There’s something about Malenia. I’ve beaten her, but I don’t think I’ve beaten her, you know? It still doesn’t feel like I’ve overcome her entirely, and it makes me want to keep going until I have

How you picked Gascoigne over Orphan or Laurence is just mad

I struggled so much with Maliketh, and really never had an issue with Malenia as i’m usually pretty high level and her moveset feels pretty intuitive to fight for me. Maliketh is my hardest in elden ring, and the orphan of kos is the hardest in the series imo. He took me HOURS and is now my fave fight however.

Your channel is so underrated, your rankings are awesome. Keep growing brother!

I never saw anyone else having my pick but in bb the boss I died by far the most to was the living failures!😂

My hardest boss is realising that bloodborne isn't coming to PC

It's so weird to me that father Gascoigne has such a reputation for being difficult. I don't ever remember being stuck on him for that long! Maybe it's because I always explore every nook and cranny of central yarnham before fighting him so I've leveled up quite a bit. But yeah my big road block on every playthrough is vicar Amelia.

I recently decided to do an all bosses run of DS3 for the first time. I had never done the DLCs so I was excited for that. Almost every boss in the game I beat on my first attempt. Soul of Cinder, Friede, Demon Princes, Gael and Gravetenders took me 3 tries to beat. Midir took me 64 attempts!!!!! I never wanna fight him again

I still believe Malenia was meant to be a DLC boss for Sekiro that was reworked for Elden Ring and I can only imagine what if

Great video, really enjoyed it. Here's my ranking: For DS1, now that I've finished it 20+ times, the boss that is more likely to kill me is also Kalameet (and Bed of Chaos), so now I enjoy his battle more than I initially did. (On my first playthrough the hardest boss was Gwyn) For DS2 I actually find Sir Alone harder, but only because of the previous enemies, I decided I wanted to really know how good the boss is, so I killed ALL the enemies until they stopped spawning and... I didn't like it that much, the boss itself is somewhat simple. For the other two, Fume Knight and Burmt Ivory King, If you make both fight easier, I'd say Fume Knight is harder, but if you don't, then definitely the Ivory King. Those two are also my favorite DS2 bosses :3 For DS3 I'd pick Lothric and Lorian or Midir. My first time I defeated Sister Friede on my 2nd attempt and Gael on the 3rd, so I don't think they are that hard. Since Lothric and Lorian are easier in future playthroughs, Midir would be the hardest for me. I think the Demon Prince is pretty easy, my first time it took me two tries because of the toxic, but when you stay under him the fight was surprisingly easy, I actually would like it to be harder. For Bloodborne it gets harder to pick one, on my first time Orphan, Laurence and Ludwig were the ones I died the most with, but now, even though Ludwig is probably my favorite boss, I think it is easier than the other two. So I'll pick Orphan since I think he super challenging, when I think Laurence is more unfair, also I don't feel like picking a semi-reused boss, it would be similar to picking a Chalice Dungeon reused boss. Also, Gascoigne is great, but after my first playthrough it wasn't that hard. And the hardest of all of them would be Orphan of Kos, simply because the first time I killed him I was shaking because of the concentration I had to put in order to win, and that have happened only once before with another game, and never since. I don't write this long comment for someone to read, it's just because I think is fun to analyze what my ranking would be 😁

I love malenia. I've beaten her so many times with so many different weapons that I've become a malenia stan.

Fun fact. Allant was never an issue on ps3 back in the day. Flamelurker and Maneaters were the biggest problem. I cant stress how often people were seeking help there. Regarding the soul suck mechanic. It wasnt repeated because in ps3 there were those who were so evil. They would invade all day searching for AFK. And soulsuck them back to Soul level 1. By them soul sucking and leaving the game the host is stuck on lvl 1. But if the host disconnects, they keep their level and souls meanwhile the invader kept the souls too. We used to soul glitch like that. Since each suck was a full level. It was the quickest way to lvl up before the Merchant glitch that enables you to dupe all consumables to 198. Lastly if we talk about the hardest boss in ps3. King Doran was it. Even with braking his gear poison etc. he was one shotting people left and right. And you cant summont to kill him. We had many strats to get him killed

I did not expect my boy Papa G to take the W. Orphan of Kos had a speech written up and everything.

Laurence, the first Vicar: Am i a Joke to you?

I factor in frustration against bosses when determining boss difficulty. Like Nameless king took me half a day to beat compared to a quarter with Sister Friede, but I enjoyed NK the entire time making it mentally easier. Friede on the other hand was much more mentally difficult that I consider it harder even though I beat it quicker, a big part being that you had to perfect three different phases of Friede compared to NK's two phases(and the bird is really fast to kill). Every previous phase of any boss essentially becomes a boss run for the next phase. The faster the phase gets beat the less impactful it is, and Friede's second isn't that. It's basically a long patience game, and once in a while I get popped by her first phase for not doing that. I don't think I'll replay that DLC unlike the NK fight, even though it's harder. This kind of became a Friede rant. Fun bosses are easier than frustrating bosses

Blue smelter demon makes me want to do heinous things.

Kalameet, o n s, ebriatis, but the fume knighted was tough af, as it made me lean the move set to a ridiculous degree! 😂 I got it to a point I never took a hit, then went onto help others beat him so many times!! 1 of my fav bosses ever! Amazing fight!

Nice vid! I really enjoy these rankings! :D Here’s mine: Demon’s Souls - Flamelurker Dark Souls 1 - Manus (Artorias was close) Dark Souls 2 - Fume Knight Bloodborne - Orphan of Kos (Laurence and Defiled Watchdog is close) Dark Souls 3 - Nameless King (Midir and Friede was close) Sekiro - Isshin the Sword Saint (Isshin Ashina is close) Elden Ring - Maliketh (Malenia is close)

Thank you for picking Demon Prince for DS3. Couldn’t agree more

I wonder how much past game experience plays into hardest bosses, ive played tons of monster hunter so kalameet and midir are just another standard dragon fight, but manus, gael, and sister friede have all kicked my ass for several hours each

For me the hardest boss in ds2 was Sinh, neither Fume Knight nor Ivory King took me more than 15 tries and Sinh took me like 30 But if I had to choose between Fume and Ivory then I'd probably choose Ivory

I've completed DS3 at lvl 1 a couple times, and the demon prince is the most difficult boss, by a long shot

Father Gascoigne gives me the chills every time I want to fight him and the 2nd phase is probably the most stressful experience in the series.

I think regarding the Ds2 bosses, i think Fume Knight wins out, the crazy set up of fighting Ivory King with no knights just makes the mobs more difficult but not the boss itself if that makes sense. Fume knight also allegedly has killed more players than any other souls boss (I believe that stat was pre sekiro and pre elden ring however so for all I know Malenia has this accolade 😂)

I had more trouble with Blue Smelter Demon than any other boss in dark souls

Very brave Bloodborne take 😅, by far the boss I struggle the most with are the shadows of yarnham. It has taken me at least 3 attempts with the summons every play through I've done. For some reason I'm just not very good at fighting them

Laurence is insane no matter what

I relate a lot to your list, those are all definitely amongst the bosses I struggled the most with in my playthroughs. Hardest in each game for me: Demon's Souls- False King Allant Dark Souls- Manus, but the Four Kings always manage to really stress me out DS2- Fume Knight Bloodborne- Orphan of Kos DS3- Dark Eater Midir Elden Ring- Damn Malenia 😂

For me its definitely Demons Souls: Flameluker Dark Souls: O and S Dark Souls 2: Darkluker Bloodborne: Laurence, the fist vicar Dark Souls 3: Sister Friede Elden ring: Take a wild guess

Lmfao i thought I heard a “pero” in there! Love the spanglish. First vid of yours ive watched, keep up the good work hermano

I struggled with fume knight so much. Those damn hitboxes are so inconsistent

DS3 I nominate Pontiff. I got my shit rocked by him more than any other boss in the game. Without parrying, he is an absolute nightmare.

10:15 No. Bloodborne was my first Souls game. I needed 3 tries. And I didnt even know about the music box.

I wish from software hadn’t given Malenia waterfowl dance. Without it I think she’s still a really tough and rewarding fight and I honestly think she’d be like the perfect boss

Late to the party here but I'm really enjoying your videos and I'm so glad to see you hit your subscriber goal of 20k. You definitely deserve more subs than that and I will for sure share your videos to the good FromSoft fans I know. Malenia with a great shield....now that is something I would love to see and you should challenge yourself to that sometime for a new sub goal! Have a most awesome day/night and take care!

demon prince i never beat, was in ng++ already when dlc released, got so frustrated i never touched ds3 again lmao, idk what it is about them but i feel you brother. :D

18:37 ... HOW, in the name of all that is holy, did your boyfriend do that? Real madlad.

I group hard Soulsborne bosses into 3 different categories; 1. 'actually difficult' which is self explanatory I feel, these are usually the most fun bosses in my opinion like Gael for example 2. 'annoying/lazy difficult' these are usually things like gank fights, massive health pools, boss that barely touch the ground or I have to run after endlessly and inconsistent attack delays and 3. 'Fighting the developer is the hardest part of this boss fight difficult' which is things like bad camera control, janky hit boxes on you or them and poor boss area design. Bosses can be in multiple categories at the some time. I know some people say there are good gank fights they've just had more bad than good is all but I disagree in my opinion, I think all gank fights are just lazy game design and they've never pulled off a good one.

Dark souls 1= O&S Dark souls 2= fume knight Bloodborne= Laurence Dark souls 3=Sister fride Sekiro=Inner father Elden ring=Malenia

18:07 i had no idea you could block waterfowl dance with a shield like that

father gascoigne is always the boss i get a little anxious about fighting and i don’t know why. i guess i find his werewolf phase intimidating despite having killed him so many times. i find his werewolf phase to be more aggressive then orphan of kos. however to me it’s gotta be a toss between lawrence and lady maria. i’ve only fought them both once but lady maria from what i remember was kicking my ass and lawrence was just soooo annoying with his fire bs

I feel weird when people say Fume Knight is the hardest DS2 boss. I beat him solo first try. Same with Orphan for Bloodborne. DS2's hardest boss for me will always be Aldia. Like I just cannot be bothered fighting him. When I summon to help for him it makes me hate everything when he spawns in. Bloodborne for me is Defiled Chalice Amygdala or Laurence. Also personally Friede's hardest phase is the second one and still I haven't lost to her ever. DS3 is Midir and that is for the sheer fact of fighting him in the early DLC days. Let's just say I took less attempts to kill Malenia or Maliketh than him.

dude sister friede by FAR gave me the most trouble of all bosses in ds3 bro i was stuck on her for like 3 days

Fume Knight is far and away the hardest boss in the game imo, ancient dragon is the only thing that came close to giving me as much trouble as FK, and even that paled in comparison to my attempts at fume. Burnt Ivory King really isn’t very hard once you get the mirrors sealed, and I feel given that there’s a very intentional and probably developer intended way to fight BIK, Fume Knight really takes the cake for DS2.

Kalameet made me lose my sanity in my sl1 run

I haven‘t even beaten most of the later bosses of Elden Ring without Spirit Ashes as most of my playtime was spent on restrictive low to mid level characters with half-upgraded gear for Invasions and considering my skill I might not be able to solo Malenia at all. A really fun if very challenging one to beat was Mogh on RL60/+12 Weapons. It felt barely doable for a long time until I killed him on around the 20th try… Only to die to bleed myself right after, resetting the fight. At that point he had become my mortal enemy and with a few more attempts, poison, frostbite and bleed I barely made it through the Splatoon phase for a Stance Break finish. He might not be the hardest boss but he was the hardest one I beat in what felt like a fair fight.

My first playthrough of Elden Ring Malenia took me 106 tries and about 5 hours over the span of 4 days. But my 2nd playthrough only took about 30 tries - and to me her entire difficulty boils down to Waterfowl Dance. She would literally be the easiest Demigod, aside from Godrick, if she didn't have that stupid move. Despite that, I still think NG+ onwards Laurence is the absolute most infuriating boss Fromsoft has created. I despise Laurence so much.

@4:19 that sound killed me 😂😂

Honestly most of the time in almost every franchise the quote on quote "Strongest" or "Hardest" boss isn't what beats my ass generally it's so other boss or hell every once in a while it's the easier ones

Father Gascoigne is such a sleeper pick, and i fully agree. First time playing I had to change place of my set-up to my bed cuz i just couldnt beat him! Still favorite boss tho :)

I find it funny how Demon's Souls and Elden Ring are the only ones where the title of hardest boss is basically universally agreed upon.

My opinion (from the games I played) Ds1(base game): O&S Ds1 (dlc): manus Ds3: lorian and his incest brother Ds3 (dlc): friedes third phase (first two are pretty easy) Sekiro: demon of hatred Elden ring: malenia and maliketh

IS THAT THE POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON AS BACKGROUND MUSIC?!

I have no hit every boss in Sekiro, except demon of hatred. I have never beaten it without the exploit.

I definitely think sir alonne is harder than Fume Knight. With strafing Fume Knight was a super easy first try.

The orphan took me literally weeks to beat but it only took maybe 20 tries to my then 12 year old kid😅

I've only beated Dark Souls 2, and my personal harder boss was Elana, in every NG I've played the game. I actually only had 1 save in the game, and I got to NG+4 on it, and I never stopped leveling up, so I got every build in just one save, as I had more than enough stats; but I liked straight and great swords overall, specially Artoria's greatsword. So, I don't know if it was me that made the fight against Elana so, so hard, or if she's really the pain in the ass I've had, bringing fucking Velstadt to the arena (and I've never considered Velstadt hard, only in Elana he became annoying). Also, I would say Sir Alonne is quite a challenge. Huge heath, he takes little damage from anything, and if you die, you have *that* runback. Fume Knight is a very good pick, but after the first time you beat him, it may become a casual and fun duel. But the whole Burnt Ivory King gimmick is SHITTY, just because of the burnt knights phase; the King is fine, a very good challenge.

For the games that I’ve played, my personal most difficult would be… DS1: Ornstein & Smough (it’s been a long time since I played, but I actually have not experienced the DLC since I had the OG Dark Souls on my Xbox 360! I’m sure that could change once I play DSR. DS2: As of right now, I haven’t completed the game. I have two Giant Souls after exploring one of the memories and defeating the Ancient Dragon (only took two attempts). I haven’t found many of the bosses to be super challenging yet, but the boss who has killed me the most so far is the Executioner’s Chariot (took me 8 attempts). DS3: Slave Knight Gael, followed closely by Sister Friede. I found Gael to be difficult for my Grim Reaper build, which left me light on armor and damage output, even for my fully upgraded Great Scythe and Friede’s Great Scythe. That and I always choked phase three 😅 Elden Ring: Starscourge Radahn. I just took a long time to learn his patterns 😅 I am only at Leyndell, Royal Capital right now, so I’m sure that will change.

Great vid, now how about a favorite boss from every souls game ?

Owl father and iishin almost made me quit Sekiro but I eventually did it.

Black eye dragon is my favorite dragon fight my boss Tower Knight fume knight soul of cinder radah and german

I died to the demon prince more than any other soulsborne boss, granted, I did the DLCs at the beginning of an NG+ cycle with an ineffective Lorian's Greatsword as my only viable option, but completely stand by them being the toughest in DS3, glad to see someone else agree! would also say Fume Knight is harder than Burnt Ivory King but that's because I refuse to think about fighting the latter without the knights

Friede was BY FAR hardest ds3 boss on my sl1 run

1st try kos?! I'm scared of u. u literally rule my life now, sire

I feel like I am the only one consistently killing father G even on 1 st playthrough but still struggle on cleric beast

ive been on my souls journey for a bit and have ER and ds3(working on dlc) and for me maliketh is harder since he feels unpredictable and any mistake will lead to the giant aoe(hate that move so much) but for malenia i can learn her moves and i can react now is she hard 100% if im rusty shell take me hours but if ive gone through a ng+ itll take me 4 tries( i surprised on that attempt) but either way it depends on how your experience was/is but i think we can all agree that curse rotted greatwood is the worst thing since ds2(currently working on that and on the stupid triple fight in the beginning)

Funny enough on my second play though of sekiro I 2nd tried the Owl (Father) fight and died more times on the divine dragon fight cuz I died twice 😭😭

I've only beaten dark souls 1 and I'm on my second playthrough, and I find Kalameet to not be all that hard. Sure his attacks hit hard, but they're fairly easy to dodge and even if you do get hit, a lot of the time he'll do absolutely nothing for a few seconds after finishing his attack, allowing you to get a rather easy heal. I personally found Artorias to be the hardest on both playthroughs, since He's much faster, there's about 2 times where you can heal (when he's buffing and after the massive jumping attack) and his attacks do a lot of damage and are harder to dodge in my opinion. Good video, good channel

Bloodborne is to date my favorite fromsoft game. Lady Maria killed me more times than any of the other bosses. Still, not even that hot of takes. I can relate to some of them for sure. Great vid

For ds2 I think it's definitely fume knight Note malenia never took me more than 5 attempts and maliketh took like 35 on my first playthrough and radagon was like 20 so I'd say for me malenia is 3rd and I've beaten elden ring with only my fist

Now that I think about it I think the Demon of Hatred would've been a cool design for Lawrence. It has aspects of the cleric beast while not being a reskin

Orphan is always the hardest for me even if I can beat him it takes so long after years

Makena was super easy for me on my first plaything using rivers of blood+bleed arcane build but every playground since after all the nerfs to that build i have struggled so hard with her, basically i would be doing great but if she ever did the dance i knew i was dead, only survived it a couple of times but barely i have no idea how to avoid it, basically the determinating factor to weather i beat her or not is if i can get good RNG and beat her without her doing that attack 😅

Ds1: manus 7/10 difficultly DS2: fume knight 6.5/10 Ds3: friede 9.5/10 Bb: orphan 9.5/10 Sekiro: isshin(1st playthrough) 10/10, but on repeats demon of hatred 9.5/10 Elden ring: malenia 10/10

Gascoigne is for sure a respectable choice, I would've put him higher than a few others tbh

I'm just about to fight shadows of yharnam and the boss I died most to was cleric beast. Gascoigne first try and everything else 2nd try

For Demon's Souls, for whatever reason, the Maneaters gave me the most trouble. But aside from DS2 it's the Souls game I've played the least, so I don't really have a good frame of reference through which to determine a toughest fight in the game. For Dark Souls, it's absolutely Manus the Hand of Fate. Kalameet might take a bit longer just because of his beefy health bar, but Manus is one of those bosses I can't ever seem to wrap my head around no matter how many times I fight him. DS3, definitely Slave Knight Gael. Midir and Sister Friede are close behind, and I can't remember but may have spent more time overall on Midir, but no boss in the game stomped me as quickly and efficiently so many times as Gael. Bloodborne will always be Orphan of Kos, whomstdve is still undefeated in my list of "longest Fromsoft bosses to beat" at over six hours of attempts before I finally took him down. And Elden Ring is of course Malenia, but runners-up are Radagon/Elden Beast and surprisingly Radahn, whom I fought when I think I was relatively low-power comparative to what the game was expecting, so he took me over an hour to finally beat.

Fully agree on Father Gascoigne

I just started playing Elden Ring, so I'm nowhere near Malenia yet, but I'm already scared of her! 😅

So with bloodborne. I bought the dlc qhen I was ng+6 and lady Maria still kicks my ass

Honestly I think the hardest boss in Dark souls is Bed of Chaos. There is no other boss that I have died to as many times, and it’s the one boss where no matter how many times I kill it, I am still almost guaranteed to die at least once. The other thing is depending on RNG it can be borderline impossible to actually make that last jump, if it just decides to do those swipes over and over again sometimes there just isn’t enough time in between to actually make it. Every other boss in dark souls 1 I feel like you at least have a fighting chance on every attempt.

Definitely agree with Owl being the hardest boss in Sekiro. Demon of Hatred never gave me too much trouble, as you can just fight it as a fairly standard challenging Soulsborne boss. But Owl (Father) is just such a hurdle, I think I was close to 100 attempts when finally beating him for the first time. He is optional though, so I think a lot of people may take on him too early. It may be much easier if you fight him after demon of hatred/Isshin when you have more vitality, posture and attack power

I think for me the hardest boss I've fought yet is the Nameless King in Dark Souls 3, that's out of playing Elden Ring, Dark Souls 3, and Bloodborne. Father Gascoigne is not so bad once you match his aggression and parry him, in Bloodborne the hardest for me is Orphan of Kos. In Elden Ring Malenia obviously, but certain weapons make her fight considerably easier.

NG+ is not included in this list, but by far the hardest boss in Demons Souls is NG+ Leechmonger. demons souls and dark souls NG+ functions differently where everything is twice as strong instead of gradual difficulty. Leechmonger can heal faster than you can do damage due to the bigger health bar, especially with a summon

My ranking is fairly standard: DS1: Kalameet DS3: Midir Bloodborne: Orphan of Kos Sekiro: Owl (Father) Elden Ring: Malenia I did have more trouble with Maliketh on my first playthrough, beating Malenia in six attempts, but in subsequent playthroughs without spirit summons I realized just what a wall she is.

DeS: Maneaters DS1: Manus DS2: Fume Knight BB: Laurence DS3: Demon Prince Sekiro: Demon of Hatred ER: Malenia

Why does everyone say you have to be on the meta to beat Malenia? You can use your preferred build. It will be very hard but it's not close to impossible. It took me 74 attempts and I didn't change my build one bit and exclusively used the Magma Wyrm Sword. You just have to learn directional dodging and positioning which Elden Ring really wants you to learn and the other Souls games mostly don't have.

Love to see a ranking of all the dlc bosses in teh franchiase since alot are considered some of the tops and some of the worst

Ive literally never understood why people find the laser Demon Prince to be easier, i always do the fireball storm one

False King Allant - 0 deaths Manus or Ceaseless Discharge (fought CD under level and doing only 50 damage a hit and I had only 850 health with Inosuke build) Smelter Demon (biggest jank on earth) or Sir Alonne (he was just hard) Abyss Watcher 5 deaths or Slave Knight Gael 3 deaths but I had to sweet Kos took 7 deaths but I had to be on my toes Ludwig hard first phase, did most bosses in 1st try ER was jank for me and Malenia was easy for me (non bleed I’m just good at souls games) but dodged never worked (guy refused to dodge) so I say Black Blade Kindred.

Honestly I think that artorias should be harder. No joke I’ve beat ds1 twice and bb once and I’ve died to celestial emissary more times. Yeah, I beat artorias first try both times Edit: oh yeah I find cleric beast harder than papa gasoline Edit 2: and blightttown is one of my favourite areas there’s something wrong with me

For me Isshin and Orphan of Kos are the two hardest bosses in these games I've ever faced in that order I've literally never beat Isshin and I've had Sekiro since it released and I've only beat Orphan once after like 20 attempts.

Ik it’s difficult but you should rank the top 10 of your favorite weapons! You can do it! :)

Yup. Malenia, hands down. She's too much

Predicted your Sekiro picks to a T! Also, I love how your BF is slowly turning into a side character in your videos ❤ …Billy’s boyfriend, the turtle guy!

19:12 bro really just said Malenia’s second phase is easier than the first phase?! WTF! The second phase is like 3 times as hard as the first lol! Her damn scarlet clone attack is nearly impossible to dodge!

Sihn was my hardest DS2 boss. Also am I the only one who thinks Owl father is easier than Great Shinobi owl? He’s just straight up annoying and not fun in that fight.

Omg Malenia can go to hell lol. I abandoned my spear and shield build cause I could not get her river dance ability, I tried for days trying to just learn it and nothing. On my 10th pull after switching to rivers of blood and the clone, I no damaged the entire fight because the two of us stacking bleed damage was so fast that she couldn't do many abilities.

Dark souls 1 : probably Artorias? Either him or Manus, I died around 20 times to both but not sure, Kalameet though because I usually have a shield, I got him on my first try, really depends for everyone Dark souls 2 : while I refuse to finish the dlcs beacause this game is absolutely loathsome, I still have done most of the bosses and for me, sir alonne, mostly because of his boss run, is the hardest Dark souls 3 : I really don't know why but, champion gundyr was for me the hardest of the game, if i get hit once; i'm dead because wombo combo. Nameless king and friede were also challenging but it was still okay For elden ring I'm on my way down the haligtree to where I guess is malenia but ye, haven't yet finished the game. The only challenging boss I have faced yet was radahn so I guess hardest boss?

Great Shinobi owl takes me at least ten tries each playthrough he’s too hard