Is this the strongest non-boss enemy in a Souls game?

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No. Play Demon's Souls. Old King Doran and Satsuki are even harder than most bosses in the whole series.

>>384935347
>Satsuki
>hard
Even Old King Doran can be dealt with very easily if not cheesed with poison.

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>>384934829
These guys are cunts for sure, but the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst takes the cake for me.

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>>384935347
>get black tendency in world 4 to farm shit
>forget this nigger spawns

Everytime

>>384934829
As far as respawning enemies go then yeah, there really is no competition that I can think of.

I don't know about strongest, but it is the hottest.

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If you played ds2 from launch you'll remember a few extremely broken enemies, like the casters in shrine of amana.

Pic related was by far the most overpowered enemy in any souls game, prior to getting nerfed.

The hammer bros in dragon peak and tower of flame literally would not stop attacking. they had infinite stamina and would just pound and pound and pound until you were dead. you had to completely avoid them unless you wanted to get hammer'd to death.

>>384934829
it's the strongest generic enemy, yes. there are stronger minibosses, like the bloody crow of crainhurtst, but those are not generic enemies.

anybody who disagrees hasn't played bloodborne.

>>384938587
the big rhino are the worst imo

>>384938587
You can EASILY kill these guys by targeting them, and then walking behind them as they are swinging. You'll probably get hit, but if you have a lightning/fire weapon, you can easily kill them in 3-4 hits.

*blocks your path*

>>384938587
now see, this is a guy who didn't play Bloodborne.

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>>384934829
Demon souls the black world tendency giant depraved ones that plus the fact you have to fight 3 in a swamp is horrendous

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>>384939727
im retarded

>>384935347
Do we count npc's like that?

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>>384936720
oh god why did you have to remind me

>>384939828
if we do then Bloody Crow of Cainhurst wins. by far the most bullshit NPC in the series.

>>384939781
i've played every souls game including bloodborne. i never saw the big deal about the giant fishes. in fact bloodborne in general was a very easy souls game.

i'd say it's much more likely you didn't play the first few patches of ds2. if you play the first few patches prior to the Amana nerf one, you'll see just how broken some ds2 enemies were.

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>>384939808
>"oh this guy doesn't look that bad"
>he gets closer

>>384938587
Dragon Shrine knights sure, but Heide's Tower knights were piss easy even on day 1. They were nothing like the Dragon Shrine knights.

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>>384940056
I gotchu pham

>>384939817
>*one shots you with the gun*

>>384939808
Aren't there black phantoms versions of them in 5-1 in Pure Black World Tendency as well ? Shit's fucking bonkers

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>>384941890
Thanks bro.

>>384942067
Yup those are the ones , hell on earth on ng+

>>384939808
They're not that bad, its just where you fight them. The one that spawns outside Dirty Colossus that's in a reasonable spot is pretty easy to beat. They're basically the Sharks from BB, but with less HP and moves.

Have played all games except Dark Souls 3.

I agree. Fighting TWO of them at once in the fishing well is hell.

>>384939979
This what the FUCK were they thinking. Literally impossible without the glitch where it activates it's sword and leaves it like that.

>>384942438
I am talking about the swamp area, where there are 3 red phantom giant depraved ones. The red phantom versions in the swamp are far more difficult

>>384942694
>Fighting TWO of them at once in the fishing well is hell.
>Advice is "dude just use a shaman bone"
>That fucking windup animation takes ages.
>By the time your character is ready to stab you either got interrupted and killed because both are fucking targeting you and attacking constantly with no breaks, or they moved a centimetre to the right and you missed.
>Give up with the shaman bone, summon a friend and go ham.
>Manage to get the weapon with a sliver of HP left.
That DLC was ridiculous.

>>384939979
>>384939817
>>384941948
Was it really that bad ? I remember raging a bit at his anime sword and one-hit-KO gun bullshit but nothing that would give me PTSD the way some areas/enemies did ('sup Shrine of Amara)

>>384943518
That was my point; bp giant depraved being in the swamp or on some tiny bridge is a big part what makes them incredibly difficult... And only a retard would actually try to fight the ones in the swamp, everyone just shoots them with arrows.
The one by the entrace to Dirty Colossus is a more accurate test of how difficult they are since the environment is a hige obstacle.

>>384943396
>>384944061
The mage asshole in Byrgenwerth fucked me up a few times too

>>384944061
It reads your inputs and can perfectly parry every single move you make if not straight out comboing you to death, will dodge your moves without getting scratched and so on. I've never landed a hit on the fucker.

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fuck these things

>>384939979

>Bloody Crow of Cainhurst

Literally this. This fucker gives me PTSD.

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I don't think the giant fish guys were that hard 1 on 1, they felt a lot harder because they threw them at you with a lot other bullshit like those casters

These big guys are tougher Tbh

>>384940007
why you fuckin lyin~~~

if NPC's count

Bloody Crow and Red Nigga Satsuki are the toughest.

>>384944713
I was so pissed after I spent an hour trying to kill that giant in the swampy area, only to die later and find out he respawns.

>>384944573
I mean everyone has their struggles but these things? They extremely slow. They don't deal crazy damage. Completely helpless against range.
You can equip the weakest bleed weapon no upgrade and shred these things.

>>384944573
They're annoying to fight and they make me feel sick.

>>384945039
I did the same, why the bloody fuck does that thing respawn?

>>384944453
I need to play BB again just to check I actually killed him then. Could be a case of "whelp, fuck you too game, I'm going home"

>>384938587
yep it's these guys pre patch. Their animation could not be interrupted and they would flatten you constantly in melee range.

>>384934829
where tf are these guys found? I never saw these

>>384945804
DLC in fishing hamlet.

>>384939817
I played through Bloodborne 3 times and never got to fight this dude because eileen will not appear after the second encounter so I can never finish her sidequest.

>>384945879
ohhhh ok I need to play through the dlc

>>384936720
>>384939817
>>384939979
>>384943396
>>384944453
What's wrong with you people? Baiting his heavy attack and punishing is child's play. The only frustrating thing about crowsteel is that he will heal himself two, reportedly three times.

>>384944713
As an invader, this is my favorite enemy in Ringed City. They're great even if you get seeded on.

>>384946180
After she appears the second time you're supposed to go back down to Gascoigne's area and help her fight off someone.

>>384935347
>Old King Doran
I just 2-handed a longsword and stunlocked him.

>>384946487
it's more like no matter how much you think you have the upper hand (parries, bait/punishing, regular ol' R1 spam against a wall) at any point he can whip out his gun instantly with perfect timing and parry/visceral you for a 1HKO. It feels like a roll of the fucking dice whether you'll actually be able to get him down fast enough before he pulls his lolno bullshit.

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>>384934829
What about these guys? I mean, they're mostly hard because of overbloated defences and shitty hitboxes making them hit you when they surely shouldn't have, but they're still a bitch to deal with.

>>384947918
what. go close enough to make them turn and roll away before they butt slam and chop chop

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this

>>384947918
they fixed the hitbox on his grab attack with SotFS thank christ. arm swings will probably still clip you a couple times early on since you probably don't have any AGI the first couple times you'll fight them

>>384940007
I played dark souls 2 day one and that shit was nothing compared to the fish monsters. Shrine of amana just dodge right before they hit you and kill them one by one. Hammer dudes died quickly and you never had to fight more than one at a time

>>384940007
Played DS2 from launch and you aren't very good at that video game. You beat the hammer-wielding shrine guys by dodging instead of trying to block like a retard. Blocking isn't meant to work unless you're a huge guy with a greatshield. As for the Shrine of Amana; literally git gud. They give you tons of things to hide behind and there is only one challenging bit where you have to have precise dodges to get to the casters.

>>384934829
I've only played BB and DaS3 but I'll say yes. Definitely.

>>384936720
I never found him hard on my first try but later on he got worse. It was weird.

>>384946487
The problem with him is unlimited ammo on his Evelyn. It does a lot of damage and can parry as well and god damn does he use bullets liberally.

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>>384943687
>running Bloodtinge this run
>Super excited for the weapon
>Finally managed to kill them with the boneblade trick
>It only scales with skill

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOW

>>384949072
I always lead them into the nearby fire and bait them into attacking me there. It makes short work of them.

>>384940056
>>384941890
This was a pretty good trick on the part of the level designers. I don't know if it was intentional or not though.

>>384952836
HOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>384935347
More like Sats(You)ki. Fair point on the old king if you don't shit around with poison as a semen slurping sorcerer.

Still, bullshit as those guys are, I don't know how you'd say that they're harder than the suspicious beggar. The range on those attacks is just plain buffoonery.

>>384943687
To be desu I thought it was the easiest of all the souls DLC.

>>384939817
just lure him to the stairs and spam blacksky eye at him. what's that? you didn't play arcane? have fun getting rekt then.

>>384955285
The stairs seem to make him a moron for some reason, because he doesn't seem to use his gun when you bait him there. Between slow poison and his own edgelord attack, the hardest part is remembering to shoot him when he's backing up in case he's going to heal.

Hyper aggressive Outrider Knights are easily the moat difficult mon-boss enemy in 3. The one you encounter in dragon barracks can eat a dick in particular.

As far as sheer damage output the giant summoners take the cake, they're fragile and easy to kill by themselves but as an invader if you can protect them well it's a nightmare for the host to deal with the phantom archers and knights. Between the giant, the locusts, harald legion and the ringed knights the swamp of ringed city is an invader's wet dream. Now that seeds are nerfed they can't even force you away from the enemies.