Elden Ring Boss Tier List for 2026
Bandai's one-year attack count (Malenia: 329 million) + Completionist Steam achievement rates + Beebom's Shadow of the Erdtree boss tiers. Difficulty and fight quality scored separately.
How We Ranked Them
Ranking Day 2026-08-08This ranking coversElden Ring bosses(including Shadow of the Erdtree), not weapons or endings. Official attack counts come from Bandai Namco's first-anniversary "Battle Scars" infographic; base-game difficulty uses Steam achievement unlock rates aggregated by Completionist.me as a proxy for "how many players actually beat it"; DLC fight quality is cross-checked against Beebom's editorial tier list of Shadow bosses. More attacks doesn't automatically mean better design—Margit and the Tree Sentinel also made the list partly because they show up early.
| Sources | Snapshot | Methodology | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bandai Namco: Battle Scars（GamingBolt / Kotaku paraphrased) | March 2023, first anniversary | All-platform attack counts, death-cause breakdown | Base game's first-year totals; excludes post-Shadow of the Erdtree additions |
| Completionist.me: ELDEN RING | Site achievement page | Steam achievement unlock rates (tracked sample) | See "how many have beaten it"; not official Steam global percentages |
| Beebom: SOTE Boss Tier List | Updated October 2025 | Editorial boss quality/difficulty tiers | Ranks only new unique bosses from Shadow of the Erdtree |
One year on: who got beaten the most
Bandai's count covers all platforms in the first year after release: bosses were engaged roughly 5.9 billion times, with over 9 billionin-game deaths. Malenia, Blade of Miquella, led the pack with about 329 million engagements; second was Margit, the Fell Omen, and third was the Tree Sentinel in Limgrave—both appear early, so their sample sizes are larger.
| # | BOSS | Attempts / Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malenia | ~329 million |
| 2 | Margit, the Fell Omen | Top 5 in infographic; ranked second |
| 3 | Limgrave Tree Sentinel | Top 5 in infographic; ranked third |
| — | (Two others also made the Top 5) | Official copy only names the three above and says "Top 5" |
Death breakdown: roughly 69% Killed by enemies / NPCs, about 14% fell to death. Summons exceeded 1 billion, with roughly 88% being cooperative—invasions made up only a small slice of online interactions.
Steam achievements: how many players actually beat them
Completionist.me aggregates unlock rates from tracked accounts on the site (the sample drifts, so treat it as a relative gauge). The further in and the more optional the remembrance fight, the steeper the drop-off; Malenia falls to the low 30s, and Dragonlord Placidusax sinks even lower.
| Achievements / Bosses | Unlock Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Margit, the Fell Omen | 71.8% | Early-Game Gatekeeper |
| Godrick the Grafted | 65.9% | |
| Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon | 58.7% | |
| Starscourge Radahn | 53.9% | |
| Godfrey, First Elden Lord | 50.6% | |
| Morgott, the Omen King | 50.2% | |
| Fire Giant | 45.4% | |
| Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy | 44.0% | |
| Astel, Naturalborn of the Void | 44.0% | |
| Maliketh, the Black Blade | 41.8% | |
| Mogh, Lord of Blood | 41.1% | |
| Hoarah Loux, the Warrior | 40.8% | |
| Malenia, Blade of Miquella | 36.7% | Optional Major Challenge |
| Dragonlord Placidusax | 30.2% | Optional Legendary Battle |
Shadow of the Erdtree: Editorial Tier List
Beebom ranks only the new unique boss fights added in the DLC (still maintained as of October 2025). S-tier means "tough and well-designed": Promised Consort Radahn / Miquella's consort, Messmer the Impaler, and Bayle the Dread; A-tier commonly includes Rellana, the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame, the Putrescent Knight, Gaius, and the Scadutree Avatar. C and D tiers are mostly flagged as either too gimmicky or difficult in an annoying way—a different yardstick from the base game's "attack-heavy" bosses.
| Tier | Representative (Beebom) |
|---|---|
| S | Promised Consort Radahn; Messmer the Impaler; Bayle the Dread |
| A | Rellana; Divine Beast Dancing Lion; Midra; Putrescent Knight; Gaius; Scadutree Avatar, etc. |
| B | Death Knights and others "creative but not top-tier" |
| C | Metyr, Mother of Fingers; Romina, Saint of the Bud, etc. (main-story fights but rated low on execution) |
| D | Golden Hippo and others (water-heavy or "annoying-difficult" fights) |
How to read this boss ranking
Attempt counts show who burned the most lives; achievement rates show who players actually fought in numbers; the shadow tier reflects how the editorial team rates each fight for difficulty and spectacle. Cross-reference the three sets of numbers against the 105 templates below—base-game marquee fights and DLC newcomers don’t need to share the same S rank.
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