Crucible Knight Build is BROKEN in Elden Ring 

Ordovis saw Malenia break her own rules in phase 2 and was like "I want me some of that"

I think when people say that crucible horns cheeses malenia, they are really refer to a specific combo starting with the horns spell then followed up with ordovis' vortex and crucible tail or an r2. It instantly breaks her stance or at least gets her very close, but really horns is only the distance closer, ordovis' sword does the most.

To follow up on the duo boss rant: Ornstein and Smough (and to a lesser extent the Throne Watcher and Throne Defender in Dark Souls 2) are designed to deliberately cover each other’s weaknesses. The big guy’s bulkiness and power covers for the small one’s squishiness and the small one’s speed covers for the big chungus’s slowness. The duo bosses in Elden Ring just go “No Spirit Ash? Sucks to suck Bucko”

There is a reason why i made my main knight capable of using all the crucible weapons, they are quite good and love the aesthetic they have. Really looking forward to give him a run in the DLC

Running a Crucible Knight build with Beast Clergy and Crucible spells was insanely fun. And the Beast Clergy Talisman is great with it because it scales with Strength

I wouldn't call the Crucible Tail terrible, just very situational. It is very good at breaking postures. Thou I agree that fighting the Crucible Duo with just the tail would be pure torture.

I fought Ordovis and his buddy at level 70-ish. With armor. And the Bloodhound Fang. And I completely lost track of how many times I died. Hats off to you for beating them like this. I don't even have anything clever to say about it. That's just impressive.

That aged well. Angel wings in Shadow of the Erdtree.

Ordovis’ Greatsword has to be one of my favourite weapons in the game. I really hope the wings get added as an incantation in the dlc

As someone who prefers Siluria, I really love how ridiculous the spear is. Sniper rifle chandelier

Long Live the Chonk! I, for one, have thoroughly enjoyed Siluria's Sniper Rifle

Parrying only really gets you worthwhile damage with weapons that get a high parry multiplier, *which is not the same as the WEAPON'S crit multiplier.* Rapiers and daggers get the best parry bonus, everything else.... just dodge or block.

WINGS ARE BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!

Golden Parry is really OP against anyone parriable, but there just isn't any reason to parry outside of NPC invaders and gaol bosses

The Clawmark Seal might have been a bit better for your spells since it scales on strength and two handing the seal gives 50% strength bonus. Not that you needed the incantations but for anyone looking to go Crucible and use the incants.

I WANT CRUCIBLE WING INCANTATION FOR DLC! Or a talisman or Crucible seal that unlocks the best versions of their incants.

The Ordovis fight reminds me of the duo fights in Nioh. Two bosses that basically get put in a room and are fighting like they're the only one.

Sure crucible knights can grow wings and fly but does that mean can make the swag jump to safety first try, or will it take like 5 hours of set up?

I appreciate that you take the time to hotswap to the tree armour after summoning the mimic every time. that's nice dedication to the details

"You don't have to suffer while you eat lunch" Man that's exactly when I watch your videos, when I'm eating This man knows his audience.

I spit my monster at the "Reaches across the map and hits the f*** Fire Giant"

If you can use either of these weapon arts without making a sound effect IRL your inner child is dead. Brrrrrr PEW

Awesome video. The prep phase seemed really painful, honestly not sure if I would have the mental fortitude to stick through that for 100 attempts... But once the build was running it was super cool and looked really fun and satisfying.

Good news. The sweet angel wings are coming in the DLC

Parry in Elden Ring kiiind of necessitates you use one of the three special parry Ashes of War. Once you have Golden Parry, sure, it can be pretty fun. But yeah, it just feels like you're getting baited when you have fun pulling parries off and then the game is just "btw, Malenia needs three parries for a crit, lmao.". Even godskins need two, but it's still my favourite tactic against crucibles, specifically

1.parrying: i found these conclusions too, parrying is cool and all, but looking for frame perfect windows is a lot of effort for not so much payoff, dogding and L2 punishing is much better imo 2.french press: we have adopted it, and we probably dont do the whole ritual, because i think its the easiest way to make coffee, boil water, grind coffee, pour together and bam! coffee 3.the tail: cant yoou double cast it for big tail? i remember you can do that, but yeah bosses allways have the pre-nerfed op version, sadge 4.Lionel run when? (Epéé good)

I made a crucible knight build a few months ago as well, definitely one of my favorite builds! Though getting the armor and sword early on was indeed a nightmare 😂

When I started playing the game my most hated enemy to fight was the Crucible Knight, but now is the one I like the most. It just feel so good to fight a one to one against them. Not the lance one tho, still hate those.

Well, good news! We're getting the angel wings in the dlc! Now whether its an AoW or an incantation or an item spell is yet to be seen

I JUST started putting together a Crucible knight build. Already have all of the armor and weapons; still need to figure out the talismans.

Happy to see it. I have asked for this in the past, and the call has been answered.

The rants were absolute peak. Would watch you die against the duo for ages.

I love these videos so much, I frequently set a playlist of your video on at night and fall asleep watching them. Probably one of my favourite RU-vidrs of 2023 but I have to say it: French press coffee really isn't that much harder than loading a coffee maker. Boil some water and throw it in the French press with your coffee and then that's it. Push the plunger after like 5 minutes and boom, coffee done. I don't know if you have French press confused with like an espresso maker or not but French press is dummy easy. Sorry, needed to be said.

This has aged well with the shadow of the erdtree dlc, soon it will be 3/3

Love the content! And I beg for a crystallian run 🙏🙏🙏

Hey dude, i stumbled upon your video and the crucible knights look awesome so i decided to "copy" your build and add some incantation buffs (my first ever full playthrough not quite done yet i'll update when i'm done). Super nice looking Armor set and both weapons are great. Had this build done after Radahn going into Deeproot and grabbing the Spear. Used holy infusion from an ash of war i picked up somewhere and just guardcountered my way through the beginning. Hero grave... kite kite kite until siluria was dead, then parry spam Ordovis. Overall horrible fight and countless attempts through multiple stages of the game until i was strong enough (i hate double bosses). Niall was wasy with the spear. Lined up the right soldier with him, then lined up the left soldier with him. Then run and spam inbetween whirlwind charge move and jumps. 9 attempts. Fire Giant was easy with spear on horseback and just drilling his butthole. between 15-20 attempts. Mohg was...interesting. Got to spam Tree L2 quite a lot because he did those debuff thingies at some damage thresholds i think so phase 1 was easy. Chug pots during transition and phase 2 i ditched the spear because he just spammed his fires when i was far away. Took me a while to get his moves but i pulled through after 4-5 hours and 30+ attempts and some grass touching inbetween to cool down. Godskin Duo almost broke me and i ultimately gave up and used a summon. Honestly, that's all i needed because the second the enemy de-aggrod, the Vortex could dish out some insane damage and poise break. 50+ tries before giving up and using mimic though that didn't feel rewarding so going forward i benched my evil twin indeffinitely. The big 2 headed Dragon dude was surprisingly easy, had his moves down in 2-3 attempts. Straightforward attacks and some good openings when he did his green fire breath (except that laser which i dodged by chance) and dead on the 5th run. Maliketh was brutal because he spams a lot. I used Silurias Tree in Phase 1 weaving L2s from behind the pillars and O's Greatsword in Phase 2 which consisted mostly of me running around dodging and looking for openings. 40+ tries. Malenia was absurdly easy with the horn incantation and Ordovis Greatsword she was perma broken. She got off that spinny move once and i was tanky enough to get away with not dodging every instance. In phase 2 transition i switched back to the spear and hit her a few times and then back into Greatsword staggerparty and luck dodging the dance and her shadow clone jutsu thing. Dead on the 7th attempt but i might have been overleved at 130, not sure. Gideon didn't even touch me once. Full Charge Vortex-> Horn -> Vortex and some more hits and he was basically dead. 1st try. Currently i'm at Godfrey and dude, that Phase 2 is hard. He doesn't give me time to Charge for L2's so i'm trying dodgerolling, tapping L2 and slowly wittling him down. I got the jump timings down for all those stomps but phase 2 he just spams batista bombs and ground slams/eruptions when i try to get in charge hits. He feels impossible to stagger. Should get it done tomorrow. 50+ and counting. So far, overall a super fun build. Thanks for the awesome suggestion. i'll update how the other bosses go with this build (including dlc once i play it).

HAHAHA "the drill that will pierce the heavens"! Nice Gurren Laggan reference there

In case anyone struggles with fighting the knights with a shield, just use the kick ash of war any time they raise the shield, its an instant stagger and free stab every time. :D

I love this video so much because on my 4th or 5th run on Elden ring I also decided to do a crucible build but I went with Ordovis’ sword and shield It was such a blast, I struggled immensely with crucible duo (they don’t get enough hate on the internet) and I was at level 90-ish which is probably just right it even slightly over levelled Seeing this just brought a tear into my eye, kudos!!! That was amazing!!!

I like the crucible Armor but I used it with the Crescent Moon Axe that droped from the Axewielders in Stormveil. Gives a Warhammer Chaos Champion of Khorne feel.

Parrying is the French press coffee of Elden Ring That's why it's called Paris-ing

I think the problem with the crucible knight parry damage is that they are just resistant to it, seeing as how the Crucible Scale talisman gives resistance to critical damage, probably as a reflection of the Crucible Knights resistance

For Ordovis, you can parry all Overhead swing attacks. Just look for those start up animations and be ready to parry or dodge when it's not an overhead.

When people say that those horns cheese malenia, they’re talking about a scripted fight that uses other weapons ashes of war and a heavy attack to consistently keep her stance broken. I think it’s horns, crucible sword ash of war, and charged heavy. However, scripting fights is lame. Saw gino do it in his faith only run I think

Ordovis GS is one of the most underrated broken weapons in the game. Insane damage, ludicrous stance damage, and the holy isnt much of an inconvenience at all since the vast majority of the damage is physical. Also charged ashes are goated because they get boosts from both godfrey icon and shard of alexander. Tree is fantastic too, I just prefer the vortex skill

oh man, watching you suffer on stream was so wild. i cant believe how fast you finished the run after you got the armor and sword. also, sorry for the bingo suggestion cause i think its just a different kind of suffering to see you go through xD cant wait for the next run!

This is an older video so maybe it's old news, but yes pretty much all Bosses gain Hyper-Armor AND significant Damage-Reduction during their phase-transitions. It's there to make sure phases switch over without bugging out because you stunned Morgott during his puddles or such, and to encourage the player to back off and prepare for the more difficult next phase.

I feel like the incantations are better with the claw mark seal since the build seems very strength faith oriented

I'ma be honest: the Fort Haight jokes are my favorite😂 like i know it's coming, it's the same EVERY TIME. But it always puts a smile on my face

I was surprised the spear AoW did that well. Think I ended up passing on it because I assumed it would be pure holy damage but... looks like I was mistaken. Kinda surprised you didn't go with the beastclaw seal. I understand you wouldn't want to kill the first mariner before it was too late but, eh, it's fine. I've used the spells lots and have to say they have their place. Breath is indeed hard to justify, even boosting it with roar, scorpion, etc... The damage just isn't there when, say, the Dragon Communion breaths are a straight upgrade, more or less. The horns DO have their uses in putting some enemies in a KD loop. If you have something like a big Ash of War or spell to wind up while they're getting up and all it's pretty neat. And shame you didn't use Tail because I think it's my favourite. Takes getting used to the wind up but one thing it DOES have going for it is that it has a high atk value, so a lot of enemies will flinch AND it deals really good stance pressure. So it does have its uses, for sure even if, yeah, it's hard to justify pressing a different button when Siluria's Woe is putting in that much work

I wish the Elden beast was a separate fight from radagon. I know he technically has a phase 2 but a proper radagon phase 2 would be amazing

And this is where i would put my "Golden Crucible Knight Wings", if I HAD ONE

Tulok gathering smithing stones individually instead of getting the bell bearings?? Impossible

actually, right next to where the raya lucara bridge leads to the road to the dectus lift, there is a mausoleam that you're supposed to jump up onto, and the air lift to do it is right next to the cliff. meaning you can skip lucaria's key and jump up right to the same grace without the trouble of backtracking.

I can't remember... did you do a tree sentinel run? Halberd and basic armor only need you to kill that first sentinel and the beam puzzle... I suppose you'd have to allow yourself to kill the Sentinel with starting gear weapon but... well.

The tail has 2 swings when you use it, one is normal, and the other is Ordovis' semi truck hitbox one :p

15:08 Miyazaki listened to my man and added one in the DLC

Your pivot to Elden Ring from D&D is a blessing. I've literally never cared about watching this game before, only playing. Kudos on making a game I found unwatchable except for hyper specific naked challange runs interesting and fun!

Your parry window rant was tops.

Fun fact: while siluria's name comes from a prehistoric era (silurian age), in italian it's one of the ways you'd call a feminine version of a missile, so like "missilette" (with the real standard male version being "siluro"). Which is kind of accurate with the way the ash of war works... 😂

well looks like we can get those sweet angel wings now!

Trying a similar run myself, these knights look so cool. I finally beat the duo, my summon would die too fast, so it wasnt worth the fp. I started as a prophet, and got myself to level 51 before I attempted to take them on. Black flame fireball on the spear, then with Ordovis, I used a +8 morningstar, and woth the assassins crimson knife talisman, I used the kick ash of war to crit some health back whenever I could. It took me maybe 30 or so tries, but I got it! Now I just need another 10 levels of strength, and maybe 6 endurance to wear the rest of the armor. Looking forward to getting Siluria's Tree!

This kinda inspired the build I decided to hit the DLC with. I went and got materials, starting as a Vagabond, learned the Dragonbarrow Cavalry Cheese finally, and got help of 2 more experienced players (who thankfully didn’t mind the debuff that came from joining me) to deal with the Duo. I would have never gotten past them otherwise, cuz even in my MAIN run, with proper leveling and stats, unless I get help of other players, I can’t handle this Duo, cuz Soirit Ashes aren’t enough. I already struggle with a Lone Crucible Knight as it is lol. But I got the gear, and I’m working to get aome levels so I can hit Medium Load and use the Sword. Then, time to begin marching through thr Lands Between.

15:10 it's arriving bro, 21th june 🔥

Saw your pain during the stream, thanks for going through all that for these videos

The fact that the music for the ready to die chapter wasnt biggie is an absolute crime

You said no BUT id love to see you play Bingo Elden ring. That'd be really fun

I did a similar playthrough a few months back, also fighting the Crucible Duo early. The best method is definitely using the Misericorde and Buckler, though obviously you need to beat Margit for both of those and it wouldn't have worked for this specific challenge. I also suck at parrying, so yeah, that was 40% of my game time on that save.

I love that we're getting the Angel Wings in the DLC

I like to describe crucible night's as the god's of reach. because they close distances quick, and a lot of their attacks feel like they could poke the firegiant from Limgrave.

I want to do this build! I think I'll use a spirit ash for the first boss fight though lol

The thing is it's meant to be a reward for one of the most difficult dungeon bosses, a double crucible knight tag team fight, it should be slightly broken to feel like a reward.

8:32 the parry into the heal punish is insane

12:15 New Elden Ring player here. Fought the Crucible Knight for the first time in the evergaol and at the bottom of Stormveil earlier this week. Was probably overleveled for both. Glad to know that far more skilled players find both of those attacks to be BS. I was wondering where the tell was for the animation beginning. There is no tell. I still panic roll so when I saw the first swipe come out I thought I was far enough away only to get smacked by the second.

Okay, just at the first duo part of the video and have to say, parrying ordovis is straight up the easiest way to beat him. Just be sure to only parry the left to right (from his perspective) wide swing and the right overhead downward as there windows are the most forgiving and they tend to be single attacks so even if you miss them up the punish is minimal. I spent way too long at redmane castle bashing my head against the wall of the beast and crucible knight fight there at very very low level before switching to parry strats and thrashing it.

There is some easy strat to make that Crucible duo fight much less pain in the ass than it used to be. 1. Start as a wretch. Nice 10 of all stats. 2. Get the Demi-human Queen staff or buy the Astrologer's staff. 3. Get the +3 int crown from the Academy and Marika's Scarseal from Siofra river for more +3 int. 4. Cheeze Commander O'Nile and progress Millicent's quest until Gowry sell you a Night Maiden's Mist. 5. Go for the Crucible duo. Just play safe, kite them and lure in the mist and eventually they will die. Much easier than fighting them like you did.

funny story - if you power stance serpent hunter with another greatspear (yanno, like siluria's), you get the serpent hunter gimmick power on BOTH SPEARS. Irrelevant for any other run, but it would've been funny here.

Beating Ordovis at that level is wild. I found Parrying to be the only way for me to get damage in and survive hits from the other knight while I was in the reposte. I fought them for a long time so I started to really understand their moves. (I learned this the hard way) You missed a lot of parries because of the spacing. You have to be right up next to them when parrying to hit. I thought the Spear knight lunge was unparryable, but found out it was if I moved in closer. Also the vortex is probably the easiest parry for free damage.

Completely agree with the parry rant. It is good for Malenia, but even then, it takes multiple parries just to get one riposte. The only thing I'd say is that Sekiro and Elden Ring were in development at the same time apparently. They said that they didn't really get a chance to learn much from Sekiro to put towards Elden Ring (even though they definitely used some Sekiro things to bring to Elden Ring). But I think even regardless of that, what you said still stands. Because even if Elden Ring was developed 100% after Sekiro's release, they still would have nerfed parrying. Miyazaki has a mean streak in him and will sometimes completely neuter something that is very strong in a previous game (like going from DS1 sorcery to DS3 sorcery) if it doesn't fit the way Fromsoft wants you to play the game nowadays. Ever since Bloodborne, the company has designed the games to be more and more based more around certain mechanics (mostly melee for DS3, dodging for Bloodborne, deflect for Sekiro, back to dodging for Elden Ring) and less around others. Whereas I feel DeS, DS1 and even DS2 had more freedom to decide to tank/poise or go more dodge heavy. At least Elden Ring gets the insane build variety, which is nice.

For belum bridge, there's a spirit spring to jump up from below. It didn't look like the teleporting and key were important? So run up to bridge from underneath, slightly to the south east. there's a spirit spring in the trees to jump up, skipping all of the academy.

I know it’s a little late for this, but if you have kick as your ash of war you can instantly set up the shield Crucible for a riposte if he’s blocking.

New Tulok Video?? YIPPEEEE!

I'm now curious about what french press setup you've seen. Cause I have 3 things. Ground coffee, hot water, press. Always thought this was the cheap n easy option besides the instant stuff I love.

I did the Auriza Hero's grave last night and it was so damn ass lol I'm doing an all bosses playthrough and haven't done this hero's grave since the game came out.

I looked for the crucible k***ht sword for so long on my first playthrough

Actually watched a run earlier where they got the tail to kill Margit, killed the crucible knight to get the horn, and apparently the horn even throws crucible knights in the air. So he used that to get the armor and sword. I know it doesn’t fit the rules of the run, but that’s still pretty cool.

The crucible tree spear is similar to the bolt of gransax in the way that they’re both ridiculously OP

The pure joy in his voice during fia simps alone gets my like

I like parrying. I'm not the very best or anything. But I'm replaying ER now as a dual dagger build with parry on the offhand and I'm having a blast. It's so super satisfying.

the tail is a genuinely useful pvp tool but honestly sucks in other scenarios ain't nobody expects a faith caster to have a giant swipe attack

The crucible knigths r so cool

“We have crucible knight spirit ashes at home” was my first run, I took what I could get. Also, when I’m running around with all crucible stuff I allow the dragon bite and claw spells since they fit thematically with the tail fire breath and crucible background. Also with Malenia, ash knight trying to keep her pinned in the corner with the massive aoe fire breath, he was doin his best with what he had.

As someone who watched a vtuber beat the crucible duo with only the tail on a properly leveled and buffed character, it took her I think around 8 hours of attempts. You made the correct decision.

I dont know what kind of French press he has where you need eight machines to make coffee, but for french press all you need is coffee, hot water, and the French press lol, its not that hard to make, it takes a little while for the grounds to seep, but otherwise

21:06 "The kids get smashed" -Tulok & Mango

French press coffee is just as easy to make as a regular coffee pot. The only thing easier is Keurig, but pods taste like ass unless you have the pid you can put your own coffee in, at which point you may as well use a french coffee press. Besides, a kettle of hit water in the morning can be used for coffee, tea, or oatmeal.

Well the DLC made it 3/3 by adding the wings with the AoW version of that move.

For the 4 parry square: They parry for the first phase smd stop for the second because first phase has more parryable attacks. Also in first season, they parry even after 4 parries to get the opening to stun with unsheathe, just not in second season because they usually gave to 2 hand their weapons and dont know how to capitalize on the openings as they dont choose their weapons

Fun fact: If you use the kick ash of war on the shield knight while he's holding it up to block you get an immediate repost

Was half listening while cooking and started laughing really hard at the rant of parrying during the dual crucible knight fight. Someone get this man DLC he's going crazy doing these challenge runs lol