Bloodborne and Souls bosses

not even trolling but the one reborn
and i dont even know why, no one else seemed to have trouble on that one

if not then the flaming watchdog in the chalice

>>389027596
Why? DId you have some fucking specific playstyle? How can Ludwig, Laurence, Gehrman or Orphan of Kos be easier than The One Reborn for you?

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>>389027689
i honestly don't know, i know how stupid it sounds

i found the dlc really easy

>>389027871
DLC was the hardest part of the game, especially on ng+

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>boss hits phase 2
>gets easier

>>389027451

Ludwig and Oprhan

Literally the hardest bosses out of all the souls games

>>389027596
>>389027689
>>389027871
Difficulty in Souls games depends heavily on playstyle. For example, Daping Dragon is consistently one of the hardest bosses for me in DaS1. People shat on her like she's the most pathetic pushover, but I never lost to Four Kings in my life (literally; I'm not kidding), I beat Capra Demon on my first playthrough on second try, but I re-fought Gaping Dragon for four fucking hours until I finally managed to beat her, and these days I still have problems with her.

Different bosses and situations in Souls games attack different player weaknesses. As a result, everyone is equally challenged and rewarded, but which particular parts people find challenging or easy different tremendously.

>>389028231
This and Laurence

I died to Rom the most during both ng and ng+

>>389027451
The blue iron golem from the ds2 dlc.
Fuck him so so much.

>>389027451
Ornstein and Smough

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>>389027451
Sif

I just needed the ring, dangit. why did you have to fight

>>389030642
he's easy

Midir, the dragon from The Ringed City and, maybe, the Nameless King

>>389030724
Not on the heart

>>389027451

Depends on my build and the state of the character when I reach them. I made a character with the intent to use the MLGS and so got to Ludwig very early on, and beating him then was a nightmare. But the DLC content was the last shit I did with my Chikage nothing personnel kid char, and none of the DLC bosses gave me any trouble.

I think for consistency, guys like Manus, Nameless King, the headless bloodletting beast in the labyrinths and the chalice abhorrent beast would be it for me.

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>>389027451
Rom, not kidding.

I beat Ludwig and Kos first go, I spent hours on Rom

Fucking Amygdala. I don't know why but it took me literal months to beat that bitch. I'd get her down to where one or two hits would finish her and then die due to my own stupidity or some bullshit. Fuck her.

Vicar Amelia killed me at least 40 times.

For me no bosses were difficult because all the attacks are very easy to read and to counter. I believe I went through my first play through Bloodborne with maybe 100 blood vials in total and I never had to farm any because I knew how to use dodge and take advantage of the regain health system. It is basically baffling to me how people can die more than 10 times to one particular boss. What are you even doing? Playing one handed? Playing blindfolded? Because if you aren't then you have zero excuses to not learn attack patterns and act to them accordingly.

Fucking Loran Darkbeast. That's simply not a fun fight and it made me give up on chalices altogether.
>>389030868
I actually found Midir fairly easy and beat him on my third try. I hung out far away from him, baited out attacks, dodged through them and then whacked his face a couple times. You have to unlearn the usual "stand under his dick and whack his legs" strategy for DaS dragons.

>>389028231
Still haven't beat Orphan
Fuck that dude

Orphan when I tried using the wheel. Fucker hates STR builds.

>>389031884
I think that just has more to do with the wheel not being a great weapon.

>>389031884
Fucker hates everything, he's /v/ personified.

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>>389031909
delet

everytime someone posts about finding a boss very hard, several people jump in to say they found it easy

uh, okay? why does this happen anyway

>>389031941
My friend who's generally shit at Souls games took the saw in, which is a STR weapon, beat him in a couple tries and was confused after hearing about how hard it was.
>>389032010
People have different skillsets that lead to different experiences, and people like to discuss those experiences.

Ornstein and Smough

I haven't played DaS3 or Bloodborne. The only reason I find O&S so difficult is because I always want to fight big O because big S is too easy but big O has some really fucked up "shockwave" issues.

>>389032091
Try fighting big S than?

>>389032091
His hammer charge can be a bitch and his buttslam in super mode is dumb but otherwise he's super easy.
Soloing those two was the fucking worst though.

nameless king and soulf of cinder on launch with a ugs.

Goddamn was the weapon balance bad untill like 6 updates in.

Fuck laurence
fuck gael (only on ng+7)
fuck loran darkbeast

Imagine being so bad that you actually die to any Souls boss.

>>389028334
But daping dragon just walks forward

>>389031528
In DS2 DLC you died more times than bullshit with poisons and random mob swings than bosses and yet the fume knight was still annoying as fuck

Not boss but hooded brainsuckers in Bloodborne can suck my whole ass

>>389032151
He's too easy. And you don't get the ring. I never use the thing but I have an autistic need to collect every item I can in the Souls games.

>>389032168
Buttslam and swings aren't a problem for me. It's the charge attacks and the impale and toss attacks that seem to have the hitbox issues. It's especially irritating when he gets caught on something while you are in mid roll and it fucks up the timings. Big O is the only boss from any Souls game I've played where victory feels more like it's due to a lucky run than being good at the game. I have less trouble beating the bosses in the DaS2 DLC.

>>389028337
I only had one character at NG+3 when I started the DLC. Platinumed the base game, and all but one trophy of the DLC.

I had to create a new character to beat Laurence. I could barely take him to phase 2 in NG+3. Valtr would die in 5 hits, and couldn't find anyone to summon.

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>Took me half a dozen attempts to kill Living Failures
>Orphan of Kos took one

Stupid

The Orphan actually took me a million years to beat. Best super end boss ever though

>>389027451
Orphan of Kos

Ds3 guts 66 strength greatsword build.

Twin prince was my first wall, that fight is bullshit with a slow weapon. Then nameless king was hard but fair, except that stupid dragons hit box. Put your head down so I can hit you damn it.
Sister freide gave me trouble but that was more camera bullshit with wide aoe attacks.

>>389032461
Actually, she has a whole bunch of attacks, including one that destroys your equipment.

>>389028337
Laurence is just bullshit.
Literally you have learn to play the game in 15fps cause those flames and his fur kills the ps4

Got stuck on Aldrich for a while seriously fuck that monster...

>>389032824
just run when he starts shooting the arrows
everything else is quite simple to dodge.

>>389032879
Yuh got drunk and pissed off enough that I beat him yesterday but I'm playing Watchdogs of Farron

>>389027451
Nameless king. That fucker broke my $80 xbone controller.

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Either the Cleric Beast or that NPC from Eileen's quest.. dat fucker was tough.

>>389033495
Yes. dude in the chapel was ridiculous if you tried a straightforward fight

>>389033601
His gun hit so hard, and he heals alot.. he's also the worst ''boss'' imo.

Father Gascoigne gave me a lot of trouble but that was because I was new to the Soulsborne games and was still figuring out the combat I think.

>>389033601
The two chicks after Ludwig are worse in my opinion

>>389033714
Gascoigne is literally "get gud" tier

>>389027451
1.) Orphan
2.) Kalameet
3.) Friede
4.) Darklurker (without pyromancy cheese)
5.) Nameless King

Special Mention: Bed of Chaos THAT FUCKING TREE CAN GO CHOKE A DICK, I SWEAR

>>389033839
That's what I'm saying. I wasn't gud, I had to git.

>>389033675
???He only has blood vial.

>>389034035
*one

>>389033937
Tree is easy as hell mang.

>>389027451
Sister Friede
Fucking Maria-wannabe

Gwyndolin made me hard

>>389034132
Dude Maria is the best "hunter " fight in the game

>>389034096
Those fucking branches. Didn't really find any boss in DaS (other than Kalameet) to be all that hard, despite it being my first Souls game. But BoC utilised my one, greatest weakness - falling off ledges - to its critical advantage.

>>389027451
nothing comes close to being as gay as defiled chalice bosses
ds2 dlc bosses probably rival BB dlc (in terms of difficulty, not quality)
nothing in ds3 took more than 5 tries

ludwig is pretty easy DESU

>>389031008
>I beat Ludwig and Kos first go
I guess you are the final boss of Bloodborne then

>>389029604
Just beat him a couple days ago, gave me more trouble than both Alonne and Fume Knight. That fucking delayed overhead catches me every single time.

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>>389031008
beat ludwig and laurence first try (at lv 70)
got rom to 1 hp first try
beat logarious first try (at lv 50)
beat amelia first try with a +3 non serrated weapon at lv25 and no healing mist

>>389034320
If you're going to go into that trail and error mode than The Pursuer was worse..

>>389029604
>>389034454
Shibuya was put in charge the project early and blew most of the budget on concept art and trailers, but had very little actual gameplay finished.

A bunch of older creatives and managers like Tanimura, Yuzo Kojima, and Naotoshi Jin were brought in as damage control to rebuild the game, and the release was delayed. They had different ideas for what souls should be and tried to make it a high fantasy open world game, and get away from the more annoying parts of DS1.

However Bandai Namco was worried that the delay would make it released too close to BB, so to recoup losses, they wanted a PS4/XB1 port as well as a PS3/360 release. This means different development platforms, APIs, etc. Given that the game was doing a complete overhaul from concept art onward, they basically had to start from scratch. The graphics downgrade was because they were just fundamentally two completely different games that had to be done from scratch, and where one was basically being designed for trailers, the latter one had to be designed to actually work.

most of this is explained in the translated design works: http://peterbarnard1984.tumblr.com/post/113163062955/dark-souls-2-design-works-translation

From reading that it's pretty obvious that when Tanimura took over, the only things worth using from the old version were concept art and character designs.

>>389032371
Yeah, when I'm fighting Orphan of Kos I'm the boss, not him.

>>389034584
Pursuer wasn't that bad for me. Two Pursuers at once was pretty terrible, though. As was 2Cat.

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>>389027451
Pontiff gave me a lot of trouble because of how fast he was and my old man reflexes, I just couldn't keep up with him by rolling or parrying and died about 20+ times, I changed my strategy and cheesed him with a decent shield easy.
Sister Friede and Father Ariandel was overall the hardest encounter by far, not only she's fast, she's got a crazy recovery time and nasty follow ups that I found extremely hard to punish through prediction, I eventually beat her, but only by mastering the first two phases, therefore saving all my consumables for the third phase and using them just at the right time to avoid being two shotted.
Dark Eater Midir was hard, bullshit hard, the camera was absolutely abysmal and constantly shaking (among countless other issues), hated that shit.
Slave Knight was second hardest, but also the most fair and best boss encounter in the entire game, loved it.
I did Nameless King second to last, chopped him down and his chicken buddy with Yhorm's machete no problem on my second attempt, I was way overleveled and probably did myself a disservice.

bloodborne bosses are mostly DPS checks. Much more so than souls games for some reason. Had problems with orphan but once I got to lvl ~100 he died before I could fuck up too much. After that mergo, gherman and moon were a fucking joke.

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>>389028334
>Gaping Dragon
>her

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These 3 right here. I actually to this day still cannot beat them.

I've beaten every game in the series and even cleared the first 4 bosses in The Old Hunters on the first attempt and only 3 attempts to kill orhpan but for some reason I suck hard at the Dark Souls 2 DLC.

>>389035301
Holy shit I'm so mad about this """""boss""""" fight because why is it so fucking bad? Why is this game so fucking bad? DLCs suck, how can anyone defend this shit?

>Demon's Souls
Flamelurker
Maneater(s)

>Dark Souls
Gargoyles
Ornstein and Smough
Kalameet
Manus

>Dark Souls 2
moar Gargoyles - fuck them
Mytha - didn't know you could remove the poison pool at first, it makes the battle 100x harder, but I actually beat her that way on first playthrough
Smelter Demon (both variants)
Fume Knight
I have never faced the Darklurker and those 2 cats at the end of frigid outskirts.

>Bloodborne
I'm yet to finish the game, but I haven't died that much in bosses so far. I mostly die because of one-hit AoE kills or some similar bullshit.
I find NPC's to be ridiculously much harder, holy shit.

>>389036021
forgot to mention I haven't played DaS3 yet

I've not played 3 yet, but for me the hardest encounter out of 1 and 2 has been those three fuckers you face in the optional area of the first DLC in DaS2. I've still not managed to beat them and I'm not sure I'm even going to go back to try.

>>389034928

You know your defense goes up when you level as well, taking one or two extra blows before needing to heal can be a massive difference in pressure.

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>>389036021
>but I haven't died that much in bosses so far
Play the DLC, this guy will fuck you up

Penetrator, Old King Allant
Gaping Dragon
Fume
Kos, Rom, Laurence
Midir, Pontiff

Slave Knight Gael was pretty hard. Though I haven't played all souls games yet so I can't say for sure if he's the hardest

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The Last Giant was unironically the hardest boss for me.

DS2 was my first souls game, I had half HP so he one shotted me and I didn't find the Emerald Herald. Took me like 50 tries.

>>389036879
it's ok, I lost an hour with Armor Spider back when I played Demons Souls for the first time

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>>389027451
>trying to fight ludwig on ng+ with the hammer

>beat bloodborne
>going through ng+ now
>finally decide to do dlc now
>tfw stuck on ludwig
I've made a bad decision haven't I

Boss I've died to most in bloodborne though is the shadow of yarnham by far, I think I just couldn't keep track of all of them very well, no one else seems to have much bother with those guys though

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>Dark Souls 1
Manus
Kalameet
Artorias
Mostly because I was using a shitty weapon and doing a horrible build because I was autistic 3 years ago
>Dark Souls 3
Nameless king
Dancer of the Boreal valley took me a few tries too
Midir, I had some problems learning his attack pattern
I also spent a good while to defeat that demon in the smouldering lake
STR build btw

>>389038148
Forgot to mention I haven't played bloodborne and I stopped playing ds2 because I hated it

>>389027451
>Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon
I don't like any of the dragon bosses in soulsborn but I just hate Sinh

>>389039110
Dragons in Souls are fucking tedious and boring

>>389027451
Definitely Maneaters since I wasn't very good back when DeS launched. Ludwig and Nameless King took about 10 tries as well but Orphan only took 2 for some reason.

>>389027451
I will never understand why people have trouble with Ludwig. I beat him at least 5 times with my multiple characters and thought he was average difficulty at best.
I didn't even know people find him difficult until I saw them complaining on a BB ost video on youtube.
For me the most difficult boss would be the flaming watchdog in the chalice because fuck that fight using a katana build with 35 vitality.

>>389027451
Blue smelter just for the rerun to the room after death
Fume for the fight

>>389027596

I feel ya my man. Not for One Reborn, I got him first time but on my first DaS playthrough I unironically died more times to Gaping Dragon than to Kalameet.

>>389028337

I fucking hate Laurence.

>>389032371
>the virgin actually playing the game
>the Chad playing in his imagination

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Friede has to be the worst souls boss
>we never done this before but lets pad this boss length by making her regenerate 3 times in the fight

>>389042567
The Chad gets special editions of Souls games where the bosses enter the fog to fight him

The thing with the ball and chain in the chalice dungeon

>>389041849
Never died to kalameet Always struggle wit 4 kings

>>389033495
>Cleric Beast
This is a meme. I'm a complete noob to the Soulsborne games, and I beat him my second attempt with no problem at all. Had way more trouble with Gascoigne and Blood-Starved Beast, if we're talking early bosses.

>>389027451

Definitely Maneaters followed by Orphan of Kos and Ruin Sentinels.

>>389043712
Ruin sents were easy. Just fight them on the ledge. Also if you are fighting two just wait for both to attack then you attack.

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>>389028334
Gaping Dragon is literally always the same regardless of your playstyle and build. You get away from that thing, wait for it to start crawling, attack a couple of times when it stops, rinse and repeat until it's dead. You don't need a shield, you don't need to dodge roll even a single time, you only need to run away from it and attack when it stops. It's legitimately the least threatening boss in the entire series once you know what you're doing. Even Phalanx and Covetous Demon have a higher chance of killing you.

On topic: I haven't played DaS3 or Bloodborne yet but so far the bosses that most consistently give me trouble are Manus, Sir Alonne and Aava. I guess I should replace the last one with Lud & Zallen but I can't tell for sure because I've only battled and beaten them once (just barely) on NG with two NPC summons and I've sworn I'm never going through Frigid Outskirts hell again. If there was a bonfire somewhere near the boss door I could give it a proper attempt but the run up to the fight is literally the worst one I've experienced in any game ever so I just said "Fuck it, I'm never going there again". As it stands, the Lud and Zallen fight is the only boss battle in the first three Souls games that I haven't solo'd on NG+ or higher since I haven't solo'd it at all, obviously.

>>389037620

>trying to fight Ludwig when doing a min-max glass-canon Arcane build and staying at Blood Level 45 to invade people in Nightmare of Mensis and the Forbidden Woods.

Do you know what pre-Ludwig weapon in the game scales with Arcane?
That's right, the Hunter's torch.
I had to beat Ludwig with a Hunter's Torch +7 at BL 45.

Dragonslayer armor

Somebody needs to make the Virgin Ashen One and the Chad Good Hunter

>>389043954

I always go pure magic.
The problem there is that Soul Arrow does literally nothing to them and I usually get worn down over the course of the fight, run out of spells and have to try to punch them to death.

>>389043961
What was the damage like?

>>389027451
Honestly? I didn't find the DLC bosses all that hard, beat them after a couple tries. But fuck Master Logarius, that spammy bastard always seems to surprise me on different play throughs, even my friends are surprised at how spammy he is in my game.

Midir

>>389044163
Sounds masochistic

>>389044167
I'll tell you what, it wasn't good.
But it was better than any other weapon with my minimal STR/DEX investment.

Hunter's Torch actually isn't bad, it made short work of the BSB and early game enemies, but I can't say it was effective against Ludwig.

I went full AWAY! AWAY!

>>389044078
>15 year olds again driving memes into the ground by completely missing the point and turning it into "thing i like" vs "thing i dislike"

what else is new

>>389044078

Surely the Slayer of Demons is the true chad.
All the other protagonists fight monsters because of unfortunate circumstances being thrust upon them, Slayer of Demons goes to Boletaria, where none who enter ever return, simply because he wanted to rip and tear.

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Laurence is literally and unironically the most bullshit boss in any of the souls games. I know he's optional but fuck this guy and the devs who designed his bullshit movesets and casual oneshots. This is the only boss I straight up gave up on fighting.

Nameless king, gwyn, three sentinels, undead giant (second one), ludwig and the orphan were the ones that stick out for me.

Smelter demon

Bed of Chaos, nothing else comes even close to that shitshow

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Going by the most time spent tying to beat bosses DaS2 wins overall, then DaS3. If I had to rank them probably:

Lud & Zallen (much thanks to the long-ass blizzard walk)
Nameless King
Darkeater Midir
Fume Knight
Old Ivory King (again, long-ass battle before you could even get to the boss)

Despite being my first game nothing in DaS really comes close, and I even beat Manus on NG+ the first time (missed the DLC on the first playthrough.) Obviously many of them required many, many retries, but none of them were like 4+ hours on one boss for me like in 2 and 3.

Recently played Demon's Souls using rpcs3 and it was piss-easy. Haven't played Bloodborne.

>>389043958
And since we're talking about challenging boss battles: how scared should I be of Ludwig and Orphan? I feel like a lot of times people greatly exaggerate the difficulties of the boss battles in this series. When I first played DaS I had heard all kinds of horror stories about O&S being some sort of borderline impossible battle where you lose 60 times until you finally give up and drop the game. I went into the battle with my hands shaking and beat them on my first try without too much trouble. Then I got to DaS2 where apparently Fume Knight defeats his challengers over 90% of the time and a lot of people were calling it the hardest battle in the series. Sure, I lost like a good 12-15 times before finally defeating him but that was mostly due to me sucking at dodging because I played both DeS and DaS with a really passive and defensive playstyle. The fight isn't actually that bad and on NG+ I already beat Fume like on my third or fourth try so it was a clear improvement compared to my first playthrough.

Now the cycle continues and I'm hearing horror stories of Ludwig and Orphan being the two most difficult battles in the series, with some players having 40 losses and counting with no progress whatsoever. Are they really THAT bad?

The most tries I have ever had for a souls boss is Pontiff wich took me about 50 tries. It's like I was incompatible with the fucker, Nameless king didn't even come close to that. Kalameet only took long cuz I tried to get his tail wich is a fucking pain. Champion Gundyr can also go fuck himself.

Sif
I know he is actually easy, but the first time i fought him i was such a shitter, i would use shield all the time and NEVER roll.
Also I didn't unlock the Darkroot Garden door, my closest bonfire was in Darkroot Basin (near the Valley of the Drakes) AND I didn't defeat the Hydra
I had to run past the crystal golems, the hydra, take the longest ladder, walk the forest, and then meet sif
I died a lot and repeating the travel fucked my mind before the fights.

At my final fight i was dodging him all the time and dropped the shield, Sif changed my play style for the rest of the game

>>389045313
No, they're not bad at all.

>>389027451
My buddy had a hard time on this guy, but I don't get it. You can shit on him pretty easy.

I mean, whalemonsterbaby at the end was pretty hard, and I had to level up vit a fuckload

The spider in the chalice dungeons was a pain in the ass, because if you had less than 40 vit you could get two shotted from full health by the baby spiders, while the meteors were instakills

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>Only twenty percent of players ever beat him

>>389045313
>how scared should I be of Ludwig and Orphan?
Very scared, you should stay focused and careful throughout the whole fight. I haven't tried them on ng but on ng+ Orphan phase 2 = one mistake and you are done. Ludwig is also very aggresive and kills you in 2 hits on ng+. His dash can insta kill you if you haven't got enough VIT. They both have lots of hp on ng+

>>389045467
>but the first time i fought him i was such a shitter, i would use shield all the time
Sif can be walled pretty easily tho if you have high Endurance and a shield with good stability. Greatshields trivialize the entire battle but you don't even need those, a Black Knight Shield does the job just fine.

>>389045602
How did you get the stats? There aren't any trophies for the DLCs of Dark Souls 2

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>>389045602
>co-oping this boss on dlc release day
success rate way probably 1 in 20

>>389028231
I actually found orphan relatively easy.
Got it on my 2nd try ever and that was after I accidently went to NG+ because I forgot to consume the cords.

Laurence was the hardest on NG+

First time through the game ever I think I recall Amelia and blood starved beast being the hardest for me.

Hardest overall is one of the bosses in the catacombs. I forget which one. The dog takes second place for me.

>>389045746
It's actually worse than i remembered

ign.com/articles/2014/10/09/the-final-word-on-dark-souls-2s-toughest-boss

>93% failure rate

>>389045956
As far as I can remember Ancient Dragon has the highest failure rate

>>389045602
He is pretty easy though.

The big problem is that he liked to go after the player farthest away from him with a quick attack, which wrecked all the mage noobs and people trying to heal. You're supposed to stay close to him and heal between swings to beat him.

>>389045789
I love how Fume is one of those battles that actually becomes more difficult if you use the NPC summon to "help" you. It's like a final slap in the face for all the players who are struggling with the fight.

>>389045956
That doesn't mean that only 7% of players we're able to beat the guy. It simply means that 93% of all battles against Fume end up in a loss. Some dude can get his ass kicked 50 times but still come out victorious after all those tries.

Manus took me at least five hours of tries to beat

>>389046085
When the dlcs came out I had already beaten the game once, so my first experience with all three dlcs was on NG+. Say what you will about the game as a whole, but Dark Souls II ng+ does not fuck around.

>>389044746
Damn dude, why do people always say Lawrence was hard? It only took me 2 or 3 tries to do him and I was under leveled.
Is there one particular mechanic that gave you a hard time?On the other hand, Living Failures killed me at least 10 times.

>>389045814
>Hardest overall is one of the bosses in the catacombs
Pinwheel? Yeah, those flame attacks can be really nasty.

>>389046129
Fume Knight forced me to bite the bullet and git gud. I spent an entire day fighting him and by the end I had memorized all his animations. Still got my ass kicked for a long time. Fuck the lingering hitbox on his greatsword.

>>389043961
Is this a troll post?

Half the weapons in the game scale well with arcane and there is a fire gem you can get as soon as you beat blood starved beast....

>>389046257
When people say something like "Orphan, Ludwig or Laurence took me less than 5 tries" I don't believe them because it's literally fucking impossible. Especially Laurence, almost all of his attacks are bullshit

>>389045956
You can kind of take that as meaning it took an average of 14 tries for people to beat him (or give up). I can say that my number of tries was easily three times that, could have been more, I completely lost track of everything.

>>389046427
Killed ludwig and laurence first try
Ama

There isn't a single attack of ludwigs that cannot be dodged on reaction, even his jump

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I'd have to say Ebrietas. Her fucking stupid charge just wears you down due to being impossible to dodge.

>>389046427
It's true though. I don't know if I just got lucky with the attacks Lawrence used or what.
Orphan and Ludwig took me many more tries.

Still haven't beaten any Old Hunters bosses, and at this point I don't even want to waste what little free time I have trying. I also refuse to buy PS+

>>389046324
>Fume Knight forced me to bite the bullet and git gud
This is exactly what I love about the battle. You either git gud at dodging or you die. There are no tricks or cheesing that will help you unless you summon someone else to beat the guy for you of course.

>>389031008
I play with rom but fighting her in the chalice dungeon caused me levels of shaking rage i didn't even know was possible.

>>389046697
t. 15 year old korean child on a steady dose of adderall

>>389045430
I had a lot of trouble with Sulyvahn too but at least you could luck out with the attack patterns of the second phase. Combine that with his not-too-high health and that you could shave off a good bit when he was immobile and I got really close many times despite not quite knowing what the hell I was doing or how the boss worked.

Fume knight shit on me 28 in ng+

>>389046292

I actually meant the chalice dungeons when I said catacombs.

My days of Lineage 2 catacombs were taking over my vocabulary at the time.

I never found any of the dark souls bosses hard, especially DS3.

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>>389047084
>I actually meant the chalice dungeons when I said catacombs.
I was just fucking around dude

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>>389046801
>tfw comfy arcane

>>389047084
>Lineage 2 catacombs
Fucking nostalgia

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>>389027451
Lud and Zallen on NG+9.

Soloing those two was miserable when paired with the run through the valley beforehand.

Honorable mentions:
>Old Ivory King
>Artorias
>Ludwig (just Accursed stage)
>Gael
>Those dogs that spawn on Irithyll bridge
>Nameless King
>Friede

I assume we're also only talking solo

>>389046801
I beat her first try, all you had to do is stay behind the damn back, CJ

>DeS
Tower Knight

>DaS
4kings

>DaS2
That stupid fucking frog

>DaS3
Either Aldrich or Dragonslayer

>BB
Rom

Defiled Amy and Defiled Hotdog

>>389047468
None of these are even close to being the hardest in their games.

>>389047468
>The frog
Really? Like... Really?

>>389047751

>Who was the hardest Soulsborne boss for you?

>>389047880

Yea, really. I was running magic and I just couldn't get into a good rhythm with hitting his stupid fucking face with magic. Ended up just being one long slugfest

>>389047468
This is some next-level baiting.
>A simple "puzzle" boss being harder than Maneaters or Flamelurker
>Fucking Demon of Song somehow being harder than Fume Knight, Sir Alonne, Burnt Ivory King, Sinh, Elana or Lud & Zallen
Take this (You) my son, you've really earned it.

>>389027451
>Des
False king allant even though he wasn't that hard
>Das
Manus
>Das2
Fume knight
>BB
Logarius and ebtrietas are harder than any dlc boss for me
>Das3
Gael and soul of cinder

>>389043961
>didn't spelunk through chalices for gems
you did this to yourself

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>>389035301

I'm convinced this "boss" was some kind of twisted joke. It's like they heard all the criticisms people had of the DaS2 base game and took them to their absurd logical conclusion to say fuck you.

>>389027451
O&S
And I played DS1 last.

>>389049167
I want to be blankly stared at by Rei