Top 10 Hardest Soulsborne Bosses (Including Elden Ring)

Millennia's light work all you need is a mimic a fingerprint shield Comet staff and Moonlight Greatsword

starscourge rahan snub is insane

For me, hardest boss from each game
DS1: Kalameet
DS2: so far, Smelter Demon there’s not many hard bosses in the main game, and I’ve yet to fight a true challenging boss
Bloodborne: Orphan of Kos
DS3: Nameless King
Sekiro: Sword Saint Isshin
Elden Ring: Melania, obviously 😆

I'm playing dark souls 2 and sir alonne is giving me a harder time then fune knight did.

Top 10 hardest bosses in soulsborne seireis. 10:manus. 9:margit. 8:Morgot. 7:soul of cinder. 6:bell gargoyles. 5:hourax loux. 4:Maleikeith. 3:pontiff sulvane. 2:twin princes. 1:maleinia

I don’t get it.
While I was playing Code Vein everything I saw were Souls player complaining about how easy that game was, so I expected an insane spike in difficulty in Elden Ring.

Meanwhile I see someone saying Maliketh is one of the hardest Souls boss? Half the bosses in Code Vein were unironically harder than him.

Game’s fun though

Today I beat nameless king and Sister Friede for the first time. I did have to summon Gael for Friede tho. I got to her third phase consistently without much trouble, but blackflame friede was just so aggressive and didnt give me an attack window. Several times I got do close to beating that third phase, but I just decided to use Gael.

Malenia is mad overated, shes one of the only bosses ive no hit(with no blood hounds step)
I would like a reevaluation

its 1-malenia 2-ishin 3-demon of hatred 4-midir
easiest one for me was orphane

For me Maliketh doesnt even make this list. I wish he did, because he is possibly my favorite soulsborne boss and I wish he was harder. His second phase should have been a full health bar, no question.

Honestly in my experience I had more trouble with nameless king than with sister Freid. I managed to beat her in around 5 tries where as cinder and nameless were 10+

Same for maliketh i had more trouble with some other bosses like the giant.

I’ve played sekiro, ds3, ds2 and Elden ring - I haven’t struggled against any bosses nearly as much as nameless king idk why but he took me SO LONG to beat. I beat gael in like 3 attempts, Isshin sword saint in maybe 14 odd attempts, midir in about 20 but nameless took genuinely over 60 attempts it was just so hard. Might be because it was my first souls game but damn

Battle of the century:

Soldier Of Godrick vs Mist Noble

Your list is horrible

Malenia took me like 4 tries isshin took me 4 hours

I could not agree on orphan of kos
Bloodborne is easy and with some boss it's easyier like orphan you litteraly just have to dodge behind him and backstab and viseral attack

Beat demon princes first try was so satisfying

I’m honestly surprised that Dragonlord Placidusax from Elden Ring didn’t make the list. That fight to me was the hardest in Elden Ring. I didn’t really find Melania that tough as she can be staggered with heavy enough weapons (i was running a strength build with great axe and greatshield)

I found that the elden ring bosses weren't nearly as difficult as bosses from other souls games. If you remove summoning it is harder but not quite as bad as other bosses. Sekiro, bloodborne and ds3 I found to be much more punishing at times.

Malenia made me truly angry enough to resort to using Rivers of blood on her. She felt so cheesy that using something else cheesy felt satisfying to kill her with

Slave knight Gael on new game +6 or above for DS3 is the hardest boss for me and second is demon princes. It’s sooooooo tough to beat those two and you can’t cheese either of them. They’re 10-20 min fights of extreme precision lol

I finally ethically beat Malenia for the first time the other day. Took me a long while to learn her well enough to get lucky enough to win.

i know someone who got Malenia (first phase) tattoo on his forearm just because he defeated it after 100 tries.

It actually only took me like 20 to30 minutes to beat malenia

Bro orphan of kos kicked my shit hard , harder than isshin , the first time I fought the orphan I died for 3 hours straight he thought me more about bloodborne than the rest of the game combined

I beat Malenia the other week after 3 consistent days of trying for several hours per day, and I can confidently say it's the hardest boss in any videogame ever

I beat gael first try, and honestly consider some base game bosses to be more difficult

I have platinum Elden Ring Twice, PS4 and PS5. And I'm still scared to fight Malenia without summon. And I spammed the Blasphemous blade, cause I'm a cheap ass.

Demon of hatred is another one I've yet to beat without cheese.

I think I was lucky with Isshin Sword Saint.

And these are the Bosses, that made me Rage a lot:
- Father Owl
- Nameless King
- Lorian and Lothric
- Orphan of Kos
- Pthumerian Descendant

Nameless King is More diffiziler Than malenia and why is malekith on Thais List hahaaha

dont understand why souls games are seen as hard. There's a video of a guy beating one of them blindfolded, a video of a girl beating it with her feet. A video of a guy oneshotting every boss in the game. This isn't difficult, its just cheesy.

Its only difficult because you dont know what the gimmick is and because the games have incredibly shit gameplay that locks you into place with horrible animation locks and lack of options so if you try to attack at the wrong time you simply die. That's not skill based, you're just punished for not knowing the game. Lmao. A game like Nioh 2 requires way more skill where you can react block enemy combo on top of having way more tools at ur disposal and not being a 80 year old granny with arthritis but Nioh itself can suffer with scaling issues

Not in any order the 10 most epic fights

Nameless king ds3
Orinstein and smogh ds1
Gwen ds1
Horah Loux elden ring
Melania elden ring
Issac the sword Saint sekito
King allant demon souls
Starscorge Radahn elden ring
The old man fight in bloodborne
Radagon /the elden beast elden ring

This just goes to show that everybody plays differently. I found midir and the orphan of kos incredibly easy.

This man is fighting malikath with 10 vigor

You had me at GRIPPING

It's fascinating how every player had unique experiences regarding the difficulty of each boss. Personally, I found the godskin duo and Malenia to be relatively easy, but the elden beast/Radagon posed an incredibly challenging and seemingly insurmountable obstacle for me.

So like, no soul of cinder???? Like he has one of the most varied and big moveset out of any souls game aside from elden ring. And why demon of hatred, like why, it's so easy..... Tedious but easy...

Also like midir, he is so easy, he just uses 3 moves entire fight. Malikath wi just be stun locked all through his fight with you if you are somewhat familier with him, even with a +0 weapon.

I killed Malenia and Maliketh on my third try each in my first sousborne game playthrough ever, which was Elden Ring.

Now Caelid's bell bearing hunter. Or the snowfields death rite bird. Those gave me PTSD.

Fuck it get the Caelid giant dogs and birds at the top of the list lol

I used the mimic tear against Malenia, and I beat her maybe sub 20 tries? Having a tanky summon definitely changes the experience, I can’t wait to fight her again ng+ without using a summon, see what she’s really capable of

Ishin is way tougher than Orphan of KoS

my god why would you ever..fight malenia..with a great sword?

The most difficult fight is actually Ancient Dragon from Dark Souls II and 90% of the reason is because it's a shitty, poorly designed boss with artificial difficulty.

Also, False King Allant deseves a spot around 10-8 here because he's the most punishing boss by far (he has a move that if it hits you, it drains you of an entire soul level. I had a friend get stuck on him and fight him over and over again and got drained 10 levels and had to grind and use all the archdemon souls he had to get back to an appropriate level. That shit was so brutal they NEVER put it in another game after that lolololol. What a great but absolutely BRUTAL mechanic for a boss to have)

For me Isshin is definitely the hardest

Pinwheel was missing from the list

I genuinely found Midir harder than Malenia. If you have heavy weapons you can just bully her no hyper armory attacks. She can be easily parried, and water fowl dance can be avoided by lightroll by rolling back once right as she jumps up, and the roll twice back when she starts swinging, back up, dodge 45 degrees to the right when she does the 3rd flurry setting the path for the 4th and 5th, and just step back. P2 is just the same fight with harder hitting attacks and more, but more openings. Midir hits like a dump truck, has a shit ton of health, and is just intimidating af.

This is the most basic and shitty top 10 i ever seen.

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Worst soulsborne top 10 video I've ever watched 👏

I think, the boss i probably died the most to is still the dancer of the boreal valley.... maybe i just fought it too early in the game but i just couldnt get a hold on its moveset ..

Malenia somehow is a cakewalk for me not sure why, 1 tried her on a dex character. I then proceeded to help one of my friend defeat her while using the same dex character and only took me 4-5 tries. I assumed it was that dex builds were just good against her so I made a new character with a strength build and defeated her in 3 attempts. (I do not use mimic tear, I consider that it makes the game too easy.) For me the hardest boss i had to deal with was Fume knight, now given I was much much younger but its the only boss i never managed to defeat as my xbox got a red right of death before i ever managed to win