Who is your hardest and easiest boss from each stage in the series?

[Maiden Synnae ミ☆]

I don't know if there's a similar thread already, but I decided to make a topic to discuss who are the hardest and easiest bosses from each stage serial number in the series. So, let's start the discussion!

Easiest:

Stage 1: Rumia. her danmaku are easy to avoid and she has easy spellcard attacks too.
Stage 2: Mystia Lorelei. She has easier spell cards than normal attacks, actually? reducing the vision field helps diminishing the amount of bullets in screen.
Stage 3: Nitori Kawashiro. Her bullets are kinda slow compared to other stage 3 bosses.
Stage  4: Minamitsu Murasa. Easy spell card attacks, the only problem about her is the survival attack.
Stage 5:  Sanae Kotiya. She is the easiest for sure, no strategy needed.
Stage 6: Kanako Yasaka. She is quite easy in comparasion to the other stage 6 bosses.
Extra:  Nue Houjuu. She is even easier than suwako, many fans agree with this.

Hardest:

Stage 1: Yamame Kurodani. Considering the SA bosses are relatively harder than the others.
Stage 2: Kogasa Tatara. Especially her final spell card, which is pretty troublesome.
Stage 3: Alice Margatroid. She is on par with a stage 4 boss, and it?s difficult to escape the dolls bullets.
Stage 4: Marisa Kirisame. The battle is too prolongated and difficult, too many annoying stars over the screen.
Stage 5: Shou Toramaru. Damn curvy lasers, you need fast reflexes against her.
Stage 6: Remilia Scarlet. Every stage 6 boss is hard, but remilia stay prominent with her danmaku, imo.
Extra: Koishi Komeiji.

Easiest (PC-98):
Stage 1: Sara. LOL, I mean? most of her bullets are not even directed at you.
Stage 2: Kurumi. She never caused me much trouble.
Stage 3: Elly. Especially the first part which she spams easy to dodge tiles.
Stage 4: Yuki & Mai. Regardless of who you beat first.
Stage 5: Yuka. Differently from her awakened state, she is much less difficult on stage 5.
Stage 6: Shinki.
Extra: loli alice. The battle is prolonged and tiresome, but she offers less problems than the others PC-98 extra bosses.

Hardest (PC-98):
Stage 1: Rika. Yet, still pretty easy.
Stage 2: Luize. Lack of options.
Stage 3: The 5 Magical Stones. Mostly Because the boss battle is poorly programmed
Stage 4: Reimu Hakurei. Not as hard as her IN counterpart, but still quite tough.
Stage 5: Yumeko. Definitively one of the toughest stage 5 bosses, with fast paced blades and no patterns.
Stage 6: Mima.
Extra: Gengetsu. Probably one of the hardest bosses in the series.

[KomeijiKoishi]

Let's see...

Easiest:

Stage 1: Rumia.
Stage 2: Cirno.
Stage 3: China Hong Meiling.
Stage 4: Patchouli.
Stage 5: Shou. But only because I already fought her so many times.
Stage 6: Byakuren.
Extra: Nue.

Hardest:

Stage 1: Nazrin.
Stage 2: Parsee.
Stage 3: Ichirin/Unzan. F***ung brofists.
Stage 4: Aya. OH MY GOD, Aya.
Stage 5: Orin. Just... Orin.
Stage 6: Utusho. There isn't ONE spell card I mastered so far. And I don't wanna start about some of her noncards...
Extra: Koishi Komeiji.

[theshirn]

Windows first.

Easiest:
S1: Letty.  Demarcation can still kill me; Table Turning can't.  Also Wriggle.
S2: Hina or Parsee.  I can perfect both (though I usually don't because of DERP).
S3: Nitori.  If I ever bothered to work out Spin the Cephalic Plate, she'd be a perfect.
S4: Prismrivers.  Merlin's goddamn opener aside, they're quite doable.
S5: Sanae.  Pfffft.
S6: Kanako.  Opener and VoWG are the only truly hard parts.
Extra: Suwako.  Not so bad, froggy.  Mokou's reasonably doable also.

Hardest:
S1: Yamame.  Graag.
S2: Kogasa.  You're kidding me, right?
S3: Probably Alice or Meiling.
S4: Aya.  AAAAGGHIDGISJGIOJOSJGJSIDFGJIS
S5: Orin.  Damn cat.
S6: Remilia.  Friggin'.  Scarlet.
Extra: Flansocks takes this one.

[7TC7]

Stage 6: Mima.

Mima is a stage 5 Boss...

Easiest:

Stage 1: Minoriko
Stage 2: Cirno
Stage 3: Ichirin/Unzan
Stage  4: Murasa
Stage 5: Sanae
Stage 6: Remila
Extra: Suwako

Hardest:

Stage 1: Yamame
Stage 2: Parsee
Stage 3: Meiling
Stage 4: Prismrivers
Stage 5: Youmu
Stage 6: Kanako
Extra: Flandre

Easiest (PC-98):
Stage 1: Sara
Stage 2: Kurumi
Stage 3: Alice
Stage 4: Marisa (LLS)
Stage 5: Mima
Stage 6: Yuka
Extra: Alice

Hardest (PC-98):
Stage 1: Orange
Stage 2: Luize
Stage 3: Elly
Stage 4: Marisa (SoEW)
Stage 5: Yumeko
Stage 6: Shinki
Extra: Rika

[Maiden Synnae ミ☆]

@ Black-cat:

Yes, LOL... Spelling error, Sorry... But I refer to Mima as a stage 5 boss, the bullet patterns are so poorly programmed that it pretty much explains everything.

[Polaris]

Easiest:
Stage 1: Rumia
Stage 2: Cirno
Stage 3: Nitori
Stage 4: Patchouli
Stage 5: Sakuya
Stage 6: Yuka
Extra: Ran

Hardest:
Stage 1: D:
Stage 2: Kogasa
Stage 3: Ichirin & Unzan
Stage 4: Aya
Stage 5: Orin
Stage 6: Most likely Okuu or Byakuren, but I've never bothered to keep continuing to try and reach them.

[nintendonut888]

(This probably belongs in Help Me Eirin since it's game-related)

But anyway:

Easiest:

Stage 1: Sara (isn't it sad Sara? ;_;)
Stage 2: Parsee
Stage 3: Alice (Mystic Square)
Stage 4: Prismriver Sisters
Stage 5: Reisen
Stage 6: Mima (shut up she's a final boss)
Extra: Mugetu/Gengetsu (isn't it sad Gengetsu? ;_;)

Hardest:

Stage 1: Yamame
Stage 2: Kogasa
Stage 3: Alice (Perfect Cherry Blossom)
Stage 4: Satori
Stage 5: Syou
Stage 6: Byakuren (in terms of danmaku, not surviving in the first place)
Extra: Evil Eye Sigma

[Drake]

extraordinarily subjective depending on what difficulty you play

[LHCling]

There is no Stage 6 in SoEW guys, so placing Mima there is technically incorrect as stated before a bit. Use "Final Stage" to avert this  :V

Also, if you're going to say Patchouli, Satori, or even the Prismrivers, then you probably should state which one (e.g. ReimuA!Satori is a lot more different than ReimuB!Satori; they all have varying difficulties you know).

Speaking of difficulties, some bosses are harder at certain difficulties than others, and SoEW Lunatic bosses are the same as their Hard counterpart.
Cut by Drake:  V:

I swear we had one of these before. Oh well, lists change over time so:

Easiest
Stage 1: Flower Tank
Stage 2: Parsee
Stage 3: 5 Magic Stones
Stage 4: LLS!Marisa
Stage 5: Sanae
Stage 6: Kanako
Extra: Mugetu and Gengetu

Hardest
Stage 1: Yamame
Stage 2: Kogasa
Stage 3: Yuugi
Stage 4: Aya
Stage 5: Orin
Stage 6: They're all about the same to me. Seriously. Except Kanako  :V
Extra: Evil Eye Sigma Koishi, but that might be due to lack of practice.

[nintendonut888]

My theory: SoEW cuts out the stage 4 boss and the stage portion of stage 5, meaning that it skips straight from stage 4 to the stage 5 boss (Marisa).

And so this has more point, correcting my post here by saying that I meant Lyrica Prismriver and Satori Yukari.

[Nyyl]

Easiest
1: Minoriko. I could beat her with my eyes closed maybe!
2: Probably Cirno and no I don't play easy mode ><
3: Nitori
4: I'm pretty convinced that there's no such thing as an easy stage 4 boss.
5: Reisen
6: Eirin

Hardest
1: Yamame
2: KOGASA AAAAA
3: Yuugi
4: Prismrivers (all three of them are RAGE but Lunasa seems to be the worst for me)
5: Orin
6: Remilia

As for extra, the only one I've managed to unlock is Mokou so I wouldn't know '3'

[COPIRIGHTO]

Easiest
1:Yamame
2:Hina
3:Ichirin
4:Prismrivers
5:Shou
6:Remilia

Hardest
1:Rumia
2:Cirno is truly the strongest
3:Yuugi
4:Murasa
5:Orin
6:Yuyuko

[ebarrett]

easiest
stage 1: Sara
stage 2: Parsee
stage 3: Alice (MS)
stage 4: Marisa (SoEW)
stage 5: Reisen
stage 6: Yuka
extra: Mugetsu/Gengetsu

hardest
stage 1: Yamame
stage 2: Kogasa
stage 3: Ichirin
stage 4: Reimu (LLS)
stage 5: Shou
stage 6: Remilia
extra: Evil Eye Sigma

[Patorikku]

Didn't we have a similar thread a while back?

Easiest
1 - Minoriko, which makes her the second most pathetic god ever, next to her sister.
2 - Cirno, because Icicle Fall is lol.
3 - Keine, Because everyone else has spam bullets and BIG bullets. She's a little calmer.
4 - Marisa, but only by a little bit...
5 - Reisen, because her ability to make people mad is fail.
6 - Kaguya, indeed.
Extra - Mokou, sadly enough.

Hardest
1 - Nazrin, because she's awesome.
2 - Parsee, but Kogasa's a close second.
3 - Yuugi, and HER SAKE NOT EVEN DROP!
4 - Prismriver, simply because.
5 - Shou, because curving lasers are a sin against nature.
6 - Remilia. REMILIA.
Extra - Flandre. I haven't faced much of her, or many other extras, mind you, but I can tell she's tough.

[Tarquinius]

Easiest (Hard difficulty):
Stage 1: Rumia
Stage 2: Parsee
Stage 3: Nitori
Stage 4: Prismrivers (Except for Merlin's opener)
Stage 5: Reisen
Stage 6: Yuyuko
Extra: Ran

Hardest (Again, hard difficulty):
Stage 1: Yamame
Stage 2: Kogasa
Stage 3: Ichirin
Stage 4: ReimuA!Satori
Stage 5: Orin
Stage 6: Byakuren
Extra: Koishi

[Bananamatic]

All lunatic/extra
Easiest:
st1 - Rumia. Barely ever forces me to reset.
st2 - uhh.....Cirno? Mystia has her second nonspell and Chen has Kimontonkou and some other crap.
st3 - Meiling....yeah. Alice can be mean and Keine is bullshit.
st4 - Prismrivers. Too easy, even for Lunatic.
st5 - Sanae. Probably thanks to the ridiculous bomb stock, but after stage 4, Sanae is pretty damn easy.
st6 - Yuyuko. Nothing overly hard or most can be done with 1 bomb.
EX - Nue. Except for Grudge Bow, most of her spellcards are too easy.

Hardest:
st1 - Nazrin. Bullshit all over.
st2 - Kogasa. Wall crap, clippy stuff, pure bullshit all over.
st3 - Ichirin. Goddamnit.
st4 - Murasa. 2 ridiculous spellcards and 1 bullshit nonspell.
st5 - Either Shou or Orin. Shou probably isn't THAT bad, even though her nonspells are pure luck.
st6 - Byakuren. Remi can be hard, but Byakuren has a whole arsenal of dick moves.
EX - Maybe Koishi, but that's probably because of midboss Sanae. I'd say Alice.

[?q]

Easiest:
St. 1 - Sara
St. 2 - Hina
St. 3 - Five Magic Stones, probably.  If not, toss-up between Keine and Yugi
St. 4 - Lyrica
St. 5 - Reisen
St. 6 - Yuka
Extra - Suwako

Hardest:
St. 1 - I'm torn between Yamame and Nazrin.
St. 2 - Kogasa Chen
St. 3 - Ichirin
St. 4 - SoEW Marisa / probably Murasa
St. 5 - Orin
St. 6 - Byakuren
Extra - Evil Eye Sigma or Alice, I suppose.

---

st1 - Nazrin.
st2 - Kogasa.
st3 - Ichirin.
st4 - Murasa.
st5 - Either Shou (etc.)
st6 - Byakuren.

I sense a trend.

[Jaimers]

Easiest
1 - Sara
2 - Luize
3 - Alice (MS)
lol Mystic Square
4 - Marisa (LLS)
5 - Yuka
6 - Kanako
Extra ? Alice

Hardest
1 ? Yamame
2 ? Kogasa
3 ? Alice (PCB)
4 ? Reimu (LLS)
5 ? Shou
6 ? Shinki
Extra ? Umm...  :V

[Ghaleon]

I could have sworn I've seen this topic before.. Oh well.

On normal difficulty (still haven't tried hard UFO, and lunatic MOF+ so..yeah)

Easiest:
Stage 1: Spider lady boss in SA
Stage 2: Cirno (as long as you remember her fast shotgun at the start >=P)
stage 3: uhh. Keine I guess
stage 4: Captain motherfucker muramasa or whatever her name is. I mean, I spellcapped all her cards on my first try without ever seeing her!
stage 5: Reisen (used to be hard for me, but now I know what to do on each of the red eyes crap so it's a breeze)
stage 6: Probably Yuyuko, maybe Utusho. I find Utusho to be harder, but to be fair, I've only played SA 1/4 as much (at most) as the 2nd least played Touhou (not counting UFO), so maybe Utusho if I played it as much.
Ex: Mokou

Hardest:
Stage 1: Letty. They're all really easy really, but sometimes her white snow-laser thingies can really sneak up on you.
Stage 2: Mystia I guess. The whole darkness thing makes her seemingly difficult for a stage 2 boss.
Stage 3: Yuugi. oh god Yuugi.
stage 4: Patchy. I practiced stage 4 EoSD to DEATH, and I still find myself bombing and/or dying to her sometimes, argh! Maybe it's just a rank thing though since I pretty much always get to her without using a bomb or death at that point of the game.
stage 5: Orin, duh.
stage 6: Might be due to no practice, but Baikuren, or whatever her name is. If it's just due to lack of practice, then Kaggy probably.
Ex: Koishi

[AlexX Unlimited]

Please keep in mind I am a normal mode player when reading these.

Easiest:
1-Rumia
2-Mystia
3-Nitori (amusingly I'm the only one among my friends who has no problems against her)
4-Patchouli (cop-out choice, really... All the stage 4 bosses murder me, and Patchy just does it the least somehow (and the Prismrivers are far too clipdeathy for me to vote them))
5-Reisen (though this is likely more because I have played her stage way more than Sanae's, since I love Reisen's fight, stage, and game so much)
6-Yuka (the only final boss that doesn't tear me to ribbons YES THAT INCLUDES KANAKO AND UTSUHO)
Ex-No Extra boss is easy for me. Not even PC-98 ones.

Hardest:
1-Yamame
2-Chen (CHEEEEEEEEN murders me worse than Kogasa could ever hope to do)
3-Ichirin (BROFIST) and Yuugi (for loving to clip me in her nonspells, Storm on Mt. Ooe, and Knockout in Three Steps, sometimes all in a single run)
4-Satori (Alice!Satori results in me having far too little power, forcing timeouts that I don't want, meaning even less power, Patchy!Satori forces me against Philosopher's Stone and Princess Undine, and Nitori!Satori is way harder than the real Nitori ever was)
5-Orin (I can handle Shou better than her and thats REALLY saying something...)
6-All the Windows final bosses, and yes, that includes Utsuho and Kanako. What can you expect from someone incapable of capturing Resurrection Butterfly?
Ex-*headdesk* EVERY *headdesk* SINGLE *headdesk* ONE *headdesk* IN *headdesk* EXISTANCE (NOTE: I've yet to unlock SA and UFO extra but I already know for a fact Nue and Koishi will be tearing me apart just as badly as any other)

EDIT: For the record, I'm not really counting SEW, HRP, or the vs shooters for this.

[skutieos]

easiest:
Stage 1: Rumia
Stage 2: Mystia
Stage 3: After much thought, Nitori
Stage 4: Marisa
Stage 5: Reisen
Stage 6: Eirin

hardest:
Stage 1: Yamame
Stage 2: Parsee
Stage 3: Yuugi
Stage 4: Murasa
Stage 5: Orin
Stage 6: Utsuho

yeah, SA is pretty damn hard.

[yoshicookiezeus]

All on Normal mode, apart from SA and UFO which I have only managed to clear on Easy so far.

Easiest:
Stage 1 - Wriggle
Stage 2 - Mystia
Stage 3 - Keine
Stage 4 - Murasa
Stage 5 - Sanae
Stage 6 - Kaguya

Hardest:
Stage 1 - Yamame
Stage 2 - Kogasa
Stage 3 - Ichirin
Stage 4 - Patchouli
Stage 5 - Shou
Stage 6 - Remilia

No Extra bosses as I have only unlocked Ran and Mokou and have beaten neither of them. Mokou seems to be the more doable of the two, though...

[Sapz]

All on Lunatic.

Easiest:
Stage 1 - Rumia
Stage 2 - Mystia
Stage 3 - PC-98 Alice
Stage 4 - Prismrivers (after some thought... none of them are really that easy)
Stage 5 - Reisen (for being a Stage 2 boss with some extra health bars)
Stage 6 - Kanako
Extra - Flandre (probably because I've played that stage way too much :V)

Hardest:
Stage 1 - Nazrin (I don't care if her final card is memorizable, that sort of density and a timeout phase which will damn near always start should not be a Stage 1 attack)
Stage 2 - Kogasa
Stage 3 - Ichirin
Stage 4 - PC98 Reimu (dear God what is that bullshit)
Stage 5 - Shou
Stage 6 - Kaguya (ate around half of my total lives for my 1cc)
Extra - ...Lately, it's been Mugetu/Gengetu. Seriously. :V

[Fireseal]

For perspective: Normal mode, never played the PC-98's, and I've only played UFO a few times so my only memory of it is that Ichirin is awesome. Also never beaten St. 5 SA. =(

Easiest: (AKA, MoF All-Stars)
1. Rumia
2. Hina
3. Meiling. Nitori is a very close second.
4. Aya.
5. Sanae.
6. Kanako
EX. Not sure. I can most consistently beat Mokou, but I blew through Suwako in the fewest attempts. If anything, Suwako just because she doesn't have Fujiyama Volcano.

Hardest:
1. Yamane. She's almost threatening!
2. Parsee.
3. Keine.
4. Lily White. Wait. Marisa (IN).
5. Orin. Damn SA's continue system. >_<
6. Yuyuko.
EX. Flandre. Basically by default because she's the only one I've gotten to and not beaten.

[Bananamatic]

Suwako just because she doesn't have Fujiyama Volcano.

Suwa War is easy, right?

[ebarrett]

Suwa War is easy, right?

Suwa War is rendered absolutely harmless with one bomb. One free bomb.

[Sodium]

Easiest:
Stage 1: Sara / Rumia (eh, same thing really)
Stage 2: Parsee (IT'S A TRICK BOSS ON STAGE 2!)
Stage 3: MS Alice (streaming-that-isn't-hard)
Stage 4: Prismrivers
Stage 5: Reisen (loltricks)
Stage 6: Utsuho/Kanako
EX: Gengetsu/Gengetu (Mugetsu+Gengetsu would be on par with Flan/Ran/Mokou/Suwako/Koishi/EXAlice)

Hardest:
Stage 1: Yaname (only stage 1 boss I bomb regularly)
Stage 2: Kogasa (Stage 5 cards on stage 2)
Stage 3: Ichirin (lol)
Stage 4: MariA Patchouli
Stage 5: Shou / Rin / Yumeko
Stage 6: Remilia / Byakuren
EX: Yukari (by process of "which one can't I do on a random run", and it's Yukari because I can't be damed to memorize her last card)

No SoEW because it's the game itself that makes stuff harder than it should be.

[Scarlet Moon]

easiest
s1: Rumia
s2: Cirno
s3: Keine
s4: Patchouli
s5: Reisen
s6: Remilia

hardest
s1: Yaname
s2: Parsee
s3: China
s4: Prismrivers
s5: Yomou
s6: Yuyuko

I haven't reached any of the bosses on Extra yet due to not practicing...

[Recon 5]

I don't see a single mention of Yukari. I know it's because she's the only one in all of Touhou for her Phantasm category, but I'd still like to know how she stacks up against the rest.

EDIT: Just saw Yukari a short way up. Sorry.

[Fireseal]

Suwa War is easy, right?

Er...yes? I mean, it's no Wizard Fox Thoughts, but it's not even threatening until maybe 10-12 seconds left. One bomb is the most it takes.