Top 10 Hardest Kirby Bosses

You thought Kirby was all sunshine, Warp Stars, and casually inhaling enemies like they're party snacks. And then the boss fight started. Suddenly, the screen fills with lasers, unblinking eyes, and music that sounds like it escaped from a digital nightmare. Cute? Sure. Deadly? Absolutely.

This is where you come in. Scroll through the lineup of the most brutal, infuriating, soul-squeezing bosses ever to throw down in a Kirby game. These aren't the puffball's usual punching bags. These are the ones that make your palms sweat, your lives vanish, and your controller start to look like a chew toy.

Vote for the ones that made you rethink everything you thought you knew about difficulty in a Kirby game.

The Top Ten

Marx Soul - Kirby Super Star Ultra

My goodness, this boss is a pain. Galacta Knight, though tough, is at least predictable. He has clear, consistent patterns that, through practice, can be learned and perfected. Marx Soul, on the other hand, is purely random. He's unpredictable and an incredibly hard hitter, making him both frustratingly difficult and very rewarding.
Galacta weeds out the boys from the men, and Marx Soul weeds out the slightly more manly from the others.

You aren't guaranteed to even start the battle at full health. All his attacks go through guard. He comes right after another hard boss, and you don't have much choice of abilities.
His drops are incredibly risky to get hits with, and losing is Game Over. Sounds about right.
Magolor Soul - Kirby's Return to Dream Land

It's bad enough when a friend betrays you, but it's even worse to see that friend turn into an eldritch abomination. He has an eyeball in his mouth, for crying out loud. His attacks are nearly impossible to avoid, and who would've guessed that an object like, oh, I don't know, a crown would be not only sentient but also evil?
Oh, and by the way, the Master Crown is wearing Magolor by this point and controlling his every action. In other words, NIGHTMARE FUEL.

This boss wouldn't be too hard if it wasn't for the fact that it has so many phases, even more if including Landia and the shooting segment.
Despite this, I like the boss. It adds a much-needed edge to the story and boosts the challenge factor, as well as the satisfaction you get from beating it.
Galacta Knight - Kirby Super Star Ultra

People think Marx Soul is the hardest because he's the one with attacks you didn't predict yet in the final battle.
But when you compare Marx and Galacta Knight, Galacta Knight deserves 1st position as the hardest. This guy is just fast. You can't even get too close to him, and most of his attacks hurt you even when you're blocking them.
He's not much of a problem with Meta Knight (because you could heal probably at any time you wanted during Meta Knight's battle with Galacta Knight), but when it comes to the battle with Kirby, once you lose your ability, there's a 99% chance of not succeeding at all.

Whoever thinks Marx Soul is harder than Galacta was really lucky on the Galacta fight. However, others weren't. This guy can kill you in just about five hits with his light attacks. Everything he has is hard to dodge. If you get too close, he'll unleash an inescapable combo that will take about half of your life away.
You never know what's coming next. Your only hope is either Yo-Yo for the invincibility or Plasma for the charge shot. Even then, you'll have a hard time if he uses his good attacks, which are almost all of them.
Zero - Kirby's Dream Land 3

What a crazy battle. You start by destroying a Dark Matter like the one from the previous sequel. Then it explodes to reveal this... thing. You gotta dodge the thing's blood that floats in blobs (because you might be in space or the atmosphere), and 0 rams into you because it can.
I died to this so many times in the past. It sends Dark Matters as projectiles, and it heads to the background to shoot more blood like homing missiles from a rocket launcher. This is all happening quickly, but when you "beat" it, it uses the "last resort," which is bursting its eye from its body to try and finish you off. WHAT THE? 0 was one of those battles that proved your enemy is smart and won't go down without a fight!
Star Dream Soul OS - Kirby: Planet Robobot

Very hard. Not only do you have the original three phases, but a fourth and final phase, which is similar to the Nova battle in Kirby Super Star, but as a 3D back-and-forth action. He will try to crush you, and when you finally defeat him, you have to dodge three laser sequences where even one hit will kill you.
It took me five hours to beat him. I had to use Stone Kirby for invincibility in order to win. To me, it is the hardest Kirby battle of all time, and it so happens to be in the hardest True Arena of all time.

This boss is most definitely the hardest boss to date. In this game, you do not have a choice of ability to use for the first three phases of the fight, forcing you to use unnatural controls and weak attacks. The fourth and final part, however, is quite easy, except for the end.
I thought I had won and then got Screen KO'd. This had ruined my run so many times that I decided to completely give up on a better time than 30 minutes.
Zero Two - Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

I am obsessed with the Dark Matters, but I am glued to the awesomeness of Zero Two's battle and the most epic boss theme ever! In my opinion, he should have been rated number one along with Zero. Plus, I think Zero Two has an awesome design. I am in love with Zero Two for some reason, but is he not epic? How could you hate that face of his?

Honestly, I didn't really find him too hard. Heck, Miracle Matter was harder for me. Regardless, still a good boss nonetheless.

Blood galore, his butt is a cactus, he's an evil angel with a false face, and you have at most five hits left to beat him. Good luck.
Kracko - Kirby's Adventure

SO. MUCH. PAIN! I haven't even really gotten to fight him yet because I'm still stuck on the stupid high jump section. I hate that they did that.

For the love of all things holy, why did HAL Labs think making a boss based on high jump was a good idea?

At first, I had NO idea how this boss worked. But nowadays, yeah, this one's obvious.
Dark Mind - Kirby & The Amazing Mirror

I beat Marx Soul, Galacta Knight, and Zero all on the first try. This guy took me an uncountable number of tries, even though there were four of me.

He has a lot of phases, and in the middle of those phases you go into a mini-dungeon. He's like a True Arena, but he's only one boss.

The number of phases is really annoying, and it takes a huge amount of time to beat Dark Mind. The Master Sword deals very small damage to him.
Soul of Sectonia - Kirby: Triple Deluxe

She's similar to Marx Soul. She loses the surprise factor since Marx was the first boss to come back as an undead boss at the end of True Arenas. In fact, Soul of Sectonia is basically the same thing as Marx Soul, just relatively easier. The only difficult part about Sectonia herself is phase 2 when she starts using four buds earlier.

She combines the attacks of some of the hardest bosses in Kirby games. She uses attacks originating from Marx Soul, Drawcia Soul, and Magolor Soul as the ultimate Soul Boss in the Kirby series.
Meta Knight - Kirby: Squeak Squad

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The Star Allies version of this boss is a bit hard. The first phase is pretty easy, but once he gets to phase two, it gets a bit difficult. First of all, you have to deal with multiple copies of this boss (depending on how many allies you have when he gets to this phase).
Then there are the rocks. You have to be fast on this part so you can get more damage on him. I failed on my first try because I almost instantly lost the sword and had to get water from Driblee. The second time, I used Ninja and beat him.

I have beaten all bosses in Kirby games I have played without losing health, except for Meta Knight. This guy is completely unpredictable.

The Newcomers

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Morpho Knight - Kirby and the Forgotten Land

I'll admit, this version of Morpho Knight actually took me a few tries to beat. If I have time, I might go back and attempt him again because I think that would be fun.
I still really loved this little side part of Forgotten Land.
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The Three Mage-Sisters - Kirby Star Allies

They're really hard on your first try. In the first half, you only have to deal with two of them, but then all three come out, and it just becomes extreme pain, especially when they use all of their special attacks at once.

The Contenders

HR-D3 - Kirby's Return to Dream Land

You're standing at the end of the final phase against Metal General, or so you thought. Suddenly, this creature bursts out of the background and assaults you, starting a third phase. The worst part is that you can only hit his hand and his drill, which only come out when he's attacking. The worst attacks for the third phase are the rocket storm and the hand spin. The best attacks are probably the eye laser and when he tries to smash you with his hands. Once you kill him, he jumps and starts a fourth phase, using giant lasers and bouncing attacks. Suddenly, the hand smash is a lot more difficult. It took me lots of tries to beat him.
Void Soul - Kirby Star Allies

I didn't see Astral Birth Void (final boss of Soul Melter EX) on this list, but this is definitely a difficult boss. The best way to beat it is to take as little damage as possible in the first three phases and have Chef Kawasaki on your team so he can make healing items mid-battle.
I personally like to use Magolor for this boss since he can disappear and reappear to avoid the many difficult attacks. Magolor can also place a black hole on the screen and deal gradual damage to Void while staying invisible.
Lastly, I found the Parallel Three Mage Sisters extremely difficult to beat in the Heroes in Another Dimension game mode since player one has to be Kirby.
Chaos Elfilis - Kirby and the Forgotten Land

This is the only Kirby game I've beaten (mainly because I didn't properly play the others), and I found it very hard. I didn't know you could bring extra health juice when you already had extra health, so I only had a Maxim Tomato. I played co-op on Wild Mode.
Anyway, the first part just wastes your health, but the real challenge is the second part when it becomes an orb. The attacks are quite difficult to dodge. Even though I had the Morpho Knight Sword, we couldn't beat it. So, we gave up and came back a couple of days later after I upgraded my Morpho Knight Sword, and we just barely won - I had a sliver of health left.

This boss is kinda easy, but it is a bit of a surprise at first because it has two health bars. The first health bar is hard to do charged attacks because it's always in the air, and the only time it's on the ground, it's always attacking. The second health bar is much like Void.
Nightmare - Kirby's Adventure

I only consider the first phase hard, and NOT the GBA version, but the NES version. He has so much health that you are put under a time limit to beat him!

This guy is insane! It took me forever to kill this son of a gun! You can only hit him when he is attacking. He has a ton of HP, and he's a lot of fun to battle.

The first form is easy as hell, but when it comes to that hard second form...
Miracle Matter - Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

Miracle Matter is by far one of the hardest boss battles in the entire Kirby series. He has different abilities, one for each of Kirby's copy abilities in the game (Electric, Ice, Rock, Fire, Bomb, Needle, and Cutter). The only way you can damage him is with the copy ability that he is using (which you have a VERY limited time to do).
Not only that, but he takes very little damage when you attack him! There is a HUGE spike in difficulty when you get to this point in the game.

I hate this guy with a burning passion. I want to strangle this thing so badly!
Meta Knight - Kirby's Epic Yarn

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He is so hard! This was the one level that I got a bronze star on because of all the beads I lost to his purple and red swords. The fight starts out pretty easily though, but it really is a pain to try this fight in two-player mode.

If we actually had a health meter in this game, then we'd all be dead.

Once you get used to the game and the controls, all of the bosses become pretty easy. I was working up to 100%, but then I had to restart when I got my Wii U.
Void - Kirby Star Allies

Sooo hard! It starts out by shooting a bunch of stuff at you and doing like 50 lasers. Then, it splits into four and does the needle attack while you are trying to fly in the air. After, it bounces around and tries to crush you with water, which is so hard to move in. That is only half of it.

I fought with the three Mage Sisters, and it was hard. Anyone who beats this deserves a medal.
Dark Matter - Kirby's Dream Land 2

This boss will kill you if you can't react fast enough. The first form charges at you sword-first, generates dark energy to destroy you, and shoots laser beams from its sword. He can be quite difficult until you learn his pattern.
But like other final bosses, he has two forms to defeat. Phase two is much harder. He can shoot lasers from his eye in a semi-bullet-hell style, ram into you at fast speeds, and shoot lightning bolts from his eye. Did I mention that this fight has a maximum time limit of 2 minutes and 5 seconds? If you get a game over, you have to fight King Dedede again, as if he wasn't hard enough.

Blobs are very strong. Blobs that can possess and be a swordsman with more blobs at his back are much stronger.
After you die, you need to defeat Dedede all over again. A utter pain in the neck.
Galacta Knight - Kirby's Return to Dream Land

I have tried battling him numerous times in True Arena. However, even with my sisters, I rarely win, and simply because of luck. He is powerful, especially with his tornado. How do you dodge without a dash attack?

Confused by Super Star Ultra being #2. You literally don't stop ducking and you avoid most of SSU's attacks. This one, however...
Part of it is because I thought I could just duck and avoid stuff. Boy, was that a mistake. The only reason I beat him was that I cheated with Spark.

I can't believe how Super Star Ultra version got number two, and this one, which is even harder, got 13. He has a lot more powerful moves than the other one, so I think this one should win.
Masked Dedede - Kirby Super Star Ultra

A really awesome fight and really hard as well! He has a spin attack, shock waves, flamethrowers, missiles, and you're fighting in an electric cage!

Dedede isn't messing around this time! He's made sure all of his weaknesses were taken care of to have a better chance of beating Kirby!

He can create shockwaves, "give" you flames or rockets, and do a crazy spin that causes bad damage with his hammer. Also, you are fighting in an electric cage.
Necrodeus - Kirby: Mass Attack
Whispy Woods - Kirby's Dream Land

I haven't beaten Triple Deluxe's True Arena, but I imagine he's at the end. It would only make sense to put him there as a secret boss.

I cannot beat him without a copy ability. That running part came unexpectedly.

Oh man! This is the second hardest boss after Waddle Dee!
Morpho Knight - Kirby Star Allies

I managed to beat this guy, but the fact he turns your friends against you is the only hard part. I feel he's harder in The Forgotten Land.

Morpho Knight is easy, but EX is downright impossible. I barely scraped by when I cheated using Magolor, Marx, and the Mage Sisters.

He's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. But for the first time, it's very hard.
Computer Virus - Kirby Super Star

I lost the Arena because of this.

I didn't think this would be hard, but when I did it, I died on the dragon a lot.
Marx - Kirby Super Star