The battle was already decided when the Chosen Undead took an arrow to the knee.

A little explanation of the context of the fight: In Dark Souls you meet a snake named “Kingseeker Frampt”, who asks you to link the first flame and maintain the age of fire. However, there’s another snake that not many manage to find, which is called “Darkstalker Kaathe”, who tells you that the age of fire is basically a scam and that he wants to bring about the age of humanity (an age of darkness) by turning off the first flame and naming you the Dark Lord. In this fight, the chosen Undead tries to link the flame, while Kaathe seeks help from the Dragonborn to prevent this and bring about the age of humanity. Which in a way makes sense because Alduin would bring new age by eating the world, and the main quest in Skyrim is to prevent this. The best thing is that neither of the two Dark Souls endings is the good or bad ending. Both have their pros and cons, so both combatants would be the heroes of their own stories. In the end, the Chosen Undead managed to link the flame, but the Dragonborn was powerful enough to put it out anyway, becoming de Dark Lord. One of my favourite Death Battles 👍

this episode was confirmed pretty early before the season started, yet it still caused so much hype when it actually came out. and the track Fireborn is one of my favorites

Fun fact: The composer for this fight, Brandon Yates, got a bunch of fans and formed the Death Battle Fan Choir for this fight's track Fireborn.

The awesome thing about this fights soundtrack is that it was helped created by members of the Death Battle fan community! That's them singing in the background!

A trivia for this battle: when the Dragonborn calls the storm in the fight, the team used the wrong sound file for the Shout, using Clear Skies, instead of Storm Call. Personally, I also think Clear Skies should have been used instead of Unrelenting Force to snuff out the First Flame in the context of the animation. Also, theoretically, Dragonrend Shout could put away the Chosen Undead's immortality, but that's speculation on my part

Don't worry. Odahviing (the dragon) didn't really die. In the Elder Scroll universe, dragons can only permanent die when their soul gets absorbed by a fellow dragon or Dragonborn. Since his soul didn't get absorbed, he can be resurrected.

When the end of the battle happened, I was initially very confused about who actually won, but after the guys explained it, it became very clear

I am declaring that asking for Saitama Vs Popeye will be a tradition for me.

As someone who loves both games and played both this battle was honestly close in my opinion but the dragonborn had more options and more raw power

This turned out to be one of my all time favorite Death Battle episodes and the music track "Fireborn" is one of Brandon Yates's best works. Great reaction!

So I just spent the past week binging all of these. Thanks for keeping it entertaining

To put the difference in power in more perspective if the Dragonborn used his soul to link the fire he'd either keeping it going until the end of time or burn the entire Dark Souls Universe away to ash.

They never even touched on Elder Scrolls' most busted ability - the state of Chim. This is the power to overwrite reality itself as if you're an external force acting on it. Yes, that's right, the *PLAYER* is canon in Elder Scrolls. That means, being able to save and load. Pausing to drink a bunch of potions. *MODDING* the game. The state of Chim was used by Tiber Septim to completely change the climate of Cyrodiil in an instant. The state of Chim was used by Vivec to freeze a falling planet in the sky. The state of Chim was used by the Dragonborn to become incredibly sexy. Kappa

Watched this one the other day before I left work it was badass glad u guys r reacting to it!

The Last Dragonborn didn't even bring his very best in this battle. The Dragon Aspect and Bend Will Shouts weren't even used and those two would of made it more unfair. Plus if you think about it, in the Soulsborne games you can't pause time when going into your inventory menu but in Bethesda games you can.

I know the iron helmet is iconic for the Dragonborn but while the chosen undead wore the elite knight set which is decent the Dragonborn was wearing beginner level gear instead of Daedric or DragonBone armor and weapons.

They don't go into dragon borrns black book abilities but i have to imagine him summoning dremora buttler to bring him more cheese every day with long that fight would be

As someone who has not played either of those games, I was legitimately surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. It was so good! The analysis was excellent, the animation and choreography were top-notch, and the use of menes from both games was perfect. And the music! My goodness, THE MUSIC! I actually got a little distracted from the fight because of how good the music was!

This fight is basically the classic idea of an immovable object vs an unstoppable force and the music is such a loveletter to their games and is one of a kind

Man the music in this fight is outstanding I love it

Yo! Ive waited for this!

Idk how long I've watched you guys but just now realized you had two different channels lmao was wondering why I couldn't find certain things on certain days lol

kind of surprised that y'all didn't react to the next time at the end

I loved both of your reactions and I can't wait for the next one you guys do. I am waiting for you to do them all eventually.

Having no personal experience with either franchise (only knowing a handful of memes), I have no clue if both fighters were represented well. But goddamn the fight is so visually cool. But what really made it for me was the music they used, called "Fireborn". It just sounds SO EPIC!

Well, that’s the difference: You never become a Demi-god in Dark Souls. But, you can destroy entire cities as a Dragonborne.

Hehehe My best friend made it into the sountract of this battle.. Im so proud!

Never underestimate the power of a cheese wheel

Dragonborn could also increase his strength and durability with the dragon aspect shout if needed as well. A fully realized DB is very freakin op in the lore.

This has to be one of my favorite DB, next to sauron vs lich king and snake vs sam

Happy fight-night Friday!!

I'm glad the Dragonborn won. It's about time a character I like wins one of these things.

My first thought on this battle was “the Dragonborn can zap him with the Wabbajack and turn him into a sweet roll”

you should do sun wukong vs hercules, one of their most fun episodes to date!

This was a good reaction.

This was a very interesting one and really liked to know your thoughts about it, So, not going to check out what’s next? They show at the end of every Episode.

There is one other reason Dovahkiin takes this win: Skyrim is the story of how one person survived against all odds, learned their true nature as a demi-god, and rose to the challenge of defeating an enemy who threatened all existence now and forever. Dark Souls is the story of how one person accomplished incredible feats only to learn that they could only keep the cycle going or let it end. So thematically, the Chosen Undead was always going to lose.

I didn't care for how the arrow feat was applied but I don't think it would have made a difference, this is one of the most satisfying post fight explanations DB has ever had. And honestly what souls fan is going to be upset about losing a boss battle? It's what we do best!

i earned you my loyalty and i always like your videos

12:58 guys that's Vegeta's scream on Namek from DBZ Abridged. :o How dare...

I enjoyed this reaction and I want to say cannot wait for your reverse flash vs goku black death battle reaction whenever that happens ... actually I think I would be more excited for your reaction to the thor vs vegeta battle

The part when they say "something infinite cannot fade" and then seconds after procede to talk about how something infinite is devoured.

really hyped about this one, i love skyrim!

Because both characters are basically players self inserts in both games, their true powers are kinda hard to but in a scale that makes sense. I'd say that the Dragonborn is the more powerfull, as thu'um can get really powerfull in the lore in ways that is not even shown in the games, where as the Chosen Undead doesn't have any superpowers, aside from the inability to stay dead and the sheer stubbornnes to try again. Whether or not bend will shout is capable of breaking that stubbornnes is debatable (most likely it can), but that shout is not used in this fight and thats probably for the best. While Dragonborn has been born with a soul of a dragon, that doesn't make him any less human and mortal. If you stab DB hard enough he will die, just like you and me. Sure he can heal from wounds, but that takes time. The Chosen undead is most likely able to ignore pain better and be somewhat tankier because of that, but even CU is still human. Because CU can respawn he could possibly just tire and wear BD down slowly and then kill him. One thing that really bothers me in this fight is, how Dragonborn is able to survive the linking of the first flame. There is no way that BD can facetank dragons flame in the lore, like you can in the game. The Fire linking causes a massive firestorm, like you saw in the video and that fire is capable of melting stone and last i checked humans have a lower melting point than stone. Dragonborn would basically become Sarah Connor in that Terminator 2 nuke scene as a result. With Fire linking this fight would be a draw and thats if you don't count the CU becoming something of a proto soul of cinder as surviving, which i don't, because CU goes hollow a the result of that.

A cool wacky one you could check out is Wario Vs King Dedede: wacky frenemies to Kirby and Mario

Bro did Odahving dirty Any real skyrim player would've summoned Durnehviir instead😏

I like to suggest some Fire Emblem content. There are Death quotes, Critical Hit quotes, Critical Hit animations and unique boss dialogue videos to be watched. PheonixMaster1 probably has most of these covered for the relative games (FE13 through 17). thank you for time and keep up the good content

Something that also tips the battle in favor of the Dragonborn that is completely left out are Enchanting and Alchemy. As they stated, Dovahkin has all stats maxed out, meaning both skill trees are complete. But even without the all skills, Alchemy and Enchanting can be used in conjunction, by creating a potion of enchantment, which is used to create an enchantment of potion making, to create a potion of enchantment, et cetera ad infinitum to eventually create potions and enchantments that literally break the game. For more on how this works exactly, see the Spiffing Brit's video on beating Skyrim with just a fork. So to put this into lore context- The Dragonborn can become so powerful, he can end the multiple Infinity-devouring Aldouin with a single attack from a simple dining utensil.

Don’t forget your Dragonborn can be shot in the head by an ice spike and it shows threw the other side and not be effected

While Dovahkiin's official translation is of course dragonborn, other unofficial translations of it have it as something like "born hunter of dragon kind". Just a fun fact. I saw a cool comment on another video that I'll copy here if i can find it. "Qverlord 1 day ago this fight had so many clever moments. my favorite is the dragonborn realizing the vow of silence is over when the chosen undead can make sound and he used that moment of pride as an opening to turn it against the chosen undead. the chosen undead linking the first flame is also clever and flavorful to the lore. Remember that when Gwyn linked the first flame he incinerated the black knights that followed him. the Chosen Undead was attempting to do that again here by trying to nuke the dragonborn as a last resort. and the dragonborn respond was perfect. The dragon shout is a reality bending power, when two dragons fight one another, they are debating on who is correct. To dragon, power is truth, those who are stronger are right and therefore their truth becomes reality in a literal sense. The dragonborn using unrelenting force is him enforcing his will upon reality, he's defying the reality of the flame hurting him. Since the dragonborn defeated Alduin, an entity on par if not greater than the first flame, his will is stronger than the flame and he snuffed it out." And my response to it was "Dragonborn really said no you to the first flame and won" Also Fireborn absolutely slaps. Great song by Brandon

the true challenge of these characters is it could literally be based of the player with the power and abelites

I mean, the thing that keeps getting me about this fight was some small yet noticeable factors that COULD potentially change the outcome 1: The whole reason the Chosen Undead WAS the chosen one in the first place, was the resilience to refuse to go hollow, and not only that, but the whole point of Dark Souls and the Chosen Undead in general, is to overcome the impossible odds placed in front of them, so it feels possible for them to win 2: In Skyrim, the Dragonborn can always die from…damn, ANYTHING! Fall damage, poison, eaten by dragons, EVEN A BASIC BANDIT CAN KILL THEM, and that’s not even just looking from gameplay since there’s a quest where you straight up get poisoned and have to be saved by someone else, so it just feels unlikely that the Dragonborn can avoid the Chosen Undead’s options forever Still, I agree that more often than not, the Chosen Undead would lose, but the points above were just things I thought of I’m glad they chose the Chosen Undead for this battle, because if they’d chosen the Ashen One from DS3, it wouldn’t ever end since the Ashen One canonically CAN’T GO HOLLOW

You should check out Heracles and Sun Wukong’s fight next. Also Shazam Vs Captain Marvel.

Unstoppable force meets immovable object

Imma pitch it, since I _know_ you'll be going back to Skyrim sooner or later. First off- _Block perks work with the Two-Handed Skill Tree._ Half my gameplay is stamina regen, and sprint-blockcharging my way through everything in my way. Think, a FAT train with a cowcatcher, goin' through a stampede. It. Is. _Amazing._ Second- if you play on PC? You can use the `(~) key to type in command prompts. If you give yourself the "Firebolt Storm" spell (Also maybe use the code to increase color contrast), you can spam giant explosions, Vegeta style. ᵈᵃᵏᵏᵃᵈᵃᵏᵏᵃᵈᵃᵏᵏᵃ ᶦⁿᵈᵉᵉᵈ Take that goofiness to the civil war questline. You can thank me later.

I wonder what would happen if the dragonborn used marked for death would it be like the balanced version of the non balanced version with you literaly being able to set your opponents armor value to less then 1%

This only makes me think about the Tarnished from Elden Ring. Now that would be scary.

Again my only complaint and I know many people agree with me. We're mid-fight they just both stop fighting and chug a bunch of potions .

I respect the lore of Darl Souls.. dark and deep, but i wish that wouldn't be so confusing and hard to figure out during the games.

Saitama vs Popeye would be awesome

I didn’t know Ken was into Dark Souls and Skyrim.

5:02/20:42 Just a Friendly reminder that gameplay mechanics is our entertainment in video games and it doesn't represent their actual limits of their strength for most game characters and it does not necessarily align and they do not always coincide with the Lore of the game you are playing.

Arrow travel somehow equals movement speed of the bow user

The rule with Death Battle is : Whoever is introduced first loses. At least all the ones I saw.

Could you do a Death Battle Reaction to Yang Vs Tiffa.

Think it's time for a dark souls or demons soul playthrough

Ypu should the see Sun Wkong vs Hercules Death battle

The chosen undead ignoring Fus Ro Dah was already a bad sign, that puts his resilience above even dragons. Soul Steal is pointless against the chosen undead long term, Dragonborn functioning on one life the entire battle proves him the more resilient, but the chosen undeads tenacity seemingly wins - reasonable for the soul of dark souls players as a collective. I'm a skyrim fan, but objectively the chosen undeads 'training and variety of opponents' won out. The dragonborn's most iconic weapon is only practiced by: the enemy, a sect of pacifist monks, and a couple iconic characters like Ulfric and the Septims.

You guys really need to play skyrim sometime in your free time , hell i will even give you a huge stable modlist.

Wait...how did the Dragonborn slash away sword beams? I can't smack spells away in Skyrim. Also, Clear Skies shout is for simple weather effects, not the Kindling of the First Flame. That's a Heavens-Altering effect. Fight feels a bit biased to me. Just my opinion. Also, I'm speaking from the heart as someone who loves Elder Scrolls and Dark Souls.

I'm not surprised by the outcome The Last Dragonborn was literally created to kill demigods The Chosen Undead stood no chance and I believe the Dragonborn's Thu'um known as "Dragonrend" would've been very effective in this fight since it forces Dragons (immortal demigods in Elder Scrolls) to comprehend mortality which obviously they can't do The Chosen Undead would've been similarly affected since they're naturally immortal even disregarding the Dragonborn's unique abilities their base powers could have ensure they won The Chosen Undead simply could not win.

Combat god 1 and 2 reaction i recommend it

Nah. Soul of Cinder should've popped up and gotten the win once the Chosen Undead touched the flame for the last time since Soul of Cinder is still technically the same character. Due to time being all distorted it would've made sense.

Can the thu'um be considered a spell though? Meaning like normal spells

Dang!

I think scaling these heroes up to these cosmic things is irrational and needing justification. This us not the only battle that employs this scaling, but the criticism remains the same. It’s obvious that both of these heroes are significantly more mundane than what they’re contending with. Alduin in particular went down with a simple and straightforward fight despite his power. What are we supposed to believe? a) The Dragonborn is so powerful that he “escaped” execution but dealt with a Goku level threat? or b) Alduin goes down pretty easily despite all the time-related power, and a simple hero was all that was ever needed. edit: by simple hero, I mean typical fantasy hero. Such heroes tend to have superhuman abilities to a small degree. Dark Souls faces a similar problem with a better explanation. the opponents you face are all greatly diminished to the extent that a mere hero can beat them. Alduin needed something like this to make better sense if his contradictory power. The “blowing away” of a cosmic force makes no sense either. Charging the First Flame with the original souls or extinguishing it with the Dark Soul are both too abstract to reduce to a mere physical event comparable to tending to a real fire of any scale. In short, sheer power is hopeless against someone who never stays dead, no matter the margin. The Dragonborn is no Superman either. Mundane threats have provably threatened his life across the game. The “lore” cannot take precedence so long as it contradicts the grounded and mundane scale depicted in actual game. Alduin is clearly more fragile than his power would suggest, and the Dragonborn clearly only as powerful as the feat demands.

i know that the Dragonborn is going to win cuz of the mana and when they explain how the world eater was about to eat infinite worlds. It's make sense even though i chose the Chosen Undead but i don't really care who win or lose between these two warriors

The chosen undead is weaker compared to the ashen one,the hunter or even the tarnished

Still waiting on Thor vs Vegeta.

The thing about gothic themes and anime as fuck, yeah thats been going on since before there was anime at all. Look at a lot of grand operas and their storylines. Look up what the Knights of the Round Table are capable of! It's like Shonen Jump up in here!

i still find this one so one sided the chosen undead wouldve gotten souls from the dragon the dragon borne summoned as its not really like a magic summon but like essentially someone fetching there guard dog, and had more chances to live vs the dragon bornes one life. like ya his bow can move faster then a person, thats kinda its job tho. bows wouldnt be used if they werent faster. that doesnt mean that dragon borne is actually that fast. and they left out a lot of other gear the chosen undead had. also the first flame can sustain multi timelines its why lordran ( the city from the first game) consists of a few timelines that overlap each other resulting in the ghost looking men u see traveling in darksouls. just its powered on humanity a near limitless fuel cuz human havent stopped existing

Ah yeah as expected. And these guys didn't even use the full power of the Dragonborn. The representation of the last dragonborn in Skyrim was a poor example of the Dragonborn's power, for gameplay purposes. In actuality, the Last Dragonborn's power is based on sheer will. For example, if the Dragonborn wills it, The most popular Fus Ro Dah/Unrelenting Force shout could be powerful enough to shatter the world of Nirn itself, but in the game the Dragonborn is unaware they can get that powerful. Miraak, The first Dragonborn (the guy you fight at the end of the dragonborn dlc), is further along discovering just how powerful a dragonborn can get, with the help of Hermaeus Mora (Daedric Prince of forbidden knowledge) (example: him splitting the Island of Solstiem from Skyrim as they referenced in the battle). But the point is, the Dragonborn's power can go way further beyond that based on sheer willpower and the knowledge of knowing that they can. Also, add to the fact that mortals can create all new shouts (this is how the Dragonrend shout was created, the shout that forces Dragons to land/experience mortality), so the Dragonborn could in theory create all new shouts that do crazy things, its up to their imagination and willpower.

I would like point that is not that simple like the video made it seem, like they say in the presentation of the characters the cicles of flames will continue no matter what, so even if you became the dark lord and leave the darkness reign it will appear another chosen undead who it pass the whole journey, defeat the dark lord and ignite the flame again (what i mean it's not about use another chosen undead in the battle but that they are not restricted to reappear only while the flame remains), but yeah i think that in the end dragonborn will surpass chosen undead by the simple fact that the scale of power in both games are highly different: you can have almoste infinite health, stamina and magicka on skyrim where there is no max level, dark souls on other side there is a limit and something that even most casual player of dark souls knows, you can have maximum status and the better equipments with the better enchanting in the end you will die even for the weakest enemy if not be carefull

Who do you think gave the Dragonborn the mission to kill the chosen undead?

Technicaly they nerfed the dragonborn by giving werwolf instead of vampire lord

I BEG you to watch the Popeye vs One Punch Man episode. Your minds will EXPLODE!!!!!

Boils down to, dark souls has more grounded, balanced and challenging gameplay with limited healing/mana and spells, elder scrolls has busted ass easy gameplay with infinite mana, healing items and magic that changes reality. Was a fun battle for sure, am a huge fan of dark souls and will give skyrim a try after this.

The Chosen Undead may be strong, but they have never fought anyone like the Dragonborn before. Even Gwyn in his prime would pale in comparison to the Dragonborn. Gwyn's most noteworthy feats would be related to killing dragons....something the Dragonborn is uniquely gifted at doing. The power scaling in this fight was pretty unbalanced. It would likely have been a closer match to pit the Dragonborn against the Ashen One or the Soul of Cinder from DS3 instead, and even then the Dragonborn most likely would have won. The Chosen Undead kinda relies on the fact that when they die, they will simply resurrect at the most recent bonfire they'd rested at. The Dragonborn is mortal and doesn't have that luxury, and so they would be far more intent on surviving the fight than the Chosen Undead. Not to mention the fact that in the world of Dark Souls, Undead can eventually go "Hollow", which results in them losing their minds and just becoming mindless savages that attack anyone they see on sight. The Dragonborn also has a far more varied and flexible arsenal. Stealth, Magic, head-on combat, Shouts, etc. The Chosen Undead on the other hand doesn't really use "stealth" per se, they just face each threat head-on. And Stealth in Elder Scrolls can be downright silly, as you could literally shoot someone square in the face with an arrow and then (if they survived) break line of sight, and they would give up on looking for you within seconds, despite having an arrow literally sticking out of their face like a morbid cosplay of a unicorn. Plus, had they wanted to do so, the Dragonborn had more than just Odahviing that he could have called for help. He could feasibly have called on Durnehviir as well, and unlike Odahviing, Durnehviir is pretty much the equivalent of an undead dragon, as he is the only dragon to be defeated by the Dragonborn and still resurrect. And Durnehviir is absolutely more powerful than Odahviing by a very large margin, as Durnehviir himself has stated that until his fight with the Dragonborn, he had never once been defeated in battle (hence why Durnehviir refers to the Dragonborn as "Qahnariin", which means "Vanquisher" in the dragon tongue, as a sign of respect). Durnehviir alone most likely would have been sufficient to defeat the Chosen Undead even without the Dragonborn's help.

Death Battle = if you have more Power you always win and can brute force anything even immortality which is bull.

Tbh the shitty graphics of Skyrim doesn't do it justice to how strong the characters are. Basically the final battle it's just a random barbarian vs a dragon.

I really dont understand why does the Dragonborn has to be the new DarkLord, that just saying acWestern character owning a Eastern Franchise

End of this battle is not accurate, bcoz in dark souls 3 final boss is chosen undead(and souls of other people), who linked the fire. And also according to lore of scrolls - all that do main characters is just main quest and dlcs main quests, so with none of guild questline and daedric artifacts his/her raw power is not so destructive. I think dragonborn cannot win this fight, because chosen undead litteraly unstopable, doesnt matter how hard dragonborn will kill it, chosen undead will keep coming back even if it become hollow, it will keep returning

He was wrong on sword the dawn breaker can destroy ghosts souls and any kind 7ndead the drougr are not even reanimated they imortals made by the dragon priests

I loved this fight in sense i wanted dragonborn to win cause of game lore...ds is kinda wierd and unclear unless some nerd understands this massively......but fight was epic.....as for the storm shout...he screamed lok VA koor in the game that's sky clear which clears fogs,most and maybe storm....storm call has a different word shout

The dragonborn is a dragon soul in a human body and dragon souls are the children of akatosh the god of time making the dragonborn essencial the child of a god

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There’s actually an unspoken rule among the fandom. Never choose someone just based on one good move. Sure Chosen Undead’s ability to temporarily silence magic is just one good move but it still wouldn’t help him win due to being slower and weaker

I am waiting for TES6. Better not disappoint Bethesda.

1. The fact that the Dragonborn basically made the Chosen Undead ragequit is really fitting 2. The fact that the Dragonborn didn't use Dragon Aspect , which enhances *everything* for them, shows that the fight probably was never that close.