The thing with ERB is - your enjoyment depends on your own general knowledge and background . Almost always whenever i went to any of it's comment section i would see dozens of them pointing such subtle remarks and points that i completely overlooked because i didn't knew enough about the subject and made it appreciate even more .

Eastern philosophers vs western philosophers will always be my favourite ERB. It's like two messy friend groups beefing

Fun fact: Steve Jobs is the only ERB character to not get introduced. This is because the video came out like 2 weeks after his death so everyone know who he was

never let this man near another erb tier list

I think Rebecca Black vs Rick Astley would be a great one for them to do next :)

if he actually knew history he would rate stalin vs rasputin as an S. Literally the best one in my opinion , maybe after gandhi vs martin luther

so many good jokes and historical references went over this guy's head HE PUT RASPUTIN VS STANLIN ON C TIER

never let this man touch a tier list again

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates had a chokehold on every single one of my braincells when it came out, I had that shit MEMORIZED

Lud putting Rasputin vs Stalin in B is the most traumatic incident of my life

"I watched one Epic Rap Battle from every season" The battles: S2, S2, S2, S2, S2, S1, S2, S3, S2, S2, S1, S6, S3.

Not having Vader vs Hitler at S is an actual crime. That fire up bar is literally the best they ever done.

You can tell how much knowledge or lack of it people have by how they rank ERBs

Gotta be honest, seems like he didnt like most of the newer ones because he didn't get the references, cause they're honestly still wicked hard.

Artists vs. Turtles is absolutely one of the best they've ever done. The rapping, the beat, and the historical references are all so, so good. From an art major =P

The director‘s one to me is one of the best, the set-up between Spielberg, Hitchcock, Tarantino, Kubrick and their body of work & state of cinema is so well done while also referencing different eras and styles of rap music, with Michael Bay‘s finale being the brilliant icing on the cake.

I think I could do every season 1 ERB rap in high school, piece of YT history

Had to pause after he rated Stalin V Rasputin at C, that video is a masterpiece of references and wordplay, and I remember it came out when I was a student learning about history (WW1/WW2/Cold War stuff) Would watch it over and over again because it was one of the best ERB had ever done

Okay but the "fired up" verse from Vader is unironically fire

Seeing the Russian one in C tier brought a tear to my eye for how wrong a person can be about music.

Vader vs Hitler 3 has the best bar, that whole "Fired up" sequence was just perfect, and the beat was excellent.

Lud, PLEASE make this a series and finish of the tier list! Doesn't matter how long it takes this would be an amazing series!!

Rasputin vs Stalin is their peak, their video still to beat. It’s got so many historical references and is the best example of what this channel should be-history rap battles. Plus the flow and music itself is great but hey, each to their own, at least everyone can agree ERB are KZfaq classics and are amazing. Also Stan Lee vs Jim Henson is a must see banger.

Imagine hating on Jobs vs Gates. It's so wholesome when he's says "the whole world loved but you were my friend" and Master Chief vs Leonidas. These are legit some of the best ones.

How can one man have so many bad takes?

He didn't even get to see the James Bond vs Austin Powers ERB that one was fire.

This tier list it's pretty much this "I'm not that good on history so ill put this here".

12:01 me reading the Epsitine flight logs

when epic rap battles become a part of history

"Some of them flopped, a lot of the newer ones..." *sees that he didn't watch Thanos vs Oppenheimer* ah it makes sense

5:53 ah yes the last soviet leader, famous for being in a pizza hut commercial

Everyone talking about the history references but I can't get over the "I'm about to bake raps from scratch like I'm Carl Sagan" line. A reference to the original "Cosmos" series, where Carl Sagan famously says "If you want to bake a pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe", and Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis(and subsequent work) was a lot to do with early universe cosmology

I honestly think that their new battle are way better than their old ones. The level of references and bars are higher. The production quality is also higher.

Cleopatra vs Monroe amazed me as a little girl. I go back to it once a year.

“Famous for the Pizza Hut commercial” lmao sure

Dude I didn't realize they had such big names in these. Key and Peele, snoop dogg, fucking smosh (this was back when they were the biggest channel on yt) That's actually really impressive.

I still fucking love ERB. rewatched basically all of them recently and there are barely any that I think are bad. even the newer ones absolutely bang imo

I lost all respect for Lud when he didn’t rank the Trilogy as S. We are done professionally and Romantically

EPIC RAB PATTLES OF HISTORYYYY DREAM VS. ROSA PAAAAAARRRRRKS LYRICS: YOU WERE ALWAYS IN THE BACK I WAS IN THE FRONT

The best part of this video is Ludwig figuring out the Microsoft penis joke

Thank god Artists vs TMNT was put in S tier

The rocks “its about drive” verse honestly sounds like it was ripped right out of ERB after hearing these again

Poe vs King should be higher than C tier man. It's up there with Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter. Poe even rapped in his style for the first verse, and they started and ended the rap like The Raven, a famous work of Poe.

These 2 battles are also A/S tier Bonnie and Clyde Vs Romeo and Juliet Western philosophers Vs Chinese Philosophers

I think Rebecca Black vs Rick Astley would be a great one to do next then :)

L tierlist tbh. The older ones had their flair and it was easier to get the bars and the disses, but as it went on, they started putting in more references in their bars and it just makes it so much better. But after Rasputin’s battle, it just watched it go downhill on the video.

This man should not be in charge of any tier list…

“My parents are cousins. I support that” Dawg what 💀

Dude ERB was the shit growing up, I loved this, me and my brother would always watch them on his ps3 that he got for Xmas, those were good times

Frankly, I was super hyped when I got notified for this vid, cause I love watching both Lud and ERB, but rn I am literally losing my mind. You filtered the battles by view count (when it doesnt judge them based on quality AT ALL), watched mostly mid tier battles on stream, and ranked battles from like 9 years ago as the cream of the crop when they have SO much more underrated battles that actually have some top tier writing and production quality

this tierlist just proves his intelligence lol

I love Lud but I always lose a little faith after his tier lists

My _favorite_ ERB’s are the ones with Watsky in them. Dude is a lyrical genius

"My boy in Israel" was a reference to a skit from few years back about a stormtrooper literally being in Israel... Can't remember the details and I couldn't find the videos. But I'm surprised nobody mentioned that. You should look it up. From what I can remember, it was hilarious.

Tesla vs Edison has always been my favourite simply because of how informational, accurate, and referencing it is. Because they really were rivals and everything they said was true; Not to mention Tesla is one of my favourite inventors of all time and my hatred of Thomas Edison kindof fueled that. I'd always thought they should do Lovelace vs Turing but maybe another time :)

Was hoping he'd watch Teddy Roosevelt vs. Winston Churchill. Probably their best one besides the TMNT one

Thanos Vs Oppenheimer was the hardest and clearest L I've seen anyone in the series take

Bros vs. Pros. The worlds worst, most troll friendly series.

Erb still slaps and it slaps even harder when you get the references, thank god for their comment sections as well.

To this day, I think it was a stroke of genius to have Stephen Hawking rap in auto-tune.

As someone who still loves ERB I feel attacked.....and you are correct. Season 1 review!

Damn, I was kinda hoping he'd get to the Philosophers rap. That one is like one of the best in beat and facts but it wasn't in the high popularity list. But this was a fun nostalgia trip (not like I don't go through an Epic Rap Battle bingewatch once a month and have seen all of them recently at all...)

Ludwig NEEDS to open up the lyrics on genius, we need a rewatch😭😭

as a lot of ppl have said, it genuinely does depend on your knowledge of history because if you're not aware, you sometimes miss the beeesssttt comebacks or roasts

Poe's poems pwn posers is till one of the best lines I have ever heard. I would have put that in B atleast

Say what you will about the trilogy as a whole, but that fired up line in Vader vs hitler 3 is sick as hell.

You don’t seem to get that they started making the battles to focus on historically accurate disses and complex lyric writing not cheap jokes

These kind of erbs you have to watch multiple times to understand the jokes

the production on the hawking verse is actually wild for the time, their engineer probably spent a vast majority of time on making that vocoder thing happen

I remember watching these back in high school, but when the Albert Einstein vs Steven hawking came on out of the depths of my brain came every lyric, 10 years later I somehow knew the entire song by heart. Could not agree more with your "nostalgia blast" comment.

Y'know, this is some genius engagement. You can't help commenting about how bad his takes are in this. In a way, I gotta respect it.

I remember watching these as a kid and never understanding what the fuck they were talking about. I just loved the fun visuals and how they changed up the beats every time. It makes me so happy that they’re still making videos I just wish they knew that people still love them even though they aren’t getting as many views as they used to.

id say if you want a very good representation of each season i would suggest seuss vs shakespeare mozart vs skrillex muhammad ali vs michael jordan east philosophers vs west philosophers ivan the terrible vs alexander the great pennywise vs joker

I’m sad he didn’t do Thanos V Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer’s verses were some of the best they ever made

i will never forgive you

Bro the beginning of hitler VS Vader had me laughing me ass off

The Vader Hitler battles are so legendary. I remember random people at high school just screaming "I AM ADOLPH HITLER, COMMANDER OF THE THIRD REICH! LITTLE KNOWN FACT, ALSO DOPE ON THE MIC!" all the time.

Mozart goes hard, vividly remembered einstein and stephen hawking. Nice seeing some of the ones i haven’t seen honestly a hilarious series couple months ago me and my friend online actually remembered ERB but didn’t rewatch any.

I forgot just how HARD Vader's verses are...... like god damn

"I spit hot borsch when I'm crushing these beets" is a pretty hard line ngl

The fact that he left all the rhett and link parts out really hurts me.

Master Chief vs Leonidas was still in my head, line by line, after all those years. Imagine I could use that memory for something useful.. So what in the cinnamon toast fuck is that piece of art doing in F tier??????

"From every season" literally does only season 2 😵

9:40 Lets be real, Hitler hasn't won shit. WW2, WW1, childhood art contest. The list goes on and on.

Are we just gonna not talk about Ludwig's grandparents being cousins?

Usually, you might want to make a tierlist when you're a total amateur or good at your subject. Doing one when you're average is a bit complicated, honestly, you're just getting caught in the crossfire. I had to step back quite a few times with the choices that were made, and I'm pretty tolerant.

"DEEMED DOPE BY THE POPE AND I BONED TILL I CROAKED" artists v tmnt was iconic

it sucks he didnt have deadpool vs. boba fett on here that one is so underrated but imo its one of the best

Reminds me of Drew Gooden I see the yoink and the twist are both doing well

"you can't get down a ramp" That didn't age very well.

The writing and production value got better ever time. There's still duds in every season, but more often than not, they win

all HAL's lines lines were packed with info/jokes/references for computer scientists

Anthony Padilla actually delivered his lines pretty dope in the Painters vs Turtles one.

ERB was the reason I made a KZfaq account. I had to lie about my age so I could watch Darth Vader vs. Hitler 3 since it was age-restricted.

Hitchcock vs Spielberg is one of my all time favs just based on my love of movies. Sooo many good roasts in there

Hamilton is just epic rap battles of history on Broadway

ERB should do Rebecca Black vs Rick Astley. That would be pretty cool

Btw, props on the editing. I was worried that the video was gonna be bad because the raps would be very edited, but the editor did a great job, 10/10.

he has to do more of these, rate all of them

Putting Kanye vs Vader and Stalin vs Rasputin that low has got to be a crime