Most difficult bosses

Exactly what it says, who do you think was the hardest bosses in any tales game and why?

The final boss on Hardcore Mode in Tales of Eternia. I still have nightmares about those insta-cast spells to this day.

The sword dancer in Symphonia when you first encounter him (same goes for Abyss I guess).

You're dead.

And you're dead.

And you're dead.

Oh look, you're all dead.

The final boss of Rebirth. It took me about 15 tries on my first playthrough.

Slivendiferious wrote:

(same goes for Abyss I guess).

I thought, it was easy. At least it was not as bad as in Symphonia. However, iirc, the first time I played through it I had a human being at my side, that was helpful!




Unknown. Victor.

Gattuso from Tales of Vesperia....insane for a boss that early.

TalesofHysteria wrote:

Gattuso from Tales of Vesperia....insane for a boss that early.

I've honestly never had trouble with Gattuso whatsoever.

The first time I played through the game I fought him with a friend (and we didn't even know how skills worked at the time so we accidentally had all skills unequipped) and we pretty much owned that thing.

Dhaos in Ex Dungeon from RM3 because I was terrible low lvl and I coudn't do too much because of Dhaos Lazer

Victor from Xillia 2 gave me a lot of trouble

Spoiler:

Julius also was the cause of a lot of game overs, mainly because of his dual boss status and any dual boss is hard for me.(mainly because once you get ko'd you lose.)  Julius also has Moonlight assault which will confuse even if you block it! and confused characters can't use items so theirs no way to fix it! Kuchinaw also was a problem. But you can lose to him, and he is part of a side quest so you don't have to fight him.

I don't think anything could be harder than fighting Nebilim in Abyss at the highest difficulty whilst being blindfolded... O.o

Meow Wow wrote:

Kuchinaw also was a problem.

Oh right, that guy was insane.

Suikiwiden wrote:

I don't think anything could be harder than fighting Nebilim in Abyss at the highest difficulty whilst being blindfolded... O.o

Ok no never mind.

Why would anyone even attempt that?

vanilla hearts lithia/richia

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That skeleton, named sword dancer I think optional boss in Symphonia was pretty challenging to me.

Abyssion on Mania mode. He is a NIGHTMARE!

Nebillim in Abyss for me, I'd like to echo Gattuso, and, oddly enough, F arc's final boss, though to be fair if I retried her now it would probably be okay with my current levels. Also the boss in front of the fire Valkines, forgot his name, he really challenged me the first couple of times I tried.

Xillia's EX boss caught me off guard the first time but he's not so bad after you get the hang of the pacing of the fight.

Let's see, I found Nebilim quite difficult to deal with; I remember spending a whole month just trying to beat her, considering it only took me ~25 minutes to defeat the main boss of the game. Also, I didn't expect the cameo battle when I first played Abyss, so I got pwned in my first and succeeding attempts.

Jahmir (Tales of Phantasia) was difficult until I used Arche, because she can fly and disrupt the enemy when casting spells. Pluto was quite difficult, too, since he casts those artes (e.g. Distortion, Black Hole) quickly.

Also, defeating Creed near the last parts in Hearts R was very challenging af in hard mode. I knew how to defeat him, since I'm on NG+, but old tactics don't always work. :p