Ranking 41 Dark Souls 2 Bosses from EASIEST to HARDEST
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- All the bosses of Dark Souls 2 Ranked based on difficulty from the perspective of a first playthrough, SL1 run and Hitless run packed with a bunch of lore and cinematic moments. This is the biggest tierlist ive ever made but is certainly not the last. Let me know know in the comments what your order for Dark souls 2 bosses from easiest to hardest would be and also which game you want to see covered like this next!
#darksouls #challengerun #fromsoftware #soulslike - Hry
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Along Bed of Chaos, Graverobber Trio is my favorite boss in the whole Souls series. It’s a very dynamic and interesting fight, perfectly balanced and crafted, in a beautiful arena. On my regular playthroughs, I usually use at least two bonfire ascetics so I can have fun a little bit longer.
excellent bait
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Eh they don't hold a candle to the GOATSKIN duo tbh
I actually unironically enjoyed graverobber trio :/
@@subhuman1637Same.
Wonderful to see that people are still making DS2 content so many years later even after all the hate DS2 gets.
I love the lore dump that comes with each entry :)
Something that often gets forgotten( or missed ) about Vendrick is that he did manage to solve the curse -> at least for himself ( yes I'm aware that he's hollow , but read on ) . If u get all the kings' crowns to Vendrick ( the memory thing u can access ) he crafts u a helmet that prevents hollowing ; thus making one fully immune to the curse. However Vendrick loved Nashandra and couldn't bring himself to do her harm even tho he was aware of her evil. As such he decided to prevent/put obstacles in Nashandra's path towards her goal and also tore his own soul out of his body ( which is what caused him to hollow ) to be hidden away in a different place ( shrine of amana, where Nashandra can't step in due to songs of Milfinito ) .
Basically Vendrick had the answer, but in his own words 'was not strong enough ( mentally ) to continue on that path and be a true monarch' .
Kid just shut up
@@ramrodbldm9876nah they don't need to.
I beat DS2 more times than I can remember and I don't think I ever knew that a torch keeps the small spiders away in the TDDF fight, lol.
Scholar of The First Sin added that feature, you played that or the original?
@@dc_arni2003 Actually both, but the majority was definitely the original, so that probably explains why I didn't remember it.
*Uses a build with insane DPS*
"Ya Ruin Sentinels are ez, just 4-5 hits"
The dark lurker is pretty self explanatory, it just lurks in the dark. No lore just chillin there in the dark
Naaaah placing The Pursuer as the second easiest is a criminal offense...
First SL1 playthrough and hitless, not casual playthrough
Of course in a casual, pursuer would be mid way through, challenging at first, but really easy once you know the strafes, while congregation and covetous demon would be the 2 easiest
Too easy to cheese. It demands almost no practice to pull it off.
Pursuer is definitely one of those bosses liable to end you if you’re unprepared, but once you know his generous parry timings and where he shows up at. He becomes quite easy.
@@TheSket Yes but second easiest? No chance.
@@dc_arni2003 maybe. I struggled very hard on my first playthrough and then no hit him on my second. He’s just one of those bosses that has a very predictable and easy to manipulate ai’s that just make him very abusable if you’ve got the knowledge
DARK SOULS 2 MENTIONED RAGHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK IS A SUMMON PASSWORD RAHHHH
Thanks so much Squilla for yet another wonderful upload. Really enjoyed the background lore to the bosses before actual tactics.
this was a great video. I really enjoyed hearing all the bits of lore about these bosses.
Very interesting video with all these lore details! Thank you!
Also very interesting to see the difference in experience. I was very surprised to see Magus and Demon of Song so high in the list.
Also Yes iron passage is a bit cluster fucky but it's literally meant to be played ok multiplayer with co op buds. That's why there are 2 paths. U can also summon npcs
Yeah but summoned phantoms will actively make the boss fight worse by reducing your damage. Unless you summon real players that have good builds, but offline it sucks.
So interesting to watch, thank you 😊
Really loved the vid man, a ranking along with some lore is absolutely amazing for me. Basically 2 things i love
Awesome video! The lore, tactics and well thought out reasoning for each boss is such a nice touch, I'd love to see more videos like this.
Love these styles of videos. I love hearing the lore and the strategies to tackle the bosses. And especially with ds2, a lot of the bosses do not feel grand, so it is nice to hear lore that makes them more formidable than they actually are
YAAAYYYYYY RANKING LISTS :D i love ranking lists like this! I hope you will do more! Much love from the east coast! ❤
Hella good video, very informative, love the beautiful lore commentary :)
Awesome Vid!
Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany
Great vid :D really goes dip into the lore; learnt a lot !!
Just about the Ruin Sentinels, 20:45 If I am not mistaken the real human ones were sent to the ringed city where their souls were taken bv the judicator at the entrance of the city, right after the demon prince fight. They weild bows
Yup. Kinda miffs me that of all DS2 armor sets they added to DS3, THAT was one of the like two sets they chose.
I love the one that is a humanoid with a weapon
Cancel me if you want but I think humanoid with a weapon fights are the best fights
Go ahead cancel me I’m just stating my opinion
@etho4576 "I'm just stating my opinion guys, no need to try and cancel me"
"NO ONE IS TRYING TO CANCEL YOU OMGG"
"Well geez.... ig I won't state my opinion since you wanna cancel me so bad"
@@etho4576Cope and seethe
the best fights (in my opinion) feel like duels between two skilled combatants. Giant monster battles are cool until you have to wrestle with the camera.
22 minutes in and I learned two new things about ds2. I thought I knew everything about this one. Gg squil
Awesome video. I've done similar rankings, but from the perspective of the all bosses 0 damage run I routed several years back (and of course never completed), so there were some interesting differences. Darklurker was a big riser in my rankings, because it was often hard to have enough damage before it split into two. Twin pets were another one that was extremely difficult, for very similar reasons, but was a little more manageable. Another one that went way up was Skeleton Lords, cause it was quite risky. And throne duo was another one that was slightly harder, but if you know the fight it's perfectly fine (you still have the damage to kill them while they are reviving). Pretty much everything else just took longer to kill, and wasn't changed significantly on 0 damage in my opinion. Gank Squad still sucked, beginning of Ivory King was rough, and Elana you should have enough damage to kill her during her first summon (though sometimes Velstadt is an asshole and takes a swing at you).
I’m not sure why, but I feel like DS2 is getting a bit of a renaissance and I’m all for it lol
Lore plus rankings? 👌 yes please
Yes sir, I’m ready for this
Video idea: compilation of your best/furthest runs which ended in the worst/silliest way possible.
I love The Pursuer(s), they have so many cool moves, they look sick as hell and the concept of a hunting boss is just awesome.
omg 41:35 the connection between Shulva and Shrine of Amana is crazy, what ive always thought of is that the imperfect have some similarities to demon of song
Having returned to DS2 recently this was a nice surprise ngl.
I love how when talking about gank squad you were so poetic about their lore just to suddenly say they are the most annoying boss fight in the game. I would really prefer to fight bed of chaos tbh
Kinda disagree on that one, i mean... The fact that we can just skip the area and choose not to fight the gank squad is a plus point to me😂
On the other hand, fighting BoC is required to beat the game.
Gank Squad is 100% optional. They're not required to beat the DLC, they don't drop exclusive items, there's nothing beyond them.
Compared to Bed which is mandatory and just drops a humanity. I'd take gankers anyday
id actually put pursuer several spots up, getting in position to get the ballista shots off is actually pretty challenging to learn imo!
I’ve gotta play this one day
Nice timing. I just finally finished DS2. I stopped playing on my first playthrough a few years ago because I didn't like a lot of mechanics.
It's clearly still my least favorite Dark Souls. It's also a shame that 2 (or even 3) of the 4 big bosses of the first half of the game are easy as fck.
You’re wrong. Pursuer isn’t the only fight that has a contraption to use.
Dragon God from DeS also does.
With the skeleton lords I like to use the hex dead again (I believe it's called) to blow up the bodies of dead skeletons. It takes alot of setup and isn't really worth it, just a fun way to use a unique spell.
Weapons that have shield piercing properties like the mail breaker can still kill Freja after both heads are chopped off.
*WE NEED A DARK SOULS 2 REMAKE.*
Or reboot. But honestly remake to fix its problems and improve it.
Easy no. 1 pick, the one and only Fume Knight.
But there is a " easy " very casul strategy : just be overleveled as hell, as one can easily be from farming the giant lord with bonfire ascetics, stack all the meaningfull buffs ( armor + consumables and rings ) use the proper greatshield like a true noob and tank all the hits and chip damage, that is how I did it. By that time late game you should have all of that.
If you can beat Sir Alonne, you can beat Fume Knight. They're both manageable, especially this late in the game. By that point you probably know how to dodge and how to react to boss attacks. The only attack that can catch someone off guard is Fume Knight's very slow swipe with the buffed greatsword. It's so slow that you don't expect it to be that slow the first time you see it.
Embarrassingly enough, I died more times trying to get the Dragonrider cheese than I did actually fighting the Dragonrider normally...
19:42 The theory I heard was that it was a copy of the ornstein we fight in ds1, which ordnstein helped make before searching for the nameless king, that’s being used by the blue sentinels to test prospective members
24:20 considering the dragon shrine exists, I’d say their mounts might be there
29:35 Lorewise I’m pretty sure the lost sinner is the one who restarted/unleashed the flame of chaos beneath eeluem loyce.
38:08 I thought it said somewhere that she cut off her own head to stop it from becoming a monster? Also One theory I’ve heard is that she’s bathing in sindhs poison bubbling up through the earth, which is why she looks draconic, since she’s undergone some form of dragonification
41:45 Slight correction, the archdrake set originated from the drakeblood knights, the invaders of shulva. They definitely could have knowledge of those rituals, but it’s not certain. Also for the whip it might be a representation of its nature instead of its physiology. You can get artorius’s sword from the abyss watchers and they are mostly spiritual descendants
It happened to me I was over levelled when facing Freya, hit the two heads hard continuously without switching sides till they fall off. Tried my best with any weapon and spell or miracle I had but nothing worked. Had to quit out and kill her again while making sure to switch often between the two heads.
If you have a weapon that does chip through shields, like the mail breaker, or maybe the shotel or something, you can deal damage that way.
Basically, Freja is "guarding" with 100% absorption in all elements on the severed head areas, and if you can penetrate that, it does damage.
There is literally no way in hell you put Prowling fucking Magus that high on the list
I love how you mock the Dragonrider just to say later he was meant to be a very important (as a role in the kingdom). It's funny because it's true lol
I really hope we see a DS2 remake ❤️
i allways thught the graverobbers fight was fun, it feels like a goofy running BennyHill type fight.
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Hell yes brother
Scamboli is that you
This was my favorite souls game until I went for 100% After playin the game for so long, you start seeing that the devs used a lot of cheap tactics to make the game artificially hard. Swarms of enemies, ranged attackers everywhere, and questionable hitboxes to name a few. That being said, I still love the atmosphere and lore. Plus, a few boss fights were pretty unique. Great tier list!
Yeah, this Souls is probably the most unfair one of the series. Some stuff is just not ok.
It had lots of good ideas though, and some bad ideas. The execution of these ideas wasn't always good.
Who let bro cook, how is congregation so high up
Wuddup squillz!
Lucatiel's helmet is not specific to her. It's a Mirrah knight helmet. You can fight her brother as a red phantom who wears the same set.
I think someone would not put such effort into a boss tier list if it was an unworthy/bad game.
1:01:22 respect for going after the face
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only info you missed saying is that Sihn has the best music of any boss
Wait how was prowling magus placed so high?
This video is really good for my cat. Thank you.
Did I miss prowling magus?
If you chop off both of freja they grow back to continue damaging it
DS2 way too underrated
The problem with DS2 is that it is just overshadowed by the other, better souls games. Dark souls 1 is a classic, DS3 is nearly flawless and demon souls was the first. DS2 is just in a weird spot where it just lacks what the other games have unfortunately. So maybe the game is underrated, but in the context of a fromsoft game, I think it's properly rated
@@falinkspropaganda4753yeah, DS2 is fairly regarded as the weakest Souls game, but it’s still a great game. It has a ton of flaws and pretty weak boss roster, but it’s got amazing build variety, weapons, fashion, and atmosphere.
@@falinkspropaganda4753 you should go back and play it. Do your best to drop your preconceptions. It’s a fantastic game. Realistically the only problem with it is that the original release is a hot mess. But scholar of the first sin has been out long enough that judging the game on the original release is just intellectually dishonest. Scholar has a vast myriad of challenging fights and environments, a number of technical maneuvers like animation cancels that give a further depth to weapons found lacking in the other souls games, and more unique world mechanics like Pharos lockstones and all the different bonfire burning mechanics. It’s by no means perfect and definitely has some aggravating downsides and a couple downright diabolical sections (looking at you Gulch) but all in all it has a great many upsides that not only get overlooked but I get the feeling they just aren’t known because many in the community go into the game straight up assuming it’s a bad game because of its launch, even to this day! Regardless I do implore you to go back and playthrough the game and try your best not to compare while you play. Just take it for what it is and if you actually do it I think you’ll see what I mean when I say it’s underrated.
@@thrxshx I’m not convinced it’s seen as the weakest for any reason other than a lingering sentiment from a troubled release. I think demon souls is… fine. It labored in relative obscurity even in sections of the souls community until the remake for a reason, ds1 is fine but a number of the major boss fights really don’t live up to the hype for someone who played it after ds3 was released. Ds3 kinda hard to beat though, when you have fights like midir, Gael, lady friede, soul of cinder (being everything gwyn was but better and harder in most every way), pontiff, etc. it makes you a challenge to live up to.
@@TheSketeven if ds1 has weaker bosses compared to DS3, it's still a hell lot better than ds2 imo . I can definitely see demon souls (not the remake) being the worst in the series, but not by a wide margin
Mate how on earth did you put the Sentry, the Pursuer and Najka below the Prowling Magus? How can you actually die to that boss? You have to literally go afk for that.
An update - apparently the ruin sentinels, the chariot, the gargoyles (!!!) and the lost sinner are harder than the Prowling Magus. At this point the author either does not consider the magus as a boss at all (I'd agree) or just trolling. So far it's the lamest tier list I have ever seen.
30:52 No, it is unironically here. Above all those bosses. That's it, dislike and check out, this list is brain dead.
**disagrees on one entry in the list**
"worst list ever"
interesting id have definitely put prowling magus into the first 5 of the easiest bosses and Old Iron King is definitely the easiest old one for me
I'm gonna leave a comment now even if only watched 2min. might uptade it later.
cuz for you the pursuer is the 2nd easiest boss
But man, can you give me your skill ? 🙂
When I was younger, I never managed to beat that guy. My brother was always killing him for me... And even years later, he's still one of the hardest for me to beat 🤣
Most of Pursuer's attacks (dashes and even the grab) can be avoided by sticking to him and walking to his left.
doesnt dragon god technically have a contraption?
The only thing I cant understand on this list is Old Iron King being A tier. Maybe I've just had good luck or my play style is suited to deal with him but I've always thought him to be one of the easiest bosses in the game. I'm not sure if I've ever even died to him before
Yeah I also destroyed him without any problems at all. I guess he may be harder if you go to him earlier than I did.
The Old Iron King's only real tricks are knocking you into the lava, getting you to roll into the lava, and iirc if you touch his hand when he's doing the beam it's and instakill/absurdly high damage.
So like, he CAN get you if you're not careful. Unlike some bosses who will only get you if you put the controller down to take a call or something
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New DS2 player here, can someone recommend an early good strength weapon to help me out lol right now im using the club. (Yes I have playeed every other game)
Imo the greatsword is a good weapon early to late game it is easy to upgrade hits hard and has a cool moveset,
The only downside is that it's pretty slow and you will struggle with fast enemies and in tight spaces.
In undead Wharf near the upper level in the house w the blind creatures, there is a Greatsword in the chest.
honestly the club is p good iirc. It's damage is kinda eh, but it has relatively high counter damage for it's class. After the pursuer you can go the nest behind it and get transported to the lost bastille. After a little puzzle with the blacksmith there, you can get maybe the best basic "hammer" class weapon from him, iirc it has like A str scaling. All of the ultra greatswords are relatively str oriented, and transfusing the pursuers soul from a merchant in the lost bastille is also pretty good and early. The pursuers ultra greatsword also has high counter/instability damage for it's class.
After that, you should just find more decent to good str weapons thru exploration.
Greatsword is awesome and pretty powerful. It has a fantastic poise damage as well so it stuns most enemies.
Old Knight Hammer is a beast since you can get it from the old knights in heide that use it for mid game gyrm great hammer is a beast and later game sacred chime hammer (its a boss weapon so you need to kill the boss first and trade his soul for it)
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Bro Prowling Magus at #17 wtf?! That boss should be at -100000000. Its just a dude and a bunch of hollows.
In Dark Souls 1, in the upper Undead Parish, before the gargoyles, there's a room with one of Seath's goons and a bunch of club hollows.
That room is basically Prowling Magus, but probably harder because you can actually get mobbed
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Don't forget the Balder Knight on the stairs.
Prowling magus is the hardest dark souls 2 boss
Old Iron King in A tier? I know it's your opinion, but what?
How can you possibly be ranking bosses in terms of difficulty then put Old Iron King in A tier? I legitimately don't get it. That fight is trivial.
"based on difficulty from the perspective of a first playthrough, SL1 run and Hitless run"
Imagine thinking the Demon of Song is harder than Ancient Dragon that just 1 shots your ass if you are even remotely out of a specific position.
Ancient Dragon is one of the easiest boss fights if you know the strat. Just hit his toes lol, easiest shit
@@mekacrab Yeah, it's so easy that if you are even the slightest bit out of position over a LONG fight when it attacks you are dead in a single hit. Then you get to run all the way back again and the run sucks too.
@@Rem694u2 how can you be out of position when you can just stay in 2 spots the whole fight ?
@@mekacrab Because when he flies up in the air it blows fire down over 3/4 of the entire area and kills you instantly.
@@Rem694u2 Again, there is an easy strat which consists of just going to where his tail his, or his tail's shadow I guess whenever he jumps.
With the strats he sucks ass
The lost sinner with her pyromancers are the reason I stopped playing this game
Ds2 having horrible bosses besides 3 out of 42 is the reason i could never replay it. The combat overall in this game bores me to death, with enemies using the same 2 moves in a painfully slow and predictable manner
Which is a shame because i actually think ds2 has some really cool level design ( besides the odd transition between zones, like the good ole elevator that brings you to a lava clusterfuck lol)
I'think that the bosses are okay my problem is the run backs to them it is by far the worst aspect of the game , still love it though.
Never understood why Fume knight was this high in so many tier lists ? If you have enough ADP he's a piece of cake. When I did DS2 I was so hype to fight him because everyone was talking about how hard he is and everything... I defeated him within 3 tries. However the 3 sentinels and the gargoyles early... of god
It's not like any of the bosses take more than 3 tries. On my first playthrough the only ones that took more were probably Lost Sinner because I fought her early, and then the graverobbers in sunken king DLC (fuck them).
Fume knight isn't especially hard, but a lot of bosses are worse than him, so him being decent makes him a high ranked boss. He has probably more diversity in his moveset than most bosses.
Nah Gank Squad isn't the worst. They are hella annoying and boring don't get me wrong, but they're still nothing more than 3 NPCs stuck in an elaborate room right after the easiest to skip coop gauntlet of the DLCs.
Lud&Zallen on the other hand... Not only are my nerves already ready to burst after going through the frozen hellhole that is Frigid Outskirts, the boss itself is just crap. Woowee copypasting a boss from the same goddamn DLC except now there are 2 of them and if you can't evade the gank, get ready to be assblasted because Aava's moveset includes nasty lingering hitboxes on the swipe attacks... but now they can overlap with each other if you're unlucky and it's a free 800dmg to the face.
And what pisses me off the most is that Fromsoft didn't learn from that piece of garbage. They did it before with the Maneaters in DeS and again in Elden Ring, plastering unique enemies together that had absolutely no business being together because their movesets weren't crafted to work in tandem. I'll say it, Bed of Chaos is less shit than Lud&Zallen, at the very least BoC has a unique gimmick even if it's awful, Lud&Zallen is pure, unadultered lazyness coated in bullshit.
Lud and Zallen's problem is the walk to the boss. This is bad design. You basically have to walk for at least 3 minutes, assuming you know which way to go in this hellhole and avoiding the fkn harry potter horses.
They dropped the ball on this area, not even putting a closer bonfire.
Lud & Zallen are at least neat because you get to wach Vengarl just butcher two of something that was a pretty good foght for you.
dude, scorpioness Nike awh ? 🤣
its pronounced Nush ka
This sounds like AI
Thank you 🤖
lmao, what a nice compliment