Both Elden Ring and Dark Souls have had their share of difficult bosses. Players all over the internet can be seen struggling to get through these hard-to-nail enemies. They keep pushing, and eventually, they win. But sometimes FromSoftware throws some enemies in the mix—enemies that are even harder than those massive boss fights. There’s no shortage of such enemies in the whole Soulsborne franchise.
Keeping this particular thing in mind, FromSoftware introduced a bunch of normal enemies in Elden Ring that are even harder than some of the boss battles; these are the Crucible Knights. Yes, the Black Knights of Elden Ring. Now, after dealing with them in the Elden Ring themselves, one hardcore fan has put these enemies in the ring against Dark Soul’s Black Knight.
Elden Ring’s Crucible Knight or Dark Soul’s Black Knight, who would win in a duel
Players all over the world despise some common enemies in Elden Ring. Crucible Knights are one such enemy; they appear in some of the most significant locations in the game, and they make the lives of players hell. They have a very high level of poise; hence, staggering them is next to impossible. They sometimes have a massive shield, so damaging them is pretty hard. And to top it all, they have a very large pool of health.
The only effective way of killing them is to grab a magic weapon and use a shield to parry their attack. This combination of parrying and magic weapons can prove pretty effective against them. Also, if one gets hurt, they need to maintain some distance between them, as they often attack when the player is trying to heal.
In the Dark Souls franchise, Black Knight did something similar. They are built like tanks, they hit like tanks, and they have a large health pool. The best way to kill them is to parry them and use a lightning weapon on them. So it is established that defeating these enemies is pretty hard indeed, but who wins when they fight each other?
A YouTuber too had this question in their head, and they decided to find it out. To do so, they put both of these enemies in an arena. The moment these two saw each other, they started fighting. This fight was unlike anything; both of them were going at each other pretty hard, but Black Knight was getting ahead.
It was doing something that was pretty unseen; it was constantly hitting the crucible knight and stunning it with every second attack. It is pretty exciting to see the Crucible Knight suffer. Even when it reaches its second phase and starts using its powers, Black Knight keeps on doing its own thing.
Sometimes the Crucible Knight won, other times the victory went to the Black Knight, but at the end of the day, the Black Knight came out victorious. It was the only fighter amongst the two that was using its own physical attacks and nothing fancy, and yet it was almost defeating Crucible Knight.
Seeing this kind of fight is always interesting, and fans get to understand how the AI of these characters works when they fight each other. I can’t wait to see what these people come up with next.
Would the Black Knight be able to defeat Lady Maria, though?
While these two hulky enemies look excellent fighting each other, one question that remains is: how would they do when fighting Bloodborne enemies?
They have fast reflexes and some fast attack and escape techniques. Lady Maria is one of the prime examples of this. Let’s see if someone decides to make the Black Knights fight Lady Maria now or not.
