Lothric Knight
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| Enemy Type | Humanoid Hollow |
| Weakness | Lightning, Frost, Poison/Toxic Hollowslayer GS |
| Resistances | Physical-type, Fire, Bleed |
| Immune | n/a |
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 blades 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
| Location |  |
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Drops |
| High Wall of Lothric | 656 | 1200 | Lothric Knight Set |
| Prince Lothric Bridge Guard | 4000 | Lothric Knight Set Large Titanite Shard Lightning Gem |
Anonymous06 Feb 2020 23:07
I like how these guys are able to recover from a full stagger before I am able to chain the next hit. 10/10 game.
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- Anonymous
06 Feb 2020 22:37
"Mr. Miyazaki, should we give the castle knights infinite stamina?". Mr. M: "***** yeah, do it". "What about recovery time?". Mr. M: "Zero". "..." Mr. M: "And make them able to attack as they're getting up". "And the players?" Mr. M: "What about them?" "Should we give them any of those advantages?" Mr. M: "***** no, that would be unbalanced!"
- Anonymous
06 Feb 2020 21:48
these guys are so cool, they figured out the infinite stamina glitch. If only I were so cool... .l.
- Anonymous
27 Jan 2020 23:46
The wording makes it sound as if the Blues are the only ones to use Blessed Weapons even though I watched a Red Greatsword wielder buff his weapon and slap my friend back to the bridge. To clarify, it also wasn't a red-eye variant.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
26 Nov 2019 11:56
Sword users have very telegraphed stab/running attacks, and the rest are easy to time with practice. THE SPEAR GUYS HOWEVER
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15 Oct 2019 07:31
I did my heavy enemy parry training on these knights, as one of there attacks is very easy to parry for the critical hit, especially effective using one of the shields with the extended parry frames as well as equipping the hornet ring, and you can riposte the hell out of these guys for major damage, and using a sword that they are weak to is really great as well. Even at new game +3, I am able to two hit the red eyed knights and one hit the normal lothric knights using the blessed target shield to parry, the hornet ring and then quickly switching to the chaos dagger for the critical hit, makes these guys kinda a joke as long as it's a one on one fight. Although I do not recommend trying to parry the knights that rock the great shield and spear. Instead us a weapon that does a guard break and after a few hours of practice, you will never have an issue with these guys ever again, useless you get double teamed or you are just not that gud at the game.
- Anonymous
19 Aug 2019 21:15
Little tip they have very poor poise and can be stun lock by weapons with descent knockback
- Anonymous
24 Jul 2019 15:09
Everyone remembers the first time you see this guy walk out of the building next to the dragon and just s*** yourself
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
11 May 2019 18:34
If You're planning on farming Sunlight Medals the Hollowslayer Greatsword is the way to go, stunlock with 2H works just fine.
- Anonymous
03 Nov 2018 06:57
Some notes about the spear-wielding versions of these guys... Spear hitbox comes out very early so parrying them is ass. Siderolling doesn't work very well because of the nonexistent recovery, they can just shieldbash you during recovery. If they walk up on you when you're at a wall it's actually possible for you to get clipped inside of them, which is very bad because they will continuously shieldbash you and your attacks will whiff them. Drop rate on long spear is really high. I got three of them in 40 minutes off the one by Emma.
- Anonymous
07 Oct 2018 15:46
Okay, but what are the drop rates/chances of dropping items? This wiki is terrible about being informative.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
31 Aug 2018 22:20
At first they're you're enemy, then they become your dance partner, as you both spin around each other with raised shields, fishing for backstabs and openings.
- Anonymous
10 Aug 2018 14:10
My first character got the lothric straight sword after 3 rounds of farming. Second character rolls around. Been 30 runs boys. I have 4 full sets of armour but no sword...
- Anonymous
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- Anonymous
05 Jul 2018 07:19
the fucking spear guys are the absolute worst. just spam after spam after spam from these guys
13 Feb 2020 21:12
there are 16 versions of this enemy. sword, spear, sword clean armour, spear clean armour, red eye sword, red eye spear, red eye greatsword, royal sword, royal spear, royal greatsword, scholar sword, scholar spear, scholar greatsword, corrupted sword, corrupted warnabber, corrupted greatsword
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