Bosses are unique and powerful enemies in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. Defeating bosses affects the world of Lordran, limiting multiplayer invasions and progressing flags in NPC questlines. Bosses can only be defeated once in your own world, but you may join and assist other players with their battles by going online. Keep in mind that special dropped weapons from boss tails can only be obtained in your own world. You can also receive a Boss Soul to create Boss Soul Weapons when you defeat your own world's bosses.
This page compiles the list of boss encounters, as well as some mini-bosses and non-respawning enemies through the game. Strategies for defeating them are found on their respective pages. See also Enemies.
You can find our video guides for all bosses here:
Area Bosses
These Demons are mostly located at the end of each area. They are distinguishable by the fact that their Name, and health-bar, shows up at the bottom of the screen. The battles also takes place in arenas, blocked by fog-gates.
- Not all bosses are mandatory for game completion. Optional bosses have an * marker next to their name on the list.
- Several bosses can be skipped if following a specific, advanced Game Progress Route.
- The Demon Firesage can be skipped only if you are in the Chaos Servant Covenant (Rank 2).
- We have not added a * to bosses that may be skipped via cheating, exploits or other non-intended mechanics.
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As much as I love some of these bosses they definitely are the weakest of the soulsborne bosses ( I haven’t played ds2 yet so I can’t say for them) I struggle to find a main game boss I truly loved fighting. Iron golem was the most fun of the main game bosses for me and gwyn was cool besides for that one fast slash that has like a 3 frame windup. The DLC bosses were good though. Bloodborne ds3 and elden ring’s main bosses definitely beat them in quality overall in my opinion.
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If I had a nickel for every dark souls 1 boss fought on a bridge...
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there is a shortcut that allows you to not have to fight capra demon and gaping dragon
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Am I the only one not seeing any bosses here ?
I think the page is bugged.
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the ranking below is an arbitrary list i swear to god it doesn't make sense easiest to hardest or hardest to easiest
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Bosses ranked from easiest to hardest: Ornstein And Smough. Gwyn. Tie Between Four Kings, Seath The Scaleless, Bed Of Chaos, Gravelord Nito, Black Dragon Kalameet, And Manus. Knight Artorias. Tie Between Iron Golem, Dark Sun Gwyndolin, Sif, And Centipede Demon. Tie Between Crossbreed Priscilla And Sanctuary Guardian. Gaping Dragon. Tie Between Chaos Witch Quelaag, Stray Demon, Ceaseless Discharge, And Demon Firesage. Pinwheel. Tie Between Bell Gargoyles And Moonlight Butterfly. Capra Demon. Taurus Demon. Asylum Demon.
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They legit had to disable comments on Gwyndolin's page because so many people were being transphobic.
I can't tell if this is funny or just kinda sad
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Sucks that theres no achievments in Dark Souls remastered for dlc bosses? Awesome game though, didnt expect it to be sad. :´(
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Lmao, The Elden Ring fanbois trying to calm themselves by calling DS1 & DS2 bosses trash after seeing how most players didn't like ER bosses. Like why do you think this genre is called Souls-like, not Elden-like, or something else? it is only thanks to the success of the first 2 games that even ER exists.
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The sound your weapon makes when you attack a boss makes me coom
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I just skipped the taurus demon.
Go kill havel and unlock door with master key,go forward until a way up and a way down,go for the down kill black knight and take shield on corpse and go upward to darkroot garden and go to andre
But I don't recommed it because it's more difficult than fighting him
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Four Kings, Seath, Nito and Bed of chaos are optional If you do a certain skip to the kiln of the first flame
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DS1 definitely has the best map of the series so far, love exploring the world, but going back, I find the bosses to be a lot less fun. They really improved their boss design in the later games.
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stupid bosses all exsept qulaag because the chest right it is the best thing in life and the game
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So far, my least favorite boss to fight was demon Firesage, because i you were near him, the aoe attacks were impossible to dodge.
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My favorite is the 4 kings. They have all 4 aspects that i think a perfect boss needs.
1.music : the music is amazing
2.the atmosphere : the arena is just the abyss ( i belive) and you can't really see anything and it scares the **** out of you.
3.lore : i won't go to detail,just look it up.
4.the gameplay : the kings have high health and scary and powerful attacks,you are always trying to kill one of them before another spawns in.
I love this boss
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Google this 'Gwyn, Lord of Cinder Gothic Music Version' and listen to Gwyn theme played on a church organ!!!
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Hey, little tip for everyone, the dark sun Gwendolyn page has been a favorite hangout for transphobes, do not listen to them, they’re opinions are not valid, also if there are any transgender people reading this keep living your truth, you are perfect just the way you are
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No Sanctuary Guardian, no Artorias, no Manus, no Kalameet, and no torch hollow.
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I only accept one ending for this game, the one shown here: 'Solaire Ending - Solaire finds his very own sun ! Dark Souls 1 Secret Ending'
P.S.: do not let your children watch it for the Sun's sake...
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People need to stop looking up how to defeat bosses and just keep on trying until you get the hang of it.
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Hi I need some advice. Should I be focusing more on dodging or blocking? Ds1 is my second souls game after ds3. For me dodging was more effective than blocking in 3 so much that I quit shields past Abyss watchers but in 1 it seems the other way around. Also managing equip load for quick rolls is just killing me.
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hum... I had no idea who's Crossbreed Priscilla, they're so much bosses I fight until NG+
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Wait, is the Hydra in that grassy place not considered a boss? I guess it doesn't have that health bar on the bottom but whatever.
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Atrocious bosses, thank god they started improving in DS2.
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Every dark souls boss in a nutshell:
Asylum Demon: "we never forgot the first"
Taurus Demon: R U N
Bell Gargoyles: where we learned to summon//"the true dark souls starts here"
Moonlight Butterfly: Melee's most boring fight
Capra Demon: the most bullshit fight, small arena with THREE fast and agressive enemies
Gaping Dragon: toothy pu***
Quelaag: "amazing chest ahead"
Stray Demon: Asylum Demon but B O O M
Pinwheel: hardest boss
Iron Golen: Tarkus! Tarkus! Tarkus!
Ornstein and Smough: COME ON AND SLAM!!
Crossbreed Priscilla: fluffy tail waifu
Gwyndolin: trap ahead
Seath: getting there is harder than killing him
Sif: ;-;
Four Kings: *NG+ ptsd intensifies*
Nito: Spooky scary...
Ceaseless Discharge: "wt* is this name??"
Demon Firesage: Asylum Demon but hotter
Centipede Demon:"MY EYEEEES!!!"
Bed of Chaos: shitty plataform boss
Gwyn: *plin plin plon*
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Thanks I’m stuck in Ornstein and Smough got any extra tips/ an easy way to cheese? Thanks!
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Imma be honest, DS1 has the worst bosses in the series. Out of 22 bosses, only 3 of them are really good (O&S, Gwyn, and Sif). Demon souls and DS3 had less overall bosses but they were alot more unique and fun to fight, DS2 didn't have many good bosses but at least there was a large amount of them, and BB had quantity and quality. DS1 doesn't have either of those
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So many bad bosses, some aren't even really bosses. Love you the most DS1, you're still the best "Dark Souls" game.
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Gwyn hardest boss. Beaten all bosses in 1-5 trys but gwyn still **** boss. yOU cAn PaRry HIm. I would say thats poor mindset
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Wanna see Solaire's true ending and see Solaire beating all Dark souls series bosses ? Look for 'All Dark Souls 1,2 & 3 Bosses in NG+9 vs Solaire of Astora' and praise the sun one last time!
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Ceaseless Discharge is optional too once you place the Lordvessel and are ready to do some sequence-breaking parkour and not having a bonfire to rest at before Demon Firesage / Lost Izalith.
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This game took over my life. It was a games with gold download on Xbox 360. Couldn't stop thinking about it. I did 2 playthroughs and when that was done I moved on.
Nothing I have played since has given me the same feeling of accomplishment.
It is a very special game that lives on in my memory.
Cheers.
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New players: I’mma show this game who’s boss
When they’re done: I hurt myself today... to see if I still feel...
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Ceaseless is optional, it's just more effort to skip him than fight him.
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*****, pinwheel was hard I was stuck on him for 6 months the attack where he stares at the wall and doesn't do anything was devastating
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Does anyone else feel like the HP pool's of a lot of DSR boss fights are a bit two low? (and no I'm not a dark bead one shot) The final boss of DSR has around 4,000 hp. To compare DS3's final boss has almost 11,000!. I did a build with the claymore and my AR was a 467 and i was able to end most of the fights in less than a minute
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I'm making a D&D campain and video game bosses (undertale, terraria, dark soul) are coming into the fantasy world and this helped alot becuase I dont really know all of the bosses from dark souls
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Easymode: - Black Iron Greatshield - Pike (or any other spear) - Gold-Hemmed Black Set
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Wait why do you have to fight grey wolf? I thought he was optional???
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Looking back on ds1 now made me realize most of the bosses sucked
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Who's bright idea was it to readjust all the pages and NOT list all the boss weaknesses anymore? Like for real I can't check what's weak to bleed anymore. Thanks for making me use the actual wikipedia which sucks compared to what this site used to be.
How can I find out which bosses bleed and which ones don't? I am trying to decide to either upgrade the Lifehunt Scythe or the Quelagg's FurySword first. I don't want to do the Lifehunt Scythe first if not a lot of bosses bleed.
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Why arent they in order?? Wheres astorias??? Im ao confused ;-;
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To reminisce that I've defeated them all..really like a journey to hell and back
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Four Kings suck. Why do I have to remove my Havel's Ring just to fight them? And the trek back from Firelink to New Londo is so painful and boring. I hate New Londo in general, the ghosts are dumb. Almost as bad as Izalith.
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My top favorite/most memorable bosses in order: Gwyn at number one, Smough and Ornstein tied with Bell Gargoyle for second/third, and Quelaag in fourth.
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Wait so you're saying that the taurus demon is optional but the bell gargoyles aren't? But how can that be you have to kill the taurus demon in order to get there.
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Seath the Scaleless. More like Seath "take the most annoying path to the most annoying bossfight in the entire game" What a bull***t
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moonlight butterfly isn't hard but it's annoying as ***** anyone can agree
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Does anyone know the name of the techno song that plays at the end of the boss guide videos? Fextralife doesn't include it in the description of their videos and I've been looking forever.
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you can also skip capra demon if you have master key to go for the shortcut for blighttown
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Why did they put Centipede Demon and Demon Firesage as optional? Without any skips you need to kill those two.
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I put the validity of the information on this site on question as the environment in Blight Town, Crystal Cave and Sen's fortress has not been put forward as a Boss....
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Going back to this game brings back so much nostalgia after playing ds2, ds3, sekiro, elden ring, and bloodborne after beating this and the bosses still hold their own
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