Top 10 Hardest Bosses in the Souls Series (Including Elden Ring) 

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I'm a bit surprised Mist Noble didn't make the list. That boss is brutal. Took me hours to beat..

I remember having the Sister Friede fight being constantly at the back of my mind while I was chilling on a beach. I couldn't beat her before we left for a vacation 😂

Really surprised to not see Owl (Father) and Isshin Ashina on this list. Also, I don't think it's fair for Sekiro since it is the only game in the series that allows You to fight the already-beaten bosses and since most people end up mastering them, they don't realise how hard they ACTUALLY are 😅

I love how you used blood grease on Radagon, despite his complete immunity lol

Radagon/ Elden Beast and maliketh are also massively effected by if you have holy resist. If you do, they become so much easier, if not then yeah brutal.

I remember malekith took me two evenings to get down, but once I got it and had finally beat him, I was suprised to notice I only used one flask and that was on the first stage. Felt otherworldly afterwards. Malekith remains my fav fight from Elden ring to this day

I'm surprised that Laurance isn't on this list because he is such an endurance test with a massive health pool and the damage of being hit by a flaming truck. Easily Bloodborne's toughest boss, even harder than Orphan of Kos.

Kalameet is often forgotten in this kind of lists. It's the boss that took me the longest in DkS1 and personally, i think he's the hardest DLC boss.

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I think the Maneaters deserved a mention. The narrow bridge with no rails. A second Maneater enters the fight. The fact they have ranged magic, and their freakin dash!

Bro that manus combo is ruthless

Radagon is my favorite fromsoft boss ever. Plenty or room to punish his attacks, the whole fight is about timing, jump mechanic incorporated beautifully, also he is incredibly cool and challenging

It’s been dope seeing your progress with making videos and compilations dude. you got me into all the other souls games after elden Ring just based off watching your boss rankings 🙌

Malenia was EASILY the hardest for me! I still don’t know why everyone says waterfowl dance is the only thing that makes Malenia hard! I find a lot of her sword combos to be incredibly hard to predict and she can kill you in two to three hits with nearly all of her attacks. Also she is the other fight along with Midir where summoning can actually make the fight harder due to her healing from hitting the spirit ashes.

Funnily enough the way Isshin was described in this video is how I would describe Malenia at this point. She turned me into undead sashimi some 70 times when I attempted her solo in my second playthrough, and I had to get every move down just to stand a chance. In my recently finished 4th playthrough she was a first try win with a nearly hitless Phase 1. And that was after choking on Mohg and the Fire Giant.

Good list, as always my consistent friend. I recently began my second play through of Elden Ring. I'm excited to see which bosses still give me trouble.

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Ludwig the Holy Blade was incredibly difficult for me. I didn’t play the DLC until I had started a NG+ account and that was a big mistake. Doesn’t help that I returned to the game for the DLC years after I had originally beaten the base game.

To be honest, the only moves that make malenia so hard is Waterfowl Dance and to some extent the clone attack in Phase 2.

that's a very good point (and something I never thought about) about fight in Dark Souls 3 taking the longest and thus forcing you to really learn the movesets. in DS 1-2, most bosses simply had extremely low health, meanwhile, in Elden Ring you get so many tools like status effects and poise breaks that it is easy to luck out your way through encounters with some well time procs or staggers. But in DS3 there are no shortcuts, except for parrying in few cases

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Welcome til souls mojo, today we are breaking down our list for the 10 hardest souls bosses

This video just proves everyone has different struggles when it comes bosses. To me nameless is still the hardest and took me the longest to beat. I think the order in which we play souls games also has an impact since DS3 was my first.

My god your opinion on Radagon and the Elden Beast is EXACTLY the same as mine. Very cool video !

Finally, i've been waiting for this.

Malenia was one of the biggest struggles for me my first play through, but to be honest. She is hard carried by waterfowl. Also her AI is actually pretty exploitable. She is aggressive when you perform actions that make noise. But if you hang back and play it safe, it becomes easier. Pretend she's Daredevil and you'll see what I mean.

For me Kalameet is way harder than both Artorias and Manus. It took me like 8 tries on my first playthrough, while Artorias only took 2 and Manus like 5. But the boss that gave me the most trouble in any soulsborne game (aside from Malenia) was Fume Knight. It took me 38 tries to beat him on my first playthrough. It was rough. I would also put Burnt Ivory King on there since he killed me about 15 times.

Summoning for Midir is fun when all/most in the fight know how to do it. Fun to toast at the end

Interesting list, mine would be like this without summons: 1. Malenia - No contest, far and away the hardest boss in the series, and i'd say the hardest challenge i've ever faced in a game. 2. Maliketh - Insane dps, it just takes one mistake to lose in the second phase. 3. Mohg - People will disagree, but this boss when fought without an OP, broken build absolutely annihilated me, high damage, relentless, crazy range, covers the arena with bleed. 4. Radagon & Elden Beast: Radagon himself carries the difficulty of this fight, insane delays and high damage that requires full focus. 5. Demon of Hatred - By far the hardest boss in Sekiro, insane damage, ridiculous hp, throws what you've learnt out the window and makes you sprint like a maniac. 6. Laurence - Some might be shocked at seeing Laurence above Orphan, Laurence has insane delays, attacks that can one shot, two phases that require intense focus. He's far less cheeseable compared to Orphan. 7. Orphan of Kos - Orphan is here because of his absolutely insane and erratic second phase. But this boss has never gone beyond 10 attempts for me personally, the Rakuyo is the perfect weapon to counter him. First phase can be easily finished with backstabs. 8. Sister Friede - 3 different phases and an insane third phase, it makes you pay attention to resource management, memorize 3 different tactics. It requires more focus than Midir and Gael despite those bosses being harder hitters 9. Slave Knight Gael - Insane damage, one of the largest hp's in the game, and memorizing 3 different attack patterns. Gael is always a 6+ minute fight on every playthrough, and that's a lot of time to not get obliterated. 10. Darkeater Midir - Despite Midir having a predictable moveset, one mistake can delete a crazy amount of your health. He's mainly here because of his lasers, on the NG+ cycles, one hit from these lasers means instant death. Honorable mentions to Ludwig, Sword Saint and Radahn (pre-nerf).

Now lets move on to the number 1 spot, If you didn't already guessed It, we have Pinwheel!

When Melania does that thrusting attack I just want to mikiri counter it

I remember when I was fighting Isshin, I was sweating and I used all the revives and recovery items.

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Losing my sanity with Friede was all part of the experience

Nameless King on NG++ to get the last ring for platinum was the most brutal boss for me

First video watching from this channel. I would argue Malikeith has a good flow in the fight and I didn’t struggle with it as much as I though because of that. Also.. have a like for that perfect outro!

Love how you don't do outros makes your videos more memorable and funn-

The big Sekiro bossfights seem to be the ultimate difficulty out of all the games. Demon, Isshin, and Owl Father are all just so intense, you only beat them by getting the most gud, and white knuckling them. To me anyway. Obviously stuff like Maliketh and Midir and Friede are pretty close behind. Super glad you mentioned Fume Knight and Blue Smelty, cause the boss combined with the bossrun are genuinely difficult. And Artorias is also genuinely difficult. I just beat him with a dagger only build with the Bandits Knife and damn if it didn't take like 15+ attempts, all long arduous fights.

Only day 1 Elden Ring players can remember how hard Radahn was before they had to nerf him.

Im shocked to see the Orphan over Ludwig, at least with the Orphan you can somewhat predict what he's going to do, but that first phase of ludwig is brutally hard to try to figure out how to predict and dodge his stuff

I agree with almost everything about this list, and the only thing I’d add, to possibly honorable mentions is Sir Alonne, trying to beat him taking 0 damage for that alternate ending is really difficult

wtf!? dat outtro just blew my mind 😂

I’m insanely surprised that father owl wasn’t on here

I haven’t beaten every boss in the series (I’ve only completed Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring), but the boss that I consider the hardest out of those three is Orphan of Kos. He’s so aggressive and you have to be very patient, especially if you’re using a weapon that takes more time to swing (for example, Ludwig’s Holy Blade). But he felt totally fair and he’s one of my favorite bosses in the series, only beaten by Ludwig and Gael. Keep in mind that I also did use spirit summons for Elden Ring so Malenia wasn’t as hard. But at least I didn’t use Rivers of Blood +1,000.

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Great video and outro as alw-

Malenia is weird for me, sometimes I struggle and sometimes I win with only using like 2 flasks, it feels like some fights she spams waterfowl dance and that one move where she shoots out phantoms, and other times, she recovers slowly and uses the slow recovery attacks constantly, and tghe big flower thing makes the fight even easier

I just started working on my second attempt at Bloodborne. Very excited. It’s soooo fun. I’m yet to beat the game and I couldn’t beat Orphan of Kos or Lawrence. Gotta try again.

Good video as always, SoulsMojo!

Zamor's Curved Sword AOW can and will knock her out the animation of the water fowl dance if you time it right before she takes off in the air. You can cancel out her water fowl dance if done right

HARD AGREE on friede. I dont know why shes not mentioned more often, she beat me so much more than the other bosses people mention (gael, nameless king, midir). And yeah anyone saying anything but malenia as 1 are coping IMO even with summons 90% of them she bodies, and the ones she doesnt body she still heals off of

I absolutely agree about Friede! Gave me nightmares.

i remember playing through DS1 and beating O+S on my first try, thinking that the difficulty would disappoint me going forward. but seeing as i haven’t beaten a single boss on this list yet i’m still pretty excited lol

Malenia was the only boss in Elden ring that made me put the game down, I had to take a break, and come back another day to try again. She was also the only one to make me use my larval tears trying to find a build that worked against her. She very nearly ruined the game for me, but that feeling when I finally beat her was Amazing!

I thought flamelurker was impossible in my first playthrough. I didnt know how the game worked so I thought that i had to beat him in order to continue. This thing was almost as hard as Malenia.

I've seen the same title many times but i cant stop watching them

Sister Friede and Orphan of Kos are the only bosses that made me consider giving up. Malenia and Demon of Hatred were close, but these two just straight up broke me.

I feel like Sekiro's Inner Fights should've at least been mentioned, especially Inner Father with that damn mist raven

Sometimes i think midir is bad because he is just tanky af and two shots you with his attacks. Same like for example fire giant. A boss shouldnt be hard because he oneshots you or has to much hp. I think you can make every boss hard with doubling hp and damage.

The outro was spot on.

My top 10 hardest in first playthrough is 10- Dancer, Radagon and Gael all tied for last spot (all 3 took same amount of tries) 9- Crucible Knight in Limgrave 8- Radahn pre-nerf 7- Dragonslayer Armour 6- Sister Friede 5- Demon of Hatred 4- Owl (Father) did this on NG+ because missed it in first playthrough 3- Isshin The Sword Saint 2- Pontiff Sulyvhan 1- Malenia Did not play Bloodborne and Inner fights in Sekiro yet.

Malenia, Maliketh, Orphan, and nameless king were the only bosses I ever had to try again another day. So I definitely agree with those. Honestly though, boss difficulty is mainly about playstyle and level. Some of the hardest bosses for me in ER were side bosses that I was just fighting a little too early. ER can either be the easiest or the hardest depending on your level. Also, if you took out water fowl dance for Malenia she would be the worst boss....

I'm with you on #2 and #1. I do think Orphan can be somewhat trivialised if you know what to do but I suppose you could say that for anyone. For me Laurence is probably harder than Orphan.

It took me 2 tries with Malenia. But this was because when I tried to take her on the first time, she wiped me out in the first second, while I was summoning the Mimic Tear. The 2nd attempt was where summoned two other players to help me out. She was one of those bosses where I knew right away that I’d need help with. My 2nd attempt seemed my like sheer luck, when looking back on it. But I was glad that the players that helped me out then knew what they were doing.

Melania took me 4 tries (w summons). The elden beast took over 30, respected twice, and leveled significantly before I was able to kill.

Sister Friede to this day has taken me the longest to beat. 3 days as a matter of fact. I beat Malenia and Kos in a few hours.

I can relate to almost every of your picks but i would include the godskin duo. Beating them without summons or sleeping pots was a true nightmare for me.

i found orphan to be not too bad if u just parry him with a gun, theres some moves that are guaranteed parries if you recognize them which makes the fight chill

Agree with your number one pick. My first playthrough, it took me like 50-60 attempts to beat her and when I did, I was relieved af.

I still can't believe he didn't include the hardest boss in elden ring Rick, solider of God

Only thing missing gotta be Lawrence. Fucker has enough HP to break your weapons and enough damage to two-shot basically any build. Add AOE spam in phase two and followup damage to most attacks and he is the second hardesr Bloodborne boss for sure

I was honestly suprised not to see placi or mohg. A true fight without the tear or cheese, mohg was the hardest boss i had encountered before getting the tear that negates 2nd phase damage and for placi, big health pool, big damage, and a 2nd phase transition that will 1 shot you at almost all times

Radagon/elden beast, Godfrey, and maliketh took me sooo long to beat seeing as it was my first fromsoft game

Malenia is 100% still the hardest. Waterfowl alone seriously does it for me Fromsoft has never included an attack that requires such incredible precision to evade. Most attacks are pretty simple to dodge after a while, but waterfowl is like a challenge run every time she pulls it out. You’re lucky if you only get hit twice

Souls Mojo, I couldn’t stop watching. This video was the equivalent of having my toes sucked to completion every second! Keep up the great work!

Maliketh is so hard to keep track of in that fight as he does more parkour than Ezio in AC. But his moves are at least consistent so you’ll eventually know what to expect

Ebrietas for me!! This was the first boss where I thought, “I don’t know if I can beat this.” I had to look up multiple strategy guides to get through her.

Just finishing up DS3 now, working on Midir now and Sister Friede is DEFINITELY the hardest boss on that game and I haven't even beaten the dragon yet. She was absolutely unreal, I was so damn proud of myself for beating her. Malenia is just silly. Clear #1 out of all the ones I've played. Just beat Midir. Harder than Gael. Not harder than the Nameless King and definitely not Friede. Good ranking.

here’s my top 5 hardest bosses in souls games (imo) 5: manus or O and S 4: demon of hatred 3: sister friede 2: orphan of kos 1: malenia

the best moment in souls series it the sister friede fight when she drops the titanite slab thing and you think it's over.

it's really interesting that souls games always varries from player to player on how difficult a certain boss is for example "the orphan of kos" is in no.3 and i remeber i beat him in only 3 tries while the nameless king took me 3 days to beat and he's in number 8 in the list

I think Laurence deserves an honorable mention at least.

Maliketh is always very difficult for me because of how much he jumps around, it’s very hard to predict him and his attacks hit so hard. He has a pretty small health bar, but he makes up for it with his aggression.

You can very easily stagger Malenia, which makes the fight way easier when combined with ashes of war which can stun lock. I used dual weild Great Stars with bleed infusion, stormcaller ash of war and godskin swaddling cloth to easily stunlock and outheal Malenia.

I will definitely put Mohg in my honorable mentions on the boss tier list lol.

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I think Malenia´s difficulty is very artificially raised by the passive lifesteal she has, which is a weird ability to give her since it requires no preparation, buildup or cooldown on her part. If not for that one, I bet she would have globally been perceived as way easier than others in this list.

Its so crazy that I beat Malikath on the first try and I was lost words but all the other play throughs he's been a complete pain!

I'm begging you to make a tierlist around anything other than bosses please

Interesting, I find sir alonne/fume knight way more difficult than malenia because of her lack of AOE and hard combo in her second phase, while fume knight is very consistent in his difficulty

Laurence :(

Personally i think only locking on when storm king is flying and circling you to dodge the thunder spear and slash is the best move

Loreena is an unsung hero when it comes to learning DS3 bosses. Helped me with Nameless King a ton.

Guess I am early.

this truly was a soulsoulsblooddietwicering experience

Gotta love the video

Genichiro took me a week during my first playthrough. Malenia only took about four days. It's interesting how much these things can vary.

Bell Bering hunter and The Black Knife assassin are both worthy of this list from Elden Ring. The assassin was easier than Melania but no pushover. The last Bell Bering hunter fight however was insanely hard. He hit like a truck and every time you heal he hit you with the sword that could literally go through walls. I had to cheese him with poison 😂