Donkey Kong Bananza may not be on the level of a Metal Gear game in terms of inventive boss fights, but there are certainly standouts that fans will remember for years. As fun as these combat scenarios are, they can be challenging too.
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Donkey Kong Bananza throws a lot of softballs at players for at least half, if not two-thirds, of the game. That last third is a real curveball, and players will definitely have to keep up with using their Skill Points to have an edge in Donkey Kong Bananza. Let’s go through the hardest boss battles and rank them accordingly.
Spoilers ahead for Donkey Kong Bananza!
7 Inflammonite
Goodness Gracious, Great Ball Of Fire!
- Location: Freezer Layer
Inflammonite is the final boss of the Freezer Layer, which can be encountered later or earlier depending on choices made in Donkey Kong Bananza. Inflammonite is a giant flaming rock that needs to be doused with snow to weaken it, and then players have to smash the shell open.
After that is when things get tricky, as Inflammonite will create runaways that players have to chase down with DK’s Zebra Bananza form. This boss fight has a lot of steps in it, and missing any of them can be frustrating if things reset back to square one. Thankfully, players will at least have a good amount of room to dodge Inflammonite’s attacks.
6 Muckety-Muck
Pour Some Salt On Me In The Name Of Love
- Location: Feast Layer
Muckety-Muck is the final boss of the Feast Layer, which is a late-stage Sublayer in Donkey Kong Bananza. Muckety-Muck is a giant slug that needs to be weakened with salt, like many other slug-based enemies in the Feast Layer.
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As players aim at Muckety-Muck, they will be bombarded with attacks from smaller slugs and other enemies. The area is small to move around in, and there’s so much going on that it can be hard to focus. Muckety-Muck itself won’t do much, which makes losing the fight more insulting if players make a wrong move.
5 Sinister Blusterwing
Beware The Bat
- Location: Tempest Layer
Sinister Blusterwing appears in the Tempest Layer, and it has to be faced a few times. After every defeat, it will retreat. On the plus side, players just need to hit both wings with objects to bring them down. When that happens, players can pound on it, which should end the encounter.
It’s an easy formula on paper, but the battle arenas are often hard to move around in, and Sinister Blusterwing is so fast that it can be hard to hit any of its wings while players also have to dodge attacks. Even after getting one of the best Bananza Powers in Donkey Kong Bananza, Elephant Bananza, for the final encounter, it doesn’t get much easier.
4 Void Kong (Final)
Relies On Gadgets
- Location: Forbidden Layer
Void Kong, like Sinister Blusterwing, has a similar retreat system. Players will first have to fight him in a few different Sublayers before they can move past The Junction about halfway through the game. Then, the final encounter will happen in the Forbidden Layer, and Void Kong will throw everything at DK that he has.
He can fire lasers, launch other enemies, create walls of ice and fire, and everything in between. His encounters are akin to bullet hell shooters, or to name a fellow RPG, Undertale. Hopefully, by the second-to-last Sublayer, players will have mastered dodging.
3 Abracajabya
Getting To The Root Of The Problem
- Location: Forest Layer
Abracajabya has one of the coolest boss designs in the game as it looks like a plant-based Black Mage from the Final Fantasy series. The reference to magic is at least in the boss’s name, who appears at the end of the Forest Layer. Abracajabya is a towering beanstalk-like entity that will shoot poison and thorns at players from a distance.
Tentacle-like roots will have to be climbed to get up close and personal, but each root is covered by hard-to-pass defensive walls of thorns and poison. If players aren’t fast enough, Abracajabya will retreat into another flower tower. Speed and fast reflexes are a must for this Kaiju-inspired boss fight.
2 King K. Rool
A Truly Fun Reveal of DK's Greatest Villain
- Location: Planet Core
King K. Rool was the original final boss of Donkey Kong Country and has haunted DK in games ever since. That said, his reveal after defeating Void Kong was a real surprise in Donkey Kong Bananza, which eventually led to one of three final boss fights. The first of which happens in the Planet Core, and players will have to dodge blasts of bullets and gold.
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Unlike other boss fights in the game, King K. Rool has a massive health bar, and players won’t do that much damage even in the strongest Bananza form, Kong Bananza. After defeating him, there is a fake sense of reprieve before he revives himself like in Donkey Kong Country. This second form is not that strong, though.
1 K. Rool, King Of Rot
Rotten To The Core
- Location: New Donk City
Upon defeating King K. Rool, DK and Pauline make it to New Donk City after wishing on the Banandium Root. Unfortunately, the king of lizards wasn’t done yet as he stole the Banandium Root and turned New Donk City into his playground. After a series of difficult trials, players will have to face him one last time as a transformed version of himself: K. Rool, King of Rot.
Like his first form, this powered-up version has a ton of health and even stronger attacks. The hardest part of the boss fight is dodging waves of banana mush. There is gear in Donkey Kong Bananza that can protect against banana mush, so it’s best to come prepared. It’s a marathon of a boss fight that feels amazing when K. Rool, King of Rot, finally goes down.
Donkey Kong Bananza
- Released
- July 17, 2025
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Everyone 10+ / Fantasy Violence, In-Game Purchases
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo EPD
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch 2
