Top 10 Hardest Soulsborne Bosses (Including Elden Ring)

Today we rank the top 10 hardest bosses of the Souls Series, including Elden Ring, Sekiro, and Bloodborne. Let me know your top 10 list down below!

Thanks to Brad for the thumbnail!

Intro: 0:00
Criteria: 0:54
Honorable Mentions: 1:39
10: 2:54
9: 3:49
8: 4:51
7: 5:22
6: 6:17
5: 7:35
4: 8:21
3: 9:34
2: 10:38
1: 11:48

[leonhgmn]

I see why you wouldn't include the Soldier of Godrick. He would obliterate this ranking by merely looking at the other bosses.

[Obelg]

Malenia was definetly one of the hardest soulsborne bosses for me too... Until I figured out how to dodge the you-know-what attack. after that I realized she had a second phase and now she is the hardest souls boss for me

[sauce]

Malenia is the only boss that made me dream about beating her. After 2 days of trying and failing I had an actual dream of me killing her, it was one of those super realistic dreams that make you wonder if it really happened. Took me a good 10 mins after waking up to realize that it was just a dream.

[oinkonik]

it’s crazy how everyone has such different experiences with bosses. I consider Ludwig the hardest I’ve faced and beat friede in about 9/10 tries

[matttake]

For me Midir is such a weird one, it feels so unbeatable at first, but when you understand the fight it becomes one of the easiest bosses to beat without taking damage in all DS3

[baldingsan]

Malenia was meant to be in Sekiro but accidentally ended up in Elden Ring. She’s like an OP Lady Maria that demands the finesse of Isshin. Amazing fight still, took me like three days

[ciferlu]

To this day I have not beaten Malenia without summoning something to help. She is by far one of the most insane bosses, and honestly I think it's earned. You earn the fight you want by traversing all the way through Commander Niall's fort, Consecrated Snowfield, and the Haligtree, 3 TOTALLY OPTIONAL AREAS. You get what you wanted after all that.

[mrstrawhat]

Malekith was weird for me, I had an easier time with his second phase than his first phase. Something about his pace just clicked with me.

[jwake]

I had much more difficulty with the owl father than Demon of Hatred, but the hardest boss for me is Soldier of Godrick, no contest.

[hakuhyo]

I found Isshin much harder than Malenia. It’s less about difficulty of bosses, but strength of your character. You have much more freedom in Elden Ring when it comes to build and strength of your character, so you can “cheese” Malenia with all sort of OP build but that’s not the case in Sekiro, in which you have to play fair and square as the developer intended. This is why after you beat a boss in Sekiro, you can come back and reliably beat it again and again…because you’ve truly master the fight.

[thefrontlineplans]

Elden ring was my first soulsborn game, and when I fought Malenia for the first time, I just remember laughing at how difficult she was. I got pretty lucky and beat her a little after two hours, but it was still one of the biggest challenges I’ve ever faced in gaming.

[hunkRE]

Its really fun to read everyone’s experiences! I literally breezed through nameless king, gael, friede knowing theyd be difficult but struggled hard on bosses like midir, ludwig, and kos.

[vycanismajoris]

10. Rune Bear
9. Rune Bear
8. Rune Bear
7. Rune Bear
6. Rune Bear
5. Rune Bear
4. Rune Bear
3. Rune Bear
2. Rune Bear
1. Rune Bear

Honorable mention: FUCK Elden Ring

[Jellyisamazing]

Malenia was so hard man, figuring out the waterfowl was one of the biggest challenges. And summons are basically free health restoration for her. Took me over 100 tries and a week, but i found that you had to be hyper aggressive in her first phase and take advantage of her being idle at times, looking forward to facing her again

[fallnwolvs]

I actually personally haven't found Malekith to be too difficult. He's a rather enjoyable fight in my opinion and after a few good tries something kinda just clicked with me

[WannabePlayer]

These were all really tough bosses, the Orphan definitely took me more attempts than Malenia, but at the same time I felt like I got lucky when I beat Malenia, whereas I did feel like the Orphan was manageable - it just took practice and patience. No boss has ever killed me more times than Amygdala in the Defiled Chalice Dungeon though; that was a painful experience.

Laurence destroyed me for a while too, that was another fight where I felt like I got lucky as much as anything else.

[RealSICKOMODE]

I’m so glad that canonically malekith is so powerful. It’s the reason he was able to protect the rune of death because no one could beat him.

[cob]

I feel like Laurence, the first vicar doesn't get enough recognition as a challenging boss. That guy can be ridiculously frustrating

[arthurangelo]

I defeated Malenia a few minutes ago and my God… I felt the same as you about defeating her and thinking it was a lucky shot. Though she did the spin a bunch of times, my man Oleg helped me till her mid life on second phase. He died and my hopes where almost lost. But then, God smiled for me and my holy jump attack with double twinblades granted me victory. Bro, i literally left my food freezing to fight this dumbass, thinking it would last no more than 15 minutes. I was hours wrong hahahaha

[GirGirGirGir]

Malenia is merciless when you first encounter her but after dying more than a 100 times and memorize her moves, she’s not so bad lol