What are some of the hardest bosses?

[Corey]

Now that I cleared everything, I have my picks across base game and DLC.

BASE GAME:
-Enenra: Absolute wall to overcome early game, insane difficulty spike and he absolutely demolished me for an hour straight before I beat him.

-Obsidian Samurai: Absolutely absurd damage output with hyper armor and lightning damage. I think only Honda came close in how much this dude hurts.

-Honda Tadakatsu: The damage output is just INSANE for a human enemy like I was getting freaking two shot by this dude plus he uses lightning element for attacks.

DLC:
-Lightning Gods of Yomi: I was literally getting zoned the entire encounter. I only won purely by going hitless and doing hit and run strategy.

-Shuten Doji (DitC): Absolutely zero percent chance I could ever beat him without letting AI do all the work I admit. Largest healthpool in the game, two shots with almost any attack, breaks guard with any attacks in yokai realm, overall just overtuned as ♥♥♥♥.

-Ren Hayabusa: Can literally end the fight in a single 4 hit superspeed combo. Ran circles around me and was a real headache. Only won with low stance and hit and runs.

-Otakemaru (TFS): Insane damage, insane ki damage, uses all elements, has the closing distance and zoning to demolish me. This fight was absolutely brutal man, nothing else in TLS ever matched up to this dude as the FIRST FREAKING BOSS OF THE FIRST MISSION.

What are your picks for hardest bosses?

[Corey]

Honorable mention: the first Enki in the game. That dude stretched me before I beat him.

[Crimsomrider]

Saito Toshimitsu.

Over 1350 hours with the game and I can beat all of the bosses blindfolded without even thinking about it. But Saito... that man scares the Amrita out of me, regardless of how many times I beat him, even more so in the Depths.

[Goosetave]

Kashin Koji, took me facing him again in the underworld to really understand how much i can't deal with ANY of his shid.

[Doc Holiday]

funny how we all have different difficulties. On the base game I had zero difficulties with the bosses you described.

However, I had a frustratingly hard time with the Snake, Owl and Cow bosses.

[level3]

Base game: Nothing comes even remotedly close to the owl on ng.... for me it was the hardest boss on any difficulty. Second was otakemaru on DotW, third: kashi koji on DotW

DLC/underworld/depths the hardest ones were lightning gods, tate eboshi, ren and minamoto no yorimitsu. If i had to pick one, it probably would be tate ebola

Ren is still an annoying f...

[kripcision]

i had the hardest time with Tsuchigumo, now not so much but it took me quite awhile to finally get used to dodging the attacks well in advance lol.

oh and i guess minamoto no yoshitsune and white tiger because of the purity debuffs in the depths which prevent me from using my life saving buffs lol.

[D-Black Catto]

The first enki, the first yatsu no kami.....

[Often]

The first Snek-man got me quite a few times until I just learned to play again. Was a great learning experience at the start of the game.

Lady Osakabe got me a NUMBER of times, but I think when I played she was bugged at 120 frames. That fight just sucks in general.

Saito Toshimitsu also shredded me to no end for a while, too. He hit hard, was full of never ending magic, and I didn't have the patience to deal with him properly. Took me some time but I eventually got him, but that man is a menace.

[solthusx]

Based on number of attempts taken to beat the first time, the bosses that caused me the most trouble on New Game are (in no particular order) Yatsu No Kami, Oni Shibata and Gyuki.

[Raven]

I don't know if this should count, but its the most annoying for me to fight for sure on any difficulty. I really hate fighting lady osakabe.

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by solthusx:

Based on number of attempts taken to beat the first time, the bosses that caused me the most trouble on New Game are (in no particular order) Yatsu No Kami, Oni Shibata and Gyuki.

oh ye, gyuki was a ♥♥♥♥♥ too

[VeraelHasta]

I'm currently doing a run with using only weapons, elixirs and burst counter. And man, I just killed gyuki today. It took me 11 tries even tho I've beaten the game 2 times before (once up to way of the strong, once through all the ng+ levels).

He was so damn easy with onmyo build, his big body took so many hits from magic. But with only my weapon it was so frustrating. Not even because it was hard, but because I COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING HALF THE TIME.

I think I managed to kill him because I just happened to stand in the safe spot during most of his third phase attacks. I didn't really do anything noteworthy to beat him, just luck. And that is why this fight sucks so much in my opinion.

Also 11 times was high for me in this run, most of the other bosses thus far I did with 0-2 deaths, one was at 5 (damn you, Saika, with your long range spam).

[GladiatorA19]

When I first started I thought Toshiie was like way overtuned compared to the rest of the bosses. I really wish we could get his SUPER PIERCING RAIN and triple chidori.

[DucGrandma]

Yoshitsune, fast, resistance to all elements and ailments, has some of the biggest ki in the game which is very long to deplete.

[JtDarth]

Personally, working backward from the third DLC:
Kukai
Fuki
2nd DLC:
Yorimitsu
Yomi
True power Shuten Doji
1st DLC:
None? Benkei can be kinda annoying, but he's not all that difficult.
The buff Sohaya, if that counts
Base game:
Hideyoshi (dream), the one that then becomes Kashin Koji
Kashin Koji
Tatarimokke (more annoying than difficult, just stay on the damn ground so I can kill you!)
Saito Toshimitsu
Saito Yoshitatsu (particularly if you aren't using weapons that can lock down their ki or are otherwise running under restrictions)
HONDA
Gyuki is annoying, but not really difficult
Oh, and Matsunaga Hisahide.

Honorable mentions: Cannon yoki and Kusari yoki. RED KAPPA, wheelmonks are stupid. I'd also rather fight Suiki than Yasha, despite Yasha being supposed to be the weaker version.

Outside of those, I don't really have any that stick out as a problem anymore. But then I'm also at well over 1k hours by now.