Top 10 Worst Bosses in the Souls Series [Remastered] 

First time I fought a Spear of the Church I got an AFK player. I was really confused.

The bed of chaos made me have mental breakdown, but the two dogs that hang with the Capra demon made me have a episode

Moon light butterfly may suck but at least the music and general aesthetic is beautiful

If Ancient Wyvern didn't have a health bar on screen/fog door I think people would just consider it a cool segment of the game rather than a bad boss. Because it IS cool, just not when you analyze it as a boss fight. I would put gank squad and old iron king on this list. Dreadful fights.

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10. You 9. Can't 8. Rank 7. The 6. Worst 5. Bosses 4. Because 3. They're all 2. Great 1. Bed of Chaos

Hardest Boss? Not having a stroke when a Crystal Lizard disappears in front of you. *HITBOX REEEEEEEEEEE*

“It’s full of basic enemies! Exactly what I don’t want to fight in a boss battle!” *Arkham Asylum looks away*

Ah yes. The lovely Bed of Chaos. When I finally made it to the bug, I hit heavy attack and my game crashed just before it hit.

No, Bed of Chaos is the worst. I was doing a randomizer run and had to decide "do I want to do Catacombs -without a light-, or Bed of Chaos?" I chose Catacombs.

You know which boss is worse than all of these, and has the dishonor to show up in every souls game? the camera

My worst boss is Giant Dad, straight up unbeatable and incredibly sexy too, just unfair. Bute hey, the Legend never dies.

The bed of chaos in dark souls remastered isnt the worst boss in the souls series Bed of chaos in dark souls 1 is the worst boss in the souls series because it looks slightly worse..?

Me: i found new mental illness Doctor: what is it called Me: bed of Chaos is good boss

I wish we had been able to fight the Witch of Izilith in the flesh instead of the stupid bed of chaos. It could have just been a cool background design for a real boss fight against said lordess we were expecting to fight.

I like how you get progressively angrier as the video goes on

The Bed Of Chaos made me have a mental breakdown the first time I fought it

Ceaseless Discharge? I didn’t understand how to best him for while when I first started.

"You can heal all you want" Other guy immediately throws undead hunter charm.

I just played the Ringed City for the first time a week ago, and I thought, Hey I am a Sunlight Warrior, lets put my Sign down to help people like Solaire taught me, so I put my Sign down in the Church, only when I was summoned expecting Jolly Co-Operation, I was the Boss, and I was against Three people. So I died before my confusiton wore off.

Moonlight butterfly = summon witch Beatrice and let her do all the damage.

The only one I don't agree with is number 2. I thought it was ok, kind of cool but nothing frustrating or bad

The Bed of Chaos is so awful. I refuse to fight it without doing the quit and reload exploit. Also noticed that there are no Bloodborne bosses on your list. God damn that game is so incredible.

A friend and I went through the Archwyvern fight by taking our time with the enemies. Suddenly the boss died on its own by falling off of the arena to get to us.

The red dragon from Demon's souls is considered a boss?

I'm seeing a lack of Greatwood. That tree is fucking trash both literally and figuratively.

I’m watching this after being shoved into the abyss by the Bed of Chaos about 13 times. At least I got a bunch of Demon Titanite along the way. 😒

*theDeModcracy:* #6 Dragon God - "The idea of incorporating a stealth fight in a Souls game... makes absolutely no sense in a game that is centered around face to face combat" *From Software in 2019:* Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

The lore of bed of chaos makes it even worse, "hey you remember those awesome guys who got the original souls in the opening screen? Well one of them turned into a little bug.."

Number 1 worst boss: The Blightown frame rate!

Not of the three gank boys in ds2 dlc?

Personally think you're ranking halflight way too low, I mean sure the fight's got flaws and its quality is highly dependent on if you're matched up with a good player, and yes the pve version sucks, however this fight wasn't really designed to be played in pve. There are far worse bosses that deserve a spot on this list, such as prowling magus and congregation, or Jabba the hutt (both of which take even less time to kill than a bad halflight player). In addition there are some things to tip this in the boss' favor at least somewhat, the invading player gets a notable defensive buff and is capable of summoning those lightning spears the same way the PVE version can. The painting guardian can almost fully heal them and if the player has a brain, they will protect that painting guardian throughout the fight, the player is also fully capable of casting their own healing miracles (including AOE heals that affect the guardian) or using ranged spells during any reprieve the painting guardian gives them. All of this makes it so that the fight becomes less of a pushover against a competent player, but instead becomes one where the boss is at a slight disadvantage (at least 1v1) and needs to make the best use of their resources to win. It can also be very easy to punish estus healing in PVP, especially with another enemy being aggressive toward the player, so that becomes less of a factor, depending on who you get matched with. The challenge of this fight is primarily on the end of the player who is invading, with the idea being that if they beat Midir to access this covenant, that they've proven they have the skill to handle that challenge. It doesn't work that way since a lot of them are terrible, but it's a solid idea at least. Honestly to me it was refreshing to see the old monk concept resurrected and felt that there was actually quite a bit more in the invading players' favor than there was for the old monk. Even in the case of multiple players this is taken into account with the soulmasses and lightning spears becoming usable more often. You can actually find quite a few examples of players doing really cool things with this fight.

I actually find Halflights PvE version somewhat enjoyable and I think it shouldn’t be beat down so much for the main reason that unless you’re speedrunning, waiting for Argo to finish speaking isn’t a problem, also Halflights fight had an interesting unique feature added in regards to the Spears of the Church covenant where for 500x your SL in souls you can do the fight again, thus presenting an easier and more interesting way for offline people (in my opinion) to farm the covenant rewards

No Prowling Magus and Congregation? All bosses from list had at least minimum efford put in creating them, where PMaC are just bunch of mobs thrown together. It's like putting fogwall in this room with Channeler and bunch of red hollows before gargoyles in DS1 and calling it a boss!

You're perfectly accurate with the Bed of Chaos being the worst. You KNOW something is bad when even the developers APOLOGIZE for it. I think somewhere in this list, I'd put Lud and Zallen, cause the whole trip to them is awful, and it's a reskin of Aava, who wasn't an easy boss itself. And there's two of them and even with phantoms, they change their targets so often and so quickly that one minute you're racing after even ONE of them.....the next, both of them have decided to gang up on you and kill you cause your stamina couldn't withstand both of them pressuring you. The only thanks I feel for doing it is that I get the Loyce Greatsword, which is one of my favorites for being a solid greatsword for a Dex build and also a beautiful weapon in an aesthetic sense.

My List from Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro: 10) Moonlight Butterfly Boring and easy boss and is just incredibly hard to actually hit. 9) Witch of Hemwick Took ages to find out how to actually kill this thing. Didn't release there was a little goblin witch thing that I had to kill. Easy fight when you know what to do but took ages for me to figure it out. 8) Headless Was always doing no damage until i figured out you had to use divine confetti. Not to mention the stupid Terror buildup mechanic which makes this boss fight stupid and tedious. You also need to fight it 5 times throughout the game which makes it worse. 7) Halflight, Spear of the Church (PvP) Due to lag, this boss was genuinely impossible. Had to turn off internet to fight offline boss because everytime I versed a player they would hit from like 10m away except they weren't attacking or moving at all. I would just die or they would teleport behind me and do a backstab. 6) Defiled Watchdog of the Old Lords Took too long to kill and has broken hitboxes. Love hard bosses but this boss pissed me off. 5) Defiled Amygdala I spent so long on this boss it became more of a frustration than challenging enjoyment. 4) Shichimen Warrior Hate this boss because it took me a long time to figure out how to do sufficient damage that you wouldn't eventually die from Terror. 3) Crystal Sage For some reason took so long to kill. Always got killed in phase 2 after an endless barrage of magic shit getting shot at you. 2) Ancient Dragon Hitboxes are broken and such a stupid, tedious fight. 1) Bed of Chaos Hard for the wrong reasons and probably one of the most boring, stupidly hard and tedious bosses in a game ever. Mainly just me struggling to figure out how to kill them but as a result became incredibly tedious and a shitty experience.

Greatwood is not in the list He did it guys And so did Pinwheel!

While I agree these are some of the worst fights the red dragon isn't a boss Also in my opinion either royal rat vanguard ,prowling magus/congregation,lud+zallen or old iron king would be here instead of a killable trap/large enemy

There's a tell for the fire breath on ancient dragon. He'll make a large movement before actually flying up. As long as u move to the furthest part of the arena before he starts flying you'll avoid this move every time.

Some of these bosses could be considered good in other games. Curse rotted great wood could be good if it was in a Zelda game BOC could be considered good in a Mario game. Ancient wyvern could be considered good if it was in shadow of the colossus.

I feel like this was the discussion at the office for the ancient dragon. "Hey boss, i have a great idea for a boss" "Whats that john?" "Well, do you remember the moonlight butterfly?" "Yeah" "And how it kind of just have the finger to melee builds" "Yeah" "Well lets do it again but have the boss have higher durability than a tiger tank and have it do so much fire damage that you'd have to have the fire resistance of yhorm to survive." "Yeah lets do tha... who the hell is yhorm?" "I dunno"

How is Halflight worse than Rat Vanguard, Prowling Magus or Gank Squad?

“Love for from Software to prove you wrong in a future game with a badass stealth fight” ... Miyazaki: HOLD MY SUNNY D

From Software: "You want a badass stealth fight, huh?" *Makes Sekiro.* Also "Darksouls 2 Shitboxes" gave me a good laugh.

I came back to Dark Souls 3 yesterday to mess around a bit and got summoned for the Halflight fight (Didn't know I had the covenant equipped) and I have to say it was actually really fun. It might not be flawlessly designed but having it near the top of the worst boss list over Capra Demon, Pinwheel, Rat Vanguard, Covetous Demon, Twin Dragon Rider, Prowling Magus, Curse-Rotted Greatwood and many more just feels weird to me but whatever, it's your list, not mine.

For me, I'd swap out the Moonlight Butterfly with either Aava or Twin Dragonriders. Aava has some of the worst hitboxes in the entire series, while the Twin Dragonriders are a shining example of how lazy From can get at times.

Honorable mention: Ceaseless discharge

The worst fight for me must be Gehrman from bloodborne. I mean, how am I supposed to fight the boss with tears?

I actually like both versions of Halflight the PvP version is challenging for the invader which makes it great for me and the pve version is a weird fight which feels kind of out of place imo but still has some nice mechanics the soulmass he has and the light spears are challenging to overcome but the arena is well designed to hide from them and the soundtrack is one of the best in the entire series completly agree with the other 9 though

Forget adding a Vamos bonfire, the real addition we needed was one right in front of the Bed of Chaos fog wall! I'm not a fan of the fight, but it would be a lot less excruciating if the run up wasn't so goddamn long... Anyways, great list as always DeMod! My picks for worst boss from each game: Dragon God Bed of Chaos Lud and Zallen Witches of Hemwick Champion's Gravetender and Gravetender Wolf

Halflight is one of my favorite bosses in the franchise. I mean in the final dlc of the final game Miyazaki let's you literally become a Dark Souls boss. That's dope. I wish healer boy wasn't there, but I truly love that fight.

"Melee is the core gameplay of Darksouls"... Dont listen to them Sorcerer they just dont know...

I will say Capra Demon, is right at the begginin of the game, it takes years to make your way back, the arena and the dogs are just artificial dificulty to compensate for the poor boss design.

bell fry gargoyles BELL FRY? BELL FRY???

Lud and Zallen from DS2 dlc, the level the bosses all nightmare

the ONE saving grace about bed of chaos is that the boss does not recover between loading screens, the sides dont come back.

Halflight ain't so bad, at least the music is sick.

i think halflight is fine. it is a forgetable boss for sure but it is not as offensifly bad as gretwood, capra demon, gank squad dark souls 2, lud and zalen, witches of hemwick, Twin Dragonrider and prowling magus and congragetion.

I actually enjoy being Half-Light as the Painting Guardian will always heal you if you manage to keep him alive. That’s how I always win. Keeping the Guardian alive. So fighting Half-Light, Garbage, being Half-Light, Hell yeah.

gank spanks as spear of the church been always fun for me, when there are more phantoms you become a poise king and absorption king lol

I really liked Ancient Wyvern, butterfly and micolash,found them incredibly atmospheric.

Bed of Chaos is the right answer. Fun - 0 Design - 0.00 music/score - sucks runback if you die - annoying regardless of which direction you do it in awe factor - 0 optional? - Nope literally everything works against this boss and against the entertainment factor of the game

I feel like the moonlight butterfly fight is a nod to the lost children arc from berserk.

I really enjoyed the gargoyle fight in ds2. I found it stressful at first, but it challenged me to get better at managing multiple enemies.

Halflight PVP is the best gimmick boss in Soulsborne, change my mind

What about the gankfest in Dark souls 2? It's not even a boss but a fight where you run around in circles untill you have an opening to attack 1 of 3 npcs. And don't get me started on the blue smelter demon (I love ds2 but some bosses get on my nerves)

What about that gank boss from the first Dark Souls 2 DLC?

The worst boss of all the soul's franchise is this goddamn CAMERA !!!

WOAH. Halflight is better than Skankwood and Memecolash. They both deserved a spot on this list.

I love how everyone messes up the demon fire sages lore, like its on the weapon you get for killing him, like he isn’t a pyromancer he is the last caster of fire sorcery, which is a lot cooler, still a shitty boss though.

Mostly solid list. I think Halflight was a better fight than Gravetender & Greatwolf, so they should be in his spot. The fact that Spear of the Church can be a PvP/covenant-related boss is really interesting.

The gargoyles in Dark Souls 2 don’t spawn on a timer, a new one spawns once a gargoyle gets to a certain % of health

I haven't gotten that far in Dark Souls Remastered, but I H A T E D the Capra Demon. The arena's way too small and those dogs flinch you so the demon itself can whale on you.

PvP Spears does not belong on this list. Being the boss is too much fun and that should be taken into account the experiences as the boss. The player has access to ashen estus so any player still doing it including myself knows that they should equip healing spells. Abuse that and the spears and you can clear out the gankers without too much problem. But i suppose then there would be a complaint about players who run away and spam the spears most of the time.

I'm not going to argue that the Bed of Chaos is a good boss fight, or fun, but I don't understand why people say it's unfair. I thought it was very easy. The roots at her sides stay broken if you die, so the fight gets shorter and shorter leaving the odds skewed in the player's favor. There are a number of places in the arena that she strait up can't hit without her pyromancy, which give you a lot of time to heal in between. This leaves the player with chances to catch their breath. Lastly, I was able to beat her while only leaping 1 time. I saw a clear rout where I could walk across without needing to jump. The only leap I had to do was to get to the root in the center, which I succeeded on my first try. I wouldn't describe Chaos on a scale of good or bad, she's so different from every boss in the series that it just depends on how you adjust. I beat Chaos relatively stress-free, instead I felt thrilled. If the distance between her and the last bonfire wasn't so long I'd think she was actually pretty fun.

something you forgot about half light pvp- if you try to yank them, their poise and absorption goes up. it’s arguably a lot easier to kill pvp halflight solo than with a three man gank because you’re just not gonna do a lot of damage like that

Belfry Gargoyles was one of the most memorable fights in DS2, and the music is amazing.

I actually disagree about the Ancient Wyvern, which is atmospheric and at least cool to experience. Otherwise, could not agree more with the list. Gargoyles in DS2 can suck it. Nice work, Demod!

Why was the bridge dragon included, wouldn't that be like including the bridge Drake in ds1?

Honestly, I really enjoyed the Belfry Gargoyles in DS2 because it just brings back great memories. That desperate mad dash I would make to avoid fighting some min-maxed twink builds, only to be "rewarded" with a pretty darn unfair fight, made my heart beat so damn fast. Every single time another Gargoyle would show up, I felt my sense of dread rising exponentially because it would mean that I had to go back through an area full of invaders (and I really sucked at PVP back then). But what made it an even more memorable moment for me is that I managed to pull through that boss encounter on my first try, albeit at the skin of my teeth. While I did die multiple times on my way to the bonfire, it felt immensely satisfying to beat those fuckers on my first attempt. Of course, I do recognise that this isn't a particularly good boss fight when compared to their roster, I guess I just happened to be in the right state of mind for it to really click with me, and I've been enjoying that boss fight ever since.

bed of chaos has big gay, am i right boys. UP TOP

Pretty sure the gargoyles aren't on a timer it's % health based as if they all share a common hp pool and a new one comes out when you cross each threshold. So if you don't want to fight all of them then you just need to finish what you start and focus the weaker ones. Sounds like you just didn't figure this fight out.

I don’t think the bed of chaos is the worst boss in Dark Souls, yes it’s bad, and yes it is tedious, but it’s the only boss that saves your progress so really just run in and don’t worry about death, died like 5 times to this boss but it was all good.

Monnlight butterfly theme = Aldrich theme in Dark Soul 3

Halflight?!!!?!! He doesn't deserve to be here

Ah yes the bed of chaos, a boss I have yet to face but know it will try my patients. Regardless good luck with the move Demod, may it be easy and go smoothly :) Have a good day!

The last two bosses commentary here made me laugh my ass off. Thank you so much.

Recently discovered your channel. Loving the humour!

spear of the church is amazing! (pvp version) also where tf is one reborn

10:29 That's why we have Jolly Co-operation.

Im not sure if its because I died so much, but I only had to break one side of the bed of chaos, then the middle was always open for me to run straight to

The attack where the Ancient Dragon breathes fire to the ground is only the one you see the most if you hit his feet. He’s supposed to be fought face to face and he’ll do more moves that way, running the opposite side from the head is a way better idea than go to the tail. First blind playthrough I only got hit once by that move (because I didn’t knew what I was about to face)

I'm actually happy Halflight isn't optional. I was never into PVP but I must say that by getting summoned as Spear of the Church, I really started to enjoy pvp more and more

2:13 you forgot to mention how you get a soul also, other than that i agree with that dragon

I was wondering where the bed of chaos was gonna be then seen it at 1 and smashed the like button lol

I bought the Dark Souls remastered on the switch because hey a portable dark souls, I decided to go full shield because the mad-lad I am decided it would be fun to do a no death run. The great-shield of Artorias which made the bed of Chaos surprisingly easy as just moving with the shield up made the sweeping hands not move me at all so I could easily stroll back and forth.

Wtf? Where is Covetous Demon? The thing does nothing but flop around like a walrus.

I feel he forgot about ds2 completely because I see no covetous demon

I literally forgot that the Demon Firesage existed

Can't wait for Godskin Duo to make it onto the Re-Remastered version of this list.