'Got so fed up with dragons': 20+ Elden Ring Enemies That Nobody Actually Fights

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Feb 14, 2025 7:00 PM EST

In honor of Elden Ring's 2-year anniversary, I invite you, fellow gamers to recall your highest and lowest moments playing the game. Undoubtedly, most of us experienced our fair share of both, but while the greatest accomplishments in-game became tarnished by some of our most humiliating losses, memories were forged in the fire at the base of the Erd Tree.

Lo and behold, none of us could survive the game fully without taking a few L's at the hands of some creatively designed enemies. In fact, Elden Ring prides itself on the variety of enemies, bosses, and nemeses that any given player can encounter in this epic open-world game. But who are the enemies that you always steered clear of? Which NPCs were never worth the time of such a distinguished mage, samurai, or vagabond? Lest we forget, we're here to have fun, so there are quite a few enemies that many players found decidedly UNfun.

Read on for a gamer's almanac of some of the worst, most irritating enemies to fight in Elden Ring.

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These guys are objectively the worst. While they're predictable and kind of clunky, when they open up their stomachs and pull you inside with their evil little tenticle things, there's something in me that gets the heebie jeebies. I won't be fighting any more of these spooky, spinning weed-wackers ever again!
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