Ranking All Of Metal Gear Solid's Boss Battles From Worst To Best

41. The Skulls - Armoured #1 (MGS V)

Episode 16 is regarded by a vocal majority of MGS V players as the most frustrating mission in the game, featuring easily the toughest encounter with the Skulls, who now appear in their armoured form to stop you from extracting a transport truck. There are a ton of ways you can approach the mission, though by far the easiest is to have your Fulton leveled up for vehicles, allowing you to simply Fulton the truck and ride D-Horse out of the area, avoiding a fight with the Skulls altogether. If you don't have it leveled up, though, you'll need to do it the hard way, resulting in a head-smackingly difficult fight. Using D-Walker, Quiet or tanks to help whittle away the Skulls' health is advised, but the strength of their attacks (namely sharp, explosive objects they conjure out of the ground for massive damage) makes this one infuriatingly tough at times. On the plus side, the feeling of relief when it's done is quite unlike anything else in a game this year, and once you've got this in the bag, the rest of the game seems like a piece of cake.