Which Soulsborne Protagonist Is The Strongest Lore Wise?

[@SpeeenieWeeenie]

Mawnnuss😫😫😫.

[@thesovietduck2121]

Mawnnussy 😫😫😫

[@YouSuck-zi1nz]

Ah hell nah y'all cooked

[@sechan436]

@@thesovietduck2121dark and ancient 😩😩

[@DarknessIsTheTruth]

The Tarnished is so powerful that he's able to summon the greatest Stand of all: HIMSELF.

[@brunobucciarati6438]

IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?!?!?!

[@Pizzadude92002]

No one is a better homie than yourself

[@stephenharper8450]

Also he beat himself twice don't forget

[@HomixideYT]

asked god to speak to a real one, he told me use mimic tear 🗣️🙏🏻

[@Yeagerclubhouse]

His ultimate

[@comradegab3344]

For anyone arguing that Tarnished isn't the strongest, he literally beat Soldier of Godrick.

[@TheScarlettKing]

O-Shit U Right

[@rathosalpha]

God soilder of rick

[@davidnewhart2533]

I don't know bro, Sekiro beat Mist Noble, and Chosen Undead beat Pinwheel.

[@pedronunesmoreira5279]

Soldier of Godrick is so powerful that he felt sorry for the tarnished, not even reaching his second phase. And from what is known to date, it can go on to his 67th phase.

[@mysteriousperson2794]

The hunter becomes a god in the true ending so I say they take it

[@wizardfurby]

Wolf has unlimited stamina and can pause the game. NUFF SAID

[@Z0RUK]

Video Title: Lore-wise Random Commenter: Starts listing game mechanics.

[@hitalick5999]

@@Z0RUKeven the video itself barely going by lore so shit might aswell 😭

[@riccard1n0]

Watching the video with a damm Blindfold

[@Mangopoptart.]

AND HE CAN SWIM ⁉️⁉️

[@cordyceps182]

The VIRGIN Wolf needs to PAUSE the game and RUN away with his unlimited stamina like a COWARD

[@pommedeter7407]

When you think about it, Gael fought until the end of the world killing and eating Humans to reassemble the dark soul, and he didnt even realise he succeeded because no one was strong enough to make him bleed. And you beat him. Thats impressive as hell.

[@Blackgod66633]

Oh right I forgot that cut scene and I was like bro never seen his blood before he either got dementia or he a BITCH

[@SGT_Squid_Dog]

Say what you will, the tarnished has at least 3-4 different marriage partners depending on the quest lines you follow. Dude got bitches in the Lands Between

[@runningoutofnames3CS]

Ik Ranni, a literal demigod, is one of them but who are the others again?

[@SGT_Squid_Dog]

@@runningoutofnames3CS Raya and Roderika come to mind, this post was made 4 days ago and I don't remember who I was thinking of.

[@jamesjohnXII]

​@@SGT_Squid_Dogyou can't marry zorayas you're just friends

[@weirdbro6597]

U trippin

[@clarentknight]

Fia was never interested on marrying us

[@jackluffy7914]

If we are talking lore wise hunter and Tarnished is the 2 strongest. And the fact that hunter killed gods and gods of the universes in one night is still wild asf to me

[@shakon1618]

Was it one regular night or like a Narnia winter kinda night?

[@jackluffy7914]

@@shakon1618 it was one regular night

[@ItchiestBum]

@@shakon1618The night is considered to be felt long by those involved in the hunt but as far as I’m aware, they just say this as a way to show how terrible the experience of the hunt is.

[@senatorstevenarmstrong9821]

@@jackluffy7914Some Arkham Knight type shit.

[@oeufoplat1079]

You made me remember that wolf got his arm cut off, then the next day killed a god, the guy who cut his arm (twice), his father, and the strongest warrior of the land, all in one day

[@Dimi_Ste]

The Hunter fights cosmic horror beings whose appearance lies beyond human comprehension and calls them prey 🥶💀

[@jocoolshow]

True, but towards the middle and end of Elden Ring, the Tarnished fights and beats beings that are empowered by/vessels of Outer gods that embody entire concepts on a metaphysical tier of power while much much weaker beings can do feats like casually hold the stars and constellations in place. So it checks out for both physical and metaphysical power feats and statements

[@Dimi_Ste]

​@@jocoolshow Good point tho. Tbh I'm not 100% sure abt who is stronger. They are prob tied in almost every aspect. I just prefer the idea of beating like, 4th dimensional beings and stuff lol

[@frosty4059]

@@jocoolshowYeah, but the Tarnished is a lost (or neglected) son of Marika. The Hunter is just a normal dude from another city that travelled to Yharnam to get a cure for his sickness. And he just beat everything, huge beasts to eldritch gods while only being a human AND ascends to godhood. He did what other lost their sanity to achieve.

[@jocoolshow]

@@frosty4059 Tarnished aren’t descendants of Marika or anything special like that, they’re people born into the Golden Order who lost their grace. And the Tarnished starts out so weak that (no memes) a random foot soldier (Soldier of Godrick) is considered a boss, and ascends to the level of wiping out the Demigods, Elden Lords, and physical manifestations of Outer gods which I would say matches up to Great Ones pretty well

[@jocoolshow]

@@Dimi_Ste Its great ones as higher dimensional beings from higher planes of existence in Bloodborne vs outer gods and embodiments of concepts in Elden Ring

[@kinggamereon653]

lore accurately sekiro is weak, gameplay-wise he's the second strongest at least, none of the others got anything on the deflects (hes, he can deflect flames and lasers) except maybe elden ring protag with how poorly sekiro handles ganks lol

[@chives8980]

I think he's strongest gameplay wise, unlimited stamina, faster, stealth etc.

[@blackbloom8552]

The main thing keeping lore-accurate sekiro down is that this world doesnt really have an ever growing source of power like the soul. The dragon blood is neat, but even with the immortality it provides, wolf remains limited by the boundaries of his humanity.

[@ahihi7706]

And he can also level up and learn technics and skills like other protagonists too. Weird how he said Sekiro is strongest at base strength. He is really the strongest.

[@splishsplash3492]

How tf is sekiro lore accurately weak?

[@kinggamereon653]

compared to the souls and bloodborne protags Not in his own world

[@SGT_Squid_Dog]

Quick update as of the Elden Ring DLC: The Tarnished has now killed 2 gods

[@Arkade_k17]

Bro’s op

[@Thatsmyn4m3]

*demigods

[@tuckergrimes4189]

@@Thatsmyn4m3 nope. Gods. game differentiates demigods and GODS from each other after you kill them

[@sam-s6o]

⁠@@Thatsmyn4m3 he killed ( base game) 6 or more

[@mvh-]

@@Thatsmyn4m3he killed multiple demigods and two gods

[@JackCrow0]

The Good Hunters reaction when fighting incomprehensible horrors beyond his imagination: 😐 (he doesn't comprehend it)

[@Aryan_H1]

Tarnished wins because Elden rings cosmology is higher than anything else. 1. Queen marika literally had eternal life - Something Lord Gwynn was desperate for. 2. Golden order permanently confined the concept of death with 0 drawbacks. True immortality Unlike dragon rot . 3. Cosmic gravity spells of tarnished & astels meteorite spells that destroyed entire civilisation. 4. You literally can't hurt Radagon until you get destined death out. 5. Dragon lord placidusax : exists beyond time.

[@TheRealJohnux]

The f*cking Hunter killed like atleast 3 9th Dimensional beings, the Tarnished maybe 1. I think good Hunter actually got this.

[@eliasfigarzon9813]

Lmao these fucking assholes don't even know how the cosmology of each game works and how many casuals here are saying a bunch of stupid things. Objectively speaking the hunter destroys all the other souls protagonist combined, including sekiro which isn't not a souls game.

[@nicolasleal5644]

Remember the golden order was not perfect, there were loopholes like destined death which you point out in the next defense and a wolf has a blade that can deal with immortality so the tarnished is not special and strength builds are cringe in recent souls' games where poise sucks more. ~This post was made by the Dex squad.

[@bittercad1137]

In the end of Bloodborne you can ascend and become an eldritch god beyond the comprehension of a mortal mind. I don’t know if it get more powerful than ascending to become something so powerful and beyond regular people that we literally do not have the capability to understand what we are looking at.

[@Aryan_H1]

​@@bittercad1137regular people can't look at frenzied flame either lol. There's no one left to look at it. Because everyone is ashes except one.

[@riccard1n0]

Yeah lore wise Tarnished is the strongest, very easly. All the ones saying Wolf that first spot, either have not red the damm title, or just don't know that gameplay is not canon

[@user-mf1lo5fj6s]

Hypothetically if all of the protagonists were to fight eachother since all of them are essentially immortal including sekiro as proven in the Genochiro fight then Sekiro would win eventually because he can use the mortal blade which can kill immortal beings. Based on feats he’s still probably the weakest tho. Edit: the tarnished can also use destined death so they would still be the strongest in this scenario

[@sko6075]

Hunter can comprehend and ascend to beings that the tarnished doesn’t have enough lore wise insight/transcendency to comprehend. Hunter low difs

[@riccard1n0]

@@sko6075 Tarnished can understand and see the Primal current magic and absorb the Frenzied Flame ,wich like Great Ones, exist on higher planes and make your mind go insane

[@ThePalebloodHunter]

Exactly, Wolf is, by far, the most overrated Souls protagonist, his feats and Lore of its world fall far below those of Bloodborne, Dark Souls and Elden Ring

[@ps4lm10]

​@@riccard1n0 what? They are definitely not the same from the great ones, the great ones scales wayyy higher than those you mentioned.

[@user-so6ps4pb6y]

Trick question, Doesn't matter how many times you kill them, These mad lads are stuck in an endless cycle of learning each other's moves, Killing each other, And have the same happen. And being way too stubborn and stupid to quit.

[@diegopimentel5137]

Well tarnished last fights were all canonically first try so

[@user-so6ps4pb6y]

@@diegopimentel5137 The various gameplays I've seen and the sheer anxiousness radiating off of them with a potency that even a blind quadriplegic Donkey could see and touch says otherwise. The fights themselves have no canon, Just that you beat them with either using your head as head brick to be shot out of a canon and getting the wall in one, Or slow torturous submission of the wall.

[@diegopimentel5137]

@@user-so6ps4pb6y i am gonna say something surprising for you but GAMEPLAY and LORE most of the time don’t match like kratos struggling to lift a door in gameplay but throwing big rocks on cinematics and yeah canonically tarnished’s lasts fights were first try. What do you do when you defeat maliketh? Yes, you unleash the rune of death bringing back destined death to the lands between so anyone that dies would die for real and forever including tarnished

[@user-so6ps4pb6y]

@@diegopimentel5137 It's a truly shocking concept, Except for the fact that the story of the Tarnished is mostly determined by the player (Being a Player customized Character rather than one with a pre established story and personality), I sure as heck do not see Miyazaki coming out and saying anything concrete about the Tarnished. If I'm wrong provide a source for the 1st try argument. Nonetheless if you want to bring up "True Death", Then you also have to remember that in Dark Souls the First Flame is also responsible for the concept of death and capable of creating concepts, Yet it can't kill a bearer of the Dark Sign if they do not despair. And in Bloodborne you have eldritch beings who likewise can change and erase realities being unable to kill the Hunter, Including the Moon Presence, The source of the Hunter's immortality. Wolf might be vulnerable to Destined Death.

[@diegopimentel5137]

@@user-so6ps4pb6y i mean, if you want to say that tarnished is above the rules of his own world it’s ok, but if he is just another tarnished, then the source of his resurrection is marika getting his soul back to his body wich is possible because of destined death being sealed, you unleashed the rune of death specifically to kill radagon, if radagon and marika are affected by destined death then tarnished is too, unless you assume tarnished is a being of superior nature even higher than a god, if not then tarnished canonically could not die against maliketh, gideon, godfrey, radagon and elden beast because it goes against the rules the game itself tells

[@ihaveadigbick.3785]

If we count in lore, ending(s) and feats then from Strongest to Weakest: 1. The Good hunter - If we go with the 3rd ending they ascend and becomes an infant eldrich being with the only downside is that they might carry the curse that the Old Ones are trying to break. 2. The Bearer of the Curse - If we go with the 2nd ending, they refuse to lit or extinguish the first flame, instead they go on a journey accompanied by Aldia (arguably the smartest mad scientist in Dark Souls lore) with The Crown of Kings that nullifies the spreading and the downsides of Hollowficiation until they can find a cure, essentially making The Bearer immortal without the danger of losing their mind overtime due to the curse. And because there is no cure to the curse and if we go with the assumption that the The Bearer will never take off the crown, then they won't be able to die at the eventual end of the world due to them being stuck as a Hollow. Basically granting them an indefinite amount of time to get stronger throughout the world cycles. 3. The Tarnished - [Only reason I'm placing them behind the Bearer of the Curse is that they are unable to take the souls of their fallen foes.] Immortal, no chances of losing their minds, technically immune to death as well because of the rune of death. If we go with the Ranni ending we have a powerful witch on our side and both the Tarnished and Rann will be under the servitude of an Outer God. 4. The Ashen One - Immortal but the end of the cycle is inevitable at this point. It doesn't matter if they become the Lord of Hollows, it will just extend their time a little bit. The First Flame will fade, the Age of Dark and Man will come to be and after that the world will end, bringing an end to everything so the cycle of the world can start anew. 5. The Chosen Undead - In the 1st ending they sacrifice themselves to The First Flame and in the 2nd they will embrace the dark and bringing the Age of Dark and Men but after that, the world will end, bringing an end to everything so the cycle of the world can start anew. (not the cycle or rekindling The First Flame) 6. The Slayer of Demons - If we go with the 2nd ending. 7. Sekiro - A dangerous and highly skilled assassin with the least impressive feats, even if said feats are probably the 2nd coolest out of all protags.

[@linked2dio26]

You know i can respect that justification. It hold more merrit than the arguments the Sekiro fan boys seething in the comment section. Even though personally, if say the bear of the curse is 3rd or 4th. Its more so the bosses the bearer beats are just outclassed by power and lore that the Ashen One, The Good Hunter, and the Tarnished end up besting.

[@someguyontheinternet2684]

The bosses the Tarnished fought were mostly in their prime or at their all time highest. I am choosing the Tarnished.

[@eliasfigarzon9813]

Indeed but you are still objectively wrong

[@valeriomastroeni8454]

none of the elden ring bosses are at their prime. plus, the hunter literally becomes a god at the end of the game, i’m going with that

[@someguyontheinternet2684]

@@valeriomastroeni8454 Uh, wtf are you on about? Godrick is at his all time highest, compared to the shrivelled man who couldn't even wield a sword Godrick is in his prime. Rykard has devoured countless champions and has become one with the Serpent, if Snake!Rykard fought his past self then Snake!Rykard wins. Malenia becomes a literal Goddess like Marika in her 2nd phase. Godfrey was sent to the Badlands to grow strong in the face of death. Although we don't know if Godfrey got stronger, there's nothing that states he grew weaker either. Mohg is blessed and backed by an Outer God, compared to his past self when he was just an Omen with rags in the Sewers he is at his all-time highest. Morgott literally removes all the limitations he had during his boss-fight and goes full-power to kill us. He is in his Prime. There's nothing that states Astel is weaker aswell. And the Tarnished also becomes a God when he becomes Elden Lord aswell, so the fuck are you on about? The only bosses in Elden Ring that are past their primes are the Fire Giant, Rennala, Radagon, Elden Beast, Placidusax, Radahn, and maybe Fortissax.

[@someguyontheinternet2684]

@@eliasfigarzon9813 How?

[@GodfreyFirstEldenLord]

@@someguyontheinternet2684half the bosses in this game were weakened and yes that includes malenia and Godfrey. Godfrey obviously is an old man when we fight him so it’s obvious he’s past his prime and malenia is half eaten by her own curse she could have been stronger in her goddess form if her own rott didn’t defeat her. I don’t disagree on you with the other once tho but it’s still a tie until I know how strong the elden beast ist compared to the gods of the bloodborne universe. I mean the hunter does become a god so I don’t really know how high that places him since idk much about the bloodborne universe yet. I just wanted to point out that both of you are right not all the Demi gods were weakened but a lot were including Godfrey who like I said is an old dude when we fight him. His skin resembles that of an grandpa as well and everything kinda went to hell the moment he left and even during the prime of the other Demi gods they never took his spot as an elden lord so I’d assume he places extremely high if not highest out of them all in his prime and since we know Marika and Godfrey had some secrete plan as the game files suggest maybe Marika was waiting for him to return to defeat a now weakened elden beast. Also Marika didn’t sent him willingly, he lost his grace so he had to go. Trust me I was there personally

[@boxman7044]

Lore accurate tarnished and hunter are pretty crazy, but linking the fire keeps an entire world alive with your might, not saying the ashen one or any of the dark souls protags are stronger than the hunter or the tarnished but they aren’t nearly as far apart as you’d think

[@JDisclmd]

Yes they are. Comparing dark souls to the hunter which slayed eldritch gods in a single night and becoming one himself.

[@boxman7044]

@@JDisclmd what??? I don’t know what this is trying to say sorry

[@guifire9747]

Idk about DS2 protag because he had fought lesser foes, but DS1 and DS3 definitely, both killed Gods or Bosses compared to Gods, so while Hunter and Tarnished are definitely top 2, the other 2 can defend themselves

[@boxman7044]

@@guifire9747 “lesser foes”….I have to disagree. Burnt Ivory king held off the Chaos and The Abyss(still not as impressive as sullyvahn who harnessed both) The Crown bearing kings had lord souls The Slumbering dragon is a descendant of the Archdragons(or is one I can’t remember, but definitely related) Fume knight (nuff said, I mean his sword said he had the power to beat a fragment of manus and he harnessed part of her soul) Smelter demon is stated to have the power to defeat one bearing a lord soul and destroy his castle in one swing of their sword. And Giant Lord is comparable to prime Vendrick who held the lord souls. I think this puts DS2 Protagonist below DS1 and DS3 but still in a similar power bracket (burnt ivory king was weakened but if he was in his prime I’d but the strength DS3 then DS2 then DS1 as he did something even gwyn failed to do)

[@guifire9747]

@@boxman7044 He can't be that far from them indeed, it's just that DS1 fought actual Lord Souls, Kaalaameet (who is above your average Dragon becauce even Anor Londo think twice before trying their Luck against it despite genociding the Dragon Race) and above all he beat Manus and Gyyn himself and DS3 protagonist even without counting the top tier he fough (like Aldrich, Midir, Gael... ) he beat Soul of Cinder which make him stronger than DS1's protagonist by default The Giant Lord is weird as he was really very weak, in story he was beaten by an unknown fighter (later revealed to be the protag going in the past), but protag beat the Giant Lord before fighting Zombie Vendrick which is far from his prime, they don't really seem equal based on that since Zombie Vendrick with no equipment nor sanity would break him in half Tbf Gwyn is either subborn or idiot (depend on the POV) he used his own soul to link the fire the longer he could instead of finding any solution leading to his child and knights (apart frmo Gwendolin and Smough) leaving Anor Londo to do their own thing, in that aspect even Aldia is more impressive than him because he found a way around it and seem to be truly immortal (even tho he have a monstruous body in the process) Tho that's an interesting discussion ngl, it's somewhat hard to separe gameplay to lore, biggest example being Priscilla who have Dragon ancestry and a weapon that make the gods shiver, but is actually really easy to beat (if one is cruel enough to actually attack her)

[@Souls0798]

Most people would follow the same path and point the tarnish one as the strongest one, based on the powerful enemies that he slains. But...the tarnished one slains demi gods...like semi gods. The hunter slains great ones...like real gods. Mergo, Orphan of Kos and Moon presence are gods (This last one is hugely powerful. Created a entire reality to us, the hunter dream). . In ER ending we became Elden Lord, like a demi god too. But in BB ending (One of the endings) we became a great one, a god that substitutes the moon presence. The distance of power between a great one and a demigod is huge. The great ones can exists in different dimensions, such as the physical reality and the dream/mental state dimension (Not necessarily simultaneously. So they can die on the physical reality and still existing in other dimensions). And they can bring and arrest anyone they want in those dreams (Scary stuff). You dont see nothing close to that in Elden Ring (Goldwyn is stuck on his own dream and, so far, there is no evidence of him controlling it or influencing things from that in such scale). Even the body parts and blood of the great ones makes people ascend and transform. You dont see Radahhn and Radagon blood making this kind of effect. If one day the outer gods reveal themselves to us and we manage to kill those i would put the tarnished one as the top one. Until that, no one is even close to the BB hunter...the hunter of real gods that became a god.

[@notori-di5et]

Tarnish solo

[@silenthero2795]

The hunter became a god sure but it was basically an infant that needs guidance first and that's why he needs the Doll to take care of it until it becomes a mature Great One. As for the Tarnished, the game ended at the peak of his power in all of the endings

[@DeadLog]

The tarnished also kills gods, 4 as of the dlc (radagon and Elden beast are both gods and separate beings) and he doesn’t become a Demi god he becomes and ACTUAL god

[@muhammadzariff7075]

Don’t even bother bro. Too many ER fanboys nowadays

[@G1Michigan]

Now then the people saying tarnished would win over hunter make some good points. But you see. Hunter. Has a gun

[@thugthetuber]

Hunter and tarnished is exchangeable between the two. One fought the most bosses. And has probably the largest set of skills. The other fought multiple gods and horror nightmares in a night and became a god. Im fine with those 2 being the top 2

[@notsteve8189]

It is so sad that wolf can't do anything against a person with full plate armor 😞

[@mldrdi7970]

He can push them through a ledge 🤷

[@subzerotheman]

thats just miyazaki trying to make a boss hard its like how tarnished cant defeat 2 dlc normal npcs but can defeat MALENIA. If we talk about lore both sekiro and tarnished wipes everyone in their series

[@RyanG0899]

Undead Chosen, Bearer, Ashen One, and Tarnished run through full plate warriors like they're nothing.

[@simon-peterwilliamson2412]

​@@RyanG0899dont forget the Hunter. That's literally the reason the hunters dont wear armor because them and beasts tear through it like nothing

[@linked2dio26]

​@mldrdi7970 he gonna be have to be REALLY damn picky where he faces any of the others. In a open feild he's cooked.

[@davidnewhart2533]

1:53 Factually incorrect, he actually can deflect Midir's laser. Almost every attack is actually deflectable aside from sweeps. Grabs and thrusts can be deflected by the umbrella prosthetic tool. In the case of Midir's laser, since it's dark magic, you would need to use the Phoenix's Lilac Umbrella, Divine Confetti, or Lazulite Flame to negate the chip damage.

[@creepergaming3445]

That’s what I was thinking too. Sekiro can parry lasers. Theres like no attack he can’t parry in the other games if you think about it.

[@anthraxinyourmailbox9550]

He also beat an imortal dragon and the demon of hatred, a country destroyer level demon and wolf can become the incarnation of shura who is a war god but the hunter can also become and great one so idk

[@TheRealJohnux]

Hunter killed atleast 3 9th Dimensional Beings, fought atleast 7, and seen horrors beyond human comprehension. I think that's between him and Sekiro, since that guy is just able to deflect everything with a pulse, that also killed atleast 3 or 4 immortal beings in a World that is theorethically Mortal by default.

[@deltorojuanp.8059]

Yep Hunter or sekiro for sure

[@Goddess-of-rot54]

No it’s between the tarnished and the hunter sekiro is fodder

[@ps4lm10]

Nah more like the tarnished and the hunter, wolf is a fodder lore wise. But i'll go with the hunter being the strongest definitely.

[@Paprika_Real4]

I think true ending hunter solos all of them but idk if that counts

[@dakotatrue12]

Sekiro isn’t winning. He is immortal and can kill immortals but Sekiro in general scales lower than the other games. His stats just aren’t as high so he probably gets speed blitzed and one shot by the Tarnished using destined death. I’m not sure how the Hunter would kill Wolf, but the Hunter definitely outstats him.

[@ethangriggs7504]

Nah the bb hunter is crazy, bro literally hits hard enough to punch through chest cavities with his bare hands.

[@matodragonespor5000]

The Hunter not only defeated several eldritch cosmic gods on their first night in the job, they also became one eldritch cosmic god themselves, something hundreds of people from the Healing Church and the Byrgenwerth college were unable to do

[@iamMildlyUpsetWithMostOfYouTub]

Which gods did he kill? As far as I’m aware the only one deserving of god title was Moon presence.

[@matodragonespor5000]

@@iamMildlyUpsetWithMostOfYouTub Ebrietas, Amygdala, Mergo's Wet Nurse, the Orphan of Kos and Moon Presence were all True Great Ones. Moon Presence was the most powerful among them (besides Oedon, obviously) but that doesn't negate the others of their godlike cosmic plane transcendence nature. That would be like saying Ares is not a god just because Poseidon is stronger. Edit: Forgot the Brain of Mensis

[@Hatem_69]

​@@matodragonespor5000still tarinshed clears

[@T.L.P50]

Its the hunter gameplay and lore wise tanking hits from a 9th dimensional being puts him above the rest of them even with elden ring assuming somehow elden beasts scales higher but its mostly assumptions ive seen. The hunter>>

[@trevorrisner-h4e]

The tarnished was able to fight placidusax outside of time itself, I feel that massive speed advantage would be the tipping point

[@splishsplash3492]

​@user-uk6tt6gy6he got teleported to a place outside of time using an item, he cant actually time travel. Hunter on the other hand, defeated an old god(which could be just as powerful as an outer god). Then absorbed its power to BECOME the old one himself so he became the god of his own universe, ripping apart the fabric of time itself. All while the tarnished used the win over elden beast just so he can sit on a throne (very lame) Frenzy flame ending makes tarnished more powerful because he just burns down the whole world

[@eliasfigarzon9813]

Indeed the hunter is the strongest lore wise but here are too many casuals since elden ring is their first souls game. The only being in elden ring that we could consider really powerful lore wise, elden beast, it's nothing but a simple random enemy in the world of bloodborne tho is just the facts. At best it could be a really small god but it gets obliterated by the ridiculous scale of power in the world of bloodborne, the great ones, beast and many others beings are just way too broken for all the other souls games.

[@shini1908]

@@eliasfigarzon9813 even if the hunter has super natural abilities(which he/she does) he still uses mortal weapons, anything that can be killed with a regular hammer is not that powerful, while in elden ring lorewise you need to get the very concept of death or a dragon scale from beyond time to kill a god. also, the elden ring and by extension the greater will dictates the rules of the world, if its written in the elden ring that the sky is green, then its green. The Brain of Mensis(a true great one btw) was used as a big guard dog for the School of Mensis and Radahn at his prime literally stopped the stars from moving and i don't recall any great one falling from the sky like a meteorite. im not saying the Great Ones are not powerful but they seems to have effects on certain areas(yharnam) rather then the entire world. i will admit as far as power levels go, great ones can create pocket dimensions, something i don't think anyone in elden ring has done so far.

[@eliasfigarzon9813]

@@shini1908 oh and once again shut your fucking mouth if you don't know what you are talking about. I'm tired of writing the same thing for every asshole new souls fan here just because you can't investigate by your own and are being led by the guy who made this video who is another elden fucking ring newcomer

[@namirakira7138]

Wolf can use the umbrella to block Midir’s breath. Plus Midir a bitch for the gods. Not even mighty Anor Londo would provoke Kalameet’s ire. ~This comment was made by the Kalameet fan club

[@eminkilicaslan8945]

Kalameet isn't the strongest dragon even only in his game.

[@namirakira7138]

@@eminkilicaslan8945 who would even be stronger. Seath ain’t even got legs.

[@Dragon_lord_placidusax]

@thunderdrae7749both get backed by me

[@nicolasleal5644]

Yall forgetting Sinh who can still fly and aint a wonky ass tentacle monster. ~This comment was made by the Sinh fan club

[@real_macr0113]

Umbrella shield is the real strongest protagonist.

[@paulrohde4455]

Bearer of the Curse takes the top spot for me. After reciving the blessing of the king he is immune to hollowing, basically breaking the circle that ds1-3 are going through permanently, which is a feat no one else came close to

[@diveblock2058]

....that's not a power feat that's an achievement....the mc of ds 1-3 also never tried to become immune to hollowing Like is being immune to hollowing granting him the power of a god? No? Then why count it

[@B0x_T00l]

The Soul of Cinder is literally a combination of everybody that linked the first flame. The Ashen One literally beat a dude that's a combination of the Bearer of the Curse and other extremely powerful characters lmfao

[@Draconic404]

@@B0x_T00l that doesn't count as the flame burn the power of those who become cinders: that's why gwyn in ds1 is so weak, his god soul was used a fuel for the first flame. the ds3 protagonist beat up a bunch grandpas way past their prime, not skillful warriors

[@groovyhoovy2606]

@@Draconic404even if you 1/4 the power of each boss and put them into a cup the combination of every ds1-2 boss’s souls put into 1 being is way stronger than the first or second games protagonist

[@Draconic404]

@@groovyhoovy2606 the thing is that it isn't a fourth, even gwyn in the second phase is bafely there, and he was a god a first. Just in the couple hundread years between gwyn burning himself and ds1 he goes from god to underwhelming boss. What about in ds3 , so far in the future that everything turns to ash? killing Gael weilding 99% of the dark soul is a lot more impressive of an achievement. Manus also has a crazy big part of the dark soul but in my opinion gael had more since you were the only other there with him

[@AlexCoolCoder]

To be fair wolf blocks bullets let’s see what happens if radhan pulls out a minigun on Elden ring protagonist

[@alterate2613]

Before I watch the video, here is my guess. DS1: No, because DS3 canonically beats them. DS2: No, the bosses simply aren't as strong lorewise as those from other games, so not enough feats to prove it. DS3: A good choice, since they canonically defeat the protagonist of DS1. Elden Ring: My personal guess, since they have access to a lot more tools than in previous games, such as a broader variety of strong magic spells, mounts, and weapons. Bloodborne: Could also be the strongest based off of the bosses they fight lorewise, but I haven't personally played the game.

[@annihilator_production]

Wait, soul of cinder is also the first protagonist of the souls?

[@alterate2613]

@@annihilator_production To be specific, it is an entity existing as the combination of EVERYBODY who has linked to the flame. Both the protagonist of Dark Souls 1, Gwyn, anybody who has linked with the first flame.

[@annihilator_production]

@@alterate2613 damn, now that's a final boss

[@Don-ds3dy]

Sekiro can block or parry literally anything...lightning, bullets, purple curse magic, etc. plus he can swim 🫨

[@Kdckinghx]

The hunter can fight 4d being and the tarnished can fight people who hold back stars

[@DccAnh]

​@@KdckinghxSekiro can parry the star

[@linked2dio26]

But he can't beat a man in full plate armor without resorting to using gravity. An Radahn deadass would body wolf in a fight. He's built like a steelmill and skate boards a horse while holding back the stars. An he does it while in a vegetative state. Sorry, Wolf is cooked

[@hunternot]

Soulsfan got reading comprehension problems

[@asherroodcreel640]

Wolf could be anyone excuding the post game bearer if he got the drop on them, something he can definitely do

[@kregman6928]

this is objectively the best ranking video for character strength and it just happens to be the objectively correct ranking for quality of souls games too.

[@Souplord1]

Wolf is not a fraud! Bro was blocking attacks from demon of hatred with nothing but his physical strength and a regular ass sword. Wolf catches bolts of lightning with ease! Also none of the protagonists can die however when wolf dies someone gets inflected with rot.

[@silenthero2795]

While Sekiro is immortal, the Tarnished literally has Destined Death taken from Maliketh that is capable of killing Eldritch gods like Elden Beast. Destined Death breaks through guard so if Sekiro parries all the attacks, DD will slowly eat through his life bar.

[@joshbrown6951]

​@silenthero2795 would that really matter lore wise wolf straight up can't die and has the mortal blade that's the only weapon that can kill somone imortal and if we go with the Shura ending when he has 2 of them all souls characters are cooked

[@diegopimentel5137]

@@joshbrown6951eehm destined death is death itself so if sekiro dies with destined death he can’t be revived. And even if he could what would he do against tarnished with bullgoat armor😂

[@groovyhoovy2606]

@@joshbrown6951basically the tarnished and wolf can both kill immortals and so can the hunter actually do only the DS protagonist couldn’t finish the others off for good

[@wallnut886]

The hunter for me. Not only can he fight gods and tank hits from them, but he can become one. Granted, I'd say the tarnished is a very close second

[@guifire9747]

The Tarnished also become a god doesn't he?

[@johnnyd.1004]

I should have known that stand power was the only true counter to premium drip!

[@flintlock37]

Thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works

[@johnnyd.1004]

@@flintlock37 Then why does the guy with the best drip beat everyone except the guy with a stand? Can powerscaling explain that? I think not!

[@flintlock37]

@johnnyd.1004 sorry, just realized I replied to the wrong comment lol, you're right

[@johnnyd.1004]

@@flintlock37 No problem! Gave me a laugh.

[@eliasfigarzon9813]

​@@johnnyd.1004dude this list is so wrong. Objectively speaking the hunter destroys all the other souls protagonist combined, just by telling you that he uses a weapon which creates a bunch of stars exploiting as an attack while radanh one of the strongest characters in the elden ring lore wise needs to use all his powers to hold the stars in the sky.... Nuff said. This guy is just an elden ring casual or fanboy. And I'm not going to compare the rest of the power scale because it would be too embarrassing to do lmao

[@ASYLUMM]

Tarnished wasn’t touched once in the maliketh fight because he would have died forever if touched

[@arthillidan1905]

the sentance the hunter is on som opium shit" will never leave my brain

[@frozi1541]

Any protagonist> Patches. Enough said. Literally the strongest of them all. Survived to the end of the world mainly by pure wit, also strong enough to lift the curse Greatshield which is supposed to not be held.

[@LordFinkenstein]

So powerful that he was able to cross dimensions and turn lnto an eldritch Spiderman.

[@frozi1541]

@WarpedPerceptions there is a theory that it's the same Patches in each game. Patches is a messenger of an immensely powerful god who seeks lowly mortals who can traverse temptations. He shows himself ugly but like in the Ringed City and in Elden Ring he is pretty much wise and loyal.

[@Aevum13th]

Just going to mention it, but you are using > wrong, as you are stating that every protagonist is stronger than Patches, unless you meant that.

[@frozi1541]

@connorsmith4319 oh you are right, perhaps I had a miss input.

[@webdriver_torso118]

Canonically patches pilots an armored core and is cybernetically enhanced

[@alaes3570]

The biggest problem for wolf is dealing with the armor of dark souls protags. Wolf couldn't even pierce the armor of the knight on the bridge. However, if the mortal blade can and wolf has it, they're all cooked.

[@linked2dio26]

Thats a big Ol "IF"

[@unforgiven3035]

Depends on the context. Are they going against each other? Or are we talking about how they would fare in other worlds. Also lore wise and gameplay wise would be two different cases as well. Sekiro can basically fk everyone gameplay wise against any mob but probably would have trouble dealing with the other protags since they have the party mechanic themselves. Lore wise Sekiro is only a unkillable ninja where as the tarnished and hunter can kill gods and wield godly weapons.

[@shakon1618]

Gonna say it. Kratos killed a whole pantheon but the Hunter killed a whole patheon in one night. Hunter has defeated more gods than Saitama. And Hunter can do all that with a freaking cane sword

[@ryangoslingdrive]

Bro the Events of both gow 2 and gow 3 happen in like two days 😂 hell kratos started with poseidon in the morning and ended with zeus the same evening he was speedrunning that shit

[@groovyhoovy2606]

@@ryangoslingdriveand bloodbornes 1 day/night so the games are both like that

[@ryangoslingdrive]

@@groovyhoovy2606 also not to forget a whole Pantheon is a ridiculous Statement since the only actual gods/great ones the hunter canonically felled were the wet nurse, orphan and moon presence

[@ryangoslingdrive]

@@groovyhoovy2606 yeah I know that's what ive already said, still a whole Pantheon for just 3 old ones where 2 are basically optional is not really comparable with gow 3 kratos and I wanted to clear that since op wanted to dickride the hunter so fuckin much that he tried to undeshadow kratos's feats (also just bringing him up in the convo being weird af)

[@iv1nce207]

Well the “night” was ever lasting

[@thomasraymond7912]

In the dark souls universe souls are technically an infinite resource and if not for gameplay reasons you could level up infinitely. Bearing that in mind Bearer of the Curse is strongest because he is the only one who has a stat that increases i-frames. Lorewise Bro can farm souls for a century or two and get adaptability so high he rolls once and is immune to damage for a month.

[@RIS_988]

Ashe one is strong asf

[@bourne.]

1:54 he can use the flame umbrella for that and wolf also is able to deflect the divine dragons sword which is massive so he can definitely deflect most stuff thrown at him

[@suleymankaan2826]

dude wolf can control the lightning with his sword and he can swim. but other soulsborne character cant swim wolf is better

[@alphaqhard121]

Try swimming with 100kg armour lmao. Also check Sekiro's regular sword hit damages on bosses vs any normal soulsborne protrag damage on bosses. Sekiro also needs to deflect A LOT to be able to reposte. While all the soulsborne protragonists can deflect/parry 4-5 times for a riposte. Really shows how weak sekiro is compared to them.

[@alphaqhard121]

Not to mention, the one time Sekiro fought a dude in proper knight armor, he couldnt kill him, so he had to throw him off a bridge. Soulsborne characters eat knight armoured dudes for breakfast.

[@randomtraveler2440]

@@alphaqhard121 what about the hoonter as far as i know he wears leather outside of his weapons he dies as soon as you touch water

[@senatorstevenarmstrong9821]

@@randomtraveler2440well leather’s pretty heavy when you’re swimming.

[@bigred212]

​@@alphaqhard121that's much of an excuse as to why they can't swim mf can beat a god but not chest high water?

[@Bobert220]

Arkade: *speaks very quietly* Me: *turns up volume while everyone else is asleep* Arkade: *BEEEEEEP*

[@nirokal]

Slayer of Demon's is underrated, after you chose the good ending you have power that's never been heard of before. Technically he is the strongest protagonist. Most other protagonists get burnt to a crisp or maintain their same level of strength aside from Bloodborne's true ending which you become weak af.

[@ThePalebloodHunter]

Ok clearly you have no idea, the gods of Demon's Souls are fucking weak, there is even one that is not even able to defend himself, the protagonists of Dark Souls are stronger but the gods they have faced were in complete decline, The Hunter weak ? by being reborn as a Great One, you don't know the power they have, clearly you don't know anything about Lovecraft, when he grows up he will become really powerful.

[@nirokal]

@@ThePalebloodHunter You do realize the old one from Demon's souls is the most powerful being in soulsborne lore right? He eclipsed an entire landscape with fog and spawned demons. The only Demon/God comparable in Dark Souls is the bed of chaos and that boss is a push over. I don't know much about Lovrcraftian lore, but I'm not a big fan because it's just not that appealing to me due to racial connotations and ambiguous lore.

[@ThePalebloodHunter]

​@@nirokal That old guy isn't really powerful, that's not really an impressive feat, even the final boss is weak as shit, he can't even defend himself, the bosses were in complete decline, if you don't know anything about Lovecraft then don't even think about the Hunter.

[@nirokal]

@@ThePalebloodHunter Yeah the final boss is weak because of the story. The old guy? It sounds like you barely read what I wrote. As for Lovecraft I know enough to not want to know more.

[@splitdiceyt9236]

​@@nirokal based

[@CookieIDK]

In canon. Maliketh uses destined death. Which can kill anything (Even GODS) in a singular hit. MEANING… In lore. We didn’t get hit a SINGLE TIME. He’s feared by GODS!!! And we quite literally NO diff’d him 💀💀💀

[@asherroodcreel640]

Lore wise wouldn't the bearer of the curse be the strongest, as an immortal unhollowable god who walked the world growing stronger for untold thosends of years?

[@maxgordon3194]

he was a ordinary human ,not a God.

[@asherroodcreel640]

@@maxgordon3194 yeah but look what happened to geal, I don't think he'd get that powerful bit still

[@maxgordon3194]

@@asherroodcreel640 ds2 is my favorite game but man he was human. thats the best part.they all tred to be god or play God and failed. he stuck to being human and succeeded. even gwyn was a wimpy idiot trying to be god and failed.

[@aganbraganca4156]

wolf is also immortal but he dosent have big feats same with vearer if the curse

[@TheDamnCook]

I would say hunter is the strongest, as you said he fights and kills beings, that normal people can’t even comprehend nor see them

[@eminkilicaslan8945]

Ash literally beat the Wolf Legion.

[@Carter-bs2tp]

The Tarnished is busted in lore, Plasidusaxs’s scales are able to pierce time and space allowing him to make his arena a rewind in time

[@sueflewelling3657]

Ark question can you make a strongest bods lore wise in each game ps what do you think of boss vs boss videos

[@Arkade_k17]

Thats a good idea

[@sueflewelling3657]

​@@Arkade_k17what about boss vs boss video

[@lores6297]

I'm not here to argue your list. I don't have to agree however with that being said bro this had me just laughing at times. We love some of this commentary. Thank you for making it.

[@AbisaiBonOv]

Lol, this title is soooo clickbait. You aren’t even talking about LORE.

[@ericlin7775]

Wolf dies from fighting a headless sword wielding corpse and the hunter eats cosmic horror for breatfast

[@trevorrisner-h4e]

Elden ring protagonist negs all of them easily just off speed alone we fought placidusax outside of time itself, meaning the arena we fought the dragon in was supposed to be frozen in time but we the tarnished are fast we transcended time itself through sheer speed.

[@M.A.R.S.]

... no

[@zerozone5848]

@@M.A.R.S. yes

[@Solver606]

No, the arena is frozen in time but everything inside isn't.

[@DefonotMax]

Time is frozen in everywhere Except the arena. Your character isnt moving in a place where time doesnt exist

[@Solver606]

@@DefonotMax exactly

[@dancingqueen5428]

For those still confused on whether the Tarnished is strongest because bloodborne’s various cosmic entities- Spoilers for ELDEN RING DLC- Malenia alone was able to crop dust and permanently alter a continent’s environment. She’s also got so much more potential, as she’s constantly fighting the scarlet rot outer god for control of herself. And Malenia is only an demigod, but she’s hitting continental crop dusting, but then we have the likes of Marika/Radagon, who is a god, and the Elden beast, who is the vessel of the outer god. But who do I scale above all of them? Metyr, who was the will of the greater will and was often spoken into/ through? To do their bidding. But, enough about the background, it’s all about the strength. Metyr easily creates a microcosm, which is a small universe. She has her own pocket dimension, and she even returns to said pocket dimension upon being defeated. So that takes the feats of the cosmic entities in bloodborne and tells them to sit down effectively.

[@Hatem_69]

True

[@midwintersnight]

The Hunter will always be the strongest protagonist in my eyes. Not only did he beat the very first hunter, not only did he turn around and merc the eldritch god who HIRED HIM to hunt ANOTHER god, not only did he slay MULTIPLE gods and walk off with their blood AND their collective wisdom of the cosmos... ...he then continued to BECOME a god in the true ending of the game. He's the strongest.

[@No1gamer]

The "true" ending is debatable. The devs themselves never said that is the true ending and everyone just wants to assume. Even on the web, it's between the sunrise of Yharnam or the childhood beginnings of which players assume are the true endings. It's never been called by the devs, the true ending. It makes sense in a soulsborne game to not have a happy ending and the childhood beginnings is the best case scenario so likely not the true ending. Also the hunter had the intention to escape the dream not become a God nor could they even know they could do it. You have to go out of your way for the umbilical cords besides like one you get after murgos wet nurse fight. Mind you it's not that I don't agree with your logic and that the hunter is the strongest protagonist, I just don't believe that is the true ending in bloodborne bc there is no definitive proof. It's all up to debate and interpretation.

[@Aryan_H1]

God my ass. Those gods were fleshy earthly creatures that ascended to some space dimension. In love craftian horror outergods are above great old ones like cluthlu. He's a bug.

[@JDisclmd]

@@Aryan_H1ye you’re wrong. Cry about it

[@AltoAterna]

With the dlc out, the tarnished has also killed a god now as well

[@AutismGaming489]

Imma have to say the tarnished is the strongest because they’re motivated by simping but John Bloodborne is a Playboi Carti fan that pull out the nine to parry. Both can destroy inter dimensional aliens and avatars of god. I would say they are a close tie in my opinion.

[@eliasfigarzon9813]

You are completely wrong here. The hunter can destroy those beings but the tarnished can't or at least not on the same level as the hunter. The hunter uses a weapon capable of creating stars that are exploding, while radanh one of the strongest characters in lore ( gameplay wise he's so easy) holds the stars in the sky.... I think this says it all. The elden ring gods and enemies would be just normal citizens in the world of bloodborne and even the only cosmic being, elden beast is really low in terms of power compared to bloodborne.

[@someguyontheinternet2684]

​@@eliasfigarzon9813 Elden Ring also has that weapon... it's called Wing of Astel and Bastard's Stars. They can use an ability called Nebula which is literally stated: "Imbue the *Naturalborn's stars* with magic to send forth a *dark cloud of stars that lingers briefly before exploding.*" -Nebula Ash of War description. Fuck outta here with that BS.

[@ThePalebloodHunter]

​@@someguyontheinternet2684 WOW, it seems like he touched a nerve.

[@someguyontheinternet2684]

@@ThePalebloodHunter He really didn't. He spewed misinformation, I corrected it. And Radahn beats 95% of Bloodbornes bosses. Ludwig, Maria, Gehrman, and Gascoigne would get torn to shreds by most Demi-Gods we fight.

[@ThePalebloodHunter]

​@@someguyontheinternet2684 "Fuck outta here with that BS" Yeah Sure

[@RelaxingNostalgia]

Bearer of The Curse lorewise,he defeated aldia who is Omniscient,Omnipotent,and Omnipresent. Aldia linked himself to the First Flame,reversing the curse completely,hes also immortal and no one can kill him,at the end of the game he continues speaking normally after being "killed" and dosent drop any souls. hes present anywhere where there is a bonfire therefore in a way omnipresent. his source of powers are the First Flame itself,and the Flame has unlimited powers. Hes has the most knowledge than any other character in fromsoftware games,knowledge enough to completely reverse the curse for himself.

[@RelaxingNostalgia]

Aldia cant die under any circumstance due to being linked to the First Flame,because the First Flame is the Source of Life And Death,but not affected by it. and thats why the Flame can fade,but will return eventually in a infinite cycle.

[@LOLMGS]

Personally I would place the Slayer of demons a place higher because depending on the ending he iether becomes the strongest demon or the strongest monumental to live ( he litterly is holding the earth and lore wise is the reason why Dark souls exists (bad ending) and Bloodborne (good ending)).

[@sno0ze9987]

Except it's been stated multiple times already that the different titles aren't connected. It's just a fan theory made a while back

[@LOLMGS]

Sadly yes but in my head it's canon

[@sno0ze9987]

@LOLMGS that's pretty valid, at the end of the day it's a nice theory. The head canon I first thought was the world of bloodborne was made after you made the new painting in dark souls 3

[@babadookdi4921]

With all of my respect towards Wolf, but he can’t even kill someone who has a fully metal armor, which is something that every other soulsborne character has.

[@robotanden4320]

Les go!!! Another vid.

[@Unit-3D]

Going off of genre conventions, the Good Hunter is unquestionably one of if not the strongest Souls protagonist, because 1: they outright defy Cosmic Horror tropes by fighting and *winning* against things which Ito and Lovecraft would claim cannot be meaningfully delayed, let alone outright killed. 2: they actually affect meaningful change by breaking *multiple* curse cycles, *without* ushering in an apocalypse. This is so far ahead of anything the Dark Souls PCs ever managed to accomplish that those losers don't even bear mentioning next to the Good Hunter, and it wouldn't be until Sekiro that another Fromsoft PC could match that level of personal significance and agency in the larger setting.

[@logeyperogi1805]

Okay, I’m pretty biased towards Elden Ring, and I am not a big fan of Bloodborne, but I’m gonna try to be as objective as possible I’ve also only played three Souls games so far, so I’ll just rank four characters In first place, as most powerful, is a tough one, I narrowed it down to either the Chosen Undead from DS1 or the Ashen One from DS3, this is because of the First Flame. I’ve never really seen nor heard the First Flame explained outside of the game, until Death Battle did Chosen Undead Vs Last Dragonborn (go watch it, the fight is fucking awesome) and in that video, they explained that the First Flame’s ignition was likely something akin to a Big Bang, and that it was responsible for all concepts in the universe, which adds up, since in the opening cutscene, it was said that the First Flame was responsible for concepts like life and death, light and dark, you get the picture. But the reason this is a tough choice is because the Chosen Undead’s soul alone was able to withstand the First Flame’s power for around 1’000 years, but they could go Hollow. On the other hand, while the Ashen One’s soul could withstand the First Flame’s power for a while, it wasn’t as long as the Chosen Undead, BUT the Ashen One CAN’T go Hollow. Ultimately I give first place to the Chosen Undead and second place to the Ashen One Moving on to third place, time for a hot take. Throughout Bloodborne, it’s no secret that we see the Great Ones are powerful, that’s not in question, but we never see anything too large scale, outside of Oedon becoming one with the universe itself, and while that feat SOUNDS like an unquestionable feat of power, we still have no clue what he can or cannot do, since we never see him doing ANYTHING after becoming one with everything, he doesn’t even influence events, and that doesn’t matter anyway, since the Hunter never fights him anyway. The strongest being the Hunter fights is the Moon Presence, right before they ascend to the level of THOUGHT of a Great One. I’m also gonna get this one out of the way; not once is it so much as IMPLIED that the Great Ones are Outer Gods, they are their own thing, and while they do display power, it’s nothing all that impressive ON THE OTHER HAND The Tarnished of no Renown has defeated the Demigods, Demigods whose power is not questionable, as they frequently show themselves at their best throughout the lore, and while the Great Ones’ power can be questionable at times, due to the primary focus being on their influence and dreams, the Demigods and Elden Beast are focused more towards power and stars And given the fact that the Tarnished destroys a star, MULTIPLE STARS IN FACT (you can kill Overworld Astels and the two separate Astel bosses), that level of power cannot be ignored, nor can Radahn’s feat of holding all the stars in place, nor can Malenia’s own ascension to Godhood in her boss fight, nor can Maliketh wielding what is essentially weaponized DEATH itself, nor can the Elden Beast, STILL BEING MORE POWERFUL THAN ALL OF THEM, I CAN KEEP GOING Not to mention the Tarnished having access to Great Runes that, while only a fraction of godlike power, can still resist the effects of Outer Gods’ powers, and a weapon that bends time to slay gods So few feats of actual raw POWER in Bloodborne, while Elden Ring overflows with them I give third place to the Tarnished of No Renown, and fourth will go to the Hunter

[@Rl55322]

And your main problem here is looking to death battle for lore accurate feats. That channel is only good for cool looking fight animations they do, cuz man they know NOTHING about lore and they mess it up a lot. Literally in the opening cutscene it is made explicitly clear that the first flame is not the origin of everything. Dragons predated it along with an entire world they inhabited. The reason those concepts came into the world is not because they didn’t “exist” but because there was no mortal creatures, nor any variance in temperature across the already created world, etc. The flame produced heat, automatically making it hot and everything else cold. It like the sun sustains mortal life, thus helping to bring life and death into this world. This does not make it akin to the Big Bang, it gives it the functional role of the sun, but not even equivalent size or force of the sun (otherwise the world would’ve instantly died upon the flame’s appearance). On the other hand you have the ashen one, who in the main game alone pulls off a greater feat than any of the chosen’s: killing the soul of cinder. That includes any and all who held the flame before the ashen one including the chosen undead. Also, 1) the ashen one can indeed go hollow and 2) we never get to see how long the ashen one holds the flame for as there isn’t any follow up game. What there is however is the dlc, which is important to note. At the end of the world, Gael has assembled the dark soul of man, one of the original 4 lord souls derived from the pigmy’s. He got it by eating basically all of the pigmy’s. We can infer one of two things from his boss fight cutscene: 1) all living humans (and maybe everything else too since no other life remains?) contain a portion of the dark soul as he wants you to “hand it over”, and in order to assemble it Gael had to wipe out all humanity himself or 2) Gael is insane and thinks you’re a pigmy. Since Gael still recognizes you the former is probably true, but regardless this lord soul is used to create a painted world that will never rot and fade. In other words it’s a dimension creation feat, though it isn’t performed by the ashen one so hard to say how close he scales. Regardless, no one else other than the hunter from blood borne is anywhere close to this feat so these two should be close to the strongest lore wise. Tho elden beast lore is actually insane, cuz when you dig into elden ring lore you realize the erdtree was not originally part of the world and was sent by an outer god to basically completely hijack everything (hence the elden beast to keep watch over it and protect it). Its not exactly clear how powerful the elden beast is nor the one who sent it, but it is supposed to be stronger than radhan or malenia, one of whom was so strong he held back the entire cosmos which is getting into realistically galaxy level feats and malenia who achieved a pseudo godhood, so it’s safe to say the tarnished is around comparable strength if not greater since the dimensions created in blood borne and painted worlds are not guaranteed to be at a scale greater than a planet

[@logeyperogi1805]

@@Rl55322I see, I’ll admit Death Battle has a history of messing up lore, so yeah, not too reliable a source, it did sound convincing though, especially since the Big Bang was once just something as small as an atom, but it instantly expanded into something as large as a universe, that’s not to say nothing came before it, so there came the reason for the whole “mythological big bang” idea Still, you are right that Death Battle is a questionable source at best I will stand by the Hunter being below the Tarnished, Ashen One and Chosen Undead, but swapping the Chosen Undead and Ashen One feels reasonable

[@ThePalebloodHunter]

​@@logeyperogi1805 No, CU can't be the most powerful, like what concepts of life and death? That is never said, and also everything that the Chosen Undead has faced was in complete decay, and all of his power is linked to the Flame, if the Flame ever goes out, goodbye for him, he deserves fourth place, he is in third place, why? because if we go to the end of absorbing the Flame, what Ashen One has is nothing more than a fraction of its power, so this makes him minimally powerful but still the most powerful protagonist of the Dark Souls trilogy. Ashen One is more powerful than him, for the simple fact of having defeated the Soul of Ashes which was the union of the ancient lords who linked the Flame, and therefore SoC has the power of all of them, including that of the Bearer of the Curse and The Chosen Undead, and Ashen One defeats him. The Hunter is in second place, as the KZbin guy said, Hunter literally faces things that normal people cannot understand or even see, the Great Ones, beings capable of creating planes of existence or manipulating reality, creating curses , they can drive anyone to madness just by showing their true form, what's more you can't say that they are not powerful when they can destroy anyone with a look, like Moon Presence does, or Amygdala, as for Oedon, he may have transcended at a higher level of divinity, that is why he has no form, however I do not think he is limited, since he was able to impregnate Yarhnam and conceive a son, if he does not intervene in human things it is because he does not want to, you know, In Lovecraft, for these deities, humans are insignificant and irrelevant that they do not care at all. The Hunter by absorbing so much lucidity and acquiring so much knowledge, his level of insight is such that he was able to ascend to a higher plane of thought and transcend the human mind completely and finally become a Great One and since Great Ones can also ascend to a higher level of divinity like Oedon did, Hunter has quite a bit of potential. The Tarnished is the most powerful of all the protagonists without a doubt, man, he defeated all the most powerful Demigods like Radahn who was able to hold the stars thanks to his gravitational power, Malenia who has the power of an Outer God, the Scarlet Rot, and was able to wipe out an entire continent, Mogh who has the power of the Formless Mother, Morgott, Godfrey, defeated Maliketh who carried the Rune of Destined Death, in addition to defeating the ancient bearers of the Rune, Tarnished defeated gods like Radagon, he also defeated Placidusax who transcends space and time, and Tarnished also escaped time to reach him and defeated Elden Beast, which in the description of his rune literally explains that it was the physical embodiment and the concept of Order. And if that were not enough, Tarnished has the power of the Frenzied Flame, which is also an Outer God and who will cause the destruction of the world. The Tarnished and The Hunter would be the most powerful, because come on, they're the only ones who faced truly powerful enemies in their prime and they're also the only ones who truly transcend their humanity and become gods in essence.

[@jallerxzl1966]

@@Rl55322 The Age of Ancients was explicitly the state of the world in which everything was formless. It's not reality as it actually predated everything that came with the First Flame, which includes light and dark. In Dark Souls these aren't just of elemental nature but rather are more metaphysical, as with light time came to exist, and we know that it can also manipulate and warp fundamental laws of reality. On the other hand, dark is practically nonexistence and unreality, even stated constantly through the franchise that the power of dark would leave the world in nothingness and erase everything of the Age of Fire There are also the parallel worlds that came with the First Flame, which were converging at the moment the fire started to dissipate. So again there are several proofs that shows the First Flame indeed created everything in Dark Souls. The dragons are transcendent to the world and physical existence, which relates to their nature predating the dualities of fire, being the Age of Ancients more akin to the concept of sunyata in buddhism, of wuji in taoism

[@GodfreyFirstEldenLord]

@@Rl55322I agree but you’re missing the part where the hunter (bloodborne) defetead the same gods who had dimension lvl feats far before he transformed into a god himself meaning this was not his prime by potentially a long shot. We don’t know for sure how strong the elden beast is compared to the great ones so I’m just placing them in a tie at 1 spot since I don’t know the other ones. I do know that we don’t know how strong the outer gods or great ones are and since the hunter defeated many great ones without even needing something like destined death it’s an pretty insane feat. If the great ones are as strong as the outer gods or stronger then the hunter negs every one of the characters including all the bosses probably since the hunter after transforming is potentially a lot stronger then before given that the doll holds him in high regards afterwards. Like I said we don’t know for sure

[@bluewolf5521]

The Hunter is in a good spot, from a single day in Yharnam the Hunter literally slayed royalty, hunters, beasts, outer gods, and outer gods in their own home turf all while wearing an outfit so iconic it is easily in my top 3 video game outfits.

[@Thumb_]

Wolf after the Shura ending

[@Goddess-of-rot54]

Still loses

[@Thumb_]

@@Goddess-of-rot54 He literally is in possession of the only weapons able to kill him.

[@Goddess-of-rot54]

@@Thumb_ literally doesn’t prove anything

[@davidnewhart2533]

@@Goddess-of-rot54 He doesn't. Shura is a demigod of war in Buddhism. Sekiro Shura solos Elden Ring.

[@Goddess-of-rot54]

@@davidnewhart2533 yes he is being a Demi god doesn’t mean anything unless he has the feats to back it up he’s still a mid game tarnished victim.

[@johngona5929]

4. Wolf. As a mortal, he fights against fellow mortals, survived against divine beings, and broke fate to save his master. Maidenless. 3. Ashen One. The remnants of humanity, yet able to kill and destroy the ones who control the world. The ultimate destroyer. Bunch of maids, yet still maidenless. 2. Tarnished. Untouched by grace, yet able to best the gods of the Lands Between and beyond it. Felled kings, lords, gods, and bearers of The Great Will. Fell short of killing The Great Will. One ending has a maiden, the other has a maiden hubting you down, and the other one has you as the maiden. 1. Hunter. Born as a human, forced to become a hunter after a blood transfusion gone wrong. Fought everything, from mortals, to gods, to eldritch beings, and successfully ascended to godhood after killing the one behind it all. Has a foster mom.

[@manuelmatos4322]

Well... You know DS2 have the strongest bosses in his DLC, like Raime, Sir Alonne, Sinh, Elana, Ivory King and his pets. And yes Vendrick in the past was absolutly STRONG, as any other human character.

[@can-kq8qf]

Nah telling sekiro is a fraud is nah bro. In the shura ending he became a immortal demon which is destroyed whole land (and prob destroyed world). He has 2 mortal blades that can kill everything and more weapon. You need a mortal blade or stupid hax like that to kill him. His reaction speed is insane and he can manipulate fire too. İn my oppion he is in the 4-3th place.

[@Psych0_Alex1z]

Radahn wasn’t holding back meteors but LITERAL stars

[@anaeduardaandrade4754]

It’s fun how in er u beat a transgender woman as your final boss but the first boss is Rick soldier of god

[@retrox2776]

Im just happy to see people putting the Hunter in the top 2. Love myself some bloodborne

[@RipVanWinkleJr]

I reckon both the ashen one and the hunter are more powwrful than the tarnished.

[@waltuh11121]

Come on, all these guys are absolute Chads. Bearer of the curse casually saying "nah, I don't want neither light nor dark, I'm defying the rules"

[@Виктор-ч7х1щ]

real talk doe sekiro vins by default cause he can kill immortal dudes while being like triple immortal himself

[@Rei_geDo]

The other ones just have to kill him three times without dying 😎

[@Виктор-ч7х1щ]

@@Rei_geDo nah he has protagonist immortality too tho. after first couple of times you die you wake up at sculptor's which means enma brings you back and you slowly ressurect

[@Rl55322]

@@Виктор-ч7х1щokay but by that logic all of them are equally strong cuz they all get back up from the dead whenever they get killed

[@Solver606]

They would be able to steal the red blade

[@Виктор-ч7х1щ]

@@Solver606 naaah dude can jump on trees and buildings no way they are gonna catch him/steal from him also he is the only one who can swim lmao

[@raider3254]

My personal theory for the dark souls trilogy is that the player characters are all the same person just years and years apart, it is established in the lore that you can lose power and become weaker over time just as you can become stronger and the dark sign would keep them alive until the curse was lifted permanently.

[@adambond8542]

You're reasoning is so unhinged I kinda like the list.

[@xyzdrakiel7000]

Wolf has unlimited stamina, can break a target’s poise just by blocking, all his critical hits are insta kills for anything that doesn’t have a second life at the ready, he has actual skill with a blade, and has counters to any type of weapon all the others can wield. He ain’t first but he shouldn’t be that close to last. Considering that the others need stamina to do anything and he can eat away at their stamina at will.

[@simon-peterwilliamson2412]

Bruh you cant be serious. That's like thinking all the characters actually cant swim because they die in game

[@xyzdrakiel7000]

All that armor makes them sink like a rock so it makes sense. Wolf can actually swim and he never runs out of air. Bruh, we are comparing videogame characters. The nameless undead from all the souls games may be physically stronger but they are all just as fast as wolf but wolf can go for longer. If they try a jump attack they’ve already lost because wolf can insta kill in the air. Their heaviest attack would deflect off the umbrella shield and not even hurt wolf. He may not be the strongest but he shouldn’t have been dead last. Most of the undead’s miracles are lightning based attacks as well. Wolf can send that shit right back at them with a paralyzing effect.

[@JesseNightingale]

Bloodbourne character was killing cuthulu level outer entities so that's my guess lol

[@shutup3338]

About radahn. He locked ALL of the stars in place with his powers. Then there are things like midra who is an outer god and matyr who existed before elden beast

[@kiyanrostamnejad8196]

wait till bro finds out about the penitent one

[@mateorestrepo4420]

Wolf solos by being the only character who can swim

[@Kyerie]

It doesn’t change the rankings but the hunter also BECAME a great old one too.

[@DustDemonTwilight]

tarnished and hunter are the strongest based on what they fight lore wise

[@logandegraffinreaidt3364]

Idk if anyone else in the comments mentioned this. Malekith wields destined death, meaning anyone he even TOUCHES with his blade just dies. Therefore canonically, tarnished goes against malekith and wins without being hit ONCE

[@3than458]

Lore wise, the Tarnished literally fought DEATH HIMSELF without getting hit ONCE.

[@armanazmiibnamin1108]

By the end of elden ring you become a literal god. You can literally end the universe, control metaphysical aspects of reality and parry lightspeed attacks and have black holes dropped on him and survive

[@Harls2]

Everyone forgets that melania also achieved god hood and became a vessel for an outer god, so that’s 4 gods felled by the tarnished

[@Hatem_69]

Metyr is a god though and astel can become an outer god

[@laurarobinson6938]

Lord of frenzied flame tarnished is the strongest character (even stronger than every boss in fromsoftware games) in the souls series because he turns into an outer god and burns his whole entire world. Don’t compare wolf to him cause he ain’t on his level💀

[@jonathancapps1103]

I don't consider Sekiro a Soulsborne game. I mean, yeah, it's in the genre. But its leveling, skills, and (lack of) gear give it a very different feel to me.

[@sedivh0]

in defense of sekiro's wolf, bro got shinobi tools to deflect fire, magic, bro can also dispel summons like mimic tear or even phantoms

[@BigG.303]

The ashen one is on top fs, lore wise because of beating soul of cinder, that also means he absorbed the chosen undead and EVERYONE HE BEAT, Nito, Gwyn, all of them, multiple gods, dragons as powerful of gods, and every boss ever put into the souls games

[@robertodelgado6387]

Wolf's placing depends if you mean regular wolf or Shura Wolf. Shura flatened an entire country alone.

[@tross09]

Hunter says dodge this!

[@Sqirly123]

I’d put wolf just one spot higher. Reasoning he has more agility than any of the other protagonist’s and can even mount his bosses to get closer to higher weak spots.(he can deflect fire with a tool he has like a metal umbrella, or just run around or jump over as seen in the games) His only main limitation is that he is just a human with multiple lives and a arsenal of ninjutsu but a damn skilled one. Enough said bloodborne hunter wins in drip and blunderbuss parries all protagonists.

[@dry_bones5803]

my problem with the ashen one is he fail to link the flame the first time he tried. makes me wonder who did link the flame in his time

[@manishakhandekar1342]

1:57 "he cant" i think he can by using the suzaku's lotus loaded umbrella

[@SKmEHRAJ_0001]

He can parry it.