The BEST Bossing Ladder In OSRS 2021 - Boss Tier List & Progression Guide

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00:00 - Intro & Context
01:33 - Easy Bosses
03:22 - Medium Bosses
05:45 - Hard Bosses
09:56 - Elite Bosses
13:28 - Master Bosses
16:02 - Grandmaster Bosses
19:00 - Sponsors & Outro

[@xxjamieee9920]

Kraken "one of the best bosses to start your pvm adventures with" - requires level 87 slayer

[@Zxv975]

87 slayer will get you close to bossing stats to begin with, so there's no problem here. Many years ago I also started with Kraken, and before that point I straight up didn't have the stats to do any other bossing except maybe barrows or something.

[@Oiluis18]

@@Zxv975 I think he meant like you can't start your adventure right away hence you have to train stats to at least 30 then work on slayer so like a few months if you know that's what you want to do when you play. Maybe he's been playing has under mid level stats and just wants to start bossing

[@ryanbaker2762]

@@Zxv975 u can do other bosses (whether it’s optimal or not) way before getting 87 slayer

[@Zxv975]

@@ryanbaker2762 Sure, but in my experience there's plenty of content to do outside of bossing when you're a lower level. I wasn't even interested in bossing until I was 87 slayer because my stats were so bad beforehand that bossing sounded like it wouldn't be fun, so the slayer level requirement overall was pretty irrelevant for me.

[@bwh186]

he said he was ranking them off difficulty not off requirements

[@meghatron1800]

your description of the mimic as the “rng gatekeeper to the music cape” was spot on

[@KaozOSRS]

I had to grind masters specifically for that track :(

[@pfanzers]

Hell yeah dude took me upward 40 masters for t

[@HaBbYbOy12Y]

@@pfanzers I got it on my first elite xddddddddd

[@Dhemize]

Also ended up going dry for that track as my last one haha. took 15 elites and 28 masters so not crazy dry but it was annoying

[@Elvy3358]

I think the only dangerous thing about the barrows brothers is you not paying attention to dharok and u let ur prayer off,then he'll give you a free teleport to lumbridge.

[@Stringz1996]

If you fight Bryophyta on a f2p world she doesn’t use poison which actually generally makes her easier to fight than obor ( also the average loot per kill is higher f2p since you don’t get the seed or herb drops)

[@soupwithpotatos1542]

i always found zulrah way more difficult than i found vorkath. but my memory is absolutely terrible and i hate having to consult sheets for zulrahs rotation so maybe thats it.

[@kingofracism]

Vorkath is much easier than zulrah I agree

[@kodours1835]

Vorkath is easier than zulrah in terms of mechanics but once you memorize the rotations, zulrah is easy af. Zulrah for fun, vorkath for money

[@AB-gb6zz]

@@kodours1835 how did this contradict zulrah being harder than vorkath? It doesn't

[@gabrielvasconcelos4055]

I have about 30 zulrah kc and close to 1k Vorkath KC and the death count on both bosses must be really close for me. I think i should agree with you.

[@kursdragon]

Naw I agree, zulrah is much harder than vorkath, only hard thing about vorkath is requiring pretty expensive gear to do it efficiently

[@EF_DadLeftMe]

Thank you for the content by the way!

[@Mightiee]

glad the clan could help 😀

[@ridderx5841]

Famous now pog

[@Arbylz]

Thank you for this! :)

[@beegekhaos3171]

Great video, i really enjoyed it. Now i have an internal path as far as what to kill next

[@ethankennedykemwashere3360]

I have finally made a push to start bossing and it has reignited my love for the combat.

[@iWerli]

i personally can do vorkath all day with barely paying any attention. my kc is in the hundreds. i've only killed zulrah once lol.

[@michals2351]

Same. I hate Zulrah with passion

[@FadedSock]

You make incredible videos brother

[@callisto7538]

Overall a pretty good list for general pvm progression! You asked about Zammy being the hardest gwd boss and a lot of these rankings depend on whether the content is intended to be solod or in groups. Assuming everything is solod except for raids content which is generally designed for groups, Bandos is definitely the toughest to solo of the 4 gwd bosses. Zammy is generally done on a slayer task via greater demons and you can use arclight which combine to be super accurate against him even without landing defense reducing specials. Wearing karils also makes his mage attacks extremely inaccurate. You can also use the spell ward of Arceus to make all 4 demons in the room do reduced damage. All you have to do is watch out for is uncommonly used YAAR special attack and he is quite easy. Bandos on the other hand can generally not be done on a slayer task and there are no special weapons like arclight to hit him easier. He therefore is super tanky and his commonly used ranged attack hits like a truck. Therefore, if you do not land defense reducing specials the kills become quite difficult. Zammy can also be cheesed via the 5:0 tbow method which is much more forgiving and easier to learn than Bandos' no damage ranging methods which are much more technical and harder to execute while being a lot slower in kill speed. Phosanis nightmare is clearly more difficult than regular nightmare even when soloing both just because its so ridiculously punishing. Your prayer flicking, dodging the black holes while mushroomed and tagging all sleepwalkers requires very quick reaction time and punishes greatly to failure. I would put this boss above both normal leveled raids and the corrupted gauntlet tbh in terms of technical skill required assuming you are not soloing the raids. Corp is also ranked too high even if soloing as its not really difficult to learn or do but rather just takes a while and is a bit of a pain to use the poh method. However pretty good list and keep up the great content!

[@brgod]

Ranking Zammy on task versus Brandos not on task is not fair. It makes sense in practical sense but while Bandos requires more focus than Zammy. I definitely am way more likely to die at Zammy.

[@Dubya1886]

Awesome!

[@A_Tempest]

I think this list would be even more useful if it had predicted gp/hr or something similar included :)

[@nalamonster963]

I know this is an old vid but after seeing calisto on the list i just had to share my rofl moment. I was doing mage arena 2 recently & while looking for the guthix demon i got just close enough to calisto running by (at the time i didnt know he was a boss, just thought it was a tough wildy bear) & he ko'd me with a 53 lol as my hp was lowered from the locater emblem.

[@ryanmeyers17]

I was looking for something like this

[@dontknow3949]

Bro Wintertodt chat is like the Barrens general chat... Legendary

[@camillo4308]

Imo Bryophyta should've been after the fishing boss. It's really easy. Although I do have 60 kc and still have never gotten the essence

[@w83official]

i'll be reading the comments aswell to keep up to date with all your idea's and suggestions!

[@xTrident999]

I like your videos like these

[@KaozOSRS]

Thanks!

[@joshschroeder422]

With regard to Phosani, I personally found it much easier than normal nightmare (solos). The fact that you can do the boss correctly and take almost zero damage is great. However, this requires practice and comfort with the mechanics. I started doing Phosani after already having done 100 or so normal solos. The constant damage thru prayer at normal nm is super annoying, and Phosani's is much more chill in that regard.

[@zysofup3246]

You can cannon obor so technically the boss is so easy that you just have to pray set up cannon then go up rumble so your unhittable. Depending on range level you may have to go down to reload it if 30 cballs isn't enough.

[@Lollaksyotuube]

You're*

[@tristanredfern2190]

Cannon is expensive for Iron though..

[@Memoop-iz6vk]

@@tristanredfern2190 bro if you don't have 1mill from wintertodt on a iron you've failed

[@pfanzers]

@@tristanredfern2190 just do slayer

[@IsaacFNghost]

I started bossing with zulruh. My first boss killed ever :) took me a good 15 deaths before I got started tho. And he STILL sometimes surprises me and I'll get stacked out with the minions. Even after like 250 kc

[@llllB06llll]

I started with evil chicken

[@raizerker]

Not sure Phosani should be that low... especially under regular Nightmare, but overall a good list. I will be sharing with my fairly new GIM mates

[@KaozOSRS]

Yeah even tho this was a team effort I can still see many people disagreeing.

[@raizerker]

@@KaozOSRS oh for sure. Its all personal experiences. But still helpful for people who aren't sure what to do next.

[@TheDorkFork]

Just got my first Corrupted Gauntlet kc this morning on my IM :) haven’t done a lot of these bosses and want to branch out in PVM :)

[@KaozOSRS]

congrats, Peter! Can guarantee once you get comfortable with it most bosses will be a piece of cake :D

[@dankfart]

Calling vorkath harder than zulrah is atrocious

[@joeywoodard1766]

A lot of these placements feel reeeeaaaallly weird to me

[@miciso666]

yeah i had no issue with mole... obor was tougher because of his knockbacks.

[@jimmyd5716]

fire cape being close to shit like zulrah is pretty funny.

[@Awesomo4000]

Bryophyta is much easier than Obor, you can just range him from a distance with protect from magic on. Obor will actively try to slap you.

[@r1clipdat]

They're both very easy bosses tbh, if you draw Obor into the corner of his pit he cant slap you away. And nowadays I can beat Bryophyta without prayers

[@LidlRaccoon]

She's not easy if you forget your axe for the minions

[@Awesomo4000]

@@LidlRaccoon i think there's an axe spawn in the instance

[@soloturk2470]

Zulrah was really a pain in the ass till you learn all 4 rotations.. but after that you get the hang of it.

[@davidkraemer7851]

with fishing explosives you need 2 klicks per kill, 1 to click on the explosiv and 1 to click on kraken your acc starts attacking on its own

[@KaozOSRS]

Oh, I forgot about that since I have auto-retaliate mostly off. Even better then haha

[@thijs660]

@@KaozOSRS works with auto retaliate off.

[@anotherblock7742]

I play pretty casual so there’s a lot of bosses I haven’t fought but I thought sarachnis was super easy and grotesque guardians were super hard using like KBD as a base line but from my experience your pretty on point

[@dajman10000]

One of the great reasons for going to wintertodt is the conversations ppl have in chat

[@KaozOSRS]

Makes me lose brain cells at a rapid pace

[@michal3636]

Phosani's should be higher up, maybe even higher than regular CoX (unless soloing)

[@get_doobiefied4741]

Actually fire

[@jamespenrod5755]

So i hit like, and didnt get the pet, am i super gullible or do i have to relog first?

[@AssyTheNator]

I can do everything up to Vorkath with relative ease. Beyond that tho I can maybe get a KC a trip or can't even do it like with ToB and nightmare.

[@YessaTNM]

Either you need to improve your gear that you’re using, or your method isn’t too good. Record you killing a boss and rewatch it, compare with videos showing the strategies and look to see how you could improve on your methods Hope that helps

[@AssyTheNator]

@@YessaTNM I got 75 atk/def and a 50 atk 45 def account. I think any melee boss is just gonna be tough to last at.

[@joshschroeder422]

@@AssyTheNator I remember doing Vorkath at 85 combat. Not the most fun thing in the world XD. Defense definitely helps a lot.

[@antho6311]

Kraken : "Pretty good boss to start your pvm adventure" with requierement 87 slayer (has to grind a fuck ton of pvm lol) Had to add my grain of salt =P Good list mate, thanks, it helped me choose my next boss for my Ironman, just found the kraken ironic bit =P

[@GoldenlambProductions]

I think phosanis need to be ranked higher then regular nightmare just because its way more pushinging for making mistakes

[@Swan584]

I think he means for solo regular nightmare. In that case id agree its a little harder than phosanis because of how long the fight is and you camp low hp when soloing so you die from one mistake

[@GoldenlambProductions]

@@Swan584 maybe if your not good at managing your supplies I could see that but I still think phosanis is harder then regular it's just far easier to wipe at phosanis

[@joshschroeder422]

@@GoldenlambProductions Phosani's is far easier than normal nightmare solos. Very easy to only use 1 or 2 anlgers per kill + rests/balms/sanfews.

[@ExSpectre]

Holy shit I hit the like button, killed Ganon in a Zelda game, and a pet demon pig appeared in my room. The like button thing worked!

[@198link]

Phosani nightmare and normal nightmare I think you meant to switch those around

[@floauc1195]

How is thermy and elite boss?

[@armin7604]

Id say vetion is hardest of all wildy bosses, because clans are always camping him and that's why junior vetion is rarest wildy pet. Spider and callisto should be way bellow vetion. Got over 3k wildy boss kills. Phosani is way harder than regular nightmare, since phosani is harder version of nightmare, like cm with cox. I'd also say phosani is way harder to learn than corrupted gauntlet. Got over 400 kc corrupted gauntlet and over 300 kc nightmare/phosani. Zulrah is way harder than vorkath, i needed like a day or two to learn zulrah and I did vorkath on my first try, without even trying hard. Got over 400kc zulrah and 800 kc vorkath.

[@thehibernator7]

good video and all, but what was the track in the background?!

[@KaozOSRS]

OSRS Inferno

[@CrescantBearer]

Thanks for the video! One suggestion is to maybe include the combat levels with the boss info and maybe notable drops?

[@what1fun1v3rs3]

I wished you showed more footage of actual boss fighting

[@what1fun1v3rs3]

@@anthonyjones254 I mean as scenery not him completing stuff, the video was great besides that, give me a break my comment was not that mean and it was not meant to be your just pushing that on me.

[@lozfactor]

@@anthonyjones254 it could be used as B-roll while he's talking instead of staring at a picture of the boss the whole time

[@youngotterking5450]

good video i think! only thing i would say, corrupted gauntlet I think is easier than some of the other bosses below it. and you could include the jad challenge

[@frogdeity]

You're absolutely right. Jad for example is way harder than CG.

[@zzKirus]

The wintertodt chat is my favorite part of wintertodt. Reminds me of the old days when you could just be dumb and have fun 😂 too many internet stiffs nowadays.

[@larrycrowne8330]

True. Recently I noticed that after a full day of playing RS I had only seen one player say something to another. It was me and another player saying “Hi” to each other as we passed each other in the deep wilderness.

[@krus7029]

I've personally killed every boss on your list on the mobile osrs app except numbers 1-9. I pretty much gave up mobile osrs bossing ever since I tried the inferno.

[@theaustralianis]

zulrah should be higher than vorkath and bandos...

[@silverosrc]

1. I'd argue obor is harder than bryophyta. if you're on a f2p world you can't poisoned and obor actually does a surprising amount of damage, way more than bryo and the mage method to avoid doing damage is definitely more complex than stand still and pray mage that you see with bryo. 2. Kraken is easier than both of these f2p bosses. 3. dks solo trio is harder than gargs, otherwise gargs are harder. that initial setup is on dks is no easy task. 4. wilderness bosses don't take into how easy it is to escape pkers. imo that makes vetion the hardest, followed by callisto, and then venenatis. the cannon safespot for the spider is also stupid easy and you're in 1 click tele out of wild. corerection, i agree, scorpio is the hardest mechanically and via its position in the wild. 5. cerb vs sire is understandable though imo cerb was 3x harder to learn 6. Hydra is easier than anything in gwd. it's not difficult to learn especially after the update. 7. zulrah should be after vorkath. zulrah is easy after you learn it, but learning it is 10x harder. vorkath is more annoying once you get the hang of it because you have to pay attention. woox walking of course is optional though difficult to learn. I'd probably have more to comment but late/end game pvm i'm still new to. I've done quite a bit of raids so I know both forms of nightmare are mechanically far more challenging than a trio, but I get it, mastering olm, vasa, and vanguards is very rough for beginners. even though it's not the hardest to learn the amount going on in the room is always overwhelming few new players especially when you consider most players attempt chambers before nightmare.

[@Zxv975]

You can get poisoned in f2p. They made antiposions f2p when they released bryo.

[@silverosrc]

@@Zxv975 really? I did all the combat achievements in f2p for this boss, never got poisoned

[@Zxv975]

@@silverosrc I don't recall if I got poisoned when I did those either, but I 100% remember a discussion about poison being brought up around Bryo release, and now antiposions are f2p as a result of that discussion. The apothecary can make them for you. It would totally be hilarious and very fitting of Jagex if they made antiposions f2p but forgot to let Bryo poison you on f2p worlds though.

[@jowoodall965]

1:20 hey that's my clan!

[@wornsoul7277]

Video liked boss bet here we come😂

[@TiigerTekzz]

So how would u rank Nex and ToA in this list? ToA 50/150/300/"max"?

[@KaozOSRS]

Mass world would be bottom 10 in terms of difficulty. Just wait for ruby bolt specs, dodge attacks gg. In a small team probably top 10 difficult.

[@danielz1804]

I will finally beat Corrupted Gauntlet very soon!!! I will do it!!

[@hansvantcg]

Keep at it!! Took me close to 50 attempts to get my first kc!

[@danielz1804]

@@hansvantcg im over 400kc now lmao

[@hansvantcg]

@@danielz1804 awesome man!!! Keep it up! Hope you get that advanced weapon seed soon!

[@ammanus356]

Challenge Mode Chambers are easier than corrupted gauntlet, by some distance.

[@xgnbarkie2049]

I got the skotizo pet on my 3rd kill after watching this

[@marcoj25]

imo top 3 should be CG HMTOB and Inferno

[@williamfaust639]

So where does TOB story mode/Entry mode rank?

[@KaozOSRS]

Good question idk I've never tried story mode haha

[@cencil6497]

Shame you didn't include hot items that drop off each boss

[@mckillabitch]

Take a shot every time he says hits like a truck

[@greenthunder1000]

Hey stop telling normies to mute the chat at wintertodt! That’s the best part of the mini game!

[@weeziinw8552]

so u saying normal nightmare is harder than phosani ?

[@maxiimax6237]

When vetion isn't safe at all cause it's always camped

[@brianmckennamusic9434]

Req for Zulrah: Regicide

[@shoppa9435]

CoX is a pain, its my last task that I need to do for the achievement diary, but I just cant get it done :(

[@kokjosrs9630]

Ik neem je wel mee in een raidje als je wilt

[@shoppa9435]

@@kokjosrs9630 aub dat zou me enorm helpen, wil er ook wel wat millies voor geven. wat is je osrs naam?

[@kokjosrs9630]

@@shoppa9435 kokj

[@leaf6695]

If you still haven't done it yet, go join we do raids and get the diary role, its a free carry.

[@shoppa9435]

@@leaf6695 Thankyou! But kokj helped me and I got it done :D

[@llllB06llll]

The rabbit is a moster

[@Kevguitt]

19:30 ...the what tier?

[@kilbornagon]

I have like 500 phosani and normal nightmare kc and phosani is so much harder lmao. The only way i'd see normal being harder is the fact that it takes longer that's it.

[@loismylane]

I somehow managed to get a corrupted gauntlet kc before I could get a zulrah kc lol

[@blueskyy9813]

Holy shit it actually worked!? 😶

[@lookitsafish]

My guy really has tribrid DKs like 15 spots behind jad in terms of difficulty

[@kevinhollis3873]

Mightiee gang!

[@KaozOSRS]

Legends

[@larsmiles7231]

I would absolutely say corrupted gauntlet is harder than CM cox.

[@shmormal.3663]

i liked this just for the pet RNG. total lvl 1860 and the only pet i ever owned is a cat. : _ )

[@russellgilmore2721]

Dude beats inferno. "I am not good at PVM" Dude.

[@KaozOSRS]

Infernal cape doesn't mean you're automatically great at every major piece of pvm content in osrs lol. I still can't do solo chambers, and I'm deadweight at TOB lol

[@realfeel4379]

As someone who learned vorkath yesterday and has 20 kc now w like 4 deaths, vs the fact that I learned Zulrah months ago, have 4kc and died prolly 20 times, Vorkath is waaaaaaaaay easier for me lmfao

[@mundoafterdark3495]

Every few years a new boss tier video is made and every year I watching saying yeah Ima start bossing... But I never do

[@NXhehe]

I love wt chat don’t be weak

[@Outwardpd]

I found it kind of odd how you started off by listing things based on their risk factor and then you abandoned that when talking about gauntlet. You should've done the list entirely on mechanical complexity, i.e. how hard it is to get your first KC imo. Probably better to try and find people willing to test this with you, people who've never played OSRS before and trying to coach them through various bosses and trying to rank them that way, it would also make for some fun content all on its own. It would also be a good idea to stick to soloing as the default since pretty much every boss that allows multiple people gets drastically easier the more you add. So tempoross being the easiest when you can join groups that are basically just afking the entire thing makes sense, but tempoross solo is at least ahead of stuff like KBD in terms of difficulty. Corrupted Gauntlet is also hard but definitely not as hard as learning and executing things in TOB imo, corp beast is literally mentioned with the method of turning him into a chicken which is pretty much the default method these days due to how easy it is, etc.

[@smooth_one]

A bossing ladder NEEDS to include requirements in the ranking. Mechanic difficulty is VERY different from actual approachability. Which, the easiest rungs should be near the bottom and the most inaccessible near the top.

[@smooth_one]

Maybe I'm just not the audience for this video. I guess this video is for people who have all 99s and want to start doing bosses.

[@burkhardt7694]

Is araxxor not a boss in osrs?

[@w83official]

nope! only rs3.

[@danishmohimohiuddin5644]

if u have a rlly good team bandos can be easy

[@Kaitri]

Idk how to judge a list where bosses in the elite tier "are easy" but take long to kill

[@xNSHD]

the chat is the best part of wintertodt

[@KaozOSRS]

At the cost of several brain cells per second yes haha

[@xNSHD]

@@KaozOSRS na its hilarious. if you cant take some of the things that are said there then maybe the internet isnt for you.

[@SpoonLoverify]

thermy with farcasting, ez

[@rayg0b00m]

Bandos is hard for you? Where did you buy your account from?

[@tdaddy1092]

I’ve done about 300 cm, 1200 tobs and 200 hmt. I’d say cm is far below even normal tob in terms of difficulty. Cox is just beyond brain dead

[@guynew8501]

What about on Mobile

[@BunsGlaizin]

Am I high or Cerberus missing?

[@KaozOSRS]

You're hella high. Cerb is number 20

[@BunsGlaizin]

I really was too high LOL.

[@KaozOSRS]

@@BunsGlaizin Scared me for a second like, omg did I forget???

[@BunsGlaizin]

@@KaozOSRS Haha sorry about that! Love the content bro 😁

[@Chickentorchic]

Need a revamped guide!😊

[@KaozOSRS]

After the DT2 bosses

[@Chickentorchic]

@@KaozOSRS MY MAN. THE LEGEND!! HYPEEEEE

[@bmvasakis]

preist in peril

[@clipdump]

first boss i tried (and failed) was jad, maybe i should start a bit easier lol

[@KaozOSRS]

You got this man. Tell me when you get your fire cape!!

[@clipdump]

@@KaozOSRS ahaha thanks man will do. I think I'll get some other goals out of the way before I do jad again

[@predatorwsv2800]

as a "new player" zulrah is way harder then vorkath. zulrah attempts about 120 and 0 kills. vorkath on other hand it took me only 10 to learn it

[@rhandykruithof8652]

Where are the sand crabs in this list?

[@treyadams6031]

No Hesipori?

[@KaozOSRS]

No sir

[@derekhanson4182]

Am I high or did I think this dude had an entirely different name this whole time??

[@KaozOSRS]

What do you mean lol

[@shelbysushi]

0:36 😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrWoWPhreak]

Mod Ash told me that I got my pet but it just hasn't caught up to my account yet