That's my dumbass right there on my first playthrough. I kept wondering how I was supposed to beat the bosses when I kept getting merc'd by those assholes.
Fun story. I obliterated Pinwheel and stood around laughing. Then, his clones didn't de-spawn and roasted me alive in the middle of a taunt, meaning that my trophy picture is me being cooked to a crisp by PINWHEEL.
I killed Pinwheel as my first boss in NG+ because I needed the miracle of the Nito's covenant for the trophy, I was overconfident and then I got roasted by the clones AND the real pinwheel... I was left with 1/20 of my health bar, I almost lost with that clown
@@alex21u I can sort of relate. The first time I got to Pinwheel he came in swinging and I ALMOST died to him. I wasted a whole Estus Flask on that thing...
@@farmer12ssolicitor71 Blight town can fuck right off. It is such a bad area. It is dark, it is built like a maze, you WILL be falling down random platforms constantly, enemies take perverse pleasure of either ganking up at the bottom of a 10m long ladder or just loitering on one so that you can't use it reliably, random vampires are jumping at you, ignoring your blocks, you can't dodge because narrow platforms, your camera gets stuck in the ceiling half the time, and when you finally get past all that bullshit, you are greeted by random flame vomiting spiders, mosquitoes that are rather hard to swat and a ground that poisons you. Oh, and then you have the blowdart snipers that are acting like little shits and keep spewing bullshit at you that can kill you pretty fast...
@@floppydisksareop the blowdarts are in my nightmares. I couldnt see them cause my TV is just too dark and i didnt know about the moss item to cure toxic status, so I had to go back to buy it. Then i had to go back AGAIN to take the iron ring so i could walk on the swamps. Took me a while to finish this part, but in a 2nd gameplay ill come prepared.
@@floppydisksareop Fun fact, I had the same description from veteran friends, and after my first playthrough, I must say that to my huge surprise, instead of hating Blighttown, I kind of liked it. It's fun to explore because it is a maze, fights are fun because you've the knowledge that these little blowers will poison you harder than ever in like 2 hits, so you must be multitasking melee & distance fights at the same time. If the first way down was quite challenging, I think the whole area is a breeze compared to the Tomb of Giants. Seriously. Pitch black darkness ? Only 3 things that can light up your way ? One of which requires either 30 items that you'd rather keep for yourself OR going through other bosses to unlock it's access, the other one is the solution if you 'run and know where to go" and the last one is about damn Magic that I never used. The ennemies also have snipers, and if they don't have that nasty poison, don't worry they're using large bows that will push you off cliffs if it is not for the giant doggos. Blight town is a tutorial compared to that situation. But again, I'm quite biased by the fact that I did at least 3 full boss runs now and I know what to do and where to go to effectively go through most places fast.
I just remember a rule in the BloodSouls series: if they’re huge dodge into them, and if they are small or human dodge to the right or left. Works every time.
Try going to the catacombs before sen fortress. I feel like that where it should of been for it difficultly. Also you get 20 flask which makes O+S a lot easier.
Jay S. i tried fighting pinwheel with a low damage weapon and i guarantee he‘s hard when you don‘t kill him fadt. he created like 20+ clones that swarmed the entire arena with magic attacks
Pinwheel is a failed attempt to bring his family back which left him mixed with others and also you can find him surrounding with piles of book which suggest that he studied pyromancy to bring them back.
I got stuck on the Ornstein and Smough fight for almost a week, I spent all my time grinding levels and upgrading my weapon, I went on that nightmare run to get the last ember from new londo ruins just so I could get my weapon over +10, and when I finally beat that fight I was screaming bloody murder throughout my whole house I was so excited
Just a bit late, but you can get that ember without killing a single boss after the asylum demon. The easiest way to do it is picking the class with the bow, going to the undead merchant to buy some arrows, and sniping the NPC with the key from the stairs before the building he's on, which teleports said key into your inventory. (You can also just run up there normally and fight him regularly, but that's a lot harder.) Getting the ember after is just a case of using the key, draining the water and dropping at an opportune spot to not get killed by the dickwraiths (that just so happen to drop titanite chunks and slabs) for it. Which means that the lowest boss count you can have a +15 weapon at is 2.
I did the same strategy, grinding levels and upgrading my claymore, almost a week and , when I killed those guys, it was the most satisfying thing that I did in my video game history. By the way, I was about to quit the game! 😂, I felt so frustrating not to be able to beat them.
@@luisalvan970 I had quit the game over a year ago and picked it up again, remembering why I quit: goddamn Smough & Ornstein. After 3 days of grinding, upgrading my armor, upgrading my claymore and getting a magic weapon spell to do more damage, I beat these two fools and I have never felt more satisfaction during a video game :) Now in NG+
It’s very interesting how the difficulty of a boss is mostly determined by the player’s style of play. For example, I beat Ornstein and Smough on my second try and had no trouble with the Capra Demon, but those frigging Anor Londo silver knight archers were hell for me.
@@DualBackdropWould have beaten gaping dragon first try without issues, if he didn’t swipe me through the floor on every of my first 4 attempts… and for some reason the tail attack even did that when he lost his tail. 5th try he didn’t clip me and he got grounded as a reward. No didn’t got close to the pit in his arena, was right next to the entrance each time.
You see, you got badass looking bosses with cool names, such as Great grey wolf Sif, Taurus demon, Gaping dragon, Artorias, Ornstein and Smough... Then you got *PINWHEEL*
I'm probably one of the few people that genuinely love the gaping dragon. I was just amazed by its design the first time I played dark souls and that's stuck with me ever since
I love it because it was the first "HUGE" enemy for me, i went from undead parish and killing gargoyles straight to the depths and going after him. I summoned solaire and together we couldn't kill him and then died then after 2 more tries i got him and felt so good. I killed it alone while i couldn't do it with solaire before. That felt AWESOME, slaying a big scary monster like that, just wow.
Why write something that is objectively wrong? It has nothing to do with health. If anything, say it's eating flowers to restore mana so it can keep using magic.
The ammount of times i have died to gravity is but less then 0.5% of the time ive died to literally any other thing, if you die from falls often, then you dont know how positioning works both in real life and in game
@@bifusmorgus9000 yeah, all you have to do is run past both of the 2 giant crystal monsters, and fall down into the orange message and go forwards while keeping a little bit to the left, if you try blocking the attacks in the middle of the bridge you fall down, in this case it would be a wise idea to get the crystal monster to follow you into the invisible bridge down below and he falls down into the void which he did, maybe fell down 2 or 3 times there trying to block his attacks until i realized that ican just walk past him
@@ernestochang1744 If i talked about it then maybe, just maybe i know what that area has in store, and don't you fucking tell me that you didn't fall off those invisible bridge shits while going towards seath's boss room, or that you didn't fall off the slippery bridge with the gold crystal thing
Sugondese nuts but you can beat it in dark souls 3 as the game basically goes fuck you and makes falls do no damage for all of the dreg heap and the midir fight
“Why suffer the horrors of the catacombs early in your play through” *Also me not realizing catacombs was meant for a later time and suffering for hours*
you absolutely have no way to know you dont have to go there yet. I went there because I forgot I still have other areas to go and I thought it was time to go that route, needless to say i died to pinwheel once cause i was doing little damage and his millions of clones are all charging up ready to shoot me, and yes I SUFFERED tomb of giants after that too. I did found out about the skull lantern but im enough of a dumbass to not know that you have to equip it on the shield hand and i thought it just doesnt light up, my god the horror when i found out nito was still closed and i had to run all the way back
@@Elvenlijk no, I can kill the skeletons. how do I know that im underleveled, in fucking dark souls, where any enemy can easily kill you whatever level you are. its not obvious, its not, its pretty fucking vague
Have you tried the mask of the child? Takes Up your stamina quite a lot. You block the melee attacks and attack after. You Dodge when he goes on his back paws. You Dodge away when he files. You Dodge to one side when he throws fire. Thats all there is, the problem for me was the stamina...
@@nestorlasala8118 Yeah that was the issue for me too, half of the time was spent trying to get the obsidian great-sword. I’m also notoriously bad at video games and it’s taken me beating all the souls games to finally get good lmao. Thank you though I appreciate it 🙏🙏.
@@zettonhz He was definetly difficult but I got him in under ten tries, I believe kalameet took me 56 tries. Just me remembering that shows me this boss lives rent free in my head lmao.
The first time I played Dark Souls it took me a whole night to defeat Ornstein and Smough. In the morning, when I finally defeated them I was shaking with pure joy, it is one of the best experiences in videogames I've ever had.
I just started playing this game for the first time after playing mostly just Minecraft and Zelda. It's insanely challenging, but rewarding at the same time. I haven't felt this invested in a game in ages.
And one suffers the perils of the catacombs early for souls. Sweet sweet souls. There are some great items down there and the rite of kindling is fuckin sweet, but once you get rid of the necromancers you have a shit ton of skeletons to kill and they'll net you a few hundred apeice. The exploding heads can be used to your advantage, and you can find Vamos for fire weapons.
I got to Pinwheel and handed the controller to a friend who at the time had only played Animal Crossing and Minecraft on peaceful. She beat Pinwheel on her third try.
Me too. I think i was really over leveled through the whole game. And i played the dlc only before killing gwyn so i managed to beat all the bosses in the dlc first try without too much of an issue.
@@juppman8666 i should've made the same thing, i didn't knew that when you kill gwyn the game restarts, so i had to kill the DLC bosses on a ng+. Killed them all today, but it took me a lot of humanities to summon Sif. 😭
Taurus Demon may be an easy boss, but it's definitely a huge challenge for anyone who isn't used to the gameplay. I died to him a handful of times before things "clicked" and I figured out how to dodge and block his attacks. He definitely has one of the highest learning curves for beginners.
@Andrei Sokholov I just booked it all the way back to the fog door in an attempt to get more ground not knowing that was the secret way to effectively one shot him.
@@waynecalhoun2802 not sure about sif but thats an easy fight anyway. As for ceaseless discharge I'm not sure how much of that is an actual bug. It seemed rather intentional.
@@masterofchaoticgames It's intentional. He "leaps" off the ground to grab onto the ledge one handed so he can get hits in. When you hurt his hand enough, he falls into the bottomless pit beneath him. They added animations for it. I wish I'd known it my first playthrough, although baiting him into the rock passage was pretty easy too.
I had this problem as well the last time I faced them. The black knight sword is a lovely weapon, but it doesn't have the longest reach. I had to literally be touching each king to do damage.
Also I hated how arena was limited despite looking infinite. I beat four kings in my second try and died first time because I didn't realise that my character wasn't moving backwards because he was at the end of the arena. I get that abyss is supposed to be all black and stuff but putting it together with a pure dps battle boss fight was a poor choice. Manus was in abyss as well but its arena was still great.
Fun fact you probably didn't know about the moonlight butterfly when it comes down to rest it actually heals while rest even though it's microscopic it's still happening
60 fps problems EDIT: just clarifying dark souls: prepare to die was built to run on 30-40 fps and its legitimately less likely to do a successful plunge attack on 60 or above fps because programmers not dealing with frame times properly
The No think only unga bunga see possible boss smack it monster And I have no sex only dex, before you think this is self descriptive, I’m not proud of it but I won’t lie to you, filthy dex user here
Fought the Capra demon the other day, I was having trouble so I summoned a sunbro who was sat outside the fog gate. We walked in and the sunbro two shotted the Capra demon as I watched in horror.
@@NoOne-ju8fi at least by the time i got halfway through i had enough faith. Before that i used an actually good weapon to get the skeletons down to low health then i finished them with the straight sword.
Artorias was extremely difficult my first playthrough. Then I discovered Avelyn + 15 and heavy bolts. That crossbow combined with a greatshield makes the fight almost laughable. Block until he does his flying attack, shoot once after he lands. When he does his taunt yell, shoot once. When he charges, shoot twice and it stops the power up.
+callum cook well, i think all phantoms you summon are pretty overpowered (except mildred, which i summoned for quelaag, but the mildred stuck in the fog wall and was killed while neither i nor her could inflict damage to quelaag, therefore she was extremely useless, but that was cause by a bug)
+callum cook yeah she actually makes the fight waaay more difficult because she speeds up the king spawn speed. With witch beatrice a dex build might find themselves fighting 3-4 kings at once
I played ds1 last and fuckin kalameet made me cry. I kill all the bosses 1 or 2 try but that damn dragon... I wanted the tail first and try to get it after 10th try, I just want to kill it and took 10 more try... I hate that dragon
I'm playing through for my first time, I beat most of them but the 3 in the depths I ignored. Also, in Anor Londo, I walked into that tiny ass room and saw that demon and ran. I've never gone back. Those guys don't mess around!
I love how different every person's experience is with these games. Personally I killed the Capra Demon in one try but spent an hour on the moonlight butterfly
Similar to me, moonlight butterfly was hard too. Also, gaping dragon I found impossible (still not beaten) yet I beat the gargoyles quick and easy first try
Yes, I found Capra not too difficult once I knew the trick (get onto the ledge at the back and use plunge attacks; obviously take out the dogs first). But the gargoyles I could never manage without summoning both Solaire and Lautrec. O&S were easier than the gargoyles.
The ranking much depends on the build, which you're using. Greatshield + one-handed heavy sword (like grt. dragonsword or zweihander) makes top 5 bosses trivial but causes problems with some of the low 15 bosses from this video.
Yeah Artorias and Manus are cakewalks but Gaping dragon and Moonlight Butterfly are really hard with tanky melee fighters. Unless you use the NPC summons anyways
Honestly, Artorias can be killed with somewhat less difficulty as long as you have a high stability shield. The thing that puts the nail in the coffin is being able to do enough dps to interrupt his buff spell. I used 3 swings of Black Knight Greatsword. I also usually fight without armor because I plan to never get hit behind my shield. That way I keep fast roll for the hard to block jump attack, and your stamina regenerates faster.
Honestly after Ornstein and Smough, every single boss got cheesed by me thanks to my Black Knight Greatsword. I legit want to start another playthrough just to fight them with a weaker weapon, I eviscerated everything in my way with it.
I love hearing people's different experiences in all these fights. I personally completely disagree with the take on the Capra demon. The 3 enemies are easy on their own. The difficulty is specifically the combination of them AND the boss arena. It forces you to adapt and because I quickly adapted to killing to dogs first and the focusing on the demon on the ground it made it super rewarding when I got it on the first try. It was exhilarating to me and that moment will stay with me for a very long time.
i agree. i personally disagree with the centipede demon take, if you can get the orange charred ring before the fight is so deceptively easy cause you’re not forced onto that little island by the fog wall.
Yeah but who cares. Smough should without a doubt be killed first. What are you amateurs? The fight is twice as hard that way. Plus it's worth it to get Ornstein's armor, lightweight armor that is still really durable. It is my favorite armor in the game!
For me, the most titling part was cutting of Seath's tail to get the Moonlight Greatsword. It took me forever to get to his tail with him being able to turn rather quick and the tip of his tail being isnide the wall most of the time. But yes, besides that, the fight itself was rather easy (even though he was quite a bullet sponge for me with an INT build)
I definitely had the hardest time with Ornstien and Smough. I didn’t grind out anything but attempts. I also chose to go through the Ornstien route because I wanted the ring. It felt good when I realized I was going to win halfway through the fight. :)
@@6amamisery769 I think I was 40’s? It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact number. Abuse the hell out of the pillars. Ornstien can’t dash directly through them, though he can glitch around it sometimes. It’s also helpful when he’s big. He’s not an easy fight. I’m super good at Boss battles. It took me exactly 20 tries for Sans. Ornstien took me longer than that, about 35 or so? But to be fair sometimes I’d get killed instantly because he’d dash into me as I walked through the fog I also didn’t bother with parries, just dodging Ornstiens attacks. You need to recognize what’s an instakill attack and what’s not. I used mostly light armor to get the second best roll type.
I actually did that unknowingly, i thought that maybe, MAYBE i can escape after taking that loot. And then suddenly the boss died. I don't know what the hell happened so I actually had to google it to see what happened to the boss
@@bintangsatrya3960 yeah he jumps off the lavafall (lava waterfall) to hit you and then hangs on by his one arm You hit his arm and he loses his grip and falls to his death
Funny how the difficulty can vary from player to player, even from similar playstyles. I struggled very hard on some of the bosses he seemed to shrug off easily, but I seem to be better at handling bosses like Artorias and Ornstein, and I also opted for the Dark Wood Grain Ring/Queelag Furysword combo.
The butterfly stops to sit on the ledge and eat the flowers. If you dont damage her, she heals up during this. The explosion is probably her releasing some energy to get you away. Shes probably just like defending someone breaking into her home. I mean, you'd do the same if someone with a shield, sword, and bow entered your home 🤷♂️
Haha same happened to me. I'm glad he did because he was kicking my ass, because I was very much still learning the game and didn't think to bait him to the tower and climb ladder and do drop attack on him.
Lol it happened to me but a bit different. I was facing him and he had that big hole in the bridge behind him, I struck him with an R2 of my uchigatana and threw him off the bridge. One of the most hilarious things that happened to me
Killed Ornstein and Smough in 3 trys in my first run without any kind of grinding. But i've struggled A LOT on killing Nito. Wasn't a lot of trys, i think it was 7. But i've never got so stressed on a boss in any game. I think people get diferent kinds of dificults cause of their playstyles. My cousin was discredited cause i've said that i thought that ornstein and smough were kind of easy, but he killed Nito way easily than me.
True . Like my playstyle is str build with often going 2hand weapons , which is great vs bosses as ur defense is dodging usually but big groups of enemies like in blighttown or catacombs are impossible to beat without shield , so i learned to change my equipments a lot depending on enemies
Actually regarding the moonlight butterfly is that whenever it lands on the bridge it actually feeds off of the plants there and recovers a bit of health
I find it interesting that some of the bosses I struggled with a lot my first couple of playthroughs were really low on this list. Meanwhile the Capra Demon, which I've never struggled with or died to, is pretty high. I guess everyone has trouble with different boss styles lol
Yeah the Capra is hella ez but the dogs and small room killed me so many times. It took me 11 tries for him and only 7 for manus. Arena is a big part. You had so much room for manus
@@smallfry2784 I found that using a shield to block his swings, and slightly stepping to the right to dodge his jump does wonders. The +3 Zweihander I had might've carried it as well.
Yeah I Just roll through is attack when I enter the room the go up the stairs and kill the dogs, then i plunge attack Capra and then just fight home normally
Gwyn Lord Of The HueBr I was thinking about ricard's rapier(the highest damage output but drains stamina REALLY quickly... perfect against bosses, not used in pvp bacause all attacks are easy to parry and the strongest one is a combo with like 1,5 second of "charging").
For me, I find Artorias the hardest and the best boss in the game. I struggled with him the most, unlike Manus and Kalameet where I beat them both on my first try alone. Even with summons, Artorias was still difficult to master. I died nearly 20 times before I beat him. Not only that, but his lore is pretty awesome.
I always find it interesting reading how bosses were for others. Interestingly for me, Artorias was the easiest of the dlc bosses. Don't get me wrong he still kicked my ass, but I got the hang of him and beat him far quicker then I beat Manus or Kalameet Artorias is still my favorite of the 3 though in terms of design and lore in general
I'm still trying to beat this game for the first time. Even so, Dark Souls is my choice for greatest game of all time. Everything is amazing. The character designs, the environment, how the world is connected as you progress through the game, how you can look into the distance and see sens Fortress or the walls that surround Anor Londo. I literally stood on the burnt bridge in upper undead burg just to watch the Drake fly behind the mountains. I stood next to Solaire and looked at the sun with him. I opened the doors in the Undead Asylum and looked up to see the Asylum Demon waiting to drop down. The difficulty of the Painted World. How I used to die over and over to Capra demon. How weirdly sexy the chaos witch is with her nakedness. How I raged at ornstein and the fat man Smough. How I finally beat Knight Lautrec and his bullshit cronies. How I get invaded at the most unfortunate times. The OP Stray Demon fight where I dropped down the hole and he immediately kills me with his AoE blast. Sif.... Fighting Havel in the tower. Getting killed by those spinning wheel skeletons in the catacombs. Watching others play on RUclips. I love this game.
Asylum Demon, pfft. The real tutorial boss was Taurus. Seriously, think about it. Asylum showed you what the *bosses* of Dark Souls were like. They're big, they telegraph moves, they have a pattern. Cool. But Taurus showed you what *everything else* was like: struggling for good footing, finding a safe position, learning the moveset, navigating harsh terrain, finding their weaknesses, and avoiding the certain-death situation with that gap in the bridge. You know the one. Every tough fight in the game had an element you could trace back to the Taurus Demon.
The way you described the Taurus demon describes exactly what I felt with the Gaping Dragon at first. The Taurus Demon doesn't actually teach you any of that, just go below him and slaughter his lower half, he's no different from Asylum Demon.
The hardest boss for me was Sif, partially because of the feels, and partially because i went there early in the game and thought it was a mandatory boss to progress
Another Tip for Nito: if you dont move towards him at the start of the fight and wait for Nito to come to you, you agro far fewer Spooki Bois and then the fight becomes trivial.
Quick tip for Centipede Demon: never lock on. When he gets up close to you, the camera will completely fuck you over and you will not be able to see anything.
Never locking on is actually very good advice for all enemies in Dark Souls. It should only be used when it's absolutely necessary because it usually does more harm than good.
Recently, I played dark souls for the first time. I just finished the game today, and I made everything that you can do to make the game as hard as possible, without knowing: 1. Picked thief (I thought they were actually strong since they had a lot of dex at the start). 2. Killed NPC (accidentally hit the one in firelink shrine, and since nothing bad happened atm, I continued with the others) 3. Used fire soul keeper (I don't remember why I did this the first two times, but I did). 4. Picked a useless item as a gift And as a firs time player that struggled as much as possible, this would be my top from easiest to hardest: 1. Pinwheel. 2. Asylum demon. 3. Demon firesage. 4. Stray demon. 5. Centipede demon. 6.Seath the scaleless. 7. Four kings 8.Gravelord nito. 9. Iron golem 10. Priscila 11. Dark sun gwyndolin 12. Ceaseless discharge. 13. moonlight butterfly 14. Gaping dragon. 15. Sif 16. Queelag 17. Bed 18. Gwyn. 19. Sanctuary guardian. 20. Kalameet 21. Artorias. 22. Capra. 23. Manus. 24. Bell gargoyles 25. Ornstein and smough. I'm not listing Taurus demon since I did not kill him, he just fell before I could've hit him, and after playing NG he fell again lmao what's happening.
Manus still took me way longer to beat than Orphan. It took me on and off a week to beat Manus, whereas I took down Orphan in a day. Then again, every boss is different to each person
@@nobodyofimportance3922 bro it took me 7 tries for manus 😭. Like an hour. But on and off a week? God damn bro 😂. Although in my first souls game it took me 4 days to beat pontiff Sullivan so to each their own 😂
It took my two or three tries for Manus and I took down Khalameet on my first. The only boss which took me longer was Artorias, and he was a great boss design-wise, I was ridiculously overlevelled, though and it was the 3rd Souls game I played and beat.
I think it's such a dumb idea that it's impossible to ever meet Kaathe if you place the lordvessel with Frampt. Unless you completely disregard the main progression of the story, a huge chunk of the game's lore and an entire covenant is PERMANENTLY blocked off from you. It doesn't make sense in-universe, either. Why does Kaathe care if you place the lordvessel with him or Frampt? It makes no difference towards his plan. It's not as though placing it for Frampt indicates an unwillingness for the chosen undead to work with him, either, since they would have no way of knowing that Kaathe even existed. It's just bad writing and game design imo. NPC storylines in Dark Souls (especially in 3) are full of this sort of thing, where if you miss a tiny detail or progress too far without doing some minor thing you'll get locked out of entire questlines. It's completely asinine.
Person who made this: "Theres nothing cool about the Taurus demon" *Me* looking at how it's a character straight from The berserk manga. And fanboying over it
![Ranking the Demon's Souls Bosses from Easiest to Hardest [#1-23]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nPgVtIaHXZM/mqdefault.jpg)
Hardest boss in dark souls: greediness with hits
Honorable mention: gravity
@@theDeModcracy you replied after 4 years
@@madhav77777 he needed time to think about his response
@Master Yoda More like it took it him that long to stop nodding in agreement!
@@theDeModcracy Honorable Mention 2: clipping through floors
Even after years of playing, i always die more from being too confident on normal enemies lol
"Oh yeah, I'm just gonna run there and kill those torch holders standing there. What could go wrong?" - torch holders rush and swing and i'm dead.
Lol, relatable
@@vajka28 true they can kill you in a second
Yeah i can relate
@@gabox17da88 boss, you know they are tough so you take your time
with mob, sometime you just get cocky and get fucked
Hardest boss in dark souls: trying to stay alive after the blow dart snipers inflict you with toxic in blight town
Hi
YES
God how i hate this town
Just use a blooming moss clump forehead unprepared slorg
It's not the toxic that kills you.. It's the panic that the toxic causes kills you, most of the times
Hardest boss in the game: going on blind and trying to fight the skeletons early on.
That's my dumbass right there on my first playthrough. I kept wondering how I was supposed to beat the bosses when I kept getting merc'd by those assholes.
I think so hardest Manus, The father of Abism
The exact same thing happened to me, and it played a part in me only completing the game for the first time last year.
THEY KEPT REVIVING :(
Had to restart my first playthrough because I rested at giants tomb checkpoint(without lord vessel).... fucking evil
Fun story. I obliterated Pinwheel and stood around laughing. Then, his clones didn't de-spawn and roasted me alive in the middle of a taunt, meaning that my trophy picture is me being cooked to a crisp by PINWHEEL.
I killed Pinwheel as my first boss in NG+ because I needed the miracle of the Nito's covenant for the trophy, I was overconfident and then I got roasted by the clones AND the real pinwheel... I was left with 1/20 of my health bar, I almost lost with that clown
@@alex21u I can sort of relate. The first time I got to Pinwheel he came in swinging and I ALMOST died to him. I wasted a whole Estus Flask on that thing...
Congratulations you played yourself
1st kill he ever got
Just have heavy armour and heal through his attacks he doesn't do enough damage to stop you if your far in the game
the hardest boss is not knowing where the f*ck to go
Blight town be like
@@farmer12ssolicitor71 Blight town can fuck right off. It is such a bad area. It is dark, it is built like a maze, you WILL be falling down random platforms constantly, enemies take perverse pleasure of either ganking up at the bottom of a 10m long ladder or just loitering on one so that you can't use it reliably, random vampires are jumping at you, ignoring your blocks, you can't dodge because narrow platforms, your camera gets stuck in the ceiling half the time, and when you finally get past all that bullshit, you are greeted by random flame vomiting spiders, mosquitoes that are rather hard to swat and a ground that poisons you. Oh, and then you have the blowdart snipers that are acting like little shits and keep spewing bullshit at you that can kill you pretty fast...
@@floppydisksareop I finished this shitty area....never coming there again :D
@@floppydisksareop the blowdarts are in my nightmares. I couldnt see them cause my TV is just too dark and i didnt know about the moss item to cure toxic status, so I had to go back to buy it. Then i had to go back AGAIN to take the iron ring so i could walk on the swamps. Took me a while to finish this part, but in a 2nd gameplay ill come prepared.
@@floppydisksareop Fun fact, I had the same description from veteran friends, and after my first playthrough, I must say that to my huge surprise, instead of hating Blighttown, I kind of liked it. It's fun to explore because it is a maze, fights are fun because you've the knowledge that these little blowers will poison you harder than ever in like 2 hits, so you must be multitasking melee & distance fights at the same time. If the first way down was quite challenging, I think the whole area is a breeze compared to the Tomb of Giants. Seriously. Pitch black darkness ? Only 3 things that can light up your way ? One of which requires either 30 items that you'd rather keep for yourself OR going through other bosses to unlock it's access, the other one is the solution if you 'run and know where to go" and the last one is about damn Magic that I never used. The ennemies also have snipers, and if they don't have that nasty poison, don't worry they're using large bows that will push you off cliffs if it is not for the giant doggos. Blight town is a tutorial compared to that situation. But again, I'm quite biased by the fact that I did at least 3 full boss runs now and I know what to do and where to go to effectively go through most places fast.
That pit full of wheel skeletons in the catacombs was much harder than the pinwheel himself
indeed 💀💀
The worst.
trueee
Fuck those wheels
I start with pinwheel in my first game (blind) and it was so fucking frustrating to climb up back to firelink
I just remember a rule in the BloodSouls series: if they’re huge dodge into them, and if they are small or human dodge to the right or left. Works every time.
Or get behind them
@@immorseabove6159 true
Bloodsoulsekiroring
Smough: Allow me to introduce myself
Gaping Dragon: Bait the slam then step aside.
The skeleton on the pinwheel table is the one person who died to him
pugpaladin 321 that would Be @zerolenny
That would be me (don’t tell anyone I died 2 times on him)
@@lucreciaperez8846 how?
I DONT KNOW
I almost died to Pinwheel
I have beaten Dark Souls four times. I still have no idea what Pinwheel even does.
Try going to the catacombs before sen fortress. I feel like that where it should of been for it difficultly. Also you get 20 flask which makes O+S a lot easier.
ive beaten dark souls like 11 times 7 on one and 4 on the other.
Lmao
Jay S. i tried fighting pinwheel with a low damage weapon and i guarantee he‘s hard when you don‘t kill him fadt. he created like 20+ clones that swarmed the entire arena with magic attacks
Pinwheel is a failed attempt to bring his family back which left him mixed with others and also you can find him surrounding with piles of book which suggest that he studied pyromancy to bring them back.
I got stuck on the Ornstein and Smough fight for almost a week, I spent all my time grinding levels and upgrading my weapon, I went on that nightmare run to get the last ember from new londo ruins just so I could get my weapon over +10, and when I finally beat that fight I was screaming bloody murder throughout my whole house I was so excited
Noice.
yeah me too
Just a bit late, but you can get that ember without killing a single boss after the asylum demon. The easiest way to do it is picking the class with the bow, going to the undead merchant to buy some arrows, and sniping the NPC with the key from the stairs before the building he's on, which teleports said key into your inventory. (You can also just run up there normally and fight him regularly, but that's a lot harder.) Getting the ember after is just a case of using the key, draining the water and dropping at an opportune spot to not get killed by the dickwraiths (that just so happen to drop titanite chunks and slabs) for it. Which means that the lowest boss count you can have a +15 weapon at is 2.
I did the same strategy, grinding levels and upgrading my claymore, almost a week and , when I killed those guys, it was the most satisfying thing that I did in my video game history. By the way, I was about to quit the game! 😂, I felt so frustrating not to be able to beat them.
@@luisalvan970 I had quit the game over a year ago and picked it up again, remembering why I quit: goddamn Smough & Ornstein. After 3 days of grinding, upgrading my armor, upgrading my claymore and getting a magic weapon spell to do more damage, I beat these two fools and I have never felt more satisfaction during a video game :) Now in NG+
It’s very interesting how the difficulty of a boss is mostly determined by the player’s style of play. For example, I beat Ornstein and Smough on my second try and had no trouble with the Capra Demon, but those frigging Anor Londo silver knight archers were hell for me.
fuck the archers
Poison Arrows for the win 😀
Almost the same thing here. Nearly killed them on the first try and finally killed them on the 5th.
Zweihander +10
yeah same with gaping dragon it took me 2-3 tries to defeat it but I defeated capra demon in my first try
@@DualBackdropWould have beaten gaping dragon first try without issues, if he didn’t swipe me through the floor on every of my first 4 attempts… and for some reason the tail attack even did that when he lost his tail. 5th try he didn’t clip me and he got grounded as a reward. No didn’t got close to the pit in his arena, was right next to the entrance each time.
Hardest boss is fighting Solaire in Lost Izalith. Can’t see through the tears ;(
lol noob, didn't look up guide to save Solaire :P
(EDIT: Clearly the :P wasn't obvious enough. Should I add at the end?)
Maybe he/she didn't knew he would gow crazy or he/she didn't had the 30 humanities (my case :c )
i fuck up on my second run i did the boss before cleaning those little piece of shit monsters :(
I never saved Solaire on my first runs because I wanted to collect his armor. But I always saved him in NG+.
I hate the Capra Demon.
You see, you got badass looking bosses with cool names, such as Great grey wolf Sif, Taurus demon, Gaping dragon, Artorias, Ornstein and Smough...
Then you got *PINWHEEL*
Also, Ceaseless Discharge.
Heh, in italian it's even worse
Gaping is not an intimidating adjective.
Pinwheel 'looks' pretty dope tbh
his original name was about some japanese costume whit 3 people under a cloth.
I'm probably one of the few people that genuinely love the gaping dragon. I was just amazed by its design the first time I played dark souls and that's stuck with me ever since
its tiny little head is so cute ;-)
My favorite boss, the music is fucking amazing.
Same
I love it because it was the first "HUGE" enemy for me, i went from undead parish and killing gargoyles straight to the depths and going after him. I summoned solaire and together we couldn't kill him and then died then after 2 more tries i got him and felt so good. I killed it alone while i couldn't do it with solaire before. That felt AWESOME, slaying a big scary monster like that, just wow.
I wish that boss was later in the game
When the moonlight butterfly comes down, it's actually eating glowing flowers to HEAL.
then why doesn't it heal?
Also if you're melee then it has no reason to heal at the start anyways...
@@schmoop3660 I believe it does, just a very small amount that is invisible with you hacking away at it.
@@pids11 Yeah, I recently found that out from Gamer's Weekend's armour of thorns only video
Why write something that is objectively wrong? It has nothing to do with health.
If anything, say it's eating flowers to restore mana so it can keep using magic.
The hardest enemy in Dark souls is "Gravity"
The ammount of times i have died to gravity is but less then 0.5% of the time ive died to literally any other thing, if you die from falls often, then you dont know how positioning works both in real life and in game
@@ernestochang1744 Have you ever been to the crystal cave in dark souls?
@@bifusmorgus9000 yeah, all you have to do is run past both of the 2 giant crystal monsters, and fall down into the orange message and go forwards while keeping a little bit to the left, if you try blocking the attacks in the middle of the bridge you fall down, in this case it would be a wise idea to get the crystal monster to follow you into the invisible bridge down below and he falls down into the void which he did, maybe fell down 2 or 3 times there trying to block his attacks until i realized that ican just walk past him
@@ernestochang1744 If i talked about it then maybe, just maybe i know what that area has in store, and don't you fucking tell me that you didn't fall off those invisible bridge shits while going towards seath's boss room, or that you didn't fall off the slippery bridge with the gold crystal thing
Sugondese nuts but you can beat it in dark souls 3 as the game basically goes fuck you and makes falls do no damage for all of the dreg heap and the midir fight
“Why suffer the horrors of the catacombs early in your play through” *Also me not realizing catacombs was meant for a later time and suffering for hours*
you absolutely have no way to know you dont have to go there yet. I went there because I forgot I still have other areas to go and I thought it was time to go that route, needless to say i died to pinwheel once cause i was doing little damage and his millions of clones are all charging up ready to shoot me, and yes I SUFFERED tomb of giants after that too. I did found out about the skull lantern but im enough of a dumbass to not know that you have to equip it on the shield hand and i thought it just doesnt light up, my god the horror when i found out nito was still closed and i had to run all the way back
@@kryse4806 but atleast you colect that serpent ring that give more souls per kill right?...right???
@@rafaelantoniozentenoguzman3909 i think so, that place gave me trauma, so my memory is still kinda blurry
@@kryse4806 Yes you have. The game makes it pretty obvious you are under leveled if you try to enter that area early in the game.
@@Elvenlijk no, I can kill the skeletons. how do I know that im underleveled, in fucking dark souls, where any enemy can easily kill you whatever level you are. its not obvious, its not, its pretty fucking vague
Kalameet took me a day of almost no stop anger and rage and sadness. When i got him i almost cried. Def my number one hardest
Have you tried the mask of the child? Takes Up your stamina quite a lot.
You block the melee attacks and attack after.
You Dodge when he goes on his back paws.
You Dodge away when he files.
You Dodge to one side when he throws fire. Thats all there is, the problem for me was the stamina...
harder than manus? bro i spent 3/4 hours to defeat kalameet but that wasn't enough to defeat manus lol
@@zettonhz I killed manus first try, but Kalameet was difficult.
@@nestorlasala8118 Yeah that was the issue for me too, half of the time was spent trying to get the obsidian great-sword. I’m also notoriously bad at video games and it’s taken me beating all the souls games to finally get good lmao. Thank you though I appreciate it 🙏🙏.
@@zettonhz He was definetly difficult but I got him in under ten tries, I believe kalameet took me 56 tries. Just me remembering that shows me this boss lives rent free in my head lmao.
The story behind pinwheel and ceaseless discharge is actually really interesting
The best reward in souls borne is the reward you get after killing orenstein and smough (amazing chest ahead)
The lordvessel is a close second
Amazing chest
Katana in Sekiro
I love that message.
Anyways I started blasting
The first time I played Dark Souls it took me a whole night to defeat Ornstein and Smough. In the morning, when I finally defeated them I was shaking with pure joy, it is one of the best experiences in videogames I've ever had.
Feelsgoodman
@Mateja Zagorac how did you leave anor londo?
Is it weird I beat them first try? Maybe because I already played every other Souls game.
Exactly that feeling is what you don't usually get from these type of RPGs, Dark Souls spoils you to the oblivion. :D
@@nasrin1687 if you summoned a phantom, no. Any phantom will distract 1 of them, leaving you in a 1v1, making it VERY easy.
I just started playing this game for the first time after playing mostly just Minecraft and Zelda. It's insanely challenging, but rewarding at the same time. I haven't felt this invested in a game in ages.
Howd it go
@@SolareofAstora pretty good! I ended up beating the game as a pyromancer. Still haven't beat Manus in the dlc, though...
I died more times trying to get a blue titanite in the crystal cave than the whole game.
"Why would you suffer the perils of the Catacombs at an early level?"
He has clearly not heard of our lord, Giantdad
None shall surpass THE LEGEND. THE GREATEST PVP BUILD OF ALL TIME; GIANTDAD, WRECKER OF SCRUBS AND DRINKER OF DEW
And one suffers the perils of the catacombs early for souls. Sweet sweet souls. There are some great items down there and the rite of kindling is fuckin sweet, but once you get rid of the necromancers you have a shit ton of skeletons to kill and they'll net you a few hundred apeice. The exploding heads can be used to your advantage, and you can find Vamos for fire weapons.
dont forget our lord and savior *LEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOY*
Haval mom is up there
@@zimou5849 and you can meet Patches.
I got to Pinwheel and handed the controller to a friend who at the time had only played Animal Crossing and Minecraft on peaceful. She beat Pinwheel on her third try.
Hah!
*What?*
@@anjaneyasreetrout2444 are you slow?
If she 100% Animal crossing she's on some next level shit
I first tried Manus on my first ever playthrough, but that was probably because I was crazy over-leveled by the time I got to him.
Me too. I think i was really over leveled through the whole game. And i played the dlc only before killing gwyn so i managed to beat all the bosses in the dlc first try without too much of an issue.
@@juppman8666 i should've made the same thing, i didn't knew that when you kill gwyn the game restarts, so i had to kill the DLC bosses on a ng+. Killed them all today, but it took me a lot of humanities to summon Sif. 😭
Taurus Demon may be an easy boss, but it's definitely a huge challenge for anyone who isn't used to the gameplay. I died to him a handful of times before things "clicked" and I figured out how to dodge and block his attacks. He definitely has one of the highest learning curves for beginners.
Same
I'm surprised he didnt mention the cheese against ceaseless discharge which turns it into one of the biggest jokes in dark souls.
@Andrei Sokholov I just booked it all the way back to the fog door in an attempt to get more ground not knowing that was the secret way to effectively one shot him.
They needed to patch that. Can you still cheese-kill Sif from outside the fog gate too?
@@waynecalhoun2802 not sure about sif but thats an easy fight anyway. As for ceaseless discharge I'm not sure how much of that is an actual bug. It seemed rather intentional.
@@masterofchaoticgames It's intentional. He "leaps" off the ground to grab onto the ledge one handed so he can get hits in. When you hurt his hand enough, he falls into the bottomless pit beneath him. They added animations for it. I wish I'd known it my first playthrough, although baiting him into the rock passage was pretty easy too.
@@waynecalhoun2802 it's intentional.
My problem with the four kings was depth perception. I’d always swing while I was too far away, it’s very difficult to know how close/far away you are
I had this problem as well the last time I faced them. The black knight sword is a lovely weapon, but it doesn't have the longest reach. I had to literally be touching each king to do damage.
Yeah I agree I had to run into them for a couple of seconds to make sure I was close enough then after a couple of hits they would run away
i put on smough's armor, got out my balder side sword, and poked him until he was dead. I tanked through all the damage and didn't even have to heal.
Also I hated how arena was limited despite looking infinite. I beat four kings in my second try and died first time because I didn't realise that my character wasn't moving backwards because he was at the end of the arena. I get that abyss is supposed to be all black and stuff but putting it together with a pure dps battle boss fight was a poor choice. Manus was in abyss as well but its arena was still great.
If i completed those guys on switch, first try, you have hope
"Why suffer in the catacombs at a low level?"
Um . . . 20 estus flasks is very useful when you lack skill.
Fun fact you probably didn't know about the moonlight butterfly when it comes down to rest it actually heals while rest even though it's microscopic it's still happening
That missed plunge attack holy shit
60 fps problems
EDIT: just clarifying dark souls: prepare to die was built to run on 30-40 fps and its legitimately less likely to do a successful plunge attack on 60 or above fps because programmers not dealing with frame times properly
Mass Games *blames 60fps*
*The plunging attack is one of the most reliable moves in the game*
I coughed up an organ when that happened
That was painful to witness.
Taurus demon committed suicide by jumping backwards off the bridge. I was kinda pissed cause I actually wanted to fight.
Yoooo same I just got it today and was like yes a boss fight let’s go,and I hit him twice and he did something and fell off haha
Taurus demon backhanded me off the ledge and decided to follow me down. A winner is me.
As soon as I entered he fucking yeeted his ass off the dam edge behind him like wtf I just wanted a fight ;-;
You: Give meaning to my existence!
Taurus Demon: Nope (jumps to death)
Same
Hardest boss: That one max level player that invades you when your level ten
The real question is, what kind of monster attacks Priscilla?
The No think only unga bunga see possible boss smack it monster
And I have no sex only dex, before you think this is self descriptive, I’m not proud of it but I won’t lie to you, filthy dex user here
@@yurinoworryyour goddamn right about no sex
I killed her.
To beat all the bosses
People who want her tail dagger.
Fought the Capra demon the other day, I was having trouble so I summoned a sunbro who was sat outside the fog gate. We walked in and the sunbro two shotted the Capra demon as I watched in horror.
You mean he two shotted *it* or it two shotted *him* ?
@@Red-nl4lk he says the summon 2 shot Capra
praise the sun
Probably another chad member of the Zweihander gang, or a member of the Club club
@@A-G-F- Club club lmao
“why suffer the horrors of the catacombs at a low level“
GIANTDAD
I struggled through the catacombs after the firekeeper was killed. It sucked so much.
@@thenthsonrip your sanity
@@NoOne-ju8fi i used astoras straight sword without having sufficient faith. Thing was painful to use.
@@thenthson stoooooop
@@NoOne-ju8fi at least by the time i got halfway through i had enough faith. Before that i used an actually good weapon to get the skeletons down to low health then i finished them with the straight sword.
Artorias was extremely difficult my first playthrough. Then I discovered Avelyn + 15 and heavy bolts. That crossbow combined with a greatshield makes the fight almost laughable. Block until he does his flying attack, shoot once after he lands. When he does his taunt yell, shoot once. When he charges, shoot twice and it stops the power up.
Dude just dodge all his moves and punish him it's really not that complicated
@@dovahkiin7253 ikr? avelyn... bruh ive only seen that in a crossbow only run
its probably good, but i feel like it's gonna be hard to get
FACTS. just upgrade your weapon lmao@@dovahkiin7253
"why suffer the horrors of the catacombs at such a low level"
cuz that homie gives u so many souls an u can take him out at sl1 in like 10 hits
"smough is slow and not winning any races"
Smough: *does a charging attack that makes up any distance between him and ornstein within a second*
Not to mention the hitbox on that move ughhhh
@@DiggitySlice for anyone struggling with that charge, roll into it. Weirdly enough, it misses if you roll through the hammer.
@@mguy5923 I usually just spam roll away and it works
Just roll behind any pillar
smough gets fat shamed
You were wrong about iron golem you don't fight the boss iron tarkus does
I sent him to do that I was like tarkus get him
+602263 Gameing "You can ninja flip? I flip golems over" :p
+callum cook well, i think all phantoms you summon are pretty overpowered (except mildred, which i summoned for quelaag, but the mildred stuck in the fog wall and was killed while neither i nor her could inflict damage to quelaag, therefore she was extremely useless, but that was cause by a bug)
+Etherion Also witch Beatrice for four kings is utterly useless
+callum cook yeah she actually makes the fight waaay more difficult because she speeds up the king spawn speed. With witch beatrice a dex build might find themselves fighting 3-4 kings at once
Black knight halberd just gets me through the game every time. The black knight where you get the stamina shield has never failed to drop a halberd.
lucky asf isn’t that a really low drop chance
@@en20drayt8720% without any humanity
@@sIimepoop it has to be lower than that surely
nope its 20%@@en20drayt87
"a relatively easy boss if you can avoid his hard hits"
hm yes
i think it's quite underrated boss
Which was this because this makes me think of most bosses in the game
Hardest part about Sanctuary Guardian and Kalameet is trying to cut their tail
Yes
I played ds1 last and fuckin kalameet made me cry. I kill all the bosses 1 or 2 try but that damn dragon... I wanted the tail first and try to get it after 10th try, I just want to kill it and took 10 more try... I hate that dragon
@@burakmertmergen1531 fun fact about kalameet, he's week to bleed. Upgrade the uchigatana and you'll take him down rather quickly.
Aw man thats the only darksouls game i dont use katana fml...
@@burakmertmergen1531 anything with bleed will fuck him like a pig. If you don't have anything with bleed just use the black Knight halberd.
*going trough these comments and thinking:*
Am i the only one who died to titanite demons +50 times?
I'm playing through for my first time, I beat most of them but the 3 in the depths I ignored. Also, in Anor Londo, I walked into that tiny ass room and saw that demon and ran. I've never gone back. Those guys don't mess around!
@Sha T sens fortress not the depths, my bad
The lost izalit one is a fcking asshole
I lost 42k souls to the titanite demon on the way over to the Chaos witch Izilith person I was really mad
Sen fortress have 4
I love how different every person's experience is with these games. Personally I killed the Capra Demon in one try but spent an hour on the moonlight butterfly
Similar to me, moonlight butterfly was hard too. Also, gaping dragon I found impossible (still not beaten) yet I beat the gargoyles quick and easy first try
Yes, I found Capra not too difficult once I knew the trick (get onto the ledge at the back and use plunge attacks; obviously take out the dogs first). But the gargoyles I could never manage without summoning both Solaire and Lautrec. O&S were easier than the gargoyles.
The ranking much depends on the build, which you're using. Greatshield + one-handed heavy sword (like grt. dragonsword or zweihander) makes top 5 bosses trivial but causes problems with some of the low 15 bosses from this video.
Yeah Artorias and Manus are cakewalks but Gaping dragon and Moonlight Butterfly are really hard with tanky melee fighters. Unless you use the NPC summons anyways
“Artorias is one of the hardest bosses”
*laughs in +15 Zweihander*
A Living Odyssey ikr. Lock on. Dodge. Dodge. Smack.
He still is
I didn't mess with the zweihander. Black Knight sword for the win. Also cursed greatsword of Artorius.
Honestly, Artorias can be killed with somewhat less difficulty as long as you have a high stability shield. The thing that puts the nail in the coffin is being able to do enough dps to interrupt his buff spell. I used 3 swings of Black Knight Greatsword. I also usually fight without armor because I plan to never get hit behind my shield. That way I keep fast roll for the hard to block jump attack, and your stamina regenerates faster.
his attacks are predictable after battling him once, really not that hard
if i remember correcly, Buttefly eat the grass to recover.
+Joseph Joestar Butterfly*
+Joseph Joestar Buttfly*
Yes, Indeed. He does take that break to heal, but yea no one would let him
+Joseph Joestar Still though, why does it need to recover if it hasn't even taken damage yet xD
maybe he recovers casting as well?
Honestly after Ornstein and Smough, every single boss got cheesed by me thanks to my Black Knight Greatsword. I legit want to start another playthrough just to fight them with a weaker weapon, I eviscerated everything in my way with it.
The DLC bosses still kick ass no matter what weapon you've got. Even a +5 black knight halberd and full Havel armor can't make Manus an easy fight.
I love hearing people's different experiences in all these fights. I personally completely disagree with the take on the Capra demon. The 3 enemies are easy on their own. The difficulty is specifically the combination of them AND the boss arena. It forces you to adapt and because I quickly adapted to killing to dogs first and the focusing on the demon on the ground it made it super rewarding when I got it on the first try. It was exhilarating to me and that moment will stay with me for a very long time.
i agree. i personally disagree with the centipede demon take, if you can get the orange charred ring before the fight is so deceptively easy cause you’re not forced onto that little island by the fog wall.
Thank you, I think the capra demon gets way too much hate
When you " kill" Ornstein, he's still alive when Smough smashes him
Definitely an awesome boss. Solaire died shortly after. But, definitely an awesome boss. Wish i could play it again, but killing Smough first.
He is not the real Ornstein tho
Yeah but who cares. Smough should without a doubt be killed first. What are you amateurs? The fight is twice as hard that way. Plus it's worth it to get Ornstein's armor, lightweight armor that is still really durable. It is my favorite armor in the game!
@@joshuaweston7037 Artorias' Armor is my favorite.
Sad
I recently began a Deprived run and went straight to the Catacombs first.
I regrettably admit, I died to Pinwheel once
Im starting Dark Souls again and god damit so many Skeletons
Seriously I hated the catacombs goddamn respawning skellys
@@fullmetalalkami6466 yeah
Thomas Botta (Student) you’re cheeks
For me, the most titling part was cutting of Seath's tail to get the Moonlight Greatsword. It took me forever to get to his tail with him being able to turn rather quick and the tip of his tail being isnide the wall most of the time. But yes, besides that, the fight itself was rather easy (even though he was quite a bullet sponge for me with an INT build)
I definitely had the hardest time with Ornstien and Smough. I didn’t grind out anything but attempts. I also chose to go through the Ornstien route because I wanted the ring. It felt good when I realized I was going to win halfway through the fight. :)
Bro how tf do you beat him. Lmao I’m struggling like a mf. Like what level were you. I’m level 53 I think and I’m getting my ass rolled into a pack!
@@6amamisery769 I think I was 40’s? It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact number. Abuse the hell out of the pillars. Ornstien can’t dash directly through them, though he can glitch around it sometimes. It’s also helpful when he’s big. He’s not an easy fight. I’m super good at Boss battles. It took me exactly 20 tries for Sans. Ornstien took me longer than that, about 35 or so? But to be fair sometimes I’d get killed instantly because he’d dash into me as I walked through the fog
I also didn’t bother with parries, just dodging Ornstiens attacks. You need to recognize what’s an instakill attack and what’s not. I used mostly light armor to get the second best roll type.
@@6amamisery769 I fight him very easily idk why.. maybe because i grind like a crazy person so im at lv 75 atm
Use a full melee build and its a cake walk @@6amamisery769
is anyone gonna tell him there is a much larger area to fight the centipede demon to the right?
I am surprised how many people miss that...
That makes it too easy but hell it saved me first time round
There is? 😮
@@RealLilVodka yep
I feel people don't use that area because they aren't able to parkour over lava while being assaulted by a sentient ring.
13:55
*Winner of worst boss*
*TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY*
I love these kind of videos when I am craving dark souls but can’t play for one reason or another they always satisfy my craving.
If you summon beatrice to fight the butterfly it gets 10 times easier.
Does anyone love how satisfying the sound that plays when you kill a boss?? Or am I the only one
Yeah this sound is orgasmic as hell
It leaves me with an empty feeling lol. Like I would be so tense and then suddenly, everything is calm,
i love it
@@edwardgyan9749 like that boss fight in ds3 at dlc1 when phase 2 ended and suddenly phase 3 started
You must be the chosen one
Can't believe you didn't mention the fact that you can walk discharge of a cliff for a dissappointing climax
Underrated pun should have more likes.
Lithium Burns
The fight sure ain’t long ‘n’ hard
Long live the king...
I actually did that unknowingly, i thought that maybe, MAYBE i can escape after taking that loot. And then suddenly the boss died. I don't know what the hell happened so I actually had to google it to see what happened to the boss
@@bintangsatrya3960 yeah he jumps off the lavafall (lava waterfall) to hit you and then hangs on by his one arm
You hit his arm and he loses his grip and falls to his death
Funny how the difficulty can vary from player to player, even from similar playstyles. I struggled very hard on some of the bosses he seemed to shrug off easily, but I seem to be better at handling bosses like Artorias and Ornstein, and I also opted for the Dark Wood Grain Ring/Queelag Furysword combo.
The butterfly stops to sit on the ledge and eat the flowers. If you dont damage her, she heals up during this. The explosion is probably her releasing some energy to get you away. Shes probably just like defending someone breaking into her home. I mean, you'd do the same if someone with a shield, sword, and bow entered your home 🤷♂️
Taurus Demon committed suicide when I played him. just jumped off the bridge. I was like, "k".
Yeah, he's special. When I tried fighting him, he immediately threw me off the bridge but then he jumped to save me, so sweet of him.
Haha same happened to me. I'm glad he did because he was kicking my ass, because I was very much still learning the game and didn't think to bait him to the tower and climb ladder and do drop attack on him.
I just walked towards him and he backed up and fell
Lol it happened to me but a bit different. I was facing him and he had that big hole in the bridge behind him, I struck him with an R2 of my uchigatana and threw him off the bridge. One of the most hilarious things that happened to me
I had a Crystal Homing Soulmass on when I jumped into Pinwheel's arena.
He died *immediately.*
I did the same I was originally gana do my wambo combo with my Cristal soul spear
Fighting pinwheel is like fighting a dead bee
The Asylum Demon was difficult for me. Granted, I am just out of the tutorial dungeon and I can’t get past what comes after with the skeletons
Killed Ornstein and Smough in 3 trys in my first run without any kind of grinding. But i've struggled A LOT on killing Nito. Wasn't a lot of trys, i think it was 7. But i've never got so stressed on a boss in any game. I think people get diferent kinds of dificults cause of their playstyles. My cousin was discredited cause i've said that i thought that ornstein and smough were kind of easy, but he killed Nito way easily than me.
True . Like my playstyle is str build with often going 2hand weapons , which is great vs bosses as ur defense is dodging usually but big groups of enemies like in blighttown or catacombs are impossible to beat without shield , so i learned to change my equipments a lot depending on enemies
How to beat Capra Demon
1.Shield
2.Profit
u forget the "???" part!
I agree
It's overhead smash basically guardbreaks you at low levels every damn time. Screw shields, just dodge
i killed capra in 20 second with nothing but a club, hes so easy that its embarrasing
Use poise so the dogs can't stun you, and roll kapras attacks. There
Actually regarding the moonlight butterfly is that whenever it lands on the bridge it actually feeds off of the plants there and recovers a bit of health
But summoning Witch Beatrice makes it into a joke of a fight
@@SobiTheRobot yeah that's why I never summon during most bossfights. Makes it a snoozefest
I bet 80% of us only died to quelaag because of that one shot tail shake attack with ZERO warning.
I almost had her beat first try until that move
@@DiggitySliceSame here
Great video but,
your armor is hideous, -24/10 Fashion Souls
-100000/10
Screw fashion if it's effective then use it fashion won't help you in a battle
davey devil I'd rather have piss poor defense than look hideous. The crimson set isn't even good.
***** Hate to break it to you but Zebra's smell like anus.
+Scrug Krux well that escalated quickly
Hardest soulsborne boss : "the camera"
yeah, im playing DS 3 and got to the nameless king and basically, fuck the camera in this game sometimes...
@@cullermann2 you think the camera go crazy with Nameless King? Wait for Midir...
No fuckin kidding
i think the camera is ok
@@sanspapyrus9564 same but ngl your the hardest boss
Democracy: You have to actually TRY to die to pinwheel!
ZeroLenny: . . . Right.
Fun Fact: The Moonlight Butterfly lands on the bridge to heal, but her healing is so slow you barely notice it.
I find it interesting that some of the bosses I struggled with a lot my first couple of playthroughs were really low on this list. Meanwhile the Capra Demon, which I've never struggled with or died to, is pretty high. I guess everyone has trouble with different boss styles lol
Yeah the Capra is hella ez but the dogs and small room killed me so many times. It took me 11 tries for him and only 7 for manus. Arena is a big part. You had so much room for manus
@@smallfry2784 I found that using a shield to block his swings, and slightly stepping to the right to dodge his jump does wonders. The +3 Zweihander I had might've carried it as well.
I've found that just simply poise tanking him while killing the dogs is the best bet
Yeah I Just roll through is attack when I enter the room the go up the stairs and kill the dogs, then i plunge attack Capra and then just fight home normally
In my first playthrough i got the master key and went to blighttown from valley of drakes, so i skipped capra demon and the whole depths
If pinwheel had a lot of health, I think he would actually be decently difficlult
Just swing around like crazy and he still dies.
Gwyn Lord Of The HueBr Works. Just wear some armor.
Gwyn Lord Of The HueBr There is still hope in red teartstone ring+certain pyromancy+A GIANT WEAPON.
Gwyn Lord Of The HueBr I was thinking about ricard's rapier(the highest damage output but drains stamina REALLY quickly... perfect against bosses, not used in pvp bacause all attacks are easy to parry and the strongest one is a combo with like 1,5 second of "charging").
if he had the most hp he would for me at least be the hardest boss
For me, I find Artorias the hardest and the best boss in the game. I struggled with him the most, unlike Manus and Kalameet where I beat them both on my first try alone. Even with summons, Artorias was still difficult to master. I died nearly 20 times before I beat him. Not only that, but his lore is pretty awesome.
Kalameet first try? Not possible.
Manus first try? lol ok
@@daniellazo3117 I know it's hard to believe, but it's the truth. Doesn't mean I didn't come close to dying multiple times.
@@daniellazo3117 I also did Manus first try, haha.
I always find it interesting reading how bosses were for others.
Interestingly for me, Artorias was the easiest of the dlc bosses.
Don't get me wrong he still kicked my ass, but I got the hang of him and beat him far quicker then I beat Manus or Kalameet
Artorias is still my favorite of the 3 though in terms of design and lore in general
I’m just happy Artorias won Best Boss, because he absolutely fucking deserves it, mechanically and lore wise.
Dark Souls: The only franchise where every single boss is famous.
The demon firesage is famous? Dang I must’ve been living under a rock
@@glctcthnkr8059 And it seems like I live inside that rock.
@@chewycritter2283 I was the rock
@@chewycritter2283 I, too, must be in that rock
@@edwardgyan9749 So it was you who ate my sandwich. I thought something was off as I didn't eat it. U can't escape me now.
0:12 Please, Don’t Remind Us Of THAT.
MᎯXIMILLIᎯNMUЅ ᎯRMᎽ I got past those guys first try. Try rolling.
I feel like I missed out on a classic souls experience with these guys because I never even got hit by them and everyone complains about it.
fukinshin same
Rolling never saved me....Those bastards are harder then every boss at the same time lol
@@frosttroll3411Because They are about pure luck , that's why it's the most annoying level design in gaming history.
I didn't even know you could beat Ceaseless Discharge so easily so I was so surprised he was considered easy
The version I fought was quite hard (I lured him far away from his base), it was one of my hardest boss.
Yeah in the ng runs he literally 1 shots you, but when you learn how to bait his attacks without getting hit… it’s a very very simple fight
On Gwendolyn you can rush him the whole time. You can strafe the cluster of soul arrows, roll straight through the large one and strafe/block the bow.
I'm still trying to beat this game for the first time. Even so, Dark Souls is my choice for greatest game of all time. Everything is amazing. The character designs, the environment, how the world is connected as you progress through the game, how you can look into the distance and see sens Fortress or the walls that surround Anor Londo.
I literally stood on the burnt bridge in upper undead burg just to watch the Drake fly behind the mountains. I stood next to Solaire and looked at the sun with him. I opened the doors in the Undead Asylum and looked up to see the Asylum Demon waiting to drop down.
The difficulty of the Painted World. How I used to die over and over to Capra demon. How weirdly sexy the chaos witch is with her nakedness. How I raged at ornstein and the fat man Smough.
How I finally beat Knight Lautrec and his bullshit cronies. How I get invaded at the most unfortunate times. The OP Stray Demon fight where I dropped down the hole and he immediately kills me with his AoE blast.
Sif.... Fighting Havel in the tower. Getting killed by those spinning wheel skeletons in the catacombs.
Watching others play on RUclips.
I love this game.
Be sure to update us when you get farther! I especially am excited to hear your opinion on later game bosses
God speed bro
status?
@@SGNJBROKENTHEATER he failed
@@sdmfbastard The man sadly became hollow
Asylum Demon, pfft. The real tutorial boss was Taurus.
Seriously, think about it. Asylum showed you what the *bosses* of Dark Souls were like. They're big, they telegraph moves, they have a pattern. Cool. But Taurus showed you what *everything else* was like: struggling for good footing, finding a safe position, learning the moveset, navigating harsh terrain, finding their weaknesses, and avoiding the certain-death situation with that gap in the bridge. You know the one. Every tough fight in the game had an element you could trace back to the Taurus Demon.
uhhh???
Joe the Coyote
Okay, *almost* every tough fight.
ok cause the tauras demon has jack about OnS
The way you described the Taurus demon describes exactly what I felt with the Gaping Dragon at first. The Taurus Demon doesn't actually teach you any of that, just go below him and slaughter his lower half, he's no different from Asylum Demon.
You're right
That comment about the Anor Londo snipers really resonated with me. Whoever put those there has a special place in hell reserved just for them.
The hardest boss for me was Sif, partially because of the feels, and partially because i went there early in the game and thought it was a mandatory boss to progress
The Taurus Demon taught me one special thing....Watching bosses jump to their own demise is hilarious.
David Paquette II Wait the Taurus demon can kill himself?
Yep. Watch LobosJR Cheese run.
Dark souls 2: Heides tower of flame:Fight dragonrider
Another Tip for Nito: if you dont move towards him at the start of the fight and wait for Nito to come to you, you agro far fewer Spooki Bois and then the fight becomes trivial.
And with a divine a weapon it's as easy as pinwheel.
@@ludeviguelemody863 And the giant skele-bros wont come, and stick to nito, I reccomend having a +10 Zweihander
Quick tip for Centipede Demon: never lock on. When he gets up close to you, the camera will completely fuck you over and you will not be able to see anything.
Never locking on is actually very good advice for all enemies in Dark Souls. It should only be used when it's absolutely necessary because it usually does more harm than good.
Recently, I played dark souls for the first time. I just finished the game today, and I made everything that you can do to make the game as hard as possible, without knowing:
1. Picked thief (I thought they were actually strong since they had a lot of dex at the start).
2. Killed NPC (accidentally hit the one in firelink shrine, and since nothing bad happened atm, I continued with the others)
3. Used fire soul keeper (I don't remember why I did this the first two times, but I did).
4. Picked a useless item as a gift
And as a firs time player that struggled as much as possible, this would be my top from easiest to hardest:
1. Pinwheel.
2. Asylum demon.
3. Demon firesage.
4. Stray demon.
5. Centipede demon.
6.Seath the scaleless.
7. Four kings
8.Gravelord nito.
9. Iron golem
10. Priscila
11. Dark sun gwyndolin
12. Ceaseless discharge.
13. moonlight butterfly
14. Gaping dragon.
15. Sif
16. Queelag
17. Bed
18. Gwyn.
19. Sanctuary guardian.
20. Kalameet
21. Artorias.
22. Capra.
23. Manus.
24. Bell gargoyles
25. Ornstein and smough.
I'm not listing Taurus demon since I did not kill him, he just fell before I could've hit him, and after playing NG he fell again lmao what's happening.
Manus: "I am the most difficult boss of all the Soulsborne games."
Orphan of Kos: "Hold my placenta!"
Hold my camera
Manus still took me way longer to beat than Orphan. It took me on and off a week to beat Manus, whereas I took down Orphan in a day. Then again, every boss is different to each person
@@nobodyofimportance3922 bro it took me 7 tries for manus 😭. Like an hour. But on and off a week? God damn bro 😂. Although in my first souls game it took me 4 days to beat pontiff Sullivan so to each their own 😂
Blue smelter demon: hold my greatsword.
It took my two or three tries for Manus and I took down Khalameet on my first.
The only boss which took me longer was Artorias, and he was a great boss design-wise,
I was ridiculously overlevelled, though and it was the 3rd Souls game I played and beat.
17:39 it's over Artorias, I have the high ground!
Artorias: you underestimate my power...
+JangoUnchained You were the CHOSEN ONE!!!
+theDeModcracy
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE ABYSS, NOT JOIN IT!
+JangoUnchained That was a great comment.
Good. Twice the pride, twice the fall.
the moonlight butterfly actually comes down to the flowers to regen health. although, it's a very small amount to make much of a difference
The worst part about the Four Kings is that if you want to speak with Kaathe, you HAVE to fight them early.
I think it's such a dumb idea that it's impossible to ever meet Kaathe if you place the lordvessel with Frampt. Unless you completely disregard the main progression of the story, a huge chunk of the game's lore and an entire covenant is PERMANENTLY blocked off from you.
It doesn't make sense in-universe, either. Why does Kaathe care if you place the lordvessel with him or Frampt? It makes no difference towards his plan. It's not as though placing it for Frampt indicates an unwillingness for the chosen undead to work with him, either, since they would have no way of knowing that Kaathe even existed.
It's just bad writing and game design imo. NPC storylines in Dark Souls (especially in 3) are full of this sort of thing, where if you miss a tiny detail or progress too far without doing some minor thing you'll get locked out of entire questlines. It's completely asinine.
Just don't talk to the other one near firelink shrine
@@ENCHANTMEN_It's called choices having an impact on the story.
Person who made this: "Theres nothing cool about the Taurus demon"
*Me* looking at how it's a character straight from The berserk manga. And fanboying over it
rip
Zod intensifies
Sif once killed me while he was limping... I have never showed mercy ever since!
Wait for dlc and rescue sif as a puppy
you monster
sif is female
@@monstergirllover2363 Then you just get the sad cutscene when you enter the fight ;-;
Because it'll make him show mercy
The first time I beat Artorias was on a mage run with absurd damage output. His healthbar melted in just 4-5 hit, yet it still took me 4 tries.
“Why suffer the horrors of the catacombs at a low level?” Bruh you know the answer. The rite of kindling.
The Gaping Dragon is a dentist’s worst nightmare.
lmao
Goat see dragon but with braces