The 10 WORST Souls Bosses

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6/5/2024

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00:00 Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're counting down our picks for the Soulsborne bosses that

00:09 let us down, let the genre down, but most importantly, let themselves down.

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00:28 Royal Rat Authority - Dark Souls 2

00:38 There's not a Souls fan on this planet that enjoys bosses whose difficulty rests not on

00:42 its moveset, but the amount of minions it spawns to do the dirty work for them.

00:46 And they don't come dirtier than this pack of vermin.

00:49 The large rat certainly packs a bite, but the worst thing about it is the sheer number

00:53 of smaller rats that surround it, all ready to inflict a poison status effect on the player.

00:59 Enjoy your kingdom of rat droppings, you jerks!

01:06 Godskin Duo - Elden Ring

01:08 There's an art to a 2 on 1 Soulsborne boss fight.

01:17 Everything has to be finely tuned, the two bosses in question need to complement one

01:21 another and there still needs to be options that the players can exploit as to not get

01:25 overwhelmed.

01:26 Then there's the Godskin Duo.

01:28 Two previous bosses slapped together, stuffed into a tight arena with health bars all over

01:33 the place.

01:34 It's so mismatched and so aggravating that there's no shame in busting out the spirit

01:39 ashes to level the playing field.

01:47 Growling Magus and Congregation - Dark Souls 2

01:56 Fair warning, there's going to be a lot of Dark Souls 2 bosses here, and how can there

02:00 not be when they're offering up slop like this?

02:03 In a long line of bosses that should have been just regular enemies, we've got this

02:07 gaggle of inept monsters that aren't so much challenging as they are target practice.

02:12 Sure, a couple of the Congregation can throw bolts of magic, but they're easily avoided.

02:17 The lumbering undead are as basic as it gets, whereas the Magus barely lasts a minute when

02:22 you start hacking and slashing.

02:23 Well that was a waste of time.

02:31 Folding Screen Monkeys - Sekiro - Shadows Die Twice

02:41 We get what they were going for here, we do.

02:44 It just would have been cool if this were an actual boss battle, as opposed to a game

02:48 of hide-seek and slaughter.

02:50 Each of the three monkeys are masters at disguising themselves, which means instead of focusing

02:54 on combat, you're grappling around the arena in search of them.

02:58 There are clues to assist you, sure, but that doesn't take away how aggravating it can

03:02 be lunging around on what feels like a wild goose chase.

03:05 Needless to say, we were happy the ordeal was over when we made a shinobi shish kebab

03:09 out of the last primate.

03:16 Covetous Demon - Dark Souls 2 One of the most uninspired bosses to ever

03:26 dump itself into the Souls franchise, the Covetous Demon is known for two things - throwing

03:31 its weight around, and being way too easy for an undead to cut into.

03:35 Sure, you can get careless and there's a chance you'll get caught under all that demonic

03:39 girth, but even then, the fight itself just feels lazy when compared to every other hellish

03:44 monster that has come before, and after.

03:47 Speed running through this boss feels more like a mercy than an accomplishment.

03:55 Moonlight Butterfly - Dark Souls There's no shortage of airborne enemies

04:07 to overcome across the Souls series, though most of them allow for some way for the player

04:11 to land a hit.

04:12 But not this behemoth of a bug, at least not at first.

04:17 Unless you're primed with magic, it's going to be impossible to strike at the butterfly,

04:20 while it in turn will continually barrage you until it decides to casually lean in,

04:26 finally allowing you to strike back.

04:28 Stage the whole thing on a bridge, and you've got a recipe for one aggravating boss that

04:33 Melee builds quickly learn to despise.

04:42 Ancient Dragon - Dark Souls 2 Out of all the dragons ever conjured up by

04:54 FromSoft, none have infuriated players more than this withered lizard.

04:59 Given that it barely moves and just breathes fire, you'd think it would make for a rather

05:03 easy brawl.

05:04 It is not.

05:05 For one, the Ancient Dragon's health pool is enormous, making it the spongiest of damaged

05:11 sponges, all the while its fire breath completely covers the area to an outrageous extent, made

05:17 all the worse since it attacks from off screen.

05:19 It's an arduous encounter, with the only positive aspect being that it's entirely

05:24 optional.

05:30 Mikolash - Host of the Nightmare - Bloodborne You know you're the weak link in a chain

05:41 when we'd rather take on eldritch horrors of every shape and sort than one dude with

05:45 a cage on his head.

05:47 What makes Mikolash so awful isn't the breadth of his attacks or a giant health pool, it's

05:51 the fact he keeps running away.

05:54 Get him one or two good hits and he'll skedaddle down one of the numerous hallways, leading

05:58 you on a wild chase on and on, rinse and repeat, until you finally finish him off.

06:04 Next time, leave the hosting duties to someone who can actually hold their own.

06:15 Twin Dragon Riders - Dark Souls 2 What's worse than a highly forgettable,

06:26 poor excuse for a boss fight featuring a slow-moving, tanky armoured knight that's just an oversized

06:31 standard enemy?

06:33 The exact same thing, only now, there's two of them!

06:37 The Dragon Rider was already one of the lamest bosses to ever emerge from behind a fog door,

06:42 but copying and pasting another one ensured that these two would go down as the worst

06:47 double boss fight in Soulsborne history.

06:55 The Bed of Chaos - Dark Souls The first Dark Souls game is many things.

07:07 A landmark title, a shift in the medium, the bedrock that will inspire numerous Soulslikes

07:13 for years to come.

07:14 You know what it isn't?

07:15 A platformer!

07:17 Which sucks, because this boss demands that your chosen undead bounce around the arena

07:22 like Super Mario.

07:23 The Bed of Chaos is infamous for how it has players trying to navigate the right path

07:28 in order to reach the boss's core, something that can only be accomplished by making leaps

07:32 of faith that don't always work out.

07:40 Which of these bosses do you truly despise?

07:43 Let us know in the comments!

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