Battler Boss or Puzzle Boss? We need both, but who's better?

Okay son I took a lot of time to think after voting 50/50. I like a lot of what is considered puzzle bosses but I feel like those are often misused in other genres.

An example of a non puzzle boss that can become one from the original dark souls is Ceaseless Discharge. You can dodge one shot kill moves and just fight him strait or run back to the boss fog and break his tendri arm after he tried to slam you sending him into the pit below. Reward for trying to use your brain with a boss fight that becomes trivial after the fact.

In some cases this is okay. But I really wouldn't call that a puzzle fight. More like a gimmick that once realized makes the fight, not a fight. Now that said I don't mind these but I feel like any puzzle fight that becomes a one and done affair to be very anticlimactic. Again I'm sure there will be a boss like that, it just happens because he design no matter how good will have one or two bosses that are really hard or really easy for "reasons".

What I've always judged castlevania bosses specifically by is how well a desperate character fight becomes different.

Example here Maria, Johannas, and Gebel shouldn't, in theory, fight all the bosses the same. Think of taking on any boss with say Julius then Shanoa then Charlotte / Johnathan. Likely the strategy you employ with any of them would be wildly different. That's what I want to see in the end.

I voted for "battler" bosses. Difficult bosses that require skill and for the player to learn their attacks are my favorite. CotM specifically had great bosses of this type. I like puzzle bosses too, but only if they are used sparingly and are legitimately clever. The big drawback with them is once you figure out the puzzle they are no longer a threat, which makes subsequent playthroughs a joke.

Interesting.
You may need both.

100% Puzzle Boss would make it too serious and harassing for our mind.
100% Battle Boss is kind of classic, efficient but... lacks of tastes.

Both is good, I voted 50/50. A fair balance between those two is correct. If you ask me, I'm more up to a 75 BB / 25 PB but I trust the dev team.

I would just like the bosses battles to fit the boss. I would expect sentient creatures like demons/humans and such to be more battler type boss fights, just giving it their all in their attempt to survive.

Golems and/or other machinations, maybe lower intellect creatures to have the more puzzle type battles. I think this is to be expected though. I don't prefer it either way, they both have their time and usefulness. I hope they just keep it varied and interesting/fun enough!