Bosses | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Remember when bosses were hard but fair? Pepperidge farm remembers.

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Question: why out of 92 bosses in "Dark Souls" games, only Four Kings and Gwyndolin has death cutscene?

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not bad

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Whelp. After finally beating Elden Ring. I can say that its biggest flaw for me personally in my playthrough of it is that it has WAY too many bosses. To the point I can barely remember any of them. That's sad to me. Went back for a DS3 playthrough to compare. Personally, I like the player mechanics better of ER. I think the magic system is better, and there's a lot of build variety. But in the case of bosses, I like DS3 better than ER. Because, even if some of them weren't the best bosses, they were memorable. There were no bosses in Elden Ring besides Malenia or Radahn (Although I personally didn't like his fight) and Full Grown Fallingstar beast that I really remember or cared for, or had struggled on, most of them felt a bit lackluster imo.

Comparatively, DS 3, I have very memorable moments from the base game with Dancer, Champion Gundyr, Lothric Nameless King, Pontiff, and Soul of Cinder, etc. As for DLC, I also have quite a few memories of Gael, Friede surprising me with a phase 3. And especially that scumbag Midir.

All in all. There were some cool looking bosses in Elden Ring. But, I still see it as a Quality vs Quantity isssue. I'd have rather even 1/4 the amount of bosses in ER, and make them more memorable, and interesting to fight instead of feeling like a chore or just another mob to kill (Yes, I know they are optional and you can skip many of them, or not know some exist till your second or third playthroug for an attempt at a fresh experience each playthrough, its just a choice I don't agree with for my play style I guess, I understand what FS was trying to aim for, but I think they overdid it a bit). Rather than over 100 bosses, most of which weren't very memorable for me. I hope the ER dlc will have some bosses that strike fear into me like Midir especially. While I hated the fight, I also loved it. Or nameless king with that cutscene before phase two. That was especially memorable. I want boss fights I look forward to, even if they are extremely hard. That's why I fell in love with FS games in the first place with the DS series, and Bloodborne. Nioh and Sekiro kind of? Still fun bot not as much.

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Ringed City and Friede carry this lineup hard.

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"entitled babies"? thats a new one man. but i think the "entitled babies" strategy for elden ring DLC may enclude Azur comet and or rivers of blood + mimic tier. I don't think they're going to be trolled at all. even if the boss doesnt hemorrhage **** still does so much damage.

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In terms of difficulty,
Elden ring DLC> melania > DS3 DLC > Elden ring Radagon+Elden Beast > Malakath (Elden ring) > Other Elden ring bosses > ds3 bosses > ds1 bosses

Discuss.

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Going from annoying 2 shotting elden ring bosses to fair dark souls 3 bosses is so weird

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Elden Ring dlc bosses are going to spank all you ungrateful's so hard lol FS has a great opportunity to troll all you entitled babies

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I like most of these bosses really... except for the BS ones like Pontiff, Dancer and the Crystal Sage

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Dark Souls 3 lineup was great at the time, but if I look at it now I see a lot mediocrity and bad bosses. Curse-rotted, crystal age, old demon king, deacons, yhorm, aldrich, wolnir, oceiros, ancent wyvern, halflight, champion's gravetender.

It's not like I hate all these fights, but when it comes to a VERY linear game these misses hurts him a lot.

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I've just beaten all the bosses on here :D
Prepared to get my ass kicked in the dlc lmao

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While I agree ds3 has the best boss lineup in the whole series, I think people are *****ing way too much about elden ring. Yes,the game has copy pastes bosses, the game has some awful encounters, but most of them are minibosses. If you look at the rememberence bosses lineup which are the actual bosses in elden ring, 14 out of 17 are pretty decent if not great. sucks how the community only really remembers the bad bosses. Reading this comment section would make you think elden ring is terrible without any good boss and discourages the player base to experience an otherwise great game.

Tldr; both are honestly good in terms of bosses but elden ring's larger boss lineup does include some bad bosses, there are still enjoyable ones as well

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why does this wiki have adds to be honest the bosses are cool when you can parry them
its good to parry them

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i like the bosses so the soul of cinder because it gives a lot of souls!

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dissing gundyr is a cardinal sin

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my Favorite Boss is Joe

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All DKS3 Bosses?

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Lmao all the salty-ass comments

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wow could you imagine what it would be like to play a game that had more than 10 unique bosses?

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25 Well-Designed & Iconic bosses are far better than +150 characterless copy pasted unfunny garbage

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Best bosses of all the Souls+ games. Rock solid quality very nearly all the way through with some of the best fights in the series that they still haven't topped. And looking back after Elden Ring makes me appreciate that there are no outright bad bosses in the entire game, only two or three that are mediocre. Goated boss lineup.

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Take me back

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Take me back

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a few words
**** elden ring bosses

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Goated boss lineup

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Even after 5 years I still prefer Kalameet / Sinh / Midir to all those characterless dragons.

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These bosses were so much more iconic than Elden ring

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look what we have here as final boss and what kind of bullshit we got on elden ring

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broken straight sword > elden ring

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Here after Elden ring...
wow so many well designed & balanced boss here

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Damn after beating Radagon I realized how much I cherish every single boss in DS3 compared to all of those garbage bosses combined

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Was not expecting to be looking back to this game after beating Elden Ring and wondering where the quality went.

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i thought High Lord Wolnir does spawn npcs

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the bosses I find to be easy in ng+3: Iudex gundyr, Vordt, cursed greatwood, crystal sage, deacons of the deep, abyss watchers, high lord wolnir, pontiff, old demon king, dancer, yhorm, dragonslayer armor, oceiros the consumed king, aldrich, sister friede, champion gravetender and greatwolf, demon prince (I used black knight weapons and gnawing) and spears of the church and I think thats it

the bosses i find hard are champion gundyr (still) the prince brothers, soul of cinder, nameless king and slave knight gael.

The one I can't be asked to fight is Midir, we don't talk about midir

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is the crystal sage in the library also not an miniboss?

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lothric can be riposted, his riposte area is just his side and not his head so you have to be slightly to his left your right

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If I can help anybody by defeating a boss, giving them souls or items, my character is lvv 390 with maxed weapons and all spells etc, if you need something message my psn: The_Due_MK44

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BLA BLA BLA

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I came here to see which bosses were weak to magic, since, I’m doing my first sorcery build. Lo and behold it’s the only weapon form that no bosses have a weakness to. Some of the bosses are resistant to it, but not one is weak. Literally every other form of damage has a weak boss, wtf.

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Hardest bosses per NG:
NG: Darkeater Midir
Hits harder then every other boss has high defenses, and is just a ***** sometimes
NG+: Soul of Cinder
He just seems to be on a different lvl lmao
NG+2: Slave Knight Gael
Hits so so damn hard lmao and has super super high defenses, beat him somewhat easy with Chaos infused onikiri and ubadachi, Lady Maria 3rd phase cosplay btw
NG+3: Twin princes
IDK why but they seem so much harder now lol
NG+4: Halflight
Whys he gotta be so tanky and keep running away lol
NG+5:Gael again
For the same reason but worse lol
NG+6:Demon prince(Not demon below and pain)
Hes when i say is so so godamn tanky and its annoying and not just that hits so damn hard
NG+7: Demon prince
Again for the same reason but worse lol, tied with Gael tbh

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Weakness of Demon Prince needs to be changed to be more accurate

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cock

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Friedes page is the best one if you know what I mean (:

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Can someone help me with a boss?

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Missing the first Fire Demon across from where you first meet Seigward above the Outrider Knight.

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So, i decided to count weaknesses, and here is what i found :
Lightning - 12(!)
Fire - 7
thrust - 5
frost/dark - 5
slash/strike - 4
poison/toxic/bleed - 2

Use lightning, boys

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Shouldn't Champion Gundyr be marked with the little 2 for "this bossfight is not optional for the "End of Fire" ending, but optional for all others.." as well?

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i have fought the dancer and won right after deacons of the deep

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dork suls tree on steroids

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can somebody help me get the vertebra shackles please, you summon me, I kill you and you get a lot of souls, my psn is The_Duke_MK44

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Any advice on how to take down wolnir I’m too much of a ***** to fight him

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God I can’t wait for elden ring

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Wait ive killed all bosses (dlc not included)

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I've won but at what cost...

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Anyone with ps4 wanna help with the demon king?

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Someone with ps4 please help with irithyll I hate this place it makes me wish I never beat wolnir

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I understand you're proud... but literally no one cares how many tries it took you to kill a certain boss

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Why r ppl saying that the dancer is hard my first playthrough it took me 3 tries and my second i did it first try

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I hope I don't get flack for this, but after well over 1000 hours of this game, Midir is simply not difficult, all his moves are obvious and telegraphed. The explosion is not that big when he switches to second phase.

All his moves you can simply roll out of in between his legs or out of range, for lasers just run to the left or right and close to him, run to the tail when he does the fire underneath himself. Obviously, his flying fire is easy to avoid if you run to the left. I did this fight with around 376 AR on a straight sword, no problem. The fight just takes longer in higher ng cycles or if you're underpowered severely.

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*equips great soul dreg 2300 damage build* im coming for your ass, ng+6

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killed them all after 62 hours of sufffering
the hardest bosses definitely are: gael drakeater midir aldrich twin princes dragon slayer armour and abyss watchers these are all hard when i beated some of them like gael or thr dragon it took me 10 minutes to beleive it

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Came here to check out the resistances because I'm think about doing a Luck/status effect run. But Wolir is listed as immune to Poison/Toxic, and I know for a fact that he's not (you can use Poison/Toxic Mist to kill him without triggering the fight).

So, just more proof to not trust the Dextralife wiki.

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There should be a boss-fight only mode

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Demon Prince itself is not weak to dark, in fact dark did very little damage. The 1st part of the 2 demons can be damage with dark.

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All these bosses weakness doesn't make sense, same goes for the regular enemies, as if FormSoftware just randomly put a weakness to each of them.

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Man the dancer on my fourth play through I hate how she can jump

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Man I got destroyed by champion gunder on my fourth plat through uh midir

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the Nameless king can be staggered in both phases

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Ds3 bosses in a nutshell

Iudex: Pus of man warm up
Vordt: CAKE
Greatwood: Acid diarrhea and ballsacs
Crystal Sage: Wanna see me cast 3 spells at once?
Abyss watchers: Badass fight
High Lord Wolnir: Vaping is bad kids
Old demon king: If your 90 year old grandpa tried to fight off a home intruder with a blunt instrument
Deacons of the deep: *laughter intensifies
Pontiff: Hit L2 2 win
Aldrich: I misspelled his name, it should be aldbi*ch
Yhorm: Those knees aren’t gonna last much longer
Dancer: CAKEEE
Dragonslayer armor: We all know we only want his weapon
Oceiros: INSTA CHARGE GO BRR
Champion: BOOT
Twin princes: A cripple and his weird ass brother
Ancient wyvern: just why
Nameless King: Phase 1 camera ftw
Soul of cinder: The pyro falchion will have you screaming

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I can’t believe you guys had trouble with the princes

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There's another sulyvahns beast not listed, right near the water logged entrance to the spider beast cellar

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Pontiff Sulyvahn is so cool

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Wowza, thank you kind fextralife for giving my parry information on every ringed city boss except the most important one

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Kinda annoyed that it took 9 of the 19 bosses for the first heavy hitter.

But man, the Pontiff made me feel like that little boy being bent over by the Pursuer all over again.
Almost as good as the Old Dragon Slayer.... Almost

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Everyone needs to understand that souls games randomise the boss encounters so you could easily beat sulyvahn one playthrough an the next playthrough he's the hardest in the game so that way every encounter despite already killing the boss in a previous playthrough is unique or even challenging therefore you can't simply say a boss is the hardest or easy I person got my ass beaten to a pulp by the dragon slayer armour and even got a friend to get to my level an use my gear to see if it randomises now it took me about 6 tries to kill him my mate did it first go so the experience in a souls game is always different no matter what equipment you use

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This page still lists Darkeater Midir as weak to "Mercury", however the spell was renamed to Pestilent Mist, so this page needs to be edited.

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Git gud its 2021.

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not one single boss is weak to magic?

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I beat midir first try ha

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I hate why the dancer is so strong

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the boss in of yeah

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So it turns out you can parry Dragonslayer Armour. Not sure how useful it is, but yeah

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This game is cakewalk if you beat Sekiro first -_-

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Nameless King was joke. Expected this boss to be the hardest

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Champion gundyr is easy as hell

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I really want to play that game again...

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Put pictures for dlc bosses plz

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Nameless king wasn't that hard.

**** Champion Gundyr tho...

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> ng+3
> NLK, dancer, champion Gundyr, SOC, midir, Gael, Friede all these bosses first try
> Died to crystal sage, deacons of the deep and Aldrich
> Sed lyf :(

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Under the mini-boss/special encounter shouldn’t the following also be included:

Fire Demon - Fought in the undead settlement with Siegward

Wyvern - Fought at archdragon peak after the ancient Wyvern boss fight

Giants - Cathedral & Irithyll Dungeon


I say this because they’re all large, high health enemies that don’t respawn after you kill them. Which seems to be the theme for all of the enemies in that section

A case can also be made for the Ravenous Crystal Lizards too

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easy

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joe mum

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**** Aldrich and his arrows

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A while ago a picture of a boss concept art was shown, called "The Dirty Beast". It's a very Bloodborne looking boss. The strongest beasts in Bloodborne usually had religious titles such as "cleric" or "vicar". On this boss list one of these sounds very similar: Pontiff Sulyvahn. This boss even has a ring named after it called "Pontiff's Left Eye", the description explains that he turns people into frenzied beasts ... Both of those things played a huge role in Bloodborne. It only makes perfect sense.

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do i have to play with crystal sage?

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Nameless king took my ass virginity

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gb hx

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People seriously had trouble with the Champion Gundyr? I beat him on my first try. Lorian was a complete nightmare though.

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who do you think the hardest boss be

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