Lothric Knight |
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| 326-1289 | 220-4000 | High Wall of Lothric Lothric Castle Grand Archives |
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| Drops | Knight Set Knight's Crossbow Ember See below for unqiue drops |
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| Enemy Type | Hollow | ||
| Weak |  Lightning Poison Toxic Frostbite Hollowslayer Greatsword |
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| Resistant |  Fire Bleed |
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| Immune | None | ||
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Alluring Skull attracts this enemy, making it vulnerable for a few seconds. | ||
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Rapport charms this enemy, making it a temporary ally. | ||
Lothric Knights are a type of Enemy in Dark Souls 3
Lothric Knight Enemy Description
Once famed and feared for their drake cavalry, the Lothric Knights fought bravely until slain, sworn faithful as one of the monarch's three pillars; for they who raise Lothric's banner are still to be feared, the cut of their blade as sweet, sudden and merciless as it ever was. These virtuous warriors have yet to cease patrolling Lothric and will test any fighter's mettle and resolve.
Lothric Knights can be found from the beginning to the end and are most dangerous when their visors are raised. Blue coaks and royal armor announce the fiercest knights - felons and ill-doers - tread warily - as should any not abiding the rule of the three pillars.
They are proficient in sword arts and can defend and attack in equal measure.
Lothric Knight Combat Information
- Will use a Shield Bash if fought in close proximity and when rolling behind them.
- Breaking their guard can be effective, particularly against the greatshield variant.
- Blue Cloak variants using swords will increase their sword's attack with Blessed Weapon.
- Blue Cloak variants met at Grand Archives using either Lothric Knight Greatsword or Lothric Knight Long Spear may buff their weapon with Crystal Magic Weapon.
- Variation using Lothric Straight Swords deals Standard, Thrust and Strike damage.
- Variation using Lothric Knight Greatsword deals Standard, Thrust, Lightning and - if his weapon is buffed - Magic damage.
- Variation using Lothric Knight Long Spear deals Thrust, Strike and - if their weapon is buffed - Magic damage.
- They are weak to Hollowslayer Greatsword, Frost, Poison/Toxic and Lightning.
- Resistant to Physical-type damage, Fire and Bleed.
- Can be drawn by Alluring Skulls.
- They are affected by the Rapport pyromancy.
- Vulnerable to parrying, setup parries are especially effective due to their constant attacking.
Lothric Knight Notes & Trivia
- These knights are one of the "Three pillars of the king's rule" in lore, as mentioned in the Knight's Ring, Priestess Ring and Scholar's Ring descriptions.
- The only enemy to drop Sunlight Medal.
- Lord Lothric may have been based on Berserk's Griffith
who may have also inspired Gwyndolin. (read article)
Lothric Knight Variations
Sword or Spears
Red-Eyed Royal Guard
Anonymous05 Apr 2021 04:50
The first time facing the first lothric knight "Hell yeah welcome to blood souls baby!".
24 Mar 2021 04:23
"Lord Lothric may have been based on Berserk's Griffith"
This has nothing to do with the subject of the article, the Lothric Knights, and his name isn't Lord Lothric, it's Prince Lothric. Can we ****ing stop making names up?
- Anonymous
11 Mar 2021 22:50
If someone is planing on farming Sunlight medal/Ember, go to the lothric castle bonfire, equip Great chaos fire orb with great swamp ring and witch's ring with all the stuff (SoA, Cgsr +2/3 Sage rapier, rusted coin) and 2-4 shot them
- Anonymous
09 Mar 2021 14:50
I'm pretty casul, I've only a few days of experience with dark souls 3 and I've honestly got to admit that I didn't see the fuss with these guys until lothric castle (which, then, it definitely made sense), albeit the ones in high wall are more along the lines of simply something you have to be cautious around, not try to go ham on it, because that's a good way to get yourself killed. They're actually really fun challenges that tests the player against a new enemy variant with a changed up moveset vs. the usual broken sword hollows and knife tossing hollows.
I like these guys, in other words
- Anonymous
08 Mar 2021 10:22
Coolest enemy in the dark dark souls series. Hell Artorias ain’t even as cool as these fellas.
They are only second to the Cathedral Knights though. They brawl like badasses.
Srs tho. Really cool enemy. The lore, the mettle they wear. Truly an awesome enemy.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
07 Feb 2021 08:30
Everybody gangsta until lothric knight takes his stance. Seriously though the thrust comes so fast it's not reflex but luck if you will dodge it.
29 Jan 2021 17:50
Lothric Knights at Lothric Castle also can drop Lightning Gems i just got one from Dragon Barracks bonfire from the greatsword wielding lothric knight
- Anonymous
27 Dec 2020 07:27
My first encounter with them on the High Wall was devastating. On first seeing the knight I thought- oh this must be this games variant of the Black Knight from Dark Souls 1, and tried following my tried and true strategy of backstabs and parries. The moment the Knight lunged back and bashed his shield behind him, breaking my guard was when I realized just how naive I was. Being used to the slower and much weightier combat of DS1, I couldn't parry a single attack either lol.
- Anonymous
20 Dec 2020 04:32
It is so worth grinding for their armor and weapons in early game. It is a great early game armor set
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
13 Oct 2020 01:09
The day I stopped expecting from enemies and creatures to behave with the same rules and limitations of a player character was the day I fell in love with these guys.
They do have infinite stamina, yes but they also have limitations like 1)no passive poise, 2)parriable VS the player which by that time in the game is a living arsenal of destruction(resins, infusions, magic, items of all kind, etc).
- Anonymous
09 Oct 2020 02:11
All the Lothric knight Weapons Scale with Dex, (except the crossbow), Winged knight weapons scale with Strength, Hundreds of Lothric knight corpses all over HW and LC, only 1 WK corpse at highwall, Conclusion, STR > DEX
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
04 Sep 2020 22:45
Even tho I killed the thousand of times, they are still my most hated enemies, Imo hardest knight except Outriders... But that makes them kinda cool... But the range of that WA thrust is pure bs cmon :D Also the fact that on the beggining of the game, damn you WANT to be that guy so much, but Mr. M made their armor super heavy, sword req. 18 dex, shield 18 str, so you just cry, coz you really can just run in armor and deserter pants acting like you look so dope XD
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
05 Aug 2020 21:46
I found an awesome strat for cheesing these guys, first step is you need to git gud, ...that's it lol
- Anonymous
30 Jul 2020 11:27
My favorite thing to do is cosplay as a lothric knight with the war banner, with my two buddies and have a trio of lothric knights destroy everything and everyone
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
30 Jul 2020 09:42
listen, these guys can be tough, i know. but don't complain. learn how to deal with them, fix your build, and get going. if you can't get over these guys, you'll won't even make it through irithyll...
24 Jul 2020 04:39
What am I doing wrong that I cannot fight these guys? The spear and shield variant mind you. I keep trying to parry--but only can half do it--and thus lose half my health doing so. I end up losing all my estus, and then die because for one: they hold their shield up even at distance so no throwables, they smack me when I try and sneak behind them. I literally just cannot fight that singular one before the room where you get the Broadsword and the Estus Shard, as well as the key for Greirat for context.
- Anonymous
15 Jun 2020 18:22
I've found using the Cestus, both hands, running direct at them, L1 from a distance then just spam L1 (break shield in 3 hitsish) then just wail on them.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
12 Jun 2020 20:27
It's gonna be fun farming for sunlight medals because I'm too broke to buy ps plus and go online
08 Apr 2021 22:00
They are not weak against lightning, thats actually their highest resistance. But dark works very well of course. Fire is ok as well
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