Ranking BLOODBORNE Bosses from EASIEST to HARDEST

[@SquillaKilla]

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[@issi529]

You have placed father way too high imo. I almost had him on my first try.

[@RobeMasterSalad]

I like the inclusion of a little lore on the bosses

[@AurallWow]

Yeah, this made it a lot more enjoyable to watch

[@zayy7900]

Agreed

[@josephmcmahon4824]

Agreed, this made it for me too. Good work @SquillaKilla

[@hamletfisherman5740]

3:16 The cloth attached to the Blood-starved Beast is the skin from its back that falls back forward from being flayed. We see a couple of werewolf crucified and tortured here and there in Yharnam.

[@techdeth]

Wild you even had to point that out ...

[@dininelbourne]

​@@techdeth, right? It's even obvious in the footage used.

[@jamiecriggs5257]

I was boutta mention that. Cujos to beating me to it.

[@JLchevz]

ya it's a dissected body

[@vit-t680]

Having micolash and one reborn above gascoigne is an actually insane take

[@momenmomo3879]

Bro actually said Laurence was the hardest boss ☠️☠️☠️

[@clockz.811]

​@@momenmomo3879he's right tho

[@UncleBensQuickRice]

Bruh father g is so easy you get like a 4 month window to parry him

[@Zircuit]

​@@momenmomo3879the guy no hits all the games I think he gets a say more than you 💀

[@nayyarrashid4661]

No dude. I died to fsther5 Gascoigne only once. But I did Cleric Beast first. Lawrence first try as well. Ludwig 5/6 tries and Orphan of Kos definitely took more than ant other boss. Lady Maria was insanely easy to learn except for second phase which threw me off. Gehrman wasn't hard either but that's because I went to him after DLC. So List is very subjective but consensus of Majority is that Orphan is definitely the hardest. I would place Ludwig above or equal to Lawrence and Lady Maria to follow.

[@Lexsed]

A Boss tierlist AND brief lore summaries for each? Squilla spoiling us here, my lord this is great

[@GameTalesHQ]

It's crazy how different this tierlist is to mine. But that's the beauty of fromsoft's games, everbody has a different experience.

[@issi529]

I agree.

[@ZeroNeedsCoffee]

Never played bloodborne in my life but this was still entertaining

[@jei3970]

GO PLAY IT!

[@Diabeticninja90]

Deluxe edition 20 bucks right now go buy it I just did

[@Diabeticninja90]

Comes with dlc too

[@JLchevz]

go ahead and play it, it's insanely good

[@joshua7015]

Buy me the game

[@AccursedHawk]

Bloodborne will forever be my favorite game of all time. The crazy part is the bosses of bloodborne are probably it's weakest component which just goes to show how great the game is

[@AbsoluteSauce]

The areas are ass too, the bosses are really subpar until the dlc, least build variety in the series. It ain’t that great a game

[@Diabeticninja90]

@@AbsoluteSauceI agree it’s decent , ds3 sekiro and elden ring are all better

[@Subtobnb835]

@@AbsoluteSauceyo areas ass? Bloodborne just kills all souls games. Ds3 is really good and Sekiro too. But bloodborne has a different thing. I feel the story inside me. Other games just don’t make me feel that way. That’s why ı think everyone love bloodborne the most and me to. For me bloodborne is the best souls game

[@Subtobnb835]

@@Diabeticninja90nah bloodborne is way more playable. I just played elden ring for 90 hours and finished 2 times and got bored. Sekiro 40 hours o will play again. Sekiro was amazing. And ds3 45 hours and ı will play it again to. But bloodborne. Ahh always make goosebumps. I played it like 170 hours and finish it like 15 times and still want to play. Bloodborne is different. If you don’t feel that feeling you will not like bloodborne at all.

[@Diabeticninja90]

@@Subtobnb835 subjective I beat it twice and got bored it’s underwhelming compared to elden ring , elden bosses ARE WAYYYYY better too , shit even sekiro bosses are better

[@momenmomo3879]

Bro actually said micolash is harder than father G

[@lokilucario]

I struggled way more with Lawrence than i did orphan and lady Maria. I'm not good with 1 hit kill attacks lol

[@VeeTuTonic]

Lawrence was by far the toughest.

[@rhyswhittington8759]

me too, lawrence was the hardest fight of the DLC, dont care what anyone says.

[@guillermocampos6257]

Agreed

[@chrislaverick6413]

I just couldnt get his dodge timing down, and he did insane amounts of damage

[@lokilucario]

@@chrislaverick6413 first phase was fine but second fucked me up

[@seymourflux747]

Ludwig is still my favourite video game boss of all time

[@starboyjedi13]

Same bro.

[@conservativecarnage3783]

Isn't he a chalice boss though at least the mom light sword is right

[@starboyjedi13]

@@conservativecarnage3783 he's a DLC Boss

[@suchar7175]

Second phase is pure magic, but I always wonder if people even take into account his first phase saying about him as their favourite, because first phase isn't very amazing ngl.

[@suchar7175]

@@BBQcheese nah, it's not weird at all, just different taste. At least your claiming about Ludwig as favourite Boss in Bloodborne is completely understandable, because you like both phases (am I right?), while many of people who find Ludwig as number one Boss in Bloodborne/series like only phase two (which means they like only 50% of their "favourite" fight), so they are much more weird than you :P For example, Friede is my number one because I love all three of her phases. I know that many people don't like second phase, but I like it very much, so I have reasonably choosed favourite Boss.

[@sv98753]

great tie list , love it cuz of the little lore you gave away, the "why is that boss hard" and overall argumenting about it ... well done ... and lets not forget one of the most well to listen voices in youtube ... :)

[@Albatross0913]

14:47 the timing of that scream is wonderful

[@aeric_]

this is a fantastic tier list. you do a great job listing them and detailing their lore and gameplay justifying there spot. I especially like the Daddy Dascoigne bit.

[@SeekerMissile]

"As servants of the Queen, they yearn for her blood, with little hope of receiving it" Well that is a very elaborate and polite way of calling them simps :D

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

BSB being that low is crazy. I honestly find Maria, Gehrman, and countless others easier than her somehow.

[@cynicallrage]

Blood cocktails and flame paper really melt her

[@chiefinasmith]

Blood pungent cocktail makes the fight a joke though

[@hamletfisherman5740]

Bloodborne is my favourite. Beat it about 12 times, and two times at Bl4. As much as I would love a sequel, it probably won’t happen, like Sekiro 2, Dark Souls 4 or Elden Ring 2. Still, I can’t wait to see what kind of weird and surprising game they are gonna come up with.

[@MercurialRaven]

ER2 is already confirmed lol

[@hamletfisherman5740]

@@MercurialRavendoesn’t look like it though, I only see ´articles’ about vague rumours.

[@RussianCanadianGuy]

Sequel makes absolutely no sense and would fuck with the story in a big way. A prequel makes much more sense. Maybe where we play as Gehrman or Gascoigne or hell any of the storied NPCs

[@Sittlebat]

ds4 will never ever happen unfortunately

[@RussianCanadianGuy]

@@Sittlebat I'd want a ds2 remake done the way demon souls on ps5 was done. Still my favorite of the 3 and I've been playing since demon souls 2009 at release. Bloodborne prequel would make lots of sense.

[@brandond3159]

Celestial emissaries give me more trouble than I’d like to admit 💀

[@dannyboi024]

For me it was father G idk why hunters are so hard to fight

[@rhyswhittington8759]

i wouldnt worry so much dude, rom is the bane of my life. i can kill kos easier than rom. to this day i struggle killing rom first try and i have beaten this wonderful game countless times. something about roms fight just doesnt click with me.

[@brandond3159]

Oh yeah father G gets me too I have an easy time on Maria usually but father G buggers me same with Rom too lad he messes me up baaad

[@rhyswhittington8759]

@@brandond3159 honestly have no idea why, have an easier time with much "harder" bosses but put that fucking spider next to me and im just dead, the one in the half health dungeons can fuck right off. died to him way more than the base game or DLC bosses.

[@brandond3159]

@@rhyswhittington8759 ahahahaha we all got our cryptonite - Crystal sage ds3 don’t bring that little cretin anywhere near me I will cry

[@galenyasumura7070]

Laurence is a fucking beast and absolutely deserves his place on the list. He has SO FEW opportunities to safely deal damage to him and on ng+ he hits like a freight train. Even at 50 vit he can do 80% of your health or straight up one shot you from full if he gets counter damage on you. Which happens all the fucking time bc his slams all have sizable AOE fire blast. There are some moves you can safely dodge through for a damage window. But he has a habit of baiting you with single attacks only to tack on additional hits when you decide to commit to an attack. Also limb breaking him barely increases damage to him, which sucks bc his health pool is massive

[@Ophiocordyses]

Laurence Is a cleric Beast and in his 2 phase he's on the ground turning around like an idiot, i think it's an easy boss, with few moves, the only difficulty Is the fight zone, for the rest is not even comparabile to the orphan of Kos ..

[@galenyasumura7070]

@@Ophiocordyses I thought that too when I first fought him. But every time I start a new ng+ cycle, he gets harder and harder. Orphan just gets easier for me, orphan is much easier to abuse

[@cousinzeke4888]

I'm pretty bad at this game but I still only needed 5-6 tries for Laurence. Get on his back left and you massively cut down the amount of moves he can do. Then in phase 2 you just sit on his left and he can barely put any pressure on you.

[@samsonweiser7504]

I finally decided to do all the story chalices, and they're actually a lot more fun that I thought. Later ones have really scaled up enemies that hit like it's NG+, and there's a bunch of chalice dungeon unique enemies and situations the game puts you in that are fun. Plus there's this one chalice that nerfs your health massively that makes it so you have to do it super safe, and the bosses get a bit recontextualized in them even though it a lot are from the base game. Coming off just finishing all bosses NG+6 (the max) with only DLC winter lantern bloodgems I though all the chalices where going to be a cakewalk, and I was wrong. NG+6 was a blast too. You have to do the DLC bosses nearly hitless, but not completely and you can't just one combo everything even with beast blood pellets. But because you don't have to be perfectly hitless, and you get a lot more stamina vs say BL4 you can approach the fights just a tad more aggressively. It's less stressful than hitless or BL4 I would think too. I haven't done BL4 or hitless so I'm not totally sure, and I don't think I'd even try hitless NG+6 was rough enough. I'll probably do BL4 at some point though. That sounds pretty fun.

[@themagisterian644]

In the lady maria fight, you can chain stunlock her using auger of ebrietas

[@ethngrhm]

i platinumed bloodbourne a few years back and this is the first time i’ve ever seen this lore. awesome vid, thx for blessing my feed

[@pyromaniac935]

I love this game, and your ranking being not only based on the fight, but also explaining the bosses origins is amazing. For instance, I would have never connected that Shadows of Yharnam is not referring to the place, but to Queen Yharnam. It makes a lot of sense and makes me appreciate this video even more.

[@krys421]

The blood starved beast's head covering is it's own flayed skin

[@paikea990]

I find it hilarious how difficulty varies so much from person to person. I killed Logarius and Lady Maria first try but the one reborn took me an hour.

[@Downsquad]

You prob just had an Arcane build.

[@bsmitty309]

So true. Logarius took me 5 tries and I dusted the One reborn on my first

[@paikea990]

@@Downsquad I used the saw spear the whole game, no arcane

[@brianbrianbification]

How has one of the greatest souls players of all time not done chalice dungeons!

[@ItsGibohh]

to this day, my biggest achievement in gaming is the BL4 all bosses run. orphan took ~400+ tries

[@staggerlee7301]

Nicely done! My BL4 run was admittedly a bit half assed, only did the base game but I was still proud of it. Personally, the longest I spent on a single boss was NG+Max Laurence. Even at 99 vitality there was such little room for error

[@peylow2]

Only change to the list I would make is placing Bloodstarved Beast higher. She was my largest roadblock on first play-through.

[@JLchevz]

yeah it's not easy at all, maybe for experts but for most people it's a tough fight

[@mitchyman528]

It’s my top 5 hardest fights alongside Gael, midir and Ludwig!! Bloodstarved beast made me give up for months 😂

[@breixo13]

Lawrence made me think over my life choises

[@Jungbeck]

Alot we disagree on, which is fun. Here is my ranking based on 50+ playthroughs closing in on 1000 hours. Including BL4 and playthrough with every weapon including torch and Fist of gratia. 22. Celestial Emissary 21. Witches of Hemwick 20. Living Failures 19. Amygdala 18. The One Reborn 17. Cleric Beast 16. Darkbeast Paarl 15. Mergo’s Wet Nurse 14. Blood Starved Beast 13. Vicar Amelia 12. Rom The Vacuous Spider 11. Micolash 10. Moon Presence 9. Shadow of Yharnam 8. Ebrietas 7. Lady Maria 6. Martyr Logarius 5. Gehrman 4. Ludwig 3. Orphan 2. Gascoigne 1. Laurence

[@scimir2316]

Good video. I enjoyed my time watching. The small lore bits made it even more entertaining. Personally I would rank quite a few bosses differently but I am also not challenge running the game which does change the perspective a lot. Anyway I can agree with your placements and reasoning for it. Good job

[@SirVyre]

For me, looking at the game outside of challenge running as a perspective, as I believe each challenge run would have its own tier list because challenge run failure states are independent of game failure states, this my list of bosses easiest to hardest. Edit: I think I forgot to write in Darkbeast Paarl! Well there goes my opinions lol. XXII: Witch of Hemwick - relative to player development she is more or less a regular enemy, that is cloaked, and you can eliminate all of her adds by entering the boss fight with 0 insight. XXI: Father Gascoigne - As mentioned in my other comment, the game gives you the music box, which cripples him so thoroughly, that it's barely even a boss. His beastform is also hyper weak to fire. He can also be visceral exploited through the stair rail into falling through the map (though he's already so easy I don't know why people came up with this). XX: Celestial Emissary - Relative to player development, this is an insanely easy boss. It's just a few adds and a big mode of a regular enemy again. It's not impossible to lose to, but loss would be very rare. XIX: Bloodstarved Beast - He's more or less a lesson in not facing beasts head on. As long as you're familiar with the sidestep/forward step behind motions you can do when locked on, you can negate almost his entire moveset with sidestepping past him. On top of that, he's super weak to fire, and you can pick up the flamesprayer and kill him with it alone. He's also easy to bait with pungent blood cocktails. The area leading up to him also gives some antidotes to deal with his poison aura. XVIII: Amygdala - The first boss that comes to mind when I think of gun builds. A +3 Repeating Pistol with base stats to wield and bone marrow ash can kill it with the exactly amount of bullets/ash you can carry, without you even going in to visceral it, which, why wouldn't you? XVII: Cleric Beast - I only rate this one as harder than the last, due to the player's development/progress versus access to him. It is actually completely possible to encounter the Cleric Beast without any weapons, even on a first playthrough, if you just run past all of the enemies and excel at dodging. Killing him with your barehands and barely any resources is like an endgame level challenge. Even entering the dream or picking up the saw spear doesn't deal with his moveset for you, and if you're intent on fighting him without a gun, then it's pretty hard to trigger his visceral stagger, though it can be done with knives and pebbles you may have collected throughout early Yharnam. XVI: Mergo's Wet Nurse - This boss would have been a lot more challenging if you'd encountered it sooner or in a smaller arena. Step around to its side, and it's cheesy easy. You often have enough damage potential that you can kill it without seeing the shadows phase. XV: Micolash Host of The Nightmare - Uhh, he has like three gimmicks. Teleporting away from you, Augur of Ebrietas tentacle, and Call from Beyond. This is another scenario where he might kill you once or twice, but you're so OP by the time you reach him, you're just as likely to kill him without even seeing his most devastating attack. He does have some adds that be kind of irritating in his first fight room, but they aren't major impediments. XIV: Rom the Vacuous Spider - Basically another chase boss. If you get too far away his magic meteors can be devastating, and his spider adds to possess a one hit kill throat cut, but that's pretty much it. You can also use things like the flamesprayer to attack him effectively through his face, if you somehow have trouble digging into his long meaty sides. XIII: Darkbeast Paarl - He has a diverse moveset that attacks the player at range as well as upclose, so if you don't keep him pinned down by breaking his limbs or by (apparently, I did not know this info!) throwing a pungent blood cocktail, then he can be devastating. Especially relative to player development. XII: Vicar Amelia - She's pretty tough for potentially being your second boss. She has a big increase versus any boss before her in damage, and your tools may not be upgraded much either. The Numbing Mist is limited and non-purchasable without having delved into Chalices to a certain degree iirc too, so if you're too weak to outpace her healing with raw damage, you can wind up stuck on her. This only ever happened to me on my attempts at going through Bloodborne without ever entering The Dream. You will really feel how much stronger studier she is than Gascoigne, Cleric, or Bloodstarved beasts. XI: One Reborn - Honestly, he could probably be considered easier than a few bosses I listed before him, as I have a tendency to forget he exists until I'm playing through Blood Moon Yarhar'gul. You take out his bell wenches and then break his limbs, while also shooting/visceraling his "head." He's basically a damage sponge with a few weird surprises. Could probably honestly move him down to between Mergo and Micolash. He's easy. Damn. X: Moon Presence - Uhh, this thing is a joke outside of self imposed challenge. In any standard playthrough, the move that reduces you to 1 HP is just HP you regain by beating on it while it stands still via Rally. It can hit you with something that inhibits healing, but I've never seen it. It does hit pretty hard though, and isn't completely effortless. Part 3 coming up soon! I think I'm near the character limit for comments

[@lpb6310]

You can cheese Laurence in second Phase by standing behind his hairy arm. You Position yourself as soon as he loses his legs, then you go for 2 hits at that arm max (keep an eye to your stamina) then he wil swing around backwards wich you dodge forward into and you should be just in the right position again. You can repeat that cycle for the whole Phase bacause Laurence will always repeat the same attack as long as you are standing behind that arm. That was my speedrun strat wich worked perfectly.

[@aspiringmarauder666]

I have always fought the Cleric Beast first since this game first came out. I thought it was the first boss for the longest time

[@Princeerockstarr]

This is one of the only rankings I’ve seen as far as difficulty where BSB is ranked so low. Which I personally agree with because I’ve never had any issues with them but they seem to be rather difficult for many users. To me they are one of the easiest boss to just dodge behind and wail on . Same with the wet nurse

[@rhyswhittington8759]

darkbeast paarl is also one where i see it rated very low but i dont agree on that one, the difficulty completely depends on when you fight him. i fought him early because i gfot kidnapped and he is really difficult if you cant do much damage.

[@cageman301]

Despite how difficult she is I still managed to take down Maria first try. That being said she had me on the ropes for the entire fight, went in with full blood vials, came out empty and ended up exhausting all the other healing items as well

[@boombusmcgoobe3663]

the blood starved beast’s flaps are the result of hunters flaying (skinning) beasts. Shits mad gross 2/10 would not recommend.

[@cesarflores1145]

bro BSB was so hard for lmao prolly cuz on my first few attempts I burnt through my paper, pellets, and cocktails… I had to beat him with just an axe and some pills lmao

[@hamletfisherman5740]

15:36 I think the flowers represent Moon Presence, a.k.a. Paleblood and Flora, the flowers here hinting at the Flora nickname.

[@Christian-je7fj]

I totally agree with you, Laurence was my wall and the last boss to kill to get that sweet sweet platinum trophy.

[@keirhardie270]

no need to kill bosses from the dlc to get the platinum trophy

[@FlyzZ_Snipex]

@@keirhardie270 But to get the 100% in your trophy list.

[@gnomechonky]

I too was surprised by no chalice dungeon bosses. The chalice version of Paarl (Loran Darkbeast) made me rage quit pretty hard. Camera fail, Paarl constantly jumping around, and I couldn't get the roll timing through his AoE attacks, which were one-shotting me.

[@vycanismajoris6871]

Loran Darkbeast was HARD. Also Abhorrent Beast wasnt exactly a cakewalk either.

[@gnomechonky]

@@vycanismajoris6871 Yeah I was so proud when I finally beat Abhorrent Beast, I thought "well the next boss is probably gonna feel easy by comparison." I actually sold my PS4 after a few days of getting super pissed off by Loran Darkbeast, like "what am I doing with my life?" vibes

[@zettaeliza2043]

A pleasantly comprehensive list, although cleric beast above Paarl is odd (no aoe's, literally 3 attacks, very forgiving hitboxes), and mergo and moon presence above gehrman is eye catching (one of those took me 8 hours and it wasnt mergo)

[@divyenjoshi1168]

Amazing video Squilla and I agree completely with your top 3.

[@LeskovakianTank]

As always, Squilla does justice to an extraordinary game. Much appreciated.

[@ericadventures5045]

The fact you explained the lore with them made my month man

[@BetarayBillLover]

Micolash above casgoine and amigdyla and Amilia seems crazy too me Great vid tho, love the little lore bits, a bloodborne 2 would be so cool to get even more of it

[@bencetihanyi5254]

I love that you included lore, best boss ranking video i have ever seen I swear

[@Bricksgaming710]

It's interesting how Lawrence looks like the first boss that you face only on fire lol

[@chasegaetze4507]

I love watching heyzeusherestoast. Love that you credited him.

[@suchar7175]

Mostly agree with the list, I would give Ludwig a bit lower place, he is pretty easy to me. Laurence, Maria and Orphan are by far the hardest BB Bosses when it comes to BL4 or high NG+ cycle. Personally don't like difficulty of Orphan's second phase. He is very glitchy and inconsistent from my experience, he can very often do weird canceling of animations and denying of backstabs is his normal day in office. Complete opposite to Maria, which is flawless dance between two hunters.

[@darke855]

Nice list, for my personal experience in various build i would increase paarl close before amygdala, it's easy but his agility is a pain for many build. The only other one i'm in disagreement it's lady Maria and Ludwig, mylady it's hard but I still have problem against Ludwig because it's hard to stagger and the camere is a pain, when you learn lady Maria patterns and pay attention to her charged attack on phase 2-3 you can demolish her. BTW nice video and edit and I love the lore explanation, it's something most of players ignore about this wonderful game.

[@grungelives]

Very well done video, love the lore attached!

[@connerpond1066]

Love the content I'm curious if you'll be trying lies of p at all I want to see a true speedrun of that game

[@CompleteCarnage99]

Lit Larry definitely my pick as well, 20+ tries on a 1st run compared to maria (4) orphan (9) All i heard about for years from bloodborne was Ludwig, maria, especially Kos. Laurence was a sleeper.

[@kinoko_senpai]

i recently made my first Bloodborne playthrough ever, and got the plat trophy in 8 days. Coming almost with little to no break from the Dark Souls 3 platinum, i was already in good shape and mechanically formatted to souls games, and didnt have that many problems adapting to Bloodborne and it's relatively faster gameplay. Ended up rushing through most of the bosses with ease, and even 1st-try most of the early game bosses (like Cleric Beast, Gascoine, Blood-starved, Paarl, Amilia.... and Martyr, Ludwig, and Moon Presence, later down the line), 2nd-try bosses like Micolash, Lady Maria, Gherman, Ebrietas, with the only two bosses in the game that killed me twice being Laurence and Wet Nurse (cuz of Nightmare phase).................................... ...... And then, there's Orphan of Kos. I died probably over 50 times to that fucking stupid ass little shit, cursed him and his creators to oblivion, and even started calling him freaking Abortion of Kos at some stage of my salty screeches. Man, fuck that boss. His screams still echo'ed in my brain on a loop for hours after i was done with him. I hated him. Every second of him.

[@starboyjedi13]

Been waiting for you to post a Bloodborne boss list. This video is awesome.🔥💯

[@tepeleni3311]

Best game ever made❤❤

[@Zero-yl3it]

One reborn being so high up is crazy. I personally died the most times to the blood starved beast than any boss so seeing in in 3rd is funny

[@TheHogfatherInvades]

The ranking of all bosses!

[@cameronsongey634]

Lady Maria can be cheeses pretty hard. Parry get one/two hits depending on weapon speed, dodge back which baits 90 percent of the time a slow overhead slam parry repeat

[@Lorenzo-yp1cc]

I must say, Elden Ring is my first souls game, and I loved every second of it which made me play Bloodborne. However, I must say I find it that the bosses in the base game are a lot easier these excepted. Either way loved it!

[@SirVyre]

IX. Living Failures - They're hard enough that people came up for exploits for them or talk about kiting them. A lot of folks have trouble dealing with mob bosses that don't die individually really quickly. You can block their unified meteor summon with the center sunflower. I know a ton of people who "are embarrassed to admit" that they died to these 2nd or 3rd most compared to the other DLC bosses. VIII. Shadows of Yharnam - I feel like I'm copying your list a little subconsciously in how I order some of these, but these guys are the base game's mob boss, and they're actually orchestrated in a very respectable way since they each have their own movesets and style. It's the kind of mob boss that's easier to appreciate, compared to say, Godskin Duo. I also really like that they each have their own healthbar, so you can't just milk one to kill all three. VII. Lady Maria - So, she's a small humanoid boss, and what I find about Bloodborne and the people playing it, is that they overestimate bosses like her, because a lot of the more skilled players play by adhering to meta analyzed weaponry or speedrun context of you only upgraded one thing so you're assumed to be using that etc. But in standard play you're welcome to upgrade weapons for the occasion, and Lady Maria is quite susceptible to mild stagger from weapons that transform into larger/2handed weapons i.e. Hunter's Axe, Ludwig's Holy Blade, Kirkhammer etc. You can actually interrupt a lot of her non-channeled swings and attacks by hitting her with a big weapon R1. This doesn't remove all of the challenge, but I've literally had people tell me I'm cheating by doing that lol. VI. Gehrman The First Hunter - Similarly to Maria, I find that people overestimate his difficulty, because he has a lot of punishing moves if you're fishing for visceral shots or just hitting him with the saw cleaver. You as the player can achieve nearly the same reach as Gehrman if you use Hunter's Axe L2s. He is one of the sad old men at the end Souls games that is actually a challenge though. V. Ebrietas, Daughter of The Cosmos - One of the harder bosses in the game. Thankfully weak to being shot in the face with bone marrow ash. Has a ton of health though, so unless you're heavily invested in bloodtinge, you're not Amygdalaing this one. But repeating pistol +9 or 10 with bone marrow ash does get her setup up for juicy viscerals, and can really come in clutch too. IV. Martyr Logarius - He actually is sort of in line with both Maria and Gehrman as a boss that you can interrupt with big weapon swings. Couple that with the fact that gunshots will actually divert and miss like half the time you shoot at him, couple with his strange slight elevation changes arena, and he very much reads like he may have at one point in time been considered to be last boss material over Gehrman. They even both use scythes. III. Ludwig, the Accursed - What an opening boss to the DLC! He's rough. Especially phase 1. I find his phases to be inverted. Basically if you make it to phase 2, then you practically win. His swings are a bit weird, and his big charged beam explosion can one shot you, but he's also easier to get behind and bring down. II. Laurence, The First Vicar - He has a crap ton of HP, and the lava phase 2 that he emits is crazy movement/attack denial. I don't rate him harder than Orphan though. He deals less damage by a fair amount, and you can catch a breather if you're careful. I. Orphan of Kos - this is still the hardest boss in all of Souls in my opinion. The amount of time people have dedicated to exploits and glitches to remove his difficulty speaks volumes. Imagine if they revisited him in a patch, and removed all of those exploits/glitches. I can't even be objective about this one. This guy rocked my shit so hard, I gave up on beating Bloodborne for a couple of months, and went to play other games. And I think I missed a boss somewhere, will have to check through the list and edit it.

[@frankiegoner4615]

I'm about to end my first play throug, and you mentioned a lot of lore things that I didn't know, great video tho

[@aaronsalinas3854]

Did youo forget the base game tells you the sky is their home? It's not just water.

[@legacy_moments]

I thoroughly disagree with this list but the video is well done w/the lore inclusion.

[@dynamicflashy]

Fantastic video. Please do this for all the games, if you haven't already done so.

[@weskintime4177]

Rom > Ludwig > Laurence > Micolash > One Reborn > Orphan of Kos > Gehrman > Living Failures > Cleric Beast > Father Gascogne > Celestial Emissary = Martyr > Mergo’s Wet Nurse > Shadows of Yharnam > Witches of Hemwick > Amygdala > Vicar Amelia = Paarl > Daughter of the Cosmos > Moon Presence > Blood Starved Beast = Lady Maria. This is how my casual playthrough (no special rules) of the game went. Rom was the hardest due to the spiders she spawns being able to spam several attacks at once that can all 2-shot a 33 Vitality character, 8 deaths. Blood Starved Beast with fire paper and blood cocktails was by far the easiest, taking 0 damage. I have Maria tied with BSB because she was so easy to parry for me and with the +HP back rune if she ever did hit me I got my HP back immediately, she only ever landed 2 or 3 hits across the whole fight.

[@garethjones1086]

I kinda get moon presence being this high for damage less but moon presence is legit a bottom 5 boss in terms of difficulty in casual play

[@aszewci]

Is this list supposed to be difficulty for damageless runs? I didn't hear that mentioned, and it seemed like a general list. Honestly, the only boss easier than MP is Witches. Was shocked to see that placement.

[@DoktorTaiko]

I never get why Laurance is placed so high in the list. I did him last on my first playthrough snd it only feld anticlimactic after Orphan. It's definitely not a bad boss, but it was usually easy to keep my distance to think, find lsrge attack and healing openings and even tank quite a bit. It feld like a really chill fight compared to Maria and Orphan, that always keep you on your feet. Might just be because I was already high level and because I wasnt going for hitless, but Laurance just wasn't hard. Same goes for Micolash, he's close to the easiest biss for me, the greatest challange being not to get lost in his mansion. But after that his attacks are rsther easy to dodge and the skeletons don't really pose a thread as they are rather slow. I am not a BB gigachad and got my ass handed by Vicar Emilia, BSB and Kos quite brutally on the first run, but it's just interesting, how large the difference in experience is. I actually like some psrts of the challange dungeons. There are fun bosses and the odea isn't bad. Just figuring out how to actually descend further and further fekd very cryptic and took me wuite some time.

[@123NERDZ]

If you don't space laurence and just try to dodge his attacks he much harder and his timing is way tighter

[@sophietwilight7502]

Trust me, that's what I thought about Laurence too. Until his NG+, easily most frustrating boss up with Amygdala.

[@Jambiiiii]

Laurence was also the hardest boss for me hands down and I still have trouble with him to this day despite having beat the game 20+ times.

[@666loathe]

Finally Laurence getting the spot he deserves. I would always see Orphan of Kos being considered to be the toughest but Laurence provides a way more difficult fight.

[@skinnybirdo]

People always talking about ludwig and kosm, it took me like 2-3 tries for them, But Laurence was the real struggle

[@calesandy3459]

Lawrence was a tough fight but orphan is the only boss I had to leave and come back to beat

[@laiserfish]

cleric beast above darkbeast paarl and bsb is nuts dude

[@RandomChannelTMBE]

I mean this is definitely a unique list, a little all over the place difficulty wise if you ask me

[@leonneubert9372]

Just so u guys know my Perspective, i am no speedrunner so i have no Business in execution comboing a boss to death, in fact i never use fire/bolt paper or BB-Pellets cuz i think its a cheap way of shortening the bossfights which are supposed to be the most fun and entertaining, i have beaten the game a total of like 15 times with different builds, weapons and on numerous difficulty levels, the highest beeing NG+7, i also got the platinum-trophy, so i consider myself to have quite some knowledge ... With that beeing said here are my opinions to the ranking: 1. Father G is way to low on the list, He is not super difficult either but the fact that he bullies passive players and heavenly punishes dodging bagwards, something that easily happens when ur panicking or just haven't learned yet that dodging into the attack usually has the better outcome, makes him a hard fight for newer Players and a teaching tool, i am convinced he has to be top 10 beating him definetely takes more skill than beating one reborn or micotrash 2. Moon Presence over Gherman have u lost ur mind ? Moon presence could be argued to be one for the bottom 5, just because the boss has like no real way of beating u, sure the moves are not that easy the dodge but they do so little damage that nothing is really a threat to u, her signature move that shrinks u down to 1Hp makes her stand still for like 6 seconds which allows u to beat her relentlesly and regain all ur health in the process and her health pool generally speaking is so low that the fight is over in 3 min. And that is true for every NG+ level ... So there is no way that u can ever convince me that moon presence is harder or takes more effort/skill/knowledge/preparation than amygdala,BSB, Gascoigne, Gherman etc. 3. I dont understand why everybody ranks living failures bottom 5, yes the fight is easy, yes they dont have many mooves, yes the signature move can be dodged by standing behind the big flower in the middle, but they still hit so haard that i die to them 1,2 times each run just by fucking up a parry or beeing careless, so its nice that u actually put them pretty high, maybe even too high 😅 same goes for one reborn and micolash, u should kick these down a couple ranks 4. Think Blood Starved Beast should not be bottom 3, the constand poison buildup can create a stressful fight wih u trying to juggle blood vials and antidotes without getting hit again, BSB is also relatively unforgiving for such an early boss, mess up one dodge on that grab attack and its game over, i can see why u put it so low with that blood cocktail shenanigans beeing a thing, but since i dont use this exploit and judge only the fight itself, i would have placed him Higher 5. Nice to see u showing some respect for logarius, think he is kinda underrated, most people rank him mid at best, but he is the boss that gave me the most trouble in my first playthroughts due to his aggressive second phase and the pressure of : Shoot the sword or thousands knives shall rain from above ! He is kinda eazy once u figured out that parrying is the way to go but i still think he is one of the hardest main game bosses so good placement on ur part 6.Actullay totally agree with ur top 5 rankings: i can see ebrietas beeing the hardest boss in the main game, once again it could be argued for and against this, but i totally see the case and agree with the placement, my order would also go ludwig, maria, orphan, laurence and i think its refreshing to see someone agree with me, almost any Ranking has Orphan on top and from an objective point of view i can understand why but to me personally i never struggled much with him, the first time facing him i was mentally prepared to get my ass kicked but in the end i beat him in under 1 hour and on my last run (NG+4) i even beat him first try cuz i had an answer to every move, laurence on the other hand is the only fight to this day that i struggle with and even have fear taking on cuz i know its gonna suck, I could some up my problems with him in two points: 1. He does a shit ton of damage which results in him beeing way to punishing, even on 99 vitality he absolutely wrecks me 2. I absolutely struggle with finding opportunitys/ windows to attack once he has reached second phase

[@daan3353]

3 of the 5 of the easiest bosses on your list are probably the ones I struggled with the most on my first playthrough. Especially rom

[@kami4242]

I'm surprised to see The One Reborn so high up the list. Outside of the witches thought it was the easiest. I don’t even both with the fireball spammers

[@aristocraticduck]

i dont know if i was too much over leveled for lady maria's fight but it was a complete cakewalk even on my first playthrough. i wasn't even doging the attacks you can just tank them and back away a little bit to heal. i seriously dont get what is so special about this bossfight.

[@brado6655]

I’m at endgame ng+. Only played the dlc on ng+ and for some reason, the boss I’ve struggled with the most, is Vicar. Idk why. She gives me the most trouble out of any other boss

[@belial1821]

Laurence does have the highest health pool and I heard that in highest difficulty ng + 6 or 7 some of his attacks will instant kill you.

[@pootisgods]

Perhaps it’s just me, but I first tried shadows and Amelia on my first playthrough, and struggled with Paarl and Rom immensely

[@arconicx9218]

Not everyone says laurence is the hardest, but I fully agree great vid

[@chrisherzog1367]

It’s possible that “Father” Gascoigne was referring to him as the biological father of the young girl NPC that gives us the music box. Maybe they’re intending a double meaning?

[@henrikbackmark9179]

Imo, I find Ebrietas harder than any other boss. Love the video tho, great to mix in a bit of lore. :)

[@pabloguaramato1217]

I might be the exception here, but I found Ebrietas to be rather easy-ish on my first playthrough. I usually don't use lock on, so it's easier to dodge when you're sticked to her and not fighting the camera. On the other hand, I struggled terribly with Mergo's Wet Nurse. There's something about her design that I find eerie, plus the nightmare mode is horrible. First time it took me 20+ attempts to finally beat her.

[@Father_of_Kos]

Your video is incredible as always, a little shocked Father Gascoigne being so low on the list though.

[@remusaldana8147]

There is no need for a Bloodborne 2. The first one is perfect on its own, any addition would be a detriment to its glory. We should leave it alone and make other masterpieces

[@staggerlee7301]

Agreed, not everything should have a sequel

[@Pullovers7]

30 fps

[@LundyHuntyr]

I believe soul of cinder is more complex/has more moves than laurence

[@staggerlee7301]

He does have more moves, but the issue with Laurence (and I don’t think he’s a bad boss, for the record) is that he’s a combination of large health pool and fast attacks that hit like a truck. For me personally, it’s not so much that his moves are difficult to learn it’s that the fight takes so long and I just slip up at some point and when I do it’s enough to kill me. Soul of Cinder on the other hand, while being more complex, is also fairly easy to beat in pure damage output by that point in the game. I’ve beaten both multiple times and think both are really cool in their own way, but I think Laurence is more of a pain in the ass by quite a wide margin.

[@LundyHuntyr]

@@staggerlee7301 yeah, I mean it depends. I feel like laurence becomes much easier once you learn him, whereas cinder’s difficulty kinda grows the more advanced strats you integrate and the tankier you make him. On max NG cinder is a beast.

[@staggerlee7301]

@@LundyHuntyrTrue, Ng+Max he’s no joke. I have definitely fought him a lot of different ways, but that’s the thing about FromSoft games is that you are your own difficulty slider. Things are as easy or hard as you make them, and I do think that Laurence is easier to learn as far as moveset goes but when you try to fight him in ways that make it more challenging (low level, no upgrades, no buffs, etc) the aforementioned things that make him a pain in the ass just become more of an issue. I don’t know, we all have different experiences with bosses, and for me I just find long fights annoying. I get what you’re saying though, and SoC is a great fight with a killer OST

[@LundyHuntyr]

@@staggerlee7301 Yeah, and I get where you are coming from. Fighting Laurence BL4 no roll and no beast blood pellets or chalice gems was hard as crap. Took me a bit over 30 hours. Soul of cinder without bleed no roll took me 30-35. They’re both very similar in difficulty.

[@t3mLik3sTriangl3s]

The boss that took me the longest was the Abhorrent Beast in the Ailing Loran Chalice. He took me 3 hours

[@herohunter81]

The Abhorrent Beast is relentless. Especially the Chalice dungeons.

[@emmz34chills17]

I’ve never seen the move that caused you to have one heal point when I fought the moon presence

[@chasegaetze4507]

Laurence was a very challenging boss. Having him at #1 doesn't surprise me at all. Dude probably took me 50+ tries

[@The_Warden]

It's really funny, thinking about how the internet lit on fire raging about how difficult BSB was, but after returning to the game after months or a year plus of not playing many, many times; I have never died to her, however I believe there have been times I have died to the Witches or Emissaries... Honestly not sure what that says about me XD

[@kalebkemp]

I beat Lawrence first try on my first playthrough but orphan I was stuck on for DAYS.

[@Couragethecowarddog]

That happens a lot on these games depending on the player: for me, Laurence was the hardest boss in the game but I beat orphan first try.

[@mitchellhunter89]

Awesome video! Love the lore. Only disagreements are that Laurence is too high and BSB too low

[@SirVyre]

First I wanna say, I love the approach you took to the tier list, including lore details on top of technical ones. Yet, I gotta disagree with some placements. I'll probably make at least two comments. This one to disagree within the context you setup, and then another in a different context (my list). To start, Amygdala is way too high on the difficulty list. It seems like you neglect gun builds, and Amygdala can be completely countered by a base stats to wield +3 Repeating Pistol with Bone Marrow Ash. It's so effective that any Hunter with the baseline to wield that pistol can deal roughly 630 damage to her head, which is super easy to lock on and shoot (this is 1/10th of her HP per shot). You also miss out on most of her crazy flailing attacks this way, and it breaks her for visceral attacks or charged R2s. Meaning the only time you'll have to contend with her whole moveset is in her chalice version or on a BL4 run. The same goes for Ebrietas, although I'd only move her down a peg or two. Her head is super vulnerable to being shot, and as long as you have like 30 or so Bloodtinge investment and upgraded the Repeating Pistol further, Bone Marrow Ash is also purchasable by the time you can fight her as well. Father Gascoigne is also way too high. For his entire first phase you can repeatedly stagger him with his daughter's music box, which has infinite uses and can be repeated should you fail. It can also put him into disarray exactly once in his beast form. This allows the player to charged R2 him from behind to visceral him, upon which the music box can be played again to loop backstabbing him. Once he is in beast form, you can spam your gun to trigger viscerals or you can use that one stun from the music box to R2 him into a backstab and then you can oil him and burn him to death with a single oil and molotov as he gets back up. I also think Paarl should be higher on the list, because even though he is apparently susceptible (did not know that, I admit) to pungent blood, those are rare on a first playthrough, and if you already used them for Bloodstarved Beast, then you likely won't have many/any for Paarl. Beyond that I think the damage he deals relative to how quickly you can encounter him should be considered, as he does hit fairly hard and at range, too.

[@beefstew4948]

I struggled more with bloodstarved beast and living failures than with Lawrence and lady maria ... man .

[@KeizerSosebee]

I finished my first run not to long ago, am I the only one who got bent over and got spanked bad by defiled watchdog. I swear I died like 30 times and I don’t feel like I’m shit at the game.

[@norlakxkolinas1961]

Great video