Crucible Knight Ordovis | Elden Ring Wiki

One of the most awkward fights i've done so far

About 12th attempt > No ashes at start. Walked around outside hitting spear dude with lightning spears non charged, though I barely have enough faith to use the spear. Kept it up till he was about half health. Then brought crystillian+7 with the last of my fp. Kept walking round. Whenever both turned to the cryst one of them got a talisman boosted charge attack on the back of the head. Till the spear guy fell. Then, kept circling and made the other bro piggy in the middle. Whenever he turned to the crys, boom in the back of the head till dead. A bit cheap, but they earned it with all those ridiculous moves

Fun fight though. Pissed me off so much i actually t-bagged a non-player :)

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The only boss i gave up on, i never went back at a higher level tho.

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Beat them first try, of course I used Mimic Tear+10 and Grafted Greatsword+9. I'm not good at video games.

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The singe fact that the spear guy can just lunge across the room to punish you for healing combined with the insanely aggressive AI made this fight take longer for me to beat than any other boss in the game besides Godskin duo and Malenia

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My problem with this guy in particular is that his moves are absurdly difficult to dodge and you need a greatshield at least if you dont want your guard broken. He'll literally change his swords direction mid-swing, and stun-lock most of your health away if/when he lands a hit. Your only hope is to take advantage of those split-second i-frames or roll away and wait for an opening - although even those options are punishing since many of his attacks have very little wind up.

Just a tedious fight. Gave me DS2 Fume Knight vibes.

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Oh man, it felt great to mow his buddy down with arrows and then call the mimic tear in. It was like pulling an Uno Reverse card out

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Top notch battle, I hope you fight 4 at once in the DLC

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There are few fights where input-reading is as blatant than this. Him and his buddy will get a hit in and will then just -stare- at you if you back away from them, waiting for you to push any kind of healing button. They will literally do nothing but watch you for a good 10 seconds straight if you don't heal, but as soon as you attempt it, they immediately - on the exact frame you pushed the 'heal' button - do one of their yeet-themselves-across-the-room attacks at you.

Just an all-round rubbish fight tbh. Nothing but cheap tactics and spam - winning is more down to RNG than anything else, and the rewards aren't even that good either.

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I wish nothing but stubbed toes and incontinence to the dev that put those skeletons by the stake of Marika

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My man!

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By looking at other people's comments glad that I'm not the only one to have struggled with these guys, also tip always go for the spear guy first.

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Dagger Talisman and Assassin Crimson Dagger Talisman. Laughing all the way through as a Parry King.

-RL 1 with no smithing stone upgrades

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Found that black flame attacks work well against him, especially Black Flame Tornado... if you can get it off safely. Black Flame Blade spell is an alternative for melee builds.

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Who thought these guys should have 2 different drops while the knight in the Siofra Belfry gives absolutely nothing of value?

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plin plin plon

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Knight with the spear is the typical elden ring pvper - stupid little ***** that can't leave you alone!

Also why the hell are breath attacks in the game if every single enemy can just run up and hit you out of it?!

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You really get a sense of what's wrong with the design of some of the fights in this game (go ahead and fanboy me). Some specs are just going to find this fight super difficult. And you notice from the comments that most of the people praising themselves for beating the fight are WAY overgeared for where most will be.

I did the best I could, used the Greatshield Soldier Ashes, Frost seems to do fairly well as far as weapons. Tried to kill the spear guy first, but mostly I just had to keep trying until RNG went my way. You can't control who the Ashes target or how quickly they die, it's all RNG and they don't have much smarts. Finally had it all go my way and won. I definitely didn't feel any sense of accomplishment other than a very badly balanced boss fight is finally over.

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Least fun fight in the game.

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**** these guys in particular, you try and dodge one attack then get blindsided by the other dude! Even spirit ashes don't help much considering they drop like flies against this duo!

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This is just Elden Ring, 3.000 hours long heros grave and two crucible knights at once and you get effin 28.000 runes for that...

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The should’ve just made Ordovis solo and stronger. Kiting isn’t fun, but fighting him is. I really like the dance of fighting crucible knights but it’s not fun when one of them keeps forcing you to run away from a duo combo health melter

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I threw 4 rot pots at each of these bosses, and neither of them were rotted. Pots give 300 buildup each, so something is off here.

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Glad I fought them post patch. Quite manageable, generally you can count on one to leave you alone if the other's attacking. The original ck in the gaol was my introduction to soulsborne games and I love them + their sick armor.

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Here is a tip - the spear knight has no shield so cannot block projectiles and as it turns out neither makes any attempts to dodge them. So you can take it out using a ranged weapon and then fight Ordovis.

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Kiting them around and using stormblade after they miss an attack is an easy way to get through this fight, albeit a bit cheap

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Whoever designed the stab that reaches half a football field to heal punish you needs to be fired before the dlc, at least parrying trivializes the fight

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I dont hate fighting these guys, I think it's quite engaging, but the rock stomp that hard stuns me and let's them true combo me to death es no bueno

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i hate this ugly two headed backstabbing dung eating clown

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I hate this fight not because i think crucible knight is some unkillable beast but because their main weakness which is getting parried can get invalidated because they may just decide to do some combos all at once and stunlock you. Still Golden parry is very good against them since you can parry them from a bit of a distance and sometimes the other knight will just walk around look while you chain parry the other

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Important note currently the crucible knight with the spear ignores shabriris woe unless the mimic hits first. Which the mimic goes after ordovis almost every time so kiting does help. Then good luck

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Thought I would be clever and use sleep pots since that's the best solution for Godskin duo. Turns out they only flinch from sleep.

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If you have assassin's gambit on you, you can throw it on an a dagger and use it before entering the boss fight. Only the spear knight locks on to you and you can hug the wall and kite it to a back corner of the arena, behind Ordovis. Here as long as you don't get too close to Ordovis, you can make this fight two 1v1s instead of the 2v1 that it is.

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Actually not quite as cancerous as the Valiant Gargoyles, mainly because they aren't filling the entire room with poison mist that kills you and your framerate in five seconds.

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I decided to do a crusader build in challenge run of no summons, let me say this boss wasn't fun at all. Best way for me to deal with him at level 65 is by killing ordovis first, who seemed to be the most aggressive. I use the giant hunt ash of war to kill him and for the other one I used poison darts. Honestly this fight was torture...

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Thank f*** for mimic tear!

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After dying trying to melee them without managing to take even 30% of their HP each try,i decided to not lock-on and jog around them while chucking Black Flame at them,worked the first attempt.Wonder why i even upgrade my melee weapon....

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Crucible Knight Chadovis

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I hope whoever put two crucible knights as a boss in a tomb with chariots and made the reward some mid drip and a sword that does holy damage stubs their toe on a Lego

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these MFs could solo like half of the bosses in Bloodborne minus most of the great ones

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Did this at lvl42 so as to do a full crucible knight playthrough of the game. skeletal militiamen ashes and giant hunt zweihander were MVP for the first half of the fight, then parrying Ordovis with crimson dagger talisman for the second half. One of the hardest fights I've done but extremely rewarding.

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doing this rl1 was excruciating

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So does each one have 5460 HP or 2730?

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Am I too used to Souls games ? First try on NG I beat them with "just" my +22 heavy beloved Zweihander and 61 Strength. Reading the comments before I came here to face a good challenge but meh...

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i genuinely hope whoever came up with this boss fight suffers testicular torsion for the rest of their life o7

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Lifesteal fist works on them. Try beating to a pulp.

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Worst boss in the game

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Just beat them on NG+7 with Blasphemous Blade +10 with following Talismans
- Fire Scorpion
- Godfrey Icon
- Carian (reduces FP Consumption for Talents)
- Shard of Alexander

Golden Vow and Flame give me Strength are also helpful

Mimic Tear +10 helps much to split them a bit

With Str, Dex and Faith of 80 I did roughly about 2.6k Damage per Hit

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Stubbornly finished by beating them after many many many ... tries.
Lightning spears when locked on to spear guy. Back off. Try to avoid getting hit by flying attack in his 2nd phase and to get cought by shield guy at the same time.
Then 1 on 1 summoned Shield shades at +5 or 6.
Pelt Lightning spears until dead.

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The HP are wrong here.
They BOTH have ~5500 HP in NG

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First boss in a long while to really give me a run for my money on my dragon incantation build. Usually with one enemy (or two relatively low health enemies), the long wind-ups and period of vulnerability after weren't too terrible - the damage easily made up for that. However, with these two ****ers, it made it incredibly easy for one of them to hit me in the middle of the attack, and it was basically inevitable that I would trade damage.

Eventually won by hitting them with Agheel's Flame in the beginning, then biting the spear guy (and luckily, also hitting the sword guy as well, which staggered them both) until both were around half health or lower. Then I summoned my trusty pumpkin head, who proceeded to fight the spear guy - was able to then bite the daylights out of the sword guy and then kill the spear after. Took way longer then I'd like to admit but at least I got some pretty kickass draconic looking armor out of it.

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Dual wielding katana user here!
I lost count with how many attempts this took but I felt myself getting better and better and I used some pretty nice tactics which are as follows:

*something to note before we begin: if you respawn at the Stake of Marika, three skeletons will be infront of you before the boss room. Make sure to kill the melee skeleton at the bottom of the stairs (same level as boss room) because he can interfere with your summons as they can glitch out and still recognise him as an enemy, making your summons useless for that round. with that said, let's begin:

Summon in the Skeletal Militiamen, because they get back up at least once, keeping Ordovis (Mr Shield) distracted. Immediately begin moving to the right, Mr Shield should begin to aggro the summons and Mr Spear will follow you. You may need to dodge one or two attacks, but pretty quickly he will get bored of you and turn his back. I managed to get two Blood Slash's on him before he turned back around to me, so then I created some distance and consumed some Exalted Flesh, weaving in and around his attacks looking for an opening to strike whilst Mr Shield is still distracted. If you're lucky enough not to get hit during this entire process, you can easily chunk him to half hp; activating his second phase (p2).

You want to make sure that you kill one at a time, and take your time repositioning yourself to achieve this. Kill Mr Spear first because otherwise, if you attempt to kill Mr Shield first then Mr Spear will just snipe you from afar. These bosses both have p2's, which activate at half health. Having to deal with shield boy's tail in p2 can be obnoxious with the Mr Spear lingering around so yeah, just kill Mr Spear first.

You really have to learn the timing of when they go up to the ceiling and then dive down to you. Shieldy boy is easy, just roll left or right but Mr Spear is quick af. Once you've put your i-frames to use, this is when he becomes vulnerable. Perfect time to use your skill move, but don't get greedy.

Do not be afraid to roll forward in this fight, so long as the other boss isn't closeby. Rolling backwards can be detrimental because Mr Shield can lunge at you just at the right moment when your i-frames end, leaving you grievously wounded.

You are going to die multiple times during this fight, just take that time to learn the moves.

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For those who may be having issues with this fight, the Assassin's Gambit Ash of War will allow you to aggro the spear knight and not Ordovis himself, go hard right or left and hug the wall all the way to the back of the Arena and engage the Spear Knight in a 1v1. Try to stay in the back part of the arena because if you get too close to Ordovis he will aggro and will make the fight rather difficult.

If you're going the parry route, utilize Assassin's Crimson Dagger because the heal is consistent and using a flask against either the Spear Knight or Ordovis will almost always cause you to get hit unless you're a decent distance away.

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Just use flame night blade L2 R2 it does so much damage at a decent lvl

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After a few tries i found a solution for me
As soon as i entered the mist i summoned the great shield skeletons while the skeletons aggro'ed em both nice and tight i used Ekzykes Decay on both em 2 full times and they got scarlet rot i seperated them (1 was fighting the remaining skeletons) and picked em apart with the Fallingstar Beast Jaw for a med-close range type of fight

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Note to FromSoftware: Ornstein and Smough was a great fight because their moveset was so different. One was fast and charged at you with swift melee attacks (also used ranged attacks), the other was a heavy hitter but slow and kitable. The fight made sense. Having two enemies that move at the same speed does not work the same way. More than 50% of the fight was just running circles to get them to separate from each other. Almost identical behaviour tree makes it even worse.

**** this fight. Didn't even feel rewarded when I beat it, just relieved it was finally ****ing over.

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I can finally beat these two reliably. The trick is that they will not attack at the same time unless they're close together. Keep front knight between you and a pillar while the back is behind that same pillar. You have to be really patient and the fight takes awhile

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You can beat them without parrying by keeping medium distance from the secondary knight, and very slowly moving back.

Too close, and both will attack you. Too far, and the second knight will charge you. By keeping one knight close and second knight few meters away, only one will attack at a time.

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Their HP values seem to be really off in this page. Watching a guy playing a SL1 run and doing ~300 damage on a riposte and it's not even close to 10% of the HP bar of a Knight.

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Trying to fight them with Ghiza's Wheel is not advised. Trust me.

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Casting night maiden mist and dancing around them with target lock on is the definition of cheese for these

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Today i tried to parry this dude, it's pretty much the first time trying to parry a crucible knight so i don't know if the other knights have the same problem for me.
I was a summon, just in case that changes anything, connection was good though. So i got a few half parries, like where you partially block damage and you get a bonk sound but you sitll done goofed, but when i was sure i got the timing right, the attack just phased right through me, without damaging me.
I got like 10 instances of that, it was really irritating ngl. Not one actual parry, i just don't get hurt and he keeps his combo going, as if nothing happened at all.
tf is going on? anyone else here had that issue?

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i beat with parry only just because my main build (greatsword) feels like it just leaves me too vulnerable. my tip to anybody going the same route is to maybe try and go for the spear guy first just because hes so easy to read, and 2nd DONT TRY TO SPACE ATTACKS! spear guy and sword guy's lunging attacks have to be parried up close otherwise youll just be eating major damage. you could even parry stunlock both of them over and over if you have the luck.

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The worst part about this fight is how unsatisfying it feels to actually beat them. Both my original and NG+ victory can be attributed to Spear Guy pulling an Epstein prison guard and letting me go to town on Ordovis. As much as I like the rest of the game, every HotWheels museum has been thoroughly underwhelming so far.

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As of Patch 1.07 Giant Hunt now staggers ANY Crucible Knight without fail.

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Just finished these mofos on my Nagakiba only run (no powerstancing, no building for bleed.. even though bleed don’t work against these guys, just Naga and faith spells).

So after trying to bumrush them a few times and try to sneak in hits, I was just getting owned, as they were like glue and would not separate from each other. So I changed some things up and ended up going with:

The wondrous flask with the buff that makes it easier to break stances and healing over time, put Unsheathe on my Keen Naga (+13 atm), buffed with Lightning Armament, Blessing’s Boon, and Golden Vow. Was able to stance break them with 3 R2 Unsheathe’s which really helped out with thay extra critical damage. Plus Naga’s range is awesome so I was able to space just far enough out of reach from their range without trading hits.

Obviously this isn’t the most optimal set-up, just figured I’d share my experience, as this run has been like an entirely different game without powerstancing, using summons, and building for bleed/frost, and spamming OP ashes of war. Feels good actually having to figure out bosses and come up with strategies.

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The spear ones grab attack hitboxes are absurd. It literally misses me a mile away then latches on after a delay??? This game has solid hitboxes so this one is confusing.

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He invades you if you hit Tannith in Rykard's boss arena (even if you defeat him in Auriza hero's grave beforehand)

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If you got used to parrying the other Crucible Knights, this fight isn't too hard as long as you keep both of them in sight. SL125, Rivers of Blood +10 (probably should've used a Misericorde since all I did with this weapon was parry punish), buckler. 40 vigor. Circled the arena punishing all of their telegraphed attacks. The spear dude has a sneaky dagger attack to watch out for after his midphase "transformation"

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They were a pain to beat, but I did it at level 47. I used a lightning claymore +12, brass shield +3, and skeletal militiamen +3. As long as one of the militiamen stays alive, you can get some safe hits in before he goes down again. The lesser crucible knight would one-shot me with his grab though, and I could swear he has two different speeds for that grab.

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This guy is straight up translated from japanese オルドビス (Ordovis). However the japanese name actually comes from オルドビス紀 - which translates to the Ordovocial, a geologic period of the Paleozoic.
Interestingly the first major mass exstinction event on earth happened around the end of said era.

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Black Flame, can't stress enough that this spell has absolutely everything needed to kill this boss safely. Did so as an arcane toon using dragon seal to cast while offhanding godslayer seal for the boost. Let mimic tank for the few seconds it was good for and just kited while throwing fireballs anytime they started an attack animation that was out of range, then rolled right after the cast to dodge the stab he uses to follow up the attack he whiffs on you, rinse and repeat, only needed 2 blue flasks with 17 mind, and still had some fp leftover at 248 incant scaling on dragon seal. If both of them are in melee range you can usually run across the room and only one will sprint to you while the other walks, you will want to split them up for this strat

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Holy ****, this is awful. It feels like From just cant capture O&S ever and I do mean ever again. They're both way too aggressive, and if they each didnt have two fases or ranged attacks, I wouldn't be writing this.

I feel bad for crucible knights, they get awesome weapons, sweet armor, but their moveset makes them extremely unlikeable

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Utterly obliterated them at lvl.120 with the Dark Moon Greatsword.
Just pop the weapon art, keep your distance and spam charged heavy attacks focusing on the lance guy first. He'll get poise broken soon and then it's just a matter of time before Ordovis goes down too.
The AI seems to have some trouble dodging this attack, probably because it expects a "missing" heavy attack without considering the ranged lunar blast.

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Use ranged attacks such as magic or thrown items to kill the one with the spear first as you kite around the room since it can't block, and then summon spirit for Ordovis. How I killed them the first time.

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Okay, since everyone seems to be sharing their victory stories:

I was level 80, didn't want to go any higher for PvP purposes

Dragon King's Cragblade in my right, Buckler in my left.

Bullgoat set

11 crimson flasks, 3 Cerulean

Arsenal charm +1, Erdtree Favor +2, Shard of Alexander and I'm blanking of the name of the one that basically works like the Estus Ring and makes your Crimson heal for more.

No spirit summon.

Nothing too fancy, I just spent forever kiting them around, poking when they got close. I was surprisingly successful with this, and I mainly went for Ordovis first. Once he was dead, his henchman was easy.

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I finally beat the duo in Auriza after a dozen or so tries just now. The game changer for me was to save my spirit ashes for halfway through the fight. Initially I was popping them off right at the beginning and they would get wrecked by Ordovis while I worked on the spear guy. The winning tactic was to walk in, immediately start picking off Spear Guy's health while I dodged around the arena, and then once it was just me and Ordovis, I summoned Oleg to make it a 2v1 and the fight was **way** easier!

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If you’re having trouble. Mimic tear +10 and spam blasphemous blade aow. For semi cheese

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Really enjoyed this fight, the crucible knights movesets are well balanced imo and have a nice rythm. They will punish panic chugging, but they also dont have any BS moves that you cant dodge. Putting two of them together makes this fight alot slower, but unlike the twin gargoyles you can actually seperate them and they dont always aggro at the same time.
I recommend killing the spear guy first.

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I Parried the crucible out of him while my Boy Engvall was dealing with the spear guy. Fun Fight.

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Really enjoyed this fight, the crucible knights movesets are well balanced imo and have a nice rythm. They will punish panic chugging, but they also dont have any BS moves that you cant dodge. Putting two of them together makes this fight alot slower, but unlike the twin gargoyles you can actually seperate them and they dont always aggro at the same time.
I recommend killing the spear guy first.

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I Parried the crucible out of him while my Boy Engvall was dealing with the spear guy. Fun Fight.

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Got them 2nd attempt
Ash: Mimic Tear
Great sword
Ash of War
X11 Crimson Flask
x3 cerulean flask

I let my mimic tank Ordovis and I squared off with his best mate. I basically kited spear boy in circles and spammed my ash of war. Still had to do some considerable dodging but he went down fairly quick. My mimic got Ordo down about 1/2 health, just repeated the process. Fun fight.

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These two homies are checking me HARD. I was cruising through the Altus Plateau until I got to these two. Need to be more patient tonight and see if I can get them. I've only gotten the lesser crucible guy to HALF HP so far.

These guys are tight you can tell they are good friends probably play lots of games down there waiting for us.

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Mayabe im level 124 (i not remember my level XD) and i have beaten this knights on 8th attempt with:
• Antspur rapier + 15
• Golden Greatshield + 15
• Radhan gauntlets and greaves
• Confessor armor
• Aristocrat headband
(nothing special just fashion- souls)
• No buff from wondorous physick or other items
•No spirit ashes
• Talismans Great Jar arsenal, Golden scarab and Assasin crimson dagger
(very random talismans XD)
• Consumed only 5 Crimson tears flask from 13

Is very fun this boss fight and not is impossible

(on the first try I was going to win with Reduvia + 6, i defeat 1 Crucible Knight)

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killed them at level 101 after 7-8 tries. i kinda wanted to just leave after losing a few times but forced myself to get through the fight since getting to it again meant ruthless chariots gunning for me. i eventually got better at dodging their attacks as they're quite telegraphed.

weapon: +17 keen uchigatana with bloody slash
main stats: vigor, dex, end
armor: scaled armor set + marais mask (not enough equip load to wear a better helmet, plus i feel like a badass prince wearing it).
talismans: radagon's soreseal, prosthesis-wearing heirloom, golden scarab (because i'm greedy)
ash summon: +0 putrid corpses

for my strategy, taking damage is inevitable. sometimes i'd get lucky and find an opening to use bloody slash with but 70% of the time i was trading blows - letting them take chunks of my hp in return for taking some of theirs. had 11 flasks to burn through so it was basically a battle of attrition. i know i should upgrade my ashes but i haven't yet. anyway, the putrid corpses allowed me to separate them for a good 15-30 seconds while i traded blows with ordovis, who i eventually killed. then did the same with spear guy, the aftermath being 1/4 of my hp left with 0 flasks. overall i felt really good after winning it, the pay-off being the extremely cool armor set imo.

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Took me forever, then used Rivers of Blood +10 and mimic tear, spammed L2 and they melted away

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Got them 1st try using Greatsword with Lion's Claw and then using Omenkiller Rollo +10. Summoned Rollo, and then spammed Lion's Claw to victory!

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Since everyone shares how they managed to win this fight, here is mine:

Am a melee build, level 100, talisman radagon soreseal, erdtree favor, great jars arsenal, godrick great rune. With talismans and great rune dex and vigor 45, endurance 40, strength 35. 10 crimson and 3 Cerulean flasks. Sentinel Set, Brass shield +15, Bloodhound fang +6. Mid load.

Died 7-10 times before winning.

The time I won, I put bestial vitality, bloodflame blade, flame, give me strenght, flask of wondrous physick +5 str/dex, boiled crab, turtle neck. Summoned at the start Mad Pumpik Head +6 to retrieve runes. Wanted to concentrate on spear guy, got it to quarter health with combination of bloodhound finesse and strikes but also recieved hits and consumed crimson flask. Then, mad pumpkin head died and Ordovis started to approach me. Managed to bring spear to half health but then Ordovis started to be in front and spear guy just attacked from behind and with flight attack which are to some degree easy to avoid. Ordovis didn't back up, so I used Bloodhound finesse whenever I had the opportunity (after his combo ended or he used shield). At half health he started to fly attack which isolated him even more and used my skill attack whenever he landed, he then would try his two-hit combo witb tail which I rolled through and then again skill. I repeated this until he was down. After he was dead, spear guy was at half health and I had three crimson flasks and one cerulean left so I knew I have to screw up to die. Basically did the same witb spear guy as with Ordovis i.e. lured him to do his flying attack and when he lands did my skill or light attack and then held my shield up to make sure not to get hit.

Finished the fight with 1 crimson flask (had 10) and cerulean (had 3). Take in consideration that the flasks replenish around 40-45% of my health (at vigor 45 with great rune and radagon soreseal + erdtree favor) and full FP.

Nothing special but basically found out that had easier time with them after I brought them to half health and they started to do the flying attack. Until that part it was hit with light attack or skill and try to avoid getting hit but don't panic if get hit as well as I could survive 3 strong hits at full health.

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I recently found out that you can break Ordovis shield stance and go for a critical while he is standing. it has its own animation. It was glorious.

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After dying within 30 seconds 5 times, I tried summon my trusty knight Oleg, and then spray the bastards with ROT breath! Ran around, got a few breaths off. That got them down to about 10% then they stayed there. My friend died pretty quickly. I killed the sword and shield guy first since they got separated and he was in front. Too bad their armor set is worse than the chariot drop in the same dungeon. Cool sword though.

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At level 90ish you can wipe these guys with Dragonmaw. Two maws gives you a crit. Kill the non-shielded one first with this strat while tank merc buys you time.

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Ok so after being stuck in these guys for hours, beating them and spending another several hours helping others in co-op, I have some wisdom to share:
First: Stay Calm. These ****ers do so much input read is disgusting, but they are much more passive the less you spam actions.
Second: Don't lock on. Trust me.
Third: Jump Attacks. They don't seem to punish these for some reason. Run in, land a solid one and roll away. 90% of the time is a free hit. Medium rolls work.
Fourth: Sidestep and then Roll. You can straight up side step away from some abilities. The hard hitting ones have bad tracking when up close and are delayed, side step and roll right at the end.
Fifth: Distance. Bait those big charge attacks, run right outside range then rush with a jump attack, roll away, rinse repeat.
Now down to each knight:

Lesser Cru. Knight (Spear): Roll into him, downward thrusts go over your head if sticking to his body. This melee swings are slow, roll in the opposite direction, some can be jumped over into a jump attack. His Dive In Holy Blast has a long wind up then it swoops down almost instantly, learn the timer for this and dodge as soon as it finishes the windup.

Ordovis: Stick. To. His. Left! (Shield side). Not only you can side step his shield bash without rolling, he leaves a huge opening afterwards. This also forces him to spam punishable attacks. If he starts charging the spiny thing, run away then back in with jump attack. Spin-to-win combo, same. Tail, roll or jump over it, or just trade, doesn't do that much dmg. The Angel Swoop, if played DS3 is just like Vordt, roll right as he's about to touch you, I recommend rolling into the direction he's flying in order to punish.

Hope it helps.

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Flame of the Redmanes ftw - keep your distance as they generally move slowly. If they start any of that glowing golden business (winged attack, bolt or claw) just roll (sideways for first two, backwards for claw). The end of the special attacks is a great moment to FotR them, but as ever don't get greedy. Don't bother rotting, didn't get it to proc once for me.

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This enemy is a far scarier version of the Black Knights from the DS 1/3

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The first time I fought these dudes, it was hell. On NG+ Ordovis kinda just stuck behind his shield while I killed his buddy.

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These dudes make me feel like a clingy partner begging for their attention

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Dark Moon Greatsword is great for this fight. It's AoW heavy attack takes chunks out of them and staggers them every three hits or so. It's particularly nice when they clump together and the arc hits both of them.

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Here's how I somehow managed to do this with a bad melee build that was not optimized. You need heavy armor (Tree Sentinel set drops in the same dungeon), your best weapon infused with Flame of the Redmanes (I used a Heavy Large Club +19), your best shield with the highest guard boost (for me this was a Golden Greatshield +6 at 72 Guard Boost), Mimic Spirit Ashes +6 or better, and anything else that is relevant. I used an Assassin's Cerulean Dagger to extend my Ash of War usage, but you're better off allocating one or two FP flasks (I had zero). The strategy is to traverse the golden fog, and start separating the spear knight from the sword knight by getting in range and baiting its attacks & aggro. Have some spatial awareness and weave through the pillars, they'll separate the knights more quickly. Once you have enough time to use Flame of the Redmanes, use it once, and use it again as soon as possible (right after the spear knight finishes his combo). You will most likely have to take a hit when using it the first time, but that's what the armor is for. If you did it fast enough, the two hits will stagger the knight and you should go for a riposte. Put up your greatshield anytime one of the knights might actually reach and damage you, but otherwise keep it down to let your stamina recover, don't fatroll, and run out of the way like a rat. Repeat this until the spear knight is dead. You want to get the spear knight first because he doesn't have a shield that can block your flames. This will test your patience, because the longest wait is for them to separate far enough to where you have a 8-10 second gap to attack and stagger. When the spear knight enters phase two, the only thing you have to look out for is the shoulder horn. It WILL ignore your shield and deal massive damage by riposting you. Run away when you see it. What really helps is baiting the spear knight to do its flying attack, because it effectively separates itself and saves you time. After the spear knight is down, it's the final stretch. Summon your mimic spirit and douse Ordovis in flames. Take care, because he's still very capable, but your spirit ashes should speed up the process. If you try summoning your mimic earlier, it will get demolished by both of the knights. Finish the fight, enjoy the best mid-heavy armor in the game, an incredible sword, and peak aesthetic for fashion souls (Crucible Knight as poster boy when?).

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This is one of the rare boss fights I'd hesitate to actually attempt solo'ing (the memetic status of Malenia getting pwned notwithstanding). And I prefer to at least try to solo bosses for between 20 times before wimping out. For this however? You really do want two cooperators for this. One to take aggro from one knight, you pulling aggro from the other Ordovis, and the last person actually hitting them whenever possible. he other two people shouldn't even try to attack, just pull aggro. There's a reason some people are referring to THIS fight as the Ornstein & Smough fight of Elden Ring, and not the Godskin Duo fight. Godskin Duo is....meh....really. But this boss fight combo is nuts. I can however say that both knights are very weak to the Frozen Lightning Spear spell or either of the Ancient Dragon's lightning spells...if you can hit them that is. YMMV.

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The way I beat him after dying god knows how many times: run around the stage lightning spearing the spear knight since he couldn't guard against it. After killing him, summoned my spirit ash (just used mimic tear), then wailed on the sword knight whenever he agro'd onto my summon. Hope this helps, screw this boss.

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