Havel Knight | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Attacking him in NG+7 feels like you're mucking yourself... like bro tf is that damage absorption!

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Knocking him around with Profaned Flame is so funny

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There's this one time in NG+4 where I was losing to him. I used boulder heave just as he was doing a jump attack and he instantly died. His health was 1.5/5 and I heard the thumping sound you get when you attack enemies mid-air. Mind you, from what I'm seeing, boulder heave is only good for staggering/posture breaking, not really for big damage. Will try this again in NG+5.

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Game Devs: Let's make an NPC enemy in full Havel's, can fast roll with a Greathammer and Greatshield, and can attack at least 6 TIMES (I tested) with poise through every hit. God you think they'd learn after Dark Souls 2, but NOPE. Anyone who says Dark Souls is flawless needs a recap. I see more flaws in recent Fromsoft games than Dark Souls 1. What a joke

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Unironically more difficult than the nameless king, especially in ng+7.

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The only time I’ve ever used dung pies to kill an enemy in any Dark Souls game

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sl1 against him i used: setup rtsr > twinkly dragon chest > resin. walkup slow backstab into 3 toxic mists and a parry riposte. 3 mists should be enough to toxify him to death.

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7 dung pies on ng

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You know you're in for a jamboree when the description says weak to miracles in quotation marks

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Just want to share how i cheese him easily on the roof fight. I use hidden body and slumbering dragon ring. His sight is really bad. I basically use hit and run tactic. If you stand like 4 meters away from him while hidden body spell is active, he can't see you, you can just circle to his back and easily backstab/hammer him down. Rinse and repeat. As mentioned in a comment way bellow, you can also cheese him using dung pies. Hope this help.

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I love how people are trying to figure out ways to kill a violent boulder.

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Dagger really works wonders against him,it stunlocks with r1 and deadly backstabs

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Ran away from him because i had too many souls. I saw he followed me down the ladder. I heard his footsteps so i assumed he went back up.

Come back days later and his stuff is on top of the area, and i guess he's dead? I didn't realize that hey may have fallen down when i wasn't looking. Was hoping for a nice fight with him.

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gigachad

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funny how I stunlock him to death with my dagger

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"ds3 isn't just ds1 fanservice" ds3:

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This NPC was annoying, like why is he so fast and rolling all over the place in that heavy ass armor? It's some of the worst tendencies in ds 3 enemy design

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What's "Great Force"

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At first I was like: No way he killed an ancient wyvern! These have so much defense and HP. Enemy NPCs are so lame in this game.
Then he proceeded to bonk me on the head.

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Many ages passed, many places met, many enemies fought, yet Havel remains a chad

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This fight was made a joke by poison buffing a +10 battle axe. Just attack one handed while carefully blocking with a high stability shield like SoW. Once poisoned it will damage him while you circle around and wait for his shield buff to wear off. Rebuff with lightning if you want. Then last couple of hits and he's down

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miss ye havel always will

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well.. definition of bonk

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This npc has two phases,
Phase one: Parriable, Greater Defence, Able to be Guard Broken, and is more Passive.
Phase 2 transition: Backstab opportunity, Greater Defense, so use this time to rebuff.
Phase 2: Greater Damage, Unparriable, More aggressive, loses his Shield, Harder to guard break because they rarely block while two-handing, Try to use ranged abilities in this phase like spells, firebombs, etc.

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The description says he can be guard broken, flattered and pinned down. This is inaccurate u cannot break his guard

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I found a bug. Aggro him, go down the ladder. He will follow you. But when he gets to the bottom, he keeps running in circles and lagging around the place :D You can freely attack him/get some backstabs after that. Also while he's going down the ladder, you can attack him with your ranged damage, resulting in about %50-60 of his health gone. (I'm a pyro)

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I took this freak on with Red Halberd and GMW with my lame dexterity character and beat him after 10 or so tries. Definitely harder than many of the bosses simply because his stun lock is so effective. Maybe im a noob but i don't care

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So this guy isn't havel himself but just a havel coplayer, buffed by from?

Disappointed. I want to fight the true havel! not some guy, that wants to be havel.

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This comment section seems like just one big circle jerk for Havel. You could say everyone is rock hard for the rock.

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nothing is funnier than invading in dragonkin mausoleum and watching hosts try and parry king the 2 handed greathammer and getting splatted

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In NG+, this guy can survive machine gun bow glitch. I do it with Millwood bow+ millwood arrow + Flynn ring + red tear + sacred oath + power within at point blank (hidden body + spook) , which equal to 1227 AR per shot.
10 shot of this is enough to one shot most boss by dealing 11000+
But only deal 2600 to this guy and he turn his head around bonk me to floor

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haha dung pie go SPLAT

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Havel wears rock armor which must be pretty heavy, and proceeds to conjure more rocks on himself/herself to boost poise. Imagine how muscular he/she might be underneath that armor

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Dorothy’s Gnaw just spam it at him It’s Too easy honestly

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Havel is the coolest Character of the Souls series. So little lore about him makes this man a huge mystery. I still don't know if he's been in any of the games. Just a faithful old rock who hates magic. What's he doing? Is he dead long before the events of DS1 (My theory)? If not what's he been doing? Why? Did he go hollow? If that's him at Archdragon Peak Why's he at Archdragon peak? Did he die after DS1 and his grave ends up in the gutter? What's up with the Stray Demon? Is that Havel? (this is my hope but I do believe it's actually just a rock joke.) They put so much work into making some of the coolest armor, shield, and weapon in the game but gave them to some guy they didn't want to explain very much about.

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Is this the same Havel the Rock or a different knight who obtained Havel's armor, shield and dragon tooth?

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havel does like 10 swings with his dragon tooth why?

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It's a reeeeally good thing this guy doesn't know how to use his weapon's perseverance. Imagine rock flesh and perseverance stacked together.

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i would love to see the real havel (if ds1 havel or ds3 havel are not the real ones ) as a boss in ds4 (if it does come out)

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this knight can defeat anything, even me, the ashen one, yhorm, lothric, aldrich, dragons with own powerful strength

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Only Dark Souls npc other than Hawkwood that's as difficult as the npc's in Bloodborne

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Throw dung pies and then wait

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Havel the bonk

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NPC King of DS3

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i climbed onto the ladder and he just ran towards me and jumped off and died lul

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He guards with his weapon or shield a lot, so using weapons having stance WA would grant you a lot of riposte. (I use flamberge cuz it has bleed)

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the biggest chad you will ever see

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Imagine if he had DS1 Havel's poise. He'd be the hardest boss in the game

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this guy is scarier to fight than nameless king ngl

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ion know

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this guy has the smallest head ever

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Well, I guess it’s just that time of the run again:
Whips out storyteller staff and camps on the ladder

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when hes turning into his stone armor, you can just walk up behind him and backstab him, so remain fairly close cause you can just repeat this, cheesing him.

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pain.

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Wtf? Why is his picture so blurry?

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Rock HARD knight smashes male and female adventurers alike

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Havel: buffs himself with poise and starts slow walking
Me: haha lightning urn goes boom

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Imagine if he just pulls out an Estus

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The first time I pointed down an NPC after killing it.

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Just parry, the only way which I have ever killed him...

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"This hints toward a connection between Havel and the Stray Demon, but it could also be some kind of rock joke."
Thanks Miyazaki

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Most Hostile NPC's are on the easier side of things, but Havel mopped the floor with me multiple times before I finally brought him down.

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its so sad seeing him get staggered after every hit :(

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LKGS long R2 staggers him, stopping him mid-attack. Helps a lot!

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His attacks seem to cause infinite poise damage, you could be in the middle of doing a poise stance to heavy attack and he'll still knock you out of it and leave you stunned for a second bashing. I know, it can't actually be infinite, but it damn sure feels like it.

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Weak to bleed? BLEED?

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harder than most ds3 bosses

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Could you outline the location of this dude more so I don't have to read through all of the trivia.

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Finally a worthy opponent... OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!!!!!!!!

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Dorhy's Gnawing seems to proc the FIXED bleed build up on 2-3 hits and dealt 551 dmg for me even through his blocks... Killed him extremely fast, if anyone else is struggling I'd suggest this.

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"...Some sort of rock joke..."? Really? IS THIS A GAME TO YOU????

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Havel doesn't have infinite stamina... I have broken his guard a number of times.

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just found out you can get free ripostes if you equip the donkey ring and kick his shield/2hweapon

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can he take damage from frost ?

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Imagine clubbing a dragon to submission only to be killed by a barrage of dung pelted by some ugly-ass crustgoblin

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Nightmare on ng+7, makes sense though, cuz you CAN'T STOP THE ROCK

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Can’t stop the rock

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Lure him to the ladder, then use force, kicks, or really anything to knock him off (I used force.) He will lose most of his health, maybe 2/3. He will climb up. But, don't worry when he gets up. His AI will be broken, and he will try to slow walk/ edge walk back to his original spot. Block him as close to the ladder as possible. He won't attack, block, roll or otherwise react, he'll just continue to try to walk back to his original spot.

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You killed a dragon, but Havel beat the life out of one.

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You can throw dung pie at him and he will die without aggroing you

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WOW! don't we all just love fighting NPCs with infinite stamina! I just love watching them swing around one of the heaviest weapons in the entire game 10 times consecutively and rolling about as if they can just ignore the game's core combat mechanics like "stamina" and "equip load"! Nothing makes me happier than realising that the enemy I'm fighting actually has functioning poise and can tank attacks even though the player poise system only gives us*****ty hyper armor frames in heavy attacks! I'm just filled with joy when I resort to trying to just parry them, but they just put their other hand on their weapon, rendering my efforts useless! I really WONDER why people are resorting to *****ing with enemy aggro using dung pies and pestilent mist? ***** this strategy of making things "harder" It's just straight up cheap and annoying and I honestly expect better.

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So easy with pestilence mist

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can't stop the rock

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Havel Cheese: backstab with slumbering dragon crest ring on (and hornet your choice) run to ladder climb down a bit like the fallen knight cheese then rince and repeat (i think it only works when he is in the second stage after the rock armour transformation)

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Wait what’s the heaviest armor set then?

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Slumbering dragon ring, about 10 dung pies in the back. Just watch him die.

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Why is Havel now at Archdragon Peak? Is this the real Havel we met in Dark Souls? Why isn’t he dead? So many questions!

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Quite funny to invade another world, find havel alive, cosplay him and wait by his side for the host.

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He is surprisingly easy to parry

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While we barely managed to best an ancient wyvern through shenannigans, our boy Havel murdered one by wacking it.

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Does havel exist just to anger people, its like he's immune to the universe itself

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So nice he can be flattered

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As a melee I found it best to play it safe, bait him to attack then go in for one hit and roll out. Just watch out for chain attacks.

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EZ 7 parry in a row, havel knight destroyed

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Killed him with boulder heave. I used the stones to destroy the stone

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He's just standing there, MENACINGLY!

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No resistance to magic? Could have fooled me. Crystal soul spear barely scratched him

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For some odd reason I didnt get the Dragon Tooth after the fight with him at Archdragon Peak. I've been up and down to the ladder after many reloads/ bonefire warps to and from other areas etc etc, nothing. Im 100% sure I didnt sell it accidently either, as I always take my time when selling gear off, and pretty much NEVER drop anything.... weird.

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Hidden body, Pestilent Miss, Storyteller's staff. Ez

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Go for crits with this guy. His r1 combo onehanded can be parried, and when he combos with the tooth 2-handed, he'll frequently block right after, and most attacks will break his guard. Hornet ring is very helpful and no parry practice is really needed

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