What is the hardest boss fight in video games for you?

[Yanrima~]

I wanted to ask this question because I'm basically interested in your thoughts on bosses that just wants you to retry or just plain rage-inducing for you. (SHMUP and souls games have automatically hard bosses by default.)

Mine has to be inner Agent 3 from Octo Expansion because the wide range of attacks as well as the fact that the stage is small so you don't have much spaces to move.

 

[Rainy.Nights]

Hollow Knight has some of the hardest bosses I've ever seen in a game. I was seriously at the limits of my patience with some of these. I eventually managed to beat a majority of them, most dream bosses included. But some like the radiance took me Idk how many hours of tries, and apparently it has a harder version?? And the pantheons are just ridiculous, I decided it was too frustrating to even want to keep going after finishing the first one.

 

[rocketspruggs]

Cuphead has the hardest boss fights ever for me, I only managed to ever complete at least one or two of those.

 

[Dunquixote]

Cuphead has the hardest boss fights ever for me, I only managed to ever complete at least one or two of those.

Same! I’m not very far in Cuphead because the bosses and other stages are too hard for me. I think I only cleared one or two. Both took many retries.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Arceus in Legends: I keep having trouble getting close enough to throw the incense at it while avoid its attacks.

Star Dream OS EX: I keep coming so close to taking it out so I can fight the true final boss but always end up getting hit by the debris the computer throws at Halberd Kirby.

Every Cuphead Boss except the Root Pack: I’m just awful at the game.

Phantom Ganon and Gloom Hands: I keep becoming overwhelmed by these things.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

Any Kirby true final boss, but ESPECIALLY Star Dream Soul. I just cannot get past the 2nd phase (the NOVA phase), whereas for Soul of Sectonia and Void (the other True Arena bosses i've beaten), I've beaten them on the first try (although Void was tough)
(I don't mention Chaos Elfilis because he's just a recolor of Fecto)

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Any Kirby true final boss, but ESPECIALLY Star Dream Soul. I just cannot get past the 2nd phase (the NOVA phase), whereas for Soul of Sectonia and Void (the other True Arena bosses i've beaten), I've beaten them on the first try (although Void was tough)
(I don't mention Chaos Elfilis because he's just a recolor of Fecto)

I found Sectonia Soul to be extremely easy if you keep using Leaf’s invulnerable Leaf Hide whenever she attacks and pop up as soon as she is finished. I was extremely surprised when I defeated her because I was not expecting the fight to be so easy. Forgotten Land’s true final boss isn’t too bad if you learn to recognize the attacks and their range. I think I defeated that boss using the Morpho Knight Sword. Void I haven’t tried yet because I haven’t unlocked all of the harder difficulties as the default Hard Arena I still struggle with.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

I found Sectonia Soul to be extremely easy if you keep using Leaf’s invulnerable Leaf Hide whenever she attacks and pop up as soon as she is finished. I was extremely surprised when I defeated her because I was not expecting the fight to be so easy. Forgotten Land’s true final boss isn’t too bad if you learn to recognize the attacks and their range. I think I defeated that boss using the Morpho Knight Sword. Void I haven’t tried yet because I haven’t unlocked all of the harder difficulties as the default Hard Arena I still struggle with.

Void's really easy once you get his patterns down. I always go with Adeleine as my player character for Void runs, as her guard works similar to Leaf's Leaf Hide and her Friend Ability gives healing, which is always welcome. I think I used either Masked Hammer or Space Ranger for Chaos Elfilis, as I didn't have enough Rare Stones to get Morpho Sword (this was before I 100% completed Forgotten Land) I don't remember what I used for Sectonia, but I think it was Stone. I also use Stone to carry me through most of Robobot's TA, but I ditch it for a damaging Copy Ability like Ice or Archer (I have to use my Duck Hunt amiibo to get Archer should I lose Ice)

 

[Coach]

Despite being known for its difficulty, the only Cuphead boss I really struggled with was the robot. I haven't played the DLC yet though so maybe some of the new ones I'd struggle with a bit more (also I played before charge shot got nerfed)

Normally I'm bad at enemy encounters rather than bosses themselves, to be honest. I try and rush things / try a quick method or mess up many times in a row - Far cry 3 encampments come to mind.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

Also, I'm speaking for the Pokemon community here when I say this, but the Volo fight can go die in a hole and suffer. I HATED that fight. I had to grind my ENTIRE TEAM to late 80s-early 90s (My shiny Ninetales, Pixie, even got to level 100), and I STILL had to attempt the fight multiple times (stupid Giratina fake-out and not letting me heal in-between phases...)

 

[SkyKnight03]

Mike Tyson in the original Punch Out game.

I don't have the reaction speed to ever beat this. He also attacks at random intervals, so there's no memorizing him either.

 

[matt]

Darkrai in explorers of time / darkness

 

[QueenCobra]

The Elite Four are always tough to me, in any game…. Maybe I suck at Pokémon, but that’s the truth!

Bowletta/Cackletta in Superstar Saga

The final Ganon in BOTW

That armadillo thing in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. (I beat it, but it was frustrating.)

Back when my dad had Doom for the Ps1 I thought all the “bosses” were tough, then again I was a little kid lol.

 

[lasagne_of_death]

Every single boss fight there is. They give me anxiety, so I find them extremely hard even though they could be really easy

 

[-Blue-]

Probably any boss that is tanky or bullet-spongey when it doesn't make sense. Example the bosses in Dead Rising are unrealistically and artificially difficult. Seeing some random human 'boss' tank a ton of shotgun shells to the face really breaks the immersion.

 

[Midoriya]

Probably any boss that is tanky or bullet-spongey when it doesn't make sense. Example the bosses in Dead Rising are unrealistically and artificially difficult. Seeing some random human 'boss' tank a ton of shotgun shells to the face really breaks the immersion.

Yeah, those are always annoying. Reminds me of the Scott Bingington soccer video from years ago where he keeps blocking the ball with his face.

For me I'd say probably any boss that requires insane amounts of combos in order to defeat, and where you also can't take too many hits. I tried completing a special challenge battle in one of the gachas I play and eventually gave up on it because of how ridiculous it was to try and S rank it.

 

[LambdaDelta]

htol#niq's shadow parents fight

 

[Neb]

I'm pretty bad at most video games and struggle with most bosses. Out of all of them, none made me more frustrated than every miniboss or boss fight in the Souls series. Their attack chains are often fast and long. I tend to rush fights when I play games, and you can't do that with Souls bosses. You have to take your time and get your attacks in quickly. Beating any boss in those games feels amazing, though.

 

[Rainy.Nights]

htol#niq's shadow parents fight

Oh yeah that one was just torture, I actually stopped playing it right there after trying way too many times. That whole game was pretty frustrating.

 

[skarmoury]

Mine has to be inner Agent 3 from Octo Expansion because the wide range of attacks as well as the fact that the stage is small so you don't have much spaces to move.

lol same, was about to say that too. I still have yet to finish it as I only tried for like 2 days then just gave up. Doesn't help that S3 is my first splatoon game so I'm still trying to adjust to S2 controls. Maybe I'll take a swing at it again soon.

I also had a hard time with Sans in Undertale, last time i played was like 7 years ago? and i could not beat his very last attack. put down the game since then and ive never finished it either lol.

im also embarrassed to admit that i had a really hard time with the Terapagos battle for some reason. before that point majority of the fights were easy, heck BB League and Kieran were easy for me with my well-built team, but Terapagos was kicking my ass LMAO. i went in blind so i had absolutely no idea how the turtle pokemon worked and it was dealing 100+ hp damage to my pokemon every turn so i was very. very panicky. when i searched online it seemed people didnt find it hard so i feel there was something about Terapagos i didnt know/understand oops