Ranking the Hardest FromSoft Bosses!

Armored Core 6 was included in this topic, as I REALLY wanted to call this video "Top 15 FromSoftware Bosses", but I don't think the YouTube algorithm would appreciate that, and this is my job, searchability comes first. If you're not a fan of the AC6 entries, I have my Honourable Mentions - Just bump Ornstein & Smough to 15th & Kalameet to 14th & you still get exactly what you came for.

If I don't see Pinwheel here I'm going to scream

Putting Orphan of Kos in honorable mention is a bold choice indeed. I personally think it's the second hardest fight in the series behind Melania but I can get why some people experience it differently since it's an endgame boss

Midir and Orphan as honorable mentions… pure example that difficulty is completely subjective. Great video Billy!

You only died ~100 times on Malenia? Amateur. I estimated I died 1300 times.

I've only played Elden Ring where Maliketh made me quit for over 5 months. Eventually I returned and whooped his ass, but I think that makes him my hardest boss.

The demon of hatred is a pretty interesting pick. I think he’s really hard but in comparison to bosses like Midir and Laurence I never got frustrated. From the beginning I always saw the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s never ”how am I supposed to ever beat this without learning every single pixel of his hitbox?“ but instead ”okay that’s going to be challenging but very possible“. He’s fair and thus a great fight.

Dude, the honorable mentions alone gave me PTSD. What a list!

Radagon is such an amazing example of “If I take a few minutes, this boss is a cake walk.”

I’ve been slowly playing through the fromsoft titles over the last year (elden ring, sekiro, bloodborne so far, on ds1 rn) and been enjoying going through your videos, watching the parts I’m “allowed” to watch (a lot of this video is currently off limits to me!), and then later revisiting. Actually found you through lies of p, which was awesome, and love your content. Here’s a video suggestion I’d love; top cutscenes in soulsborne (or maybe just best boss intros if you want focus)

Hey man, what is the easy ELO ranking and how does it work? Did you just take the top 15 and rank them against each of the other 14 orwhat? Thanks

Hard question but I'll try (Honorable mentions: genichiro, guardian ape and midir because they took around 6 months for me to beat and I never beat midir until ng+5) 15. Manus (I can dodge his attacks now but he still hits pretty hard) 14. Demon princes (always forget which demon turns into the laser demon so I mostly fail at the second phase) 13. Blue smelter demon (bullshit Boss, bullshit gimmick) 12.Inner genichiro (can catch me off guard sometimes but it's just genichiro) 11. Vendrick (hits like a nuclear bomb while you tickle him without any giant souls) 10. Friede (on ng+ she's really strong even though I know what to do to counter her) 9. Sir allone (harder than fume knight and blue smelter demon for me) 8. Isshin ashina (harder than sword saint for me and still catches me off guard a few times) 7. Nameless king (gives me more Trouble than on my first attempt against him somehow) 6. Burnt ivory king (took me by far the longest for a ds2 Boss, mostly because of rng with the knights) 5.Slave knight gael (somehow gives me more Trouble than midir, Friede and nk even though I once said that He's the easiest of them) 4. Orphan of kos (still gives me trouble even though I know what to do against it) 3. Owl father/inner owl (took me the third longest and still gives me trouble) 2. Malenia (wasn't able to beat her without summons, I'm sorry) 1. Laurence (f*ck laurence)

The demon of hatred's charge attack has a hitbox so low that if you jump you will most likely avoid it even if it doesnt seem like it

It’s really interesting seeing how different people find the difficulty of these games, Allmind is the AC6 boss I struggled with most but they’re not even here. Great video!

Great video! I would add Ebrietas to the honorable mention, but maybe that's just because I re-played BB recently and had a really hard time with her somehow 😅

I 100% agree with the placement of Nameless he is one of the bosses I struggled with the most in my playing ds3 but what an arena.

38:30 if you didn't know, ibis was nerfed in one of the first patches along with some other bosses, Balteus with worse rocket tracking maybe some more I don't remember, sea spider with less damage resistance and ibis with overall worse tracking (probably some other bosses), I got to beat ibis pre nerf, and it's not much different from now just a bit harder to dodge.

I stopped playing fromsoft games a while ago, but after discovering your channel a few months ago, I am now back on that train! I platinumed Bloodborne, and dark souls 3. I’m working on 2sotfs right now, then Ds1 & Demon souls.

Do you think Laxasia or Nameless Puppet crack the top 15 if you included Lies of P?

For everyone struggling against malenia i recommend to try full arcane build with Bloody Helice +9 - its ash of war feels so good against her, you can completely dodge last 2 stages of waterfowl dance and actually punish her after. Second phase you can throw ice pots and volcano pots at her while she recovers after scarlet bloom attack - it's 3-4k damage for 2 rotations of pots. Dynast Finesse makes her fight not only manageble but youll be looking sleek while you fighting her. 10/10.