In VIII and XI the axe and the spear skill tree both have skills wich give you a 50% hit/miss rate but becomes a critical when hit, perfect moves for metal king slimes as criticals negate their absurd defense , there is prolly such a skill in all snes era games in the series.
That does seem to be a rapidly growing trend in RPGs- a rare enemy that is difficult to kill before it escapes but offers tremendous rewards if you manage to do so. Something to break up the flow of the usual battles. Ironically, 1000 Needles/Blowfish is a skill ideally suited to destroy Cactaur if you have Strago learn it.
thank god the opposite trope isn't that much done. encountering a super powerful monster for your level but getting little to no rewards when successfully defeated. (jackanapes in ffv, hell masters in tales of phantasia etc.)
@@squidlump But then theres the boss versions of them with such absurdly high defenses. I know of one which is known as the liquid metal king slime which does exist but in a game that isn't as talked about. I think it was the professional version of one of the monster joker dragon quest games that it appeared in as an event which means yes it's a secret boss. Imagine if you could recruit this guy.
I used to play Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker and I can say, having a full party of Metal King Slimes in your party makes the game a breeze, if you're patient enough.
According to what I’ve heard, if you have less than four characters left for the Aelfric battle, green units will appear and move to block the vortexes.
And as of Definitive Edition, the Leitis exists. Which ignores armor. The Lithuanians are coming for your mosques. And they don't give a shit about your armor.
I can confirm that metal slimes appear since DQI. Also, there are a few extra hints to fighting them. Like you said, Erik's Critical Claim is a godsend because crits go right through all that metal goo, but some of the other characters also get skills that give a high crit rate. These skills are Hatchet Man and Thunder Thrust (plus their upgraded versions in VIII), which give a 50/50 of crit or miss. For XI, the characters that can pick these skills up are Serena, Jade (Spear), and the final party member (axe). In IV-VII, the cursed item Hela's Hammer gives a similar effect. Thunder Thrust first shows up in VIII as one of the hero's moves, and Hatchet Man shows up in VI, or the remakes of IV, and onward. Even if you can't invest in all that, the move Metal Slash shows up in the same games as Hatchet Man, giving at least a guaranteed hit, and can be good if you have a falcon blade or two. Another hint for XI, if you can spare the pep (or have enough pep pips/pops) you can use the Hallelujah pep power, requiring the Luminary, Jade and Erik, before Electro Light to squeeze even more xp out of the metal menaces. Plus, I think Metal Kings drop pep pips so you get a little of your investment back.
The only Problem with the Cursed Hela hammers is that you can't even use Physical skills in DQ6 with it I tried and it still makes those that aren't Hatchet man still FAIL to connect over 50% of the time.
6:30 Metal King Slimes have around 25-30 HP and Liquid Metal Slimes have around 15-20. This means you cannot hunt them reliably without some way to force critical hits, though moves like that tend to miss a lot. Aside from Critical Claim of course.
Also, in Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, Metal King Slimes have much lower defence than in other games, meaning if your monsters are strong enough, you can defeat them in a single hit!
Dragon Quests IV, VII, and IX have what is essentially the ultimate form of a Metal Slime called the "Platinum King Jewel" They have the same defense as a Metal Slime, but also come with 200 HP and capped Agility. There's basically no way to reliably defeat them, the best way to do it is to max out one of your party member's Agility, hope they win the coin-flip to move first, and then hope they get a crit. It's actually pretty easy in IV, since Alena can easily cap her Agility, has a sky-high crit rate, gets a weapon that attacks twice in one turn (so she has 2 chances to crit), and you get an item that lets you reset a battle back to Turn 1 as many times as you want. You should play other DQ games if you liked XI. It's a very consistent series that rarely takes risks (basically the antithesis of Final Fantasy), so if you like one, you'll like them all (except maybe DQII, that game is brutal)
IX had an interesting bug with some of its Grotto maps - some of them had bugged floors with messed up encounter tables. You might run into a map with a floor that only spawns one particular enemy...and one monster that could spawn like this was the Metal King Slime. Platinum King Jewels could not be made to be the only spawn on a floor.
@@aerth6946 I only played the very first game and... they are how my character reached the level cap. Not sure if this is the most efficient grind though
@@somebakedgood yeah, Metal Slimes didn't start giving out crazy experience until DQ3 if I remember correctly. DQ2 did have the Liquid Metal Slime (Metal Babble), but they were almost impossible to kill in that game since you don't really have any tools to deal with them. Just had to hope for a crit.
Cactuars are in Monster Hunter World. They can kill some of the weaker large monsters. All you have to do is set some traps, to keep the monster in place, kick the Cactuar then watch the fire works.
See, I would also like to introduce the Gem Slimes who have the same defensive stats of metal slimes but also pack magic burst which can sometimes ruin you just for thinking of fighting them. There was also the Platinum King Slime who would also blind you just to make sure your hit chance is as low as possible.
I know that in dragon quest 4 and 7, there's the Platinum king jewel wich an even more powerful kind of metal slime, probably takes the cake for most ridiculiously hard to kill ennemy ever in the serie. It's basically like the King metal slime, but with 200 hp instead of 20, high evasion, high chance of escaping, and on top of that they have a spell that reduces your accuracy even further
Actually, there are a few things that can do more than one damage to the Iron Golem in Aria of Sorrow, albeit most of them are multi-hit weapons anyway (Valmanway, Kaiser Knuckle, Gungner, Positron Rifle, etc.), but the Balore Punch packs so much brute force that it actually does a whopping *2* damage to the Iron Golem. Isn't that just incredible?
The Iron Golem in Dawn of Sorrow has much less HP, but still takes 1 damage from most things. Soma, on the other hand, can get so powerful using the Devil soul he can actually deal 3 damage in one hit.
Uandres Brito Yeah, the Iron Golem in Dawn only has 50 HP, so it is much less threatening than the one in Aria. Also, there're a number of attacks that can do more than one damage to it, such as the Skull Ball (Yorick's soul) and Buster Shot (Skeleton Archer's soul). Plus the Terror Bear can hit it five or six times per swing, so that just tears Dawn's Iron Golem to shreds.
10:16 (spoilers) Given how Aelfric character wise is the spiritual successor to Orson from FE: Sacred Stones, disgusting is a rather fitting word to describe him.
Spoilers for Persona 3 Aelfric reminded me of Chairman Ikutsuki. A seemingly kindhearted man who took on a leadership role to kids with tragic pasts. Eventually it is revealed their true goals are much more malicious, and that they were manipulating everyone from the very beggining. Their ultimate plan involves sacrificing they very kids who trusted them and summonning a horrifying abomination that will reape death and destruction (either intentionally and unitentionally). There's even a party member who is seemingly under their control before breaking free (Yuri in FE, Aigis in P3).
I fondly remember hunting Metal King Slimes ontop of a plateau in Dragon Quest 8. I had Hero and Yangus focus on doing critical hits (with spear/axe-abilities respectively), Angello make more consistent damage with a sword doing Metal Slash and Jessica, erh well, she tried.
Chrono Trigger was the first game I played to have an enemy like that, the rock things on the floating mountain which lock your techs and items. If you can kill them, they're a real windfall, but good luck doing that.
What's really awesome, in Dragon Quest VIII, you can recruit a team of three monsters to use as a summon spell. This includes a Metal Slime, Liquid Metal Slime and Metal Slime King!
Alternatively, if you have a move or weapon with low accuracy but ALWAYS crits, that will help with metal slimes. It's worth noting you obtain a class in dq6 called metal liquid slime, which reduces your hp to 10%, but doubles speed and defense, and complete spell immunity, great for cheesing all the late game bosses!
So to answer your question about Cindered Shadows (SPOILER WARNING!)... 11:25- So what I saw on Twitter, if you don’t have enough units to place on the vortexes, you’ll actually get up to Three Green Units to help you out to stand on them. You’ll get a Paladin, a Sniper, and a Fortress Knight to help you out. They’re also quite remarkable strong (the Sniper has about 41 Dex/Skill so they can probably hit most things and Crit often, and the Paladin has stats on par with a well leveled Dimitri). However I’m pretty sure having to rely on them will make the map much harder given how you can’t control their movements and if any of them die and Byleth is your only non-Ashen Wolf Unit, that might need to force a restart. Still it’s really nice that they planted a fail safe for players who are playing Classic so they don’t get locked out of beating this chapter should they have too few units left. End.
@@DoctorNovakaine i hoped it just unlocked the celestrian promotion i had a cheat going on where if you master every job (i forgot what they're called) and then change your profession into “celestrian” you get balanced stats (which means almost maxed in all areas) and ability to cast any learned technique or spell for one character. it crashes the game when you play 4 of them tho.
That's remind me a monster, a metal monkey, in the Mother 3 game which acting like a metal slime but if you kill him, he don't give any exp, even if the text says he give you a lot of experiences when you kill him.
I have never actually seen Age of Empires gameplay before. Very cool series, breakdowns of rpg enemies are apparently really soothing to me. It must be all the numbers talk.
Tyrant Baal from Disgaea Dimension 2 weighs in at 100 Billion HP (and 500Mil in stats), is unfathomably difficult to damage, has SIX forms (each one at 100Bil HP that you have to go through in a row), and each character can only use each one of it's special attacks ONCE in the entire battle (this includes normal attacks and counters too). And that's not even his strongest form. In Carnage form, he has 400Bil HP (per form) and 999Mil in stats. It takes hundreds of hours of grinding, and a guide, to beat him.
maplestory: hlucid is 14T i think, black mage is around 100t in total? the sources for these arent too consistent but what is known is that they are both several trillion trillion: god of destruction, final boss, trillion, has, well, one trillion
If you're talking specifically about monsters/characters with high defense, I feel that Ruby Weapon from _Final Fantasy VII_ deserves at least an honorable mention. It's not a particularly difficult fight if you know how to handle it, but it DOES have an insanely high defense at 480 (whereas player characters can only have 255 maximum) as well as many other high stats, not to mention that it doesn't take damage unless its tentacles are active - which only occurs when two of your three party members are absent or downed.
Hey, dunno if you're accepting requests or not, but I know of a boss in a video game that's so tough, it can make even veterans rage quit trying to beat it! Introducing King Poo Snake from the game Blue Dragon on Xbox 360. It has insane attack power, access to tons of status condition-inflicting moves, almost all of its physical attacks are criticals and kill your party in one hit (even if they have tons of health/defense/armor), has tons of immunities to spells, has insane speed that eclipses your party's fastest easily, and it has a ton of HP! He's actually a secret boss in the game and at least 100 times harder than the ACTUAL final boss! I should know, I played the game myself the whole way through... with a busted controller that had a sticky A button! The only real way to beat it is tons of patience, getting as many of your party members to max level and rank in all their powers, casting defensive spells including Wallus with your mages, and then using your speedier/harder-hitting characters to attack it with Darkness/Shadow attacks, which are it's weakness.
Hoo boy, if you thought regular Metal Slimes were bad, you ain't seen the terror known as a Platinum King Jewel. They're a straight upgrade from a regular Metal King slime, but the nastiest thing about them is that they can cast Dazzle, which can affect your accuracy and make you miss a whole lot more! Not to mention they're surrounded by powerful monsters, and have fairly impressive attack!
@@wahoo812 Yes but metal slash is pretty useless as it'll only do like 2 damage instead of 1. Executioner and Lightning Thrust are guaranteed criticials which mean you can instant-kill them due to them having low HP.
@@sonicthehedge Well not EXACTLY guaranteed. 50% chance of hitting and 66% of hitting respectively. Still pretty awesome before you gain access to the KING of critical hit moves, Critical Claim, THE guaranteed critical.
12:24 "And unlike metal slimes or Cactuar, it has a humongous amount of HP as well - the limit of 9,999, in fact!" Metal bosses from Battle Cats: "Are you challenging me?"
There's a lot of very similar enemies of this kind. -Cactuars -Metal Slimes -Golden Hands (Persona) -Cait (Octopath Traveler) -Probably more I can't remember
I'm working on a Bullet Hell RPG where you play as a healer, and this video just inspired me to implement a set of armor: the Reimu Cosplay Dress. It greatly reduces your max Life (-55%; this game uses Seximal so it's actually -97.222...%, the result is usually 1-3 HP in a game where you'd normally have 100-300 (36-108) HP), sets Defense to 0, and has it so your Healing Surges are the only way you can be healed, but also reduces any damage you take down to 1 (or 0 if you block it with your shield) and greatly increases post-hit invincibility from any attacks you fail to block.
In Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, the metal King slime had the same defense and a lovely HP of 25. But also there was a monster called Metal Kaizer slime. He haves 999 of defense, 75 HP and the ability "Critical fail" which prevents from receiving criticals
Incase anyone hasn't said this yet. The pep up thing to spawn metal slimes and stuff, it actually depends on the level too. The higher the level. The more chances of the metal slime being a liquid metal or metal king. Nice vid btw
Arzakon from Magic: the Gathering certainly qualifies, at least at first glance. Where the normal card game has you start at 20 life points, Arzakon has several hundreds, which I think is 1000 at the highest difficulty. Two problems, however: 1. He uses a very clunky five color deck with limited removal options, meaning you can get through his life total surprisingly fast by continually building up the board. 2. It's not mandatory to win the battle to beat the game - you already crossed his plans and are only racking up more years for which he's banished. Roy O. Koopa in Puzzle & Dragon Super Mario edition also has ludicrous defenses but a limited HP total that can be ground down by many hits a turn. Since if you take 5 turns, he does a single hit that easily oneshots just about any build you could bring to him.
Some aditions to the list I thought of: -Buzzwole from the Pokemon series: I know there are probably more bulky pokemon like Zamazenta or Toxapex, but I don't care, I like Buzzy. So what does this JoJo Mosquito have? Well, for starters, 418 max HP and 414 max Defense, which is quite nice, it also has a lot of recovery in the shape of Drain Punch, Leech Life (Both STAB) and Roost, as well as substitute, and Bulk Up, because you really needed to raise that defense and attack, but there is something that makes it [Stand] out: It's ablility "Beast Boost", which raises your highest stat everytime you knock down a pokemon (Except HP), remember those 414 max Defense? Welp, that's also the highest stat! which translates into 621 defense with only one kill! It's main weakness is, however, it's special defense, which doesn't really shine for it's greatness, really, bring an special attacker like, I dunno, Noivern, and that guy's gone! -(Spoilers for Super Mario Paper's final boss) Super Dimentio from the game I just said: When Dimentio fuses with Luigi (and maybe the Chaos Heart, I'm not sure bout that), he becomes what is commonly known as a "Paralysis Demon", this guy has a forcefield around him so strong that not even Bowser's groundpound (Groundpounding makes you deal double damage and Bowser has double the damage stat compared to the other characters) will even put a dent, it can only be defeated by the literal power of love through the Pure Hearts, which makes him then become quite weak, but hey, it was bulky -Luigi from the M&L games: Remember when I said before that I wasn't sure the surge of bulk came from the Chaos Heart, but actually from Luigi? Well I have my reasons for! Luigi might not seem like much, specially compared to his red brother, but all these years enduring all the emotional pain of being disregarded made him able to endure physical pain like a god: With the right setup, he only recieves 1 point of damage... from the final bosses of the games, he might not be popular as his brother, but he certainly is a threat, feared by his enemies as he stands there and wins... by doing nothing -The Dungeon Guardian from Terraria: "What do you mean I can't enter the dungeon without defeating your master first? The door is open! Screw you old man, I'm going into the Dun-" -Last words from player, so in case you are wondering what happened, Terraria is a big meannie and doesn't like the fact that you can enter the dungeon before defeating Skeletron, how is the problem solved? Easy! Spawn the Dungeon Guardian! This colossal flying skull has quite the speed, 9999 Attack (ya aren't living 1 hit even with the most defensive setup), but it's main feature comes from it's durability, it has 9999 Defense like some of those bosses that were featured on the list, but the main difference comes from the HP, the ones in the video had like, I dunno, 3, 4, 30 being super generous, the Dungeon Guardian? Oh, not to much, just, ya know, 9999 HP: You literally would have to deal 9999 hits aprox (crit hits deal 2 damage to them) in order to defeat them, while they only need one gently tap on you! You could argue you could endure them with the right set up, and yes, some people with endgame gear have done so (and certain robot with a Wooden Yoyo), but if you thought this wasn't enough, be slow exiting the dungeon and it will not spawn a Dungeon Guardian, no no, it will spawn SEVERAL Dungeon Guardians, because screw you! And worst part is that this isn't unfair, since it is not a boss, it's a defense mecanism -God from the Scribblenauts games: Yeah, it's god, what were you expecting? It really isn't all that strong that you would expect for a god, but he certainly does pack a punch! he has probably the highest defense of all creatures in the game, and it also has quite the power, so yeah, maybe not godly, but quite powerful... -Asriel Dreemur from Undertale: The prince of the Underground, former Flowey, and the God of Hyperdeath (that's literally it's second fase name) you could say that Omega Flowey had a lot of defense, practically making it impossible to defeat without dropping his defense to 0 first, and you could also say that Sans is basically the same, but Asriel is literally invincible, he doesn't dodge the attack, he is just inmune to them, in fact, all you can do is Hope and Dream! (I see what Toby did there), He also is quite powerful, with strong and difficult to dodge attacks, there is, however, something that makes him the easiest boss in the game: You literally cannot die in this fight: if you die during this battle, it will say that "you refused to die", and you will just go back one or two turns, but you won't start over, he is also unable to kill you with his ultimate attack, leaving you with 0,00001% (which is not a thing that normally happens), but he is good boi, he even misses on purpose on his last attacks -Touko Fukawa from the Danganrompa Series: I know this is not a boss (except in Ultra Despair Girls), and that there are no stats related to combat, or even combat at all, but this girl has managed to survive several close explosions, like, at least 3, which may not sound like much, but, try to stay near a bomb and tell me if you made it in one piece, because she did! 3 times! that's quite the feat... -Everyone from the Animal Crossing series: They may look cute and everything, but these guys can withstand an axe swing without even flinching, heck, even the axe bounces back, those aren't normal animals, I swear... -The big mole (can't remember the name) from Super Mario World: That cool guy can freaking walk on munchers without any sign of pain (unless he is crying inside, cause the sunglasses don't let you see his eyes), and, if I remember correctly, only the superstar can defeat it, I believe he is inmune to fireballs, cape swings and even lava? -K. Round from Deltarune: Coming back at Toby Fox's work, here we have our target, a checker piece with DEM HOT LEGS and a puppy face on one of the sides, yeah, this guy, he may not have incredible defenses, but he can heal anything you deal to him with the power of... almond milk, like, I'm not even kidding, that's how it regens health, and no, it cannot be killed (nothing can, but you know what I mean), you can only uncrown him, which will make him revert to it's previous form and roll away, plus, his theme is catchy as heck...
Mada Faka Noivern is your choice for a special attacker? In what scenario is that beneficial over another Pokémon? I will say, Buzzwole is probably one of my favorite Pokémon, and not just because him being a mosquito is free real estate to name him after a bunch of mosquito-born illnesses. I’ve put him to use in competition, and he was one of the first Pokémon I’ve done so with. He ain’t as bulky as I’d like. Beast Boost is cool, but he switches out frequently as a response to SP attacks. This removes the boosts. He can’t risk staying in, because he is too slow to threaten a good amount of things, but being a physically bulky monster who gets Leech Life (in the same generation that buffed the move from 20BP to 80BP, so it can actually deal damage) certainly helps. Actually, his best recovery comes in Roost, which he gets for... some reason. He pairs well with Blissey and other special walls. The really bulky nightmare of Pokémon was probably, until THE BADNESS, Skarmory, who consistently walls everything in Gens 2-7, despite low overall stats. Even Fire Blast and Thunderbolt have a hard time really effecting him.
@@lordlouie3550 Noivern isn't bad it's fast, good coverage and can hit pretty hard with an orb or specs. There are better special attackers but it's not a bad choice. I often use it on dragon teams. Also why don't you Assault Vest? That's what I do and with leech life and drain punch it's living for a while
On the note of all Metal Slimes in general in the entire Dragon Quest series, there is one weapon that is needed for them when you get the chance... the Poison Needle. Sure they only do a measly one HP damage each hit, but if your next blow is a critical hit, it will be an instant kill. Plus, they are so accurate, they are certain to land a hit on the Metal Slimes. And if you have characters who can't equip that needle, don't worry. For mages, there is Poof!/Bedragon. The Metal Slimes have no defense to that dragon's breath, but you have to spend a turn to charge it up once first cast. And for sword wielders, there's the Falcon Blade. Sure it's expensive and lacking in attack power, but its ability to lash two blows for the price of one should be helpful. Though to warn you, these options aren't in the first Dragon Quest game...
Though in later installments, there is an even better option.... the Metal Slime weapons! These rare powerful weapons can smack Metal enemies as well as they do normal enemies!
Oh, almost forgot, there is a knife equivalent to the Falcon Blade, the Falcon Knife Earrings! They have the same effect. But in Dragon Quest 4, these nice accessories can be one of Alena's best weapons, even more so than the Cobra Claw, her initial best weapon!
The Metal Slimes made me remember the goddamn Super-Metal Hippo from Battle Cats. I thought the enemy was unkillable or the game bugged when i first met it. Also the other metal bosses but it's the most notable.
Here's something I do to get Metal King Slimes (or metal slimes) in DQXI: *Must Have the Luminary, Jade, Erik and Rab pepped up; highly recommended for the Hero to have the self-pep up skill and for Jade to have Lightning Thrust* - save near wherever King Slimes spawn - go get one - use Electro Light - if it worked, proceed to pep up the Hero again - use Dirge of Dundrasil - try to land as many criticals as possible; I recommend to use Metal Slime weapons as well - profit
Dragon Quest Builders(yes the minecraft knock off one) has metal slimes. They have a high speed, and can run away faster than you if they see you. But sometimes you need the rare drops from them for items. It's best to sneak up quietly and then lay down the beating. I'm pretty sure they attack you once and then flee for the hills, soon disappearing. But the one flaw in their plans? They sometimes corner themselves, and render themselves unable to despawn once you close the gap. Easy prey, if handled correctly
For the Dragon Quest Metal Slime family, their gimmick is that they only take 1 point of damage without crits, which ignore defense, Metal Slash, which allows you to deal 2 damage, Tension, which doubles the attack value of the next attack and can stack higher than one time in a few titles, or a combination of them and they have a high evasion stat, so they can avoid attacks easily on top of taking 1 or less damage, but gives insane amounts of experience compared to everything else in the game. The regular Metal Slime/Metaly has been around since the beginning with 3hp and gives 1000 exp. Liquid Metals/Metabbles have been around since 2 with 35hp in the original NES version and 5/6hp in every game since and give 10k exp. Metal Kings have been around since 4 and have a whopping 20hp and 30k exp. Finally, there's the Platinum King Jewel/PlatKing from 7 with an insane 200hp, basically requiring a crit at that point, and 65k exp. The spin-offs and MMO have even more variants.
Reminds me of MA-X Angelus-0 from FFXV. That dude has the second highest vitality (defense) in the game (behind a DLC Boss) and only takes 10% damage from all attacks. This means that even if you use the most powerful weapons in the game like the Balmung (not counting the Garuda ones), it will only take around 90 damage when you are around its level (99). It has 202k HP, so if you don’t have the correct set up of buffs and magic, it takes a frikin’ hour to take it down. If that wasn’t enough, it has a 5% chance to drop the best gear in the game, Magitek Suit V2, which means that if you want to have it you’ll have to beat it 10+ times. Edit: oh yeah it also does 9999 attack if you don’t have correct gear, too. And it has unphasable attacks.
Well Dheginsea may not be able to but alot of skills from Radiant Dawn sure as heck could. Like Eclipse, Corona, Flare, Lethality, and 'maybe' Impale. Though if skills were involved no doubt every boss would have frickin Nihil making you forget your characters even had skills to begin with.
Optimal Metal Slime harvesting guide: Luminary, Erik, Jade, Sylvando all pepped. Get into any encounter, then use Hauleluja to boost rewards. Repep the Luminary and Jade, then use Electrolight to summon the slimes. Be sure to save first, in case it fails. Erik crit claims, Jade uses lightning thrust, then Sylv uses ladies first to let her do it again. That 3 Houses bit got me thinking. Canas hasn't been on this show yet, has he?
These remind me of Bug Fables' Golden Seedling. It has only 4 HP, the same as a regular Seedling, but if you spy on it, you'll find it's defense listed as "??". Turns out it reduces all damage it takes to 10% (without going below 1), and in Bug Fables, it's really hard to deal over 9 damage in a single hit. Frozen Drill can deal 13 total damage but it's a multi-hit move, so it'll just deal 1 damage 4 times, which is even better (Probably, I haven't tested it out). That can kill the Golden Seedling. However, another way to beat it is to hit it with 4 regular attacks, which is favorable since Frozen Drill wastes 8 TP (Tornado Toss is 3 and still beats it though...) so it's not favorable. The Golden Seedling likes to run away. A lot. You can attack 3 times per turn since you have 3 characters (4 with chompy), but you can encounter this enemy at the start of the game, before you get Frozen Drill. You still have Tornado Toss, but many players won't be skilled enough to pull that off well enough to dish out enough hits. At this point, you have just Vi and Kabbu. Kabbu should use Taunt to make the Seedling attack instead of running. Unfortunately for Kabbu, he can only due this once at this point in the game, because the Golden Seedling deals 8 damage, enough to 1HKO any playable character at this point in the game (unless you rank up on regular Seedlings early on, but that will never happen).
I know that Grandia III has a Metal Slime analog called the Rare Mink. A pathetic 18 HP, but takes 0 or 1 damage from everything, moves quickly, gets turns quickly, and has high evasion. Also loves to flee, denying you the boatload of EXP from killing it.
*In the Japanese game dqmj3 the most powerful monster ever is the Golden Metal Goddess she have literally 2000 defense and all type of magic heal her and you can’t do any critical hit to her so you basically just pray god* plus she can heal her MP every turn and use powerful spell to inflige 400 hp to everyone. Don’t know how many exp you can get but I’m sure if you’re level 1 you would go level 99 in just one battle but it’s not possible to defeat them... in a normal DQ anyway*
Metal Slimes are a pretty common theme for DQ games. Their HP levels are low, their dodge rates are high, you can't use magic, and they love to run away. Even when on the exploration map, if one sees you, they'll run away and vanish into a wall and you'll miss your chance. They do middling damage, but that barely matters. Though... they are susceptible to Instant Death attacks like Pressure Pointer in DQ IX and multi-hit ones. Also the Metal Slash skill for Swords in IX seems to be a guaranteed hit... provided the Metal Slime doesn't dodge it in the first place. But they provide such an obscene amount of EXP for whatever point in the game you encounter them that you really do want to try and kill them...
Quick mention of mine: in Terraria, if you try to enter the dungeon before defeating Skeletron, the Dungeon Guardian will come out of nowhere and insta-shot you, but if you have a lot of defense... you can withstand 2 attacks... yes... *2*... and it has 9999 health and receives 1 damage from everything and sometimes 2, if you defeat him you get the bone key, which summons a pet.
the metal slimes had reminded me of rare snurps from miitopia. rare snurps also had carptons of defence and exp when killed. plus, they also have very low hp. but they have a very big tendency to flee from battle
Metal slimes have indeed appeared in basically every Dragon Quest game thing is in some games there is a sword attack called Metal Slash that does a good amount of damage against metal slimes to balance this out though in games where it is available they make the HP higher. Also some games have metal king slime swords that always do regular damage to metal enemies
Regarding the Mosque, I know it's a campaign map building that's likely intended for one campaign and thus, can't be placed in multiplayer matches, but it *can* be placed in custom maps made in the scenario editor, so as of DE, on custom multiplayer maps with Mosques, there is a unit that does not care now. The leitis. The unique unit of the Lithuanians, it does not care about armor.
There's also the Dungeon Guardians in Terraria, who have 9999 HP, hit for 1000 damage (the most HP you can have is 600, though with the right gear you can reduce that to a 2- or even 3-hit KO) And, on top of that, they have enough Defense to lower the damage of all your attacks down to 1 (unless you're playing with mods that have items at a high enough level of power to hit harder)
More on metal slimes, metal slimes from the dragon warrior monsters gbc games are notorious for their resistances. They have extremely high defenses and agility just like how you were describing. However, they can combine to form 2 specific monsters. Goldslime from DWM1, and 2 gold slimes into Grandslime. In those games, the way spell resistances work is that they are both innate per monster species, but you can also improve them by breeding. Goldslime's in particular were used in a process often referred to as "gilding" where you you breed your best boss (boss family) monsteres with a goldslime over and over to eventually give them immunity to all magic. Only certain monsters, even boss monsters, could ever reach this though. Fun fact, the process of gilding and a single ability called thick fog made PvP horridly slow. Thick fog would out right block any and all magic spells for a few turns. So the only spells you could use were non-magic ones such as dances and multi-attacks. If you were facing someone and you both had max'd out stats on all 3, then the game would only have 1 goal in mind, make your opponent run out of mp before you. You, at bare minimum, would need at least 2 solid turns if all 3 of your monsters targeted a single enemy to take them out assuming everyone was at max stats. Max hp was 999, and the go-to recovery move for PvP was called meditate, which would restore 500 HP. So you think you got a good round in cause all your monsters attacked 1 enemy? That enemy uses meditate and basically negates all your damage. So PvP with gilding and thick fog turned into a waiting game for either of you to run out of mp. So metal slimes in that game were extremely powerful, far more than even their stats would suggest.
In the same tone there is the eidolon wyrm in calamity. this optionnal boss spawning in the abyss had aburdly high defenses: 3000 PLUS a 99.99% damage reduction, even the craziest weapons will just scratch that. (and in calamity some weapons are ridiculous ). Also, please consider the JUVENILE eidolon wyrm had stats similar to some of the last bosses, with the eidolon wyrm having an attack highter than the final boss (also give you many debuff and is immune to a lot ) The good new : in calamity there is no dodge, so it doesn't had crazy miss chance too. The bad new : it had 30 000 000 HP.... yeah The tiny good news : some weapons attack really fast with a lot of projectiles, wich can create lot of debuff and sub projectiles depending on your gear ,so you can actually reach a dps who can give you HOPE to defeat it. Btw, it had telekinesis, it will time to time pull you in the opposite direction of where you were going, so if you attempted to approach him you will be yeeted away (you'll see why you might want that ), and if you were fleeing you'll be dragged in ...probably in his face or in once of his attacks...who hurt like hell since it had the hightest damages of all vanilla calamity Also the boss had an enormous flaw (not a good thing for you ) : like any regular ennemy/miniboss if you goes too far it might despawn, so sometime by trying to kite it he'll just be gone and you'll have to redo the whole process (i already got him despawning at like 25% hp) So you want to stay as far as possible from him to avoir being yeeted on his face, but you better be carefull to not be too far away..because if the boss is offscreen and you loose track of his movement you might not see him dashign toward you .....or going away from you, because sometime his movement make him go way away. Why bother defeating it? Well there is a weapon , the hallibut canon , you can drop it against regular ennemies of the abyss, miniboss of the abyss , or against the eidolon wyrm. Against regular ennemies it had like 0.00001% drop (not exagerating), against minibosses 0.1%, and against the eidolon wyrm 100%...so pick you poison please....also if you had the fargowitas mod installed this weapon is part of the craft reciepe for the Omega blue enchantment.... The super good new : there is ONE weapon, offten viewed a a crappy one who can greatly help you : the Coldheart Icicle This weapon is like the copper shortsword : it only deal 1 damage, had terrible range and hitbox and on top of that is super slow...so why use it against the most durable boss? well it had one effect who is still not viewed as worth it against most bosses...it reduce the target max HP by 2%. Oh yeah this sound like a go to ! but there is a problem...remember the boss deal massive damage? if you jump head first on the boss to TRY to land a hit, you're guaranteed to take a hit...the good news is with invulnerability frames you might as well manage to land 1 or 2 more hit. But since you took a hit..you better be carefull to not take damage while you're waiting for your hp to go up for your next assault.....of and remmeber what i said earlier, it might yeet you away from him.
For reference with DQ metal slimes, there's a version in DQIX that has a lot of HP, and a much higher EXP payout than the Metal King Slime. I believe it is called the Platinum King Jewel. Even harder to kill (as metal slash isn't as useful), but the reward is worth it, particularly in a game where your level resets a ton.
When i saw the final guard in this video i just remembered, in the dlcs of that game in chapter 9 to 11 there are some weapons with the same name but those has +1. so the only way to get it is to go farm with a especific character depending the weapon you want because you have more chances to get the crissagrim with alucard than soma because soma has the chance to get the same weapon and the claim solais both +1 in chapter 10, so when you use those weapons the max dmg you can make with full soma dmg and the claim solais +1 is almost like 10 or 11 if you increased the dmg by just eating one especific thing, Crissagrim +1 or better known as a valmanway +1, you probably know already how fast that weapon can be or the muramasa +1, that weapon can make like 7 or 8 dmg and there is the other way about lvl up the sub-weapons with the vampirekillers to increase their base dmg, but being honest that method is almost like spend all your day time to lvl up only 1 sub weapon so if someone still playing this like me, i recomend you to lvl up all the sub-weapons to lvl 8 because lvl 9 takes 6 hours if u don't know how to manage those throws with your sub-weapons. oh yeah and if you farm, prepare to get a lot of decepcions and a lot more in multiplayer
In DQ9, theres a cliff were it spawns most of the slimes, including the Liquid Metal Slimes, tho the underground grottos have a rare chance to spawn those Metal King Slimes. Except the strongest of the strongest is the Platinum King Jewel, you either need to rely on a high crit low accuracy move or insta kill move to finish them before they run...
I remember a similar case of an enemy with crazy high defense in Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga In that game, there's an enemy called Jojora who accompanies the Boss in Joke's End, a freezed palace Jojora is just a tiny girl made of Ice, she only has 50 HP, pretty low for the game standars and for a Boss, but she has 999 Defense, the highest defense in the whole game, while the final boss only has 150 of Defense and still quite hard to kill
For your next most powerful character, I recommend *Sir Lancelot* from _Sonic and the Black Knight._ The game may be somewhat unpopular, but as a secret boss, Lancelot is SO powerful and hard to beat he easily deserves a spot next to these other candidates.
Its kind of funny that 'this git' is creeped out by blood draining as a concept, but castlevania appeares a lot of times in the channel, even in this episode (because usually the villain and sometimes the main character is some incarnation of dracula)
I know this is a really old video, but if you have only played DQ11, I would highly reccomend going back and playing DQ8 as well. I enjoyed it quite a lot!
The Dungeon Guardian from Terraria is of this archetype, but even better, not just 9,999 defense, but just as much health (double on Expert mode, triple on Master mode, even more on the secret seed exclusive Legendary mode) and yet does the most (non enraged one-shot boss) damage in the game, 1000 (double on Expert mode, triple on Master mode, even more on secret seed exclusive Legendary mode), making it overall the strongest enemy in the game, and the thing you get for slaying it is just the Bone Key, in my opinion the best pet item in the game
to add more on the metal slime subject, you can recruit them in some games -DQV (Hard to pull it out, even with some food. You can only gain the metal slime and the liquid metal slime if I remember right) -DQ monster joker (same as before, I don't know what they can do at their max lvl) -DQ8 as "legendary monsters", even if you can summon them for a few turns, their attack have very few utilities, except when they're together for their magical explosion, otherwise, they're not very worthy by themselves TL:DR : while they have extreme defence, they're not the best in fighting
Honestly surprised I didn't see mention of Orlandu (specifically original PSX version of FFT) in any of the vids in this series. Not to say WotL nerfed him super hard (he's still pretty op), but original FFT Orlandu was absolutely broken, nvm the fact you don't have to do anything special to get him (recruitment occurs during the story)
Btw I'm going to add on to these characters that have asburd defenses, low hp, but gives something very good or exp are the rare and very rare snurps from Miitopia, They have like 3 or 4 hp, Like insane defenses, and are likely to run away, however they give a crap ton of exp like metal slimes, only thing is that they don't dodge alot and demonic whispering (and Imp skill)and righteous anger can instantly kill them
In Harmony of Despair, there are at least two attacks I know of that break the damage cap of Final Guards. They're both Soma, the Death Scythe and Claimh Solais special attacks will do around 10-15 damage if I remember correctly.
Dunno about all the DQ games but they're definately in 9 too. That game even had a few skills/weapons specifically for taking them down that could hit them way more reliably
In regard to the Cactrots, I want to say that Setzer's Dice and Fixed Dice will also get around their defense. It's been a while since I played. Can't remember for sure.
Metal Slimes are part of the top 10 reasons why everyone loves Erik
That, and he's hot..
Legit Critical Claim is the best way to farm those bois
that and he's super saiyan blue
Nice Niko pic
YOU’RE WIDE OPEN!
Metal king slime : my defense is 999 u cannot...
-critical hit!!!
100% tension critical metal slash: *succeeds*
PKJ: wait, that’s illegal.
or imagine a metal king slime max level and stats in dragon quest joker lol
In VIII and XI the axe and the spear skill tree both have skills wich give you a 50% hit/miss rate but becomes a critical when hit, perfect moves for metal king slimes as criticals negate their absurd defense , there is prolly such a skill in all snes era games in the series.
i meant IX instead of XI
That does seem to be a rapidly growing trend in RPGs- a rare enemy that is difficult to kill before it escapes but offers tremendous rewards if you manage to do so. Something to break up the flow of the usual battles.
Ironically, 1000 Needles/Blowfish is a skill ideally suited to destroy Cactaur if you have Strago learn it.
This trend has existed since the jrpg has been a thing. Metal slimes, chansey, cactuars
thank god the opposite trope isn't that much done.
encountering a super powerful monster for your level but getting little to no rewards when successfully defeated. (jackanapes in ffv, hell masters in tales of phantasia etc.)
Superboss ?
If you thought only metal was bad puzzle and dragons z has
Metal
Gold
Saffire
Ruby
And emerald dragons and they all function like metal slimes
@@squidlump But then theres the boss versions of them with such absurdly high defenses. I know of one which is known as the liquid metal king slime which does exist but in a game that isn't as talked about. I think it was the professional version of one of the monster joker dragon quest games that it appeared in as an event which means yes it's a secret boss. Imagine if you could recruit this guy.
I used to play Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker and I can say, having a full party of Metal King Slimes in your party makes the game a breeze, if you're patient enough.
Fuck, got that game 3 months ago and just been playing it on and off, only got to inferno Isle.
Underrated as hell.
Just don't use a party of 3 Metal King Slimes against Estark, or you will regret it
@@DragovianLancer I'm guessing he has metal slash?
@@Fuzmonster59 Attack stat through the ass. Nuff said.
@@Fuzmonster59 He's so strong he can pierce MKS' massive defence stat. I think he does actually have Metal Slash
According to what I’ve heard, if you have less than four characters left for the Aelfric battle, green units will appear and move to block the vortexes.
Ahhh yes, the Mosque. AKA: The boss of pretty much every "Defend the building!" custom scenario.
BTW do The Most Powerful Buildings in Gaming Ever.
Gta trees
And as of Definitive Edition, the Leitis exists. Which ignores armor. The Lithuanians are coming for your mosques. And they don't give a shit about your armor.
@@DeisFortuna Unfortunately, the Lithuanian Leitis does not ignore building armour.
This reminds me of the golden bean enemy in mario and luigi dream team bros.
At the very least, killing the Golden Bean isn't (entirely) up to luck, unlike a lot of RPGs with that enemy trope.
Plus, you can get the time stop badge effect beforehand and use it if you fail to counterattack to get another chance against him.
Not to mention the fact that you can save beforehand, meaning if you fail, you can retry as many times as you want.
Except those enemies are actually fun to fight because defeating them is more about skill than luck
@@psychopianist630 agreed.
I can confirm that metal slimes appear since DQI. Also, there are a few extra hints to fighting them. Like you said, Erik's Critical Claim is a godsend because crits go right through all that metal goo, but some of the other characters also get skills that give a high crit rate. These skills are Hatchet Man and Thunder Thrust (plus their upgraded versions in VIII), which give a 50/50 of crit or miss. For XI, the characters that can pick these skills up are Serena, Jade (Spear), and the final party member (axe). In IV-VII, the cursed item Hela's Hammer gives a similar effect. Thunder Thrust first shows up in VIII as one of the hero's moves, and Hatchet Man shows up in VI, or the remakes of IV, and onward. Even if you can't invest in all that, the move Metal Slash shows up in the same games as Hatchet Man, giving at least a guaranteed hit, and can be good if you have a falcon blade or two. Another hint for XI, if you can spare the pep (or have enough pep pips/pops) you can use the Hallelujah pep power, requiring the Luminary, Jade and Erik, before Electro Light to squeeze even more xp out of the metal menaces. Plus, I think Metal Kings drop pep pips so you get a little of your investment back.
The only Problem with the Cursed Hela hammers is that you can't even use Physical skills in DQ6 with it I tried and it still makes those that aren't Hatchet man still FAIL to connect over 50% of the time.
6:30 Metal King Slimes have around 25-30 HP and Liquid Metal Slimes have around 15-20. This means you cannot hunt them reliably without some way to force critical hits, though moves like that tend to miss a lot. Aside from Critical Claim of course.
Also, in Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, Metal King Slimes have much lower defence than in other games, meaning if your monsters are strong enough, you can defeat them in a single hit!
You could also just go for boosting your crit rate and using multi hit attacks. Rab and jade are best at this because of their access to claws.
Dragon Quests IV, VII, and IX have what is essentially the ultimate form of a Metal Slime called the "Platinum King Jewel"
They have the same defense as a Metal Slime, but also come with 200 HP and capped Agility. There's basically no way to reliably defeat them, the best way to do it is to max out one of your party member's Agility, hope they win the coin-flip to move first, and then hope they get a crit. It's actually pretty easy in IV, since Alena can easily cap her Agility, has a sky-high crit rate, gets a weapon that attacks twice in one turn (so she has 2 chances to crit), and you get an item that lets you reset a battle back to Turn 1 as many times as you want.
You should play other DQ games if you liked XI. It's a very consistent series that rarely takes risks (basically the antithesis of Final Fantasy), so if you like one, you'll like them all (except maybe DQII, that game is brutal)
IX had an interesting bug with some of its Grotto maps - some of them had bugged floors with messed up encounter tables. You might run into a map with a floor that only spawns one particular enemy...and one monster that could spawn like this was the Metal King Slime. Platinum King Jewels could not be made to be the only spawn on a floor.
Metal slimes do appear in every game since their inception, I believe.
Since the very first game, in fact.
@@aerth6946 I only played the very first game and... they are how my character reached the level cap. Not sure if this is the most efficient grind though
@@JoelHernandez-tz3vk It is, trust me.
@@aerth6946 in the NES version, im pretty sure killing the armored knight that guards erdrick's armor is the best.
@@somebakedgood yeah, Metal Slimes didn't start giving out crazy experience until DQ3 if I remember correctly. DQ2 did have the Liquid Metal Slime (Metal Babble), but they were almost impossible to kill in that game since you don't really have any tools to deal with them. Just had to hope for a crit.
Oh, you think Metal King Slimes are something?
Well, allow me to introduce my friend: _Platinum King Jewel_
Wasn't that variant of Metal Slime only able to be found in high-level dungeons in Dragon Quest IX?
Matthew Gillis yep, I’ve only ever ran into a couple of em, and they’re extremely difficult to kill
@@ifiinch They appear in DQ7.
So basically, if you kill one of these bastards, the exp yield is at least 10 levels.
@@finedandys1340 Also the DS/mobile version of DQ4. Only in one room, though.
4:45 *Git:* "You know, Cactuars bring a type of monster from another RPG series to mind..."
*Me:* "Shuckle!!!-- Oh wait not Shuckle? Oh, OK."
Gravity status, hail, ohkos, and attacks that do set amounts of damage (like seismic toss) make its life hell
Cactuars are in Monster Hunter World. They can kill some of the weaker large monsters. All you have to do is set some traps, to keep the monster in place, kick the Cactuar then watch the fire works.
Me: dungeon guardian?
@@Jake-nz9gj Terraria isn't really an RPG per se
wait till u play the dragon quest joker games, the metal menagerie and light world have (mostly) only metal slime variants
See, I would also like to introduce the Gem Slimes who have the same defensive stats of metal slimes but also pack magic burst which can sometimes ruin you just for thinking of fighting them.
There was also the Platinum King Slime who would also blind you just to make sure your hit chance is as low as possible.
I know that in dragon quest 4 and 7, there's the Platinum king jewel wich an even more powerful kind of metal slime, probably takes the cake for most ridiculiously hard to kill ennemy ever in the serie. It's basically like the King metal slime, but with 200 hp instead of 20, high evasion, high chance of escaping, and on top of that they have a spell that reduces your accuracy even further
He is also in dq 9.
Actually, there are a few things that can do more than one damage to the Iron Golem in Aria of Sorrow, albeit most of them are multi-hit weapons anyway (Valmanway, Kaiser Knuckle, Gungner, Positron Rifle, etc.), but the Balore Punch packs so much brute force that it actually does a whopping *2* damage to the Iron Golem. Isn't that just incredible?
Too op smh
Should be nerfed.
The Iron Golem in Dawn of Sorrow has much less HP, but still takes 1 damage from most things. Soma, on the other hand, can get so powerful using the Devil soul he can actually deal 3 damage in one hit.
Uandres Brito Yeah, the Iron Golem in Dawn only has 50 HP, so it is much less threatening than the one in Aria. Also, there're a number of attacks that can do more than one damage to it, such as the Skull Ball (Yorick's soul) and Buster Shot (Skeleton Archer's soul). Plus the Terror Bear can hit it five or six times per swing, so that just tears Dawn's Iron Golem to shreds.
@@jruler93 To "compensate" for that he's got 30 MP, so switching to MP doesn't help that much.
10:16 (spoilers)
Given how Aelfric character wise is the spiritual successor to Orson from FE: Sacred Stones, disgusting is a rather fitting word to describe him.
Spoilers for Persona 3
Aelfric reminded me of Chairman Ikutsuki. A seemingly kindhearted man who took on a leadership role to kids with tragic pasts. Eventually it is revealed their true goals are much more malicious, and that they were manipulating everyone from the very beggining. Their ultimate plan involves sacrificing they very kids who trusted them and summonning a horrifying abomination that will reape death and destruction (either intentionally and unitentionally).
There's even a party member who is seemingly under their control before breaking free (Yuri in FE, Aigis in P3).
In Dragon Warrior 3, there's a way around the Metal creatures defenses. The spell BeDragon.
I fondly remember hunting Metal King Slimes ontop of a plateau in Dragon Quest 8. I had Hero and Yangus focus on doing critical hits (with spear/axe-abilities respectively), Angello make more consistent damage with a sword doing Metal Slash and Jessica, erh well, she tried.
Chrono Trigger was the first game I played to have an enemy like that, the rock things on the floating mountain which lock your techs and items. If you can kill them, they're a real windfall, but good luck doing that.
What's really awesome, in Dragon Quest VIII, you can recruit a team of three monsters to use as a summon spell. This includes a Metal Slime, Liquid Metal Slime and Metal Slime King!
Alternatively, if you have a move or weapon with low accuracy but ALWAYS crits, that will help with metal slimes. It's worth noting you obtain a class in dq6 called metal liquid slime, which reduces your hp to 10%, but doubles speed and defense, and complete spell immunity, great for cheesing all the late game bosses!
So to answer your question about Cindered Shadows (SPOILER WARNING!)...
11:25- So what I saw on Twitter, if you don’t have enough units to place on the vortexes, you’ll actually get up to Three Green Units to help you out to stand on them. You’ll get a Paladin, a Sniper, and a Fortress Knight to help you out. They’re also quite remarkable strong (the Sniper has about 41 Dex/Skill so they can probably hit most things and Crit often, and the Paladin has stats on par with a well leveled Dimitri). However I’m pretty sure having to rely on them will make the map much harder given how you can’t control their movements and if any of them die and Byleth is your only non-Ashen Wolf Unit, that might need to force a restart. Still it’s really nice that they planted a fail safe for players who are playing Classic so they don’t get locked out of beating this chapter should they have too few units left.
End.
"I'm not gonna make a The Most Powerful Buildings In Gaming Ever just to cover it."
Bowser's Castle had never seen such bullshit before
Some Dragon Quest 9 metal slimes have over 32 HP. The liquid ones already have 12 HP, and give more EXP than the final boss!
To be fair, does the final boss really NEED to give experience?
@@DoctorNovakaine i hoped it just unlocked the celestrian promotion
i had a cheat going on where if you master every job (i forgot what they're called) and then change your profession into “celestrian” you get balanced stats (which means almost maxed in all areas) and ability to cast any learned technique or spell for one character.
it crashes the game when you play 4 of them tho.
That's remind me a monster, a metal monkey, in the Mother 3 game which acting like a metal slime but if you kill him, he don't give any exp, even if the text says he give you a lot of experiences when you kill him.
For Metal Slimes, yes. They do appear in every game, from the very beginning. Liquid Metal Slimes and Metal King Slimes don't appear until DQ 3.
When you hit a crit on a metal slime with a normal attack: I'm about to end this slimes whole career!
I have never actually seen Age of Empires gameplay before. Very cool series, breakdowns of rpg enemies are apparently really soothing to me. It must be all the numbers talk.
Surtr and Idunn in Feh are prime examples of this
Now add Mamori, Forsyth and Valentine's Rudolf.
Ironically Idunn was designed to counter Surtr.
@@MenyValentine22 there's far more than that. Feh has a lot of powerful armor units. I just listed these two cause they are the most common.
you forgot infantry lance from tactic drill
@@Rubyshedinja33 which unit specifically
Out of curiosity, Git: Which is the largest HP you have seen on a videogame enemy/boss?
I can tell you, it's going to be in the Disgaea series
Tyrant Baal from Disgaea Dimension 2 weighs in at 100 Billion HP (and 500Mil in stats), is unfathomably difficult to damage, has SIX forms (each one at 100Bil HP that you have to go through in a row), and each character can only use each one of it's special attacks ONCE in the entire battle (this includes normal attacks and counters too).
And that's not even his strongest form. In Carnage form, he has 400Bil HP (per form) and 999Mil in stats.
It takes hundreds of hours of grinding, and a guide, to beat him.
In terraria one of the bosses can have basically infinite HP if there are enough palyers, don't remember how much tho
maplestory: hlucid is 14T i think, black mage is around 100t in total? the sources for these arent too consistent but what is known is that they are both several trillion
trillion: god of destruction, final boss, trillion, has, well, one trillion
i feel like a scrub for thinking Zeromus EG was the highest hp boss i'd ever fight until i played Disgaea.
Dragon Quest IX were good times, but this looks way better.
If you're talking specifically about monsters/characters with high defense, I feel that Ruby Weapon from _Final Fantasy VII_ deserves at least an honorable mention. It's not a particularly difficult fight if you know how to handle it, but it DOES have an insanely high defense at 480 (whereas player characters can only have 255 maximum) as well as many other high stats, not to mention that it doesn't take damage unless its tentacles are active - which only occurs when two of your three party members are absent or downed.
Hey, dunno if you're accepting requests or not, but I know of a boss in a video game that's so tough, it can make even veterans rage quit trying to beat it!
Introducing King Poo Snake from the game Blue Dragon on Xbox 360. It has insane attack power, access to tons of status condition-inflicting moves, almost all of its physical attacks are criticals and kill your party in one hit (even if they have tons of health/defense/armor), has tons of immunities to spells, has insane speed that eclipses your party's fastest easily, and it has a ton of HP! He's actually a secret boss in the game and at least 100 times harder than the ACTUAL final boss! I should know, I played the game myself the whole way through... with a busted controller that had a sticky A button!
The only real way to beat it is tons of patience, getting as many of your party members to max level and rank in all their powers, casting defensive spells including Wallus with your mages, and then using your speedier/harder-hitting characters to attack it with Darkness/Shadow attacks, which are it's weakness.
Hoo boy, if you thought regular Metal Slimes were bad, you ain't seen the terror known as a Platinum King Jewel. They're a straight upgrade from a regular Metal King slime, but the nastiest thing about them is that they can cast Dazzle, which can affect your accuracy and make you miss a whole lot more! Not to mention they're surrounded by powerful monsters, and have fairly impressive attack!
10:48 imagine if the “Lethality” skill existed here...
OOH A VIDEO ABOUT DRAGON QUEST
No it's about slimes
No it's about cacti
The Cores in Lufia 2 are similar to the Metal Slime enemies, though a bit easier to kill if you do get the chance.
metal king slime: æhæhæ you cannot get me >:D
hero: *uses **_metal slash_** (or executioner/any metal killing moves)*
metal king slime: NOOO-
More like
*Uses Lightning Thrust or Executioner*
@@sonicthehedge wait did metal slash not exist in that game or no
@@wahoo812
Yes but metal slash is pretty useless as it'll only do like 2 damage instead of 1.
Executioner and Lightning Thrust are guaranteed criticials which mean you can instant-kill them due to them having low HP.
@@sonicthehedge Well not EXACTLY guaranteed. 50% chance of hitting and 66% of hitting respectively. Still pretty awesome before you gain access to the KING of critical hit moves, Critical Claim, THE guaranteed critical.
@@FrogworfKnight
i meant DQ8.
Lightning Thrust and Executioner while not guaranteed to hit, they are guaranteed criticial if they hit.
12:24 "And unlike metal slimes or Cactuar, it has a humongous amount of HP as well - the limit of 9,999, in fact!"
Metal bosses from Battle Cats: "Are you challenging me?"
Exdeath thinks overly high defense is silly when you can just block and counter instead.
so my usual fear of metal enemies in Battle Cats is shared by other games? Oh thank lordie
There's a lot of very similar enemies of this kind.
-Cactuars
-Metal Slimes
-Golden Hands (Persona)
-Cait (Octopath Traveler)
-Probably more I can't remember
I'm working on a Bullet Hell RPG where you play as a healer, and this video just inspired me to implement a set of armor: the Reimu Cosplay Dress.
It greatly reduces your max Life (-55%; this game uses Seximal so it's actually -97.222...%, the result is usually 1-3 HP in a game where you'd normally have 100-300 (36-108) HP), sets Defense to 0, and has it so your Healing Surges are the only way you can be healed, but also reduces any damage you take down to 1 (or 0 if you block it with your shield) and greatly increases post-hit invincibility from any attacks you fail to block.
In Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, the metal King slime had the same defense and a lovely HP of 25. But also there was a monster called Metal Kaizer slime. He haves 999 of defense, 75 HP and the ability "Critical fail" which prevents from receiving criticals
Incase anyone hasn't said this yet. The pep up thing to spawn metal slimes and stuff, it actually depends on the level too. The higher the level. The more chances of the metal slime being a liquid metal or metal king. Nice vid btw
So, in some of the older games, there were Metal Slime variants had upwards of 20 hp.
10:18 CONSUME THE FIRE EMBLEM CHALICE
I swear to God, every time I hear the FF6 battle theme I get so pumped up shit fucking rocks
Arzakon from Magic: the Gathering certainly qualifies, at least at first glance. Where the normal card game has you start at 20 life points, Arzakon has several hundreds, which I think is 1000 at the highest difficulty. Two problems, however:
1. He uses a very clunky five color deck with limited removal options, meaning you can get through his life total surprisingly fast by continually building up the board.
2. It's not mandatory to win the battle to beat the game - you already crossed his plans and are only racking up more years for which he's banished.
Roy O. Koopa in Puzzle & Dragon Super Mario edition also has ludicrous defenses but a limited HP total that can be ground down by many hits a turn. Since if you take 5 turns, he does a single hit that easily oneshots just about any build you could bring to him.
Metal slimes: exist
Erik: YOU'RE WIDE OPEN
Some aditions to the list I thought of:
-Buzzwole from the Pokemon series: I know there are probably more bulky pokemon like Zamazenta or Toxapex, but I don't care, I like Buzzy. So what does this JoJo Mosquito have? Well, for starters, 418 max HP and 414 max Defense, which is quite nice, it also has a lot of recovery in the shape of Drain Punch, Leech Life (Both STAB) and Roost, as well as substitute, and Bulk Up, because you really needed to raise that defense and attack, but there is something that makes it [Stand] out: It's ablility "Beast Boost", which raises your highest stat everytime you knock down a pokemon (Except HP), remember those 414 max Defense? Welp, that's also the highest stat! which translates into 621 defense with only one kill! It's main weakness is, however, it's special defense, which doesn't really shine for it's greatness, really, bring an special attacker like, I dunno, Noivern, and that guy's gone!
-(Spoilers for Super Mario Paper's final boss) Super Dimentio from the game I just said: When Dimentio fuses with Luigi (and maybe the Chaos Heart, I'm not sure bout that), he becomes what is commonly known as a "Paralysis Demon", this guy has a forcefield around him so strong that not even Bowser's groundpound (Groundpounding makes you deal double damage and Bowser has double the damage stat compared to the other characters) will even put a dent, it can only be defeated by the literal power of love through the Pure Hearts, which makes him then become quite weak, but hey, it was bulky
-Luigi from the M&L games: Remember when I said before that I wasn't sure the surge of bulk came from the Chaos Heart, but actually from Luigi? Well I have my reasons for! Luigi might not seem like much, specially compared to his red brother, but all these years enduring all the emotional pain of being disregarded made him able to endure physical pain like a god: With the right setup, he only recieves 1 point of damage... from the final bosses of the games, he might not be popular as his brother, but he certainly is a threat, feared by his enemies as he stands there and wins... by doing nothing
-The Dungeon Guardian from Terraria: "What do you mean I can't enter the dungeon without defeating your master first? The door is open! Screw you old man, I'm going into the Dun-" -Last words from player, so in case you are wondering what happened, Terraria is a big meannie and doesn't like the fact that you can enter the dungeon before defeating Skeletron, how is the problem solved? Easy! Spawn the Dungeon Guardian! This colossal flying skull has quite the speed, 9999 Attack (ya aren't living 1 hit even with the most defensive setup), but it's main feature comes from it's durability, it has 9999 Defense like some of those bosses that were featured on the list, but the main difference comes from the HP, the ones in the video had like, I dunno, 3, 4, 30 being super generous, the Dungeon Guardian? Oh, not to much, just, ya know, 9999 HP: You literally would have to deal 9999 hits aprox (crit hits deal 2 damage to them) in order to defeat them, while they only need one gently tap on you! You could argue you could endure them with the right set up, and yes, some people with endgame gear have done so (and certain robot with a Wooden Yoyo), but if you thought this wasn't enough, be slow exiting the dungeon and it will not spawn a Dungeon Guardian, no no, it will spawn SEVERAL Dungeon Guardians, because screw you! And worst part is that this isn't unfair, since it is not a boss, it's a defense mecanism
-God from the Scribblenauts games: Yeah, it's god, what were you expecting? It really isn't all that strong that you would expect for a god, but he certainly does pack a punch! he has probably the highest defense of all creatures in the game, and it also has quite the power, so yeah, maybe not godly, but quite powerful...
-Asriel Dreemur from Undertale: The prince of the Underground, former Flowey, and the God of Hyperdeath (that's literally it's second fase name) you could say that Omega Flowey had a lot of defense, practically making it impossible to defeat without dropping his defense to 0 first, and you could also say that Sans is basically the same, but Asriel is literally invincible, he doesn't dodge the attack, he is just inmune to them, in fact, all you can do is Hope and Dream! (I see what Toby did there), He also is quite powerful, with strong and difficult to dodge attacks, there is, however, something that makes him the easiest boss in the game: You literally cannot die in this fight: if you die during this battle, it will say that "you refused to die", and you will just go back one or two turns, but you won't start over, he is also unable to kill you with his ultimate attack, leaving you with 0,00001% (which is not a thing that normally happens), but he is good boi, he even misses on purpose on his last attacks
-Touko Fukawa from the Danganrompa Series: I know this is not a boss (except in Ultra Despair Girls), and that there are no stats related to combat, or even combat at all, but this girl has managed to survive several close explosions, like, at least 3, which may not sound like much, but, try to stay near a bomb and tell me if you made it in one piece, because she did! 3 times! that's quite the feat...
-Everyone from the Animal Crossing series: They may look cute and everything, but these guys can withstand an axe swing without even flinching, heck, even the axe bounces back, those aren't normal animals, I swear...
-The big mole (can't remember the name) from Super Mario World: That cool guy can freaking walk on munchers without any sign of pain (unless he is crying inside, cause the sunglasses don't let you see his eyes), and, if I remember correctly, only the superstar can defeat it, I believe he is inmune to fireballs, cape swings and even lava?
-K. Round from Deltarune: Coming back at Toby Fox's work, here we have our target, a checker piece with DEM HOT LEGS and a puppy face on one of the sides, yeah, this guy, he may not have incredible defenses, but he can heal anything you deal to him with the power of... almond milk, like, I'm not even kidding, that's how it regens health, and no, it cannot be killed (nothing can, but you know what I mean), you can only uncrown him, which will make him revert to it's previous form and roll away, plus, his theme is catchy as heck...
The SMW enemy is called Mondo Mole, I think.
@@Edd_Harr I call him Mole Boss, I like that name
Mada Faka Noivern is your choice for a special attacker? In what scenario is that beneficial over another Pokémon? I will say, Buzzwole is probably one of my favorite Pokémon, and not just because him being a mosquito is free real estate to name him after a bunch of mosquito-born illnesses. I’ve put him to use in competition, and he was one of the first Pokémon I’ve done so with. He ain’t as bulky as I’d like. Beast Boost is cool, but he switches out frequently as a response to SP attacks. This removes the boosts. He can’t risk staying in, because he is too slow to threaten a good amount of things, but being a physically bulky monster who gets Leech Life (in the same generation that buffed the move from 20BP to 80BP, so it can actually deal damage) certainly helps. Actually, his best recovery comes in Roost, which he gets for... some reason. He pairs well with Blissey and other special walls.
The really bulky nightmare of Pokémon was probably, until THE BADNESS, Skarmory, who consistently walls everything in Gens 2-7, despite low overall stats. Even Fire Blast and Thunderbolt have a hard time really effecting him.
@@lordlouie3550 I said Noivern because I use a noivern sometimes and it's an 1 hit ko with air slash
@@lordlouie3550 Noivern isn't bad it's fast, good coverage and can hit pretty hard with an orb or specs. There are better special attackers but it's not a bad choice. I often use it on dragon teams.
Also why don't you Assault Vest? That's what I do and with leech life and drain punch it's living for a while
On the note of all Metal Slimes in general in the entire Dragon Quest series, there is one weapon that is needed for them when you get the chance... the Poison Needle. Sure they only do a measly one HP damage each hit, but if your next blow is a critical hit, it will be an instant kill. Plus, they are so accurate, they are certain to land a hit on the Metal Slimes.
And if you have characters who can't equip that needle, don't worry. For mages, there is Poof!/Bedragon. The Metal Slimes have no defense to that dragon's breath, but you have to spend a turn to charge it up once first cast.
And for sword wielders, there's the Falcon Blade. Sure it's expensive and lacking in attack power, but its ability to lash two blows for the price of one should be helpful.
Though to warn you, these options aren't in the first Dragon Quest game...
I thought the Falcon Blade was in DQ2, though only as a weapon purchased from the last shop.
@@MasterKnightDH,
You checked right. The Falcon Blade first appeared in Dragon Quest 2.
Though in later installments, there is an even better option.... the Metal Slime weapons! These rare powerful weapons can smack Metal enemies as well as they do normal enemies!
Oh, almost forgot, there is a knife equivalent to the Falcon Blade, the Falcon Knife Earrings! They have the same effect. But in Dragon Quest 4, these nice accessories can be one of Alena's best weapons, even more so than the Cobra Claw, her initial best weapon!
The magic pots from Northern Crater on FFVII are insane too!
The Metal Slimes made me remember the goddamn Super-Metal Hippo from Battle Cats. I thought the enemy was unkillable or the game bugged when i first met it. Also the other metal bosses but it's the most notable.
Here's something I do to get Metal King Slimes (or metal slimes) in DQXI:
*Must Have the Luminary, Jade, Erik and Rab pepped up; highly recommended for the Hero to have the self-pep up skill and for Jade to have Lightning Thrust*
- save near wherever King Slimes spawn
- go get one
- use Electro Light
- if it worked, proceed to pep up the Hero again
- use Dirge of Dundrasil
- try to land as many criticals as possible; I recommend to use Metal Slime weapons as well
- profit
Dragon Quest Builders(yes the minecraft knock off one) has metal slimes. They have a high speed, and can run away faster than you if they see you. But sometimes you need the rare drops from them for items. It's best to sneak up quietly and then lay down the beating. I'm pretty sure they attack you once and then flee for the hills, soon disappearing. But the one flaw in their plans? They sometimes corner themselves, and render themselves unable to despawn once you close the gap. Easy prey, if handled correctly
For the Dragon Quest Metal Slime family, their gimmick is that they only take 1 point of damage without crits, which ignore defense, Metal Slash, which allows you to deal 2 damage, Tension, which doubles the attack value of the next attack and can stack higher than one time in a few titles, or a combination of them and they have a high evasion stat, so they can avoid attacks easily on top of taking 1 or less damage, but gives insane amounts of experience compared to everything else in the game. The regular Metal Slime/Metaly has been around since the beginning with 3hp and gives 1000 exp. Liquid Metals/Metabbles have been around since 2 with 35hp in the original NES version and 5/6hp in every game since and give 10k exp. Metal Kings have been around since 4 and have a whopping 20hp and 30k exp. Finally, there's the Platinum King Jewel/PlatKing from 7 with an insane 200hp, basically requiring a crit at that point, and 65k exp. The spin-offs and MMO have even more variants.
You have played Dragon Quest 11? Would you like to do a boss analysis on one of the games bosses perhaps?
Reminds me of MA-X Angelus-0 from FFXV. That dude has the second highest vitality (defense) in the game (behind a DLC Boss) and only takes 10% damage from all attacks. This means that even if you use the most powerful weapons in the game like the Balmung (not counting the Garuda ones), it will only take around 90 damage when you are around its level (99). It has 202k HP, so if you don’t have the correct set up of buffs and magic, it takes a frikin’ hour to take it down. If that wasn’t enough, it has a 5% chance to drop the best gear in the game, Magitek Suit V2, which means that if you want to have it you’ll have to beat it 10+ times.
Edit: oh yeah it also does 9999 attack if you don’t have correct gear, too. And it has unphasable attacks.
Cactaurs would be a good counter to Final Guards.
Well Dheginsea may not be able to but alot of skills from Radiant Dawn sure as heck could. Like Eclipse, Corona, Flare, Lethality, and 'maybe' Impale. Though if skills were involved no doubt every boss would have frickin Nihil making you forget your characters even had skills to begin with.
Optimal Metal Slime harvesting guide: Luminary, Erik, Jade, Sylvando all pepped. Get into any encounter, then use Hauleluja to boost rewards. Repep the Luminary and Jade, then use Electrolight to summon the slimes. Be sure to save first, in case it fails. Erik crit claims, Jade uses lightning thrust, then Sylv uses ladies first to let her do it again.
That 3 Houses bit got me thinking. Canas hasn't been on this show yet, has he?
Haven't played 3 houses, but isn't there something like a Luna spell anymore? I mean, that thing nulled magic resistance
There is, but it's unobtainable in Cindered Shadows.
These remind me of Bug Fables' Golden Seedling. It has only 4 HP, the same as a regular Seedling, but if you spy on it, you'll find it's defense listed as "??". Turns out it reduces all damage it takes to 10% (without going below 1), and in Bug Fables, it's really hard to deal over 9 damage in a single hit. Frozen Drill can deal 13 total damage but it's a multi-hit move, so it'll just deal 1 damage 4 times, which is even better (Probably, I haven't tested it out). That can kill the Golden Seedling. However, another way to beat it is to hit it with 4 regular attacks, which is favorable since Frozen Drill wastes 8 TP (Tornado Toss is 3 and still beats it though...) so it's not favorable.
The Golden Seedling likes to run away. A lot. You can attack 3 times per turn since you have 3 characters (4 with chompy), but you can encounter this enemy at the start of the game, before you get Frozen Drill. You still have Tornado Toss, but many players won't be skilled enough to pull that off well enough to dish out enough hits. At this point, you have just Vi and Kabbu. Kabbu should use Taunt to make the Seedling attack instead of running. Unfortunately for Kabbu, he can only due this once at this point in the game, because the Golden Seedling deals 8 damage, enough to 1HKO any playable character at this point in the game (unless you rank up on regular Seedlings early on, but that will never happen).
I know that Grandia III has a Metal Slime analog called the Rare Mink. A pathetic 18 HP, but takes 0 or 1 damage from everything, moves quickly, gets turns quickly, and has high evasion. Also loves to flee, denying you the boatload of EXP from killing it.
5:57-6:00: You don’t need to max out any stats for him, just spam down B and keep looking for thwack.
*In the Japanese game dqmj3 the most powerful monster ever is the Golden Metal Goddess she have literally 2000 defense and all type of magic heal her and you can’t do any critical hit to her so you basically just pray god* plus she can heal her MP every turn and use powerful spell to inflige 400 hp to everyone. Don’t know how many exp you can get but I’m sure if you’re level 1 you would go level 99 in just one battle but it’s not possible to defeat them... in a normal DQ anyway*
Metal Slimes are a pretty common theme for DQ games. Their HP levels are low, their dodge rates are high, you can't use magic, and they love to run away. Even when on the exploration map, if one sees you, they'll run away and vanish into a wall and you'll miss your chance. They do middling damage, but that barely matters.
Though... they are susceptible to Instant Death attacks like Pressure Pointer in DQ IX and multi-hit ones. Also the Metal Slash skill for Swords in IX seems to be a guaranteed hit... provided the Metal Slime doesn't dodge it in the first place. But they provide such an obscene amount of EXP for whatever point in the game you encounter them that you really do want to try and kill them...
Quick mention of mine: in Terraria, if you try to enter the dungeon before defeating Skeletron, the Dungeon Guardian will come out of nowhere and insta-shot you, but if you have a lot of defense... you can withstand 2 attacks... yes... *2*... and it has 9999 health and receives 1 damage from everything and sometimes 2, if you defeat him you get the bone key, which summons a pet.
the metal slimes had reminded me of rare snurps from miitopia. rare snurps also had carptons of defence and exp when killed. plus, they also have very low hp. but they have a very big tendency to flee from battle
Metal slimes in Dragon Quest: *exists*
Rare Snurps in Miitopia: *Also exists*
Metal slimes: y u -bully- copy me
Snurps do have one advantage though: gloriously goofy battle music.
@@Edd_Harr *agreement*
I really like miitopia's music. Boss Battle 1 is my jam.
Metal slimes have indeed appeared in basically every Dragon Quest game thing is in some games there is a sword attack called Metal Slash that does a good amount of damage against metal slimes to balance this out though in games where it is available they make the HP higher. Also some games have metal king slime swords that always do regular damage to metal enemies
Regarding the Mosque, I know it's a campaign map building that's likely intended for one campaign and thus, can't be placed in multiplayer matches, but it *can* be placed in custom maps made in the scenario editor, so as of DE, on custom multiplayer maps with Mosques, there is a unit that does not care now. The leitis. The unique unit of the Lithuanians, it does not care about armor.
There's also the Dungeon Guardians in Terraria, who have 9999 HP, hit for 1000 damage (the most HP you can have is 600, though with the right gear you can reduce that to a 2- or even 3-hit KO)
And, on top of that, they have enough Defense to lower the damage of all your attacks down to 1 (unless you're playing with mods that have items at a high enough level of power to hit harder)
Cactuar in Monster Hunter World is something awesome
More on metal slimes, metal slimes from the dragon warrior monsters gbc games are notorious for their resistances. They have extremely high defenses and agility just like how you were describing. However, they can combine to form 2 specific monsters. Goldslime from DWM1, and 2 gold slimes into Grandslime. In those games, the way spell resistances work is that they are both innate per monster species, but you can also improve them by breeding. Goldslime's in particular were used in a process often referred to as "gilding" where you you breed your best boss (boss family) monsteres with a goldslime over and over to eventually give them immunity to all magic. Only certain monsters, even boss monsters, could ever reach this though.
Fun fact, the process of gilding and a single ability called thick fog made PvP horridly slow. Thick fog would out right block any and all magic spells for a few turns. So the only spells you could use were non-magic ones such as dances and multi-attacks. If you were facing someone and you both had max'd out stats on all 3, then the game would only have 1 goal in mind, make your opponent run out of mp before you. You, at bare minimum, would need at least 2 solid turns if all 3 of your monsters targeted a single enemy to take them out assuming everyone was at max stats. Max hp was 999, and the go-to recovery move for PvP was called meditate, which would restore 500 HP. So you think you got a good round in cause all your monsters attacked 1 enemy? That enemy uses meditate and basically negates all your damage. So PvP with gilding and thick fog turned into a waiting game for either of you to run out of mp. So metal slimes in that game were extremely powerful, far more than even their stats would suggest.
Eriks Critcal claim give the giant middle finger to metal slimes
In the same tone there is the eidolon wyrm in calamity.
this optionnal boss spawning in the abyss had aburdly high defenses: 3000 PLUS a 99.99% damage reduction, even the craziest weapons will just scratch that. (and in calamity some weapons are ridiculous ).
Also, please consider the JUVENILE eidolon wyrm had stats similar to some of the last bosses, with the eidolon wyrm having an attack highter than the final boss (also give you many debuff and is immune to a lot )
The good new : in calamity there is no dodge, so it doesn't had crazy miss chance too.
The bad new : it had 30 000 000 HP.... yeah
The tiny good news : some weapons attack really fast with a lot of projectiles, wich can create lot of debuff and sub projectiles depending on your gear ,so you can actually reach a dps who can give you HOPE to defeat it.
Btw, it had telekinesis, it will time to time pull you in the opposite direction of where you were going, so if you attempted to approach him you will be yeeted away (you'll see why you might want that ), and if you were fleeing you'll be dragged in ...probably in his face or in once of his attacks...who hurt like hell since it had the hightest damages of all vanilla calamity
Also the boss had an enormous flaw (not a good thing for you ) : like any regular ennemy/miniboss if you goes too far it might despawn, so sometime by trying to kite it he'll just be gone and you'll have to redo the whole process (i already got him despawning at like 25% hp)
So you want to stay as far as possible from him to avoir being yeeted on his face, but you better be carefull to not be too far away..because if the boss is offscreen and you loose track of his movement you might not see him dashign toward you .....or going away from you, because sometime his movement make him go way away.
Why bother defeating it?
Well there is a weapon , the hallibut canon , you can drop it against regular ennemies of the abyss, miniboss of the abyss , or against the eidolon wyrm.
Against regular ennemies it had like 0.00001% drop (not exagerating), against minibosses 0.1%, and against the eidolon wyrm 100%...so pick you poison please....also if you had the fargowitas mod installed this weapon is part of the craft reciepe for the Omega blue enchantment....
The super good new : there is ONE weapon, offten viewed a a crappy one who can greatly help you : the Coldheart Icicle
This weapon is like the copper shortsword : it only deal 1 damage, had terrible range and hitbox and on top of that is super slow...so why use it against the most durable boss? well it had one effect who is still not viewed as worth it against most bosses...it reduce the target max HP by 2%.
Oh yeah this sound like a go to ! but there is a problem...remember the boss deal massive damage? if you jump head first on the boss to TRY to land a hit, you're guaranteed to take a hit...the good news is with invulnerability frames you might as well manage to land 1 or 2 more hit.
But since you took a hit..you better be carefull to not take damage while you're waiting for your hp to go up for your next assault.....of and remmeber what i said earlier, it might yeet you away from him.
For reference with DQ metal slimes, there's a version in DQIX that has a lot of HP, and a much higher EXP payout than the Metal King Slime. I believe it is called the Platinum King Jewel. Even harder to kill (as metal slash isn't as useful), but the reward is worth it, particularly in a game where your level resets a ton.
When i saw the final guard in this video i just remembered, in the dlcs of that game in chapter 9 to 11 there are some weapons with the same name but those has +1. so the only way to get it is to go farm with a especific character depending the weapon you want because you have more chances to get the crissagrim with alucard than soma because soma has the chance to get the same weapon and the claim solais both +1 in chapter 10, so when you use those weapons the max dmg you can make with full soma dmg and the claim solais +1 is almost like 10 or 11 if you increased the dmg by just eating one especific thing,
Crissagrim +1 or better known as a valmanway +1, you probably know already how fast that weapon can be or the muramasa +1, that weapon can make like 7 or 8 dmg and there is the other way about lvl up the sub-weapons with the vampirekillers to increase their base dmg, but being honest that method is almost like spend all your day time to lvl up only 1 sub weapon so if someone still playing this like me, i recomend you to lvl up all the sub-weapons to lvl 8 because lvl 9 takes 6 hours if u don't know how to manage those throws with your sub-weapons. oh yeah and if you farm, prepare to get a lot of decepcions and a lot more in multiplayer
In DQ9, theres a cliff were it spawns most of the slimes, including the Liquid Metal Slimes, tho the underground grottos have a rare chance to spawn those Metal King Slimes.
Except the strongest of the strongest is the Platinum King Jewel, you either need to rely on a high crit low accuracy move or insta kill move to finish them before they run...
I remember a similar case of an enemy with crazy high defense in Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga
In that game, there's an enemy called Jojora who accompanies the Boss in Joke's End, a freezed palace
Jojora is just a tiny girl made of Ice, she only has 50 HP, pretty low for the game standars and for a Boss, but she has 999 Defense, the highest defense in the whole game, while the final boss only has 150 of Defense and still quite hard to kill
For your next most powerful character, I recommend *Sir Lancelot* from _Sonic and the Black Knight._ The game may be somewhat unpopular, but as a secret boss, Lancelot is SO powerful and hard to beat he easily deserves a spot next to these other candidates.
Its kind of funny that 'this git' is creeped out by blood draining as a concept, but castlevania appeares a lot of times in the channel, even in this episode (because usually the villain and sometimes the main character is some incarnation of dracula)
11:04 only the most powerful druid + the best tome of all times would do some damage, and its called Canas with Luna
I know this is a really old video, but if you have only played DQ11, I would highly reccomend going back and playing DQ8 as well. I enjoyed it quite a lot!
The Dungeon Guardian from Terraria is of this archetype, but even better, not just 9,999 defense, but just as much health (double on Expert mode, triple on Master mode, even more on the secret seed exclusive Legendary mode) and yet does the most (non enraged one-shot boss) damage in the game, 1000 (double on Expert mode, triple on Master mode, even more on secret seed exclusive Legendary mode), making it overall the strongest enemy in the game, and the thing you get for slaying it is just the Bone Key, in my opinion the best pet item in the game
I've played Dragon quest IX and VIII and, I can confirm that metal slimes do appear in both Dragon Quest IX and Dragon Quest VIII
to add more on the metal slime subject, you can recruit them in some games
-DQV (Hard to pull it out, even with some food. You can only gain the metal slime and the liquid metal slime if I remember right)
-DQ monster joker (same as before, I don't know what they can do at their max lvl)
-DQ8 as "legendary monsters", even if you can summon them for a few turns, their attack have very few utilities, except when they're together for their magical explosion, otherwise, they're not very worthy by themselves
TL:DR : while they have extreme defence, they're not the best in fighting
Strongest chars:
megaman X ultimate armor.
Calculator and Orlandu of Final Fantasy Tactics.
Final boss of Yugioh fobidden memories.
Honestly surprised I didn't see mention of Orlandu (specifically original PSX version of FFT) in any of the vids in this series. Not to say WotL nerfed him super hard (he's still pretty op), but original FFT Orlandu was absolutely broken, nvm the fact you don't have to do anything special to get him (recruitment occurs during the story)
@@gryphose1849 yes. Orlandu is easy mode in FFT
Btw I'm going to add on to these characters that have asburd defenses, low hp, but gives something very good or exp are the rare and very rare snurps from Miitopia, They have like 3 or 4 hp, Like insane defenses, and are likely to run away, however they give a crap ton of exp like metal slimes, only thing is that they don't dodge alot and demonic whispering (and Imp skill)and righteous anger can instantly kill them
I played a ton of Dragon Quest IX and the liquid metal slime is the easiest, most common, high end XP farm for level 40-60
In Harmony of Despair, there are at least two attacks I know of that break the damage cap of Final Guards. They're both Soma, the Death Scythe and Claimh Solais special attacks will do around 10-15 damage if I remember correctly.
Dracula's reincarnation surely has nice things
Just saw luca having a hard time slashing at Metal slimes, on that Dragon quest movie on Netflix, yesterday. He lucky they didn't flee...
You should also mention the metal slime's ridicoulus speed. I'm on lv 99 with everyone, and they still get 3 turns.
Dunno about all the DQ games but they're definately in 9 too. That game even had a few skills/weapons specifically for taking them down that could hit them way more reliably
This is the first one I have seen of this series, so I will ask:
Did Penance (FFX) have already appeared?
If not... Oh boy that boss is hard
if you don't cheese him that is
which there is little reason for
He said in part 1 he doesn’t allow FF superbosses. Besides most of them can be cheesed through various means
In regard to the Cactrots, I want to say that Setzer's Dice and Fixed Dice will also get around their defense. It's been a while since I played. Can't remember for sure.