For those of you who have come to comment that I complain too much at the beginning and need to git gud, I’m not arguing that enemies in the bad tier are bad because they’re hard. I just don’t think most of them are designed in a fun and/or fair way. In fact most of them can be pretty easy with a hit and run strategy, I just don’t think that their cheap moves/methods are commendable. I generally prefer for difficult enemies to have engaging and memorizable movesets like those near the top.
29:46 uhh idk how to tell you this you poor sheltered soul..... but that is not wax that is coming out of their achem... 6 'o clock... edit: since they are bug based.... uhh...... basic biology...
Bruh, that is literally on *you* . If you don’t get it, don’t blame the game. I get summoned in these games all the time. I get so fed up with the person that summoned me I start dropping items to clue them in on what is wrong, or repeat the same moves over and over again to show them what they should do. Most of them ignore me, or think I’m just doing random shit for laughs. So it goes to show: Even when someone else is waving the answer directly in front of your face, it doesn’t matter if you’re not *paying attention* . Keep that in mind the next time you run straight at an enemy, spam R1, die instantly, then complain that it’s not “fair” or “well-designed”.
I do not agree with a lot of the placements on the list, but thats fine. I noticed I have a very different playstyle than you, so I guess that plays a major role in enemy enjoyment.
DUDE, COME ON. Please consider this carefully. this you are in a fearsome prison, within a fallen kingdom, in a dying world. jailers can be annoying but they're essential to what makes the dungeon area so terrifying. they convey very well the sense of looming terror of that area, the punishment, the torture, the frustration, the end of all hope a prisoner feels. this is also the most horror themed area of the game and they have a pivotal role: make you feel powerless. even if you're overleveled and with great gear, the jailers can level out your power and make you feel scared of everything again. they create a survival horror situation, in which you are heavily punished for rushing in and get detected, forcing you to run and fear any unexpected encounter. does this feel like "terrible design" to you? Also, they're confined to one area and are pretty frail. if you ambush one you can kill it without any risk of it reacting to you. they're not difficult to fight at all, they just use attacks you can't defend from in a conventional way. and they look pretty cool, too. you have all the right to dislike them, but saying they're horrible design and poorly exectuted doesn't make you look very smart.
@@harrierdubois-q7k I just watched a video that was called like "This is what 675 hours of DS3 looks like" and it's just him getting one hit killed. Best. Game. Ever.
Maggot debuff can not only be removed by holding a torch, but they can also be permanently stunlocked til death if you attack with torch, making them completely defenseless and a free kill
Whenever I play a pyro I end up using that corridor after the chappal bonfire for farming, since the basic fireball stunlocks them from a safe distance and they give a decent number of souls.
I mean u can also have a fire infused weapon that also stunlocks them, it also does more damage to flesh enemies and rotten slugs. So i always keep a fire weapon on me around my main weapons level usually a dagger. Note fire flesh enemies i think r weak to lightning and dark damage
I think that the worst part about the jailers is that when your health bar returns, your health does not. This means that a single trailer can take 99% of your health bar, and then you have to heal all that off, without taking a single hit.
Fun fact about the giant crabs: When they wind up for their double claw overhead slam, they are always 100 percent vulnerable to a critical hit as long as their claws are above their head. All you have to do is walk up and attack during the animation, and bam, free reposte. I haven't heard many people talk about this so here it is Edit: Selfish plug, but I uploaded an example of how it works in my channel if anyone is interested.
@stephencardone Yeah, it's a pretty neat, not-so-obvious mechanic they have. I want to add one more thing to this that I didnt mention in my comment: They can only be reposted like this from the front, not the back.
When I first started DS3 and went to the High Wall, I looked to my left, saw a dragon(I didn't know it was dead), and looked to my right and saw a pair of dogs. I immediately went "Well this is Dark Souls so both of those paths are equally dangerous."
Im glad to see the Cathedral knight's so high up. I love their armor sets, how imposing they are, and how fun they are to fight. They've always stood out as a jacked up crusader
I think the ultra greatswords are my least favorite elite knights in the entire game. They hard counter ultra heavy by being too fast forcing you to back stab. Placed in poor places or outright unreasonable spots that I just run around them.(only fight in the game I constantly do besides wyvern fight.) The enemy feels like they have endless stamina and they swing like I'm fighting a 8 year old button mashing the controller in a tekken game. I will say however the look and sounds are cool and I always snatch a bucket helm.
@@sawyerslack9782 The UGS cathedral knights are pretty cool. Definitely somewhat overtuned but far from the worst [X] knight fights in the game. I mean, Corvian Knights and Boreal Outrider Knights literally exist. The two outside Oceiros' bonfire are fun to fight one after another but they are really aggressive.
@@sawyerslack9782 no. they are not too fast even if you use slow heavy weapons. these GS cathedral Knights are my fav enemies to fight against using UGS. my fav way to fight them is with UGS and they have the perfect amount of aggression, they are not too fast at all, even with my slow af Berserk Greatsword. you just stay mindful of the direction of your dodge and look at their body and not their weapon to see if they are gonna follow up or not. they are engaging and fun af
11:30 These are in the game for lore reasons, in my opinion. They're bits of Aldrich that came off and were left behind. They're based on Phalanx/slimes, blobs of goo. Originally found in DnD, a major influence on DS.
Also, they are are in many souls games, and they are consistently resistant to physical damage but weak to fire damage. This can be a factor for lots of from enemies in that certain build can trivialize some while make others sudden walls.
i like how cage hollows are the first enemy that teaches you how some enemies dont just have a lot of HP but instead have some strong resistences, trusting attacks deal extremely high damage to the caged hollows since you are poking your weapon through the gaps between the cage bars. Also noticed how many enemies in this game had understandable resistences, like how almost all flamable enemies have maggots or slimyness in common, unclothed enemies like lycanthropes or hollows are really weak to bleed or metalic knights being weak to lightning. This was lost in elden ring to me, mainly because of how hard to tell some elements are or the ambiguity of holy damage in general makes you just chug it and deal with enemy resistences. In DS3 i remember the classic rules ALWAYS applied and were notizable. lightning -> knights and dragons dark -> demons of chaos fire -> maggots, wood or slimes magic -> the neutral element strike -> stone and skeletons pierce -> enemies with gaps in their protection slash/bleed -> naked enemies In elden ring i cant remember a single enemy resistence that truly matters aside from Wood and Rot being weak to fire and the undead being weak to holy.
Cage hollows were pretty much a single time enemy. Once you learn it, camera lock will automatically find the passive cage hollows if you spam it on every cage you find.
Holy for undead enemies, special the Death Birds. And fire for Minor Erdtree minibosses. But beyond that each enemies resistances are more tied to their lore than to logic. Like Cuckoo greatshield being resistant against both magic and holy.
Demon Fists were designed to pulverize them in the most satisfying way possible. Combine them with Pontiff' Right Eye and Knight Slayer's rings and you'll be feared by shielded enemies and some heavy armored bosses too.
For the skeleton, only the one with glowing eyes will respawn once, you could also tell whether they respawn or not if they give you soul when they died. If they do give souls, they're dead, but if they're not, ready for round two
I love the Poisonhorn Bug because they just try so hard to kill you it’s adorable I loved encountering them for the first time in dark souls 2 and was super happy to see them return in 3
Ringed Knights are some of the sickest enemies in the series to date, and unlike some other cool enemies, you can actually use their equipment! Also love how the Stray Demon differenciates itself from the Asylum Demons more than Erdtree Avatars despite being in the same series
Some tips for dealing with some of the lower tiered enemies: Leeches can be removed with a red moss clump or by holding a torch. Rock Lizards, when kicked, do a full roll rotation backwards. Considering most of them are near cliffs, it makes it really easy to keep them far from you while you try to kick them off a cliff. Puss of Man will be stunned for 5 seconds if you hit one with a fire attack. Throwing a firebomb is the easiest method. There is going to be a period where they can’t be stunned by fire afterwards (usually the duration of the stun + duration of their follow-up attack), but it’s pretty easy to just dodge their counter and hit them with fire again. Hollow Clerics can be kicked onto their backs and attacked on their weak underside. Their spin attack can also be parried, which results in the spinner flipping onto its back. Clumps of Flesh are very weak to fire, and weak to the other elements. Smoldering Lake Clumps are just weak to other elements.
A little trivia. Back when the game first released the first demon you encounter would drop the soul instead of the one in the combs. I used the demon great axe for my first playthrough because of that
@@sunbro8093 You don't even have to kick them, I just use charged heavy attacks while two handing a weapon. A couple of smacks flips them out of a heal pretty reliably.
@@johnmhuizar if your weapon is long enough to not get hit, quick enough to interrupt them in time and has enough poise damage, then yes absolutely. However, this doesn't include some categories of weapons as I said, like the curved swords
@sunbro8093 Interesting. I had never tried it on curved swords, but it worked fine with plain old straight swords, which I had always thought did the same amount of poise damage as curved swords.
Jailers definately are the worst enemy, but I appreciate them being a thematically fitting environmental hazard tied to a single dungeon. Forcing you to play carefully through a place that otherwise could be really short setpiece, and keeping player on their toes, building that dread if there is going to be a jailor around next corner...
They would be much prefered over other enemies if it was'nt for that tragic placement of like 6 or 7 of them near the witch area , it gets tedious either fighting them 1 by 1 or running the risk of being 1 health when fighting all of them , Up until that point you mostly face them in either 1v1s or groups of 2 or 3 jailers , they could've easily avoided that tragic placement by placing 1 one jailer on a respective cell door , but no we are fromsoft we have to drop a random shitty encounter in every area of every game 🤫😂 .
The positioning of the basilisks on DS3 seems more punishing than DS1 sometimes (even without the HP curse). i have a bad time dealing in that area before meeting the final battle against Tsorig NPC
28:20 a tip for Monstrosity of sins: their eyes are extremely weak and when they use the grab, the slightest damage can stun them out for a critical. So if you equip any piece of the thorns armor set and just roll at them, while their eyes are exposed, it's a guaranteed stagger.
Additional tip, they have high hp but very low bleed resistance. To the point that putting carthus rouge on a +0 dagger will probably outdamage whatever else you're using to fight them
I feel like the gank with the fire witches in front of the cathedral in irythil you're talking about was more of a quasi set piece to encourage the player to take a more roundabout path, given there's a few ways to get up there, but more or less reward skilled players with a fast boss route if you can take it head on
I came across this video while replaying the entirety of ds3 (currently going into the endgame and dlc) and I didn't know I missed ds3 so much as when I first opened the door from the watch tower in High Wall of Lothric. The atmosphere always enthralls me (maybe It's just dumb nostalgia since ds3 was my first souls game). Anyways, I very much resonate with your ranking placement. It pretty much sumarises my views on how fun to play against many ds3 enemies are (specially if you can parry them because I'm one of those that likes to parry god everywhere) Also I feel the game got a bit tweaked since the last time I played because I swear some ganks got doubled in with more enemies. Regardless, thank you for your dedicatiom and your passionate videos. Wish you loads of success but also seize this momentum to take a step back and have fun with what you do, because that's what matters the most, because that is contagious and I feel you're having such a good time making these. Now waiting for ER enemies 😂😂 (quite the task because there are tons of variants of some enemies) You gained a new sub.
My single favorite enemy in any of the games is the Lothric Knight that uses the Warbanner, still my favorite weapon in the game and it just looks so cool when they use it
I like the jailer gank room, my first playthrough I used the chameleon spell to sneak by everything by turning myself into a CHAIR it was hilarious. Also Karla best girl. While some enemies are unfair, at least they make you think of creative ways to defeat them, like weaving in firebombs between attacks or getting a fast-hitting fire-infused weapon for pus of man. Though the angels are just bad game design, they make exploration impossible when exploration is the only way to defeat them. Coupled with a hidden bonfire, that area was the only place in the entire game I had to look up a guide. So annoying.
Another reason the ringed knights are the best is the sound design on them is amazing. The sound of the dual great swords smashing against the ground and after you kill it they hit the floor it’s just so good
Damn, the Jailer is literally my favorite enemy in the whole game. It's so creepy and changes the vibe of its area so much. If the main enemy in the dungeon was another more standard tough enemy where you just hold shield or roll to win, the dungeon just wouldn't feel as oppressive. I don't think any enemy in the game elevates its area as much as the Jailer, and that's wht it's my favorite enemy type in the whole game.
Fun fact, the giant eye-looking things of the Basilisks aren't their actual eyes. They are more of an intimidation feature. Their actual eyes are super small, check out the model if you're interested :) Another fun fact, if you equip a torch, the maggot-bleed from the maggot-dogs stops immediately. So just have it in your off-hand and quickly equip and unequip it when afflicted.
@@LowProfile0247 That is completely false :) You highly underestimate the number of people that have played these games vs the number of people that watch niche exploration videos about them on RUclips.
I love that you showed a clip of that one mimic with most of its chain hidden under the red carpet, making it difficult to determine if it's a real chest or not.
Honestly, adding to the bullshit factor for the angels is their magic they cast that causes curse buildup when you break their line of aggro. It feels like the game's being salty that you outsmarted it.
True, that mechanic actually makes me pretty salty, but I had to pick and choose which aspects of enemies were important enough to include so things wouldn’t drag
9:50 the hollow priests actually cast a superbuff version of golden vow, which I believe was about a 50% dmg increase to nearby enemies. It's the little orange glow. Limit Breakers did a video on it I believe
It's been a while since I've gone through DS3, so I had no idea what was going to be #1... but as soon as I SAW the ringed knight, the memory of my first encounter with that dual ultra greatsword gigachad came rushing back to me. 😩👌
Someone's probably mentioned this already, but you can check the eyes of the skeletons in the Catacombs to see if they'll revive or not. Glowing=revive, not glowing=no revive :)
The road section in the ringed city has a ton of places to drop from and one shot the haralds. It’s a pretty fun section baiting them and nano attacking
44:35 I feel like you forgot you have a kick move. Hiding behind his shield is basically the perfect opening or the Cathedral and Lothric knights to get a nice guardbreak
Unpopular opinion but I really liked the angles. I see them as a cool puzzle that needs to be solved, and it feels more rewarding to explore the areas you couldnt get to when it was alive
In defense of the jailers. I thought the fear aspect kinda adds to the challenge of the dungeon. Annoying yes. Very. But imo ALWAYS, Annoying enemies is better than boring enemies.
29:51 I have a lot of affection for Harald Knights. I got extremely lucky with getting their chest plate on my first run through the Ringed City and it was the key piece I needed for the vitality monster build to really come together. The fact that I got to gloat over my friend who'd played the game way more than me but had never had it drop for him was the cherry on top. Not suggesting they should be higher ranked, honestly I already thought 21 was a bit more generous than necessary, just sharing a fond memory of mine.
Just finished my first playthrough and I really despise the Basilisks in this game. Far more so than I did in DS1. They spam them in Farren Keep, where you already have a forced fat roll and can't move. It's just not fun imo. Also, if there's one there's automatically a billion. I also did not like the Outrider knights. Admittedly they are the enemy I probably died to the most (especially the one in Lothric castle) but when using a greatsword their speed can be really overwhelming.
In terms of Sulyvahn's beasts, I think they are not an enemy that should have been involved in a gank fight. There's 2 of them in a single room right where the covenant is, which really hurts my opinion of them. Also I don't like the fact that their claws have hitboxes for a lot of their bite attacks. This can be pretty frustrating.
@@PBandJ21 I know, which is what I eventually did. This was clearly not Fromsoft's intention though. They wanted you to fight both of them, which is ridiculous. I think 2 Pontiff dogs is probably harder than any boss in the main game (I don't own the dlc).
I really like your ranking videos, something really nice about them is that you definitely seem like you have a good idea of fun and fairness when it comes to challenge. too many people now thing that something difficult automatically means its good. a serious issue with an enemy being over tuned or or too unfair is that it often leads to people running through areas without fighting enemies since its simply not worth the effort and in doing so they miss alot of things and dont experience what the areas have to offer and ignore the challenge
Yeah I thought that too, he has a level of confidence that allows him to say “this isn’t fun” and then provide constructive criticism. Sometimes it feels like with ds games people are afraid to admit they didn’t like something because there’s always the response of “well just get better at the game” but games are meant to be fun and if something is difficult in a boring way then it’s reasonable to not give it your time.
My favorite are pontiff knights. Every other knight feels samey. Slow, beefy, high damage output, fairly predictable moveset, and not very graceful. Pontiff knights tend to travel in packs where one of them is standing at a long distance and harassing the player with projectiles, while the other in engaging in a melee fight with very long combos akin to Pontiff, and masterfully keeping range and avoiding the player (as far as PVE goes). Their ai actually feels like it was programmed differently. Whereas SIlver, Lothric, Ringed, Cathedral knights are all kind of...the same?
funny story, first time I played dark souls 3, I didn't know there was a variant of the mimic that crawls and so when I first saw it I freaked out and actually had to quit the game for a bit because it scared me so much. I was in the sewer area with rats and curse frogs and decided I would just run since there was too many enemies and all I saw was a mimic crawling at me at Mach 1 or something. Still have ptsd...
All the Herald Knights, with the exception of the one in the cave, are positioned so that they can be plunge attacked. The street is cringe, I do agree, but if you let them patrol one just positions himself beneath the NPC girl’s door (forgot her name) and becomes a free kill. The three at the bottom are worse but still plungable from the little side platform or from above the arch above.
Man, the caged hollows have to be one of my favorites. Sure, after you know the game they are no threat really, but as a beginner who still has to learn that in this game you cant loose your focus at any times they are just incredibly good, and give so much to the dark and depressing atmosphere of the game, its design makes just so much sense, and gives such a good and unique flavor to the game. Generally speaking i think the Undead Settlement is a highlight of the whole game, because it feels so random and dangerous, the artstyle is unique as hell, the secrets are brilliantly placed and vast, the huge fucker throwing the giant spears is a one of a kind experience, and the npc's are pretty fleshed out and interesting too.
Jailers are definitely the worst. However I feel you were too hard on some of the enemies. They teach Patients and thoughtful strategy. You’ve also ignored lore implications. Good video though
Mannn I love the Jailers. The health drain is honestly kind of hilarious to me. It just drains so quickly i can only laugh when it happens to me. Plus their design is super cool and fits the area they're in perfectly. If you think about it having a vitality sapping [lamp?] ability would be extremely useful for a Jailer/guard. Any and all violent or fleeing inmates would be done in immediately without offing them; It just fits their purpose in the setting perfectly. Plus, if you're not too greedy you can pull one at a time and just punish tf out of them. The high stakes of fighting them while being only 1 hit from death with no way to heal is totally exhilarating to me. I think they're an A-tier enemy personally, maybe even S-tier. It'd be one thing if the Irithyll Dungeon was super long and, or they had giant health pools but both are not true, their section isn't too long and they go down in a few hits. Basically, I like DS3 better with them than without them. I think they make the game and that section extremely memorable, like absolutely no one forgets the Jailers after a playthrough of DS3.
Something crazy about the maggots and flies you didn't mention to the video is the fact that if you have a torch on you and you just simply equip it in either hand it'll instantly kill off all the maggots
Hot take but honestly the jailers are an interesting and dynamic enemy. They require thinking rather than just brute force and add a lot of anxiety and tension to the dungeon which is already a creepy and underrated area. Plus they just look cool and they're only a gimmick enemy in a single small area, so I don't really think they deserve the hate.
That's not what a hot take means, my man. That's just an unpopular opinion, but you responded with good reasons! A hot take is where you draw a ridiculous conclusion from something. A hot take cannot be taken seriously. I too like the jailers and wouldn't have ranked them at the bottom. That's the beautiful thing about tier lists. They're just one person's opinion.
I think thematically they make perfect sense. They are JAILERS, why would they make it fair to leave the jail? And staying out of their line of sight as a new player felt like a horror game where I'd wait around corners or rush them to reduce the risk. That gank at the end can also be avoided by stealth, though the switch up of brute strength to "stealth" is a little weird in a game with no crouch
Something that makes the Mimics much funnier is that if you get far enough away from them, they will actually do a flying roundhouse kick like Chuck Norris. It does CRAZY amounts of damage too. I'm willing to bet most people never even see it because they only perform the attack if you are a significant distance away from him.
Fun fact about the basilisks: Those giant awooga eyes? They aren't their eyes. Their eyes are actually much smaller and on the face part of them in between the 'eyes'.
I'm someone who puts thousands of hours into these games and generally enjoy the run up to the boss rather than the bosses themselves. Too many people run through the game to the "real challenge", glossing over the idea that many enemies could be bosses if they just had bigger health bars. Regular enemies are fun to fight too and have engaging movesets, this is where you come in. Very good ranking and unbiased constructive analysis of the fun/fairness in the designs! I can actually feel the experience and knowledge in your playstyle as well I personally think the dragon slayer armour that you find in the ringed city swamp is the best enemy in the game, much like his boss counterpart. Great moveset, challenging enough and many windows to attack
Great video! A few tips to fight the more annoying enemies : -Maggot grubs and Pus of Men will stagger every time you hit them with fire. -Equip a torch and maggots won't bleed you to death. -Some enemies will stagger for a second if they hit your shield while blocking. This includes cleaver thralls, dogs/wolves, corvians, dagger-wielding enemies and enemies that have thrusting attacks. -Blessed weapons will prevent enemies that "resuscitate", like skeletons, to do so. -You can parry giant crabs
Lothric Knights were so cool because they punished circle strafing for backstabs and this engaged the player to participate in other strategies like shield kicking, parrying, and trying out the new weapon arts.
It's bizarre seing Ds3 enemies after Elden Ring Dlc. Looks like the enemies are on slow motion because in the dlc they have non stop combos that are super fast and does 1 zilion damage 💀.
funny. jailers are my favorite regular enemy. im not even joking. the design, the attacks. i like it! i always wear their headgear. Thralls would get my least favorite lol
Just letting you know that the stray demon's grab is only instant death for keyboard and mouse users. As its one of the few grabs in DS3 you can actually grab escape from by button mashing. However the developers never gave keybindings for grab escapes for Keyboard and mouse, along with being unable manually keybind grab escapes yourself without modding your game.
Idk if you ever noticed, cause it took me 250 hours on this game to do so, but if you get the reposte to the doggoes and they stay alive, you can see a really nice animation inn which they pray with their hands, with their back on the ground, and stop attacking you, which is really nice cause it gives you the idea that they were in fact people or knights of sullivhan, and that they were cursed like the other knights of the mission but they became more beasts
I feel like I'm one of the only people who thinks thralls (and imps from ER) are good enemies. While rather harmless one-on-one, their ambushes and how they can overwhelm you in groups causes you play more cautiously and be more spatially aware because of their ability to hang off walls and ceilings. I think the imps with their ability to look like lifeless statues and blend in feel like the more refined version of the enemy. Also, their fast attacks with bleed weapons encourage shield use.
Love when they make the "This is only subjective" disclaimer before trying to dictate when something is good or bad in the objective sense. Gotta have that thin layer of protection when people start criticizing you
The Lothric Knights Are so Incredibly Beautiful to Me The Quintessential Dark Souls Knight 101 A Great Tutorial for new players and a Good reoccurring Fun Enemy for Veterans They’re quite Adorable and Their mix of Stereotypical Dragon slaying, Badass, Magical, 7 Feet tall Knight Artstyle Just Vibe’s so Well They’re Great to Learn with, especially Parrying
So about the Demon at the smoldering Lake with the Skeletons nearby....I hate to break it to you but that one time I was rushing through I dragged all of the boney bois along the Demon to the lower level and watched the Skeletons kill the Demon for me with numbers to spare too when the dust settled. I was amazed and I didn't even intend to kill the Demon in the first place! that was on NG.
I'm a huge judicator hater. They'd honestly be a lot better, and perhaps even more memorable if they didn't respawn. Felt so accomplished when I killed the one in the swamp after basically clearing it out only to see it respawn when I rested.
this video is a great testament to the tremendous quality of enemies in this game that is let down by their absolutely vile placements most of the time. this is probably the game I elect to run past enemies most frequently because I just can't be bothered
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For those of you who have come to comment that I complain too much at the beginning and need to git gud, I’m not arguing that enemies in the bad tier are bad because they’re hard. I just don’t think most of them are designed in a fun and/or fair way. In fact most of them can be pretty easy with a hit and run strategy, I just don’t think that their cheap moves/methods are commendable. I generally prefer for difficult enemies to have engaging and memorizable movesets like those near the top.
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uhh idk how to tell you this you poor sheltered soul..... but that is not wax that is coming out of their achem... 6 'o clock...
edit: since they are bug based.... uhh...... basic biology...
Bruh, that is literally on *you* .
If you don’t get it, don’t blame the game.
I get summoned in these games all the time.
I get so fed up with the person that summoned me I start dropping items to clue them in on what is wrong, or repeat the same moves over and over again to show them what they should do.
Most of them ignore me, or think I’m just doing random shit for laughs.
So it goes to show: Even when someone else is waving the answer directly in front of your face, it doesn’t matter if you’re not *paying attention* .
Keep that in mind the next time you run straight at an enemy, spam R1, die instantly, then complain that it’s not “fair” or “well-designed”.
@@bbluva20You completely missed the point dude
I do not agree with a lot of the placements on the list, but thats fine. I noticed I have a very different playstyle than you, so I guess that plays a major role in enemy enjoyment.
DUDE, COME ON.
Please consider this carefully.
this you are in a fearsome prison, within a fallen kingdom, in a dying world.
jailers can be annoying but they're essential to what makes the dungeon area so terrifying.
they convey very well the sense of looming terror of that area, the punishment, the torture, the frustration, the end of all hope a prisoner feels.
this is also the most horror themed area of the game and they have a pivotal role: make you feel powerless.
even if you're overleveled and with great gear, the jailers can level out your power and make you feel scared of everything again.
they create a survival horror situation, in which you are heavily punished for rushing in and get detected, forcing you to run and fear any unexpected encounter.
does this feel like "terrible design" to you?
Also, they're confined to one area and are pretty frail.
if you ambush one you can kill it without any risk of it reacting to you.
they're not difficult to fight at all, they just use attacks you can't defend from in a conventional way.
and they look pretty cool, too.
you have all the right to dislike them, but saying they're horrible design and poorly exectuted doesn't make you look very smart.
Maggot debuff can be removed by holding a torch. Also, dogs can be countered by doing a backstep attack when they try to bite you
Oh man, thanks for the advice, I wish I had known the torch tip on my first playthrough. Those little shits gave me quite the trouble >:(
damm i have 300hr in ds3 and still didnt know this
@@harrierdubois-q7k I just watched a video that was called like "This is what 675 hours of DS3 looks like" and it's just him getting one hit killed.
Best. Game. Ever.
You can have the torch in a weapon slot and switch to it momentary to burn off the maggots, too. You don't have to have it out when you are hit.
definitely easy enemies to deal with :)
This list gained so much credibility the second the Jailers were called out as the worst enemy
And then immediately lost it by not knowing grub debuff can be cancelled by wielding a torch...
@@Zomboy123456789 To be fair it's really obscure.
@@daifuku75 it's one of those things you either don't realize some people don't know, or would've never thought-of in your life.
@@Zomboy123456789 Would that really change the ranking tho? I don't find that gimmick enjoyable
@@Zomboy123456789the thing is you have to go out of your way to have a torch. Most people at that point wont have one
Maggot debuff can not only be removed by holding a torch, but they can also be permanently stunlocked til death if you attack with torch, making them completely defenseless and a free kill
Whenever I play a pyro I end up using that corridor after the chappal bonfire for farming, since the basic fireball stunlocks them from a safe distance and they give a decent number of souls.
Didn't know this, big thanks haha
I mean u can also have a fire infused weapon that also stunlocks them, it also does more damage to flesh enemies and rotten slugs. So i always keep a fire weapon on me around my main weapons level usually a dagger. Note fire flesh enemies i think r weak to lightning and dark damage
Bloodred Moss Clump and Caressing Tears also make part of the game you know . Even divine blessing .
I will DEFINITELY be using this!
I think that the worst part about the jailers is that when your health bar returns, your health does not. This means that a single trailer can take 99% of your health bar, and then you have to heal all that off, without taking a single hit.
Fun fact about the giant crabs: When they wind up for their double claw overhead slam, they are always 100 percent vulnerable to a critical hit as long as their claws are above their head. All you have to do is walk up and attack during the animation, and bam, free reposte. I haven't heard many people talk about this so here it is
Edit: Selfish plug, but I uploaded an example of how it works in my channel if anyone is interested.
I have over 600hrs and didn't know this. Going to try it tomorrow. Incredible!
@stephencardone Yeah, it's a pretty neat, not-so-obvious mechanic they have. I want to add one more thing to this that I didnt mention in my comment: They can only be reposted like this from the front, not the back.
That’s awesome, thanks for the tip
Didn't know about this, thanks !
Just saw your video. I didnt know that. DS been out for like a decade now? So that is news to me
When I first started DS3 and went to the High Wall, I looked to my left, saw a dragon(I didn't know it was dead), and looked to my right and saw a pair of dogs. I immediately went "Well this is Dark Souls so both of those paths are equally dangerous."
Dogs will kill you faster lol. Those blood dogs in elden ring are scariest enemy in the game.
@@kevo300 the bug with elden rings bleed dogs got fixed.
@@kevo300no that's royal revenants unless you know the healing cheese to kill them
@@Ghorda9 holy shit the bleed dog caught me off guard, mf just drained my health in a second
Im glad to see the Cathedral knight's so high up. I love their armor sets, how imposing they are, and how fun they are to fight. They've always stood out as a jacked up crusader
UGS Cathedrals are seriously a 50/50 engagement they're so good at pressuring
Yeah i Love their Design too
I think the ultra greatswords are my least favorite elite knights in the entire game. They hard counter ultra heavy by being too fast forcing you to back stab. Placed in poor places or outright unreasonable spots that I just run around them.(only fight in the game I constantly do besides wyvern fight.) The enemy feels like they have endless stamina and they swing like I'm fighting a 8 year old button mashing the controller in a tekken game.
I will say however the look and sounds are cool and I always snatch a bucket helm.
@@sawyerslack9782 The UGS cathedral knights are pretty cool. Definitely somewhat overtuned but far from the worst [X] knight fights in the game. I mean, Corvian Knights and Boreal Outrider Knights literally exist. The two outside Oceiros' bonfire are fun to fight one after another but they are really aggressive.
@@sawyerslack9782
no.
they are not too fast even if you use slow heavy weapons.
these GS cathedral Knights are my fav enemies to fight against using UGS.
my fav way to fight them is with UGS and they have the perfect amount of aggression,
they are not too fast at all, even with my slow af Berserk Greatsword. you just stay mindful of the direction of your dodge and look at their body and not their weapon to see if they are gonna follow up or not. they are engaging and fun af
11:30 These are in the game for lore reasons, in my opinion. They're bits of Aldrich that came off and were left behind. They're based on Phalanx/slimes, blobs of goo. Originally found in DnD, a major influence on DS.
Also, they are are in many souls games, and they are consistently resistant to physical damage but weak to fire damage. This can be a factor for lots of from enemies in that certain build can trivialize some while make others sudden walls.
12:26
"...No negative effects *aside from instantly killing you."*
Man, Dark Souls... What a game series eh?
I knew someone would point that out
i like how cage hollows are the first enemy that teaches you how some enemies dont just have a lot of HP but instead have some strong resistences, trusting attacks deal extremely high damage to the caged hollows since you are poking your weapon through the gaps between the cage bars.
Also noticed how many enemies in this game had understandable resistences, like how almost all flamable enemies have maggots or slimyness in common, unclothed enemies like lycanthropes or hollows are really weak to bleed or metalic knights being weak to lightning. This was lost in elden ring to me, mainly because of how hard to tell some elements are or the ambiguity of holy damage in general makes you just chug it and deal with enemy resistences.
In DS3 i remember the classic rules ALWAYS applied and were notizable.
lightning -> knights and dragons
dark -> demons of chaos
fire -> maggots, wood or slimes
magic -> the neutral element
strike -> stone and skeletons
pierce -> enemies with gaps in their protection
slash/bleed -> naked enemies
In elden ring i cant remember a single enemy resistence that truly matters aside from Wood and Rot being weak to fire and the undead being weak to holy.
Giant hands are extremely weak to fire damage status effect.
Cage hollows were pretty much a single time enemy. Once you learn it, camera lock will automatically find the passive cage hollows if you spam it on every cage you find.
@@icipher6730 yeah but nothing on their design really indicates they are gonna have such reaction to fire
Resistances might be less obvious in Elden Ring, but they are a huge deal, with some enemies having 40-80% resistance to certain damage types
Holy for undead enemies, special the Death Birds. And fire for Minor Erdtree minibosses. But beyond that each enemies resistances are more tied to their lore than to logic. Like Cuckoo greatshield being resistant against both magic and holy.
The flesh enemies are just very resistant to physical damage. Use any element and they melt.
What about Fire fleshes in demon ruins
@@graveslayer9666 Different creature
@@graveslayer9666 Magic or lightning, dark is ok as well. I don't remember which is best for the fire version.
ok
Demon Fists were designed to pulverize them in the most satisfying way possible. Combine them with Pontiff' Right Eye and Knight Slayer's rings and you'll be feared by shielded enemies and some heavy armored bosses too.
For the skeleton, only the one with glowing eyes will respawn once, you could also tell whether they respawn or not if they give you soul when they died. If they do give souls, they're dead, but if they're not, ready for round two
The ones with white glowing eyes, specifically.
If it's glowing red they still won't get up a second time.
Ooooor you can just ignore the mechanic completely by using a blessed infused weapon since doing so disables their revive
Yeah this guy is unaware of a lot of mechanics, despite having the internet at his disposal
@@Neo2266.Most players tend to play souls game blind. It's the most fun experience rather than searching walkthroughs and just spoiling yourself.
@@progmrz5512 uh huh, that goes for every game, how’s that related to what I said at all?
I love the Poisonhorn Bug because they just try so hard to kill you it’s adorable
I loved encountering them for the first time in dark souls 2 and was super happy to see them return in 3
Pretty sure we killed their queen in DS2
people mention that maggot debuff can be countered by a torch. however, it can also be countered by quiting to the main menu.
I'm not joking.
Imagine you finally managed to apply the maggot debuff on the ashen one and then they just reload the game lmao
what actually happens is you trade the maggot debuff for a loading screen debuff
Oh right, fromsoft’s terrible pause system and quit system bites them in the ass again
@@Neo2266.Funny thing is, even the respec glitch is involved in this.
Yes let me do that instead of just equipping my torch😐
Ringed Knights are some of the sickest enemies in the series to date, and unlike some other cool enemies, you can actually use their equipment! Also love how the Stray Demon differenciates itself from the Asylum Demons more than Erdtree Avatars despite being in the same series
Such a chad move from fromsoft to give you a guaranteed drop for the greatswords on the first kill
Some tips for dealing with some of the lower tiered enemies:
Leeches can be removed with a red moss clump or by holding a torch.
Rock Lizards, when kicked, do a full roll rotation backwards. Considering most of them are near cliffs, it makes it really easy to keep them far from you while you try to kick them off a cliff.
Puss of Man will be stunned for 5 seconds if you hit one with a fire attack. Throwing a firebomb is the easiest method. There is going to be a period where they can’t be stunned by fire afterwards (usually the duration of the stun + duration of their follow-up attack), but it’s pretty easy to just dodge their counter and hit them with fire again.
Hollow Clerics can be kicked onto their backs and attacked on their weak underside. Their spin attack can also be parried, which results in the spinner flipping onto its back.
Clumps of Flesh are very weak to fire, and weak to the other elements. Smoldering Lake Clumps are just weak to other elements.
A little trivia. Back when the game first released the first demon you encounter would drop the soul instead of the one in the combs. I used the demon great axe for my first playthrough because of that
I WONDERED why his transposition prompts showed up so early!
You can just kick the hollow clerics on their back to stop them from healing
Wish I knew that 💀
infortunately you will almost get hit by the spell anyway and certain weapons do not have a kick (I think of the curved swords)
@@sunbro8093 You don't even have to kick them, I just use charged heavy attacks while two handing a weapon. A couple of smacks flips them out of a heal pretty reliably.
@@johnmhuizar if your weapon is long enough to not get hit, quick enough to interrupt them in time and has enough poise damage, then yes absolutely. However, this doesn't include some categories of weapons as I said, like the curved swords
@sunbro8093 Interesting. I had never tried it on curved swords, but it worked fine with plain old straight swords, which I had always thought did the same amount of poise damage as curved swords.
Jailers definately are the worst enemy, but I appreciate them being a thematically fitting environmental hazard tied to a single dungeon.
Forcing you to play carefully through a place that otherwise could be really short setpiece, and keeping player on their toes, building that dread if there is going to be a jailor around next corner...
They would be much prefered over other enemies if it was'nt for that tragic placement of like 6 or 7 of them near the witch area , it gets tedious either fighting them 1 by 1 or running the risk of being 1 health when fighting all of them , Up until that point you mostly face them in either 1v1s or groups of 2 or 3 jailers , they could've easily avoided that tragic placement by placing 1 one jailer on a respective cell door , but no we are fromsoft we have to drop a random shitty encounter in every area of every game 🤫😂 .
right, and this the point. They are supposed to be the worst.
Man I wish the dungeon was a short set piece. Never want to be there again.
FINALLY, some one that get's it.
they're as annoying as they're excellent design
@@Cool_as_the_Northern_Windright
“The basilisks in this game only insta kill you so it’s not as bad…”
The positioning of the basilisks on DS3 seems more punishing than DS1 sometimes (even without the HP curse). i have a bad time dealing in that area before meeting the final battle against Tsorig NPC
28:20 a tip for Monstrosity of sins: their eyes are extremely weak and when they use the grab, the slightest damage can stun them out for a critical. So if you equip any piece of the thorns armor set and just roll at them, while their eyes are exposed, it's a guaranteed stagger.
Additional tip, they have high hp but very low bleed resistance. To the point that putting carthus rouge on a +0 dagger will probably outdamage whatever else you're using to fight them
They looks like a lot like manus hand ( manus means hand btw) both born out of abyss and omg are they annoying!
What incredible timing, had nothing to watch tonight but you came through!! Thanks man looking forward to your rankings!
Elder Ghurs might be the only Fromsoft enemy that I only fought once despite my many plathroughs of the game. They are so easy to avoid
I dont think I have killed a single one, amd I have like nearly 800 hours
I feel like the gank with the fire witches in front of the cathedral in irythil you're talking about was more of a quasi set piece to encourage the player to take a more roundabout path, given there's a few ways to get up there, but more or less reward skilled players with a fast boss route if you can take it head on
I came across this video while replaying the entirety of ds3 (currently going into the endgame and dlc) and I didn't know I missed ds3 so much as when I first opened the door from the watch tower in High Wall of Lothric. The atmosphere always enthralls me (maybe It's just dumb nostalgia since ds3 was my first souls game).
Anyways, I very much resonate with your ranking placement. It pretty much sumarises my views on how fun to play against many ds3 enemies are (specially if you can parry them because I'm one of those that likes to parry god everywhere)
Also I feel the game got a bit tweaked since the last time I played because I swear some ganks got doubled in with more enemies.
Regardless, thank you for your dedicatiom and your passionate videos. Wish you loads of success but also seize this momentum to take a step back and have fun with what you do, because that's what matters the most, because that is contagious and I feel you're having such a good time making these.
Now waiting for ER enemies 😂😂 (quite the task because there are tons of variants of some enemies)
You gained a new sub.
My single favorite enemy in any of the games is the Lothric Knight that uses the Warbanner, still my favorite weapon in the game and it just looks so cool when they use it
I like the jailer gank room, my first playthrough I used the chameleon spell to sneak by everything by turning myself into a CHAIR it was hilarious. Also Karla best girl. While some enemies are unfair, at least they make you think of creative ways to defeat them, like weaving in firebombs between attacks or getting a fast-hitting fire-infused weapon for pus of man. Though the angels are just bad game design, they make exploration impossible when exploration is the only way to defeat them. Coupled with a hidden bonfire, that area was the only place in the entire game I had to look up a guide. So annoying.
The stray demon just yeeting him off the edge gave me flashbacks to my first playthroughs.
Also I started off playing soulsborne games by playing Ds3.
Currently making my way through this. Just gotta say your dissapointment when you were like "no... it's the jailers" was PALPABLE.
Cathedral Knights are my favorite enemy in the series. I'm glad they're getting some love.
Another reason the ringed knights are the best is the sound design on them is amazing. The sound of the dual great swords smashing against the ground and after you kill it they hit the floor it’s just so good
Yes! It sounds so weighty, I love it
18:30 That aren't the handmaidens, that's the Profaned Flame shooting at you. They can't even see you from there, let alone attack you.
Damn, the Jailer is literally my favorite enemy in the whole game. It's so creepy and changes the vibe of its area so much. If the main enemy in the dungeon was another more standard tough enemy where you just hold shield or roll to win, the dungeon just wouldn't feel as oppressive. I don't think any enemy in the game elevates its area as much as the Jailer, and that's wht it's my favorite enemy type in the whole game.
Fun fact, the giant eye-looking things of the Basilisks aren't their actual eyes. They are more of an intimidation feature. Their actual eyes are super small, check out the model if you're interested :)
Another fun fact, if you equip a torch, the maggot-bleed from the maggot-dogs stops immediately. So just have it in your off-hand and quickly equip and unequip it when afflicted.
Literally almost everyone knows the first fact.
@@LowProfile0247 That is completely false :)
You highly underestimate the number of people that have played these games vs the number of people that watch niche exploration videos about them on RUclips.
@@LowProfile0247 I didn't know this and I watch lore videos all the time xD
I love that you showed a clip of that one mimic with most of its chain hidden under the red carpet, making it difficult to determine if it's a real chest or not.
Honestly, adding to the bullshit factor for the angels is their magic they cast that causes curse buildup when you break their line of aggro.
It feels like the game's being salty that you outsmarted it.
True, that mechanic actually makes me pretty salty, but I had to pick and choose which aspects of enemies were important enough to include so things wouldn’t drag
@@chadofastora That's fair. Glad we're in agreement that the angels sucked.
@@KitsuneYojimbo there entire purpose is to keep you moving
9:50 the hollow priests actually cast a superbuff version of golden vow, which I believe was about a 50% dmg increase to nearby enemies. It's the little orange glow. Limit Breakers did a video on it I believe
its actually superbuff version of Sacred Oath, seeing as Elden Ring wasn’t even an idea that existed in Miyazaki’s mind when ds3 was released
Right, forgot the name & just defaulted to the ER equiv haha@@FRealw27026
It's been a while since I've gone through DS3, so I had no idea what was going to be #1... but as soon as I SAW the ringed knight, the memory of my first encounter with that dual ultra greatsword gigachad came rushing back to me. 😩👌
Been waiting on this Banger 🔥
Someone's probably mentioned this already, but you can check the eyes of the skeletons in the Catacombs to see if they'll revive or not. Glowing=revive, not glowing=no revive :)
The road section in the ringed city has a ton of places to drop from and one shot the haralds. It’s a pretty fun section baiting them and nano attacking
NEW CHAD OF ASTORA VID 🥶‼️‼️😱😱😱
Fr 📣📣💯💯🔥🔥❗❗
@@BigAssPelican 😱😱😱😱
44:35 I feel like you forgot you have a kick move. Hiding behind his shield is basically the perfect opening or the Cathedral and Lothric knights to get a nice guardbreak
Unpopular opinion but I really liked the angles. I see them as a cool puzzle that needs to be solved, and it feels more rewarding to explore the areas you couldnt get to when it was alive
In defense of the jailers. I thought the fear aspect kinda adds to the challenge of the dungeon. Annoying yes. Very. But imo ALWAYS, Annoying enemies is better than boring enemies.
29:51 I have a lot of affection for Harald Knights. I got extremely lucky with getting their chest plate on my first run through the Ringed City and it was the key piece I needed for the vitality monster build to really come together. The fact that I got to gloat over my friend who'd played the game way more than me but had never had it drop for him was the cherry on top. Not suggesting they should be higher ranked, honestly I already thought 21 was a bit more generous than necessary, just sharing a fond memory of mine.
Just finished my first playthrough and I really despise the Basilisks in this game. Far more so than I did in DS1. They spam them in Farren Keep, where you already have a forced fat roll and can't move. It's just not fun imo. Also, if there's one there's automatically a billion.
I also did not like the Outrider knights. Admittedly they are the enemy I probably died to the most (especially the one in Lothric castle) but when using a greatsword their speed can be really overwhelming.
In terms of Sulyvahn's beasts, I think they are not an enemy that should have been involved in a gank fight. There's 2 of them in a single room right where the covenant is, which really hurts my opinion of them. Also I don't like the fact that their claws have hitboxes for a lot of their bite attacks. This can be pretty frustrating.
You can fight them one at a time
@@PBandJ21 I know, which is what I eventually did. This was clearly not Fromsoft's intention though. They wanted you to fight both of them, which is ridiculous. I think 2 Pontiff dogs is probably harder than any boss in the main game (I don't own the dlc).
@@MrPatrickbuit good point. Btw, highly recommend the dlc. Its my favorite part of the game with the best bosses
I really like your ranking videos, something really nice about them is that you definitely seem like you have a good idea of fun and fairness when it comes to challenge.
too many people now thing that something difficult automatically means its good.
a serious issue with an enemy being over tuned or or too unfair is that it often leads to people running through areas without fighting enemies since its simply not worth the effort and in doing so they miss alot of things and dont experience what the areas have to offer and ignore the challenge
Yeah I thought that too, he has a level of confidence that allows him to say “this isn’t fun” and then provide constructive criticism. Sometimes it feels like with ds games people are afraid to admit they didn’t like something because there’s always the response of “well just get better at the game” but games are meant to be fun and if something is difficult in a boring way then it’s reasonable to not give it your time.
My favorite are pontiff knights. Every other knight feels samey. Slow, beefy, high damage output, fairly predictable moveset, and not very graceful. Pontiff knights tend to travel in packs where one of them is standing at a long distance and harassing the player with projectiles, while the other in engaging in a melee fight with very long combos akin to Pontiff, and masterfully keeping range and avoiding the player (as far as PVE goes). Their ai actually feels like it was programmed differently. Whereas SIlver, Lothric, Ringed, Cathedral knights are all kind of...the same?
There more ethereal like the ghosts you see of them
Yeah I love how unique they are, I think fromsoft should continue trying to make enemies more like them
@@kevo300those ghosts are Vordt and the Dancer
funny story, first time I played dark souls 3, I didn't know there was a variant of the mimic that crawls and so when I first saw it I freaked out and actually had to quit the game for a bit because it scared me so much. I was in the sewer area with rats and curse frogs and decided I would just run since there was too many enemies and all I saw was a mimic crawling at me at Mach 1 or something. Still have ptsd...
Mad respect to Miyazaki who was so dedicated to upstaging DS2 in every way he even made an enemy more annoying than the DS2 mimics with the Jailers.
Really living up to the name with this series fr fr my man! Keep it up :]
All the Herald Knights, with the exception of the one in the cave, are positioned so that they can be plunge attacked.
The street is cringe, I do agree, but if you let them patrol one just positions himself beneath the NPC girl’s door (forgot her name) and becomes a free kill. The three at the bottom are worse but still plungable from the little side platform or from above the arch above.
Man, the caged hollows have to be one of my favorites. Sure, after you know the game they are no threat really, but as a beginner who still has to learn that in this game you cant loose your focus at any times they are just incredibly good, and give so much to the dark and depressing atmosphere of the game, its design makes just so much sense, and gives such a good and unique flavor to the game. Generally speaking i think the Undead Settlement is a highlight of the whole game, because it feels so random and dangerous, the artstyle is unique as hell, the secrets are brilliantly placed and vast, the huge fucker throwing the giant spears is a one of a kind experience, and the npc's are pretty fleshed out and interesting too.
Jailers are definitely the worst. However I feel you were too hard on some of the enemies. They teach Patients and thoughtful strategy. You’ve also ignored lore implications. Good video though
I hope you do this with all of the souls games :)
Very awesome video
Mannn I love the Jailers. The health drain is honestly kind of hilarious to me. It just drains so quickly i can only laugh when it happens to me. Plus their design is super cool and fits the area they're in perfectly. If you think about it having a vitality sapping [lamp?] ability would be extremely useful for a Jailer/guard. Any and all violent or fleeing inmates would be done in immediately without offing them; It just fits their purpose in the setting perfectly. Plus, if you're not too greedy you can pull one at a time and just punish tf out of them. The high stakes of fighting them while being only 1 hit from death with no way to heal is totally exhilarating to me. I think they're an A-tier enemy personally, maybe even S-tier. It'd be one thing if the Irithyll Dungeon was super long and, or they had giant health pools but both are not true, their section isn't too long and they go down in a few hits. Basically, I like DS3 better with them than without them. I think they make the game and that section extremely memorable, like absolutely no one forgets the Jailers after a playthrough of DS3.
Something crazy about the maggots and flies you didn't mention to the video is the fact that if you have a torch on you and you just simply equip it in either hand it'll instantly kill off all the maggots
One thing about stray demon is that you can break out of his grab by spamming r1 and l1 and that makes the grab deal much less damage.
I had no idea, thanks 😅
You’ll escape from it too. Regularly he’d throw you if you don’t mash.
@@Gohma55yeah, that's the most important thing, he has throwed me out of the map into Gravity god more times that i would like
I love how youtube is recommending me so many small souls RUclipsrs! I am here for this content!
Hot take but honestly the jailers are an interesting and dynamic enemy. They require thinking rather than just brute force and add a lot of anxiety and tension to the dungeon which is already a creepy and underrated area. Plus they just look cool and they're only a gimmick enemy in a single small area, so I don't really think they deserve the hate.
That's not what a hot take means, my man. That's just an unpopular opinion, but you responded with good reasons!
A hot take is where you draw a ridiculous conclusion from something. A hot take cannot be taken seriously.
I too like the jailers and wouldn't have ranked them at the bottom. That's the beautiful thing about tier lists. They're just one person's opinion.
I think thematically they make perfect sense. They are JAILERS, why would they make it fair to leave the jail? And staying out of their line of sight as a new player felt like a horror game where I'd wait around corners or rush them to reduce the risk. That gank at the end can also be avoided by stealth, though the switch up of brute strength to "stealth" is a little weird in a game with no crouch
youre just splitting hairs, my man@@Hirotoro4692
I agree 100%, and I have a similar opinion with the gru's and pus-of-man.
Something that makes the Mimics much funnier is that if you get far enough away from them, they will actually do a flying roundhouse kick like Chuck Norris. It does CRAZY amounts of damage too. I'm willing to bet most people never even see it because they only perform the attack if you are a significant distance away from him.
Fun fact about the first wretch that just "watches you" if you look at his wrists he's chained to the wall, hence why he doesn't move when you hit him
the people going out of their way to defend the absolute worst enemies in the game is about what i expect from ds fans
Let me save u guys 45 mins. He likes big enemies you can 1v1, he doesnt like status effects or more than one mob at a time.
Fun fact about the basilisks: Those giant awooga eyes? They aren't their eyes. Their eyes are actually much smaller and on the face part of them in between the 'eyes'.
Simply stunning video.
Fr bro I accidentally clicked then bro stunlocked me harder than the thralls until the end of the video.
who's that npc in the intro? I have like 60 hours on ds3 and I've never seen her
I actually missed her my first few playthroughs as well, when you first enter the Dreg heap, before the first drop down she’s to the left
@@chadofastora thank you!
41:37 You can mash your way out of the grab. Press the shoulder buttons/Mouse 1 & 2 rapidly.
It's confirmed to not work on PC
its funny what you mention about the rock lizards having infinite poise because if you kick them they roll backwards and you can bully them that way
Great video, you possess a genuine devotion to your craft and content. Hope to see more
I'm someone who puts thousands of hours into these games and generally enjoy the run up to the boss rather than the bosses themselves. Too many people run through the game to the "real challenge", glossing over the idea that many enemies could be bosses if they just had bigger health bars. Regular enemies are fun to fight too and have engaging movesets, this is where you come in.
Very good ranking and unbiased constructive analysis of the fun/fairness in the designs! I can actually feel the experience and knowledge in your playstyle as well
I personally think the dragon slayer armour that you find in the ringed city swamp is the best enemy in the game, much like his boss counterpart. Great moveset, challenging enough and many windows to attack
Great video! A few tips to fight the more annoying enemies :
-Maggot grubs and Pus of Men will stagger every time you hit them with fire.
-Equip a torch and maggots won't bleed you to death.
-Some enemies will stagger for a second if they hit your shield while blocking. This includes cleaver thralls, dogs/wolves, corvians, dagger-wielding enemies and enemies that have thrusting attacks.
-Blessed weapons will prevent enemies that "resuscitate", like skeletons, to do so.
-You can parry giant crabs
Lothric Knights were so cool because they punished circle strafing for backstabs and this engaged the player to participate in other strategies like shield kicking, parrying, and trying out the new weapon arts.
Amazing ranking !
personally, I love skeletons they're so funny when they fly at you and i always had fun watching them try to hit me
It's bizarre seing Ds3 enemies after Elden Ring Dlc. Looks like the enemies are on slow motion because in the dlc they have non stop combos that are super fast and does 1 zilion damage 💀.
I love pontiff’s gank alley, painted gank valley, and the ringed gank city 💗💗💗
To me dogs are the worst enemy
This list made me realize the amount of unique interactions there were in DSIII(best souls game)
funny. jailers are my favorite regular enemy. im not even joking. the design, the attacks. i like it! i always wear their headgear.
Thralls would get my least favorite lol
Just letting you know that the stray demon's grab is only instant death for keyboard and mouse users. As its one of the few grabs in DS3 you can actually grab escape from by button mashing.
However the developers never gave keybindings for grab escapes for Keyboard and mouse, along with being unable manually keybind grab escapes yourself without modding your game.
Another really good video dude! Fire ranking I feel like I agree on basically everything
I foresee a 2 hour long Elden Ring video
What a chad
Idk if you ever noticed, cause it took me 250 hours on this game to do so, but if you get the reposte to the doggoes and they stay alive, you can see a really nice animation inn which they pray with their hands, with their back on the ground, and stop attacking you, which is really nice cause it gives you the idea that they were in fact people or knights of sullivhan, and that they were cursed like the other knights of the mission but they became more beasts
I feel like I'm one of the only people who thinks thralls (and imps from ER) are good enemies. While rather harmless one-on-one, their ambushes and how they can overwhelm you in groups causes you play more cautiously and be more spatially aware because of their ability to hang off walls and ceilings. I think the imps with their ability to look like lifeless statues and blend in feel like the more refined version of the enemy. Also, their fast attacks with bleed weapons encourage shield use.
Yes you are
@@casulgamer1499 annoying enemies are good because they force you to think about what you're doing and keep you on your toes.
@@Ghorda9 you can do that with non annoying enemies
@@casulgamer1499 no where near as effective, if it's not annoying you can just ignore it.
You thought we wouldn't notice "We're the Desparate Measures" playing the background while you were talking about the demon enemies...but we did.
Fuck yes !
another fabulous video! Keep it up Chad of Astora!
Love when they make the "This is only subjective" disclaimer before trying to dictate when something is good or bad in the objective sense. Gotta have that thin layer of protection when people start criticizing you
The Lothric Knights Are so Incredibly Beautiful to Me
The Quintessential Dark Souls Knight 101
A Great Tutorial for new players and a Good reoccurring Fun Enemy for Veterans
They’re quite Adorable and Their mix of Stereotypical Dragon slaying, Badass, Magical, 7 Feet tall Knight Artstyle Just Vibe’s so Well
They’re Great to Learn with, especially Parrying
So about the Demon at the smoldering Lake with the Skeletons nearby....I hate to break it to you but that one time I was rushing through I dragged all of the boney bois along the Demon to the lower level and watched the Skeletons kill the Demon for me with numbers to spare too when the dust settled. I was amazed and I didn't even intend to kill the Demon in the first place! that was on NG.
I'm a huge judicator hater. They'd honestly be a lot better, and perhaps even more memorable if they didn't respawn. Felt so accomplished when I killed the one in the swamp after basically clearing it out only to see it respawn when I rested.
Me seeing what they done to Stray Demon in Elden Ring: Look how they massacred my boy
4:35 i used a Seed of a Giant Tree in this room. it absolutely worked and the invader got destroyed. I had a good laugh from that one.
3:10 they don’t discourage exploration, they encourage you look for the caster/summoner. They’re a turret with an off switch.
this video is a great testament to the tremendous quality of enemies in this game that is let down by their absolutely vile placements most of the time. this is probably the game I elect to run past enemies most frequently because I just can't be bothered
Good video chad! Your soothing voice helps me sleep at night keep it up ❤