Who Is The Strongest NPC In Baldur's Gate 3? (AI Tournament)

Using the NEW Patch 7 Mod Toolkit, I've created a fully AI controlled tournament to find out who the strongest NPC's in BG3 are. 8 Teams will fight in 3 unique Arena maps compete to become the champion of the AI-Auto-Battle Arena. Who will earn the title of the strongest NPC's in Baldur's Gate 3?
This was done by using the unlocked toolkit mod from Nexus, and following several tutorials written in the Modding discord. Thanks to them for sharing their knowledge!
Yes I know the Bullete isn't a beast, but it's close enough.
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[@jaeusa160]

The irony of Yuigir getting taken down by his own pet...

[@Dimon6859]

All cat owners know that the cat always dominate you😂

[@ThePigsmasher]

My little Yorkie could probably pounce on me and rip my throat out ending my life painfully if he really wanted to 😂

[@MayHugger]

@@Dimon6859AYO?!

[@Yepheonix]

He has sax with his cat btw

[@skarletwong2418]

Wtf? Where did you read that? ​@@Yepheonix

[@conversefall5928]

The Steel Watch Titan deserved a better teammate. Gortash was clearly paid off before the match. /s

[@literallyanidiot2880]

bro was jobbing fr

[@howdj]

Why are you telling people you are being sarcastic?

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Was working on another video before this, but my footage had all got corrupted, and I felt like re-doing a challenge video entirely again would just ruin the feeling. Sorry for the long time between uploads! I thought this would be easy to learn, but I spent 30 hours in the toolkit for this basic setup (mostly learning)

[@MrAllonezii]

Im so sorry. but what was the challenge?

[@Jamesnuch]

Can you please upload this mod so others can use it??? I’ve always wanted to do AI battles in this game

[@ProxyGateTactician]

@@Jamesnuch I can't upload this one unfortunately it's not built properly. I basically just built a map in the unlocked toolkit, and then would save -> load the file. It's not built to be installed and used by others

[@Jamesnuch]

@@ProxyGateTactician thank you for responding! Do you know any modders who could make this mod for the community? I’d love to help them out

[@maximumpoyo]

Was it the Disney princess video?

[@valthorix7347]

Oooo I've always been a fan of AI vs AI stuff. I'd gladly watch more of this.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Yeah I'm a big fan from other games, and wanted to see it in BG3. It was surprisingly difficult to learn how to set up for myself, and a lot of NPC's just didn't work for some reason. I probably did stuff wrong though. Raphael for some reason would never fight back when I tried loading him in

[@adiaz093]

​@@ProxyGateTacticianhe only fights if his theme song is playing

[@REXTUGA]

​@@adiaz093 What a chad!

[@bunnyboygamille]

​@@ProxyGateTactician I was wondering where Raph was. That explains it. He *maybe* could have given the Hell squad a fighting chance

[@fattuscattus2200]

Gorty getting mauled by an entire army of bears, wolves, dinosaurs, cows and other assorted beasts just to cast his spell, only for said spell to get immediately ended by a single cow, is absolutely hilarious.

[@captainclown2718]

What happened to Raphael? Is there a problem with him due to the pillar mechanic of his fight? Cause with him team hell would definitely reach the final and has a good chance at winning that as well.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

For some reason when I placed Raphael into a battle he would do nothing. Not sure why. Same thing happened with Apostle of myrkul

[@brentbentKRFP]

@@captainclown2718 He was flabbergasted that an event he could not foresee took place in a realm he'd never heard of, Modlandia.

[@chainsawboy2388]

@@ProxyGateTacticianwhat about a steel cut watcher, hellfire watcher, any of the flaming fists, and any of the cultists of bane for Gortash’s team?

[@adriac1291]

@@ProxyGateTactician Could try loading their respective levels and just add the other combatants then.

[@wavion2]

@@ProxyGateTactician Only guessing, but sounds like a scripting event and a missing trigger. Most enemies just fight by default, but those two have events that trigger their aggression. That trigger seems obvious in Raphael's case. In Ao Myrkul's case, maybe he's actually there hidden during your fight with Ketheric and you need to kill him and get the scene to trigger Ao Myrkul appearing and attacking.

[@mattattack25505]

Proxy never knew after all of these challenges and videos for BG3 that he would be formed into a future developer for BG4.

[@strawhatsteve2198]

If it had been 49 beasts they would have lost rounds 1 & 2 rather than making it to the finals... If all the beasts were equal, anyway. But what are the odds of 2 consecutive rounds of only 1/50 surviving? Props to Proxy/Larion for the balancing and seeding I suppose.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Yeah I don't really know how that happened from me putting together random groups that I thought are pretty equal

[@miaomiiao]

More, now with good factions! This mod tool is the best thing that has happened to the game and a great FU to wizards of the coast. Thanks larian!

[@Thougar]

What are you talking about? They put the deeper modding tools behind a rusty latch secured with a master lock. They couldn't possibly have known that people would find a way to break in.

[@miaomiiao]

​@@Thougar I don't know if it's sarcasm or not, it's more like a begginer lock. Since the rumour says that wizards forbbid them to add a DM game mode like in divinity, so they did lock it up to appease them, but made it that these tools were ridicously easy to acces it/find.

[@inrainbows-h2z]

@@Thougar tell that to wizard of the coast, they don't want the dm game mode

[@BananaWizard2]

Raphael and the brain watching the fight sipping tea be like

[@gildeddrake1479]

Also Ethel.

[@chainsawboy2388]

@@gildeddrake1479Ethel can’t do anything in these fights, her Aoe is too weak below honor mode and the vast majority of tur cast resists or is immune to her most of her damage

[@braedenmclean5304]

I think a issue is that some of these guys are only tough due to mechanics/arena or items. I might be wrong but it looked like Cazzador didn’t have his staff for instance.

[@rxsaria]

another banger proxy video! i’m so excited to see what modders can do with the new toolkit

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Me too! They've been posting some super impressive stuff in the modding discord

[@dorithegreat6155]

I believe that the reason some of the bosses acted weirdly is that their AI heavily prioritizes doing things that weren't avaliable in these arenas

[@mimiozee]

I think Gortash should’ve had some steel watchers and his guards too for a fair fight

[@TamTroll]

Gortash might have done bertter if he was paired up with more standard steel watch. i think he has abilities spesifically tailored to supporting them

[@Lord-Commissar]

Gortash needed way more backup. Just him and one steel watch titan? Give him some Banite guards at least.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

I ran a trial of Gortash against 50 bears before doing anything just to test if my battles can work and he actually won solo vs 50 bears. So I figured he’s pretty competent.

[@TrissTheFirst]

Who is that gigachad illithid?

[@ProxyGateTactician]

He's from the Brain battle the countermeasure that spawns if you have a ranger class in the final battle of the game. There's a unique version for each class

[@DatakTarr]

ansur winning doesn't surprise me. Hardest fight I had in the endgame. The fight in hell escaping someone's house was a close second though

[@wavion2]

Myrkul was the hardest one in my honor mode playthrough. I had to Alt-F4 my game 3 times before I got past him. Ansur was easy, because by then I had globe of invulnerability. Cheesy, I know. I tried to use it sparingly. I enjoyed the challenge of honor mode with the legendary actions. And I liked the single save, since it stopped me from save scumming dialogue checks. But I didn't want to lose 60+ hours of gameplay by dying. I also cheesed the fight with Raphael by setting up stacks of explosives next to the soul pillars when I first got there. That way I could take them out quick at the start of the battle and just fight Raphael normally.

[@scarystories1800]

Unfortunately some ai (especially spellcasters) seem to freak out and get confused when there are huge swarms of enemies.

[@SlimXG]

Hey, now, that's a totally legit Street Fighter tactic

[@dancinburrito8412]

I don’t know how it would do against an army, but the strongest individual NPC has got to be the adamantine golem.

[@NextWeeek]

if he was permansuperheated then i could see raphael beating him bcs raphael ignores fire immunity and resistance iirc

[@lawrencefosterjenkins8216]

Not surprised 9-CON gorty immediately broke concentration upon taking any damage

[@chanm01]

I wonder if Raphael would have stood a chance against the dragon.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

I tried to load in Raphael but he for some reason wouldn't fight at all.

[@kingofgrim4761]

@@ProxyGateTacticianmaybe because when he’s an NPC he always disappears if attacked, as the only time this isn’t the case is the HoH cutscene?

[@Archmage_Marmu]

@@ProxyGateTactician Is it possible you loaded in an instance of raphael that's not coded to fight? Like the versions you see around the map who dissapear when attacked?

[@ProxyGateTactician]

@@Archmage_Marmu It's possible, but I couldn't find one that did fight. Gortash for example I had to try 5 different guys before I found the right one lol

[@fattuscattus2200]

Raphael is resistant to lightning damage and physical damage which is pretty much all Ansur can do. Ansur on the other hand is not resistant to fire damage. However I still doubt that Raphael could kill him because eventually Ansur would do that monstrous attack that annihilates anyone in its range, plus Raphael has a limited amount of fire spells.

[@vee1267]

Wonder which team is the strongest? We finally have an Ansur!

[@Viper3220]

Is anyone *really* surprised Gortash didn't fare well?

[@alliu6562]

Give us a round 2!!! I propose adding Viconia and co (team shar), thieves’ guild (nine fingers and co), and splitting the undead coalition into team thorm and team everybody else who’s undead or something. Team Thorm would be Ketheric, Isobel, Malus, Gerringothe, and the bartender guy I forgot his name (no additional summons). Team undead would then be Cazador, Balthazar (+ Flesh), and Mystic Carrion + some ghouls of varying types (though I think the reason why Cazador was so weak is bc his powers revolve around his ritual, so when removed from his arena, he’s just a regular vampire). I think team Bhaal was only so pathetic bc neither Orin nor Sarevok had access to the mechanics that make their fights hard. Similar to Cazador, Orin’s fight is hard bc of her arena giving her unstoppable stacks. Sarevok is hard bc of his 3 ghosts, but there was only one. I’d suggest removing the weaker cultists and at least giving Sarevok all his ghosts.

[@korakys]

Nine Fingers is a monster. She throws knives like a revolver throws bullets. When I used an extra difficulty mod Sarevok was the only one that gave me a headache to defeat.

[@Nefferduat]

the final fight being between "damage sponge hit like tank" and "team action economy" is about to be expected, but im not surprised ansur took it in the end.

[@brentbentKRFP]

Excellent! I was fixated on Elden Ring videos like this for a bit, lovely to see a new variety of these absurdly fun battles.

[@Isnogood12]

The Boulder is following you...

[@ginar2339]

Ansur and the displacer beast both killed their respective ex boyfriends lmao

[@OrigamiAhsoka]

Official modding support my beloved

[@abilawaandamari8366]

I always wanted to see fights like this, just like from fromsoft games. Specifically I'm curious about Grym vs Steelwatchers

[@lChronosl93]

Very cool idea. I know it would be very time intensive, but it would be interesting to see if the results would be the same if the teams were controlled by a player.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

ohh that would be really cool, but I have no idea how to do that. The mod toolkit is surprisingly complicated, but it can allow you to do insane stuff.

[@FirekingBarong]

Ansur and Cazzador are the only enemys i didnt fight when doing my honor mode run, simply because if the AI goes all out, you are in for a hell of a beating ^^

[@ena_ina]

yeah same i straight skipped ansur bc fuck that

[@dapokeguy2994]

Team dragon(as in like several dragons like idk ansur and the dominated red one at the end of the game)vs. team, all the guys normally in the raphael fight

[@michaelgjrjvebs]

Do more of these! Was a lot of fun to see the maps you made. I do think some of the teams were a bit uneven though haha

[@jtriesterer]

Another great video

[@SoolDeen]

Baldur's Gate 3

[@tylerhouston69]

YES MY BOY. MORE OF THIS. fr also Divinity Original Sin 2 videos if the algorithm says yes and doesn't drop it to the 10th place on your recent videos in terms of view count

[@voryndagothDL]

4:54 "Erm, actually Yurgir is a Devil, not a Demon 🤓"

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Thanks for the correction! I love that more people commented on this than myself calling the Bulette a beast lol. I thought for sure everyone would mention that it isn't one, but not 1 yet.

[@mcbadrobotvoice8155]

The beasts using the power of raw Action economy

[@SerLagsalot]

I have an irrational love of videos like this

[@WestDBD]

Fantastic video!

[@bushyboi12]

I’m curious how the Thorms would have done in is tournament

[@ProxyGateTactician]

I couldn't get the thorms to work either. I originally tried Kethric + the thorms, but the 3 thorms all wouldn't do anything in the battles. Wish I understood the toolkit better

[@Chazzy-kb9fw]

I think I know why you didn't include the elder brain

[@itweeb4765]

Watching this video, I wonder if Larian may have tuned the AI of some of the NPCs for their specific fight... that may explain why a lot of the characters are acting wonky with their actions.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Almost certainly yes. When I tried to use Raphael and Myrkul for example they both did nothing at all

[@Umbral_Choir]

we will need a honour mode runback once those functions are online. The bulette gets a damage threshold of 15 and 100 temp hp. DT goes away once tempi is depleated. I feel like this would give our boi an edge. Although we cannot forget that ansur would get 2 nukes as well... All things considered my money would be on ansur, not even honour raphael could ruin him IMO.

[@bunnyboygamille]

Ah man, I forgot they gave the bulette a legendary action in patch 7! So glad I'm running back through Honour Mode for fun! (I wanted to see the new legendary actions plus those of guys I didn't bother fighting when I was running through it for the achievement 😂)

[@brianchristyb]

This was cool! I really hope you do a follow up! You could have the druids, the tieflings, the grove attackers, Auntie Ethel & crew, the duergar, and so on.

[@bunnyboygamille]

If someone has a barrel, Dror Ragzlin is going dooooown.

[@Joyful_Traitor]

What is that beside the mindflayers @ 2:51 I don't think I have ever seen that in BG3

[@jexx2974]

I would also like to know what it is.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

It's the Countermeasure that appears during the final boss fight. There is one per class, and that one is the ranger variant. They all look slightly different. So if you are a ranger then you see that one in the final boss fight (unless you betrayed the emperor)

[@TheRagnus]

Raphael (and Korilla) and Unbreakable Will of the Netherbrain are missing.

[@korakys]

Ansur has only 2 minions in his fight. As I recall no-one else has this few, but Grym is probably the closest. It's like 100 guys with AKs trying to defeat a literal tank...

[@neutrality4660]

This was both amusing and triggered some PTSD. Yurgir yeeting the spider queen was pure nostalgia. No surprises though - 10/10, would watch again.

[@Hisu0]

Huh, no Auntie Ethel? Oh, right, legendary actions don't work.

[@Pure_Linnsanity]

I thought it would all be 1v1s when I clicked on the video and mumbled something about "Time to watch Ansur kick everyone's ass" - I was wrong, and yet I wasn't! Very fun video, love stuff like this!

[@StyleshStorm]

Yep that end result sounds about right. I encountered Ansur the Brozen Dragon on a legendary extremely modded (123 new different mods) pure hero Tav playthrough and was surprised at how powerful he is. I suppose Larian took it literally when I learned Dragons are some of the most powerful encounters in all D&D beyond BG3.

[@JRandall0308]

Disney Princesses!!!!!!! - we don’t forget. 😂 (Also: “a heroic ox saved the day” is my favorite line.)

[@SergeantStark]

I hope I see more videos like these on KZbin honestly. I love watching the Soulsborne ones (especially Elden Ring and DS3) because as much as it's just pitting the game's AI against itself sometimes the fights are really spectacular, especially when there's a lot of effects going on on screen! Seeing people say recreate the Placidusax vs Bayle fight that apparently happened in the game's lore is really cool

[@boleeflang3876]

This was awesome! I'd love more videos like this, especially if you can get honour mode actions to work for even more craziness. The Githyanki team could go really hard with how the Githyanki midbosses have been buffed.

[@Isnogood12]

I was kinda hoping for a 1v1 tournament, but seeing Anser (sp?) that really wasn't possible. A lot of the NPCs didn't have their plot armor on either, because they would have been impossible to kill. Maybe we could see the big stompy solo monsters duke it out, like the adamantium forge golem, the golden undead bro etc.

[@Shovelchicken]

Should’ve done the titan with like 2 steel watchers or hellfire watchers instead. Gortash is… less than spectacular.

[@dmitro-]

I'm so glad BG3 getting new fan content with Patch 7 And i'm happy to see Ansur, strongest boss in my opinion is, in fact, strongest NPC

[@RokaiKupo]

this was actually REALLY fun to watch, I want more of this! like an army of Kobolds vs 2 Gith or or or Aylin and Isobella vs some other stuff

[@toomuchstuff_notenoughspace]

love u proxy king since discovering bg3 (stupidly late ik) your videos have fed my obsession

[@0xNWM]

NPC Ai makes these unrealiable

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Mostly yeah, but Ansur was pretty consistent.

[@shmackschmack6589]

i like how the beasts have only one left after every battle but honestly even if they got ansur down i think his last-ditch breath attack would kill them

[@lendial]

I would love to know how the AI is coded for some of these enemies. Some times they make galaxy brain plays sometimes they stand around and do nothing.

[@hannahdaniel127]

I’d be so interested how the house of grief battle would play out in this arena, especially since it’s so tough in game!

[@DocDictator]

Absolutely Amazing Mods are such a W move for a games lifespan

[@rosly_yt]

how long until there's a modpack that lets you play essentially dnd 40k?

[@RobinTheJester]

i wanna see how many dame aylins it takes to beat all of the thorms or a tourney of each origin companion at level 1

[@harriorxd5587]

my first try to beat honor mode came to an end becourse i underestimated ansur so i am glad to see him beat every boss this game have to offer xD

[@jackbpace]

Ansur is the most formidable single opponent for sure.

[@kassiesinclaire9062]

you know the acid retort imp from the quarantined ship in act 3? dude solos

[@SadminAxel]

LOVE me a good AI battle. what a great video, thanks proxy!

[@HJHWolf]

Gortash team could have some Flaming fist soldiers and Steel Watchers

[@Frosht42]

Great AI tournament video, I hope you intend to keep doing the challenges vids as well :), also rip the footage.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Working on another challenge run already now

[@Frosht42]

@@ProxyGateTactician Looking forward to it :)

[@devinport.]

Considering how annoying Ansur's fight is , this is the right outcome for this tournament

[@Nightdreamr]

I didn't expect the animals to go as far as they did

[@lukasr1166]

There were wayy to many beasts considering how bad the ai was in this video.

[@tylerhall2685]

Who is the odd looking fellow on the illithiid team ?

[@ProxyGateTactician]

The ranger countermeasure. He spawns during the final battle if you have a ranger in your party as one of the guards

[@lesfrisbees]

This makes me want a roguelike auto-battler mod.

[@AJMSecond]

Andus vs Raphael would be a great mach-up

[@Qroxta]

nice choice with the D:OS2 Soundtrack

[@rentaraa]

awesome video. would love to see ansur vs the raphael gang!

[@bravobird9435]

Bonus fight between Raphael and ansur?

[@sakurabloosoms]

Always giving us the answers we never knew we needed thank you proxy

[@StringsNStrands]

We gotta get Raph Vs. Ansur for the title match

[@yuvalshalgi2289]

The hell v beast match was extremely unfair, you shouldn't have put yurgir with his thunderwave in an arena with a big cliff. Very entertaining, though I do wish the AI was smarter. Maybe next time, if there is a next time, you could get real people to control them?

[@bunnyboygamille]

I question the AI in this game sometimes. I was fighting my way through Wyrm's Rock to get to Gortash the othet day and my PC and Astarion kept getting dominated. I'd get worried because my PC had a bunch of scrolls that could be problematic and Astarion can do BEEEG DAMAGE. Astarion kept throwing grease bottles and my PC wound up wasting the haste scroll I was saving for his duel with Orin. Later, fighting Gortash, the AI would waste one of my Globes of Invulnerability when Astarion again became dominated 🙄 I decided that was fine and threw everyone but my PC inside and had Gale thunderwave Gorty's ass out every time he'd run inside. Then my PC would do what Slayer does best 😂

[@CloudGuru11]

let's play together and make some content.

[@moxxin5590]

Who is the large mindflayer form with a brain for a head???? I'm so confused who that is, never encountered them before. Unless its the elder brain?

[@ProxyGateTactician]

He's a countermeasure from the final boss fight. It spawns 4 of them if you sided with the emperor.

[@RyanHDR]

Love the Divinity music - perfect choice

[@Jules_Diplopia]

Dragons and Cats... unbeatable together.

[@abilawaandamari8366]

Cazador acting like a dog is hilarious

[@sunbleachedangel]

Now that's what I'm talking about

[@ovnis__]

Yuigir is a cheeesy badass tho.

[@shahs1221]

Oooooh it would be cool to see Raphael and his ascended form in a scenario like this! Like I'd imagine especially without the cooldown, he'd be insane!

[@ProxyGateTactician]

I tried to add Raphael, but for some reason he just refused to fight back

[@junkyardstud376]

Baldur's Gate 3

[@circcaa0]

Bald

[@Bogglemanify]

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[@luisdavila3058]

She Baldur on my Gate until I 3

[@SoulsNThings]

I'd love to see more of these somehow.

[@DovahkiinMaster172]

What in the world is that one roided ilithid with the bow? I’ve never seen that enemy before.

[@ProxyGateTactician]

Countermeasure from the final boss fight it spawns if you sided with the emperor

[@lotusandfriends3474]

You’re comedy is the best

[@notarealperson8956]

I wonder how well Grimm would do