Bosses are enemies in Bloodborne who feature a larger health bar and may be defeated to consider a stage "cleared". They will usually drop unique items. Players summoned to help defeat a host's Boss will be returned to their own game world after that Boss has been cleared. Bosses listed below are currently known and more will be added when data becomes available. It isn't 100% clear if the Root Chalice Dungeons will pull Bosses at random from the game or if it has its own set of them.
Using a series of glitches and exploits, it is possible to beat the game and enter New Game + while only killing Rom and Mergo’s Wet Nurse
Quick Bosses Alphabetical Text List
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Bosses
Bosses are unique Enemies in Bloodborne. There are 17 normal Bosses, 21 Chalice Dungeon Bosses, and 5 DLC Bosses.

Amygdala |
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Location | Nightmare Frontier, Defiled Chalice |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Ailing Loran Chalice, Great Pthumeru Ihyll Chalice |
Weaknesses | Arcane, Fire, Bolt |

Blood Starved Beast |
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Location | Old Yharnam, Hintertomb Chalice, Ailing Loran Chalice |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Pthumeru Chalice, Lower Hintertomb Chalice, Ailing Loran Root Chalice, FRC Loran |
Weaknesses | Fire and Serration |

Celestial Emissary |
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Location | Upper Cathedral Ward |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Communion |
Weaknesses | Thrust, Bolt and Fire |

Cleric Beast |
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Location | Central Yharnam |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Sword Hunter Badge |
Weaknesses | Fire and Serration |

Darkbeast Paarl |
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Location | Old Yharnam, Lower Loran Chalice |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Spark Hunter Badge, Lower Loran Chalice |
Weaknesses | Arcane, Fire and Serration |

Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos |
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Location | Altar of Despair |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Great Isz Chalice |
Weaknesses | Thrust, Bolt and Fire |

Gehrman, The First Hunter |
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Location | Hunter's Dream |
Optional | No, except if going for "Yharnam Sunrise" ending |
Drops | Old Hunter Badge |
Weaknesses | Arcane, Bolt and Fire |

Martyr Logarius |
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Location | Forsaken Cainhurst Castle |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Crown of Illusions |
Weaknesses | Use The Old Hunter Bone to quicken parry |

Mergo's Wet Nurse |
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Location | Nightmare of Mensis |
Optional | No |
Drops | Third Umbilical Cord |
Weaknesses | Arcane, Fire, Bolt and Rapid Poison |

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare |
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Location | Mergo's Loft Middle |
Optional | No |
Drops | Mensis Cage |
Weaknesses | None |

Moon Presence |
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Location | Hunter's Dream |
Optional | Yes, except if going for "Childhood's Beginning" ending |
Drops | Blood Echoes (230000) |
Weakness | Arcane, Fire and Bolt |

Rom, the Vacuous Spider |
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Location | Moonside Lake |
Optional | No |
Drops | Kin Coldblood(12) x1 |
Weaknesses | Bolt, Fire, Arcane |

Shadow of Yharnam |
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Location | Forbidden Woods |
Optional | No |
Drops | Blood Rapture |
Weaknesses | Arcane and Bolt |

Witch of Hemwick |
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Location | Hemwick Charnel Lane |
Optional | Yes |
Drops | Bloodshot Eyeball x4 |
Weaknesses | None |
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Who do you think would taste better, Moon Presence or Ebrietas?
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in my opinion gehrman is aharder boss than lady maria.
i had a much harder time with gehrman, but this is just my opinion...
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Bosses Section not working. Enemies, Chalice Dungeon Bosses and DLC tabs work but nothing comes up when clicking on Bosses. :(
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my bloodborne character got corrupted so i’m just staring at this till i have the balls to actually restart
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The location for Vicar Amelia isn't the chathedral ward, it is the grand cathedral
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I wish I didn't bash my head so much with the Blood Starved Beast
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Honestly. I think it's better having 22 or so bosses out of which all are pretty memorable, even if not every single one is amazing, rather that a hundred, out of which 11 are unique and rest are reused/buffed up mobs. Yeah. I'm pretty burned with Elden Ring and after beating it I have an urge to beat bloodborne yet again
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Is it actually lore accurate that Father Gascoigne was beating his wife when he came back home
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i called among us at 3am anf an imposter came into my house
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Hi, I need help with a boss. I tried to search for it but for some reason there Is no information about it. This boss it's actually 3 bosses, 3 giants, they can cast meteors, the place it's full o flowers and there is like a great rock in the middle, so, can you guys tell me about this one? Or anyone else have ever heard about them?
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The bosses in this game are so good, and have the best balance between more unique bosses and bosses that require more skill
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A priest played Ludwig theme on a huge church organ and scared the whole town! Google 'bloodborne ost ludwig church organ'
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Is there a reason the quick checklist is riddled with typos?
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Bunch of comments here talking about how there isn’t the complete boss list, yet there’s a section for other types of bosses on this exact page.
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I could have sworn father gascoigne was week to fire too or maybe that's just because it's early game
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You left out a lot of bosses and completely messed up drop loot seriously I bet you haven’t played Bloodborne wannabe
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You forgot half of the bosses... Amygdala, wet nurse, rom, celestial emissary, ebritus, moon presence. This is sad. And darkbeast doesn't drop lower loran chalice goddamn
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The only thing that felt weird about the Hunter bosses is their height. If you happen to notice how much they tower over the player character it feels really off but in Dark Souls 1 this was actually explained by the lore. Berenike knights, black and silver knights you name it they’re all a different species to our human/undead characters and it worked well but in Bloodborne I think they had to do it to make it feel like less of an npc fight and more boss like but damn is it weird when you’re fighting Maria and suddenly notice how tall she is compared to you!
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damn the treaded cane and fire paper helped out SO much for this fight also lock on doesnt matter did this fight locked on the whole on my second attempt
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I just concluded my first ever character journey in Bloodborne until NG+6. My build was a vitality/str build with a little of Skill, BL100. I also did Sekiro NG+7 with 14 attack power, and Dark Souls 3 at SL100. The most difficult bosses of these 3 games were in my opinion Orphan of Kos, then Laurence, then Gehrman. 5 days to beat them in NG+6! While it took me 2 days for Isshin the sword Saint NG+7. Or 3 hours for Father the Owl... Dark Souls 3 is the easiest for me. Even if Gael NG+7 can be really tough, but very sensitive to poison or distant weapons, or Prince demons very annoying with their HP.
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The Blood-Starved Beast bears an uncanny resemblance to a blown-out, roast beef vulva.
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everyone complaining about the lack of bosses hasn't seen the list of great ones
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This page is waaaaaayyy to incomplete and out of order for me to take seriously.
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It would be nice if the bosses were re-arranged in the order the player is likely to encounter them in during a normal first time playthrough.
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technically, any boss that doesn't progress the MAIN story is an optional boss
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I you look above the bosses are listed per category (Enemies, Bosses, Great ones, etc.) So if you're looking for Amygdala and such, they're in the Great Ones category ^^
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HOW CAN I BEAT THE VERY ONE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CENTRAL YARNHAM WITH THE BIG AXE THAT HE YIELDS TO KILL YOU AS I'VE BEEN TRYING BUT NO SUCCESS? WOULD FIRE KILL HIM?
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After killing shadow of yharnam I didn't get blood rapture why?
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So I've needed to use the beckoning bell for almost every boss except the cleric beast, am I just a bad player? Or does it mean something else, cause I've been doing it a lot and I'm starting to think I'm just bad... am I?
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Out of curiosity, but will the wiki ever host some info on the two cut bosses you can access with the chalice glyphs?
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I want to die because i dont know what to do after VICAR AMELIA
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can any 1 give directions to the blood starved beast from old yarnahm gate ( the gate with the note saying hunters not wanted )
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To defeat the boss that looks like it has a brain for a butt you have to hit the butt that increaseingly lowers its health.your welcome.
And there is a trick with the weapons hold R1,R2,L1,and L2 then when the weapon glows let go and it will swing around.Your welcome again.
For everyone who's confused as to where the rest of the bosses are, they're listed under Great Ones, Chalice Dungeon Bosses, and DLC Bosses. You can toggle who you're looking at above the boss list.
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Bosses are missed. What happens with the Moon Presence and the Alien thing up the Great Cathedral?
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I think the game changes certain things (enemy weaknesses, drops, item locations, etc.) based on the order that bosses are fought and insight. That may be why only certain bosses are required to be beaten to open a new area that advances the main game. But perhaps it's not that. It simply appears procedurally determined in some ways.
Took me a minute to figure out what the hell is going on here. Turns out the bosses listed as "Great Ones" are separated from the other bosses, despite there being no functional difference between the two. That's just confusing.
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this is wrong theres a bunch of bossess missing heee including the spider boss and the laser boss
The Boss Checklist is super helpful, but there are a few spelling mistakes and either Cleric Beast or Blood Starved Beast is necessary to progress.
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Tough game totally worth a 2nd playthrough micolash is the only crap boss imo
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Has anyone else seen this happen? I've had it a few times, but I'm not sure why. It doesn't seem to be a bug.
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I'm not the only one who's absolutely terrified of this thing right?.... Right?
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Shouldn't it count as a Great One? It's literally the Moon's Presence. But in an Eldritch, abomination form.
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has two variants. one is normal and the other has a worm coming out of its chest.
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Not sure if it's a bug or not, But I got Rom as a Layer 3 boss, with all his tiny spiders. He was strangely super aggressive at low health, spamming me with magic.
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Has two variants. One has blades on his back and the other has candles.
to all: i made the checklist graphic. if there are changes that need to be made to the optional and mandatory lists plz let me know what they are and i will update it. Also, if anyone has matching images for the last 2 bosses i would love those as well.
Just look at bloodborne's boss names without looking at the picture. You'll imagine some fine-looking gentlemen. Then look at the pictures and ruin your imagination with beasts.
Ironic they are
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