Hardest S ending Enki vs Ragnvaldr

[OdinElGallardo]

I finished Enki S ending and an idea crossed my mind. Why is considered Ragnvaldr S ending the hardest? Enki S ending is very hard too.

With Ragnvaldr you need to kill every enemy with a special soul and use a soulstone, but you don´t need to actually fight the hardest boss of the game, Sylvian.

With Enki you need to kill the new gods and then going for a special ending D, where is Sylvian. You can skip 4 bosses+the guardian with phase step, or 3 bosses asking for the key to François chamber on an empty scroll, but I usually try to do this "legally".

Even if you need to kill more bosses with Ragnvaldr, the extra bosses are not that difficult, Black Witch is a joke, the Old guardian is very easy, and Crow mauler is a breeze with the right equipment, Cavemother is the easiest boss of the game, and makes salmonsnake actually the easiest boss of the game. The hardest part may be to gather enough soulstones to win, but with money you can buy them easily.

The other advantage of Ragnvaldr is the early game, with the highest attack on the game you can rise in power easily compared to Enki, which is a nightmare to actually start killing things. He has a very poor weapon and armor, and his spells are not that good early, depending a lot on empty scrolls to have a chance.

So, with all of this in mind, I conclude that Enki S ending with no shorcuts is actually the hardest S ending, or at least very similar in difficulty to Ragnvaldr S ending.

What are your opinions?

[Raiza<3]

i think it is because you can kinda cheese a lot of bosses and even sylvian's boss fight with locust swarm, by literally stunlocking everything. Enki is the only one who can learn the skill with the hexen, other characters like Ragnavaldr can only learn it by a lucky empty scroll.

But honestly, i just feel it is because ragnavaldr's S ending is just most large and tedius to do, so if you ♥♥♥♥ up in a step (like getting bad rng with bosses like valteil, or despawning the crow mawler by entering mahabre early) you'll need to start over and gather ALL souls again. While Enki is just getting that special object from nosramus and then get ending D

[OdinElGallardo]

You´re right about locust swarm, but I think the God of the Depths skill tree is bad investment compared to other bosses stuff so I only get that spell with an empty scroll. They are not that hard to find, but is still rng dependant, as you said, though.

Btw, the reason I rated both S endings at least equally on difficulty is because of the terrible early game Enki has, compared to Rag start.