History AntiClimaxBoss / VideoGames

*** Geeta is significantly underpowered for a supposed Champion. Most of her team just doesn't have good stats, with only Kingambit standing out in that regard, and they also aren't used well--Veluza uses Mold Breaker instead of its signature ability of Sharpness, making its offense completely mediocre, and she sends out Glimmora, a Pokémon designed for use as a lead due to its GlassCannon stat layout and ability to automatically set Toxic Spikes, last (and not Kingambit, a Pokémon designed to be used for a LastStand). Add in Gogoat and Avalugg, two ''very'' mediocre Pokémon, and you have a recipe for an easy 6-0. Even the rematch with her at the Academy Ace Tournament doesn't do much to improve her status as she merely levels up her team by around five levels higher than when you originally faced her at the Pokemon League, with the same strategies as before.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The secret final boss, [[spoiler:Moon Presence]], is laughably easy especially since it immediately follows the fight with [[spoiler:Gehrman, The First Hunter]], one of the more challenging bosses in the game if you haven't become overpowered after completing the DLC. The boss is not very fast and most of its attacks are simple flails that have gaping blind spots on the boss's sides, and it's only actually dangerous move (a shockwave that instantly reduces the player's health to 1) has a very long windup animation that leaves it vulnerable for several seconds of free damage.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The secret final boss, [[spoiler:Moon Presence]], is laughably easy especially since it immediately follows the fight with [[spoiler:Gehrman, The First Hunter]], one of the more challenging bosses in the game if you haven't become overpowered after completing the DLC. The boss is not very fast and most of its attacks are simple flails that have gaping blind spots on the boss's sudes, and it's only actually dangerous move (a shockwave that instantly reduces the player's health to 1) has a very long windup animation that leaves it vulnerable for several seconds of free damage.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'': Yhorm the Giant is one of the Lords of Cinder, the four main enemies you need to kill. He's a towering, seemingly invincible juggernaut, and he ''is''...unless you pick up and use his AchillesHeel, which is obligingly located within the boss arena, and/or finished Siegward's questline, in which case you have a backup AchillesHeel covered in plate armour running around and backing you up.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The secret final boss, [[spoiler:Moon Presence]], is laughably easy especially since it immediately follows the fight with [[spoiler:Gehrman, The First Hunter]], one of the more challenging bosses in the game if you haven't become overpowered after completing the DLC.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': Ganon is either this or a HopelessBossFight, depending on whether you have found the Silver Arrows. Even though he's invisible and constantly teleporting, his projectiles just don't do enough damage to an endgame-ready Link, meaning that attacking the air and dodging occasionally will be plenty to get in the needed three hits and bring him down.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Ganondorf is a TennisBoss and not even a good TennisBoss. A previous boss called Phantom Ganon, which is supposed to be weaker than the real Ganondorf, is more challenging, as the arena you fight him in is much smaller, giving you less time to react to the blasts; plus he has another phase, a ShellGame with the background paintings, also making him less predictable than Ganondorf. Even in his Ganon form, where his attacks will do a massive amount of damage if they connect, he's still a complete joke, as he's incredibly slow with equally slow attacks. Beating him is as simple as rolling under his legs and whaling on his tail over and over again.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Zant takes you to previous boss arenas and requires you to use the same item used against it. Once you figure that out, he becomes simple, and he is not helped by the small number of attacks he possesses. Even the final phase, where he takes out swords, is easy because it boils down to waiting until he stops attacking and hitting him.

*** [[spoiler:The final battle with Dark Beast Ganon]]. In spite of looking great and its amazing music, the fight essentially boils down to [[spoiler:shooting the glowing weak points on Ganon's body with light arrows. ''[[TooDumbToLive While he hardly ever tries to move or turn around]]''. And even though he hits hard, this is only if he actually hits you, as his only real attack is firing slow, predictable [[SlowLaser mouth lasers]] at you.]] The anticlimax can be somewhat mitigated on speed runs, as your lack of equipment will certainly make the fight much harder.

*** [[spoiler:Calamity Ganon, if you free all the [[HumongousMecha Divine Beasts]] and acquire the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Master Sword]] before facing him. Doing so allows the Divine Beasts to attack Ganon at the start of the fight, cutting his health in half, and gives you an extremely powerful and practically unbreakable weapon to finish him off. And depending on how much of the rest of the game's WideOpenSandbox you've completed (which is likely a sizeable amount if you've managed to free all the Divine Beasts), you may also have a large amount of hearts and good armor, making him even less of a threat]].

* In ''VideoGame/UrbanReign'', after proceeding through most of the game solo taking on various criminals, gang members, psychopaths, martial artists, and a couple of giants that the game simply describes as "monsters", the last boss is none other than [[spoiler:the corrupt Mayor, who dies with about 2-3 punches]]. But he's the only one who uses a gun, and the game doesn't hesitate to make its damage realistic.

* In ''VideoGame/WarriorsOfFate'', the final boss, Akkila Orkhan (a fictional version of Cao Cao) is pathetically easy to kill with only a small health bar and a minor thrown bomb attack. However he is also at TimeLimitBoss and if you don't kill him within the fifteen second time limit he escapes and you get the BadEnding.

** ''VideoGame/DoomEternal: The Ancient Gods Part 2'''s Dark Lord feels like a slog to fight. He can only be damaged at specific parts, but is inconsistent in when he leaves himself vulnerable. While you wait for him to leave himself open, he only throws out rather predictable attacks, and the backup he summons are very easily dealt with the Sentinel Hammer. The worst part is that he heals himself if he damages you with his sword, but it's also very easy to heal and restock during the fight as well. The entire fight devolves into waiting, using the Sentinel Hammer on mooks, more waiting, and damaging him hopefully without getting hit.

** Gretel Grosse of [=E5M9=] is this as well due to her being a gender-flipped carbon copy of her brother Hans from [=E1M9=]. The same strategies used against Hans also applies to Gretel, only this time the room she's in has two cutaway walls that give you good cover from her hitscan machine guns. However, after she's dead, she drops a key that leads to the final room [[KaizoTrap which is full of heavily armed guards ready to surprise you upon opening it]]. Keep that in mind if you're expecting an easy finish of the fifth episode.

** In ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', the PerfectRunFinalBoss, [[spoiler:Zero-Two]], is considerably easier than most of the other bosses in the game, but especially stands out when compared to the normal FinalBoss, Miracle Matter.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': The Devil's final phase is literally just you shooting at the guy's face while he cries. His only real attack at this point is the flaming blue poker chip from the previous two phases falling on the last platform to stand on, which is ''very'' easy to dodge (technically, his TearsOfBlood are damaging too, but they don't actually come close to hitting you). In fact, the Devil as a whole might count as this. He's no harder than previous bosses and is arguably ''easier'' than some, since he doesn't send randomized minions after you whose attack patterns take longer to learn, like King Dice or Baroness Von Bon Bon. With how hectic the bosses from Inkwell Isle can get, many fans found themselves disappointed that the last and final boss was the least exciting.

*** The entire Johto Elite Four is this. They're about ten to fifteen levels lower than every other Elite Four in the series (partly because you then explore a second region afterwards), have fairly predictable teams with weak Pokémon (and to make it more blatant, the fairly weak Bruno is the only non-champion member returning from the last game) and are generally pretty easy to defeat with less than half a team.

*** One of the criticisms of ''Ruby and Sapphire'' was that the person who meets the default Rival archetype (Brendan or May) doesn't even fully evolve his/her Pokémon and is only fought a very small number of times. This is what makes more people consider Wally as the rival, since he actually challenges you in Victory Road while Brendan or May give up. The leaders of Team Magma and Team Aqua also apply, seeing as they only use three Pokémon each; they also use all the same kinds of Pokémon that their minions use, so you're already used to battling them.

*** The whole Hoenn Elite Four is like this (except Steven and Wallace), but Glacia is probably the worst. Not only is her Ice Pokémon team remarkably easy to beat, but she seems to have no relevance at all to the plot of the game, only saying five lines in the entire game, ''none'' of them having any real importance whatsoever. Glacia is especially bad when you consider that Hoenn only has two families of Ice-Types, making her team ''very'' repetitive. In the remakes, she at least gets a pair of Froslass to add to her team... but in the original Ruby and Sapphire, Froslass didn't exist yet. This means that one of the Elite Four has two Pokémon (a pair of Sealeo) who ''aren't even fully evolved'' on her team.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'':
*** Skyla in Black and White: Her entire team is weak to electricity, with her signature (highest-leveled) Pokémon having a ''double'' weakness. Why is this bad? In order to reach her gym, you have to pass through the Chargestone Cave, which, if you couldn't tell from the name, is chock full of electric-types. If you don't have a Pokémon that can [[CurbstompBattle wipe her team]], you have only yourself to blame.
*** Marlon from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''; for the eighth Gym Leader, he's practically a pushover. You could probably beat his entire Gym with little more than one strong Electric Type and a Grass on the side for the few trainers that have Water/Ground hybrids. There are only two edges he really has -- one is that all three of his Pokémon know Scald, which is useful against Pokémon that use physical attacks, which you likely aren't going to use against Water Types save Thunder Punch, Seed Bomb, Power Whip and such. The second is that his Jellicent is very bulky and can use Recover, but even then it's mostly an issue of being stalled out moreso than being disadvantaged.

*** The final battle with N. His legendary dragon can be easily defeated by your own due to ArtificialStupidity (it loves to use its signature move, which you're resistant to and can power up your own dragon's signature move as well), and most of his other Pokémon can be one-shotted with the proper type matchups. [[BaitAndSwitchBoss But then you face the real]] FinalBoss, [[ThatOneBoss who isn't nearly as much of a pushover]]...

*** Geeta is significantly underpowered for a supposed Champion. Most of her team just doesn't have good stats, with only Kingambit standing out in that regard, and they also aren't used well--Veluza uses Mold Breaker instead of its signature ability of Sharpness, making its offense completely mediocre, and she sends out Glimora, a Pokémon designed for use as a lead due to its GlassCannon stat layout and ability to automatically set Toxic Spikes, last (and not Kingambit, a Pokémon designed to be used for a LastStand). Add in Gogoat and Avalugg, two ''very'' mediocre Pokémon, and you have a recipe for an easy 6-0. Even the rematch with her at the Academy Ace Tournament doesn't do much to improve her status as she merely levels up her team by around five levels higher than when you originally faced her at the Pokemon League, with the same strategies as before.
*** The FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Cassiopeia/Penny]], from the Operation Starfall plot is also disappointingly easy, especially right after winning the battle with [[spoiler:Clive/Director Clavell]], who was a [[ThatOneBoss more appropriately challenging boss beforehand.]] Her team consists of nothing but evolutionary forms of Eevee and their stats aren't that impressive despite being in the 60s level range. With the right Pokemon and moves as well as being at comparable or higher levels, you can easily defeat her team without much difficulty and thus complete the plot.

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* The Stage 7.2 FinalBoss in ''[[VideoGame/RType R-Type Final 2]]'' is laughably weak; just fire your Force Device into the core and fire away for about 15 seconds while dodging the slow-moving Wave Bydo. Yes, even on [[HarderThanHard R-Typer 3 difficulty]].

*** The FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Cassiopeia/Penny]], from the Operation Starfall plot, is also disappointingly easy, especially right after winning the battle with [[spoiler:Clive/Director Clavell]], who was a [[ThatOneBoss more appropriately challenging boss beforehand.]] Her team consists of nothing but evolutionary forms of Eevee and their stats aren't that impressive despite being in the 60s level range. With the right Pokemon and moves as well as being at comparable or higher levels, you can easily defeat her team without much difficulty and thus complete the plot.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', Geeta is significantly underpowered for a supposed Champion. Most of her team just doesn't have good stats, with only Kingambit standing out in that regard, and they also aren't used well--Veluza uses Mold Breaker instead of its signature ability of Sharpness, making its offense completely mediocre, and she sends out Glimora, a Pokémon designed for use as a lead due to its GlassCannon stat layout and ability to automatically set Toxic Spikes, last (and not Kingambit, a Pokémon designed to be used for a LastStand). Add in Gogoat and Avalugg, two ''very'' mediocre Pokémon, and you have a recipe for an easy 6-0.

** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' gives your character a whole lot of motivation to kill [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Benny]], but dealing him his death is rather simple. He can go out with a whimper through DeathBySex, or dismissed to crucifixion. If you face him in combat on his own turf, his weak trophy gun makes him no tougher than the rest of his gang. He was [[InformedAbility supposedly an expert]] knife-fighter from his tribal days, but can be faced in [[GladiatorGames single combat in an arena]] with mediocre unarmed skill.

* ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'' has two ending paths. The "bad" ending ends in a simple 2-dimensional GoodOldFisticuffs fistfight against the police captain in a cramped subway car (where you simply punch him until you back him off the screen and off the train), which is rather anticlimactic compared to some of the insane Kung Fu boss fights earlier in the game (including a sword fight against a 7-foot tall Black Samurai Rap Star). Contrast that with the original ''True Crime: Streets of LA'', where the "true" final boss, General Kim, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking was the best fighter in the game]], and the only opponent you had to beat with strategy (mostly blocking then counterattacking) instead of simply button mashing.

* Granted, ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'' is supposed to be a realistic game, so AuthorityEqualsAsskicking doesn't always fly, but still, don't expect you go into a nice one-on-one duel with the enemy commander, be it a lord or even a king. They DO tend to do a little more damage to your troops than normal Mooks, but thanks to ArtificialStupidity, they often get run down easily by your RedShirtArmy, especially when they [[TooDumbToLive charge your army all alone with their troops staying back or taking the first line in a siege, only to get crushed in between the attackers and the defenders.]]

*** The Black Knight. You've spent the better part of two games waiting to kill this guy, and when the battle finally comes, Ike stomps him. With a well-trained Ike (which is extremely likely, given his high base statline and being available for most of the game), you can literally do nothing and you'll still win just by counterattacking; and if you equip Ike with a Hammer, you can kill him in a single attack. The hardest part of the battle is keeping him alive long enough for your other characters to get the Wishblade. This is especially disappointing when you consider how hard he was in ''Path of Radiance''.

*** It should be noted that, besides Garon, there are plot reasons suggesting the characters weren't going all out. [[spoiler:Leo outright states that he was testing the Avatar, and Xander (having just killed his little sister) [[SuicideByCop basically doesn't WANT to live anymore]].]]

* Franchise/{{Tekken}} 3 has True Ogre, who is considerably easier to beat than both his standard form and the Heihachi battle that precedes both fights.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'' has Dr. Doppler. He was set up as the original BigBad of the game (before [[HijackedByGanon Sigma ended up being behind it all]]) and is the boss of the third fortress stage, which is also the BossRush stage. Doppler himself has three moves, one of which isn't even an actual attack and the other two of which are extremely easy to dodge. He even has a weakness to the Acid Burst, which can do up to ''five'' units of damage to him when fully charged.

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII'': The Hive Tyrant Alpha in the campaign. Though powerful, in this mission the player has control of all six of their squads (whereas it is limited to four in all other missions) as well as [[MemeticBadass Gabriel Angelos]], and the poor thing manages to attack maybe three times before being killed. In contrast, the entirely optional {{Bonus Boss}}es, the Avatar of Khaine and Warboss Bonesmasha, are at least a magnitude more resilient, with the former in particular the single most difficult task in the game.

*** As for the {{Bonus Boss}}es from the [=DLCs=]: General Jingwei at the end of ''Operation Anchorage'' can be convinced to [[{{Seppuku}} fall on his sword]] if you have a high enough Speech Skill. If not, prepare for a [[MarathonBoss long fight]]. The Alien Captain at the end of ''Mothership Zeta'' has the same stats as the unshielded alien {{mook}}s.

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'': Pillar [[spoiler:Zelenin]], the final boss of the Chaos path. Notably, the fight is more or less identical to the fight against Judge [[spoiler:Zelenin]], which could potentially be the ''first'' boss after the alignment lock if you're on the Neutral path. (The first objective after the alignment lock is to collect four {{MacGuffin}}s and these can be collected in any order; this boss guards one of them in the Neutral path, though it is notably the only one that's a true boss rather than a MiniBoss and can come as a shock to NewGamePlus players who had already played the Chaos path and were expecting the same MiniBoss that guarded that one on that path.) While it's still no cakewalk, it pales in comparison to the FinalBoss of the other two paths (which legitimately rivals the {{Bonus Boss}}es in difficulty).

** In a series with {{Bonus Boss}}es being noticeably more difficult then the rest of the game, the Ogre Titans stand out as easier than the storyline bosses. You need the InfinityPlusOneSword that they are weak to to fight them in the first place, they start the fight off slow to allow you to buff, and only use physical attacks (which do minimal damage thanks to the easy buffs).

** The [[MarathonLevel Hades Cup]] in the Olympus Coliseum sports several encounters that earn their chops as certified {{Bonus Boss}}es - the DualBoss of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Leon]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], the rematch with Cerberus, and the encounter with Hades himself are all quite challenging. The very last opponent in the Hades Cup is the Rock Titan, who has HP and attack strength that rivals that of the other bonafide {{Bonus Boss}}es... and attacks that take weeks to connect and can be seen from a mile away, making it very unlikely that it will manage a single hit on you while you and your companions hack away at it for a good ten minutes until it crumbles to dust.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Croc}}: Legend of the Gobbos'', the [[BonusBoss Secret Sentinel]] can be wiped out in something like 20 seconds.

* ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' has a BonusBoss that only appears after completing Cats of the Cosmos called Filibuster Obstructa. It’s an all powerful entity and ,with the chaos it wields, it might rewrite the laws of reality. Its fight however, isn’t that hard. To make a long story short, despite being able to 1-shot your base from anywhere, which leads to an instant defeat, he can be easily interrupted out of his ''40 second'' attack animation, forcing him to charge it up all over again and, while the enemies that support him are DemonicSpiders, they only come out one at a time and by this point, it’s most likely that one has the cats needed to beat them with little to no effort.

* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory2'', your character is challenged to a duel by the father of one of the available love interests, in order to convince [[OverprotectiveDad said father]] that you're "man enough" to marry his girl. Before the fight begins, a giant orc appears and interrupts the fight, threatening both you and the father. The orc is quickly found to be [[FakeUltimateMook a pushover]], as despite [[GiantMook its girth and height]], it is no stronger or more durable than its smaller, more common brethren.