so i've seen a lot of people ranking what bosses they feel are hardest (not here necessarily) and i get this weird stimulation when i think about what my list would look like
so originality aside here's my hardest boss countdown and the reasons why, and you may be surprised where some bosses are
also if a boss seems way higher on the list than it should it doesn't necessarily mean they're really hard, it just means they're marginally harder than the bosses below them. the abyss watchers are #10 but that fight is easy as stuff LOL
19. ancient wyvern
1hk lol
18. vordt
low health and embarassingly easy to avoid
17. iudex gundyr
not aggressive and low health but he's above vordt because of second half
16. yhorm
easy to dodge but he hits p hard and it's hard to charge the sword sometimes
15. old demon king
some attacks are hard to dodge but he leaves huge openings for attack and i feel like he has less health every time i fight him
14. crystal sage
p low health but the clones part will sometimes feel less than generous and forget your mouth
13. wolnir
the hardest of the gimmick bosses :o but nah he's stupid easy it's just sometimes his bracelets are hard to reach without getting a lungful of smoke
12. greatwood
i've never once died to this dude but i think he's harder than wolnir because he's actually, like, a boss
11. deacons
not hard but i'm bad at crowd control and the magic is annoying to get around
10. abyss watchers
they're as high as they are because it's a two phase fight but the health is so low and you can stagger them so
9. aldrich
kind of a lot of heath and the magic is hard to dodge sometimes, still easy with patience though
8. dragonslayer armor
hard to dodge sometimes, hits pretty hard, and the stuff coming from the sky can forget you at times, still fun tho :)
7. oceiros
i've died to this dude a grand total of once but i still think he's no pushover, he's unpredictable at times and he has a lot of health, he's just not very aggressive
6. nameless king
okay. this dude is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay loving overhyped. he's got a lot of health overall and he hits kinda hard. that's all i think of for difficulty for this dude. bear in mind ds3 is my first souls game. do you know how many times i've died to this dude? twice, both of which i got him to the second phase. my first experience with him i got him down to half health and died, then the next try i was like 3 hits away from beating him and then choked. haven't died to him since, and i've fought him on ng+, ng++ and again recently, after not fighting him for a while, with a new character. at the end of the day he's just a dude in armor with a mini boss you have to beat before the real fight begins. not bashing it though, the fight itself is really fun and cool. maybe it's my build, maybe i'm just lucky, or maybe i'm just good or something, but this dude wasn't hard rofl
5. champion gundyr
now, this fight is actually a challenge. he has respectable health and damage but he's suuuuuuuuuper aggressive. it's hard to get hits in and it's even harder to heal yourself. he's unpredictable too
4. twin princes
first phase isn't hard but the second phase is, because of the magic you have to dodge in addition to the boss. also, lothric can be annoying to hit at times, and gives you false hope of ending the fight when you down lorian but then get blown back because you have no stamina and you suck at this game
3. pontiff
this is the only boss in the game i rely on summons to kill mainly. i never did it in my very first playthrough just because i wanted to say i beat my first souls game without summoning but i do now. he's really fast, he has long combos, and the second half i always just panic and choke lel
2. dancer
first half lures you in by being docile, second half she hits hard and her combos are long and unpredictable. also it's hard to chug sunny-d in the second half because she's so aggressive and you never know when her combos end. good bouncer to lothric castle.
1. soul of cinder
lol i'm lame i put the final boss as the hardest. the second phase isn't that bad, but i'm just really bad at the first phase. in my defense he's got a lot of moves to learn and sometimes i simply can't touch him without getting hit. his sword mode has weird attack patterns at times, curved sword mode he's way too aggressive for me and i prefer to just wait it out, spear mode isn't that bad but i always get a false sense of security from it because he can cut on a dime and hit you even if you're like behind him. magic mode is the only time i can really get hits in, but he can easily change that if he casts homing soulmass, which also loving carries over when he switches to another weapon. put all that together and i'm chugging estus and i'm always running into the issue where i don't have any left by the time i get to the second phase. good way to end the game tho, liked the music and the feels i got from it.
so yeah feel free to tell me why nameless should have been #1 or gimme your list or whatever, also i haven't played the dlc yet so lemme know how hard that scythe hoe is too
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