History ThatOneBoss / Bloodborne

* Father Gascoigne is the WakeUpCallBoss to end all [[WakeUpCallBoss WakeUpCallBosses]]. Potentially the first or second (depending on whether you fight the Cleric Beast first) boss you encounter, he entirely designed to teach newcomers about Bloodborne's aggressive combat style and NintendoHard difficulty. He fights the player like an NPC or PVP player would - he dodges your attacks, he tries to parry you with his gun, and he never lets up. He also transforms his Hunter Axe into the two-hand version, giving his attacks serious reach. His third phase is where most players perish within a matter of seconds; he fully transforms into a beast, gaining ''extremely'' quick, aggressive attacks which often combo into each other, leaving you stunned on the ground while he quickly destroys your health bar. Unless you've spent most of the game so far practicing dodging and stunning, good luck. You can use the Tiny Music Box to stun him for a second or two, but it only works a few times before he'll wise up (and it doesn't work at all once he turns into a beast).

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas, so keeping your distance without being sliced to pieces is difficult. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance, forcing you to throw Numbing Mist at her to stop it. As an extra "screw you", her RapunzelHair tends to completely fill the screen when you're behind her, [[CameraScrew making it impossible to see what you're doing]]. Be ready with Fire Paper and a good Serrated weapon, especially if you decide to take her on early.

* The Bloodletting Beast is a Chalice-only boss that fights like you took Gascoigne's third phase, threw in Blood-starved Beast's attack patterns, and then shot it up with a bathtub cocktail full of steroids. It has an enormous health pool, no blind spots in its attack patterns, and hits like a train. Its deadliest attack is a quick jab so powerful that the ''air pressure'' from the blow can send you flying, and many of its swipes have tremendous HitboxDissonance that can nail you even if you think you're far enough away. The only thing going for you here is that its limbs can be staggered, although good luck chopping down their beefy health without upgraded/gemmed Serrated weapons like the Whirligig Saw or Beast Cutter.

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance, forcing you to throw Numbing Mist at her to stop it. As an extra "screw you", her RapunzelHair tends to completely fill the screen when you're behind her, [[CameraScrew making it impossible to see what you're doing]].

** The final boss of the [[BrutalBonusLevel Great Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice]] is the Headless Bloodletting Beast. It's everything from before except with a twist; when you get it down to half-health, a massive centipede suddenly appears out of the neck stump and spits Rapid Poison bolts at you while flailing at you from across the room. This is all while the body still attacks you normally. [[NintendoHard Have fun]].

* The Bloodletting Beast is a Chalice-only boss that fights like you took Gascoigne's third phase, threw in Blood-starved Beast's attack patterns, and then shot it up with a bathtub cocktail full of steroids. It has an enormous health pool, no blind spots in its attack patterns, and hits like a train. Its deadliest attack is a quick jab so powerful that the ''air pressure'' from the blow can send you flying, and many of its swipes have tremendous HitboxDissonance that can nail you even if you think you're far enough away. The only thing going for you here is that its limbs can be staggered, although good luck chopping down their beefy health without upgraded/gemmed Serrated weapons.
* Immediately before the aforementioned boss in the Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice Dungeon is the Pthumerian Descendant with the shotels. The boss is fast and ''insanely'' aggressive, never giving you a chance to take a breath or heal. Trying to keep your distance will result in the boss using his [[ThatOneAttack shotel boomerang attack]], which has no windup, is basically impossible to see coming, can easily one shot you at max Vitality if both shotels hit, and ''[[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard can clip right through the pillars in the room]]''. Speaking of those pillars, they arena works against you big time, as the boss is so aggressive and quick that he'll often pin you against the wall or a pillar before tearing you to pieces in a lethal combo while the CameraScrew kicks in. Victory basically relies on you either [[LuckBasedMission shooting him constantly and getting lucky with Viscerals]] or tanking his attacks with a Lead Elixir and praying that you can out-DPS his health bar before you run out of healing.

* The Blood-starved Beast almost forces you to learn the new parry mechanic if you haven't yet: its moves are so sweeping and erratic that dodging is untenable as a long-term solution. Much like Father Gascoigne, it also has 3 forms, gaining poison and becoming even more unpredictable as the fight goes on, and starting from form 2 it has a grab attack that is almost [[OneHitKill guaranteed to kill you]] between the poison and the base damage. Unless you realize that [[GuideDangIt you can distract it for several seconds with Pungent Blood Cocktails, and that you can summon Alfred to help if you befriend him (and find his hidden summon sign)]], you're in for a bad time. Technically the fight is optional in terms of story, but you need to kill it to open up the Chalice Dungeons. It gets even worse in the Chalice Dungeons, where you fight it in a much smaller room, leaving you with a lot less space to dodge and heal.

* The Bloodletting Beast is a Chalice-only boss that fights like you took Gascoigne's third phase, threw in Blood-starved Beast's attack patterns, and then shot it up with a bathtub cocktail full of steroids. It has an enormous health pool, no blind spots in its attack patterns, and hits like a train. Its deadliest attack is a quick jab so powerful that the ''air pressure'' from the blow can send you flying. The only thing going for you here is that its limbs can be staggered, although good luck chopping down their beefy health without upgraded/gemmed Serrated weapons.
* Immediately before the aforementioned boss in the same Chalice Dungeon is the Pthumerian Descendant with the shotels. The boss is fast and ''insanely'' aggressive, never giving you a chance to take a breath or heal. Trying to keep your distance will result in the boss using his [[ThatOneAttack boomerang attack]], which is nearly impossible to see coming, can easily one shot you at max Vitality if both shotels hit, and ''[[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard can clip right through the pillars in the room]]''. Speaking of those pillars, they arena works against you big time, as the boss is so aggressive and quick that he'll often pin you against the wall or a pillar before tearing you to pieces in a lethal combo while the CameraScrew kicks in. Victory basically relies on you either shooting him constantly and getting lucky with Viscerals or tanking his attacks with a Lead Elixir and praying that you can out-DPS his health bar before you run out of vials.

* Defiled Amygdala, a Chalice Dungeon final boss. She's a giant with six arms and she can can sweep foes in a twenty foot arc, leap into the air and slam down with her giant body, shoot exploding lasers from her eyes, and turn her fists into arcane bombs. And when you get her down to 33% HP she ''rips out two of her own arms and uses them as trick weapons'', which doubles her instant kill radius, while cutting her vulnerability window in half, making it near-impossible to attack her weak points from the front. And the kicker? You have to do this with your health bar sliced in half, blood vials and all. Thankfully, she has a pretty limited moveset compared to most other Great One bosses so her attacks can get very predictable and easy to react to after a while, but she's still a MarathonBoss with 22,000 health while you're practically a OneHitPointWonder, so if you get careless and slip up, you're dead.

* [[spoiler:Laurence, the First Vicar]] is becoming very unpopular, especially with players in New Game+++ and above. His attacks are badly overpowered, killing players with even 80+ vitality in one hit (even his quick non-charged attacks). Many of his moves, already incredibly powerful, do area of effect damage as well, with extremely wide hitboxes and a stagger effect. His second stage has him dropping enormous pools of lava all over the cramped boss arena, making even getting close enough to actually hit him a game of luck -- while he's still able to hit you with his insane reach. In addition, many players find his design (a reskin of the Cleric Beast) to be very lazy from a series that prides itself on unique enemy design (Which, granted, isn't really that bad considering the Asylum Demon was reused three different times in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI''). Many players seem to be in agreement that [[spoiler:Laurence]] [[SNKBoss is one of the first Souls bosses to actually be broken instead of merely difficult.]] The only good bit of news is that he's optional, although you get a pretty sweet Caryll Rune if you manage it.

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance, forcing you to throw Numbing Mist at her to stop it. As an extra "screw you", her RapunzelHair also causes CameraScrew when you get behind her by completely filling the screen and making it impossible to see what you're doing.

* On the topic of Hunter battles, the infamous "Gank Squad" in Yahar'gul can also be very trying if you take them head on. In the lower part of Yahar'gul, in the room that used to hold the Hypogean Gaol lantern, there's a trio of Hunters that all come at you at once as soon as you aggro them. The first uses a Beast Claw and Hunter Pistol, the second wields a [[MoreDakka Rifle Spear and Cannon]], and the last wields a Threaded Cane and Flamesprayer alongside a Tiny Tonitrus. Once you first walk into the building you'll only see the Beast Claw Hunter, standing naked in the middle of the room with his back turned to you. Seems like a good opportunity to backstab right? Wrong. As soon as you attack him, the other two will come slinking out of the shadows and you're now stuck in a three-on-one fight against a group of Hunters who have a ton of health, never run out of bullets, and don't give a shit about MookChivalry. As with the Bloody Crow, most guides to defeating them recommend exploiting their ArtificialStupidity by locking yourself in the jail cell in the basement so they can't reach you with melee attacks and then hitting them through the bars until all three are dead.

* Rom, the Vacuous Spider requires a great deal of patience to beat. Unlike the game's other {{Flunky Boss}}es, her minions are a huge threat and require you to stay alert. Those little bastards will screw you either way: you can either pick off each spider one by one (a ''big'' risk once Rom starts fighting back), or ignore them and let their numbers grow. Furthermore, they're extremely resistant to frontal attacks, forcing you to get behind them before you can deal effective damage. They also have a divebomb attack that leaves them very vulnerable, but can oneshot you if it actually lands and is prone to hitting you from offscreen, meaning even the CannonFodder is a gigantic pain in the ass in this fight. And the whole time, you're going to have to dodge Rom's meteor shower attacks, which will occasionally stunlock you for a ''very'' quick death. There is a fairly safe way to beating her, but it involves slowly whittling down the spider swarm before engaging Rom herself, picking off one or two spiders after dodging one of Rom's magic attacks and then withdrawing until she does another one, making sure to always keep Rom herself in your sights. As soon as all the spiders are dead, Rom herself is nearly helpless. This becomes a less viable strategy in the Chalice Dungeons, where you have a much tighter space to maneuver around in, and the pillars in the room can hide Rom from view while she winds up one of her magic attacks, forcing you to go on the offensive and leave yourself much more open to attack.

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance, forcing you to throw Numbing Mist at her to stop it. Her long, flowing fur also causes CameraScrew when you get up close to her by completely filling the screen and making it impossible to see what you're doing, leaving you vulnerable to whatever attacks she might decide to throw out as you struggle to even see what's going on.

* On the topic of Hunter battles, the infamous "Gank Squad" in Yahar'gul can also be very trying if you take them head on. In the lower part of Yahar'gul, in the room that used to hold the Hypogean Gaol lantern, there's a trio of Hunters that all come at you at once as soon as you aggro them. The first uses a Beast Claw and Hunter Pistol, the second wields a [[MoreDakka Rifle Spear and Cannon]], and the last wields a Threaded Cane and Flamesprayer alongside a Tiny Tonitrus. Once you first walk into the building you'll only see the Beast Claw Hunter, standing naked in the middle of the room with his back turned to you. Seems like a good opportunity to backstab right? Wrong. As soon as you alert just one of them, the other two will come slinking out of the shadows to attack you, and you're now stuck in a three-on-one fight against a group of Hunters who never run out of bullets and don't adhere to MookChivalry at all. While you're busy dodging or attacking one, another one might hit you with a cannon ball or wave of electricity from offscreen and take half you health bar away, and it's extremely easy to lose track of them all due to their aggressive AI. As with the Bloody Crow, most guides online to defeating them recommend cheesing them by locking yourself in the jail cell in the basement so they can't reach you with melee attacks and then hitting them through the bars until all three are dead. If you want to fight them fair and square though, good luck.

* The Loran Darkbeast, a Chalice Dungeon PaletteSwap of Darkbeast Paarl, is one of the most universally hated bosses in the game for a number of reasons. He's essentially a souped up Darkbeast Paarl with a few extra moves, the most infamous of which is an electric shockwave that he uses whenever you get under him which, given his propensity to leap erratically all over the arena, is often. He's so fast and jittery that it's difficult to land a solid hit on him despite his size, and his tendency to jump across the arena causes severe CameraScrew with the tiny room you're made to fight him in. It really doesn't help that he has over 20,000 HP. The only saving graces for this fight are that (similar to Blood-starved Beast) he's vulnerable to being distracted by Pungent Blood Cocktails, and his limbs can be broken.

* The Blood-starved Beast almost forces you to learn the new parry mechanic if you haven't yet: its moves are so sweeping and erratic that dodging is untenable as a long-term solution. Much like Father Gascoigne, it also has 3 forms, gaining poison and becoming even more unpredictable as the fight goes on, and starting from form 2 it has a grab attack that is almost [[OneHitKill guaranteed to kill you]] between the poison and the base damage. Unless you realize that [[GuideDangIt you can distract it for several seconds with Pungent Blood Cocktails, and that you can summon Alfred to help if you befriend him (and find his hidden summon sign)]], you're in for a bad time. Technically the fight is optional in terms of story, but you need to kill it to open up the Chalice Dungeons.

* Rom, the Vacuous Spider requires a great deal of patience to beat. Unlike the game's other {{Flunky Boss}}es, her minions are a huge threat and require you to stay alert. Those little bastards will screw you either way: you can either pick off each spider one by one (a ''big'' risk once Rom starts fighting back), or ignore them and let their numbers grow. Furthermore, they're extremely resistant to frontal attacks, forcing you to get behind them before you can deal effective damage. They also have a divebomb attack that leaves them very vulnerable, but can oneshot you if it actually lands, meaning even the CannonFodder is a gigantic pain in the ass in this fight. And the whole time, you're going to have to dodge Rom's meteor shower attacks, which will occasionally stunlock you for a ''very'' quick death.

* Rom, the Vacuous Spider requires a great deal of patience to beat. Unlike the game's other {{Flunky Boss}}es, her minions are a huge threat and require you to stay alert. Those little bastards will screw you either way: you can either pick off each spider one by one (a ''big'' risk once Rom starts fighting back), or ignore them and let their numbers grow. And the whole time, you're going to have to dodge Rom's meteor shower attacks, which will occasionally stunlock you for a ''very'' quick death.

* On the topic of Hunter battles, the infamous "Gank Squad" in Yahar'gul can also be very trying if you take them head on. In the lower part of Yahar'gul, in the room that used to hold the Hypogean Gaol lantern, there's a trio of Hunters that all come at you at once as soon as you aggro them. One uses a Beast Claw and Hunter Pistol, one wields a [[MoreDakka Rifle Spear and Cannon]], and the last wields a Threaded Cane and Flamesprayer alongside a Tiny Tonitrus. Once you first walk into the building you'll only see the Beast Claw Hunter, standing naked in the middle of the room with his back turned to you. Seems like a good opportunity to backstab right? Wrong. As soon as you alert just one of them, the other two will come slinking out of the shadows to attack you, and you're now stuck in a three-on-one fight against a group of Hunters who never run out of bullets and don't adhere to MookChivalry at all. While you're busy dodging or attacking one, another one might hit you with a cannon ball or wave of electricity from offscreen and take half you health bar away, and it's extremely easy to lose track of them all due to their aggressive AI. As with the Bloody Crow, most guides online to defeating them involve cheesing them by locking yourself in the jail cell in the basement so they can't reach you with melee attacks and then hitting them through the bars until all three are dead. If you want to fight them fair and square though, good luck.

* On the topic of Hunter battles, the infamous "Gank Squad" in Yahar'gul can also be very trying if you take them head on. In the lower part of Yahar'gul, in the room that used to hold the Hypogean Gaol lantern, there's a trio of Hunters that all come at you at once as soon as you aggro them. One is a Beast Claw and Hunter Pistol, one wields a [[MoreDakka Rifle Spear and Cannon]], and the last wields a Threaded Cane and Flamesprayer alongside a Tiny Tonitrus. Once you first walk into the building you'll only see the Beast Claw Hunter, standing naked in the middle of the room with his back turned to you. Seems like a good opportunity to backstab right? Wrong. As soon as you alert just one of them, the other two will come slinking out of the shadows to attack you, and you're now stuck in a three-on-one fight against a group of Hunters who never run out of bullets and don't adhere to MookChivalry at all. While you're busy dodging or attacking one, another one might hit you with a cannon ball or wave of electricity from offscreen and take half you health bar away, and it's extremely easy to lose track of them all due to their aggressive AI. As with the Bloody Crow, most guides online to defeating them involve cheesing them by locking yourself in the jail cell in the basement so they can't reach you with melee attacks and then hitting them through the bars until all three are dead. If you want to fight them fair and square though, good luck.

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance, forcing you to throw Numbing Mist at her to stop it. Her long, flowing fur also causes CameraScrew when you get up close to her by completely filling the screen and making it impossible to see what you're doing, letting her get easy hits in while you struggle to figure out what's going on.

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance, forcing you to throw Numbing Mist at her to stop it.

* Defiled Amygdala, a Chalice Dungeon final boss. She's a giant with six arms and she can can sweep foes in a twenty foot arc, leap into the air and slam down with her giant body, shoot exploding lasers from her eyes, and turn her fists into arcane bombs. And when you get her down to 33% HP she ''rips out two of her own arms and uses them as trick weapons'', which doubles her instant kill radius, while cutting her vulnerability window in half, making it near-impossible to attack her weak points from the front. And the kicker? You have to do this with your health bar sliced in half, blood vials and all.

* [[spoiler:Orphan of Kos]] is the FinalBoss of the DLC. And trust us, you will FEEL it. A LightningBruiser with a ton of health, swift and devastating strikes, ranged attacks, occasional CameraScrew, a fondness for mixing up combos to throw players off, infuriatingly difficult to get a good hit in... It's an appropriately nightmarish fight. [[spoiler:And it has a second form, turning all that aforementioned crap UpToEleven.]] He's generally agreed to be one of the hardest bosses in the ''entire'' series.

As a ''[[ThatOneBoss/DarkSouls Dark Souls]]'' SpiritualSuccessor, it not hard to expect to be expect that ''Bloodborne''[[ThatOneBoss would have some brutal, difficult bosses.]].

As a ''[[ThatOneBoss/DarkSouls Dark Souls]]'' SpiritualSuccessor, it was to be expected that [[ThatOneBoss would have some difficult bosses.]].

As a [[ThatOneBoss/DarkSouls Dark Souls]] SpiritualSuccessor, it was to be expected that [[ThatOneBoss would have some difficult bosses.]].

* Vicar Amelia. Father Gascoigne was the first boss to show you how punishing the game can be, but Vicar Amelia is made to cause rage. She has a large health pool compared to previous bosses and her attacks cover wide ''and'' long areas. In her second phase she will become much more aggressive and can even ''heal'' if you make the mistake of keeping your distance.

* The [[WolfPackBoss Shadows of Yharnam]] can be a nightmare to deal with if you try to take them on solo. Two of them try to engage you in melee, with the other constantly flinging fireballs at you, making it difficult to get a reliable hit in. A large tombstone provides some cover from the fireball Shadow but the player will be repeatedly pushed into the open by the other two. To make things worse, despite possessing separate HP, their second phase is activated by their ''combined'' HP hitting a certain threshold. If you don't focus all your damage on a single target, [[FromBadToWorse you'll face all three of them at their most dangerous phase.]] Thank goodness you can summon Henryk and Madaras to even the odds [[spoiler: and that Shaman Bone Blades can make the Shadows fight each other]]

* [[BossInMooksClothing The Bloody Crow of Cainhurst.]] [[spoiler: He only appears in the Grand Cathedral if you complete Eileen's quest line, you will find her outside wounded which is no surprise at all.]] He could potentially be the hardest hunter NPC fight in the entire game, he has a ''gigantic'' health pool standing at exactly '''3510''' which is the equivalent if not more than some of the bosses you face. Not to mention he also has maxed out stats and deals extreme amounts of damage, [[ThatOneAttack his Repeater Pistol can take half your health]] and he likes to use this constantly after dodging one of your attacks. Oh, and he likes to regularly use Old Hunter's bone which turns his strafing/dodging into outright TeleportSpam.

* [[spoiler:Laurence, the First Vicar]] is becoming very unpopular, especially with players in New Game+++ and above. His attacks are badly overpowered, killing players with even 80+ vitality in one hit (even his quick non-charged attacks). Many of his moves, already incredibly powerful, do area of effect damage as well, with extremely wide hitboxes and a stagger effect. His second stage has him dropping enormous pools of lava all over the cramped boss arena, making even getting close enough to actually hit him a game of luck -- while he's still able to hit you with his insane reach. In addition, many players find his design (a reskin of the Cleric Beast) to be very lazy from a series that prides itself on unique enemy design (Which, granted, isn't really that bad considering the Asylum Demon was reused three different times in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI''). Many players seem to be in agreement that [[spoiler:Laurence]] [[SNKBoss is one of the first Souls bosses to actually be broken instead of merely difficult.]]
* The Loran Darkbeast, a Chalice Dungeon PaletteSwap of Darkbeast Paarl, is one of the most universally hated bosses in the game for a number of reasons. He's essentially a souped up Darkbeast Paarl with a few extra moves, the most infamous of which is an electric shockwave that he uses whenever you get under him which, given his propensity to leap erratically all over the arena, is often. He's so fast and jittery that it's difficult to land a solid hit on him despite his size, and his tendency to jump across the arena causes severe CameraScrew with the tiny room you're made to fight him in. It really doesn't help that he has over 20,000 HP. The only saving graces for this fight are that he's vulnerable to being distracted by Pungent Blood Cocktails and his limbs can be broken.

* The Blood-starved Beast almost forces you to learn the new parry mechanic if you haven't yet: its moves are so sweeping and erratic that dodging is untenable as a long-term solution. Much like Father Gascoigne, it also has 3 forms, gaining poison and becoming even more unpredictable as the fight goes on, and starting from form 2 it has a grab attack that is almost [[OneHitKill guaranteed to kill you]] between the poison and the base damage. Unless you realize that [[GuideDangIt you can distract it with Pungent Blood Cocktails and that you can summon Alfred to help if you befriend him (and find his summon sign)]], you're in for a bad time.
* The [[WolfPackBoss Shadows of Yharnam]] can be a nightmare to deal with if you try to take them on solo. Two of them try to engage you in melee, with the other constantly flinging fireballs at you, making it difficult to get a reliable hit in. A large tombstone provides some cover from the fireball Shadow but the player will be repeatedly pushed into the open by the other two. To make things worse, despite possessing separate HP, their second phase is activated by their ''combined'' HP hitting a certain threshold. If you don't focus all your damage on a single target, [[FromBadToWorse you'll face all three of them at their most dangerous phase.]] Thank goodness you can summon Henryk and Madaras to even the odds.

* The Bloodletting Beast is a Chalice-only boss that fights like you took Gascoigne's third phase, threw in Blood-starved Beast's attack patterns, and then shot it up with a bathtub cocktail full of steroids. It has an enormous health pool, no blind spots in its attack patterns, and hits like a train. Its deadliest attack is a quick jab so powerful that the ''air pressure'' from the blow can send you flying.

* The Blood-starved Beast almost forces you to learn the new parry mechanic if you haven't yet: its moves are so sweeping and erratic that dodging is untenable as a long-term solution. Much like Father Gascoigne, it also has 3 forms, gaining poison and becoming even more unpredictable as the fight goes on, and starting from form 2 it has a grab attack that is almost [[OneHitKill guaranteed to kill you]] between the poison and the base damage.

* [[spoiler:Laurence, the First Vicar]] is becoming very unpopular, especially with players in New Game+++ and above. His attacks are badly overpowered, killing players with even 80+ vitality in one hit (even his quick non-charged attacks). Many of his moves, already incredibly powerful, do area of effect damage as well, with extremely wide hitboxes and a stagger effect. His second stage has him dropping enormous pools of lava all over the cramped boss arena, making even getting close enough to actually hit him a game of luck -- while he's still able to hit you with his insane reach. In addition, many players find his design (a reskin of the Cleric Beast) to be very lazy from a series that prides itself on unique enemy design (Which, granted, isn't really that bad considering the Asylum Demon was reused three different times in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI''). Many players seem to be in agreement that [[spoiler:Laurence]] [[SNKBoss is one of the first Souls bosses to actually be broken instead of merely difficult.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Prepare To Die...again]]

As a Dark Souls SpiritualSuccessor, it was to be expected that [[ThatOneBoss would have some difficult bosses.]].

As a Dark Souls SpiritualSucessor, this was to be expected.