Who is the Strongest 'Souls' Dragon? 

Placidusax is never pronounced in game so we have no way of knowing how it's pronounced. The nearest we can get, is looking at the Japanese spelling, which is phonetic: 竜王プラキドサクス | Ryūō purakidosakusu | Dragon King Placidosax/Placidsax. Japanese characters are written this way to reflect foreign sounds. (i,e Alex is アレックス | Arekkusu. Doug is ダグ | Dagu ) This means we can (to some extent) use Japanese phonetic spellings to get an idea of how terms never said in game, should sound. Ornstein from DaS1 is a good example: 竜狩りオーンスタイン | Ōnsutain which gives us a definitive "stine" because "steen" would be more like オーンスティーン | ōnsutīn presumably. Pu - similar to the 'pu' in "puzzle" Ra - similar to the 'ra' in "raw" Ki - similar to the 'ki' in "key" Do - similar to the 'do' in "dome" Sa - similar to the 'sa' in "saw" Ku - similar to the 'ku' in "kook" Su - ending with a 's' sound as in "bus" With the Japanese spelling taken into account, the pronunciation would accurately reflect as: "Pla" as in "plastic" "ki" as in "key" "do" as in "dome" "sa" as in "saw" "k" as in "kook" "s" as in "bus" "Pla-ki-du-sa-ks" Anyway, just relax and don't shout at me because some other dude on YT said Plussysussysacks or Platypus Saxophone or whatever. There isn't really a right or wrong, currently.

Seath the Scaleless with prep time.

The way I understand it, the gods didn’t fear Kalameet more than Midir because he was stronger. It was because they found and raised Midir from a young age. He is a descendant of the ancient dragons after all. Perhaps they even found him as an egg. You should rightly fear a wild wolf, but one can also be taken as a pup and trained. It doesn’t mean the trained one is inherently weaker.

Seath is immortal because of his crystal, the ancient dragon god is largely destroyed by giant magical ballista, the divine dragon is also immortal except is you use the immortal killing blade. So if the others are killed by very normal means so I think it's between these three.

The gods feared kalameet cause it was a stray dragon and immune to lightning, their main thing, they just didnt wanna bother with it, if they really wanted to i feel they couldve, gough easily snipes his ass, and hes blind. Midir was raised by the gods themselves and was a protector of gwyn's child fillianore. Dude is an ally why would they be afraid, maybe they were afraid and thats why they sealed him along with the pigmy lords in the ringed city.

Placidusax beats every other dragon because of time power. His scales twist time and he lives in a timeless realm.

Placidusax is basically shin King Ghidorah so it should be strongest

2:37 > "radahns holding of the stars was more symbolic and figurative" > kill him and all of a sudden thousands of celestial bodies start to fall from the fucking sky yah sure bud, figurative & symbolic

Placidusax had 5 heads. He is missing 3

This mf calling Placidusax "Plakeydasax" hurts my bones.💀

amazing video！ thank you silver mont

3:22 at first I heard "feet", and I’m sure that’d be a metric if Miyazaki were ranking them.

Most pleasant voice in the biz x

BTW Placidusax does control weather around him, not talking about lightning bending, in second phase Lightnings on the background stop and begins Rain, which raises recieving Lightning damage, logicly enhancing Placidusax.

I like how the Seikero dragon wields a sword similar in design to the one used in Demon Sword (from Techmo, a really old NES game).

The dragon from sekrio is immortal... just putting that out there Edit: you get his tears but he never dies, it’s also what makes sekiro and the devine heir immortal, and the water that flows from the dragon gives a false immortality to the people who drink it, like genichiro, the headless ape, and the monks from sempu temple. The only reason you can even damage the dragon is because you have the immortal blade, but you still aren't able to kill it, so even if plasijisax (bad spelling, i know) can warp time he still can't kill the divine dragonm

Are we only looking through the lense of whenever we fight them? Because my two personal top contenders would be an unrestricted Demon's souls dragon god (it very much can fly by the way as shown by the intro cutscene) and Placidusax at his prime with all his heads

Does anyone else remember the dead dragon in ds3 that you can see at dragon peak. You get the view at the altar where the level ends and you get the dragon torso. That dude was as big as a mountain.

Placidusax also have scales that have the property to creates weapons that can kill a god, + he have 5 heads in total, I think in his peak he would've solo'd everyone, but now I don't k'ow enough of the others to say in its current state with only two old heads 😕

I am by no means a lore expert, But I feel like Seathe (if we factor the primordial crystal) is the strongest DS1 dragon. He is stated to be the grandfather of sorcery, and said sorcery was said to rival Gwyn's powers, and by extension the other lords.

2:23 Even with that power, Radahn wouldn't even be close to the strongest of fictional characters.

My girl cross breed priscilla has life hunt ^^!!! But dragon white n black fatalis possible can destroy all DS dragons. If you read there lore. And you have FF and granblue bahumat

Midir is the most aggressive out of all of them and I was never able to actually beat him on my own. Its Midir.

2:41 in the end of fight cutscene the stars literally start to move again and they’re a even a meteor that comes down, so yes he’s possibly one of the strongest characters in the souls series and most likely at his peak the most powerful character in elden ring maybe besides the outer gods but even then those are less gods and more like powerful aliens

Honestly I would argue Fortissax might be stronger than Placidussax now that he’s lost most of his heads, especially given how Fortissax has taken on aspects of the god of Death within himself, and has been resisting its corruption for who knows how many years to the point that we are sent as a hit squad by Fia to kill him so she can succeed in her goal

9:34 or it's a piece of lordsoul gwyn gave the at-the-time benevolent midir to make him stronger? Same as you can crush or convert the souls of the lords of cinder into weapons but still burn their "souls" as sacrifice to help kindle the first flame. The boss souls being "theirs" in terms of possession, and the ones burned in their remains being their literal intrinsic consciousness. You seem hung up on the gods using midir, but his boss soul description states he was raised by them. Not some malevolent entity beaten and forced to work for his captors.

Placidusax time powers are more of a lore and pasive thing, his scales alter time and space and tecnically take away the inmortality of even gods, according to Hewg quest thats why we supposedly can kill Radagon/Elden beast, so that kinda negates the inmortality of the others dragons too

Kalameet

To me the answer seems complicated. The Divine Dragon seems to be truly Immortal, able to exist as long as time itself exists, which is a "strong" ability, but it's not a raw destructive power, making it hard to call it the "Strongest", instead just "hardest to kill yet reasonably difficult to defeat". Placidusax has lost it's god, similar to Godrey being banished from the Lands Between and losing his connection to Marika, who is called a true god (though not Outer God) by Enya, the finger reader. This must have had SOME effect on Placidusax's power, weakening it. And item descriptions uses the word "said" when talking about waiting in the Storm Beyond Time, and while we really do find it there, it's unclear if it was a concious choice to use "time powers" do so or if it's just the strange and as of yet poorly explained power of Farum Azula itself. So the Dragonlord is really strong and the Gransax spear nuke attack is destructive, but its hard to say if they're really the "Strongest". With what little we know about the Dragon God from Demon Souls', it, along with pretty much all the demons, is that it's the power of the Demon Soul (whatever that truly means) that has made legends real, but it's not a true "god" any more than the Stormlord. So it might have the most destructive powers, yet it hasn't broken out and caused widespread desolation, and it's quite easy to kill it, since the legends about it are implied to include the ballistae we use to kill it. Maybe 1st place, probably 2nd place. Kalameet and Midir are restrained by their own goals and desires, making it really hard to gauge their true power, but we kill them all the same, a single undead whose super power is "always coming back after dying as long as they don't give up". If Kalameet was truly as scary as the lore make him to be then he would be stronger than Midir, since Midir is not a proper Ancient Dragon but a descendant. Sinh is never called or even implied to be a surviving Ancient Dragon, and he's certainly strong against mortal humans (and similar species, Dark Souls is strange) because of his toxic breath, but I'd hesitate to compare him to Kalameet or Midir. In the end, if raw destructive power was all that mattered, then I would say Granssax was the strongest and the Dragon God was number two, but if we include how hard they are to kill then I would put Placidusax as first and Divine Dragon second, but without something like the Mortal Blade to even things out, then Divine Dragon is "hardest to defeat" and the Dragon God would be Strongest.

!!ALERT!! Author is a lore peasant! There's nothing "symbolic" or "figurative" about Radahn holding back the stars. He literally holds them in place with his gravitational powers, preventing them from moving by their galactic orbits.

The stars in Elden Ring are more akin to meteors. Halting thousands of meteors is still an insane feat for Radahn

Big text ahead: Placidusax is like Queen Marika, she serves as a vessel of the great will, the elden beast being God. Placidusax is the representative of the ancient dragon god who abandoned them, so Placidusax locked himself in the timeless storm waiting for his god. In the war against ancient dragons gransax died and fortisax became friends with godwyn also maybe it was godfrey who cut some of his heads in the boss fight he use laser beam breath,lighting,can turn his body in some cloud form and teleport can use lighting to form weapons and last but not less he can charge various lighting to drop a nuke. With all say my bet is on him (I only played elden ring be free to correct me if i say something wrong[i really like his lore and boss fight])

When it comes to dragons in Dark Souls, they are of the quintessence so they can exist for eternity without a soul, but they can become vessels for souls that can also corrupt their form. Dragons being malleable to souls is a good way of putting it, and all dragons that came after the advent of fire have never been a perfect representation of the Everlasting Dragons. When it comes to Sinh, what's your opinion on the poison within him? I'm of the opinion that Sinh is a survivor of the great war with Nito being the only one that managed to inflict him with a miasma of poison. I don't think the priestesses or Elana sang poison into his heart, they appear to be doing it to comfort him and to prepare for revenge against all the Drakeboods.

Placidusax cant teleport if he's stunned, and Midir has black flame, which stance breaks like hell. Also, his black flame may well do the percentage damage against placid.

I'm curious how a dragon or a dragon-like being fromsoft could've created on bloodborne.

When you have fire, Godzilla breath, and a nuke then your probably the winner when you think game play ability side

If we are talking lore wise the strongest will be dragon god If we talking gameplay wise the strongest is midir without a doubt You really under selling midir in the video He has the best defences by far with insane damage output and he is the most aggressive among these dragons and the largest one if we don't count the dragon god and the divine dragon and saying midir is weak to lightning is an overstatement He is in fact more resistance to lightning than even palcidusax Midir has 60% reduction to lightning damage compare to placi 40% There are two channels on RU-vid who ported midir to elden ring and put him against placidusax and he absolutely defeated placi dealing some 8k to 10k damage with his lazer and combos so yeah I will say he is the strongest for now unless a stronger dragon comes in the elden ring dlc

the gaping dragon was asurvivor of the war between them and gwyn not a descendant. the dragons DO get warped and changed like you said which may be why some drgons have souls as the series progresses

In some parts i don't get the logic of the video tbh. First, we say to not use the game mechanics, as for health pool or damage they make in game, yet we use the status effect of the game? I understand DS Dragons weak to lightning, because that is clearly implied in the lore, but them weak to other type of status effect or with defense to some in the gameplay doesn't really mean they actually have it canonically. I understand not wanting to use serrament about a character having some abilities since it could be hyperboilic or something else, but items description are the lore of the game itself, they cane be taken literally tje statements (Radhan holding all the stars, even seen in the cutscene and lore) so i do think that Placidusax along with the other ancients Dragons of both DS and ER, have time manipulation or transcendence. But overall i agree with the video, Great job in researching the lore

My boi midir fitting to sweep

midir can literally manifest his thoughts + is stated to be an archdragon ( stated by the moonlight greatsword spell + midir spell ) the dragon god can control impossibilities so in terms of abilities dark souls and DeS dragon are stronger than elden ring and iirc sinh destroyed an entire country

I wish Gransax got more love

What about the only ancient dragon in ds1 in ash lake. I guess it’s hard to tell how powerful he is but from my knowledge he is indeed an ancient dragon

i dunno who is the strongest, but my fave dragon from all of dark souls is Sinh the slumbering dragon.

I always wonder if placidusax is as powerful as he is when we encounter him, how powerful was he as the first elden lord, also i feel like if granssax was alive i feel he would be the strongest

Placidusax DOES control time albeit barely in his decaying form he was known as the first God of the erdtree. He used to be or still is a diminished God so ofc why wouldn't he be able to control/warp time. we see this clearly in the game

Midir is the clear winner in my opinion, he has brute strength and health to beat Kalameet and he isn’t weak to lightning, just immune/resistant to everything else. If Placidusax’s missing head isn’t an indicator that he’s very much not the top dragon, idk what is

Non of the dragons in dark souls and ds2 are true ancient dragons, they all can breath fire of some kind, fire didnt exist before the first flame, these are all decendants imbued with souls and magic.

If seath keeps his crystal hiden from the other dragons then he would win because he would be immortal. But For sure the placidusax

your powerscaling interpretations were way off here but i still enjoyed the video.

Kalameet has 3 eyes

Divine dragon because he is litterly immortal and you cant kill him

Kalameet or Sinh imo😊

Plah-sih-joo-saks

I rly need to play the rest of the fromsoft games TwT

good ahh video

Halting stars wouldn’t make him a top tier in fiction

Darkeater Midir.

good video but the way you say Placidusax makes me wanna pull my hair out. ive only heard people pronounce it pla-sid-u-sax

Midir.

i mean….ebrietas is *kind of* a dragon?

Strongest dragon is defo that red dragon in ds1 on the bridge who killed me like 20 times

All victims to Alatreon

Kalameet is not ancient dragon thats mistranslated. And I tnink Midir would win. Why ? Becose lize speed, strenght is most important inanimal kingdom + his laser is really strong. YES Placidusax have stronger abilities and I belive that in his prime when he had 5 heads he is the strongest. And about the lore that they use midir to eat the dark for ever. Well he was raised by the gods of Anor Londo thy feed him and care about hem he love them probeby so he dos not have any reason to kill them . That dont make him weaker.

Lorewise i gotta give it to kalameet for dark souls

I’ve always tried to gone towards a more Latin or French sound, like Pl-Ah-sid-do-say, Lan-see-A (long A like in cake) Gran-say and Four-Tis-Say (both with retro flex trill) (the rolled r sound for those who didn’t know what I meant. It annoys me that we never get conformation on the pronunciation of the more exotic names in this game. Great video as always my friend. Btw, you’ve got my best friend (who isn’t a gamer) interested in the lore of this game 🫱🏾‍🫲🏽🥂