soooooo I just beat Elden Ring and I'm curious what people found the hardest boss to beat personally. From a brief glance online, it seems Malenia is the top pick, but I'm curious if people feel differently now / there's a stealth competitor.
Malenia was definitely challenging, but once I had a +10 bleed katana, I was able to finish her fight after a break. It just felt like a fight that wants you to take a very specific style of play to it.
I think I want to say Elden Beast, honestly. I couldn't figure out an easy way to manage the fight (I was running a comet azur build, with a moonlight katana as my melee supplement)—it wouldn't sit still long enough for me to set up, it'd kill my summon too fast, and I couldn't get close enough to use transient moonlight often. Radagon isn't difficult himself, but he's a resource drain and an annoyance when you're trying for the final boss. I finally managed to get a lucky run with less awful AI to clean it up.
Special shout out to Elemer of the Briar and Godskin Noble, the two bosses who got me annoyed enough to ask my partner to come co-op with me. It's not so much them, alone—it was the fact their boss fights happen in tiny little rooms. The lack of movement made it soooo much worse for me.
(Poll up with what I figured may be some popular ones! I think I can edit to include more later? Feel free to mention field bosses as well!)
Malenia was definitely challenging, but once I had a +10 bleed katana, I was able to finish her fight after a break. It just felt like a fight that wants you to take a very specific style of play to it.
I think I want to say Elden Beast, honestly. I couldn't figure out an easy way to manage the fight (I was running a comet azur build, with a moonlight katana as my melee supplement)—it wouldn't sit still long enough for me to set up, it'd kill my summon too fast, and I couldn't get close enough to use transient moonlight often. Radagon isn't difficult himself, but he's a resource drain and an annoyance when you're trying for the final boss. I finally managed to get a lucky run with less awful AI to clean it up.
Special shout out to Elemer of the Briar and Godskin Noble, the two bosses who got me annoyed enough to ask my partner to come co-op with me. It's not so much them, alone—it was the fact their boss fights happen in tiny little rooms. The lack of movement made it soooo much worse for me.
(Poll up with what I figured may be some popular ones! I think I can edit to include more later? Feel free to mention field bosses as well!)