timed that I actually choked a bit on my water. "I always envied you..." *Bang* "Shut up." "The freelancer who had it all...." *Bang* "I SAID SHUT UP."

Excellent list. I would also like to say, with regard to the #1 spot, the first phase isn't so bad if you just ignored the adds and focus on the boss. I hated that phase at first because I was focusing all the adds down first which took too long and wasn't fun, but it's much quicker and more enjoyable if you just evade the little guys' attacks and focus down the boss. That being said, I would personally swap the # 1 and # 2 spots on the list, but it's a fairly close call imo.

I should retry snailteus i don’t feel I properly learnt their moveset when I beat them leading to a missed opportunity

The top 3 are just something else in this game tbh the quality gap between them and the rest is massive

Is nobody gonna talk about the perfectly timed shotgun blast at 24:52, just amazing.

Made me feel better about myself to know Balteus made other players their bitch too. I also heard C4 end boss was really hard before I got to him but didn’t know anything about the fight, and I found it pretty easy. Like you said, I think Balteus really requires you to have a good setup if you want to have an easier time whereas Ibis’s skillcheck is knowing not to move your right analog after hard locking, he just stuns easily and you have a generous punish window. I finished the game once with the liberator of rubicon ending so I skipped the bosses I didn’t fight yet, I’ll definitely revisit after my next 2 playthroughs.

Tester AC is up there with Soldier of God in terms of grueling difficulty. I spent 32 hours of my day trying to best him.

Snailteus is one of those fights where your build has a tremendous impact on the experience. If you use only non-pulse energy weapons and you don’t have the right combination of EN capacity/efficiency/recharge/speed to keep up with him, you’re gonna have a miserable time. I used a heavy build with only energy weapons earlier after I had already S-ranked the mission and I just could not beat him. But then I swapped my generator, used the pulse blade instead of the laser lance, and swapped my laser drones for a laser shotgun, and I had a much better time. I even killed him first try

18:01 the fucking snail dynig scream fucking got me lmao good ranking dude

My favourite was ibis hands down

I did Balteus like 30 times before I beat it. At the time I felt that it was insane at tracking with its bazooka. I beat the True Ending Boss in one try and it wasn't even close. Maybe because I had a hard time with Ayre. Walter was easy and my favorite boss was Ibis.

C-Spider, IBIS, and Snailtaeus were the only 3 bosses I really got stuck on. The build I used up to Spider simply didn't work against him at all, so I was struggling to learn a new build and the boss at the Sametime. IBIS was def the hardest boss for me, but also my favorite. It looks so cool. Its attacks are so cool. Everything about it is SO COOL!!!! but man, did it wash me for 2 hours straight, lol. I had been running a tank build for some time up to him. Swapped to a speed build because I just couldn't dodge everything. Snailteus, I just didn't enjoy. He felt like a slog more than anything. Most of his attacks are just weapons, and the few that aren't are still easily dodged Except for that Purple beam Dance This was the only move that killed me. Over. And over. And over. I died to that move a little over 30 times before I learned how to dodge it. After that he was cake walk ALLMIND Iguanez, for me, he just kinda...died? I beat him first try, he caught me off guard with a few of his attacks, but I killed both spiders without him ever touching me. Then phase 2 kicked in. Like, he almost killed me, but I didn't really struggle against him at all

I beat the enforcer with a missile build. Man that was fun but becareful he has move where he jumps and tries to stab you. Other than that it was just smooth sailing against him.

My pride and joy in my platinumed games is AC6. I absolutely loved this game, and I was sad when my job had come to an end, but I found a friend

I wasn’t aware that the Snail Balteus was considered bad. On my first playthrough, original Balteus stomped me for several tries. And having the opportunity to go back to an updated model while I too was also updated and refined felt like poetic justice. I adapted and learned the fight, and felt an extreme sense of vindication when I beat it in only a few tries. It truly felt like I had learned something

A lot of moves I don't bother dodging, but instead make sure they are about to stagger at the start of the animation. With enough burst you can stagger at will as most of these major attacks start with huge openings. For Iguazu's sword swings, he's a little too aggressive for this, but you can just assault armor if you're not in great position to stagger him before he gets in, and then stagger and punish on his second swing. It seems like you don't take as much damage when activating assault armor, so it's really good at winning trades aggressively.

I don’t mind Snail balteus actually, I feel like just because it’s snail, it’s one higher than regular balteus

My computer can't handle this game during the boss fights so I basically have to use certain brute force strategies... I have parts that are 3 ish years old if not more and it really shows when they start launching all their projectiles. The frame rate dip is so sudden that it sometimes eats my attempts to command a dodge, or due to the frame rate dropping suddenly makes it look like an attack is coming way later than it should. Damn economy has it hovering just above my reach to upgrade.

Now time for AC encounters ranking

For any of those who struggle with the Sea Spider, I have a method for all of you that consistently works. So you take a speedy build that can go airborne. Alright, for the first phase you need to get all up in it's business, like right next to the legs close. You will need hard lock for this to work, but what you want to do is to circle the thing will staying close to it, this will allow you to dodge all of it's attacks while blasting it. During phase two, having an AC that can chill in the air is vital, as you can easily just hover right above the thing. Typing all this out made me realize how much I bully the Sea Spider.

Lmao that dying scream

I also enjoyed Snail Balteus more than vanilla Balteus. After getting a few builds crushed by Super Snail, I tried his gift against him and found that the needle launcher melts his health.

The second DLC for Wo Long is out now

I've spent many hours fully mastering Cel and I really like some of the others, however the first Baltheus is the best thing in the game. First. The very first. On the first playthrough of the game. When it starts to work out, a feeling of trance appears, when understanding, music and concentration merge into one great feeling of joy. That was the first time I realized that I could love this game.

My top 4 are Ayre, Snailteus, CEL240, and Iguana. Iguana falls quite short compared to the other three because his first phase is just annoying while the others are good from start to finish.

When are you gonna rank "all" the bosses, i would like to hear your opinion on it "ng+ ans ng++ included)

I played through and uploaded the entirety of New Game with the starter AC! I agree with a lot of this list except I really liked Enforcer. Probably one of my favorite fights in the game. It's got basically all the tricks in the game; close range spamming with its pulse gun, long range dodge checks with the laser, aggressive melee, and a cool phase 2 with shockwaves. It's a boss that really lets you demonstrate full mastery of the combat system.

2:21 actually you did that in the Cuphead ranking too

I never thought of the Strider as a boss

balteus reminds me of a returnal boss with those missiles tbh (in a good way)

for me i would have to say the ibis fight is by far the hardest fight over the allmind

Walter got dumpstered in 15 seconds by being stunlocked by the minigun needle wheelchair

Imo G1 Michigan should get an honorable mention. No wonder he is called "hell on four legs".

pro tip, you dont have to hear the same dialogue over and over if you simply don't die

I guess to me the C-Spider was actually fun and easy to me

Bolt from Last Raven filtering people even harder than Filtercopter: "What took you so long?"

If only they make Walter's health bar last longer, from story alone he deserved to be a hard boss fight Feels pretty dirty how they did his fight tbh

For the allmind fight I ran out of ammo on everything so I just had to punch him but then it stunlocked him and then I just kept on punching and he just died

If you keep jumping over the sea spider, it just can't hit you.

you forgot to mention even allmind trashtalk iguazu at the end when youre about to kill him. when she says. “you were… a mistake … Iguazu”. she sounds so dissapointed and pissed at herself for choosing him

I beat the Helicopter in 2 tries…. Never played and Armored ore game before….. it wasn’t until Balteus that I got to my first hurdle… finding out that the helicopter game people trouble…. Shocked me. I mean, I can understand if you are starting the mission over from the beginning, but you can’t take it on from the Checkpoint??

Gonna do lies of p next?

Iguazu, while a hard fight, is simple to S rank when replaying the mission. Simple in concept. The first phase, kill the minions if they are on you too much. You may kill some naturally as you damage the boss anyways but if you deplete his health on to the next phase. Now, focus on the boss. At 50% health the other two flying drones disappear and it's just You and Iguazu. Finish the fight in a timely manner BOOM, easy S rank..... simple in concept. good luck

The second phase of the allmind fight is the easy part cuz he gets stunned so easily. The first phase is the annoying part cuz of the other little dudes. They take 3 Zimmerman shots to take down but I will say I've found the turner plus a hu ben stuns them so fast and the hu ben just deletes their health But yah allmind is a pain

How do you dodge Arquebus Balteus's desperation attack? I always had to use pulse armor for that move.

Saw a vtuber use a heavy build against allmind and just stand there unmoving trading blows and taking only 1k damage from all the melee stuff without getting staggered it looked horrible. I'm glad I used a light build since it was super fun.

i personally think sea spider should be the first real boss instead of balteus,and balteus being the second real boss. sea spider took me 2 tries while balteus took me 3 days

Damn I missed a few bosses in my first playthrough

Every boss in the game teaches you or reminds you of a different aspect of gameplay

The three bosses I struggled with were enforcer, ibis and ayre

What build did you use for bosses?

now i feel kind of bad lol. I just kinda of "lmao wheelchair + double songbird + doublemachinegun'd" a lot of the late-game bosses so i never even noticed their moveset

The officer warrants gave me trouble I couldn’t I understand it. The fight ended up in the alley after I beat the two mechs they sent for back bug I still beat him . I think it was in the second chapter I got lost.

Was Walter re-educated by arquebus? I always figured it was a backup plan AC since it’s in the ng+++ as well, and Walter shows up to make sure the ship crashes

I can never understand people calling the sea spider difficult, did it on my first try with a ultralight build

When I heard people bitching about the so called "Helicopter Skill Check" in Armored Core Six, I thought they were talking about the Sea Spider to be honest, as I had no idea that people were identifying Balteus as a helicopter, nor that so many people were being curb stomped by the first boss of the game, though it only really took me two deaths to beat the Helicopter because I've played the previous titles, and thus playing this one felt really natural to me.

They should've just added the pulse guns breaking pulse shields to the training mode.

Makes me laugh when people complain about the tutorial boss being too hard and that poster saying you don't have enough boost to dodge everything... I completely forgot about boost dodges until 5 hours in and still beat the tutorial after 3 tries

Am i the only person who found sea spider an absolute joke and smart cleaner much much harder?

Top 5 5 : sea spider 4 : walter 3 : balteus 2 : ayre 1 : ibis series