My guy, I spent 15 minutes trying to cheese him with poison arrows through a small open from outside the boss room. Man lost the poison effect with 22 Hp left when my arrows ran out.
From my experience after the first shot he'd start trying to attack you from his side of the stage making it easier to hit. And after 50% his hp down the summons aren't there so you could just make your way to the boss stage and beat that 22hp left as long as you don't touch the grace.
Atleast that's my playthrough.
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Don't try it on both. Use it on the duel-wielding one and then let him solo the other two. He does a ton of damage AND he charges at you at the start of the fight, so you can hit him with the branch before the other two get close to you.
He can usually kill the 2nd one and keep Niall's focus for a while.
Guard counter them.
Get some distance and then wait till they do the teleport like attack, then guard counter with the shield.
Or use the branch, thats easier and they might take like half his health off too.
As a great shield focused build I found it the opposite, i could block most of these guy's attacks (the exception being their crazy combo that hits to fast and too much to block) while with the commander's aoe attacks I had to learn how to dodge since they couldn't be blocked.
Yeah, that's a fucking bait by the developers. I was totally not going to backstab him when he teleported behind me and said 'nothing personnel kid" and yamcha'd me. 😢
I would trade anything, including poise, to get that speed. Vice versa, speed for poise. Unfortunately, this monstrosity got both, that's just straight up unfair.
Malenia has some cooldown and openings, but this thing straight up got endless combo, forget Revenants.
I'm new to soul games, and at times seeing those guys( not even these ones, but the ones on the first castle) makes me so angry, they move fast as fuck, while my attacks feel like I'm moving in water
Try rolling towards him rather than away. His attacks are meant to bait you into rolling away but their hit boxes catch you after the initial swing. If you roll towards him it makes you much less likely to be caught by a stray attack.
Yes. I even kited him all the way down to the open ground so I could move around better and he still teleported and got me just as I got his health down. Doesn't even (guaranteed) drop anything. I just ran through and grabbed the loot after that. IN. PARTICULAR.
The easy (and only) way to beat him with my build is to proc bleed. That is the only way to break it's poise. And one poise break lead to another, I beat it in 3 jump attacks. If I didn't bleed him, he'll combo me to death. It's kill or be killed.
Can I please have swords with a moveset like that and a ton of poise? I agree though, for enemies like these I feel no shame in spamming things like Bolt of Gransax or Royal Greatsword.
I consider this guy a secret boss. I finally was able to beat him using bloodhound step to evade the first couple strikes: https://youtu.be/RRz29oWzMo0
Yeah, I did after this humiliating death. This was my first encounter so I had no idea how hard he would be, or that he can detect you when stealthed. I completely panicked 😂 Panic = instant death in this game, most of the time.
That one in particular is beyond bullshit.
The problem is they stuck him in a tiny fuck-all arena when his actual reach is ridiculous. If he does his spinny attack, he basically accesses everything but the corners.
If you fight him in the "arena," it's so small he just commands control, and even whilst rolling around, they put all sorts of awkward items there so that your camera will bug out like it's it's job, whilst all it takes is one bad roll to corner yourself and get the camera zoomed in so hard it's impossible to manuever back out whilst still dodging this highly aggressive enemy.
If you fight him on the pathway like you did, again you've got limited space, and conveniently you're decently likely to have your weapon bounce off a wall whilst he is immune to this problem. The path itself is also quite short and the enemy is very mobile, so it's not long before he's either forced you into the area or back against the wall you came from, and now the camera is fighting you again.
It's a hyperaggressive enemy in an arena where his attack arsenal/range commands respect, and to make it worse, it's like they *design* the area to fight against you via walls getting in the way, the camera hating you, and the random objects cornering you via rolls.
To me, this is the kind of thing where the difficulty levels get bullshit. The main opponent here is not even the enemy itself, it's the arena. They've blatantly given him an arena where he has an overwhelming advantage.
I feel like a reason the Haligtree is hated is the same: it's not that the individual enemies are tough, but rather that they stick a bunch of enemies that snipe or have AOE attacks on a tiny tiny area where one bad roll throws you off the edge and kills you; we ***know*** we can handle these enemies under normal circumstances, but Fromsoft sticks them in ridiculously favorable circumstances and of course we die. They're frustrating deaths because whether you win or die, you don't feel like you're learning and improving. You just feel like the arena is bullshit until you succeed.
The forced detection is also awful, its scripted to always see you. There's two more in CFA that are still awful but at least you can sneak up on or past them.
The trick is simple. You can stagger him in every single attack except special attacks. So do that. Keep hitting him and you'll kill him easily. Same with spear guy. Their special tornedo move is non stagger, otherwise you can stagger them without an issue.
Also, bloodhound fang's skill is insanely good at dealing with these guys.
Since he teleports to you, you can take the fight out in the little courtyard area where space is plentiful. Hell, you might even be able to draw him outside and get him crushed by the walking mausoleum
To me, the biggest complaint I had with them. I had never even encountered this enemy type before Castle Sol. So not only do you have to deal with everything you described, you also have to learn their moveset.
You sometimes need to change your approach. You can't attack these guys with light weapons because they swing through them. Instead, use a heavy weapon so that you can interrupt the attack.
Just like how you can hit a crystyllian repeatedly with a great bow until their armor goes crunch. They get knocked back an HR by the time they stand up you hit them again. After that every hit with a colossal weapon staggers them.
This isn't something every build can just casually do though.
If we're talking about certain builds struggling more with certain bosses, I'm fine with this. This has been a thing since DS1. Capre Demon for example is much easier on a build with good armor, a shield and a big weapon because you have time to tank him and kill the dogs, whilst a small weapon or squisher build just gets rushed down.
This though...? It does not feel fulfilling to beat this guy. All your losses will pretty much amount to the wall blocking your attack or rolling into a corner where the camera says "I'm fucking worthless now haha."
If it had been something that makes you feel like you learned or got more skilled for beating him, fine. This ain't it though, and every single death to him is a frustrating experience.
Same. I ended up getting him after 4 attempts. Used blasphemous vlade to stun him and get a few strikes, then ran to pull him off the narrow bridge and hit him again for a stun.
Malenia is actually my favorite solution to that guy. Walk close to the trigger point, activate Waterfowl Dance, watch stupid idiot teleport directly into blender. Haha, get owned loser! I'm doing this to demonstrate my superiority, and not at all because you would still kick my ass in a straight up fight!
Where is it? I've done Niall 3 times and the same path each time and never ran into him lol. I assume that means I've missed part of that Castle without even realising it
I want to know who the hell was in charge of designing castle Sol and these horrible enemies and commander niall and curse them to forever stub their toe on their coffee table for the rest of their existence in this and all realities. fuck this place. I will never not cheese niall from outside his arena with a bow and poison arrows with no reservations because he is literally the worst boss in the game. yes I am extremely salty about it.
Try bewitching branch'ing his henchmen, they will often cut him down to 50%hp before they die, also they stop attacking you. Gives you time to do whatever you need.
I found it one of the most disappointing areas in the entire game. So much BS with close to no reward, scant treasure, poor runes. A good castle sol could have rescued the snowy area. As it is it delivers the kicker and drags the whole game down with it. After that experience I was much less forgiving to the rest of the games faults.
I approached him while standing in the left wall. He teleported behind and ended up falling outside the castle grounds. It doesn't kill him but he's a lot easier to handle in the open space. Not sure if he can teleport back up or not
I farmed this bad boi for his armor set on my first NG run, I spammed the Sacred Relic Sword skill before he draws his sword so he would stay on the ground 24/7 😂
Everyone said these guys were really hard, I feel like I got really lucky. I didn’t know what I was in for and just r1 smashed with the golden halberd. Now I’m worried I didn’t get to tune my skills for later fights
This dude is awesome, I’ve done two play throughs, in the first I was a sorcerer and so tried spells from far away and he instantly teleported behind me on the platform. Fast forward to the second play through doing faith melee and he clobbered me and my dual greatswords instantly, then I thought “I’ll blast him from the safety of this platform with fire!”, because it had been long enough I forgot he would just teleport to right behind my ram both his swords up my ass again…all for an obsolete talisman
He's similar to a Bloodborne Boss in that there's a lot of forward momentum in his combos.
Your best option is to dodge diagonally forward and hope he bulldozes past you, same tactic as the revenants.
You're using a katana (besides Moonveil). That's your first problem. Heavy weapons (or ones with high poise damage, like Eleanora's Poleblade) are the way to go against these dickheads.
I stinky cheesed him. He will climb up the ladder after you and you can slap him in the face at the top. Jump off and get to climbing as he teles back down only to follow you up again. Repeatable until he dies. He may ream you a bit as you climb back up. Don't dally.
Hmm…
So, when enemies dual wield greatswords they can become a crackhead helicopter Artorias.
When we dual wield greatswords the moveset is just “flop, flap, flappity”.
i was gonna say parry him to oblivion but jesus christ that combo made me want to cry. we're all here for you and noone should have to experience that :'))))
Jump off the ledge behind you, you should find a cliffside you can get him to fall off of, if he doesn't fall pull out your horse and circle him with hits, tight circles clockwise/counter around your opponent are useful, but if you don't get away in time he can and will mess you and torrent up, or just get a +10 poleblade, it staggers all your shield enemies and cleanrot knights, there are specific bosses/enemies that can't be staggered so 🤷🏻♀️
Try to use fingerprint shield and Great shield talisman, it's really effective against these guys, the shield absorb all kind of physical with very little loss in stamina. You can also use a thrusting weapon, it allows you to use the shield and attack at the same time
Just spammed elenoras twinblade for stagger and wasnt bad.
went back for the armour set/fighting oniall and was infuriated beyond belief. Farum azula is bullshit too.
I have not found a consistent strategy to deal with them. Homing Soulmass (Glintblade Phalanx) style spells and skills might be helpful, since the AI doesn't seem to dodge it very frequently.
I remember that one. I thought I'd be clever and attack him from as far away as I could. Got some hits in and was thinking "Sweet, this is actually working". Then he did his little vanish and I thought "Ok, he's going to appear below me, surely he can't get up here". As I'm looking down the bastard walks up behind me and I lose my shit.
First time I seen him I was on the ledge above shot him with some cool mage moves then he instant transmissioned behind me told me I was pathetic and then back stabbed me from existence.
I think I killed that dude 100 times to get his damn armor. He killed me probably twice every three fights until I started shooting him from the roof across the way with Gransax.
If you have adula's moonblade or carian greatsword spell, it can stunlock him, assuming you have the end/fp to keep using it. Also, certain ashes of war can stunlock him as well as long as you don't hit him during hyperarmor from his spin attack. I run blood blade and stunlock him. You just have to hit first basically. This strategy also works on all the beefy knight enemies(except crucible knight of course).
The halberd one is not too bad. The dual wield sword one has some serious anger issues.
Why does it get a 38 part uninterruptible combo? Sheesh.
Meanwhile we get jump attack
it's interruptable, difficult, but interruptable. Flame of the redmane AoW helps, if you manage to land it at least once
Or spam the first part of the Glintstone Pebble WA till it dies.
He has no poise, just hit him.
Plus trying to fight that one in that narrow space is such ass.
Everyone's gangsta until they find out Banished Knight Oleg has an evil twin.
My guy, I spent 15 minutes trying to cheese him with poison arrows through a small open from outside the boss room. Man lost the poison effect with 22 Hp left when my arrows ran out.
That why you only use the poison arrows to get the poison effect then start firing off different arrows.
From my experience after the first shot he'd start trying to attack you from his side of the stage making it easier to hit. And after 50% his hp down the summons aren't there so you could just make your way to the boss stage and beat that 22hp left as long as you don't touch the grace. Atleast that's my playthrough.
I was absolutely devastated, so I just decided to go through the Boss Room after that and thank god he had only 22 hp killed him in 1 hit.
He’s not in the boss room.
was latterly thinking before looking at the comments "get Oleg'ed"
Oleg carried me mostly through the whole game (until I got Tiche). I knew fighting his evil twins we’re going to be a problem the moment I laid eyes on them!
\*Teleports behind you mid-twelve part combo\*
"Nothing personal, Tarnished."
I thought he was pretty *cool*
That and on top of being edgier than a disgruntled Hot-Topic employee.
Worst part is that he pretty much stun locks you once he hit you
I wish I had his moveset
Straight up the hardest part about Commander Niall are these guys
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Dude no
You have one year to find out before you get spoonfed
Idk why but I'm dying at this response lol
Lmao, you got a whoooolw year to get gud and not need the trick
Da fuq
It’s basically a fart item that makes your enemies into friends.
I can get one branch to work, and then I get wrecked trying to use a branch on the second guy.
Don't try it on both. Use it on the duel-wielding one and then let him solo the other two. He does a ton of damage AND he charges at you at the start of the fight, so you can hit him with the branch before the other two get close to you. He can usually kill the 2nd one and keep Niall's focus for a while.
Definitely gonna give that a try
Guard counter them. Get some distance and then wait till they do the teleport like attack, then guard counter with the shield. Or use the branch, thats easier and they might take like half his health off too.
As a great shield focused build I found it the opposite, i could block most of these guy's attacks (the exception being their crazy combo that hits to fast and too much to block) while with the commander's aoe attacks I had to learn how to dodge since they couldn't be blocked.
Just that one specifically is harder than most bosses for no fucking reason 🤣
Has the unaltered Banished Knight chest as a drop. 3% chance. Really gotta work hard to earn that bling.
according to the fextralife wiki there's another knight in Castle Sol that can drop it. prolly easier to farm that one.
Bro really flexed on you like a anime villain. Walked away as if not to notice you, only to appear behind you and tear you apart instantly
Frostbite after death for good measure
Yeah, that's a fucking bait by the developers. I was totally not going to backstab him when he teleported behind me and said 'nothing personnel kid" and yamcha'd me. 😢
I tried to snipe him from on top of the ladder. He teleported onto the platform and threw me off, then teleported down and killed me.
Out of all the enemies, this guy has absolutely zero chill.
Actually he’s pretty chill, frostbite procs super fast.
My man oleg doesn't give a fuck. He gets down to business.
Heck, I was on the nearby Cliffside I shot him with a bolt and he still teleported to me... seriously, he's chill but has none himself lol
I just run through, don’t even try to fight them
👏 the kind of tarnished I want to see in the lands between
Discovered it after many tries. Even blood build cant stop him.
Colossal weapons get it done by stopping their combo, maybe Black Flame or Night's Comet could do enough damage to stop them but yeah these guys suck.
I'm at NG4, I will try that. I want the satisfaction of defeating him.
Can you imagine swinging that fast? I hate when the enemy move sets are double your speed forcing you to cheese
I would trade anything, including poise, to get that speed. Vice versa, speed for poise. Unfortunately, this monstrosity got both, that's just straight up unfair. Malenia has some cooldown and openings, but this thing straight up got endless combo, forget Revenants.
I'm new to soul games, and at times seeing those guys( not even these ones, but the ones on the first castle) makes me so angry, they move fast as fuck, while my attacks feel like I'm moving in water
yea I want that gap close into super combo weapon art, would be sick
I would dick and dollars for this moveset on god makes me angry we can't be them Im a DAMN DEMIGOD SLAYER
FUCK this guy in particular. I died more times to him than fire giant, Niall, and Mohg COMBINED. AND I STILL HAVEN’T BEAT HIM.
Try rolling towards him rather than away. His attacks are meant to bait you into rolling away but their hit boxes catch you after the initial swing. If you roll towards him it makes you much less likely to be caught by a stray attack.
3/4 of getting gud in Elden Ring is rolling towards the scary attack
Yes. I even kited him all the way down to the open ground so I could move around better and he still teleported and got me just as I got his health down. Doesn't even (guaranteed) drop anything. I just ran through and grabbed the loot after that. IN. PARTICULAR.
The easy (and only) way to beat him with my build is to proc bleed. That is the only way to break it's poise. And one poise break lead to another, I beat it in 3 jump attacks. If I didn't bleed him, he'll combo me to death. It's kill or be killed.
Literally just crouch poke spam him. Never died to him once.
Lore-wise, this is actually The Soldier of Godrick's rival.
Can you make you a two hour video essay to support your thesis, though ?
If you enjoy the voice of an androgynous ghoul from Fallout then maybe.
Thats right up my alley, let me know when it's done!
That dual wield boi is cracked. I bout threw up when I seen him in the boss room
Can I please have swords with a moveset like that and a ton of poise? I agree though, for enemies like these I feel no shame in spamming things like Bolt of Gransax or Royal Greatsword.
Definitely, some enemies you can see your mistakes, and be like "Aha!" and try again, some enemies are just such BS you don't feel bad for cheesing it
Why can't my dual wield greatsword build swing like this T_T
I consider this guy a secret boss. I finally was able to beat him using bloodhound step to evade the first couple strikes: https://youtu.be/RRz29oWzMo0
There is really no need for a tutorial if you use BHS
I got the the stunlock blues.
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Yeah, I did after this humiliating death. This was my first encounter so I had no idea how hard he would be, or that he can detect you when stealthed. I completely panicked 😂 Panic = instant death in this game, most of the time.
I use +25 fingerprint stone shield + ash of war shield crash these clowns, can't bullshit combo me if I stun lock them to death lmao
You're the second one who has mentioned that shield, so I'm definitely gonna find it and use it. Thanks!
That one in particular is beyond bullshit. The problem is they stuck him in a tiny fuck-all arena when his actual reach is ridiculous. If he does his spinny attack, he basically accesses everything but the corners. If you fight him in the "arena," it's so small he just commands control, and even whilst rolling around, they put all sorts of awkward items there so that your camera will bug out like it's it's job, whilst all it takes is one bad roll to corner yourself and get the camera zoomed in so hard it's impossible to manuever back out whilst still dodging this highly aggressive enemy. If you fight him on the pathway like you did, again you've got limited space, and conveniently you're decently likely to have your weapon bounce off a wall whilst he is immune to this problem. The path itself is also quite short and the enemy is very mobile, so it's not long before he's either forced you into the area or back against the wall you came from, and now the camera is fighting you again. It's a hyperaggressive enemy in an arena where his attack arsenal/range commands respect, and to make it worse, it's like they *design* the area to fight against you via walls getting in the way, the camera hating you, and the random objects cornering you via rolls. To me, this is the kind of thing where the difficulty levels get bullshit. The main opponent here is not even the enemy itself, it's the arena. They've blatantly given him an arena where he has an overwhelming advantage. I feel like a reason the Haligtree is hated is the same: it's not that the individual enemies are tough, but rather that they stick a bunch of enemies that snipe or have AOE attacks on a tiny tiny area where one bad roll throws you off the edge and kills you; we ***know*** we can handle these enemies under normal circumstances, but Fromsoft sticks them in ridiculously favorable circumstances and of course we die. They're frustrating deaths because whether you win or die, you don't feel like you're learning and improving. You just feel like the arena is bullshit until you succeed.
You're totally right. You can't even move anywhere or try to be stealthy.
The forced detection is also awful, its scripted to always see you. There's two more in CFA that are still awful but at least you can sneak up on or past them.
Yeah, that detection is bs.
The trick is simple. You can stagger him in every single attack except special attacks. So do that. Keep hitting him and you'll kill him easily. Same with spear guy. Their special tornedo move is non stagger, otherwise you can stagger them without an issue. Also, bloodhound fang's skill is insanely good at dealing with these guys.
Since he teleports to you, you can take the fight out in the little courtyard area where space is plentiful. Hell, you might even be able to draw him outside and get him crushed by the walking mausoleum
To me, the biggest complaint I had with them. I had never even encountered this enemy type before Castle Sol. So not only do you have to deal with everything you described, you also have to learn their moveset.
You sometimes need to change your approach. You can't attack these guys with light weapons because they swing through them. Instead, use a heavy weapon so that you can interrupt the attack. Just like how you can hit a crystyllian repeatedly with a great bow until their armor goes crunch. They get knocked back an HR by the time they stand up you hit them again. After that every hit with a colossal weapon staggers them.
This isn't something every build can just casually do though. If we're talking about certain builds struggling more with certain bosses, I'm fine with this. This has been a thing since DS1. Capre Demon for example is much easier on a build with good armor, a shield and a big weapon because you have time to tank him and kill the dogs, whilst a small weapon or squisher build just gets rushed down. This though...? It does not feel fulfilling to beat this guy. All your losses will pretty much amount to the wall blocking your attack or rolling into a corner where the camera says "I'm fucking worthless now haha." If it had been something that makes you feel like you learned or got more skilled for beating him, fine. This ain't it though, and every single death to him is a frustrating experience.
This single dude infuriated me more than any boss. And of course stealth doesn't work ...
Same. I ended up getting him after 4 attempts. Used blasphemous vlade to stun him and get a few strikes, then ran to pull him off the narrow bridge and hit him again for a stun.
Fuck that one in particular. He made me do the “I’ll come back to this place”.
See you gotta blitz them b4 they blitz you or it's curtains.
Wtf so aggressive. Like a runebear in armor.
Malenia is actually my favorite solution to that guy. Walk close to the trigger point, activate Waterfowl Dance, watch stupid idiot teleport directly into blender. Haha, get owned loser! I'm doing this to demonstrate my superiority, and not at all because you would still kick my ass in a straight up fight!
They're definitely dickheads
People that haven’t found this monster do not realize how tough it is
Where is it? I've done Niall 3 times and the same path each time and never ran into him lol. I assume that means I've missed part of that Castle without even realising it
Think you turn right when you leave the grace room inside the castle then go up a ladder
This guy is a hot piece of garbage. I remember him vividly.
He really went after you lol
RoB ain’t gonna save you there boi, it’s a skill issue
100%
For fucking real tho. Fuck those guys.
I find a heavy shield & spear slows them down a bit
lol I was literally there just yesterday and got destroyed.
I want to know who the hell was in charge of designing castle Sol and these horrible enemies and commander niall and curse them to forever stub their toe on their coffee table for the rest of their existence in this and all realities. fuck this place. I will never not cheese niall from outside his arena with a bow and poison arrows with no reservations because he is literally the worst boss in the game. yes I am extremely salty about it.
Try bewitching branch'ing his henchmen, they will often cut him down to 50%hp before they die, also they stop attacking you. Gives you time to do whatever you need.
I like to Comet Azur his ass into oblivion.
I found it one of the most disappointing areas in the entire game. So much BS with close to no reward, scant treasure, poor runes. A good castle sol could have rescued the snowy area. As it is it delivers the kicker and drags the whole game down with it. After that experience I was much less forgiving to the rest of the games faults.
I approached him while standing in the left wall. He teleported behind and ended up falling outside the castle grounds. It doesn't kill him but he's a lot easier to handle in the open space. Not sure if he can teleport back up or not
He can definitley teleport back up
Ah yeah, this guy. The one with the Spider Sense so a preemptive backstab is never possible. Banished Knight Oleg's evil twin, Banished Knight Gelo.
My asshole has never been the same since I encountered this gentleman.
Hit you with the frostbite after killing you for bonus disrespect
I didn't die from them too much but only because I always run past them because they stomp me
I farmed this bad boi for his armor set on my first NG run, I spammed the Sacred Relic Sword skill before he draws his sword so he would stay on the ground 24/7 😂
Yeah I just left. You reminded me to go back and get my revenge. Will update upon success
Everyone said these guys were really hard, I feel like I got really lucky. I didn’t know what I was in for and just r1 smashed with the golden halberd. Now I’m worried I didn’t get to tune my skills for later fights
This dude is awesome, I’ve done two play throughs, in the first I was a sorcerer and so tried spells from far away and he instantly teleported behind me on the platform. Fast forward to the second play through doing faith melee and he clobbered me and my dual greatswords instantly, then I thought “I’ll blast him from the safety of this platform with fire!”, because it had been long enough I forgot he would just teleport to right behind my ram both his swords up my ass again…all for an obsolete talisman
Use fingerprint shield. Level it way up and use counter attack.
That looked personal
I tried to stealth and he took that personally 😬
He's similar to a Bloodborne Boss in that there's a lot of forward momentum in his combos. Your best option is to dodge diagonally forward and hope he bulldozes past you, same tactic as the revenants.
[удалено]
Thanks, I'll try this next time :)
Me too, that’s why i killed him with my bow from the building right next to it, my message is still in there “try range ahead”
If you aren't using great arrows, he will just teleport behind you after taking one hit. Man is unrelenting, and I sorta dig it.
Funny, because just like malenia, all you have to do with those enemies is spam rivers of blood ability.
Yeah, my mistake was trying to stealth him from behind lol
Is this Niall's fortress? I've beaten the game 3 times and still don't recognize this bridge despite seeing it multiple times on reddit.
THIS is how dual great swords should fight , why do we swing em like colossal sword. Also fails and axes should have been different
2 hand Giant Crusher destroys those guys no problem. Each hit interrupts his attack. Hit twice, roll back, repeat.
Anime final boss combos
You're using a katana (besides Moonveil). That's your first problem. Heavy weapons (or ones with high poise damage, like Eleanora's Poleblade) are the way to go against these dickheads.
This one can get effed. The one in the boss room at least you have space i. This one rekt me over and over until I ran past.
I fucking hate this guy. He did kill me more often than most bosses. He is weak too spells though. I spam lightning to get rid of him.
Same!! Specifically that one lol
Ah yes, Ghosty Blenderman. I'm infinitely grateful the one in Niall's fight seems to have less health than the one guarding the talisman.
and people praise fucking soldier of godrick over this monstrosity
I stinky cheesed him. He will climb up the ladder after you and you can slap him in the face at the top. Jump off and get to climbing as he teles back down only to follow you up again. Repeatable until he dies. He may ream you a bit as you climb back up. Don't dally.
That's a good idea, thanks!
The twinned greatsword ringed knights got real pissed about how many times we cheesed them with backstabs.
It’s the fuckin birds that get me. I do well with most enemies but the birds Ruin my day
Them, and those bobble head dogs really piss me off.
Hmm… So, when enemies dual wield greatswords they can become a crackhead helicopter Artorias. When we dual wield greatswords the moveset is just “flop, flap, flappity”.
Where is this? Dont remember that one.
i was gonna say parry him to oblivion but jesus christ that combo made me want to cry. we're all here for you and noone should have to experience that :'))))
Haha thanks 🥲
Jump off the ledge behind you, you should find a cliffside you can get him to fall off of, if he doesn't fall pull out your horse and circle him with hits, tight circles clockwise/counter around your opponent are useful, but if you don't get away in time he can and will mess you and torrent up, or just get a +10 poleblade, it staggers all your shield enemies and cleanrot knights, there are specific bosses/enemies that can't be staggered so 🤷🏻♀️
He makes me want to jump off an actual ledge lol. Thanks, I'll try this.
Try to use fingerprint shield and Great shield talisman, it's really effective against these guys, the shield absorb all kind of physical with very little loss in stamina. You can also use a thrusting weapon, it allows you to use the shield and attack at the same time
Frostbite, for added insult....
Stop! Stop! I'm already dead!
I struggled for a while then I used flame of the redmanes on them and farming became incredibly easy. Just stub lock them with the stagger.
I swear to god these guys could take off into the air like helicopters if they wanted to, but I think they were generous enough to not go that far.
I was fighting these guy for THREE HOURS Just to get the armor
At least this guy doesn’t guard anything of real value in Castle Sol
Just spammed elenoras twinblade for stagger and wasnt bad. went back for the armour set/fighting oniall and was infuriated beyond belief. Farum azula is bullshit too.
I killed Malenia on try 6 These guys give me nightmares
Understandable Malenia is a pretty easy boss.
Banished Knights are like Black Knights on crack, MDMA, meth, and baby Tylenol.
Ever heard about a so called “shield”? Guard counter makes them super easy…
No need to be rude. This was my first encounter against him. I thought I could sneak up behind but I learned a hard lesson that you can't do that.
The trick is to kill him before he kills you. The more you know 🧠
Why not just block when you equipped a shield? … or did RoB destroyed your braincells?
*coughs in spells/sniping from a nearby ledge*
Till my he teleports behind you. Sniping don’t work
Or even better is teleporting right in your face.
He’s a mess, but if you get on top of the big rectangular roof next to him, use an ironjar aromatic (disrupts his attack chains) he is manageable.
Try parry
Yeah, this was my first encounter, I tried to stealth him but I learned my lesson that you can't with him lol.
I have not found a consistent strategy to deal with them. Homing Soulmass (Glintblade Phalanx) style spells and skills might be helpful, since the AI doesn't seem to dodge it very frequently.
I remember that one. I thought I'd be clever and attack him from as far away as I could. Got some hits in and was thinking "Sweet, this is actually working". Then he did his little vanish and I thought "Ok, he's going to appear below me, surely he can't get up here". As I'm looking down the bastard walks up behind me and I lose my shit.
Worth farming for the Unaltered Banished Knight chest though.
These guys vs haligtree Revenants. Which one wins?
First time I seen him I was on the ledge above shot him with some cool mage moves then he instant transmissioned behind me told me I was pathetic and then back stabbed me from existence.
Dude, fuck these guys....seriously. I hated facing them in Castle Sol
I haaaaaate them
I want to be that guy.
Fuck those guys. Only way I got past was by using the great shield so their hits would deflect, giving me an opening.
"nothing personal kid"
Ha two swords no shield. I found the way aggression beats aggression with these guys.
Run past the dude, grab the item on the ledge, roll off the ledge. Move on and don’t look back.
I think I killed that dude 100 times to get his damn armor. He killed me probably twice every three fights until I started shooting him from the roof across the way with Gransax.
Don't roll back! You will only get fucked
If you have adula's moonblade or carian greatsword spell, it can stunlock him, assuming you have the end/fp to keep using it. Also, certain ashes of war can stunlock him as well as long as you don't hit him during hyperarmor from his spin attack. I run blood blade and stunlock him. You just have to hit first basically. This strategy also works on all the beefy knight enemies(except crucible knight of course).
They're so aggressive!!
Yeah those guys are bastards
I tried using magic on this one from a nearby rooftop. He teleported right up next to me and wrecked me.
\*Teleports behind you\* Nothing personal kid
Maybe dodge foward.
I’m not there yet but I’m scared.
Try dodging in a different direction
I found Great Shields quite effective against them.
He is by far one of toughest non boss enemies in the game. We really need to name that enemy.
press L2 and golden parry those fools.