Top 5 Hardest Boss Fights in Video Games

[@TheLunasticks]

This video was almost like a throwback to classic countdowns of early KZbin, when Hardest Bosses was a common topic. Really digged it!

[@Papriqa]

I remember a “hardest games of all time” usually end up with battletoads or contra as number 1 with the comment section in flames

[@ramofeldduckington6257]

@@Zomboii99 The algorithm probably just doesn’t like this structure of content, unfortunately.

[@Iridescent_Astraea]

The nostalgia feels so good, it's like I've gone back a decade

[@zakazany1945]

@@Papriqa Of course it is Battletoads

[@pajamadrummer127]

“Early KZbin” you’re young aren’t you? Because that ear was significantly after early KZbin. Don’t talk about things you don’t know about

[@goroakechi6126]

Troupemaster Grimm: let’s have a dance, showman to showman! Nightmare King Grimm: *Aggressively plays the organ with your corpse*

[@riemaennchen]

And along comes Absolute Radiance and starts a rave.

[@modestMismagius105]

beating nkg is my greatest achievement in life

[@bengallagher5630]

I ran laps around my house when I beat the pantheon of hallownest

[@ZDR59]

Took me over 100 tries to finally beat him

[@TheAAJYu]

I just want to give a shout out to the fact that this madman used a theme from Pokémon Emerald as the background theme for when he talked about the Emerald Weapon. Great subversion of expectations!

[@ClefairyRox]

@@BJGvideos Yeah, it's the Pokemon Emerald Frontier Brain theme I thought he was going in that direction because the Battle Frontier is absolute ass, but in hindsight, I think GETTING to the Frontier Brains is harder than the actual fights, considering the number of consecutive victories you need to do The only one I ever got to was Lucy, and even then, it was only her Silver Symbol (all the facilities have two Frontier Brain fights, one at Silver and one at Gold, with the Gold one always requiring a win streak of 40+ matches, depending on the facility). The Pyramid and Palace are especially mean. The former has you traverse 70 floors of dark dungeons with random encounters (70 is required for the Gold Symbol at least), trainers, and no healing except between every 7 floors and whatever items you find; the latter gives you no direct control over your Pokemon's moves so you have to train Pokemon specifically for the facility.

[@ryanfriedrich6634]

The hardest boss fight is when you're self-employed.

[@TheObicobiHD]

Lmao

[@megatennepster3833]

That's just dark link

[@wanderlustwarrior]

You hit yourself in confusion.

[@thesnatcher3616]

Absolute Radiance. Not even close. Not only does she do a butt-ton of damage, have a TON of attacks, has over three phases, and requires you to use ALL of your abilities to their absolute limit but you gotta do it after a forty-minute long boss rush in order for you to get the true ending. Number 2 is Sister Friede.

[@christiandauz3742]

Never completed Godmaster FLC on Switch

[@Delkesss]

I don’t think it counts because by the time I could make it through the pantheon of hallownest reliably absolute radiance actually only took like two tries. I think the pure vessel is legit harder, I think nightmare king Grimm is harder even. She just does a lot of damage but the fight isn’t a ton harder than the first radiance fight compared to the other boss upgrades

[@hy9er213]

@@Delkesss yeah, hardest part of absrad is the pressure of having to start p5 all over again if you die. I wasn't able to do it until a couple months after I started speedrunning hollow knight. I still think you can count it as the hardest boss you've ever beaten though, not everyone finds every boss as having the same level of difficulty.

[@vyor8837]

Friede ain't that hard. Manus is harder.

[@Andre-ee6gc]

@@vyor8837 completely agree

[@danielwilson8604]

you know... sephiroth's plan was to merge with the lifestream and effectively BECOME magic... giving him effectively unlimited materia. which means emerald weapon most likely WOULD kick his teeth in. infinity thousand, infinity hundred damage......

[@Jeppo1457]

Suggestions for Lists: Top 5 games with good voice acting, Top 5 Sympathetic villains, Top 5 Ice Levels, Top 5 Video game brainwashes

[@megatennepster3833]

Naw, invert the sympathetic villains, and talk about top 5 villainous protagonists

[@megatennepster3833]

@@BJGvideos if it didn't have the Batter, it wasn't a correct list

[@khfan4492]

He's already done top 5 ice levels

[@joshuaharding4139]

Demi-Fiend from Digital Devil Saga anyone? Generally considered the hardest boss fight in the whole SMT series, a JRPG series considered difficult in it's own right. If you don't count MMO raid bosses there's a good point to be made in his favour, though Pandemonium Warden does deserve the top.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I still remember the scars... And they decided to _bring him back_

[@technokidx88]

Absolute virtue is easily the hardest mmo boss, at least when it first dropped in ffXI

[@bennitori4]

Although Pandemonium Warden is insane, I'm curious what put him over Absolute Virtue. Most people tend to portray AV is this nigh impossible monster, and Pandemonium Warden was the sequel to that.

[@elk3407]

@@technokidx88 Wrong. The hardest MMO boss is actually Disufiora from the Japanese exclusive MMO Monster Hunter Frontier. Every hit instantly kills you, and it has an ungodly amount of health so if you don't play absolutely perfectly you will either die or time out the mission. Plus after you kill it, it gets back up to spam one hit kills even more before you finally kill it for real.

[@vittoriopugliese3352]

@@bennitori4 Literally no one beat Absolute Virtue. Possibly Rabbidluigi is counting only bosses he's beaten

[@DarthSpiderMario]

I am beyond shocked that a Destiny boss was on here, never expected anyone in the countdown community to talk about the actual gameplay and encounters of that franchise. More please?

[@vincent207]

Sephiroth in KH1 was certainly difficult, but he was nothing compared to Lingering Will and Yozora.

[@goldencyclone4984]

Yeah, Lingering Will is stupid and Yozora is just... Dude steals your Keyblade.

[@pradakahn4890]

@@toongrowner1 yeah but lingering will surprisingly easy to cheese with negative combo

[@ibcap1226]

@@pradakahn4890 true but you can cheese sephiroth with strike raid and elixir

[@weewer3369]

Yozora is freaking nuts. You really have to master him to have even a chance.

[@3verlong]

I am a little late, but if you have a Kupo Coin, Yozora can steal and use it himself.

[@supergamer1388]

5: I don't think I beat Emerald Weapon normally. If I recall, my method was to use materia to manipulate HP values until I got 7777 and then let that character go to town in their 60-hit combo. 4: Interesting boss concept when it forces you to do something different from normal. 3: Sephiroth? Isn't Lingering Will or Yozora considered to be the hardest boss in the series? 2: Poor coding makes a super challenge. Awesome. I wonder if any groups who beat that boss pre-patch got bragging rights. 1: 18 hours to a single attempt... And the only reason it ended in failure was because the player's bodies gave out before the boss did. That is awful.

[@zaneheaston8254]

It depends on what you think makes a difficult KH boss, high damage output aka Sephiroth, the ability to combo like crazy aka Lingering Will, or incredible speed aka Yozora

[@jordanhunter3375]

Entry 5: Metal Gear's cousin from Atlantis Entry 4: You got beaten by a newborn...with his umbilical cord Entry 3: *Josh's heart drops* Entry 2: battlefield reaper (at least theres no Nuckalevees around) Entry 1: NO ONE SAID THERE WILL BE MATH! 🎵We blame our schools!🎵

[@APalebloodSky]

It took me so long to beat Orphan. I was told after I unlocked the Shura ending in Sekiro that one of the other endings had a boss fight that a lot of people said was even harder than Orphan, but I was kinda relieved. I really wasn't ready.

[@Khtras]

Great choice to use Frontier Brain music from Pokemon Emerald for the Emerald weapon entry! I see what you did there

[@Subpar1O1]

The entirety of True Millennium Tower from Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a good one, it's a redo of the game's final dungeon where every enemy is nearly twice as strong as the final boss, even the first two you fight, seen as fodder normally. The best part though, is that the final boss there (also seen in the normal Millenium Tower) is eating lunch when you get to the top because he genuinely didn't think you'd be crazy enough to come back for more

[@FreeBirdKP1]

I’m currently working through the True Millennium Tower rn, wish me luck

[@FreeBirdKP1]

@@BJGvideos I got about halfway through before I got rolled, I took a break for school but imma get it done soon

[@Dudeman23rd]

Whoever decided to put Pokemon Emerald battle music behind the Emerald Weapon segment deserves a medal. Excellent subversion.

[@ishanramen5254]

This is hilarious. I just defeated Orphan of Kos yesterday and I was so relieved. It’s great that you had it on your video as the hardest boss because I definitely agree.

[@Goldenkitten1]

I just...don't get it. People ALWAYS talk up Orphan of Kos on lists like these and I just feel left out, beat it on literally my first try. And that isn't me talking about how badass I am, from the DLC alone Living Failures and Ludwig killed me more times than I care to count and then from the main game you've got Logarius, Ebrietas and the chalice dungeon version of Amygdala where half your health is gone. Freaking OoK is a lightweight compared these guys, I know everyone has an opinion of who is hardest but literally everyone's opinion seems to be Kos.

[@DylanCisGood4Me]

Pandemonium Warden was a bossfight so hard it attacked the actual player

[@riemaennchen]

As far as From Software bosses go I gotta give it to Isshin in Sekiro. With Dark Souls or Bloodborne you always have the option to grind a bit just for the tiny bit more health or attack that maybe lets you win. In Sekiro you have to make due with what you have. Isshin took me 4 hours on my first playthrough. Gotta give an honorable mention to the Shambler in Darkest Dungeon. Once you know the fight and are prepared its not that bad. But for every Darkest Dungeon player comes the moment where they see a strange altar and shove torch into it not knowing what they are about to unleash.

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

You want to talk hardest final bosses? You ain't seen nothing until you've played Bug Princess 2: Black Label only to encounter Queen Larsa at the end - the most insane of all Bullet Hell bosses

[@songohan3321]

A boss fight that is so ridiculous that it causes real life physical harm. That is something I wouldn't have thought of in my worst nightmares without drugs being involved.

[@i8dacookies890]

If we're counting raid bosses, I heard WoW had a boss that the players had to prove was mathematically impossible to beat before it was nerfed.

[@bluestreaker9242]

Wow...that's...wow... I've never been able to git gud enough for Raids in GW2, but I've gotten a snippet of how crazy things can get from the easier variation from the Icebrood Saga "expansion" called "Strike Missions." Still, I wager that's not enough and I'm wondering if anyone who has done Raids can give examples of hard bosses from them.

[@occultnightingale1106]

Concerning Bloodborne, I implore anyone who believes Orphan of Kos is the hardest fight in the game to venture a few NG+ levels up, and then check out the difficulty spike that Laurence gets. By about NG+2, Laurence becomes definitively harder than Orphan, as his damage values grow completely ridiculous (several attacks become one-shots even if you dodge the main bulk but get hit by the flame AoE), and his defenses get ramped up to an insane degree, where even the strongest and best-built weapons serm like they’re only dealing chip damage. At least Orphan can be parried, and Blood Rapture/Oedon Writhe (+Health/Bullets on a visceral) have their effects quadrupled against Orphan.

[@matheusbecker2351]

Have to agree with that. Laurence becomes so stupid that it's not even fun anymore (tbh not sure it he was fun at any point in time).

[@kryskiller666]

For me it's gotta be Feral Chaos on Dissidia 012, for the PSP. The main plot story takes you around to level 50, and if keep at it you sooner or latter stumble upon the post-game story which goes way deeper into the plot and the constant cycles that are happening. It takes you HOUR and HOURS to get through it, it's fucking LONG, and goes from level 50 to 100, and enemies go beyond level 100 at a certain point just to increase the difficulty even higher. Then you face Feral Chaos, he's at lvl 95 but despite that his stats are absurd, he kicks your fucking ass to a wall and he's just a prelude, because if you defeat it he pulls a fucking Ghost n' Goblins on your ass and turns out to just be an illusion of the real one. Reach the true end of the campaign and you'll face the ACTUAL Feral Chaos, who's lvl 130, has even higher stats, and despite being a 1vs1 type fighting game, you'll have around 10k HP and he'll have around 130k, deal a stupid amount of damage and you're given a party of five (basically five lifes) because of how little you're expected to last. Motherfucker took me a week to beat, and then a month to defeat with just one life using Gilgamesh. Fucking adrenaline rush all the way with the kickass soundtrack. If you somehow missed Final Fantasy Dissidia 012, go emulate that fucker. It's amazing.

[@spiralgodking9877]

Based and Dissidiapilled~!!! I beat the first part with WOL. I still have to go back for that 130LV fight.

[@squeethemog213]

It's always nice seeing bosses that don't get talked about a lot. Especially number 1. Thanks for another awesome vid man :D

[@bluestreaker9242]

Rabbidluigi: "RPGs are absolute fuckers when it comes to hard boss fights" *shows Xenogear's Redrum at **3:14** in the lead-up to the Number 5 segment* Me: *internal screaming of pain & misery* Okay, seriously, can someone please tell me...why the fuck is the rematch against TWO of those monstrosities in one of the final dungeons of Disc 1 EASIER than this random-ass fight in the sewers!?

[@cwing1028]

The hardest boss fight for me was Juggernaut in Spider-Man/X-men: Arcades Revenge, another hard boss fight was the last boss in Nightshade.

[@0megaWarrior]

If we had to have a Kingdom Hearts boss on this list I definitely would have gone with Lingering Will or Yozora. They're both wildly more difficult than Sephiroth and can wipe you out much faster.

[@krimsonkatt]

Agreed. Sephiroth in KH1 is definitely the hardest boss in that game, but Lingering Will and Yozora are miles harder. Remember when people online said KH2 Sephiroth was hard? Lol, he's so easy in that game compared to other superbosses in the series. You really only need Second Chance and Once More, (which requires a lot of grinding if you chose sword in the beginning like most people) spam reaction commands, and learn how to guard to win. It's one of the few fights in the game and the only fight in base KH2 where you can't win by spamming x and healing when nessessary.

[@pradakahn4890]

Yozora yes but lingering will is easily cheesed, he’s only difficult when you take him head on. Negative combo cheese destroys him in under a minute maybe two tops and is extremely easy and accessible for players to do

[@archangeltyrael3369]

If you were gong to include a boss from the Final Fantasy MMOs then I'm surprised it wasn't Absolute Virtue. A boss designed to be so tough it took literal days of people attacking it in shifts to almost get it down the first time before one of the Devs saw it and went "Oh crap it shouldn't even be possible to beat this thing within the current limits of the game" and despawned it to deny the players their achievement until more "legit" ways of beating it could be brought in with updates

[@Squidveemo]

that last one gives "don't die to the boss" a whole new meaning

[@Endprince-Jorm]

To this day, the hardest boss I've ever faced is Bernard from Furi. Ten phases, a completely unique moveset for each phase, and losing all of your continues means doing everything all over again. Your average attempt against him is gonna be roughly ten minutes, and his final barrage attack alone is about two minutes long (which doesn't sound that long, but believe me its the most stressful two minutes of your life). It took THIRTEEN HOURS of attempts on my part over the span of like eight days to finally beat him ONCE. That being said, he's actually a very well designed boss. For as difficult as he is, he isn't cheap or unfair. He's very much a test of endurance and skill, which I can appreciate.

[@korhol2065]

Meet the pandemonium warden, the boss I fought and fell asleep at the keyboard at one point

[@BigBoss15310]

Ugh...seeing a failed attempt on Orpha at 7:44 broke my heart. I know that feeling all too well lmao

[@Aro-Baro]

Personally the hardest boss I’ve ever fought is fatalis in monster hunter ice borne, you need to play perfectly and have a deep understanding of your weapons move set and fatalis’s move set because almost everything will one shot you, not only that but you also only have 30 min to kill it and he has a lot of health so you need to be doing constant damage, and timing out of the fight is very defeating because that means you spent 30 min of your life only to fail, but the fight is awesome and the feeling you get from finally toppling this creature that has so much significance in the whole series is unlike any other

[@LoneOtaku158]

In terms of Kingdom Hearts, KH1 Sephiroth isn’t all that bad. Nah, it’s all about Lingering Will, Yozora, the Data Rematches in 2 and 3 (ESPECIALLY 3), and whatever bullshit the Osaka Team was smoking when designing the Super Bosses in Birth By Sleep.

[@Helixneek]

big MF moment

[@aidanklobuchar1798]

@@Helixneek You know a singleplayer boss is total BS when he gets nerfed in the very first revision of the game (from the US PSP version of BBS to the international Final Mix version).

[@krimsonkatt]

@@aidanklobuchar1798 I don't think mysterious figure was in base BBS. The only superboss in base BBS was Venitas Remnant I think. Then Final Mix added like 5 superbosses lol. (No Heart, Armor of the Master, Ultimate Imprisoner, Mysterious Figure, Invisible Stalker, etc) Also the first revision to BBS was the Japan exclusive final mix version on PSP. Like KH1 and KH2 we never got the final mix version of BBS until the HD ports on PS3 and PS4 and later on XBO, PC, and now NS.

[@aidanklobuchar1798]

@@krimsonkatt Nope. MF was added in the US version of BBS, just like how Sephiroth/KZisa/Ice Titan were added to KH1. I should know; I own this version of the game.

[@krimsonkatt]

@@aidanklobuchar1798 Huh, didn't know that. I thought all of the PSP releases before Final Mix only had Venitas Remnant. The more you know I guess. I just assumed it was final mix exclusive since the "preview bosses" from previous and future games were all final mix/DLC exclusive. (Unknown from KH1, Lingering Will from KH2, and Yozora from KH3) What do I know anyways, I only first got into Kingdom Hearts with the HD Collections on PS4 in 2017. Also the 3DS version of Dream Drop Distance in 2015. I didn't know what I was doing and I somehow still beat the game, but that's what beginner mode does to you I guess. (Replying the game again for the first time on PS4. Proud Mode baby!)

[@AceAviations2]

The moment that I heard Orphan's haunting theme (and the PTSD flashbacks to being beaten to death by a placenta passed) number 4 was obvious. I've beaten Orphan twice and HE STILL SCARES ME. His theme fills me with dread, no cosmic horror needed when the fight itself is terrifying. For me it doesn't feel like I overcame Orphan, just survived against something I probably shouldn't have.

[@3ftninja132]

Pandemonium Warden is so hard it gives players RL status effects.

[@Sabarok]

For hardest FF boss, I would have gone with Ozy from FF9. That guy is impossible without pure luck on your side. Then I heard what you had to say about the FFXI boss. Ok, Ozy is #2 for not making people physically ill. :D

[@masterseal0418]

Sephiroth and Lingering Will: "We're the most difficult post-game bosses in the Kingdom Hearts franchise!" Yozora: "Hold my Nachtflügel."

[@arnott360]

I put the Lingering Will over Sephiroth due to him being the only boss I still haven't beaten in that franchise.

[@BatteryExhausted]

That chuffing Tree thing from Dark Souls. THAT CHUFFING TREE THING.

[@friendlyelites]

Its interesting looking back at Skolas in Destiny 1 especially after boss fights get increasingly complex as players get more and more powerful over time, as a pure combat arena when it first came out it was undeniably one of the hardest fights in the entire series and the only thing that's really come close since then was fighting against Riven in 2018 when the Last Wish raid first released. The main difference between a fight like Skolas and Riven is how little we had to work with, unless you burned him in the first week with Gjallarhorn and Black Hammer or Fourth Horseman on the 2nd week with Arc Burn there wasn't much you could do to make the fight easier. In Destiny 2 there's so much more available for players to work around tough encounters especially right now that I can go into new raids on day 1 with your level forcibly lowered to make it harder and still have the confidence to make it through most of it with patience in 15 hours or so. It's a little funny looking back at it and knowing the most broken thing in Destiny was a tracking rocket launcher and an ability to revive yourself if you died when we can shoot lasers and rip through enemies with chainsaw swords now.

[@friendlyelites]

Though if I'm being perfectly blunt I consider Val Ca'our from the Spire of Stars raid to be the hardest boss in Destiny bar none, the level of combat efficiency and coordination to complete Spire of Stars is something a lot of groups plainly didn't have and its one of the reasons it's the least completed raid in Destiny.

[@mariamorn]

I'd like to just give a small correction regarding the FFXI "Be sure to take breaks" disclaimer - I've spoken to two XI veterans and they mentioned that the disclaimer existed way before the Pandemonium Warden incident, but it didn't work because XI's design contradicted /HEAVILY/ with it due to it being incredibly brutal and grind-heavy at the time. (Seriously, if you died you'd lose EXP points and sometimes even entire levels.) If we ever get the Warden again in FF14 since we're going to Pandaemonium for the 8-man raids in Endwalker I am waiting with muted anticipation for people to start screaming.

[@MilkenGamer42]

I have had the biggest grave mistake. I started Bloodborne where I left off years after not playing, being on NG+ and starting the DLC. It took me like a bajillion tries to kill Orphan, but somehow, I managed

[@JaelinBezel]

You better not have neglected your body’s needs to do it, mister.

[@destoroyahofhope4005]

My man literally just threw basically three Final Fantasy bosses in a top 5 ranking. Might as well just turn this into Top 5 Hardest Square Enix bosses then lol. Or better yet replace Emerald Weapon with Demi-Fiend (or some other super hard JRPG boss fight that isn't from Final Fantasy) and Sephiroth with either Lingering Will or Yozora and this would have significantly improved.

[@HugoPegler]

As Alex Rochon said best on his Twitter: Oops, all Final Fantasy bosses

[@masteroflight7296]

Sephiroth in kh1 is so easy now compared to fights like Lingering will and Yozora

[@mistalee9300]

Exactly Yozora can be a real problem at first, Sephiroth in both games is a breeze to me now

[@goroakechi6126]

Yozora, Lingering Will, Mysterious Figure, Armor of the Master, Demyx, hell, even Sepphie in KH2 can be harder on a second round since he’s much less easy to memorize a pattern to.

[@masteroflight7296]

@@goroakechi6126 well I would say mysterious figure is more so broken then he is difficult. If he didn’t spam and 2 shot you he wouldn’t be all that bad. Regardless it’s clear that people who say Sephiroth in kh1 in the hardest boss is easy to tell who only played vanilla 1-2. Sephiroth can’t even compare to even the data battles in kh2 FM. Taking all super bosses in all of KH into consideration, kh1 sephiroth is low tier

[@goroakechi6126]

@@masteroflight7296 Oh god, the data battles… *Dance Water Dance*

[@TrueChaoSclx]

Unfortunately Lingering Will is laughably easy to cheese. With double negative combo, air combo boost, and no aerial finisher, you can just.. jump, attack once, land, repeat. He'll never retaliate because this abuses a quirk in how revenge values are calculated.

[@SlapChopMyShamWow]

Nightmare King Grimm and Absolute Radiance are easily the two most difficult bosses I’ve ever faced in a video game, and I soloed a few of the Borderlands 2 raid bosses. Out of the two I’ll give Grimm the tiniest edge just because of how ludicrously fast he attacks and how unbelievably fast your reaction speed has to be, but man, those last few segments of Absolute Radiance are fucking insane

[@travelsizedlions]

Hardest Boss Fight: Toriel. I never recovered emotionally.

[@GabyyRose]

Kill Toriel ? Physically ? Of course I could. But emotionaly ? Imagine the toll !

[@LadyBern]

10:40 I tensed up thinking you were about to segue into a Raid shadow legends ad even though you already did it. I have a Pavlovian reaction to the word now thanks to KZbin.

[@shukuchishikeishuu9540]

For me, hardest bosses I've ever faced would be: Absolute Radiance (Hollow Knight) Perfectheart (Omori) Delirium (Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+) Moon Lord (Terraria) Sans (Undertale) Jevil (Deltarune) The Frontier Brains (Pokemon)

[@kaistephens2694]

Honorable Mentions: Absolute Virtue (FF11) Inner Agent 3 (Splatoon 2) Demi-Fiend (Digital Devil Saga) Absolute Radiance (Hollow Knight) Elizabeth (Persona 3: FES) Yozora (Kingdom Hearts 3) Wizpig 1 (Diddy Kong Racing)

[@peteybakedziti8908]

Lucifer in vanilla Devil Survivor 1 for the DS. He was so hard, I struggled fighting him even with cheats that gave me hilariously broken demons

[@simonO712]

*Flashbacks of Megidoladyne intensify*

[@Kimch87]

Gonna guess before seeing it that the infamous FF11 boss is in it.

[@ProfDragonite]

Would like a video on Top 5 Games We'd Never Thought We'd Get in The West. Mostly so RabbidLuigi can talk about Super Robot Wars 30.

[@chisecrecy4974]

List Suggestion: Top 5 Item/Equipment-Regaining sections in Video Games (Chozodia from Metroid: Zero Mission, Eldin Volcano 3rd Visit from Skyward Sword, Military Capture from Half-Life, etc.)

[@BoyYuKrazy]

Always a classic topic to revisit. Well done again Rabbid!

[@ebanbauer]

My proudest moment is beating the Orphan of Kos on my second ever attempt... after dying to Lady Maria like 25 times

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

Dang, number 1.... Square Enix, I am both impressed and horrified.

[@vermin4023]

The final boss of the Seal the Deal DLC for A Hat in Time was the hardest boss I've ever beaten.

[@aal3596]

People have mentioned this already when it came to Skolas, but in D2 Riven has the honor of that one raid boss everyone refuses to do normally. Most people will continually try to cheese her even if she decides she doesn’t want a manicure that day and doesn’t cooperate. I didn’t play D1, but this does make me wonder how we’d do against Skolas with the arc burn on….probably better, considering Cuirass of the Falling Star exists

[@jambles3752]

these bosses are so hard even the guy in the thumbnail is gritting his teeth in frustration

[@Zixinfinite]

I paused at number 2 when I heard the music and had a panic attack, feeling the pain of Skolas' devouring essence all over again.

[@edwinpritom6336]

I definitely thought Demi-fiend from Digital Devil Saga would be here. I guess he just a Demi-Friend, amirighrt?

[@TiltCntrlz]

Let's be honest, the hardest boss fights of all time are probably some hot garbage in Mario Maker.

[@AirahsELL]

Personal honorable mentions: Stephen from SMTIVA Fatalis from Iceborne Nightmare King Grimm from Hollow Knight Raven Beak from Metroid Dread Slave Knight Gaol from Dark Souls 3

[@kierancampire]

So there's 2 i wished were mentioned. 1, a ton of other boss fights in the KH games, like the data fights. 2, I've played this game called Lost Sphear, it was a great game and i loved it. However i have never got so angry playing a game before. So bosses have certain broken moves, but they have no limit for how often they can use them. There's 1 boss that is a giant frog/toad, it can paralyse you so you can't move/do anything for a few turns, issue is, this hits your full party, and he can endlessly spam it. My first time fighting this boss was me being locked in a constant state of paralysis and just waiting for it to kill me as there was literally nothing i could do. You eventually go to a location where you lose all your abilities and the "final boss of the game" is there, at the cost of resources and your sanity you can defeat "optional" bosses to get your special abilities back. Well i was fighting one boss, and any time it nearly died it used a full heal, i then ran out of resources, died, and had to buy more. I think on the second run the boss ended up take me 1.5 - 2 hours? Any time this boss got any sort of damage it full healed, no matter how little or how much damage it took, sometimes I'd geat it near death, it full healed, I'd restart the process again, and it had no limit on how much or how often it can spam the full heal. I have never scream, swore, or got so angry at a boss before. There is optional stuff and even harder content, but the game destroyed me at the end so i didn't even bother. Great game, deceivingly difficult.

[@paperluigi6132]

Idk if you’ve done it yet, but how about this? “Top 10 terrible video games where the music was the only saving grace.” You’d be surprised by how the quality of the music in some games just dwarfs the quality of almost everything else.

[@SirFelyne]

There's an even stronger boss in FFXI, called Absolute Virtue. It could use every job's 2 hour cooldown ability, and it's yet to be defeated at its current state (the boss was buffed so previous exploits to defeat it don't work)

[@vittoriopugliese3352]

Literally no one beat it legit. He's counting only the bosses he's beaten

[@kurosakikun96]

@@vittoriopugliese3352 pretty sure this is no longer true, the wiki page for it claims it can be taken down now, and relatively quickly, as it despawns after two hours even if it isn't, still presents a challenge but the gear it drops is supposed to be a lot more common these days

[@shawnheatherly]

FF11 is admittedly a blind spot for me with Final Fantasy as a whole, I'm just not really a fan of MMOs. As such, I had never heard of the Pandemonium Warden until now. That just sounds genuinely miserable to try and beat.

[@DreadnoughtDT]

It's not even the hardest boss in FF11. That would go to Absolute Virtue.

[@kurosakikun96]

@@DreadnoughtDT is it still? I never played 11 either but I've heard it got nerfed to the ground at one point

[@DreadnoughtDT]

@@kurosakikun96 It was one of only two bosses that were nerfed, those being Pandemonium Warden, and Absolute Virtue. Pandemonium Warden was the first part of the raid, and he was nowhere near as difficult in his final incarnation as he was on this list. Absolute Virtue, despite being nerfed, is still the hardest fight in the game. People fought it for 24 hours straight and then it used Benediction (fully heal itself) right at the end and caused people to ragequit the game. And when people beat it using a cheese strat, Square Enix hunted down everyone who had a Ribbon in their inventory (the equipment you get for beating it) and banned them because only people who cheesed it in the first place could have Ribbons. So yeah Absolute Virtue is and always will be the pinnacle of fuckery in FFXI.

[@TheAccursedHunter01]

Of all the Destiny bosses that could appear on this list, Skolas was not who I was expecting.

[@peanut3423]

Yozora tho

[@milesstorzillo3013]

Young Xehanort (KH BBS), Sheng (Brave Story New Traveler), Zekrom and Reshiram (Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon), Bowser X (Mario & Luigi BiS), Lucifer (Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne)

[@AmethystLeslie]

The hardest boss I had to deal with as of late would honestly be Raspberry Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom. 3 million health (which is 50% more health than the ACTUAL world boss for no good reason), has a drill attack that does so much damage, and is just really strong for that point in the game. Seriously, I had a maxed out team of generally really good team members (not meta-tier good, but after losing that fight the first time around, I had to start looking into recommended teams just for that boss fight) and I was walled for DAYS. It took building a new team and upgrading overall attack to even survive it once.

[@karabirb]

What perfect timing! About to close out my first BB playthrough, just gotta clean up the final bosses and the Orphan. None of the bosses have given me too much grief so far, so I’m oddly kinda hoping the guy can kick my teeth in properly haha

[@gumbarius]

My prediction for this video is that I have beaten none of these five bosses

[@thestongestoftheweak]

Honestly, surprised demifiend from Digital Devil Saga was not on here, but glad for the cameo of it at least.

[@elk3407]

DDS demifiend is apparently easier then SMT V demifeind. But I can't confirm because physical copies don't come out in Canada until the 16th

[@joshuabrown3361]

Nioh 2's bosses give some of these a run for their money. Brutality. That's what you need to expect. Getting ripped to shreds.

[@enlongjones2394]

Oh how fitting. I found this video while first going after Orphan of Kos.

[@insecdroid]

Playing Rivers in the Desert is one way to get me to listen to a sponsor.

[@DonutSwordsman]

Hell yeah return to form, fun vid, could even do a part two :)

[@galileo_the_star_lion]

probably kinda lame in the context of the video, but i feel like ultra necrozma from ultra sun/moon deserves a comment. it, at least back in the day, was considered to be one of the single most difficult fights in pokemon. mostly because this is ONE SINGLE POKEMON who has the difficulty of an entire team. the champion battle against hau is nowhere near as brutal as this one is, and he has a full team of six. people frequently turn to cheese to take it down because it's so ruthlessly effective at wrecking your whole team. this thing is a GOD, and it's not going to let you forget it. and yet, it's by far my favorite fight from my favorite game.

[@IceAssassin25]

The fact Emerald Weapon and KH Sephiroth is on this list but not Baal from Disgaea 4 or 5 just shows that most of these hardest boss lists only go with popularity over facts

[@eemelikorteniemi3966]

I think it goes with what Rabbidluigi has played or heard of

[@Naruto_from_the_Naruto_show]

Kh1 Sephiroth fight is challenging and memorable, but it's far faaar from being the most difficult boss in the series. Kh2 Sephiroth might have been nerfed down, but how quickly we forget Lingering Will, a boss that to this day I can't beat without cheesing. Kh3 Remind DLC had 14 new boss fights with all organization XIII members + Ansem, considering how easy KH3 is, these new bosses really upped the challenge for the game, each boss took me a few hours to days to get through. And then they throw you a final DLC boss where it is optional to beat, due to how insanely difficult he is. KH1 had it's fair share of hard bosses, but the sequels blow that one way out of the water.

[@Taser9001]

Sorry RL, I am going to have to fight you on the Emerald Weapon being difficult. It's super easy to cheese that fight. 2 materia on each character (maxed HP Up + W-Item, maxed HP Up + Underwater, and on Cloud, maxed HP Up + maxed Double Cut). Keep using Hero Drinks on Cloud and megalixirs via W-Item, keep up with extra drinks and healing with the spare character, and just attack with Cloud. Provided everyone is on 9999 when Aire Tam Storm hits, you'll get Lucky 7's status and destroy the fight. If you want a truly difficult FF boss, one that is incredibly difficult, even when fully optimised, I present to you Proto-Babil from FF4 3D. Also, KH1 Sephiroth can be cheesed with a lot of MP, Strike Raid, and a bunch if elixirs. On a level 1 run, yeah, you're right. He's an absolute tosser.

[@Rhy2412TitanGamer]

To add on to the Sephiroth bit in KH1, you can reduce the amount of damage his sword does with ribbons because he does darkness based damage & ribbons cut said damage.

[@acuerden]

That attack of Emerrald Weapon is to your advantage. Equip exactly two materia to, say, Cid. dropping HP to exactly 7777 triggers the lucky sevens attack...

[@Nekucloud]

A boss fight so hard that it actually kills you outside of the game!? That's some Creepypasta shit right there!!!😱

[@A-1-Sawce]

It wasn't hard as much as it took long but Yiazmat from FF12 is up there for me. Took 4 hours give or take, that alone was a pain in the ass the constant switching of characters and equipment and whatnot. Also most SNK bosses and the original Akuma from SSF2T on that old arcades screwed up difficulty.

[@acheron16]

Ah yes, that boss that takes an absolute minimum of 2:30 hours to defeat at the best of chances.

[@krimsonkatt]

Yeizmat only took me 45 minutes in the Zodiac Age with max speed turned up. It's not a hard fight, just a long one. Zodiark is objectively a way harder boss despite having some of the lowest HP for a superboss in the series.

[@creativeusername6453]

Off the top of my head sephiroth in kingdom hearts 2, jasper Jr in no more heroes 2 and demi fiend in shin megami tensei digital devil saga are all soul crushing

[@jacktheomnithere2127]

i thought Evice from Pokemon Colosseum was going to be here, since i heard his theme playing in the background before the list started. could have made him an honourable mention with some others.

[@Ishmari345]

My pick for hardest boss fight is Elizabeth from Persona 3. Not only must you fight her with personas that have no specific resistances, can not use Armageddon or she will instant kill you. You must also fight her BY YOURSELF!

[@elk3407]

Elizabeth is the most BS megaten fight, but not the hardest. That goes to demifiend in Digital Devil Saga. Although I've heard Atlus made Demifiend even harder in SMT 5.

[@Nesaru]

This video made me realise Pandemonium Warden is probably going to be a raid boss in FFXIV: Endwalker's Pandaemonium raid...

[@dededank7652]

Surprised that Snatcher EX from a hat in time wasent on this list, he’s pretty hard

[@arik2216]

For me Tekken 5 : Devil Heihachi Tekken 6 : Azazhel. Death Gambit : avatar of Thalamus, Heroic Eldrich Council. Nioh : Date Shegezane, Yukimura Sanada, Lady Maria. Nioh 2 : Saito Toshimitsu, Ren Hayabusa Ninja Gaiden : Alma. Hollow Knight : level 4-10 Grey Prince Zote.

[@ekimmak]

Someday, somebody is going to include Baldren Gassernarl on this list.

[@Vee_Sheep]

video's not bad, but i can't help but be bothered by my own opinions, which are that including Super Bosses and DLC feels like cheating for something like this because if a player is going after this type of side content, or purchasing DLC, they're probably not only invested enough to "git gud", but also definitely expect a fight like this to be Horrifically Powerful, and take several attempts (or miraculously, just one sometimes) maybe i'm getting picky or being a purist, but it just feels wrong to include extra fights that are expected to be very difficult, and enough of a reward to just win, as opposed to difficulty spike bosses and such but that's all just me, and i still enjoyed this, just because it's my daily dose of RabbidLuigi lol god, i still remember when the intro was Solaris Phase 2 with footage of Destroyman's dick laser... time flies, huh

[@wanderlustwarrior]

You say pandemonium, and I can't help but think, not of a boss, but a dungeon. "Total Pandemonium" from Muramasa the Demon Blade.

[@GhoullyXX]

Lingering Will in KH2 and Yozora in KH3 were infinitly harder than Sephiroth in 1.

[@kittylover62]

The Shadow Queen from Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door is one of the few bosses I've never been able to beat

[@AnnieGalla]

The first three spots all felt like rather bland choices. Emerald Weapon isn't even the hardest superboss in its own series, and you could easily cheese it by just using Nights of the Round. While I haven't played the Dark Souls and Kingdom Hearts entries, they still feel like rather cliched choices. I'm pretty sure you can find some crazy Shmup out there that's significantly more unfair with how difficult they can get. The same thing with fighting games. Hell there has to be a ton of JRPG bosses harder than Emerald Weapon and Sephiroth (anything from SMT for instance). Number's 2 and 1 were definitely the kind of shit i was hoping for. Bosses that were at absolutely absurd difficulty levels way beyond your typical bonus boss.