5 hardest mini-bosses in Elden Ring and where to find them?

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Elden Ring's world is filled with various mini-bosses for players to challenge during their playthroughs. These mini-bosses can be found roaming across the map and can be fought anytime players feel like it.

However, just because they are mini-bosses, there is no reason to believe they are easy. The mini-bosses are more challenging than some of the main bosses in the game, so they should be respected.

Nevertheless, in classic FromSoftware style, each of these world bosses, when defeated, drop lots of runes to level up the characters and a variety of unique weapons or spells to use in fights. Thus, players should ensure that they fight these mini-bosses whenever they reach optimal strength.

This is a boss that players might have faced as soon as they started the game, but, back then, they were supposed to lose to it. However, this boss makes multiple appearances in the game and poses severe challenges at lower levels.

Firstly, the boss has multiple hands, allowing it to land successive blows very fast. Secondly, the boss combines both thrusting and spinning attacks to obliterate the health bar of the players in the blink of an eye.

Using ranged attacks is probably the safest way to fight this boss, as going into melee ranges can make things very difficult.

Location: Stormveil Castle, Fringefolk Hero's Grave

While players might have already heard about the Crucible Knight Ordovis boss fight being one of the hardest in the game, the mini version of the same boss is no pushover either.

This is because, in all probability, players will fight the world boss version of Crucible Knight very early in the game. This results in fighting against something that can take away 98% of the player's health pool in one hit.

This means players will