If we have to fight one more turret we might scream...

Forgot the worst enemy of them all, the ones that constantly regenerate their health/shield every second you aren’t actively attacking them

As an American, I'd love to see "Seven references we wish we could make, but too many Americans watch our channel" list.

I want a t-shirt with "extremely fast and agile, often invisible, ninja bastard" 😆

The Supermutant suiciders in Fallout not only runs at you and blows themselves up, they also confuse you by yelling that only one of you are going to survive this

I love the confidence of the Batman enemies that say “you can’t hurt me” just before you hurt them.

I can't believe you left the ones that are arguably THE most annoying ones, which are the ones that resurrect their allies thus undoing all your hard work.

And then there is the enemy that spawns other enemies. Especially annoying if those tiny spawned enemies don't offer any loot or xp

I'm surprised the "sound the alarm" types didn't make the list. You know, the ones that if you don't take them out right away, they do something to call in a ton of reinforcements and ruin everybody's day.

Another Annoying enemy is , as I call them , "Grabby Boi" , enemies whose sole reason for existing is to grab you and either hinder your movements or distract you, making you an easy target for foes with more self respect.

The only acceptable turrets are the ones in Portal. They're fun to outsmart...with portals, and they can harmonise like the goddamned Beach Boys.

I would call it THE SWARM. Basically any enemy that would be relatively easy to dispatch if there weren't already 10-20 more of the same surrounding you from all sides. Annoyance in numbers...

Shielded enemies: my time has come Commander Shepard: **notices large slit large enough for several head shots** it's free real-estate

Shielded enemies are the worst when they can tank EVERY attack you can do. Why don't the badguys just wrap themselves in that shield material? They'd be able to survive a nuke, let alone you

The sniper, a villain archetype that's in just about every game who hides in a spot that you can't find right away and shoots you right in the face.

don't forget these three: -the ones that regenerate every second you're not attacking them, forcing you to focus on them and burn through your resources while the other enemies get to attack you freely. -the snipers. if you see a red laser sight, you can guarantee they're going to hit you regardless of how random and erratic your movement is. -those stupid small or otherwise goblin-like enemies that force you to chase them so you can get your loot. bonus points if it's a key item or something they stole from you.

I'd add bosses that are invincible until some set point. They finish their dialogue, start moving, their health bar turns from green to red, etc. Doesn't matter if you can fire at them as they are walking into the room they really have something to say first!

The Zubat: any enemy that appears in a lot of small numbers that should be easy to kill, except for the two facts that A: they appear so much that they can quickly whittle down your health and ammo, and B: tend to have really annoying and powerful debuffs that can cause massive problems due to the fact that you can't get a moment's peace while in the area. Non Pokemon examples would be any enemy that tends to apply a lot of stuns but not deal much damage (their friend the literal tank can do that part), or the ones that poison you and you used your last antidote an hour ago.

So what I got from this video is: you want a game with a shielded, flamethrower carrying enemy who buffs the dozen or so turrets and super fast ninja bastard enemies who run up close before they vomit on you then explode. Game devs, make it happen.

What about the enemies with way-too-specific weaknesses that you don't get told about until you die from them a lot?

It's okay Ellen, as soon as you said "Dog with a stick of dynamite" I thought of Monarch of the Glen too. "Useless? ...Ahh."

I'm just happy to finally see that Monarch of the Glen reference you foreshadowed in the Ninji golf stream 2 weeks ago! The narrative payoff was immense!

How about the enemies that create swarms of smaller enemies? Usually it's a much bigger target, but then it spews out a bunch of tiny, weak ones as a sort of shield. They can usually be taken out with an explosive or area attack, but in some games your area attacks are limited ammo like grenades or require special upgrades to better deal with multiple enemies in single shots.

How did they miss out dogs, I challenge anyone to mention a game where the dog enemies aren't extremely rage inducing

The one that sticks out to me is the "whole bunch of little skittering things" like the litrle baby Mirelurks in fallout. They don't do much damage but they are annoying to hit and just get in the way. Love your work by the way!

There are two I would have included. The small flying enemies that are impossible to hit, and the enemies that aren't that tough, but are just bullet sponges and take up all of your resources to defeat

Portal's turrets are the only ones I feel sorry about murdering. They're just so darn adorable

Wait what about the one that just refuses to die? You sit there emptying clip after clip into the enemies head and that thing just keeps running... your ammo slowly draining and the enemy seems to not even notice. Oh and for some reason that very same enemy, when it gets to you, just casualy takes of half your life.

Fun fact: the title "monarch of the glen" comes from a rare red stag that has sixteen (or more) points on its antlers.

In platformers: the little flying enemies that happen to turn up _just_ when you try to make a jump. They themselves won't kill you, but the pit you fall into after bumping into them usually does. There's even a trope named after them: goddamned bats.

You forgot enemies that are otherwise invunerable unless you hit their tiny weakspot(s). It's way more frustrating if they are mobile as well.

The one who regains HP would be in my personal top 10....Probably even top 5, actually. Of course, that includes the one who regenerates his friends (different target but same basic (infuriating) concept).

One thing Mass Effect 3 did to make 'the one with the sheild' fun, at least for me, is that they didn't armour the window, so as a dedicated Inflitrator who liked sniping, it was fun to get those letterbox headshots.

Why is no-one talking about Luke's "rip out their heart and web it to their face" strategy. I'm sure it'll be very efficient. In the game... obviously.

There's a shielded enemy in Mass Effect 3 that I actually quite enjoyed. You could get a headshot through the little eyeslot in the riot shield, an there was even an achievement for it (Mailslot, I think it was called.) Since I like sniping against dumb AI in games it turned into a fun target shoot (since they never take cover) instead of the usual whack-a-mole with enemies popping out of cover.

There are also the enemies that themselves stay back and create/attract more enemies. Sometimes if you don't get them down fast enough, they can create nearly unmanageable swarms.

I always loved the flamethrower enemies, so helpful against their teammates, I especially enjoyed the mininuke mutants from fallout, always fun to VATS their nukes 🤣

I think “stupid fast ninja bastard” would definitely stick, with variants like “teleporting ninja bastard” and “invisible ninja bastard”

For me, it’s the enemies that pursue you for an entire section of a game. You can’t kill them, so you can only run, hide, or die. I’m looking at you, Mr. X, Nemesis, and everyone in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

Honorable mentions: The Illusioner that constantly creates illusions of himself and you need to find the real one every 5 seconds The one that teleports all the time. Heck, sometimes you arent even near them and they teleport The Callers (dudes that call reinforcements, necromancers, summoners, etc. Normal enemies that alert everyone of your presence (commonly when you are trying to be stealthy) when they spot you) The dude that keeps stunning you. Heck, sometimes he doesnt even do a lot of damage, they only exist for their friends to beat you up for them The infinite range melee dude. Sometimes hes like 5 meters/16 feet away from you, but they hit you anyway WITH A MELEE WEAPON

The Cerberus guardians in Mass effect 3 weren't annoying. I found it refreshing to have to aim at there eye slot instead of just spraying and praying

The most annoying enemy type that I have encountered are the homing missile launching kind from games like Marvel's Spider-Man. You have to stop slapping about five or six different men to focus instead on dodging or deflecting the missile without getting slapped back by said five or six different men. And if the missile hits you, of course you're the only one that takes damage, because, as we all know, fire only hurts the good guys.

Ellen: "You might take a moment to size up your opponents, survey the area to work out the best route to take them all down. Or you can do what some of your enemies do and just run very fast before exploding"... Ah - the Mike Channell approach...

OMG Ellen's freakout was hilarious 🤣🤣😆😆

The primal aspic from Hollow Knight. I don't even need to say more. They fulfill a whole category on their own. Anybody who has played the game, as well as most of the fandom in general is aware of how annoying they are.

Self healing. You can’t say you haven’t cussed out Gary when he fully healed his Pokémon when they were in the red.

In Mass Effect 3, the "riot shield" enemy can be easily dispatched with a sniper shot through the little tactically irresponsible shield window XD

For me, the only time a buffer enemy becomes annoying is when they make something invincible. Like in Astral Chain, for instance.

3:28 I remember that episode of Monarch of the Glen. Useless the dog finally learned to fetch, but it retrieved a stick of dynamite XD Another enemy you get in a lot of games are sentries. I HATE them. Alerting others where you are if they spot you.

You forgot that one enemy that after a gruelling, painstaking fight, they just decide to heal and undo all your progress. Extra points if it's a boss, maybe even the final boss.

Missile/RPG launcher peeps. Especially in tight corridors and small enclosed spaces; a danger to both yourself and everyone else in their immediate vicinity. Good (bad) times.

Gotta love that New World has some of the Lost enemies in some regions complimented by the enemies that run at you and explode. A good strategy for them, is their detonation is purely based on the time since they ignited, so if you're using a weapon with stuns, knockbacks, or other displacement or crowd control effects, you can strategically use these enemies to damage a large group of other enemies (Since Amazon Game Studio coded the exploders to damage enemy NPCs as well as any players with their explosion). This can be especially useful with abilities that have knockback effects, like the War Hammer's "Clear Out" in the Crowd Crusher tree, as it basically guarantees the enemy will be nowhere near you when it explodes (It typically, regardless of health, will explode where it lands because it doesn't have enough time after igniting to go through the full animation of standing back up after hit with "Clear Out")

The middle ranged enemies that cancel your combo, they are just out of reach yet always hit you when you are beating someone else into the ground. Example: the whip enemies from the Spider-Man games.

That Monarch of the Glen episode was pivotal in stopping me from playing dynamite fetch with my dog. I'd never realised the risks before it killed off Richard Briers.

Do the enemies that heal/resurrect their comrades count as buffing them? Even if they do, I think they deserve their own spot on this list.

2:40 Having just encountered _Mass Effect's_ Rachni enemies, I understand the pain of every player screaming at the Rachni workers. Oh, and the Rachni Soldiers too. (7:34)

My mother used to watch _'Monarch of the Glen'_ (@ 3:28) but from recollection it was about guy running a Scottish Highland estate.... I thought it was more of a _'Downtown Abbey'_ set in the 90's, but maybe I didn't give it enough credit for being more like Wayne Manor or the Croft Estate! 🤣

Oh, it has to be the fast enemy that hits you with an ailment that drags an otherwise quick fight out into a slog of misery and pain. Or, to put it in a way that will drive everyone up the wall... A wild ZUBAT appeared! The ZUBAT used CONFUSE RAY! Your Pokemon is confused! Your Pokemon hurt itself in its confusion!

I find the backpack enemies to be rather refreshing at this point. It’s almost satisfying to pop their fuel tanks. Exploding enemies on the other hand have outstayed their welcome.

What about enemies who steal your money/items? Especially the healing items?

The shielded enemies in Dead Cells are so infuriating. You have a limited time to attack them while you’re behind them before they turn around and you have to jump behind them again

I personally detest the "I'm gonna spot you and then wake up the entire camp!" enemies, like the bellringers in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Instead of being good little stab victims, they have to go and make things complicated.

"You can't even escape them in the Dark Souls series" - a true shock, considering Dark Souls has such a reputation of being kind to its players...

I'm here for the monarch of the Glen references, it's about time it became the internets cultural touchstone 👊

Don't forget the stunner types. You could be having a nice flow of ass kicking going on until suddenly a stunner enemy hits you once and now you're on the backfoot. One lengthy recovery animation later and now you're surrounded and the stunner is probably already prepping to hit you again.

What about the guys that are just bigger and stronger than everyone else, including you. Like the brutes in uncharted, or halo by that name, the clones in saints row the third, the large enemies in the batman Arkham series, and my favorite, the ologs in Shadow of War. There's usually not too much different from them other than the facts that they're bigger, stronger, have more health, hit harder, and usually like to do business up close.

Borderlands has literally every single one of these enemy types and more. Sometimes even multiple versions of them.

How about the enemies that you can't hurt. Like opponents modeled after turtles or armadillos curling up and becoming invulnerable. Also, digging enemies that dive away from the action. Or a very specific instance Linda from Dark Cloud 2 the first time you enter.

From now on, whenever I encounter a kamikaze enemy in a game, I will say they're pulling a Mad Max "Witness Me" maneuver.

Forever in love with the Shield Breaker ability in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. There's something so beautifully satisfying about jamming your spear into someone's shield then smashing them in the face with it as you fling it off screen.

Also something I see mostly in RPGs is the rare enemy that gives great unique loot if you kill it but has a high chance of fleeing before you actually have time to do that. Bonus points if it's also incredibly sturdy

What about enemies that, whenever you hit them, automatically hit you back?

The ones that try and mind control your allies. On their own usually weak, they make up for it via making something previously on your side fight you, often with a surprisingly annoying trait of needing to kill them while your very much killable friend is fighting you to save your friend

"You can't even escape them in the Dark Souls series," is an odd thing to hear in a video about infuriating enemy types.

I'm sorry if this is included with the buffing enemy but any enemy that revives a dead enemy just sucks. The thing you just killed is now back and hitting you in the back.

I have a few to add: - Small, fast, insta-kill melee enemies: Facehuggers in the Alien series, Brainsuckers in X-Com Apocalypse, dogs in the CoD series - Small (I'm noticing a trend) flying buggers in in platformer games whose only joy it seems to be to toss protagonists into bottomless pits: birds and bats in the Ninja Gaiden series, Medusa Heads in Castlevania - Giant (huh?) enemies with annoyingly small (there it is!) weak spots - Cute critters that somehow still eat your face

Poor Luke, fishing for a compliment at 10:03 and only tumbleweed blows through. Oh wait, that's Luke's hair.

A _Syphon Filter_ reference always warms my jaded heart. Actually, this whole episode was deftly and delightfully written. As a former HEMA student, everything-proof shields are a personal bugbear. Especially when the player character is someone as superhumanly strong as, say, Spider-Man. Dude can run hundreds of kilometers per hour, clearly possessing leg-strength FOR DAYS. If he kicks a mere mortal in the shield, said mortal is getting LAUNCHED. lt doesn't matter how tough their shield is - it's not an immovable, or indestructible, object.

There're also: Snipers: stayed really far, hard to see, deal a lot of damage and often comes out of nowhere. Swarm: a lot of them, and often are quick and small. Small crawlers: While easy to deal with, they are hard to hit due to small profile. Like facehuggers. And summoners: those that bring in even more annoying enemies.

11:38 "m'lady, I'll protect you!!" cue frustrated grunts with a long sword, my reaction double-barrel death.

*gets punched by a superhero* "Whew, good thing I held up this shield!" The guy should be flying off the building, but whatever.

Surprised these didn't come up: Enemies that stun/knock you over Poison Enemies that hurl explosives at you Enemies that snipe at you from light years away(usually 1-shotting you)

The shields might not be so bad if they weren't OP. Those infected riot cops in L4D2 being completely invulnerable (except to fire and, for *NO* good reason, chainsaws) from in front will never stop having been ridiculous. Buckshot to the knees is a thing _for a reason,_ game, and if I've knocked one on his back and can clearly see the crotch seam of his uniform trousers, his chest plate is not between my gun and his heart.

The worst thing is when you're playing a Shadow Of game and there's a captain with a shield and "Vaultbreaker." You're supposed to deal with the shield by vaulting over them, but now you can't do that!

That perfectly timed cough, that look by Luke- so funny!!

Surprised the Greatshields from Hades didn't appear under the "shielded bastard" section. The fact that they can regenerate is just the icing on the septic tank.

I like how in Mass Effect 3 you can just shoot the shielded enemies through the slit

Particularly in MMORPG there are are always mobs that temporarily "go away" for few seconds (i.e. insects that burrow underground or ghosts that temporarily fade away). They are always annoying , but especially when you fight them singularly as end up standing there doing nothing for few seconds while you wait for them to get back to die.

I have seen Monarch of Glen! Thank you very much 😊!

The hard to hit enemies that run away on their first turn but give loads of exp.

I'm surprised you didn't include the absolutely infuriating enemy types that exist solely to neutralize your gadgets and abilities.

You know what's also annoying? The "x detected, DESTROY NOW" enemy, where as soon as you even so much as say a DRG reference in earshot of them, they instantly lock on and charge at you at mach 2. LOOKIN AT YOU, CRAWLTIPEDES...

I'm surprised the Juggernaut type enemies weren't included. Absolutely massive in size, equally massive hp, and also equally massive damage with each hit. And also has a tendency to be placed with a friggin army of other enemies, forcing you to avoid one of the groups of enemies, then to later go to fight the enemy (or enemies) you've been avoiding. Sometimes even getting a boost if you kill the little dudes first!

To be fair, "run very fast before exploding" is an accurate description of how I play Halo on Legendary (co-op); if they're going to keep giving me more grenades when I respawn, I'm going to keep doing it

Ellen: "Behaviour that only gets more irritating the more games you play with them" Your talking about Luke aren't you Ellen!🤔 Ellen hasn't forgotten "The Overcooked Incident." and never will.😂 Joking aside great video as always.👍💜

Repair/heal enemies, usually drones that fly around and heal enemies that you haven't finished off. Sometimes they even revive enemies you've already killed

The Mail Slot achievement in Mass Effect 3 is super satisfying though.

Probably the most annoying thing to me in a game is fighting the enemy that keeps knocking you down. Especially when there's a group of them stunlocking me into oblivion. There's nothing quite so frustrating as a game that takes away your ability to play it.

Bioshock did the "extremely fast and agile often invisible ninja bastard" really well, they were creepy at first, but before long you were running after them like "come back here you ninja bastard"

Here's one for you lot. Swarms. Tiny little individual enemies encountered in a cloud of doppelgangers, buzzing around in a cloud of death as you have to either find some big attack to clear them all out in one go, or ping away at them one at a time.