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One notable thing about Grim Matchstick is that a number of people find him _easier_ on expert than on normal due to the fact the clouds are going the _opposite_ direction. This, surprisingly, makes a world of difference, especially for his second and third phase since you’re moving further away from his attacks rather than into them.

A tip for anyone struggling to get parries in Moonshine Mob: Don’t worry about trying to get them in the first 3 phases at all, just try to do it as fast as possible. You then should have enough time to just wait for the snail to give you your parries as it’s super easy to dodge his projectiles

My favorite part about Cuphead is that it’s extremely hard yet it’s still fair, every time you die it’s your fault and you have to learn to not make the same mistake again, so it makes me happy that the game doesn’t do much to make things easier other than a simple mode, and you can’t even beat the game unless you beat every boss in regular so your pretty much forced to play in regular mode to beat the game, there are no checkpoints so if you die you have to go back to the beginning of the boss or level, and that’s a good thing because it means your not getting too much help and you’ll actually learn how to play the game rather than just being handicapped the whole time.

I recently S-ranked every boss in the game and I can easily say that the ******* ice mage from the DLC was absolute the hardest one. To get all the parries in time it was required a LOT of rng, taking me many and many restarts due to it, and one thing I did to make the parry issue "easier" was stop firing on the first phase and holding it at the point where he throws his 2nd pink card. It worked for me but it was not funny at all. The worst 11 hours of my life.

Im glad you put 8 ball where he was placed. He was unbelievably easy 😂

I am literally HORRIBLE at this game. I don’t game often and even though I’m really bad at the game I absolutely love watching others play. It’s amazing to me that you were able to clear these bosses so easily. Honestly hats off to you! Thank you for the quality content and voicing your cuphead experience :)

Whoever designed Mangosteen went way too far. Clearly the desinger's mother didn't hug them enough as a child so they took it out on us with such a daunting fight. Chef Saltbaker has nightmares of Mangosteen!

I think a fair point about the perceived difficulty of the bosses, is that they were also first experienced without the crackshot. Which in my own opinion actually makes a lot of the bosses from the base game A LOT easier. And there also wasn't heart ring back then... I remember using ages to s-rank the bosses before the dlc

Imo Grim is one of the few bosses that gets easier in expert, and it’s all because you are not restricted to roundabout/chaser (and if you have the DLC crackshot) to being able to hit him consistently in phase 3. Being able to use lobber makes it so much easier to get a quick kill and (more importantly) not blow up his fire bubbles

I gotta say this is probably the best list I've personally seen. Very fair and well made.

Firstly, great video. Secondly, glad the public is finally realizing just how much of a nightmare Wally is. And thirdly, in my personal opinion, I’d put Rumor in Tests Your Meddle. For me the main reason I hate her so much is because I could never truly find a great weapon kit to fight her, seeing as both she and the stage move around so much. But overall good rankings!

I S-ranked every boss in the game recently and I would say this ranking and descriptions are pretty close to my experience. In fact, any boss is difficult during the first encounter. But spent some time and they will be miraculously easier with every run. The bosses from the top tiers are the ones that require complex tactics and muscle memory, which can only be achieved with practice and patience. From the very beginning, Saltbaker seemed like a nightmare to me, but after spending an hour on him, I literally trained to dodge things: I got to know where better to do a single/double jump, where to roll, how to parry this damn sugar, etc. (I would recommend Ms. Chalice with II Super for this fight). Train yourself to get past the first two phases with 1 or 2 hits, and the remaining two are quite simple. In this respect, Wally Warbles, Esther Winchester and Hilda Berg were equally the hardest bosses of the game for me to S-rank, as ALL of their phases are pretty hard and require maximum concentration and training. The Robot is certainly hard too, but look for good tactics against him and he will be quite simple, probably the easiest plane boss to S-rank. Also, I want to mention 1 more tip for those who are struggling with the plane fights, as they are the hardest: get the damn Divine Relic and learn to use it. It is really a blessing for the plane bosses (and also P-ranking Run and Gun levels). The weapon swap is controllable and the benefits it gives you outmatch everything. Cheers!

Wally Warbles was an absolute nightmare for me because off the eggs in the first phase splitting in 5 instead of 3, and the baby bird chains cutting off all the appropriate space needed to dodge the eggs. I don't even know how I got passed that bird house from hell.

Something I picked up on Cala Maria is that during the second phase you could avoid her petrification entirely just by chilling over her head and it's easy to avoid the eels attacks with the mini.

Best cuphead boss ranking tier list in my opinion, really fair and has good explanations on why the bosses are ranked where they are. Honestly i think Cuphead's all about choosing the right weapon kit and having good reflexes to dodge whatever attacks come at you.

Mortimer Freeze is an underrated challenge. His first phase is the hardest in his fight just because I can’t figure out those little icicle guys, and the parries are annoying to get while S-ranking.

The irony is that when trying to beat the game on regular mode, Grim Matchstick was so infuriating it nearly made me quit the game. But it was one of the easiest to S-rank with a similar set-up to yours. Mainly because I didn’t have to worry about the time requirement. So as someone who thought Grim Matchstick was infuriating the first time around, I totally agree with Grim Matchstick being light work.

For Captain Brineybeard's final phase, you can parry off of the laser the tongue shoots out. You'll have to time it right, but with the Heart Ring it can recover all health back. (You get 5 or 6 parries from the laser)

I found most of the bosses fairly easy to beat BUT king dice absolutely destroyed me, he’s the one boss that genuinely made me feel like smashing my monitor

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES THAT TIPSY TROOP IS NOT THAT HARD

For dr. Kahl go for the laser thing first since the gears he shoots aren't annoying, you can also skip second phase by saving your super and positioning yourself in front of his head during phase transition and blow him up :).

The Esther Winchester dancing part you put in was hilarious!!!! I finally S Ranked her earlier this week!!! Took me sooooo many tries! I had to put the video on my channel, I was just trying to eventually beat her on expert because that was my last expert boss for a 300%. When I did it I was so excited and couldnt stop cussing in delight 😂

Im glad someone finally agrees that captain is easy! Even on my first playthrough I found his attacks easy to learn and hes honestly one of the most fun bosses for me

Of all the Cuphead bosses to use a Meet the Pyro meme on, Saltbaker is just as fitting as Pyro himself.

Getting a S-rank on the chef was the worst and most difficult thing in my entire life. The first phase was an absolute mess and even if you passed it it was guaranteed that you’ll lose a life on the next one.. hell na bad memories, it took like 3 hours for me

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who did not understand Nathaniel Bandy's tierlist at all. This is a much better and fair tierlist that I've seen. Nice job displaying both your and the communities opinions on these.

Trying my hand at S ranking these bosses. Not using any DLC before Isle 4 though because I wanted to do it old-school and without Smoke Dash. And I'm... extremely surprised to see Mangosteen not in the lowest tier.

I’ll be honest for a moment, when I first saw this video, and checked MrKap’s subscriber count a considerable amount of time after the fact, I was surprised at how low it was, because to me at least, this comes off as the type of content you would get from a channel with WAY more subscribers. This is a great video on the whole, and I’m eager to see what’s coming in the future.

In the Hilda berg fight, if you draw out the 1st phase so that she sends out the purple enemy a 2nd time, it shoots a free parry shot

Here’s a trick I learned that made it defeating Wally warbles last Phase risky but easy once you know how work around it. When there’s the open between you and the first blue bird. If you go all the way down and shoot the bottom part of the nursing hammock. That actually counts as you damaging the boss. The only time you’ll have to be careful is when the space closes up and your up to damaging the boss from Above while dodging everything coming at you.

This is one of the most accurate cuphead tier lists I ever seen. I agree with almost all picks. I personally found Wally warbles the hardest to S rank but Chef Saltbaker is a tight number 2 spot.

I feel very blessed that I don’t struggle with Chef Saltbaker. I just beat him a bunch of times on regular mode until I got familiar to his attacks. And when I tried to do Expert mode, it was a breeze. I got S rank accidentally.

I was about to quit watching on that 8-ball section you did hahaha you got me good!

When I first fought Esther, I was scared. After fighting her, she’s so much fun! I didn’t get frustrated like other plane fights. Fun to fight and watch in action! I’m actually looking forward to fighting her on expert. And the music is godly!!

Wally Warbles can do more on his deathbed than the literal grim reaper

I accidentally S Ranked Howling Aces through the secret phase. Wasn't even trying to activate it. I even said "alright we ain't doing the special phase this time", since I accidentally activated it once before this. And then I accidentally did the special phase. And won. Was an extremely funny experience. 300%-ing the game was a real pleasure.

honestly, id say most of the list is pretty fair though personally'd put Cala just under Devil or above Grim cause it can be a bit of a bullet hell in the second phase even if you get somewhat lucky in phase 1 but that's just personal experience, even the controversial Grim seems fair cause I think most people find expert easier cause the clouds going in the opposite direction make phase 2 and 3 sooo much easier, it's just a nuisance getting all three parries, also fuck Salt baker, he's the only boss so far I've yet to s rank, the others after a few tried and rng but that guy? Almost feels impossible sometimes even if I have the ring equipped or ms chalice, I've lost count of how many times I've retired him, still very fair list and great video

I came to this channel just cause cuphead is fun, I really enjoyed this video and couldn’t believe the quality for 2.4k subs. Exceptional! Great video and instant sub

I have a very strong ‘no homing weapons’ rule that I apply to myself. And let me say that when you’re required to aim as well, a lot of the bosses go up a notch in difficulty. For the moonshine mob, you are pretty much unable to kill any of the fly-ball thingys in the anteater phase, for the howling aces last phase it becomes so much more difficult because now you have to manage the screen flipping, dodging the projectiles and dealing enough damage in the time limit, and don’t even get me started on saltbaker. There are even more examples but if I named them all this comment would go on forever.

Personally, I think Djimmi is hard SOLELY because of the time requirements, it took me multiple days because I was taking too long. I eventually won but still took a while. I remember when I S-ranked Glumstone, it was the day the DLC released, I was angry and confused, on normal, because I couldn’t get his attacks, but I eventually beat him on S-rank the same day.

Just bought the DLC 2 days ago and restarted the whole game including the DLC. Literally the best game I have ever played, the music, animations, nostalgic feeling. Bes

Never though Nathaniel Bandy of all people would make you make this video. Great tier list!

Congratulations on getting 1M views on your very first Cuphead video. Keep it up! 👍

My main change is putting Pip and Dot way lower. They’re free parries and as long as you know to jump over the shorter patch of spike floor and dash over the longer one.

Dude why does this guy not have more likes and subscribers

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Most amazing thing here is you know exactly the names of even the mini bosses for Baroness. Good stuff!

Fun fact: when I beat salt baker on expert for the first time I accidentally got the S rank. It’s quiet hilarious how that happened even tho I wasn’t even going for the S.

Good job on one of your first video's.

What a good video quality I have to give you credit, for just passing all the bosses with the s rank!

This for sure lines up with my thoughts on Each boss

Keep growing!

How the fuck do you only have 1.5k subs? You are literally one of the best. So funny and correct

Esther is definitely my favorite boss battle! I love her mechanics and I think she's so much fun to play.

Very useful to know

Summary: None of them are too hard. Y’all need to just get good.

Holy shit bro's production quality is insane i thought for sure he had like 100k

you're the main reason that made me buy cuphead and play the whole game and got all S rank AND I AM TELLING YOU IT WAS A LIVING HELL I don't know why the DLC was way harder it was the chef that took me a whole week on expert just to beat 😭

MrKap the type of guy to beat Mike Tyson to a pulp with little trouble and explain his strategy with "It's very easy, because it is simple" and then get beat up by a preeschooler right after

As the list goes on you can tell the bosses that most find hard are easy in this list solely because of the parry ring. If you want them to be easy, aka honey bottoms, ghost express, and others. Use parry ring, if not, they become so much harder

Bro you deserve like 100k subs AT LEAST

your youtube videos are very cool you know have lots of fun

I am driving from Oregon to Washington while watching this. I have never seen cup head before, but i like how long the video is.

This is great

I’d like to see you make a Chalice tier list for Expert. Which bosses does she do better and worse against?

Amazing

Keep doing what ur doing! ( I love your vids❤ )

The channel needs some goddamn respect

One of my favorite things about cuphead is the wild subjectivity the game’s difficulty is subject to. Literally EVERYONE has a boss they struggle on that most others find easy. For me, Mortimer Freeze is by and large one of my better fights, while I simultaneously cannot wrap my head around that stupid Glumstone the Giant fight.

First time viewer, the bo2 reference was perfect love this

Love yer videos

for phantom express 1st phase i use converge because it allows you to not move while shooting the eyes and doing the occasional parry.

btw Mr.Kap, I did want to point out that while parry ring is still a really great charm, the one downside to it is that parrys won't give you cards (for EX moves and supers) anymore, meaning that you'll have to make up for the extra health with faster clear time. This isn't a deal-breaker for the charm by any means, but it's still important to know, especially because the game doesn't tell you about it for some reason. (& as someone who's also S-ranked everything on expert mode I agree with your tier list A LOT and I definitely find it the best one of out all the ones I've seen. I basically agree with everything & The only seldom disagreements I have with it are really just minor nitpicks from my personal experience.)

I did struggle alot with Captain Brineybeard on my first play, especially on the boat, but when you learn how he works he's a fun boss to go against, I went against him recently two years after my first play and he's still fun

Really good video!

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT Grim Is Not That Hard In My Playthrough It Only Took Like 15 Attempts

I knew that you were missing mangosteen and that it was the hardest boss

Really good video.

great one i learned for phantom train is that aiming converge at his hands in the first phase completely trivializes it. eyeballs are killed immediately as they spawn, you pick up a lot of meter and can spam converge ex to just completely melt him. legit all you have to do is stand there and parry chocolate like twice and then it's off to the next phase. converge also trivializes the 3rd phase since you can do the same thing but aiming up instead of forward.

I don’t see many people bring this up, 8-Ball is in fact a reference to a boss in Gunstar Heroes, Melon Bread. Who’s also extremely easy and looks similar to 8-Ball.

Right now I'm doing my own journey of S ranking myself. And I can see why this list is what it is. My personal hardest for me was a lot of the plane levels. Wally, Hilda and Esther. Then there's Ribby and Croaks and Mortimer. Thanks for some of the tips for them. Hopefully soon I can finally fully S rank the game (most likely not cause Saltbaker S Rank makes me wanna cry)

i'm sorry i think heart ring makes it so much more dull with the ease, as someone who s-ranked the game twice within the year i had the game before the dlc came out. that being said, it adds another element of fun for the dlc bosses, but takes away a lot of the challenge and fun for base game bosses imo. same goes with crackshot honestly, but man that thing is fun to use haha. my favorite will always be roundabout tho muehehe. i love the updated tier list taking these into account, and thanks for not abusing chalice i feel like that's super lame for like half the bosses lmao. this video was so fun to watch! :)

Bruh, first video?! Bravo

King Dice weapon tip: Twist Up is by far the easiest weapon to use on nearly all of his mini bosses, and on King Dice himself. Extremely underrated.

This video has inspired me to finally beat every boss on expert like I’ve been putting off for so long.

Im so glad Im not the only one who struggled immensely with Wally and Mortimer. I almost cried when I beat him, but didnt get the parry requirements requirements.

The time bonus for Wally was so hard to achieve especially during the phase with the ring of eggs around the boss, that phase would always run me over 2 minutes; heck on normal I learned if I heard the March of the Valkyries motif in the song I took too long and had to restart

I just downloaded the game two days ago and been having a blast at it! so far the bosses haven't felt too bad, which to be fair I am only at the bee boss, but it has been very enjoyable.

Bro You Need More Subs.👍

An interesting thing is few of those bosses didn't wanted to fight, Grim Mashstick was too kind. The other were eager to get in a fight, even if their contracts would be taken from them.

Been a few years I've properly played Cuphead, and I S-ranked every vanilla game boss, and I feel like I've had a way harder time with everything on this list. Almost all flying levels were pure hell to S rank, the djinn was my last S rank I got, and generally from the not too hard list up I always needed at least an hour to get the S rank. I didn't use the parry for hearts card, don't remember why but maybe that would've made it much easier.

i s ranked every boss in the game and got 300 pecent but a great video and i respect your tier list and your opinion

Totally agree with Hilda Berg, she's such a pain, especially if you're new to the game

Mrkap, when I first heard your opinion on grim matchstick a while ago, I STRONGLY disagreed. But now, today, I was trying to get S ranks for my save file, and I came to grim matchstick. I kid you not I first tried him as well, don’t disagree with this man on grim matchstick.

I got the game a while ago and got back into it and I can say this is so correct

Only after watching this did I realize how weird NB’s list is. I feel like Cuphead gives each player a different experience somehow. I found Sally to be very hard, especially since I was doing secret phase. That or I’m bad at Cuphead.

I think with honeybottoms it's even easier to fight when you use the energy beam right before the last phase starts when she reads the book, you can slow her animation down and basically skip the final phase when you use the spread right against her head

That Mortimer freeze commentary had me dead, because I went through the exact same thing.

Also a trick I learned with the seahorse in the cala maria fight is that if you move out of the way when he starts shooting the water you can just move back and forth and the water will barely hit you, that shit is so annoying though especially if she does the ghosts at the same time