Elden Ringpublisher Bandai Namco revealed the top five hardest boss fights and a plethora of other stats about FromSoftware’s famously difficult RPG. This unique insight into the fandom’s experiences with the game arrives amidwidespread speculation aboutElden Ring’s Shadow of the ErdtreeDLC, its first and possibly only expansion.
Released in early 2022, FromSoftware’s latest title was met with near-universal fan adoration and critical acclaim, the latter of which is perhaps best underlined by the fact thatElden RingbeatThe Last Of Us 2’sGOTY record. Combining open-world exploration with an unforgiving difficulty curve has once again proven to be a winning formula for the Japanese studio, withElden Ringhitting 20 million sales in February 2023, just a year into its release.
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Bandai Namco has now expanded on that recently confirmed milestone with an elaborate infographic revealing some key information about the fandom’s experiences with the game, including the top five hardestElden Ringbosses based on the total number of fight attempts. The list is unsurprisingly topped by theinfamously difficultElden Ringboss Malenia, whose encounter was attempted some 329 million times, thus accounting for 5.5% of all in-game boss fights the players initiated to date. Malenia is followed by two early-game bosses in the form of Margit and Tree Sentinel at 281 million and 277 million attempts, respectively. The list is concluded byRadagon of the Golden OrderandStarscourge Radahn, both of whom have been fought much less.
The newly shared infographic also reveals thatElden Ringfans mounted 5.9 billion boss attempts to date, averaging just under 300 per player, going by the game’s latest sales milestone. Given how many of thehardestElden Ringbossescan easily require dozens of attempts at a minimum, this particular stat suggests a significant portion of the player base has yet to beat FromSoftware’s latest RPG.
The game’s difficulty is also underlined by the newly revealed fact thatElden Ringfans died more than 9 billion times to date, averaging around 450 deaths per player. Enemies and NPCs were responsible for more than two-thirds of those fatalities, with the other leading causes of in-game deaths being status effects and falls at 15% and 14%, respectively.
Bandai Namco’s latest stats also confirm that theElden Ringfandom remains as cooperative as the communities that emerged around previous FromSoftware games. This is most evident by the fact that nine in ten player summons performed since February 2022 were co-op sessions as opposed to PvP invasions. With over a billion such summons performed to date, that’s a lot of helping hands theElden Ringfans extended to one another over the last year.
Elden Ringis available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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