Skyrim Battles - Dukaan vs. Neloth, The Forgemaster, Zahkriisos, and more

Описание: Dukaan is one of the unique masked Dragon Priest on Solstheim. He does very high damage, has a lot of health, and a significant frost resistance. Let's see how he compares to other strong DLC opponents.

I feel like the result of Dukaan vs. Zahkriisos will be surprising to many, so I'll explain the main factors for the outcome.
All Dragon Priests have really bad AI, but Zahkriisos' is even worse than the average Dragon Priest's. His damage output per second is also significantly lower than Dukaan's, and Dukaan can hit several opponents in a row with his spell, while Zahkriisos can only hit one.
One might think that Zahkriisos should beat Dukaan because he's using shock magic, but all Dragon Priests regenerate magicka at an enormous rate, and Dukaan needs very little magicka to cast his spells, so even Zahkriisos' constant shock damage will hardly put Dukaan's magicka to 0.
A notable example for an NPC who can overcome this is Ildari. She can keep Dukaan's magicka fully depleted if she stays focused on him. On the other hand, this does not work against Zahkriisos because of his extreme shock resistance.

In the final round, Dukaan always glitched out after the dragon crashed into the ground (it happened multiple times since it took a long time to get good recordings for this fight). I really liked capturing the crash for a public video though, so I wanted to keep that, and I decided to zoom in on the dragon to put the focus away from Dukaan's twitching.

First song: Aliens by Raspberrymusic
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Second song: Gemini by Infraction
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Third song: Tempest by RhoMusic
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