I fucking love Maldron the Assassin. He even emotes on you if you die. It is incredible.

I love using a seed when Maldron runs away and watching him die to the enemies

Maldron is a pain in the ass to fight but for a Phantom he got so much more personality than any other in any souls game that I like his inclusion. Worst in DS2 I probably put Fencer sharron because she seems to have such absurd poise and is tanky for how early she is. The funny thing with Brume tower Maldron is the placement of the chest can easily tunnel vision people to miss him and get backstabbed by him. Holy Knight Aurheim is also amusing becuase he uses a silver talisman to hide as a barrel and backstabs players going for the chest that ironically contains silver talismans. :V

Interesting additional details about Tsorig: The second time you encounter him, he isn't actually a phantom, he's just there for real. There is however a WHITE phantom summon for him up above to help with the Old Demon King if you beat his red phantom form previously. There's nothing stopping you from going down into the ruins with him instead, however. Tsorig is thus not only one of the rare characters that pops up as both phantom types and a non-phantom opponent, but he's the only character I am aware of where you can paradoxically summon his white phantom form to help kill his real form.

As bad as the gank squad is in Bloodborne, the Bloody Raven will forever give me the 1000 yard stare

Oh we all remember Maldron. I remember popping a tree seed after he ran into the pit too, and watch all his would be guards delete his HP. : ) He was the most accurate to an actual tryhard player ever, right down to a fatal flaw to his gimmick.

seeing Maldron appear in this video makes me want him to appear in the Elden Ring DLC somehow. Please. I want him to cause PTSD in DSII players like myself when I see "Maldron the Assassin" while in the middle of the rumored sleep or deathblight swamps.

OMG YES even more useless Fromsoftware rankings for my autistic brain to absorb!!!!! FUCK YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH DEAR MISTER CANDLE TYPE 1A!!!!!

Btw, I realize that the onscreen corrections I included at 26:55 were actually not needed cos I was right the first time. No idea why I did that lol.

“I don’t count Havel since he’s a human NPC” *counts Tsorig’s 2nd encounter even though it’s him as a human and not an invader* Tiny nitpick aside, great content as always brother.

Try fighting Pinwheel on a new character and you will understand why Paladin Leeroy is there. The Pinwheel fight is actually really hard on a base character and Paladin Leeroy makes that fight trivial and then you have the rite of kindling for the whole game!

If you're having trouble with Miriam in the room where they just keep teleporting away you can actually find a ladder in the room and climb up it and do a plunging attack which stops them from teleporting. It's just slightly to the left when you walk in and makes the fight a lot faster and less annoying!

Thing about Scirvir: he runs out of mana eventually and then it's just a normal melee encounter. The phantom in the swamp, though, lives on a couple of tiny islands where a single misstep not only poisons you, but removes your ability to roll.

As bad as Miriam is, she doesn’t hold a candle to Juno Hoslow for me. The absolutely insane damage of Jester Thomas and the BHS/Hunters Bone spam of the Cainhurst Crow. And the shit scented candle on top of the diarrhea cake is the near instant bleed proc if you get comboed.

You might not be able to fight him but Bradley has never let me down. All hail Bradley

When Maldron backstabbed me then proceeded to taunt my dead corpse, I know I found my eternal rivals. He is 100% the best though, no other invader has the personality that he does.

I've got to hand it to Dark Souls 2 they definitely put the most memorable NPC invasion in that game

Maneater Mildred is probably my favorite overall... But that's mainly because the Meat Cleaver is one of my favorite weapons in DS1, and you can get it in like, 5 minutes if you've got the keys

For a potential worst DS3 phantom, I wanna give a shout out to one of the 2 resident parry gods of fromsoftware, Holy Knight Hodrick. I actually really like Hodrick, but he and Moongrum can be annoying for me to fight because of how good they are at parrying.

Ooh, very interesting idea for a list! Can’t wait to cue this one up when I get home later. The quality and quantity of your output continues to impress, as ever : )

These have been some of my favorite battles in the souls/borne genre, Thank you for giving them their respect! Personally I enjoyed the mind flayer ones in Demons souls on the spiral stairs I love using my bow on them and Bloodborne DLC had some really fun ones but that whole Old Hunters DLC is just GOAT. Eileen the crow is sick too idk if she counts but I love her. Phantom Blaidd in Elden Ring is cool too. Great upload man!

Super glad I found this channel. I love your style, informative and funny. Keep up the fantastic work!!

Maldron really plays like I would if I pvp'd (using the environment to my advantage) and because of that, I hate him too :D. That fight in the Loyce area really feels like a true battle over an entire neighborhood instead of just a room.

I hate the yarhargul hunters! It's such an absurdly high difficulty spike compared to the rest of the level, so much so that I have never not cheesed them

Love how you’re keeping these souls rankings fresh

I think my favourite thing about Knight Slayer Tsorig non-phantom encounter is that you can actually summon him as a spirit, backtrack to where he is, and have him fight himself.

My personal least favorite invader in DS3 has to be Holy Knight Hodrick in Undead Settlement, He's got mid-game stats in a early-game area and his fighting style is kinda annoying. After having played DS3 for hundreds of hours now, I simply never die in early game which means I ALWAYS got an ember when running through Undead Settlement, and if I ever dare to go the path leading to the Curse-Rotted Greatwood where there is a Undead Bone Shard he will spawn, and if I remember correctly, while invaded you cant walk inside the elevator room where you meet Siegward. So either I skip the Undead Bone Shard and the boss for later, or I let him invade me and then I kill myself to reset.

You're killing it man! Great upload after great upload.

Great video as usual. I would love to see a video on your thoughts on Fear and Hunger 2

For Dark Souls 2 a dishonourable mention goes to Armorer Dennis in the Forest of Fallen Giants, as you don't have ways to properly counter him at the start of the game with him spamming dangerous spells at range and having a huge magic slash that cuts through shields in melee, the worst part being that he is guarding a stylish hat so doing him as soon as possible is important for fashion souls. You can just ignore him and loot the chest before he reaches you or summon the skeleton room NPC to help, but as a one on one fight its brutal for how early it is.

I would say Mauldron the Assassin was gonna be the best red phantom in DSII. He's pretty dope actually, even in brume tower.

Pure quality mate, gkad ive found you! easy sub

Your videos are non stop bangers man, u deserve 1million subs

Hey man, thanks as always for making these great videos

Finally something to eat food to. I have never seen a single video of anyone rating invasions.

I would have said Mildred over Jeremiah, she isn't hard but it is obnoxious having to fight her in the swamp and by the time you lure her out of the swamp you're already being swarmed by mosquitoes

So, I used poison arrows on Miriam and she was really easy. Wait for her to draw her big magic bow while aiming your very mundane bow and arrow, plug her in the head as soon as it makes her immobile, and once the damage starts ticking, go fix a cup of coffee. Scarlet Rot also works. Really quite easy.

22:39 please never stop making videos

in the fight with Miriam, you can actually use the ladder, she's scripted so that she won't attack or notice you once you go up and won't teleport away after you land near her.

I love Jester Thomas. He’s Tarkus if he did pyromancy. He’s a great summon but was a pain to fight when he invaded.

You are by far the funniest souls KZfaqr on this app!!

I would say that maldron behaves like a real invader, emoting, using the enviroment, rollcatching you, thats why many people would hate it

Great video as always, brother! I bloody hate Maldron. 😂

Y'kno what, I hate invasions, but I do like me an npc invader now and then.

Miriam really isn't an invader, it's the same case as Havel, a human type miniboss. Full of magic and trickery, but still.

I didn't have any trouble with preceptor miriam personally, and it's because I happened to figure out how you're actually supposed to beat her, and I always got confused when people said she was annoying, andtit turns out that no one knows her gimmick. once you go up the elavator, there's a ladder that leads to some rafters, you're supposed to go up to the rafters and then hit miriam with a jump attack, and then she stops teleporting after you do this. alot of people seem to just miss the ladder while it was the first thing I did and I never really had to experience her constant teleporting

Can’t wait for the all souls enemy’s ranked video

I thought this was gonna include npc summons so i was waiting for the Chad Black Iron Tarkus

should specify red phantoms in title since there are other colors as well: yellow, blue, etc

you should do one about best and worst summonable phantoms

Demon souls, skirvir, his phantom is an absolute tank for zero reason.

Cannot believe you did that to the Xanous King

i dont think she is the best but i love anastasia in elden ring it just cracks me up how she invades multiple times and never heals she is just full on aggro the whole time

I didn’t have too much trouble with Miriam because I chose a Faith build and blasted her with Frenzied Burst

rip Blaidd, he was a good boi

That guy that help you with laurence is the best

I used a giant's seed on Quicksword Rachel and aggro'd everything in that room 10/10 would recommend

You don’t actually fight ostrava you actually fight his father, his father being the one who fought him wounding him enough for him to die right after you talk to him

my pick for best invader in DS3 is Holy Knight Hodrick. parry king grandpa is the goat purely by how hard he bullies new players

Mauldon would be both my most loved & most hated, love hate relationship with him but he always makes me laugh

Whenever someone would invade me(the avoidable kind) i just exit out the application and restart it 🤣

22:40 mauldron how I love your aggravating ass, honestly I think he’s one of my favorite’s for a couple reasons, number 1 is in his first appearance he’s called an assassin, and shows his cowardly colors, needing to use sneaky tactics to kill you, but 2, when he appears in eleum loyce, by that point in the game you should be familiar with how the systems work, when have you ever found a white phantom that you didn’t summon? Nonetheless that false sense of security lulls many of us into an early death but the best part about him is that in both of his encounters if you use good tactics, you can get him, if you pull the lever and he isn’t dead, he runs and hides behind a mini boss, and will gank you there as well, so whenever facing mauldron, remember this strategy, slap him around a bit, or use ranged attacks until he’s started to run, parrying the lance is very easy once you get the timing down, as like 90% of his attacks are parryable (if not all) then, once he’s running for his life, just watch him go, until he stops somewhere, unless you’ve scouted ahead, he’s gonna be surrounded by enemies, then simply pop your seed of a tree of giants, listen to the clashing of steel for a few seconds, and he’ll be gone, I also advocate for this method against Vorgel the sinner, and other similarly difficult characters (gank fights largely)

DS2 invaders are more dangerous than most bosses in the game and the other souls games

Only ten seconds in but sure it will be great content, as usual

I went through a playthrough where I was attempting to gather every item and Leroy thought it would be a magnificent idea to just roll off the cliff 😐

In my opinion choir member in bergenwerth is way more annoying than the trio since at least you can do a merry go round with the stairs and have cover. Also micholash is a hunter and he is the worst fight.

Tsorig is fun because you can make him fight himself.

Sad the NG+ invasions aren't included. I feel like they add to the experience.

You had the left/right hand correct the first time. :)

Knight Slayer is BY FAR the worst in DS3. His 'encounter' in Carthus is DS2 levels of busted.

Good luck fighting ds2 npc invader without poise damage

DS2 phantoms were my favourite tbh

That dlc invader in ds3 i use lothric knight great sword and 2 handed havies to cheese him

Candel can you rank the words of the soulsborne

Ds2 phantoms are scary man

Based Paladin Leeroy enjoyer

killer7 ost 🤩

They shouldve just made sir wilhelm a full boss

maldron is straight up cheating. as he can use estus as an invader, in Dark Souls 2. maldron is fucking awesome. gestures. taunting. running away to heal. playing like an absolute scumback. he also throws acid bottles the lil dickhead. he has so much shit going for him in both areas. there is also the prowlers who invade as a team of 6. those are some scumbacks too. also personally love the invader in the ivory crown that invades you and uses the item to hide himself and tries stalking you disguised as a piece of furniture. DS2 had some of the best invader interaction out of all the souls games, non can compare to this. forlorn still being able to keep invading you after you cleared all the areas is what made it feel like the world was actually alive for once.

Top Three Ss in "Demon's Souls" all getting pronounced fully

i am sad that SoTFS brings in the unique character invaders because most of them are just annoying. But all of the original invasions and even the Forlorns from SoTFS are great imo. I just dislike the ones that were designed by players (i forgot if that was the case, correct me if i'm wrong)

That intro tho

Why does the text pop up during the Villhelm review? You got the hand right, and the text is wrong.

Maneater Mildred, hubba hubba 😍

lmao at the text correcting vilhelms weapons in each hands even though he literally said it correctly and the text is wrong????

Isnt Madara twin a invader

Royal Sorcerer Navlaan anyone?

Orin of the Water for sekiro?

Dude you are farming me for views harder than i farm bloodstone chunks. 😂

42:47 Actually here was elementary since she did not really had a place to run away to. At least for me. I flattened her in the middle of the room

Ur soooo funy bro 😂😂😂💀💀💀💀

who thinks havel is a phantom??? i have never heard this in all my years. hes clearly not a phantom

I hated bloodborne but brador is by far my favorite invader of any fromsoft game. Bro gave me access to the best beast gear in the game, was the start of me getting the beast claw and finally being able to have fun in that shit game

the absolute mad lad, he keeps at it