Who can Solo Hoarah Loux ? | NPCs VS Chieftain of the Badlands 

What it feels like going to the chiropractor 😩🤣🤣🤣

I lost

He's the best chiropractor in the Lands between.

I laughed a little too hard at this. I feel ashamed

If Rya is Rykard's daughter the she is Horah Loux' step-granddaughter. The first letter of her name matches the family theme.

He always is. You can be unbreakable if you don't let anyone break you :)

Smartest AI 💀

He even quits five secs after seeing radahn the only out of character thing about this is that he didn’t do it faster

Patches: i just wanted to talk, but clearly he is not ready

Nah Rya won she stood her ground👍 Patches bailed 👎

Other npcs: fighting for their lives or running Rya: 🗿

Honestly deserved it.

Totally deserved for someone like him

Shitter deserves it

(The tenant, when he finds out who keeps leaving unflushed turds)

As he deserves.

I mean, you'd think with all that INT Gideon would think to stay at a distance lmao

@@vienle4089Intelligence doesn’t always mean wisdom

​@@vienle4089 or perhaps use literally any spell that doesn't take a million years to charge up

Man got his chest split open as a finishing move, mercy is tossed aside just for him.

Naw she just needed some aggressive chiropractice

Turtle pope is the best npc in all videogames

Yes, that's nice... **Continues to whale on him until he drops that turtle meat**

Exactly lol

Anastasia had something going there with the self-healing strike

I was actually expecting Alexander to be included. I figure if any NPC stands a chance it would be him.

@@RelativelyBest i forgot about him, he should've been here

@@leaf_of_the_wind Anastasia did good because it's her crazy scaled version from that haligtree snow zone

exactly lol. i went "oh damn! oh... damn..."

my exact words: "nice fucking dodge man, that was sick!... oh"

ngl, varre going down in two shots made me laugh

Nah, she was kindly saying "Hello, brave tarnished, would you be interested in joining our house?" and Hoarah Loux just couldn't kill someone that adorable. That's why he only slammed her once

And he took her brown eye

That would be an interesting idea, seeing which boss can throw you the farthest across all DS/BB/Sekiro/ER games

LOL

"JAKE PAUL, BASTARD OF THE BADLANDS"

No Hoarah Loux is constantly rushing at people knocking them down, he is a spellcaster's worst match up.

@@pinkvillafantasy I couldn't disagree with you more thoroughly. First is that Gideon Ofnir's ability makes himself and the target weaker to spells… and since Horah Loux has no spells, that has zero disadvantages to Gideon in their match up. That makes it easier for Gideon to burst Horah Loux down with his spells, and why him _barely_ missing his two Comet Azur casts in this match are moments that might have swung the entire fight super quickly in his favor if either one of them had connected. Both of them almost did, and that's also a spell that has a massive wind-up to fire. Second is that NPC casters are always trying to create distance between them and their target, rather than trying to engage at close range like NPCs fighting with weapons. That's also beneficial when fighting against Horah Loux who is trying to rush down because he has EVERY advantage at close range opponents who block. Lastly, Horah Loux's signature move is his Earthshaker, which has an _absurdly long wind-up_ and during that, he's completely immobile. That's a time where spellcasters can absolutely obliterate him - but _especially_ if you have Horah Loux debuffed, and use the game's most powerful spells when he's just standing there… which is exactly what Gideon is set up to do.

@@PierceArner You're assuming Gideon has player Ai, but he doesn't, the NPCs do not know how to doge effectively and a boss as fast as Hoarah Loux is gonna close the distance on any spellcaster very quickly, this why Sellen and Miriam also got destroyed here, they simply cannot create enough distance. NPCs also don't know to punish Hoarah's earth breaking attack, so if for some miracle they mange to be at a far distance from the earthbreaker, they still not gonna take full advantage of it. Even Gideon can't do it, he only does Comet Azure for a short time, he's not like Rennala who does a long Azure stream for a few seconds, Gideon's comet Azure is more like a quick burst and that's it, it's actually his worst spell since it takes too long to cast, only works if he has good distance, and he doesn't hold it very long. Gideon simply never gets a chance to do anything in these boss fights, if you watch any Gideon boss vs boss he almost always loses bc the bosses rush him and won't let him get up once he's down. He can only win if he spams the Apostles Black Flame since that spell works best on enemies that get up in his face + the hp burning effect BS kills bosses quick.

@@PierceArner You do realize Comet Azure takes time to do big damage and Loux can poise through to close the distance or evade to the side, right? Plus, Gideon's AI is fickle and rarely maintains the cast anyway. He won't survive until Earthshaker, and even if he did he would just randomly spam spells (several of which are essentially useless) and get caught in the AoE because he wouldn't put enough distance. Also, the first CA got interrupted mid casting, it didn't "barely" miss.

If gidion had opened with scarlet aoinia or the death rancor he would have had a better chance

Or give the NPCs max flasks, instead of the single flask they get. Gideon could definitely win, assuming that his AI doesn't shit the bed.

Anastacia has like the best healing kit for such an occasion 1% hp per hit and a AoW that heals based on damage dealt

Anastasia is actually kinda busted, especially the snowfields invasion version

@@ColonelKebabShop I must’ve avoided a pain train then, a flame strike flamberge at +7 stunlocked her, especially with the follow up heavy giving it the fire enhancement

@@theomegablade6415 Prayerful strike ALWAYS heals for 30% of your max HP, it has nothing to do with damage dealt.

I know right. Probably because you can just do it in game if you somehow get to second phase without Nepheli getting touched

I’m sorry… wot ?!!! You can summon nepheli LOUX to fight against hoara LOUX… and at no ducking point did From ever thought about putting even just one extra line of dialogue on either side to even just acknowledge it ? God damn that’s bad, that’s really bad >

@@nathanjora7627 what exactly is bad? For all we know Nepheli never met Godfrey and very unlikely that she is his descendant

@@shmekelfreckles8157 ... I'm sorry, very unlikely that the one who had the stormking as her freakin bird, and is called LOUX, you know, the name of badland godfrey ? Also her birthright is literally what makes her apt to go on stormveil's throne, so of course she's at the bare minimum a descendant of his >

@@nathanjora7627 not descendent but likely related, like niece, etc... but it could also just be a tribal name, but they would still likely have a blood connection. Far as I know, his only son's were with Marika, and well Godwin died, and it's unlikely that mogh and morgott had kids but who know

But there's two things that disappointing me about him: 1) He's not utilising his ghost lion Serosh at all. Just imagine all those possibilities and different attacks he could've perform using him. 2) His combat stile in phase 2 is kinda weird and even ridiculous. He strikes you with "claws" without even seemingly having them. He could do a lot better if he just used classic boxing moves.

Godfrey and his two sons are the top 3 bosses in the game for me.

What? I agree with most of this stuff, but his personality is basically "I like killing and being angry". He's like a smarter, more successful, less assholish Senator Armstrong.

@@watchfulwanderer6443 From the little lore we have about him, we know he's also a caring father and husband, and quite noble person who can restrain himself and respect others. He's better than Armstrong.

@@lonelyshpee7873 How 'bout Maliketh?

He doesnt rip your head off he claws your chest open like how he clawed at his chest.

Both wrong, he tears your skull open, from when he's done it to me, It was always the head where he rips it open, not the chest. Which is honestly, way more brutal than ripping our head off or ripping our chest open... In my opinion at least

He's pretty tough, but probably the fairest boss in the game and my personal favorite. He's also not quite as hard as Maliketh or Malenia, or as Radagon (if killed slowly.)

@@perrytran9504 My personal favorite too, I love a boss that makes me feel like I deserved every hit I took with well deliberately telegraphed and paced attack animations. Instead of relying on split second cheap shot moves, unbalanced ganks, flying out of range, teleporting, camera BS, area denial and relentless auto tracking attack combo and projectile spam.

@@perrytran9504 I find Godfrey way harder than Maliketh the Glass Blade

Truly the intended experience

@@damnman5113 His blade do be looking like glass

5'5 average male vs 5'6 average male

Vyke did the best out of most of 'em and he still basically got dumpstered

Omen "curse" has nothing to do with dungeater btw.

Incorrect lore

Fake lore, omens predate the Dung Eater and he's doing something different than just creating omens (for one, he is trapping people's souls with him).

@@Sheamerek Please tell me the name of Dung Eater's armor set.

@@lonelyshpee7873 shit armor?

That's a perfect description oh my god

The Leyndell hold is the real Roundtable Hold, ours is a pocket dimension.

The roundtable in leyndell is the original roundtable. They just needed another roundtable because of the war

Oh even with like 7 flasks I'm pretty sure that Vyke, Anasthasia, Behrnal, Gideon, Dunk Eater, Millicent and perhap even Okina could do it quite consistently. With 14 even some of the weaker ones that didn't get like 2-shot could potentially do it. Don't underestimate flasks.

I think late game npcs can definitely do it but I think most early and mid game npc will just die since they don't have concept of drinking above half health to avoid being busted.

@@ErykBeyk 7 sure but what about 3? Most NPCs in DS3 had that much, I think Hawkwood was the only one with a whopping 7 (but his AI is very stingy with heals so it balances out.)

@@perrytran9504 3 would be hard, maybe the heavy hitters like Berhnal (he is like the strongest NPC besides Gideon), Millicent, Anasthasia and maybe Vyke and Gideon could still do it, although it would be way less consistent.

So still many now that I think about it lol

Nah it just shows how much stronger bosses have gotten against mindless play compared to past games. Even as recently as DS3, Nameless King (generally the hardest base game boss and one of the strongest) is about even with the Havel knight in his area. And Havel doesn't even have heals, he's just extremely tanky and hard hitting like Bernahl. But here Bernahl got clapped and he's probably the strongest non-boss NPC.

Divorce Round Two

Hoarah wins most of the time- including second phase.

@@KingoftheApes Godfrey wins second phase because his AOE lets him stunlock large enemies, since he gets in a loop of dashing and stomping.