Bayle The Dread Vs Old Bosses - Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree

[@theocovello7750]

Bayle: *deletes Margit in two seconds* Margit: “Well, thou art of passing skill.”

[@the_infinexos]

His pride was wounded too deeply

[@JohnnyCheddar]

He was referring to himself

[@urtoryu_dy_althraidn]

Morgott redeemed himself by doing 3 times better than you'd expect from his scaling. The guy was dodging like a Tarnished there, really surprised me.

[@Itjustdotbh]

Margit: "We'll call it a draw"

[@TheUltram04]

​@@JohnnyCheddarhe got turned into dust right?

[@Count.Saruman]

Rather fitting that Dragonlord Placidusax was the only one able to even remotely challenge Bayle's tyranny.

[@SakushuRonin08]

About that... Was Bayle the one responsible for Placidusax crippled appearance?

[@Detriax]

@@SakushuRonin08yes, but in turn Placidusax also completely messed up Bayle

[@Count.Saruman]

@@SakushuRonin08 Yes. Bayle, who was even older than Placidusax, betrayed and challenged him. Bayle went for Placi's heads, but Placi was smarter and went for Bayle's wings and legs to try and immobilise him. However Bayle somehow managed to escape when he realised he wouldn't be killing Placi. Given that he seems to be able to grow magic wings out of sheer spite he probably did so to escape. After that he cannibalised other dragons (including his own children and descendants) to recover much of his former strength while Placi hid away after his god fled.

[@cantaro5958]

@@Count.Sarumanconsidering that this likely took place before the dragon god dissapeared, its possible that placi had some of its power. Juts like how Miquella made “radahn” stronger by adding his own power

[@SakushuRonin08]

@@Count.Saruman HOLY SHIT-- THIS IS AMAZING!!! I was looking for some Bayle lore but this is... FUCKING AWESOME!

[@Toot7.]

Bayle vs Placi was so sick. Placi did actually pretty well considering he got to his second phase with low hp.

[@cowhale2488]

Yeah, it was ALMOST lore accurate lol

[@Count.Saruman]

@@cowhale2488 I think it is indeed lore accurate in their diminished state, because while Bayle has kept sharp and recovered a lot of his old strength by eating other dragons (including his own progeny), Placi hasn't and is out of practice.

[@brillywinsen6526]

@@Count.Saruman if a floating, near-catatonic placi can left bayle with 1/4 health points, i can't imagine a bloodlusted, healthy prime placi

[@darianjenkins2630]

@@brillywinsen6526Well in lore, Prime Bayle and Prime Placi reduced themselves to how they are now by fighting each other, so they would both be crazy in their prime.

[@brillywinsen6526]

@@darianjenkins2630 yeah. I really wanna see their legendary battle. The entire lands between must be shaking from their clash

[@Akiraspin]

Placidusax losing 80% of his health in the first 30 seconds; "I didn't hear no bell."

[@daanaerts_]

The problem is that idk what the creator set the scadu tree level for the bosses to but Bayle v Placidusax was not realistic, with Bayle nearly 3 shotting him in the first seconds, since every scadu level is ~4-5% dmg & defence more it’s obvious none of these bosses can win when his healthpool is inflated

[@witha1]

​@@daanaerts_his healthpool ain't inflated bru it's vanilla health

[@daanaerts_]

@@witha1 what does vanilla even mean when scadutree fragments are present, if placidusax has no fragments he does barely any damage to bayle & the other goes for max fragments. It’s not like fragments actively nerf you, but rather getting them increases your stats in the dlc, meaning if vanilla placidusax goes up against bayle he’d have 0 fragments and do barely any damage

[@witha1]

@daanaerts_ ye it's their base stats, if they started buffing bosses on one side it wouldn't be accurate

[@daanaerts_]

@ but bayle’s stats are objectively higher than placidusax’s since you need ~15 scadutree to not get one shot by some moves. There’s no point in comparing them if they don’t match stat wise since the lore says placi won

[@deejmateo832]

The only reason bayle won any of these is due to the fact none of the other bosses had igon curse him at the beginning of the fight. 😅

[@coolrotaryphone]

Fr, BAYLE didn't receive that sweet intimidation debuff he gets when you summon Igon

[@thekingofchange1428]

Fr tho, I think Igon straight up does more damage than most of these bosses

[@theenderdestruction2362]

​@@thekingofchange1428makes sense bayle is week to pericing damage and igons harpoons do pericing damage

[@zachbaudisch4480]

I beat Bayle on NG+7 without Igon because I killed him.

[@gerogero5931]

> Rips off 2 heads of their kind's equivalent of an elden lord > Leaves > Creates a new generation of dragons that live up to current times > Unknowingly creates a cult that harnesses his and his children's badassery to hunt his own kind > Gives a damn good fight one last time while being heavily dismembered and damaged > Dies What a badass.

[@Floaydi]

Ngl if he wasn't fleeing 70% of the fight he probably would have been an S tier.

[@blade5871]

Technically ripped off 3 since pacidusax talisman shows us a 5 headed dragon

[@Silver-bo7jf]

​@@blade5871 his talisman shows 4, his model shows him having 5. He probably lost 1 one before he event fought bayle or becoming the elden lord

[@shadoweye8924]

ye but bayle like ran away from placidusaxx in their fight

[@n4me485]

Even though I hate VILE BAYLE with all my heart and don't want to give him credit... I can't lie, he is cool and once I heard he had relations to Placidusax, I even thought he was awesome for a moment lol

[@xx_rai510_xx3]

“CURSE YOU BAYYYLLLLEEEEE!!!” -igon probably

[@The_Lord_Vader]

“Bitch Please” - Bayle the Dread, probably…maybe

[@somersaultinggiraffe1901]

​@@The_Lord_Vader"Bitch please." -Dragonlord Placidusax, moments before beating the fuck out of Bayle and sending him to the Shadow Realm, both literally and figuratively.

[@The_Lord_Vader]

@@somersaultinggiraffe1901 “GOT YER HEEEEEEEAAAAADDD!!!!” - Bayle the Dread, ripping off and then stealing one of Placi’s heads while being sent to the shadow realm.

[@boredaura1064]

⁠​⁠@@somersaultinggiraffe1901”Bitch Please” - They both said in unison as they ripped each other apart limb from limb in their gigantic draw of a match

[@rexmaster8190]

​@@boredaura1064"Fuck off, AND NEVER COME BACK!"-Placi after finally beating Bayle to a pulp and making him flea

[@burrzie8446]

That shot of where Mohg unleashes his wings, but seconds later Bayle does it too and clearly overshadowing Mohg *ABSOLUTE CINEMA*

[@Medicalguy]

Real

[@not__smokey]

The music was also spot on with the transformation. Epic

[@animatedmonkey5882]

This game is fuckin art bro

[@CelestialPheonixKing]

8:32

[@roghider3552]

This whole game's absolute CINEMA

[@Geral454]

Back when Elden Ring releases, I remember people saying about Placidusax "Just to imagine who or what severes his two heads". Boy now we have the answer and is DOPE.

[@angrybajur]

Crazy that the only reason Mohg didn't clap Bayle was because one of the Nihils didn't land because of the game's code messing up.

[@x.Gamma.x]

He leeched for 20k the game was like....uhhh i think we reached the regeneration status applicable for phase 2 Nihil to be completed. So the in game code scrapped the third one. But hell yea 3nihils at 30k health? He woulda beat him for sure.

[@railroad_riley5084]

Probably same reason with Radahn right? He didnt get to use his meteor.

[@thatman13545]

bro I can’t get over how cool Bayle is, he’s such a badass that even though his wings are completely tattered and he’s missing a leg, he is still one of the strongest dragons ever edit: guys, it’s fictional characters, no need to be heated.

[@eduardobriones3217]

He had to be nerfed so we had a chance to beat him, imagine how terrible he could have been if we had to fought him in his prime

[@thatman13545]

@@eduardobriones3217 true, but even now he kicks ass

[@killakev9589]

he even has Placiduax's head on his neck

[@hidan407]

​@@eduardobriones3217 I wish we could see the lore fight between him and Placiduax cause apprently it was a tie and each other is the reason they are both missing limbs

[@thatman13545]

@@killakev9589 woah

[@biax6634]

23:19 When Bayle dodges the second attack and then jumps toward Reykard, that shit is straight out of a Godzilla movie

[@idraigirtm]

Bayle really reminds me of that early crawling stage of Shin Godzilla. Both look like angry metal chickens

[@epsiln3338]

yep looks like destroyah for me

[@TheActualMrLink]

Oh my god, it totally is.

[@Kokszo]

I feel that Placidusax might've even won if he didn't give a 10+ free seconds of the fight doing his intro roar, especially at that distance.

[@임주원-d9h]

But he roaring for the lightning

[@Chaoszwaihander3434]

He should also get some scadutree fragments worth of scaling considering how Bayle is balanced around a certain damage reduction and increase

[@brandonbrown2981]

I was looking for this comment because I felt the same way. The fight was heavily weighted in Bayle's favor because of the intro move Placidusax does in the beginning.

[@stygianskies4776]

That's disingenuous. Like all of the damage Bayle took was from that one laser barrange so he barely got the chance to use any of *his* phase 2 moves.

[@jmas081391]

Check BjornTheBear' version he balanced them by giving more HP to base game Bosses.

[@blazouille2453]

It's dumb, but I LOVE the fact that his eyes blinks, and doesn't just stare, it's just a small details, but it had a lot of life in his design, imo

[@legendarykeyboardwarrior8364]

"Only dragon understand a dragon, and they hate each other"... al bundyssax probably.

[@the_infinexos]

So apparently Bayle is the "dragonlord" of those normal dragons we face, while Placidussax reigns over the ancient dragons we all know and love. Thats badass

[@andreybelyshev5093]

I'm not certain that's 100% true, bales brood is stated to be the drakes (orange electric fire ones) not all the lesser dragons

[@gummyboots]

@@andreybelyshev5093 all of the lesser dragons are drakes. Here's how you can tell, it's basically fantasy creature info: Drakes wings are their arms like bats. Dragon's have normal arms AND separate wings. Plac and his ancient DRAGONS have arms and wings, Bayle and his lesser dragons(drakes) have wing-arms. Though Bale mostly just has nubs with wing tatters on them and grows magical wings out of pure spite and malice. Also like, literally just look at them and compare to their anatomy and aesthetics to the ancient dragons and the drakes and it's pretty blatant. Also the lore just tells you.

[@andreybelyshev5093]

@gummyboots that's not really true, a drake is a loose term but it refers to a dragon like creature with 4 limbs and no wings (like a big lizard). In the game there are 2 lesser dragons that are distinctively labeled as drakes, these "drakes" are of bayles brood and you can tell by the orange ligghtning/fire they have. One is also shown in a death match with another lesser dragon so if they were all from bayle I don't think they would be depicted killing eachother. And on an unrelated note the lesser dragons are more like wyverns, as in 2 legs 2 wings, modern fantasy doesn't really care about which is which however

[@Beepers559]

@@andreybelyshev5093to be fair, drake is legit just another word for dragon, Any dragon. afaik DND gave the term drake to the wingless four legged dragons while outside of DND (or most modern fantasy in general) a dragon and a drake are basically two names for “giant winged scary lizard”

[@andreybelyshev5093]

@Beepers559 that's why I said modern fantasy doesn't really care about the distinctions, whichever can be called whatever

[@SquishyOfCinder]

I love how Bayle just goes ”Well that was fun, but let’s end it” and just melts phase 2 Malenia in one comboz

[@triforceofcourage100]

It’s cathartic

[@vortexyt78]

Whenever I see Bayle the only thing rings in my head is " CURSE YOU BAYLE"

[@tehmastawow]

That voice actor sure did leave an impression

[@nathanabel8169]

His monologue while being summoned was the best thing ever.

[@herp_derpingson]

Curse you perry the platypus!

[@dm-rj2zg]

GET BACK HERE BAYLE! BAAAAAAYLE!! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME, I'LL HUNT YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!

[@Rishak7991]

bro what are the origins for this meme.Seeing it everywhere. Is it an NPC? If yes how tf did i miss it lol

[@TheSammyAberdeen]

Bayle hated the Godskin Duo so much, he broke the laws of physics

[@ekarin7778]

Gofrey wrestling a dragon is so badass.

[@GRIBLYGROBLY]

19:27 POV fending off a pit bull named princess with a garbage lid:

[@ShadowNinjaMaster93]

LMAO I'M CRYING

[@Khann_2102]

Bro 😂😭

[@Foxtail190]

Ok that’s great lmao

[@AscendantStoic]

@@GRIBLYGROBLY Another day in the life of a homeless fire giant.

[@heroiclegendxxx]

Holy shit

[@tranquoccuong890-its-orge]

10:50 damn that was a clean dodge Bayle doesn't fool around, he doesn't sugarcoat at all

[@tugitbrothers3699]

Seeing something so big dodge that fast is terrifying

[@sevw.509]

Not only that he was smart enough to stay at a distance until the bloom had faded

[@luka188]

That looked so awesome. Usually these fights don't look great because the boss movesets aren't designed for them to fight each other, but this fight between Bayle and Malenia was awesome and looked legit too with how Malenia went for his head and his wounded leg in phase one, but Bayle was just too much for her with his insane reach, HP, fire lightning, etc.

[@ZZWWYZ]

Then he immediately went in for a wombo combo for the clean knock out

[@Vibinou]

Idk if anyone has noticed, but some of Placidusax’s disembodied heads still have their jaw clamped down on Bayle’s neck. I think that’s a good attention to detail considering their lore.

[@lucianopfenninger4315]

oh shit

[@NoSyrupLeft]

Bayle reminds me of a dragonized version of Destroyah from the Godzilla movies. His fight with Rykard/Big Snek was like something out of a Godzilla movie.

[@sidsanchez9442]

Mohg and bayle both popping wings out at the end of the fight is soooo cool

[@7evan]

I like how the only reason Malenia usually somewhat holds her own in these videos is because she can heal. That and Mogh's Nihil lets him take a good chunk of hp which sometimes turns the tide in his favor. Not this time tho guys. Learn the moveset you sillly npcs

[@imapro2597]

I think you can also attribute a lot of it to the water fowl dance because whenever she doesn’t do it she dies but the moment she does it it’s just a massacre

[@МаратВасильев]

The only reason why she lost is because of bayle dodging her scarlet aeonia, life steal doesn't matter when he can just destroy her health in seconds

[@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416]

​​​@@МаратВасильевSame goes with maliketh considering how bad stats have in maliketh such as his HP, lacking of 2nd phase full healthbar, low poise damage, low poise level/stance and low direct hit attacks.... If maliketh also does that exactly same by avoiding her scarlet aeonia completely with his move attacks, he too win

[@PanamaIsBetter]

They need to get gud! 😂

[@-VenyX-]

It's not realy impressive considering that Elden Beast would canonically be stronger. I mean, a lot of the bosses are canonically stronger yet because of SCALING, Bayle just wins, which is just boring. I like fights with equal scaling

[@abdelrahman788]

12:35 that was epic, and i really love how angry and raging he is like bro stabs you with his torn wing bone, how can I not like that? He's really a DREAD.

[@law_boii]

26:38 seeing Horah scream and jump right into Bayle’s guts is cartoonishly hilarious to me

[@katamariroller2837]

Every time Bayle was staggered that was Hoarah Lux doing his grab attack. He was literally WRESTLING THE VILEST, SECOND-MOST POWERFUL DRAGON IN HISTORY INTO SUBMISSION.

[@law_boii]

@@katamariroller2837 HORAH LOUX’S MOMMA DIDNT RAISE NO BlTCH

[@ilshail153]

He must've decided to try finger, but hole

[@duckyduckington9736]

@@katamariroller2837 MOST powerful, him and placi tied. And remember he wasn't a dragon, he was a DRAKE.

[@jtizzle124]

@@duckyduckington9736He’s a wyvern

[@dennismadrid5146]

Whats makes Bayle so interesting is the fact that he wasnt an Ancient dragon, and was infact a regular dragon/wyvern that we kill so commonly in the lands between. This Mf rosed up and decided to kill the elden lord (of his time) that was an upgrade of his race but way stronger. No victors that caused both of them to be severly wounded permanently. RESPECT

[@johnnyboy3410]

come on, Dragonlord tore his wings and completely severed his left leg, we know who won

[@dennismadrid5146]

@@johnnyboy3410 I mean to be fair, bro took our multiple heads do the boss and be never recovered it since. At least bayle can conjure his broken parts like he never lost it

[@gabrielamartinezmendez6354]

​@@johnnyboy3410I hesitated, bayle tore off 2 heads from placidusax and on top of that he left his body all full of scars and wounds impossible to heal, bayle for his part was able to recover his wings through magic and apart from that his fire is special since it is fire with lightning, while placidusax is only a much more powerful lightning, Bayle was the oldest of all dragons

[@TheVhangkhitha]

Bayle is described as the oldest of all dragons, and this is by another ancient dragon. He probably is an ancient dragon of sorts or maybe the last remnant of an older form of dragon that the ancient dragons descend from. But still, to fight an ancient dragonlord and force a stalemate is badass.

[@H4v0c_13]

@@dennismadrid5146 bayle scuttled off to go heal - placidusax only went into hiding bc his god dipped - cmon now

[@thatfunkadeus]

Bayle looks like what the Magma wyrms were attempting to become, idk if that's lore accurate but if that was the intention than A+ to the concept artists and character designers because it really does read that way.

[@LiandriMatrix5]

It is stated in the lore that magma wyrms are knights who worshipped the dragons and partook in dragon communion (eating their hearts). But they did it so often that they eventually transformed into the magma wyrms we face. Given the lore in the dlc that Bayle was the one who inspired the dragon worshipping cult in the first place, it makes perfect sense why they'd look like Bayle.

[@brillywinsen6526]

Placi might've lost, but it's still impressive that he can drop bayle's HP to almost a quarter with that laser attack Both of them were also past their prime here. Especially placi

[@sarwatarannya8786]

Placidusax is also just less aggressive, which is why bayle won. I mean he couldn't even pull of his big lightning nuke.

[@brillywinsen6526]

@@sarwatarannya8786 yeah. We need the aggressive, full-power healthy placi

[@zenildoneto7710]

​@sarwatarannya8786, his lighting nuke is basically useless in these bvb fights, it do very low damage and takes a lot o time to charge

[@brillywinsen6526]

@@zenildoneto7710 i agree! It should do at least 10k damage! I mean look at these SoTE bosses. Some of them can deal 5k damage with a single hit

[@kb-ww1uw]

Also let's not forget the movesets in these videos have the tarnished in mind. They would be fighting way differently in actuality.

[@bronycrafter1526]

10:24 the way malenia just fucking kicks him in the head for a perfectly timed stagger, fucking fantastic

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

If only she had Waterfowl'd after, would have been perfect!

[@ultrawhale1712]

​@@BaldorfBreakdownshe dodged both of her nukes

[@1.25-dihydroxycholecalciferol]

14:30 the only duel I cared about, the rematch

[@brillywinsen6526]

Me too man. It's very cool because it's also lore accurate Placi has been floating in isolation, while bayle has been cannibalising his descendants and grow stronger And yet, placi managed to bring bayle's HP from more than half to almost 1/4 with that laser attack

[@annesN1fan50]

@@brillywinsen6526 too bad dlc bosses have inflated stats otherwise it could have been a really cool fight

[@himanshupandey8771]

Actually i was only here bcs of malenia😂

[@himanshupandey8771]

Actually i was only here bcs of malenia😂

[@somersaultinggiraffe1901]

​@@himanshupandey8771nobody gives a flying fuck about thay fraud

[@MrHeavy466]

8:32 That's cinematic gold, the way the music syncs with Bayle's phase 2.

[@mattericarichards8462]

I love how we see 2 of Placi’s heads still biting down on Bayle’s neck and back that’s a incredible detail the developers added. Man I love this games lore and story it’s really impressive imo

[@Bluefire-zz7qi]

the fact that he didn't show Bayle fighting soldier of godrick means that he one shot Bayle and made everyone look too weak by comparison.

[@Toot7.]

My boy Maliketh did great, considering he has no health and poise plus his destined death deals much less damage to DLC bosses than the base ones. Still, I believe he could have won here if he had more health. Gurranq is just a waste of health especially against these new bosses :)

[@zm6241]

Prime Maliketh with full destined death would’ve whooped his ass ngl and I wish as soon as we fought clergyman on the first couple hits he go into 2nd phase instead of halfway beating him or atleast give him full health regen

[@revenant2160]

@@zm6241and prime bayle would’ve still killed him

[@zm6241]

@@revenant2160 40/60 I believe prime Maliketh destined death is kill on hit/existence erasure prolly at multiversal potency and I think Maliketh reaction speed which is on par with them since he’s stays Farum azula that surpasses time should be enough i say Maliketh wins high diff

[@zm6241]

@@revenant2160 since Malikeths prime destined death is existence erasure and its kill on hit and bayle a big ass target I highly doubt it but imagine if bayle had destined death 💀

[@drago354]

I honestly believe Maliketh would've won had the Destined Death DOT done the same damage like with the base game enemies

[@Detriax]

Love the Placidusax one, considering both Placidusax and Bayle messed each up in the lore

[@fullonsociopath]

Bayle to Fire Giant: You merely adopted the flame, I was born in it.

[@sadeqmuqibel]

24:30 Rykard and Bayle falling together is absolutely cinematic

[@pforgottonsoul]

kinda funny how mohg is the gatekeeper boss for the dlc and was the closest to killing bayle.

[@zanido9073]

Nihil chunking with that % max hp damage

[@zawarudo8991]

Usually hate these kind of videos, however, Godrick standing in front of a giant F-off Dragon and thinking the best course of action is to stand there, chop his own arm off, graft a comparatively tiny dragon head onto it and getting slapped immediately, is extremely funny.

[@datzfatz2368]

Why do you hate these kind of Videos? Whats the issue with them? They are just dumb fun, aint hurtin Anyone

[@zawarudo8991]

@@datzfatz2368 they are dumb and clutter feed

[@datzfatz2368]

@@zawarudo8991 mh, i find them sort of interesting tbh, but i get where ya coming from. In that case: Options-> No more Video recommendations from this channel

[@zawarudo8991]

@@datzfatz2368 1. this function is broken 2. it is annoying exactly because so many channels do it

[@datzfatz2368]

@@zawarudo8991 huh ok, it works for me usually, but in that case, fair^^

[@alihadadi81]

Bayle vs Placi was absolutely amazing it’s like Godzilla vs Ghidorah but both full dragons with lightning powers

[@spicymeister]

i cant imagine what it looked like when they first fought. placi was already out of his prime by then, but it wouldve looked so fucking crazy

[@riohudson9612]

I swear Bayle is so damn cinematic with these fights. Every move he's making doesn't read like an AI going through routine moves, only switching up as a reaction to being damaged. It always reads like he's actually fighting. Using moves to not just deal damage but close distance, catch smaller enemies trying to hide under his chest, and even using his tail swipe to quickly turn like in Astel's fight. He even sometimes seems to in anger to being damaged or being unable to hit his target. He barely ever misses, and in fact doesn't even seem to use moves that would be likely to miss against his specific opponent relative to their size and mobility. The only exceptions look so close to the wire that it never feels like an AI using a move dumbly. Then there's always the moments where a boss is using some kind of BS move or perk, and when he does his next attack it just *feels* like he's roaring at the top of his lungs "ENOUGH!!!". With the ancient dragon that kept stun locking him and Mohg, where he sprouts his wings and takes to the sky, specifically using moves with his wings as they all have the AOE and mobility to completely trounce them even with their own flight capabilities. Then Malenia, where she broke his guard twice and nearly regained all of her health, where he appropriately yelled in rage and struck her down with his own BS move. Now *that* felt like some proper gamer rage. But the fight between him and Rykard in the second phase? Pure. kaiju. Mayhem.

[@rustkarl]

I feel like half the fight with the ancient dragon was Bayle getting stance broken, stuck on the terrain and missing because of the ancient dragon’s whack-ass hitbox. The Dragonlord and The Lord of Blood being the only two to get close head-to-head.

[@KogasaTatara514]

Is it just me, or does destined death seem to do less damage on these DLC bosses? Furnace golems are already completely immune to it and blackflame, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some low DoT multiplier given to them..

[@Toot7.]

Yeah, it does way less and that makes no sense tbh. Lol

[@ROCKSTAR3291]

DLC bosses all have increased resistance to everything, looks like only Scarlet Rot still works as usual.

[@cantaro5958]

Makes sense they are resistant to it to an extent. After all the difficulty of the doc was made in mind so its not possible to easily defeat the bosses without having scadutree fragments.

[@rubric-eo5yj]

@@Toot7. no sense, are you dumb ,this dlc was meant as a challenge for veteran players and of course the bosses are stronger.This was made for actual human players and not boss vs boss battles ,so it makes perfect sense

[@sasaki999pro]

Honestly its kinda stupid that they waited until the DLC to rebalance those elements, I don't know why they always do this. If you think the damage is busted then rework its functionality on a base level, don't just make it weirdly inconsistent out of nowhere.

[@pr0to_zy431]

Commander Niall fighting bayle is the most metal thing ive seen today.

[@conniefan123]

Oml ur right tho

[@rootbourne4454]

Extremely satisfying watching that guy get his ass kicked

[@aishikbarman9426]

First dragon to defeat Malenia, while being a crippled dragon. Goddamn.

[@billveusay9423]

Bayle to Mogh "Cool wings bro. Wanna see mine ?"

[@SKer-l6c]

"I knew you'd come" "To stand bef-...HOLY SHIT"

[@majster7072]

His strength is truly extraordinary

[@tonymarino8]

Until he faced a lowly tarnished....

[@Dacia226]

@@tonymarino8 with no renown

[@theetrufflshuffl]

Seeing both of placidusax missing heads lodged into bayle neck is such a badass detail

[@JasonTodd01]

Bayle is such a badass, bro chopped off two Placi's heads and his tail, And is now beating your ass with one leg.

[@HammboneBob]

Bayle seeing what's essentially a worm trying to graft one of his great grandchildren probably pissed him off bad

[@dbean5174]

The fact that you can actually see one of Placidusax’s heads stuck around Bayle’s neck is awesome

[@JAEWST]

Your system protested heavily to the godskin fight

[@GsByakuya]

Why was bayle not as chill when I fought him he felt like a rabid hyperactive cat

[@АртурЧугай]

Boss AI gets confused fighting something that's not a player. If he were to fight an NPC Boss he'd be aggressive as usual.

[@YeTheGOATNoCap]

He absolutely destroyed Gideon. Human sized NPC have 0% chance of doing more than 5% of his health before dying.

[@abumorgan1421]

No wings, no arms and one leg but yet he managed to give us a really hard time

[@samluke4440]

Bayle the dread has a old grudge against placidusax. Great video

[@asradi101]

Godfrey being able to grab Bayle and running the slam animation is so much jank, I love it.

[@chriskoloski32]

Considering the raw damage and his higher aggression. Its no wonder this is possibly the hardest boss in the dlc. They literally give you a summon with a weapon to help weaken the boss, but trying to summon him will likely get yoy killed

[@revenant2160]

It’s definitely radahn

[@mercylavigne]

@@revenant2160 I had 40 hours when in the DLC when i got to Radahn. Now i have almost 50 and still didn't beat him lol.

[@andrewbowen2837]

Maybe second hardest

[@jtizzle124]

@@andrewbowen2837Commander Gaius would also like a word

[@andrewbowen2837]

@@jtizzle124 Gaius is easy

[@cocorodrigueztattoos4969]

The mogh fight was BADASS

[@Prince_Smugarina]

Missing a leg, Wings are wreck to the point bone is on display. Still able to fly, and still able to jump a football field before you can blink and make you do an impression of Igon.

[@crutonman1547]

i find this video shows what alexander was talking about when he referred to the giant as basically a god, even Bayle looks like a floormat in comparison

[@malikhittam1440]

Finally, after so many years, we have a worthy successor to Darkeater Midir

[@douglasbullet6456]

Hiccup: "I can train that dragon" The Dragon:

[@despair___3105]

Literally Ghidorah vs Destroyah

[@mcnizzzle3961]

Yeah Miyazaki definitely has a Godzilla influence

[@thesovietduck2121]

Bayle kinda is more like Rodan

[@despair___3105]

@@thesovietduck2121 I view him as Destroyah cuz of his demonic ass face and his fire is mixed lightning whenever he uses his beam similar to Destroyah:)

[@AKOverkill]

I think the design is dope. I especially like the idea that his left foot is cut off as hugging the left back leg was a common strategy for a lot of dragon fights innsouls games. I love the exposed bone being used as a sword that he charges with his red fire/lightning magic. The phases are badass too

[@Makeveliii]

He even uses his tail for balance on the side where his leg is missing crazy design detail

[@Thaylien]

I’m legitimately surprised to see Bayle’s leap save him from both the majority of Waterfowl Dance and then the entirety of the Scarlet Bloom… That was unexpected.

[@ovnis__]

17:20 Maliketh jumping over Bayle attack was absolute cinema ngl!! He did well.

[@er5114]

And this is only a heavily wounded and old bayle imagine how strong prime bayle was like with hes wings and limbs

[@tonymarino8]

Terrifying

[@Phantom-bh5ru]

Weaker than prime placi though

[@akaimizu9780]

@@Phantom-bh5ru placi kinda lost 2 or 3 heads from him tho

[@h4g6g36]

​@@akaimizu9780and he lost his arms a leg and his wing after sneak attacking placi and he ran away

[@mercylavigne]

@@h4g6g36 He never had arms in the first place. He's a Drake.

[@OfFiendNarrative]

The way he just dodged Malenia second phase rot flower attack and then just destroyed her^^

[@SoulsOfWisdom]

Everybody else be like "I want to see him fight Malenia". Meanwhile, some of us who read item descriptions wants to see the rematch with Placidusax.

[@penguincolt6649]

16:09 gotta say the ending to this fight was pure goosebumps, the roar display as if he was sayin “this is who your fuckin with!” Only for Bayle to pull off a villain ass plot twist, music slowly getting more tense, truly the only boss fight that had me amazed

[@operativewinters3458]

10:50, love the dodge by Bayle.

[@paranoic5447]

WTF no was he did that

[@EldenRingBattle]

I love the details on Bayle's back, as we can see 2 of Placidusax's heads stuck on it Makes the lore between these 2 even more badass

[@emperordalek102]

congratulations bayle. im proud of my dragon boi.

[@Nameless_Godzilla]

Holy shit, it beat Malenia, without its phase 2!

[@Arma468]

he get lucky he didn't gate the flower

[@somersaultinggiraffe1901]

​@@Arma468Malenia when a boss has enough braincells to dodge her plot armor flower: "I am Malenia, blade of Miquella, and I have never known victory."

[@nrnjn8547]

​@@Arma468 she lucky, he didn't go lightning laser lmao

[@4rthChairmode]

Some fights end faster if grab move work of all bosses

[@bohr7610]

@@somersaultinggiraffe1901 malenia without her gimmicks be like:

[@ManFromThePits]

Bayle: What're you doing up there?! Elden Beast: Staying away from you!

[@TheStrengthScholar]

The fact that bayle is this strong while having both of his wings partially amputated and clipped as well as missing a leg is INSANE.

[@draconinja2728]

And Canonically Placi won against THIS THING? That Maliketh fight had some good dodges,and god that Dragon imbued poke he does is NASTY.

[@Detriax]

Placidusax in his prime, yes. Though they were both injured, Bayle came out of it worse

[@cantaro5958]

Both mutilated each other and honestly immo both are equally as damaged, Paci lost 3 heads and has his body and broken up. Bayle lost half of 3 limbs and his wings.

[@Pantheon-with-a-P]

​@@cantaro5958he actually only lost 2 heads.

[@Pantheon-with-a-P]

​@@cantaro5958the old Lords talisman depicts him with only 4 heads, he of course originally had 5, but by the time he fought bayle he probably only had 4 left.

[@Detriax]

@@cantaro5958 but Placidusax is still mostly intact. Bayle is not

[@LucioRodriguez-m2b]

Bayle looks like a Balrog

[@davidnewhart2533]

Dude, it's so satisfying seeing Malenia actually lose fights after so long!

[@Thatoneguy-po8gw]

Mogh’s first phase: 👶 *nihil* Mohg’s second phase: 🗿

[@TheGrillMaster1]

Man Bayle is cool, the fact that he doesn’t get an official remembrance is actually foul because he’s a better boss imo than every other boss (except messmer, and possibly maliketh)

[@matthiasmelaku7118]

THANK YOU I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR BAYLE VS PLACIDUSAX

[@Grim-dd9yf]

The ancient dragon was giving him the work

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

He was actually being bullied by a regular ancient dragon and said f-ck this

[@Grim-dd9yf]

@@KuraSourTakanHour facts

[@YeTheGOATNoCap]

He got a ridiculous amount of poise breaks and just stared at Bayle doing nothing every time.

[@CrystallizedBlood1]

Godfrey is such a Chad to be able to pile drive a dragon 😂

[@dumbsterdives]

that fight against the ancient dragon made it really apparent that his moveset really wasnt built for something lifted off the ground that much, most of his attacks just went under its hitbox completely, or else that fight would have ended way faster

[@dumbsterdives]

inb4 "well obviously it wasnt built for that, its built to fight players"

[@floristov]

10:49 OMG that Bayle sequence dodging the Scarlet Aeonia and then finish her with a combo, THE SICKEST DRAGON FREE

[@ajluke5216]

Placidusax fight was sweet, considering their fight is the reason they are both messed up pretty bad. Bayle took some of placidusax’s heads and placidusax took bayles leg and part of a wing in return or vise versa lol.

[@satvikverma681]

I think they all need scadutree blessing+10 or 15 for this to be fair, adjusted damage and defense matching that blessing level would make this much more close

[@amazonbox5939]

0:46 "man get that shi outta here"

[@MH_Dalam]

10:23 Dang, Malenia do just be throwing hands out here with that stagger 😆

[@demonshade4120]

I kinda find it funny how little poise Bayle has. He is so massive and ferocious yet he gets staggered so easily.

[@jbheath6678]

He's like an old MMA fighter. Tough as a boot, hits like a truck. But his chin is gone.

[@Nameless_Godzilla]

I love how much health the dlc bosses have. Really makes me angry. 100/10, definitely worth the money. I’d pay $400, and it would still be worth it

[@nikoladrca5324]

Even maimed, this guy annihilates everyone, even the Elden Beast and Rykard. I also love how he coincidentally defeated Placidusax with the Phase 2 transformation attack, it looked great! The Tarnished is an Outer God, then, if he can defeat everyone and Bayle who defeated everyone, too 😂

[@sublyme1994]

"Thou art of passing skill" got me, lol.

[@-shagarulabrioche-2294]

Bayle beating malenia may be one of the best i've seen in an elden ring video.

[@jesusojeda7850]

I was expecting the usual "beats everyone but Malenia and Maliketh", but Bayle proved me wrong. Wow, such terror incarnate, much dragon, such vile.