Defeating the Undefeatable... Video Game Bosses

We all have that video game boss that we are just way too proud of defeating. In this thread, we each give a short summary of a difficult boss, and how you eventually overcame it.

Today, I will be talking about Azazel from Tekken 6. In a fighting game series which generally has roughly human-sized final bosses, Azazel Is a building-sized, reptilian supposed-god with glowing crystal bits sticking out like Space Godzilla. That a knee-high human martial artist can make it flinch with their punches is a miracle in itself.

This thing's got all it's bases covered; four different fast projectile attacks in a game where most characters have zero, the ability to do sudden vertical spinning flying tail swipes like a Rathalos, often gets up from prone positions by teleporting into midair and landing on you fist-first, and has frames of animation in its attacks where it automatically blocks everything (yes, even when it's balancing on one foot with its hands raised above its head).

Now, I could talk about how to block every little attack it does, or give you some magic bullet AI exploiting move, or talk about how effing cool its throws are. Instead, I'll say just one thing.

Standing straight jabs. They are always faster than about half of Azazel's move list. They stun it for just half a second, enough do do the big moves you actually came to see. They are even fast enough to go in between those auto-block frames I mentioned. Straight jabs are king.

So... what bosses are you guys proud of defeating?

Soloing Teremus The Devourer in World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. (I could beat him easily and reliably.) He was supposed to be a Raid boss in scale. Also Hogger back in the day.

I have beaten Penance.

There I was, finally at the end of the stupid long quest line, about to face the most stupidly powerful boss in the game. I went out there, cast hastega, and then....

Grand Summoned Yojimbo and gave him 100,000 gil to have him instakill the stupid thing. Then I laughed. All the constant save scumming Yojimbo on the Dark Aeons has raised his compatibility to the point where I could get him to kill anything I wanted 90% of the time.

I also beat Ozma on my first try without him casting any of his killer spells.

edited 11th Nov '11 12:10:20 PM by OmegaKross

Royal Jelly King from Spiral Knights...though I attribute it mainly to him getting nerfed in one patch and the fact that one of our party of random people was carrying a(n) (Divine) Avenger. Granted, I was forced to use my Super Blaster since I idiotically brought a Snarble Barb into the level, but still, it was easier than I expected.

In fact, getting to Royal Jelly King is probably harder than the boss himself.

I beat Emerald Weapon in Final Fantasy VII, although since all my characters had a lot of Materia equipped (and, for those who don't know, Emerald Weapon has an attack that hits the entire party and adds 1111 damage for every Materia the party member has equipped) it was partially through luck that he only used it once (since I had a Final Attack+Phoenix combo, but it was still at level 1 so it only worked once). On the other hand, I only had three casts of Knights of the Round, which would've only taken out around a third of his HP, and I held up the rest of the fight on my own.

I also beat Ruby Weapon afterward, but with the Materia I got from beating Emerald Weapon, Ruby Weapon was pathetically easy, so I don't really count it as much of an achievement.

Inb4 Dark Souls.

For me: the Draug battle in The Witcher 2. Another one of those bosses where the only real strategy that applies is "Kill it before it kills you". It's really only vulnerable while it's attacking, and even then it's hard to get a hit on him without your attack just getting soaked up on its shield. It can also call for back up fire to keep you on your toes. On my second attempt fighting it, we were just exchanging blows the entire time and were down to the last hit for both of us. After a very close dodge, I fought him a third time...after saving my glorious victory.

Much obliged.

Ceaseless Discharge, at sl 35, without using the pit fall trick.

Another that was a real bitch:

Elizabeth Greene. The non-stop beast attack, the military still attacking, Greene just being a bitch in general.

And the final boss. It wasn't so bad at first, but then "LOL YOUR ON A TIMER."

Excuse me. The SECOND to make a Dark Souls exemple.

edited 11th Nov '11 1:21:21 PM by MisterC

Ha! I'm making the first Dark Souls example just because!

I beat the hellkite dragon! Like five minutes before i posted this! By three-shotting it with my overleveled melee stats and my Black Knight Great Axe!

YOU CAUSED ME UNFATHOMABLE SUFFERING AND NOW YOU ARE MY BITCH! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

edited 11th Nov '11 1:09:46 PM by ShirowShirow

Soloing the Harvester on Nightmare. I used a backstab-focused rogue who still had enough Dexterity and dodge chance to avoid all incoming autoattacks, and his Bile Burst, Vile Disembowelment, etcetera were sufficiently telegraphed for me to get out of the way manually.

Oh I have a lot. In Final Fantasy VI for the gba, there is a bonus dungeon called the dragon's den where you fight revamped versions of old dragons. Each boss felt like a victory in of its self. Before I continue on, I should mention that only three characters were above normal level (about level 60 compared to the ~40 everyone else was on) and had increased speed. I also had a about 3 dedicated spell casters (Terra, Celes, and Realm). So anyway, here we go;

First boss, the Ice Dragon. His gimmick is that he has four copies of him self. He also loves to freeze and/or stop your team. By the time I was down to one dragon, I was left with only one character and it was very hard to heal up. So I had Terra (over leveled btw) fight off the dragon. Terra kept getting frozen or stopped. There was a moment where I had Terra attack, but was stopped right before she could strike. Thankfully that attack was the last attack I needed.

Dirt Dragon: Funny thing, I attacked this dragon with a team that had no dedicated spell casters (I think it was Locke, Sabin, Shadow, and Setzer). Only Shadow had a few spells, and thankfully they were cure spells. It was a close fight.

Holy Dragon: FUCK YOU! No really, fuck that dragon. This dragon has a real dick move. It likes to combo with the following; Fallen Angel, Heavenly Light, and Heavenly Light. If you don't know, Fallen Angel brings the target down to 1hp. Holy Light does a lot of damage. It does not matter if you apply Auto Life (a spell that revives fallen allies), they will not have enough hp to survive the second Holy Light. You can imagine my satisfaction when I killed it.

Cazer Dragon: The final boss of the dungeon. I switched my teams around to Terra, Sabin, Strago, and I forget the fourth member (most likely Locke). My plan was to have Terra apply Auto Life on everyone, but Cazer dragon was too fast for Auto Life to be useful. So instead, I had Terra heal and revive everyone when needed and apply Auto Life to her self. Everyone else laid waste to Cazer Dragon. Eventually, Cazer Dragon pulled a Thanatos Gambit (correct trope?) and cast Ultima on everyone when he died. Thank goodness I had Auto Life on Terra.

Legend of Zelda A Ltt P: Ganon: Ok, so Ganon is not that hard, even for a final boss, but that is assuming you have max equipment. Now imagine you have 13 hearts and each attack deals 4 hearts of damage. Now imagine you have a sword where only the strongest attack (spin attack) can hurt Ganon. Yeah, I was playing a minimalist run. There are four parts to the final battle and the second part always hung me up. What Ganon does in the second part is he produces 8 fire bats and sends them after Link. They move quickly and it can be very hard to dodge them. Also, to add insult to death, on the third and fourth part, Ganon opens the floor and if you fall through, you have to start all over again... I only had to hurt Ganon one more time... I was very proud when I finally beat him.

Kingdom Hearts 2: All the Organization XIII members: Ok, this is more of a high horse moment for me. I remember watching my brother fail at the later bosses repeatedly. Here I come in my play through and beat everyone in my first try. I was also a few levels under my brother.

edited 11th Nov '11 1:31:12 PM by colinispower

Last Vergil Fight, Dante Must Die. Beat him using Royal Guard, too. Got hit a few times, but didn't need to use items.

I killed a dragon in Skyrim...by repeatedly hitting it with a mace. A mace with +5 frost points to damage and stamina. And then killed another one by basically shouting at it and running like a bitch while my companion filled it with arrows.

The Demifiend in Digital Devil Saga. Quite possibly the hardest secret boss in any RPG anywhere ever where beating it is actually possible. I beat him by using the Red Star Strategy, sure, but I freaking did it.

Well, there's Sephiroth on Proud in Kingdom Hearts 2. Spam Reflega, heal a lot, learn his pattern, don't take chances. Also, I unlocked the Changeling in Desktop Dungeons, which requires you to beat the Boss Hive (like the name says, all enemies are bossess) with four different classes. Really, you just gotta take the classes that can heal themselves and try until you get Jörmungandr.

I beat all five bosses in the Palace of the Four Sword with only three max hearts in Zelda: A Link to the Past. Does that count?

Yes I used fairies in bottles. How did you guess?

Some of the glitches to get into the Dark World with three hearts were really not worth the effort. Getting to the Palace was the easy part.

edited 12th Nov '11 5:21:50 PM by hnd03

Screw you Seymour. All four times I fought you (my first playthrough) I had trouble with your cheap tricks. Whether it be summoning Anima to stoning my characters to casting a party wipe Armageddon.

edited 12th Nov '11 6:52:32 PM by stevebat

Seymour was a raging bitch, but I laughed so much when, due to my obsessive grinding due to fearing him when the Flux battle with him came, I survived his Total Annihilation move with over half health on all of my people. Twas glorious.

Also, beating Nebilim in Tales Of The Abyss on Unknown mode. Obscenely hard due to how powerful she is while she shrugged off all of the attacks I threw (as Luke). The only one who could deal more than 2 digits of damage to her millions of hp was my friend (as Jade) so it was pretty much me and AI Anise distracting and fending her off while my friend casted and Tear healed us, which eventually, after 2 and a half hours of fighting, led to her death.

edited 12th Nov '11 7:37:50 PM by Alfric

The boss: Ran Yakumo in Perfect Cherry Blossom's Extra Stage. This was many years ago, back when I had just first started playing shmups and could only 1CC the game on Easy Mode.

How I defeated her: By being just plain stubborn. 783 tries, to be exact.

edited 13th Nov '11 12:03:42 AM by PoochyEXE

Beating Safer Sephiroth without abusing KOTR spam.

Undead Core. I eventually ditched Bubbler/Bubbline 3, which I used for the shielding effect, and nuked it with Spur.

From Sonic 2 (Game Gear), Underground Zone boss. Rage at the tiny screen making it hard to dodge until I learnt the pattern.

From Sonic Triple Trouble, Sunset Park 3 boss. I was young and unskilled, and finally beat it with a flawless run after countless fails.

Oh, I got another one. I remember beating the final boss of Super Mario Land 2 for the Game Boy. If I recall, as a kid, the final boss and the stage leading up to him was a real challenge for me. I was lucky to get to the final boss with any power ups at all. Even if I did make it, I would always lose out on the first or second part of the fight. Eventually (about 8 years) I finally beat Wario and it felt good to see those end credits.

Defeating Dark Link with the Broken Goron's Sword. Twice.

That's possible to do?

Ever hear of the Uber Challenge?

In some respects, isn't it a bit easier? I mean, I'm pretty sure Dark Link can't jump on the broken sword...