http://strawpoll.me/7405760
>>334685458
Pic Source?
>>334685458
Ancient Dragon just for how bullshit that fight is to figure out with just about everything it does one shotting you from a mile away.
Nameless King was miles harder than anyone else I've encountered, though I haven't played DaS2's and BB's DLCs.
Bed of Chaos is one of the hardest, if only for its awful design.
>>334685458
Ludwig.
He has so many moves you need to learn.
>>334685458
Why is Gascoigne even on there?! He was so stupidly fucking easy.
I mean he was a really cool boss because of the side quest surrounding him but fuck was he easy.
Maneaters and O&S were the only bosses I ever needed to summon phantoms for.
Why the fuck is anyone voting for pinwheel. Kill yourselves.
>>334685913
Likewise if you thought any part of Demon Souls wasn't baby mode you need to play it again. Holy shit you have so much HP plus infinite regen and enemies barely do any damage. Plus you're totally invisible from 15ft away and being in soul form makes you stronger and completely silent.
>>334686078
Go fight him at the start of the game like you're supposed to.
He's not the pushover you remember when you strolled through after anor londo.
I don't know why people have such a hard time on Orphan, I didn't find him any harder than Flamelurker and he comes so late in the game you should be more than prepared for him.
Are people really that bad against aggressive bosses?
>>334686447
I always take him out before heading into Sen's fortress. Pinwheel is the most pathetic boss in the series.
>>334685991
>summoning phantoms
kek
>>334686447
>like you're supposed to.
I voted Pinwheel for the meme of it
You are not supposed to challenge him at the beginning of the game. Are you fucking stupid? There's a very specific reason why the Hollows leading the Undead Burg are infinitely easier than the skeletons leading to the Catacombs.
But even if you did, his attack patterns are such shit, I can't imagine having trouble with him unless it was your very first boss in your very first Souls game.
Somehow.
GETTING to Pinwheel in the early game would be infinitely harder than actually fighting him
>>334685567
https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2021224
>>334686757
Rushing to pinwheel is easy though.
>>334686689
I see you've never done it, start up a new game, pick any class you want to go fight pinwheel he's not as easy as you think.
>>334686757
Says the casual who's never even attempted it.
>>334686890
That doesn't keep Pinwheel from being easier
>>334686912
>you don't agree with me so that means you haven't done it
K
>>334685695
As someone who plays these games blind this fight was definately the hardest. I've been playing every game since demon souls and this is the only boss to have given me actual trouble.
>>334687058
Go ahead anon, go show us how easy it is.
>>334685458
Orphan of Kos.
Nigga was way too fast for me and the second form was even too fast for the games camera.
Haven't finished the game yet but the Dancer was balls hard. Pontiff is False King on steroids and Demon King is Smelter on cocaine
>>334685458
>Nito
>The Rotten
>Gascoigne
>no Kalameet
you should probably replace Gascoigne, Shadows of Yharnam and Maria with Pthumerian Elder, Headless Bloodletting Beast and Laurence, even if the first two are CD-only
>>334685458
Orphan of Kos = Manus > everything else
>>334687335
>doing Orphan of YEEAAAAOOO with a Boomhammer
fuck
I ended up selling all of my weapons and armor save for the hammer and the Harrowed Set just so I wouldn't have to kill my stride with farming
>>334686831
>tfw no dancer rule 34 yet
>>334687608
It's a crime
>>334687608
>while bent over she keeps moving her limbs
>all this while not stopping from sucking your dick
>>334685458
Ancient fucking dragon. FUck this fucking 1 shot buuuushit.best fight is nameless king, though
>>334687486
>drakefag
>DrAkEfAg
>DrakeFag™
>Drayekphag
I don't want to argue about if its badly designed, or if it can be cheesed, or any of that bs, but pre nerf/release ancient dragon was the boss that took me the greatest number of tries, I only killed it 3 times, 2 times with the 100% fire resist shield and 1 time with no shield or other defense.
>>334685458
I've never played BB, but I can beat most DeS and DaS bosses in usually 1-2 but no more than 3 tries and I usually just ignore anything to do with DaS II.
DaS III has kicked my ass more than any other Souls game. I'd have to say the bosses that gave me the hardest time were Champion Gundyr and Nameless King and a close third being Soul of Cinder.
I think Nameless King and Soul of Cinder weren't that frustrating though since there was nothing separating you from the fog gate. the most annoying thing about them was chipping away their first health bars so the real fight can begin. But I think Champion Gundyr may be the most frustrating for me. The game has a lot of rolling but his fight is 95% rolling for me. I never tried to parry him and that may have been to my detriment.
I also think Boreal dancer along with Champion Gundyr are going to be bosses I end up summoning for on repeat play-throughs since they're just a bit too aggravating for me to want to solo them again.
>>334687335
I beat him first try, NG+
It was probably luck, but that didn't stop me from jerking off to it.
>>334685458
>No Deflied Hotdog or Amy
Shit list, guess it's too much too expect the casuals on /v/ to have made it that far though.
>>334687608
>>334685458
Boss isn't on the list.
It's that beast man thing that punches the shit outta you in Bloodborne. Fuck that guy.
>>334685458
I forget the names but there are 2 bosses in Demons that blow Dark out the water.
The invisible boss in the DS2 dlc. That was just bullshit
Bloodborne dlc bosses
>>334688830
The only difficult boss in demons is False King Allant and the Maneaters only because the stage you fight them in is docks.
>>334688986
Dicks* fucking mobile I swear.
>>334688986
What about Flamelurker?
>Biggie and Smalls leading
but they weren't even the hardest in DaS
Manus and Artorias were both harder, especially Artorias since you had to actually learn his moveset and dodge
>>334689187
>Artorias
No. Almost everything he did was telegraphed as fuck. Kalameet is harder than him
>>334685458
You forgot Sir Alonne you fuck
>>334689340
Ah yes, forgot him too. The point is that O&S weren't even remotely hard once you learn to use the columns to hold one of them back.
>>334689413
They are harder than Artorias and Kalameet specially if you killl Smough first.
IMO
Manus > O&S > Kalameet > Artorias
>>334687156
https://youtu.be/-BoS4WY2iqg
>>334685458
>Ebrietas not there
That tentacled whore made me quite Bloodborne.
>>334689560
I got through the second phase Ornstein just by hugging his legs, mashing attack like a retard and chugging Estus when I had the chance. I didn't even block or dodge and wasn't overleveled.
>>334685458
This just confirms what I always thought. The amount of votes for DaS1 bosses and Fume Knight being 4th shows that the majority of people here never played DaS2. They are probably the same people who always bash it even though it's miles better than DaS1.
>>334689103
Only ever died against him once. He flinches when you hit him and makes it piss easy to land multiple hits.
>you didn't become the king of zombies with Yuria as your protector and zombie Anri as your bride
Why /v/?
>>334688306
Damn son.
>>334689702
Screw that shit. Why become the next damn Gwyn? I'm gonna give the firekeeper eyes and let her let the flame burn out for good.
After all of the horrors that the flame has spawned and the countless amounts of chosen undead how have been used as nothing but fodder to rekindle the nightmares, I've chosen to let a new damn flame spawn later.
The stupid hot pile of shit even resurrected those who have already given their souls and everyone elses to keep it going, and the lords of cinder themselves even decided that was a retarded idea.
Screw rekindling, screw becoming a god, I'm going to spend the long darkness feeling up my firekeeper.
I voted Orphan, but that's because you forgot to list 2cat
>>334688306
>>334689654
I'm pretty sure does a fuckhuge AOE that you need to dodge. You probably got lucky
>>334690115
as long as you only get hit by the electricity and not by his actually body falling you shouldn't die against his butt slam, unless you're doing a gimmicky run that can't take a hit
>>334688264
This. Defiled Hotdog took a fuckload of goes to beat.
Loran Camerabeast should also get an honourable mention
>Ornstein and Smough is the highest
DS1 babbies are truly the worst
>>334685458
>that pic
It starts
>>334687905
>>334687486
Kalameet's a dragon, not a drake, anon.
>>334685458
>flamelurker above maneaters
How
>>334689702
>implying
Finished DS3 a couple days ago, it was pretty great, but I have a huge issue, all the bosses are pretty easy, when I think of the hardest bosses in souls i think of the Man Eaters, O+S, Ancient Dragon or Fume Knight, not a single boss in ds3 even comes close to the level of difficulty presented by those fights, even bosses like Manus, Smelter Demon or Throne Watcher/Defender are harder than anything aside from maybe Nameless King.
Some of the bosses are pretty cool too, like the Abyss Watchers, Pontiff, or the Lothric Princes, but they just aren't that difficult, and its strange how quite a few of the bosses have mechanics soley to make they easier.
Why does every 2nd summoned Abyss Watcher also attack the other Watcher?
Why is it possible to kill the duplicate created by the Pontiff?
Why is it always the same pattern when Aldrich dissapears and reappears by a pillar?
Why does Champion Gundyr not even have a second stage?
Those are all the blatant ones to me, another issue is because every boss has 2 phases, the first phase of every boss, even the hardest ones, is a complete joke that we just have to deal with before we get to the "real" boss, the exception is the Pontiff, who I personally think has a harder first phase, because in the second phase the duplicate is so easily killed, and his moveset becomes way more delegraphed and less aggressive.
>>334690602
Regular gundyr's second phase was probably an infection and is probably why he was the first boss.
Champion gundyr is gundyr without a serious genital mutilation.
I'm basing this off of the parasites that controlled those two dragons.
>>334689560
Never had trouble with Manus, then again I was a dirty hexer at the time.
Gravelord neto gave me anxiety attacks. I'd fall into the hole, break my knees, and then get stabbed ONE SECOND after I hit the ground by a sword dick from underneath me.
Speaking of the above, does anyone have the image showing exactly what I just described? I know I've seen it recently, but I didn't save it even though I thought it was damn hilarious. I distinctly remember the guy in the comic saying "I'll just take a little sippy" and it cutting to him being impaled.
I seriously believe people are voting pinwheel trying to be funny. You can't actually find him difficult by any means. You all can't suck that much.
>no Dancer
Probably the hardest fight so far
I found Queelag the hardest because my dick becomes so hard, I just masturbate and forget about the game.
Never got past that level.
Honestly I found King Allant to be the hardest. He moves like Ornstein, he smashes as hard as Punisher, he uses Magic like a fuckstick and he did something else I forgot that was horrible.
>no executioner's chariot
>have to roll through the wheels and shoot him with a bow as he rides away
Who even designed this garbage?
>>334690947
Oh that's right he drained your fucking soul level.
>No daughter of cosmos
Shit list.
>>334691001
>not using your brain
you can close the gate so that it runs into it and then you only have to beat the horse thing which is so easy it might aswell be pinwheel 2.0
>>334690841
>>334691179
Woohoo based anon!
>>334685458
>Pinwheel third
What
>>334685458
>No Defiled Hotdog
literally what the FUCK are you doing?
>>334691001
kek
>>334691279
>His wistful movements
>His multiple copies
>His slow attacks
Come on anon, how CAN'T you think he's the hardest boss in any game ever?
>>334690438
you could cheese one of them through the fog, the other one is piss easy, only real threat is falling off
flamelurker was meh tier
Orphan of Kos... or Kosm?
>>334692086
GRANT
US
EYES
>>334685458
Where is Phalanx you dumb fuck?
>>334685839
Ludwig
Not only does he have so many moves, he's probably the most aggressive boss in all the games. His phase 2 has multiple one shot attacks.
I felt like I accomplished something when I beat previous SoulsBorne bosses, but Ludwig solo was a whole new level. After playing the BB DLC, going straight into DaS3 was a joke.
>>334690947
I mean I one shotted him blind
objectively the hardest bosses are the bullshit deep in bloodborne's chalice dungeons. But they aren't hard in a fun way, it's just fucked up hitboxes and one shots everywhere.
![2452864-thepursuer[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mfw4mta.jpg "2452864-thepursuer[1].jpg")
>>334685458
Voted for Maneaters, I remember them absolutely wrecking my shit for hours back when I played Demons Souls.
That said, has anyone ever beaten the Pursuer without the Ballistas? He seems to be balanced around a much higher soul-level than you are when you face him. You do next to no damage to him, you can't stagger him and he's pretty fast and barely leaves an opening with all his tracking.
I've never beaten him regularly, I always use the parry+ballista trick.
>>334685458
Laurence the first vicar is the hardest
>>334692652
Killing him just by dodging attacks feels much more natural to me than fucking around trying to hit him with a ballista as he's trying to carve you a new asshole. I've never actually tried it.
Seems more set up so that a summon can do it.
I feel dented when everyone tells me that they found all of Dark Souls 3 bosses to be easy. Is my definition of 'easy' just different or possibly lower from theirs?
It's like everyone expects a picturesque boss to one that you have to dodge with pinpoint accuracy, as well as fight one-on-one.
But I feel like as the game progressed, bosses got harder and harder, because not only did you have to dodge them, they started employing extra moves, as well as environmental shit.
Pontiff was the first hard as fuck boss, and I loved him because of that. Then he summons a clone which makes him even harder to beat, because now you have to manage to bosses. If you don't kill the clone quick, there will just be so many moves, with not even enough time for you to dodge them.
But people say that's a gimmick, and it makes the boss worst, and poorly designed because of it. I don't understand, how does making a boss harder make it worse, just because he clones himself later in the fight?
It's like having a gimmick is bad, because it's obvious? I mean if a bosses gimmick was never obvious wouldn't it just be trial and error in order to figure it out. Like if Wolnir's bands weren't glowing, would be say it was a better boss because of it? Like what else were you going to attack, you couldn't attack anything OTHER then the hands anyway.
As well, if you just sit there, the Deacons will surround and ass fuck you if you aren't quick about killing the carrier.
Dragonslayer Armor is hard on his own, and then he gets the pilgrim butterflies to fire lasers and firebombs at you like a call of duty killstreak.
The princes get harder because you how only have to manage the elder princes sporadic attack pattern, but also the brothers insane amount of spells.
As well, you have kill the Soul of Cinder TWICE, because you first fight different builds of the player, Melee, Dex/Pyro, Spear/Faith, Sorc, and after he dies once, you fight fucking Gywn.
>>334692652
After pouring hours upon hours into DaS2, I've come to the conclusion that the Pursuer is honestly a goddamn joke with easy to dodge moves and huge openings to counter. It's a great boss for beginners to be honest.
>>334692793
>I've never actually tried it.
You just immediately position yourself to the left, in front of the ballista, and parry his charge attack. He'll be staggered for almost 6 seconds, so you rush to the left ballista and fire once or twice. 1 hit will already get him down to 1/4th of his health, if you're lucky you'll get in a second charge and you've won in like 12 seconds
>>334688306
>those eyes
>>334692892
i found pretty much all of the bosses fun so far
especially ancient wyvern, holy hell what a good setpiece
didnt enjoy pontiff very much though, summoned an npc because i dont really enjoy getting my anus torn asunder
>>334692652
DS2 was my first Souls game, did the others afterwards. This fucker is probably one of the hardest bosses considering how early you fight him if you're not familiar with the game mechanics.
I was actually surprised how I wrecked him when he showed up again after Smelter Demon.
>O&S are winning
why?!?!?
>>334689702
probably because fucking anri never spawned and yuria keeps going on about OH WEDLOCK NO LORD IS LEFT UNMARRIED and anri has just fucking disappeared
i even murdered horace and didnt tell her why wont she love me
>>334693061
I actually agree with you on the Ancient Wyvern thing, I only fought that boss yesterday, but ya, it's just a one hit kill. Good area though. I liked the Deacons more then him.
>>334693309
i have no strong opinion towards the deacons
they just sort of happened and then anri was there
Where the fuck is Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos on this list?
cunt had me stuck for like 2 days
Where's Sinh?
>>334693519
I fucking clipped out of the map because of her. Bullshit
>no Demon Firesage option
Blew it.
Orphan of Kos. I just got to him today and he's wrecking my shit. I actually have to focus for that fight, first time I had to do that in a souls game, besides SL1 Allant. Worst part is I don't wanna play that fucking game, but now that this guy is pushing my shit in I have to go all the way
Paarl's not on that list.
I mean, I know why it isn't, but he's always the one I have the most trouble with. Every single time I fight Paarl, I just forget everything I knew about him and get bodied for 20 minutes before I finally kill him without taking a hit. It's bizaare.
This guy literally impossible
>>334694310
Just buy some throwing knives goddamn
His shit is easy to dodge anyway
>>334691178
Except there's a 100,000,000 skeletons in the way and the fucking necromancer's respawning them. By the time you duck off in an alcove you're getting gangbanged.
>>334694980
>he actually had problems with any boss in DaS2
>>334692652
>Pursuer
As my first souls game this motherfucker game me too much trouble due to low iframes
>>334695380
>he's an elitist.
A real gaymur never dies ever. Look at my big e-peen. I hope you get terminal cancer and your family dies in a house fire.
DeS=Old Monk with really bad luck otherwise False King.
DaS=I always dread the 4 kings fight.
DaS2=Fume Knight
BB=Orphan of Kos
DaS3=Pontiff was the least easy so far.
Can anybody give me some advice on dealing with Aldritch, playing as a melee only knight character.
I was having a really hard time last night to the point that I even summoned, but each summon died less than a half minute into each fight then I would panic.
>>334685458
Orphan of Kos by far. That fucker took me so many tries. Still kinda like the fight. Chalice dungeon have some really bullshit bosses too
In Dark_Souls 3 the only fight that took me a while was nameless king. Still not that bad compared to chalice dungeon bosses.
Honorable mentions to flamefucker and maneater back in demon souls days. Was my first big wall and till BB my hardest souls stuff
>>334692892
A bad gimmicky bossfight is like ceaseless discharge.
A good gimmicky bossfight is like Yhorm the Giant. (At least I liked it, but i admit the storm king did it better)
Just because a boss has a gimmick doesn't mean it's "gimmicky" and just because it's gimmicky doesn't mean it's bad.
I consider a fight to be a gimmick fight if it's built to be ridiculously hard and has some dumb gimmick that is the only reasonable way to beat them while also trivializing the fight.
>>334696375
Yhorm is a shitty gimmick boss since it relies on you having to notice the item at the throne.
>>334696375
A good gimmick fight doesnt have the gimmick be all the fight, which is why i thinkexectuiner's chariot from 2is BoC, Dragon God and Ancient Wyvern done right. You have part be a gauntlet while dodging the main big threat and the second part of the fight be a 1v1. I kinda feel the same way about Nameless since the 1st part is so easy and hardly made me waste more than 1 estus during it, its more about the variety and theatrical of the fight (you never fought a boss riding a mount in the games, let alone a flying one), the camera is kinda bad but it doesnt bother much.
>>334696674
The mentality behind it is likely something like once you realize you're doing fuckall damage you start looking around the battle arena for something that might help and that's when you'd find storm ruler.
Like that's legitimately what happened to me. Though, I knew exactly what to do when I picked it up because I had played demon's souls. Took me a little bit to realize I had to charge with L2 though
>>334685458
>people voting Nameless King over anything in DeS, DaS1, DaS2 and BB
lel, why is /v/ so bad at games?
>Kos at top now
Ayyyy
Can't believe he took me 50 tries, that's 40 tries more than pretty much any boss ever.
>>334685458
>No Lud & Zallen
You done goofed.
Despite Pinwheel being a piss easy boss, he had a GOAT theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDo_HW-uH2I
>people are seriously voting for Fume knight
>>334685458
>O&S
>Hard
It's not that I don't get it, but come on.
Ancient Dragon is a perfect Balance between "hard" and "bullshit" even if it was due to poor boss design, still averages like 20 attempts for some players. On a completely optional boss no less.
>>334696093
get a shield that's good for fire and then another for magic. Equip both for both instances.
After that just watch for his arrow attack above all else, that's not something you wanna get caught in.
>>334685695
Enjoy this webm for ants.
>>334685695
There was a ring that prevented you from being one shot if I remember correctly. Shitty fight regardless.
Manus and Centipede gotta be the worst for me. Only ever beat manus once, on NG. Shitty frame rate made things bad and I couldnt summon phantoms. Centipede was a spamming dick.
>>334694980
Get an old whip senpai. Even unupgraded, it'll do a good amount of damage and wreck the mages with bonus damage. Could also just roll under the chraiots wheel spikes. Works wonders. But definitely just haul ass to the necromancer's. Fuck them up, then fuck the skellies
>>334694310
>Wreck his shit until 50% health
>Copies pop and start casting
>fps drop from 50 to 5-10
>>334689340
Kalameet was fucking easy. He took so much time to do anything. Manus was the real bitch to kill.
>>334698474
>Kalameet was fucking easy
Yeah but if you wanted his tail it's easily the hardest fight in the game
>>334685780
It would be if damaging the hands wouldn't act as checkpoints.
It's fucking Orenstien and Smough. You forget how hard it is if it's been a long time or you summoned someone. I just did a Soul Level 1 run and they gave me the most trouble without question. No other boss in the series has been as painful. The way Smough can hit you with his hammer through Orenstien. The way Orenstien can shoot lightning through Smough. The way that both are super aggressive and can hit you through the pillars. Soloing them is so hard. You can die in 5 seconds so easily or grind it out for ten minutes and then die at the end in one hit right before you kill them.
>>334701605
the pillars bro.. keep your distance
you wouldn't want a friend to be that close to you
so just keep a tiny distance
>playing meme games
I haven't played BB yet or got too far in DS3 but I found Four Kings the hardest out of all games so far. It's not even on the poll so maybe I'm bad.
>>334687608
>>334687701
