Hardest boss in dark souls 3? (2023)

What is the hardest Dark Souls boss?

Pinwheel might be the easiest boss in the Dark Souls franchise relative to where players fight him. After delving into the Catacombs and defeating the dozens of skeletons within, players get to fight a boss that dies in a few hits. He doesn't make up for this low health with damaging attacks or mechanics, either.

If anything, DSIII is much harder, at least in the back half. The first game front-loads its difficulty, peaking with Ornstein & Smough at approximately the halfway point, and from there it's all downhill- none of the bosses in its latter half are anywhere near as challenging, at least once you figure out their tricks.

The Four Kings are infamous for being a broken annoying boss. The basis of this fight is that the player must defeat kings until the boss health bar is depleted. This would be easy, but if players don't defeat a king quick enough, then another king can spawn.

The Darkeater Midir boss follows on from the Ringed Inner Wall area of the Ringed City DLC, acting as the secret boss you may have heard about.

However, the Ornstein and Smough fight is the first truly brutal boss encounter that Dark Souls players will battle, and unlike many of the most difficult bosses in the series, they are not optional opponents.

Aside from maybe a few other bosses in FromSoftware's catalog, the Orphan of Kos is one of the most challenging bosses out there and definitely among the top of the list in Bloodborne. If Sekiro didn't exist, Kos might be the most formidable FromSoftware boss ever created.