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Location | Liurnia of The Lakes Altus Plateau Mt Gelmir Leyndell, Royal Capital |
Drops | ![]() Leyndell Knight Set Knight's Greatsword Partisan Greatbow Golden Greatshield Great Arrow |
Leyndell Knights are a Humanoid Enemy in Elden Ring. Leyndell Knights are knights of Leyndell, the Royal Capital. They wield a heavy sword in their right arm and has a large shield on their left. They are entirely covered by golden armor and are highly dangerous due to their fine combat skills.
The spirit of a particular Leyndell Knight, Kristoff, can be summoned for aid in battle by using the Ancient Dragon Knight Kristoff Ashes.
Knights sworn to defend the royal capital of Leyndell. The golden canopy atop their helmets represent the honor of standing among the tree's defenders.
Elden Ring Leyndell Knight Locations
Leyndell Knights can be found at the following locations:
- One knight can be found south of Artist's Shack in Liurnia of The Lakes
- Altus Plateau, on the road between the Grand Lift of Dectus and the western gate of the Capital Outskirts
- Two knights can be found inside the Wyndham Catacombs dungeon
- Leyndell Royal Capital
Elden Ring Leyndell Knight Drops
Item |
Drop Rate |
Additional Info |
Runes | 100% | ![]() |
Leyndell Knight Helm | 3.00% | N/A |
Leyndell Knight Armor | 3.00% | N/A |
Leyndell Knight Gauntlets | 3.00% | N/A |
Leyndell Knight Greaves | 3.00% | N/A |
Knight's Greatsword | 4.00% | Only from knights using the Greatsword, including those with a Greatbow. |
Partisan | 4.00% | Only from knights using the weapon. |
Greatbow | 4.00% | Only from Knights using the weapon. |
Golden Greatshield | 4.00% | Only from knights using the Greatshield who don't also wield a bow. |
5x Great Arrow | 15.00% | N/A |
Dragon Cult Prayerbook | 100% | One time drop from the knight south of the Artist's Shack |
Gravel Stone Seal | 100% | From the West Capital Rampart site of grace in Leyndell, walk north to the next room with the single guard inside. Jump over the balcony railing to get to the area next to the Fortified Manor with the dragon foot. The knight with the spear supported by an archer drops this seal. |
Leyndell Knight Notes & Tips
- Leyndell Knights have the typical knight moveset, with a few additional tactics:
- The Ash of War: Thunderbolt skill, which calls down a bolt of lightning (can be fired in rapid succession).
- The Ash of War: Lightning Slash skill, which imbues the armament with lightning for a while and performs an overhead slash that calls down a bolt of lightning.
- The Frenzied Leyndell Knights south of the entrance of the Volcano Cave can use The Flame of Frenzy and the Howl of Shabriri Incantations.
Leyndell Knight Image Gallery
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Loretta's slash on Grave Scythe with Cold affinity. Baits their shield on first sweep, gives hyper armor during second sweep, poise is broken for finishing off with R1 spam with frost proc or another Slash. Reapers in general are great for getting around chronic turtling. And the back stab animation is sooo satisfying. Leyndell will feel like a playground!
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Frenzied Burst and other madness spells work well on these guys!
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You can use Loretta's Slash seems to get them in a stun loop while dealing decent dmg
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Why their lightning slash follows target and mine not? :CCCCC
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Lured an RoB frenzy flaming ganker to one of these guys, he did not expect to get lanced through by this powerhouse.
Died to the invader not too long after. I was a blue
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Anyone having trouble just go Fisherman-Mode and put up shield and circle around him close with dagger and dagger talisman = easy W
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Useless trivia: Greatbow-wielding Leyndell Knights are the only kind of knights in the game that use an actual spell, the Rejection incantation right before they switch to their greatsword. All other knights, even the ones in Liurnia and the Haligtree, use consumables or weapon skills that look like spells but aren't.
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It's just me or sword ones are extremely hard to parry? the window is so small, or at least works like DS3 enemies meaning you have to parry BEFORE the attack hits you (visually parrying the air instead of the sword before it hits)
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I appreciate that you made his Lightning Slash significantly better than my Lightning Slash. I didn’t want it to be good anyway.
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These are some of the cheesiest basic enemies in the game. Lightning spells that do ridiculous damage,a triple spam lightning bolt that can track you and hits for a ton,and the duo in Leyndell are worse than some actual boss fights. Why can his lightning go through a roof,and why can the archer bend arrows around corners? Absolutely terrible enemies to fight
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Stop, hammer time.
2H Great Hammers wreck these guys; at least with Brag’s Roar.
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For those trying to beat the one by the Liurnia artist shack at a low level for his prayer book, equip a quick weapon with good reach. I used the twinblade upgraded twice. Fight him mounted. Keep your lock on him and ride around in a circle, I found going clockwise worked best. The key is not not get greedy. Come in close for a hit, maybe two, then retreat to a further distance. Try to hit right at the end of his cool down so you have a little more time to get it in before his next move. To avoid the lighting strike, when he nears the end of his animation, give your horse a speed boost and arc towards him. It's not perfect, but it works most of the time. Took about 15 min. but was able to get the book earlier on.
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I swear, some of the greatbow variants seem to use lightning greatarrows, which would we weird since that is not something that we can even aqquire ourself. Someone please tell me that i'm wrong about this observation, and that From aren't holding us back from doing a fully proper leyndell knight cosplay/build
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So if you can bait their shield rush, with the kick ability and a club I was able to kick, 2 light attacks, kick, 2 light attacks until he went down 100-0.
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They go down easier to Gavel of Haima than most other sorceries, with a little cautious footwork
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I wanted to rush Lightning Spear, so I went for the guy at the Artist's Shack. Fighting him on horseback and spamming heavy attack got the job done. Anything else was death in 2 hits.
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would be nice if someone would post their expected HP and resistances...
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Ironically, like other knights, they're probably weak to lightning.
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I just realized you could probably bait their lightning strike spam then do a dashing bloodhound step backstab.
...absolute bastards.
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Ok so since they didnt put weaknesses, I did the next best thing. Looked at knight armor resistances that I already had, and they all were LEAST resistant to strike damage. So your best bet would be that route. That or standard.
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These knights don't enjoy the benefits of hyperarmor on their attacks. All it takes is spamming uncharged heavy attacks with a Straight Sword — your mileage may vary with other weapon types — and they will get trapped in a hitstun loop until either you run out of stamina or they randomly decide to try blocking.
— Courh the Explorer
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go to the boundary of the lake with the Mariner (after you kill the Mariner) and bait the knight there. If you have ranged spells you can cheese the knight from the edge of the lake, he will rush you and turn around, letting you hit him as he walks away.
Can't edit the wiki so here is how to beat that knight:
1- Die a few times to gauge his range
2- Stay a mid range and bait his attack, wait for him to pick his sword with both hands.
a. If lightning appears, rush him for a nice, 3-4 free hits in
b. Otherwise, prepare to dodge on the side, after which you can hit him 2-3 times
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One of the most annoying Knight enemies in the whole game imo.
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One of the most outright annoying enemies in the entirety of the souls series. Its like FROM thought about everything that made knight enemies annoying and time consuming to beat, then mixed it altogether to create these copy-pasted enemies.
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For melee, use Square Off light attack and back up immediately. Backstep button is useful, remember his sword has reach. Get a feel for how far is shield bash goes. Once he sets aside his shield to do something, run in and get another Square Off light attack. It should only take two or three such hits to open him to a critical. Never approach him when he’s down, use it as an opportunity to heal. After getting more distance, that is.
I know where they are because i'm freaking fighting them. I know how many runes they drop because i'm freaking fighting them. What i don't know is their weakness and apparently neither do you. Thanks.
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These dudes are not that bad until you get too far from them and they start spamming that bs lightning that requires perfect timing to dodge and could proly two shot you at 40 vigor, other than that they're not too bad atleast if you're using something like a greatsword anyway, they hurt tho so don't underestimate them.
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Would sooner deep-throat a pinecone than fight another one of these bastards.
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I found that if you kill the first knight a certain way it will always drops a item. Makes me wonder if others have the same thing.
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"Knight's Greatsword: Only from knights using the Greatsword who don't also wield a bow."
This is incorrect. I had several Greatswords drop from the knight wielding a bow and sitting on a structure next to the Altus Highway Junction. He dropped the Greatbow as well of course, though he did not drop the shield.
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Bloodhound's Fang chews them up. Equip a shield in your left hand just in case, spam away with the sword. Roll back when your stamina is down, rinse and repeat.
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Although the Greatbow variants will switch to wielding Knight's Greatsword and Golden Greatshield when you close the distance, they do NOT drop the Golden Greatshield. It will only drop from Sword and Partisan variants. A quick farm for the Golden Greatshield is a Partisan variant immediately NW of the West Capital Rampart grace.
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When they go for the lightning bolt, run close. It will cancel out and they are still in the animation so you can backshot them.
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The one near Artist's Shack: Posture is easily breakable with Bloodhound's Fang skill, Bloodhound's Finesse. You can even avoid his guard counter if you time the 2nd part of the skill well, and rush in to finish him off. Just watch your stamina and keep the combo up and he's easy kill.
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Best way to deal with them was backstab followed by Nebula AoW while they're getting up. From the front it's the usual business - annoying as hell.
The bloody helice weapon art dynasts finesse does well against them.
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I farmed the trio at capital. Used tailsman so I can sneak past them easier and ran the dagger w/ the +140 crit + the dagger tailsman. You go right first, backstab knight (about 1350 damage) then finish him off. Then you run along right side again, then crouch. The knight with bow will just start shooting wall. Sneak up behind him and backstab. Then the dummy on the far right just stands there. Backstab. Repeat. Killed them like 50x. Have everything, a bunch of swords and bows, but no helmet …..
So how to fight it without damage: always run on their left and do running attacks, no bullshit such as parry, roll and ranged needed to kill him like that
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The poise on these guys... The partisan wielding ones, seems you can't interrupt them while they're doing the triple stabby jab. At least I couldn't with a morning star. They can be super easy if you catch them off guard from behind, but real em effers from the front. Hammer talisman seems to do nada on these guys for breaking their stance.
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If you want the armor set kill the ones in the capital they drop very often including the chest
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He's basically an Early Crucible Knight. I had my Ruins greatsword maxed to around level 9 and that mf was eating my attacks attacks. I cant take on two of them unless i have my starscourge greatsword
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There are Frenzied Leyndell knights and soldiers in mount gelmir, before the 9th gelmir camp grace.
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if you get the godsworn greatsword from the chest back at the beginning of limgrave you can stagger spam the one south of the artists shack with it
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everyone talking about hitting him with ranged.
i used golden Halberd and Torrent and just basically hit and run tactics. To me a lot easier. XD
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This guy is basically a weaker, re-skinned crucible knight. Good partner if you want some parry practice if you fight the lone one south of the artist's shack in Liurnia.
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Get him to follow you South-West from his spawn area towards the rock that looks like the one from Lion King (The one pointed west horizontally) and the one pointed vertically. In my playthrough, every time I crossed the threshold between the two rocks, he would just stop, put his shield down, and begin walking back toward his original path. I ranged him with rock sling but I imagine any ranged will do with enough time. Cheese tastes great on a victory sandwich. -UC
For the one in Liurnia, you can fight him on the banks of the lake with the Tibia Mariner which is a summonable area. Just hit him with a ranged attack and he'll come running over to you, letting you fight him with the summons of your choice. Makes the fight a lot easier.
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Anybody else not able to have him drop any of his armor near the Artist's shack? I've killed him about 20 times and I only got his leg armor and nothing else
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the one south of the artist shack does not seem to drop anything
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There's a handful of them across the bridge from the ninth mt Gelmir campsite grace.
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Want to hard to break his posture with a greatsword, lightning was still hell to dodge
Their lightning bolt attack has 2 parts to it: the sword slam (which can hit you if you're in melee range) and a lighting strike that comes from the sky. If you get hit by the sword slam you're (almost?) guaranteed to get hit by the bolt. The easiest way I've found of avoiding this (at least with light-roll) has been to move/run away when they're charging and then dodge-roll as their sword strikes the ground. This should allow you to avoid the follow-up lighting bolt.
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the black knife catacombs are guarded by a mausoleum knight, and not by this type of knight.
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There is also one of them at the bottom of the deeper of the two lifts of the Rampart Tower area.
It is accessed by dropping down from a ledge onto a rocky outcropping which will collapse, just outside near the Rampart Tower Lost Grace.
Hug the left wall and go up the small set of stairson the platform then drop down to reach it. I suggest bypassing it to reach the said lift to open up a shortcut to reach it directly.
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All of his gear is all lootable, Leyndell Knight Helmet, Armor, Gauntlets and Greaves
Drops pieces to the Leyndell Knight Set (ie; Leyndell Knight Helm, Greaves, etc)
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The sword variant can use "royal knight resolve" and "rejection"
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