All Dark Souls 2 Bosses

This list aims to help all Dark Souls enthusiasts out there see all the bosses in order, as well as their weaknesses, type of bosses, and tutorials on how to kill them. You can clone this list and use it for your completionist pleasures as you defeat each of the bosses.

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The Last Giant

  • Mandatory
Forest of Fallen Giants
  • Fire
  • Lightning

The Pursuer

  • Optional
Forest of Fallen Giants
  • Lightning
  • Strike

Executioner's Chariot

  • Optional
Huntsman's Copse
  • Lightning
  • Poison

Looking Glass Knight

  • Mandatory
King's Passage
  • Fire
  • Lightning

The Skeleton Lords

  • Mandatory
Huntsman's Copse
  • Alluring Skulls
  • Strike
  • Yearn
  • Fire
  • Lightning

Flexile Sentry

  • Optional
No-man's Wharf
  • Lightning
  • Poison

Lost Sinner

  • Mandatory
Sinner's Rise
  • Lightning

Belfry Gargoyles

  • Optional
Belfry Luna
  • Lightning

Ruin Sentinels

  • Optional
Lost Bastille
  • Lightning
  • Magic
  • Strike

Royal Rat Vanguard

  • Optional
Grave of Saints
  • Fire

Royal Rat Authority

  • Optional
Doors of Pharros
  • Fire

Scorpioness Najka

  • Mandatory
Shaded Woods
  • Fire
  • Dark

The Duke's Dear Freja

  • Mandatory
Brightstone Cove Tseldora
  • Fire

Mytha, The Baneful Queen

  • Mandatory
Earthen Peak
  • Fire

The Rotten

  • Mandatory
Black Gulch
  • Thrust

Old Dragonslayer

  • Optional
Heide's Tower Of Flame
  • Fire
  • Magic
  • Strafing

Covetous Demon

  • Mandatory
Harvest Valley
  • Magic
  • Thrust
  • Fire

Smelter Demon

  • Optional
Iron Keep
  • Lightning
  • Poison

Old Iron King

  • Mandatory
Iron Keep
  • Magic
  • Lightning

Guardian Dragon

  • Mandatory
Aldia's Keep
  • Lightning
  • Dark
  • Magic

Demon of Song

  • Mandatory
Shrine of Amana
  • Magic
  • Lightning

Velstadt, The Royal Aegis

  • Mandatory
Undead Crypt
  • Lightning

Vendrick

  • Optional
Undead Crypt
  • Bleed Weapons
  • Giant Souls

Darklurker

  • Optional
Dark Chasm of Old
  • Fire
  • Lightning

Dragonrider

  • Mandatory
Heide's Tower of Flame
  • Lightning
  • Strafing

Twin Dragonriders

  • Mandatory
Drangleic Castle
  • Fire
  • Lightning

Prowling Magus and Congregation

  • Mandatory
Brightstone Cove Tseldora
  • Lightning

Giant Lord

  • Mandatory
Memory of Jeigh
  • Fire
  • Magic

Ancient Dragon

  • Optional
Dragon Shrine
  • Magic
  • Lightning

Throne Watcher and Throne Defender

  • Mandatory
Throne of Want
  • Lightning

Nashandra

  • Mandatory
Throne of Want
  • Lightning
  • Fire
  • Magic

Aldia, Scholar of The First Sin

  • Optional
Throne of Want
  • Lightning

Elana, Squalid Queen

  • DLC
  • Mandatory
Dragon's Rest
  • Magic
  • Strike

Sinh, The Slumbering Dragon

  • DLC
  • Mandatory
Dragon's Rest
  • Lightning

Afflicted Graverobber, Ancient Soldier Varg and Cerah The Old Explorer

  • DLC
  • Optional
Cave of the Dead
  • Parrying
  • Backstabbing
  • Guard Breaking

Smelter Demon

  • DLC
Iron Keep
  • Poison
  • Toxic
  • Fire

Fume Knight

  • DLC
  • Mandatory
Brume Tower

    Sir Alonne

    • DLC
    • Optional
    Memory of the Old Iron King
    • Strike

    Burnt Ivory King

    • DLC
    • Mandatory
    Old Chaos
    • Lightning
    • Dark

    Aava, The King's Pet

    • DLC
    • Mandatory
    Frozen Eleum Loyce
    • Fire
    • Dark

    Lud and Zallen, The King's Pets

    • DLC
    • Optional
    Frigid Outskirts
    • Fire