Top 10 Most Underrated Bosses in the Souls Series
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I've talked about the Dark Souls Bosses every which way possible - I've ranked the Souls Boss Difficulty across each game, Top 10 Hardest SoulS Bosses, Best Souls Bosses, Worst Souls Bosses, even the Easiest Souls Bosses, and done a quality ranking across the entire series (excluding Sekiro). While I've mostly said everything I've wanted to on the majority of the Souls bosses through these videos, there's a few unsung heroes I feel haven't gotten their due.
Today I'll be sharing with you my take on 10 bosses across the Souls Series that are vastly underrated. Hopefully I have some surprise choices you wouldn't have considered. I'm sure you do as well, so be sure to share them in the comments. 3 days to Elden Ring - 1 more Souls video incoming before then. The hype is real!!
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Will you remake the Soulsborne boss Ranking with Elden Ring and Sekiro?
Pinning this since I know some are curious. There's a chance, but I worry about re-treading similar content over making entirely new things. If I were to re-rank things, I would inevitably end up talking about some of the same bosses over again. I'd rather focus on making as much content as I can for Elden Ring specifically and other non-Souls games to remain diverse. Never say never though. It would be fun to get Sekiro and Elden Ring their due in series-wide rankings.
@@theDeModcracy you could make a less formal, long podcast style kind of video. But ranking like 200 bosses might be a lot of work for just 1 video lol.
@@theDeModcracy If you ever do, I'd just call it a Fromsoft list rather than Sekisoulbourne Ring series
@Hyper10sion I've wanted to start doing "in FromSoft Games" over "the Souls Series" for a while now, especially with Bloodborne, Sekiro, and now Elden Ring almost matching the number of Souls titles. My concern has been that "FromSoft Games" is less searchable than "the Souls Series" which matters for RUclips discovery/recommendations
@LOPES HICK lol that'd be wild. To be fair, one of the reasons I refreshed myself on all the games ahead of Elden Ring was in the event I wanted to re-rank anything. If anything, I'd be most tempted to do the entire series of re-do's of Top 10 Hardest or the like. That giant 200+ list would be a HUGE undertaking though. Makes re-doing the Top 10's seem less intimidating. I could only really re-do them if Elden Ring + Sekiro made a significant shake-up in them.
I love how Elden Ring resurrected this channel. I remember watching the boss rankings in 2016, younger and without college worries...oh well. Keep the videos coming man
Good luck with college my man , you'll nail it !
Ugh i feel you man. College is fuckin brutal. I remember watching the ds3 rankings in high school. Good times.
College is literally a nightmare right now ugh
I know it’s not easy but try and enjoy it as much as you can man, I had the same worries and now that I’m two years post grad I wish I could go back. Best of luck to you!
U got it brother. If you can beat souls, you can crush college.
"Yhorm, old friend. I, Siegward of Catarina, have come to uphold my promise. Let the sun shine upon this Lord of Cinder"
This will never fail to give me chills.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
This is why i will always finish his quest line on every play though, just for the final reunion for two old friends.
Made me tear up the first time when I realized that the friend siegward was keeping a promise to was yhorm by freeing him from his curse killing his old friend who gave him the blade to do so
*"OLD FRIEND..."*
Yhorm, OLD FRIEND!
I'm coming here just to say: DarkLurker, he's so often forgotten since he's an optional boss, and a secret optional one at that, in a game often whined about for having poor boss variety.
Yep. He's a great boss alongside Fume Knight and Sir Aloone.
Sadly he's locked behind a cancerous gauntlet you have to run through every time, and waste an effigy for each attempt too.
@@jasv49 It's worth it though ;). Especially for bonfire asthetics which you can use on forest of the fallen giants to get ×5 effigies.
Darklurker is a great boss, but it suffers the same curse as Sir Allone. The runback is cancer. And in Darklurker's case it's even worse, since if I remember well, you can't just run to the hole, you have to kill all the enemies in the chasm to open the fog gate.
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I wouldn't say so. Darklurker is really cool and all, but c'mon dude. Wasting effigies was so retarded.
I honestly would argue that Dragonslayer Armor, Storm King, and Executioner’s Chariot are heavily underrated.
Dragonslayer Armor gets overshadowed by other late game bosses like Gundyr or Nameless King.
Executioner’s Chariot has one of the most interesting arenas in the series, and also has one of the coolest entries and theme in the series.
Storm King has a beautiful theme and arena, and is honestly my favorite boss in Demon Souls ever since the remake came along.
Ikr? Armor is my favorite boss of the series, every fight is a all out brawl against one of the most aggressive bosses in the game
@@demonkingsparda I’ve been waiting for someone to say this, and I totally agree. He’s a giant, walking, dragon possessed suit of armor with a giant thunderous axe and a score composed by god himself.
Armor is amazing, always felt it died too fast. The combat is honestly relaxing and kind of soothing, weirdly enough.
The chariot is so fun no matter my challenge build, i went against it bow-only and it was as exhilarating as ever, and an even bigger challenge since just smacking the skeletons wasn't an option, i have never had to depend on the skeletons getting run over by the chariot more than i have that time, and lemme just say, it's just euphoric to watch them get blindsided by the chariot after being kept away with my quickest volley of arrows between them
Nice try, skeleton.
I will never agree that chariot is even a mildly decent boss. I actually hate it more than bed of chaos however dragonslayer armor is an S tier boss (I’m judging them all from how they felt in a SL1 setting)
I would honestly say my #1 most underappreciated boss in the entire series is the Demon Prince.
EVERYONE forgets about them, because they have the misfortune to be in the same DLC as two of the best fights ever made, Darkeater Midir and Slave Knight Gael.
But I think it was the ONE TIME Fromsoft got the 2v1 formula absolutely perfect.
Everyone points to Ornstein and Smough as "the perfect dynamic", but it never plays out like that. Ornstein's eternally glitched charging attack ensures he always closes the gap way too fast, but when he's NOT using that, he's actually super slow and basically not even a threat at all. In turn, Smough is supposed to be "slow and threatening" but due to his constant charging hammer spam, he's actually the FASTER of the two and easier to focus down. It's also super exploitable as a fight since their outdated AI makes their phase 2 buttslams easily baited for free damage and Smough's hammer CANT HIT YOU if you're point blank in his belly. People only remember them being brutally hard because it was a gank. Any semi-veteran souls player could do the fight in their sleep because of how exploitable and non-dynamic they are. Plus, attacking both is worthless since ALL damage done to the survivor is simply erased upon Phase 2 starting.
In contrast, the Demon Princes ARE fast and slow. The very clearly enraged demon rushes you down non-stop, but uses low-damage attacks that aren't an immediate threat. In contrast, the burned out demon will never run after you, but instead fires well telegraphed but highly damaging Toxic attacks that are a MAJOR threat because of how brutal Toxic is and how rare items that heal it are. You can focus on the angry demon, but keep an eye out for the Toxic demon at the same time. Easy and intuitive management. The fight also mixes things up by having their transformations slightly overlap, changing the pace of the fight in interesting ways. Having two angry demons running after you puts you on the defensive, wheras having both demons burned out lets YOU go on the attack. Your choice of target also matters, and damage to both targets is meaningful, since they don't just heal. They then lead into a phenomenal second phase that starts after a fakeout death, where the demon you killed last actually MATTERS and significantly changes the strongest move of the Demon Prince.
In all ways OTHER than nostalgic, the Demon Prince is just the one time Fromsoft finally created the Ornstein and Smough 2.0 they've been trying to recreate for half a decade.
Its SO underappreciated.
I couldn't agree more. O and S work as a gank not because of their mechanics, but rather the arena (specifically the pillars), but the Demons have that same behavior literally baked into their mechanics, and the strongest move of the Prince changing depending on the order in which you killed the demons was a masterstroke. I would also make a similar argument for the second phase of Friede when she's paired with Ariandel as well.
@tired soul You don't know what "strawman" actually means, apparently. And somebody attempting to "um achtually" a blatant dramatic generalization doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. Goodbye.
Great comment. Completely agree with you
Idk it's my favorite fight in the entire series. Even though I beat them first try, the feeling I got when the third prince appeared and I had no Estus left was phenomenal.
@@kartikayysola I'd say Friede and Ariandel is a worse gank than Ludd and Zullen tbh. They have the same problems OnS do, but without the arena to make it up. Combine that with the fact Araiandel is just as fast as Friede, both have 0 defense, AND it's just a roadblock to the only phase of the fight that's good (Blackflame Friede), it's just such a weird decision, honestly they should have had you just fight Friede and then have made Araindel an actually competent boss in of himself, but noooooo we needed OnS clone number 7!
Yorhm The Giant is a zelda boss. You find him after going through an area literally called a dungeon and need to use a unique item to make defeating him easier. Throw a sliding block puzzle in and move the storm ruler to a different room guarded by one of the tougher enemies and you have a zelda dungeon.
@tired soul Looks more like an observation to back up the premise that Yorhm The Giant is a Zelda boss
I always see zelda and dark souls are pretty simmiliar. And i've read an article that said the making of dark souls is really influenced by zelda
@tired soul the first line is moreso a joke, the real comparison is between how the Yorhm fight is intended to work and how most 3d zelda bosses work. For Yorhm the use of the storm ruler to damage/weaken him is a lot like a zelda boss where you need to use the item you got in it's temple/dungeon to defeat it.
@@mohammadsaddam4560 nah zelda games and souls games barely have anything in common
@@tcharipapa6971 the combat isn't too far off, ocarina of time invented the lock on mechanic paired with a variety of sword attacks.
“But if you want you can give up your left hand to completely nullify the spiders, though then your fighting the boss with one hand” bruh its The Dukes Dear Freja I’m already beating the boss with one hand.
AYO WHAT THE FU-
The spidussy go crazy
@@WillTBear1WYM AYO WTF⁉️THAT’S HELLA RELATABLE 🗣️🥴🗿🤫🧏♂️😩‼️
*Laughs* I love the double pun. XD
lost sinner was always a cool fight for me, love the design and arena for her. actual fight is pretty solid too, not too easy and not too hard.
Also, her lore is great. And horrifying in a way. Which is why it's great in a grotesque way.
@@kirbyhatesincels917 yes! I completely agree! Finally someone appreciates The Lost Sinner!
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Definitely one of my favourite DS2 bosses. She's badass.
I love how she tried to get rid of the lights, making her hard to see. But if you got the Bastille Key from the Ruin Sentinel Bosses, you can light two fires that she cannot reach.
agreed. I'd argue it's a bit too simple if you use a shield, but without a shield it's one of the best DS2 fights for sure
Id argue that lothric and lorian aren’t underrated. They’re one of my favorite bosses of all time, and I’ve heard plenty of people say the same
I would agree that it's an odd choice taking into account the widely accepted thought on them. I had personally underrated them in the past though. Wanted to be sure they were given their due
They were a great boss! God I struggled against them my first playthrough! Glad they made this list as well....they deserved the praise!
On my first playthrough they were like my fifth or sixth favorite boss but nowadays I think they’re my main base game boss. Everything about their fight is just so good
I think they are a lot of people's favorite boss from the maingame, but are mostly overshadowed by dlc fights like Midir, Gael, and Friede, so I think they're a great choice for an underrated boss!
@@theDeModcracy I hate the camera in that fight. The camera is the middle finger prince that killed me more often than the elder and younger princes.
My favorite thing about Freja is that her presence actually matters in the world of Drangleic. A lot of bosses in these games are just sort of sitting around in their arena, but Freja has all but taken over Brightstone Cove. There's an army camp set up just to keep her from progressing any further, and it's easy to see why. She's nearly invulnerable to damage, her laser could easily wipe out armies if she wanted to, and she has an army of her own that keeps growing the longer she's left alone.
Honestly I feel like the Bell Gargoyles are overlooked. They're not the most spectacular boss in the game, but they were the first one to make me think "this is where it gets fun". I just love the idea of fighting a stone giant on a roof top. Dodging its glaive and cutting off its tail was a neat touch. I think they could have made the fight better if the second gargoyle had a different move set from the first. I mean he does a little, but does the same and sadly looks the same as the other gargoyle. Still I love the fight. I think its the best way to cap off the games' beginning.
I feel like the bell gargoyles are appropriately appreciated. You also have to keep in mind that it's a legacy boss fight from demon's souls, so it doesn't really get any points for creativity.
@@weneedaladder8384 okay I'll refresh it.
The Bell Gargoyles are the gargoyles from Demon Souls but with a brain.
I still remember my first playthrough when the second gargoyle showed up i panicked and proceeded to fall off the roof
You know, despite my initial skepticism of seeing Genichiro on this list, I have to agree that his position in the early game as a learning tool really does make him worthy of consideration as a top boss in Sekiro. One thing I rarely see mentioned is how he reacts to healing; in Souls, the good ol' "run away and heal" works pretty well, and up to that point in the game it still works in Sekiro as few bosses or minibosses can really stop you from getting a heal off. But if you try that trick on Genichiro, he'll immediately prepare a heavy bow shot that you need to be ready to deflect or dodge almost as soon as the heal ends, lest you eat a heavy punish. The final phase mixes it up even more, as any attempt to heal will result in a thrust that's too quick to Mikiri before the healing ends if he's too close, and his tendency to chase you down if you run away ensures he will be close enough. It's such a nice twist that really makes you earn healing windows, and even rewards experienced players since with proper spacing you can create enough distance to both get off the heal and have enough time to be ready to Mikiri the thrust. It's just another piece of what makes Genichiro such a fantastic boss in a game where the boss quality is already astronomical.
It's funny that you can use healing to your favor massively on the third phase and keep him in a mikiri counter stunlock
I would argue that the fact that he attacks when one heals is a big problem, one that we fully understood with Elden Ring, if the player can not get off a heal with out taking damage then it throws the player into a state that creates a spiraling problem that is harder and harder to get out of.
@@drewengel7073 i don't see why this is a bad thing, just don't heal while the boss is literally staring you down waiting.
i’d have to add martyr logarius to this list. i know he’s generally considered a good boss but i feel like he’s a bit under appreciated for how great he is.
I agree, I love that fight, excellent atmosphere, challenging, and fun as hell.
Yes hes a Great and epic Boss But if you know how to parry him hes a very Easy Boss
@@sinclair7318 i actually don’t use parrying in bloodborne but i’ve seen that he can be easy with it. without it it’s such a great fight, it’s my favorite base game fight.
I also really love the demon princes. I know that almost everyone enjoys fighting them but I always had the feeling that they were overshadowed by midir and gael since they were in the same dlc.
I will die on the hill that they are the quintessential gank fight. Yes, even better than O and S.
That’s my favorite fight right after Gael and dancer
Came into this video expecting to see it at the top of the list. It gets overshadowed but it's a hell of a fight.
@@willcarmichie698 Without a doubt the best gank boss From has done. Still.
I really liked your argument for Freja, while I still find her a bit too easy to really stand out in my opinion (maybe I should try fighting her early next time?), I respect your choice to add her to this list. She is far from a bad boss. On that note, really creative pick in the Rotten at #1, never really considered his potential to break the game as a selling point. But now that I think about it, I can't help but agree that he's underrated, not for his fight, but for splitting the game wide open. Also, finally, always thought that the Twin Princes was one of the finest fights in the series, not just for the battle but for the music and story of the characters. I would personally rate the Twins higher than some of the top picks like Nameless and even Sister Friede
One thing to point out with Freja - in the design works for DS2 they point out that Freja was originally going to split in half. This is why she has the end to end head design - halfway through the first she was going to become two spiders and massively complicate things. Unfortunately it was probably cut for production reasons.
For me personally, most underrated was Sinh. He seemed to usually do pretty well on the lists, but still a ways off the top... but to me that was really the first fight in the series that felt like it fully captured the intensity of fighting something so vastly beyond yourself. The mobility, versatility, the way he controlled the shape of the battlefield with the lingering toxic flames, the ability to pressure you no matter what playstyle you adopted, it was an amazing fight. I consider him the best in DS2, and honestly in direct competition with Midir for best dagron of Souls
I'd agree, Sinh is my favorite boss of Dark Souls 2. He's definitely one of the best dragon fights in the series
@@AC03115 personally he’s my second favorite just because fume knight is so good. Sinh though I really love since it’s the only dragon that actually fights like one and is at full strength to fly around rather than being injured and unable to fly. The boss itself is really just a great experience
lol just wrote a whole post about Sinh, then scrolled down and saw this one. Absolutely agree, Sinh is amazing. Fume, Ivory King, and Alonne are also great, but Sinh is def my favorite.
@@plugshirt1762 Fume Knight is also really good, he's probably my second favorite boss in DS2, then followed by Burnt Ivory King
I agree that Sinh is an underrated boss. It was so refreshing fighting a Dark Souls 2 boss that didn't put me to sleep
For me Looking Glass Knight instantly came to mind. The atmosphere before and during the boss fight is immense, the fight itself has an interesting mechanic, and the arena + the rain i legit thought it was the final boss, probably the most memorable boss fight of DS2 for me
You forgot to mention one other thing about The Rotten;
He drops the Soul of a Great Dead One which can make one of the most fun weapons in the game; the Crypt Blacksword. Seriously, that thing has such a good move set and does so much damage its downright broken. Which is fine, because breaking DS2 is most of the fun.
The absolute glory of Dark Weapon buffed Crypt Blacksword. All hail the Purple Popsicle of Doom.
@@gwingcommander Its 2H heavy is where it's at. Pancaking or knocking back nearly every human sized enemy in the game is so cheap, I love it.
If there is one praise I will always give to DS2, it has gotta be the sheer of viable, fun, and downright broken builds that game allows for.
For me. I underrated Abyss watchers alot, because I won them easily with the summon. I kept killing him with summon until Ng+3 then I decided to try it alone with my old good twin blades and I then realized how hard the move set of Watcher was to learn. It took me hours of practice to get it down and still resides as my 3rd hardest boss to kill alone.
I think the True Monk in Fountainhead Palace is also deeply underrated. In a way, she's a perfect re-test of your skills in Sekiro: She's got posture that will make Lady Butterfly look like a whimp of which you need to wittle down Vitality, but she also performs a lot of the familiar stuff that you need to get readjusted to: swings, swipes and thrusts.
Considering that Fountainhead Palace is filled with creatures that rely on you being on top of your game in deflecting, the True Monk is a great method of getting those skills back in good shape. Plus... the environment you fight in!
Aava is insanely underrated. The atmosphere and music, the beautiful design of her. Her fight is pretty fair and overall enjoyable.
A cat who uses magic. Yeah that's creative and has not been done before or since.
@@shawnmarcum8078 well you can make any fight boring there if you were describing it, Squidward.
@@golemofwill4728 Aava also goes invisible, which is good because if you beat that cat you can pretty much beat the dlc in record time. That is pretty much how the dlcs and even base Ds2 are setup. It's one of the faster games alongside Elden Ring and Sekiro. He also uses delays to catch you off guard and he's a really cool stripped tiger that destroys both magic builds and melee builds if you underestimate him. I think that is a better description. Along with soul mass.
I’d say one of the more underrated bosses is the Flexible Sentry from Dark Souls 2, I really liked no man’s warf and the water rising adds to the challenge at lower levels
Glad to see the rotten finally get appreciated. The fight is just fun and the design memorable, I also like how there are many theories on whether he's Pharros or the sunken king
I always liked the theory he could be Pharros.
Freja somehow scares me less than the basic spider enemies. Sure, she’s more of a physical threat; but she doesn’t tap into my arachnophobia as much.
As a fellow arachnophobic I often find that the more monstrous the spider looks the less it triggers that irrational fear. Hell, if the spiders moves enough into the monstrous appearance I might even come all the way around and just find it cool, which I always found deeply ironic. The worst spiders I have faced are the ones in Dark Messiah: Of Might and Magic, could barely get past them and it was never a good time.
I've always thought the Yhorm fight from a spectacle stand point is great, despite the "gimmick". And completing the Siegward questline makes it one of my favorite fights lore-wise.
my problem is the exact gimmick and spectacle had been done already. His entire fight is just a callback to the storm king from DeS
Lothric and Lorian is my top 10 boss. A beautiful ost, interesting lore, a beautiful dance and great gimmick. I think the challenge is well balanced.
Love seeing the growth in these videos in terms of how well you put it together. Keep 'em coming bro.
Someone finally mentioned that you can cut of Freja's heads...
But what you didn't mention is that if you lack dmg and don't alternate between the heads, you can actually cut of both heads and be left with an unkillable enemy
Funny story: my mother, who’s never played a single Fromsoft game, years ago watched me play Dark Souls 3 while I was struggling with the Twin Princes. In about a minute she was seemingly out of nowhere able to predict their attacks AND when Lorian would teleport. Her cues on when he was going to do his bigger attacks led to me eventually beating them after being stuck on them for quite some time.
That's so sweet and very cool, your mother knows patterns very well
I had an amazing fight against Yhorm in my last playthrough. Went in with Seigward, ran to get the storm ruler, and then realized I didn't have the dexterity to use the attack. So the fight became a cat and mouse where I tried to distract the giant and stay alive while Seigward put down his friend. Was tense as hell and felt story appropriate.
The storm ruler doesn’t require dexterity or strength to use, it’s built so anyone can win the battle
@@RetroMovie6891 looking it up you are right. Idk why the hell I couldn't get the thing to work right then. Still a lot of fun though
@@WannaBuyAGate you have to charge up the WA for a few seconds for it to cast properly
"A boss fight doesn't have to be difficult to be good". Great point!
Champion Gundyr is my favorite underrated boss. He essentially takes what worked so well about Ludex Gundyr, puts him in a really cool arena and makes you fight him extremely late in the game. While you could just parry spam him, if you actually fight properly he has one of the coolest movesets in the game and he truly gives you no time to relax. If you want to beat him then you have to be as acrobatic as he is.
A boss I really love that doesn’t get his shine is Martyr Lagarius. I went to Cainhurt early in my first play through and got absolutely humbled by him for a few days.
Man I forgot about him! He was a great boss! His attacks were so deceptive! He was hard for me to read, especially when he started running at me! Lol! I didn't even know to put on his crown @ the end either...smh. Good times! That is the charm of Souls Games!
i love the statement from the developers, since the souls community forgot that this franchise is not about "lvl1, club only, no dmg, no items" runs. But that the fights are about overcoming your enemy.
I recently played through Dark Souls 3 again after playing Elden Ring and I completely agree with Lothric and Lorian. That is the way to give a boss delayed attacks that look and feel natural
As time has past and i have played of these games, i have come to appreciate Bosses more that aren‘t purely based on dodging at the correct time. But on using the arena in a smart way, while not being gimmicky
I genuinly dissagree that Lady butterfly being underated, it's rated fairly engough, it's just a dps fight with a super random move set, sometimes she is a masochist that loves taking posture damage and other times she will keep spamming throwables and jumping around
The quality of her boss fight is tied directly to how many bosses you've fought before her.
@@rainbowskin3379 it's still pretty much the same, she's just average at best
The Twin Princes is by far my personal favorite fight in the entire souls series. For a cripple, Lorian is deceptively agile, the lore about their inseparable curse is one of my favorites, and the challenge of this fight is spot on because Lorian has enough tricks and strength for two warriors. So yes this fight is underrated but it is absolutely awesome!
My favorite underrated boss is the living failures. They test your awareness, dps, and dodging along with packing a punch during an endurance battle.
awesome theme and lore too. I appreciate the goofy guys and honestly found the fight more interesting than Maria.
First time ever playing Dark Souls, I went through the catacombs before realizing undead burg existed. Going to Pin Wheel early with no knowledge and no experience for these types of games at the time made ol' Pin Wheel a very memorable boss for me. Made me feel very accomplished at the moment only to grieve at the fact I tortured myself for no real reason other than I didn't know better.
I really disagree with Rotten, for me it was really disapointment. Sure, he looks exceptional, but its just a "dude with sword" like many others DS2 bosses. He really didnt have any interesting combat move. And another reason is also area design. The pile of corpses in flame pool filled with poison statues is just overcombined medley. DS2 IMHO have plenty underratted bosses, but definetly not Rotten.
Man I remember watching your vids around the time of darks souls 3, I think either middle school, or freshman year, life changes man
Demod is back again? Man I feel like it’s 2016 all over again 😂 hell yeah good work as always Demod looking forward to Elden Ring!
Your old rankings will always be the most entertaining videos on RUclips.
I'm shocked to not see the Demon Prince here. I never hear anyone talk about that fight since Gael and Midir get all the shine in that DLC but it is genuinely one of From's best bosses and it kills me that it's not talked about more.
My favorite underrated boss is actually from a very underrated game: Code Vein's Successor of the Ribcage. The boss's appearance, attack animations, varied spell attacks, lore, arena, and just everything about it was perfect for me. Even now, the four armed guardian of the Source is a boss I smile when I die to and am always happy to challenge to a spell battle. The music in the second phase, too... That song would become my favorite in a game filled with incredible music. The whole fight was a work of art that warmed my magic loving heart and perfectly displayed what I love about playing a mage: style and variety.
Maybe Code Vein might not count towards the other Souls games, but it remains one of my favorite games to date.
Code Vein has my personal favorite roster of bosses in any Soulslike so far. Not a single dud beyond the Attendant, and maybe the Frozen Empress, although I'd say her mechanics are one of my favorite ideas for a puzzle boss, it just feels like some of her attacks come a bit too fast whilst also keeping the crystals in check.
I'm glad to see you excited again, I remember your latest videos having a bit of a lack of passion and I finally feel like you're back to your old more passionate you
An underrated boss is Father Gascoigne from Bloodborne he serves as a tutorial to help players get used to the game's more aggressive fast paced combat, as he loses health he changes tactics going from carrying an axe and gun to two handing his axe to transforming into a monstrous beast that's why I think he's a underated boss.
I was so happy to see a new demodcracy souls ranking video!! I have definitely missed this channel.
Geni and twin princes are both some of my favourite fighta in these games. Glad they got some love in your video
If Genichiro’s 3rd phase wasn’t such a cake walk it would 100% be higher on most people’s list
Thank you for returning, my friend! When I got into bloodborne when it was free for PS+ you helped me plunge into the souls series and seeing you here to share our experiences with Elden Ring brings me so much joy.
I didn’t know to used the Storm Ruler to defeat Yorm on my first try, thus I learned to defeat him by shooting arrows at his head to stun and stab. Felt like a champion when I took him down!
I had dark souls 2 but never really got into the series til I found your channel and now I’ve had almost played every game in the series
The first bosses that came to mind for me were Shadows of Yharnam and Dragonslayer Armour. Now I think Placidusax is underrated as well.
Honestly a lot of people hate him, and rightfully so, but Lawrence, The First Vicar is really underrated in my eyes. Yes it's very difficult, but you are given the option to find plenty of incredibly powerful weapons against him, like the Beast Cutter or the Whirligig Saw, which do massive damage to him. He has stagger potential, which kind of makes him more fair to the player. The music is stellar, the cutscene before the fight is really eerie and atmospheric. Having the fight take place in the grand cathedral is also really good, since that's also where we find him in the waking world. His screams, albeit annoying, resonate within the cathedral and make the fight a lot more intense. His unforgiving moveset also shows what the Cleric Beast scaled for end game would look like, and he doesn't just spam you constantly, sometimes allowing you to rally and regain health. This makes the fight a steep but rewarding learning experience, and I find he really represents the lore behind the Healing Church and what the blood and search for insight does to a man.
Missed your souls rankings dmod. I remember watching and rewatching all those videos so many times all those years ago. Where has the time gone
I can just imagine how dark souls veterans felt seeing elden ring come out. A whole new adventure with the same ferocity as the game they treasured.
It was magical
And BIG plus for Yhorm Battle: the music is INCREDIBLE, POWERFUL, SO IMPACTFUL
It truely amazes me on how you dont have a few million subscribers it's baffling to me because you're one of the best RUclipsrs I've ever watched one of the most intelligent and informative RUclipsrs I've ever watched and have one of the best voices for youtubing. As always great video
I've actually been rewatching all your boss ranking vids from 2016 recently lol. Really pleasantly surprised to see this pop up in my sub box! Thanks for this.
Personally I think Vicar Amelia is the most underrated Bloodborne boss. I've always seen her ranked low among the Bloodborne bosses but in my opinion she's one of the best in the game. Her design is one of the best in all of Soulsborne, her lore is really good, and the fight is perfect. I feel like it's a great test of everything you've learned so far in the game from Cleric Beast and Father Gascoigne. If those were the Pop Quizzes, then Amelia is the big test. She punishes you for playing passive and defensive and can be taken down with more aggressive play, but not just charging recklessly. She's my favorite boss in the whole series. The only flaw I have with her is how she doesn't have her own theme music, instead just sharing it with the Cleric Beast
Great video! Some other underrated bosses I like are:
- Great Ape from Sekiro. It’s a really cool experiment to put a more Soulslike boss in this game with a brand new combat system. And even though they did this with Demon of Hatred too, Great Ape was the first.
- Demon Princes from Dark Souls III. They’re often overshadowed by Gael and Midir, but I think the Demon Princes are the perfect gank boss. It’s like they took O&S and updated them to a better system with less glitches. And they don’t need the arena to break them up.
- Any really good Dark Souls II boss because Dark Souls II itself is underrated: Ivory King, Fume Knight, Sir Alonne, The Pursuer, Darklurker, etc.
I don't think I've ever been as happy to best a boss as when I defeated Genishiro. While on some of the harder bosses (The Nameless King, Kalameet) all I felt was relief I had finally gotten over them, Genishiro, as you've mentioned, was the confirmation I had finally learnt the Sekiro combat.
Oceiros and Vordt are hella underrated. Both have great character design and music. Oceiros’s lore and his voice are sick as hell. Neither boss fight is out-of-this-world mechanically, but both have solid movesets and are just fun.
So I did a bow run of dark souls 3 lately and man! Fighting Yhorm with a bow was hilariously fun considering he does not take head shots well. My go to recommendation for fighting him
I thought for sure that Oceiros would be on here. He had some of my favorite VA in the game.
Lady Butterfly was the "click" moment for me in Sekiro. I was to learn the dance of combat and understand that the old habit of hit and roll wasn't going to cut it. I must have died over 50 times until it started clicking. Despite being the first major boss I downed in Sekiro, it is easily one of my favorites.
I honestly love Yhorm as a boss. In one of my playthroughs I mixed usage of Sorcery and the Storm Ruler. That helped reinforce how fun Yhorm can really be.
The moment I saw the Rotten my brain immediately went to Brian David Gilbert's ranking of Souls Bosses
Man the amount of bosses you've got ahead of you in elden ring. I can only imagine how many parts your gonna have to make for a full boss ranking
I think my favorite and underated boss in all of the souls games, is champion gundyr, great story, atmosphere, and unapologetically aggressive.
I agree, Yhorm is absolutely underrated! Not only was it one of my favorites my first playthrough, but he still has probably my favorite boss theme in the series!
Can't say enough how glad I am you are back, Mr. DeMod :D
Double fun fact about my fight with Lady Butterfly...
1) she made me quit the game on my first attempt. I just couldn't get past her to save my life and quit even though I knew she was optional. I REFUSED to leave the area until I beat her.
2) I got back in the game over six months later and beat her on my first try after starting a new game. Didn't use snap seeds - found an accidental exploit of her ghosts; killing them let's you recharge your revive
My choice for most underrated boss is velstadt.
He's the end of a very interesting place, he's vendrick's last defender, and the fight is kinda fun and pretty rough if you aren't prepared for how he's one of the hardest hitting non dlc bosses.
Lorewise, he's an absolute badass. To the point where nashandra was scared to face him. And, he's completely human, not undead.
And the theme, my GOD
Edit: forgot about the fact that his soul gives you my favorite miracle ever
Great shout, I'm a huge Velstadt fan myself. He was on the short list. The one thing that holds him back for me is the phase transition. You get IMO too generous of time to get hits in (albeit against higher defense) and particularly heal, buff, etc. With the right build, you can delete him before or right as phase 2 starts.
@@theDeModcracy yeah. Rapiers and maces have a habit of destroying him pretty fast when he's buffing
The most underrated is Rom, I hear so much about Rom be condensed to "Oh i know how to time the icicles" when in actuality he should be praised for giving a totally different type of fight and making you think in an abstract way.
New players never fight Pinwheel straightaway because any one of the skeletons on the way there is at least twice as hard to kill.
I love all these channels finally returning to make more content amidst the hype of Elden Ring. I myself decided to pick up Dark Souls again and not even an hour ago defeated O&S for the first time. Keep the content coming!
Fun fact, parrying only lady butterfly's attacks is more effective than counter attacking after every parry. If you combine it with shuriken and some buffs, she will die in no time
I'm stuck in bed with covid, been going through Dark Souls related vids all day, and I just saw your video! Thanks for making my crappy day a bit better and keep up the content
I miss your content man, good to see you back
I would say the most underrated boss is Father Gascoine. He is the perfect introduction to the Bloodborne style, showcasing hunter fighting style, and also beast style fight. He is the best of both. Plus having an amazing storyline and connection to other NPC’s is great. He is also the most challenging first boss in all the games (cleric beast is optional, so doesn’t count) The boss fight just sets you up for the entire game, and rewards you for adapting to the new parry system and punishes you if your timing is off.
Crazy to think it’s been over half a decade since this channel’s first Souls rankings. Those were the videos that got me into these games. I have no idea why I started watching boss rankings for games I hadn’t even played, but I’m glad I did as these games are now among my all-time favourites.
My pick for most underrated boss has to go to Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen. Most people probably never even fight her, being at the end of the Chalice Dungeon grind, but I think it’s a more than worthwhile fight.
She has three phases, melee combos, AOEs, gap-closers, teleportation, clones herself, boasts a wide variety of creative blood spells and has the crying baby to punish your greed and force you to rely on audio cues as well as visuals. It’s one of the most complex and varied bosses they’ve ever done, and more than makes the Chalices worthwhile in my eyes.
I’m so glad I fought Lady Butterfly early. It was one of the most fun I’ve had with a boss, figuring out the little things you can do to counter her: jumping on her, using the shuriken on her in the air, and, the best of all, going all out when the second phase starts so she can’t even summon her ghosts. One of the greatest early bosses imo.
I just saw the title and I thought.. literally every Demon's Souls boss can be in this list...
That list giving Allant context made my soul soar.
I played Demon's Souls after DS 1,2,3, Bloodborne & Sekiro. Found Allant to be super easy, barely an incovenience! Just kept my distance, punished him after his charge, than kept my distance again. Rinse & repeat.
I love the lists where we get to hear your opinions. The community rankings are great but these ones? Perfection.
I once defeated Yhorm without Storm Ruler, on a playthrough where I used only Caestus/Demon Fists and Pyromancy (Firebender playthrough).
Fighting the giant with a no-reach weapon was quite the challenge.
Twinces: *[defeat DeMod several times]*
DeMod pulling out Moolight Greatsword: Forgive me, Master Ludwig... but I must go all out just this once.
I remember watching your boss rankings for every single souls game directly after I beat them to feel validated lol. I remember you said the demon princes weren’t very hard after I beat the ringed city dlc and died to them 50 times and got mad. then my second play though I killed them second time
DeMod! You're back! I missed having your Souls content to listen to while playing through the Souls games - I'm glad it's coming back for when I start playing Elden Ring. Always love all your stuff!
Before we start, let me make something clear. The Demon Prince, Sanctuary Guardian, and Martyr Logarius definitely should have a spot here, or should at least be mentioned. I know these three bosses are well-liked, but hardly anyone talks about them. For the Ringed City, it's either Gael or Midir. For Artorias of the Abyss, it's either Manus or Artorias. And for Bloodborne people just talk about Father Gascoigne, Gehrman, and the DLC fights. It's a shame because, in my opinion, all these fights are top tiers within their respective games.
100% agree 3 great picks. I thought dancer of the boreal valley was criminally underrated as well probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite bass game boss of ds3
Personally Sanctuary Guardian might be my most hated boss in the series. In a game about slow, deliberate back and forth with a heavy focus on positioning he never stops attacking and retreats as soon as you try and position around him. He really feels like fighting a Bloodborne boss but with DS1's slow jank mechanics.
Hard to believe Elden Ring was announced in 2019, I feel like time flew so fast to bring us all to this day.
Genichiro is my favorite boss in any Fromsoft game. He's not the hardest or the coolest, but he is the most fun. Just a beautiful showcase of everything Sekiro's combat has to offer. I once deleted another game from my Steam account to redownload Sekiro just so I could fight him again.
Number 1 is so easy for me. Manus of the abys, never makes any top 20 souls boss list, yet was absolutely amazing and for me personally at the time one of the hardest ever
I can't be the only one who liked fighting the Decons of the Deep in DS3. The game turns into Dynasty Warriors and is a stepping stone for the story of Horas and Enrie. It is easy, but so satisfying to go through!
Darklurker has to be my pick for most underrated, simply because he is an excellent boss with a cool mechanic and well-designed use of it, and a stand-out from the other style of boss in DS2. And yet most people never even see him because many players never even find the special areas to unlock him, and of those that do many find them obnoxious and don't get to the end. But as a piece of boss design, a great test. Big, powerful, wide-area attacks that are all clearly telegraphed and can be avoided - designed for you to learn the boss pretty quickly. And then, when you have the hang of it, the REAL boss fight begins with two of them. Suddenly, the generous windows and clear attacks make perfect sense; when you are managing two at once it is much harder to manage. They even give him a highly-visible profile and bright colour in the dark room so he's easy to track.