Ranking the Most Overrated FromSoft Bosses!

Hey all, just to clarify for this video, the term Overrated can create a lot of toxicity, so I'm being very upfront when I say I LIKE ALL OF THE BOSSES IN TODAY'S VIDEO! Some of them are in My Top 5 of their respective games - Instead, the way I approached this topic was "Does it feel like the rest of the world likes this boss way more than I do?" It's less "Oh, this boss is overrated, it sucks", and more "Oh, this boss gets love I don't fully comprehend, but I'm willing to learn."

Yhorm is a surprise pick to me because I've never seen anyone praise the fight itself. Like everytime I've seen Yhorm discussed it's as one of the lowlights in DS3 and one of the worst gimmick fights in the series, which I agree with, though it's not baddddd

I like how we get a glimpse of the troll side of you before every reveal. Not malicious, just mischievous.

I think that Gwyn is more overrated than O&S

Damn I’d consider Lady Maria to be way more overrated than Ludwig imo. I don’t hate her fight (I love it, in fact), but I think it gets way more praise than it deserves when you can parry her ass to high Heaven and make it one of the easiest fights in the game, while not parrying makes the third phase feel like absolute bullshit since you often take a lot of damage you have no control over due to the wonky hit boxes of the fire. Love her lore though, and her music is incredible, but she’s far from the best boss in Bloodborne (Orphan and Gehrman for life, bitcheeesssss).

For me, in Dark Souls 3 I think that The Nameless King is overrated to a certain extent - and that purely comes down to the first phase. The second phase is brilliant, intense and really fun to learn. The first phase, in my experience at least, is just a battle with the camera most of the time and really brings down the enjoyment of the fight.

Ornstein is so janky with that move where he flys at you. Sometimes he will get caught on a pillar then it will send him flying randomly all over the place. I’ve never liked that fight.

Finally somebody who understands my frustration with Hoarah Loux. Having a moveset that is 75% one-shot grabs and 25% delayed attacks that are just meant to catch you rolling on mistimed inputs is very annoying. Feel like they could’ve really really polished up the 2nd phase better.

Billy, we're throwing hands with this list haha

Dark Souls II- People say Velstadt is one of the few good bosses in the base game, but his moveset is not at all interesting and neither is his arena. His weapon concept is really cool, but that's about it. Darklurker was a much better fight. Bloodborne- Lady Maria. She is just really squishy. I beat her on my 3rd try, compared to Living Failures who I died 20+ times to. And even my younger brother beat her on his first try after suffering against the Living Failures. She is still an S tier fight in my book, but this is a case where overhyping a boss (Maria) and underselling a boss (Failures) really hurt my expectations for these bosses. Dark Souls III- So on my first playthrough of DS3, I have been hearing that the final boss of the Ringed City is one of the best bosses in the series, one of the hardest bosses, and the perfect ending to the trilogy. And when I finally got to Slave Knight Gael, I liked Sister Friede better. She was harder and more interesting to me, and even Demon Prince and Midir were harder, whereas I beat Gael on my 8th try. I even liked Soul of Cinder as an ending better since, by huge coincidence, his pyromancy curved sword build was like my build with Quelaag's curved sword in DS and his mage build was like my mage + greatsword build in DS2. I think if I heard nothing of Gael, I'd like him more, but on my first playthrough I just felt blue balled by the fandom. Still solid, S tier, but my god is he overhyped. Elden Ring- Radahn. I never played him pre-nerf, but he couldn't have been THAT different. His gimmick is cool, but it also causes his health to melt so I don't do it. His attacks whiff me a LOT, and riding torrent makes the fight more fun for me anyways.

Ludwig overrated ?? Terrible take

My personal reason for liking Hoarah Loux is in fact how insane his moveset is, it's a constant back and forth between you and him, his delayed moveset encourages you to sneak a hit or two before dodging and maintain agression, as well as giving you an opening to regenerate stamina. also, getting suplexed by this seemingly noble and rightous guy was absolutely hillarious when I first played this game. And I have to also dissagree with Owl (Father), It's hard to describe, but the Father version honestly feels sneakier than Great Shinobi, as well as much more intense. The teleporting, the switch up on his sword slam attack, the teleporting of the Inner version, and I love that his pet owl flies over the camera on Phase 2. It's almost like a song and dance between two powerful warriors, who are now on equal footing.

Lady Maria is surely more overrated than Ludwig! Her soundtrack is great but defo weaker and less memorable than Ludwig's or Laurence's, and she's just another hunter, when you've been fighting those all over the place and by the DLC you're prepared. And I've never met anyone who had any trouble with her and didn't kill her in two or three tries max. Over too soon to be as memorable as everyone makes her. Plus during the game you barely hear of her so when the DLC pops in you hear about her only in the lab right before her boss fight, whereas Ludwig is a name you hear about during the entire original game (Gehrman mentions him in his sleep, a sword is named after him with lore given in the description, etc.) So finally seeing him is peak lore moment.

Rhadan. The buildup and anticipation are spectacular. And his visual design is sooooo cool. But I dont think his fight is that fun. The run-up is tedious. You have to get off your horse to dodge the purple arrows. You sometimes cant outpace the trailing arrows if you dont start running soon enough. And you cant outpace them on foot but you also have to get off your horse to dodge the arrow spread he shoots. I just really can believe this is what Fromsoftware intended. But worst of all he has the same problem all big bosses have... I cant see what hes doing. His moveset isnt complicated. But have the time ill get hit because his swords are off screen and idk when to dodge. I love and hate Rhadan

Because of the depth of lies of p, it would be cool to see at least some slight thoughts on their bosses imo. Like I'm super interested to hear what overrated boss you'd choose for it and for other souls videos as well. Please consider this!

Ok here me out here, but i think Abyss Watchers are heavily overrated

YAAAAAS WE'RE AT 19.1K WERE SO CLOSE (also i love your content!)

Quick question, when are you planning to rank the best souls theme? ( take your time of course)

The godfrey thing killed me he is my fav of all time

Gael is so overrated its not even funny. He does like the same 3 moves over and over again for like 5 minutes. I get so bored fighting him. The lore and atmosphere is amazing tho