Which Halo Level is the Toughest? 

The hardest halo level is getting your mid 30s friends to agree to play coop with you.

The other frustrating thing about Halo 3's flood is that you'll randomly get elite combat forms that have an absurd amount of health for no good reason. Even multiple swings from an energy sword won't kill them.

"I'm a frog" -Clearly a chicken

Two betrayals is awful because of the sheer amount of armor you have to take on while dealing with elites. Very tough. You can run through a lot of Keyes.

“House of reckoning is the hardest level” That one brute chieftain on the silent auditorium

The absolute worst part of Coastal Highway is that Buck's AI doesn't let him shoot and talk at the same time, so you'll be getting pegged by banshees and ghosts while Buck delivers scripted dialogue and lets you get melted, in or out of the warthog.

when I played Long Night of Solace on Legendary, after at least an hour of making my way through the first part of the Sabre section, for some reason, the game thought it would be a great idea to give me a checkpoint immediately as I died, which forced me to have to play through the level all over again

I’m glad someone else agrees that the underwater room in regret is the worst. Whenever I hear people talking about halo 2 legendary, it’s always about gravemind, but I’ve always thought regret has more bs.

For LASO definitely Gravemind, honorable mention to Cairo Station

A great tip for halo 3, cortana: Try using a plasma rifle. I have no idea why but plasma rifles melt the pure forms (not the tank)

Having beaten every Halo solo Legendary EXCEPT Halo 2, your channel inspired me to go for it. I only used easy exploits to pass a few sections. 95% of the playthrough was legit. It was hard af. I gotta agree that Regret and Gravemind were the hardest and Halo 2 is def the hardest on Legendary. I have to add that Long Night of Solace saber section and Coastal Highway sections are the hardest of any halo for me. They pass the unfairness to borderline unplayable. So infuriating.

Slow sounding out Olifant had me absolutely cracking up

I think I died at least 60 times trying to kill Regret my first play through. Those elites are relentless.

The random Spartan Assault stray was hilarious

As a Halo Reach fan, Long Night of Solace was absolute hell on legendary from the Sabre section, especially with the death spider Seraphs and how you can get shredded easily in the Corvette if you don't have enough Needle Rifle/DMR/Plasma Pistol ammo.

Beating Costal Highway/Regret made me entirely convinced that bungie were a bunch of sadists

I don’t know if it is the overall hardest or not, but for a first time play through, Coastal Highway probably took me longer to complete than any other level in the franchise.

When I played infinite on leg at launch the hardest level was the one with the dual brute boss fight where one is in a chopper. Can't remember the name. House of reckoning was challenging but those 2 brutes were fucking bullshit. My neighbors knocked on my door asking if they should call the cops. They thought a domestic was going on.

All of your content on CE has motivated me to go back and play it on Legendary. I played through it once and was kinda meh about it but you've given me a new outlook on it! I was stuck on Truth and Reconciliation and because I kept using all the sniper ammo before even getting on the ship. Now stuck on getting Capt Dicknuts out.

I'd say one part that's really hard is the Nothing But Jackal on Delta Halo. Because of Jackal snipers & the several spawns of buggers. Took me along time to get past it

Another thing about Two Betrayals is that it's the most dynamic level in the game, and it's very hard to have the right weapons for the right fight. Co-op is nice because you get to choose 2 extra guns to carry. But you spend so much of the level trying to decide between the shotgun, pistol, sniper, rockets, or plasma pistol, knowing that whatever you choose will make your life a little more difficult against either Flood, Shielded Covenant, Unshielded Covenant, Sentinels, Ghosts, Wraiths, Banshees or whatever else you may encounter at any given time. Plus cycling between short range and long range fighting. Of course the flipside is that it also makes it possibly the most interesting level, as you'll regularly have the wrong weapons and need to pick up needlers or plasma rifles from the ground to get through an area.

Fantastic video chiggen. Man you time the cut aways with kat perfectly they caught me off-guard in the funniest way.

as someone who speedruns halo 2, gravemind and regret are tied for me for most difficult throughout the whole series. the boss fight in regret is just so outrageously difficult especially when the dual wielding elites come out. and gravemind has just so many sections where if you do the wrong thing or the enemies spawn in weird you can get obliterated before you can even react. game is just kind of unfair lol

Good list, I recently ran through MCC on heroic and definitely felt the most pain in Cortana and Long Night of Solace.

If you picked the RTS ones, Arcadia (From Halo wars) would certainly be way up in the list. Considered one of the hardest RTS levels to beat on the hardest difficulty.

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Bro I just binge watched most if not all your halo vids. Gahhdamn great job 👍

I finished my first full legendary CE playthrough a few days ago, and the ending of Keyes was a contender for the most grueling section of that game for me. The canyon sections were bad enough, even after I used active camo to sneak through the first half, but fighting my way to the bottom of the hangar through dozens of spec ops elites and fuel rod grunts with low health and ammo was an absolute nightmare. Still need to finish Halo 2 and 4 on legendary too, so I fear the worst is yet to come

Ok, so I am playing MCC through on Legendary with my friend who’s never played Halo before (Legendary because we do Grandmasters on Destiny 2 for fun and we ain’t bitches). I swear on everything to this man that when I played Halo Reach back on 360, Long Night of Solace wasn’t that crazy hard, and my first playthrough was solo Legendary. Even easier when helping friends do it later on. He claimed in jest that I was just bad, but genuinely that I might remember things differently or whatnot. So thank you so much for validating me! It actually was harder than I remember, and I’m not going crazy! 😂

enjoyed seeing you talk about all the halo games

Any halo 2 mission that contains more than 2 jackal snipers should be an honorable mention

Oh, I didn't know the sabre part in LNOS was changed. I was gaslighting myself because I didn't remember it to be this difficult back then.

Agreed throughout, the gravemind elevator thing happened to me on my legendary play through, halo 2 has a handy feature where if you die too quickly after a checkpoint a few times in a row it will revert it by one more checkpoint - this saved me

So from experience of playing all the Halo games SLASO you're on the money with the levels, regret and gravemind alone took about 12 hours of pain, the rest only had maybe one tough level. For any wondering my rankings for overall game difficulty SLASO would be, Halo 2, Halo, Halo Reach, Halo 4, ODST and 3. I got the speed run achievements while doing these laso.

4:05 I get PTSD whenever Cortana says "Brutes!"

Nice video chicken frog

I did not know the difference between the MCC and original version of LNoS. That explains why I didn’t recall wanting to bash my head against a wall when I was a kid playing that level on legendary

Commenting a third time, but I agree, Regret is much harder. The deaths feel fair in Gravemind, (usually), but having your progress sniped away in Regret is just so tough to swallow

Regret is the hardest by far for me overall. Like you said once you get a carbine Gravemind is still hard but it is doable. Regret on the other hand feels like you just have to get lucky with the Regret fight as getting dropped in the wrong place into a bunch of Honor guard elites after boarding him is basically certain death. Thats without mentioning all the other hard parts of Regret such as the very begininng, the sniper jackals, the underwater room etc... For CE my vote goes to Truth and Reconiliation. It has all the waves of enemies before you come up the Grav Lift, the ambush section when you first get into the ship from the grav lift, the hangar sections, and perhaps most annoyignly the section where you have to escort Keyes who is usually determined to get himself killed or worse kill himself. Two Betrayals and Keyes were defintely hard, but at least for me they didn't compare to T&R. In terms of the other games I don't think any of the levels come particualrly close to any of the aforementioned ones, but I agree with your choices from 3, ODST, Reach and 4. I haven't played 5 at all so IDK on that one. Infinte I haven't played on Legendary so not sure on that one either.

the vehicle problem in legendary is pretty consistent across the entire franchise, where the entire vehicle is treated as an extension of your body and not an augment to it, making you ultimately just a bigger target. it pretty much ruins all the vehicle levels.

Holy shit I am so fucking glad you had the exact same experience with Buck on Coastal Highway

The flood guy with the rocket launcher in the cave tunnel in two betrayls is an absurd design choice.

Yeah, Halo 2 in general kind of takes the cake for a lot of reasons. It's absolutely ruthless; enemies will melt you, they're super aggressive, enemy variety is high, there are lots of bullshit scenarios and enemies, and the Regret boss fight is just outrageous. Gravemind is iconic because it just slaps you in the face RIGHT AWAY by spawning you in a big room filled with enemies with minimal cover where you have nothing but a single Needler, and enemy reinforcements will pour in from multiple places. Then the level does it again with the prison section, where it throws you right into the middle of a terrible situation without you being able to do anything about it, and you have to be fast and aggressive and accurate or you die. Honorable mention to coastal highway for forcing you between a rock and a hard place with Buck's shitty AI and the escort mission forcing you to hurry.

I've only played Infinite on legendary, House of Reckoning was just tedious. You get a lot of ammo and have sufficient cover with the 2 bosses being health sponges that can't hit you with certain strategies. Hardest section for me was the end of Pelican Down with Hyperious and Tovarus (had to google their names lol). Can't stand on the ground without a Pimp my Ride-d chopper ramming you, but standing on a platform without cover means a scrap cannon is raining down on you. The safest place I could find only had 1 commando for ammo and Tovarus is a bastard with shields. Definitely still more tedious than difficult, but took more brainpower than running around a pillar to pacify Escharum.

4:30 omg I recently had an extra fun experience with the Prison level. From the upper room I thought it would be smart to jump into the grav lift towards the prison while havent yet killed all of the Brutes there. Bad choice, cuz they came after me into the grav lift, so right upon arriving at the prison level I had to fight even more Brutes than normally😂😂 I died a ton of times lol

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On Outskirts in Halo 2, I usually have a tough time with the vehicle section because im trying to get the rocket launcher and give it to the marine in passenger of my warthog. But the marine AI in halo 2 is so eager to do their own thing. When I tell the marine to exit the vehicle, they will often get in the driver seat, or run off with the rocket launcher I just gave them, while another nearby marine enters the passenger, all while we are under fire from ghost. I have now develpoed a new methed where i quickly get out to grab the rocket launcher, get back in and drive to back to an earlier part of the level where there are no npcs that can distract us, then i get give the marine the rocket.

For me, it's definitely a mix between Gravemind, Regret and Coastal Highway My wife and I were trying to beat LASO on ODST, and it took LONG time to beat Coastal bc our connection kept cutting out. We once got disconnected after the very last encounter, as the phantom was flying in.

That tough room in Regret you can run past, it is what I almost always did. Running past stuff in Gavemind is way more difficult and more risky due to how long the level is.

I just finished Halo Reach’s campaign on Legendary. My first time playing through any Halo game on Legendary. The Long Night of Solace fight was hard but didn’t seem any harder than the rest of the campaign, but that could just be that I died a lot on every mission as I am not great at Legendary yet. EDIT: I will add that I don’t own an XBOX: One so I was playing on the normal 360 version which appears to be a little less difficult than the MCC version.

For Infinite (not taking the Tank Gun into consideration), The Tower was the hardest part for me, and only because you can’t have the Calcine Disruptor before it. That gun completely changes the game when you can get it, and I even used it on my LASO run, and it CARRIED

Two Betrayals and Gravemind are both tied as my favorite level in the whole series. As terrifyingly difficult as they are, I'm always so happy to play them

4:39 Getting your coprse shot was pretty funny

seeing Kat getting domed out of context will never not be funny

Very fun video and discussion (also really enjoy the chicken suit. Maybe you can wear it for an upcoming livestream? :-). Are we getting a little preview of a forthcoming Halo Infinite Legendary play through? I hope so.

I have never felt happier playing a Halo game than when I figure out you could “skip” the underwater room on Regret by just hightailing it to the door and praying

Man, I agree with you almost completely, incredible.

Regret is honestly the hardest imo. Not only is the amount of times you need to board regret to kill him annoying but the fact that checkpoints are so sparse means they can be given at the worst times. My first H2 legendary run of this level gave me a checkpoint in the middle of the room behind one of the ramps meaning i had to sidestep a sword wielding honour guard and run away from covenant hunting me down. The level on legendary sucks

Awesome video good homage

I’m glad that other people suffered through gravemind as I have. I know it’s by far the hardest encounter in halo 3 but the first time I played through it on legendary the brute chieftain on the way to saving the marines gave me a decent amount of troubles

Definitely agree with you about 2 betrayals, that shit was a nightmare

I wondered why I found the sabre section so much harder than I used to

Me and a buddy spent like 3 hours on the Regret boss, his laser can one shot you, shitty checkpoints, and constant enemy spawns. Gives me ptsd every time I see it

Some honorable mentions for Halo 2 would be, imo, Cairo Station and Sacred Icon. Cairo Station, while not being absolutely ball busting like some later levels, and being generous with Marines and Battle Rifle ammo, is basically a "baptism by fire" for first time Legendary playthroughs. It can be absolutely brutal, but if you can survive it, you can survive most of Halo 2. Sacred Icon, while definitely being able to be run through with camo, and having a pretty easy opening minutes, can be fucking ridiculous for some players (me) once the Flood show up. The segment from turning off the barrier, up until you drop down to the ground level, can be an absolute slog if you play defensively. That one hallway where you see Marines fighting Flood has an insane amount of ranged Flood spawns, so it can quickly turn into a cycle of "move up a few steps -> 6 or 7 human combat forms with SMGs being spraying at you with stupid good accuracy -> retreat back to regenerate shields while Flood pursue -> take out remaining combat forms -> repeat" for like half an hour. Eventually, I just end up saying screw it and just run past most Flood spawns because they just never let up. Besides that, I pretty much agree with the list. CE has a difficulty spike post-GS but The Maw isn't quite as bad, Halo 2 is brutal in general, 3 & ODST are actually somewhat easy, and Reach is more just an overall challenge than varying levels.

Entering the roof of the corvette on Long Night of Solace on Legendary for me, 4 Elites in a room with minimal gravity so it’s easy to get surrounded or if you panic or get caught on something and jump you’re pretty much guaranteed to die instantly. Got so annoyed after 2 hours of screwing up that I quit my Legendary playthrough for a month and just played multiplayer or a different game entirely.

For that one covenant guarded generator section in Forerunner I always just get to that closest banshee before the elite does (usually by aplattering said elite with a ghost), get in the banshee and shoot down all the other banshees, and then grab a host and just splatter all of the enemies on the ground. I can usually get that done in a few attempts on legendary. That one section in composer with the infinite spawning covenant though jfc - fuck that section lmao.

Long night of solace was so much worse for me on MCC. I think I died once or twice in the space battle on the original Reach, but I literally had to hide and let the frigate guns do most of the work on MCC after countless deaths 💀

Yoooo your from KC??? Me too dawg I was at that chiefs game in 2012 vs the panthers the day after the jovan belcher incident

dude i thought i was going insane on long night of solace. I did legendary solo on 360 back in the day and I never remembered that part being unfair at all. Good to know it wasn't just me

The Halo CE shotgun, perfection.

At Halo 3's Gravemind level don't forget that the pureforms when you stick them with a plasmagrenade in their ranged form they quite often transform and just simply "eat" the grenade which deactivates it. Happened to me many time in the original Xbox 360 Halo 3.

When the flood levels began (more so 2 betrayals so on) i always carried pistol and shotgun. Then drop my shotgun for plasma pistol to noob combo elites in the area, then pick the shotgun back up

A friend and I were doing a halo 2 legendary play through together. Its almost more difficult playing coop... We got to regret and had a heck of a time. I remembered where the skull was (kind of) and thought that it made master chief's flashlight invisibility - that would have been a huge help. NOPE. I was wrong... All the enemies were invisible for the rest of the level. We were in too deep and couldn't turn around. We got it done though. Regret boss fight was a hell of a time. 💪

7:46 What’s worse about it is that the AI is so inconsistent. ODST is the same game as Halo 3, how does Buck have downgraded AI?

big agree on Regret (and Gravemind but that's a given) considering the jackal spawns are random and sniper alley on Outskirts can be skipped faster than doing it on easy

Would love too see a mod ranking video

I know its not exactly the mode that you played the most but a Halo CE Laso analysis from you would be great. Some tipps and tricks level by level.

Best part of ODST is the surprise cameo from Timothy Olifant

I replayed reach recenrly and had no trouble with the sabre section when it normally kicks my ass. Is it possible they might have fixed it?

As someone who recently solo replayed most of ODST (360 version on disc via xbone backwards compat) on legendary. I am... surprised by you statement on coastal highway and the game as a whole. Then again, I never got that far. I got stonewalled by the encounters between finishing Kikawani Station and starting Data-Hive. TLDR: Two hunters, two squads of brutes, jackal snipers and a chieftain are uh. Hard to handle when all you have is a half empty rocket launcher and a beam rifle in similar condition.

I know there are skips on Regret too, but Gravemind has a lot of fights that are completely skippable, but fairly challenging too, contributing to how hard it feels,especially to more inexperienced players

me and my friends are about to play every halo game so fun to know where we will suffer most.

I remember having a nightmare with regret a while ago hell of a feeling when I beat it. So for me that’s the one that stands out in all the bungie games, I can’t really remember anything about 4&5 and don’t want to 😅

Have you considered doing a vid on best multiplayer maps? I notice there's many remakes of the same map across the Halos.

Hi Frog! This was a good video to watch at 2:20 pm on January 24, 2024!! I think all your takes are accurate and based!!

Of the campaign missions I have played on legendary, the one I remember being the hardest was The Breaking in Halo 5. I didn't know about skipping the fight, and this was before they nerfed the campaign difficulty. I am playing through Halo 2 Legendary, and Gravemind is the next mission to do, so maybe Gravemind will become my new most frustrating mission. I doubt it, though. Halo 2 is hard, but once you adjust your strategies, you can find a way out of a room. The Breaking had the most frustrating fight with 3 Wardens and AI teammates that would get themselves killed in dumb ways. Doing a fight on your own is different from having to rely on dumb AI if you get downed.

Oh man, stumbling upon this video just takes me back to the epic journey my buddy Quentin and I embarked on not too long ago! We decided to tackle the legendary campaign together, and let me tell you, it was one wild ride. Sure, technically, nothing is supposed to be too tough for the pros, but we definitely faced our fair share of challenges along the way. One of the biggest hurdles? Well, let's just say Quentin's tendency to meet an untimely demise every now and then made things, uh, interesting. Picture this: we're deep into the fray, battling through waves of Covenant forces, and suddenly, Quentin bites the dust. And guess what? Back to the last checkpoint we go! Talk about nerve-wracking, especially considering I was the one carrying most of the weight in terms of combat prowess. Now, if we're talking about the toughest of the tough, Halo 2 definitely takes the cake in my book. Those darn snipers... they haunted our dreams for weeks! And oh, don't even get me started on that mission aboard the massive Covenant ship. The name escapes me at the moment, but man, that level was a test of patience and skill like no other. But you know what? Despite the occasional frustration and countless near-heart attacks, I wouldn't trade our Halo saga for anything. It was one heck of an adventure, filled with adrenaline-pumping moments and triumphant victories. And hey, if given the chance, I'd dive back into the fray with Quentin by my side in a heartbeat. Here's to more epic battles and legendary victories in the future! Cheers, fellow gamers! 🎮💥✨

Oh man Coastal Highway… I had managed to block that one from my mind. Most aggravating level I think I’ve ever played.

Hardest mission is lone wolf I always die, I've never completed it to this day

In that big room on Regret with the hunters and sniper jackals, if you just stick way to the right side of the room you can very easily just avoid all the enemies and enter the next room to get a checkpoint. That Boss Fight though is horror

i remember when i first played halo ce 1 year ago, on easy and on keyboard/mouse, and i thought keyes was the worst thing ever, but replaying it recently on steam deck and on medium i find it to be probably my favourite level in the entire game, my new view on tb is the exact same as yours though

Gravemind was always my favorite as a kid, glad to see I'm not alone.

Lol the underwater section didnt do me in that badly.

Really enjoyed the video, I would choose Halo Reach's space mission due to the paper tissue metal it was created with.

I didn't play much 2 but I played a lot of one and I had the game done on legendary every mission but bloody 2 betrayals that took on its own months to do it was so hard to do one your own took forever

I’d be curious as to your opinion on Halo 2 Uncut mod. Not just with the differences in how it is from the released version, but how those differences would impact a speed run, and your general opinion on the mod. I’ve played through about half of it so far (doing it co op with a friend when our schedules line up) and I’m looking forward to the back half of the game with 2 scarabs on “Great Journey” and the Warthog run on “High Charity.” Also, it seems like some speed running tricks are invalidated by the mod, but I don’t know, so hearing your take would be awesome.

truth and reconciliation without a sniper is pretty hard, i did that my first playthrough because i didn’t know where the sniper ammo was

Tsavo Highway (3) and Coastal were a similar tuff, it was hard to anticipate the scaling. Might I add Data Hive or Kzingo Blvd from ODST as some nuanced difficult missions. You should do Infinite on Legendary and compress that into a video somehow. You saw my Truth and Rec playthrough that was awful, but I could grasp some of the nuances of Infinite's campaign on Leg and beat it more easily than CE. Not saying a whole lot, but it could make a great video!

Whatever the hardest level is, I’ll play it today.

When I started getting into Halo and got to CE I was quite excited, but Two Betrayals almost broke me. I dropped the game for like a month 'cause I couldnt beat the level on easy. Ps: Am I missing someone with the Regret bossfight? I played it on normal a few times and dude just takes a single rocket and dies? Does it change that much for legendary?