Study Claims to Reveal Gaming's Hardest Boss Fights from the Past Year
Boss fights are a hallmark of the gaming experience, with memorable bosses having been a part of games for decades. Some video game bosses are pushovers, but others are genuinely challenging, pushing players to their limits. There is some debate in the gaming community about which boss fights are the most challenging, but a new study claims to reveal the toughest bosses in gaming — in the past year, at least.
The study, conducted by Spades Challenge, analyzed Google search trends from the past year using the phrase «how to beat» to figure out the bosses that have been giving gamers the most trouble. The top four spots went to bosses from Niantic's Pokemon GO mobile game, while the subsequent five spots went to bosses featured in FromSoftware's open world epic Elden Ring, and the 10th spot went to a boss from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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Pokemon GO's Giovanni, Cliff, Arlo, and Sierra are in the first, second, third, and fourth positions, respectively. However, this isn't really all that surprising when one considers the nature of Pokemon GO. Pokemon GO regularly updates its boss battles so that these Team Rocket leaders often have a different lineup of Pokemon than they did before. This requires Pokemon GO players to adjust their strategies accordingly, selecting different Pokemon with specific moves to bring into battle. Since Pokemon GO's boss fights are changing all the time, it makes sense that it would appear more frequently in Google searches than Elden Ring's boss battles, which haven't changed much since launch.
When it comes to Elden Ring, the bosses that have appeared the most in Google searches are Margit, the Fire Giant, Godrick, the Elden Beast,
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