Hollow Knight Community Boss Ranking Survey!

[Los]

I love Hollow Knight and the bosses bring many of the game's best moments.
So I thought it'd be fun to create a survey for the community to participate in and give their opinions on the bosses.
Just rate each boss on a scale of 1 to 10.

EDIT: Survey results are here! https://www.reddit.com/r/HollowKnight/comments/6lykww/hk_community_voted_boss_ranking_worst_to_best/

[Los]

Just gonna bump dis a little :3

[benjamincarylewis]

Rating on what criteria? Most difficult? Most "fun"? Most interesting design/moveset?

[Los]

benjamincarylewis lähetti viestin:

Rating on what criteria? Most difficult? Most "fun"? Most interesting design/moveset?

In the survey it says the rating is based on the bosses overall quality.
There's also a list which explains what each score generally means but I'll post it here

"Rate each boss on a scale of 1-10 on the overall quality of the boss (not difficulty)

1 - Disaster
2 - Awful
3 - Bad
4 - Poor
5 - Mediocre
6 - Ok
7 - Good
8 - Great
9 - Outstanding
10 - Is or almost perfect"

[benjamincarylewis]

I probably won't fill in the survey (sorry!) because assigning numeric grades for all of them is a little too difficult/subjective for me, but here are some criteria I'd use to define what I think makes a "good quality" boss, with one or two examples that I think are outstanding examples of the category:

- visual design/artwork (Nosk)
- sound design (No Eyes, Dung Defender)
- memorability/uniqueness (Flukemarm, Uumuu)
- fun patterns to learn (Mantis Lords, Soul Master, Hornet)
- fairness/challenge balance (IMO most if not all HK bosses do pretty well here)
- general "cool" factor (Mantis Lords)

[wataniyob]

Went ahead and submitted my responses.

- I'll go ahead and say that my favorite boss was Soul Master due to the variety of attacks, the fake-outs, and the surprise 2nd phase.
- In contrast, the worst boss (in my opinion) is Crystal Guardian (encounter #2) because the beams between the ceiling and floor are rng in their positioning and you have too short of a reaction time to jump to avoid the laser from the guardian's hand, considering the lasers deal double damage.

[CJones]

I submitted scores for all except God Tamer (because I've never fought her).

Also, you left out Zote

[CJones]

Glad to see the results are in. 138 responses, not bad Thanks for hosting this.

I had Nosk as worst, simply because he is dead easy to beat. Cool design, but bad AI.

[Darc Vader]

Yeah, Nosk had such good lead in to the fight, but the fight was way too simple. Have yet to fight him since the patch, but hopefully the new moves he got make the fight more worthy of the build up.