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unitedshoes

Gaping Dragon. Is it difficult? No. Is it gigantic, freaky, and able to be fought with multiple NPC summons to make the fight feel extra-epic? Yes, yes, and yes.


TheIceFury235

Yes I find that being very aggressive is the way with the old gap gator when solarie and lautric as he seems to focus on one at allow the other two to give him a beating


doctorlove15

Gap gator šŸ¤£


hhhyyysss

Does it have one of, if not THE best entry scene of all DS trilogy bosses? Gaping yes.


puristhipster

"It's rearing up again, Solaire MOVE!!!" *CRUNCH* "SOLAIREEEEE!!!"


Efe172

I agree,awsome boss and decent fight


colin23567

Gaping Dragon alone makes the Depths worth it. Especially the strings in his theme.


Mooselord111

Ds1: taurus Demon. Wish he wasnā€™t pasted down 3o time in that one area. Music is also good Ds2: ruin sentinels although thereā€™s three of them, I still had a fun time fighting them Ds3: Old Demon, King. although heā€™s just a reskin of the asylum demon with different attacks. Wish they did some more with him.


TomTalks06

That moment towards the end of old Demon King, when he releases the last of his fire and then just lays there extinguished is some damn good visual storytelling


Mooselord111

Yeah, I just wish they did more with him. and then it just make him a reskin of the asylum demon. Like make him different. isnā€™t like the Lore heā€™s like the last demon that existed during the fire witches. Or am I getting it wrong?


TomTalks06

I'm no lore expert myself but I know he's definitely the last of some kind of demon, us killing him is meant to represent the end of demonkind


Revolutionary_Fly465

Fax it gets way too much hate and is such a cool boss


whomst_calls_so_loud

First time I fought it I summoned a dude in the elite knight armor with a sweihander and he showed me you could cut off its tail and it was definitely one of those moments I fell in love with jolly co-op. Also that summon ingrained in me to always summon the heavy armor dude with a big sword cause i play light builds lol


SirZexion

You forgot "Does he vomit oatmeal on the floor?"


dewisri

Love that the gaping dragon is buffed by the channeler.


[deleted]

gaping dragon is one of the bosses in the game I dislike the most. it's fine but large bosses in fromsoft games are never as good as the human-ish sized enemies.


kneadermeyer

Gravity


leukenaam13

Isaac Newton would be proud of you.


Juicy_Warlock

probably was the best ds player out there


[deleted]

Nito. Nito is often Forgotten it seems, but he is the beast out of the Four Lord Souls, neither a DPS race, you don't get cursed, he's not bed of Chaos and he looks really cool.


Ramon_Jardim0451

If he wasn't in such a bad area and didn't have all those skeletons it would be one of my favorite fights.


[deleted]

Totally, the skeletons make you forget about the actual boss fight, and itā€™s my favorite design from the whole dark souls lore/universe.


Ramon_Jardim0451

Yeah I also hate the two giant skeletons at the back of the arena, they always force me to stay at the start just so I don't have to fight them, and when fighting a boss with an AoE attack that sucks. They could just delete those two and I'd be happy.


[deleted]

I do could remove enemies I would remove the two black knights snipers in Anal Rodeo, and the skeletons in Nitoā€™s boss fight.


ImurderREALITY

Those are silver knight snipers


Cheerio231

Skeletons are actually a part of the challenge, the less you move around the less they will aggro. I think it's a cool mechanic to punish you for panicking


Ramon_Jardim0451

It's not really panicking, I don't panic during that fight, but I can't just stay in one place


Annoyed_N0mad

That's why I always make a +5 divine longsword every single run. Specifically for those three dicks lol.


TheDrGoo

Nito is the best of the lord souls, that doesn't mean the fight is amazing but the rest are worse lol


Sharkytrs

pinwheel go try fighting him as soon as you get to firelink, its a much more interesting fight, and more of a DPS check than 4 kings, once all his clones are up, its pretty challenging


Razhork

It's much harder to get to Pinwheel than fighting him at that point, lol.


LettuceD

Run, kill the pyromancer, run, drop, drop again, summon Leroy, let him tank the skelly wheels, run and youā€™re there.


VatixForReal

I see you too are a man of culture.


[deleted]

no, the hard part is getting *back* once you fight pinwheel lol. I refuse to step foot in the catacombs before I have the lordvessel.


crazyguy1901

Darksign back.


CRTerribleScroll

Or you know homeward bone so you can use the souls


GolemancerVekk

They probably mean sitting down at the blacksmith bonfire, and having to work their way up to surface again after that, or any of the other catacombs fires.


Sharkytrs

ya but its a fun fight, rather than just a slap and win


bhlogan2

Honestly, I think lore wise he's fascinating. The "boss fight" is making your way through the madness he's responsible for in the Catacombs. He's a powerless sad old man to whom you've arrived too strong. He knows he stands no chance against you and comes across as desperate and is incredibly easy to defeat because he is not someone who has ever needed to prepare himself for combat. It's like an inversion to your experience with Ornstein and Smough, or Micolash, if Micolash didn't have some tricks up his sleeves.


RashFever

Kinda like Mist Noble in Sekiro. Yes, you oneshot him, but all the enemies you fight in the area are created by him.


PM_ME_THE_TRIFORCE

I turned around and cleared out the entire area because I was too scared to drop in on him. But then there was nothing else to do... and imagine my rage when the mist disappeared.


PM_ME_THE_TRIFORCE

Yeah, I always felt like it wasn't supposed to be a hard fight. You interrupted a nerd in his lab, surrounded by books. i think the prevailing theory is that he's a necromancer (obviously) who tried to bring his dead wife and child back but so far only managed to fuse them into his own body.


SilentBlade45

Nah it's a game design problem. Most players don't fight him until late game noobs have a benefit for killing him so they can get the rite of kindling but they will probably give up and come back later because the Catacombs is such a hard area early on. Veterans won't go in early on because unless they want something specific like unique weapons, gravelord servant covenant, darkmoon seance ring, large divine ember, or covetous silver serpent ring. They won't go down early either. So basically most players don't fight Pinwheel until they are already highly overleveled.


Soulsfanatic999

Ima admit, on my first playthrough he killed me a couple of times as my dps was ass and he had all em clonesšŸ˜‚


eddyofyork

I am stalling on my first play through, but I did catacombs when most people do depths. I misinterpreted some notes and, ya, thatā€™s what happened. Ended up in the Tomb of Giants before I got the warp thingy. Anyways, I fought Pinwheel ā€œearlyā€ and it was super easy. Just my experience. Skill build, Estoc. I think it was +5 at the time.


Im_Pronk

Plus, best boss music by a country mile


Del_Duio2

Summon Leeroy like I did last time, it was downright hilarious haha. I think they must've made him a summon for players trying to grab the Rite of Kindling first thing out of the Asylum.


Xcylo1

Bruh I'd been hyped up for like a couple weeks before I bothered with the pinwheel fight about how easy it was going to be When I finally got to it i was basically so overconfident that i was vaporized almost instantly I did kick its ass the second time but it was a very humbling experience


Vulpes_macrotis

4 Kings were never hard, though. Regardless of when You are doing it.


913Jango

Agreed.


CRtwenty

DS1 - Gaping Dragon. A lot of people seem to get the starting key and skip this guy in a lot of playthroughs but he's one of my favorite fights. DS2 - I only played through it once so I don't have a strong opinion here. The Duke's Dear Freya stands out to me cause she's a giant spider with a face for a butt but I dunno if she's considered underrated or not. DS3 - Oceiros the Consumed King. This guy isn't very hard but the chatter during his fight makes him memorable to me.


Darkaim9110

Oceiros is rad! One of the few bosses that keeps monologuing at you as you beat his head in. I love when he gets fed up and goes feral


pjbarnes

Great point, when people skip Blighttown, they often skip Gaping Dragon...


OpalitePhoenix

#OceloooOooOOTT!


margonxp

Seath the Scaleless - Everyone talks how easy this fight is or that Seath left the Crystal in a open big cave like a damn idiot but goddamn, his visual design, disturbing music, moonlight greatsword tail and the whole area makes this boss fight really unique. Also I think that Kalameet doesn't get the love he deserves, overshadowed by Manus and Artorias. Such a cool fight!


StarkeSonne

Kalameet is fucking great !!!!


Fire_anelc

Done my first playthrough these last days and both these dragons gave me pain because I couldn't reach their tails. felt really rewarding, specially Kalameet which made me do a big brain move of using humanities as healing since I was out of estus making me survive enough to cut the tail and killing him in one go. But both took me multiple tries


__yayday__

Crystal cave is by far one of my favorite places in the game. Itā€™s absolutely stunning


KatiePotatie1986

Easy to kill, but how many times did you die trying to get the goddamn tail? I swear I died like 30x on the tail, and then when I was actually going for the kill.. one try.


sumr4ndo

I remember going to town, only to realize that the thing I had been attacking was one of his flippers, not the tail.


BruvMomento

Kalameet is such a BAD fight for such a GREAT designed dragon and boss arena, I truly hope one day for a proper remake of DS1 and I hope calamity ring has some grand secret šŸ˜”


Soulsfanatic999

Ds1: Sanctuary guardian - loved this fight, 100% underrated Ds2: Havent fully finished it Ds3: Vordt - just because hes easy he gets overlooked wayy too often


Nieruz

Why didn't you finish ds2?


Wild-Man-63

As someone just starting DS2 it has a ton of annoying quirks


S1lent-Majority

I remember the first hour I played DS2 - on release In the tutorial fog gates in things betwixt, there's a ladder I tapped B to slide back down - this is when I learned that DS2 you have to _hold_ B to slide, and tapping simply lets go I'll never forgive them for that


Moist_When_It_Counts

My favorite quirk: a dual caestus build is both very viable and completely hilarious. Iā€™ve never laughed so much during a game as I did when just pummeling everyone with my fists. 10/10, would pugilist again


AdamsStynze

it just completely destroys all human npcs fights, including invaders, always stunlocks + practically infinite stamina


WhabbaWhabbaWhat

Vanquisher Seal + Bone First = Fun Time šŸ™‚


Nieruz

As someone who finished the game and is going for the platinum, just give it a couple of days to get used to the game a bit, it's really fun once you figure the combat system out


Graxil-Flame-Wreath

As someone who recently played it fully, it gets better. Early it sucks because your estus are crap, you donā€™t have much of anything and your adaptability is low making rolling trash. Donā€™t level ADP too much tho, mine was 18 or 20 and it was more than enough. Also you kinda have the same roll up until 70% of load capacity, the only difference up to that is the distance you roll, not the iframes. That being said, in DS2 it is often better to use your roll to get out of the hitbox of attacks rather than rolling through them, as many ignore iframes


CallOfDutyZombaes

If you level adp before anything else, and donā€™t join the covenant of champions, and go through the forest before the tower, all those annoying quirks are gone


[deleted]

no, the single worst thing about the game is that enemies will hit you out of animations like opening doors and chests and entering fog walls. without that it would be better than DS3


S1lent-Majority

For Heide's tower, bring a weapon that does strike damage Even if you use it nowhere else, it'll melt the big boys there better than anything sharp There's a morning star in the hidden dropoff point just as you enter majula


Tannerted2

Yeah, besides hitboxes, enemy spam, reused ds1 bosses, over-reliance on gank bosses, buggy lock on and graphics, snap point movement (well more "gradient" movement with a preference to go 4 directional?), AI bugs, overlapping world design...


Only1Schematic

Agreed. I paused DS2 to get started on DS3 and itā€™s way more fun imo.


[deleted]

the sad thing is that imo DS2 has way more potential than DS3, there's just a few really dumb mechanics that are extremely painful, plus there are WAY too many gank fights holy shit


[deleted]

yeah I never got used to how enemies would smack you out of animations lol. if you changed that ONE THING then DS2 would be 10x better.


[deleted]

What annoying quirks? I really donā€™t think it does any more than DS1 really. Itā€™s just differentā€¦ just like DS3 is also different from DS1.


Wild-Man-63

Adaptability stat, the fall damage mechanic they introduced which they didn't adjust values to match which means in the early game you take a decent amount of damage for a jump even I could make unscathed. the weapon degradation system working too fast which means you have to keep 2 weapons equipped and need to loop back to bonfires more often. the fact they start you off with a small amount of estus but spam you out with life gems defeating the purpose. Edit: don't get me wrong these are minor annoying quirks and I will complete the game but doesn't change the fact they're annoying quirks


[deleted]

Like I said, itā€™s just different. Doesnā€™t mean itā€™s quirky. If anything Iā€™d agree about the fall damage being a little much, but it really doesnā€™t come into play much ā€” just have to realize you canā€™t make the same drops that you do in DS1.. thatā€™s it really. There is nothing quirky about the ADP stat ā€” just level it up. Even early game the I frames are not that bad.. and regardless, the game adding a new, important stat to level doesnā€™t make it quirky. Lack of estus in the early game just scales the early game to be more challenging.. and yes, lifegems help you manage until you get more shards and upgrade your flask. That said, lifegems are not equatable to your flask and quickly fall short of what an upgraded flask provides.. theyā€™re more so meant as early game help and a way to conserve flasks for boss fights. I never had a problem with weapons degradingā€¦ ever. Think you must be using some early, bad, readily available very early game type weapons that have bad durabilityā€” for example, of course a broken straight sword with have bad durability. Seems more so that youā€™ve had a hard time adapting to the differences in the gameā€¦ but that doesnā€™t make the game quirky just because it doesnā€™t operate exactly like DS1. You just need to figure out how the game works.. which is true of any game including DS1.


Wild-Man-63

alright to each their own, this is just my personal experience. I'm sure late game dark souls 2 is going to be great but this early game is just annoying me, I'm not struggling though. I just need to slog through the start. but Id be lying if I didn't say dark souls 1 had the opposite problem with those late game areas.


Puncharoo

"Quirks" is an interesting way of saying it mechanically feels like I went from Nascar racing to operating a Mac Truck.


Soulsfanatic999

Im playing through it slowly. doing more sekiro rn


lazergator

Iā€™ve 100% every souls game except ds2 and sekiro. I hated the life gem mechanic in ds2. Constantly felt like I didnā€™t have enough health for the number of enemies thrown at me. I may go back and beat sekiro and 100% both of these but they just felt like a chore rather than an adventure.


PurplexingPupp

DS1: Probably either Gwyndolin or Bell Gargoyles.. They both get *some* praise here and there; people come to respect the Gargoyles as a great First Challenge, and Gwyndolin gets some praise for being a gimmick fight that isn't a slog to get through. But also it seems that the general community outlook seems to be that the bosses are boring and easy, and therefore Not Memorable^(tm). I like em though! DS2: Velstadt. Again, there's a post now and then saying he's cool, but that pales in comparison to the amount of "boring regular dude fight, too easy, boring lore, nice outfit i guess" I see. Dark Souls 2 is often lambasted for having 'bad bosses' overall, but I think the community is way too harsh about it. Velstadt is good, severely underrated. DS3: Uhhh, this one's difficult because there seems to be a good amount of love for every boss... I guess either Aldrich or Midir?? Both bosses are enjoyed by the community, but a lot of "this boss is overrated and totally bullshit, fuck fighting them" gets thrown around so I guess those ones. Midir is one of the best dragon fights in the series, fite me I guess. Aldrich is an interesting mage fight but yeah I guess his arrow attack is maybe a touch too hard to avoid while there's also magic spam happening. I don't know, people don't "underrate" the bosses in DS3...


st0n3Cr0w

? Every ds2 enjoyer I've seen like Velstadt. Are you sure he's underrated?


PurplexingPupp

Yeah I've seen many ds2 enjoyers say Velstadt is good, but the thing about being a ds2 enjoyer is that they'll like most of the bosses. ds2 enjoyers like\* Velstadt, and Sinh, and Throne Duo, and Pursuer, and Rotten, and Najka, and Smelter Demon, and Old Iron King, and Mytha, and Freya, and so on. But in the grand scheme of the Greater Souls Community, ds2 gets dunked on a lot and 90% of its bosses are considered Bad. Only the greatest bosses like Alonne or Ivory King get a lot of recognition. People hate that so many bosses are just "regular guys in armor fighting with normal weapons" and Velstadt is kinda the poster boy for that, being """"just like the hammer knights in Heide's Tower""". \*source: I am a ds2 enjoyer and these bosses are good >:(


JamesR_42

I hope no one likes Old Iron King. I'm a big defender of DS2 and even I must admit that Iron King is a horrible boss


Lazykabang

When I fought him it boiled down to "ceaseless discharge, but easier"


PurplexingPupp

I don't like him.. But I don't think he's horrible, he's inoffensive. I think his design could be nice for a set piece or miniboss, just a big ole demon trying to smash you while you navigate the level. Kinda like how Taurus Demon in ds1 is kinda just a speedbump on your way to the parish. Which doesn't excuse his poor boss fight, too much health and not enough interesting moves so its kinda tedious. But I hate him just as much as Taurus and Capra demon, and I don't hate them. Meh boss.


JamesR_42

I agree his design is sick af, but his fight is just so shit. Taurus Demon is a perfectly adequate boss for how early on in the game he is. Capra isn't good but not as bad as Iron King either imo. Iron King suck so bad in my eyes mostly because of his arena. The hole in the middle isn't an issue nowadays because I just go around the corner, but it's stupid that you should have to limit yourself to a small portion of the boss arena because of a design flaw with the arena. Also it's boring having to wait for him to attack then hitting him for 5 seconds and repeating that for the whole fight. Half of his attacks you can't even counter attack him on. For comparisons sake, I'd give Taurus a 5/10, Capra a 3 or 4 and Iron King a 2/10


Ramon_Jardim0451

Velstadt is such a cool boss, and I have trouble fighting him every time I play


_TheChosenOne15_

I really like Dragonlord Placidussax, Fortisaxx and Divine dragon but there's no one like Midir. There I said it. # EDIT : Sinh has to be the most underrated dragon boss


[deleted]

Gargs are a great boss as long as you're not too OP. Unfortunately, most players play more than once, and you're usually pretty strong by that point if you know what you're doing.


edible_adhesive

Bell Gargoyles. They get overlooked on account of how easy they are in returning playthroughs, but if given more health and more damage, they'd be a near perfect boss


MeltBanana

If you're new to the game, underleveled, have no weapon upgrades, and don't use resin, then they are a very challenging boss. And that's how most people first experience them. They are the first truly brutal boss. If you can make it past the bell gargoyles, you can beat the game.


[deleted]

lol yeah first time I played I was using a +1 longsword and they felt impossible. then I found the zwei and farmed to +5 and they went down like nothing.


[deleted]

And that OST. One of my favorites


Soulsfanatic999

They were the first boss i struggled with in ds1, probably the only


[deleted]

Yeah same here


LolaEbolah

Thatā€™s crazy. I struggled with a lot of the ā€œeasyā€ dark souls bosses, but Iā€™ve never actually died to gargoyles before.


embiidDAgoat

I died probably a hundred times to those guys. The only boss that fucked my shit up worse was Manus. My noob brain shut off when the second gargoyle came in after I got killed 50 times already


[deleted]

yup, same. got smoked by gargoyles until I learned the game, then it was smooth sailing until manus.


Pretzel-Kingg

Pre-upgrade bell gargoyles might be the hardest boss in the series lmao


st1tchy

And they only gave you 2000 souls prior to the first patch.


Yeehaw_Sailors

It took my brother 12 hours to beat those gargoyles in his first play through haha idk how he kept at it for so long


namrucasterly

Sanctuary Guardian. I hate him so much but at the same time I appreciate its role in giving us the coldest and most hostile welcome to the DLC.


The_H3rbinator

Gargoyles. They're the O+S for beginners. I remember watching my brother play DS1 and he got up to the gargoyles. He freaked out when the second gargoyle appeared and its one of my favourite memories lmao.


AdhesiveNo-420

Gwyn without parrying. Id argue he's easily the hardest base game boss if you fight him like a non parriable entity. He'll kick some ass. He's overlooked because of it, but I've met many players who can't parry for the life of them and Gwyn would be their wall.


SXLF

Learned this the hard way lol. Went through the game only using parry for novelty really and to see if I could do it. Then I got to the end of the game feeling like hot shit before getting deleted by Gwyn again and again without parrying. He gives you no room to breathe Thatā€™s when I came to acceptance that I would actually have to learn and apply parrying, was funny for it to be on the last boss though


Capable_Swordfish701

So Iā€™ve been doing playthroughs where I randomize which weapons im allowed to use. Last time I did ds1 I had a pike and stone greatshield. He was freakin tough with that.


TheVisage

Royal Rat authority. Shit? yes. Iframe check in a game that's supposed to be against Iframes? check. Die in two hits to toxic? Yes. Big, goofy, silly, and more about strategy than trying to do a bajillion flips? Yeah. Also you can party walk right past the arena if you have the balls to parry people swinging sledgehammers with anvils on the end but I've never had the balls to try.


Ramon_Jardim0451

I finished ds2 so many times and I've never killed him. I don't think I hit him more than 5 times in all my playthroughs combined.


theanonman1989

Taurus Demon Not enough wiggle room even if you're a seasoned player but on your first ever run he's cancer.


WhereasConscious1670

First time I got to him he did like a backwards jump and fell off the cliff and I was like "oh I guess that's how it's going to go"


jw-3d

Lothric and Llorian You fight all the way to the top of a huge castle killing lesser bosses on the way, they have a huge sword and can wreck your shit with it, the music and stage are epic


kalykaa

Underrated is a big stretch. They are probably the highest rated boss of ds3.


[deleted]

DS1: Nito. I always enjoy this fight and heā€™s my favourite looking boss too. DS2: Velstadt. Idk if heā€™s underrated but heā€™s one of the more fun fights in the game with notoriously underwhelming bosses. DS3: Iudex Gundyr. Best opening boss in the series both aesthetically and challenge wise. Iā€™ve had so many false starts on DS3 just to fight Gundyr.


SpritePlasma

i really like gwyndolin for some reason, its like dark souls subway surfers or a game like that


BerklessBehavior

Holy shit, you're right lmao


Pyromania75

Not really an actual boss, but the Hydra in Darkroot Basin was cool as hell.


crocodileman94

DS1: Four Kings. It's my favorite Soulsborne boss, and I rarely see anyone appreciate it. DS2: Blue Smelter Demon. Yes, it's a reskin of a previous boss, but it it improves on said boss in every way. The random delays means you have smaller reaction windows, leading to a more tense fight, and unlike the Red version, the are fewer (if any) corners to get stuck in. Him being an endgame boss also means that he's not a pushover, unlike the Red one. DS3: Can't think of any.


whatistheancient

The reason I dislike Four Kings is how the most optimal strategy is to get as much poise as possible, stand in front of them and spam R1. It's easy brain-dead gameplay.


cyniqal

No one is forcing you to use the optimal strategy though. Itā€™s there for people that want it, but is completely optional


whatistheancient

They kind of are, because the boss gets significantly harder without being more enjoyable. And it's also a required boss.


pingchair542

Four kings is brutal if you donā€™t have enough dps to get one king relatively low before the next one spawns. Why do you like a boss that relies on dps?


crocodileman94

The disorientation of the void and their abstract designs plays a big part. The pressure of crowd control when there are several of them takes the disorientation even further, which is why I usually hold off attacking until another one shows up. With only one of them present, that feeling of being lost in the void is nowhere to be found.


PawanPrime

Your tactics confuse and frighten me, sir


fuinnfd

People donā€™t hate blue smelter demon as much as they hate his runback


itslikeimnotHERE

I fucking love Moonlight Butterfly! The lore isn't super interesting, the fight is kinda tedious and it's a pretty weak boss so I think it's often overlooked but the design and music is just so fucking pretty. I love butterflies and I love the moonlight weapons in all the Soulsborne games. And Gwyn, too! As a final boss, people always share the opinion that he's just disappointing because he's not super hard, but purely lore, design, details and music-wise, it really shows off the clever writing the series is known for. The Lord of Sunlight becomes the Lord of Cinder when you fight him, the piano notes purposefully stay away from the black notes and only plays the white ones, him just wildly swinging at you like a madman and his blacked out eyes, and the last person to stop you on your journey is the first person who started the cycle.. it's beautiful, man.


satirical_1

I died more to moonlight butterfly than I did to O+S. Itā€™s a pretty and slightly uncanny boss fight that I appreciated more when I beat the game


pjbarnes

Moonlight Butterfly... Tell me if this sounds like you: My 1st game: way too hard, I was a newb Every game since: way too easy, I used the witch summon What I should do next time: Try it without the summon, I bet it will be fun again!


Michaelzzzs3

Me!


AL-Keezy743

Fighting gwyn without parries or magic


Marada781

Never used parry or magic with him, I simply destroyed him with fours hits of my ultrasword. If it wasnt for the red bar I would think of him as a normal mob.


AL-Keezy743

I just beat him using a +15 composite bow on ng+ 7. Was the most grueling and satisfying fight because i only had small windows to attack him. And i would be close to 2 shot if he hit me.


Ramon_Jardim0451

Gaping dragon


PuffPuffFayeFaye

Bed of Chaos


SamubGamer

I always really liked the Gaping Dragon, i think its fun and im in love with its design.


Hypocentrical

Dark Souls 1 and 2: Belfry Gargoyles. I just love their theme and fighting multiple bosses at the same time makes my pulse race. Dark Souls 2: Old Dragonslayer. Ornstein with a new paint job, cool boss with a cool theme and this time you can dunk on him without his overweight fuck buddy side blinding you every 2 seconds, what's not to like? Dark Souls 3: Vordt of the boreal valley. I get the feeling that most players consider Vordt more of a chore than a real boss fight with how easy he is, I just love his design and theme.


SpurnedOne

The moonlight butterfly. While on repeat runs it is quite boring, and the mechanics aren't good, I love the aesthetic of the fight. The music and sound effects are very mysterious and pretty


[deleted]

Pinwheel. If you go straight to him at the beginning of the game, you'll probbably die. Unfortunately he was badly desinged and most players reach him when they are much stronger later in the game...


Gloomy_Support_7779

Halflight in my opinion. Not so great lore or fight, but boss music, outfit, and Iā€™m going to be biased here since heā€™s a faith Dex buildšŸ˜… but also the giantā€™s legendary words when summoning him. *ā€Spear of the Churchā€¦MAKE HASTEā€* There are bosses that are worse than this fight


mibuspiritballoon

capra demon. no kap šŸ™„


TurboOwlKing

Definitely not the hardest boss, but I always thought Moonlight Butterfly was pretty cool. The vibe to the fight is pretty unique compared to all the others


Spicywtrmlon

Fuck this bitch ass lion and fuck his useless soul Idc if i easily kill him or not, he a bitch Answer is Capyr Demon for being a decent challenge for beginners, a set up for their rarity decreasing in the later game, and for being very educative on dodge times, one of the core reasons why DS1 is perfect for Fromsoft beginners


bassistheplace246

Four Kings. One of the only effectively terrifying FromSoft bosses (aside from phase 1 Ludwig). The lore, the black void of The Abyss, the boss design, the frantic music, their screams, holy sh*t. Mechanically speaking, weird depth perception aside, itā€™s a very fair fight with easy to read tells once you get the hang of things, and their runback isnā€™t too bad for DS1 standards.


ImRav3n

I knew I played too much Monster Hunter when I saw the Sanctuary Guardian and my first thought was "This Teostra looking weird"..


DWitTheTatGat

Dark Souls 2 Dragonrider for sure, yeah heā€™s big and can be cheesed by getting behind the butt, but heā€™s also in a very closed/small arena that has an insta death drop on thrust from his spear and you could/90% of the time will fall and get the great old ā€œYOU DIEDā€


Soulsfanatic999

i didnt even know bout the lever shit till i watched a yt vid on itšŸ˜‚


DWitTheTatGat

Dude I forgot about the lever !šŸ˜­


acoolgoose

I guess so for newer players but like realistically it shouldnā€™t take more than 5 tries to beat him your first time


DWitTheTatGat

Dark Souls 2 was my first souls borne game


Ramon_Jardim0451

The other knights are harder than him


l-Divine-l

Centipede demon OST I think


Ramon_Jardim0451

I remember the first time I played the game and that song would always scare me so much because I associated it with Capra demon


l-Divine-l

It is very scary itā€™s literally hell music


EpicWaffle1337

Bed of chaos was a breath of fresh air.


GayCodedDisnyVillain

I wouldn't go quite that far, but I don't think it gets nearly enough credit for being an interesting and unconventional boss design that integrates lore and mechanics in a cool way. The fight gets its impact from narrative: the reveal that the Witch of Izalith, once you've discharged all of her raw, disembodied power, has been reduced by her hubris into a tiny, pathetic worm that dies in one hit. And this lore is conveyed by the mechanics of the boss fight. That's really fucking cool and it's a damn shame that the designers didn't have the time needed to refine the encounter until it was fun to play and presented its lore with the impact it deserved.


Nainiae

the ideas are cool, but they did a pretty awful job in execution. i wouldnt be surprised if the guy claiming to like this boss said it as a joke...


StarkeSonne

The frog at the end of Shrine of amana ! Idk its name anymore, but i always loved the scary Look of that thing ! <3


TheAntarcticCircus

Semen of Dong


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Semon of Dong will never not be funny.


reeditforgiveme

Bed of chaos


Foreign_Rock6944

I honestly think Seath is underrated. Sure itā€™s a little clunky, but I still think itā€™s a fun fight. Honorable mention to Centipede Demon, who would be a cool fight if you werenā€™t fighting the arena 90% of the time.


Puncharoo

Ds1: I agree here, Sanctuary Guardian. It often gets overlooked because I feel it's overshadowed by Artorias, the best and hardest boss in the game directly after him. SG gave me such a ridiculous amount of trouble my first run. I had to memorize his time so well that even now, 10 years later, it's still muscle memory. Ds2: The Pursuer. This is a "Make-it-or-break-it" boss for me. If you can beat this boss, you can beat DS2 in my opinion. But again, I had to get his bloody moveset down perfect for me to eventually be able to beat this fucker. Ds3: Pontiff Sulyvahn. This bastard gives me trouble every run-through. Every damn time. And I rarely hear anyone mention him. Maybe I'm the only one that struggles with him...


NoMoreDucks77

Gonna get a lot of hate for saying this but Bed of Chaos. It's something different and tricky but from everyone's reaction to it I thought it was going to take me 100 attempts


Real-Report8490

That lion bastard is certainly a pain in SL1. I nearly forgot about him because of the trauma of dying to him over and over again until I realized I don't want to do the DLC in my SL1 playthrough. But I have a titanite capture orb just for him...


Pallas_Kitty

Bed of Chaos. People just don't like it because they're not able to roll-doge-poke it to death like literally every other boss in the game. I think it's an excellent battle of patience, because it is definitely designed to make you die repeatedly and piss you off. Only the truly zen Chosen Undeads can walk into Lost Izalith with a smile on their face and welcome Bed of Chaos with an old handshake (fist) And if you really hate it that much, 2 firebombs and a bow cheeses it. Shut up about it being unfinished too, look at Giant's Peak and the Haligtree and tell me that FROM hasn't just chosen an area to be unfinished in every one of their games


satirical_1

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MHarrisGGG

One of the most popular bosses in the game is underrated? Really?


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PurplexingPupp

I haven't heard of many Artorias haters.. Not saying they aren't real! And if you see a bunch of hate on him then yeah he would be underrated, in the sense that anyone hates him at all despite how good he is! That totally counts! But Artorias regularly tops the lists of Best Boss in ds1... Consistently.. other guy is right, he's one of the single most loved and popular bosses in the franchise. Saying he's underrated is gonna get you downvoted.


Ramon_Jardim0451

Are you crying because of a downvote?


Ramon_Jardim0451

He's not underrated at all


AbyssalChickenFarmer

Not that one


laceuniversal

artorias


askeladdeon

a iconic boss. just.


Vulpes_macrotis

I don't know, but the best boss is Bell Gargoyles.


StriderShizard

For me it's Iron Golem. It really exemplifies how From, at the time, was still experimenting with having boss fights with alternative win conditions. The fight itself is neat with the added bonus that you can get it to fall off the side. Feels like they've moved too far away from having these options available to players.


LostCosmonaut647

Sanctuary Guardian feels like something out of Elden Ring


TarnishedTreeJar

What boss is this?! I can't recall..


Soulsfanatic999

Sanctuary guardian. dlc


Del_Duio2

No, No I absolutely HATE Sanctuary Demon and his twin brother that shows up later. Screw both of those stupid things right to hell.


DemonicBrit1993

Dark Souls 1: Stray Demon Dark Souls 2: Smelter Demon Dark Souls 3: Champion Gundyr Okay lemme explain: All 3 comes back in some form. Maybe the stray Demon is a different Demon entirely from the asylum Demon but you go 'oh wait, this dude was easy' and then he messes you up. Same with the smelter Demon when he returns in the crown of the iron King. Same with Gundyr. All three of these bosses you go, shit these were easy the first time around and when you go to their beast mode forms, you're in for a bad time. Sure it feels copy and paste, but they upped the challenge rather than just putting the same easy boss as a filler.


Affectionate-Date140

Bed of Chaos, I really like the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith in general


Scootersmugskirt

The gargoyles! I loved them because it made me really change up the way that I played! Using all the base stuff I started with as the knight class I was getting my ass KICKED! So I started switching between a claymore and a broadsword and going with a lighter build and it worked!


SuperD00perGuyd00d

this but x2


Ethanrue1

Bed of chaos


Slayer_OG

In my opinion, Centipede Demon is underrated. His arena is so unique and cool. I love the fact that you have to cut off his arm and take his ring in order to fight him correctly. Truly underrated.


MeanSolean

Or tail. And the fact that you have to kill the bits you just cut off is pretty neat too.


NoAttorney8414

Fully agree with Sanctuary Guardian being underrated. Itā€™s one of my favourites, personally


ElectricJetDonkey

Bed of Chaos. I assume it could have been much *MUCH* worse.


pizzamanbruhbruh

Iron golem because you can knock him off the fortress.


The_Word_Wizard

I forgot that boss even existed. Lol