Who is the Strongest Enemy in Oblivion? 

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Bandit: “I’ve fought mudcrabs stronger than you!” Me, a level 50 super mage: _”That’s one strong mudcrab.”_

Umm, the guy who kills the Emperor. Far as I know, he cannot be stopped without commands. You can't even body block him, sacrificing yourself.

I don't really have a place to say this, but I think it would be amazing if you guys did a "playthrough" of Skyrim or other games and just talked about lore on stuff as it comes up. That would be so relaxing to listen to and it wouldn't even have to be those boring lets plays, it could be just when there's stuff to talk about. Could even just do livestreams of it and archive them for later.

This makes me miss the insane enemy diversity in Oblivion!

"The rat is resilient and MEAN."

Dagoth Ur: “I’m a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence.” Giant Slaughterfish: “I’m a fish.” Dagoth Ur: “This is the end. The bitter, bitter end.”

Morrowind: Daedric armor is a testament to a character's adventures and experience. Only two sets of daedric armor exist in morrowind and one of them is held by a several thousand years old ancap turbowizard. Oblivion: Random mercs and brigands sport armor from a parallel plane of existence.

The Character creation screen is the strongest enemy

Once i see oblivion, i immediately know its gonna be Michael lol

The strongest enemy in Oblivion is without question the Will-O-The-Wisp purely on intimidation factor alone. I hate fighting these things to the point i avoid them whenever i can or get a follower/summon to kill them for me while i chip away at them and quickly get away. Almost all of the Characters i've made use magic, so getting your intelligence and willpower damaged is a huge detriment. That, and if you have Knights of the Nine you can't use alters to restore your attributes until you make a goddamn pilgrimage to all the shrines so it's extra annoying to restore your damaged attributes. And don't get me started on the damage sponges known as Goblins.

I vaguely remember fighting my shadow clone in the shivering isle dlc, and I vaguely remember it hitting very hard. It's been a long time since I played it though, so maybe not.

I remember the "Kalperklan Trolls" - They actually have calipers on them if you loot their corpses - hence caliper clan, Kalper Clan, "Kalperklan" xD

Me with a 1 second paralyze on touch spell I made at level 7: Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power

The second Gatekeeper is definitely the toughest, although I’m surprised the painted troll wasn’t on this list. I remember them being absurdly difficult to kill.

The adoring fan. Hands down

definitely have PTSD from that fish, I also didn't know about adjusting the brightness when I was a kid so I spent hours swimming around in the dark, drowning, and or being eaten by that giant fish.

As someone who has never played oblivion, I am now buying this game

You forgot the fearsome sewer rat from the tutorial that definitely isn't a passive creature

This is ultimate algorithm video, these always blow up, I wish you guys luck.

Goblins always are a pain in the ass. They may not be the strongest but they're my most hated enemy.

I'm surprised your shadow clone from the shivering isles DLC wasn't mentioned.

Todd Howard. He was the strongest enemy in the game. Sometimes he wouldn't let you activate or complete quests. Sometimes he would make some of his minions randomly invincible. Sometimes he even decided to crash the entire game just for his own sick amusement. If not for the love and hard work of the fans, oblivion would have been nigh unplayable.

I remember thinking I could run away from the matron by crossing the river and seeing it chasing me across the river made me scream outloud.

The video just proves something we've known all along... High-stagger enemies are as close to OP as the game gets.

Nice to see such dedication in a video for a fifteen year old game. Thank you

Good to know that I'm not the only one to go back to Oblivion recently lol

Not realizing there was two different versions of the gate keeper until now I always thought and had the most trouble with Jyggalag. Though fighting sheogorath is always fun since he just basically says “your not worth my time.” Before teleporting you to fall from the sky to your death !

The 1 dislike is the weakest enemy who's mad because he didn't make it

Keep on doing a good job. I follow the podcasts and listen to you guys in the background talking about lore even at work. It’s great to keep my mind in wonder and helps me putting pieces to the puzzle of the story in the game. It’s very relaxing and learn a lot while at it. Thanks for the content. Much appreciated 🔥

Ah I still remember the first time i found umbra. Totally panicked and ran all the way to the imperial city with here following me thinking oh the guard will help me. Nope she killed the city. Everyone of em just stacks of body’s laying around. It was kinda great till I realized they didn’t kill her and a bunch of shop keepers were dead xD

I love your enthusiasm Michael! Great video! Can’t wait to start my first play of Oblivion!

Well if a spell is called “Mystic Death” I gotta tell you it should do big damage

You guys are getting close to a million. Keep up the great videos and I'm sure you guys will get there soon.

This is great I've just started playing oblivion again

I once leveled my character to level 200 and then got one shot from a Goblin Warlord, and this was with the difficulty slider all the way to very easy. Oblivion's leveling is perfectly balanced and fare.

The strongest enemy is my broken heart after Martin dies.

Ahhh...an Oblivion video to turn my mood around. Thanks guys!

Thank you for breathing some life into this gem of a game! I don't think I've ever enjoyed a game as much as I enjoyed Oblivion.

Makes me really happy to see Oblivion getting some love

I'd love to see one of these videos for Morrowind, then you'd have the entire modern elder scrolls series down. Until TES6 is out of course. You have a lot of time bois

THIS! Mr. Michael, please do more of these for morrowind and skyrim as well!!!! This was soooo awesome and unexpected

Hands down Jygalag the daedric god of order. Overcoming his curse of madness and returning to order once every so often to re conquer his own land. Where order is absolute and means lifeless crystalline forms, structures perfectly representative of that concept. He could probably conquer Nirn. That is why they have cursed him, since he was way too powerful.

I’ve been waiting so long for this video

More videos like this please!!! Well done!

was waiting for this thank you!

I love rewatching this! 💙

Level scaling in oblivion really was spawned directly from sheogoraths mind ^^ I tended to ignore melee combat all together because it was just a grind feast There were only 2 ways to play oblivion for me: 1. Only use selective few primary stats to level up and use the rest of them as minors to prevent me from leveling up too high & being willingly "stuck" at a lower level to make the enemies manageable 2. Use hand-crafted spells to deal enough damage to even the most beefed up enemies: I really loved the combination out of increase weakness to fire, ice, lightning & health damage of 100% for 10 seconds and follow it up with a combined spell of damage 20 for 3 sec (not so sure on that combination anymore ^^) of each with fire, ice, lightning & damage health The over time effect made the spells quite cheap - especially the weakness to one - (actually dirt cheap for the massive amounts of damage you can inflict!) and made even the worst enemy melt before you And you never even needed to cheese any mechanic or buff up your equipment to handle these spells Just cast these spells in fast order and you can kill most enemies with one weakness and 2 damage spells You just need to remember the time limit of the weakness spell Follow it up with other spells and oblivion is really a pleasent experience despite the grind Oh, how i loved these times 😍

More oblivion videos!! Beeen wanting this for years lol

That mudcrab that hangs around the sewer exit at the start of the game because it always stops me from fast travelling

Goddamn, I miss this game.

I was getting bored, saw a new fudgeMuppet vid no longer bored

Great video

Man you guys upload at a terrible time for Australia or at least the east coast. Great video as always though.

this might just be the most underrated video on the channel, and there are a lot of those

What a fun episode, thank you! 💜 Have you done one of these episodes for Skyrim? The necromancer in the quest for Meridia can be a real beech to kill, & there are a few others I can think of. (Not including dragons)

Ya'know Umbra's Ebony Armor is leveled. Prior to the level you can actually get Ebony Armor, it's equivalent to Orcish.

Hey man love your content! 😁👌

Don’t even need to watch the video to know it’s the Adoring Fan

EASILY my favorite channel 💯

Great video . Makes want to play Oblivion.

If I’m not mistaken there used to be a glitch where you could save and load your save the moment you hit punishment point and you could go back to sheogorath and he just only says “oh you survived” and it breaks the quest line and npc

Great video. I m waiting for the strongest enemy in Skyrim and in Online

That troll falling over to it’s death had me dying 😂😂😂

I literally started a new Oblivion playthrough yesterday. Now I've got a video that tells me about all the enemies I don't want to find at my low level.

Making oblivion videos in 2021 I salute you

Once again, doing the best work that we don't deserve 😭😭❤️❤️

Not the intro I was expecting

i never knew you could soul trap jyggalag

depression is the strongest enemy

Been waiting for this one since the Skyrim one

Yes more Oblivion content!

Great job.. love the video. I just have one thing going on with my character that makes this all irrelevant, that being, 100% chameleon. It's some fun stuff. 😁

Why does this man always make me want to play these games again

This is likely the most interesting sorts of content I typically consume!

The shadow of yourself in The Shivering Isles gave me soooo much trouble actually kind of surprised it didn't make it on to the list tbh.

I loved this .completed it and the add ons . I have friends who are button masher type players who couldnt get very far and that's why I loved it. Then they got Skyrim and seemed to go round killing everyone easy so I never played it

Mehrunes Dagon melting into a pool of soup is not something I knew I needed to see today.

Its the rat Marshal! You are lucky you caught him without his gun!

Sheogorath is one scary daedra. The top ranks are almost all from the shivering isles. And even in morrowind, the golden saints were very hard to fight. Good thing he doesn't invade Tamriel

Let's go 🔥🔥

I've never even played oblivion, unfortunately, but men this was a great video

Strongest enemy in Skyrim with the largest disadvantage among every enemy: slaughterfish Unlike oblivion you are unable to attack in water leaving you completely open to being attacked by such a fast enemy. While the slaughterfish doesn’t deal a lot of damage they will pose more of a threat in large numbers which puts you at a critically dangerous disadvantage. While in water you are unable to use weapons, magic, and shouts so your only chance of survival is to use friendly NPC’s or to swim away to get onto land.

Yeah one thing I remember doing to fix casters like Mankar and Lich. I opted to replace their old staff weapons with a mod that made them into off hand shield with a minor enchantment to absorb magic or physical attacks. I also gave them a enchanted weapon that shared the Dremora one handed weapons enchantments. Nothing like a fight with a Lich who's armed with an enchanted Elven staff in one hand and an Elven mace enchanted with "Oblivion's Caress" or "Nearness of Evil" that is throwing fire and thunder spells at you..

Best Video !

As soon as I saw this title, I'm just thinking about painted trolls at some levels. That quest was great at killing my motivation to play and having faith in the games level system.

I'm sure with a ton of health potions you'd be able to kill some of these impossible enemies. As well as potions dealing with damage, chameleon, reflect, etc. Some enemies aren't meant to be attacked head on, but I guess that's what makes them the strongest in your list. I was shocked at that fish being so strong when I first placed oblivion this past month, I was wondering if I had finally screwed up on leveling, tried to run away from that thing and ended up having to kill it after like 8 minutes of fighting lol. I was also surprised by that flesh atrnonarch, the dinosaur daedra you mentioned for meridias quest actually killed me because I wasn't even looking at my health bar, I killed so many of them and they were so easy, and I was getting mauled by like 3 of them, that was a huge surprise.

FudgeMuppet: Ok it's time for our epic and cinematic intro for our video with all these dead enemies around us. Man we work really hard to set this all up for this epic momen- Wild Mage: -flings a fire spell ruining the perfect intro-

Cool video

Literally any goblin is the strongest enemy. Even at Level 54 and all stats maxxed out, they still take longer to kill than any boss.

Hell yeah. I have been binging elder scrolls again lately. I modded the hell out of morrowind, oblivion, and skyrim. I was super happy with how all of them turned out especially morrowind. It was impressive and would suffice until skywind released. Then come to find out the mod morroblivion which I thought was abandoned actually released in its entirety. So I downloaded that too though I plan on playing the OG version as well. I will say that it shocks me that nobody has really tried to create a voice over mod for morroblivion. I know there are a few computer generated voices but for real one would think they skywind team would lend out their voice lines for morrowind. I have half a mind to start making the mod myself. I don’t even expect everybody to have voiced dialogue much like the OG morrowind. There are mods that add in cut dialogue for characters like yagrum and the tribunal. So I would think that those would be converted in some way. If anybody wants to help me create a mod for voiced dialogue for main characters in morroblivion Hit me up. I am an audio engineering major and am currently taking classes for game development so it would be a cool project to take up. Obviously skywind will release eventually but who knows when and if nothing else it would be a fun prroject to undertake.

When I was a kid I started a fight I couldn´t finish with Umbra. I tried to run away from her, I escaped the dungeon but she followed me even underwater all the way to imperial city. In the city she got a bunch of npc attacking her and when they were finished there were just corpses laying around everywhere. I ran away but some random old ladies just charged to attack.

Its a shame I lost my oldest save file before I was even done with the Shivering Isles DLC, so I cant really go fight those enemies. I think my character then was pure melee, but right now I started a templar with melee but also restoration/buff spells. Dunno if I will play the entire game again but I at least wanna try beating the top three enemies in this list.

Every lich in my mage play through had spell reflect. Combine that with me doing a glass cannon build meant that a good 50% of the time I would shoot a spell at them only to immediately die from my own spell. I got tired of exploring ruins pretty fast

Great video, Michael. :3 BUT! You're wrong about Mankar Camoran. You left his respawning children out of the equation. They change the fight quite a bit. And if you're a mage character and turn the difficulty to max, Mankar's insane magic defense and reflection completely neuter you. I've played all of Oblivion on max difficulty with a mage and could vaporize anything with ease (with an occasional self-oneshot from a lich reflect x3 ), but Mankar was the only enemy in the game I had to be inventive.

2:01 good choice ;)

Man and Mer. Because our feuds never subsided, only temporarily stop.

Yessssss more oblivionnn

Yeah. That deserves likes and comments

You forgot about Skull of Corruption. With this you can permanently clone your self and make him your enemy.