If you hit this specific enemy from up on the cliff by the frozen lake with a bow or greatbow he teleports all the way from the castle to directly behind you. He's terrifying.
Lol malenia would mop the floor with that guy in one hit go learn your lore ya newb😅an also if your max lvl of 713 with all your stats at 99 you can one shot that guy so go grind your runes
That does make sense the but is stated as a “he’s not the hardest enemy in this area,but, in fact, the hardest enemy in the game.” But instead of saying in fact he said “in my opinion”
i think it's just really misleading pronoun usage, the first statement is supposed to refer to the boss while the second is supposed to refer to this enemy
Shot an arrow at him from that balcony, only for him to disappear. Thought the game glitched until I turned around right as he was smacking me with that big ass sword of his. My soul damn near left my body 💀
I tried to cheese him by making him teleport behind me and fall off, why this nigga teleported in front of me and smacked me off the ledge, I stopped playing for 2 months
No kidding I didn’t even notice you could snipe him from there but, I’d say the minute you aggro him he’ll just probably teleport behind you or something? F@& tht guy!
@@chauncey5962 I saw a real of someone trying to snipe it with Jar Canon from the cliff near the graveyard overlooking the castle. As soon as it got hit, it teleported to the cliff and killed the guy before he finished the reload animation. This knight cheeses players the way we cheese bosses
Personally I live for random encounters like this, you go through an entire game thinking you’re the man then John Doe just comes through and dunks on your ass.
@@pastorgainzgames In my head canon he thought: I'm not a NPC? What? Okay then at least a boss right? No? I don't even have a name? WTF??!! Y'ALL WILL REMEMBER ME!! 😅
I gotta see that. Edit: When I get there I may clip it just because I want to know. Started NG+, so if I can kill a god, then die to a random knight, that tells us about Elden Ring’s enemy balance.
There's a reason Commander Niall is hiding up in that room on the opposite side of the castle, he's scared to go out or he'll get slaughtered by this knight. You didn't come to kill Niall, you freed him from his prison in this castle.
Not really... Because that's just a situation you created yourself. Even if there's a bunch of em you can easily kill them all if you just space correctly.
@@jeremybree1986sure thing Capitan Hindsight, I’m sure you’ve never fallen through the floor into like 7 rats early game and had them pummel you to death in 3 seconds. It was also a joke, no one actually thinks rats are hard to kill.
The best part is, when you walk up to him he has his back to you. But when you try to back attack him, he dissapears only leaving his omninously red glowing eyes behind while he teleports behind u, anime style, to counter ambush you. Mofo literally could take on the entire shadow of the erdtree dlc on his own
The first time I came across this guy I thought “oh, just another banished knight. Let me just sneak up behind him and smash him with my RKR Misericord”. Then suddenly he wasn’t there and I was so frazzled he wrecked me. I couldn’t recover lol.
@@Kain_Highwind_ Bro I used fully upgraded giant crusher with crag blade and poise tear and could not get him to get stunned in ng+7 with fully charged heavy attacks. , just gave it up
@@Avdimax This is exactly what I was talking about. DLC bosses are practically impossible to stagger on NG+7. The only one I managed to stagger was Bayle while spamming Pest-thread Spears, which makes mincemeat of him.
@@Boongur Not contrarian, it’s just not really true. My first soulsbourne game was DS3 then DS1 > Sekiro. Any creature that had red eyes or whatever really wasn’t much of an issue for me. Not everyone has the same exact experiences brotha, keep an open mind tho.
I think he was saying 'he is not the hardest enemy in the castle (boss), but he (knight), is the hardest in the game' Only way i could make sense of it (still terrible though)
The guy on the Elden Ring case is actually who you were SUPPOSED to play. But they decided he'd be an encounter as he's infected with, your guessed it, Scarlet Rot.
@@hariharmaharjan2739 as i remember tarnished came to the lands between after rune of death was taken out of elden ring, so i dunno bout that statement
@@hariharmaharjan2739Oleg is from the lands between and was buried in the erdtree so he’s definitely not tarnished,tarnished were banished from the lands right up until the rune was stolen,
I believe your correct, it wasn't just Knights either. Some enemy's had the exact same appearance as any other but the red eyes hinted at the ferocity of these enemies. They would be stronger, faster, more deadly and would usually drop a decent reward. I love the continuity in these title's, for example Patches!
This dude was insane,also while in the game these phantoms are harder to kill than normal soldiers but like,lorewise phantoms must be like a shadow of their former selves so this dude mustve been craaaazzzzzyy
I immediately knew he was talking about this knight, one of the hardest most random encounters i have ever experienced just like a random sharp pain in the chest but this one doesn't stop...
...you can cheese him to his death...if you piston yourself right higher up you can get him to teleport off the edge and he'll go splat....he was one of the only enemies i had to cheese in the game because a head on battle was too rough for my underpowered build for that area.
If you're getting random sharp pains in the chest that's not normal. You should see a doctor and if you are underage you should tell your parents about it. Could be very serious.
And there's no bounds to his teleport, I shot him once from the cliff above thinking I was safe......nope the dude goku'ed behind me instantly and blasted me off the cliff face.
He’s also one of the only two banished knights in the game that drop the unaltered version of the armor, the other one also being in castle sol. It looks cool too.
Everytime i see him im always surprised he doesn't have a boss bar just give him one and call him that guy Dude I never noticed I got 2k+ likes this I a first
Hes talking about his moveset others give you more opennins that guy no if you attack 1 more time hes gonna combo (unless you use something like shield or got the backstep thing)
he appears to be the only red eyes enemy that isn't infected with something like the lobsters, this is probably a tribute or something to the old red eyes enemies in the ark souls games with them being what i assumed to be battle experienced creatures or knights that got them as we see a lot more later in dark souls 3 where everyone is practically a verteran
1. He has a red eye, so his agro is purely on you, and he will never give an open chance. 2. Its a ghost, so teleporting 3. He does cold and is extremely high in level. 4. He is the reason why Oleg works. He is exactly Oleg but with what I added. The movesets are the same.
that one random banished knight is the ONLY one that has the unaltered chest piece in the whole ass game, and every time you fight him he goes "BEHOLD MY NEVER ENDING COMBO, FEAR ME SO CALLED ELDEN LORD!"
@@Jilted84I’m doing. my first play through rn and this is the hardest game i’ve ever played (i’ve never played dark souls or bloodborne” and I just barely killed a Draconic Tree Sentinel after 3 days like 4 hours a day of attempts. And you can no hit run on malenia?
@@masteroak9724He then goes on to say " But he is in my opinion the hardest enemy in the game." Bro quite literally fumbled his words I can understand being confused. If he's not the hardest in the castle, how could he be the hardest in the game? Whether he was talking about Niall or Oleg, it just wasn't very clear what he meant.
Pro tip: Stand near a ledge and range attack him, then immediately turn around so your back is to the drop. He always spawns behind you so he will just drop and die from fall damage
If this is really the case, Oleg can be poise broken for crits relatively easy by bosses without Oleg having a guard, so im assuming Oleg is relatively easy to poise break.
@@diablioscortes862 Oleg is a really weird spirit Ash. Some bosses and enemies he just stagger trades with till death, others seem to never stagger him, and other enemies like the minor Erdtree watchdog bosses he's basically just a good distraction, at least at low levels. He seems to get staggered more than what I remember but the last time I really played Elden Ring was the month of launch, only just recently got back into playing
@@KnOfAvila lol. the physics in demon souls are a menace too. You'll be inching towards the edge of a platform as slow as possible and then your character will just lunge forward eight feet into the abyss.
He always teleports behind you when aggro'ed. Roll behind him and stay there during his initial barrage. The last attack almost always repeats with that somersault finisher that tracks you, but can be dodged, giving you enough time to backstab him. As he recovers, you can use a fully charged strong attack to do massive poise damage (large weapons are recommended to stagger him with the strong attack; maybe even use the fully charged second attack to break his stance altogether) When he recovers he will do a regular combo or the spinning attack. Both can be dodged by rolling behind him during his recovery animation and backstab him again. His speed is what makes him tricky to deal with.
The whole ass castle can fuck itself into a whole asshole. My first playthrough, i ran thru this entire castle just because i wanted to explore the entire thing, killed everything inside with no issue, killed the veteran lord of being a lightning cripple no problem...then for some reason on any of my ng+...i get slapped up by even the simple knights, always struggle on veteran hammer foot and then get off because wtf am i doing with 1500 hours struggling on this guy who needs 2 cucklord knights to protect him
@@LeFork756 ng+ 11 and I accidentally new gamed before realizing I forgot to finish a quest line that I havent done yet🤣this just a game so I stopped playing and my day is ruined lmao
Oleg was my main man for the longest. He was with me in scrap after scrap and always had my back. Guy that posted above me has some awesome info about Oleg and the Wings of the storm.
He reminds me of a cainhurst enemy in Bloodborne if you finish one of the questlines. A guy with katana and bunch of spells and items that 1-2 shot you. But he could be cheesed. Dunno about this one.
@@przygodyzmtb If you mean the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst, they patched out the cheese. Honestly his Chikage katana wasn't even the problem, it was his Repeating Pistol that fired two bullets at once and did insane damage for no reason. He also had the Old Hunter Bone that let him teleport-dash, and Numbing Mists to make it so you can't heal. And they patched him so he wouldn't be stupid and just stand there with the Chikage in its transformed state and die from the HP drain it caused.
@@DreadnoughtDT Yeah that one :D I recently finally beat him without cheesing him with posion knives and getting him to the door. I fought him on the starcase though. It was on my 20th playthrough. :D
What’s worse, he’s the only banished knight who drops the unaltered armor, which is one of the coolest looking armors in the game. So if you want it, you have to kill him many times…
I got the chest altered piece from the other ghost knights in the castle, it just has a low drop in general. Idk about the helm since I had it and didn't remember where I got it but I think the other ghost ones drop the altered set in general. The other ghost knights dudes are much easier than farming this guy lol it will take some tries though.
I way I see it the only reason the two have it compared to the other banished knights made me think their well established banished knights and that is why they are so powerful and are the only ones wearing the unaltered version. The way he slashes the swords at you is very telling it looks like he slapping you with pillows and doing all that because he mastered his style which be awesome to be able to do that like him. I think it speaks volumes to why their the hardest enemy being the closest to a boss without being one.
I knew EXACTLY who the f*** you were going for as soon as you mentioned the fort and it not being the boss. That dude TERRIFIES me. Even clapped me in a NG+ where I was one shotting the god skin duos, maliketh and the like 💀
That white monkey in Sekiro is some tough shit. It's even funnier because you don't expect him to be that challenging when you first see him because the other monkey's are jokes
@@gareth0412yeah he’s annoying as fuck. First one really had trouble with was the ape but I absolutely HATE the snake eyes gunwoman in the poison pool In ashina depths
It’s not fun or exciting to trivialize bosses for the most part imo. Parrying Gwyn in DS1 for example, turns the fight in to the most anticlimactic final boss in the series. Don’t get me started on Pontiff. Why would you want to ruin such a good fight?!
@@alzhanvoid It is satisfying, however, you need to know which attacks can be parried beforehand. I just don’t see the point of it unless you’re practicing for like a speedrun or hitless. It’s more fun imo to just learn the moveset, especially if it’s your first playthrough. Learning to dodge attacks perfectly and what attacks you can punish is just as satisfying if not more satisfying if you ask me. You get to experience and feel the fluidity of the whole fight. Boss fights are like a dance and I think most people prefer to master the dance. I would like parry a lot more if there was some indicator of what attacks can be parried and perhaps make the parry window a bit smaller. That way it’s a high risk high reward choice that you can practice in real-time. Edit: I mean a bit like the red symbols in Sekiro. The red symbol that pops up whenever a non deflectable attack is coming. I would like something similar in souls but instead for attacks that can be parried. Then you can choose to go for the parry or play it safe.
@@Masheenthat's my biggest issue with parrying is you can't really use it as a strategy on early runs against bosses since you won't know if it's a non-parryable attack or if you're just missing the window
That banished knight’s first teleport is also impossible to parry, at least the first teleport behind you. You can parry the subsequent teleports when you fight. I forget the creators name, but I learned that from a YT video by an Elden Ring parry expert that ranked the hardest moves to parry in Elden Ring. This banished knight’s initial teleport was number one I think lol
I onetapped several main bosses pre level 70-80. I got to this nameless knight after i killed commander nial on 5 tries while exploring the rest of the castle. Holy shit it took me like 2 hours+ . This guy has no chill. He will beat your ass mercilessly with brutal patterns. Malenia could not take this boi on so they sent him to a castle to chill.
