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Damage-Sponge Boss

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Damage-Sponge Boss	comment	The absolutely most basic type of boss monster in a video game, generally a Giant Mook or King Mook with much higher health than standard enemies and attacks that cause lots of damage. It generally makes no attempt to block or evade the player's offenses, so no special strategies are required — just attack it until it dies, or if you want to get really fancy, circlestrafe it. These sorts of bosses tend to become a battle of attrition where the player must spend large amounts of time grinding down the boss's health while avoiding making any mistakes. Can be considered the antithesis of a Puzzle Boss. Mostly prevalent in Japanese RPGs and the FPS genre. It doesn't make a difference whether it just has a humongous life bar, or extremely high defense so it only takes Scratch Damage, or that it has Regenerating Health almost as quickly as you damage it; in all cases, depleting its life bar takes forever. But if there's a trick to negating its defense or regeneration, you have an example of Puzzle Boss instead. Put this kind of boss on a time limit and you'll have lots of very angry players. Named after an industry term for this type of boss, whose main attribute is that they can soak up damage like a sponge absorbs water. Their primary way of defeating the player is holding out until the player makes enough mistakes for their Life Meter to run out. If the HP is really high and the boss doesn't have any interesting moves, you have Fake Longevity. Related to Smash Mook, When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦, Health/Damage Asymmetry, and Marathon Boss. God help you if this overlaps with Sequential Boss. Contrast Rush Boss, which goes down fast but hits hard to compensate.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_10d303a2	comment	Masakado in Shin Megami Tensei IV. He has double the HP of the final bosses, resists Almighty to an absurd degree, is fought in a brutal Timed Mission, and, oh, yeah... drains or nulls everything you throw at him without Pierce attributes.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1271d30d	comment	Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi: Almost all of them except the penultimate one are this to some extent. They system of having to track them down in a coffin after fighting them to kill them at least introduces some sort of strategy. The only non-final boss without a coffin, the Foul Beast Vampire, is also the only one to require a more complex strategy for the actual fight (you don't have to use it, but unless you have the Chalice, it's suicidal not to).
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_168c4727	comment	Most of the (non super-)bosses in Guild Wars 2 are just slightly stronger versions of regular mooks, just with a LOT more HP.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_18b424d6	comment	The Gaets in Tales of Legendia have truckloads of HP compared to other bosses (The first one has triple the HP of the previous boss, and the last one has the highest HP in the game), but aren't particularly difficult due to being huge targets and slow attackers.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1adee40d	comment	Ovis Cantus, the first week boss of The World Ends with You, has 8000 HP. The next major boss has 3141. However, Ovis is entirely stationary, whereas other bosses move around a bunch and can be a pain to even hit at all, so he's not too tough to whittle down.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1ae3c0f3	comment	Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight: Every FOE and boss (except for the second stratum's, oddly enough). Your biggest threat against them isn't their dangerous attacks killing you, but being worn down enough that you aren't able to put up with their attacks for 40+ turns.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter: Most Elder Dragons from the series, especially those in which the Dragonator make them barely tolerable. Whereas most fights in the game consist of being acutely aware of attack patterns and attacking when it's open, for these giant guys you just keep shooting cannonballs at them, tying them with ballista ropes, inflicting major damage at them with the Dragonator, and so on. It's less a matter of getting killed and more a matter of doing enough damage quickly enough (there is a time limit, if you're too slow you'll just repel them, and if you're really slow you'll outright fail). Notable examples include Ceadeus and Jhen Mohran in Monster Hunter 3 (Tri), as well as Lao-Shan Lung and Black Fatalis from the very first game and its G expansion respectively. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd: Duramboros is an enormous, mossy Brute Wyvern with curved horns and a round tail that can take a lot of punishment from hunters before finally dying. If the player doesn't wish to spend too much time fighting it, then it's recommended to capture the monster when it's weak enough.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1c4ca44a	comment	The Corn Boss in Castle Crashers. While his constant disappearing-under-ground-and-popping-up-under-you might keep you on your toes and make it more entertaining than standing there and whaling on him, it also limits how often you can hit the bastard. Him dropping health every time he's hit also removes any challenge of staying alive, meaning you just dodge and chisel away at that enormous health bar for ages.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Every pre-expansion boss in Destiny, with the exception of a couple of the Raid bosses, is a King Mook with a much larger health bar. Strike bosses in particular are especially absorbent, and Golgoroth, the second boss of the Raid King's Fall, is even more notable, with conservative estimates putting his health at 10 million or more.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1cdeea1d	comment	The Outposts in Battlestar Galactica Online are these. Each has 30,000 HP, when player ships almost never exceed 10,000, and more than enough firepower to shred even small groups of players.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1e7ca85f	comment	The Rock Titan in Kingdom Hearts, at least relative to the other bosses. Two of his three attacks are ridiculously easy to dodge, and battling him is more of a matter of time than difficulty.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_1f630f72	comment	Dark Souls III: Yhorm the Giant has the most health of any boss in any Souls game to date, at a whopping 25,000 HP, over 5,000 more than any other boss (including the DLC's). To make matters worse, he takes half damage on his legs, which are the only part of his body you'll actually be able to hit for most of the fight. Thankfully, he's incredibly weak to the Weapon Art of a specific weapon, which does around 8,000 damage a hit to him, and completing a specific chain of sidequests finds you an ally armed with his own personal copy of this weapon, making Yhorm's fight a breeze. In response to player complaints that the Final Boss went down too quickly, FROM made certain that the final bosses of the The Ringed City DLC fit this trope. Slave Knight Gael has very few, rather obscure weaknesses and can take over 10 minutes to fight even with fully upgraded weapons, while Darkeater Midir is actually recommended to be fought solo, since if you bring help to his fight, his HP is increased to truly tremendous levels and the fight arguably becomes even more difficult.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_20117302	comment	The final boss in Sunset Riders, a guy in a business suit, can take an absolutely insane amount of punishment because he's wearing an iron plate under his shirt. Once he laughs and drops it, he goes down easily.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_218f56d7	comment	One of the two types of "bosses" in Evil Islands. A few examples include the Ogre Brothers, the White Wolf and a fair share of lone dragons, cyclops or ogres.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_2192aeb3	comment	Due to the mechanics of Fire Emblem, the vast majority of bosses, particularly ones that aren't story-relevant, are simply standard enemies with noticeably upgunned stats and stronger weapons. The only real strategy is "march your strongest unit over and have them slug it out with the boss while someone else heals them; if the boss is vulnerable to a Weapon of X-Slaying, use that on them." Most of the time, the strategic part comes more from reaching the boss than fighting them.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_24d953d0	comment	Mother Brain is notably straightforward, requiring dodging the laser rings, not falling into the lava that floods her chamber, and blasting her with rockets until she goes down in Metroid. Super Metroid has a second stage to the boss fight, where, after a particular powerup event, it's just you pumping missiles and energy blasts into her before she kills you.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_265fb4f1	comment	Hyrule Warriors has The Imprisoned. He doesn't target you directly unless he starts sliding and all he really does is slowly stomp around, but he has far more health than any of the other bosses and takes significantly longer to beat. Stunning him requires destroying all of his toes, and he is immune to the Focus Spirit Special Attack, which can normally down any other boss (besides Ganon). His weakness gauge cannot be depleted in one hit, as he automatically breaks out of stun when his weakness gauge reaches half. When you finally manage to deplete his weakness gauge and go for a Weak Point Smash? It takes off about a fifth of his health. The Updated Re-release made him significantly less tenacious by removing his automatic recovery and immunity to Focus Spirit attacks.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_289f3039	comment	In the adventure mode of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, at one point you fight a Snorlax spirit (in the form of a giant King K. Rool with 500 hp). It doesn't attack; the challenge is doing enough damage within the tight time limit against an opponent who just sits there and takes it.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars: The game has the infamous Rotscale, a bone dragon that has fairly simple moves, a small entourage of mooks... and over 20,000 HP. In a game where you normally have around 500 health, and a SERIOUSLY stacked player might get up to 1,500. If you somehow manage not to get mauled by the always-poisoned arena and the mob that's with him, it can still take upwards of ten minutes to whittle him down. The Underworld, already the hardest and longest dungeon in the game (a normal run can take 3 hours or more), got an endboss, with roughly 100,000 health. The fight with him isn't that difficult compared to some others in the game, but you still have to keep paying attention or you die, for a whole 20 minutes.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_2a5145ed	comment	The Aeronite in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has a ridiculous amount of HP compared to any other boss in the game (11 million HP on Normal and 38.5 million on Hard, which can further be increased by an additional 50% to 57.75 million HP if you choose to fight it in a Chaos zone, topping Yiazmat's previous record for the highest enemy HP in the series by another 7+ million HP, although to compensate, you can remove 10% or rarely 25% of its initial HP if you strike it first). It mostly bombards you with -ra and -ga level spells, occasionally mixing in a much stronger, but heavily telegraphed special attack that needs to be blocked. It also takes very little damage until it's been staggered four times (each stagger doubling the damage you do to it, from 50% to 100% then 200% then 400%), but once that happens, it weakens greatly, losing access to its stronger moves and slowing its attacks, which turns it into little more than a punching bag. However, there's a time limit of 3 minutes for each stagger and if you don't accomplish another one before then and ultimately kill it off by the fourth stagger, it gets fed up and escapes.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_3038d75c	comment	Izual from Diablo II is legendary for this trope. Despite his scary appearance, the fallen angel doesn't do much beyond a couple of basic attacks—most characters can just stand there and attack him until the Hit Points are gone. This is so bad that the Amazon's Valkyrie summon can actually regenerate health faster than Izual can deal it, while slowly whittling his health down. He will also never change targets once he starts attacking your minion. Feel free to go make yourself a sandwich. The hard part about the fight is that your weapons will eventually wear out. He also has a cold attack which slows you, making the interminable fight even longer if your a melee class.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2 ups the ante by having Terramorphous the Invincible, whose major selling point on release was needing more ammo to kill than a player is capable of carrying, and since bullet regeneration class mods are extremely rare, this lowers the player's options down to two characters unless you're in a party or use a combination like The Bee and the Conference Call.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_331e00a	comment	Borderlands 3 is really bad about this due to the way Mayhem Mode works. It scales enemy and boss health and armor up depending on Mayhem level, with 10 being the highest. Naturally, this turns many enemies into bullet sponges, unless you have a build that can easily shred health/shields/armor. Raid bosses are no exception, with at least one flatout demanding a full party to kill in record time, instead of being solo-able like the rest of the game's content. While this does come with Hard Mode Perks in the form of significantly increased XP, money, Eridium, and loot drops, it still feels like pointless tedium added for little gain.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_34f1e145	comment	The higher up you go in the Buddy Fighters Tower of Kirby Fighters 2's Story Mode, the more likely bosses will have ridiculous amounts of health. The only way to make them manageable is to pick up plenty of Attack Stones or Boss Badges in-between battles, but even getting the necessary items you need essentially makes the tower climb a Luck-Based Mission.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash are both nothing but high-health bosses that need to be killed in a short amount of time. Collecting Gem Apples and buying weapons with them is crucial since later enemies are nearly impossible (If not definitely impossible) to defeat with bottom-tier gear. The higher up you go in the Buddy Fighters Tower of Kirby Fighters 2's Story Mode, the more likely bosses will have ridiculous amounts of health. The only way to make them manageable is to pick up plenty of Attack Stones or Boss Badges in-between battles, but even getting the necessary items you need essentially makes the tower climb a Luck-Based Mission.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_37764439	comment	Candy box! 2 has The Teapot, a 1 million HP 'boss' that is, in fact, a perfectly normal teapot, save that it is giant and has one million HP. Damage is, at best, measured in hundreds per second. The Result: a boss most easily defeated by leaving the game running and auto-attacking for a few hours.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_3802ca35	comment	All the bosses in Rule of Rose follow this mechanic: keep away from their decimating attacks. Attack whenever there's an opening. Continue for 15 minutes or so. Especially frustrating with the Mermaid Princess who you can only hit twice in a row before she retreats back to the ceiling for another attack.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_3b7abee2	comment	The Nihilanth in Half-Life provides a cruel example of combining this with Puzzle Boss: you have to jump through a set of hoops just to unlock the path up to his Weak Spot, then you have to do a ridiculous (as in "use up all the ammo of all your weapons, including rocket launchers") amount of damage to it to finish the game. This has to be done in mid-air, and unless the xen crystals in the walls are destroyed he'll replenish all his health.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_3c2663bd	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, a majority of land bosses (as in, all but about nine) are merely tougher reskins of pre-existing enemies. They have exponentially higher health and tend to deal more damage than the enemies they're based on, and the only change to any strategy you would normally have is "attack them even more".
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion has the most extreme cases of Level Scaling and Empty Levels in the series. Enemies scale based purely on your level, but your actual strength in combat involves many factors besides just level (health gain per level, attributes, equipment, and skills). Even if you've been careful in your leveling, your damage caps at a certain point while enemy health does not, meaning high-level fights become increasingly drawn-out with even standard foes becoming damage sponges without providing much challenge.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: The highest health pool belongs to Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy, who has 89,613 hit points over two phases (30,439 in Phase 1 and 59,174 in phase 2), but, much like Yhorm before him, there's a specific weapon near him (the Serpent-Hunter) that deals massive damage to him, meaning that unless you're going for a Self-Imposed Challenge the health bar isn't as troublesome as you might think. The second-highest total goes to the Fire Giant with 43,000 hp, plus damage reduction, though hitting his already injured body parts (easier said than done, especially in the second phase) deals more damage. And there's no Serpent Hunter-esque gimmick with him; you gotta grind down that health bar the hard way. Third place goes to Malenia, Blade of Miquella, with 33,251 across 2 phases. But the numbers are kind of misleading, because Malenia also heals whenever she lands an attack on the player (even if the hit was blocked- no turtling allowed!), meaning that any slip-up means you're going to have to go through the health she just recovered too. Just out of the Big Three is Dragonlord Placidusax with 26,650 health, but he also has higher damage resistances than Malenia does, and doesn't damage himself during his phase transition like the Fire Giant does. Mohg, Lord of Blood is in 5th place with 18,398 hit points, but much like Malenia, it's misleading because he will unavoidably heal ~25% of his health in his phase transition, giving him about 23,000 effective hp.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_474c18c1	comment	The Handyman from BioShock Infinite. Expect to spend a lot of ammo and death screens on this guy, as he cannot be truly weakened (only stunned) by Vigors and even direct hits from the RPG or Flak Cannon to his heart don't seem to have much effect on his health bar.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4949ba4f	comment	Judge Doom is the final boss of Who Framed Roger Rabbit on NES, and as you might expect, being a Toon, he doesn't go down easily. If you're lucky, you go into the fight carrying the maximum amount of bombs and exploding cigars that you can, and using those, you can whittle down his health by about a third right at the start. Once those are used up, though, your only strategy becomes "stay away from his punches and eye lasers, awkwardly hopping around building up Eddie's punch gauge, and slug him". Those punches barely do any noticeable damage to him, making for one very major case of That One Boss in a game without any other sort of fight.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_49a84be6	comment	Final Fantasy III: The Final Boss, Cloud of Darkness, has the highest hit points in the game, and one attack that nukes the entire party, and uses it over and over. Beating her is entirely a question of whether you can heal enough to keep up.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_49a87cb3	comment	Sephiroth from the same game is certainly so slouch, either. While he has less HP than the Rock Titan (1800, compared to the Titan's 2100) he has higher defense (46, compared to the Titan's "measly" 34) and, what's worse, favors the Teleport Spam and will be especially happy to pull it out whenever you try to combo him, meaning that, unlike the Rock Titan, which is slow and largely just stands there while you wail on it, you will only be able to give Sephiroth a couple of whacks at a time.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII: Yiazmat has over 50 million HP. Your party members can do a maximum of 9999 damage per hit, with that figure dropping to 6999 once you've gotten his HP down to half its starting value. Suffice it to say, you'll be there for a while. Mercifully, you don't have to finish the fight in one sitting; you can leave the fight at any time, and when you come back, the boss's HP will be the same as when you left. This is made even more merciful in Updated Re-release of the game, which allows you to exceed the previous damage cap, while also providing you with stronger weapons and making Yiazmat susceptible to Expose, which will make it take even more damage. Oh, and near the end of the fight, Yiazmat casts Reflect on the entire party without warning. If you had a Renew spell cued up, you'll end up healing him back to full health.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has the Delibrum Reginae raid, in which ALL bosses and minibosses are damage sponges, even more so than the other 24-man raids in the game. This is because Delibrum Reginae is special in that it allows you to use the potentially game-breakingly busted Lost Actions and Lost Items, allowing each player to gain insane benefits, so the developers scaled their HP accordingly...which means that not only are they much more durable than most bosses in the game by default, it meant that if anyone didn't use Lost Actions or Lost Items the bosses become even more of a damage sponge! Oh also, all bosses are capable of killing you if you fail to dodge any two avoidable mechanics, regardless of your current HP.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Bosses like this are currently known as "Tank and Spank" bosses, due to the tactics used to defeat them: Have a tank hold their attention while dps spanks them. For raids or heroics they are often called "Gear Check" bosses; even with the best teamwork and strategy possible, if the group does not have sufficient stats deal the damage needed to kill them, the group needs to return to earlier content. Another popular designation for these fights is "Patchwerk," named after one of the most famous instances of this in Classic. The original Patchwerk was a boss in the first iteration of Naxxramas with only one special ability that was easily countered. The main difficulty was his enrage timer, as he would wipe a raid if he was not killed before it ran out. Patchwerk returned in the Wrath version of Naxxramas, but like the rest of the instance he was considerably easier (the fight mechanics were the same but the enrage timer was more forgiving).note Other examples of such bosses include: Brutallus in Sunwell Plateau, Malkorok in Siege of Orgrimmar, the Curator in Karazhan, Ultraxion in Dragon Soul, Blood Queen Lana'thel in Icecrown Citadel, and the Butcher in Highmaul. The first real example of such a boss was Vaelestrasz the Corrupt in Blackwing Lair; in lieu of an enrage timer like Patchwerk, Vael cast a debuff on everyone that increased their performance but eventually killed them. The first bosses made available on the Test Realms tend to be variants of this. The more complicated bosses appear later in the testing and raids. This is intentional, as having a gear check boss at the start of the dungeon (just as Patchwerk was to Naxxramas) serves as bouncer to turn away groups that are unlikely to have the stats needed to survive the more complex fights deeper inside.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4ac424b4	comment	One of the major criticisms with Namco Ã— Capcom and Project Ã— Zone is that the more you progress through the game, the more the bosses start to feel like this. Really, the strategy comes from there being multiple bosses at a time, not from a single boss. The Final Boss of the later game takes this up a notch by having even more health, wide reaching attacks that hit hard, and being able to summon other bosses.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4b434423	comment	The Dynamax phenomenon in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield enlarges the user and increases their HP by 50% (plus 5% per Dynamax level, up to a limit of 100%) without affecting any other stats; the Pokemon on the end of this is just as durable as their defenses would otherwise endorse, but Max Moves are more powerful in most instances, which semi-averts this trope. This is played much more straight with Eternamax Eternatus, who has maximized HP and both Defenses to make the fight drag on for a while, and heightened Attack power to make it a legitimate threat to anything that could oppose it. Were it not for Zacian and Zamazenta making copious use of Behemoth Blade and Behemoth Bash, you'd be fighting it for a good long while because of this. And even if you catch it, you're only using normal Eternatus; the stats for the Eternamax version were edited to make it a boss battle, and thus it cannot be obtained by any legitimate means.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4c363bcc	comment	Sentinels of the Multiverse has three notable examples, each of a different type. Akash'Thriya is the conventional kind with 200 HP (For context, the average villain has ~80 and the average attack does 2 damage). Iron Legacy has compartively low health, but has a dizzying array of methods to block, redirect and heal from damage, making getting past his defences a slog. And Spite has massive amounts of healing, making it extremely difficult to make an attack stick. All three are likely going to be the longest fights in the game.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac: In Afterbirth, Hush and Ultra Greed are like this, due to having a special sort of Damage Reduction. A Game-Breaker of a run that would kill any and every other enemy and boss within a few seconds will still take a very long time to wear either of them down. In theory, a loadout that does less damage would kill them at about the same rate... except they also spawn ridiculous amounts of minions that could easily overwhelm you if you're not doing enough damage and, in the case of Ultra Greed, heal him if you don't kill them. The skewed Damage Reduction is particularly noticeable with Hush, since you fight an unmodified version of the True Final Boss of the original The Binding of Isaac as a warm up, and he generally dies in less than thirty seconds. You can kill them in a single hit with the Chaos Card and can easily beat Hush if thrown correctly (throw the card directly at it from the bottom of the stage) if you have one. The game's True Final Boss, introduced in Afterbirth+, is also extremely tanky. Fortunately, it does not have Damage Reduction, just an absolutely gargantuan amount of health. It also doesn't help that this boss has a habit of teleporting around the room every few seconds and moving very quickly when he's not teleporting, making it difficult to deal consistent damage. Oh, and the Chaos Card? It's the one and only thing in the game immune to it. So, no one-shotting this thing.note Technically it can be one-shot by the item Plan C... except Plan C also kills you before its death animation finishes, so only one playable character can potentially get away with this.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4d7a68a4	comment	The bosses in Kirby's Pinball Land are all defeated the same way — keep hitting them until they fall down.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_4e9f355	comment	Crisis Core has Minerva, who has 10,000,000 HP in a game where the damage cap is 99,999. Hard Mode doubles this to 20,000,000. The Reunion release tops them all, however, by beating Aeronite's record for most HP on a Final Fantasy boss by buffing Hard Mode Minerva's HP to 77,777,777.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound (1994) manages to subvert this with Giygas, the final boss of the game. You can hit him with your most powerful attacks, but they'll do extremely little damage, making players think he's a Damage Sponge. The secret is to use Paula's Pray Command, which causes people around the world to send positive thoughts to you; these thoughts decimate Giygas's defenses, allowing you to destroy him.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_524fa7de	comment	Final Fantasy XIII-2: Valfodr. Unlike Vercingetorix, he starts out with a decent HP count for a Superboss, but each subsequent fight with him raises his level, stats and number of abilities appropriately, up until his level 99 incarnation, where he starts out with 15,516,000 HP and rarely pauses when attacking you. His high resistances, coupled with the ability to heal and use status buffs on himself, all culminate in an uphill battle where your party has to deal with his area-wide debuffs and -ga level spells, giving you little time to fill up his stagger gauge.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_5425ce75	comment	The Grand Theft Auto series has a history with this: Sonny, the end boss of Vice City, is different from your average mobster only in that he can take three rockets to the face before dying. Likewise, Big Smoke is wearing body armor, which can let him survive your gunfire for quite a while before dying. Even if you make headshots against him, he can take quite a number of them before going down.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_55bbcf09	comment	King Famardy from King of the Monsters 2 has an extremely long life bar and the most damaging attacks you can use only take a small chip of it off.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_5908ee91	comment	In Skyrim, Alduin, the Big Bad himself, is one. In the final battle against him, he has an obscene amount of health and 50% resistance to all types of damage. It takes a lot to bring him down, though thankfully, you have the ancient Nord heroes in Sovngarde to help you.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_59215319	comment	Was Sugawara in Persona 2 Eternal Punishment not only has absolutely ridiculous HP, but physical attacks are practically useless against him, and he heals over 700 HP at the end of each turn with no way to stop him. And his entire moveset focuses on forcing the party to use physical attacks. He can easily turn into a Marathon Boss if you don't know what you're doing (or you're just that unlucky). In fact, he is so tough that the party is forced to throw him in a Bottomless Pit to win, and even so they doubt that he's dead. And in case you were wondering, yes you first have to cleave through that huge HP to trigger that cutscene. Have fun!
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_5921531a	comment	Some of the Tarturus bosses and Arcana Priestess in Persona 3 and most of the mini-bosses in Persona 4. And the final boss of Persona 4, to an extent.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_5bd9e7b7	comment	Dark Souls II: King Vendrick has extremely basic, slow attacks and his actual health is only a bit above average for a boss, but any damage you do is divided by 32. However, he's really more of a Puzzle Boss: collecting certain items negates his damage resistance, each one doubling the damage you do with five letting you do full damage. The Ancient Dragon has the highest possible health bar in the game, topping at a basic 19,840 HP. It's slow and really doesn't care about your attacks, and it will unleash one One-Hit Kill after another. The Lost Crowns Trilogy is chock full of Optional Bosses whose health bar and resistances outstrip even the vanilla game's Final Boss, with the exception being the Adventurer trio (even then, they have unreasonably high parameters for player-sized enemies).
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_5d646721	comment	The boss at the end of Star Trek: Elite Force was this despite having a bunch of glowing blinking gems on his body. What makes fighting it really aggravating is the fact that throughout the fight there is no indication that it's actually taking damage until it dies.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6053d9f9	comment	Most of the Silent Hill games that have a hard mode give the bosses insanely inflated health that will make you regret not hoarding all your ammo for this very moment. For instance, the twin Pyramid Heads at the end of Silent Hill 2 can normally be defeated by just waiting for them to give up. They don't do this on hard mode, insteading requiring close to the entire game's supply of rifle bullets (the strongest ammunition!) to take them down. The one saving grace is that most bosses have a way to trap them in a pattern and spend several minutes chipping them to death with melee weapons, but this involves a lot of trial and error as well.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_61e400a0	comment	Path of Exile has General Gravicius, the mid-boss of Act 3. Unlike Piety with her elemental Stance System or Dominus's waves of mini-bosses, Gravicius doesn't bring any special tricks to the fight. He just has some basic fire spells, a substantial amount of Energy Shield, and an aura that grants even more shielding to himself and his mooks. The boss fight amounts to "Cap out fire resist and chew through a lot of health."
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V has BjÃ¸rn the Behemoose. In the original game, he's tied with the final boss's second form for the most HP of any enemy...and BjÃ¸rn is fought a little past mid-game. In the DS remake, BjÃ¸rn has even more HP than in the original Super Famicom version (though this puts him at merely second to the considerably buffed final boss). But in both versions he's not particularly hard, just time-consuming. All he does is hit you reasonably hard and raise his own defense.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_677fd618	comment	Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has EOS as the final boss of the claptrap DLC, a boss that is almost guaranteed to empty out at least one-two weapons from your inventory before death. It doesn't help that it regens its powerful shields during the battle three times, has 8 turrets attached to its body that have their own health, and has a first form that must be defeated first. It still takes an absolutely ludicrous amount of shots even when you're seriously over its level.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6c0b2aa	comment	All the four horsemen from Apocalypse are reasonably tough, but the fourth and last, Beast, takes the cake. While he starts off with a pitifully small healthbar, after it's depleted he resurrects with a second one, twice as long, and then another, again and again... it takes draining at least seven lifebars, layered one upon another, to finally destroy him.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6c3b0503	comment	What makes the battle against Rajan in Sly 2: Band of Thieves so difficult is his ginormous health which takes ages to chip down, all whilst he's sending in waves of mooks and continually attacking you. What makes it hurt even more is that you battle him as Murray, the team powerhouse!
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6c47db4e	comment	In the Dynasty Warriors series of video games, many endgame bosses usually end up as this. These games are already notorious for its mindlessly dumb A.I., and the company's idea of making the difficulty harder is to simply give the enemies more health and have them do more damage, instead of programming the A.I. to fight smarter, which unfortunately leads to artificial difficulty.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6dd8677c	comment	Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun: During the final mission of the Firestormexpansion pack , you must face a foe unlike any other encountered in the series before or since. CABAL's Core Defender is a massive bipedal robot which can withstand obscene amounts of firepower; enough to level entire bases thrice over. It wields a powerful laser cannon from each arm, capable of shredding most any ground unit in one shot; even GDI's most powerful unit, the Mammoth Mk. II, can only take two hits. EMP also doesn't work, and using it propts an Evil Laugh from CABAL. The only silver lining is that there is only one of these things, and you don't necessarily have to beat it to complete the mission (doing so is extremely satisfying, however).
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6e627c5c	comment	Halo 5: Guardians: Most Warzone bosses are basically this, since most of them are usually nothing more than tougher versions of regular enemies. In the campaign, the Warden Eternal himself on higher difficulties is this until you damage him enough to expose his weak spot. These bosses are one of the more contentious issues in Warzone Firefight. Take the normal damage-sponge bosses, and then: add multiple iterations of the same boss, surround them with also-spongey Mooks and Elite Mooks, add multiple phases of bosses within the same round, make them insanely accurate with their attacks, place them in a hard-to-reach position across the map from the players, make spawned-in power weapons irretrievable upon death, increase the respawn time to as high as 30 seconds, give the players 5 minutes to complete their objectives, and start the timer before the enemies even spawn. Have fun.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_6ee41bb6	comment	The Tyrannosaurus rex from Tomb Raider: Anniversary takes a metric ton of shots to take down. Fully justified as it's a flipping T. REX and all you have to take it down are a pair of pistols and, if you're lucky, a well-hidden shotgun. If you're doing it on a timer, however... well, it's dumb enough to charge headlong into some spike-studded ''things'' in the area... unfortunately, it's also dumb enough to spend several minutes trying to turn around.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_73b74949	comment	Most bosses in Borderlands are either Puzzle Bosses or Flunky Bosses. Not so with the final guy, the Destroyer, who can soak up more bullets than most people can actually carry without the highest-level cargo expansions. Borderlands 2 ups the ante by having Terramorphous the Invincible, whose major selling point on release was needing more ammo to kill than a player is capable of carrying, and since bullet regeneration class mods are extremely rare, this lowers the player's options down to two characters unless you're in a party or use a combination like The Bee and the Conference Call. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has EOS as the final boss of the claptrap DLC, a boss that is almost guaranteed to empty out at least one-two weapons from your inventory before death. It doesn't help that it regens its powerful shields during the battle three times, has 8 turrets attached to its body that have their own health, and has a first form that must be defeated first. It still takes an absolutely ludicrous amount of shots even when you're seriously over its level. Borderlands 3 is really bad about this due to the way Mayhem Mode works. It scales enemy and boss health and armor up depending on Mayhem level, with 10 being the highest. Naturally, this turns many enemies into bullet sponges, unless you have a build that can easily shred health/shields/armor. Raid bosses are no exception, with at least one flatout demanding a full party to kill in record time, instead of being solo-able like the rest of the game's content. While this does come with Hard Mode Perks in the form of significantly increased XP, money, Eridium, and loot drops, it still feels like pointless tedium added for little gain.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_747d9a6f	comment	The first [PROTOTYPE] loved these, pretty much any enemy that can't be instantly killed (or nearly so) is more or less a wall with health. Elizabeth Greene is particularly annoying, it's at best a 10 minute boss fight if you're lucky and have the right abilities, and if you don't it can take upwards of 45 minutes of Cherry Tapping. The Supreme Hunter takes this and tacks on a 6-minute time limit just for fun. Even common mooks like Hunters are quite spongey, which is annoying since they are Respawning Enemies.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Helmasaur. As the first boss of the Dark World, its helmet can tank a ridiculous amount of hits from the hammer. Bombs can take it down in fewer hits, but the boss moves around enough that hitting the mask with the timed explosives can be a challenge, so either way it can take a bit. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Dark Link in the Water Temple, who can potentially become a damage sponge if you obtained a ton of Heart Containers due to his health mirroring yours. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: While there are many tanky enemies in this game and its direct predecessor, there is one boss that really takes the cake in a way the game acknowledges. During Ganondorf's second phase as the Demon King, his health bar refills and then keeps going... and going... and going, until it almost reaches the end of the screen, effectively giving him twice as much health as a normal boss. And this isn't even his final phase.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: In Halo 2 and Reach, Brutes soak up an absurd amount of damage and barely react until they suddenly collapse. Tartarus takes this to absurd levels in Halo 2 as the final boss. Hunters become this from Halo 2 onward, becoming ever tougher in each subsequent release. To make things worse, unless you have heavy weapons, you'll have to aim at the orange spots if you want to do any damage. In Halo 2, the health of the three boss characters (the Heretic Leader, Regret, and Tartarus) increases exponentially with difficulty level. On Normal difficulty they go down as easily as a standard enemy, while on Legendary they can soak enormous amounts of punishment before dying. One of the biggest criticisms of Halo 4's campaign is how insanely tough the Promethean Knights were, especially considering that they also had recharging shields and the ability to teleport away whenever their shields were down (plus the Watchers could both heal and revive them). They creatively rectified this in Halo 5: Guardians; the Knights are overall tougher than they were in 4, but no longer have recharging shields or teleportation (or Watcher revives), and damaging them enough will expose big glowing weak points. Halo 5: Guardians: Most Warzone bosses are basically this, since most of them are usually nothing more than tougher versions of regular enemies. In the campaign, the Warden Eternal himself on higher difficulties is this until you damage him enough to expose his weak spot. These bosses are one of the more contentious issues in Warzone Firefight. Take the normal damage-sponge bosses, and then: add multiple iterations of the same boss, surround them with also-spongey Mooks and Elite Mooks, add multiple phases of bosses within the same round, make them insanely accurate with their attacks, place them in a hard-to-reach position across the map from the players, make spawned-in power weapons irretrievable upon death, increase the respawn time to as high as 30 seconds, give the players 5 minutes to complete their objectives, and start the timer before the enemies even spawn. Have fun.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2 made it a lot more interesting, with one exception: a 'Praetorian' that replaces its barriers repeatedly.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_7785278d	comment	The Big Daddies in BioShock can take a ludicrous amount of punishment if one relies solely on bullets. A good example to do this is to set an alarm on the Daddy, spawning Security Bots to attack it. No matter what, the machine-gun fire from the bots (coupled with turrets if there are any in the area, and the player's own bullets) deal only Scratch Damage to the thing, and it takes time to whittle that health down. Even explosive weapons like grenades and rockets only deal a visible fragment of damage to the Daddy's health bar. Probably the easiest/most spectacular way to kill a Big Daddy quickly is by luring it into a tight corridor booby-trapped with electric bolts, or simply spending all your upgrades on the wrench and whacking it to death. Alternatively, you can set two Daddies to fight each other to the death.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_77d34f06	comment	Every group boss ever in Marvel: Avengers Alliance takes so much punishment that he must be fought multiple times to defeat him.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: The major difference between the difficulties in the first game was that on higher difficulties you had to spend more time sitting there on full-auto before anything died, leading to enemies taking comical amounts of punishment without the 'warp' de-buff or special ammo types. Mass Effect 2 made it a lot more interesting, with one exception: a 'Praetorian' that replaces its barriers repeatedly. In one boss section, where you are expected to whittle down a ship's drive core while fending off zombies, you can subvert this by just shooting it with a (sort of) portable Nuke Launcher In both of the first two games during a recruitment mission (Liara's in the first, Tali's in the second) you have to fight a Geth Colossus on foot. If you don't have the nuke launcher, it becomes an exercise in ducking, shooting, ducking, shooting, again and again until its dead. In the first game, if you get behind the wall on the left once you take out the smaller geth units you can stand there with impunity and keep shoot through the holes, so not even ducking is involved.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_7c668b7f	comment	In Ginormo Sword, you can encounter the Golden Knight, an upgraded version of Living Armor. Much like Living Armor, the Golden Knight doesn't have any attacks of its own and can only harm you if you let it wander right into your sprite. It, however, has such an ungodly amount of HP that unless your level is deep into the thousands you'll spend at least 20 minutes (and no, that's not an exaggeration) whittling down its health bit by bit and praying that you don't accidentally wander off the screen and be forced to start all over again. There are other upgraded versions of various monsters that fall under this trope too, but this Golden Knight is the worst of them all, especially since it drops an armor that's all but required to beat the True Final Boss.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_7e850e47	comment	Most bosses in the Bravely Default series, by necessity due to the mechanics. The characters can "Brave" to take up to four turns at once, at the cost of skipping future turns. So any low-hp boss could be trivially beaten by having all four characters "brave out" and smack the boss sixteen times before it gets a turn. To avoid this, basically all bosses have enough hp to comfortably survive this tactic (making it very inadvisable, since you'd be completely vulnerable during the subsequent skipped turns). Thus, boss battles usually mean gradually wearing down the boss's hp and only braving out after you've used the "Default" command to build up spare turns or if you're very sure you can finish them off.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_7e86b2d4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII: Vercingetorix. As the final Cieth Stone mission boss, this bad boy sports a massive 15,840,000 HP health bar, and has the infuriating habit of casting Impenetrable Aura (impervious to all attacks, unable to be staggered, and constant healing for its duration) whenever your party has just begun or is in the middle of attacking it while it's staggered. It also gradually sends out stronger attacks as its health bar depletes, sometimes forcing you to switch to a defensive paradigm just to keep up with its onslaught. Relatedly, the Long Guis found in the Archylte Steppe. A step up from the normal Adamantoises and Adamantortoises, these behemoths all sport a whopping 16,200,000 HP, which is not helped by the fact that you have to temporarily pause your attacks on its legs once it starts stomping the ground. To add insult to injury, it will sometimes cast Ultima right off the bat, or use Roar in order to temporarily stun your party, allowing it to deal massive damage with a single stomp unchecked.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_819fea10	comment	Most of the bosses in The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King have no real strategy other than attacking them while doing your best to avoid their attacks, one of the worst offenders being the first battle with Oogie Boogie.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_86814ea1	comment	Final Fantasy XV: The game has an optional challenge in the form of Adamantoise, a mountain-sized turtle with HP and durability to match. Even with a well-leveled party and the best weapons available, he'll take almost an hour to whittle down and defeat. Even longer if you're underprepared! Another side mission has Noctis out to catch the legendary Liege of the Lake, and what an ordeal that is. Even with mastery of the fishing mechanics, the best rod, spool and line and the right lure to snag him, he'll struggle every step of the way and it will inevitably take 10 minutes or more to reel in.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_8a193da6	comment	Every single boss (and enemy) in the StreetPass Mii Plaza game Find Mii. This is because there's no accuracy stats or hero lifebar so to speak, enemies simply scare away each hero after their attack. And the final bosses have between 150 and 250 health, in a game where a low ranked hero might be able to do between 3 and 6 damage.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_8e898734	comment	Any given boss in Painkiller has a 50% chance of being either this or a Puzzle Boss. Or Puzzle Boss in one phase and Damage-Sponge Boss in other phase.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X has the level 71 tyrant Gradivus, the Headless Emperor. While not particularly impressive on the offensive front, he has 100 million HP, ten times that of the level 99 superboss Telethia, and high resistance to most damage types.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9161f8f7	comment	The very first monster-slaying sidequest in Alphadia Genesis is up against one of these as he has thousands of HP when your strongest attacks will likely be doing little more than 100. Thankfully he doesn't hit very hard and becomes even easier with the equipment upgrade from the second town.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_920d318c	comment	Not a video-game example: monsters and large enemies in Anima: Beyond Fantasy. They've no defensive abilities except their armor and/or damage reduction, relying instead on an (often insanely; think several thousand when most player characters are unlikely to ever break 300) vast pool of HP and the quite often nasty bites they can give back.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_959e6cb	comment	Dragon Quest IX has the boss fight with the Lleviathan fairly early on. It doesn't doesn't really do anything special, it just hits a single target or your entire party with powerful physical attacks and takes an age and a half to kill.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9ba9abc6	comment	Rockman 4 Minus âˆž has the Wily Machine, which has several dozen life bars (though each bar can only take 3 or 4 hits apiece) and ergo takes a good while to kill. Its second form, thankfully, only has one bar.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind's Tribunal expansion has Gedna Relvel, a lich, in its "Crimson Plague" side questline. She's capable of flinging a very powerful area of effect spell, is immune or resistant to every form of Destruction magic, and quickly regenerates lost Health, Magicka, and Fatigue. Worse, she's supposed to have Health equal to 100x the player's current level, but due to a programming error, she has 800x that amount, making her virtually unkillable at higher levels. Perhaps worst of all, you don't even get a very good reward for killing her. Oblivion has the most extreme cases of Level Scaling and Empty Levels in the series. Enemies scale based purely on your level, but your actual strength in combat involves many factors besides just level (health gain per level, attributes, equipment, and skills). Even if you've been careful in your leveling, your damage caps at a certain point while enemy health does not, meaning high-level fights become increasingly drawn-out with even standard foes becoming damage sponges without providing much challenge. In Skyrim, Alduin, the Big Bad himself, is one. In the final battle against him, he has an obscene amount of health and 50% resistance to all types of damage. It takes a lot to bring him down, though thankfully, you have the ancient Nord heroes in Sovngarde to help you.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9df3213f	comment	Pikmin 2: The Titan Dweevil offers one of the longest battles in the series, as you also have to disable and extract the treasures attached to it, one by one. The boss itself is surprisingly bulky, but it's defenseless once you knock out all of its treasures. The Raging Long Legs from the second game. It's much slower than its relatives, but it has twice as much health as the final boss. All you need to do is attack it, wait until it stops raging, and then attack it once more.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9df32140	comment	Pikmin 3: The only thing you can do to the Plasm Wraith is to simply swarm all of your Pikmin onto its body, but it can take a ridiculous amount of punishment even if you use Ultra-Spicy Spray. Worse yet, if you don't attack the blobs the boss drops upon losing health, it heals itself. Said blobs eventually become cubes that you have to use a certain Pikmin type to take out, so the battle can drag on for a long time if you don't try to take out the blobs/cubes alongside attacking the boss.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9f02efb1	comment	EverQuest: The game displayed an evolution of this as gameplay progressed. With each expansion, the developers had to find new ways to challenge players. In the Shadows of Luclin expansion, bosses (and even low-end trash mobs) with literally millions of hit points, at a time where it was rare for players to be able to inflict more than a thousand damage per second, were the next step in creating challenging content with the limited technology they had at the time. This often resulted in bosses that would take dozens of players pounding on them for a half hour or more to kill them. The omega of this for EverQuest would be Kerafyrm the Sleeper. Never having been intended to even be attacked, they simply gave him a massive amount of HP rather than make him invincible. In the second run at this monster (the first was stopped by SONY because they presumed something was screwing up), it took over 180 players from the top three guilds almost three hours to whittle down his estimated quarter billion HP to nothing.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Although not usually a true boss, Chansey and Blissey count. They have the highest HP stats in the game (at level 100, their HP is a minimum of 600, and can easily reach up to 700), and a very notable Special Defense stat. To make up for this, their physical defenses are practically nonexistent, making them extremely vulnerable to Fighting-type moves. One infamous subversion of this trope is Wobbuffet. Its stats are pitiful across the board except its HP, one of the highest in the franchise (Chansey and Blissey above are among the few whose HP are higher). You would think that such a battle would be a simple matter of hammering away at its high HP, but what makes Wobbuffet a subversion is the fact that it causes damage using Counter and Mirror Coat, which causes double the damage to an opponent who used a physical or special attack, respectively. Due to Wobbuffet's massive HP and poor defenses, it will be able to survive attacks that cause a lot of damage and cause twice the damage to opponents, making it almost certain that Wobbuffet will not be defeated without taking down at least one opponent (it can also guarantee this by using Destiny Bond, which knocks out the opponent if their next attack knocks out Wobbuffet). This is made even worse by the fact that as of Gen III, Wobbuffet's ability is Shadow Tag, which prevents opponents from escaping, so unless you're playing a Gen VI game and you have a Ghost-type in the front of your party, if you run into one, you're screwed. Also of note is Zygarde, specifically its Complete Forme, which it gains access to starting from Sun and Moon onward. In this forme, the only real boost Zygarde gets is that its HP is doubled (from an already great 108 to 216), and a slight increase in Special attack (from a mediocre 81 to a passable 91). Outside of the HP boost, Complete Zygarde's stats are strong but overall quite underwhelming for a legendary. However, its insane amount of HP lets it perform a variety of roles, one of which is boosting its offensive stats and Speed to ridiculous proportions with Dragon Dance and/or Coil while having the bulk to perform it multiple times safely. Add in the fact it can use an unavoidable Ground-Type Attack with Thousand Arrows, and you've got yourself a ridiculous powerhouse. In fact, it was the first PokÃ©mon in the Generation 7 Metagame Smogon saw fit to ban to Ubers. The Dynamax phenomenon in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield enlarges the user and increases their HP by 50% (plus 5% per Dynamax level, up to a limit of 100%) without affecting any other stats; the Pokemon on the end of this is just as durable as their defenses would otherwise endorse, but Max Moves are more powerful in most instances, which semi-averts this trope. This is played much more straight with Eternamax Eternatus, who has maximized HP and both Defenses to make the fight drag on for a while, and heightened Attack power to make it a legitimate threat to anything that could oppose it. Were it not for Zacian and Zamazenta making copious use of Behemoth Blade and Behemoth Bash, you'd be fighting it for a good long while because of this. And even if you catch it, you're only using normal Eternatus; the stats for the Eternamax version were edited to make it a boss battle, and thus it cannot be obtained by any legitimate means. Tera Raid bosses in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet have their HP multiplied by an increasing factor based on the raid difficulty (up to several dozen times their original HP), eventually resulting in bosses who can tank several super effective hits from PokÃ©mon that have been buffed to the maximum. Bear in mind that in regular gameplay, one-shotting an enemy PokÃ©mon without using buffs is often easy to do.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a0d70162	comment	Eden Eternal is crawling with Damage Sponge Bosses, mostly as the game is driven around social interactions, so you're expected to play in groups. Most bosses also have attacks proportionate to their health bars, and a Mook attacking you during a boss fight is not good. Being a social game, Eden Eternal is hard to play through solo as that turns some mooks into Damage Sponge Bosses.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a447dc6a	comment	Gears Tactics: Brumaks. While their attacks are easily avoided, they can only be taken out by destroying the Immulsion tanks on their backs. Unfortunately, while the tanks are an obvious Attack Its Weak Point, there are three of them and they take up a lot of damage. Since the Brumak also turns to face its attacker, it also halves the damage by forcing the player to flank the boss on both sides.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a4514a75	comment	The sentinel in Iji is specially armored and nearly invincible. You're supposed to just knock it into the electric shocky things, but defeating it "normally" gives you a Supercharge. None of the infinite-ammo weapons have any effect on it, and getting enough ammo to kill it is a challenge in itself.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a4515c7c	comment	Due to RPG-Maker's limited mechanics, all the bosses in OFF are these. Special mention goes to the Superboss Sugar, whose battle will probably take you a good 10 minutes even at a high level.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd parodies this in his Star Wars episode, where the boss' health bar in one of the Super Star Wars games is Photoshopped to stretch beyond his TV screen and across the room.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a7a0b48b	comment	The world of NieR: Automata contains three sets of Golden Machines that are no different from their normal counterparts except for their much, much larger health pool. Even the best combos won't save you from spending a decent couple of minutes hacking away at them until they finally keel over. The game's actual bosses can also get pretty spongy, but at least they usually have the justification of being so huge that your attacks not dealing Scratch Damage would feel weird.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a7bb2a13	comment	In Mega Man ZX Advent the final boss' first form is a giant three-headed robot dragon that has so much health it's not even represented by a life bar (according to the Mega Man wiki, calculating for individual buster shots it has a whopping 600 units of health). For comparison, most life-bars in the ZX and Zero series have 32 units individually, and so even bosses with three life bars only come out to 96 units. note Combined with the two life bars of his second form, he has a total of 664 units of health. The next tankiest Final Boss is Omega, who has a total of three phases with three life bars each coming out at a total of 288 units of health. The trade-off is that he's also a Stationary Boss with a huge weakpoint that doesn't have long invincibility frames, meaning the fight is essentially all about burst-damaging him down while avoiding all the attacks he throws out.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy games often include some of these as Superbosses. Final Fantasy: The Piscodemonsnote Wizards in the first english translation (albeit not a boss, they are a fixed encounter). They have no special moves at all, but they are horribly tough. They can soak up AND deal large amounts of damage. The first fight with them to obtain the Crown is a Luck-Based Mission since random encounter logic decides whether you fight 2 of them or 4 of them. Final Fantasy III: The Final Boss, Cloud of Darkness, has the highest hit points in the game, and one attack that nukes the entire party, and uses it over and over. Beating her is entirely a question of whether you can heal enough to keep up. Final Fantasy VII: Safer Sephiroth is the last form of a Sequential Boss, and the Final Boss of the game. While he qualifies as a Damage Sponge Boss due to his high HP, how high that actually is depends on how much you've done by the time you reach him. If any of your party members are level 99, you defeated any of the Optional Bosses, or you used the Knights of the Round Materia on any of his previous forms, Safer Sephiroth's maximum HP goes up for every one of those proverbial checkboxes you've marked off. It's designed to be a challenge no matter how many endgame sidequests you've completed. Crisis Core has Minerva, who has 10,000,000 HP in a game where the damage cap is 99,999. Hard Mode doubles this to 20,000,000. The Reunion release tops them all, however, by beating Aeronite's record for most HP on a Final Fantasy boss by buffing Hard Mode Minerva's HP to 77,777,777. Final Fantasy VIII: Elvoret, the Wake-Up Call Boss, is a relatively minor example. Albeit he has 3523 HP at the highest, at this point in the game, this is a lot. Your measly physical attacks will deal around 50-60 damage per turn, and your magic will deal slightly more than 100. You pretty much have to rely on GFs and Limit Breaks if you don't wanna be stuck fighting the flying monster forever. Final Fantasy X: The Wendigo. Just after finishing up a long-winded Puzzle Boss, you get to fight a big, dumb monster that can kill any member of your party in one punch, no other tricks needed. Thankfully, this boss seems to be missing the standard Contractual Boss Immunity to being blinded. The Monster Arena Optional Bosses. With the exception of exactly two bosses, HP values start at six digits and only get worse. Going into battle with any of these bosses without a character that can hit for 99,999 HP or more in one turn is asking to fail. Final Fantasy XII: Yiazmat has over 50 million HP. Your party members can do a maximum of 9999 damage per hit, with that figure dropping to 6999 once you've gotten his HP down to half its starting value. Suffice it to say, you'll be there for a while. Mercifully, you don't have to finish the fight in one sitting; you can leave the fight at any time, and when you come back, the boss's HP will be the same as when you left. This is made even more merciful in Updated Re-release of the game, which allows you to exceed the previous damage cap, while also providing you with stronger weapons and making Yiazmat susceptible to Expose, which will make it take even more damage. Oh, and near the end of the fight, Yiazmat casts Reflect on the entire party without warning. If you had a Renew spell cued up, you'll end up healing him back to full health. Final Fantasy XIII: Vercingetorix. As the final Cieth Stone mission boss, this bad boy sports a massive 15,840,000 HP health bar, and has the infuriating habit of casting Impenetrable Aura (impervious to all attacks, unable to be staggered, and constant healing for its duration) whenever your party has just begun or is in the middle of attacking it while it's staggered. It also gradually sends out stronger attacks as its health bar depletes, sometimes forcing you to switch to a defensive paradigm just to keep up with its onslaught. Relatedly, the Long Guis found in the Archylte Steppe. A step up from the normal Adamantoises and Adamantortoises, these behemoths all sport a whopping 16,200,000 HP, which is not helped by the fact that you have to temporarily pause your attacks on its legs once it starts stomping the ground. To add insult to injury, it will sometimes cast Ultima right off the bat, or use Roar in order to temporarily stun your party, allowing it to deal massive damage with a single stomp unchecked. Final Fantasy XIII-2: Valfodr. Unlike Vercingetorix, he starts out with a decent HP count for a Superboss, but each subsequent fight with him raises his level, stats and number of abilities appropriately, up until his level 99 incarnation, where he starts out with 15,516,000 HP and rarely pauses when attacking you. His high resistances, coupled with the ability to heal and use status buffs on himself, all culminate in an uphill battle where your party has to deal with his area-wide debuffs and -ga level spells, giving you little time to fill up his stagger gauge. The Aeronite in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII has a ridiculous amount of HP compared to any other boss in the game (11 million HP on Normal and 38.5 million on Hard, which can further be increased by an additional 50% to 57.75 million HP if you choose to fight it in a Chaos zone, topping Yiazmat's previous record for the highest enemy HP in the series by another 7+ million HP, although to compensate, you can remove 10% or rarely 25% of its initial HP if you strike it first). It mostly bombards you with -ra and -ga level spells, occasionally mixing in a much stronger, but heavily telegraphed special attack that needs to be blocked. It also takes very little damage until it's been staggered four times (each stagger doubling the damage you do to it, from 50% to 100% then 200% then 400%), but once that happens, it weakens greatly, losing access to its stronger moves and slowing its attacks, which turns it into little more than a punching bag. However, there's a time limit of 3 minutes for each stagger and if you don't accomplish another one before then and ultimately kill it off by the fourth stagger, it gets fed up and escapes. Final Fantasy XV: The game has an optional challenge in the form of Adamantoise, a mountain-sized turtle with HP and durability to match. Even with a well-leveled party and the best weapons available, he'll take almost an hour to whittle down and defeat. Even longer if you're underprepared! Another side mission has Noctis out to catch the legendary Liege of the Lake, and what an ordeal that is. Even with mastery of the fishing mechanics, the best rod, spool and line and the right lure to snag him, he'll struggle every step of the way and it will inevitably take 10 minutes or more to reel in.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_aa7b1a42	comment	Most of the games in the Earth Defense Force series (no relation to the shmup listed above) have a final boss that fits this theme, generally a huge alien ship that can tank a few hundred rockets and sniper rifle rounds before dying. Most also have a Kaiju miniboss battle at some point — a contrast to the huge swarms of relatively weak enemies seen in most stages, but they dish out massive damage and absorb more than enough firepower to be a threat even by themselves. Arguably moreso since there's no mooks around to drop health powerups for you.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_abbdebca	comment	Balatro: One boss blind, The Wall, requires a score that's four times the amount of the base for that ante but otherwise doesn't impair the player. One of the Final Boss choices, Violet Vessel, works the same but with a six times boost to value.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Dark Link in the Water Temple, who can potentially become a damage sponge if you obtained a ton of Heart Containers due to his health mirroring yours.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_b1d8c295	comment	Plants vs. Zombies: There's really not much else you can do to Dr. Zomboss's Zombot but let whatever offensive plants you got whale on it until it explodes. If you have spare Ice-shrooms, though, you can prevent him from getting back up for a while, letting you finish the fight sooner, or gain a few more plants before the horde attacks again.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_b4967d43	comment	Unlike most 2D Sonic the Hedgehog games, where they usually give out after 8 solid strikes, the bosses in Sonic Rush Adventure have a ton of health — for example, the very first takes 20 hits to defeat. As a trade-off, though, their weak points are vulnerable far more often, which makes them less of a pain overall.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind's Tribunal expansion has Gedna Relvel, a lich, in its "Crimson Plague" side questline. She's capable of flinging a very powerful area of effect spell, is immune or resistant to every form of Destruction magic, and quickly regenerates lost Health, Magicka, and Fatigue. Worse, she's supposed to have Health equal to 100x the player's current level, but due to a programming error, she has 800x that amount, making her virtually unkillable at higher levels. Perhaps worst of all, you don't even get a very good reward for killing her.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_b5cb97dc	comment	The Water Guardian boss in Summoners War: Sky Arena has 500% increased health, and to make things worse, gets increased damage as time goes on. This makes Continuous Damage the only viable way to take him down.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_b9715632	comment	Tales of the Tempest: All bosses are this to some degree because of how easy the game is, but the first fight against Albert is particularly bad. He has 12 000 HP when you probably won't be doing more than 100 damage per strong hit and may not be over 1000 HP yourself.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_ba07853c	comment	About half of the Extra Ops missions from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker involve taking on an armored vehicle, tank, chopper or AI-controlled mech of some degree, all of which would qualify for this trope. The easiest way to clear one of these stages involves neutralizing a couple dozen escort troops, then slowly whittling down up to 85% of the vehicle's health before its pilot pokes his head out for a relatively easy shot. To get there, you'll have to restock your ammo several times during the battle, and only missiles and armor-piercing weapons have any hope of damaging the things even a little bit.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_ba26bf2	comment	A Dearth of Choice: Omen, the second-floor boss, is immune to several kinds of damage, and highly resistant to most other kinds. Unless the adventurers can find something that he's vulnerable to, it's a long slog to take him down. Fortunately, he's nothing special on offence; he has a giant sword, but is only moderately capable with it.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_babc3924	comment	Mario & Luigi: Dream Team manages to combine this with Puzzle Boss, of all things, somehow. Why? The boss in question heals off a certain amount every 3 or 4 seconds. The way to beat this boss is to hit it faster than it regens. This means using the attack you can spam the fastest. If you've been playing this game, you know which one it is. Overlaps with Guide Dang It! too because of this.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The Tank Robot in the Mann Versus Machine game mode in has no weapons, blithely follows a clearly marked linear path, and will not defend itself. The challenge isn't attacking it, it's attacking it enough to actually destroy the thing, since the only thing it recognizes is damage; no other effects will apply to it. The spongiest versions have 60,000 health—the equivalent of trying to kill 200 heavies, without the benefits of headshots or backstabs (and, by the way, the Tank takes less damage from bullets than other robots). And if it comes in the middle of a wave, you'll likely be combating other robots at the same time, which means even less damage being directed towards the Tank. Needless to say, if your team doesn't have one or more Demomen, Soldiers, and/or Pyros at the time a Tank rolls out, you're dead. Also in MvM there's Captain Punch. Slow, 60,000 health plus 40% damage resistance to ranged attacks, a health regeneration mechanic on top of that, one-hit-kill punches, snail-like walking pace that can go over Engineer buildings. A fairly tame, but nevertheless effective version for the easier modes, or simply as the first guy you fight on harder ones, is the generic Giant Soldier which is no more dangerous than your average soldier-robot offensively, or the Giant Pyro and Demoknight whose slow speed makes them nothing more than bullet sponges with some sort of defensive gimmick to attentive players. The Horseless Headless Horsemann always has 5000 HP at the very least (usually much more), and its only attack consists on decapitating you instantly with a swing of his axe. The only strategy that works here is "shoot him and stay the hell away". Simpler versions of the fan-made Juggernaut game mode known as Versus Saxton Hale, presented players with a fast, powerful single boss enemy with absurdly high health in the quadruple or quintuple digits (that only got higher as more players faced him) who could do one of three things: punch a player in the face, scream his name at them to frighten or stun anyone around him, or do a high jump. Beating him came down to outlasting him, as Saxton Hale could one-shot almost any class with a single punch, and the game's two One-Hit Kill attacks in turn didn't actually kill him in one hit. Merasmus is an especially ridiculous version of this. He has at least 100,000 health. Needless to say, team cooperation is absolutely required to beat him. Then there's the issue of his 90-second time limit and constant teleportation and hiding on top of it all.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c2463c46	comment	Final Fantasy: The Piscodemonsnote Wizards in the first english translation (albeit not a boss, they are a fixed encounter). They have no special moves at all, but they are horribly tough. They can soak up AND deal large amounts of damage. The first fight with them to obtain the Crown is a Luck-Based Mission since random encounter logic decides whether you fight 2 of them or 4 of them.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: The Wendigo. Just after finishing up a long-winded Puzzle Boss, you get to fight a big, dumb monster that can kill any member of your party in one punch, no other tricks needed. Thankfully, this boss seems to be missing the standard Contractual Boss Immunity to being blinded. The Monster Arena Optional Bosses. With the exception of exactly two bosses, HP values start at six digits and only get worse. Going into battle with any of these bosses without a character that can hit for 99,999 HP or more in one turn is asking to fail.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c3c01004	comment	The "Tough" modifier in Bonfire turns enemies into these. It provides only minor stat boosts, but increases their Hit Points by 100. For standard enemies, this doubles their health!
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c4a1d59e	comment	In the Call of Duty series, Juggernauts are this with a light machine gun. In MW3, you can just gib them, but it takes about seven blocks of C4. Each of those blocks is a several-pound solid hunk of explosives.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo: Izual from Diablo II is legendary for this trope. Despite his scary appearance, the fallen angel doesn't do much beyond a couple of basic attacks—most characters can just stand there and attack him until the Hit Points are gone. This is so bad that the Amazon's Valkyrie summon can actually regenerate health faster than Izual can deal it, while slowly whittling his health down. He will also never change targets once he starts attacking your minion. Feel free to go make yourself a sandwich. The hard part about the fight is that your weapons will eventually wear out. He also has a cold attack which slows you, making the interminable fight even longer if your a melee class. In Diablo III, Ghom is so much a damage sponge that the time you need to kill him is used as a way to calculate your effective damage per second so that you can compare your damage with other players.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c7aa39fa	comment	The Mother Demon in Doom 64. If you thought the Cyberdemon's 4000 HP was huge, this one has 5000! If you did not collect the keys, enjoy wasting a lot of ammo against a plethora of enemies before facing the Mother Demon. Fortunately, the spot where the Mother Demon is located respawns supercharge soul spheres. Unlike the Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind, the Mother Demon is not immune to splash damage.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c7aa3c5c	comment	The Barons of Hell (the first two of which are introduced as bosses, a.k.a. the 'Bruiser Brothers', at the end of the first episode) are considered to have hit points well out of proportion with their actual threat level. This led to the introduction of Hell Knights in Doom II, which were about as dangerous (their plasma orbs and claw attacks did the same damage), but only half as tough, making them slightly closer to a Glass Cannon that could be placed more often without needlessly slowing down the pace of combat.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c84a9c92	comment	Pikmin (2001): The Emperor Bulblax has more health than any other enemy in the game, with the Superboss being a close second. The only strategy is to Feed It a Bomb and then throw as many Pikmin onto it as possible.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c9633211	comment	No More Heroes: The secret final battle against Henry, Travis's half-brother. As a boss he's rather easy, with AI that can easily be tricked into a loop, but it still takes upwards of 10 minutes to whittle down his health bar and win the fight.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Helmasaur. As the first boss of the Dark World, its helmet can tank a ridiculous amount of hits from the hammer. Bombs can take it down in fewer hits, but the boss moves around enough that hitting the mask with the timed explosives can be a challenge, so either way it can take a bit.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_c9777c97	comment	Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim and Ys SEVEN, where you take at least 3-5 minutes to subdue a boss. Likewise for the final bosses of most of the games.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_cb45dbdc	comment	Tera Raid bosses in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet have their HP multiplied by an increasing factor based on the raid difficulty (up to several dozen times their original HP), eventually resulting in bosses who can tank several super effective hits from PokÃ©mon that have been buffed to the maximum. Bear in mind that in regular gameplay, one-shotting an enemy PokÃ©mon without using buffs is often easy to do.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d0599129	comment	Ragnarok Online has the Angeling, a souped-up version of the weakest (and most iconic) monster in the game. With 55,000 hitpoints - more than almost every non-boss monster in the game - daring low-level players may find themselves disappointed at the Angeling's inability to put up an actual FIGHT. Any player with the ability to outdamage its heals will almost certainly be able to kill it, provided their own healing potions hold out, but it will take a very, very long time if you aren't high enough level to render the creature irrelevant.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d302abbf	comment	Most Elder Dragons from the series, especially those in which the Dragonator make them barely tolerable. Whereas most fights in the game consist of being acutely aware of attack patterns and attacking when it's open, for these giant guys you just keep shooting cannonballs at them, tying them with ballista ropes, inflicting major damage at them with the Dragonator, and so on. It's less a matter of getting killed and more a matter of doing enough damage quickly enough (there is a time limit, if you're too slow you'll just repel them, and if you're really slow you'll outright fail). Notable examples include Ceadeus and Jhen Mohran in Monster Hunter 3 (Tri), as well as Lao-Shan Lung and Black Fatalis from the very first game and its G expansion respectively.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d3c4a6ce	comment	Dangaard in Trials of Mana. The fight isn't difficult, just long. It is split into four phases, alternating between overhead and side views. Prolonging the fight even further is the fact that you have to recast any buffs or debuffs you want to use each time the perspective changes. All of the Benevodons, each of which is the Evil Counterpart of the elemental Mana spirits that bestow their powers unto your party to aid them in their quests (with the aforementioned Dangaard being associated with the wind and thunder), is this, as each of them has HP in the thousands and can hit hard. Dangaard still stands out from among them enough to possibly count as a Marathon Boss as well, however, due to the four-phase nature of the battle against it above as well as having the highest amount of HP among the Benevodons.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d5166b43	comment	In Halo 2 and Reach, Brutes soak up an absurd amount of damage and barely react until they suddenly collapse. Tartarus takes this to absurd levels in Halo 2 as the final boss.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d5166b45	comment	One of the biggest criticisms of Halo 4's campaign is how insanely tough the Promethean Knights were, especially considering that they also had recharging shields and the ability to teleport away whenever their shields were down (plus the Watchers could both heal and revive them). They creatively rectified this in Halo 5: Guardians; the Knights are overall tougher than they were in 4, but no longer have recharging shields or teleportation (or Watcher revives), and damaging them enough will expose big glowing weak points.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d557e6c3	comment	Almost every boss in the Lunar games fit the bill. The challenge is less about finding a weakness to exploit (as most bosses don't have them) and more about keeping your party alive long enough to whittle down their large HP pools; moreso in the first game's remakes, where boss stats scale with Alex's level. Some of the late-game boss fights can go on for upwards of twenty minutes!
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d607c683	comment	No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Rank 10 is equal parts a damage sponge (it's a giant Brain in a Jar, they take some killing) and a "Get Back Here!" Boss, making the fight feel even longer.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d64a968	comment	In Ravensword: Shadowlands, the werewolf that resides in the Ancient Ruins takes a lot of punishment before he finally dies, more so than the Final Boss himself.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_d6e2146d	comment	In Diablo III, Ghom is so much a damage sponge that the time you need to kill him is used as a way to calculate your effective damage per second so that you can compare your damage with other players.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_da1a8fe9	comment	Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash are both nothing but high-health bosses that need to be killed in a short amount of time. Collecting Gem Apples and buying weapons with them is crucial since later enemies are nearly impossible (If not definitely impossible) to defeat with bottom-tier gear.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_dab3182f	comment	Taken to the extreme by Trillion: God of Destruction. That's an Antagonist Title, by the way, and both describes the creature's name and how many health points it has. By comparison, your playable characters even before they start training can shave off HP in the hundred-thousands, and they still only do Scratch Damage in comparison. The entire game is built around getting strong enough to whittle down its HP before all your Overlords fall in battle or the Netherworld is destroyed.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_dbce0953	comment	Pikmin: Every Final-Exam Boss in the series is this in one way or another: Pikmin (2001): The Emperor Bulblax has more health than any other enemy in the game, with the Superboss being a close second. The only strategy is to Feed It a Bomb and then throw as many Pikmin onto it as possible. Pikmin 2: The Titan Dweevil offers one of the longest battles in the series, as you also have to disable and extract the treasures attached to it, one by one. The boss itself is surprisingly bulky, but it's defenseless once you knock out all of its treasures. The Raging Long Legs from the second game. It's much slower than its relatives, but it has twice as much health as the final boss. All you need to do is attack it, wait until it stops raging, and then attack it once more. Pikmin 3: The only thing you can do to the Plasm Wraith is to simply swarm all of your Pikmin onto its body, but it can take a ridiculous amount of punishment even if you use Ultra-Spicy Spray. Worse yet, if you don't attack the blobs the boss drops upon losing health, it heals itself. Said blobs eventually become cubes that you have to use a certain Pikmin type to take out, so the battle can drag on for a long time if you don't try to take out the blobs/cubes alongside attacking the boss.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_dec5f386	comment	Nearly every boss in Raiden. Basically, both the boss and the player fill the screen with bullets until one of them dies.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_df14b87a	comment	In Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven, every single boss after Elfriede joins the party. The most glaring example is Final Boss Kaiser, who has around 1 million hp. This makes poison bottles a god-send, as your party members usually dish out damage in the four-digit range at best.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_e1a38d23	comment	Monster Hunter Portable 3rd: Duramboros is an enormous, mossy Brute Wyvern with curved horns and a round tail that can take a lot of punishment from hunters before finally dying. If the player doesn't wish to spend too much time fighting it, then it's recommended to capture the monster when it's weak enough.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest IX has the boss fight with the Lleviathan fairly early on. It doesn't doesn't really do anything special, it just hits a single target or your entire party with powerful physical attacks and takes an age and a half to kill. The second and last phase of the Final Boss in the first Dragon Quest game is probably one of the purest examples of this. All it does is hit you hard either by physical attacks or breathing fire, and it has ridiculously high defense. The extent of the strategy is to attack it and cast Healmore on yourself when your HP gets low. If you can't win, do some Level Grinding and try again when you're stronger. Dragon Quest V has BjÃ¸rn the Behemoose. In the original game, he's tied with the final boss's second form for the most HP of any enemy...and BjÃ¸rn is fought a little past mid-game. In the DS remake, BjÃ¸rn has even more HP than in the original Super Famicom version (though this puts him at merely second to the considerably buffed final boss). But in both versions he's not particularly hard, just time-consuming. All he does is hit you reasonably hard and raise his own defense.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_e26905cd	comment	NANCY-MI847J of Tekken 6 is a Superboss who has ten times the health of any fighter in the game. It's also a Timed Mission and one of the few Tekken matches which is susceptible to a Ring Out. Also, it's a giant, centauroid robot with missile launchers, lasers, and machine guns.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_e44291b7	comment	The Legend of Spyro: Most of the bosses in the trilogy are this way — especially in the first game. While later games gave the bosses more distinct patterns, the general strategy for most of them remained "Attack them while they're vulnerable; back up when they're not" strategy.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_e5c93c13	comment	In Miitopia, many post-game bosses are guilty of this, especially the ones from high-level quests. Their HP tends to be around 4,000-6,000 on average (for comparison to a regular Mook, a Giant UFOs's HP almost reaches 2,000). Their other stats (unless they're weak to magic) are no walk in the park, either. Keep in mind that damage per hit is Capped at 999.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom: The Barons of Hell (the first two of which are introduced as bosses, a.k.a. the 'Bruiser Brothers', at the end of the first episode) are considered to have hit points well out of proportion with their actual threat level. This led to the introduction of Hell Knights in Doom II, which were about as dangerous (their plasma orbs and claw attacks did the same damage), but only half as tough, making them slightly closer to a Glass Cannon that could be placed more often without needlessly slowing down the pace of combat. The Cyberdemon takes a lot of hitsnote About 400 bullets, 45-50 rockets or 150-200 plasma rifle shots. The BFG takes it down in only four blasts, but you don't have access to it during Episode 2 of the first game., shoots rockets which can one-shot you with a direct hit at 100% health, and is defeated by circle strafing and shooting. It led to the creation of the sarcastic "tip" of "To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies." The same goes for every other boss in the original Doom games, including the Barons of Hell and the Spider Mastermind. There's another complication regarding the Cyberdemon in the first Doom game. When you first encounter him, the level there has a huge supply of ammo for your Rocket Launcher, which is (at that point in the game) the weapon with the most raw power. Problem is, the Cyberdemon is immune to splash damage, meaning that only the damage caused by the direct hit has any effect on him. If you opt to use the rocket launcher, the battle ends up being drawn out even longer. If you have a surplus of cells, it's far faster to whip out the Plasma Rifle instead. Thankfully when he appears again in the secret level of episode 3, you might've finally found the BFG, which makes the rematch a lot easier. With the Spider Mastermind, which has 3000 HP, the fact that its Triple Chaingun is a hitscan weapon does require you to put a little thought into not getting killed. But still, that only changes the strategy to "Shoot it until it dies, and don't wind up full of hot lead." The Mother Demon in Doom 64. If you thought the Cyberdemon's 4000 HP was huge, this one has 5000! If you did not collect the keys, enjoy wasting a lot of ammo against a plethora of enemies before facing the Mother Demon. Fortunately, the spot where the Mother Demon is located respawns supercharge soul spheres. Unlike the Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind, the Mother Demon is not immune to splash damage.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII: Elvoret, the Wake-Up Call Boss, is a relatively minor example. Albeit he has 3523 HP at the highest, at this point in the game, this is a lot. Your measly physical attacks will deal around 50-60 damage per turn, and your magic will deal slightly more than 100. You pretty much have to rely on GFs and Limit Breaks if you don't wanna be stuck fighting the flying monster forever.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_eb710f9a	comment	Exaggerated in CrossCode. Lea goes up against a snail boss which has 50 quintillion HP.note That's 5 followed by 19 zeroes, or 50,000,000,000,000,000,000. In a game where a decent combo does about ten thousand HP of damage. Luckily for Lea, Sergey cheats in her favor to make the boss capable of taking any sort of meaningful damage.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_ed113c02	comment	Subverted hysterically in the Saints Row IV DLC Enter the Dominatrix: early on, main-game Big Bad Zinyak appears with a healthbar three screenwidths long. He goes down with one shot. From a pistol.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_eef62751	comment	Tales of Destiny 2: Fortuna. She has so much HP and defense it can take a skilled player 20 minutes to beat her.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f04b4111	comment	The Metroid series has two noteworthy ones, in that they're also the two Recurring Bosses of the series. Mother Brain is notably straightforward, requiring dodging the laser rings, not falling into the lava that floods her chamber, and blasting her with rockets until she goes down in Metroid. Super Metroid has a second stage to the boss fight, where, after a particular powerup event, it's just you pumping missiles and energy blasts into her before she kills you. Ridley is the prime example of the series, being fought in most of the games, if not multiple times in one game. You almost always fight Ridley near the end of the game, when you're loaded with energy tanks and missile upgrades, and he's programmed to take advantage of that. While most bosses require finding the weak point and striking it while staying out of danger, Ridley's fights are raw, brutal slugfests, where he throws everything he has at you, and you do the same, hoping you're powered up enough to kill him before he kills you.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f120845f	comment	In Kingdom of Loathing, the final boss of the Mysterious Island War quest, The Man (or The Big Wisniewski if you're playing for the Frat Boys) has no special abilities other than having the most hit points of any monster in the main quest-line (unless you count the third form of the Naughty Sorceress, which isn't even defeated in normal combat).
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f1fbeee0	comment	Destroy the Godmodder: The standard boss that isn't the Godmodder is one of these. However, as the series went on, more varied bosses introduced.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f4ba2731	comment	The second form of Ansem in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] qualifies, having the second highest HP out of any boss in the game, only beaten by the bonus boss. He's also a Stationary Boss and is almost constantly firing various projectiles at you, that while very painful, aren't especially difficult to avoid once you memorize their movement patterns.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: While there are many tanky enemies in this game and its direct predecessor, there is one boss that really takes the cake in a way the game acknowledges. During Ganondorf's second phase as the Demon King, his health bar refills and then keeps going... and going... and going, until it almost reaches the end of the screen, effectively giving him twice as much health as a normal boss. And this isn't even his final phase.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f59e607f	comment	The bosses of the second and third "episodes" of Duke Nukem 3D are both defeated by shooting at them and dodging their non-hitscan projectiles. It's not the case for the first boss, whose main weapon is hitscan and is defeated by shooting at it over a wall.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: The Rock Titan in Kingdom Hearts, at least relative to the other bosses. Two of his three attacks are ridiculously easy to dodge, and battling him is more of a matter of time than difficulty. Sephiroth from the same game is certainly so slouch, either. While he has less HP than the Rock Titan (1800, compared to the Titan's 2100) he has higher defense (46, compared to the Titan's "measly" 34) and, what's worse, favors the Teleport Spam and will be especially happy to pull it out whenever you try to combo him, meaning that, unlike the Rock Titan, which is slow and largely just stands there while you wail on it, you will only be able to give Sephiroth a couple of whacks at a time. The second form of Ansem in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] qualifies, having the second highest HP out of any boss in the game, only beaten by the bonus boss. He's also a Stationary Boss and is almost constantly firing various projectiles at you, that while very painful, aren't especially difficult to avoid once you memorize their movement patterns. Days took the Invisible, a Lightning Bruiser demon Heartless from the first game with high (but not ridiculous) health, and gave it a lot more health. Days also has the Zip Slasher and Dustflier. Thankfully, all three are optional. Most of the bosses have a lot of health, but these three stand out.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes has Reichsman. He's got a quarter-million HP in contrast to a typical end-boss's 30,000, but other than that, he's got nothing that distinguishes him from the zillion other evil Mirror Universe copies of Statesman running around. The final battle is supposed to be a juggling act where the players need to balance their effort between fighting Reichsman and fighting the end-boss-class reinforcements he summons, but most teams simply focus on the bag of hitpoints and let splash damage take care of the rest. The typical run of the Dr. Kahn Task Force takes 45 minutes, of which 20 will be spent fighting Reichsman.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fab472d2	comment	Dark Souls: The game has a plethora of bosses each possessing a significant amount of health and damage resistances, sometimes making it hard for the player to make it to the end of the fight. The New Game Plus mechanism also bolsters their health and damage inflicted up until NG+7, where it's not uncommon to see an otherwise basic boss sport a massive health bar and oneshotting you. The Stray Demon and Demon Firesage are both slow and are easily worn out by bleed-inflicting weapon, but they are more than likely encountered at a time when your equipment is not maxed out. The Four Kings have the highest HP count in the vanilla game (9,500 HP, specifically), and you can end up fighting all four at once. It's played with a bit due to each individual king having his own health bar, and damaging him contributes to whittling down the total health. It's even worse in New Game Plus, where the total HP gets boosted to 16,000; in a game where the hardest hitting physical attack doesn't deal more than 800 damage, this is saying something. The Downloadable Content adds Manus, Father of the Abyss. His total health on a normal playthrough is at an intimidating 6,666 HP, and his physical and magical resistances are some the highest, effectively cutting down your damage to Scratch Damage.
Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fab472d2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dark Souls (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fab472d2
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fcafd60d	comment	Teraburst has only four bosses, and all the bosses (even the first one) can soak up bullets for several minutes, with their health dwindling slowly while you fire away. Most of them have two or three attacks, save for the Final Boss.
Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fcafd60d	featureApplicability	1.0
Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fcafd60d	featureConfidence	1.0
Teraburst (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fcafd60d
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fd8ef85e	comment	Left 4 Dead. The Tank is basically a Boss in Mook Clothing in that they can take a ludicrous amount of punishment before their demise, which is why most players prefer to just toss a Molotov at one of them to kill them quickly.note The fire doesn't actually damage The Tank, but places it on a definite death-timer, which may-or-may-not be faster than just shooting it to death. The Charger in Left 4 Dead 2 acts like a light version of the Tank in some respects, but dies much faster, so he's more akin to a Bullfight Boss.
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fd8ef85e	featureConfidence	1.0
Left 4 Dead (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damage-Sponge Boss / int_fd8ef85e

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Magi-Nation (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
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Monster Legends (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
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Nation Red (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
NightFire (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
NinjaSenki	seeAlso	Damage-Sponge Boss
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Nuclear Throne (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
OFF (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
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Rogue Squadron (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
SAS Zombie Assault (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
SPV3 (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Sea of Thieves (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Shadow the Hedgehog (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
ShadowWarrior	seeAlso	Damage-Sponge Boss
Shadowrun (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Shin Megami Tensei Liberation: Dx2 (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
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Stargunner (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Starsector (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
State of Decay 2 (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Steredenn (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
StreetPass Mii Plaza (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Summoners War: Sky Arena (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Super Adventure Island II (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Super Kirby Clash (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Super Mario 3D (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Super Metroid (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Super Smash Bros. 64 (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Sven Co-op (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Swords of Destiny (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Tales of Arise (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Teraburst (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Binding of Isaac (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Incredibles (Game) (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Legend of Spyro (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The Terminator: Dawn of Fate (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
They Hunger (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Bad Dream (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Tomb Raider: Legend (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Torchlight (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Total Carnage (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Total War: Warhammer II (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Toukiden (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Tower of Fantasy (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Tree of Savior (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Uncharted (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Upgrade Complete (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Warriors of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Wasteland (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Witch Hunt (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Wizard101 (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
World of Horror (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
World of Tanks (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
World War Z (2019) (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Five Nights at Fuckboy's / Videogame	seeAlso	Damage-Sponge Boss
NieR: Automata / Videogame / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
State of Emergency / Videogame / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Secret Life SMP (Web Video) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything (Webcomic) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
Zig & Sharko / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss

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