Wonder what this would look like if people were voting based on just the boss fight and not boss fight plus lead up. Seems the majority for Kayran are voting for it based on lead up and not actual "fight".

Yep igni with a good bit of dodging was how I did it before axill. One thing you need to remember with axill is you have to hold the cast button until it takes effect or damage from mosters knocks you back and you have to do other combat.

Simpliest answer that I didn't realize until I was fighting wraiths later is to axill hex one of them.

Letho first time, followed by dragon.

Kayran had interesting lead up but the fight was a major let down and it felt like all the preperations were pointless or actually hurt me in the long term. All in all I consider this boss fight the biggest failure as its pretty much rinse wash repeat "fight" style, where the actual challange is, is your system able to get past the lag in the qte. (not to mention the fight ends with geralt pulling a previously unmentioned bomb out of nowhere)

Most Challanging would actually be the Operator though. Fight got easier though once I decided just to stall between the first and second wave of gargogyles and use quen to recharge blizzard... err heliotrope the fight lost a bit.

Druag was a bit of a challenge until I realized its weakness to yrden.

2nd Letho is really more of a reward battle than a boss battle in my opinion and kinda easy if you took magic tree, since you can just run around the fountain thing and use yrden to open him up for a barrage of igni or open him up for sword attacks.

You are remembering to attack it from the side or behind?

Creatures like this and the Arachas have different degerees of armor based on what direction your attacking from. Though it is a tough fight if your trying to do it earlier on.