Talk:Stray Demon/@comment-87.220.251.23-20150123134430/@comment-174.20.77.0-20180609033902

For all of the idiots who haven't realized it yet: in Dark Souls, as well as Demon's Souls, many of the bosses can be inflicted with status effects. In Demon's Souls, neither bleed nor poison/plague would show numbers, however they were capable of causing lethal damage to them. In Dark Souls, the damage from bleed can be seen, albeit very shortly, but the damage from poison/toxic can not. If you were to watch their health bar, or inspect their health, you would see that it does steadily decrease once it applies.

PS: Damage numbers don't matter. You will still see the single point of damage inflicted from the left fist on any boss.