The Hardest Tutorial Bosses in Nintendo History
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- These are the absolute hardest first boss fights you can find in Nintendo's history.
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Bowser / Mecha Bowser, Mario Kart Arcade GP 1 & 2
Mega Goomba, Mario Party 10
Spoiled Rotten, Wario Land 4
Pompy, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Kraid, Metroid
Minotaur, Kid Icarus: Of Myths & Monsters
Twinbellows, Kid Icarus: Uprising
Samurai Goroh, F-Zero GX
Falkner, Pokémon Stadium 2
Any Boss, Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
1080p 60fps gameplay recorded and edited by Nintendo Unity.
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Falkner in main Pokémon games: 🤡
Falkner in Pokémon Stadium: 👹
Who gave the already GOATed Johto Gym Leader access to a Legendary?!
I'd have probably chosen Brock in Yellow version but you've been smarter than me 😂
I'll explain Falkner's team in Round 2, All of his pokemon except Gligar have Mud-Slap, Also his Pidgeot, Skarmory and Zapdos have Sky Attack.
Zapdos uses a combination of Mud-Slap + Bright Powder to mess up Rock Types trying to hit it with Rock Slide which it's accuracy is 90%
Skarmory has a Quick Claw, meaning it can unexpectedly strike first and even mess up your pokemon with Mud-Slap.
Charizard holds a Scope Lens, increasing its critical hit chance, a fun fact it has 2 Ground moves, Earthquake and Mud-Slap.
The rest isn't as good, Pidgeot holds a PRZCureBerry, Dodrio holds a Miracle Berry and Gligar holds a Focus Band
Haze can deal with the Accuracy drops, Aerodactyl seems a good choice against Falkner if it has Hidden Power Rock (Ancient Power PP's may be short but with 3 PP ups it has 8 PP, the 10% secondary effect chance helps in any situation), however it can't deal with Zapdos since it will take serious damage from a single Thunderbolt due to its flying type, you can use your own Zapdos that has Thunder Wave, Hidden Power Ice and Whirlwind to cripple it.
Now why i see why to use awift more often
Looks impossible on Switch especially when stuck with rental with awful movesets IV and EV
Throwing out a Zapdos as a the first gym leader of your region is crazy asf
In fairness, this is R2 Falkner.
Makes sense, he is the bird gym leader
I mean, when Falkner bewails the battering of his Pokémon in the main series games, he sobs "My father's Pokémon!", but you'd hardly expect him to have inherited a Pidgey and Pidgeotto barely scraping 10 levels from his dad. A ZAPDOS, on the other hand? Now THAT'S a family heirloom!
The announcer: “It seems to be impervious to that attack”
The Pokemon: *loses a slither of health*
The Game: “it’s super effective!”
In fairness, Mud-Slap is a weak attack, so its only real purpose is to lower the target's accuracy.
It's super effective to the player's mental health 😂
What if you wanted to go to heaven
But god said “accuracy fell”
That's not how that works. We go to heaven based on repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. No amount of works gets us into heaven.
I recognize you're joking, but I needed to get that out there.
@@Charles-e4xBut Jesus knows the value of hard work and would reward you for it.
You forgot about the Piranha Plant boss in Mario Party DS. When I was younger, I could not get past that boss, and despite being the hardest boss in the game, he is the FIRST boss!
Me too.
I always stuck in that boss level because i can't press the A button so fast so it true that piranha plant is the hard one in Mario party DS.
I even ask my brother to help me to mask the A button
Me too but tbf I always sucked at mashing buttons minigames so I just assumed it was my skill issue
Nah, it requires better mashing than basically anything else in the game, ALL the other bosses are so much easier
I almost could not beat that boss until I used a technique that helped me beat it (btw I used the practice mode to my advantage) I set my DS on a flat surface and mashed the buttons as hard as I can. I succeeded!
Oh god that back memories so hard. I still have the game. I remember finally beating that thing it was the best moment for me as a child
dude that race against samurai goroh took me countless tries. it took me forever to realise that he's basically programmed to boost past you if you go near him and it's only towards the end when you can really make a mad dash past him
Basically every AI boss character in Story mode. Only one not cheating was Blood Falcon since he actually doesn't have infinite health, and is actually limited to how many boost he can spam
The first boss in Pokemon Stadium 2 never made me this fucking furious!
Harder than modern Pokemon superbosses
@@Gojira453
Except it's cheap, bullshit difficulty.
U will hate a lot Erika rematch, adn the 5th gym, both were so evil
I totally agree, man! They're even harder than the first boss! I wish Game Freak just give us a mainline pokemon game that is not too easy!
@@insertmemehere0diamond and pearl remakes elite 4.
And this is one of the many reasons Accuracy/evasion strats are banned or frowned upon.
There are enough moves that bypass accuracy checks at this point
@@dylancross1039 There’s actually a lot less than you’d think. If we aren’t counting signature moves like Flower Trick or moves that need specific conditions like Blizzard then there’s only around 13 attacking moves that can’t miss. A lot of these moves are on the weaker side too like Shock Wave so they’re not always worth using.
@@dylancross1039
Those moves are bad, so by allowing accuracy drop/evasion raise moves you'd only be making the game worse.
Also not every Pokémon has access to these moves
Imagine not equipping Aerial Ace\Shockwave
If something can go wrong for the player in Stadium2, it will go wrong. The RNG is always against the player
Dont forget the game laughting at ur face. Fissure hitting still is something else
@@fandenovelas777 And what can feel even more infuriating is knowing that 1-hit KO attacks used to only work when the user's current speed is higher than the target's current speed. But as of the 2nd generation, they can hit, regardless of speed, but not if the target's level is higher than that of the user.
Just like life itself
In games with multiple difficulties, the first boss on the hardest difficulty is not a tutorial boss.
Your smart
Even if you do decide to allow it, there is a difference between "First time player decided to play on the hardest difficulty" and "In order to access this difficulty, you must beat the game first". Round 2 Falkner is not a Tutorial Boss.
And sometimes the first boss isn't always the easiest boss.
At least when it's a locked difficulty that you get access to by beating the game on Hard. That solodifies that it's not going to be your first boss encounter in that game.
This is _especially_ true for Wario Land 4, because to unlock Super Hard, you have to complete the game on Hard; and well, if you've already beaten the game before, you don't need a tutorial. ❤
Pokémon stadium.....mud slap/accuracy lowering moves spam were so unpredictably unfair, i feel your pain how frustrating and annoying that is.
Just from that gameplay I feel emotional, physical and mental pain
If you don't have Faint Attack or something that's immune to Mud-Slap, you're in for a long day. And sadly, Zapdos's presence makes the predicament even worse, since unless you have a Gligar, it'll send your Flying-types to their grave very quickly.
They really embody the annoyance of birds. That’s why Tsubame Gaeshi exists
Falkner may as well be the ground gym leader, as he sure does love mudslap
Well, he's a flying specialist and birds are weak to electricity, so why not teach them an annoying ass ground move?😅
F-Zero GX literally said “Okay, you collected all the capsules on a simple oval course. Now you should be able to face your rival, who has super rubber band AI, on a one-shot winding course with boulders dropping down. Right?”
Not really a boss, but I feel like the Yoshis in Mario Strikers: Battle League's tutorial deserve an honorable mention. Some tutorials there were so difficult that Nintendo actually made them easier in an update 😂
💀
Just like Smash Ultimate character battles.
The "New challengers" were incredibly strong so that they didn't lasted more than a week after release and they nerfed them all, if I had to guess they locked them to max difficulty at first and then just lowered them to half or weaker.
Plum in 15 seconds is only in superhard difficulty. Which means you have to have finushed the games 2 times already onze in normal, one in hard.
So the boss can barely be called a tutorial boss at that point.
What is your grammer
@@maznAlkadmGrammar*
It's spelling, not grammar.
@@professional.nutcase sorry I'm arabic and I learned english from boredom in the lockdown of 2020
Trust me, the tutorial boss in F-ZERO GX is the time limit to get all of the capsules
That was last mission for me to beat on hard mode to unlock everyone. Chapter 7 is very hard, but you can consistently kill Shadow at beginning to make it much easier
@@whichDude I focus more on winning the race
Since the Metal Gear Solid triology was released for Switch, lemme mention that MGS 2 has an absolutely cracked prologue boss. If you fight Olga Gurlukovich at European Extreme difficulty your Life bar doesn't matter anymore: A single hit will kill you, and she keeps firing at you from cover. Additionally Olga will trigger obstructions as the battle progresses and on the lower difficulties you can disarm them, but not on the highest difficulty, meaning you have to take blind shots. And it gets even crazier if you are aiming for the Big Boss rank, because if you die you have to reload your last save, but the rank only permits 8 saves in total, meaning you probably shouldn't save in the entire tanker prologue at all. So if you make a single mistake in this battle you have to restart the entire game.
7:53 That's probably the most hardcore first boss music ever!😆🎸
Bruh the fact that Goroh just rubber bands in front of you several times had me 💀. Got to love racing ai, i know mk64s ai if it's far enough off screen it ignores items and some knock back
It only cheats in story mode. Grand Prix races are honest, and the most of the AI is extremely good and aggressive. Aggressive might be some are blood thirsty or some might just boost to near suicide to stay in the lead.
Bro, that effing Mission in F-Zero GX was impossible. Easily the hardest in the entire game. But if you manage to kill Samurai, it becomes easy (obv) but I remember it giving me so much trouble. Glad to see others found it hard too 😂
Why does Samurai Goroh think he’s playing a TouHou game💀💀
I was wondering the exact same thing.
Bro was zipping left and right to perfectly dodge everything
If I recall, Koopa in Mario Tennis Aces was so annoying that he was nerfed in an update. Sure he isn't a boss, but he felt like one
Oh, the whole game is a nightmare. I stopped playing cause I couldn’t beat mirage mansion.
I remember in an update there was an option where if you lost several times, they'd allowed you to use your special attack at any time, with no refill. This was the ONLY way I was able to beat the story mode.
Tropical Freeze is one of the few games with bosses that are actually memorable due to the fact that Tropical Freeze’s bosses are actually challenging
Falkner spamming Mud Slap is so damn annoying. I hate facing evasion strategies.
Hence why I have a few no miss moves on at least 2 pokemon in my team
You think that’s bad? Try fighting Aztec Falcon without grinding.
Aztec is ez bud
@@chris1229sonic if you grinded, that is.
@@alvaroperez2349 nah sorry but skill issue tbh
@@chris1229sonic I managed to beat him by hugging the wall, *and he has a counter for it.*
@@alvaroperez2349 okey cool
So glad you had the consideration to speed up the KI boss fight
And that's just the beginning
To be fair that IS round 2 for Pokemon Stadium 2, aka you versus RNG and already cracked Pokemon.
Not really a tutorial boss since you'd have to face everyone and complete the game once to get to it.
An honorable mention is Brock in the Kanto games if you picked Charmander(Red, Blue/Green, Fire Red, Leaf Green) since your only options for super effective moves are the Nidos(FrLg) and Mankey(also FrLg), this makes RB Brock brutal because Karate Chop is Normal in Generation 1, meaning the only effective ways to take on Brock is with Burn or Poison stalling with Charmander, the Nidos, or the Weedle line or using an overleveled mon, it only gets more difficult if you didn’t catch Mankey or a Nido in FrLg as Onix now has Rock Tomb, luckily they gave Mankey Low kick in Yellow, but in Red and Blue/Green, you have no way of dealing super effective damage against Brock
In Red and Blue you can just use Butterfree.
Rock moves? Nope, Brock only has Tackle as a damaging move, Tackle...
Anything with Growl is basically unlikable (like Charmander)
Anything learns a STAB special move is gonna out damage his Pokémon (like Charmander)
His Onix is an absolute joke btw, the only Pokémon I can think of that can't defeat his Onix, is a Magikarp.
@@TunaBear64 in red and blue, the only mon with neutral damage is indeed butterfree’s Confusion against brock, the only problem with caterpie, it’s a 5% encounter rate in red
In FR/LG Charmander learns Metal Claw early on, which is Super Effective against Onix. Even so, Onix has really high defense but its other stats are pathetic, so you can just as well spam STAB Ember and it will still do some damage and occasionally waste Brocks turn, healing off burn. Also Brocks moveset is just awful in Red and Blue.
But in Pokémon Yellow it's a different story. Pikachu can legit do nothing to it, but lower its stats, since quick attack only deals like 1 damage and it learns it's next best move Slam at level 20. So you have to use another Pokémon for Brock. Mankey can be caught at Lv. 5 and learns Low kick at Lv. 9. Both Nidoran learn Double Kick at Lv. 12.
Butterfree learns Confusion as soon as it evolved at Lv. 10. These 4 are basically your only consistent options, but a new player would still have to figure this out (you'd likely ditch Butterfree and Mankey at some point, since they have a tough time in the late game). Also Onix now knows Bind, which in Gen. 1 is just unfair. Plus you cannot purchase Potions before Brock.
yknow, if you're an idiot who willingly picks the worst starter in the series. (there i said it.)
Poison is not at all a viable strategy, unfortunately. In Gen 1, Brock is packing a whopping TEN Full Heals, five for each pokemon. He'll also use them as soon as he possibly can, even after moves have been decided for turn. For instance, if your Beedrill outspeeds his Geodude and randomly poisons it with Poison Sting, Brock will immediately use a Full Heal on it.
Starmie: *Uses surf*
Skarmory: *While submerged underwater* Missed me beyatch!
Makes perfect sense
Another fitting pick would be Travis and Trish in the first chapter of Triangle Strategy. If you try to play it on hard difficulty on NG+, the battle was so ridiculously hard that lowering its difficulty remains the only gameplay related change Square Enix made between updates.
3:08 I noticed that every time the leader is overtaken the new leader's portrait on the left side of the screen does this goofy head bob, like "Ahh, I beat you!"
So I feel like this needs to be said THIS falkner in Pokémon stadium 2 isn’t the first boss this is round 2 falkner wich isn’t reachable until you’ve basically beaten the game on easy mode
How Pokemon Stadium 2 just casually gives the first gym leader a legendary lol
This is round 2 tho
This is only the case in round 2, but even in round 1, Falkner uses the Mud-Slap strategy to irritate players.
I like how the last video was about the easiest final bosses in Nintendo history lol
We love to see continuation 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@crabbycakey fr bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥
_Immediately floods the entire arena with a huge tidal wave._
Game: Yup, that's a miss no question about it.
...Gotta love pokemon logic.
7:32 Nintendounity: the first dkctf boss is hard.
Also Nintendounity: beats him with funky Kong who is the definition of easy mode.
DKC tropical freeze shouldn't be in the list, in a normal playthrough its much easier than every other boss of the list
Especially when you're using Funky Kong
Playing the original was the first time I had ever really raged at a game
Well, it's still a lot harder than your typical 3-hit Mario boss (which definitely shouldn't be the difficulty standard, but here we are)
Plus, it seems to be ranked on how hard it gets on a higher difficulty, and because Tropical Freeze has a hard mode it makes it a lot more challenging.
You'd be amazed by how significant the difficulty becomes when playing in Hard Mode. Take damage even once, and you have to redo the entire boss battle from the very beginning, and those very bosses take 3x more hits to defeat than your typical Super Mario series boss.
@@timothypitcher7996 thats just the first 3 dkc games
This is why in Pokemon I usually focus on those with high speed and heavy hits to take down the opponent as fast as I can before they even get a chace to lower accuracy or raise evasion
FUN FACT: Pokémon Stadium 2 has fixed outcomes.
What do you mean by that?
@@thedaedricdragon921
The game already knows what will happen in that turn and acts accordingly. It already knows you will switch out, what move you will use, etc.
@@Super_Top_Secret_Area oh so it basically reads you 100% of the time? That’s fair
It makes so much sense considering why would Zaptos go for an electric attack against Tyranitar? It KNEW when the switch out was happening
The fzero gx one in particular is nearly impossible to
The story mode missions only get harder from there
F-Zero GX tutorial is some game's final boss.
That Wario boss looks like it's out of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga
Nintendo unity: this boss is brutal
Also Nintendo unity: *Plays on the hardest difficulty possible*
The Falkner fight had me swearing at myself the whole time like what even how is that even acceptable I am losing my mind!!!
That one shot at the end….it looked so aggressive!! 😂
Fuck that Wario Land boss that dude scared the fuck out of me
Todos los jefes de wario land 4 son bizarros y bien feos 😅
could of mentioned brock from pokemon yellow. only 2 actual ways to beat him and that is either get a nidoran and evolve it to nidorino and get double kick or evolve a caterpie to butterfree and get confusion.
There are wild Lv. 5 Mankey at the same route where Rival 1a is located. It learns Low Kick at Lv. 9
Isn't he way worse in red/blue?
@@JoelHernandez-tz3vk no because pokemon yellow you dont get a choice of starter, stuck with pikachu who can do literally nothing to geodude and onyx
@skygazer419 I was going to mention specifically how screwed you are if you pick Charmander. However, Charmander can at least DAMAGE Brock's Pokémon with ember and take advantage of their low sp Def that way. Pikachu has no such luxury. Thus likely forcing you into getting a Mankey for the purpose of defeating him.
@@JoelHernandez-tz3vk yup though personally i tihnk yellow has different spawns because i dont remember ever seeing a mankey anywhere early game
Ho my god, I didn't think anyone would talk about Kid Icarus Uprising ever again! That game was, like, top 3 of the best 3ds games, with Hyrule Warriors and Pokémon Ultra Sun & Moon.
Watching you refuse to switch on a resisted sky attack was PAINFUL
I’m pretty sure the developer intended boss order for Metroid 1 is
Fake Kraid
Ridley
Going back to the statue and seeing that kraids isn’t active
Then finding real Kraid
Kraid has the most defence and damage out of all of the bosses in game I find it very unlikely that he’s supposed to be the tutorial boss.
OG Falcner in general is a pain in the ass since he only spams mudslap to the piont they completely removed it from him in HGSS but instead he spams roost
Games:
Wario Land 4 (2001 - Nintendo Gamecube)
F-Zero GX (2003 - Nintendo Gamecube)
Mario Kart Arcade GP (2005 - Arcade)
Kid Icarus 2 (1991 - Gameboy)
Mario Party 10 (2015 - Wii U)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014 - Wii U/2018 - Nintendo Switch)
Metroid (1986 - NES)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012 - Nintendo 3DS)
Pokémon Stadium 2 (2000 - Nintendo 64)
Pokémon Scarlet/Violet (2022 - Nintendo Switch)
And I Thought DK Cup Round 4 Without Choosing To Make A Card Was Already Bad Enough (It'sThe Item Selection That Makes It Brutal If You're Wondering) ;-;
15:09 "Oh, that didn't connect!"
Skarmory: *Submerged in water*
"And now, I want you to experience the absolute suffering that is the following boss."
*Reeses ad plays*
Me: "I fear no man... but that boss... it scares me."
I want to give a mention to FireMan from Mega Man Network Transmission. Dude is the first boss in the game but he makes it so hard for you to hit him at times and he has this attack that's pretty darn hard to avoid due to it's range and it deals a LOT of damage.
I still have nightmares about FIRE ARRRRRM.
Bruh… funny how every other boss fight in Kid Icarus OMaM takes significantly longer than the final boss
Dark Alpha Splinter in Metroid Prime 2 is insanely hard for a first boss. You have to fight a few regular splinters, then Alpha's first phase, and then his Dark Phase all with 0 E-Tanks; 5 missiles and no way to recharge. He also hits like a truck and will kill you in like 4-5 hits. His pattern is pretty simple but it's insanely easy to fuck up and die if you're new to the series
Same here, for I was jumping all time instead of waiting for its own jump to evade.
When stopped playing the Game Cube, I was stuck at the Boost Guardian; that one almost drove my crazy.
12:51 Back then it was quite hilarious to see the attack animation go off even though the attack misses.🤣
And one can probably understand why after the 2nd generation, move animations will only occur when they DO hit their target; it saves time.
7:01 My Favorite.
4:42 400% speed is just a really fancy way of saying 4 times speed
I still have (more or less) fond memories of FZero GX. On one hand, I absolutely adored the game. On the other hand, this game is responsible for me having to buy new controllers pretty much monthly due to its brutal difficulty lol
All jokes aside, I think I wanna play it again right now!
Falker's pokémons using Mud Slap for the tenth time:
The narrator: What's that!?
I'll miss Kid Icarus Uprising...
This great nostalgic game from 80 one this game have it
From laughable easy final bosses to head breaker first bosses
Cough dark nebula cough.
Well I'm glad to know Falkner actually was a bs boss, I just thought I was 10 and bad.
12:05 Is that the cod zombies bear sound? The one for the Easter egg songs? Sure sounds like it
sure is
Want a very really and a very hard game right from the start until the finish? Fire Emblem Binding Blade
Shoutouts to Henning & Gel for being damn near RNG based
Wario land 4 plant
Spoiled Rotten in Super Hard difficulty is heart wrenchingly nightmare inducing
Y lo peor es que eso es lo mas facil de todo el juego , ya despues toca sufrir de verdad
No creo que Samurai Goroh sea un jefe como tal tan solo es una carrera contra un rival nada más, y el capítulo 2 del modo historia de F-Zero GX no es el más difícil el más difícil es el capítulo 7
So, either the Switch version straight-up nerfed the first boss of DKC Tropical Freeze, or Funky does more damage, because Pompy has a final attack phase in which he does several tricks before becoming vulnerable.
The amount of time I read Dodrio as Doritos is insane
Either this person is the best gamer ever or it’s tas
13:35 "Oh hey it's Gengar :D"
I still don’t understand why Zapdos was fought that early
Post game content
the only thing that could make that dodrio more annoying is if it could also inflict confusion
You forgot about Odolwa from the N64 version of Majora's Mask. Dude is pretty brutal in that version of the game.
Crazy how they're like souls bosses
Ok, I got the reference finally. You confused me for a sec
0:31 i just realized wario and pepperman have the same mooveset
Amazing showing, you lot! Spoiled Rotten, Samurai Goroh, Mecha Bowser, Satan (I presume), Mario & co, Pompy, Kraid, Twinbellows, Falkner (Stadium), you've proven yourselves as filters for the weak links.
Me: "He only got his with one Mudslap, there's no way Surf will miss"
*Surf, a 100/100 move, misses*
Me: 💀
Nah the captain Falcon one's just ludicrously harc
When I was a kid I couldn’t get past Ripper Roo, I thought it was impossible and I grew up trying to find others who agreed. Turns out I was just a dumb kid
Imagine funny joke for Smash bros ultimate, the athlete hero from number 10 is dead horse beating with KO'd Sora in classic mode.
Must be updates.
I never thought Nintendo unity would make videos like master of hyrule 💀
Something tells me you couldn’t beat Pompy (DKC: Tropical Freeze) with DK so you had to switch to funky
Good. Now lets see Kraid without Narpas Sword.
Why is the first boss in kid icrias up rising 2 naked
The tropical freeze one was actually pretty easy tbh.
Easy under normal circumstances, but Hard Mode does make it so that one mistake equals having to redo the fight from the very beginning.
Dude needed funky Kong for tropical freeze REAL GAMERS use the Wii U
i play donkey kong in the Wii u but it's pirated
Gobblegut from Super Mario Galaxy 2 not being on here is kinda odd.
Peewee Piranha is basically the first boss of that game
@ That’s more of a mini boss IMO. Not only that, most Major bosses are the one leading to the next world.
Thunder is guaranteed to hit in the rain. Have something fast with ice beam for Gligar.
20:11 YEAAAAASSS!!!
who could've guessed that a boss would be hard on the highest difficulty
Whats the ost for the 1st 5 seconds of the vid? I heard it before but dont remember.
12:40 Tutorial boss?
Most of these are on Hard mode or worse, but GX is brutal even on regular difficulty.
"Oh he just beat Faulkner's Zapdos, so battle is basically over at this point, right?"
...right?