All Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Bosses Ranked From Easiest to Hardest - MattTGM

Its time to return to the Lands Between! The fantastic Shadow of the Erdtree dropped two weeks ago and its been a blast playing through it. Obviously there's some bosses, and obviously they're some of the toughest foes in gaming today. Which are the strongest of the strong? Let's find out!
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0:00 Intro
1:43 11
2:49 10
4:06 9
5:31 8
6:40 7
8:12 6
10:08 5
11:51 4
13:21 3
15:40 2
18:43 1
23:14 Outro
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[@cloindotcom3455]

dude got Miquillested so bad he changed his entire playstyle

[@r17v1]

I was having a hard time surviving Radahn's phase 2 at blessing 20 without summon. So I had to lvl up arcane to 50 (which increases holly negation), use Marika's hair (holly damage negation +3 talisman), perldrake +3, Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman, Opaline Hardtear, Holyproof Pickled Liver, 60 vigor and Morgot's great rune. I never used so many buffs before. Bro's holly attacks barely did any damage to me. But managed to beat without summon, so I'll take it. Hopefully one day I will learn to beat him without the OP damage negation buffs.

[@MattTGM]

damn, now that is prep time. Congratulations, beating him regardless of how you did it is impressive

[@andrenogueira4080]

22:55 now imagine how proud I got when I killed the dude with just a weapon and a cool build, no buffs nor summons nor coops, men lemme tell ya, best feelin ever on a videogame

[@MattTGM]

nice work man. I'll do the same one day

[@alexandrejust4771]

My ranking difficulty wise would be after my first playthrough (no summon and no shields): 10 Scadutree Avatar 09 Putrescent Knight 08 Romina 07 Midra 06 Divine Beast Dancing Lion 05 Commander Gaius (Would be lower if not for the bullshit hitboxes his charge and rear attack have) 04 Bayle 02 ex aequo Rellana and Messmer (can't decide which one made me struggle the most even though I died more to Rellana) 01 Radahn & Miquella (possibly the hardest Fromsoft boss ever made if you don't cheese. The double cross slash is just too fast please fix) Didn't fight Metyr as I almost didn't use any guide.

[@lordrandom1631]

I love how different players have experiences so different, in my playthrough, Rellana was MUCH harder than messmer or gaius, i had to get blessing level 8 just to kill her, on the other hand, i killed bayle first try with blessing level 10 and i thought i had leveled the blessing too much before fighting him. In my playthrgough the mother finger was harder than romina and midra, and the putrescent knight was the bane of my existence despire using a holy weapon against him, i am yet to beat radahn but today or tomorrow the day shall come

[@MattTGM]

keep at it, you'll take him down soon. you got this

[@Anonymous_MeAt]

I fought the mother of fingers with 12 scadutree blessings and took hours

[@MattTGM]

I had 18, so that's probably why I was able to beat her without much hassle.

[@brentontariocanada7935]

My favorite DLC/ expansion weapons are dragon hunters great katana and anvil hammer I think it's called which i just found, that weapon is a big boy beast and I love it. Love the fire on the weapon looks like it's heated up .

[@MattTGM]

I love that katana. Maybe I'll try that hammer next time

[@josephspencer6375]

The thing i found about fighting Gaius was horseback was terrible against him. So many of his moves are seemingly impossible to avoid without i-frames. It really makes me sad because it would be so cool having a mounted duel with him but his moveset isn't built for it.

[@NathanielMosk]

I honestly think the biggest problem with Radahn phase 2 is visual clarity. When I stopped ramming my head against it and watched some videos of other people doing it, I noticed some safe dodge directions on attacks that had kept killing me that I hadn't noticed because the screen was so full of light clutter. I think if they cut down on the brightness and visual size of the beams, and maybe decreased their AoE by a tiny amount, it would go a long way towards making that fight still very challenging but way less frustrating to learn, and bump it up to one of the best soulsborne fights. Igon is the absolute goat, even if you don;t use summons I think everyone should use Igon for at least one Bayle kill. I think my next playthrough I'm going to use his bow for that fight.

[@MattTGM]

I basically agree with everything here. Igon makes the fight just better

[@llazarrus4405]

I don't understand why everyone hates commander Gaius. He isn't that hard when not on horseback. I found him quite fun to fight and managed it without much difficulty.

[@MattTGM]

different experiences to different playstyles and skill levels. I found him really annoying on foot or horseback, but I'm glad you had fun with it

[@berkebus]

It's medium roll. On light roll the charge is much easier to dodge. On medium roll it is very unforgiving.

[@jamesbrown649]

​@MattTGM different experience is right! Didn't find him annoying as much but I really locked in on foot after a couple deaths. Went back to my old trusty dual wielding scythes with blood hound step, power through that pain baby!🥹

[@irecapt]

I somehow struggled way more with main game than with the DLC (so far). I was blessing level 2 and RL 150 when fighting Dancing Lion ( no summons) and I somehow beat him first try, not even getting close to dying. Meanwhile Malenia took me 316 attempts.

[@MattTGM]

that's impressive. just goes to show how different our experiences can be with these games

[@irecapt]

@@MattTGM maybe it’s because I just recently did the main game so it’s still fresh. I don’t know. I struggled so much with the main game so was expecting a way bigger challenge after hearing about all these “too difficult” reviews😅

[@blizzard3338]

What was your build​@@irecapt

[@olbericeisenburg9680]

nice lie

[@irecapt]

@@blizzard3338bloodhound fang

[@Exaltable]

People saying Romina is harder than any of the other bosses is so wild to me. 90% of her moves miss if you just hug her side.

[@MattTGM]

it was her jumping attacks that mainly got me in trouble. plus, everything before her really isn't much of a struggle compared to even the base game

[@kahvipapu1231]

i had to use mimic tear for radahn too because i realised after 3 hours of fighting him, that im not making money from beating him without lol. After watching videos of other people beating him i noticed that you just have to hug him constantly. if you try to dodge backwards to heal you will just get caught in the beams. And also stick to the left side of him (his right side) to dodge the dual fast attack and alot of other ones.

[@kahvipapu1231]

On another note, Tought you had atleast 100k+ subs. You will get there for sure with this video quality.

[@MattTGM]

haha yeah, he'll grind you down to that point. and nice tip, I'll try it out next time

[@MattTGM]

Thank you, that means a lot. I'll do my best

[@Asteros1453]

I think one thing this DLC has taught me is you NEED to be adaptable, high level play is encouraged because it lets you be variable. For example, my main character is level 200 and mostly a dragon cult build (Loving the Priestess heart form btw, actual peak fromsoft transformation), I went into NG+ because I wanted to 1v1 Radahn, and I realised that even though ADLS does a ton of damage its too hard for me to pull off. Since I had the stats, I switched to the Godslayer's greatsword and used that, managed to beat him 1v1 Phase 2 I've chilled out on, I dont think the difficulty is artificial so much as it is overtuned, its alot more bearable especially when you have stuff like the golden braid. Fromsoft hasn't really done something like this where it forces players to experiment before (the only time i've ever changed a build for a boss is back in DS3 when my pyro had to fight the twin princes) so I get why people are frustrated by it, personally I think it's for the better but this is very much a prototype of what it should be. Also I have to agree phase 1 is excellent, actually reminded me of fighting Gael.

[@missingpathway0]

The second phases for Messmer and Radahn are both less fun for me than the first phases. Especially Messmer, but for both of them the visuals make it hard to even see what's happening.

[@MattTGM]

I agree fully. Though messmer phase 2 was fine to me. Radahn phase 2, is just stupid

[@bombthing]

I agree with that for Radahn but not Messmer. I found the snake attacks really easy to dodge, and very similar to god devouring serpent, who is potentially the most telegraphed boss in the base game. Not to mention you get a decent punish window after most of the snake attacks

[@horrificbeauty1666]

Am I truly the only one who found Bayle stupid easy????? I mean seriously. His attacks become very easy to predict and if you just want to make it faster use the Dragon slayer great katana and he's down in 3 minutes.

[@MattTGM]

different skill levels I suppose. And I'm bad at timing dodges from his aerial attacks, that's just a skill issue for me

[@horrificbeauty1666]

@@MattTGM that's fair. I don't have issues with Bayle. But I struggle with the Bud Priests

[@offbrandmorpheus4093]

CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!!!!!!!! Best boss in the dlc

[@MattTGM]

Igon is great It was my second favourite fight personally

[@Sargatas]

Dude that was voicing Igon had the time of his life during that bossfight😆

[@sawyerdwyer3118]

I refuse to believe scadutree avatar or metyr is the easiest bosses 😭😭 they so cheesy and annoying man clapped me over and over for longer then any boss other then rellana or maybe Putrescent knight seems that the side optional weird bosses fuck me up way more then main bosses

[@MattTGM]

Just goes to show how wildly different our experiences can be. I had the blessings and the vigor to not worry about Scadutree Avatars bleed and none of his melee put me near death. Maybe that was it