Bosses

By Brendan Graeber , Shawn Saris , SirFatCat

Updated: Jul 1, 2021 1:18am UTC

This page is part of IGN's Bloodborne Wiki guide and will take you through the best tips, tricks, and strategies on how to beat the bosses of Bloodborne. Like Dark Souls, the Bloodborne bosses are terrifying in both stature and in difficulty.

Click on a boss below to learn more about it, where it is located, and how best to defeat it.

Bloodborne Bosses

All Bloodborne Bosses
Boss Name	Location	Drops
Cleric Beast	Central Yharnam - The Great Bridge	Sword Hunter Badge
Father Gascoigne	Central Yharnam - Oedon's Tomb	Oedon Tomb Key
Vicar Amelia	Cathedral Ward - Great Cathedral	Gold Amulet
Blood-Starved Beast	Old Yharnam - Church of the Good Chalice	Pthumerian Chalice
The Witch of Hemwick	Hemick Charnel Lane - Witch's Abode	Rune Workshop Tool
Darkbeast Paarl	Graveyard of the Darkbeast	Spark Hunter Badge
Shadow of Yharnam	Forbidden Woods - Forbidden Graveyard	Blood Rapture Rune
Rom The Vacuous Spider	Byrgenwerth - Moonside Lake	Kin Coldblood
The One Reborn	Yahar'Gul Unseen Village - Yahar'Gul Chapel	Yellow Backbone
Martyr Logarius	Forsaken Cainhurst Castle	Crown of Illusions
Amygdala	The Nightmare Frontier	Ailing Loran Chalice
Celestial Emissary	Upper Cathedral Ward	Communion Rune
Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos	Upper Cathedral Ward	Great Isz Chalice
Micolash, Host of the Nightmare	Mergo's Loft: Middle	Mensis Cage
Mergo's Wet Nurse	Nightmare of Mensis	One Third of Umbilical Cord
Gehrman, the First Hunter	Hunters Dream	Old Hunter Badge
Moon Presence	Hunters Dream	Blood Echoes

Bloodborne The Old Hunters DLC Bosses

All Bosses in the Bloodborne The Old Hunters DLC
Boss Name	Location	Rewards
Ludwig the Accursed/Holy Blade	Hunter's Nightmare	Guidance Caryll Oath Rune
Laurence, the First Vicar	Hunter's Nightmare	Beast's Embrace Caryll Oath Rune
Living Failures	Research Hall	Astral Clocktower Key
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower	Research Hall	Celestial Dial
Orphan of Kos	Lighthouse Hut	Kos Parasite