The best boss in all of video games

That's a strange picture of Radahn

Because 1700HP + 40-50% DR plays very different from 1400 HP + 10-20% DR

It also doesn't help that most weapons has awful R1 and R2 values, which turns a lot of the better tuned fights into slogs if you don't use a good Weapon art, jumping Power stance, or a very high AR weapon.
A lot of the later bosses also have very wonky openings, that often require you to use jump attacks or a partially ranged WA to deal with it.

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But that's not Orphan of Kos

Because a sizeable amount of ER bosses are repurposed content from other games, have annoying tracking, AOE, overtuned damage and theres no investment emotionally when you face them. There are exceptions to this like Godrick or Radahn but the majority of them just suck. Malenia is a discount Sekiro encounter. Godfrey constantly spams AOE and his grab hitboxes in phase 2 are cancer. Radagon has teleporting AOE. Maliketh does 100 flips in the air, spams AOE and does a chunk of damage that also inflicts DOT. Fighting 1000000 Ulcerated Tree Spirits, Night Cavalry, Asylum Demon Tree Spirits or Bell Bearing Hunters cheapens their encounters. Imagine if DS1 made every Black Knight a boss like how the Crucible Knights are? Or if you fought another version of the Abyss Watchers in some cavern like how you fight a Godrick reskin.

just a ripoff of Owl

Don't know about all of vidya, but I will claim Gael is still the best Fromsoft boss
>outstanding OST
>The setting/ and plot was a curve ball that enticed curiosity and kept me, the gamer, hooked
>The fight itself, like his movesets were challenging but not janky or too fast
>2nd phase OST cue with his slow walk forward
>3rd phase OST, fiery dark souls spewing out, fucking lighting striking all around, and to this day no boss made me study their choreography like Gael. That fucking slam down, flips while shooting at you, to two more slam down
Due to ER being most recently played, Radahn would be a good runner up but his OST is lacking, lore wise, I was excited to finally face him but was a victim of my own expectations (not how I imagined the festival would go down)

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friede was way harder, gael's a bitch

He has much higher damage resistance though

Remember when loreniggers were seething about Velka not being in the final DLC and that Gael was the end boss?

no, I don't, but not surprised Any Forums found something to complain about. How do you feel about Gael user?

for me it's pic rel

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The fight was a little long but it was dynamic so it was fun. Kinda cool that the final final boss was kind of a nobody.