7 Hard Bosses You Can Beat Without Firing a Shot

Bosses in videogames exist primarily to let you finally spend all the health potions and special weapons you'd been saving up. Some bosses however can be vanquished without you having to launch a single grenade. Here are seven unforgettable times you could defeat an intimidating boss without firing a shot. Enjoy and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday!
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[@spacedudemark255]

How about Fallout New Vegas? "I want to kill the entire Mojave" [Speech 100] "No" "They do make a good point"

[@YukitoOnline]

*"I want to kill the entire Mojave"* [Speech 100] "No" *"Understandable have a great day"*

[@coronavirusofficial7736]

Also borderlands 2 nakeoma

[@destynhepworth5293]

Even more a valid point considering he will bend you over a barrel and show you the 50 states if you aren't anything short of the god of the Mojave. Ever just run through the game and try fighting him at level 27 without preparing ahead of time, making sure you got good weapons and armor? It's like throwing pebbles at a death claw

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

@@destynhepworth5293 Like nearly everything involving any of Bethesda's Intellectual Property, level scaling is definitely on there. Reasonable odds it's actually much harder at level 27 than it would be if you just sprinted to the relevant dialogue trigger right from the tutorial.

[@floofbirb4436]

@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 Due to the different dev team, level scaling wasn't in new vegas. To put it in simple terms, you'd be eviscerated if you even tried to approach him with ill intent at anything below level 20.

[@gfjmember]

The first Balrog fight in Cave Story "Hey, you wanna fight?" Yes > No "Huh, OK then." *leaves*

[@Avriel_Mimiga]

@The Spell Alchemist yep, i think some speedrunners use it lol

[@Avriel_Mimiga]

Papyrus does a similar thing after losing to him 3 times in Undertale

[@hectorwhoz]

Defeat, not avoid

[@morju2A]

Understandable have a great day

[@theauberman]

On the subject of indie games, the Plague knight shadow in Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows

[@roguedogx]

mike - "don't pretend moving like a spider isn't enough to instill fear" ellen - "I practically have that printed on a t-shirt."

[@reaperofthings]

Ellen would hate Prey lol

[@mattkennedy9308]

I know it's not the same but for some reason this made me think of Dune. "Move without rhythm, and you won't atrract the worm.

[@IBBX22I]

Silent Hill: Boss Fight! Me: ammo broke Silent Hill: *understandable have a great day*

[@Oyasumi05]

I could be on the final boss and still be like "But I might need those latteerrrr"

[@jasperzanovich2504]

Completely normal. That is why I often beat games using nothing but a knife or even bare hands.

[@johangrobler1908]

How can you be certain it is the last boss maybe there's an even greater evil that hasn't been revealed yet .....and end credits rol

[@MABfan11]

is on the final hardest bonus boss: "but i might need this one laterrrr"

[@CookiePieMonster]

If you KNOW for certain you're on the last boss, then you're playing games wrong. Assumptions however, are welcome in this case.

[@roguishpaladin]

@@CookiePieMonster There is no "wrong" for how to play a single player game. GTFO.

[@z3rotollranc3]

Okay so how many of us thought when it was revealed that Metal Gear Solid 3 was on this list that they were going to talk about fighting The End and just moving your system clock forward so that he dies of old age? Glad to see this one didn't go with the obvious boss.

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

They mentioned that in a previous video, don't worry 🤣

[@z3rotollranc3]

@@TotallyNotRedneckYall Yeah, which is why I'm glad they didn't go to it again. I've seen some channels that would.

[@narcspector]

@@TotallyNotRedneckYall Yeah I was going to say thank God they didn't show The End again. There's actually two ways of dealing with him, but one involves sniping him while he's alive in a different section of the game.

[@narcspector]

@@z3rotollranc3 people were requesting a few things in the comments that have been used multiple times, I think that's probably why repeats occur, is because they get so many new viewers all the time that don't go into their backlog, so they have to just bite the bullet and show the same example clip 4 times lol

[@z3rotollranc3]

@@narcspector And that's certainly understandable. Lists like this would be impossible if you could never repeat content. I'm okay when content is repeated, just not frequently. Also, I kind of forgot about The Fear, it's been a while since I've played.

[@CaitlinRC]

snake-eater is exactly how I'll win every argument I've ever had - just wait for them to die so I win by default

[@elafimilo8199]

And people call me nonconfrontational 😂

[@LexusKyran]

This makes me remember, i messed up in MGS3. I was trying to do a "don't kill anyone" run, but accidentally killed a soldier when my weapon automatically switched to a letal one after a cutscene. Like a idiot, i also saved the game just after that. In the next encounter with a enemy, i noticed the letal pistol. Then i checked the statistics and there it was, 1 dead guy. It was so humiliating to reach The Sorrow and there is just this one freaking guy waiting for me, lol. I should try that again sometime..

[@Lavarpsu10]

What’s funny is that you can be an absolute mass-murderer as long as you don’t kill people directly. Knock someone out and drop them in water so they drown or throw them off a cliff? Let loose a venomous animal that bites and kills them? Poison them with bad food/rations? Drop them on an electric fence so they electrocute? None of these count as “lethal” as far as the game is concerned.

[@thumper5555]

do it

[@enlongjones2394]

Final Fantasy IV: Cecil’s battle with his Dark Knight self, once he becomes a Paladin. You could try to fight him, but you’re way better off defending and casting your nifty new healing spells on yourself, until the Dark Knight drains all his own HP away by repeatedly using his Dark Wave attack. It’s a metaphor for not giving into violence as the answer, in order to prove yourself worthy of the powers that you’ll use to do violence to every other boss fight in the game.

[@jeremygilbert7989]

Also the Doom Train in 6 and the Gi Spirit in 7 deserve mention as both can simply be killed by using a phoenix down on them. Aerith... not so much....

[@flyinbrian1739]

@@jeremygilbert7989 Or you could Suplex the Train to death, like a MAN

[@rocklolita]

In the FF2 version for the SNES, Dark Wave was dummied out as a player ability, so players had no way of knowing that Darkness/Dark Wave ate your health and that's why you shouldn't bother attacking. Dark Knight Cecil just kinda dropped dead for no apparent reason after a few rounds.

[@danmenard6917]

"A true Paladin would sheathe his sword."

[@RazyrDiarmait]

That was a fun fight.

[@ravenmakarov]

What about Saren from Mass Effect? Sure, you can't skip the *entire* fight, but you can skip the first half by just convincing him to shoot himself.

[@asteriondeltoro124]

Technically, you CAN skip the whole fight against Saren. The second half is against Sovereign possessing Saren.

[@Ilikecatsismychannelname]

Still satisfying years later...

[@ravenmakarov]

@@asteriondeltoro124 fair point

[@nicholasyoung9183]

Wait, if you don't convince him, there's another fight? I never knew that, in all my years playing through the ME Trilogy, I never once didn't convince him.

[@shayelisa]

Same thing with the Illusive Man in Mass Effect 3.

[@nightsong81]

Going by old World of Darkness canon, that werewolf almost certainly did have a family waiting for him back home. A very big, very angry family. Not exactly human, though. Werewolves are pack hunters, and also very family-oriented. Some of their family are wolves, some are humans, and some are full-fledged werewolves. But even the humans aren't *exactly* human; they're "kinfolk," which is like being a human, except with magical spirit powers and a lot of very large, fuzzy cousins. Most kinfolk know exactly what they are, know about vampires, werewolves and the other supernatural creatures of the night, and know their way around a shotgun. Not the kind of family you want to piss off by crushing their uncle in a door. But, such is undeath in the World of Darkness.

[@a.j.abrams3550]

It's like reading the "Interests and Specialties" portion of the "About Me" section on an Hot Topic application. Seriously though, it's all meant in good fun and, honestly, quite genuinely refreshing to see unabashedly passionate knowledge being shared from within your words. I have little to no knowledge and/or insight regarding V.t.M. but I can easily and quickly recognize your depth of interest and knowledge of the subject matter by the candour of your tone when describing and referencing details of the mythos involving werewolves and V.t.M. Your comment is one of those that draws people into the game and its respective lore because your sincerity is apparent and your desire to share this world of fantasy you enjoy so much isn't born of elitism and pretension. So, keep being decidedly awesome by pursuing what you love and that which makes you happy. Cheers!

[@nightsong81]

@@a.j.abrams3550 Thanks! I think. Werewolf the Apocalypse, which is sort-of a sister game to Vampire the Masquerade, was a guilty pleasure back in my college years. It was, if you can believe it, darker and bloodier than Vampire. I prefer VtM these days, but Werewolf was one of the first tabletop RPGs I played, aside from D&D, so a lot of the lore stuck with me. But I'm a massive geek, so enthusiastically gushing and oversharing about lore and characters from make-believe worlds is kinda my whole thing. Glad it gave you a smile.

[@JaelinBezel]

But can you really begrudge someone for killing your uncle if your uncle was almost certainly going to kill them if they didn’t?

[@JaelinBezel]

It’s like that episode of The Clone Wars where Ahsoka and other padawans are being hunted “The Most Dangerous Game” style and the brother of their hunter gets all pissy when they kill him. Like he rolled the dice on this and lost, you can’t blame the people he was actively trying to murder for killing him.

[@nightsong81]

@@JaelinBezel Well, think of it this way. Your uncle is a superhero. He fights for Gaia, the literal goddess of the earth, who is being murdered by demons called Banes that work for an evil god called the Wyrm - a hellish creature of pure corruption that wants to pervert and destroy everything. Gaia gave your uncle the power to shapeshift into a Garou, a wolf warrior, to fight against these demons. She gave you powers too - you can commune with spirits, and they've taught you some secrets about the spirit world, but sadly you're not one of her chosen warriors. One night, your family gathers together, and your uncle tells you that "leeches," - lesser servants of the Wyrm, undead bodies that prey on the living and drink their blood - have invaded your land. He and some other warriors are going to clear them out. He should be fine - leeches are no match for Garou in the war-form, after all. You wait for him and his friends to come back. But he doesn't. Those filthy leeches killed him. Somehow they lured him to an observatory, cornered him, and crushed him in a giant mechanical door. Another of his pack, one of your cousins, was killed, too. They never found his head. The pack is howling for revenge. Normally, they wouldn't take you on a hunt - you're only kinfolk. But you can fight. You know a leech's weaknesses - fire, stake to the heart, cut off the head. And as they're down two good bodies, they're willing to take you along. Do you go?

[@davidsylvia8493]

That boss fight with the sorrow in MGS was so weird. I did a play through where I didn't kill anyone and the river was empty. I just trekked through the river until the end lol.

[@FawkesB1989]

well, the bosses are still there. they detonate their mircrobombs and die regardless of whether you non lethally defeat them. the Pain, Fear and End and one other? always show up.

[@robertparis5680]

I literally feel like I waded through the population of a medium sized city lol. I was an angry and impatient teen.

[@davidsylvia8493]

@@FawkesB1989 i don't remember ever encountering them while I did a non-lethal run.

[@alanatroman3556]

"like an artillery obsessed squirel" has got to be my new favourite line

[@jheckie14]

We stuff grenades in our cheeks!

[@LermaBean]

I hope he's voiced by Bradley Cooper

[@justanotherrandomontheyout4791]

So basically Conker? lmao

[@KingJohnMichael]

@@LermaBean thats was a trash panda

[@Nihtgenga1990]

The Fear's another one you can beat without fighting- just bring some rotten food with you. Drop it on the ground, and when he uses up his stamina he'll get hungry, grab your moldy lunch and munch it down- and then get sick from it. Repeat this a couple of times and he passes out. Also, Quiet from MGS V- you can beat her by calling in supply drops onto her position. They drop in, bonk her on the head and take out half her health. Do it twice and she's nonlethally taken out- and you get an S rank on your mission.

[@squidworx]

Also The End in MGS3, setting the game consoles clock a week forward causes him to die of old age. Wow, that game sure has a lot of ways to dispatch enemies without firing a shot.

[@anthonythanghe4755]

What about “The End”??

[@alexixeno4223]

?yeah, can we just get a minilist of all the ways you can beat metal gear bosses without firing a shot. this is actually the first time I heard about the Fear being beaten that way, good to know.

[@GAZ-TRX]

They also didn't mention how you can just drown yourself at the start to get the game over screen...

[@Reishadowen]

You just have to make sure you yell out, "I got a special delivery for ya!" as you do it. Otherwise it doesn't work.

[@M4ruta]

There's an optional boss in Final Fantasy V called Gogo who will tell you to do as he does. Any attack from your party will be met with a devastating spell, but he never attacks first so you just have to wait a few minutes and you'll "win" the fight.

[@tomplays334]

Fallout 1 boss: the Master? You just had to be smart enough to convince him to blow himself up.

[@unit81252]

I pulled that stunt my first run through. didn't know that would happen. thought it was hilarious. you could also find his bomb, arm it, and run away.

[@tehhypergamer963]

Same with President Eden in Fallout 3.

[@tehhypergamer963]

Same with President Eden in Fallout 3.

[@theonlyambi]

@@tehhypergamer963 that's true but he's not really a boss that you could fight

[@Jebu911]

@@tehhypergamer963 difference is you cant fight eden even if you want to.

[@guidedbyechoes]

You can skip that whole long boss fight with the sorrow by just laying down in the water and drowning. It has the same effect and is much quicker.

[@andrehashimoto8056]

That's if you want to speed it, if you want his camo, then you have to endure that entire river

[@ssuaswgamer]

@@andrehashimoto8056 The river depends on how many enemies youve killed so far. If you took only tranquilizer run then its a painless walk, Alternatively Take a fake death pill/wave around the knockout handkerchief till you pass out . Then revive, dont know if that allows the camo or not. The real boss they missed was that ladder in MGS3 . You know the one

[@acidrain812]

Balaji VG oh god lmao, that climb after The End’s boss fight drags on for so longggg 😅

[@patrickhanlon2325]

@@ssuaswgamer "what a thrill"

[@Samsquanch6969]

On ps2 during the fight with The End I remember you can change the date in console settings to two weeks out and when you load your save he dies of dehydration/malnourishment

[@hirammcdaniels7187]

I was hoping to see the master from Fallout on here. Super memorable boss that you could negotiate into blowing himself up

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

The do mention it in another video.

[@floofbirb4436]

@Celticrustie 88 Honestly Caesar is fucked. The Master just wanted to make a bloodline that could withstand the wastes.

[@G33kCulture]

For 20 years my friend and I couldn’t figure out what happened at the end of Silent Hill. We just ran into the boss until it died.

[@bradsimpson8724]

That "battle" against the Sorrow took me way too long to figure out. I had killed a battalion worth of soldiers by that point in the game, so the slog took forever, and I ended up having to do it five or six times before I tried anything different and accidentally found the revival pill.

[@AlphaI250]

"without firing a shot" "dark souls"

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

There are bows in the souls games, and they didn't use one 🤣

[@fafniremperor7364]

Without hit so caeseless discharge is out unless you don't get hit then every boss in souls game if you don't hit or anyone from playing with you then tauros demon and iron golem

[@biohazard724]

Bows, crossbows, and magic are all projectile based and therefore count as shooting. What a true pedant would balk at is that it's still necessary to actually _attack_ CD to begin with unlike the other entries.

[@roguedogx]

Technically correct, but highly against the spirit of the concept.

[@Xhistris]

@@biohazard724 Technically, it isn't. The example they used had them whacking away at it to kill it, but a similar yet different way of doing more-or-less the same thing has CD jump to its death without you needing to hit it. I'll be honest, I used that cheese to kill him.

[@ArielTwain]

"Because frankly it's the end of the game and Silent Hill doesn't want to come away not having done every single thing in its power to upset you" 7:05 this made me laugh so much 😂

[@Anklw8s]

I liked that you could just use healing spells or phoenix down on undead enemies to damage or even OHKO in the FF series.

[@konoikurozora5851]

"(...) as the sight of her mum's skull causes Lisa to stop fighting and then just yeet herself into a massive pit while cradling the creepy cranium".... that line just killed me

[@hatsuneelissu5924]

You can beat ALMOST all bosses from duke nukem 3d (20 year edition) without shooting! (Still trying to find a way if u can beat the alien queen (episode 4) without shooting or finding an exit switch! is there even one in her level?)

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Sounds like Mario Bros. 😅

[@monicat8]

Im literally seeing u on every video i see

[@_Tzer]

in the original one that counts cuz it only had 3 episodes

[@smallyoutuber9355]

Hatsune Elissu at all video everyone: Impossible

[@Jessie_Helms]

I think Legate Lanius from Fallout New Vegas is a pretty good contender. Crazy intimidating armor and a freaking massive sword, been talked up for the whole game, and you can talk him down.

[@ewwpoorpeople5684]

Yeah, still a little disappointed by that. I know it’s player choice, but nobody cool uses 100 speech to get out of the good parts of the game

[@narcspector]

They've done that so many times in these videos, I never finished New Vegas but I've seen that Legate Lanius scene probably 50 times. "You speak wisdom, traveler of the West" *runs off awkwardly* lol.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

Most of the bosses in the Fallout series can be talked down using the speech skill like the Master and President Eden.

[@narcspector]

@@ewwpoorpeople5684 I mean that's kind of a major part of the original Fallout too, yet another clip they've shown on here a zillion times, how you can talk that slime boss at the end into givingup on the world domination because the super mutants are sterile or whatever. Sorry for spoilers

[@Darkstar321]

@@ewwpoorpeople5684 Honestly, if you've spent the entire game doing your best to make peace, and make the wasteland a better place for you having been there as kindly as possible. It's kind of a reward. Think of it this way, rather than focus on fighting, you focused on diplomacy. And it requires the penultimate skill in diplomacy to get him to back down. That said, I'd still wish to see an engrossing dialog between protag and boss. To have a philosophically challenging discourse where you have to lean on what you learned of the boss, and the philosophy that lead you to where you are now... but knowing Bethesda, it's just a skill check alone and requires no player brain power and is pre-ambled with a (Click hear for skill check) indicator.

[@graywolfdracon]

Well, I'm the DM of our D&D group and I am now going to have them face an artillery obsessed were-squirrel. Thanks for the idea.

[@Kewryn]

Okay, but this being D&D: what sort of artillery will those squirrels have? Unless you're actually gonna equip them with some sort of personal catapults :D

[@xellanchaos5386]

@@Kewryn Could be a modern-ish setting, you never know.

[@The_One_In_Black]

The rancor in Knights of the Old Republic. Granted, it's more of a tutorial on stealth than anything else, but it's still pretty exciting to beat the most powerful enemy up to that point in the game but feeding it an explosive. Also, any zombie enemy that you can kill by lobbing a Potion or Phoenix Down at.

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

“Artillery obsessed squirrel” sounds like a pickup in worms 😂 Also the Sorrow was one of the spookiest and most confusing boss fights of my 10yo life. Took me multiple tries to remember the FDP was a thing 😅

[@EzraColdsGarage]

No Joke, the only reason I beat it was I tossed the controller in frustration and I caught the Item selection pop up when it hit the wall. This was one of many evil and Beautiful tricks MGS has played on it's players. Easily the MOST interesting fourth wall breaking series. ( except perhaps Eternal Darkness) They need a list of the Most MInd Bending (Mind fucking) game moments.

[@zoelio999]

@@EzraColdsGarage i do believe there's a nice section on TV TROPES for video games > mindfuck/ 4th wall break Or some such

[@jamesmckenna5453]

"Better not risk it" whips out small dagger Jill on screen: "Oh come on", charges giant mutant Enemy attacks . . . video pauses to load (for effect).

[@ChilliDogDave]

fallout 1? you could literally talk the end boss The Master into killing himself and walk out mostly unharmed before he ultimately blew himself and his whole army up

[@leosklien2869]

Dark souls 2 - the Dragonslayer boss just calmly walk by him and he yeets himself off the edge of the arena for you.

[@amaeve1950]

Hmmm....never knew about that observatory door trick. In VtM:B. I just capitalized on a weird glitch where you hide behind a set of three trees. Then I would go get a snack while the werewolf flailed uselessly at me for 4 mins. 😆

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

*Rob Schneider voice* He doesn't know how to use the three trees! Hahahahaha!

[@ndt_dynamite2247]

@@PanAndScanBuddy Hahahahaha! I get that reference! Nice!

[@Jessie_Helms]

No mention of Daud from Dishonored? Going for a clean hands and perfect stealth run takes a ton of carefully timed blinks and maneuvers to get past him unseen.

[@hollowboi4195]

I just stopped time and choked him

[@narcspector]

That one I actually don't think they've covered before, good job!

[@Jessie_Helms]

Andy Reinsel I think that only works on easy. I’m pretty certain in some difficulties Daud isn’t effected by bend time.

[@Jessie_Helms]

Andy Reinsel and there’s also the Mostly Flesh and Steel/Ghost/Clean Hands run where you can’t use powers other than Blink 1, can’t kill, and can’t be seen.

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

Dishonored didn't really have bosses, not really. Normally Boss fights are constrained to arenas. Daud was pretty much just another enemy similar to his Assassins or the Dunwall City Watch. Granny Rags could relate more to being a Boss. If anything, I'd say Delilah was more of a boss in Daud's Brigmore Witches DLC with the Void arena she's settled up in. :-)

[@codym4340]

That vampire getting swooped off a cliff by a werewolf like a seagull swiping a chip was friggen hilarious

[@beelzeburbia]

One of my favorite moments pertaining to this alternate win condition can be found in Wonder Boy in Monster World, where you encounter a Sphinx in the Maugham Desert. Naturally, given that he is a Sphinx, he asks you five questions about the events in the game that have transpired up to that point, as well as basic facts about each of the many levels. If you happen to answer 4 or 5 of them correctly, he'll just let you move on to the next level. On the other hand, if you answer none of them correctly, or even one, for that matter, you'll be faced with instant death...or a chance to fight him to the death (if my recollection of that one challenge in the PS3 port is correct). Absolute golden moment.

[@beelzeburbia]

I just realized something: technically, MOST bosses in bullet hell games can be defeated by just waiting for them to explode. One specific favorite of mine is the Sakura boss fight from Deathsmiles 1. If you're playing as Windia, you encounter Sakura and have this heartfelt moment...only to break into a fight that fills the screen with bullets. However, here's a catch: if you don't attack Sakura and spend however-long-it-takes to survive her attacks without striking back yourself (no shots or bombs), she will eventually give up and...explode? And, yes, before you ask: you get an achievement for it on 360 and Steam.

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

“Laputan Machine” “I am not a mach-“ “Sticks and stones.”

[@kubikill]

"Take your best shot, Flatlander Woman." "How did you know...?"

[@Roboticexile]

I came to the comments looking for exactly this.

[@vladdracul5072]

@@kubikill That means Juan Lebedev is dead I guess.

[@kubikill]

@@vladdracul5072 What a shame. He was a good man. What a rotten way to die.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. NOW EAT THIS, SUCKAH!!!

[@Czah5]

Aw man. I allowed myself to finally be spoiled for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines! 😔 I swear I am going to finally play it... eventually.

[@aubreyh1930]

Dude you need to play it it’s amazing. Just make sure that you get the unofficial patch if you get the steam version

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@aubreyh1930 Agreed.

[@bentoth9555]

It's worth it, and this wasn't a super big spoiler or anything, there's much bigger ones we won't mention. It's an amazing game regardless.

[@rezonan3520]

Buy it on gog it's comes with the pacth

[@cruelwraith2games926]

Or you could just play it on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One are PC if you prefer

[@ReiAyanami8]

My sister was a total non-lethal player when she played MGS 3. Hilariously, when she played the game, she accidentally killed a single soldier when she knocked him out and he slid down the side of a cliff to his death. She saw only one person at the river before she won the boss battle.

[@ahel4523]

What about the Darkness? Jackie unloads every round he has into it just to realise he needs to embrace it. After a game where you basically use the Dark powers until the end and realise its evil so you reject it. Then you can't complete the battle because each round pumped in creates a creature from the darkness.

[@DaveCWilson]

When I saw MGS 3 I assumed it would be “The End” boss, you didn’t need to even play the game to defeat him

[@TheLetterTen]

"without firing a shot" Xenomorph Queen enters //fires lots of shots 🤦‍♀️

[@Pancakeli]

Without firing a shot* *at the boss

[@hexkirn]

Ceaseless Discharge was also weird. They attacked to make it fall. That either doesn't count or all bosses killed by close combat should be on the list

[@JMPMAOF]

@@hexkirn Technically didn't fire a shot at the boss either, they hit it with a sword. XD

[@TheLetterTen]

@@Pancakeli The boss were the xenos and the explosive barrels because shooting the queen directly wouldn't work anyway 😛😛😛

[@tamarakelley4491]

I could be on the final boss and still be like "But I might need those latteerrrr"

[@KatanaBart]

Interesting thing about the last boss mentioned in this series (the Sorrow). Sure you can walk ALL the way to the end and use the revival; this bags you the special camo. After that, in subsequent playthroughs, just whip out the handkerchief and wave it in front of you 3x. This makes you pass out, fall into the water, and "drown". Then "revive" - takes only a few seconds.

[@shelilly88]

Soulcage in Final Fantasy 9: if you cast life on it, or give it an elixir, it instantly dies, because it is undead and has 100% weakness to Holy magic.

[@DasSpaceAce]

I did not know you could do that with the werewolf. I always ran back into the tram shack & glitched the game out so that I ended up on the other side of the metal bars. He loses interest & walks away when you do that

[@m4rx3l65]

What about Viktor Marchenko from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided? He literally has a Killswitch which ends the fight in a second

[@RazyrDiarmait]

Guess I should read through comments first lol

[@Daktangle]

Ceaseless Disharge is named as such because he is the source of the lava that prevents you getting to the ruins below. His Japanese name roughly means "The thing that keeps on being sore", which is a bit more poetic given what happened to him.

[@OPFreak34]

"This is a rare resource so use it carefully" - Never use it. Got ya. "You can still find it around. You can use it. Don't worry" - Hoard like a dragon. Loud and clear

[@Kirkmeister]

So really no quiet from metal gear 5 with the care package drops you can crush her with

[@narcspector]

No wonder why they keep showing the same clips, because new people keep coming and asking why they aren't here. They've made basically this exact video before with the different name, and they used that Quiet clip in at least three other videos, so that's why it's not on here. I'm not talking trash on them by the way this is my favorite KZbin channel, I'm just saying there's only so many clips that you can use in like a decade, and they've definitely used that one a lot, and I'm almost certain they've used it quite recently too. Narrated by Andy if I'm not mistaken. Because I remember how he mentions "she falls for this TWICE, yet she can shoot through helicopter rotor blades without hitting them!" See? You're good, they hear you, lol. 👍

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

Personal Persona - i thought the same thing, except i couldn't remember if i saw that clip here, or on whatculture 🤣

[@CookiePieMonster]

Since I'm here, I swear they used that Lisa clip before. Anyone can confirm?

[@nomeaknat]

@@narcspector that was three years ago and a different list, although similar.

[@rayc321]

All the bosses iirc in Deus Ex: Human Revolution directors cut and there must be a bunch in the witcher games as well.

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

I loved and still love that the end boss of Deus Ex: Human Revolution could be defeated by entering 2012 into the central console where the trapped Augs were placed into. I don't know if they chose 2012 as the code whether it was because of the year the game was released or the end of the world theory that was really hot at the time. Lol

[@ViktorEngelmann]

There was that one Boss in the witcher 3 that would leave you alone when you sacrificed some Wolf hearts. You had to kill the wolves though... But when you do that using a sword, you technically haven't FIRED A SHOT...

[@kitsmith5678]

Gotta love the kill switch option in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Comments video!

[@konstantinkh]

Some of the non-fighting boss kills were added to HR because fans of the original complained that you can't fight bullet sponges if you went for a stealth build. Original game, of course, was the one that introduced the idea of taking out the bosses without fighting. E.g. finding kill words for the mech bosses.

[@rayc321]

@@konstantinkh It wasn't so much that they were hard as it was the complete opposite tone as the rest of the game. Prove you are not a violent killing machine > KILL IT WITH FIRE!

[@Kewryn]

I imagine there are several RPGies that allow such a thing. Two that comes to mind immediately: In the original "Fallout", if you developed your character "properly", you can actually convince the Master to blow himself up. Also in "Planescape: Torment", where the final boss is your own mortality, if you've managed to learn enough of your own past, you can actually retreive said mortality without ANY fight what-so-ever. Of interesting note: almost every boss in the original "Nightmare Creatures" is defeated without being directly attacked (in spite the game being of an action genre): with the Snowman you drop icicles on him by exploding the barrels... with Jose you snap the iron maiden on with by pulling levels and - I think - with Sewer Snake you drop a ceiling on him. Only Crowley himself is beaten by a straight-out fight.

[@liquidbismuth1044]

“RPGies”

[@RazyrDiarmait]

I'm surprised Marchenko from Deus Ex: Mankind Evolved isn't on this list. All you need is a switch found earlier in the game to kill him before the fight even starts.

[@zacharypavlik695]

What about the one mandatory Courser boss fight in Fallout 4, who can be deactivated when you confront him if you get the recall code from Mama Murphy?

[@Chris_Sizemore]

Eh? What? I've never herd of that before. How much jet do you need to feed her for that?

[@SaintlyCrown501]

@@Chris_Sizemore A Lot Of Drugs...

[@SaintlyCrown501]

@@Chris_Sizemore And it may not pop up.

[@sinthoras1306]

Wich makes the entire thing pretty pointless, considering how weak the courser is...

[@caligulasaquarium7637]

Bottle cap mines, chems, and a few grenades always did it for me. No need to help kill mama murphy for it

[@twanbijpost9050]

how about bosses you have the option of just talking out of it? Like the Master in Fallout, Colonel Autumn in Fallout 3, Legate Lanius in New vegas and Sophia Akande in The Outer Worlds

[@ArkaneStephanie]

Ooooh. That's what Prudence's "Spider Climb" looks like. Somehow more disturbing than I imagined

[@BatAmoungBirds663]

Shirley's spirit from Legend of Dragoon. The entire battle is just guarding and answering her questions correctly until she is satisfied and gives you the White Dragon spirit.

[@tomtitherington]

OMG! I just remembered Outside Xbox had that overseer boss fellow suddenly appear shortly before they went on lock-down. Did they beat this boss without ever firing a shot by just staying at home?

[@SaintlyCrown501]

I was thinking Alduin in Skyrim. Because the 3 hero's of old could just kill it

[@chasestanley2906]

Half the people who beat the main quest line must have been like "what, is that it?"

[@TheSpongyMallard]

No, the player has to make the last hit, otherwise he won’t die.

[@SaintlyCrown501]

@@TheSpongyMallard I didn't know that. I just used my logic to assume that. Thank you for correcting my mistake. 🙂 ☹️

[@arandominternetperson437]

Fun fact: in mgs 3 you can go the whole game without killing a single enemy also the old man sniper you can kill before the actual boss fight and he's replaced by a bunch of basic enemies

[@handlebarfox2366]

Game video footage: *my neck! ooohhh my neck!* me: That must be the clip from Vampire the Masquerade

[@Shy223]

So much hoarding. That's me in every game 😂

[@ytunnuyt]

Another excuse to include VtM:B in a list, I was missing these

[@VertPlaysGames]

The moment this video started the first thing that came to mind was Monster Party for NES. One of the bosses is a pair of zombies that come up out of the ground and say "Watch us dance!". A funky beat starts playing and they start dancing, and you can knock them down with your weapon but they will always keep coming back up. When I first encountered this as a kid I put something on the turbo button and left the room for a while only to come back unsuccessful. Turns out if you literally just wait and "watch them dance" for a short while, they'll eventually collapse on their own and you win.

[@hackerx7329]

Arcanum. Instead of fighting him with the right skill points you can convince the big bad evil at the end of the game that he is the one that is wrong, he reflects on what he has done, and he kills himself.

[@squilliamfancyson6628]

I remember there being a boss on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that you can defeat by just hacking him.

[@andrehashimoto8056]

The final one? It's actually finding his death switch, find it and you can use it to instantly end the fight before it even starts....

[@Ceece20]

1 boss everyone can defeat without trying: Your self esteem.

[@shibuyaneko5741]

the way you really win that boss fight is by increasing it

[@sinunknown9929]

Indeed my honest friend... fapp fapp fapp fapp fapp...

[@99baking]

Oh hell yeah, love to see VTMB on here and I had no idea about the werewolf thing!

[@DirgeTV]

"Gigantic, Winged, Horned, Naked, Goat Looking Demon" I wasn't expecting to hear this today , yet I also am not surprised its distinctly a product of Silent Hill.

[@jheckie14]

Having played VtM a ton as a kid, I actually didn't know you could do that. Well, time for one more run I guess.

[@vladdracul5072]

I tried it a few times on my last playthrough, but the werewolf was faster.

[@Eeveeboo_qwq]

The entire game of undertale up untill asgore (if you took the pacifist run)

[@Reishadowen]

I think that's skirting the definition a bit... Though if you wanted to stay in the spirit of "without firing a shot" as in, "bypassing the intended fight", you could just save up the spider doughnut from the ruins and then eat it as soon as the battle with Muffet starts, ending it immediately.

[@thetasigma2081]

In Bioshock Infinite, you never technically fight the Songbird, and when you'd reasonably have to Elizabeth just one hit ko's it

[@tomireland4740]

"Cease master D" absolutely slayed me. To the point I had to rewind once I was able to stop laughing to hear the rest of what was said XD

[@NivramAxuf]

I mean, there's also the dark souls bosses you can convince to just fall off the edge of the arena; Taurus Demon, Iron Golem, The Dragonrider

[@CardboardMoose]

Muffet from Undertale is a fun one: creepy spider lady who wants to eat you and gives you quite a difficult fight, which you can skip by...eating a doughnut that you bought at a bake sale earlier in the game.

[@enlongjones2394]

Or by hoarding a truly absurd amount of money to buy from her overpriced second bake sale. If you do that, the boss fight doesn’t even *start*.

[@boa_firebrand]

you mean ALL the bosses from a pacifist route bar three.

[@thehulkster9434]

Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues DLC - the giant robo scorpion. You could fight it like a chump (and it's not an easy fight), or you could rush to the emergency shutdown and just turn it off.

[@octodaddy1602]

Andy saying "yeet" is everything I never knew I needed

[@ultraninja101]

I was expecting to see saren from mass effect when I saw the title.

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

Doesn't sovereign reanimate saren as soon as he shoots himself? You still have to shoot the crap out of him.

[@joenesvick7043]

Or Flemeth in Dragon Age Origins

[@ultraninja101]

@@TotallyNotRedneckYall that was the reaper tech acting on it's own after saren himself died.

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

christopher bagg - well that makes sense.

[@JachAnen]

@@ultraninja101 But that's the boss fight, you can't avoid it

[@MrCookieFish]

i'd oneup you on this list by saying litterally all of darksouls bosses can be beat without firing a shot, but i may be taking the title too litteral :)

[@johnfoelster507]

I think all the cases in the Final Fantasy series where undead type bosses get ganked via the use of the Phoenix Down merit a mention.

[@VincentRoure84]

I'm quite suprised the original Deus Ex is not on this list. The look on Anna Navarre's face when you say the words "Flatlander Woman" is indeed priceless...

[@dallydaydream]

When will I learn to not be eating when there's Resident Evil footage :(

[@matwetton]

when are we getting masquerade mondays. we needs it.

[@barnabusdoyle4930]

Star Control 2, the final boss is the parked Precursor vessel owned by the Ur-Quans. If you do the fight normally, you have a very difficult battle taking down multiple batteries firing your ship seeking fireballs while trying to hit targets to open a whole to actually get to the Precursor ship. Then you fly through this tiny whole and crash your main ship into the enemy vessel. The game has very difficult controls for flying a ship and making your ship stop moving and go straight is very hard. Of course if you activate auto battle, you skip the entire final battle of the game and just instantly destroy the Precursor vessel and not have to deal with the most difficult fight in the game. Totally worth it.

[@De-Nigma]

I’ve been using quarantine to play more Dark Souls and been stuck on the Ceaseless Discharge for a while. Cheers for that. Let me know if Manus of the Abyss turns up on one of these lists anytime soon.

[@thecommieyoda5029]

And I had to actually fight CD when I could’ve just done that

[@narcspector]

HAHAHAHA that sucks, did you at least beat it?

[@deathbykonami5487]

@@narcspector he's really not that hard, just attack him when he slams his arm down and he goes down fast (faster than any other man with CD)

[@thecommieyoda5029]

Personal Persona yea

[@scarletvrgames568]

I hope this includes The End from Metal Gear 3, one of my favorite Easter egg alternatives to a boss fight; even if you've shown it already Edit: I mean.. I guess Sorrow was cool too.. but that's just how it's done. Also shouldn't this video title say "Without firing a shot *at them* ? Lots of shots everywhere else.

[@roguishpaladin]

They've featured the End so many times in other videos that they figured they should give another boss the limelight.

[@ndt_dynamite2247]

@@roguishpaladin Yeah, hundreds of videos by so many different videos tell you about that neat trick, it was cool the first time I heard about it, but the other 50 or so times? Boring. Also, wasn't there another way to beat him by sniping him just after the first cutscene you see him in or something?

[@cameronmorgan2347]

@@ndt_dynamite2247 yes, then if you stand still you get smacked in the face by his wheelchair's wheel

[@MathiasonThe5th]

In Resident Evil if having trouble getting enough distance from Lisa to push the statues get her to work for you. Stand near the statue and facing a direction to run (ie not towards statue or Lisa,) and skedaddle when expect her to strike so your character gets out of the way and Lisa smashes the statue. After all, why should you do all the work? Another boss can beat without firing a gun is Daniel Wales in Bioshock 2. Bring 2 security bots, electric flesh, and the security plasmid with you when enter passage on 2nd floor where will see Daniel Wales calling out to you before running off and leaving two electric spears in the doorway. What you need to do is hit him with the Security plasmid so your bots will chase him while running up the stairs and breaking the electric spears' lines (electric flesh makes you immune to the electrical damage,) so your bots don't run into them. Your bots will chase and shoot up Daniel so when you finally meet him in his room he'll either drop dead or just a hit or two from dying.

[@blesstherebel]

The Fear climbing that tree is exactly what I imagine whenever Prudence does Spider Climb. *shivers*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Who's Prudence? Is she from Trainspotting? I haven't watched that movie yet AND I originally thought the spider-climbing baby was from a good horror movie.

[@joefloggg3257]

"The End" can be beaten without firing a shot

[@scottylewis8124]

Anyone from the Hitman series. You can get rid of those pricks via accident or poison.

[@lfrohling]

“Furtively Google search”- I laughed so hard at this part

[@lfrohling]

Loved the alien bit of this too!

[@IFuckingLoveFrenchToast]

2:00 "Guns don't work on Werewolves" Have the developers for this game ever heard of a werewolf? Let me guess, a Garlic Canon doesn't work against vampires right?

[@thanatos5150]

Considering the game is based on the old World of Darkness properties... a Garou in its Crinos form (That is, a werewolf halfway between human and wolf) takes a lesser type of damage ("Bashing") from gunshots (But then, so do vampires), have that damage automatically reduced by half, and also get a massive bonus to their Stamina, which allows them to "soak" the vast majority of all gunfire without ever taking a single box of damage. This is circumvented by silver (among other things) which always deals Aggravated damage, and is much harder to soak. (And garlic doesn't work on vampires in the World of Darkness properties, either... neither do crosses, in most cases). Why, yes. I am a massive nerd.

[@Z33Zy]

I dont mind spoils but its really cool that yall put the games you spoil

[@G33kCulture]

You’ll never see this, but your videos get me through the days my kids have to go back to their Mom’s. Hope you are all well and thanks for bringing some joy on my sad days.

[@stone5against1]

There's few undead/zombie bosses you can instakill using Phoenix downs or the life spell in lots of Final Fantasy games.. I recall you can do it to the phantom train (yes I know you can suplex it too but that doesn't kill it in one hit) and the zombie dragon in the world of ruin, among others.

[@dustinpearson9108]

Ok that guy getting munched mid sentence got me laughing. Great surprise timing

[@WTFPr0m]

Have to give some love the the Legate Lanius fight at the end of Fallout: New Vegas. With max speech, you can literally debate him into giving up the fight and going home. No bullets fired, no weapon drawn.

[@zimmygirl777]

"Murdering dogs." John Wick would like a word with you. John Wick would like a word with you, Quake Guy.🐕🔫

[@generaltortiz8096]

Don’t forget Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Alain, where you could easily beat Quiet by calling in a supply drop on her head