Banished Knight is a Humanoid Enemy in Elden Ring. The Banished Knights seek to serve any who give them purpose. They are tall, fully armoured, and are well-trained in combat, mastering the art of wielding different weaponry.

The spirits of two particular knights, Oleg and Engvall can be summoned for aid in battle using the Banished Knight Oleg and Banished Knight Engvall Ashes respectively.

 

 Many knights were sent to the fringes, where they were forced to start anew with only despair for company. 
These fierce warriors were each and all accomplished. Perhaps that is why, despite their territorial losses, they were still named knights.

 

Elden Ring Banished Knight Locations

Where to Find Banished Knights:

  • Many knights can be found in Stormveil Castle wielding either a halberd or a greatsword and shield. All of them except two have the altered helm (without the red hood).
    • One can be found in a dark room, located at the top floor of the wine cellar in Stormveil Castle. You must use the side entrance that Gatekeeper Gostoc suggests in order to reach said room.
    • A knight with a halberd patrols the room down the stairs from the Rampart Tower Site of Grace.
    • A few can be found on top of the buildings in the center of Stormveil Castle.
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  • Two found with the unaltered helm (with a red hood) wielding a greatsword and shield, near the Cathedral of Dragon Communion in Caelid. One spawns inside near the grace and patrols around the outside of the cathedral. Another stands near the cliffs to the west.
  • Spectral variants of Banished Knights appear in Castle Sol. In addition to the halberd and greatsword/shield-wielding knights, a dual greatsword variant can be found here. Like most spectral enemies, these knights can teleport and break your target lock.
    • Immediately before Church of the Eclipse grace in Castle Sol will be a Banished Knight with a Greatsword + Shield, easily farmable as he can be backstabbed from when you leave the grace. (2824 HP)
  • Several knights can be found in Crumbling Farum Azula, mostly patrolling the Dragon Temple area. Among these, a few will be the dual greatsword variant. They do not have the wind abilities, but they instead possess a flaming breath spell.

 

Elden Ring Banished Knight Combat information

Absorptions

The absorption numbers are the % of your damage that gets blocked. For example, if an absorption is 60, 40% of that damage by that type will go through and 60% is absorbed. Bigger number = less damage. An absorption of 100 means no damage goes through, and a resistance of -100 mean the enemy takes 2x damage from that source. 0 means damage goes pretty much as is.

Resistances

The resistance numbers are the buildup amount to trigger it. For example, if a resistance is 100 you must deal 100 points of whatever aux buildup to trigger it. Note that these go down over time, and increase each time the effect procs.

 

 

Elden Ring Banished Knight Drops

runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 168 - 2193 Runes.

Note that there are multiple variants of Banished Knights and they will only ever drop gear they are wearing on their model, a halberd wielding Banished Knight will never drop a greatsword or shield and vice versa, the unaltered helmet and chest piece can only be gotten from the variants wearing them and there is no variant that wears both at the same time.

 

Item

Drop Rate

Additional Info

Runes 100% runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 168 - 3091
Banished Knight Helm 3.00% N/A
Banished Knight Helm (Altered) 3.00% N/A
Banished Knight Armor 3.00% N/A
Banished Knight Armor (Altered) 3.00% N/A
Banished Knight Gauntlets 3.00% N/A
Banished Knight Greaves 3.00% N/A
Banished Knight's Greatsword 4.00% N/A
Banished Knight's Halberd 4.00% N/A
Banished Knight's Shield 4.00% N/A
Dragon Communion Seal 100% Guaranteed drop from a Banished Knight inFringefolk Hero's Grave.

 

 

Banished Knight Notes & Tips

  • Due to their weakness to Lightning, Lightning-related items like Lightning Spear or Bolt of Gransax are recommended to eliminate them.
  • Charging attack is the best opportunity for attack, as recovery after it gives more that enough time to perform backstab,
  • Farming Tips:
    • Banished Knight's Halberd and Banished Knight Set (with altered helm and altered chest armor)
      • The knight downstairs from the Rampart Tower grace in Stormveil Castle can be easily farmed. However, a +8 halberd also drops from Edgar, either by following his questline until his invasion at Revenger's Shack, or by killing him in earlier encounters.
    • Banished Knight's Greatsword, Banished Knight's Shield, and Banished Knight Set (with unaltered helm and altered chest armor)
      • The knight at the Cathedral of Dragon Communion in Caelid is the easiest to farm. After resting at or traveling to the grace, go north to the doorway of the cathedral. The knight should have just started patrolling and can be backstabbed.
      • The knight past the birds at the Rampart Tower grace is also a great early game area to farm the Greatsword, yet a bit harder to farm than in Caelid.
    • Stormveil Castle farming route:
      1. Travel to "Rampart Tower" grace point in Stormveil Castle.
      2. Pop a Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot if you have one.
      3. Head into the rampart tower and downstairs to your first Banished Knight (halberd). Defeat him by sneaking up or parrying or backstab fishing.
      4. Head back up to the hallway by the grace point.
      5. Take the lift directly across the hall from the entrance to the room with the point. Send it back up before you hop off.
      6. Sprint through the room where the Grafted Scion was.
      7. Turn right and kill the three commoners and the sword Exile Soldier.
      8. Head up the stairs and kill the spear Exile Soldier.
      9. Head into the next room and kill the second Banished Knight (halberd). You should be able to sneak approach and backstab pretty easily.
      10. Leave out that room opposite the way you came in. Follow the path directly across the next room, through the breezeway, then veer left and straight ahead through another interior room. Make a right here and outside you'll see a Flame Spear guy in the distance. Approach and kill him.
      11. This should aggro the 3rd Banished Knight (greatsword and shield). I usually shield and sidestep for a Backstab on this one. Or use a heavy spell to stagger.
      12. Fast travel back to "Rampart Tower" and repeat.
    • Banished Knight's Greatsword, Banished Knight Set (with altered helm and unaltered chest armor)
      • The red-eyed spectral Banished Knight on the castle wall of Castle Sol can be baited into teleporting onto a higher platform (the roof of a room), after which the player can jump or roll to the walkway atop the wall that the Banished Knight was standing on just before. Then the Banished Knight will slowly walk towards the player, at which point it will fall to its death, hopefully leaving the extremely rare unaltered Banished Knight Armor on the ground. The player can walk off the edge of the end of the walkway to safely fall to ground level, then make their way back to the loot, which will be in the corner, behind a tombstone.
      • Quicker, but risker, method can be done from Castle Sol Rooftop (unlocked after beating boss of the arena). From the boss fight arena, player can make Banished Knight teleport with an arrow.
      • Alternatively, from Church of the Eclipse site of grace go for ladder on the right of Banished Knight at the front of the Church.  Then turn left, go straight and go left. Eliminate wolfs first and then Banished Knight.

 

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    • Anonymous

      these guys are by far my favorite knight enemies in a fromsoft game. they're fun to fight, a fitting challenge, have amazing drip, cinematic attacks, and just ooze total badassery from every pore. Love em

      • Anonymous

        My PC crashed 2 times while farming the red-eyed one, and both times I loaded in right in top of him and got combo'd to death, I think he attacked my PC IRL

        • Anonymous

          These guys are so badass but some of their storm attacks are borderline undodgeable in most cases. You simply can’t iframe the stomp or weapon itself AND dodge the whirlwind in a single roll. Niall’s stomp attacks can actually be iframed, it’s just a tight space. I don’t think I’ve ever iframed these guys’ storm attacks once.

          • Anonymous

            Bro the guys at Castle Sol can ****ing heal??? dunno which spell tho, but someone who knows how might wanna add that to wiki or something

            • Anonymous

              There is one Banished Knight with unaltered helmet and chest, wielding a Banished Knight Greatsword and Shield, right in the middle of Stormveil, after the rooftop section, there's a wodden bridge on the way to the inside part of the main gate, he is hiding behind a wall after the wooden bridge.

              • Anonymous

                I am unsure of the exact stats that cause this but I assume it’s more like “Heavy weapons” like Greatswords are great for stunlocking these guys. I had a good time in Castle Sol with a +9 Godslayer Greatsword and most attacks could keep them stunlocked - though the knights with the Shields were able to occasionally interrupt with a shield bash.

                • Anonymous

                  90% sure that the ones with the halberd can do a spinning attack that's just Splitleaf GS's Wind Wheel from DS3

                  • Anonymous

                    I can't figure out which incantation they use for their fire breath, I'm in love with the animation for it

                    • Anonymous

                      FYI their whirlwind attacks completely ignore sheilds. Ive been fighting them for 2 hours in farum azula using a greatsheild, and they are the only enemy ive faced in the entire game that sinply bypasses greatsheilds. They dont break my guard, i still have stamina, im holding block, but they simply hit through it every single time. Conplete BS considering no other enemy in the game does this, and theres literally no explanation

                      • Anonymous

                        why is it that this brick **** house of a knight is in the FIRST AREA but you can still find those vulgar militant ****ers in the LAND OF THE DEAD(forbidden land)

                        • Anonymous

                          I had a dream that I was stuck fighting the red eyed knight from castle sol and every time he would kill me he would point down and send a message saying “skill issue”
                          That dream felt way longer than it should have.

                          • Anonymous

                            You can attack this guys easier using run attack from straight swords, katanas,etc, while two hand your weapon. When you stab with your weapon they will get stagger easily and do a hit and run strategy doing this.

                            • Anonymous

                              Bare fists are easy mode against the ones with shield. Kick -> wait for them to regain balance -> kick again. Do this until they inevitably raise the shield and get stance broken, swap weapon, riposte. Rinse, repeat, victory.

                              • Anonymous

                                PSA - Farm them with lightning. Maybe bust out that grease you never use.... It's just sitting there. Look at it. It's practically begging to be useful. Throw the poor things a bone already.

                                • Anonymous

                                  I don't care what anyone else says, THESE are the single coolest enemies in the entire game. Are their combos longer than your average college discussion course? Yeah. Is the red-eyed variant in Castle Sol an absolute beast? Absolutely. Doesn't matter to me. Everything about them screams "I'm cool, I know I'm cool, I know I look cool, and I don't care." These bad bois are one of the only enemies in the game that I wholly respect whenever they kick my a**. Does it suck getting stun-locked by their stupid wind moves? Yeah, but watching them pancake my a** reminds me that these are warriors who wholly deserve that title. Everything they do is with purpose, flash, and overbearing power. They're fluent in over six million ways of kicking your a** and they'll remind you of that every time you butt heads with them. It's a damn shame we can only use some of their skills because that evasive move with the halberd knight and the charge attack the dual greatswords use are some of the coolest looking and flashiest moves in the entire game, hands down. They know how to throw hands and take them, and they'll do everything in their power to win because at the end of the day, it's not the title or land that gave these knights their position. It's their skill, power, and sheer f*cking CONFIDENCE. I use summons pretty regularly whenever I'm doing a cosplay run as a Banished Knight and I always use Oleg and Engvall. Seeing them FLY into battle to give that runebear a pseudo-cavity filling is one of, if not the coolest sights in the game. They might not win a battle. They may be outnumbered, outsized, or overwhelmed by the sheer power of a giant moldy potato, but they're definitely not outskilled and they'll go down fighting to the death. What an OUTSTANDING enemy. It's a damn shame they don't get more attention. I would love to see allied Banished Knights patrolling or resting in the Roundtable Hold or seeing them singlehandedly fending off some soldiers intruding on their land. They are the dictionary definition of "It's nothing personal, kid" and they know it.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    Dang are the Farum Azula ones bigger than normal? I guess they're typically not easy to just stand next to but the couple of them that look out into the distance don't really see you if you stand right by em and I just noticed they're nearly double the height of the player character lmao. Also man I really wish we could get that slick fire spell they can cast, though it'd probably be an ash of war if anything considering they don't pull out a seal.

                                    • Anonymous

                                      "The red-eyed spectral Banished Knight on the castle wall of Castle Sol can be baited into teleporting onto a higher platform (the roof of a room), after which the player can jump or roll to the walkway atop the wall that the Banished Knight was standing on just before. Then the Banished Knight will slowly walk towards the player, at which point it will fall to its death"

                                      What's the trick on getting this to happen? 11 times out of 10, the knight will be like "oh right I have a teleport" and now I have to fight him on a narrow walkway.

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Seeing Banished & Crucible Knights sets off the same portion of my brain that activates when I see a truck merge 3 lanes without signaling.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          I'm calling bs on these drop rates. I've farmed rarer items for far less time, even with silver foul foot + silver tear mask.

                                          • Anonymous

                                            A fully upgraded lightning infused Miscorde with some talisman and buffs, a riposte can do 3k damage to them. Try it.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              I fought the halberd banished knight in castle sol and he tried to cast a heal spell. I killed him before he healed so Idk how much it heals.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                The drop rate for the unaltered chest piece is straight up wrong. I have an inventory full of legs, helmets, and gauntlets with just over 600000 runes but not one single chest piece. At a 3% drop rate that’s statistically improbable. If my binomials aren’t too rusty that’s less than a 0.02% chance of happening if it’s truly 3% and yet here I am still without a f****** chest piece. This is my favorite armor piece in the game and yet every single playthrough winds up requiring between two and five hours to get it with me loosing track this time as I watched so many Münecat videos on YouTube I think I’ve actually damaged my brain with me not even listening to the videos or really playing the game by the end just going through it. It was still light out when I started and I’m literally going to bed without the chest piece. I’m telling myself to go touch grass that’s how much time I’ve just wasted. Fix the drop rate or while I have no power over anyone in charge and will still love the game regardless I will hold a deep and personal hatred that after festering will make me doubt any future releases under an “I don’t have time for that crap” attitude and with too many people in the same boat as me y’all will be your own downfall.

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Like the lothric knights of DS3, I initially hated them but now really enjoy them. Even the dual wielding ones I found to be fine after learning the tells for their combos.

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    My gripe about enemies like these is that they look so cool not only when they attack but when they're idle and walking. Meanwhile the player character only does the lame idle and walk cycle. If only we could attack like they do.

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      Pop a Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot if you have one.

                                                      Pop it like a pill? Pop it like champagne? Naw.. You SNAP those things like slim jims.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        They have majestic design and a varied and fun moveset to fight against. Their Spirit Ash form is one of the most powerful ones thanks to the constant aggressiveness.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          Unironically the Two Red Eyed Banished Knights at Castle Sol would give the Crucible Duo a Run for their money...

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            The halberd guys in Farum Azula are crazy. Hyper armour storm stomp that true comboes into their melee attack...

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              How are these still not nerfed?!
                                                              In Farum Azula, both their damage and their HP needs to be at least reduced by half.

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                Waves of Darkness is a good counter to these guys, heck this skill is capable up disrupting the insane lunge attacks of the infamous dual-greatsword pricks. I learned that in the Commander Nial fight where it saved my ass from that attack.

                                                                Also there's a much better way to farm for the unaltered Banished Knight chestpiece, instead of dealing with the dual-greatsword guy, the halberd guy can be cheesed quite easily with a bow, Magic Glintblade and your most powerful staff:
                                                                1. Start from the boss arena, Nial needs to be beaten for this
                                                                2. Aggro the Halberd knight with your bow
                                                                3. If it teleports to you run into the boss arena
                                                                a. If he decides to not teleport to you he'll either be difficult and not teleport to your or take a bit more to teleport to you
                                                                4. Keep your distance and spam Magic Glintblade until he dies
                                                                5. Rest at Site of Grace and repeat until you get the desired drop

                                                                This setup allows you to easily get back to the Site of Grace without having to use the lift. Don't be afraid to respec to do this.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  pov you're a ghost dude just chilling and get killed by the same idiot 100 times trying to steal your clothes

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    I farmed the one near the dragon communion for the unaltered helm (the cloaked one) but never got it. Have like 5 greatswords, 6 shields, 3 chest pieces and many greaves and gauntlets but not a single helmet. Kinda lost my faith...Anyone can assure me that he drops the helmet so I can sink some more hours into it?

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      0% chance the armor is the same drop rate as the rest of the set. I’m about 50 kills in and i have gotten multiple of the other pieces and exactly 0 of the unaltered chest

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        Dang when I invade in farum azula there's always a host and his two summons getting whooped by these guys so hard! I don't know if its just me but are these guys genuinely that hard for most people? So much so that three guys struggle to take them down?!? Either my smooth brain is just so dumb that i prevail against them easily or Banished Knights just built different.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          i thought i was the sh- after defeating elden beast, when on my second playthrough, no big deal, right, the one knight guarding the rusty key whooped my behind several times i thought i'm done, wanted to eat my controller

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            I always switch to colossal blades with these guys, almost always stuns them to the side, letting you follow up with more.

                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                              Having Trouble? Memorize moveset and counter. (like any)
                                                                              Jump attacks will interrupt most weak attacks these guys do.
                                                                              Backing away to bait them into running and the jump attacking truly works wonders against all of them.
                                                                              When they jump towards you wait for them to enter your space rather than dodging immediately.
                                                                              Practice will make perfect (I'm too lazy to write every move)

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                Having trouble with these guys? Get the Bolt of Gransax and level it up, then surprise a knight with a charged Ancient Lightning Spear (Ash of War). It'll knock him down hard and take a huge chunk of health. If you time it right you can hit him again right when he gets back up. Or two quick lightning attacks usually works too. Master the timing and the knights will never even get near you, and even if they do a couple jabs will finish them.

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  These guys are so cool man they are so strong and Oleg is #1 Chad spirit who does the stanky combo seriously so cool

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    these mfs gapped my ass when i got to castle sol they killed me more than radagon and godfrey combine wtf

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      Is there any known glitch that causes these guys to drop 15K runes instead of 3K? Had that happen twice in CFA

                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                        Is there a known glitch that causes some in CFA to drop 15K runes instead of 3K? It happened to me twice yesterday and was very confused

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          The red eyed one (Castle Sol) got me several times very easily (got hit and combo'd basically) but I was able to kill him pretty "easily" once I started dodging his attacks with quickstep, circled around to a backstab (as quickstep does). You'd think his nonstop combos would make this backstab hard to land but it wasn't, and you can get a free hit or two on him as he gets up, and then do another quickstep backstab when he attacks. Went weirdly smoothly.

                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                            For those who, like me, are still having troubles with these dudes a whole year later: Adula's Moonblade seems to stunlock them even in Faraam Azula. At the very least on normal NG with 60 int and a +25 Academy Staff. Takes like 4 hits for me to kill one, 5 if they blocked a strike. Lower int builds may need more, but as long as you got the FP, they can't do anything.

                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                              Another commenter suggested ironjar aromatic against the dual-wielding one in castle Sol, and it worked well for me. It doesn't stop all of his attacks, but it was enough to stop me from being combo'd to death (40 vigor, 25 negation, a lot of chugging). Also, I don't see it mentioned anywhere, but I think I caught him using a healing spell or some sort of buff. He definitely kneel'd down and cast something. Anyway, beating him and getting a weaker version of a Talisman was the most disappointed I've been playing this game.

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                For the dark room in Stormveil Castle : run out of the room immediately and to the right, and he gets trapped behind the door trying to follow you. You can then take his health down with thrust attacks.

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  slow, but "mostly easy" (if you got the stats and/or talismans that allow for it) way to deal with the fantoms in castle sol is pretty easy, powerstance colossal swords, stuns them on every hit, so, assuming your swords are buffed enough, should not be too much a hassle to deal with, long you take them one by one

                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                    use storm blade to completely destroy them at any range with any weapon that has a decent bit of strength scaling

                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                      If you are struggling against the dual wielding guy then try ironjar Aromatic. Watch as their attacks bounce off of you, ruining their combos and doing greatly reduced damage.

                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                        The simple fact that the ones in castle sol can TELEPORT is enough for the entire community to go on strike.

                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                          Farmed the unaltered banished knight set finally. Took maybe about 30 min (99 arcane). From the commander niall fight grace I just walk to the stairs by the entrance. I aim my Great Bow at the Halbred banished knight guarded by wolves. ONce you hit him, there's a good chance he'll instant transmission over to you. Two flame of the redmanes and he's poise broken. Give him a stab. Go up to grace and repeat.

                                                                                                          Took me about 70 tries (based on arrows used). I got mostly gauntlets, leggings, helmets, and halbreds. Only one unaltered chest piece. Looks great tho.

                                                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                                                            Why do I have to spend hours farming their equipment when the altered armor+helm, greatsword, halberd and shield are all in the Roundtable Hold as decorative props, they should have made it a lootable set there, or at least made it so you can buy the armor and weapons from the Twin Maiden Husks imo

                                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                                              These guys just SUCK. One in castle Sol just oh so conveniently knocks me off the higher ledge AS HE DIED, lost 150K runes from that bull****.

                                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                                4% drop chance on the shield. Killed him 90 times. I have 5-6 of everything else and not a single shield ¬_¬

                                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                                  Been farming this guy for almost an hour in the rampart tower and have been getting everything BUT the great sword which is what i want.

                                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                                    Colossal Swords (or any Colossal Weapon for that matter) seem to be the best thing for trashing these guys, mainly because every hit can stagger them and they can't randomly poise through a 8ft hunk of steel cleaving into them like they can with most other weapons, so if you're having a really bad time with them, try something like a Zweihander.

                                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                                      Ah yes i love getting stunlocked by a super fast wind aoe into an oneshot somersault move that I can't escape because I had the audacity to hit him more than once and because these guys have true comboes up the ass on top of the stupid almost instant wind aoe bullshit because **** you, these guys are just annoying if you are using anything smaller than great weapons.

                                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                                        Using the Claymore, i eventually beat the red eyed knight in Castle Sol by charging an R2 attack to hit after it teleported and was able to land 2 more charged R2s(while poising through a hit on the 3rd R2) to get a stagger and then a critcal attack kill.

                                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                                          Ok so i'm lvl 125 and have been trying to kill the dual greatsword one if castle sol for 2 hours now. I have died dozens of times and lost 200k souls. This dude starts off by teleporting behind you and agroing, taking stealth out of the equasion, and then procedes to start a 10 hit combo with his dual greatswords at a speed closer to what dual daggers do that, to the best of my knowledge, you can only dodge about 30% of at best and melts my 2k heathbar and 30% absorption like butter. He then does a frostbite whirlwind that, you guessed it, is also undodgable. He can also teleport in an out of range to dodge attacks and apply ridiculous pressure, so the battle is always it its favor. This has got to be the hands down most op regular enemy in the game.

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