u/Fantastic-Traffic463

i know my top 3 is highly controversial but the rest should be pretty agreeable i think?

first off,is any boss that is in my top3 in ur top10? i am curious.

something to note is that I am a huge soundtrack guy,so its probably the second biggest criteria for my ranking of bosses after moveset and rhythm.Lore is probably the weakest factor for my ranking of bosses.

my top5 are all flawed bosses but there is a threshold of peak for me that if a boss exceeds i can forgive all their flaws cuz of how fun the fight is, imo dancing lion is a prime example of this,it has a garbage arena with that stupid staircase that ruins punishes and those small rocks on the ground,lightning breath when it does it at point blank is annoying and ice tail flip is borderline unfair but it is a very rare move that u will barely see,but despite all of that the fight is really fun.

Note that my opinion fluctuates every now and then depending on when i last replayed each game and how much i fought a certain boss,which undoubtedly makes them go higher and lastly elden ring and nightreign are exclusively what i have been playing for the past 1.3k hrs,so there is some recency bias without a doubt,for example if you asked me 9months ago,gael would have been number 1 without a question.

Edit:this is from 1 to 10,I forgot to mention.

51Hrs💀

The kill is not fully optimized but who cares?

Mechanically the Hardest Boss imo and my 2nd fav boss after PCR,but it has its fair share of problems,The Arena is hot garbage,fuck that shitty staircase,The ice tail flip and lightning forward breath are dogshit,but i can forgive lion for all of those flaws since its very very fun to fight.

full fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6g-hZy3PUo

9:16 is literally unstoppable force vs immovable object lol

7hrs of pain lol,pretty much tied with maluka for hardest boss in the game for me,can’t wait to see the rest of the bosses.

Very fun boss to parry,i expected to die alot more since bayle,pcr and lion all beat the crap out of me lol.

Had to cut first 30secs cuz the fight exceeded the 15min time cap lol.

Second hardest souls boss after Pre Nerf PCR imo,pretty much one of the best dragon fights in gaming for me,although i think the forward breath attack needs to get deleted from the game,between bouncing off walls hitting you from behind when properly dodged and having some janky hitboxes it creates inconsistencies in an otherwise very consistent and well made fight.

Got pretty lucky with no cross slashes in phase 2 but i will take it.This took a total of **≈**1800 attempts/ **≈**60hrs experience with the boss,i wanted to see if i could challenge myself more after rl1 took me **≈**25hrs and finally did it,i dont think i will do a harder challenge run for pre nerf pcr in the foreseeable future for my mental wellbeing,but for post nerf maybe who knows.