Oh boy after you kill them you get a disrespectful 30k runes

The poison completely ruins this fight.

Congratulations Gargoyles, you dethroned Bed of Chaos and got the new title of "worst souls boss" ever.

Good to see that we all agree that the poison is the stupidest thing ever in this fight, sooo annoying, especially cos they spam the f**ck out of the place, like 100mts radius of poison cloud + 2 gargoyles hitting you. I was lucky enough to beat them quick but i thought it would take me hours of wipes.

They always come back.

A pretty poorly designed boss imo. Having the boss be 2 separate giant monsters is not at all a bad idea for a challenge, but they need to complement each other in some way. The Demon of Pain and Demon from Below are an excellent example. One is always aggro on you while the other is more passive but support the other with ranged attacks. Bell Gargoyle are also good, because the flame attacks let you have openings to focus on one of them. And ofc, Ornstein and Smaug - when Smaug is dragging his ass trying to reach you, you can focus on Ornstein for a bit before maneuvering away or, alternatively, you can bait Ornstein away and get a couple of hits onto Smaug who is slower and easier to consistently hit. Dark Souls 2, for its several lazy/cheap gank bosses, seemed to have most of them work as intended and even had some pretty decent ones (Squalid Queen, Ruin Sentinels) No such thoughts went into these guys, just two of the same big monster - kinda like Lud & Zellen, but way more overtuned. If you want to fight them by yourself with no summons or ashes and aren't using a bs magic built that oneshots the first one, this is basically almost impossible. They don't complement each other, they are both large melee monsters with almost identical movesets with plenty of aoe, dashes, big hp pools and the fcking barely visible poison clouds; and they are always on your ass, leaving you with essentially no openings if you're trying to solo. Legit not fucking idea what they were thinking when they left this in the game.

How many time do we have to teach you this lesson old gargoyles?!

Worst boss fight ive ever played. Just relentless on me with poison and chasing me down. Woo beat em finally. I got lucky too with the fight. I died from the poison a second after i killed the last gargoyle and it still gave me the win. Im so happy haha

I think what’s infuriating about this boss to me is the double team. If it was the one gargoyle then it wouldn’t be as bad. But with the second one. Not only does it take cheap shots at you, but it also spams that godawful poison attack. Doesn’t help they’re insanely fast and always leap back when I try to jump attack them.

I think the fight is fine, aside from the poison cloud. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with being poisoned, you can make it a non-issue, but the fact that the cloud itself deals damage is annoying, especially since there’s not really any sound cues.

The mandatory Fromsoft spider and gargoyle bosses

Just beat this boss. Here's my tips. -Have the pulley crossbow at a good level, stock up those bolts. -Have a good bow too, justb in case. -Have your shield ready -Have a good stamina bar and a pair of running legs. Do all the damage you can and trigger the second gargoyle. Keep running and shooting. Try to time your shots, dodges and running timings according to your stamina bar and moment. A good time to shoot one of them is when It's pouring out poison. (TIP: the poison cloud goes forward, getting behind the one poisoning the area is what saved me in my successful attempt) Beat one of them in ranged combat. 1v1 the last one. FUCK THIS BOSS

Wouldnt be dark souls without gargoyle gank squads.

2 hours later. Mimic summon and blood slash ashes of war. Hold the line, it's beatable

This boss fight is fucking miserable took me 2 and a half hours to down him. That poison attack from the twinblade gargoyle is ridiculous to deal with while the first one is still up.

I wish this game did difficulty in some way other than just putting two of the same enemy in the arena at once

This is without question the hardest version of the gargoyles.

This what I call “artificial difficulty”

When you were about to beat up this boss, you got stopped by poison. 💀🙃

Being level 55 it took me 20+ times to kill Godslayer Apostle, 5 tries for general radahn, these bosses are harder than them all

“Ah shit, here we go again” -everyone who’s played demons souls, dark souls 1, and/or dark souls 2”

This reminds me of those stone gargoyles in ds3 with those torches

Fuck this boss nobody has given me this much trouble

This is the 1st boss fight in the game that I felt zero satisfaction in completing 😅. Not because it becomes a gank fight when you get the 1st gargoyles health to 50%, but the fact that they puke poison clouds that drains your health very fast. The 2nd gargoyle uses a twinblade and does this ridiculous fast combo and he spams it a lot. There was a cheese strat that gets them to fall off the cliff in the back, but it was recently patched? (not sure lol)….Use blunt weapons, jump attacks with the jump talisman for stagger, and just stay aggressive. You go to a brand new part of the underground map and it sucks ass that this optional boss fight blocks it.

I like how the match is with a good, maybe even professional, gamer and he almost died like 6 times using OP weapons, assistance and stunned them a handful of times. This boss was unnecessarily difficult to get through. I couldn't see the one poisoning me because the other was flying in from Deathland all axe happy. So happy I got through it 2 hours later lol

Uchigatana with the blood slash art or war ability helped me shred these guys.

This fight would be a lot better if the first gargoyle stopped using the poison after the second one arrives so you can reliably defeat it in time

That mimic tar seems like a good summon. He survived longer than any players that i summoned. Also looks like they are weak to electricity. (I guess its the same for all rock enemies) Guess i need to make a lighting weapon.

This is one of those battle where they should let you use torrent, would have made this fight more manageable, the quality dipped in ED in certain spots.

This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them.

You just couldn't help yourself could you From Software.

I have no idea how it happened but one of the gargoyles jumped off the cliff chasing my mimic lol Made things much easier

Kinda hate how with some of elden rings bosses, they just slam two overpowered enemies in a single room

I love how they got around making the difficulty more nuanced by giving every major enemy a one hit kill attack, hence the poison cloud.

Godslayer Great sword does a ton of damage to these MFs and also to any type of enemy that wears strong armor like knights, especially Crucible knights get a lot of damage from that sword. This is something that I noticed and that I hope will work as a tip for someone that is struggling with the game, I know nobody asked but maybe you are here looking for a way to defeat this boss, also if you don't have enough faith for wielding the sword you can use a talisman.

What level were you guys when you fought this boss? I just beat it and am currently level 70. I had to use 20 runearcs in order to beat these bastards, definitely the hardest fight for me thus far. Duos are always tough and Elden Ring is full of them. Before this I had almost just as difficult as a time against Crucible Knight + Misbegotten Warrior.. and then there's also the Twin Pumpkin heads you fight in that tiny crypt, that was miserable as hell too. But shit, I'm loving the hell out of it still hahaha

pov your sending this to Ludwig rn because he’s taken 2 damn hours

"Hey what if we gave this fairly difficult enemy a move that basically fucks over nearly any summon?"

This is definitely a co-op fight, or you're using Mimic Tear; just about every other ashes summon drops stupid fast. It is annoying that there is such a meta with some of the challenges. Phase 2 is just lame when the one you start with suddenly starts bounding away and spamming poison to pretty much require that you have a very durable way of dealing with two sources of aggro.

Defeat them yesterday after 30 attempts, rest at coffin to new area, happy finally being better in this game, die 8th to the tree avatar 😢

Not again

My tips, or what i always did on my tries was to lure the first one close to the door, fight him and when he was a little above 50% i did the summons, then to get that last 50%(while the other bitch was walking all the way, that's why i tried to fight the 1 close to the door) i was more recless and spammed jump charge attack(i died a lot, but enventually got lucky), then for the second one i had like 7 jars left and 2 fp flasks so i spammed skills and sorcery(had moonveil), my summons die to poison, but there are runs that they used it less than usual.

This should have just been the Twin Gargoyles with NO poison. the poison on top makes this WAY to over the top.

I’m level 70 and feel like I do no damage to these guys

Pro tip: the gargoyle closest to you will always be the one to attack (sometimes their AI wigs out and they both attack at the same time) and the one furthest fill breathe out a cone of poison

Got it on my 5th try by using a rune arc + moon veil. Spammed skill on the first gargoyle before the second one came and got him low. I had one flask left and the second one had full hp. Adrenaline had me dodging shit like ultra instinct. Spamming my skill on the second one somehow allowed me to win the fight with like 5 hp left.

How come every time they do a gargoyle fight there's always more than one? It's expected now, the magic's gone. They should do the opposite where the battle starts out with multiple gargoyles that are somewhat pushovers, but then when there's one left... BOOM! The actual boss crushes the final gargoyle and begins attacking you.

I think these optional gank bosses are made to make more use of the summon mechanic

Is fun how I defeated this boss in my second attempt, but I 've tried like 20 times to kill the black gargoyle in Caelid and nothing yet.

I need to get it through my head that Elden Ring has a shit ton of stat checks instead of skill checks. First tree sentinel, then Margit and now gargoyles…. I always seem to encounter them underprepared.

Hate this boss. Struggled all through the first one and the 2nd one came out of nowhere 😞

not sure if you're overleveled or i was severly underleveled. but this amount of damage you deal to them is insane

You can hit head twice after stagger for extremely high damage and then riposte

I need to spread the word of an accidental cheese I found! If you hang by the waterfall edge near the entrance one of the gargoyles might jump back and off the edge! Try that if you're not a mage cause I hope it can be replicated.

You're supposed to summon D's brother for this fight, it makes it much more fair as you can effectively focus on one at a time, such is a consequence of not fully advancing and finishing questlines.

Gargoyle here too?

Luckily I came to this boss overleveled so I didn’t struggle but if I came to this boss before it would of been a nightmare.

Far and away the worst boss in the game. What a fucking farce of design.

I remember walking into this boss room for the first time and seeing the gargoyle and I was like "oh, like Dark Souls 1. I sure hope a second one doesn't jump in". And then he did and the fights quality just went downhill.

You can pretty reliably get the first one to jump off the cliff. Makes this fight much easier.

I fucking hate this boss.

valiant gargoyles think they’re the bell gargoyles

Valiant? VALIANT?!!! Poison in massive area is the most coward and pussy move I've ever seen in a FromSoftware boss

Boss would b so easy if it weren’t for the bs poison that can track you all over

After the update patches, I am stuck on this boss. My damage is very weak now

these guys are harder than Radahn wtf. need to buy poison immune pots i guess

2:42 i like that gargoyle move

was this in the siofra river?

So u mean to tell me i struggled this whole time for nothing. Whole time Mimic Tear Spirit just shredded these things to pieces? Wow!!!

I haven't used summons all game but I think imma have to give in for this fight

It's such a pretty arena.

i wonder if fromsoftware actualy playtests their bosses cause some of them are unfair dogshit

This was the hardest boss in the game for me. Took two hours and about 20 attempts. I didn’t have the mimic tear but I was a decent level. I’d say about 90. Fuck this boss.

Easy way to beat them, no summons just focus on the first one, be good at dodging, never attack first, always counter attack after they finished the attack animation, oh and have a decent weapon, I recommend a good ash of war and str or dex weapon, magic is gonna take too lomg

Its dissapointing that even as much of a masterpiece that elden ring is, lazily put together bosses like this somehow still manage to get into the game. They've existed in the whole series, so its not a complaint exclusive to this game, but its to be expected that with how much more time and more budget they had, they could iron out encounters like these. One of these gargoyles was already a hassle enough to deal with, and now we get to deal with 2, along with poison attacks. What if they made one of the gargoyles ranged? like with a scepter? I think having two seperate weapons and styles would have made the boss far more barable, as you can at least make up a strategy.

Nah, too much bullshit with this one. 50 hours in and I've hit my first roadblock. As if the fight wasn't unfair enough, they both have poison... Why they thought adding this boss to the game would be a good idea, I'll never know.

Took me three hours. Honestly isn't as poorly designed as people think it is imo, it's just very frustrating. What helped me in the end was using the claw talisman and plunge attacking, which does enough stagger damage to get a riposte in.

My guy you do sooooo much damage!

Thank god, I beat them first try. I see a lot of comments complaining about the poison.

id rather gouge my own eyeballs out than fight this boss again

This fight is such a joke I’m coming back with the most disgusting broken shit you can acquire in this game

Anyone come here after seeing lud suffering?

How to cheese this boss, -Head into the Leyndell sewers -Kill Mohg -Parkour to the bottom near the frenzy flame -hit the illusory wall and voila

Takes my 5 tries to kill Radhan but these guys ..... like 35

And i thought radahn was bad

Melee only without summons and this bossfight is one of the hardest

This boss is ridiculous if you’re using any colossal weapon. Actually the whole game is harder with big colossal weapons

This makes me remember the nightmare of the Bell Gargoyles in Dark Souls 1 when i try to beat it alone. Well done,FS!!!! I can see this is worse than the Bell Gargoyles a lot, i mean annoying :))

Hot take: the valiant gargoyles are much more challenging than the godskin duo

lvl 79 strenght build, went whit greatsword and the spell that clears poison, unga bunga the first gargoyle until like half health before the second one appears, then use a summon, focus on the one whit low health, killed it, 1v1 the other whit only 2 estus left out of 11, managed to kill it whit like 1/4 health left fuck the poison

Lud and Zallen 2.0, except there's no npc summons aside from Mimic Tear. This might be my least favorite boss in the series

What are your stats, I don’t do nearly enough damage

Took me 3 hours to find an equally skilled player who could kite 1v1. Was amazing satisfying to win. Fuck this boss; more bosses≠better boss fight.

Another gargoyle? I'm always ready

It's like dark souls 1 bell gargoyles

I actually liked this boss fight

I noticed that the ancient dragons and the gargoyles make the same noise.

Dude you're a genius. Thanks

Where is this boss??

you can chease it if you are close to the corner with the ledge