Worst To Best Halo Enemies Of All Time (From Every Halo Game) 

Bungie did an outstanding job with the elites in Reach. There seriously look massive and menacing compared to Spartans.

I can tell you that the Invisible Flood can also be found in Halo 2 during High Charity. It appears on Legendary only and it wields an Energy Sword. So yep, deadly one.

You forgot the super-secret enemy type! The Sentinel Drop turret. After you kill guilty spark on the last mission of Halo 3, those droppable sentry turrets turn hostile towards you just like the sentinels do, even if you have them in your inventory and toss them down. Sentinel turret, 10/10 best enemy.

From memory there's also that one human soldier guy in ODST that turns against you when you pick up the final audio log of Sadie's story in the level Data Hive. He has a shotgun, which can mess you up if you don't know what's coming.

The reactors in The Maw have an enemy labeled as invisible damage detectors to determine if you've destroyed the reactors. You can see these in Generalkidd's video covering secret characters in Halo 1. Now, I believe the reason the game counts them as brute kills is that the scoring system has no identification for them and fills it in with the first alphabetical category by default.

halo infinite brutes seem more like strength in numbers compared to elites being the well elite soldiers placed more far and few and i liked that dynamic a lot

Fun fact: The Vengeful ‘Vadam discovered that in Halo 2 the Hunters they where planned to have shields over their bodies. Imagine a pair of hunters with shields (I mean the shields that Master Chief and the Elites have)

Not sure why the Hunters in Halo Infinite don't get more attention. Felt like they were the hardest to fight, and their new design was really cool. Hunters have always been a special enemy for me. I remember in middle school playing against Halo 2 hunters in some of those darker levels. Scared me so much I had to have a friend take them out for me. Lol

Personally I felt like the shotgun Flood in Halo CE were significantly worse to fight than the Rocket Flood since they were more difficult to see and likely more common.

Halo 3 honestly had the best Brutes to me, all the unique armors and how balanced they were compared to Halo 2. And the different versions of the like the Jump Brutes, Brute Stalkers, and Brute Chieftains were all really cool. Halo Infinite is a close second. And as for the Brutes on The Maw, those are just placeholders since the Spectre and Prowler don't have icons either.

14:08 this is actually not the only time you see invisible Flood. In Halo 2 if you play High Charity on Legendary, you will encounter invisible Flood in both the second room with the large glass window and once you get to the top of the elevator following this.

Another certified hood classic

The real boss fight in Halo Infinite is that Gravity Hammer Brute Chieftain you gotta kill before the Harbinger.

The Kig-Yar have multiple different subspecies. Skirmishers and Jackals are to each other as a husky is to a wolf

I really miss bungie elite AI. The way they danced around the environment was very engaging. In halo 1 and 2 I’d never seen an AI dance and spin around and duck behind cover the way they do

Remember the invisible flood in CE? What if they were in more levels and we gave them rocket launchers?

Grunts have always been my favourite. They can be very annoying, but they're still kinda cute in a way.

The Hunters have always been my favorite of all of Halo's various creatures. It's just really cool how the Lekgolo worms can combine and exponentially increase their strength and intelligence.

Thing I like most about the Prometheans was that they quite literally disappear up their own arseholes. Funniest teleport animation EVER.

You kinda completely skipped over the sentinels in Halo Infinite

CE had my favorite versions of every enemy, from design to combat.

Bro, Halo 5 Hunter's are harder than the Warden fights.

I was so glad when they added Promethean soldiers in Halo 5. The knights infuriated me all through 4 and I was glad to see a more manageable enemy.

halo 4-5 elites look to chunky and like bumbling morons I like the halo ce and halo 2 they look slick and clean. Halo 5 arbiter looks so chonky its funny to look at

Here's my take on this, as someone who most often plays on Normal: Worst common enemy: CE Jackals. Maybe I'm just used to having to shoot their hands, then their heads, but I just HATE fighting CE Jackals. They're not that bad if you have a Magnum, but this makes them especially annoying on Truth and Reconciliation because you don't have a Magnum ANYWHERE in the mission as far as I remember, and you don't wanna waste your precious Sniper ammo on them. Best common enemy: Halo 3 Grunts. Popping Grunt heads is satisfying in any Halo game, but it feels especially satisfying in Halo 3 for reasons I can't really explain Worst rare enemy/mini-boss: I generally quite like Halo's mini-bosses because they offer a refreshing challenge when you're getting bored just fighting your regular enemies. So judging based on challenge, CE Hunters definitely have to take this L because of the one-shot to their back Best rare enemy/mini-boss: this one's actually a tie between Halo Reach's high-ranking Elites (Generals and Zealots) and Halo Infinite's Hunters. Killing the Field Marshal in Reach after he basically killed half of Noble Team is super satisfying, although I wish they made him a little harder to kill than the Zealots he's surrounded with, maybe by nerfing the amount of damage he gets from a charged Plasma Pistol shot so you can't just noob-combo him like his Sangheili henchmen. Infinite's Hunters are definitely bullet sponges, moreso than previous Hunters, but their rarity combined with this increased health and the fact you can't just easily side-step them anymore makes them really fun to fight imo. Though I admit, sometimes I miss being able to cheese them and just move on with the mission.

There's also those tiny Sentinels in Halo 2 on Sacred Icon that could lightly zap you.

To clarify, the Skirmishers are a different subspecies of the Kig-Yar. So they are the same species as the Jackals, just different genetically as they can run faster, jump higher etc

Red Banished Hunters > Golden Hunters

It's really simple. Skirmishers are just a sub-species of Jackals.

I think halo 3 had the best flood, halo 2’s flood were bullet sponges, you couldn’t burst the Bodies without a sword or explosions, ant the infection forms I’d not have their iconic chain reaction. Halo CE’s flood were fun but limited to just a few forms. Halo 3 really brought the flood up to scale with human, elite and brute combat forms, carrier forms, and the pure forms.

You should make a video about the most terrifying enemies to fight

I would have appreciated more coverage of hunters and how they compare across halo games. You only mentioned hunters from 5 and CE

While the Warden could be annoying in Halo 5, at least they gave you the option to assassinate him at certain points. Damage him enough and he would occasionally enter this "weakened" state that allowed you to be able to assassinate him to put him down right then and there. One of the enemies you left out were the Grunt Jockies from Halo 5's Warzone/Warzone Firefight modes. They were the Grunts that piloted big grunt-like mech suits. They were pretty interesting with some varied arsenals.

I REALLY hope they bring back the promeathians. They were genuinely well balanced in Halo 5 but they could be made better in their next appearance.

3:00 I will say that the lack of agility or grenades on the ODST Firefight elites makes them feel quite not right, and I would like to see them with at least the addition of a zealot or general rank for boss waves. 4:58 Halo 4 and 5 elites look far too unrefined to me. A severe lack of sleekness and dynamicism to their armor, and what's up with the exposed necks and arms? 9:20 In ODST Firefight they do apply overshields to the enemy and are a lot harder to kill if you don't have a plasma pistol at your disposal. 9:32 Try fighting a Halo 5 hunter in CQC combat, on even just Heroic, and you will know why.

Invisible flood also show up on Two Betrayals at the final open field fight. I think they spawn behind you and show up if you take too much time hanging back

Me and my brother called the flood infection forms “bugables” as kids for some reason. We also played a lot of halo megablocks and one time I grabbed an elite and pretended like he was holding an infection form, and went to my brother and said “sir, I found a wort wort” and we died laughing for some reason and never forgot it.

100 Jackle Snipers vs 100 Rocket Flood... I would say its a toss up depending on the terrain...

Invisible Flood returned in ODST Floodfight! There are infected stealth Brutes that still have their active camo on, and will even retain the active camo if they die and get resurrected by a spore.

Yes, halo 5 hunters are notably harder

I love how cool the Halo Reach Ultras(Elite and Grunt), but I hate the Ultra for how hard it is to kill on legendary

I loved how in Reach, you could shoot a Grunt in the foot so he would trip, and his grenades would blow up an entire hallway. But I was always confused about why there were no Elites in ODST, since by the time Truth’s ship slipspaced out of New Mombasa and would have left Brutes, Grunts, Hunters, Jackals, Drones and Engineers behind, the Elites would still have been loyal to the Covenant.

2:33 I SAW THAT! That is a homing attack cheat. It's more difficult than it actually is, especially on 360.

I think that Halo 2 Drone's are being severely underestimated here, particularly on Legendary. The things are highly mobile and surprisingly tanky, taking 6 shots from a Carbine to kill. They can be headshot, but they're so mobile and they have such tiny little heads that getting headshots on them mostly comes down to luck. Their plasma pistols are extremely dangerous, able to shred you almost as fast as a Jackal Sniper if you're in the open, and unlike Jackal Snipers Drones can and will swarm you. They also have a habit of materializing out of thin air when you're in the open, such that if you didn't know they would spawn you are guaranteed to die. They don't even drop good weapons! Jackal Snipers can one-shot you in an instant, but I never found them to be as unfair as Drones can be. It just takes a slow approach to pick all of them off. In particular I noticed that they wouldn't shoot you if you move out of cover and immediately move back in, so if you do that a few times you can line up a shot and headshot them relatively safely. On some levels you could also *BECOME* the Jackal Sniper, slowly peaking out of cover to headshot any and all Jackal Snipers on the map. They could actually be kind of fun, and since they drop Beam Rifles on death every other encounter when they appear is trivial, except for Jackal Snipers and Drones (sometimes).

Concussion rifle Elite Ultra’s were like the Covenant’s weapon of mass destruction.

Red Hunters in Infinite are by far the hardest hunters imo. The normal infinite hunters are basically the 5 ones, but you don’t have 3 teammates shooting it too. The Red ones are the normal ones but more damage and higher hp

Glad to see Rocket Sloth shares my view that Halo Reach Elites design are peak. Glad Halo Infinite partially reincorporated them.

I remember in ODST firefight there being also different coloured drones which I think were red and gold sentials in halo 3 legendary i think, although idk if they any stronger or more threatening than the normal ones but it was cool to see anyway

The Flood in Halo 2 are scary. They are vicious little bastards that just don't want to die! Me and a friend, we've been playing through Halo. We found The Library on normal to be challenging in places. But overall CE's Flood weren't too bad, except for the rocket Flood which are evil. Halo 2 and we had some trouble with The Oracle's Flood. Sacred Icon, and we agreed that for some bits it was best to just run and gun, fast as you can and don't look back. Quarantine Zone and we almost rage quit a couple of times because we were getting overrun, Flooded as you might say, by Flood with shotguns and energy swords. Then the game crashed just before the gondolas on Quarantine Zone (MCC Halo 2 is cursed) and the mental scarring of the past hour was too much to go through again, so we just skipped it. I honestly don't know how I got through Halo 2 OG on normal difficulty solo, because the Flood are cracked.

Me personally, I absolutely adore Halo 4. In fact, it was my all time most played! Then Halo Wars came into my life after scrolling through shelves at my local Game Stop. Don't get me wrong, I love Halo as a whole, and I don't exactly like picking favorites. However, the prometheans (or however it's spelt, I forgor) from Halos 4 and 5 were, I don't wanna say the best, but rather just really cool! Granted, the Knights from H4 were kinda annoying, and the Knights from H5 felt a bit like some take on a Hunter counter part. My point is that I liked being introduced to new enemies! Even if I didn't like them (cough, cough, the soldiers from H5) I'm just a bit sad we didn't get any Promes in Halo Infinite. Wouldn't it have been so awesome to see whatever remaining Prometheans fighting back against the Banished in an attempt to protect Cortana!? Like, imagine some high ranking Knights battling against Atriox, but ultimately losing to him! Aw man, I gotta wrap this up, I'm gonna nerd out-

Halo will forever be my favorite shooter

I feel like if you just removed the Knight's regenerative shield, made them more aggressive, not use the teleport ability defensively, not to the zippy melee thing, throw grenades more often, give battlewagons more health so they're more like promethean shock troopers, as well as remove the watcher's ability to throw back grenades, and revive Knights, lower promethean turret's health, increase their damage, not change a damn thing about the crawlers cuz they're already good, except maybe have them crawl on walls more since that's sort of their thing, and of course the colors, and give general prometheans light colors corresponding to their ranks. Then for the covenant give the different ranks have actually corresponding colors, just have more grunts in general, not give every grunt the ability to Overcharge their pistols, make elites dodge more, buff their health, make their shield regeneration timer slightly more consistent with previous iterations, increase their animation speed, allow them to board and drive every vehicle, give jackals increased health and shield strength, increase their accuracy, increase the accuracy of jackal snipers, slow down hunters attack animations, bring back gold hunters and give them the fuel rod cannons while the blue ones have beam cannons, increase their health, add drones, make wraiths stay still a little longer after attempting to ram you and failing, make ghosts a bit more aggressive, give shades classic models, include the already finished revenant, make the AR a little weaker, make the storm rifle a little stronger, make the suppressor a little stronger, increase general ammo reserves of covenant weaponry, make the binary rifle and incendiary cannon not broken, not let the majority of promethean power weapons be wielded by the t e l e p o r t i n g Knights, Halo 4 would be almost perfect.

you forgot the halo infinite sentinels, also the halo reach moa are definitely the most powerful.

Another sentinel you forgot were the ones from infinite. You fight them in some of the middle/later missions.

You missed the black armor grunts and elites from CE, they appear in Keyes and the maw, the black elites throw fast sticky grenades compared to normal elites, they are deadly on legendary

No mention of Halo Infinite's Hunters? Those are the pinnacle of "Hard to kill"

Prior to Halo 3, Flood Combat forms were immune to melee damage, which meant certain death if you ever ran out of ammo.

Fun fact: in odst on night level firefights with boons on you get allied elites Fun fact 2: you can have those allied elites fight covenant elites Fun fact 3: the heretic elites will fight everyone Fun fact 4: you can have elites fighting elites that are fighting elites

I honestly can't get how you call the Jackal Snipers from H2 one of the BEST enemies, while the Prometian Knights in H4 one of the WORST enemies. They're either both very good or very bad enemies, as they're both over the top and deadly. I guess you people have extremely fond memories of H2 so it makes everything from that game seems better? IDK But either way it's your opinion so I respect that :)

13:39 The flood had armless forms of both human and covenant. Not just human. If fact you were looking at a covenant armless form and you said human.

In all honesty, I feel prometheans are amazing, they're intimidating, their weapons are really unique, the sound design is sorta scary. I'd love for them to come back but be less annoying, I feel an issue with them is how they just pop out of nowhere and ambush you from every side, or how watchers can revive units, and their incredible durability for the amount of damage and units there are, I think it's more the circumstances that make then bad enemies, than the enemies themselves

The gold hunters in Halo 3 ODST shoot the canon ball type like in Halo CE and Halo Reach while the regular ones shoot the beam like in 2 and 3

Grunts will always be the best enemy due to the Grunt Birthday skull. That said, I always feel bad for killing them.

I never understood the issue people had with rocket floods. To me they werent very memorable.

Halo 5 hunters are stupidly strong since it takes like one milisecond to smash you if your near it.

Halo Enemies tier list 1. Halo: Reach Elite Ultra with a concussion rifle 2. Everything else

Luke with the pro tips lmao F those Jackal snipers and Rocket Flood...run enders

The best Brutes will always be Halo 2 Brutes because they're the only Brutes that are worhty of the name "Brute"

SPEAKING OF HERETIC ELITES from Halo 2, here is something I figured out a few years ago. Maybe you guys already knew this. On the first mission where you play as the Arbiter, and are sent to kill the “heretic” leader, him and his followers were technically good guys. They saw the falsehood of the prophets, and tried to get others to join them. Fast forward to the later levels of Halo 2, and ole Arby was probably feeling bad for killing the group he and the other Elites became a part of. Also, great video, guys. I love your content.

oddly out of all the Halos… there is a couple odd factors i think that may have been overlooked. The Elite Ultra in halo reach… arguably the tankiest elites and unlike other halo games (to my knowledge anyway) Reach had a… “challenge” quests that would reshuffle every week… and i believe its the only halo game that… encouraged you to play each chapter in LASO, if the weekly quest rolled for it. Unlike the other halos… Reach did something unforgiving and it was almost impossible to combat against… Catch… now in other halos this was usually a joke or more of a “just dodge the glowing blueberry” that usually like brutes would pull out, hold in their hand… and have some of the most odd and worse aim you’ve ever seen. In Reach… for whatever reason… Elites were trying out to be pitchers in major league baseball… if you haven’t seen the ridiculous fast pitched and accurate plasma grenades these guys threw- you need to give it a chance.

I can confirm halo 5 hunters on legendary are the hardest to beat. I'm not trolling.

"Never see the invisible flood" well yeah that is kinda the point of them being invisible.

Why no mention of fuel rod cannon grunts? Those fuckers kick ass on legendary.

Bro the halo 5 hunters on heroic and legendary toss you around like a rag doll.

Tbh, you should have mentioned Halo Infinite Hunters and Sentinels

Halo 2 Chief dying to Jackal Sniper by being shot in the foot 😂😂😂😂😂

When you attack enough marines on legenddary halo 3

I will never forget the time me and my friend were playing spartan ops and we spent so long trying to kill this knight and once we finally did a watcher came along and revived it

Honestly I felt like the flood got progressively more flimsy but I think it's just me being in mental pain from the one CE level

The big difference with the Gold Hunters in ODST was that they where essentially buffed versions of Halo 1's Hunters where they had the old single shot cannon rather than the laser beam of Halo 2 and 3's Hunters.

Not even bringing up the terrifying hunters from infinite?

Nostalgia is still thick on the zealot fanboys

Fun fact, Halo 2 or Halo 3 also has invisible Flood occasionally! I forget which one, but I've run into invisible Elite Flood forms on non-CE Halo games.

You forgot about the promethean laser turrets

Maybe you should cover more halo mods.

Without question, The least fun and worst enemy idea in the Halo franchise were the Prometheans, They're not fun to fight, and are such a grind.

Bungie is so much better than 343

The Skirmishers in Halo Infinite are actually female Jackals, which makes them one of, if not the only nonmale enemies in Halo.

14:16 there is i odst flood fight

There are invisible flood in MCC ODST flood firefight, the hunters in ODST also have different weapons. One of them shoots the standard fuelrod shot and one of them shoots the more scarab gun burst-like shots.

Halo 2 had the scariest enemies hands down. The brute’s were cool aesthetically in halo3 but weaker than halo 2 brutes and just felt like kind of a joke. Honorable mention being reach elites, they’re the strongest and fastest in the series with the most op shields on legendary, and they can also dual wield which you sadly can’t in reach. And the flood were super scary in halo 2. They run fast af, dodge grenades easily, and the elite combat forms with shields have stronger shields than regular elites for some reason. The infection forms even are harder to hit and can reanimate flood forms you already killed

Just for context the halo 5 hunters where technically buffed as to balance multiplayer campaigns, im not entirely sure how they did this I think they were just overall made faster with faster turning speed, faster at movement especially moving left and right and faster guns, but im not entirely sure I just heard this in a video edit: dont forget invisible flood are in halo 3 odst firefight on mcc

Personally, I preferred the Halo 4 Prometheans to the Halo 5 versions, as I thought the latter copied the Covenant dynamic too closely, whereas the H4 versions were more simplified and unique by have three types of enemies that worked well together.

I still can't believe I managed to beat Halo 2 legendary a couple years ago without knowing about any of the level skips!

The little suicide boys are adorable! 😅

Most annoying "enemy" is your friend in split-screen coop who melees you in the back to steal your power weapon!

I haven’t played halo 5 but Promethians are all garbage and zero fun to fight against in halo 4. except the dogs. I hate the knights in 4 so much cause it goes just like: “oh? You broke my shield? I’ll just teleport away, it recharges in 3 seconds f**k your ammo. Got too close? We knights all have the equivalent of an energy sword. What’s that? You can’t tell what weapon the knight is using, Too bad he’s got a binary rifle and you’re dead lol. Oh god no all the watchers are dead?! GUESS ILL SPWAN ANOTHER ONE!”

That's not every enemy. You left out Halo 5 grunts and jackals. THEY CAN PUNCH!! Also, Goblin (GRUNT) Jockeys. Go replay 5 firefight, you'll see why these are the strongest enemy in all of Halo. And before you say "Not a real enemy" it appears as it's OWN kill in the End of Mission results, where you can see your Carnage Report. Proof that it is it's own enemy. Also, Wardens are rare enemies, because you can fight multiple at once thus knocking him from "boss" status

To be honest, the most dangerous enemies in Halo 3 and Reach are the Grunts on legendary difficulty

Well he forgot about the halo Infinite sentienls