Crucible Knight | Elden Ring Wiki

Boring boss. Hard as **** in the beginning, easy once you learn but always annoying. It takes 3-4 consevutive impaling thrusts to stagger (the same as giant bosses) and since they read your inputs it just forces you to play reactively, waiting for openings instead of getting stuck in. If I wanted to wait for enemy attacks i'd be playing a shield build.

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"Man these asses surely are hard to beat, if there was only a single weapon to cheese them..."
Buckler:

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Why in Marika's sopping wet fat milky tits do people have trouble with these guys???

On the input reading when you chug - Enemies have been doing that since at least Dark Souls 1. I never had a problem with it, as to me, it would make sense for enemies to react like that to healing. That, and you can outspace them easily enough.

I swear I'm not trying to be an asshat, I'm just confused as to why THESE guys get so much hate

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The Stormhill Evergaol variant gave me much more trouble than I would like to admit. That input reading cheater!

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Redmane Castle boss is the bane of my existence. On the plus side, crucible knight improved my parry timing ^^

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for mage builds out there gavel of haima consistently stuns these guys

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Long as their combos are, at least everything (except for the tail swipe but even then you can kind of work around it) is telegraphed. Never really manic/fast enough to make you panic either. You can get used to fighting them and beating them with reasonable enough practice. I can't say the same for Runebears and Revenants, who just have zero semblance of combat flow of any kind.

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Banished knight Engel all is a real bro.

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the spear ones keep trolling me

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parry practice

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DS1: Silver Knights -> ER: Copper Knights

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More than a decade later, the Black Knight may have acquired the ability to go frog mode, but he still gets wrecked by my nipple-looking portable arm plating.

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Not a shred of lore on this page. Pitiful. As far as Fextralife is concerned, this enemy should be called 'numbers', like all the other ones, and simply rated for difficulty.

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ANON Mar 13, 2023
Crucible Build *update*
Vigor 56
Mind 15
Endurance 36
Strength 50
Dexterity 14
Intelligence 9
Faith 42
Arcane 7

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One word solution for the ones on Nokron on the way to the gargoyles fight: Rejection. One off the waterfall, and the other off the bridge or lip of the building. You'll have to chain it, and don't do it when his shield is up. Aside from that works like a charm. If they stun lock you get away and catch them in a gap between their movements. Rejection stun locks them, just edge forward to keep pushing them off.

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The real boss of Redmane Castle.

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I'm presently playing a no-magic build. Just a rapier, parry shield, short bow, consumables. Crucible Knights went from being my least favorite fights to fights I seek out even when there's no reward like that Tree Crucible before Valiant Gargoyles. The reach on that spear thrust is so easy to mis-judge but it feels so nice to parry them and take them down.

I was at one time entirely incapable of parrying anything. Pages, Soldiers, and Crucible Knights are a great way to learn. It feels great turning what was once a slog into a "4 parries and they're dead" fight.

I'm thinking when I take this character to NG+ she's coming back as a Crucible Knight.

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You can Straight Up Cheese these guys' first phase with life steal fist, Walk to behind them base on where their attacks will miss the most and just spam lifesteal fist, The shield ones can't do anything until second phase if you do it correctly

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Crucible Knight vs Lesser Burial Watchdog
Place your bets

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i hate the tree ones jab attack i always think im out of range but i never am

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Men only want one thing and it’s ****ing crucible knight spirit ashes

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The only thing I would change about these is how long you stay down when they do an attack that knocks you off your feet. The later game ones have a tendency to do a sword thrust that knocks you down, then they do the ground stomp while you still can't defend yourself or even roll, then follow up with the double sword swipe. Basically a guaranteed kill if they get you with the initial knock down thrust. You really should be able to roll away faster after the thrust, the stomp, or both. It's not really a "challenge" per se when I can't defend myself to the point I could unplug my controller and it would be the same level of difficulty. You could say just learn to dodge the strikes but come on, as much as people like to talk as if they were high level players there's only a handful of legit no hit runners irl. Chances are, the average player is going to get hit at some point in these fights and having a sequence like this is just kinda crazy. Even Malenia's waterfowl dance has openings for rolls even after you get hit. It's hard but it's possible. Everything else can stay the same, just give me normal recovery time. I've recovered faster from a hit from Rykard ffs!

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i really like fighting them once you get the parry down it feels like radagon

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I really like these guys, for some reason. I've only seen them like a dozen times. Maybe I should make a Crucible build that's viable for PVP.

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Lifesteal fists can infinitely grab them

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Dark souls 2 boss.

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**Stormveil Castle - Paladin caster technique (Flame of Frenzy)**

PHASE 1A - Burst from behind
This is a cheap way to drop half of his HP bar (I was 24 Faith using Wondrous Physick with Faith-knot Crystal Tear and Golden Vow, around 500 HP and decent physical resistances to survive 2 but not 3 hits).

1. Amp up your Faith to max. using Physick Flask & Golden Vow (switch to red flask)
2. Creep up behind trying to stay in the middle of his back (too far left and his shield will tank the spell)
3. Charge Flame of Frenzy (FoF) to max. and unleash for insane damage!
4. Immediately after casting, spam roll backwards away from him - this will evade most of his damage
5. Sprint to the door and heal once through, then ready a blue flask

PHASE 1B - Bursting before transform
You now want to find safe windows to burst him with FoF. He won't transform to his second stage immediately, which means you have a chance at a safer FoF burst. Don't bother casting FoF while he has his shield up - it will only do minimal chip damage.

1. Keep your distance and back up the stairs
2. When he lowers his shield and goes for a thrust attack, roll back and immediately fully charge up a FoF attack to catch him during his stomp

PHASE 2A - Bursting after transform
After he transforms into his second stage with wings & tail, he is much more dangerous. You are more vulnerable at distance because dodging his gap closers risks falling off. Back up to the top of the stairs where there is more space and continue the fight outside of the lift shaft. You probably need to drink your blue flask now.

1. Stay fairly close and, when he swings his sword, roll forward on his right then roll again immediately to avoid his tail
2. If you have good spacing, turn and charge up a FoF attack, letting go as soon as he charges you - this should burst ~10-20% depending of you get hit
3. Now dodge out, repeat step #1 and instead of attacking, heal and reset
4. If you get cornered, you need to roll 3-4 times but with timing, don't just spam
5. At some point he will dive-bomb you - wait until he starts flying towards you and then roll forward
6. If you are quick you can catch him with a ranged FoF when he lands - usually just chip damage, but occasionally you can punish

PHASE 2B - Out of mana
If you whiff too many your FoFs (and survive?!), you can fall back to your melee weapon. This will only really do chip damage unless you're good at parrying (in which case you don't need this guide!).

1. This is the same as steps 1&2 above but in step 2 you close and take a quick attack after the tail swipe. I found this very difficult, so good luck! :P

All in all, it took me about 4-6 well-timed bursts of Flame of Frenzy to drop him.

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Well that was a disappointing use of a key. Guess it's time to fetch the third one.

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These guys are ass. Stupid high HP, simply asinine poise, 3-hit (or less) kill potential, basically immune to all status conditions, and cannot be backstabbed even if you sneak up on them just because screw you. Easy to parry, but who cares? A riposte only doesn about 10% or less of their ridiculous HP bar, and if you flub the parry you're screwed. Beatable, but simply not balanced.

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They don't take a lot of riposte damage, so parrying is a reliable but kinda slow strat

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as a melee character, these are so easy to beat (like everything else, melee OP)

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After thousends of hours in all souls games and 700 in eldenring thoose and revnants are still my Nemesis.

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Do NOT use prayerful strike on these guys, it heals them.

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top 10 worst designed bosses in the game

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Crumbling Farum Azula (near dead dragon) strat:
1. Reduvia Bloodblade special, tuck 'n roll a lot, kite around pillars to limit lunge distance
2. Wait for crucible knight to actually dive before rolling out of the way of his attack
3. ?????
4. Watch crucible knight self-own by falling to their death, netting you zero loot, after hours of frustration trying to prevail with various strategies
5. PROFIT!!!!

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what kinda crack you guys smoking over there. there is nothing slow about these guys. there is no down time between attacks and they chain like 6 to 10 attacks together

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I've noticed these guys for melee users are like mini radagon fight. Hard hitting but predictable swings, stomps to dodge, flying attacks, holy bolts, and near infinite poise. The strat being the same too; be close, dodge stomps and bolts, parry swings and use guard counters (on good timings). I actually would lime if there was 1 that was respawning, would make for fun practice.

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It's a fair fight until the second phase; the tail attack can be added onto anything he does to ensure there are zero openings to hit him. Not sure why they do this, idk what they expect from me with fights like these. You want me to read the computer's mind?

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Similar to the sulyvahn fight in which, without parries, you’re in for a long battle of dodges, but with parries it’s a cakewalk

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Oh sht. Fast black knights. Me ded.

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Parry timing is not too bad. Pair that with a weapon of your choice, preferably one with flame and you can wreck these dudes.

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the one is stormhill killed me more times than friede, midir, and gael combined

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It does not let you summon spirit ashes

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I want the grab and wings as incantations

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Just chain Lifesteal Fist on them. It's a command grab so they can't turtle, and you can charge it while they get up.

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For those strength bois out there with a heavy two-hander, here's my strategy for the evergaol knight
1. Use a heavy two-hander with stomp(upward slash) with the tortoise shell for extra stamina regen
2. When he's walking (not running) move to his right side to bait out his shield-charge, roll into it and quickly stomp-strike him, staggering him before he can retaliate
3. When he does his two-handed seismic stomp, stomp-strike him while he gets his shield back out and roll out before he can retaliate

Its a game of patience and pattern-recognition. Learn to dodge his attacks and bait out ones that have a gap for a good staggering strike.
Sincerely,
-Largemann, bare-chested supreme

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can confirm they are not immune to bleed. I fought the one in Leyndal w/ Greatstars. Landed a guard counter and the CK got chunked due to bleed. so this page needs at least a small update

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Beat all of them including Tanith's Knight as faith/strength without summons, the only one that really gave me trouble was the one in Stormhill, but I think that's because it was so early in the game. I beat the Redmane Castle knight/misbegotten duo in three tries, and the knight duo in that hero's grave in two tries. I didn't get to fight the Stormveil castle one though, he jumped down an elevator shaft while I was trying to open the shortcut

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This enemy is very fun to fight but the damage is too overturned for an enemy that attacks so relentlessly and recovers this fast.


50 Vigor + Dragoncrest Greatshield + Pearldrake + Haligdrake talismans and the one in Deeproot melts my HP with that stinger grab attack and will continue to attack when you're down, leaving you almost no chance to roll away or chug your flask.

This "1 mistake and byebye" kind of fights are so prevalent.

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One can be fought in the fortress where everybody is gathered for Radhan boss fight. Just go back there after killing Radhan and you will get a boss fight with him and a beast creature.

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Love these, jumping the flying attack is 10/10 satisfaction

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What i dont understand is why he can block ambush shards that hit him from behind. is this a bug

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Just wanted to say thanks to whoever wrote up the guide and suggested Stamp(Upward Cut). I not only finally killed him, I learned how to use Stamp. Very satisfying fight. This is the thing with this game, now I want to go fight another one.

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New to fromsoft games and this is genuinely my favourite enemy in the game, the stormhill evergaol one taught me how to play the game more than any other enemy or boss, after that boss I understood timings, iframes for rolls, when to be greedy or not, double rolls to avoid the tail swipe as well as basic positioning, took me about 15 attempts at lvl 30-35 to go from a complete noob to having a basic understanding of most of the games core mechanics, it just feels like a perfectly balanced fight to me whether it's the spear or sword version

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crucible knight is my baby girl

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you cannot summon spirit ashes for the one in stormveil castle. or at least i couldn't today.

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I'd love to have his stomp available as ash of war, think of it like physical version of hoarfrost stomp. Would be perfect skill for weapons with moveset that lack wide arcing swings needed for 1 vs many situations.

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Apparently those at Farum Azula can be for some reason healed not only with Erdtree heal, but any healing incantation (tested Heal and Blessing of the Erdtree and they both worked). Those met before can't be healed - kinda wonder if this is some sort of glitch or there is lore behind this like falling from grace at some point.

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You can summon D and then go fight the spear one in Siofra (instead of entering the boss room).

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Beat the stormhill evergaol version using a torchpole and barricade shield. Go for a hit every time his combo ends and either roll or block immediately. Works best when he goes for the stomp combo, if you can avoid the first hit, you have a large window to get in one charged attack. When he's at 1/3rd of his health use 2-3 fire pots to avoid getting caught by the long tail swipe. Positioning and maintaining the right distance is crucial, otherwise you'll either get wrecked or do no damage forever.

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I ran into the first one at Farum Azula and it had gold eyes. After using a gold-pickled fowl foot and wearing the gold scarab and killing it I got 146,390 runes on journey 8+.

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Could one of these guys beat the nameless king or champion gundyr?

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the amount of salt here is funny

ps. they are not that hard to fight just dont get greedy.

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"Hey! What if we took Black Knights, cranked them full of crack and steroids, made them immune to backstabs, made them unstaggerable, and generally made them infinitely more annoying to fight in every way? Oh and make sure they drop nothing but a poor amount of runes and no other worthwhile drops!" Is how i imagine the conversation the designers of these enemies had went, if your gonna make an enemy that strong, atleast make them drop something that makes taking the time to kill them worth the trouble. They did that with the Black Knights from the Souls trilogy, why not these?

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The one in stormhill is by far stronger than ANY of the others in the game. Its the only one that actually ever gave me trouble. Its so strong, but the rune reward for it SUCKS. Such a weird super boss

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Fought one that drops Crucible Hornshield in Siofra Aqueduct. After a few attempts I started to beat him really good, but he flew to his doom into the abyss. Bastard didn't want to give me satisfying victory.

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You can cheese the first phase of the Stormhill one. When you hit their shield, they almost always go for a shield bash attack. Just move sideways while locked on to them, and if you do it properly you dodge the attack. You then get 2-3 free hits, after which point you hit the shield again and repeat.

This still kinda works in the second phase but you have far fewer opportunities to execute it.

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This is peak enemy design, absolutely well designed enemy that even tops revenants in quality, everytime theres a crucible knight i am absolutely joyfull to fight them because of how fantastic and fun they are to fight. They shouldve made Crucible Knights respawn and everytime you die to them they should have their stats doubled

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This page says there is lore about there being exactly 16 crucible knights mentioned in the armor set, but, none of the armor pieces have this info on them? Where is the source of info that lore-wise there are 16 of them. (I am well aware there are 16 crucible knights in the game, but the page says that matches lore, and I cannot find that lore)

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Neither Crucible Knight encounter in Crumbling Farum Azula allows spirit summoning, contrary to what is said here.

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The first Crucible Knight in CFA does NOT allow spirit summons, contrary to what it says here. I suspect the same is true of the second.

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The worst part about the fight against this dude paired with the Leonine Misbegotten in Redmane Castle is the amount of crap strewn all over the arena that's there just to **** you over by getting you stuck on stupid furniture that you can't break by rolling through for some stupid reason.

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I used to think that the reason why their thrust attack has so much range was because of dumb hitboxes, but i noticed that the real reason why thats the case is because the moment he executes the attack he does a cheeky little lunge to catch you for thinking he's too far to hit you, these guys are such cheeky bastards.

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I swear breaking these guys stance is impossible. I hit them with 3 fully charged great club R2s and they just shrug it off. Maybe their poise just regens insanely fast or they're immune to stance breaks but I've never seen it happen.

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One of my best moments in this game is when i lured one of these dudes in Stormveil Castle onto an ascending elevator, and seeing him faceplant onto the floor right next to me Looney Tunes style, getting trashed by the bastard in the Stormhill Evergaol made that moment even funnier for me.

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Sadness ahead

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At Stormhill baiting his thrust attack, rolling away, and punishing with stomp worked for me. On the second stage of the fight, roll back immediately after staggering him cause he'll try to tail swipe.

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Other Knights when fighting a greatsword/colossal sword user: am stunlocked, hlp pls.
Chad Crucible Knights: Facetanks multiple jumping attacks without even flinching before flinging the tarnished around like a ragdoll. Like seriously how much gains do these dudes have? What kind of juice do they drink?!

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just remove the stomp, the boss literaly spams it, its just annoying, it only it did knockback or something sure, but no, lets just make him do 200+ Damage

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Storm hill Castle: I accidentally cheesed it by running onto the elevator. It did a combo and fell down the elevator shaft

My first time meeting them in Siofra Aqueduct, I accidentally cheesed both of them by dodging their wings flying attacks. They both flew off and fell to their deaths.

Elden ring is my first fromsoft game and my first video game in general (not including browser games). so I’m a noob, but I found that Stamp, Upward Cut AOW is really easy to use and effective, at least for the Siofra/Belfries one.

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Ancient Death Rancor + 9 mana pots = hilarity. Just keep spamming and it works wonders on the shield knights. Eventually they get knocked down. Don't bother charging them, just keep spamming. Cheese the cheese. Extra large cheese with a side of cheese. Insanely satisfying.

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My only hopes are we get the aspect of the crucible wings in a dlc.

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Probably the best designed enemies in the game, especially in terms of combat mechanics.

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Absolutely hate these pieces of sh!t. Infinite poise, infinite stamina, insane damage all around, they literally have no weakness and parrying them does jack sh!t. **** you Fromsoft.

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how does sleep affect them? is it like the godskins where they effectively go into a coma or is it like players where they just get stunned for half a second.

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They are very easy to parry and a good teacher to learn the skill. If you want an easy way to kill them, basically a cheese, use Flame of the Redmanes skill on any weapon. Two uses will stagger them for riposte every time.

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Wonder how these guys look without their armor.

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The amount of poise these dudes have would make Havel seem like a scrawny twig by comparison, They can facetank a dual-wielded colossal sword jump attack to the face without even flinching.

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Near the end of the game, yet i still dread these dudes, if you are fighting these dudes be careful to time your flasks well, or else you'll get a 8ft long greatsword jab right into you likely before you could even sip, and try parrying, even as someone who is very bad at parrying (probably because i barely ever use it) it really helps against these bastards, especially a buckler or a shield with golden parry on it.

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Black Knights I can fight, but these *******s....they're too much. Just too much.

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Farum Azula:
Tried parrying. Too hard.
Bloodhound finesse + Bloodhound step finally did the trick.

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anyone know if the one near the boltdrake +2 at farum azula drops anything? i accidentally blasted him out a window and he fell into the death barrier

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I hate how parrying is literally their only weakness because they're almost always grade A douchebags otherwise, obnoxiously long reach on almost every attack, always punishes you for even daring to so much as think about healing, eats almost everything you throw at him without even so much as flinching, pretty much never stops attacking, resistant to everything, can't be backstabbed, annoying bs grab, hits like a freight train, just screw these aholes, you can get used to them but they never stop being unfun and annoying as hell to fight without having a shield to parry them with.

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I wouldn't call these guys unfair but they are kind of unfun. The shield really limits your creativity in how you approach the fight. You just dodge his attack chain and get like two hits worth of scratch damage in and rinse and repeat until he's dead. Parrying's also an option but it's still pretty repetitive.

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Used to struggle with these guys until I whipped out my buckler. So satisfying to slap their swords away.

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I used to hate the axe-head ones until I learned how fun they are to parry

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Red and Castle: Pop Latenna (archer summon) in a corner, power down the beast man. Get aggro on crucible knight, lead him to opposite end from Latenna. Dodge while she pelts him in the back with arrows. If he starts to look at her, hit him with a bone dart to get aggro back… easy mode

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I just found two cheese spots at Redmane castle at NG+ to kill him before fighting the Leonine Misbegotten. The bridge above the boss fog is the better one.
I jumped onto the wall where the indestructible lantern was and walked along it to where I could see the knight. After that I do a jump trick(jump straight up, then hold run in midair, which allows you to do a long jump from standstill when you land) to get onto another lantern for a much better angle.
All arrows will do damage, just in case you run out of poison/rot arrows. I didn't try a great bow, but I'm sure that'll do more damage as long as it doesn't move him out of sight.

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Blasphemous Blade does wonders against them, +10 trivialises it so much, just don't get greedy with the weapon art or you will get hit.

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How to cheese him in Stormhill Evergaol: Jump on the rock and shoot him with a crossbow. Took me ~70 bolts. Also protect yourself with a shield from the stomp attacks. If he goes up, go down, run like a coward and go back on the rock. Not proud, but this boss war just no fun for me.

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