Sword Art Online Wiki
Register
(Jpg images breach our image guidelines. Undo revision 156775 by Hasuki507 (talk))
Line 65: Line 65:
 
| align="center"|5
 
| align="center"|5
 
| align="center"|Defeated on December 31, 2022
 
| align="center"|Defeated on December 31, 2022
  +
| align="center"|
  +
|-
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|Pierce the Manticore
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|6
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|
  +
|-
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|Thor the Annoying Troll
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|7
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|
  +
|-
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|Envy the Witch
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|8
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|
  +
|-
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|Demonic the Fallen Elven
  +
| align="center"|
  +
| align="center"|9
  +
| align="center"|
 
| align="center"|
 
| align="center"|
 
|-
 
|-

Revision as of 17:02, 29 October 2018

Warning Spoiler Alert: This article or section contains details about plotlines not covered in the anime. Do not proceed unless you wish to be spoiled.

A Boss, in video game terminology, is a unique computer-controlled monster or character that is much more powerful than an average monster or non-player character encountered in the game until that point and usually serves as a challenge to the player at the end of particular section of a game, usually a level or stage, or guarding a specific objective.

In the Sword Art Online Universe

Throughout the Sword Art Online series, there are several types of bosses that can be encountered: Floor Bosses, Mid-Bosses, Field Bosses, Flag Mobs and Dungeon Bosses. Most, but not all, bosses within the series, especially Floor Bosses, have "the" in their name to signify their uniqueness as bosses.

Floor Boss

A Floor Boss (フロアボス, Furoa Bosu?), alternatively called a Labyrinth boss, is a type of boss that can only be encountered in a large room, called a boss room, on the 20th floor of a Labyrinth in the castle of Aincrad. A Floor Boss's main purpose is to guard the entrance to the next floor, requiring players to defeat it to advance towards the 100th Floor. Each Floor Boss is a powerful creature, with several Hit Point (HP) bars, and usually has special attack patterns that are activated once the monster’s HP falls below a certain level. Some Floor Bosses also have minions that are constantly summoned throughout the battle to aid it in dealing with the players, though some bosses do not have minions at all.

74th Floor Boss Room

The 74th Floor's Boss Room that doubles as an Anti-Crystal Area.

The difficulty of each Floor Boss varies from floor to floor, with some causing little to no trouble, like the boss of the 22nd Floor, while others are extremely dangerous. The bosses on Aincrad's quarter floors are especially powerful and have led to numerous deaths in Sword Art Online. Normally, players may retreat from boss rooms by either using Teleport Crystals or retreating via the door if they can reach it in one piece, as bosses never leave the rooms they reside in, however, the boss rooms of the 74th and 75th Floors are designated as Anti-Crystal Areas, and it can be presumed that the remaining floors also host such effect, while the boss rooms starting with the 75th Floor automatically seal the players in a few minutes after they enter the room, completely preventing the chance of retreat during the battle.

Floor Bosses are also present in New Aincrad in New ALfheim Online. However, all of the Floor Bosses of the original Aincrad were replaced with brand new bosses[1] that, due to ALfheim Online not being a death game, are usually much more powerful than their counterparts in the original Aincrad. Like in the original Aincrad, there are exceedingly strong monsters every set number of floors; however, in New Aincrad, such a boss appears on every tenth floor instead of every twenty fifth.[2] Floor Bosses within New Aincrad also have their HP bars hidden from the players to make the battles even more difficult by making it harder to judge how much HP the boss has remaining. All boss rooms automatically seal the players in within a minute after they enter the room, with players even having the option to seal the boss rooms earlier by pressing a stone button on the wall next to the door.

Additionally, a new feature called the Monument of Swordsmen replaced the Monument of Life in New Aincrad. This new monument records the names of the players that participate in defeating a Floor Boss. However, as the monument is a 3D object within the world and hold a limited number of names in total, while it has to suffice for 100 floors, thus only the names of the party leaders that partake in the raid against the Floor Boss are added to the monument. Though, if a party of seven members or less manages to defeat the boss without any reinforcements, all the names of the members in that party are recorded on the monument.

Most Floor Bosses are best dealt with when the raiding party has as many players participating as possible, though there is an upper limit of up to forty-eight players in a single raiding party in Sword Art Online[† 1] and up to forty-nine players in New Aincrad in ALfheim Online[† 2].[3]

Known Floor Bosses

Image Name Japanese Floor Outcomes Ref
Original Aincrad Bosses
Illfang Illfang the Kobold Lord イルファング・ザ・コボルド・ロード 1 Defeated on December 4, 2022

Casualties: Diavel
Drops: Coat of Midnight

Progressive Vol 1 - 455 Asterius the Taurus King アステリオス・ザ・トーラスキング 2 Defeated on December 14, 2022
Nerius the Evil Treant ネリウス・ジ・イビルトレント 3 Defeated on December 21, 2022
Wythege the Hippocampus ウィスゲー・ザ・ヒッポカンプ 4 Defeated on December 27, 2022
Fuscus the Vacant Colossus Fuscus the Vacant Colossus フスクス・ザ・ヴェイカントコロッサス 5 Defeated on December 31, 2022
Pierce the Manticore 6
Thor the Annoying Troll 7
Envy the Witch 8
Demonic the Fallen Elven 9
Kagachi the Samurai Lord Kagachi the Samurai Lord カガチ・ザ・サムライロード 10 [4]
The Storm Griffin The Storm Griffin ザ・ストームグリフィン 11 [4]
The Strict Hermit ザ・ストリクトハーミット 12 [4]
The Dire Tusk The Dire Tusk ザ・ダイアータスク 18 [4]
Two-headed giant N/A 25
Metallic elemental N/A 27
Waheela the Black Wolf ワヒーラ・ザ・ブラックウルフ 28 [4]
Bracken the Prison Warden ブラッケン・ザ・プリズンワーデン 40 Defeated on October 18, 2023 [5]
Six-armed metallic Buddha statue N/A 50 Drops: Elucidator[6]
Armoured stone warrior N/A 60
The Gleam Eyes The Gleam Eyes ザ・グリーム・アイズ 74 Defeated on October 18, 2024

Casualties: Kobatz, 2 other ALF members.

Skull Reaper's full appearance The Skull Reaper ザ・スカル・リーパー 75 Defeated on November 7, 2024

Casualties: 10 (scouts)[7] + 14 (boss battle)

[8][9]
Dorz'l the Chaos Drake ドルゼル・ザ・カオスドレイク 91 N/A [4]
Heathcliff Heathcliff 100 N/A
Superseded Aincrad Bosses
Baran the General Taurus Baran the General Taurus バラン・ザ・ジェネラルトーラス 2 Defeated on December 14, 2022

Drops: Gold bull-patterned boxers

An Incarnation of the Radius An Incarnation of the Radius アン・インカーネイト・オブ・ザ・ラディウス 100 N/A
New Aincrad Bosses
Wadjet the Flaming Serpent ワジェト・ザ・フレイミング・サーペント 8
The Four-Armed Giant (anime) The Four-Armed Giant N/A 27 Defeated on January 8, 2026
Sleeping Knights and Kirito's group defeating 28th floor boss Large crustacean N/A 28

Mid-Boss

In Sword Art Online, a Mid-Boss (中ボス, Chū Bosu?) is a boss-class monster that impedes travel between the floors of a Labyrinth Tower[10] or a boss-class monster that supports the Floor Boss.[11] Unlike regular Floor Boss minions, Mid-Bosses grant a Last Attack Bonus on defeat.[11]

Known Mid-Bosses

Image Name Japanese Location Outcomes Ref
Nato the Colonel Taurus Nato the Colonel Taurus ナト・ザ・カーネルトーラス In the 2nd Floor boss room. Defeated on December 14, 2022
Baran the General Taurus Baran the General Taurus バラン・ザ・ジェネラルトーラス In the 2nd Floor boss room. Defeated on December 14, 2022

Drops: Gold bull-pattern boxers

Ruthless Warder Chief ルースレス・ワーダーチーフ The stairway between the 23rd and 24th floors of the Labyrinth on the 40th Floor of Aincrad. Defeated on October 15, 2023 [10]

Field Boss

A Field Boss (フィールドボス, Fīrudo Bosu?) is a named monster strategically placed at the entrance to a Labyrinth on most floors in Aincrad. The main function of this Boss is to prevent access to the Labyrinth of the floor until the monster is defeated. A Field Boss's den is usually surrounded by cliffs or ranging streams on both sides, arranged in such a way that there would be no way to access the Labyrinth until the Boss is defeated. Like Floor Bosses, each Field Boss can only be defeated once, however, they are much easier to defeat and can be defeated by a single party, if all members are sufficiently leveled and have enough experience in battle.

Not all floors have a field boss. For example the 1st Floor and the 22nd Floor did not have any.

Known Field Bosses

Image Name Japanese Floor Outcomes Ref
Bullbous Bow Bullbous Bow ブルバス・バウ 2 Defeated on December 9, 2022

Drops: Chakram[† 3]

Biceps Archelon Biceps Archelon バイセプス・アーケロン 4 Defeated on December 24, 2022
Zehghi the Flame Caller Zehghi the Flame Caller ゼーギ・ザ・フレイムコーラー 11 [4]
Geocrawler1 Geocrawler ジオクロウラー 56 Defeated on March 7, 2024

Flag Mob

A Flag Mob (フラグ Mob, Furagu Mob?) is a monster set up for the completion of a quest or event. These type of monsters can spawn between every few hours to every few days, while some Flag Mobs only spawn once a year or do not re-spawn at all. Some rare Flag Mobs that are as powerful as a Boss monster usually also drop rare and valuable items upon being killed, while other Flag Monsters are barely more difficult than a regular monster. Some Flag Mobs are part of quests that have sub-routes, thus a certain event may be triggered during the quest that would help defeat the boss, for example, taking a certain sub-route may lead to a temporary NPC partner for the quest.

Known Flag Mobs

Image Name Japanese Location Notes Drops Ref
Sword Art Online
Nephila Regina Nephila Regina ネフィラレジーナ In the Queen Spider Nest on the 3rd Floor. A dungeon boss that needs to be killed for the «Vanquishing the Spiders» quest.
Fallen Elf Commander フォールン・エルフ・コマンダー 3rd Floor The boss that needs to be defeated for the «Retrieving the Key» quest.
The King of Lakes The King of Lakes 湖のヌシ Lake on the 22nd Floor A fishing event boss that drops a rare fishing rod. Rare fishing rod
The Witch of the West 西の魔女 Quest area on the 22nd Floor A boss that is required to be killed for the «Witch of the West and the Three Treasures» quest.
Sword Art Online 03 Nicholas The Renegade 背教者ニコラス Forest of Wandering Christmas event boss that drops a revival item called Divine Stone of Returning Soul. Divine Stone of Returning Soul
ALfheim Online
Kraken the Abyss Lord Kraken the Abyss Lord クラーケン・ジ・アビスロード Undersea Temple The NPC that gives players the «Deep Sea Plunderers» quest to steal the Prince's Egg from the Undersea Temple and becomes a boss if the players refuse to turn in the egg.
Thrym Thrym スリュム Thrymheim The boss required to be killed for the completion of «The Holy Sword of the Ice Palace» quest.

Dungeon Bosses

A Dungeon Boss is a stronger than average and, usually, named monster that appears in dungeons (field dungeon/sub-dungeon) to either impede player progress towards clearing the dungeon, for example, by guarding the stairs to the next floor of the dungeon, or for guarding the treasure at the end of the dungeon. Some Dungeon Bosses also double as Flag Mobs for certain quests, like in Thrym's case, while some were meant to ensure that players could never access special areas of a dungeon.

Known Dungeon Bosses

Image Name Japanese Location Outcomes Ref
Sword Art Online
Nephila Regina Nephila Regina ネフィラレジーナ In the Queen Spider's Nest on the 3rd Floor
Feral Warder Chief フィーラル・ワーダーチーフ A dungeon on the 40th Floor. Casualties: Yuna [5]
White dragon X'rphan the White Wyrm 白竜ゼーファン West Mountain
The Fatal Scythe The Fatal Scythe ザ・フェイタルサイズ Hidden Dungeon
ALfheim Online
Cyclops N/A Thrymheim's 1st floor [12]
Black Minotaurus Black Minotaurus ? Thrymheim's 2nd floor.
Golden Minotaurus Golden Minotaurus ? Thrymheim's 2nd floor.
Thrymheim 3rd floor boss Centipede-like giant N/A Thrymheim's 3rd floor
Thrym Thrym スリュム Thrymheim final floor

Notes

  1. Up to eight parties with a maximum of six players each
  2. Up to seven parties with a maximum of seven players each
  3. Only in the manga.

References