Ranking the Dark Souls 3 Bosses from Easiest to Hardest [#1-19] 

+Kenshin_44 The camera during the dragon portion is definitely the hardest part of the fight. Complete and utter bullshit. And the final phase is tough, it's made much more difficult because you have to fight the camera/dragon to reach that phase every time. It takes much longer to learn his moveset because of this.

+Joshua Bahr First phase is a joke. Camera is fine as long as you stay in front of the boss. Second phase is ridiculous. I had to stack lightning res and upgrade a lothric knight shield for the lightning res, and just block his speedy attacks. Didn't have the reflexes for that fight.

+Oscar Axe First Phase is cheap, that's the problem. Dragon is ridiculously hard to even hit (I slashed through his neck with my GS and it did not register as hit) and the fire-to-ground attack has a ridiculously large AoE and a lenght that can hit you 2 times (which is basically death since the breath takes more than half you health.

+Sneaky Dexter if you stay in the middle you get hit 3 times. Even though you can block it. If you get hit 3 times (if you blocked the first hit) you're basically fucked ^_^

+Joshua Bahr I disagree completely, in fact most people I've seen who struggle on the Nameless King consistently struggle with the second phase more. The first phase's camera can be a pain, but the dragon is pretty quick to die due to lower health pool and ease of staggering for a critical attack. The thing, imo, people are missing, is that the camera mostly bugs out when you get under the dragon. But you don't want to be under the dragon in the first place because it's more likely to do less beneficial attacks like leaping up and breathing fire. Control your spacing properly by trying to maintain your position in front of the dragon and you will have 0 issues with the camera whatsoever.

The joke was Other bosses: Uses buff weapons, magic, fire, lightning, teleportation in second phase Champion Gundyr: Tries harder

@@kabyabanerjee7858 no it’s “starts trying”

ugh, gave me chills reading that

@@parkerjames6694 I had killed him first time. As the others... Hardest boss imo was Chuck Norris.

same feeling as Godfrey 2nd phase

Seriously, on my first playthrough I didn't notice the Storm Ruler and spent about five hours trying to whittle him down with my Sellsword Twinblades

Damcer would be on the bottom.She is just so easy,her phase 2 was easier than phase 1.The main reason I died was because of her grab attack

@@devinnall2284 just finished my first play through and I didn’t realize that I was supposed to use the storm ruler. I just killed him regularly. It seemed more challenging and fun now that I see how easy and trivial the fight is with the stormruler.

@@bloodredrain I struggled so much with dancer although I did fight her as early as possible so idk if it would be easier if I fought her later down the line. But her and pontiff were really the only bosses that I truly struggled with for a long time.

i blame RNG for that and its great.

I have read somewhere that if you speed up and reverse the sounds the dancer makes you can hear her crying during the entire fight.

@@patrickn.4113 could be real Ceaseless discharge sound is a literal baby cry altered

Andrew lol 3. When I finish the boss’s health par and it refills My estus : am i a joke to you..?

@@hassangx5272 when you kill the boss but get killed by a previously casted aoe attack directly after... at least in ds3 you still win the fight if you died after unlike previous games or at least ds1

@@hassangx5272 Ariandel's DLC Boss, who the hell expects a third fase?

Brohvakiin Dova I haven’t played ds1,2 So I’ll keep that in mind when i play it

J3RL45H NO ONE!!

+HDmexiqtioner Good to hear. I'm almost there with him available in my third playthrough - I can't wait!

Probably the best questline of the game. The lore behind the two is great. Ohh and have a sub while you are at it.

I've been loving the NPC quests. I missed pretty much all of them in my first run lol. And welcome HDmexiqtioner!

Dat cutscene before the Yhorm fight doe? Plus what do you think of the top NPCs in the SoulBorne Series?

+HDmexiqtioner I don't actually remember a scene before the fight. Is that part of Siegward's quest? And I'll be doing a list on the top NPCs before to long. But spoiler alert: I have a feeling that grossly incandescent phantom in your avatar might be showing up ;)

The first time I played the game - I beat him on my first try - which is not how it usually goes when I play video games… but afterwards I felt like I was HIM - - was about to call up my crush cos I thought my luck in the universe had changed - but I died right afterward and got humbled

Pontiff is NOT fun 😂😂

@@dude8611 I can acknowledge that :D

Meanwhile nameless easily one of the worst fights with the more of a fight against the camera

The Twin Princes is the perfect example of depression. Getting to the boss sucks, then fighting him sucks and then when you die they repeat that "your grave is here" bullshit😂😂 I found pontiff and the dancing lady way easier😂

enjoy! For me it's one of the best games I've ever played

Same. I'm on the last boss rn

@@gabrielmireval901 k

I have started a few days ago and man tis game is beautifull jet painfull to play

@@jm_r245 whip it out into my mouth right now.

I still throw the controller because I know that's a lie

Well I can't afford to break a controller every time I rage , I broke one controller in my life playing mw2 that is IT.

Yeah, but I play smart, I put pillows under me legs so when I throw the controller it lands on the pillows :3

LEAVE IT IM CHILLING HOMES I never broke any controller. Why? coz I'm not so dumb to break it. lol

Night Shift well my old mattress is leaned against the wall cause we don't have anywhere to put it so I just punch it

Only 30 times? Mr Pro right there

"... but you may rest here too, if you like"

@@ardasevmis7583 30 times is me on pontiff, literally found him impossible in phase 2

This boss is truly the hardest one, really gave me a hard time ( even as a Pyro!)

@@MrEysox Darkeater Midir, Sister Friede and Slave Knight Gael would like to have a word with you XD

you are the definition of built different

There's hint nearby saying you have to plunge attack

I actually killed Yhorm like that during my first run. I didn't pay any attention to weapon arts so I didn't know about the storm ruler. Killed him with a +6 great scythe.

@@ashank9856 I saw those hints but I literally couldn't find where to do that lol, so I did the same I just kept hitting him then hiding until he died, I only died once accidentally but it was a really long and boring fight

i got him halfway before i thought "this is boring as fuck they are just sitting there jumping and walking around theres no way this the intended way" so i explored around

I would say that SOC is more memorable than Friede, but Gael has it beat.

He's still my favorite boss :)

In all fairness, just because the ones who came after were fantastic doesn’t mean SoC isn’t great as well

Except the straight up unfair 5 attack combo that soc has in his second phase, he is pretty much a perfect boss in my opinion

It’s weird how that’s just an opinion

this comment made me laugh so fucking hard bro

@@dillpickle4768 Same.

I beat soul of cinder so fast I didn't even realize he used magic, now I find out his weapon also changes lol Friede killed me around 75 times tho

@@josesalazarvaldes6768 hahah I'm the same dude, I killed soul of cinder first time I think in my blind playthrough but died countless times to that bitch's scythe

I made the loudest "WHAT!" when that happened for the first time, a bit of the same reaction for Demon Prince and Blackflame Friede as well.

+Al Capwn Its a boss you can never truly beat, one which will hamper you at every move and kill those of us who are less careful. Truly the the peak in boss design.

+Al Capwn Well at least the Camera Speed is Adjustable, Sensitivity wise it always Helps. i had to turn it up all the way to Fight the Nameless King. got him first Try But not really because when i first encountered him i immediately boned out after 3 minutes of fighting him after killing the Dragon, i Assumed the Dragons head was the Weakness because fromsoft hints hard at being able to One shot a Fucking Dragon by Plunging its head in. So Yeah the first phase was Cake. it Reminded me of That one Dragon Fight in Dark souls 2 where you kill this Wyvern that looks Orange, In that Laboratory Area with all the Titan Hippos. the dragon pretty much had the same moveset and that boss was too easy. But Yeah on the Nameless King Topic. Man, he was a challenge. But with high Sensitivity it felt Great to have the Adrenaline and the panicking

+HaohmaruHL How do you stay locked on when it unlocks every time he moves? The problem is that he can attack from two directions. The dragon and the king. If you are attacking the dragon it's almost impossible to see when the king telegraphs his attacks.

+Ingram 2 if you keep locked on the king (rather then the dragon, its no problem. and if its too much of an issue, you dont use the camera at all.

Merlith Gero Yeah, that's the problem. You CANT stay locked on to him. It will unlock almost every time automatically.

On my first play through but I agree with Aldrich and Dancer because I managed to get past them both with 5 attempts combined, Might’ve gotten lucky with Aldrich idk

i think it depends on build and weapon choice. aldrich was the first boss who really kicked my a**. i went through all my embers and had to buy out the shop before i finally beat him. slow great sword and not a ton of stamina didn't pair well with him teleporting and having to run from the arrow rain. i died to him more than nameless king.

Any boss with an instakill move deserves to be ranked higher IMHO.

Aldrich took me 2 days while old demon king only took me 3 tries

i killed aldrich first try (i died at the same time but still)

Because they have Lore reasons as to why their so easy doesn't matter on this list this is a list just looking at difficulty (it's not even looking at fun)

DBfan and critic Your argument would be valid if he didn't include all the side commentary. If he was just ranking them as easy, then yeah, they're easy, no arguments there. But when he starts to criticize their existence, that's where it stops being so straightforward.

He takes much more damage if you attack his hands. That's actually how I killed him first time around. Took ages. :|

or, even easier get near his legs, let hit two hand his cleaver and slam it to the ground then hack at his head (long weapons with vertical strikes our jumping attacks recommended)

+s.m. grimbldoo Yes I agree with that sentiment. Funny thing, I gave him one staminabar worth of attacks, thought this was mental and that there had to be something to it, saw the item and picked it up 30 seconds laughing my ass of when I saw the name of that shiny :D And than he killed me trying to equip it. And than he killed me some more trying to figure out how to work it (because for some reason it didn't occur to me to try that outside the bossroom). I liked this fight for what it mean to the setting, just like I love King Allant all the way at the end.

ItsMyLife TV so true lol

Go to the rooftop by jumping on the tree and then use projectiles.

If you stand at the very edge of the cliff at the right spot, you can trick him into falling off the cliff

I call the sword master Andy, and I call the first mob in the game Bill.

I beat him twice, both times he fell off the cliff lol

Struggling on it currently this is my first play through of dark souls 3 and my first dark souls game

Not that often thankfully. Just don't play among us with me if you want a coherent player

Pontiff ATATATATATATATTATATATATATATATTATATATATATTATATATA

@bruh0237 yo u know how surprised I was when I saw the first ranking for the souls bosses from demod cause I killed pontiff first try once alone and once with my friend I thought he was a joke lol

@bruh0237 Most people aren't going to realise that they can parry him on their first playthrough. I doubt I would've died 11 times to him on my first playthrough if I had known lol.

Pontiff is an asshole.

I didn't realize you could parry him and I died about a dozen times my first go.

Awwwwh, Im sorry :c Hmm, you on Xbox?

Oh shit :D

rotciv003 Oh for fuck sakes I laughed harder than I should have 😅

Hey, can I copy your homework? Yes, just change the words a little. This comment:

Why did I laugh at this. I'm a terrible person.

I feel that I had no issue against nameless king cause I got the greatshield from dragon armor.

I beat pontiff first try, for Aldrich once I understood that being hyper aggressive while rolling around him was really good I beat him in about 3 tries, but I hate the crystal sage, and has killed me fifteen times on my current and last playthrough.

@@maelstorm71YT that is almost unbelievable lol

@@flamekite1679 I died like 15 times before figuring out the whole be super aggro against Aldrich on my first play through. During my second play through it took me like 8 times to beat pontiff. My first play through i used heavy strength weapons and parried the hell out of pontiff, my second was using a dex weapon.

Say that to Aldrich's Arrows, Pontiff's dual swords and The Nameless king's Dragon and Spear

N- *N A N I ?*

The trick for that was to push through the fog and stand still, waiting for Lorian to teleport. I only got that after like 2 tries, though.

@@bronzekilla Lorian: I pushed hidden point in your back.

bronzekilla yikes

I beat Nameless King after three tries but Lorian somehow beat my ass up well over 20 times

+Teun Knip "The Plunging Attack is the most reliable move in the gaaame" -Dunkey FTFY

+Teun Knip "The Plunging Attack is the most reliable move in the gaaame" -Dunkey FTFY

Daniel Brennan excuse my ignorance

+Teun Knip I watched that vid right before i went to this boss and ended up right like dunkey did, so it made me laugh so hard after this :DD

Bartors cz :D

True

I remember defeating dancer in a few tries and thinking that fight was cool with my ego all inflated and shit. Then i go upstairs and get shat on by like, one lothric knight. It was only after like 11 or 12 deaths that i could actually get them consistently.

1 lothric knight is literally like nothing, but fighting 2 is living hell

@@keshav3479 On my first playtrough I was so scared of them, and every other Knight type enemy that I tried wailing at them from rage with whatever I had. Now that I began my NG+, and I learned how to parry, it’s not even funny, I don’t even use my shield anymore, I just grab their sword arm mid swing and I can almost hear them saying “Please don’t” before I shave off some of that weight they have.

@@XochiCh same! It's amazing how far you progress in these games.

Κωνσταντίνος Φραγκισκάτος most of them are lying but i actually beat the dancer first try idfk how but it worked now i beat her in like 40 tries on a sl1 playthrough

That's not far off what the poster of the video is basically saying.

redplague ayleat its not huhuu i beat nameless king in first try rofl

I never played DS before but some bosses, that are supposed to be hard, were very ez: Abyss Watchers 2nd try; Aldrich 1st try; Soul of Cinder 2nd try(if i had one more estus it would have been 1st try); I was actually sad that i defeated Soul of cinder so ez, cuz the game was over, and Nameless King before that was such a challenge, that defeating Soul of Cinder didn't give me satisfaction... Edit: Butcher's Knife and Yhorm's Machete FTW

I beat Pontiff Sulyvahn first try. It was the only time I used a NPC summon and he just went after her so I had free rain to Mage him down.

I died only 2 times lel

I died 60 times to bell gargoyles

I was stuck with Pontiff for 2 weeks and i think i died about 200 times before i called my friend who parried him to oblivion.

@@cecilia0193 never call a friend to beat a boss.

beat this with 7x try, abyss watcher kick my ass harder

Dude. We are the same person. The princes attacks seemed pretty telegraphed and slow and SoC felt the same way, especially in his Gwyn phase. Dancer made me lose my mind and Dragonslayer Armor was so hard! Especially with his charged up swipe and the insta kill balls that the butterfly’s shoot at you

That’s so crazy because I loved the Dragonslayer Armor fight and it took me around 6-7 tries. Abyss watches and Dancer made me stop playing the game for 2 months in between lmao. I also loved the Twin Princes’ fight. Even though it took me ~10 tries, it all felt fair.

I don't understand how anyone can say abyss watchers was harder than dragonslayer. I beat abyss watcher like 3rd try but dragonslayer is straight impossible for me.

Hahahaha same thoughts 👀

@@Filianore__ 👀

and here im the poor me , after finally getting a good pc and downloading the game cracked :)

Sus

yup. Almost 2021 and still watching

Everything is more fun with Seigward

@@tahraki4918 fr

he dies so quick lol

@@yeetreet7564 he’s invincible…?

@@yeetreet7564 he literally takes no damage

Which one

frustrating seeing him fight every boss without lock on

Godlysock Puppet seems like many people can fight them better without locking on

Who the fck locks on

I beat champ Gundyr without locking on, parrying, or blocking. My play style is pretty weird...

Sad

Oof

Damn bro, that was rough!

i was thinking the same :D

That's rough dude. But also pretty funny. Hope shit's good my man.

What? I beated him the first time. Thats weird.

@@sshh1756 who was the hardest boss for u

@@zapp6606 Dude, this guy's comment is an obvious troll bait :P

@@user-fg1wr7lh1j yeah idk why i fell for it 😂

​@@sshh1756In that case you were extremely overleveled. Cause Pontiff was very hard to beat.

Count Dooku I've been looking forward to this

You should take the highground!

I'm pretty sure i have seen the General Grievous invocation mark just before that boss Two on two. Should be easier

Dew it

All you need to do is get the high ground.

I beat them by pure "wtf how am I doing this?"

@@Generic_Gaming_Channel happened to me on the first try. Got them to 15% with ease. But when i retried, they kicked my ass a good couple of times.

I know the date, but way to the abbys watchers is preety damn easy and takes like minute or less just don't follow the main road, when you do it it's the pain in the ass but stick to the right wall then you have only 3 simple monsters to kill on your way

Bro what way did you run to the abyss watchers it only takes like 30-45 seconds to get there

It do be like that sometimes. I beat the dancer first try both play throughs yet I still struggle with the princes and literally can’t beat them for the life of me. (Took me 50ish tries)

Mine is the dancer of boreal, i love her music and her animation its so smooth esp. when she walks and do that dancing move

in NG+ Crystal sage does tun of a damage

You did not beat the dancer first try

@@arnaeus7448 ^^ You're 100% lying mate lol, no one beats the dancer first try

Lol at beating Pontiff or Dancer that easily. The lies we tell.

@@arnaeus7448 think that's crazy? I beat Nameless King yesterday first try, first playthrough, with Fumes Ultra Greatsword. I think I got lucky though cause alot of bosses gave me troubles, Aldrich probably killed me atleast 15 times. Dancer also whooped my ass once or twice but I took my time with that one.

me too. today he falls :D

Tough fight, but I beat him (barely) at my first go. I'm pretty good at Bloodborne & it felt like a boss from that game. Kind of a noob in Dark Souls though & I died 15-20 times on the Nameless King. The camera got me, the fire breath sometimes would just kill me. And his second phase is really fast, you barely ever have any time to heal.

I've always had an easy time fighting him. There is 2 summons outside and a possible 3rd if you meet the requirements.

I just parry the casul

I have nightmares about parry pro's.

Yep it's pretty crazy. My first one was bloodborne and I still managed to beat every boss in no more than 3 attempts. Having said that I'm a very savy and well soiled gamer. Now at age 38.

@@WheresWaldo05 Yea I'm 20 years younger and have only been playing games for like 6 years now so I'm still in the learning process when it comes to difficulty

Mate I have 1 piece of advice for anyone new to Soulsborne games - play Bloodborne first and you will fear nothing Dark Souls 3 has to throw at you. Trust me.

Midir was my second try. Nameless king took me ten or more tries the first time

i had to summon two bros while fighting midir and it still took me 10+ attempts 😂

speed shanti Same :(

speed shanti same

*Vietnam flashbacks*

speed shanti to me it was the dancer.

and the dancer too, she used to kill me with 3 hits, but finally at the moment i defeated all bosses even the optional ones expect nameless king

Lothric Knights: *99999/10*

Rock lizards at archdragon peak: 99999999999999999999999/10

Fighter .PL: 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999/10

Really you think pinwheel is that hard?

@@sir.saturated3301 I Cant Tell If You Are Being Sarcastic And Understand Its A Joke Or You Are Actually Serious, Its Hard To Detect Sarcasm Through Text

did you beat the game?

@@RyanZhao-zl2ht yea i beat it twice now such a fun game

rip

Then you got fucked xD

melvin dallory talk about karma XD

Same

Lol miyazaki won’t even get him

technically mafia two all over again

@Luis Martinex "amalgamation of everyone who has Linked the first flame" thats why has gwyns moveset in 2nd phase, and yes, also every Player Character who has linked the flame

@Luis Martinex stupid.

@Luis Martinex dumb

@Luis Martinex omegabrain

I've beat the nameless king multiple times. I never lock onto bosses. Depending on lock on is for weaklings. Besides, you don't have as much free movement when locked on.

So true man wolnir is just so easy but Pontiff is just different this fuckers does everysecon a combo sometimes end if with slam sometimes end it with another combo

Don't worry, I'm sure you can do it. Remember: if someone did it before you, then you can do it yourself

Thanks! I did it the next day after 42 deaths. Haven’t died more than 10 times to a boss since. Just beat the twin princes an hour ago

It took me three days all you have to do is be defensive in the first fase and in the second every time he attacks role into him and stab him he has low poise so you can stun him and keep hitting but make sure to leave enough to roll away

Bro wat, were exactly the same. 3 days and 40+ hours

Abyss Watchers was tough for me too. Lots o' deaths for me until I got the 2nd phase timing down

it really do be like that sometimes

When you were a child and didn’t know fire hurts you , you don’t have fear ... fear is what making you have a hard time , fear makes you lose focus , conquer fear and you’ll be fine

Ur brother got gud before ya and he doesn't play...how unfortunate

I beat yhorm 1st try without even finding the storm ruler, beat abyss watchers and pontiff 1st try, nameless 3rd go but had to try 7 times to do crystal sage, literally 30+ and a respec to kill old demon king and still haven't killed knight slayer tsorig by the lava pit after countless tries.

@@philpayton8965 How can you first t the giant without the storm ruler

That’s insanity😂

what the hell lmao, i spent like 45 seconds on vordt in my first try and took no damage but i probably spent like 3 hours on abyss watchers and 2 on the dancer

@@drakeblau6364 beat dancer on my second and abyss watchers on my 20th lmao

it took me 5 hours to beat dancer today but thats only because i was greedy and wanted to do the boss very early into the game i immediately went for dancer after i beat vordt oh boy I regret that decision, now i am confused on how to get the dancer sword i talked to ludith and the soul transposition is not showing for me

@@vijaysabarish9600 you have to kill curse rotted great wood before you create boss weapons

Well, this is a community ranking voted by +10.000 people. It's just a survey showing which boss people found harder on average ratings. DeMod expressed how the Twin Princes and Aldrich were the hardest for him, so he clearly understands that difficulty is subjective. A lot of people in the comments section don't, though. My hardest main game boss is Crystal Sage so I think I understand it better than most lol, I watch people wreck him like the easiest thing ever and don't even understand how I get killed, but I still do.

AraragiTheRaper Hey, what made crystal sage so hard for you? Just wondering :P I've gotta agree with DeMod here, Lothric and Lorian wrecked me about 9-10 times. :P

DarthStalkers Well, in my first playthrough I just went full Skyrim against him in second phase, meaning I just attacked him without caring about his clones, and they always stunlock me with their spells and kill me. I got killed 7 times like that. In NG+ cycles the spells just deal too much damage and whatever they throw at me is almost a one shot, so I still consider him dangerous even if I already got gud at fighting him.. I killed him first try in my last playthrough, though, so now I should say Nameless is my hardest main game boss since he is the only one that kills me outside the DLC.

boe diggy As I just said, I first tried him in my last playthrough, after getting killed 7 times the first time around I already know what to do, but when he attacks from everywhere it becomes hard to avoid every single hit and some are deadly. There is no such thing as "objectevely easy" here (unless we are talking about the numbers shown in the video), not for bosses that actually deal damage and have more health than Pinwheel.

AraragiTheRaper fair enough. Early in the fight I got hit by one of his homing attack and knew he'd hit hard. So when I saw his clones I knew they were priority. I had the hardest time dodging Lorian throughout his fight and he hurts if he gets ya haha. As for Nameless he's not too bad for me, but the King of Storm phase is still a struggle. I just started a pyromancer and everything was rather easy but the Abyss Watchers definitely didn't like me haha

Scarecrow How quickly you forget

@@amadeodante The power of my... beloved Ocelotte, child of dragons.

Come out, come out, don't be afraid

yeah he’s the only boss that talks I think

Hunter Destiny you were born a child of dragons, what could you possibly fear?

when you get dragonslayer great arrow stuck in your face

When you walk next to the white birch in Undead Settlement and get nuked from orbit.

that means marriage

an arrow to the knee

Craig Wright I've taken many thousands of arrows to the face in Skyrim.

he devoured gwyndolin, hence the name Devourer of God. The humanoid part of Aldrich is in fact the body of gwyndolin yet to be digested

@@yifeizhang116 Yeah, what I meant was the developers of DS3 presented that Lore through gameplay as well

This is a factual statement. I agree entirely with what you’ve said here

Luck? Skill? Who knows man

+theDeModcracy I'm new and very patient and have a trigger finger for rolling but I have a hard time anilizing moves

+Kill Crow127 I sucked at the old demon king

the old demon king spanked me time after time

+Kill Crow127 Same and I've been playing since dark souls 1 lmao

first I was afraid, I was petrified.... but then I realized all his attacks are easy to dodge once you can tell the difference between the attack animations and where to run to be safe

The only difficult thing about the Midir is how dull it gets after the first 5 minutes since he can't hit you but you can't deal damage to him

Darkeater = hardest boss

In my first gameplays i only could defeat him with no sound

Nameless King is still harder.

First time fighting..... What the fuck he teleports.... YOU DIED

I hope you learned you lesson kid.

He is tired of us backstabbing everything into oblivion so he backstabs us

One of the easier fights for me, I had more trouble with Pontiff Twin Princes are actually kinda fun to fight.

Omae wa mou shinderu

for me was the dragonslayer armor, not because of him, just the fuk ing butterfly oneshotting me every time i didn't look at her for 2 seconds, even i died when i killed him, scared the shit outa me.

The twin princes were insane. Hardest boss for me in the series so far tbh, but that’s because I tried doing it with a great machete for hours, as soon as I got a straight sword I got them in under an hour. I have yet to play the DS3 dlcs and the second half of DS2

Yeah i did Soul of Cinder first try without summoning.

I just beat pontiff and spent some time grinding and killed him with a bit of trouble but not too bad. The fucking curse rotted great wood and path to the deacon’s however

I beat princes on first try, but i can run with closed eyes to pontiff sulivan fight area

Completely agree

thats what i love about ds. everyone seems to have different problems with bosses.

JayMdh same, certain bosses seem to just work for some people's play styles more than others

Airborne Cthulhu yea I'm on like try no. 20 for the pontiff lol

Noro I'd highly recommend summoning a phantom for Pontiff. I couldn't even get him down to half health on my own, but with a phantom it's so much easier

Airborne Cthulhu my problem is his second half I think his first phase is pretty easy but that second phase fucks me up so bad.

lmao don't hide the fact that you like the boss because of her ass.

That was a tertiary factor.

imho a nice ass must be acknowledged and appreciated.

you smack her ass and it bounces 😩

Praise da Buns!

I did Pontiff without Damage (tho with an NPC summon) He's... Okay because theres a nice spot where he gets stuck

Me 2 i never died to him

Isn't champ gundyr the king of long combos?

yeah I havnt died at all to champion Gundyr on both my playthrough but pontiff I just have to summon at least one person or I'll be there for a while

I do it when feeling lazy. Now that i did a no summons or sheild playthrough, i just summon for pontiff, dancer and sage since i dont want to deal with any of their shit. I would rather move on that repeat a boss i know i can beat.

That's the joke

Champion gundyr was legit the hardest boss for me nothing came close to him.

@@blastbomberz4883 dancer, Aldrich, crystal sage, and champion Gundyr were hard for me

@@blastbomberz4883 i beat him first try but the pontiff...

I had more trouble with ludex than champion for some reason. In fact I killed em second try while ludex took me like 10 since i am a casul. Especially with the second phase but eventually I stopped panicking and focused and defeated ludex. I had more trouble with the deacons than champion.

+Local Lion I basically spent fifteen minutes trying to kill it then saw I could run past it, since I figured it would take too long trying to kill it in melee and there might be a special mechanic (seriously, he has too much health). If a boss can take your attacks for 10-15 minutes and still be above half-health, you probably are meant to have a special mechanic to weaken them or something, if it's a Souls Game. Sorta like how if you attack Wolnir but don't hit his bracelets his health-pool seems freaking unlimited, that caused me to die a few times to him before I realized they were weak-points.

Seeing the amount of damage you do to him cries out for a special fromsoft gimmick, so I started looking around for balistae or the like

+Aikanaro Azurahson same

+Local Lion I just gave up after 10 minutes and hoped I could run away from him into the next area. Only l thing that made me jump was a message suggesting I try it from the ledge :D

+Local Lion Same here. No wonder there were dev messages about plunging attacks littered around.

What is that point exactly?

+TheSnoozeFox I love atmosperically bosses like abyss watchers, i don't hate the deacons either, but i also don't really like them. The problem was, that a boss really should feel like one in my opinion. If the main body would be a little bit more tanky and he would dodge the attacks a bit, or if the enemys had a real formation, like if the fattys line up between you and him, while the tall one try to encircle you, while the main body slowly retreats with 2 healers on the side, it would really feel like you try to beat a cult trying everything to protect the boss. But like this it is just a bunch of fireball throwing guys ... kinde like the white maids in front of yhorm. And while i am already at it: I think the idea behind the ancient wyvern is great, but i think they shouldn't have made him a boss, if he were just in the area, it would have made him much better to me. And he also lacks a bit of chasing. If the way to him was designed, so you can't just run up in one go, but having to hide behind pillars every few seconds, because he breezes fire, that actually covers your way and makes you feel like you hide from a great danger, that would actually make him quiet neet. Another argument against your point: I think the dancer was quiet easy, didn't really have problems with her, but i still like her design and strangely i really struggled against oceiros but didn't like him.

+TheSnoozeFox I liked them a bit, but ill admit i cant totally like a boss if theyre that easy. They were pretty cool and some of my shamefully admitting deaths to them were hilarious (when you think about it, its kindav mass church gang rape)

+TheSnoozeFox It might have had theme and atmosphere, but it COMPLETELY lacks challenge. It doesn't even feel like a boss fight, I have far more trouble with many of the game's trash mobs than with the deacons, something I can't say about ANY other boss in DS3. I wasn't even aware that the Deacons had a curse mechanic until watching this. Every time I've fought them they've dropped too fast to apply any. I agree that bosses don't need to be the hardest to be great - Oceiros is one of the favourites for me and my friends because the atmosphere in the fight is awesome, even though it wasn't too challenging. But the difference there is that there IS still a challenge to it. There's absolutely none to the Deacons.

Deacons were everything the prowling magus fight should've been.

Tyler Goudreau ikr!

Tyler Goudreau try doing it 11 times

Must be nice....

Your mom has more persistence than most people going into a Souls game and not knowing of the difficulty. Whenever my mom tries playing a game we put her on, she struggles to look up or down lol

Lol u died 8 times to Iudex Gundyr???? Git gud scrub

spoken like a true - I actually mean real life loser. Git gud real scrub XD

Why is my heart getting warm

Lol ur mom should’ve told u to git gud

It's dat Boi i know right

Unlocked camera vs certain bosses is key.

Yeah but I only took one try for Champion Gundar because he's so easy with lock

TheBladez190 If

+Thirty2 1: He has weird mechanics, looks gross, and (if you can avoid that stupid barrel roll) is overall silly easy 2: Wolnir is a tedious pain with that instant kill poison... the other two I couldn't tell you why (aside from Iudex's dark mass transformation). 3: Depends on what you mean by "standard". The elegant simplicity of some "standard" fights (Soul of cinder, Pontiff Sulyvahn, Champion Gundyr all have gimmicks, but are otherwise straight fights, as opposed to something like Ancient Wyvern) make them an excellent test of skill, while simultaneously encouraging players to try to creatively approach dealing with their fighting style. Instead of "hit boss in fungus sack to win". 4: Insecurity, the same thing that drives some players to Dark Souls. They have to be "the best" at something, or they feel their life is worthless. 5: Because they seemed rather interesting, offering some decent food for thought. Those are my opinions on your questions. Others will absolutely disagree.

+Dialask Isel If you run to the back of the slope when fighting Wolnir he will just crawl towards you forever. he is a poorly coded boss IMO

+Thirty2 WHY NOT?

+Thirty2 Time is convoluted! that's why!

+lewis monaghan He is punishing you for hiding like a coward :^)