Imagine if after beating Pinwheel, his coffin starts collapsing until it's the size of a narrow alley, two giant skeleton dogs jump down, and pinwheel attaches a giant wheel to his body and becomes Capra demon V2, now with an actual wheel instead of Capra
@@r.graves5531 It plays so much like a souls game, the only thing is the combat is a bit different with its focus in deflecting and the grappling mechanic. Everything else is extremely souls like
Go to pinewheel after getting access to moonlight butterfly and killing it, get a divine weapon and easily kill the skeletons. Pinewheel can be hard if fail to kill his clones because his blast at low level is strong
What I love most about Moonlight Butterfly is if you summon the mage NPC at the bottom of the stairs, you basically become a spectator in an already low-energy fight
There was one time, a few of the Deacons hit me with some spells in a row, and my health was really low. I was so shocked. I have never died to this boss, and I was telling myself "Holy shit, will it happen? Will the deacons get one on me finally!?" No, they died shortly after, but that was still the most shocked I've been with a Souls game in recent memory. Edit: They finally did it. I was doing a Paladin RP run (mace faith build, no estus flask, could only use miracles to heal) and they hit me a few times in a row, couldn't use my estus and didn't have time to cast my miracles. I'm so proud of them.
I die to them because I dient pay attention ans got cursed, I had too much fun throwing fire bombs (although I only needed 1 try for almost every other boss)
Desphinx something similar happened to me idk how though I was speedrunning dark souls and I come up to pinwheel so I somehow missed my first hit then he runs or something and like 3 of em hit me b2b2b and I almost died was thinking to myself wtf
@@LucasCristofolini7 i know that feeling, I underestimated the mushroom people and got swarmed during one try and he one shotted me with that magic attack on another try
bigevilworldwide1 I want to make a Joke. And you didn't got him. Sekiro will be heavily based on Tenchu = Tench, it has a setted Protagonist and a more upfront story with even more focus on stamina = Nioh and it is aggressive, has some kind of trick weapons and is bloody = borne. Then theirs is just the title made dumb so we get TenchNiohBorn: Shadows die twice. I know that it has nothing to do with Souls, except Viscerals, Sounds, Aesthetic, Door Opening, Edgelordy Moves And Prescised Melee Combat. It will be not Souls clearly, but it is still Fromsoft that keeps things familiar to make the Fans Happy so entkindle your Furrysword and have a Toast like an Onion would do it.
In DS3, the Deacons of the Deep become really difficult for me in NG+ as there seem to be more of them, they do a lot more damage, heal quicker, and start curse easily.
If I hadn't known about Pinwheel beforehand, I wouldn't even know his name. I walked in with a Crystal Homing Soulmass and he died *instantly* Also, fun fact: Wolnir is not immune to poison. The Poison Spores from the Storyteller's Staff can kill him in two applications without even waking him, and of course you could just use Pestilent Mist. Or both, if you feel like being especially cruel to poor defenseless skeletons.
I have a confession to make... i struggle at beating the curse rotted greatwood. Ive beaten bosses that are considered to be much harder by the community, but i cant handle its shit gimmick and im starting to hate trees because of this boss.
suggestion use either a ultra great sword or a machete. You can beat it really quickly if you do so. Also you should not go for the minimum strength required to one hand but the minimum strength required to two hand allowing you to save souls to use for other things.
For phase 1, get rid of as many of the mobs as possible before you fight the boss. For phase 2, avoid the hand entirely and focus on the spores on the back, then on getting it to roll back so you can get the spores on the arm
@@danieleasterling5325 How fast were you able to defeat the cursed rotting great wood because my strategy with the weapon is not to play the long game against the boss but to blitz the boss.
I am really liking these remastered rankings. Only minor complaint I have is not having those transitions, but that's really nothing when compared to quality of the video. Great work demodcracy
Thanks Matt! I polled everyone via a community post and it seems the majority prefers the snappier transitions. I'll use the old style every now and again still
I thought the number 1 spot was actually gonna go to someone like leechmonger, but true king alant definitely deserves top honors, or I guess dishonors in this case. Glad you brought back the Moonlight butter doesn't fly clip, 10/10 still.
We aren't losing anything with the release of Sekiro! Miyazaki and From are working on three titles at the moment (not including Deracine). One is Shadows Die Twice (which we now know is Sekiro), another is a reboot of an older series, and the third and final title is a dark fantasy rpg like the ones we know and love from Miyazaki. Personally I'm really hoping it's Bloodborne 2 but I don't know how likely that is. Regardless, with From's track record I'm looking forward to whatever it is.
@@femboygodblankkcu284 I ran back to the locarion of the set and back but he wouldn't follow me He just used his OP fire beams Did that for about 15 min Came back later to kill him the old fashioned way
@@chaptermastertatolord9327 Make sure you grab the gold hemmed set first. This will activate the boss fight. Then run all the way to the fog gate but do not cross the gate. Then hug the side of the gate. he will then get his arm stuck I believe. Just run up and attack the arm it will first look like you are doing an average amount of damage but after a few hits his health bar disappears. This makes him easily beatable even after you just defeated Quelaag. Though if you do not do this strategy you will have a bad time. Also there is a path that is quicker and safer to get back to the fog gate.
I want to make a case for Vordt belonging on this list and quite high up as well. Even an un-upgraded weapon on a base level character can melt through him and as soon as you get him down to half health, you dodge three times then run a bit and the fight is over, since the ice breath takes forever and if you don't use R2s to hit him during it he won't stagger out of it, you can just keep on draining his health bar while he attacks the empty air in front of him.
Demod forget to mention one thing about the Deacons fight: if you have the Left Eye of the Pontiff ring then you don’t even need to worry about healing if you get hit! If you come in with a big sweeping weapon like the Exile Greatsword then you’ll hit 5 or 6 Deacons in the swing and that restores a lot of health with the Left Eye!
My first souls game ever was dark souls 3 and I killed the vape lord in one try mainly because I soon as I ran for the shiny and got jump scared I immediately ran all the way up the hill and when he got there he didn’t do his poison attack so i destroyed him
I have to agree with how easy Wolnir is, on my most recent playthrough I was backed all the way up (his arms were clipping through the back wall of the arena), yet I STILL DIDN'T DIE SOMEHOW. I've only died to Wolnir once on my first playthrough, and despite my 4th and 5th playthroughs having me playing poorly in the fight I have yet to die a second time to Wolnir. Ancient Wyvern is the next closest at a total of 4 deaths over the 4 playthroughs I've fought him in so far. For me the Decons of the Deep have always been one of the harder bosses for me, though on my most recent playthrough I finally managed to beat them on my first go. I'm not joking when I say that on my third playthrough (Luck/Dexterity Hollow build) I died more times to the Decons of the Deep than I died to DARKEATER MIDIR (Died twice to Midir). Yes, the Decons of the Deep killed me more times than what is considered by many to be the hardest boss in the game. I summed Sirris just to get past the Decons of the Deep that playthrough. I don't find Midir to be that hard (I mean on my two most recent kills I died a combined total of three times), but the Decons, fuck them.
There are several bosses in the series you don't even have to fight. You can summon an NPC to do it for you and they'll win every time. You can get to Witch to kill the moonlight butterfly for you before it lands (sometimes. Her AI is pretty bad.) We also can't forget his majesty Black Iron Tarkus beating the Iron Golem for us. In Dark Souls 2, Jester Thomas kills Mytha on his own, assuming you drain her room of poison so you don't die yourself. I'm sure there are other bosses in the games beatable by NPCs but those three are off the top of my head.
Михаил Пашковский unmmm whAT? If you don’t let the rider kill himself he could still one shot you if you’re not careful. The deacons on the other hand, you could just spam light attack to bulldoze through the deacons to easily kill the pope. You.are.
Admittedly, I did die to Pinwheel once even though I came to fight him mid game. That was due to me being unsure about which was a clone and which was the real Pinwheel and I got spammed by Pinwheel’s clones’ (and likely Pinwheel’s) fireballs all within the span of three seconds. That was what killed me. I killed him the second time (and no, I didn’t summon Leeroy, I still don’t know where his summon sign is).
10: Living Failuires 9: Witches of Hemwick 8: Moonlight Butterfly 7: Deacons of the Deep 6: Celestial Emissary 5: Pinwheel 4: Wolnir 3: The One Reborn 2: Micolash 1: Mergos Wet Nurse
I’ve noticed a lot of my friends struggle with the Four Kings from Dark Souls Remastered but it was a literal cake walk for me. They do little to no damage and don’t move hardly at all. Am I the only one who feels this way?
i expected iron golem to appear somewhere, since if you summon tarkus he literally does the work for you most of the time, and if not he usually waters his health down pretty good also you can do a similar thing with moonlight butterfly, just summon beatrice and her magic melts the poor thing, you just gotta worry about dodging
I think a lot of these bosses are more boring than they are bad. To me, a bad boss is a boss which has been made with unfair and un-fun mechanics. In my opinion, a boss like the capra demon is a terrible boss because it is so poorly designed. It is not fun to be stun-locked by hard-hitting enemies while backed into a corner.
Damn I'm realizing that many people had trouble with that boss, I only died once to the fucking dogs but otherwise I found the boss really easy. *in my first playthrough*
@@MrPatrickbuit I almost beat smough and ornstein on my first try, i had killed ornstein and then due to one shitty dodge I got one hit by electric big mama Then I started failing and was stuck for a week.
So my speed bump in Dark Souls is always the gaping dragon. I consistently get him stuck in a cycle of doing the easy to dodge and punish charge, which is why I always make a point of killing it in early game because of the massive boost in levels I can get from it.
Is it sad that I went to the Catacombs before Sen's Fortress (I though: "it's accessible from Firelink, it has to be a starting area") and got killed by Pinwheel like 8 times (and about 10 times by the Bonewheels before him) on my first playthrough and then went on to beat O&S first try with the very same character?
I like the way you did your old top 10 videos better with the little intro graphic to each boss and show some stats on it like votes or your opinion I hope you bring that back and future top tens
By accident, I entered pinwheel by equipping a new shield with better resistances to his attacks and as a result went over my equip load without realising. I went on to still beat him with just 4 flasks left on my first play through thinking he put a spell on me that made me go slow xD
Haven't played demon's souls but from what I can tell from your videos the only reason King Allant was a boss at all was so that from soft could put his name over a health bar so you'd know it's him even if you mised some npc dialogue
you forgot to mention that you can make the covetous demon even easier by shooting down the pots that hang from the ceiling making the boss do nothing but eat the hollows and not fight back at all while you calmly beat him to death, making him the only boss that you can "legitimately" make so that it wont even attack you at all.
Surprised the last giant didn't make the cut. That was the first souls boss I ever faced and I beat it in one try... theeeeeen the pursuer showed up and shattered my confidence in my soul skills
I'm ashamed to admit I died a couple of times to the Deacons. That curse attack can be pretty sly if you don't see it coming. Came back with the Exile Greatsword and proceeded to slash through them like butter. At least I beat Wolnir on my first go.
you know what makes the covetous demon even easier? if you shoot the hanging vases hanging from the ceiling, they will fall and the boss goes and eats them, he doesn't even attack
Abyss demon. First boss of Dark Souls. Only time I ever dies to him was practicing parties above him. And than seeing what would happen if all those pillars were destroyed.
Another funny thing to note about Celestial Emmisary, you can actually get his minions to kill him for you if you use a shaman bone blade on him. It's fucking hilarious to watch
I feel like ceaseless discharge should be here. Just run aaaaaalllll the way back to the fog gate after the fight starts. He'll trip and hold on to dear life at the ledge right in front of you, then you just have to gently prod his hand with your sword, then its done.
I don't know that it's ever taken me more than 30 seconds to kill Vicar Amelia, new game+ cycles notwithstanding. It might just be that I tend to clear out everything prior to her boss fight (Hemwick, Old Yharnum, Yahar'gul, etc) so I could just be over leveled, but it's still rare that she puts up a decent fight.
So far i've only played dark souls remastered, bloodborne and dark souls 3, and there are 6 bosses i've beaten on my first ever try: Deacons of the deep, oceiros, moonlight butterfly, priscilla, pinwheel (no surprise), and ceaseless discharge. After i play through dark souls 2 and finish bloodborne, i'll update as needed.
PM and congregation were one of the few bosses I beat first try in ds2, granted I had an npc phantom, but even then that provides even more of an example of how easy it is if the npc doesn't die
theDeModcracy I agree the fight is extremely boring but yea it definitely makes sense with the lore but I am not going to lie I wish one or 2 of these boss would have been either improved or removed
Under the stairs in a Bush is a summon sign to help with the boss since she uses sorceries she sometimes kills the boss in 20 seconds or her ai won't even see the boss even then the boss will be dead by the time it lands
Excluding the Witches and the Celestial Emissary, Amygdala was a pretty easy fight. I went in with my tonitrus at +6 or +7 and I stayed under it the entire time. I also knew the trick to not move when it does the leap. If you're moving when it leaps into the air you'll take massive damage. However, if you stay perfectly still it won't damage you at all when it lands. That fight was over in about 1.5 minutes and I took minimal damage. Oh, Gascoigne isn't an easy boss, but he was easy for me. I spammed the music box to get him to his beast phase so I wouldn't have to deal with the damn blunderbuss. I then got him over to the stairs, stayed in close so he wouldn't leap, and just wailed on him. The Witches were so stupidly easy. As you said, I had the health of the 2nd one down to about 1/3rd when she revealed herself after the first one was done. I ran around the shadow dudes since their aggro range is short. I think I took hardly any hits in this fight, and I went into it with a bunch of echoes on me too. The Celestial Emissary is also so easy. It didn't spend long in its big form before it was down. I ignored anything with its own health bar and just quickstepped around them only killing when I had to. It's pathetic how easy the fight is given how much of a pain the Upper Cathedral Ward is, and how unnerving it is with the music and the brainsucker noises. It's also a kick in the teeth when you consider Ebrietas. I spent too long on her, to be fair. I'd put a bolt gem in my saw cleaver and I didn't have the arcane to make it scale properly so I wasn't doing the damage I should have been. Once I figured that out, I went back with the saw cleaver with different gems and bolt paper and beat her on the second try with the respecced weapon.
I mean I thought from the intro clips that you would have more demon souls bosses because the leach man who's name I didnt have time to read was dead in two hits. Like the other mobs in the swamp just before him were harder to fight
Funny thing that makes Wolnir even more pathetic - you can kill him without even aggroe-ing him. The pestilent mist and/or snap freeze without activating him. Same goes for Poison and Toxic mist, along with storyteller's Staff weapon art, though I have yet to try the storyteller one. Goes without saying, if you mix it all together, his health will degrade at surprisingly fast rate. It does require heavy investment in intelligence and small investment in faith. I doubt if it's as good as twinsword twinblades, but fact still remains.
I will say as a new and or casual player all of the bosses including these easier ones in the Dark Souls series can have a level of varying difficulty. As a veteran player though this a a fairly accurate list.
The easiest boss fight imo was only easy because of my build, the 4 kings. I was so tanky I could face hug the kings and just swing my demon axe until they were dead. Dispite the giant swords they have, they do fuck all damage. Genuinely had a harder time with pinwheel on that same run (my first ever ds run) After doing another run I realized the 4 kings were actually somewhat challenging if you didn't have 60 strength and a maxed demon axe.
I normally defeat deacons before any mist at all but with my dex and int assassin I was 3 seconds away from curse death but was just able to land the last hit, I almost had a heart attack
I just went up against Pinwheel in my first NG+. I had forgotten how easy he is to the point where I thought that he had teleported after I hit him a few times because he was starting that animation. Quite a shift from the brutality that was ascended Ornstein.
If he finds the divine ember so useless, it’s no wonder he never faced Pinwheel early. I tend to take on the catacombs early with a divine weapon, so Pinwheel tends to be one of the first bosses I encounter. He’s still ridiculously easy, but not easier than the Witches of Hemwick the way I play.
I thought Yhorm was pretty damn easy, especially since I followed along with Siegward's quest. He's relatively easy solo (assuming you figure out that you need to grab stormbreaker) but with Siegward, you can basically just roll around while the Onion Bro makes Yhorm his bitch.
I didn't get hit once fighting Phalanx, and this is coming from a person who had very little experience at that point. I just threw all the firebombs the game let you unintentionally farm and it was over real fast.
What makes Pinwheel in my oppinion even easier is that you can summon Paladin Leeroy for assistance, who will happily beat him for you with no input on your behalf required in about 3 Hits.
At first I was also quite surprised Pinwheel didn't make number one, but King Allant surely seems to be even easier (though I never played Demon's Souls before). ;) My personal Top 10 easiest bosses, only including bosses from the three Dark Souls games, since these are the only ones that I played, would be: 10) Royal Rat Vanguard 9) Guardian Dragon 8) Asylum Demon 7) Yhorm the Giant (when using the Storm Ruler of course) 6) Dragonrider 5) Deacons of the Deep 4) Moonlight Butterfly 3) Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin 2) Covetous Demon 1) Pinwheel
A sad truth about me, if there's one thing I've noticed about myself playing bloodshadowsouls games, I get stuck on the easy bosses and breeze through the hard bosses like nothing. Like for example, it took FOREVER for me to kill Wolnir and ODK in DS3, but I beat Gael first try without breaking a sweat.
Oof. I was playing DeS today and due to getting into a new playstyle (trying to primarily use magic this time instead of melee or bow) And was getting whopped by adjudicator because of his tongue swipes while I was magic snipping from the top. After a while I snapped and went, fuck it! Grabbed the crescent flachion+1 and went to town.
I think I fought pinwheel at like level 25 and only died once before beating him. The previous level is way harder than the boss fight is. Pinwheel is kinda challenging if you don't know which one to hit and your under leveled like I was.
pinwheel has a very deadly attack if you dont have enough damage early on, he summons around 10 copies all around you and they all launch fireballs at the same time
Ceaseless is basically an easier Wolnir. Surprised he's not on the list instead. (Plus Wolnir occasionally wigs out and gives you few and infrequent opportunities to hit the rings, making him more difficult if only by way of being annoying.)
Something I never see mentioned about covetous demon that makes him even EASIER is that you can shoot the cages on the ceiling to drop some fodder guys to distract him so you can attack him without him even noticing you. He literally doesn’t fight back.
Adjudicator is definitely easy, although I was still super afraid of him the first few times I fought him. There are several times EARLY in that game where a similar enemy would likely one-shot you (Vanguard, red/blue dragons, red-eye knights, black skeletons, mind flayers, etc.), and with the big wind-ups you would assume the Adjudicator would auto-one-shot you too, and that fear can make you do weird things. Most of the X-1 bosses were much harder if you were too timid, even though that's your natural instinct after making it through the tough levels.
Deacons of the Deep use fire and curse and can surround you quickly if you're not careful. I wouldn't call them 'easy' even if you understand how to beat them. Wolnir easily kills you instantly with his huge dark AOE attack, and some weapons make it very hard to hit his bracelets. Covetous Demon hits really hard, and unless you've farmed souls then you're not likely to have enough HP to survive getting smashed by him once.
I found several bosses to be ridiculously easy in Dark Souls 2, but my god did I expect more out of the Demon of Song. I killed it first try. It telegraphs its moves very easily, making them just as easy to dodge. Not only that, but the damage it does is kind of insignificant. If you've got the Drangleic Greatsword or a Black Knight weapons leveled considerably, it's no challenge at all. But even if you didn't have an overpowered weapon, you're not in any danger.
I ran past all the skeletons and got to him and beat him without realizing there was a guy you could summon on my first playthrough at like level 20 then I got stuck in the catacombs for two hours because I didn't know there was a ladder to go back up that ledge
I am playig DS2 for the first time now and I was surprised at how easy Duke's Dear Freja is if you happen to go in with a lit torch. The minispiders don't even try to attack you and the boss's attacks are so slow and predictable. Slash face twice, go around her, slash her ther face twice again, rinse and repeat, dead boss.
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