What can stagger a Crucible Knight?

Crucible Knight (Sword) Fight Strategy Giant Hunt and Stamp (Upward Cut) can stagger it out of many of its moves. For co-op, Ancient Lightning Spear (Bolt of Gransax skill) is useful - when fully charged, it makes Crucible Knight flinch. Jumping attacks can be a good counter to their charge attack.
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How do you counter Crucible Knight?

Here are our top tips for succeeding in your fight against the Crucible Knight:
  1. Don't take the Crucible Knight on too early.
  2. Back way off before healing.
  3. Attack just once or twice before retreating.
  4. Watch out for the two tail attacks.
  5. A parry goes a long way.
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What is the best strategy against the Crucible Knight?

For the majority of the fight you will want to run in, poke for some damage, then quickly get out because of how fast to respond he is after being hit. Watch out especially for his ground stomp move, which can knock you prone, can't be blocked, and opens you up for a one-shot 2H attack immediately after.
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What can you parry Crucible Knight?

You won't be able to parry the Crucible Knight's magic attacks, but those won't come up very often during this fight. Remember to dodge whenever he sprouts a wing or tail, parry any sword hits you can, and stay calm. Panic rolling is a surefire way to die.
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What are Crucible Knights weak to?

Avoid using Holy or Magic damage against the Crucible Knights as they are resistant to it, and don't use Bleed or Frostbite as they are outright immune. Instead, opt for Fire or Lightning damage.
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You can stagger CRUCIBLE KNIGHTS?

Can the Crucible Knight be staggered?

PCPlayStation 4Xbox Series XXbox One. Crucible Knights stagger from attacks that launch normal enemies, like Giant Hunt. They become a lot easier when you can interrupt their moves with your own.
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Can you backstab a Crucible Knight?

If you've fought other Crucible Knights, you'll know they aren't weak to much, are rarely staggered, and can't be backstabbed. For this reason you'll want to pick your hits wisely and then be ready to dodge or block until the next window arrives.
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Can I cheese Crucible Knight?

There are 2 spots to cheese from. The first one will require a lot of poison/rot arrows, a longbow, AND the arrows reach talisman. The 2nd spot is the better one and arrows can actually do damage to the CK.
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Is Crucible Knight weak to fire?

This is a simple tidbit, but most, if not all, Crucible Knights are immune to Bleed, and weak to Lightning most, followed by Fire. It's a safe bet to assume that armored enemies are weak to Lightning in general, because of the whole conductive metal thing. Weirdly, Fire works pretty well too.
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Can you poison Crucible Knight?

Use the poisonous mist as soon as he spawns and he should get poisoned, swap to the dagger (or any weapon that will do a lot of critical damage) and parry him.
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What level should you be for Crucible Knight duo?

I'm usually higher level than 77 though, more like 90-100. You should have at least one weapon upgraded to +19 or 20 by this point, for somber weapons you should have +6 at least, but it's not hard to get +10 early.
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Is it possible to parry Crucible Knight?

TIP: To parry the Crucible Knight, press and hold L2 (on PlayStation) when his attack winds up. Don't press it when it's coming forward as that's too late. Watch his arms go back, and do it then. Use a Buckler as it has the best parry window.
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Can you poise break Crucible Knight?

The slash of Crucible Knights is easy to parry with shields like a buckler. Learn the timings for the slashes to parry at the right moment. This breaks the poise of the enemy, giving players the time to deal critical damage and take out a chunk of health off of the Crucible Knight.
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Who are the strongest knights in Elden Ring?

Crucible Knights are probably the strongest between their enchanted weaponry imbued with holy essence and insane powers (there's a reason why Siluria's Spear and Ordvois's Greatsword are both such powerful weapons), enchanted armor which is noted to also hold to the power of the Crucible of Life, their incantations ...
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Do sleep pots work on Crucible Knights?

With sleep, you can have even more fun in the Lands Between.

It works for some enemies but not others and tends to be ineffective against bosses and magic-wielding enemies. For enemies like Crucible Knights, dragons, and skeletons, no matter how much FP or jars I tried to use, they didn't even flinch.
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What is Radahn weak to?

Radahn is vulnerable to Frostbite and other status conditions, but especially Scarlet Rot. Rot Pots and arrows tinged with Scarlet Rot are good options if you want to take advantage of status effects for this fight. These weaknesses remain even in phase two.
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How many Crucible Knights are there?

According to the Closed Network Test description for Ordovis's Greatsword, there were 16 Crucible Knights of Godfrey. Though the description has been changed, this is still the case for the final version of the game. Two can be found in Limgrave. Three can be found in the Siofra River.
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Can you get Crucible Knight Armour?

The Crucible Axe Set is a complete set of Attire that's dropped by Crucible Knight Ordovis in Auriza Hero's Grave, Altus Plateau. This set includes the Crucible Axe Helm, Crucible Axe Armor, Crucible Gauntlets, and Cruible Greaves.
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Is Crucible Knight duo optional?

Crucible Knight Ordovis is found in Auriza Hero's Grave. This is an optional Boss as players do not need to defeat it in order to advance to the Legacy Dungeon.
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What is the strongest stagger weapon in Elden Ring?

The Giant-Crusher has the highest Strength stat requirement in Elden Ring, and for good reason. It's incredibly powerful, with very high stagger potential against enemies. Of course, the downside is that the weapon will leave you entirely open to attacks if you miss.
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How do you increase stagger damage in Elden Ring?

The weak stagger is produced by standard weapon sizes, and the heavy stagger is produced by "great" weapons and bigger. The 2 classifications of weapons for poise in this game, "great" and "standard" categorize the following weapon classes below. The Standard Weapons are all other Weapon categories.
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Do you have to fight Misbegotten Warrior and Crucible Knight?

Crucible Knight And Misbegotten Warrior are located in Redmane Castle inside the Plaza. Fighting them is optional, and they do not affect any ending in the game whatsoever. Defeating the boss will get you the Ruins Greatsword which is a Legendary armament.
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What level should I be to fight Radahn?

Radahn is a powerful foe who can only be matched by powerful players. You should be level 40 at the minimum, and arguably much higher, ideally 50-60, with gear to match, at least +8. The gimmick of Radahn's boss arena is that there's NPC summons signs all over the place, allowing you to bring them in to help.
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