I liked Genichiro because he helped show progression, he was incredibly hard at the beginning, a challenge in the middle of the game and a push over at the end
Genichiro is a brilliant boss, he has a ridiculous amount of moves, he can chain almost everything, and yet all his strikes are telegraphed to the point where once you learn him, you can read everything he throws at you in an instant. Favorite move has to be the one where he combos into either the sweep or the thrust, I still get caught by that occasionally.
Dark Souls Rankings: 4:40 Asylum Demon 5:22 Bed of Chaos 5:37 Bell Gargoyles 7:17 Capra Demon 7:42 Ceaseless Discharge 8:31 Centipede Demon 10:20 Chaos Witch Quelag 14:42 Dark Sun Gwyndolin 15:47 Demon Firesage 19:50 Black Dragon Kalameet 24:44 Four Kings 26:17 Gaping Dragon 28:04 Gravelord Nito 28:35 Great Grey Wolf Sif 32:05 Gwyn, Lord of Cinder 33:38 Iron Golem 36:59 Knight Artorias 41:00 Manus, Father of the Abyss 42:34 Moonlight Butterfly 48:00 Ornstein and Smough 49:31 Pinwheel 52:53 Sanctuary Guardian 54:27 Seath the Scaleless 57:43 Stray Demon 58:04 Taurus Demon 1:03:47 Crossbreed Priscilla Dark Souls 2 Rankings: 0:00 Ava the Kings Pet 1:04 Aldia 2:22 Ancient Dragon 5:58 Bellfry Gargoyles 6:29 Burnt Ivory King 8:56 Gank Squad/ Afflicted 11:29 Covetous Demon 13:59 Darklurker 16:52 Demon of Song 20:11 Dragonrider 21:04 Elana, the Squalid Queen 22:01 Executioners Chariot 23:14 Flexile Sentry 25:26 Fume Knight 27:33 Giant Lord 31:44 Guardian Dragon 37:40 Looking Glass Knight 38:27 Lost Sinner 39:33 Kings Pets Lud and Zallen 42:59 Mytha, Baneful Queen 44:25 Nashandra 46:00 Old Dragonslayer 47:13 Old Iron King 51:06 Prowling Magus 51:31 The Pursuer 51:56 Royal Rat Authority 52:37 Ruin Sentinels 53:05 Scorpioness Najka 54:45 Sinh, the slumbering dragon 55:02 Sir Allone 56:27 Skeleton Lords 56:57 Smelter Demon 58:38 Dukes Dear Freja 59:00 The Last Giant 59:16 The Rotten 1:00:06 Throne Defender & Watcher 1:00:54 Dragon Riders 1:02:34 Veldstat, the Royal Aegis 1:02:27 King Vendrick Dark Souls 3 Rankings: 0:19 Abyss Watchers 1:49 Aldrich, Devourer of Gods 2:57 Ancient Wyvern 9:24 Champions Gravetender & Greatwolf 9:59 Champion Gundyr 11:57 Crystal Sage 12:26 Cursed Rotted Greatwood 13:16 Dancer of the Boreal Valley 15:17 Deacons of the Deep 17:52 Demon Prince 20:34 Dragonslayer Armour 32:43 Halflight, Spear of the Church 33:14 High Lord Wolnir 35:45 Ludex Gundyr 38:56 Prince Lothric & Lorian 41:35 Midir 43:17 Nameless King of the Storm 44:59 Oceirous, the Consumed King 45:37 Old Demon King 50:31 Pontiff Sulyvhan 55:41 Sister Friede & Father Ariandel 56:35 Slave Knight Gael 57:13 Soul of Cinder 1:02:49 Vordt of the Borreal Valley 1:03:34 Yhorm the Giant Demon Souls Rankings 0:33 Adjudicator 3:26 Armor Spider 17:55 Dirty Colossus 19:09 Dragon God 22:23 Flamelurker 24:13 Fools Idol 35:57 King Allant (Final) 36:37 Old King Allant 37:26 Leechmonger 39:50 Maiden Astraea 40:17 Maneater 43:51 Storm King 46:33 Old Hero 47:48 Old Monk 48:19 Penetrator 49:01 Phalanx 1:00:22 Tower Knight 1:01:31 Vanguard Demon Sekiro Rankings 3:59 Armored Warrior 11:15 Corrupted Monk 16:13 Demon of Hatred 18:27 Divine Dragon 23:46 Folding Screen Monkeys 26:51 Genichiro Ashina 29:45 Great Shinobi Owl 30:03 Owl Father 30:40 Guardian Ape 32:28 Gyoubu Oniwa 34:07 Isshin Ashina 34:26 Sword Saint Isshin 37:13 Lady Butterfly 1:00:35 True Corrupted Monk Blood borne Rankings 1:04:10 Amygdala 1:04:31 Blood-Starved Beast 1:04:55 Celestial Emissary 1:05:35 Cleric Beast 1:06:03 Darkbeast Pearl 1:06:21 Ebreitis, Daughter of the Cosmos 1:07:21 Father Gascoine 1:07:57 Gehrman, the First Hunter 1:08:21 Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower 1:08:48 Laurence, the First Vicar 1:09:27 Living Failures 1:10:04 Ludwig the Accursed/Holy Blade 1:10:49 Maneater Boar 1:11:24 Martyr Logarius 1:11:41 Mergos Wet Nurse 1:11:51 Micolash, Host of the Nightmare 1:12:12 Moon Presence 1:12:59 The One Reborn 1:13:25 Orphan of Kos 1:14:32 Rom, the Vacuos Spider 1:14:48 Shadows of Yharnam 1:15:01 Vicar Amelia 1:15:14 Witch of Hemwick 1:15:41 Yharnam Pthumerian Queen Note: Bear with me, this will take some time to complete Edit: There. It is complete now. Let me know if there are any mistakes or if I missed something.
Yeah, you're literally two chads who have survived until the end of time, and you have the the blood that he needs so that his niece can create a new, lonely world, where it only saves a single being. Fucking metal.
Let's be honest about our man's pinwheel here. Only reason that he's a joke is because people usually fight him after Anor Londo. If you go fight him early, there's a good chance that you don't even make it out of the catacombs. And if you get cursed down there early on, then may as well start a new game.
I maintain that Ancient Wyvern would have been really well liked by the community if it didn't have a boss healthbar. It's a pretty cool level hazard, but when viewed through the lens of "boss fight" it is really bad.
yea I agree, I honestly enjoyed the havel fight more than the wyvern and hes a miniboss also, I think through the scope of miniboss or level hazard it would be great.
Yeah I can agree. I think it'd work well in the way of like, idk, sort of "minibosses" of Dark Souls? Like, those enemies which don't actually have a boss healthbar, but challenge you almost as much.
@@gun_exe8387 Havel fight in DS3 sucks balls. He somehow has poise turned on. You can wear his armor and still get staggered by a hollow's rusty dagger but when he wears it, he's playing with DS1 rules. Literal horseshit.
You're clearly supposed to do the plunging attack, but it being a one hit kill is kinda lame. It should be like the asylum demon where it does MASSIVE damage but you still have to finish him off. Fighting him on the ground the whole time is cancer, but killing him by pressing r1 once is lame.
Sword Saint Isshin is literally like Cerberus, he's blocking your escape from the fantastic hell that is Sekiro and he's ready to serve you a four course meal of whoop-ass.
@@darkmario3321 he's a huge skill check but the win is so rewarding. you can immediately jump into a NG+ and everything feels easy and does from that point forward. it's great.
Honestly he was pretty easy after owl father and I didn’t really fun the fight very enjoyable either since his third phase where he uses a spear I don’t find enjoyable at all as I just don’t find spear enemies fun. Owl father and even ishiin ahsura blow sword saint out of the water
Dragonslayer armour kinda underrated tho, you can feel the power in his attacks and that makes it so satisfying to dodge I dont like the butterflies however
The tension when he two-hands his axe and starts grinding it against the ground as he come towards you is fantastic. Probably my fave attack to dodge in a souls game :D
I'm so glad he put Guardian Ape (Sekiro) in S tier. This boss single handedly trolled millions of players when he stood up after the "Shinobi Execution" message. Well played FromSoftware devs.
I don’t think there is a single boss in gaming history that has made more people quit a game half way through. You don’t understand how many people I know quit Sekiro because of guardian ape
@@murvi4363 you can actually party the majority of the guardian apes attacks. The boss that fucked me was the demon of hatred. He felt like a Bloodborne boss tbh.
Skeleton Lords is S tier. No other boss captures the essence of three immortal beings just having a goofy time together. Just a bunch of guys being dudes.
Here's the funny thing about Pinwheel, he's designed as an early game fight. So, if you do the catacombs around the same time you would be doing the Gargoyles or Quelaag, he'd actually be a tough fight, but by virtue of not needing to go to the Catacombs until late game, he's relegated to a joke boss because you're fighting an early game boss in late game.
I got ds1 off a friend, no advice, went straight to catacombs not knowing what to do. Got royally fucked and is the reason i sunk thousands of hours into the games.
@@andrewbird7364 I also went to catacombs first but the skeletons outside and everywhere that I did no damage to deterred me, went to try catacombs, then went down to valley of drakes and new Londo, then finally found the burg
@@randomcrusader5632 see I should've done the same but my mate had told me how hard the game was so I just thought this was what he meant n grinded my way to pinwheel
Isshin Ashina being in B tier is upsetting. His side step, Emma, and one mind make him one of the best bosses in Sekiro, Especially at that point in the game.
Yeah, hearing him say that Isshin Ashina didn't do anything cool was weird; the guy's final phase is full of anime-style slash-flurries and fire waves. I'm not gonna deny that he had an easy time against Isshin Ashina, but to say that Isshin doesn't do anything interesting seems disingenuous.
Midir is an S tier for me, its just such a feat development wise to see how far dragon bosses have come, and hes just really cool. The only thing i hate about midir is that you cant revive him like judicator Argo
I think he’s seems a lot better since every other dragon boss in the souls games aren’t very good, he and kalameet are the only ever good ones, not counting gaping dragon
@@unluckygamer692 I'll never get this argument, he is a DLC boss, which are known for their massive health pools, he's a giant dragon so it makes sense, and he also is weak as hell, taking 2x damage to the head, incredibly weak to lightning and has an almost guaranteed stagger for 10% of his health
Father Gascoigne is by far, the best introduction boss to a game, ever imo The lore, the sudden spike in challenge, and just the boss design in general is absolutely fucking amazing
Father gascoigne beat my ass multiple times in my first playthrough. Died like 10-15 times before i finally beat him. Thats the boss i died the most to throughout the entire game
Abyss Watchers is a definite S for me. Tells a whole story and the soundtrack is my fav. Not to mention, you get one of the coolest weapons in the game for killing them.
Nothing makes me more nostalgic than abyss watchers DS3 was my first souls game and abyss watcher made a man of me Great cutscene awesome fight phenomenal theme
@@legobatmanthevideogame3194 dont l1 spam, if you don’t braindead spam it’s actually really good for PvE and PvP. In PvE it gets wolfblood buff so 20% extra damage to bosses like midir, and in PvP you can roll catch with the l1, but people use it too much. Not near a bad weapon.
Aldritch is awesome because of something I didn't realize until like a year later. Aldritch is not the thing you are fighting. Aldritch is the floor. The black sludge all over the arena is Aldritch, and he just has his big sludgey tentacle up inside Gwyndolin's corpse manipulating him like a finger puppet. So gross. So dope.
Yeah Aldrich has mental lore behind him, tho tbf a lot of things do. Pontiff's lore is sick aswell, pretty intertwined with Aldrich which isn't a surprise since they're fairly close to eachother. But tbh I felt Aldrich's fight a little disappointing, not to do with the difficulty, cos I found him difficult, but it didn't have the same charm or rhythm to it that I felt other bosses have imo
Aldrich is my favorite boss for lore and one of my least favorites to fight. He really only has 1 attack that is worrisome, but it's absolutely broken.
Micholash gets a lot of hate, which I understand, but just hearing him howl never fails to make me laugh. He's just a goofy goober, and I respect that. And learning that you can just shoot him to stop "a call beyond" makes a huge difference.
Apparently you have to do this really fast for it to cancel, as I tried it the other day and got blasted and insta-killed. I figured out a pretty easy way to cheese him too. If you have auger of ebrietas and a semi-fast melee weapon, you can usually keep spamming r1 and then use your auger immediately before you run out of stamina. This should allow your stamina bar to fill up, and you can resume r1 as soon as he gets up. With a decently leveled character, repeating this process will have you ending this fight without a scratch very quickly.
I remember struggling with Aldrich so much that I finally caved and summoned a helper. Saw the guy had a pyromancy flame but didn't think much of it before going through the fog door. The mad lad killed Aldrich before I could even run across the room to hit him. Melted him with some OP pyro shit. I found my own sun, and he melted my enemies.
I enjoyed a lot of the bosses in Sekiro because it felt super satisfying to learn and master their move set. Pulling off the lightning counter against Genichiro and Isshin was especially fun.
I remember fighting blood starved beast and I had terrible aim with the cocktails, so I had to farm fire papers from the map to stand a chance in the fight. One of my favorites for sure.
I've finally gotten to orphan of kos and I'm really struggling. Definitely the hardest boss I've faced for sure. Tried a few different strategies but still struggling. One day I'll beat him and then I'll feel great
The music was horrible, completely unremarkable. That's honestly what ruined it for me, that and his second phase ranged attacks putting a halt to the entire fight. If you get bad RNG and he starts spamming that shit back to back, it becomes a laughingstock of a fight. You'll just be doing the same exact shit dodging it for a whole minute.
@@celestialblade9895 He's actually not that hard. I just keep seeing people make the mistake of dodging away from him, possibly because his screams and those loud slams seem more threatening than they really are. One well placed dodge to his left gets you behind him 95% of the time, often enough so for a charged heavy into a backstab or another charged heavy.
@@TheStraightestWhitest his theme is one of the best in the game. It's one of the most emotional in bloodborne and when he reaches second phase it really starts to get good. Maybe you didn't hear it entirely over orphans constant screeching which would be fair
this was by far the best soulsbourne boss tier list vid ive seen because charlie (and the editor) actually showed clips of the bosses he was talking about
@@kwamemwangs2173 a random dragon boss in the DLC with basically no lore lmao okay. clearly you haven't played all the souls games, you could have just said that instead of trying to start an internet argument ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@SolemnVisitor midir is S tier based on the fight alone. Fucking screw the lore for any and every boss. What I care about is how cool the fight and boss itself are. Midir feels like how dragons should feel, and that alone makes it S tier since no other games ever manage to get a dragon right. Lady maria just has the most swag/cool fight there is, with the best back and forth dance rhythm pattern in the series. Gael fight is the end of the series and the end of the world, with only you 2 being left on earth, 2 nobodies, and you fight anyways. That shit is cold as ice. And gaels fight is very entertaining. Easy yes. But entertaining nonetheless
Bloodborne will always be my favorite Soul game. Story, lore, the setting/environment, characters, combat mechanics, weapons, bosses, and the music, are incredible. Absolute masterclass of a gaming experience.
@@TCT24 Guy, just imagine a game that has learned to do everything right, excluding all possible mistakes of its predecessors, tons of variety and literally the best collection of hits of this developer. Everything is done masterfully, for me personally it is already a masterpiece. (Except optimization, lol, I hope they fix everything soon)
@@LuM4rex I don’t find elden ring that amazing, it’s too easy, summons, magic, and bleed just make the game so god damn easy, and the worst part is that they are always the most fun to have with you, because killing melenia first try is always a slight boost.
The funny thing about the Jerma Pinwheel death is that he didn't die to him on his actual playthrough, but died to him as a regular enemy in a randomizer he did Edit: Nevermind lol, apparently he never even died to him. I've been a fan for like two years and I just found out.
Can’t believe Kalameet didn’t have a bigger impact on you. They build him up HEAVY during the DLC, the cutscene with Gough shooting him down is badass, and at that point he was the best dragon boss in the series.
The run up to ancient dragon (ds2) is fine, BECAUSE youre supposed to do single duels against the enemies. 90% of them leave you alone if you only attack the single guy who comes near you.
And after u do single duels the first time you can just run through for all the retries. Watching his ancient dragon runs was so painful seeing true to just run past everything
I don't know about you, but on my last and only playthrough of Dark Souls 2, the run up to the Ancient Dragon was hell, because every enemy wanted to kill me. Mind you, I only went after the ones that went after me.
Actually The Last Giant is pretty cool when you realize its the Giant Lord from the memory. He has all the swords and stuff shoved in him as the soldiers were so angry at him when they beat him they kept shoving their weapons inside him. The reason it gets mad and attacks you when you enter the boss room is because it remembers you killing him from the past.
The fact that it's called "Soulsbourne" when there was only ever one bloodborne and SEVERAL Dark Souls tell you right away that Bloodborne was the GOAT. Cleric Beast is so memorable because of the music tbh.
Nah. OG DS1 Is still the best imo, BB sometimes feels too depressing for me, just constant blood and gothic darkness, while DS1 has that true spark that makes it stand out from the other 4. Maybe it is just nostalgia though as it was the first game I played out of the series.
Genichiro is the best soulsborn boss. I loved how you felt powerless at the start against him, but at the end you just demolish him. Nothing changes but how you've grown over the course of the game. Just genius
@@trevorveillette8415 yeah but you don't use them against genichiro, you just blast through him. I mean if you're using spirit emblems and getting hit that's basically a wipe because of the ishin sword saint fight. The only real difference is attack power and some skills like mikiri. But even if you were given those at the start you would fail, and if they were taken away at the end you would still win.
Four Kings is highly underrated, it's truly terrifying fighting them under leveled because they're relentless in their attacks. The arena is completely blacked out and messes with your perception, the music is fucking ominous, if you're not fast enough you'll get overwhelmed, the magic attacks seek you out endlessly, there's just so much i could say about these lads.
honestly its just a dps check if your dps is too low they will spawn too fast and overwhelm you and if you do have good dps then they are just a joke of a boss. attacks are very straight forward without much to think about but the area is cool.
My strategy was literally just to stand right in front of em, dont bother dodging and beat the shit out of em. Worked alot better than trying to finesse them...
Midir is really good and definitely the best dragon boss in the series I’d say my third favorite of ds3 behind gael and twin princes. Genichiro I used to think was trash because on my first playthrough I adapted to sekiro combat rather quickly so he was a pushover but when I did the ashiin run and did way less damage I realized the fight is really good when he has an actual good amount of hp. The same thing happened to me with lady Maria I used a weapon on my second playthrough because it was cool but didn’t have the stats for so she had way more health and became really great when I didn’t think she was that good originally. It’s crazy how some bosses can go from mediocre to amazing just by being a little tougher.
I loved the Rom fight it’s such a crazy change from the first half of the game, it’s arena is so cool as well and has a pretty decent challenge plus the lore around her is awesome like all the other bosses in Bloodborne. Also the music is so otherworldly sounding and fits perfectly, along with how many spiders can appear on screen in a cluster gives a slight creepiness to the whole thing. But still a great list!
I gotta say they are kinda generous with the Orphan of Kos' hitboxes. So many times that just looks like it hits you and you go "how did that not hit?" It's by far my favorite boss and he aint even that hard buts its such a cool boss. S+ in a tier of his own
Even if he's extremely hard, he's still an absolute top tier boss. Idk, I just, don't think that the challenge they pose shouldn't be a factor for the quality of the boss, mainly because like, it varies from player to player depending on skill level, as well as other factors. I think lore should be a bigger factor than challenge posed. Which is why I didn't agree with the Yhorm ranking, I think Yhorm is an absolute spectacle of a boss fight, even if it is easy.
Well it's an RPG. Different builds will have easier time with certain fights and vice versa. Crystal Sage (who's otherwise a pushover) is one of the hardest fights in DS3 for a sorcerer build for example.
Midir is my favorite boss in all of souls. The first time fighting him feels like fighting a titan of a creature, and I think his monstrous health bar adds to that effect. His moves are insanely punishing (especially the one where he stands on his hind legs and breaths fire underneath him). And the satisfaction of getting that riposte towards the end is awesome. Easy S tier for me.
the ornstine and smough ranking made me so happy cause theure my favorite bosses in the game aside from the sister friede bosses those are my two favorites of all time
Taurus Demon deserves an A in my book, because of the way it teaches you the mechanics of the fight. The first run, you run straight out onto the bridge and as soon as he comes out and you're getting ready, got your shield up? You get shot right in the fuckin back, and it's not long til that spells the end for you. So on the next run, you immediately turn around and see that ladder, so you climb up and fuck those doods up! Then you realize, "Hey! Wait a minute... THE PLUNGING ATTACK!" On top of that, it's the first REAL boss, and most definitely the first boss that will make you feel that dread from not wanting to deal with the run back to it after losing. Great boss.
And then you set up the plungin attack, trying to aim it for too long so you wouldnt miss, and get 1 hit K0-ed because he decides to jump up there with you.
It's weird how the first two bosses teach you the plunging attack like it's the key to beating the game or something then later you never use it in a boss fight and barely ever use it outside of bossfights. But Taurus Demon jumping up on the tower with you after a while is absolutely brilliant.
It’s funny because statistically speaking it was my hardest boss as I had like at least 50 tries on him. When ur new to souls and start off with ds1, Taurus demon is the perfect introduction to the mechanics and overall difficulty ur gonna experience, it’s supposed to be challenging ONLY to noobs and boy does it play that role well
Dancer is my favorite boss in the entire series, easily. The design, the animations, the setting the music, and the difficulty not only make it one of the best in the series, but also incredibly unique. The way she almost swims through through the air as she walks like some kind of land based shark, or sea monster is insane, and very surreal. The rest of the animations are god tier. And her design is maybe my favorite in the series. Combined with the fact that she’s either insanely hard or very doable based on knowing the fight, and that she sets the arena on fire progressively during the second phase of the fight makes her just the best imo.
Can’t wait to see the updated version of this list with the bosses from Elden Ring. Full Grown Falling Star Beast if you fight him on foot instead of on horseback is such a fun boss and the design is incredible!
Genichiro might be the best idea From Soft had. Mind you, he's not the best boss, but the fact that they put him in the game 3 times, making him nigh unbeatable at first, a challenge in the middle and then a complete joke at the end shows progression. Furthermore, Genichiro is the first bossfight that really teaches you how combat is different in Sekiro. You're meant to Deflect, to feel the rhythm of the fight, to know when to push your advantage ( when he pulls out his bow for instance ) and attack. I can almost fight Genichiro blind, because I know that after 2 hits from me he's going to deflect and attack, and then -I- deflect and attack with my 1-2, making the fight a really enjoyable dance.
@@SolemnVisitor I wouldn’t say that, he’s played through them all multiple times and not only that but there are hundreds of them. It’s perfectly plausible that he forgets some.
I'd definitely consider Celestial Emissary and Rom the Vacuous Spider among the worst bosses, because the only thing that makes them difficult is that they're constantly surrounded by an army of smaller enemies. The worst part is that they're still not actually that hard, so they're just annoying to fight for artificial reasons and they'd be embarrassingly easy without their backup.
The only boss I like more is gael though I love them both for the same reasons being they’re super fast paced humanoid bosses with a ton of moves. Gael manages to be a little above for me just because the finality of it being the last boss in dark souls
@@francesco3588 I found gael and orphan of kos pretty easy but they’re just so fun to fight I couldn’t really care about the difficulty when fighting them to be honest
I put Old Demon King in A because of the hidden animation and situation if you let him explode, then he just sits there, unable to get back up due to a last ditch attempt.
Maria, Gehrman, Gascoigne, and all the npc enemy hunters are all a joy to fight, you get to see the range of customization and fighting style in the game since you can acquire all their weapons and abilities
Coming back to this vid as I play through the souls games and I can relate to all the bosses I didn’t know previously😂 playing Ds2 now I’ve played Ds1 DeS & Bloodborne so far
Soul of Cinder and Gwynn get better the more you pay attention to the lore and setup of the bosses. Every die hard fan melted the first time they heard Gwynn's soundtrack when fighting the Soul of Cinder and you definitely felt the power of his charge when mimicing Champion Gundyr or the moves of Ludwig from Bloodborne it is one hell of a fight. It didn't hit the note with casual players or just speedrunnerts because the fight itself is not that hard and I definitely think that at least 3 phases was the way to go for the final boss of the original game. For the reasons above it didn't get as much credit as it should have but the atmoshphere, the music, the place making you feel like you are at the end of your long journey, the feeling that he is not even a lost soul just an amalgamation of everything that is within the Dark Soul. I can go on and on, it is just great!
same. I don't mind the gimmick fights at all and honestly kind of wish there was more of them. a lot of dark souls 3's bosses are excellent but are so similar they kind of overshadow each other. like dancer is good, but is completely outdone by pontiff, an earlier fight, so dancer's fight suffers in that regard. I think my favorite fight from vanilla ds3 is like lothric or abyss watchers. neither are particularly challenging but I really liked the gimmick of having the little brother revive lorian and cast magic during phase 2, and abyss watchers phase 1 was a cool way to represent the lore in the fight. it was way more interesting than if it had just been 2 more solo humanoid with roll catch combos. I think bloodborne hit a sweet spot for me personally of having many interesting and good bosses that were diverse and unique from each other
The Dancer's combos are far more varied and complex than Pontiff's attacks. And Pontiff's AI gets completely overwhelmed if you circle around his back or parry his attacks. Furthermore, if you wanna talk about bosses with similar movesets, Pontiff and Lothric's sword swings are far more similar than Pontiff and Dancer's.
I feel like FromSoft's newer games are increasing with the quality of bosses. Sekrio had so many memorable boss fights and the mechanics just complimented it even more, they really immersed you into the battles. I'm thinking Elden Ring will push it even further, altho I'm only a few hours in.
when crystal sage makes clones of herself you can tell which one is the real one by the color of attacks they fire the real one fires purple while the fake ones fire ice
I think Elden Ring is going to be a mix of II and III when it comes to bosses. Many of the main bosses will be swift, aggressive and well-designed like many of the main Dark Souls III bosses, whereas a lot of the smaller dungeons will have simple, weak bosses for the sake of it like in Dark Souls II, although they probably will get better and smaller in number yet higher in quality further in the game.
I usually go to fight Pinwheel at the very start of the game and he's really tough at that level and it's hell getting in and out of there without the Lord Vessel.
Whenever I think of souls games I always seem to brush past Sekiro (because how different it is from the others). But after replaying it for the first time, and after watching this tier list, I'm reminded of how high quality the main bosses of these games are. Such a large pool of well designed, main story bosses.
Midir isn't actually blind btw his eyes are just really small. It's the same thing with how Kalameet's eyes are too small to realize he doesn't just have the one big one
For sl1 Quelaag, you actually have potential access to Raw Reinforced Club +5 which can dish out actual damage, and also the pyromancer set + Flash sweat which lets you tank 2 explosions and Iirc tank her entire sword combo.
No need to tank anything even - either stand next to her head where is the sword combo safe spot or just roll back and wait till she starts to puke for safe pew pew. There are much worse fights to do on SL1.
Dang bro dark souls 3, bloodborne, and sekiro are the games with the pinnacle of bosses. On top of that the dlc for each game is the pinnacle of each game. Honestly though I played every dark souls without realizing 1 and 2 had the dlc for free because the way to get to them is so obscure I didn’t even know I had it
Bruddah, same, I fought Midir for the first time in my ng+ cycle and I saved him for last because I thought he'd be a sick boss and I was not disappointed, unfortunately my first attempts were when I had burnt myself out on dark souls after going through the whole game again and fighting Gael and Friede for the first time, came back to Midir a few months ago as I was aiming to get all the achievements in DS3 and I figured why not finish what I started, can not tell you the absolute euphoria I had when I finally beat him for the first time
I never beat him personally. A fight that takes 15 minutes and the fact that you can get one-shot don't combine well for me. It becomes a test of endurance more than anything. Friede, Demon Princes, Gael and even Nameless King to a degree have this problem but Midir is the tankiest by far, making it the most concentration/endurance-testing one.
It's a bit sad that he didn't talk about the story Chalice Dungeons, the ones you have to fight to get all the trophies, Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen was a fun fight. Those guys were some of the harder bosses imo
I liked Genichiro because he helped show progression, he was incredibly hard at the beginning, a challenge in the middle of the game and a push over at the end
I love genichiro. I think hes the best boss in the game. His midgame fight is such a skill check. Get good or get stuck.
genichiro is one of my all time favorite bosses. gen ashina absolutely destroyed me and taught me how to play the game
Genichiro was my roadblock and stopped me from beating the game. I went back last summer and when I finally beat him, it was such a sensation.
Genichiro is a brilliant boss, he has a ridiculous amount of moves, he can chain almost everything, and yet all his strikes are telegraphed to the point where once you learn him, you can read everything he throws at you in an instant. Favorite move has to be the one where he combos into either the sweep or the thrust, I still get caught by that occasionally.
@@No-wh4hs why do you keep linking this guys channel trying to get him hate ?
Dark Souls Rankings:
4:40 Asylum Demon
5:22 Bed of Chaos
5:37 Bell Gargoyles
7:17 Capra Demon
7:42 Ceaseless Discharge
8:31 Centipede Demon
10:20 Chaos Witch Quelag
14:42 Dark Sun Gwyndolin
15:47 Demon Firesage
19:50 Black Dragon Kalameet
24:44 Four Kings
26:17 Gaping Dragon
28:04 Gravelord Nito
28:35 Great Grey Wolf Sif
32:05 Gwyn, Lord of Cinder
33:38 Iron Golem
36:59 Knight Artorias
41:00 Manus, Father of the Abyss
42:34 Moonlight Butterfly
48:00 Ornstein and Smough
49:31 Pinwheel
52:53 Sanctuary Guardian
54:27 Seath the Scaleless
57:43 Stray Demon
58:04 Taurus Demon
1:03:47 Crossbreed Priscilla
Dark Souls 2 Rankings:
0:00 Ava the Kings Pet
1:04 Aldia
2:22 Ancient Dragon
5:58 Bellfry Gargoyles
6:29 Burnt Ivory King
8:56 Gank Squad/ Afflicted
11:29 Covetous Demon
13:59 Darklurker
16:52 Demon of Song
20:11 Dragonrider
21:04 Elana, the Squalid Queen
22:01 Executioners Chariot
23:14 Flexile Sentry
25:26 Fume Knight
27:33 Giant Lord
31:44 Guardian Dragon
37:40 Looking Glass Knight
38:27 Lost Sinner
39:33 Kings Pets Lud and Zallen
42:59 Mytha, Baneful Queen
44:25 Nashandra
46:00 Old Dragonslayer
47:13 Old Iron King
51:06 Prowling Magus
51:31 The Pursuer
51:56 Royal Rat Authority
52:37 Ruin Sentinels
53:05 Scorpioness Najka
54:45 Sinh, the slumbering dragon
55:02 Sir Allone
56:27 Skeleton Lords
56:57 Smelter Demon
58:38 Dukes Dear Freja
59:00 The Last Giant
59:16 The Rotten
1:00:06 Throne Defender & Watcher
1:00:54 Dragon Riders
1:02:34 Veldstat, the Royal Aegis
1:02:27 King Vendrick
Dark Souls 3 Rankings:
0:19 Abyss Watchers
1:49 Aldrich, Devourer of Gods
2:57 Ancient Wyvern
9:24 Champions Gravetender & Greatwolf
9:59 Champion Gundyr
11:57 Crystal Sage
12:26 Cursed Rotted Greatwood
13:16 Dancer of the Boreal Valley
15:17 Deacons of the Deep
17:52 Demon Prince
20:34 Dragonslayer Armour
32:43 Halflight, Spear of the Church
33:14 High Lord Wolnir
35:45 Ludex Gundyr
38:56 Prince Lothric & Lorian
41:35 Midir
43:17 Nameless King of the Storm
44:59 Oceirous, the Consumed King
45:37 Old Demon King
50:31 Pontiff Sulyvhan
55:41 Sister Friede & Father Ariandel
56:35 Slave Knight Gael
57:13 Soul of Cinder
1:02:49 Vordt of the Borreal Valley
1:03:34 Yhorm the Giant
Demon Souls Rankings
0:33 Adjudicator
3:26 Armor Spider
17:55 Dirty Colossus
19:09 Dragon God
22:23 Flamelurker
24:13 Fools Idol
35:57 King Allant (Final)
36:37 Old King Allant
37:26 Leechmonger
39:50 Maiden Astraea
40:17 Maneater
43:51 Storm King
46:33 Old Hero
47:48 Old Monk
48:19 Penetrator
49:01 Phalanx
1:00:22 Tower Knight
1:01:31 Vanguard Demon
Sekiro Rankings
3:59 Armored Warrior
11:15 Corrupted Monk
16:13 Demon of Hatred
18:27 Divine Dragon
23:46 Folding Screen Monkeys
26:51 Genichiro Ashina
29:45 Great Shinobi Owl
30:03 Owl Father
30:40 Guardian Ape
32:28 Gyoubu Oniwa
34:07 Isshin Ashina
34:26 Sword Saint Isshin
37:13 Lady Butterfly
1:00:35 True Corrupted Monk
Blood borne Rankings
1:04:10 Amygdala
1:04:31 Blood-Starved Beast
1:04:55 Celestial Emissary
1:05:35 Cleric Beast
1:06:03 Darkbeast Pearl
1:06:21 Ebreitis, Daughter of the Cosmos
1:07:21 Father Gascoine
1:07:57 Gehrman, the First Hunter
1:08:21 Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower
1:08:48 Laurence, the First Vicar
1:09:27 Living Failures
1:10:04 Ludwig the Accursed/Holy Blade
1:10:49 Maneater Boar
1:11:24 Martyr Logarius
1:11:41 Mergos Wet Nurse
1:11:51 Micolash, Host of the Nightmare
1:12:12 Moon Presence
1:12:59 The One Reborn
1:13:25 Orphan of Kos
1:14:32 Rom, the Vacuos Spider
1:14:48 Shadows of Yharnam
1:15:01 Vicar Amelia
1:15:14 Witch of Hemwick
1:15:41 Yharnam Pthumerian Queen
Note: Bear with me, this will take some time to complete
Edit: There. It is complete now. Let me know if there are any mistakes or if I missed something.
Legend
Absolute legend
You dropped this 👑
I'm in love with you
King 👑
Honestly, Gael should have a tier of his own, his lore and the boss fight are soooo good
Yeah, you're literally two chads who have survived until the end of time, and you have the the blood that he needs so that his niece can create a new, lonely world, where it only saves a single being. Fucking metal.
His boss fight gets our down due to how agonizing it is to fight the boss due on a high ng, like PLEASE THE HP I DONT WANNA TAKE 3 HOURS
@@lynxboi6157
Just do the Storyteller staff cheese, easy win on NG+7 and up.
@@lynxboi6157 just get good bro
@@lynxboi6157 the health is perfect in my opinion mainly cause even with a greatsword you have opportunities to hit him like 2 or 3 times
Father Gascoigne has one of the best themes in Bloodborne too, I'm glad you put him in S
Agreed
i listen to the bloodborne soundtrack at work
And he's one of the more fair fights he doesn't have any bullshit to him
why do i always see your comment at the top of every video i watch
the ENTIRE Bloodborne ost is the best theme lmao
50:10 I like how Jerma didn't even die a single time to Pinwheel his chat just gaslit everyone into believing he did even Jerma himself.
Lmaoooo is that true? I legitimately believed it to the point of associating Jerma with pinwheel every time I hear of him
@@welltaco1833 czcams.com/video/MWz-jMrF4Mc/video.html See for yourself my guy.
Let's be honest about our man's pinwheel here. Only reason that he's a joke is because people usually fight him after Anor Londo. If you go fight him early, there's a good chance that you don't even make it out of the catacombs. And if you get cursed down there early on, then may as well start a new game.
@@jornavyr2459 Tbh, I beat him pretty early in the game- even first try but getting to him was actually 10 times as hard as the boss fight itself, lol
@@Lampyboy he died to a pinwheel like once in his randomizer run that's where it comes from
This mans ability to mispronounce the names of half the bosses will never cease to amaze me
Some are fair, like pronouncing alonne like alonny, especially when friede isn’t freed
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
he said ornstein and smog
Especially the ones that are said in game
the one specifically caught my attention was 'Maunus'. I always pronounce it like 'Man-us' or 'Man-oos', but never 'Maunus'.
Crystal Sage does have a tell. The real Crystal Sage has purple magic, her clones use blue. But it's best to just whack them all, IMO
Its a her? I thought the sage was a dude
@@russian_knight the crystal sage which you meet on the road to the cathedral is a woman. The crystal sage in the grand archives is a man.
People don't know that..?!?
Depends on your build if you run a slow strength build might wanna just go for the main sage but with a dex build it’s better to kill them all
Also I thought all the 18+ things were for the lady crystal mage pornography or something...
I maintain that Ancient Wyvern would have been really well liked by the community if it didn't have a boss healthbar. It's a pretty cool level hazard, but when viewed through the lens of "boss fight" it is really bad.
yea I agree, I honestly enjoyed the havel fight more than the wyvern and hes a miniboss also, I think through the scope of miniboss or level hazard it would be great.
Yeah I can agree. I think it'd work well in the way of like, idk, sort of "minibosses" of Dark Souls? Like, those enemies which don't actually have a boss healthbar, but challenge you almost as much.
@@cosmic2750 luckily they seemed to understand this in Elden ring
@@gun_exe8387 Havel fight in DS3 sucks balls. He somehow has poise turned on. You can wear his armor and still get staggered by a hollow's rusty dagger but when he wears it, he's playing with DS1 rules. Literal horseshit.
You're clearly supposed to do the plunging attack, but it being a one hit kill is kinda lame. It should be like the asylum demon where it does MASSIVE damage but you still have to finish him off. Fighting him on the ground the whole time is cancer, but killing him by pressing r1 once is lame.
Sword Saint Isshin is literally like Cerberus, he's blocking your escape from the fantastic hell that is Sekiro and he's ready to serve you a four course meal of whoop-ass.
Still havent beat sekiro yet and am not excited to fight him lmao
@@darkmario3321 you should its actually a fun as hell fight
@@darkmario3321 he's a huge skill check but the win is so rewarding. you can immediately jump into a NG+ and everything feels easy and does from that point forward. it's great.
@@darkmario3321 he is unironically the most interesting to fight and mechanically hard boss in any souls game, and it isn’t even remotely close
Honestly he was pretty easy after owl father and I didn’t really fun the fight very enjoyable either since his third phase where he uses a spear I don’t find enjoyable at all as I just don’t find spear enemies fun. Owl father and even ishiin ahsura blow sword saint out of the water
Dragonslayer armour kinda underrated tho, you can feel the power in his attacks and that makes it so satisfying to dodge
I dont like the butterflies however
For real, the way the ground shakes every time he slams his weapon down is dope. And the soundtrack for his fight is one of the best imo.
Yeah tbh, if the butterflies weren't there, Dragonslayer would be an absolutely amazing boss.
The tension when he two-hands his axe and starts grinding it against the ground as he come towards you is fantastic. Probably my fave attack to dodge in a souls game :D
Dragonslayer Armour is top tier without being overly complicated or too tanky. He doesn't have a third health bar or anything, just a badass fight.
My first time fighting him I thought the dragon above him was the boss I was shocked when I instantly lost all my health to a boss I DIDDNT even see
I'm so glad he put Guardian Ape (Sekiro) in S tier. This boss single handedly trolled millions of players when he stood up after the "Shinobi Execution" message. Well played FromSoftware devs.
One of my favorite fights in the game. I love his second phase
I don’t think there is a single boss in gaming history that has made more people quit a game half way through. You don’t understand how many people I know quit Sekiro because of guardian ape
@@bigsmall2842 really??? He’s hard but he’s not “quit the game” hard
@@chiefinasmith The thing was that the game forces you to learn parries and then throws Guardian Ape at you which is more like a Dark Souls boss
@@murvi4363 you can actually party the majority of the guardian apes attacks. The boss that fucked me was the demon of hatred. He felt like a Bloodborne boss tbh.
Skeleton Lords is S tier. No other boss captures the essence of three immortal beings just having a goofy time together. Just a bunch of guys being dudes.
Fair, but I haven't played DS2 in a good year and a half so I can't really have an opinion.
gigachad statement
Boys will be boys
Skeleton Lord's theme is also S tier.
boss is garbage
Here's the funny thing about Pinwheel, he's designed as an early game fight. So, if you do the catacombs around the same time you would be doing the Gargoyles or Quelaag, he'd actually be a tough fight, but by virtue of not needing to go to the Catacombs until late game, he's relegated to a joke boss because you're fighting an early game boss in late game.
I got ds1 off a friend, no advice, went straight to catacombs not knowing what to do. Got royally fucked and is the reason i sunk thousands of hours into the games.
@@andrewbird7364 I also went to catacombs first but the skeletons outside and everywhere that I did no damage to deterred me, went to try catacombs, then went down to valley of drakes and new Londo, then finally found the burg
@@randomcrusader5632 see I should've done the same but my mate had told me how hard the game was so I just thought this was what he meant n grinded my way to pinwheel
He is kinda easy even if you go sl1, though
@@sirocox5297 yeh but those skeletons on the way hit hard as fuck your first time
Isshin Ashina being in B tier is upsetting. His side step, Emma, and one mind make him one of the best bosses in Sekiro, Especially at that point in the game.
Did he even fight that version of Isshin? He must not have if he ranks him simply as B.
boo hoo
Bro the side step is so fking cool. The first time I was like "did he just swag dodged my attack?"
Yeah, hearing him say that Isshin Ashina didn't do anything cool was weird; the guy's final phase is full of anime-style slash-flurries and fire waves. I'm not gonna deny that he had an easy time against Isshin Ashina, but to say that Isshin doesn't do anything interesting seems disingenuous.
@@Icecreammac1 Exactly!!!
Dude just swings his sword and the entire arena bursts up in flames... he's amazing. A tier for me
I love how Jerma never even died to Pinwheel, but it's become so ingrained in streamer culture lol
czcams.com/video/TvBZMXyri0A/video.html WW3 RUSSIAN MESSAGE!!!!
Midir is an S tier for me, its just such a feat development wise to see how far dragon bosses have come, and hes just really cool. The only thing i hate about midir is that you cant revive him like judicator Argo
nah i disagree I think people tend to overhype him just cus his bossfight is pretty hard but thats just my opinion
@@driftingthroughthisplace5898 yeah he just has a massive pool of HP, but he's nowhere near as fun as Gael imo
I think he’s seems a lot better since every other dragon boss in the souls games aren’t very good, he and kalameet are the only ever good ones, not counting gaping dragon
@@unluckygamer692 well like moist said he's a gigantic dragon so having hella hp only makes sense right?
@@unluckygamer692 I'll never get this argument, he is a DLC boss, which are known for their massive health pools, he's a giant dragon so it makes sense, and he also is weak as hell, taking 2x damage to the head, incredibly weak to lightning and has an almost guaranteed stagger for 10% of his health
Slave Knight Gael, Ludwig the Holy Blade and Sword Saint Isshin are my SSS tier favorite bosses of all the time
Father Gascoigne is by far, the best introduction boss to a game, ever imo
The lore, the sudden spike in challenge, and just the boss design in general is absolutely fucking amazing
Ye he was sick
Iudex Gundyr was better IMO.
@@MobyDrip agreed, I like Father Gascoigne as a boss more, but as an first boss Iudex is the best in all of souls
Father gascoigne beat my ass multiple times in my first playthrough. Died like 10-15 times before i finally beat him. Thats the boss i died the most to throughout the entire game
@@MobyDrip there’s no way you believe that.
Abyss Watchers is a definite S for me. Tells a whole story and the soundtrack is my fav. Not to mention, you get one of the coolest weapons in the game for killing them.
Nothing makes me more nostalgic than abyss watchers
DS3 was my first souls game and abyss watcher made a man of me
Great cutscene awesome fight phenomenal theme
Maximum fun strat:
->Beat Abyss Watchers before Deacons
->Get their weapon
->Whirlwind your way through the Deacons
One of the worst weapons of the game lol
@@legobatmanthevideogame3194 dont l1 spam, if you don’t braindead spam it’s actually really good for PvE and PvP. In PvE it gets wolfblood buff so 20% extra damage to bosses like midir, and in PvP you can roll catch with the l1, but people use it too much. Not near a bad weapon.
Aldritch is awesome because of something I didn't realize until like a year later. Aldritch is not the thing you are fighting. Aldritch is the floor. The black sludge all over the arena is Aldritch, and he just has his big sludgey tentacle up inside Gwyndolin's corpse manipulating him like a finger puppet. So gross. So dope.
Yeah Aldrich has mental lore behind him, tho tbf a lot of things do. Pontiff's lore is sick aswell, pretty intertwined with Aldrich which isn't a surprise since they're fairly close to eachother. But tbh I felt Aldrich's fight a little disappointing, not to do with the difficulty, cos I found him difficult, but it didn't have the same charm or rhythm to it that I felt other bosses have imo
That makes sense, since he's a God eater by name lol
Aldrich is my favorite boss for lore and one of my least favorites to fight. He really only has 1 attack that is worrisome, but it's absolutely broken.
@@averymccoytarnished6782 Completely agree man
Aldrich is a really good boss but I often forget because of how good all the bosses in ds3 are it gets a bit overhsadowed
nice to see good ol' charles doing tier lists again. I missed this series aaaa
This swarm of bots holy shit
Micholash gets a lot of hate, which I understand, but just hearing him howl never fails to make me laugh. He's just a goofy goober, and I respect that. And learning that you can just shoot him to stop "a call beyond" makes a huge difference.
wait WHAT I had no idea
Yep didn’t know that
Apparently you have to do this really fast for it to cancel, as I tried it the other day and got blasted and insta-killed. I figured out a pretty easy way to cheese him too. If you have auger of ebrietas and a semi-fast melee weapon, you can usually keep spamming r1 and then use your auger immediately before you run out of stamina. This should allow your stamina bar to fill up, and you can resume r1 as soon as he gets up. With a decently leveled character, repeating this process will have you ending this fight without a scratch very quickly.
Micolash is the Dev's "we do a little bit of trolling"
@@xlumxsy5082 i hated that guy his way of talking got me to lower the voice to 0
I remember struggling with Aldrich so much that I finally caved and summoned a helper. Saw the guy had a pyromancy flame but didn't think much of it before going through the fog door. The mad lad killed Aldrich before I could even run across the room to hit him. Melted him with some OP pyro shit.
I found my own sun, and he melted my enemies.
Aldrich is weak to fire so yeah it hurts him a lot
I enjoyed a lot of the bosses in Sekiro because it felt super satisfying to learn and master their move set. Pulling off the lightning counter against Genichiro and Isshin was especially fun.
Can't wait to watch Charlie's playthrough of Elden Ring. Will be an absolute treat & pleasure to watch 😌
Not a single human is in this thread despite their being 7 comments (other than this.) These bots are getting out of hand.
First non spam reply
@@highground3521 Almost dude, I beat you to it myself by seconds😂😂 These bots are getting out of pocket.
Nothing but bots Lmao. CZcams would rather remove dislikes though. 💀
@@calmdownbruh8518 CZcams is ran by a set of troglodytes, that's why this shit happens 🗿
I remember fighting blood starved beast and I had terrible aim with the cocktails, so I had to farm fire papers from the map to stand a chance in the fight. One of my favorites for sure.
Orphan of Kos should have his own tier, such a challenging but fair fight and the music is so good.
Orphan and Gael are both SS tier in my opinion.
I've finally gotten to orphan of kos and I'm really struggling. Definitely the hardest boss I've faced for sure. Tried a few different strategies but still struggling. One day I'll beat him and then I'll feel great
The music was horrible, completely unremarkable. That's honestly what ruined it for me, that and his second phase ranged attacks putting a halt to the entire fight. If you get bad RNG and he starts spamming that shit back to back, it becomes a laughingstock of a fight. You'll just be doing the same exact shit dodging it for a whole minute.
@@celestialblade9895 He's actually not that hard. I just keep seeing people make the mistake of dodging away from him, possibly because his screams and those loud slams seem more threatening than they really are. One well placed dodge to his left gets you behind him 95% of the time, often enough so for a charged heavy into a backstab or another charged heavy.
@@TheStraightestWhitest his theme is one of the best in the game. It's one of the most emotional in bloodborne and when he reaches second phase it really starts to get good. Maybe you didn't hear it entirely over orphans constant screeching which would be fair
this was by far the best soulsbourne boss tier list vid ive seen because charlie (and the editor) actually showed clips of the bosses he was talking about
Honestly I think Gael, Friede, Maria and Isshin deserve a tier of their own... Just that good.
Can’t forget midir as well
@@joeystarr1273 Midir?? You smoking crack?!
@@SolemnVisitor midir is s tier don't even bother to respond
@@kwamemwangs2173 a random dragon boss in the DLC with basically no lore lmao okay. clearly you haven't played all the souls games, you could have just said that instead of trying to start an internet argument ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@SolemnVisitor midir is S tier based on the fight alone. Fucking screw the lore for any and every boss. What I care about is how cool the fight and boss itself are.
Midir feels like how dragons should feel, and that alone makes it S tier since no other games ever manage to get a dragon right.
Lady maria just has the most swag/cool fight there is, with the best back and forth dance rhythm pattern in the series.
Gael fight is the end of the series and the end of the world, with only you 2 being left on earth, 2 nobodies, and you fight anyways. That shit is cold as ice. And gaels fight is very entertaining. Easy yes. But entertaining nonetheless
Bloodborne will always be my favorite Soul game. Story, lore, the setting/environment, characters, combat mechanics, weapons, bosses, and the music, are incredible. Absolute masterclass of a gaming experience.
Before that, I preferred DS3 bloodobrne, but Elden Ring made them all.
@@LuM4rex Is Elden Ring really as good as everyone’s making it out to be? I still haven’t played it yet.
@@TCT24 Guy, just imagine a game that has learned to do everything right, excluding all possible mistakes of its predecessors, tons of variety and literally the best collection of hits of this developer. Everything is done masterfully, for me personally it is already a masterpiece. (Except optimization, lol, I hope they fix everything soon)
@@LuM4rex Then I’ll be sure to hop right on that lol
@@LuM4rex I don’t find elden ring that amazing, it’s too easy, summons, magic, and bleed just make the game so god damn easy, and the worst part is that they are always the most fun to have with you, because killing melenia first try is always a slight boost.
The funny thing about the Jerma Pinwheel death is that he didn't die to him on his actual playthrough, but died to him as a regular enemy in a randomizer he did
Edit: Nevermind lol, apparently he never even died to him. I've been a fan for like two years and I just found out.
@zuygj bnsv just started it, the first two mandatory bosses are just as good 👍
Can’t believe Kalameet didn’t have a bigger impact on you. They build him up HEAVY during the DLC, the cutscene with Gough shooting him down is badass, and at that point he was the best dragon boss in the series.
@Kurotetsu My guy have you played DS3 the ringed city? I haven't but I can say Placidusax and Fortissax are amazing dragon bosses
@@bigsmall2842not in the lore
The run up to ancient dragon (ds2) is fine, BECAUSE youre supposed to do single duels against the enemies. 90% of them leave you alone if you only attack the single guy who comes near you.
And after u do single duels the first time you can just run through for all the retries. Watching his ancient dragon runs was so painful seeing true to just run past everything
you can also easily run through, the only probably is the door, which you just bait an attack before you open
@@reckermikhailian1200 eh. Just fighting the big guys 1 time is way easier and less rng dependant
Sure doesn't make the boss itself any good though lol
I don't know about you, but on my last and only playthrough of Dark Souls 2, the run up to the Ancient Dragon was hell, because every enemy wanted to kill me.
Mind you, I only went after the ones that went after me.
Elden Ring is gonna slap, here’s hoping those bosses are gonna be on S tier level with all of the big boys
Well it's great so far as I've played
Bro these bots what, they have like nanosecond response times.
It’s out and good game
@@jazzyjeff7515 how? It still says 9 hours for me
@@gumbomanmash6762 well I'm on Xbox so I just changed the location and time zone on the console to New Zealand to get it 13 hours earlier.
24:26 crystal sage's tell is the real one's crystal ball glows purple while the clones glow blue
Actually The Last Giant is pretty cool when you realize its the Giant Lord from the memory. He has all the swords and stuff shoved in him as the soldiers were so angry at him when they beat him they kept shoving their weapons inside him. The reason it gets mad and attacks you when you enter the boss room is because it remembers you killing him from the past.
Doesn't change the fact that it's an ass fight where you don't even see the guy, only his legs.
@@tatri292 true but at least it stays true to the Giant Lord fight LOL
The fact that it's called "Soulsbourne" when there was only ever one bloodborne and SEVERAL Dark Souls tell you right away that Bloodborne was the GOAT. Cleric Beast is so memorable because of the music tbh.
Ikr bloodborne is incredible
actually there were 3 dark souls
@@Walht when did hey say there wasn’t
Nah. OG DS1 Is still the best imo, BB sometimes feels too depressing for me, just constant blood and gothic darkness, while DS1 has that true spark that makes it stand out from the other 4. Maybe it is just nostalgia though as it was the first game I played out of the series.
@@vblegh1620 dey said there several
That black dragon kalameet ranking hurt me emotionally :D He was the toughest dragon fight before midir came in.
The crystal Sage does actually have a tell, he casts purple magic whereas all of his clones cast Blue Magic.
Genichiro is the best soulsborn boss. I loved how you felt powerless at the start against him, but at the end you just demolish him. Nothing changes but how you've grown over the course of the game. Just genius
And the tools you have, health bar too I believe.
@@trevorveillette8415 yeah but you don't use them against genichiro, you just blast through him. I mean if you're using spirit emblems and getting hit that's basically a wipe because of the ishin sword saint fight.
The only real difference is attack power and some skills like mikiri. But even if you were given those at the start you would fail, and if they were taken away at the end you would still win.
Bath salts master splinter is the best way to describe royal rat autority i've ever heard
Somebody should definitely tell Charlie that Ceaseless Discharge is canonically an infant
Ceaseless discharge was my nickname in college
I forgot about that, and now I feel a bit weird about calling him Endless Jizz
This was an amazing stream
Perfect timing, this will help me through the final few hours! 🙏
Four Kings is highly underrated, it's truly terrifying fighting them under leveled because they're relentless in their attacks. The arena is completely blacked out and messes with your perception, the music is fucking ominous, if you're not fast enough you'll get overwhelmed, the magic attacks seek you out endlessly, there's just so much i could say about these lads.
honestly its just a dps check if your dps is too low they will spawn too fast and overwhelm you and if you do have good dps then they are just a joke of a boss. attacks are very straight forward without much to think about but the area is cool.
They would be cool if they weren't just a dps rush. Dps rush bosses instantly go down a few tiers for me.
I’m still scared of that fight
Honestly the main reason I hate that fight is how damn far you have to go to get back to it
My strategy was literally just to stand right in front of em, dont bother dodging and beat the shit out of em. Worked alot better than trying to finesse them...
Pretty agreeable tierlist, but I would’ve bumped Midir and Genichiro to S tier
I want to love Midir but i'm so bad at fighting him lol he's the only boss in the series i've never beaten without a co-op partner
@@DomOfSin666 I love Midir so much, he’s probably my favorite boss in DS3 lol
@@aidenmclaughlin1076 In terms of lore and looks, he's up there. I just need to git gud so I can appreciate his gameplay haha
@@DomOfSin666 Yeah I feel that lmao
Midir is really good and definitely the best dragon boss in the series I’d say my third favorite of ds3 behind gael and twin princes. Genichiro I used to think was trash because on my first playthrough I adapted to sekiro combat rather quickly so he was a pushover but when I did the ashiin run and did way less damage I realized the fight is really good when he has an actual good amount of hp. The same thing happened to me with lady Maria I used a weapon on my second playthrough because it was cool but didn’t have the stats for so she had way more health and became really great when I didn’t think she was that good originally. It’s crazy how some bosses can go from mediocre to amazing just by being a little tougher.
I was going to ask you on stream for this and it just happend, awesome :D
I loved the Rom fight it’s such a crazy change from the first half of the game, it’s arena is so cool as well and has a pretty decent challenge plus the lore around her is awesome like all the other bosses in Bloodborne. Also the music is so otherworldly sounding and fits perfectly, along with how many spiders can appear on screen in a cluster gives a slight creepiness to the whole thing. But still a great list!
It definitely marks the shift from the first part of bloodborne being more of a traditional, gothic style of horror to full on cosmic horror.
Charlie should try Inner bosses from Sekiro too, Inner Father being a lot of fun
I gotta say they are kinda generous with the Orphan of Kos' hitboxes. So many times that just looks like it hits you and you go "how did that not hit?" It's by far my favorite boss and he aint even that hard buts its such a cool boss. S+ in a tier of his own
Even if he's extremely hard, he's still an absolute top tier boss. Idk, I just, don't think that the challenge they pose shouldn't be a factor for the quality of the boss, mainly because like, it varies from player to player depending on skill level, as well as other factors. I think lore should be a bigger factor than challenge posed. Which is why I didn't agree with the Yhorm ranking, I think Yhorm is an absolute spectacle of a boss fight, even if it is easy.
The best things about the bosses is that the one that kicks your shit in feels easy to other people and vice versa.
Well it's an RPG. Different builds will have easier time with certain fights and vice versa. Crystal Sage (who's otherwise a pushover) is one of the hardest fights in DS3 for a sorcerer build for example.
Midir is my favorite boss in all of souls. The first time fighting him feels like fighting a titan of a creature, and I think his monstrous health bar adds to that effect. His moves are insanely punishing (especially the one where he stands on his hind legs and breaths fire underneath him). And the satisfaction of getting that riposte towards the end is awesome. Easy S tier for me.
Same, did he list Midir?
@@darianlafontaine7660 Yeah he put him in a tier
@@timklafke4712 What tier? Please be more specific.
@@McAllu a tier
Midir my problem is the stupid fire attack that shoots down, it’s so annoying.
‘She’s inspired by Friede,’ look at the release dates of the two games.
This was the reason I came to the comments was very confused
@Kiranaa^3💦 Meth head bot spotted
Ancient Wyvern is awesome too when he moves his head after you jump so you have to run all the way around again
Oh godddddddd
the ornstine and smough ranking made me so happy cause theure my favorite bosses in the game aside from the sister friede bosses those are my two favorites of all time
Having them all arrayed out like this makes me appreciate FromSoft's effort into making these games all the more.
Taurus Demon deserves an A in my book, because of the way it teaches you the mechanics of the fight.
The first run, you run straight out onto the bridge and as soon as he comes out and you're getting ready, got your shield up? You get shot right in the fuckin back, and it's not long til that spells the end for you.
So on the next run, you immediately turn around and see that ladder, so you climb up and fuck those doods up! Then you realize, "Hey! Wait a minute... THE PLUNGING ATTACK!"
On top of that, it's the first REAL boss, and most definitely the first boss that will make you feel that dread from not wanting to deal with the run back to it after losing.
Great boss.
the fight is over in about 20 seconds so i wouldn’t say quite A
And then you set up the plungin attack, trying to aim it for too long so you wouldnt miss, and get 1 hit K0-ed because he decides to jump up there with you.
It's weird how the first two bosses teach you the plunging attack like it's the key to beating the game or something then later you never use it in a boss fight and barely ever use it outside of bossfights. But Taurus Demon jumping up on the tower with you after a while is absolutely brilliant.
It’s funny because statistically speaking it was my hardest boss as I had like at least 50 tries on him. When ur new to souls and start off with ds1, Taurus demon is the perfect introduction to the mechanics and overall difficulty ur gonna experience, it’s supposed to be challenging ONLY to noobs and boy does it play that role well
Dancer is my favorite boss in the entire series, easily. The design, the animations, the setting the music, and the difficulty not only make it one of the best in the series, but also incredibly unique. The way she almost swims through through the air as she walks like some kind of land based shark, or sea monster is insane, and very surreal. The rest of the animations are god tier. And her design is maybe my favorite in the series. Combined with the fact that she’s either insanely hard or very doable based on knowing the fight, and that she sets the arena on fire progressively during the second phase of the fight makes her just the best imo.
Can’t wait to see the updated version of this list with the bosses from Elden Ring. Full Grown Falling Star Beast if you fight him on foot instead of on horseback is such a fun boss and the design is incredible!
True i love where the fight takes place to it feels like you found a legendary Pokémon
Lol the tier list would be quite long then
Genichiro might be the best idea From Soft had. Mind you, he's not the best boss, but the fact that they put him in the game 3 times, making him nigh unbeatable at first, a challenge in the middle and then a complete joke at the end shows progression.
Furthermore, Genichiro is the first bossfight that really teaches you how combat is different in Sekiro. You're meant to Deflect, to feel the rhythm of the fight, to know when to push your advantage ( when he pulls out his bow for instance ) and attack. I can almost fight Genichiro blind, because I know that after 2 hits from me he's going to deflect and attack, and then -I- deflect and attack with my 1-2, making the fight a really enjoyable dance.
The fact that adjudicator is on a higher tier than abyss watchers is an actual sin
The abyss watchers are so cool.
I respect most of his choices, but Id say a few are quite embarrassing.
Ajudicator is objectively one of the worst bosses in demon souls too lol
Well he had to look up a video of every boss to remember who they were so I think it's safe to say he doesn't know much about Souls
@@SolemnVisitor I wouldn’t say that, he’s played through them all multiple times and not only that but there are hundreds of them. It’s perfectly plausible that he forgets some.
The fact that the E tier has finally been occupied by something puts my mind at ease
I love how u rank your bosses u actually go back n watch the vids most ppl wouldn't do tht
dude geniunely thanks for awesome content. long time fan
I'd definitely consider Celestial Emissary and Rom the Vacuous Spider among the worst bosses, because the only thing that makes them difficult is that they're constantly surrounded by an army of smaller enemies. The worst part is that they're still not actually that hard, so they're just annoying to fight for artificial reasons and they'd be embarrassingly easy without their backup.
orphan of kos is so unbelievably amazing, glad that he's also your favorite boss
The only boss I like more is gael though I love them both for the same reasons being they’re super fast paced humanoid bosses with a ton of moves. Gael manages to be a little above for me just because the finality of it being the last boss in dark souls
@@plugshirt1762 gael is just kinda too easy for me but he's still really cool
@@francesco3588 I found gael and orphan of kos pretty easy but they’re just so fun to fight I couldn’t really care about the difficulty when fighting them to be honest
This is cool i like to see creators opinions in bosses
I put Old Demon King in A because of the hidden animation and situation if you let him explode, then he just sits there, unable to get back up due to a last ditch attempt.
Slave Knight Gael also has the best OST of the whole series including Demon's Souls, Sekiro and Bloodborne imo
Top 5 but I wouldn’t call it the best
Best lore, Best OST, Best vibes, Last boss to end off an amazing trilogy and by far the best one.
Wierd way to say Ludwig.
As others said, top 5 yeah.
No.1 goes to ludwig
Ludwig and Father G ost >>>>
Ocerios, the Consumed King may not be one of the best bosses, but it's easily one of my personal favorites. The voice acting and the lore is superb.
The cut content where he smashes a literal baby into the ground is dark as fuck too.
based oceiros enjoyer
@@bauul. he still kills the baby, just the baby can turn invisible just like Priscilla
Any boss where a baby gets turned into cranberry jam is a solid A tier at the minimum for me
Such a memorable boss the fact he talks throughout the fight and his voice actor is just chefs kiss. (Plus slams baby)
Maria, Gehrman, Gascoigne, and all the npc enemy hunters are all a joy to fight, you get to see the range of customization and fighting style in the game since you can acquire all their weapons and abilities
Even the crow of the vile blood lady
Coming back to this vid as I play through the souls games and I can relate to all the bosses I didn’t know previously😂 playing Ds2 now I’ve played Ds1 DeS & Bloodborne so far
Soul of Cinder and Gwynn get better the more you pay attention to the lore and setup of the bosses. Every die hard fan melted the first time they heard Gwynn's soundtrack when fighting the Soul of Cinder and you definitely felt the power of his charge when mimicing Champion Gundyr or the moves of Ludwig from Bloodborne it is one hell of a fight. It didn't hit the note with casual players or just speedrunnerts because the fight itself is not that hard and I definitely think that at least 3 phases was the way to go for the final boss of the original game. For the reasons above it didn't get as much credit as it should have but the atmoshphere, the music, the place making you feel like you are at the end of your long journey, the feeling that he is not even a lost soul just an amalgamation of everything that is within the Dark Soul. I can go on and on, it is just great!
I completely agree, the music is pretty much what made me love the boss so much, the moves are varied and look cool as well.
It's actually incredible how differently I'd place those myself. Not complaining or anything, I just find it interesting
same. I don't mind the gimmick fights at all and honestly kind of wish there was more of them. a lot of dark souls 3's bosses are excellent but are so similar they kind of overshadow each other. like dancer is good, but is completely outdone by pontiff, an earlier fight, so dancer's fight suffers in that regard. I think my favorite fight from vanilla ds3 is like lothric or abyss watchers. neither are particularly challenging but I really liked the gimmick of having the little brother revive lorian and cast magic during phase 2, and abyss watchers phase 1 was a cool way to represent the lore in the fight. it was way more interesting than if it had just been 2 more solo humanoid with roll catch combos. I think bloodborne hit a sweet spot for me personally of having many interesting and good bosses that were diverse and unique from each other
The Dancer's combos are far more varied and complex than Pontiff's attacks.
And Pontiff's AI gets completely overwhelmed if you circle around his back or parry his attacks. Furthermore, if you wanna talk about bosses with similar movesets, Pontiff and Lothric's sword swings are far more similar than Pontiff and Dancer's.
@@melb3mel Completely different fights imo
watching this live was fun
Waiting for this vid, maybe locations next?
I love sekiro with all of my heart , so it really warms me that someone agrees on the bosses being some of the best soulsborne bosses
Slave Knight Gael is such an incredible boss fight.
I'm keen to see an Elden Ring boss tier list now. I've been playing for like 10 hours and some of these bosses are crazy.
I feel like FromSoft's newer games are increasing with the quality of bosses. Sekrio had so many memorable boss fights and the mechanics just complimented it even more, they really immersed you into the battles. I'm thinking Elden Ring will push it even further, altho I'm only a few hours in.
Halfbreed Priscilla is my favorite boss from any souls series. Sif and Sister Frieda are close. Melania from Elden Ring is up there now also.
Midir in A but he's the highest Dragon Boss? Yeah I can accept that
The orphan of kos, I’m not gonna lie but when I finally beaten him my heart was beating way too fast that it almost took almost 3 hrs
when crystal sage makes clones of herself you can tell which one is the real one by the color of attacks they fire the real one fires purple while the fake ones fire ice
The video we all needed
This is the Dark Souls tier list of Dark Souls tier lists.
I too would put Genichiro at an A, but Inner Genichiro is definitely an S for me. Learning how to perfectly deflect his Sakura Dance was so damn fun
I think Elden Ring is going to be a mix of II and III when it comes to bosses. Many of the main bosses will be swift, aggressive and well-designed like many of the main Dark Souls III bosses, whereas a lot of the smaller dungeons will have simple, weak bosses for the sake of it like in Dark Souls II, although they probably will get better and smaller in number yet higher in quality further in the game.
I usually go to fight Pinwheel at the very start of the game and he's really tough at that level and it's hell getting in and out of there without the Lord Vessel.
“Isshin doesn’t do anything cool” also Isshin with One Mind and dodging
Darkbeast is a DPS test. He can be brutal if you fight him as soon as you gain access to Hypogean Gaol.
i really like darkbeast but those snatchers man💀 absolute fear and terror
Wait what
Whenever I think of souls games I always seem to brush past Sekiro (because how different it is from the others). But after replaying it for the first time, and after watching this tier list, I'm reminded of how high quality the main bosses of these games are. Such a large pool of well designed, main story bosses.
Sir Alonne commiting seppuku makes him easily a top of tier boss. Its such a rewarding thing to watch
Makes sense that the guy who thought France was in Asia would pronounce "Sir Alonne" as "Sir Al-on-knee"
Midir isn't actually blind btw his eyes are just really small. It's the same thing with how Kalameet's eyes are too small to realize he doesn't just have the one big one
It could be possible that he is going blind from the Abyss.
I don't remember very well, but don't you poke his left eye when you fight him on the bridge? when he falls down to the boss arena
@@Fideosconpaltaytomate That is an interesting point. Although, the way he acts on the bridge feels like he is blind there too.
For sl1 Quelaag, you actually have potential access to Raw Reinforced Club +5 which can dish out actual damage, and also the pyromancer set + Flash sweat which lets you tank 2 explosions and Iirc tank her entire sword combo.
No need to tank anything even - either stand next to her head where is the sword combo safe spot or just roll back and wait till she starts to puke for safe pew pew. There are much worse fights to do on SL1.
I’m coming in with just knowledge of demons souls, dark 1 & 2 with no dlc. Can’t believe how many of these I didn’t recognize…
Dang bro dark souls 3, bloodborne, and sekiro are the games with the pinnacle of bosses. On top of that the dlc for each game is the pinnacle of each game. Honestly though I played every dark souls without realizing 1 and 2 had the dlc for free because the way to get to them is so obscure I didn’t even know I had it
Lothric and Lorian is S tier, the soundtrack is great, and the fight mechanics are fair and fun.
Midir was the one boss in DS3 i never beat until a replay recently
Bruddah, same, I fought Midir for the first time in my ng+ cycle and I saved him for last because I thought he'd be a sick boss and I was not disappointed, unfortunately my first attempts were when I had burnt myself out on dark souls after going through the whole game again and fighting Gael and Friede for the first time, came back to Midir a few months ago as I was aiming to get all the achievements in DS3 and I figured why not finish what I started, can not tell you the absolute euphoria I had when I finally beat him for the first time
I never beat him personally. A fight that takes 15 minutes and the fact that you can get one-shot don't combine well for me. It becomes a test of endurance more than anything. Friede, Demon Princes, Gael and even Nameless King to a degree have this problem but Midir is the tankiest by far, making it the most concentration/endurance-testing one.
Living Failures are easy but nothing has ever given me chills like listening to that OST while they summon the literal cosmos to flatten you
The Living Failures OST is underrated. I listen to it all the time.
Agreed
It's a bit sad that he didn't talk about the story Chalice Dungeons, the ones you have to fight to get all the trophies, Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen was a fun fight.
Those guys were some of the harder bosses imo