Rivals of Aether - Workshop Bosses Ranked Easiest to Hardest

Rivals workshop has a lot of solid bosses. In this video I showcase the major boss fights and show which ones are easy, and which ones are hard.
Mods used:
Hikaru: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Shrine of Light (used for Hikaru's theme): steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Dracula: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Richter Belmont: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Colosso: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Godkarmachine:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Eye of Cthulhu:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Amvira: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Boss Zetta: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Infinity Dojo: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Sans: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

[@arandomgamer9317]

Tip for beating sans: use Kirby, his jumps and air dodges make him extremely good against sans

[@egor3975]

What about specter knight?

[@arandomgamer9317]

@@egor3975 I’ve never used Specter Knight during the Sans fight

[@unknowngamer7058]

Kirby VS Sans, Battle of the Century

[@arandomgamer9317]

@@unknowngamer7058 yes

[@benheater6234]

I use a pixel because his hit box is small.

[@voidnull4282]

"At first glance" i really hope that was a purposeful pun because its eye of cathulu

[@the_parasites]

Cathulu?

[@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028]

@@the_parasites Cathulu.

[@Kano_Productions]

Cuthulu

[@Kano_Productions]

@@glitchedbreaker2593 Man

[@ZenTerra-N.O.V.A]

Ah yes, Terraria...

[@Gamer-GuyGG64]

One thing you didn't mention about Dracula is that certain characters have special dialogue when you fight him (some of my favorites being, Sandbert, Ronald McDonald and cuphead.) Still great video, this channel is seriously underrated

[@phonetheory7056]

Ronald probably has the best dialogue.

[@Neonx13]

I like Fire.

[@Avriel_Mimiga]

once i make my workshop character, i might ask the maker if i can have my character have dialogue

[@YeetZmeN]

I checked out most of the different workshop character dialogues and my favorite one is Fire by far. Just seeing someone come in giving 0 shits and start cussing out Dracula for no reason is hilarious.

[@droidixbacon]

100% Metaknight is the best -my friend, a metaknight main

[@saihuang9066]

It's very simple why you will never see these Cheap Characters ever counted as a boss. Bosses are MADE TO BE DEFEATED after giving a challenge. have specific pattern player must learn and think against. They have tools that Make they lose the game, such as stamina bar, weakened state, exposed phase, etc etc. Cheap Character? They were given every tool player has with extra cheats slap on top of em. They are made to win games with some button press and be as unfair as possible. there is no boss in them.

[@saihuang9066]

By your logic. If you failed killing him he will punish you with a touch of death combo. But someone who fanboy the ronalds like you wouldn't try to understand :\

[@razen9082]

why are you mad?

[@saihuang9066]

@@razen9082 no ?

[@saihuang9066]

or maybe I' m? Because it's been year now and these mindset still exist ?

[@randomguyonyt6060]

I dont play RoA, but ronald is just a meme, not a serious character.

[@CEOofTheVoid]

I love how Boss Zetta is just a Vergil rip off that is WAYYYYY TOO MOTIVATED 10/10, i require more mods that add a style ranking system

[@CaptainTechnicalityLP]

Enjoying this analysis style of video! If everything goes well, we may have even more single player content within the next year! Oh, and, thanks for including Colosso. Really great seeing my boi on KZbin.

[@tailsdude9069]

We should get some food at Mc- *right here* *it echoes Can normal characters count as bosses?

[@floofbirb4436]

If colosso counts, so does ronald.

[@quinntessentialskill7414]

@@floofbirb4436 What? How? Ronald is just a character. Colosso is a boss, even if he's playable.

[@baba50040]

Gold ronald mc donald bot is a nightmare

[@marxiplier4322]

Hikaru: First boss Dracula: Second boss Colosso: Third boss Eye of Cthulhu: Fourth boss Gatekeepers: Fifth boss Godkarmachine: Sixth boss Daroach: Seventh boss Boss Zetta: Overarching boss Sans: Secret gimmick boss

[@xenongaming4460]

Cool

[@jackepicspeederwolfaj2294]

wait theres a daroach fight in this?

[@marxiplier4322]

@@jackepicspeederwolfaj2294 There's a few others I forgot to mention as well like one the balrog in this video. But yes, Daroach is in this game.

[@mobgabriel1767]

how about boss obama

[@marxiplier4322]

@@mobgabriel1767 Both this video and this comment were made well before the Obama boss was added to the workshop.

[@buttercupirl]

Excellent video! Being me, I can't help but notice you did inaccurately call the Servants of Cthulhu as Demon Eyes, which are a slightly different enemy. It's obviously not actually a problem lol, but my brain wouldn't let me not mention it. Great stuff, keep up the good work!

[@Zetta330]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, that's my bad, I haven't played a lot of Terraria 😅

[@nac157]

@@Zetta330 well, you should...

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

Why does eye of cthulhu function like MONOCULUS?

[@whiteface513abandonedchann8]

@@Zetta330 it's an amazing game, honestly if you have it you should give it a bit more of a go. Once you get past the beginning which is a little slow, it's really combat-oriented and adventurous

[@VMan_2002]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 nah not really, the servants of cthulhu are enemies, but monoculus's projectiles are basically rockets

[@ViviVinyaFP]

This is a wonderful showcase, and your narration is really pleasant! Hope you decide to make a part two when more boss content is out, maybe even something of mine might show up by then! 👀

[@Helpimlockedinabasement]

Ronald was never included because recording him broke time and space

[@jackepicspeederwolfaj2294]

no actually it is a cheap character and doesnt count as a boss but that too i guess

[@casualrobloxplayer2893]

6:26 zetta is sans confirmed

[@phonetheory7056]

Thank you. I needed this kind of list.

[@finalshade8592]

Good choice in outro music. Persona 1, hell yeah.

[@Anasumi]

Cosmic Ronald behind the scenes: *Crying*

[@mvl666_darkrio]

Cheap character does not equal boss character

[@justchris.8720]

@@mvl666_darkrio there is a boss version of golden ronald

[@quinntessentialskill7414]

@@justchris.8720 Boss doesn't mean cheap. Boss is intended to be beaten by practice and skill, with strategies to beat it in mind when created. Golden Ronald is a beefed up form of a meme character.

[@zeroddor2665]

Kinda thought Ronald would count, but Good video

[@maglev957]

Another one of these would be sick

[@maximumforce8275]

With some new bosses now like master hand, being both playable and a boss, the list should be updated

[@saihuang9066]

[@RandomTRandomReal]

it him/her

[@raphaeldominicchico9309]

Ending the fight peacefully with Hikaru gives me so much Undertale vibes other than the text box. Last I checked, when you play as Papyrus and Hikaru reads your mind, she says: "Standardly Skeleton, what could that mean?" Well, I think its safe to say Hikaru is based of Undertale entirely.

[@FuryJack07]

From what I could read, Hikaru is some sort of travelling fighter, one that goes around in different universes to aquire different powers and skills, like for example it seems she went to the pokemon universe to learn her move were she copyes you taunt, she says "a little brown fox" Which if I'm not wrong is a certain pokemon that can pretend to be other pokemons. (I don't remember it's name, I'll search for it though)

[@jackepicspeederwolfaj2294]

if there is ever a custom marx boss fight in this game, i will love it already!

[@jackepicspeederwolfaj2294]

@@sirplatypus1112 OMG RLLY? Is there a vid about it online?

[@sirplatypus1112]

@@jackepicspeederwolfaj2294 idk just chek the workshop im pretty sure i saw it the other day

[@nitroblitz8]

Where is Mr funny mascot clown? I mean I know he is not a boss, but defeating him in his Golden form feels like defeating a boss

[@Pc_98_Fan]

you forgot one boss: Daroach from Kirby Squeak Squad similar to Dracula, he has custom interactions for almost every character, plus he has two stages where he summons his team to annoy you

[@saihuang9066]

this video is quite old

[@Pc_98_Fan]

@@saihuang9066 btw, I tried Boss!Zetta. I have to say that I had a blast beating the higher difficulties (like LVL9 and LVL1). I am quickly learning the timing of all the moves and do a lot of chained Parries because of it

[@samucagamesbr162]

Zeta Boss is a reference to a character (modded) in your only move is hustle

[@Leet-iz2fz]

The original Ronald was based on the one from MUGEN, who had a special AI designed to be a brutal challenge - ie. a boss fight. I'd consider Ronald a proper boss, but not any of the offshoots that are just meant to be cheap like Golden and Cosmic Ronald.

[@doxiedaddy7784]

He doesn’t have super armor tho

[@Leet-iz2fz]

@@doxiedaddy7784 A fighting game boss doesn't need super armor to *be* a boss.

[@iceypumpkinhead]

I'm waiting for someone to put Moonlord into rivals

[@ArcienPlaysGames]

Zetta is 100% based on Vergil and I LOVE it.

[@andrewhillary-ounegbu9345]

I hope we can get a story mode for the workshop characters.

[@thomasverslycken2563]

I think that this dracula and the super smash bros ultimate dracula are having atleast nearly the same moveset, so that a good reason to say that this 1 isn't to bad

[@allanbelizaire9545]

Can u play boss battles with friends like a 2v1

[@Zetta330]

You can! All of these fights should work in team matches, and the stage bosses (Sans, Dracula, EoC) will show you the statistics for each player too!

[@allanbelizaire9545]

Zetta CAN YOU DO A VIDEO ON IT PLEASE

[@taraktaras7327]

Godkarmine looks like an official rivals of aether boss

[@XenoTheEnergized1339]

i respect the person who put a terraria boss fight here

[@WilliamGamer89]

there's an updated version of the Dracula fight, and it's way harder now

[@animationtakesalongtime]

There should be a Zomboss boss that is at the right and spawns zombies and throws vans and spew out fire balls and ice balls, the fire ball can move fast and drains your health and the ice ball starts as a big ice ball and turns into 20 snow balls that pushes you and there are different zombies like a normal zombie that has 1 hp and 1 atk, cone head zombie has 4 hp 1 atk and bucket head zombie has 8 hp and 3 atk and other and also zomboss can stomp, punch and can stun you by hitting you with that thing that gargantuars use.

[@acat5770]

only real problem with workshop bosses is the CPU load at times. If your pc is even slightly below specs the game can just run at 10fps max

[@batit5574]

i am commenting because commenting is healthy for youtube

[@tinapi2026]

*Sans is the easiest enemy.*

[@pizzamozarella6523]

*1 ATK - 1 DEF, the easiest boss keep attacking

[@pizzamozarella6523]

enemy*

[@vermontmann5216]

I guess he gotta be very DETERMINED to beat sans

[@waldoman5706]

You forgot the most powerful one *COSMIC RONALD*

[@saihuang9066]

Cosmic Ronald can welp in the Cheapies Trashcan he belong to

[@josephconover5270]

I think the HP you have in expert mode for Sans fight is the amount you have at around LOVE 17.

[@arieegee]

I can say zetta is one hell of a pain, i had to fight her multiple times when i got sss rank, (on cpu level 1 of course im not a pussy) but you can interupt some of her attack (only those one hit kos and that projectiles have super armor those needs to be parried) and hiting her during prep time of attack forces her to parry it and she'll doesn't activate it also it depletes her motivation a little but only a lil bit (it also works in cpu level 1 fight)

[@lorxno]

big eye that shoots smaller eyes with large teeth that flies is stronger then a massive robot with lasers, legs, what i can only describe as plasma balls, and probably more i missed ok

[@Sun-ed9hd]

i dont know if golden/ronald macdonald counts as a boss but his dificulty could surely count as one due to his insanly dificult attacks so to help you here is the list of ronalds moveset and abilities 1:ronald throws a burger at the enemies , it does not do much damage and does a decent amount of knockback however its veeeery spamable leading to ronald constantly spaming it to accert dominace in the ranged part of the battle making it very hard to stay away from ronald 2:ronald throw 3 burgues in the air, just like the first burger move this move is also very spamable however this time the burgers do way more damage the first burger spam 3:for ronald heavy attack he picks up a gigant french frie and smacks you with it, ronald tends to use this move to end a melee combo and throw you away from the stage, also this move tends to do a high amount of damage 4:ronald melee moves are extremly punishing not because they do much damage but because they are insanely spamable, ronald tends to use his melee moves to get away from your own combos, ronald also tends to spam his punches and kicks to finish you off with the french frie move 5:ronald throws a milkshake in the air and when the milk shake hits the ground it explodes and creates a dark pillar of energy the does a high amount of damage 6:ronald puts a apple in the ground that explodes and deal a decent amount of damage 7:by far one of ronalds signature moves is the chesee, in this move ronald puts melted chesee in the ground that serves as a trap that does a high amount of damage and a decent amount of knockback , this move also is extremely spamable 8:ronald taunt is also a move on its own where he opens a macdonalds menu , if ronald is hit while using his taunt he teleports behind the one wich attacked him , thankfuly ronald does not use this move very often 9:by far ronalds signature move is a bar wich slowly fills wich if completly filled up allows ronald to fire a red laser from his fingers wich does a insane amount of damage and knockback wich great part of the time is a one hit kill move another thing to keep a eye on is that ronald has a second form wich is activated if the player changes the skin of ronald to gold wich is know as golden ronald, this form makes ronald become insanely dificult since now all of his attacks now have no cooldown and his bar now fills way faster and ronald also has a health regen, with the recent update of golden ronald now he can identify if the player is using a cheap or overpowered character like ultra instinct fox or zetta and immediatly gains 999 lives and crashes the game if you get hit once by him hope this info was useful in anyway and one thing is that even if ronald is not as dificult as bosses like sans or boss zetta he is one hell of a foe

[@saihuang9066]

See pinned comment.

[@skell6134]

Wait,isnt Boss Zetta allow only 1 stock at LEVEL 9 too ? With LEVEL 1

[@jenslight1]

Me seeing the thumbnail: Is ThAt JuDgEmEnT hAlL?!1

[@notoriousDIP]

0:58 ZA WARUDO!!!

[@Mushroom38294]

4:07 I have no idea why the Eye shoots demon eyes and not it's usual summons but idc enough to complain

[@brianevans1757]

I just checked something out on KZbin too see if someone has made a helluva boss here but nothing I wonder what they would do for me they would have attacks from ep6 truth seekers

[@james4429]

Sees sans expert mode: Better call merg

[@Ardoomus]

Sadly, for some reason i can't play boss stages and boss characters because my fps just chunks even tho my pc is enough to run this game people told me it's the fault of Gamemaker Studio 2's problem but if anyone has a advice pls write it to me.

[@jonathanbjorgan2214]

me when i see sans but the video isnt over yet: hol up

[@hahafuni1183]

7:27 *it hurt me so much that you said dedication instead of determination*

[@cloudshifter]

Everytime I am up against lvl 9 or 1 zetta my game starts at - 33 fps for 1.5 to 2 seconds making her first move always kill me since the game cannot take my inputs yet. Basicly the screen shows the game and I have the invincibility frames from spawning while "Dismal.mp3" spams in the backround. So yeah, I had to beat her with only 2 stocks, of course lvl 1 is impossible because you die before your game even goes out of black screen.

[@memelurd7341]

4:08 *servants of cthulhu

[@kaloz429mobile9]

Ideas from me! Enderdragon(minecraft) Dif(hard) Missingno(insanity)(pokemon (The hardest boss)

[@VMan_2002]

suggest this to workshop creators then?

[@HectorRafael-bq4kd]

Hello this a question this with the character Hikaru this I love but when I fight with her she does not speak and the elements are not then that what I do to make it work well pls

[@HectorRafael-bq4kd]

and i use the wordl pls help D:

[@Zetta330]

Make sure that the CPU is set to Level 1, otherwise she'll be a normal character.

[@HectorRafael-bq4kd]

Thx :D

[@Solesteam]

Why is the eye of chuthothooo from Terraria fighting Ori was there a specific Terraria mod reference or just coincidence?

[@Xyna7590]

Probably referencing something obscure

[@justloq]

There's a ori mod in terraria, there's the reference (?

[@Xyna7590]

problem is ori is their own indie character so it could be unlikely ori is still cute

[@Solesteam]

@@Xyna7590 I'm asking did he chose Ori specifically for that fight to reference the Ori mod for Terraria.

[@Xyna7590]

How do I know

[@kbfaqih9055]

Honestly i expecting Sephiroth is the secret boss yet very hard boss because let just face it, he is hyperdeath god after all even thought Sans was pretty much good option for the very hard boss tho

[@nohamahon2988]

He forgot one golden Ronald because he got an upgrade

[@wizardofgameingc4095]

Boss zetta vs sans plz

[@StockImageOfaRat]

There are a couple other bosses I think you missed 1 da roach or the evil rat from Kirby squeak squad 2 golden Ronald mc Donald not the cosmic version 2 hard

[@floofbirb4436]

tl:dr Daroach is medium tier, basically just a harder colosso Golden ronald is, uh, golden ronald

[@mvl666_darkrio]

Ronalds don't count. They're cheap characters, not bosses

[@ElMatix76]

@@mvl666_darkrio agreed

[@sirlambchops.]

Boss: Sans Difficulty: Fucked

[@expyoutube3590]

5:48 she more like crros sans

[@jamesmalinowski4033]

You missed Daroach. But still, not bad.

[@bandapanda5799]

I think you forgot the ronalds maybe you didn’t include them cause there not supposed to be bosses but they do have custom ai’s that are very hard especially shadow Ronald to this day I still don’t know why I can’t select the shadow skin but it did work for me once

[@Zetta330]

Ronald was excluded for primarily two reasons: 1. The character isn't designed to be a boss. The AI is a reference to the notoriously cheap MUGEN AI, and Golden Ronald is not designed to be fought by humans. This puts Ronald in the "cheapie" category rather than boss character, alongside Psychos and the 100% accurate characters. 2. In this video, I made a decision to only include characters which use healthbars. For example, even though Boss Hime is designed as a boss, she was excluded due to following traditional game rules.

[@bandapanda5799]

Thank you for taking your time into making this reply I will try to be more active around your channel and subscribe

[@engineer4133]

I want someone to make Dante and the boss Vergil

[@speedrunnermariomario9793]

Hey Zetta i know he is not a boss but where is ronald

[@DualityXIdiocy]

Wait, YOU MADE ZETTA

[@arrownaut6820]

So no Golden Ronald?

[@FakieAcidToe]

Awoo

[@whiteface513abandonedchann8]

You know, I'm gonna have to disagree with you on Sans' placement. If it were locked into the hard mode, I would absolutely agree, but the base Sans fight was never challenging for me. I mean, sure, it required me to actually focus and try, but it felt no harder than a regular boss fight to me

[@beywheelzhater8930]

I think it is considering the bosses at their best rather than their worst, after all if you only played level 2 Zetta with a mass amount of stocks, it would be EXTREMELY easy

[@anissans-zo1bc]

What about king Bowser charecter with its giga Bowser boss form

[@BubbledDEV]

I don't think Giga Bowser was part of his character at the time.

[@ace_ofchaos9292]

Hello! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior The Duane?

[@olekaleksander4369]

You forget about Ronald MC donald

[@powerofthec5908]

Actually those are servants of cthulu not demon eyes.

[@christianakonadu7559]

Bosses can be hard But THEY CAN BE OUTSMARTED AND DEFEATED BY THE PLAYERS SKILLS. but this game has stuff well coded

[@Ddelsol47]

bruh? didn't golden ronald exist

[@futurep9094]

that's what we need in brawlhalla

[@fern5440]

you forgot golden ronald

[@Thehappystar205]

YOU FORGOT TINKER KNIGHT

[@pinealitz]

Did you beat the sans boss yet-

[@Tolkinginger]

The eye of cuthuluu is ez 2nd boss in terraria and expert is legit the same as in terraria

[@therealcactusmanman]

I knew sans would be a boss

[@doodlealchemist1257]

7:27 You literally had one job. You had to say "With enough practice AND DETERMINATION". You missed for a golden opportunity

[@MasterJediYoda]

Me who played undertale: hold my beer.

[@scarthehedgehog8300]

Oh so sans can beat g ronald!

[@amitaish1055]

4:47 -1 stocks..? Someone struggled with the fight...

[@raphaeldominicchico9309]

Thats not stocks, thats points I think.

[@amitaish1055]

@@raphaeldominicchico9309 oh, I understand. How does this work tho?

[@Zetta330]

@@amitaish1055 Sorry, didn't see this until just now, some of the bosses use score mode instead of time mode, your stocks are actually the heart above your HUD. this is so that the game doesn't end if one player dies in a team battle, as the bosses can be fought co-op.

[@amitaish1055]

@@Zetta330 oh, that makes a lot of sense. I shouldv'e figured that myself.

[@kirbchickenperson8351]

Does golden Ronald count as a boss?

[@saihuang9066]

It's very simple why you will never see these Cheap Characters ever counted as a boss. Bosses are MADE TO BE DEFEATED after giving a challenge. have specific pattern player must learn and think against. They have tools that Make they lose the game, such as stamina bar, weakened state, exposed phase, etc etc. Cheap Character? They were given every tool player has with extra cheats slap on top of em. They are made to win games with some button press and be as unfair as possible. there is no boss in them.

[@kirbchickenperson8351]

ok

[@Dan-ep9by]

I was thinking about Ronald mc donald

[@omaraldabbagh2274]

where is golden ronald mcdonald??

[@murphmariotwopointoh7714]

You know Dracula has it bad when one of the first Terraria bosses is stronger than him.

[@Sean-yj4wq]

Everyone knows the hardest fight is lvl 9 Ronald mcdonald

[@feliperoblox8714]

Terraria in a nutshell but its hell

[@FlubbedsodaGamingOfficial]

Difficulty based on : super smash brothers 64

[@OfficialNex6]

Who tf made Edgeworth a boss?

[@cring3614]

hey try and get cosmic ronald mcdonald to fight sans

[@mtvbrill6620]

Lemme say this... most of these bosses... I defeated them with... **Mega Man (8 bit one that was on workshop)**

[@unknowngamer7058]

Well MegaMan is the original boss fighter game...

[@SpireFNBR]

WHAT IS A M A N

[@reneeknights3896]

Where to get this game

[@Zetta330]

It's purchasable on steam for $30 (but goes on sale for cheaper often)

[@reneeknights3896]

@@Zetta330 ok thanks

[@radplatinum4589]

I enjoyed the analysis but, what about golden Ronald, or cosmic Ronald?

[@loltoheaven777sreplaystora6]

They aren't bosses, they are cheap characters.