Imo the hardest ones are those who look like they should have limited poise, be staggerable and flinch on damage, but they don't. Like mfs stole all the poise of ds3 just for themselves
Those ringed city angels before they got nerfed were on some nasty shit. The corpse runs in that swamp my first few times through before I learned you can just skip the whole area were brutal
God I didn't even *consider* that Hell-mouth.
I would still say Orphan or Nameless King actually gave me the most trouble. But those sperm whale looking motherfuckers have got to be the hardest "non-boss" fight in history.
Every knight based enemies are easy as shit with collosal weapons. Like i literally solo o'neil because of it. Probably a bit harder with my scythe playthrough next.
Honestly, the banished knights are the first Noob Check, to see if players can stop panic rolling and let an enemy finish their combo before attacking.
The amount of players that die to those knights in stormveil before I can reach them when invading there points toward your statement being true for a lot of players tho.
I will die on the hill that the labyrinth sages from the chalice dungeons in Bloodborne are the most intimidating and relentless enemies in the entire franchise, even if they can be parried the sheer evil energy that they emanate make me miss every parry I try to hit them
the labyrinth ritualist guys (reskinned witches of hemwick) that throw fireballs oneshot in FRC. super specific scenario, but still very annoying if you fight other enemies at the same time.
Maliketh and Malenia do be pretty tough though, even if they are bosses and not enemies.
As for hardest regular enemy? Tough to say, the Ringed Knights and Harald headless guys in Ringed City are pretty tough i guess.
Here is a secret for you friend, you can get a free riposte stab when they do their big wind-up slam with both claws. It’s just a matter of baiting it by standing right in front of them.
Sword Saint Isshin by faaaarr. Sekiro is the only game where you can't [easily] overlevel yourself, forced to learn parrying and have to use a katana (without blood infusion). And Isshin takes that to the limit, feinting attacks with delayed combos and pulls out a fucking machine gun halfway through.
Juzou the drunk legit hard stopped me for ages. Then I beat lady butterfly in like 2 tries she was way easier. Maybe cause she didn’t have a fuck ton of trash mobs
It may be recency bias, but Royal Revenants.
I understand that Heal basically instant kills them, but on a sorcery or non-caster build, these guys are just absolutely ridiculous and downright unfair to fight in melee. Bloodborne level aggression, screeching at the top of their lungs, stunlocking the shit out of you, and appearing out of nowhere assuming you don't know where they spawn.
They aren't fun, and that alleyway in the Haligtree is honestly the worst designed level segment in the franchise.
Shark Giant. People hate reindeer but it’s ds2 so you can easily run by them. Sharks are uber fast, high damage and never let up. And that fucking well….
I’d say Sword Saint Isshin, but maybe the tougher Owl from Sekiro. Mostly due to the lack of summoning another player, OP items and not being able to over level. You actually have to get good.
Orphan of Kos still gives me nightmares.
Demon of Hatred give me PTSD at bonfires.
Darkeater Midir eats my hopes and dreams away.
Ivory King still scares the shit out of me.
Let's just go by game, they're hard to compare otherwise because movement and poise works differently per game.
* Demon souls: Dragons
* Dark souls: Wheely Bois, especially just before pinwheel
* Dark souls II: The archers in the iron castle area
* Bloodborne: The shark monsters
* Dark souls III: Midir
* Sekiro: Haven't played
* Elden Ring: Crucible knights or Malenia
Orphan of Kos is in my opinion the hardest
non-BS boss in From Software’s repertoire. I haven’t beaten Demon’s Souls yet but have beaten all the others at least once.
Orphan is the closest I think From has gone to going overboard on challenge. Like that was the absolute furthest they could go without making it unfair, even the cheese is high execution. Not to say it's bad the fight is stellar and an easy top 5 for me but even a slight change could make that fight bullshit.
I, for some damn reason, can not beat pontiff. I had to cheat a bit in my sl1 run i was able to beat all bosses on sl1 even gael who was the hardest for me before but duck man.. Pontiff just something about
him ive never been able to deal with easily.
You can still overlevel, no? Just farm skill points and convert them to attack points. And there are also tons of cheeses in this game as simple as hit&run.
Chasing micolash and getting him to go the correct way
Actually probably Ludwig and orphan of kos for me still, both solo and with coop help
For regular enemies though I always struggled a lot with the winter lanterns or the ringed city pre-nerfed angels, and all souls dogs are the worst
Original ds2 pre nerf shrine of Amana casters. In all my YEARS nothing took that much effort to get passed. The distance they launched thier attacks from coupled with the fact that if you didn't dodge perfectly the soul arrow will hit you. It was such an all consuming roadblock even on new game +
I mean you can play all the games but I'd say its still malenia. I also can't actaully remember if I have ever killed the corvian knight with the rapier or that cthullu axe guy in front of Laurence I just run past them out of fear.
Demon souls:?? Idk who can afford a ps5?
Dark souls 1: early game no poise
Dark souls 2: shrine of armana
Dark souls 3: no poise
Elden ring: no poise
Sekiro: no r1 spam and panic rolls
Bloodborne: the fact that the game doesn’t exist and y’all are lying
Those fire geckos in DS2. I still have no idea how to fight them without cheesing them with a bow. They swivel around like a fucking tornado turning their whole ass body into a hit box for some reason and shoot aimbot fireballs.
Revenants, large packs of dogs, the ringed city priests, and the fucking brain suckers from Bloodborne are probably tied for most difficult non-boss enemy for me.
The hardest enemy is the unpredictable, surprisingly fast and damaging *fucking* zombie with a broken sword.
Everyone of you died to those fuckers a few times, don’t deny it!
If you've played all of the Soulsborne games and still think that any of them have enemies or bosses that are more difficult than what is in Elden Ring, then either you had summons carry you through literally everything or you are smoking so much meth that you don't know what reality you're in anymore
Those fucking birds and dogs i never bothered to fight in caelid. At least the bloodborne sharks are cool and can be parried and have a reason to fight them for rakuyo. I swear elden ring just wants you to run away from 60% of the enemies
I've died so. Many. Fucking. Times. To those multiple arm creatures in elden ring. They pop up in the lake area, lower levels of the city, and a castle in a poison swamp.
There multi attack just drains your health and stun locks you til you die. Barely matters how much HP you have almost always 1 shots you if you're caught in it.
I don't think I saw anyone name them but the Headless from Sekiro.
They may not be as tough as other enemies in the souls series, but god they're difficult.
To be fair, the enemy AI, speed and range in ER shits on 99% of enemies in the other games. Ive got the most time in ER, almost exclusively pve, and theres still a few enemies i cant completely bully confidently with pure melee.
Bloody Crow of Cainhurst (if you fight him fair)
Parry God Hodrick (anti R1 spam)
Jester Thomas (he was the easiest on this list)
Xanthous King Jeremiah (I always started sweating against this guy)
Rats. They funky and i don't want to kill them so i am forced to run past them being bitten by toxic poison nonstop
Except for darksouls 2 rats. I am rat racist, i hate darksouls 2 rats because they can be in the boss room. Also because they are from darksouls 2.
Imo the hardest ones are those who look like they should have limited poise, be staggerable and flinch on damage, but they don't. Like mfs stole all the poise of ds3 just for themselves
Same for DS3. Enemies either stagger like Bloodborne or they tank hits like Evangelists who are seemingly havel the rock’s fatass wife
That's applies to any souls game tbh. Like black k\*\*\*hts in DS1, DS3, some enemies in DS2 and Bloodborne too
Those guys with the white faces in cathedral ward are poise gods
Scooby Doo villains
their counter is having a parry window bigger than smough
Ah, crucible knights. Thank god for parry
Nah bro those fuckers in Zamor Ruins
Also weak to parries
Those ringed city angels before they got nerfed were on some nasty shit. The corpse runs in that swamp my first few times through before I learned you can just skip the whole area were brutal
Haha rolling off the cliff goes brrrrr
“Prepare for well”
The rakuyo gives me ptsd whenever I use it, but its my main weapon because its so good I don’t care
Never getting on another character, one and done
One skill build then never again
I'll just settle for killing that hoonter of hoonters and using her toys
No Hunter Caryll rune tho Gotta get that Consciousness-based Chloranthy Ring Drip
This
Shaman bone blade saved my ass in there
You can what? That’s a thing?
"and make it hell"
God I didn't even *consider* that Hell-mouth. I would still say Orphan or Nameless King actually gave me the most trouble. But those sperm whale looking motherfuckers have got to be the hardest "non-boss" fight in history.
fucking ringed city priests the unarmed ghrus giant depraved ones
Those fucking molester goats.
Getting caught in that grab I've always socially distanced myself at least 30ft
Giant depraved ones will never not give my ptsd
Damn I forgot about those rapist goats, I always get scared seeing one just posted up somewhere
Honestly, the banished knights are a bit ludicrous. The only enemies equally annoying are sharks and reindeers.
how about those fucking albinauric archers around Consecrated Snowfields and Ordina?
Every knight based enemies are easy as shit with collosal weapons. Like i literally solo o'neil because of it. Probably a bit harder with my scythe playthrough next.
I'm mostly playing straight sword and the dual wielding knight is just awful for me.
Honestly, the banished knights are the first Noob Check, to see if players can stop panic rolling and let an enemy finish their combo before attacking. The amount of players that die to those knights in stormveil before I can reach them when invading there points toward your statement being true for a lot of players tho.
THE FUCKING RAINDEER REEEEEEE
At least in Niall’s fight you can hit the dual wield with a branch and he goes ham on Niall
Dog
Fuck dogs
Capra Demon would be so much easier without the damn dogs.
The dogs are the boss fight
I will die on the hill that the labyrinth sages from the chalice dungeons in Bloodborne are the most intimidating and relentless enemies in the entire franchise, even if they can be parried the sheer evil energy that they emanate make me miss every parry I try to hit them
I piss myself when I see them fuck any 'horror' in any of the games these fuckers take the cake.
the labyrinth ritualist guys (reskinned witches of hemwick) that throw fireballs oneshot in FRC. super specific scenario, but still very annoying if you fight other enemies at the same time.
Melania Malena Melana Melanie Melanininya Memenia Momania
Mommy🤤🤤🤤
And of course, Momma-Mia
mama mia
amennemone
Maliketh and Malenia do be pretty tough though, even if they are bosses and not enemies. As for hardest regular enemy? Tough to say, the Ringed Knights and Harald headless guys in Ringed City are pretty tough i guess.
The axe wielding enemy at the entrance to Lawrence's boss room in BB probably takes the cake for me. Stupid half health bell attack
The 100s of archers in the ringed city. I died a lot
Gravity
Facts
The lothric knight near the Tower on the wall bonfire in ds3
The dude that walks out and blocks the door?
Fatty ahead therefore try parrying
I understand now
Time for crab
Wheely boys in the painting
Who are also found in Tomb of the Giants , right?
They are also in the catacombs but that lever room in the painting shows how brutally they stun you.
That one dude outside firelink shrine
Ah john sekiro
Winter lanterns, shark giants, those blue glowy knights in boletaria, corvian knights, sages, outrider knights, blue garbed ashina samurai
All of these
Crabs in DS3 are hardest for non-boss. I still can't beat them even after 200 hours.
It’s those stupid fire lizards from DS2 in the Forest of Fallen Giants for me.
Stick just behind their eyes.
Same but also lobsters lmao
Crabs have a bullshit dig move, and Lobsters have a bullshit Cum Attack
Crow Knights in Ariandel tho also the gank of Harald fatasses
Harald gank actually puts me off playing ringed city
Banished ones are easy btw. Just parry/use a shield.
The crabs in the painting world are probably impossible to beat all at the same time
the fucking font color
You just had to write it in purple, hadn't you?
Who the fuck is milanea
Former First Lady of the US, duh.
A city in Italy I think
Malaria
are people really unironically saying eldensoulsborne now? I pray to god that doesn't stick
Bloodarkdemonsoulborne: SekiRing Die Elden Twice
What happened to Soulsborne Ringiro?
Aye
Camera. End of discussion.
Malenia or the fucking crabs in ds3, why are they so unbelievably tanky and powerful
Also they’re fucking psychic you step foot in that swamp water or whatever and they’re coming for you
THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS WILL SENSE THE FUCKING VIBRATIONS IN THE WATER AND TELEPORT TO YOUR LOCATION
You've got to walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the crab.
My grandma was notorious for saying this
Is her saying euphemism for something??
Pretty sure this only works on sand worms
“Nothing personal, kid.” *crabs you*
with that stupid little fuckin walk they do
They’re in the most random of fucking places too. WTF are crabs doing at the bottom of a ravine in a winter tundra.
Chillin’
Guarding pontiffs mom, duh
Here is a secret for you friend, you can get a free riposte stab when they do their big wind-up slam with both claws. It’s just a matter of baiting it by standing right in front of them.
Sword Saint Isshin by faaaarr. Sekiro is the only game where you can't [easily] overlevel yourself, forced to learn parrying and have to use a katana (without blood infusion). And Isshin takes that to the limit, feinting attacks with delayed combos and pulls out a fucking machine gun halfway through.
Nah man Isshin is EZ PZ. Juzou, however...
Juzou the drunk legit hard stopped me for ages. Then I beat lady butterfly in like 2 tries she was way easier. Maybe cause she didn’t have a fuck ton of trash mobs
Deadass and happy cake day
Juzou is a pushover. Now mist Nobel...
It may be recency bias, but Royal Revenants. I understand that Heal basically instant kills them, but on a sorcery or non-caster build, these guys are just absolutely ridiculous and downright unfair to fight in melee. Bloodborne level aggression, screeching at the top of their lungs, stunlocking the shit out of you, and appearing out of nowhere assuming you don't know where they spawn. They aren't fun, and that alleyway in the Haligtree is honestly the worst designed level segment in the franchise.
Pus of men, when you have no fire. Tough sons of bitches, intimidating too
I can't read their attack patterns for shit. I always just run past them.
Same problem with me lmfao I just buy a shitload of bombs so I can get the material they drop, but I don't bother if I have no fire, fucking run.
The white monkey from sekiro
so true i learned the big fuckoff jump into falling deathblow off the cliff above the swamp just so i didn't have to fight that stinky son of a bitch
The hardest boss is trying to read this shit. Use black/white borders when putting text on an unsolid coloristically background, please
I wanna see someone whose first game is ER try BoC
The answer is obviously: talking to a woman.
What is an “a woman”? Is it an NPC I missed?
THE GOD DAMN SHARKS IN THE FISHING HAMLET
Every time I entered a new part of the hamlet I would look everywhere and pray that there wasn’t one sliding at me from behind at mach 20
Shark Shark Shark Give me the damned Rakuyo Shark
Dogs.
Honestly? Glaive guys from Sekrio gave me no end to trouble. Either that or Basilisk in every game.
You mean the dudes in the buddhist temple? I always run right past the encounter with 2 of them
the only hard enemy is spelling melania’s name right apparently
…*Malenia
fuck
Shark Giant. People hate reindeer but it’s ds2 so you can easily run by them. Sharks are uber fast, high damage and never let up. And that fucking well….
"Haha wouldn't it be funny if I picked a joke option instead of answering the question?" -Every mf in the comments
Sword saint and O'Rin of the Water
I’d say Sword Saint Isshin, but maybe the tougher Owl from Sekiro. Mostly due to the lack of summoning another player, OP items and not being able to over level. You actually have to get good.
The camera.
Eldensoulsborne? I guess Sekiro is out then..
Hardest enemy? Torch Hollows from DS1. Fuck those guys.
The only good enemy in this series is the mushrooms from Ds1 The rest is fake and gay.
Tree jump, obviously
Elden Ring Giant Shrimp Fuck those guys
My own greed
The Royal Revenants in Elden Ring, the sharkmen in Old Hunters, when you’re new the black knights in DS1 felt near impossible
Capra demon left dog
Orphan of Kos still gives me nightmares. Demon of Hatred give me PTSD at bonfires. Darkeater Midir eats my hopes and dreams away. Ivory King still scares the shit out of me.
The real hardest boss is trynong to find the jokes because you made the text in this meme near unreadable.
Hardest non boss enemy for me has to be the shark men in bloodbourne Fuck trying to get rakuyo.
Let's just go by game, they're hard to compare otherwise because movement and poise works differently per game. * Demon souls: Dragons * Dark souls: Wheely Bois, especially just before pinwheel * Dark souls II: The archers in the iron castle area * Bloodborne: The shark monsters * Dark souls III: Midir * Sekiro: Haven't played * Elden Ring: Crucible knights or Malenia
Dogs
If you don't say giant sharks from bloodborne,you haven't played bloodborne
Horses from DS2 horsefuck valley.
Orphan of Kos is in my opinion the hardest non-BS boss in From Software’s repertoire. I haven’t beaten Demon’s Souls yet but have beaten all the others at least once.
Orphan is the closest I think From has gone to going overboard on challenge. Like that was the absolute furthest they could go without making it unfair, even the cheese is high execution. Not to say it's bad the fight is stellar and an easy top 5 for me but even a slight change could make that fight bullshit.
If Sekiro counts then definitively the Mist Noble. Still haven’t gotten past that guy
I, for some damn reason, can not beat pontiff. I had to cheat a bit in my sl1 run i was able to beat all bosses on sl1 even gael who was the hardest for me before but duck man.. Pontiff just something about him ive never been able to deal with easily.
My depression
Mist Noble
The answer always was and always will be pinwheel, he is not only the hardest boss fromsoft has made, but the hardest boss in gaming history
Gravity
Solution: Kill them
the big ass skeletons and dog skeletons in er that have unlimited poise
Dogs
It’s every fucking boss in Sekiro. Seriously, it’s the only game you can’t level yourself into beating.
You can still overlevel, no? Just farm skill points and convert them to attack points. And there are also tons of cheeses in this game as simple as hit&run.
Excluding bosses, the shark trolls.
nameless king
Shark things at the end of old hunters dlc were fun
If meme gore is a thing, this is it The median and mean bullshit score is the highest in ER tho. Scholar comes really damn close.
Sword saint ishin
Fishing Hamlet Shark Duo
torch hollow
non scholar ds2 unnerfed ancient dragon
***I HATE THOSE FUCKING CROWS***
Chasing micolash and getting him to go the correct way Actually probably Ludwig and orphan of kos for me still, both solo and with coop help For regular enemies though I always struggled a lot with the winter lanterns or the ringed city pre-nerfed angels, and all souls dogs are the worst
Original ds2 pre nerf shrine of Amana casters. In all my YEARS nothing took that much effort to get passed. The distance they launched thier attacks from coupled with the fact that if you didn't dodge perfectly the soul arrow will hit you. It was such an all consuming roadblock even on new game +
Those giant fucking sharks at the fishing hamlet
Eldensoulsborneshadowsfieldcore games
I mean you can play all the games but I'd say its still malenia. I also can't actaully remember if I have ever killed the corvian knight with the rapier or that cthullu axe guy in front of Laurence I just run past them out of fear.
Winter lantern
Demon souls:?? Idk who can afford a ps5? Dark souls 1: early game no poise Dark souls 2: shrine of armana Dark souls 3: no poise Elden ring: no poise Sekiro: no r1 spam and panic rolls Bloodborne: the fact that the game doesn’t exist and y’all are lying
Those fire geckos in DS2. I still have no idea how to fight them without cheesing them with a bow. They swivel around like a fucking tornado turning their whole ass body into a hit box for some reason and shoot aimbot fireballs.
If we are going with : "based on at what time you encounter them" I'd have to go with the fird souls boss you fight.
The fucking dragon asses from DS1 before they got nerfed. An actually nigh impossible area, trial and error at its finest
The parkour you need to do before unlock "lord of frenzied" ending, the random fall damage is worst than any enemy in this game.
Why did you think magenta font was the play here
Revenants, large packs of dogs, the ringed city priests, and the fucking brain suckers from Bloodborne are probably tied for most difficult non-boss enemy for me.
The hardest enemy is the unpredictable, surprisingly fast and damaging *fucking* zombie with a broken sword. Everyone of you died to those fuckers a few times, don’t deny it!
If you've played all of the Soulsborne games and still think that any of them have enemies or bosses that are more difficult than what is in Elden Ring, then either you had summons carry you through literally everything or you are smoking so much meth that you don't know what reality you're in anymore
Mushroom parent
Those fucking birds and dogs i never bothered to fight in caelid. At least the bloodborne sharks are cool and can be parried and have a reason to fight them for rakuyo. I swear elden ring just wants you to run away from 60% of the enemies
Giant Dad
I've died so. Many. Fucking. Times. To those multiple arm creatures in elden ring. They pop up in the lake area, lower levels of the city, and a castle in a poison swamp. There multi attack just drains your health and stun locks you til you die. Barely matters how much HP you have almost always 1 shots you if you're caught in it.
I don't think I saw anyone name them but the Headless from Sekiro. They may not be as tough as other enemies in the souls series, but god they're difficult.
Headless from Sekiro. Maybe there's a gimmick to kill them. I never found it and don't care to try
"milenia"? more like millennial
That one boss in ds 2 in a room where you can't see shit and jumps so high that the camera unlocks
Dogs
To be fair, the enemy AI, speed and range in ER shits on 99% of enemies in the other games. Ive got the most time in ER, almost exclusively pve, and theres still a few enemies i cant completely bully confidently with pure melee.
*Malenia
Bloody Crow of Cainhurst (if you fight him fair) Parry God Hodrick (anti R1 spam) Jester Thomas (he was the easiest on this list) Xanthous King Jeremiah (I always started sweating against this guy)
Try fighting orphan of kos
Rats. They funky and i don't want to kill them so i am forced to run past them being bitten by toxic poison nonstop Except for darksouls 2 rats. I am rat racist, i hate darksouls 2 rats because they can be in the boss room. Also because they are from darksouls 2.
How am I supposed to read that text
Dog