Skyrim's Toughest Boss Battles Ranked by Difficulty | Part 3
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It’s finally here, Wizards! Part 3 of Skyrim’s Most Powerful Bosses Ranked! 😈 These are the top 16 toughest bosses in Skyrim.
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• Boss 16 (00:48)
• Boss 15 (04:43)
• Boss 14 (08:18)
• Boss 13 (10:04)
• Boss 12 (11:16)
• Boss 11 (13:09)
• Boss 10 (15:35)
• Boss 9 (17:14)
• Boss 8 (19:16)
• Boss 7 (20:46)
• Boss 6 (23:56)
• Boss 5 (25:08)
• Boss 4 (26:39)
• Boss 3 (28:54)
• Boss 2 (29:58)
• Boss 1 (32:11)
• Outro (34:56)
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Q: Boss number 3 says it's boss number 4?
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I don't know if I'd put the Frost Troll up so high. The right build can take him down, not easily, but not that hard.
@@Marinanor Most of the time I dont even fight him these days, I just run right past him because he's a waste of time to fight lmao, he doesn't drop anything worthwhile and he's slow as hell. Though I think the point is, first timers who fight him are a bit shocked by how a more dangerous creature then just your basic wolf or sabrecat shows up and when you go in guns blazing with your steel sword and flames, you get freaking wrecked lol and for that he's quite memorable for being a boss that kicked your ass the first time you played.
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@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685agreed
You know you could have swapped the troll with mirser fray
Voslaarum and Naaslaarum are the single coolest bosses in Skyrim. The way they burst out from the ice lake is so cool I'm glad they're the only dragons to do this as it makes the encounter even more memorable. Amazing.
Yeah, they’re a badass duo in a cool location. One of my personal favourites also
@theWelshWizard I got in trouble with my mum on my first encounter because they made me jump when they burst through the ice. I went "ah fuk" and mum threatened to turn off my PS3. Simple times.
Durnuvir is close purely due to the aesthetic of of his arena and the soul cairn in general. Also the snow elf vampire. And Harkon. Okay I guess every major boss fight in the dawngaurd dlc is cool.
@kristeenlivesay2664 weird how the DLC that isn't about dragons has the coolest dragon fights.
I ran away I wanted none of that 😆
Ah yes the infamous troll on the 7000 steps to high hrothgar a worthy opponent and has earned its place in top 5
Not to be underestimated 😳
I still remember everyone in Ivarstead warning you about wolf packs... But no one warns you about the troll! 😂
I remember the first time I beat it was only because it got "stuck" behind a rock and I was able to kill it with a bunch of arrows. Most times I'd just run and eventually (if it didn't catch and kill me) I'd be able to get by it. Another time I used the Nords "Battle Cry" to drive it away. This most recent playthrough I decided to do a magic only run so before I went to High Hrothgar I did the college of Winter hold quest before I even went to Whiterun, got the arch mages gear and then I just killed it with a couple of dual cast fireballs.
I invested in stamina heavily first and ran like the courier after the drangonborn to high hrothgar
I have never found him difficult, and cannot relate to all the memes and whatnot about him at all.
23:30
Harkon: *Middle of his Monlogue.* "-Are you even listening to me?"
Dragonborn: "Hm? Yeah sure, don't mind me, carry on-" *Putting on the Mask, drinking and taking out the Scroll.*
Still didn’t see it coming 😂
#1 Is J'Zargo, without question. J'Zargo is simply the best. He is also very handsome.
J’Zargo may also be biased 👀
"If anyone sneaks up on us, I will smell them. Or I will not."
@@top_banananaplays That's Karjo. Easy mistake to make.
@brandonquist8394 it's actually both. They both say it.
I remember one fight against the Forgemaster on my Artificer character with a full Dwarven build. Things were getting pretty dicey and my follower well essential was stuck on their last legs. I was starting to think I was gonna lose when a brave warrior stood up to defend me. My Dwarven Armored Mudcrab had, had enough and decided it was time to throw claws. Bravely challenging the Forgemaster to single combat Sir Crab soloed the giant mechanical menance until myself and Derrkethus were able to finish off the minions and join him in battle. A salute to you Sir Crab bravest and most powerful of all crabs, truly the dragonborn would be lost without you.
All hail the Crab!🎉❤
Were you using mods?
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206 Sort of. It's the anniversary edition for the Switch so it's got all the Creation Club content. The pets you can get are all invulnerable and will occasionally pull aggro, just that time my Crab pulled aggro and wouldn't let it drop. The Forgemaster really hated that crab for some reason.
Gordon is powerful in every universe
I truly feel like ulfric should have been a legitimately powerful boss ngl. The dude is insanely strong lore wise. And it would have been cool for his in game statistics to represent that.
Oh Krosis! The one dragon priest I never expected to encounter that made me jump! 😂 I remember exploring the area and literally stumbling upon him. He was the first dragon priest I ever encountered and I got destroyed very easily. I went back for him later in my playthrough in the end. 😂
Playing Skyrim for the first time, the dragon attacked me but fortunately then started fighting some wild animals. Me happy how things turned out running to the chest for loot and then Krosis jumped out from his sarcophagus killing me with 2 fireballs... Very memorable 😄
Same here.
You know how he said don’t get too close while facing the dragon? Well I totally didn’t know about that. The battle was… intense. And I think I lost
23:58 Good to see I made it in the top 10, jokes aside love to see someone who still holds passion for this game, thank you welsh wizard keep up the great content!
1. M'aiq the Liar
2. Karstaag
3. Ebony Warrior
4. Miraak
5. Harkon
M'aiq the Liar is immortal
and deserves a dedicated video
I'm doing a Skyrim Survivor permadeath run for the first time, and it is very scary. However... these videos are INVALUABLE to me as they help me plan ahead and set myself up for the vanilla boss fights and more. Thank you for being an awesome teacher!
YESSS FINALLY! I was searching for part 3 frantically the other day
Major respect for the video quality and continuing to put out skyrim content.
I never heard someone call parthunax party snacks
That's his new name now
His voice a is the voice of Mario
-“it’s-a! Me! Partisnax!
Last time I fought the reaper I was wearing Ahzidal's ring of gimme that ignite spell and combined it with the slow time shout. He was down before any of his minions. Good times!!
The toughest boss I faced in my first complete playthrough of Skyrim was that Thoron guy at the end of the Saints and Seducers quest, I was playing as this generic one handed warrior guy with no enchanted weapons or armor allowed, only allowed to use potions or food to heal. I basically wanted to do a character like out of the old school "Swords and Sandals" films from the 70s and into the 80s, where a strong but otherwise normal guy has to battle impossible odds using only his wits. It was a pretty fun but challenging playthrough.
You're first playthrough was on the anniversary edition?
@@flameesperthefolf9361I mean, I just started my first play through ever on the ps5. Thoron definitely made me annoyed at his garbage balancing
I always love watching these videos! They are so entertaining
for the Ebony Warrior, you forgot to mention the fact that he can’t be directly killed by falling damage.
The enterprising Dragonborn might see an easy cliff and a target that doesn’t move until attacked first and use their Unrelenting Force, only for the Ebony Warrior to rise from the fall and continue the fight.
Now, there are still ways to cheese him, Marked for Death being the most common and easy way, but I think it was neat for Bethesda to implement a feature that makes this fight, that they wanted to be difficult, to not be instantly won with the first mastered Shout the Player would’ve gotten, if they followed the Main Story as their first group of quests.
U can kill him from fall damage u just gotta do extra damage as fall damage reduces his health to 1
The troll is absolutely a boss, good show
Welsh wizard you inspire me to start making my own Skyrim videos because of your passion for this game. Thank you so much for keeping up the journey and providing us an amazing experience!
That’s awesome to hear! Good luck mate 👍 and thanks for watching!
I am back to Skyrim after a long break thanks to you!
Great video!
I was impatiently waiting for it!
The fight with the guy inside azura’s star was easy for me… it probably would’ve been slightly more challenging if I had fought him with my first character, a spellsword vampire warlock hellbent on becoming more powerful than the Gods and ascending into Godhood himself, where he would then rule over all of nirn as it’s sole benevolent deity, whether they liked it or not.
However, I fought the azura’s star guy with my second character, a simple thief Khajit from Elswyr who came to Skyrim in hopes of finding good work and eventually building enough of a fortune to return to elswyr and provide for his family. The fight was easy with him because by the time I got around to Azura’s Star my sneak was at 100 so I just became invisible in a corner and when the daedra lost me I snuck past them and backstabbed the crazy wizard guy, he didn’t even have a chance to fight, all he saw was somebody enter his domain, then somehow disappear, then in a few minutes appear behind him and kill him
Voslaruum and Nosslaruum top 5. I'd say they've gotta be up there with Karstag and the Ebony Warrior. I don't remember if you're counting CC bosses, but I also found Umbra to be a jaw dropping fight. The music, the mechanics, it had no right being that epic.
I’m glad you included the 7k steps frost troll in the higher rankings, because I don’t think I’ll ever forget that early-game ass-whooping I received my first play through. Mans had claws like NyQuil.
The return of the wizard is like when you think your companion is dead so you wait for an hour and he finally respawns in front of you
Thank you for the incredible work you have done on this, and all of your other lists. Your quirky humour is a major plus as well. I love playing the game in Survival, and am very grateful that unlike Fallout 4 you can save and experiment more easily.
How much would your rankings change depending on Survival mode?
Thank you for the kind words :) Karstaag would probably take the top spot in Survival mode and bosses who primarily use frost would be more of a challenge, especially the twin dragons with the ice!
I see Skyrim in title, I click. It’s simple.
I remember watching my older brother play Skyrim for the first time neither of us had any prior experience with and ES games.
Once he got to the steps of high hrothgar, neither of us could come up with a strategy to kill the troll (with his current gear) so he just ran up the stairs, would turn around to use the first word of unrelenting force to stagger it as it slowly caught up to him. Eventually, he made it to the grey beards and they saved his life. Ahhhh memories
theWelshWizard: **uploads a video**
Me: "The time has come!"
When I played my level 81 character:
5 - the two dragons
4 - the Galdur Amulet gauntlet
3 - the Black Star guy (mainly because I always do that quest early)
2 - Karstagg (enchanted a whole new armor set for him)
1 - Ebony Warrior (had to actually learn how to fight well to beat him)
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Glad to be back 🧙♂
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Cheers David! 👍
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I know the massive Horker was already quite low, but it is still a funny boss.
Also, the strongest is that massive Mudcrab :)
Paused at 16:09 to say, by the nine, the mighty party snacks? This is what keeps bringing me back. As for my guess among the top five? Easy pick, Karstaag.
The true hardest boss is magic anomaly. I'm legitimately traumatized from fighting them at high levels and difficulties.
Boss 5 is SUCH a troll.
I personally believe the best challenge in Skyrim is THE EBONY WARRIOR by far !!! You made an amazing video Mister Welsh Wizard... Fantastic!!!
I personally think Karstaag should be #1. He has a base level of 90, while the Ebony warrior has a base level of 80. He also overall does more damage, and it is also easier to cheese the Ebony warrior from a distance, meanwhile fighting Karstaag, you are in an enclosed arena.
But my main point is that where is Thoron on this list? I could maybe understand not putting him top 5 over even top ten, but in my opinion he was one of the hardest bosses to defeat. I defeated every boss in the game, but he was one of the ones that took me forever to defeat. I know he is an obscure boss not to many know, but he deals insane damage and is resilient to mage builds. He also kept on turning my Daedra summons (the Sanguine Rose) against me and made it a nuisance . I eventually had to settle for stealth archer sniping him, then hiding when he tries to get me. I would easily put him over the troll at #5, the troll was extremely easy for me to beat. But overall 3 videos I for the most part agreed with and enjoyed. Love your videos man and keep it up.
I remember my first dragon priest lol i was like 7-8 slayed that mf got a cool mask and that’s when i realized i love Elder Scrolls
I may disagree with your list, but i do love your creativity and humor.
During my current Pure Mage Run, I just summoned a Zombie and let it wail on Jyrik. And holy crap those things are strong! The Zombies (added by the Creation Club Mod of the same name) are surprisingly powerful for how inexpensive the spells are to cast. Even damaged Jyrik through the Elemental Shields!
Your mods are incredible. What pc you have? Awesome quality 😳
Thanks! I upgraded recently and putting it through the rounds. Custom build with Intel i9 13900k and a 4090 gpu
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krosis terrified me when i first fought him, i went to the greybeards to learn new shouts on my first play through and i was expecting just a normal dragon fight and when i got there and krosis attacked me it scared tf out of me
Enjoyed every one of them. Very well made.
Nice thumbnail my man
My guess is that some order of Miraak, Karstaag, and the Ebony Warrior will be in the top 3.
Also, thank you so much for your effort in making these!
How Interesting, I Never Knew Of A Reaper Boss In The Soul Cairn Before This Video
I haven't gotten anywhere near a full playthrough of Skyrim, but I have beaten the main questline and several of the side questlines, killing probably over a dozen of the bosses in the process. So far, Krosis was the only one I haven't been able to beat. In the one encounter I've had with him, I was sent up that mountain on one of those quests that's basically just "here's the location of a random word wall, hope you can get to it" at fairly low level. The dragon fight wasn't that bad, but Krosis was absolutely broken at that level, especially since I was a warrior build. I remember during one of my attempts, the game spawned in a random dragon encounter while I was fighting the guardian dragon as a werewolf. I killed both of the dragons in werewolf form, just to get smoked by the lich yet again. Ended up giving up and haven't fought him since.
Pro tip! Level up alchemy, enchanting, and smithing exploit the restoration loop and make the most powerful gear ever. My current character is Zephyros Darkweaver and I'm currently wearing a pair of boots that allow a carry weight of 15k lbs. A pair of gauntlets that cause 1 handed weapons to cause 16298% more damage and a ring that increases my health by over 20k points. So technically I can still be killed and I can one shot most enemies. Other enemies take 2.
I came up to ShearPoint from behind, and I saw the dragon and shot a firebolt at it. Once it was aggroed, I shouted Bend Will and approached Krosis. It was so cool to defeat Krosis with a dragon by my side, but he was still a pain to kill. And the dragon just flew away after the fight.
I like to think that the Reaper was the original one who had dominion over the Soul Cairin before the Ideal Masters showed up, killed him and put his soul into a soul gem before splitting it into 3 fragments which is why you fight the Reapers spirit/soul and not their physical body.
Ah, my favorite ally, Partysnaxx... That made my day lmao
posted before watching any of the videos but, if kvenal the tongue is not on any of the lists I'm going to feel bad cause that man gives me trouble every time I try to fight him.
Krosis was the first dragon priest I beat, I was really low level so he one shotte me a couple of times but I best him with hit and run tactics, hundreds of arrows.....and it helped that his Ai got bugged at half health and he just stood still once I kept my distance
Kinda funny how the Ebony Warrior sees us in pretty much the same way we see him; an optional boss to test how far our build can really go before hanging up the game for a while.
The hardest boss is the frost troll on your way to the old screaming men club
You forgot to mention that the Gauldur archer brother has unrelenting force shout that makes the fight extremely difficult as you spend most of it on the ground
i feel the ebony warrior would chill out after some caws cenarth, a cup of glengettie tea and a slice of bara brith
I like how you put in the king mudcrab in part one but didn't include any other extra content bosses like Umbra, the two Daedra in the deadlands from "The Cause" questline, the giant dwarven spider from Forgotten seasons and the champion from the Bittercup quest. There isn't really a lot I would add from the extra content, there might be like 5 or 6 extra's that weren't included here that I considered as bosses. Though considering you put the troll from High Hrothgar in there lol, there could potentially be more. But yeah, the top ones probably wouldnt have changed for me, but I would have put Umbra maybe at like number 3 instead of the two dragons. That son of a gun was *tough* the first time I fought him, probably like diet coke Ebony Warrior tough. He's tanky, hits hard, has lots of minions if I remember and can become invulnerable. Im a Skyrim veteran who has been playing this game since it first released all the way back in 2011, ive beaten both the Ebony Warrior and Karstagg multiple times and even after all those playthroughs, I was surprised by how tough some of those extra content bosses were, its a shame they werent included but hey hoe, thats ok. Great job with these videos, im a big fan about how you conduct the presentation of these videos and I mostly agree with all these rankings...even the frost troll one lol.
The Ebony Warrior, aka the only enemy that can kill someone with equipment made with the resto-loop exploit
Number 15 especially at a lower level can be a royal pain especially if you are going in blind without say absorb magica or anything like that of the sorts especially with the Dremora and his staff. I lost count in the vanilla Skyrim how many times I've died to him and good luck as an archer as well
The fact that a generic, not even miniboss enemy was ranked at number 5 shows how many lives that one thing claimed on low-level players.
I really like these lists and I think that the toughest has to be kaarstag
There are zero powerful bosses in Skyrim unless you the player makes the boss difficult.
Karstaag is much stronger than an Ebony Warrior, mostly because you can't summon Karstaag in fight against him and turn this battle into a walk in the park.
Is the “lizard wizard” bit a reference to Sips’ famous Skyrim playthrough?
What’s that mod for the arrow flight lines at 14:10??! That looks awesome!
If you're having too much trouble with that troll, you can try running all the rest of the way up the mountain and letting the Greybeards deal with it.
i was fighting the ebony warrior with a mod that make the game even more harder at legendary dificulty it was the biggest mistake in my life
There’s no way Kostak isn’t in the Top 5 at minimum, if he somehow isn’t it should be considered an international crime
23:26 or when he starts the conversation, just walk around him, sneak and one shot him with a dagger! :P
pov: your alduin the world eater, but your weaker than a fuckin troll
Yeah that frost troll is no joke when you’re new to the game
To be honest, I beaten karstagg with the ghost of one the professors, butload of healing potions, ciero, slow time, and dawnbreaker all at level 36.
Somehow, the 7000 step troll was as easy as The Forge Master at level 56. I don't even remember the fight with it. The battle with Miraak wasn't a big struggle either.
However, Krosis was the toughest enemy I've faced in this game. I waš in the early game on first playthrough (possibly quested to defeat the Shearpoint dragon by Avenicci almost right after defeating the first dragon)
i was level 22 on my first playthrough when i met krosis, i was just searcihng for dragons and i was like wtf is this the most powerful enemy in the game
Could you also make a video about the creaton club bosses? A few of them are also very hard
I'll keep that in mind 👍
Top 5 predictions are miraak, harkon, ebony warrior, that ice giant, and... The courier!
I always chose the crown since it allows two standing stones.
Shocked to see Karstaag ranked below the Ebony Warrior.
He's definitely a bit harder.
the final gauldur fight pisses me off so much, since all of the ghosts the bosses spawn in can use unrelenting force, and they spawn like half a dozen ghosts you just get thrown around so much
What about every named dragon, the first overlord you fight normally in BFB and the Dwarven Centurion in Irknthand?
The ice wizard in meridas temple has killed me more times then the ebony knight, alduin, Harkin, and kaarstaag combined. His soul is my most prized possession.
Want to know a fun bug you can abuse with him? His "Shade" appears when he dies, right? It happens to appear every time he dies - you can reanimate his body, and when it dies, you can fight his Shade again. It's useful, since his Shade has a Grand-sized soul and always drops gold. For best results, use a reanimation spell that won't disintegrate the corpse (Dead Thrall, Ritual Stone, necromancy staves) and you can farm him for infinite Grand Souls, or just keep him around as your Dead Thrall for the "gameplay twist" of having to fight his Shade if he dies
I think Im one of the few who DIDNT struggle against the ebony warrior, but to be fair at that point, I had mad stats and full deadric armor and a daedric greatsword with max mastery on two handed weapons 💀
Alright I’m just gonna say it… Soul CAIRN, not Soul Carn. Other than that, love the video haha!
Stealth builds will work in the star. You need the bow of shadows, ebony armor. and ok sneak. there are dark places in the star thou very hard to see and if you use summons good with magic he's too easy to kill. I get the blue star too because I can get endless black stars in the soul cairn. PartySnacks XD
What mod do you use for your mage robes and is it on Xbox?
Ah, yes, "Reaper Theories." We have dismissed those claims
The toughest boss is us. We just didn't know it. We can one shot everything on site if we wanted to, with the right build and bugs/exploits.
I cheesed the Ebony Warrior - I didn’t give Titus Mede II the Jarrin root. I saved it and made a poison and then sniped him. Easy peasy, dead.
22:37 - Ok, I see what you did there :-p
In my fight, Sigdis used permanently Fus Ro Dah do throw me trough the whole dungeone. Can't say I enjoyed the fight 😂 was very hard, because he got 3 arrows on me, before I was able to stand up again
Really Challenge: Defeat to Karstaag and Ebony Warrior on Legendary difficult + Survival Mode 😼
i would say Mirak and gauldr since i cheated on those two(godmode) after like most bosses i have encountered save scummed before/ during battle. Any confined boss with restoration or powerfull reinforcement will be frustrating with low dps.
Miraak, Ebony Warrior & Karstaag
Does Frost Breath empowered with the Ice Form effect bypass an immunity to the Ice Form shout?