The 7 Cheapest Tricks Pulled By Fighting Game Bosses

Ask any fighting game boss and they’ll tell you that you get to the top by being a total jerk, screwing over everyone else, and cheating everyone with the cheapest tactics imaginable, as you’ll see from these cheapest tricks pulled by fighting game bosses that really should be illegal. Enjoy, and subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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[@mrmusickhimself]

I always found it hilarious that Ryo flat out tells Geese that he thinks his methods are honestly pretty cool, I've never seen a hero give props to the villain like that, not in a fighting game. It'd be like Ken randomly complimenting M. Bison's drip.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Sometimes happens when the player's character is evil too, like Juri meeting Seth.

[@mrmusickhimself]

@@WhiteFangofWar I'm talking "face" characters, the good guy basically saying "I like your style you meglomaniac" is so strange.

[@CraigSmithII]

That's an example of bad writing. Fighting games back then didn't care about storylines until KOF changed that

[@mrmusickhimself]

@@CraigSmithII Oh I remember all the bad translations, but I still can't think of any other way to take it. Especially since we know how bad Geese is, and that makes it even weirder, because it also goes against Ryo's character. I could see Robert Garcia saying that MAYBE.

[@riksweeney]

SNK's bosses were so notorious back in the day that it coined the phrase "SNK Boss Syndrome", which outlined pretty much everything you mentioned in this video.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

Two more: many bosses simply don't take knockback or hitstun from most moves, which is common enough as to be expected. However, some bosses also have the ability to teleport or dodge mid-combo, while they should be taking hitstun, instantly stopping any combo and forcing you to fight for position again. Devil Kazumi from Tekken 7, for example, uses this frequently.

[@lugismansion2400]

I don’t know if this counts since Super Smash Bros is not your typical fighting game but in Ultimate Dracula can teleport around a fighters attacks and not only that, in his first phase ONLY you have to go for the head otherwise your attacks does NOTHING

[@user-jw2it4qf2r]

@@lugismansion2400 Dracula's from an action platformer and directly takes his mechanics from his source genre so he's entirely fair. His attacks are telegraphed and slow, and he doesn't take hitstun but he doesn't do fighting game combos either. If he was instead just a Ridley copy that ignored rules of the game he'd be one of these.

[@lugismansion2400]

@@user-jw2it4qf2r yea, everyone except for Galeem, Darkhan, Master and Crazy hand, that boss from Brawl and Giga Bowser take their entire move pools from their respective games, I say Dracula is one of the more unfair to fight against because he has 2 phases when none of the other bosses even HAS 2 phases, for some of the fighters he’s nearly impossible to take down on their own sine Dracula is a tall character who whom you can only damage via the head in the first phase, becomes invincible when he transforms into bats, I can go on forever but I’ve ranted long enough(no I am not a Little Mac main)

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I think maybe Frieza from the DBZ games had this issue. His side-step was an instant transmission, instead of a proper side-step, allowing him to vanish a step back during combos. Frieza wasn't exactly a boss, not in the sense of a final boss of the game, but still.

[@usernameluis305]

​@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Frieza, not a final boss? Pff

[@Megadoomer3]

Surprisingly, King of Fighters '95 doesn't weaken its boss characters once you unlock them, so Rugal's Genocide Cutter is still insanely powerful even when he's playable in that game.

[@blastmole299]

I think all of the bosses in KOF are still broken if they're unlockable, the only exceptions are regular Rugal in '98(just a mini boss here tho) and Rugal in 15. They're all banned in tournaments for a reason

[@amwoodco3049]

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike did thensame with Gil. Want a really easy time? Play as the guy who can go down and recover his HP.

[@Shadoboy]

That's why, in Mexico, where kids always gathered around the arcade machines in the local grocery stores, you'll be considered THAT KID if you picked Rugal.

[@blackchibisan8116]

@@blastmole299 Geese in Neowave wasn’t broken anymore either. I can absolutely tell his move set in that game was designed towards his boss buffs because he is bottom tier trash without it.

[@randomnoobonyoutube7463]

@@Shadoboy lmao same in Mozambique, there's always that one kid that spams rugals supers

[@TheRealCodeBlack]

I'm surprised "screen filling attacks" wasn't a section unto itself. Once Gill showed up I was sure we'd get a segment devoted just to how teeth grindingly evil Seraphic Wing was.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

THIS is what makes Gill "cheap" in Third Strike - having access to not one, but two OP supers in a game where characters are limited to one (except Akuma).

[@MagmaMKII]

Orochi was the first boss to use a screen filling hyper, with many subsequent KoF bosses also getting their own as well (both Zeros, Mukai, Magaki and Saiki).

[@budgetcoinhunter]

@@TheBlackSeraph _Three_ supers. He can even drop Meteor Strike on you at times. If he hits with that, you're taking a massive chunk of damage. At least this is his 'bad' Super, so you can block and eat little chip if he does it.

[@carlosaugusto9821]

​@@MagmaMKII Yeah SNK turned that into a kind of trend with their bosses funnily. Capcom only did it once.

[@panetoneninjacanal2692]

​@@budgetcoinhunter some peopla actually say that this is his best super for competitive play, sadly this isnt gonna happen anytime soon

[@CyberDragon10K]

I think the funniest part of KoF is that Krizalid from '99 was supposedly an attempt at making a _balanced_ final boss. Can't really say how that panned out since I was on the Capcom side of the fence back in the day.

[@davidboatwright8688]

Honestly I personally found him to be the worst of the lot when it came to SNKs rock hard bosses. Gave me more trouble than Geese, Rugal, ect. Still. Aint no boss like an SNK boss. Samurai Showdown had some strong ones as well

[@Krizalid3YE]

At least, i tried. On KOF UM 2002 i am more balanced. XD

[@MikeDeeJackson]

I had KOF 99 when I was a kid... Krizalid was not fair at all in that game. Not the worst but he's up there when it comes to cheap

[@MikeDeeJackson]

@@Krizalid3YE OLD NAVY!

[@CasualRemy]

I love how most attempts to get in close usually end with you getting knocked back full screen by his Typhoon Rage, turning that fight into a frustrating game of Red Light Green Light

[@XegaK]

That Richard Branson joke is pure comedic gold

[@JeedyJay]

It's not always a boss, but the "MK Walker" is a notoriously difficult computer-controlled fighting game adversary, named for its prominence in old Mortal Kombat games. Not only does this specimen read your button inputs, but it fights safely and oppressively (the name comes from the fact that it just walks at you instead of jumping in or using advancing attacks, so that it can keep its defenses up and respond to anything you do).

[@Sunprism]

The final boss in Skullgirls that's just...constantly levitating higher then you are tall

[@xstarsystemsx]

"A bowling shoe who got a job modeling for romance book covers" is such a brutal and accurate burn. 😂

[@jekebe4858]

Ah, another of Andy's fighting game lists, he has an entire mine of salt built up from all the sweat and tears he's spent on the genre apparently lol

[@James-gj8rn]

The worst part about old school fighting games (Mortal Kombat II had it) is when it seems like the game in the code can determine what move your going to do and react to it without a second thought, it can pull moves that a player can't with their reaction time and it can do it way faster than you

[@Shininji]

That's exactly what input reading is...

[@HisVirusness]

The MK2 arcade game was designed to cheat.

[@James-gj8rn]

@@HisVirusness that's insane to think about

[@veghesther3204]

So was the console version so though the SNES/Genesis MK 2 had a EASY mode the AI still cheats in game and the last 3 battles of Arcade mode automatically had the game bump it from easy mode to HARD mode automatically.

[@KaitouKaiju]

Input reading was the standard because there was literally no other way back then

[@NGMonocrom]

So if we play as Mike.... We can never actually go Full Mike. 😖

[@LordBloodySoul]

Omg. Unfair bosses can be such a pain, right? Like Lu Bu from the Dynasty Warriors Series, who's even a cheap fighter before hitting Chaos Mode. He's getting every buff the game has to offer, a horse that's incredibly tall and fast, and such fast Musou Charge, he can almost spam his Super with only seconds for you t get out of the way.

[@AdmiralKomodo]

It's been a while since any major fighting game did this but I remember some fighting games had short characters; characters so short your basic attacks just didn't hit them. I still remember fighting that a penguin in Bloody Roar (don't ask) and all my punches just wooshed right over its head

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Wasn't there a character in a (blegh) JoJo's fighting game who was a bird, and had a screwy hitbox because of that? I feel like they mentioned that in a previous video.

[@ultralowspekken]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 not a boss and straight up banned from online play

[@Houldey]

Mortal Kombat 11 had some really bad disjointed hitboxes which is essentially what you were saying, also in dragonball fighterz up until late into season 2 (iirc) a sizeable number of attacks wouldn't connect with the small characters due to their low profile, GT Goku & Gotenks were the main offenders I think. So yeah, it still happens today lol.

[@ultralowspekken]

@@Houldey nonono, not disjointed hitboxes. Straight up small characters with small hurtboxes that weren't implemented in a balanced way. Disjointed hitboxes are just hitboxes that are disjointed from the main body. Edit: read that again and figured out you just mean that MK11 has horrible hitboxes on characters lmao. MK has that one issue in any game period.

[@kamikage9420]

I feel like Outside Xbox has done like 5 of these "cheapest fighting game bosses" videos but there's so many examples that they could fill a dozen more lists with them.

[@daleketchup7434]

Be aware, for every Genocide Cutter Rugal says, you can hear somebody in the distance shout “GODDAMMIT!”

[@ShiKageMaru]

I knew what the last 2 entries were going to be right from the start. Back when I was a kid playing street fighter 2 on my SNES i experienced all of this. And it's not just Bison. Guile can do flash kicks and sonic booms instantly and on repeat, but they decided that players wouldn't be able to do that. Sometimes I found that if I purposefully lost round 2 really badly, the boss a.i. would have its difficulty turned down in round 3, making it much easier to win than struggling in round 2 and losing ultimately.

[@charliethemagpie523]

That chest-face-flame-breath wasn't even the worst thing about Jinpachi - it was the incredibly quick stomp attack that stuns you, putting you in a position where you can't even dodge whatever comes next. Which, yes, might well be the flame-breath. Deep sigh.

[@MasterZebulin]

Jinpachi sounds like a real asshole, lol.

[@randoguypassword5433]

This happened to me more than once. In fact he often beat me three times in a row with this strategy. Two perfects then one post continue victory, he also has a move that regains his health while taking yours too so thats fun.

[@BiyikFrostDiaz]

Let's not forget he also uses a life siphoning unblockable that he also tends to use when said stun happens

[@metaloverlord99]

If it helps, I recently found out you can actually block Jinpachi's stomp if you crouch... though you do need to be able to predict it first.

[@ultralowspekken]

You can "block" it with forward. Which is even more evil since holding forward will make you eat any followup attack if you didn't realize you dodged it.

[@tvdinner1986]

Apparently another thing Orochi does to win, is by trying to give the *player* a seizure with rapid flashing lights @ 2:15 :X

[@DiMono]

Vega from SF2 would do this thing where he climbs the fence in the background, becoming invulnerable, and then just hang out there until you let your guard down. Then he would do a big dive at you that was incredibly difficult to block without lots of practice. That temporary invulnerability has got to be a trend, right?

[@EnforcerX71]

The thing is, Vega/Balrog/Claw has an easy exploit, if you back him into a corner and jump kick towards him, he'll do his backflip dodge, leaving him vulnerable to a throw when he lands every time. Also with the move you mentioned, if he does his diving claw, with timing it can be countered with a Sho-Ryu-Ken or Tiger Uppercut, but yeah it's a pain to master.

[@DiMono]

@@EnforcerX71 Being counterable doesn't make it any less of a dick move though.

[@carlosaugusto9821]

Not many games used that kind of gimmick. Their cheapness is more straightforward.

[@NetProphet76]

Bushido Blade, where everyone fights with melee weapons, except that one guy with a gun.

[@Azurada23rd]

Seth from Street Fighter IV just kinda derps around and does a few annoying but punishable moves, but once you get a round on him, he has you “Witness his limitless power” and goes nuts. He even teleports two or three times in a row after knocking you down to make you guess which way he’s going to attack you from.

[@gavcrayton]

This! Lol Seth was an absolute nightmare on the 2nd round

[@ryanahr2267]

Yup. The original Street Fighter IV was my first proper SF game. Before that I'd only played SFII with a friend on his Genesis back in the day and that was it. My fighting game experience otherwise was Tekken, Soul Calibur and MvC games. I had a hard enough adjusting to the heavier and more precise mechanics of SF IV as it was but I couldn't actually beat Seth that first time I got to him despite several tries. It made me so angry that I actually traded it in the day after I bought it. I came back to the series a year or two later with Ultra Street Fighter IV and spent a lot more time practicing before jumping into Arcade and the online modes. Helped a lot and now SF is one of my favorite franchises.

[@carlosaugusto9821]

Games from that generation aren't hard as the 90s games

[@Azurada23rd]

@@carlosaugusto9821 neat.

[@natsusatsujinki8342]

Hated this guy with a passion.

[@motbus3]

You get a bit more powerful version of pyscho crusher in sfz3 if you use Xmode instead of default Z

[@ultralowspekken]

Boss M Bison is also unlockable in console ports. Once you beat the game, you hold a bunch of buttons before selecting M Bison. He gets something that looks like Xism but has a skull instead of the X on the meter

[@whatwilliwatch3405]

1:37 "You look like a bowling shoe got a job modeling for romance novel covers" has to be one of the sickest burns I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. Too bad it only applies in this very specific situation. Also, "strongerst" (7:01), lol.

[@phitowns]

Speaking of SNK boss syndrome white from fatal fury real bout makes you think that you won the match but then he throws a projectile and if you don't jump it, you instantly lose

[@eryvac0074]

How about when the boss has a mechanic that keeps them in check, like Nagoriyuki's blood rage meter in guilty gear strive, which causes him to lose half his health if he over extends, which the boss version just doesn't have to worry about

[@enderhx]

8:12 Love when Andy says "Buck Wild" 😆 Something about how he says it makes it sound so funny and cool all at once 😎

[@azuredragoon2054]

Having permanent Hyper Armor is another pain in the butt. Hyper Armor is a state where your attacks can't be interrupted. Some moves can be empowered to have this in a few fighting games, but once the move is done you lose it. Shao Khan from Mortal Kombat 9 has permanent Hyper Armor meaning his attacks will hit you if they're started and you're in range. And since bosses tend to deal more damage while also taking less... Yeah, it's annoying.

[@KaitouKaiju]

I'd beat him by keeping distance and ducking under his hammer with Liu Kang

[@Sacred_Fox]

Meta Ridley from Smash Brawl is definitely dirty. He has an ability where he can basically remove the stage underneath you for a second.

[@alaskanativemanitou9340]

There are bosses who can't be beat by knocking down their health bar. For example: if I remember right, Death in Time Killers has no health; you can only win by decapitation. The boss of Eternal Champions did have health, but if you knock him down to 0, he just transforms into something stronger with full health. You have to hit him till he has less health than you, then try not to get hit as you run out the clock.

[@budgetcoinhunter]

Death required a decapitation for the 2nd win, true, but at least he auto-stunned if you depleted his health so you could get the blow in (usually a character can only be stunned once per round). However, Death's main bullshit is in the fact he automatically teleports to the other side of you if he's in the corner. This isn't even a command. If you use cheats to control Death, just walking to the corner will do it. Eternal (and later, Dark) Champion though, dear god. No, there is no time limit. On the Genesis, you have to beat _5_ different forms in a row, on one health bar (you do get a small amount of health back after each form). You can lose two rounds, and only have to beat him like this once, but you do _not_ get a second try. Lose to the Eternal, and you get a bad ending. On the Sega CD, you fight the Eternal in an even longer match, with _9_ forms to defeat. After the first 5 forms, the match pauses, the old windows blow out, and four _new_ ones spawn in. On a high enough, difficulty, once you land the final hit, the game pauses again, and the introduction to a cinekill plays, but now you're fighting as the Eternal against the Dark Champion in _a second 9-form fight_ with no time limit.

[@alaskanativemanitou9340]

@@budgetcoinhunter It was so long ago. I probably never won Eternal Champions. I do remember getting good at Time Killers & eventually decapitating Death with every character.

[@joejackson3091]

"...after he's arrested for your murder." LOL

[@aaronmurrayvazquez]

so glad you mentioned Bison. That was basically like can i survive two of these pyscho things in 3 rounds fo fighting

[@nicknight1728]

Fun Fact: The name for bosses that you fight that are cheap to fight against but weak when you play them is called BUF-BUG. Which stands for "Boss You Fight, Boss You Get". I know what you're thinking "shouldn't it be BYF-BYG?". Well it was... for a very brief moment, until some stoner use lazy speak(not leet) & replaced the Y's with U's. It was gonna be corrected until someone noticed the genius in it. For you see the BUF fits perfectly with cheap bosses as they feel buffed & the BUG fits with bosses you play/use as they feel bugged as if the dev's didn't fixed it. So it was settled & the rest was history. I call any raid pokemon i captured BUFBUG if their stats are OP & bullsh!t to fight but crap to use. I've been doing this since Gen 8. But this ultimately applies to fighting games primarily. Now you know.

[@VonBlade]

Perhaps a future list needs Otoma=Raga from KOFXV. Infinite meter, regeneration, screen-filling nonsense, they've got all the SNK boss tricks. Or Seth in the 2nd round from USFIV. Or Annie (all rounds) from Skullgirls. Or Unlimited Rachel from Blazblue Calamity Trigger. But good luck with that last one. Now where is my GG I-No...

[@andrewowens4421]

Oh God, I-no. I have nightmares about her. One mistake and she just straight demolishes you.

[@TheFirstAifos]

I love Skullgirls to death, but absolutely hate the boss version of Marie. Unlike a regular fight, Marie is completely immune to being combo’d, as she just floats there ominously, taking your attacks without so much as flinching, while peppering you with more projectiles that you can count. Well, you probably could count them, but you’ll be too busy being impaled, shot, and smacked in the face the whole time. Though, on the bright side, I can say “boss version of Marie” now, which is nice. Hopefully the coming soon player version of Marie isn’t as annoying!

[@therealresetbutton]

If memory serves correctly, the only fighting game series that doesn't have these cheap ways to "make the game more challenging" was Bloody Roar. That series was amazing!

[@Krizalid3YE]

I will make a correction here real quick: Even if when unlocked, being on the "power gauge rule to all", ALL BOSSES of NESTS ERA from KOF Still are OP as F. XD

[@gangl1234]

All I can hear in my head watching this video is Arin from Game Grumps screaming *"UNAVOIDABLE CHIN MOVE!!!!!"* X'D

[@1003JustinLaw]

The Taboo fight in Super Smash Bros Wii is just full of everything on this list, especially that annoying unblockable, undodgeable, uninterruptable full-screen insta-kill. And if I recall correctly he can do that whenever the hell he wants after he's been reduced to 50% HP, in one fight (pretty sure the one that made me rage quit and never play Subspace Emissary again) I had him do that on me three times in a row, literally, and just destroying all three of my fighters instantly. I'd honestly rather fight a Deviljho IRL than to do that fight again...

[@nicholasharvey1232]

Not bosses but AI characters in general-- in Mortal Kombat games, they're able to pull off certain moves on a dime that would require a human player to input a long button sequence (or hold down a button for 5 seconds). It's especially egregious when they use these moves as counters. There are other instances in the MK series where rules that apply to humans don't apply to computer-controlled fighters, but this is for me the most notable example.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

You guys should do this for RPG bosses too. There's quite a selection. The final boss of Legend of the Dragoon comes to mind. He's essentially four entire boss battles in one, his basic attacks do mega damage, at least half of them inflict status effects, several affect your entire party, some incapacitate a character for several turns before usually outright killing them unless their health was at max, and several are unavoidable instant death no matter what you do.

[@chimuoma390]

Chronomon DM Comes To Mind!If He Wants To,He Can Just Fire The Corona To Burn Your Whole Party Alive 3 Turns In A Row,With No Recharge Turn,Unlike Pokemon's Hyper Beam!

[@ArkaneStephanie]

I love Andys fighting game lists. I don't really play any but I like hearing about how weird or unfair they are

[@AxelKonzern]

Feral Chaos from Dissidia 012 comes to mind, Tiny arena, takes up 2/3 of floor space, moves that can hit anywhere on stage regardless of positioning and with a summon that, in normal game play, gives a random effect. But in his repeated use, is rolling the dice with only benefical results to him.

[@romanista9776]

Jinpachi and azazel: I'm about to end everyone's career

[@CasualRemy]

Another cheap thing I hate about fighting bosses is when they don't let you rematch (which is sorta fair if it's a secret bonus boss I guess).

[@mappybc6097]

Better than Arcana Heart 3 Parace L'sia. Not only is she insanely difficult, but she actually takes pity on you by permanently lowering her hp bar each time you rematch her. Meaning you have *one* chance to beat her at full strength.

[@DrunkDudley]

Jinpachi had a even more annoying move the the chest fireball, his stomp witch would cancel any attack you did, even if you where MID AIR, and render you stunned, and it was unblockeble OFC. I don't know of a more busted boss move that that.

[@ASoulphoenix]

I'm surprised Andy didn't mention SF3 SI's Akuma in the power up segment, he starts as regular Akuma but switches to Shin Akuma upon losing the first round

[@JAnne_Bonne]

Parace L’sia of Arcana Heart fame: existing. From fast projectile normals (some of which are lows and overheads), to a nearly unstoppable healing super, to absurd meter gain and combos; the only reason you have a chance is her abysmal health (barely helpful) and unlimited continues in Score Attack (with each continue taking a portion of her starting health… which with everything else in her lack of pockets is a very small concession in the long run)

[@oler777]

Where is Darth Sion from kotor 2? He won’t die Without emotional trauma

[@NeonKnightOA]

Well... There's a reason the term "SNK Boss Syndrome" exists. Many reasons, in fact.

[@ronicstyle]

Can I say that I'm just happy someone actually did this list. It's like no one wanted to bring up the nonstop bs snk games put us through.

[@machomusprime50]

That Geese line was GOLD!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hyphz]

Boss: Paracelsia. Cheap Trick: Existing.

[@serjiandragonrain4036]

When the bit about Unblockable Attacks came on, all I could hear in my head was. Unavoidable Chin Move!!!! UNAVOIDABLE!!! CHIN!!! MOVE!!!!!!

[@joshualowe959]

8:30 The boss being weak when you are playing as him

[@joshualowe959]

0:26 Recharging health. Gill from Street Fighter 3 & Unlimited Hazama from Continuum Shift are in this category

[@rezthemediaruler3768]

Hazama from BlazBlue Continuum Shift: Steals your life when entering his Circle, filling up his own HP. Automatically filling up his Meter for Distortion Drives and gaining even more when in his Circle, blocking his Attacks or getting hit by them. Ridiculously enhanced Distortion Drives + an Extra Distortion Drive, which is a Grab and yes, you will loose extra life from being in his Circle during all of this, healing him for a good amount of HP. Can use 3 of his Moves, that normally require to use a Stance Move first, instantly. Setting you up for any Combo. Faster Movements and greater Hitboxes for his Ouroboros-Drive. Input-Reading. So… yeah… I had a great time. Especially on Hell Difficulty…

[@ilDSttaro]

Kabuto in Naruto: Clash of Ninjas Revolution 2 has regenerating health, even when playable IIRC, but what is worst is that he is the final boss of the single player campaign and you have to defeat him with a Resengan and his health regenerate even in the cutscene that prepare the attack so he could survive if he had enough health, and the fight is timed

[@SLChaiThai]

There’s White from Real Bout Fatal Fury Special who after you beat him, he sneakily shoots at you with his gun cane. It’s unblockable and an instant kill!

[@carlosaugusto9821]

Good example. Maybe it was too obscure for him to mention.

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

“You look like a bowling shoe got a job modelling for romance novel covers!” Put it on a shirt Farrant! Might need to be a big shirt or teeny tiny font but i need this dammit

[@reishiki]

I'm not sure I remembered right, but I think Gaoh from Samurai Shodown V will turns invincible for quite a while after he takes some damage.

[@l0stndamned]

How about being multi-stage when the player only has one life-bar? Eternal Champions springs to mind.

[@marhawkman303]

This was actually the hardest part of the Abyss fight in MvC2. If you take damage in rounds 1 or 2 it's still there in round 3.

[@dallydaydream]

Alternative title: "Andy has a bone to pick with SNK"

[@paulellington1505]

The majority of this list is about how Capcom hates you and how they deal with it. Lol great video legends. Keep it up.

[@LordNifty]

Two more that come to mind: 1. Projectiles that cannot be reflected and overwhelm your projectiles. 2. Grabs that have a ludicrous range all around the boss, making strikes impossible for the most part. See Geese Howard from the original Fatal Fury for both examples.

[@marhawkman303]

1 is kinda in the same vein as what Andy said about unblockable attacks. 2: the grabs are another dumb one. especially when it's an attack that does MASSIVE damage.

[@TaishoCh]

SFIV final boss Seth.. Bro was like a Omni being hitting you with every street fighter characters moves and dodged almost every attack

[@carlosaugusto9821]

Not harder than old school hard bosses

[@latexu95]

8:03 It's basically like the "Rubber band AI", which we usually see in racing games.

[@Play-On7]

How did you miss out on the most unfair boss of all time? The General from Kaiser Knuckle. The boss went undefeated for years. Among The General's broken aresenal of moves are full screen fireballs, instant teleportation, long range grabs and an instant slide attack that goes through half the screen.

[@TheWindii]

I'm honestly amazed every time how many of those lists Andy can squeeze out of that particular genre. Not complaining though, keep at it!

[@latexu95]

6:05 I still can't understand why in Mortal Kombat, you block with a separate button, when in nearly every other series you block by simply holding the control stick back. (and in some games you can even block in mid-air)😕

[@Quiver620]

What about Brainiac from injustice 2? In his boss fight, he uses the things on his ship to attack you and they do damn near half your health in damage!

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

3:16 THATS SOOOOO COOL!!!!! This new st is off the charts, they really wanted to do their best game ever

[@Brasc]

Bosses with many forms or minions - such as the Eternal Champion and Dark Champion from the Eternal Champions series, or Kronika from Mortal Kombat 11 - that will suddenly regenerate their health all over again _and_ give them an entirely different fighting style to grapple with.

[@sinteleon]

Kronika is worse for having permanent super armour, meaning practically no combos work.

[@thebpphantom]

"World's Strongerst Fighters." 🤣🤣 Back in the days when "Good enough. Ship it!" was the mantra rather than, "It's unplayable, but we can patch it after they give us their money."

[@bi0ha2ard]

That geese pun was reeeeally punny

[@SAL64898]

Jinpachi caused me some trauma back than,it was so hard to defeat but I had to defeat him with every single character to unlock them all

[@leahbeth8335]

Number 8: Coming right the fuck out of nowhere after the "final" boss, like Ivan Ooze in Power Rangers: Fighting Edition. Admittedly, it's not a trick that works more than once.

[@geoffrogos]

Teleporting directly behind you and performing an unblockable throw move.

[@17659817265781465781]

"Pretending to be weak", I still haven't beat Street Fighter IV's final boss Seth in any difficulty

[@carlosencarnacion9425]

Let's not forget the one I hate the most, which is what I remember the most from Battle Fantasia. If the game has a mechanic that makes you go into a hyper state after a certain number of hits or thing and you need to be in THAT state to even damage the boss at all. That or only certain moves damage them O_O

[@Allikiza]

Lol, Jinpachi also has that stupid massive stun step that makes the fireball undodgeable if he decides to fire it right after.

[@Gang3rs]

Not sure she counts as a boss since she is in Time attack mode but Parace L sia from Arcana hearts 3, girl is a nightmare and she was the first to teach me how cheap a FG boss can be, i learn about input reading from her. she did that among all the other cheap perks (high HP, a broken teleport that has next to no startup and recovery, got meter for days such like that). it was so damn bad that after losing to her a few times the game will help you by making her have less base HP on all the following fights, but that still wont help much because that just makes her more aggresive than ever.

[@YkebazFiles]

Well bosses are meant to be tough, op and cheapskates. That's why they're called "bosses" in the first place. Let's admit it most of us would feel dissatisfied and disappointed if the bosses are free and easy to deal with. While hard and almost impossible bosses would bring humiliation and frustration, the joy and fulfillment after kicking their asses is precious and immeasurable.

[@bearcataquatic]

As much as I agree with all of these, I was hoping to see the general from Kaiser Knuckle. The dude is just a textbook on cheapness....

[@janderrocha]

I really felt the abencense of White from Fatal Fury Dominated Mind. The bastard throws a surprise instakill move after you beat him. AND THE ROUND DOESN'T EVEN END IN A DRAW if you get tagged.

[@leonc9760]

Ah jinpachi……*childhood trauma from chest fireballs intensifies*

[@JasonYJS_xoxo]

Evil Ryu is broken. He can cancel into a normal or special from demon dash

[@latexu95]

6:30 He still tries to fight you even when the round is over.😅

[@partofthetribe3277]

Richard Branson line was hilarious.

[@GustavoSilva-ny8jc]

2:12 This white hair guy was SOOOO BADASS!!!!!

[@degenratex4834]

Shoa Kahn spamming his shoulder rush and hammer slam

[@weepingkoopa2862]

You can easily cheese Galactus with Chun-Li by spamming kicks. Eventually it stuns him and you can finish him with her special.

[@jamdc2000]

I simply do not want to remember how many quartrs spent at the arcades

[@andrehooker3229]

Im surprised Magaki from kof 11 isn't on this list

[@joeberryman3563]

I'm surprised Hazama from Blazblue: Continuum Shift didn't show up at any point. That guy is such an aneurism.

[@rickimaru915]

Night Terror is the true final boss of Soul Calibur III. He can’t be defeated with a ring out, as ge has wings and will just fly back on to the arena.

[@TheAncestralSpirit1]

Blazblue series, the character Hazama. Constantly regenerates his own health and if you're close to him constantly drains yours without either of you even touching each other :/

[@blue_ranger]

Dural from Virtua Fighter having all the other players' moves, you could be close to victory so Dural then utilises Wolf Hawkfield's grab-spin throw that takes off half a bar of energy, or worse throws you out of the ring for an instant loss.

[@mrsurprise2294]

Gaoh from samurai showdown had that mode where he would eat every attack so I had to stay away and jump to avoid his crazy chip plus had a grab that did tons, Zankorou in samurai showdown read outputs as well, king lion in kizuna encounter ridiculous counter move