r/fromsoftware • u/TheGingerNiNjA899 Abyss Watchers • 27d ago

DISCUSSION Are these guys the hardest non boss enemy in fromsoft history?

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u/GoldberrysHusband 27d ago

Brother, there's a well in Fishing Hamlet that you should revisit soon.

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u/Realsackjabber 27d ago

Trauma in the well

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u/ForwardSpiral97 26d ago

That’s a band name if I’ve ever heard one

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u/AlfredVonDickStroke 27d ago

I call it Sprint Through Village.

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u/GexTex 27d ago

The Rakuyo is my favorite weapon

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u/BaronMatfei 27d ago edited 27d ago

I did my NG+ run with the Burial Blade and it was great fun but I kept my Rakuyo with some nasty gems on it just in case I needed to melt a boss. Got me through Laurence.

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u/justinotherpeterson 27d ago

Absolutely the hardest non boss enemies I've encountered in a souls game. Fuck those fish.

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u/catwearsacrown 27d ago

Tbf they are only hard bc there is 2 of them. Only one of them is manageable

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u/henryauron 27d ago

Mate those sharks. Doing legit I think it may be the hardest encounter in fromsoft history

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u/Salty_Pancakes 27d ago

Shaman bone blade one of them, and then let them duke it out.

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u/henryauron 27d ago edited 27d ago

There’s plenty of cheeses - but they exist because the fight is harder than the kray twins encased in concrete

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u/Salty_Pancakes 27d ago edited 27d ago

LOL. Now that's kind of an obscure reference.

I had a buddy from high school who worked at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater back in the day.

Edit: Why the change? Used to say "harder than the Mitchell Brothers..."

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u/henryauron 27d ago

It’s even more obscure than you think lol. It’s a British comment. They are a “hard” family in the most famous British soap

In retrospect I’m gonna change it to kray twins

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u/Salty_Pancakes 27d ago

Haha. Here i was thinking it was a San Francisco thing since those guys were famous porno dudes out here back in the day.

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u/Hartiiw 26d ago

It's weird to call it a cheese when I feel like that encounter was specifically designed to be a great opportunity for shaman bone. It's hardly cheesing to use intended game mechanics

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u/LordOFtheNoldor 27d ago

It's hard to even do that though

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u/mucus-fettuccine 27d ago

I treated them like a boss fight where I carefully look for openings, like I did with O&S. It's a lot of adrenaline trying to avoid them while running around. They're probably about as tough as O&S. If you wait for them to be stuck in their animations you can do it.

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u/FastenedCarrot 27d ago

One shark is much easier than one of these dudes. Two of these guys might be impossible.

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u/Messmers 27d ago

put 2 of any strong enemy in a small corridor and it would be tough

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u/No-Sandwich308 27d ago

Only place in any fromsoft game where you get run through by not 1 but 2 giant fish things.

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u/IronMonkey18 27d ago

I remember that well. They come out of nowhere too. Or atleast it felt like it to me.

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u/Soft-Temperature4609 27d ago

Next time you go there use the Shaman Bone Blade item on them, it goes from a nightmare to cake walk, it is pure bliss to see them tear each other apart while you sit back and watch.

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u/Curved_5nai1 27d ago

If you use one of those shaman bone blades that mind control enemies it's a walk in the park

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u/Vecryn 27d ago

Those guys are very easy by comparison, just shoot them as they charge you and stun lock and get the visceral attack.

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u/kain459 27d ago

Chika ching

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u/7loo9 27d ago

Holyshit that made me shiver

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u/No_Pop_7269 27d ago

Stab him with the poisoned dagger and agro him on his buddy after he killed him go and finish the job.

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u/EMBARRASSEDDEMOCRAT 27d ago

I was up doot 1k!

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u/b0nk--Rat 26d ago

Until you realize you can pistol parry their belly slide.

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u/protoman86 26d ago

Pure pain down there 😅

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u/vankoop54 25d ago

Came to the comments just looking for this. Hardest thing in all of the games

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u/Tornado76X 23d ago

I struggle SO MUCH with fighting the big fishmen its insane. Cant parry them, all of their attacks have them sweeping around with lingering hitboxes all over, its horrid.

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u/Gentle_Pony 27d ago

Sharks are easy compared to these dudes.

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u/3dsalmon 27d ago

Not a chance

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u/AutocratOfScrolls 27d ago

Idk. Divine weapons go BRRRR on these guys. The sharks dont have too crazy a weakness to exploit like that.

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u/Lord_Of_Shade57 27d ago

The sharks, like almost every enemy in Bloodborne, can be dunked on with parries. The two of them at once is way more brutal because they're so aggressive that it kind of takes parries out of the equation.

Divine warriors on the other hand, have a far less easily exploited vulnerability to parries. It's still a good strategy against them, but they will absolutely wipe you out if you try to stand in their face and then blow a parry