There is one boss that I've never been able to beat that I put a lot of effort into. Hecaton from FFXIII. Seriously the worst. I fought him about 10 times without looking up a guide. Then I watched upwards of 10 or 20 guides, and followed all of them to the letter. There were two very distinct differences between my fight, and every other one that I saw. One: I was over leveled like crazy. There seriously wasn't one video where the player was leveled higher than me. And I was probably 30-50% higher than the average person. Then there was the second difference that I noticed. Every time I fought hecaton, he did an attack that would always drain my health to zero. This is because this one attack was essentially all of his attacks uninterrupted. If he didn't perform this attack, I would have won on my first try. Eventually it got so annoying that I never played the game again. And after watching the ending, I don't regret my choice.