Holy Knight Hodrick | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Moongrum learned to parry from this purple god

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What I find interesting is how the devs can look at the constituents of the game and think "how can I make this game feel like less than the sum of its parts?" The answer is horrible pacing and enemy placement. I'd love to fight this guy fair and square for the challenge, but he spawns at one of the stupidest areas possible just so you have to deal with the hacksaw guy on top of an already difficult fight. Just... why?

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This guy input reads harder than an Elden Ring boss.

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He is the lord of all that is Purple

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"On NG+, when summoned in the Crucifixion Woods, he is EXTREMELY dangerous. Almost all of his attacks will instantly kill most players" Please add: On NG, his parry instantly kills player with 1300 health. (Full health)

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I can't help but call him Holy Knight Rodrick because of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

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NOOO I killed the crystal sage before i could found his sign 2 playthru and i still havent been able to fight him

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Absolut parry GOD, do not try attacking the man if he has his shield out!

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I swear this guy has one of the sexiest voices. I wish we had more dialogues from him

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ah yes, the "git gud" man

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Man just parried my 2H Great Club

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aka the parry master. **** this dude.

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If you plan on using Holy Knight Hodrick as a means of farming seeds. Fromsoft patched it. You need to fight heysel finger and lose to get the maximum of 3 giant tree seeds. RIP my embers LMAO.

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This guy is no joke in the swamp. Invaded a host as an SL133, and he wanted me to 1v1 Hodrick. After about 15 Hornet Ring ripostes with a Lothric Knight Greatsword, and he's about a single swing away from death. So I take the swing, and this mother****er parries my ass and kills me in one hit. I hate him and I love him.

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The biggest lore mystery in ds3 is how Hodrick perfectly parries with a medium shield.

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holy **** its hodrick the hrafted

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When he has lost a chunk of HP, he will keep spamming the long "Out of Estus" animation if you throw a Lloyd's talisman at him, so you can abuse that to get free hits. Also I hope you leveled INT because when he has his shield out you should never use melee attacks. Great Soul Arrow spam was very useful for this guy. Poisoned daggers might work too, though I haven't tried them. Generally, as long as you can keep him under the effect of Lloyd's Talisman, you're good. Kill him before you use up all of them.

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Everytime he was low health and I hit him he parries me

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How do you use the cage?

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Step One. Summon Hodrick, Step Two. Let Haysel invade your world, Step Three. Invite the Exiles to the fight club, Step Four. Hodrick should be the last man standing of the NPC's. If he struggles help him. Step Five. Give him a good fight. :)

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Fun fact, the sweet spot range of halberds (or at least the Lucerne) is long enough for you to hit him out of his healing animation, while still being far enough away from him that he just tries to heal again instead of attacking you

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I was out of Estus when he invaded me. All this wuss did was spam healing and then parry me once to kill me. What a dumb fight.

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I went at him with the Caestus when he invaded me. Incredulity ensued. The two-handing moves of the caestus turned out be so swift that my character was actually hitting THROUGH HIS PARRIES. He was trying to parry and failing repetitively. I never beat him so quick.

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If I killed Hodrick before killing him in Sirris's questline, does this affect anything ?

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This guy doesn't needs hornet ring, hornet ring needs him

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I love this guy's armor, especially the tilted cone helm, it looks so cool. It's one of the few sets in the game that isn't grey/black/brown rags and rusted metal. Well, it is, but at least the metal is a nice coppery yellow instead of plain grey.

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This guy shows how powerful luck builds are

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His voice is so soothing.

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I love having parry fights with him, my favorite NPC invader

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Remember boys! If you ever get ganked by watchdogs of Farron in road if sacrifices, just remember this guy's summon sign and make him fight those casuls

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100% the true parry god

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Dude is so mad that he dies 3 times before actually dying

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undead settlement hodrick :)

Road of sacrifice hodrick :(

he is so powerful ahhhhh

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And for my next trick, I'll make this player disappear!
*parries*

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RIght as he invaded me I was sitting down at the bonfire so it despawned him, and he never came back. RIP.

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What for a ***** this guy is as a mad phantom.

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i really like this guy as NPC, he seems so sympathetic to me

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If you have some trouble going against him in a pure melee fight, you may want to try a little cheese strategy.

From what I can tell:
In the beginning of the fight he really wants to cast the "Power Within" buff before going into a sort of second phase (healing orbs, etc.).
During the cast you can safely attack/backstab him for a large amount of damage, while also interrupting the cast.
As long as you keep him from casting the buff successfully, he will attempt the cast over and over again, allowing for many cheap opportunities to attack him.
Keep in mind to not get too greedy while spamming attacks, as he is still very, very, very good at parrying.

Also, don't be afraid to parry him yourself.
He uses a fairly slow sword which is not too difficult to parry (even with a medium shield).

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He gets destroyed by whips.

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wait what the fuc I just killed you you invaded me as a phantom the fuc is going on i need a sit down

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First time I fought him with Sirris he parried and riposted me while she was casting Darkmoon blade. I survived, but as I was getting up he parried the sh!t out of Sirris and instakilled her. It was funny

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ng+ is when you can give back the parry god sensation to him: spam sacred flame until he is dead. parry this now if you can

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Recommended mod for the modding community: give him hornet ring, his parries don't deal enough damage

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Quest-wise is there any problems if I forgot to fight him at Crucifixion Woods?

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Me: Parries and Ripostes hodrick for the 7th time

Hodrick:still survives

Also Hodrick: Ripostes me once with full ho

Me:ded

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x gon give it to ya

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Noobmaster69

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Easy easy to kill, after summoning I baited him towards the bonfire and jumped into the swamp off the rocks ledge, he didn’t follow but paced and I just shot him with arrows until he eventually died

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A literal parry god with a sword that does +900 damage, its a shame there is no PvE arena, it would be fun to duel him multiple times

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this dude has better parrying skills than 90% of the players in this game

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Get him surrounded by those ****ers with the wooden poles and hes not so strong anymore

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Dude is 3x time more dangerous at road of sacrifice jezz

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I'm close to heading into ng++ and I wanna switch to a build inspired by him. Main weapons will probably be Gael's sword and crucifix of the mad king. Backups not so sure, maybe a great club and a harald legion curved greatsword.
Armor I'm not sure about; all I know I want to use the helmet, cuz a hollow's crispy face and fully black eye look really creepy to me and I love it! Looking to put together I really run down look. Any suggestions are welcome and thanks in advance!!

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Just in case anyone else is curious and takes some of the tips in articles with a grain of salt now, if you go to Pit of Hollows before fighting Greatwood, quitting out will still respawn you near the cage hollow, so you don't have to Homeward bone out and risk getting the hugs of doom again.

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I just want a 3d figurine or something of him but there's literally nothing out there for hodrick.

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Tips:
You can parry him.
Warmth will heal you if you stand close to it.
Stay a little back when he goes into 2h Stance, he will get impatient and swing, rush in and punish him.

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is this guy a troll ? everytime i fight him in the undead settlement (third character), when he almost dead he switch to shield in a frame and parry anything.

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More like Road of your sacrifice once you summon this guy

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Literal god of parry ,use undead charms for your safety

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He parried me while drinking estus. Dude is a ****ing legend.

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this guy is the king of parry

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you can kill him in 10 sec in NG+ with ringed knight paired sword's L1 lol

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If you are having difficulty with hodrick, in the wall of lothric you can find 2 undead hunter charms that you can throw at hodrick when his health is around 60%, which will disable his estus.

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If you want to kill him quickly on his invasion at the undead settlement, jump onto the platform with the bone shard where the giant shoots at you (make sure to befriend the giant first.) Every time I've done it he's run off the cliff. Could be helpful if you can't beat him or just don't want to go through the trouble.

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We’re all mad here ( :

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Just had an offline NPC fight club. The contestants:

Hodrick the parry king.

Yellow finger the little finger.

Eygon the wrathful.

Yea yellow finger died immediately to hodrick, eygon put up a good fight! Then died. I back stabbed hodrick with great axe.

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It’s funny watching him destroy invaders in crucifixation woods on ng +++

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I just bit him at SL6 no weapon upgrade.
(WIP, poison, a bit of poop and alluring skulls)
Best of luck
P.s. on the final fight with Dorris.

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This npc is literal cancer and can oneshot you if he parries you. The only tell for this is that he equips his shield. Thanks From Software for creating parry AI apart from the headless scimitar skeletons

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Hit me harder daddy

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The knight behind the slaughter lol

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Thank god for this mthrfkr. I'm on my first playthrough of ds3 and figure I'll summon him to lend me a hand with the big crabs just for kicks. We're fighting the first big crab when an AI invader shows up, Hodrick one shots the dude (lmao). 5 seconds don't even pass before a blue phantom shows up that turns out to be a friggin mad man. Couple of moments go by and I get invaded by yet another player.
I've got: Hodrick, a madman player, an invader player, a pissed off mega crab with a bunch of little crabs, and me in this free-for-all gang bang. The ONLY reasons why I survived was because Hodrick is a fking bamf who the other invaders were afraid of and I dance/rolled around him to keep them off of me. He literally saved my ass.
10/10 game 50/10 npc. would summon again.

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This guy one shotted me on NG+5. I fear this guy now never summoning him again. And if you have managed to get a riposte, he just uses warmths ;__;

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PARRY PARRY PARRY, W.A W.A W.A, HEAL HEAL HEAL

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exhaust his dialog line in pit of hallows, to get the homeward bone from him, what a nice fella

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Whenever he’s literally in a recovery animation after a missed attack and still somehow parries you.

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Hodrick the Troll

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In my opinion this is the most well-designed npc. The only other npc that has ai even close to his is probably Gael.

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I ride over the back of the manservant hollow, met podrick became a member of the mound covenant. Later I went and finished off the curse rotten wood. Even later still when i warped back to the pit of hollows, podrick the poor fella's corpse was lying there dead, I believe he was crushed when I initiated the bosss fight. Now and ever whenever I warped back in the pit of hollows his corpse is there lying face down.

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Me while fighting him: Gee this is really easy! Get's parried and dies Also me: ThiS ShoULd be iLlegAl

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summon him in the crucifixion woods, lure him over to the giant crab, boom, free souls

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***** this unfair npc*****ty garbage, you cant throw one misplaced attack or he will parry and one shot you like the *****ing bs he is, ***** midir and gael and *****ing nameless king, this piece of***** can end the *****ing world with his horse*****parries Whoever thought this was a good idea should *****ing die

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Fun fact: The first time he invades, you can lure him past the Giant Archer's target zone to where the Undead Bone Share is and he will simply fall trying to get to you. No more getting humiliated by his parry!

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Does killing Hodrick early-game (when you first meet him) ruin Sirrus's questline?

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Does anyone have the issue of Hodrick not spawning at the bridge? I had met him in the Pit of Hollows prior to going to the bridge if that helps.

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Does anyone know which combustion pyromancy he uses? I've only seen him do it once. He was trying to path find to me with his pyromancy glove out, but a Crucifix was blocking his way, so he spammed a combustion like 3 times to smash it. I've tried googling "holy knight hodrick combustion", but nothing comes up.

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If you do not crush hodrick, is there any affect on the sirrius quest line?

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This guy's parrying could make a souls youtuber sweat bricks

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I feel so embarrassed thinking about the time I beat that NPC, thinking it was actually another player that invaded me. Felt a little bit salty when he used the big razor carrier enemy to his advantage and healing constantly. I shouted to the screen in joy when I defeated both, pumped with adrenaline.

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You can cheeeeeese this fella on NG+ by having him fight the giant crabs in the woods where you summon him. Simultaneously whuppin all three. Be careful not to let either of them aggro you though, 'cause it won't end well.

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thrust attack require ahead

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This holy son of a ***** is a parry master and basically you're a *****ing scrub!

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This piece of*****'s summon in the Crucifixion Woods has no right to be as strong as it is. He has the most retarded damage I've ever seen this early in the game, he pulls the AI hax and perfect frame parries you all the time, the bleed on his weapon builds up on you insanely fast, his stamina damage is insane, and I swear to god he never runs out of FP for his stupid healing ball.

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His voice is so . . . soothing. Help. My heterosexuality is crumbling.

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You can stunlock him with the astorias greatsword 2-handed thust

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Brother! Literally the only backup you need in crucifixion woods. Watch the invaders, summons and blues all drop one after the other. :^D

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When I summoned him after a while he did Havels rock form but I’m not sure how he did cause I was facing away and I just heard him and he had rocks on him

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I tried to lead him to the Black Knight, he used the Black Crystal, how fitting

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Just throw a undead Hunter charm at him, he will keep trying to heal himself then you can backstab him

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Thing is about AI is that they get frame perfect parries.

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