Don't Starve Together BOSS TOURNAMENT! Which Boss is the Strongest?

In this video I pair up every boss in Don't Starve Together in a tournament-style competition/fight against one another to find out which is truly the strongest. First, I set down a number of house rules to keep the fighting as fair as possible, and then the fighting can commence.
Timestamps:
00:00 - 00:22: Intro
00:22 - 02:32: Rules
02:32 - 02:44: Round 1
02:44 - 03:39: Ancient Guardian v. Shadow Clockworks
03:39 - 04:19: Deerclops v. Antlion
04:19 - 04:59: Moose/Goose v. Cave Stalker
04:59 - 05:41: Dragonfly v. Bee Queen
05:41 - 06:12: Malbatross v. Spider Queen
06:12 - 07:08: Klaus v. Toadstool
07:08 - 07:43: Bearger v. Treeguard
07:43 - 08:08: Round 2
08:08 - 08:37: Malbatross v. Bee Queen
08:37 - 09:22: Ancient Guardian v. Antlion
09:22 - 09:46: Moose/Goose v. Klaus
09:46 - 10:26: Feastclops v. Bearger
10:26 - 10:37: Round 3
10:37 - 11:32: Ancient Guardian v. Bee Queen
11:31 - 12:13: Bearger v. Klaus
12:13 - 14:49: FINAL ROUND
14:49 - 16:02: Outro/Addendum
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Hello and welcome to the DST Boss Tournament! A battle royale that pitches every morbidly malignant foe against one another, to see who will truly come out on top.
But before we get started, we need to lay down a number of house rules to keep the brawling fun, fair, and also actually possible in some cases. If you want to skip to the good stuff, each section of the video will be labelled on the timeline, so you can skip ahead.
Many bosses in DST are classified as 'raid bosses,' which usually means that they have amped up amounts of health, damage, and a mordicum of special abilities to boot. However, any bosses participating in this tournament will only have access to these abilities when defending against an interloper. This is for 2 main reasons: one, so that 2 bosses who like to hang around near a certain object or area, such as the Dragonfly and Klaus, can actually fight each other, and 2, so that bosses don't rely on cheesing their way through the tournament by summoning minions or the like. I mean, it's not like this championship is fair in the slightest, but still.
The second rule is pretty simple: Ancient Fuelweaver is disqualified. Sorry bud. I mean, you can literally turn invincible, what were you expecting? To be allowed to compete? NO! GET OUT!
Since none of the other bosses can go insane in order to disable the Fuelweaver's shield, he would be guaranteed to win, which wouldn't make the tournament very fun to watch. Even without this shield, no boss would be able to stand a chance against his ludicrous self-healing abilities, so yeah. In this tourney he's effectively been replaced with the Reanimated Skeleton, who, granted, is way, way, less powerful than Fuely, but at least They have more than one representatives in the battle. Furthermore, the Forest Stalker will not be included either, due to it's lack of attacks.
Rule three states that the Crab King will also be disqualified. Although he isn't literally unbeatable like the Fuelweaver is, this guy is basically the cheese machine. The fight is intended to be fought on a boat, and, well- bosses can't repair leaks, or use ice staves to cancel the geyser attacks, meaning that they will either instantly die, or even if they're exempt from sinking by being a flying boss, they will just be frozen forever, as this is the only Crab King attack that directly targets opponents. That's right, crustacean man. OUT!
Rule four denotes that the Shadow Clockworks will all fight as one unit - as they are extremely weak by themselves, outclassed by even a lowly treeguard. Plus, the boss' entire gimmick involves them being fought together, so it wouldn't really make sense for them to take part individually.
As there are only 14 bosses in the original lineup, there will be one boss left without a pairing in the second round. Whoever this boss happens to be will be set up against the frosty Winter's Feastclops - a special variant of Deerclops who appears during the Winter's Feast event. Feastclops is more or less identical to Deerclops, except that it can weave in an additional laser attack as well as the standard ice smash.
♫Music Used: ♫
♫Simon Viklund - Master Plan (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Wanted Dead or Alive (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Fuse Box (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Mayhem Dressed in a Suit (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Full Force Forward (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Sirens in the Distance (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Something Wicked This Way Comes (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫Simon Viklund - Ho Ho Ho (PAYDAY 2 Soundtrack)♫
♫HOME - 07 (Resting State)♫
♫HOME - Faking Future Funk♫
I AM NOT CLAIMING OWNERSHIP TO THE MUSIC USED
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[@FreddoFilms]

Thank you for watching! Or being a sneaky time traveller. ;) Much of this video was made possible via the Playable Pets mod/s, so a massive thanks to Leonardo Coxington for creating them! Mod Collection: steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=630891364 Another massive thanks to Akiva for creating the character stills used throughout this video, be sure to give them some love over on insta: instagram.com/akiivaq/ FANART BY: BlossomVoidart twitter.com/BlossomVoidart Links to other stuff: 🎥TWITCH: twitch.tv/freddofilms 🐦TWITTER: twitter.com/Freddo_Films 💬DISCORD SERVER: discordapp.com/invite/dCVANk9 ☁STEAM GROUP: steamcommunity.com/groups/freddofilms (KZbin doesn't like links in descriptions which is why everything is here.)

[@voidedpandaz5733]

I didn't know what days you streamed till now so WAHOO

[@filippohl9097]

Wait you forgot MISERY toadstool.

[@filippohl9097]

WAIT i just noticed that this is rigged ancient guardian dropped beequeen loot which means he won!(beequeen crown,jelly etc.)

[@jetpackdog3427]

How did you make the bosses infight?

[@FreddoFilms]

@@jetpackdog3427 Movie magic ;)

[@Kimri]

"Bearger vs Treeguard" I think we all know what'd happen.

[@GreedyGabriel]

honestly I've seen bearger die to treeguards too often

[@funkey6737]

That's the only way I kill bearger also free living logs

[@GreedyGabriel]

@@funkey6737 I just let bearer stay in a corner of the world so he would never bother me again

[@Kimri]

@@GreedyGabriel That's usually the case for experienced players with a megabase in mind. I find many just use him as an efficient log farm, me included, when starting a new world.

[@sinancothebest]

@@GreedyGabriel The thing is, it takes a plurality of them to finally kill the insane bear. One has no chance over Bearger. Though I've seen a big one kill Deerclops on its own.

[@a76329]

The Klaus vs BQ fight is so epic I didn't expect that BQ can manage to fight Klaus to second life

[@filippohl9097]

hold on beequeen actualy lost to ancient guardian becaouse he dropped her loot that means this was all rigged (you can see him drop her jelly and crown)

[@remixalotl9581]

Huh. That is really weird. Not sure if that is a glitch or not, but Ancient Guardain dropped both his loot and Bee Queen's. But Bee Queen was still standing, so technically that counts I guess????

[@randomzergling]

Yeah, BQ is tough.

[@FreddoFilms]

It was a really close fight as well, Klaus only had about 3k health or so left.

[@ikoniful3984]

Filip Pohl can you provide a time stamp for proof?

[@DementedDuskull]

7:09 How fitting it is that Bearger is fighting the treeguard, as many of us are well acquainted with this matchup already.

[@ivanmarcusdegoeslopes1705]

i think every single person who ever spawned a bearger in life knows this match up XD

[@randomzergling]

This guy sounds like a national geographic narrator watching a battle.

[@goozgaming9940]

He does sound like that

[@nubbbot2319]

random

[@bryanalmiron1438]

It would have been interesting to see the hp of each boss during their battles in the tournament.

[@panouf1769]

yeah, clearly !!

[@takami_0710]

but then there would be no suspense, he did that for a reason, what's the point in watching a boxing match when you can see their health

[@Spanish_or_vanish_boi]

True

[@maxtheman5689]

@@takami_0710 But we still have strength

[@jackyqiu913]

I would still want him to have hp count after every round because I wanna see how close each fight was

[@baldboyfriend8589]

Wow, I thought Deerclops would be at least able to kill Antlion....

[@Randoman590]

He probably can, given favourable AI RnG. He spent a lot of time whacking random sand pillars instead of Antlion, so he took a lot of unnecessary damage. But, AI behaviour in this game is what it is.

[@yoghurtmaster1688]

@@Randoman590 deerclops does indeed have lower stats than antlion tho

[@Abyssal._.]

@@yoghurtmaster1688 the freeze effect would have won the battle, if the ai was better focused

[@yoghurtmaster1688]

@@Abyssal._. nah antlion has like 50% more health deerclops is just really weak giant

[@Abyssal._.]

@@yoghurtmaster1688 50 percent of antlions attacks will be blocked, also, both of em are really weak imo

[@randomzergling]

10:23 Brute force topping psychic power. Pokemon fans: Wait, thats illegal.

[@yoshiisland8263]

That's what dark types are for

[@karajohn5504]

but dark wins against psychic less by brute force and more by traps and schemes

[@incyray9709]

Now it's time for the bonus round, the winner vs. MISERY TOADSTOOL!

[@jaymeslanske1234]

Enraged Klaus would still likely win

[@vitorbarnabe2108]

so as bee queen

[@thebrickinquestion]

@@jaymeslanske1234 you sure?

[@jaymeslanske1234]

@@thebrickinquestion enraged Klaus has stupid defense and does stupid damage and misery toadstool still has barely any direct attacks

[@thebrickinquestion]

@@jaymeslanske1234 *but 99999 hp doe*

[@sqiwdward5085]

14:32 Ancient fulewaver:finally a worthy enemy, *OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY*

[@Imnotcloneofhappyscribble]

AF:uses Invicible hands C: im also dead!

[@Jakeyosaurus]

this was awesome

[@Zenith3352]

you’re here?? wtf???? why are there so many random osrs youtubers in unknown comment sections

[@mvl7186]

Ofcourse the winer is going to be krab king! The other bosses wont be able to put the gems inside him, and neither will they be able to swim!

[@user-bu5xg2pu6e]

LOL crab king is OP pls nerf

[@FreddoFilms]

I did find workarounds for bosses that break the competition like this. I still want the video to not be _100%_ predictable :P

[@MaquinaRara1]

Malbatross would win, as crabking has no direct attacks

[@DementedDuskull]

M Vl Actually... _Klaus would._ Crab King loot can be found in the loot stash, meaning that Klaus has interacted with the crustacean creep before. Not to mention that given the existence of Klaus's Life Giving Amulet and the Gem Deer, then yes, Klaus would be _more_ than capable of handling the required gems. Is it really any surprise that he won? The loot stash is filled with boss loot, there is no question that he could beat any boss in a fight, and is definitely much smarter than any of us gave him credit for, I even made a whole video about it it goes so deep.

[@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8]

Couldn't Malbatross slowly (though inefficiently) kill Crab king? It is completely unphased by everything except the stunlock freeze attack

[@sinancothebest]

Aww, I expected Goose's Demon spawns to help her in her fight.

[@alanakristoffersen9719]

Yeah her baby demons xD

[@khorneflakes4446]

8:53 Scatman intensifies.

[@5starvids_551]

I've been waiting what feels like 84 years for something like this!!!

[@gnomowykrytyk6757]

Turbina : am i a joke to you

[@Derakon_]

if so, you must be older than 84 years old and the game didn't even exist 20 years ago :o... Are you a time traveler?! :OOO

[@Mr.Pallanza]

4:44 MooseGoose: *_"Just so you know, I'm not trapped here with you... YOU'RE TRAPPED HERE WITH ME."_* **HONKS VIOLENTLY**

[@kashino55archive94]

Despite her placement, I can't help but wonder how Bee Queen would have fared against the Antlion. I feel like the spikes would quickly dispatch her little bees, allowing it to prioritize hitting her.

[@SrLoro153]

Sometimes the spikes of AntLion don't hit flying mobs, like Abigail, but who knows 😅

[@myschloss]

I really wasn't expecting declops to die to antlion and that bee queen almost beat Klaus

[@jate4941]

Enraged Klaus because the other bosses aoe attack will kill deers and he will probably in rage

[@zaptrap4802]

you are genius.

[@limitlessfantasy6735]

I really hoped you'd have used the full potentiel power of bearger that is when he is fought when he is sleeping which can put the opponent to sleep and thus leaving him open to attacks

[@bean370]

He would of still lost the raid bosses have to much health and. I’m pretty sure Klaus is immune to sleep

[@Sleepyaliencats]

@@bean370 nope he's not but ya he's probably still gonna win

The fact that such a high quality video has this low amount of views is frustating

[@zaptrap4802]

11:24 Why did Ancient Guardian drop a bee queen crown?

[@BobTheHamEnthusiast]

wait WHAT

[@DementedDuskull]

zaptrap Mod glitch I assume

[@merchant3899]

Playable pets

[@merchant3899]

They were in bot mod

[@grimm2143]

Omg its zaptrap dont starev

[@wormiestwood682]

Boy oh boy, this will be fun, have been waiting all day. Edit: ok after the video, man this was just as much fun as i expected it to be, really good narration on your part freddo, really liked it, sadly my pick didn't win but atleast i got second place, this was quite fun to watch, even if it was a more silly video. Also, can't wait till tomorrow's stream, see ya there.

[@GreedyGabriel]

4:16 SEE I TOLD YOU ANTLION IS OP

[@ProfessorAres]

Oh hey it’s that Gabriel guy that makes dst videos

[@GreedyGabriel]

@@ProfessorAres i lub u

[@notgabriel8624]

This video was WAAAAYYY better than I expected, good work!

[@DementedDuskull]

YEEEEEAAHHHH KLLLAAAAUUUUSS I knew he'd win! The loot stash is proof enough that he could beat most bosses in a brawl!

[@Fuhrer176]

So thats why he have all the boss items inside his sack!

[@casita6151]

spoilers :(

[@DementedDuskull]

@@casita6151 Sorry. Though I'd recommend not checking out the comment section until finishing the video in the future, as the comments always have spoilers.

[@NicolaVoid]

That was so entertaining to watch ! Thank you freddo !

[@mfnmfn8402]

Wow this new type of video is insanely, funny, entertaining and just quality. Keep it up!

[@soulpancake1018]

Love your description during the battles, you have a great personality! Keep up the content!

[@NadiaCBorba]

ohhh boy...that was intense! =D And your narration was spot on! Nice tournament!

[@jerzeymakk]

Yooo I had no idea how much I needed to see this. I freaking love this ... you gotta factor in the twins now lol

[@BossAlbatross]

Commentary is top notch.. good job

[@lazardragicevic5096]

That was pretty dope, would love to see more of this type of stuff

[@weirdo1726]

Oh boy, all the ancient guardian and the last battle were so insane! Nice job

[@hackslayer12]

that was actually insane... whata great idea! very entertaining. I was hoping the enraged bosses would fight in the finals, dfly vs klaus. didn't expect enraged dfly's aoe to lose to bqueen :/ also woulda been great to see... the best of the shadow chess pieces fight more, I think the bishop would always be last left if done the way in the video since the other boss would lose aggro when the bishop attacks. Not sure it woulda made a difference, woulda been interesting to see the rook and knight in action! am also interested in watching this tournament again with different seeding!

[@streetfighter351]

One of my favorite videos you’ve ever made

[@twotaprun6321]

Hey freddo, that was an absolutely amazing watch! Loved your presentation! Huge support from a couple small aspiring creators ^^

[@erwincorpuz4653]

This os very interesting i like how you add some extra little details that you cant see but makes it more interesting nice :)

[@DavidKassa]

When I first saw this i was very in the dark about the bosses so the final round was a real twist for me

[@mglouise97]

I would have liked a mod to see their health stats during the fight

[@thecanadianwalrus7731]

One time I saw a bearger fighting a tree guard with a circle of living logs next to the battle... I think we can all guess what happened

[@crabby4911]

I loved mobs fight in Don't Starve Thank you for making this!

[@susickanahousky4119]

awesome editing, loved it

[@es-hl7oc]

Dude this is epic, seriously

[@novavoidedhades]

i loved this video great work

[@topgoo7248]

just wow, last fight was breathtaking

[@Noname0039]

I thought that dragonfly will win, I realy was surprised

[@GiammiTheBest]

Well he didn't have the lavaes so it was kinda unfair

[@quinnybean6602]

This video actually helped me cuz I wasn’t sure if bearger could kill feast clops but turns out it can!

[@DianaTheVixen]

I can only say I appreciate you switching between Moose and Goose when narrating.

[@johnrebel1391]

This was awesome!!!

[@markjade3587]

I'll admit,I wasn't expecting the Final round to be that Epic and Interesting...

[@misterjoshua5720]

Was really good! Also, excellent use of PayDay tunes!

[@swagman7599]

Probably one if my favourite DST youtubers

[@invalidpride2205]

I don't know why but in the rules part where you told certain bosses just to get O U T fucking killed me, great video!

[@multibomble]

Did like this a lot, would love to see more like this. Maybe with a little more of a analytical lens like your usual work?

[@xkrulis]

Very cool video and also I liked that you used Payday 2 music :)

[@renthewerecat]

i did not expect this to be narrated so epically

[@auail5594]

A tier writing, good job

[@lupinangel]

this was awsome great idea

[@DeveloperALMO]

good job man

[@Brackets_Guy]

11:05

[@catstudio350]

This was way more epic than it should have been

[@kabalthecybop6145]

You know who would be perfect for this, The Moon Champion

[@neon2745]

this was really cool

[@bluemoth6983]

this video was great! im a sucker for boss tournaments. maybe you could do a singleplayer boss tourney next?

[@CrazyCritter1]

I love how the music at the start is the default setup menu in Payday 2

[@MBT90]

Uses PD2 planning music when he explains the rules, love him already.

[@Keuwunn]

Great video! You should do second part for loser brackets

[@samuelbrighton1320]

Ancient fuel weaver crab King and misery toadstool just Standing in the background

[@Odium_DOB]

thanks klaus I get to enjoy winter now

[@me-tj5vr]

You forgot the final boss that one wilson that sits at base absorbing all your resources

[@leoelfo304]

great video

[@theonlyshinyumbreon]

I wonder how the tournament would change if the twins were in the roster

[@Potato_tomato47]

They can beat dfly and bee queen but they hit klauses deer too much

[@haydenwillis8880]

This just shows me how powerful the Queen bees is

[@Project-oc1wo]

Me:Fuel will win Me after I see that he isnt allowed:Well,Klaus it is

[@massi7176]

I got goosebumps in the last fight xD i enjoyed every second lol

[@christinaa7377]

this is good content!

[@blueshark1959]

"Moose, you're screwed"

[@guimimindayo9980]

Love the narration cutie

[@mkvieod8308]

Love the paday track!

[@archmagemc3561]

Nice payday music. Very good choice.

[@chicken_turducken1294]

Your video style reminds me of code bullet. Like the character you animate to take an image of your voice.

[@alexsieh3089]

1. Was Klaus able to kill the remaining bees after his win? 2. Can we see all bosses fighting each other at once in a melee?

[@tess2082]

The moosegoose fight should have included the moslings. I wonder how klauw would do against them!

[@bean370]

He would’ve kill them

[@tselis]

The payday music made the fight just perfect

[@limitlessfantasy6735]

No one is gonna talk about the amazing dance 13:26 lol its so funny

[@PyrrhaNikos115]

I love how this video is riddled(?) with Payday music

[@Sethafella]

Oh that was pretty good. I kinda wish we got to see the health of the victor to see how close it was, if at all

[@cuddlefish7798]

We all know the strongest boss is the survivor itself

[@GiammiTheBest]

If you give him 10 thulecite crowns, 40 pierogis, a few dark swords, a lazy explorer and sanity foods then he should be able to kill everything on this game.

[@samuelvieira9748]

Wow! I wasn't expecting Her Majesty to win the oversized imp! Or at least, that was what i thought...

[@taneratag2874]

Yes yes yeeeeeees continue PLEASE

[@shrimpythebeefalo]

Awesomeness!!!

[@CrazyozzVO]

Worth watching

[@zipzipfel3066]

It would have been hilarious if the bee queen’s grumble bees killed Klaus after Klaus killed the bee queen.

[@huntermooney7839]

Gotta love the pay day music

[@26jdaniels]

Very proud of Moose for even making it into round 2.

[@streamighostedkevinjonasby4409]

Wow this vid was entertaining

[@Bob_the_awoken_one]

I think that the ancient guardian might have lost if it was either the level 3 rook or the level 3 Knight left instead of the level 3 Bishop

[@owenkobus596]

Loved it

[@Dimentio-rx9qu]

This was epic