All Elden Ring Bosses Ranked Easiest to Hardest

hello everyone and welcome to the boss ranking that broke me i tried very hard to fight as many bosses as possible and ended up with over 70 encounters i definitely missed a few but some are either locked behind npc quest or just super hidden so i did what i could repeats don't count unless it's a variation that makes at least kind of a difference starting from one and working our way to whatever number it is number one soldier of godric this dude sucks first day on the job the easiest boss in elden ring is a single lame soldier of godric please ignore the footage of him hitting me while i talk [ __ ] this man is a rookie who's lucky his poise is mildly carrying him in this particular instance but if i got the run back he would go down hitless guaranteed like a no-name piece of tin garbage number two miranda the blighted bloom this new gen 9 regional variant of lilip is rooted to the spot and since poison does next to no damage in this game you can just inhale the spores with no mask on and have her dead by the time it matters nice nickname miranda did your pokemon trainer give it to you i shouldn't talk my character's name was rank so i knew which save file was for the video number three tibia mariner i'm a big fan of this boss it's like if the underworld farrier carron was in a michael bay movie riding some gnarly explosive waves this dude's just minding his own business rowing his boat on inch deep water and we have to come crash the tranquility if you stay on horseback you really can't do anything it's like a grandfather on a porch trying to swap flies with a newspaper number four beast man of pharam ozola settle down bro you're no jesus of nazareth this is likely the first easily beatable boss you'll encounter in the game outside of the tutorial and as such he exists to be slain he is however an early example of how bosses in this game love to do like eight hit combos out of nowhere as a shieldless melee build which i maintain for the entirety of the game i do have to wait longer for attacks to end than people with shields who can just block wimpy strikes and guard counter all day but you can still just hang outside the range of this boss and run in and get punishes when they're free number five scaly misbeguttan alright so i'm a little overleveled so what i missed this boss in the beginning and had to go back after i beat godric it's still an easy mob so much so that it's literally a normal enemy in the same area at castlemore and i'm using the guardian sword sphere in case you're curious it drops from those little erd tree demi humans and eventually scales a and dexterity if you make it keen so that's something number six a mad pumpkin head maybe he's mad because people keep calling him that he deserves it though because he swings that flail so many damn times in a row in the same motion i can't help but wonder if he's a bot you just have to constantly strafe him and roll every so often what sucks is that he takes reduced damage to the head and since he likes to spend as much of the fight as possible face down in the dirt your strikes will lose damage from hitting it all the damn time number 7 patches oh this mf er the scourge of every souls game the liar the deceiver the trickster the surrenderer halfway through the fight this bser tries to throw in the towel begging for his life pleading but he's a nuisance so i kill him anyway but the quest line don't care apache's questline is not worth me knowing that he's still being alive somewhere and if your attacks don't finish him off he'll roll away and heal back to full health like he's the goddamn protagonist no out with you number eight cemetery shade oh the kid from limbo is all grown up in psycho understandable cemetery shade got some rapid fire stabs and a sticky snare projectile you'll want to not get hit by if you value your forehead mashing shoulder buttons can help you escape before you start sucking your scalp off otherwise he takes an ass butt load of damage especially a magic so go nuts number nine onyx lord two words strong jump attack stagger non-npc bosses with no poise can be mildly stun locked by repeated jump r2 attacks if your weapon isn't a feather which will also eventually break their poise completely and give you the sexy sexy visceral attack onyx lord's gravity spells are kind of nifty but they don't seem to do any damage compared to his normal sword swings maybe if he put a chest plate on he'd spend less time on his knees number 10 guardian golem oh man what are you doing in combat when your shins are so glowingly damaged how do you not think that's going to be my primary target do you know anyone who plays hockey that could give you some shin guards then you'd be the shim guardian golem why am i not on the front page of youtube once you get staggered a heart guard might be good too got a free accessory slot number eleven crystalline i came in here with my first few hits like whoa am i under leveled but it turns out it's a gimmick fight where the first time you do enough poise damage to land of israel his crystalline armor shatters and he starts getting run the hell over i'm sure he's a god at ultimate frisbee but the battle skills are lacking number 12 grave warden duelist not one but two hammers getting dropped on the ground alongside your lifeless body he's staggerable he's predictable he might just be the guy for you number 13 stone digger troll boy get a load of the rocky balboa balsack on this troll every lady in the audience is drooling right now all five percent of my demographics lips are bleeding if you're struggling with this boss it's only because he's a bigger man than you why not skip to the final stage of grief and accept it let the pain fade away into nothingness like half your role inputs number 14 demi-human chief duo encounters in games like this are [ __ ] by definition but it helps when you can kill one of them before the other one even realizes you entered the boss room this time i'm over leveled but i made an effort to use a non-reinforced weapon the shamsheer which you can find in the cave with the guardian golem still tearing ass because i'm awesome like that though just don't go over to where the other chief is and you'll have two easy 1v1s number 15 ancestor spirit this is another of my favorite boss fights because it's a big deer or a moose or something the point is it's majestic and the music for it you can't hear is awesome too the ancestor spirit only has like three attacks so it's easy to learn but it's also a tall boy so make sure you're doing jump attacks during your opening so you don't stick your spear between its thigh gap and miss number 16 erd tree avatar say hello to the boss there's the most of the erd tree avatar near the end game one of them even becomes two of them i just can't get enough most of them are the same so i'm only ranking this one and then a couple of them do some scarlet raw shenanigans so that'll be later on too basic avatar has some slow swings which isn't me or are slow attacks way harder to dodge than fast ones fast ones it's like all right i'll just react slow ones you're just begging them to take the damn swing already and then you roll too early and get clobbered anyway you can roll into the avatar's stolen patented asylum demon ass crash maneuver without taking damage otherwise get those big jump attacks in to stagger it or if your weapon is fast stack of normal hit damage and bleed effects and whatnot if a tree can even bleed i don't know does some mouse pour out of there number 17 knights cavalry get it cause they only come out at night and it's also spelled that way for some reason there are multiple dark cavaliers prowling around the grounds i found but though their weapons are different their mechanics are the same so they get one slot flail man is a bit easier than halberd man because he has less range horse on horse action although hot can be tricky you'll want to use double jumps to both escape attacks and also head off your opponent while swinging early so it hits by the time you're right next to your fellow equestrian if you knock him off his horse you can jump off yours and wail on him but then he will summon another one from the pits of hell and you'll want to tell torrent to get his ass back under you number 18 a worm face these things are so sad they're crying all the time they ain't nothing but a hound dog honestly this is another horseback battle for good measure so you can avoid the death puke and his constant attempts to grab you this dude is more determined to get a hug than an aunt at a family reunion he'll whiff over and over again without being deterred if the death blight meter gets full you die period it's a fun time number 19 mimicter the boss is you how powerful you are is directly related to how powerful the boss is they copy your equipment your weapon arts even your consumables so if you wouldn't want to deal with whatever you got going on take it off lucky for me the guardian sword spear has [ __ ] r1 action only the jump strong attack and sprint attack are good ask me why i bet it all on guardian sword spear the answer is i regret it sword dance is a good art though great for closing distances and catching initial roles i am not a pvp person i am the type of guy who hopes the enemy runs into my jump attack but this is still very doable none of the bosses up to this point have been hard yet number 20 necromancer garrus never trust a man who loves snails he might try to kill you and they might try to help the snails are kind of like the wheel skeletons from dark souls 2 they just roll into you and deal multiple contact damage like absolute bastards garrus himself just uses a flail of his family's heads or something with a skull shooting spell to compliment it they're slow moving so he likes to shoot them and then run in with them to overwhelm you so you should just sprint back and avoid the whole thing if you see a snail kill it immediately they have good tracking it's the worst also the fight doesn't end until they're all dead anyway number 21 clean rot knight i would have ranked this boss higher given that it takes place in a poison pool because miyazaki is a sadist but the clean rot knight can be backstabbed and kind of lets you a lot of the time so you can make the fight over before the poison becomes a factor roll around in the poison who cares bathe in it become it sully the clean rot night's name and corpse with your toxic filth number 22 sanguine noble pretty much the same deal as the last boss except bleed to backstab that mofo and don't stand in the blood because it makes you bleed for some reason that's like if standing in water just made me start pissing out of every hole in my body i shudder at the implications number 23 bell bearing hunter i gave him a little more credit because i was mildly over leveled but this dude lets you get a full combo on him before he's even ready to punch his ticket into work this is a weak version of a much harder boss later on with his telekinetic bloodbender sword swings imagine doing this instead of donating to your local blood bank what a waste this dude could supply a whole hospital number 24 aiden thief of fire wow you steal one fire spell and get a label for the rest of your life aiden is surprisingly nimble for having a king k rool belly his [ __ ] primarily consists of launching one big proximity detonated fireball that slowly hovers towards you while he uses the distraction to sneak some hits in the fireball glows brighter when you get close and then explodes after a delay like i do when a girl sits next to me on the bus i'm using the godskin peeler twin blade here which i tried as an alternative for a while and it did good work but the action wasn't for me number 25 fell twins a pitch-black fight reminiscent of the four kings but we've downgraded to two twins and now our bedroom sucks these guys stagger when idol but a couple of their attacks have super armor just to pee in your corn flakes it's another duo fight where one of the people just isn't present i think he might be cheating on the other one behind his back as opposed to in plain view i guess only when his partner is destroyed does he lament what he lost and start to give 100 but it's too late the relationship has crumbled into the void and there's nobody left to succeed for number 26 half the dragons there's a lot of dragons in this game and a few of them are either element swaps or literally just a difference in breath colors so they get ranked the same with a couple exceptions later i like to fight my dragons on horseback for the ease of escape once they fly into the air and rain elemental death on you but i see how getting off to deal extra poised damage to its feet can be a good idea too learn to anticipate the tail whip and its two different tells because that attack does way too much damage one's a little run up after a couple steps taken the other is after it twitches slightly number 27 grafted scion yeah see me when i got heels buddy the game lets you rematch this monstrosity and boy is the revenge nice i managed to beat him during the intro of the game after i started like 15 new files to learn the patterns but i don't like his swords that much unless you abuse the weapon art this is the ice rind axe which is a hatchet that does frost buildup founded at one of the lyrna shrines in the lake and i did like it for a while during the mid game but it falls off number 28 a bolscarian knight this giant is like other giants but this one has a much prettier sword that i had to upgrade my health some more to not get one shot by the formula of ankle biting is the same as ever but you get punished way harder for missing roles number 29 erd tree burial watchdog i really like this boss it's unnerving to fight the movements are hella janky sometimes there's no telling if an attack is coming it really captures the spirit of the type of entity that it is now that doesn't mean i needed to see four different boss fights with these things in them but they are still a cool encounter whenever it stands on its hind legs and starts walking around i'm like no sir you are a four-legged creature please sit your ass back down and crawl before i have a heart attack number 30 bloodhound night dary will for an early game boss i think this dude's mildly difficult he's fast dodges ranged attacks like a [ __ ] and while you're mostly just exploiting the same combo over and over again it requires quick succession but still properly timed roles which newer players won't be used to yet people who teleport up to you and then wait a split second before attacking are the bane of my existence because it forces a preemptive roll out of me every single time and i feel like a dummy number 31 leonine misbegotten if you ask me i will tell you this boss is easy if you ask me what my death count to this boss is i will lie to you i got him down to 10 hp on my first try before dying and then i subsequently lost 24 attempts in a row for reasons i would not be able to pinpoint nothing he does is particularly hard to deal with although the two hit parts of his strings always seem to clip my rolls but you can jump over his lunge attack and deliver a strong counter and the end lag of pretty much everything he does is substantial enough to be punished i hate when bosses are easy but then they just keep killing you you know what i mean number 32 tree sentinel i am one of the stubborn few who like to fight this boss immediately except in the case of this footage i guess also i don't like to i just feel lame if i don't and i felt kind of lame here plus seven spear in hand from merkwater cave good early game weapon not because the weapon itself is good but just because it'll out reinforce anything else you have for a while i've seen people fight the tree sentinel on horseback but i require the ability to get iframes from dodging especially when he starts doing his broken aoe shield slam with a hitbox that's nowhere near what it looks like number 33 magma worm makar it's almost like playing snake the way he crawls back and forth across the arena leaving lava trails in his wake a lot more than his body seems like it's capable of producing you want to control his direction so he doesn't coat too much of the ground with it otherwise the only attack that means anything is the one where he slams his sword on the ground under his neck which does a ton of damage unless you get the roll timing down number 34 scarlet rot avatar it's the urgery avatar except now the as crash sends out splashes of projectile diarrhea indiscriminately in every direction which makes you either want to do this fight on horseback so you can sprint away or continue to roll towards him when he does it and then just tank the couple hits the damage and scarlet rap buildup you'll take number 35 ulcerated tree spirit ew someone took too much advil big boss means big telegraphed swings but also slow which means rolling too early and hating yourself number 36 commander o'neal wow shax really made a name for himself good for him the mobs this dude spawns aren't very strong and if you keep a couple of them alive he'll waste time doing long animations to give them buffs so you can run him through during it he can still build up scarlet rot though and his massive aoe attacks require you to book a flight in advance to get away from them number 37 rot and frost dragons these two get special recognition because more of their attacks are imbued with their chosen element making them harder to fight their feet slams will kick up clouds of poison or frosty dust and in the ice dragon's case specifically he has this get off me roar attack that will immediately maximize frost build up and kill you almost instantly he's a cheater they're still dragons though so they go down the same number 38 royal naita loretta we're out here fighting ghosts now loretta's been thriving ever since she divorced cleveland brown and broke her neck small price to pay for become a magical warrior loretta's just like any other cavalier but with hovering magic attacks and a translucent complexion number 39 go defroy the grafted godfrey's evil twin godefroy that's like if your mother named you william and your brother william goad freud basically fights exactly like godfrey except there's no dragon corpse to defile so he doesn't have a second phase and is therefore easier number 40 godric the grafted i think godric is easier than margate his combos are less flexible and easier to deal with godric continues the souls game trend of bosses dismembering themselves when things aren't going their way and somehow getting stronger because of it in this instance godric cuts half his arm off maybe no big loss since he has 20 of them and then uses his sharp ass nub to carve a hole into the neck of a dead dragon grafting it oh to his arm at which point the dragon head comes back to life which seems unlikely at this point you can run behind him while the dragon breathes fire and get a very large amount of damage done and you can bait that attack out whenever if you stand at mid-range number 41 red wolf of a radagon i'm not over leveled here this boss just takes absurd damage to balance that he also dishes out absurd damage and attempts to create stun lock one-shot scenarios with his magic attacks that are frequently successful if you sprint behind him when he tries to lightsaber you he will keep swiping at nothing for a while which is enough time to do like half damage so that's neat number 42 death bird nightmare fuel nightmare fuel nightmare fuel kill it number 43 crucible night hey man [ __ ] this boss i hate the crucible knight as someone with no shield and no ability to parry this boss can get bent let's talk about how the crucible knight is specifically designed to be straight [ __ ] exhibit a when you try to retreat to heal he will do a running thrust to prevent it the absolute frame you press the square button if you anticipate this first thrust and dodge it and then try to heal he will do another running slash without fail to close the distance even further i swear to you they added some kind of new ai to elden ring that makes choices that trigger as a direct result of which buttons you press when you heal within a certain range you are actively triggering the attack most likely to prevent it if they aren't in end lag from their last move they know exhibit b that goddamn tail you thought you had his openings down second phase they're gone now every time you think you can punish a move here comes the tail borderline unreactable unless you're specifically dialed into it will be used to extend combos and cancel the end lag of his finishers and he can combo moves after the tail so just no integrity to speak of in this footage i'm a bit over leveled because i didn't find him right away and i get good boss rng because he keeps using his shield bash attack which is his most punishable if you strafe it right next to him but when the stars aren't aligned crucible knight is a hateful dookie number 44 sir gideon off near the all-knowing bet he didn't know this ass whooping was coming i struggled the first few times because this dude is the embodiment of magic pvp cheapo spells all day and night camping you out horde but when you do manage to get in he has nothing for close range as long as his hovering swords aren't active so you just have to smother him like a clingy girlfriend don't let him breathe he constantly panic rolls backwards after getting hit so just chase him down and time your attacks and he's done number 45 ranala queen of the full moon usually multi-health bar boss fights are a cause for alarm but the first phase is such cake it really doesn't matter this fight is super cool you get to run around and stab choir kids in the throat that'll teach you to sing on public transportation your pansies i was a choir kid i get to say that dodging throne books and randomly falling chandeliers killing three singers will break the queen's shield and make her fall to the ground where you can wail on her for a considerable amount of time until it regenerates i managed to take her out in one go in one of my attempts but this one still came close the second phase has her actually battling or at least summoning spirits to battle for her while she launches op spells at you from afar the spirits only last for a certain amount of time even if you don't kill them so you don't have to focus them down if you just separate them from her and then run back and attack the queen close range she can't do much so get all the hits in you can her ultimate attack is technically the moon blast but you're honestly more likely to get killed by the big laser beam since the moon doesn't one-shot but the beam can hit multiple times number 46 dragonkin soldier of noxtella a master of frost and shock this beast is a pushover until the second phase hits and he starts peppering the arena with frostbite lightning that can very quickly take you from full health to none i'm over leveled here offensively but defensively it doesn't matter he'll still build up frostbite like it's nothing and chill your hp to the bone number 47 doubletree sentinels i wonder what hotel they're staying at this duo fight gets a distinct slot because it's actually possible to sneak up on the left one from behind trigger him to walk down the stairs and then turn around and fight the other one solo and kill them one at a time a discovery that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside because i hate double battles number 48 black knife assassin the man is invisible that's [ __ ] yes it is possible to look at the water and see his lull feces making splashes coming towards you but if you've seen the visible versions of this enemy you know he's also capable of taking giant sidestepping leaps and ignoring the ground all together half the time you swing at his puddle he just dodges behind you and gets a free backstab it's a great time i don't think he even needs to be behind you to get it i think it functions like a grab which you obviously can't see him doing because oh yeah he's in this apple i'm doing big sweeping attacks in the direction his strikes are coming from and i'm still not hitting him this is actually the last fight i recorded i gave up on this boss initially then i went through the rest of the game and recorded the final boss then came back to this cave to try and vengefully lay the smackdown on this [ __ ] but he still made me look like a floundering idiot until i got lucky enough times number 49 godfrey spirit i wish i could have fought this boss after i fought the real godfrey because i'm pretty sure i could no hit it at this point this was before i realized you're at your safest when you're strafing around him as close as possible he gets into a pattern of axe swings and dash stomps that you can just rinse and repeat the dodge timings of until he's defeated sometimes all rolling away does is make it harder for you to dodge subsequent attacks so even if you get hit and need to heal you should maintain your established pattern and then instead of attacking during your next opening you heal this helped a ton on the real godfrey fight which we'll talk about later number 50 godskin apostle oh man these dudes used to intimidate the hell out of me but you can fight like six of them by the end of the game so it eventually becomes a road this is another boss that has an attack map to your square button you tap that estes flash you better believe a dark fireball is getting auto launched at your head like godfrey bosses like these are best learned up close and personal you'll die until you learn the roll timings and then you won't die as much anymore playing at mid-range just makes things harder when you're close you can watch their arms and movements and get a better idea of when an attack is actually coming especially if they have delayed swings during the second phase when the apostle does its stretchy stretchy mr fantastic flame attack you're actually perfectly safe if you stand directly behind him so you can get a bunch of hits in but i didn't learn that until one of the later fights number 51 market the phil omen this boss has everything that makes bosses hard for me egregiously delayed swings quick custom combo options in the form of the light dagger hits projectiles to stop heals when i say egregious i mean it this dude will wind up his one slam attack and at that point the jeopardy music should start playing because it could get through the full jingle before he decides to bring it down you should just attack him during it but i'm always too scared to mess up the timing although it can be strafed to the right without even needing to dodge if you start early enough but yeah you'll be dodging a combo of his and thinking it's going fine and then that light dagger comes out for a quick one-two slash and you're like oh okay thanks i needed a holy haircut i do think you should explore most if not all of lim grave before you tackle this boss you don't have to but maybe you'll be less frustrated by your damage numbers side note about halfway through the game i started having the elden ring interactive map open in my browser that just shows where all the locations are dude that saves so much unnecessary time doing perimeter checks that amount to nothing i highly recommend it if you'd rather play dark souls than wandering horse simulator number 52 black blade kindred the gargoyles in souls games have gotten a lot more deadly this man will one shot you if you're a less than 30-ish vigor health is way more important than eldon ring than in other souls games as i've learned the hard way in dark souls 2 you could get away with 12 vigor the entire game mostly because raising any stat also slightly raised your hp but in bloodborne it was still fine to have like 20 but one of the final bosses in elden ring did an attack that one shot me at 40. i was like number 53 draconic tree sentinel it's like the tree sentinel but what if every attack did massive aoe damage just to piss you off also the horse can shoot fireballs because yeah uh-huh halfway through the fight he becomes charged with the power of lightning and boy does he abuse it going to need very good roll timing on this one the aoe is a lingar almost as long as your iframes i feel like my dex build wasn't really a dex build i had 55 decks by the end of the game and scaled a in it but i'm out here using a slow halberd and trying to rely on jump attacks for poise damage this build is fake all the weapons i wanted to try had intelligence or faith or arcane requirements there's a ton of magic weapons in this game so i think the game wants you to be a hybrid of some kind number 54 godskin noble why is it always fatty this thousand pound sister is pretty nimble for a guy whose favorite language is pig latin this giant muffin with a rapier and a bib the size of california is a formidable foe who uses his body as a weapon to crush you like that isn't a cell phone his most dangerous attack in my mind is when he starts rolling around like a boulder he has good tracking and it's hard to dodge but with enough punches to the gut he can be staggered like anyone else number 55 abductor virgins i honestly can't believe these 20 foot tall porcelain death traps have never had sex i discovered the hard way that if you get grabbed to death by one of these regular enemies in the royal academy area you get transported to the basement of volcano manor where once you unwittingly rest at the side of grace you are unable to leave until you have a three-way with two virgins at once you can't fast travel you can't do anything until you face the onslaught of bs that this battle provides it has all the familiar trappings of a duo encounter multi-hit stun locks getting wrecked from an attack off camera and these dudes in particular have attacks they're just active for 10 seconds at a time while they wander around so it's even harder for you to find a willing opening than it is for the virgins dodge the grab at all costs the snakes stay out for a little bit and take increased damage if you're laying some jump attacks maybe lose the snakes if you're trying to get laid just a tip for you to get just the tip number 56 a round table knight vike it's an easy npc pvp encounter except for one attack which will stun lock and one shot you without fail if you get hit by the first strike which has no wind up time at all you are guaranteed to get hit by the second strike which will kill you things can be going so well until you just randomly die it's awesome number 57 fire giant now this is a giant no other giant and souls games have really been a giant not like this giant this giant will slam his super omega ultra size shield on your fragile miniature head and somehow you won't just get buried a thousand miles underground and pop up in china once you destroy one of his ankle clasps it reveals a raw piece of leg that definitely hasn't healed since some giant wolf took a bite out of it and you'll do extra damage by hitting it although it's kind of high up so regular attacks don't reach a lot of the time i mistakenly thought that you could go undo the other clasp on the other leg too but apparently that one never comes off if you die the leg stays open without you having to undo it again so that's neat i'd stay on horseback for this and watch out when he does the world record for the largest fat roll so you don't turn into a horse pancake during his second phase he reveals that his stomach is also a face and just stores fire in his mouth that he likes to shoot up into the sky and out of the ground this fight takes forever number 58 elimer of the briar this was kind of like leonine for me and that i really was not okay with the fact that i kept dying over and over again to things that are technically not that difficult but if you miss one roll timing during a combo you're probably dead there's something about his rhythm that's just a little too slow and i was constantly rolling too early and getting wrecked number 59 more got to the omen king damn this dude has a lot of swords fortunately he also has a decent amount of safe openings this fight only took me like three tries but i probably got lucky with some of my dodges definitely harder than margaret but not super bad number 60 god devouring serpent functionally this boss is not difficult dodge a couple snake strikes use the provided weapon that reaches halfway across the map with its wind pokes and attack from almost anywhere that weapon is upgradeable by the way i took it home and got it to plus six and then brought it back for some decent damage but once you get to the second phase all hell breaks loose literally the whole area is just fire incarnate with spectral flames coming at you all over the place doing damage and obscuring your vision it's hard to see what's happening and the area is big but not infinite so you can and will get backed into a corner unless you're strafing around the bus i just did a repeated jump attacks to stagger him and then if there was a place to stand to perform a visceral i sure never found it but you just keep attacking while he's down and probably do more damage that way anyway this took me like 12 tries and with each attempt i just got more and more tilted until i finally got it and it didn't even feel good to win it just felt like i'd staunched the bleeding of an open wound number 61 full-grown falling star beast i fought the non-fully grown one too and i really don't see a difference they're the same size with the same attacks but this one has more room to run around and be devastating i just could not do this boss for a very long time too many attacks too easy to get clipped too hard to hit his stupid soft head every time i went for a jump attack he just ran off or started an attack that shifted his hurt box and away laid me if you do manage to stagger him don't do the visceral it does no damage better off hitting his head from the side this thing could almost be cute if it didn't have gross mandibles and didn't kill me upwards of 20 times number 62 star scourge radon yeah i summoned sumi you're supposed to it's part of the spirit of the festival these warriors didn't gather here from every corner of the world just to sit on the sidelines and watch a woman get knocked off her horse over and over again if anything i summon them just to stop him from shooting me for a second so i can actually approach caleb is very confusing because it feels like an end game area in a lot of respects lots of powerful enemies that one shot you infested with dragons but it's accessible right out of the gate and some of this stuff in it is less high level radon isn't though i had to out level him i came back at level 100 or so after level 70 failed me so i could do some actual damage and not get insta-kill number 63 godfrey aka horolu we are now in the top five hardest bosses of eldon ring that i found anyway i don't know why in his second phase cutscene he's all i am now the mighty horror lou like that's supposed to mean something or like it sounds even kind of cool he was known as godfrey the first elden lord that's like of a guy who was renowned as mordecai the devil slayer suddenly went now you will call me by my true name billy johnson i love godfrey's first phase i think the first phase of this fight is the most fun boss action in the entire game you're in a constant state of motion dodging strafing attacking managing your stamina never stops you either keep up or get swept away stay close the whole time but when he does a particular axe swing you'll learn to recognize dodge and run away then stop for a second to roll or jump at the right time with the headbang because you want to stay way out of range of his earth-shattering quake attack which definitely one shot may have 40 vigor once the second phase cut scene is upsetting i don't have the footage but the lion on this dude's shoulder has been nothing but moral support the whole time cheering him on with roars of encouragement and in response godfrey kills him with his bare hands for no reason just so he can take his shirt off and fight with his fists like an anime character in this phase he takes more damage but he does a lot more grabs and his combos are a lot less predictable i do not like it or him he's a cat killer he should be in jail number 64 commander nyo god i hate you commander niall is a raging bastard of a boss first off he summons two strong spirits you have to kill those annoying knights that can travel across the whole map with one elemental charge after that he imbues himself with frost and lightning and does stupid aoe damage all the damn time many of which lingers for too long to be rolled through so if you're close to him trying to get hits in you're going to constantly take unavoidable aoe damage whenever he sees fit the lightning kicks he does with his dumb ass peg leg have invisible hitboxes that reach 10 feet further than they should i wish someone would eat his other foot and both arms while they're at it turn them into sheamus from family guy see if he's still combat ready this dude just drains through all your estus with his frostbite aoes it's a ridiculously dumb encounter number 65 most duo fights they can all just go in the same slot there's a lot of end game duo fights and even some of the earlier ones that are just craptastic no thank yous whether it's double gargoyles crucible knights urgery avatars none of it's fun it's just a lot of running away while you wait for even less opportunities than usual they even have the gall to put a godskin apostle and a godskin noble in the same boss room and if you somehow manage to kill them both that's only half the total boss hp pool and they literally spawn another one of each i needed a human cooperator to beat that one i have no shame it's evening the odds more than anything else and even then it's still 2v4 duo fights are garbo number 66 a ratagon of the golden order and the elden beast the second hardest boss is an elden ring our ratagon followed by the elden beast because you have to be both of them back to back or you have to start over ratagon doesn't seem that bad at first but i guess fromsoft really got it in their heads that the best way to make a boss's second phase harder was just to add aoe to all their attacks there's just a lot to watch out for and i could be doing well for a majority of the fight but i wouldn't be able to keep it up long enough something would trip me up i'd guess wrong on an attack and from there it just became an endless cycle of panic healing into taking more damage into panic healing and damage also look at this [ __ ] here at the end i'm a hit away from death and she's so close so i go for it all here like you've got to be kidding me that boss is dead look at that hp bar tell me the person using it as alive the elden beast is a beast all its own giant enemies are usually easier but this one spends so much time miles away from you lobbing spells is so annoying you run up and get two hits before he's on the other side of the field again i feel like i'm doing suicides in gym class i haven't beaten the elden beast i can't even beat the [ __ ] with spirit summons because the mimic tier is almost dead by the time it gets through ratagon and the elden beast of course does absurd aoe damage the ai doesn't know how to dodge as far as human co-op is concerned i tried to do that too just so i could see the end of the game since it's the final fight but i was literally unable to summon anyone because they were getting snatched up by other summoners first it's only been a week maybe it's still too early for most helpers to be farming in-game cooperation so yeah i can't do it man it's a bit understandable because it's a back-to-back boss fight but it's only the second hardest in my experience so you'd be assured the last one is even more unjustifiable number 67 malaketh the blade i ranked this harder because it's one boss i had equal trouble with solo compared to two bosses who needed to be two bosses to give me a comparable amount of trouble the hardest boss in elden ring is malaketh the black blade first known as the beast clergyman but specifically the second phase the first phase isn't that bad it's still hard he does rapid swipes that are designed to catch panic roles and he has lots of widespread projectiles but i can handle the first phase acceptably the second phase is just a completely different boss it's not an evolution it doesn't build on existing attacks it rewrites the entire fight and gives his sword he now has damage over time so if you get hit and it doesn't kill you give it some time it will this beast is constantly jumping around lobbing sword arcs through the air super hard to catch up to to land anything and he's got this one multi-hit aoe when he lands sometimes that feels completely undodgeable it hits through walls it's huge and he's tracking you when he decides where to land with it and even if it doesn't kill you out right the d.o.t will before you can get your flash down your throat i got past the first phase at least 30 times only to get almost automatically murdered by the second phase like i don't get it even the mimic tier which is a spirit summon that basically just copies you like a co-op summon couldn't do much against the second phase because she couldn't reach the boss ever it took six more attempts using her to finally squeak out the victory which i didn't record because i'm ashamed but i'm still telling you about it because i'm a masochist but that's gonna do it for this boss ranking the biggest one i've ever made so if you liked it please like and subscribe and stuff i'm trying to trend again like i 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Channel: Sunburned Albino

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Keywords: Sunburned Albino, Boss Ranking, Elden Ring, Video Games, Dark Souls

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Length: 34min 19sec (2059 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 05 2022