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Who said anything about all bosses Rusty, we want the all enemies ranked.

Next video: Ranking all the letters in the Elden Ring title

The exploding crucible knight is a fucking hilarious idea

In my headcannon, that one in the Evergaol also didn't take Godfrey's banishment lying down, but he got captured & incarcerated

Fun Fact: Zullie the Witch detamined a cut questline in which you would hunt down Ordovis for betraying the Golden Order. Zullie speculated that Ordovis was supposed to be Tanith’s Knight, which makes what Ordovis is in the final game that much more depressing.

Here me out: Give the Breath incantation to another Crucible Knight, and have Tanith's Knight reward you with a Spirit Summon version of himself. And have the item description imply that he has no disdain for you (for defeating him), because he will gladly accept you as his Tanith replacement if it means he can continue fighting the Golden Order.

Fun fact about the Farum Azula Crucible Knights: I don't know how coding works, but somehow because of the way they're set up to fight the Beastmen there, these specific Knights are also set up to fight Invaders. This also means Invaders can kill them if they want. I found this out randomly while invading, and it's unbelievably interesting to me.

Phew, I thought that Elden Ring finally released you from its basement, but here we are

I get why it ranked lower, but one of my favorite Crucible Knights has to be the Siofra Aqueduct Hornshield Knight precisely because he can fall off. The first time I fought it I remembered their flying lunge attack and looked at the windows and was like "There's no way this works" and purposefully baited him off the edge. Especially given how some knights like the Nokron Belfry knight have invisible walls to avoid this exactly thing, it's incredibly satisfying to throw this guy off the ledge through a window. It was such memorable moment for me and now every time I'm going towards those damn Gargoyles I at least get excited that I can bully that one knight off the ledge first

I dunno who shook me more on a first play: the hidden Knight in Stormveil suddenly *appearing* or Taniths Knight instant-transmitting behind me to wear my ass like a hat...

Now THIS is the kind of ranking I'm talking about! Can't wait for the Runebear Ranking.

At the end of the year, you should do a ranking of every ranking, and then in ten years you can do a ranking of every year, and then when you retire, you can do a ranking of every ranking you've ever done.

I agree with number 1 very adamantly for the sole reason I found out he was fightable the hard way. This dude scared the crap out of me after I went, "Hmmm, what happens if I kill Tanith?"

rusty at this point is just going insane,also all crucible knights are AMAZING

The Crucible Knight from the duo fight in Castle Redmane would've been the coolest boss entrance in the game if it wasn't hard to get more than a glimpse of him flying in because of the misbegotten you're busy with. Such a missed opportunity, plus would've been a good opportunity to make it a proper boss gauntlet instead of a mostly-awkward duo fight.

Uh, rusty, april fools was a month ago, what do you mean all 16 crucible knights in what way are they different? Has insanity struck you?

Shout-out to Gug, forcing you to kill Rykard to get a breath incantation that's outclassed by the one you can get in Limgrave.

Rusty getting desperate

2:51 There’s a reality where that is the Incantation Equivalent to Carian Slicer

0:25 I love that the youtuber in the second thumbnail is "titanium bannana", as opposed to "iron pineapple".

Stormhill Crucible Knight was one of my first walls in this game. I had leveled like 4 times, I played through DS3 and thought I was hot shit (I wasnt), and I proceeded to lose for like 4 hours to this boss dealing nearly no damage and taking way too much, with only 4 heals. But this made their moveset ingrain into my head that now I cant help but love a fight against Crucible Knights now. Such a fun fight, feeling like an honorable standoff between 2 knights, like fighting a Darknut in The Legend of Zelda. Learning the intricacies of what's punishable and what isnt was a trial at first but in retrospect taught me how to approach bosses from then on.

I've always grouped the knights into 1 of 3 categories. 1: Type A - Sword with Tail 2: Type B - Sword with Fire 3: Type C - Spear I have legit made 35 character across 4 profiles and have never seen a Type A breath fire or a Type B sprout a tail it's very much one or the other. Type C is by far the easiest with their lack of a shield, slower combos, and very punishable wing attack. I've even one-button-wondered them with frost infused great swords/hammers/axes and the wild strikes ash, just slowly walking around them in a circle swinging away until they die, they only have like 2 attacks with enough poise damage to break the hyper armor. Type A being the most difficult with the tail shutting down their openings and screwing with my timings and all that, even now they often clip me with it. Type B is just kinda whatever the fire breath is plenty telegraphed to avoid, I kinda hate how in blows you over onto your ass but I hate when anything does that, I don't like having control taken from me, so it's not a direct complaint against the knight specifically (way too many "oops you're on your ass now" attacks in this game man).

And I took that personally

this thumbnail is VERY close to the "This thing f!@$ing SUCKS" --> *the coolest thing ever*

To be me: ALL crucible knights are good! Heck I even did a cosplay one as them during my second play though! Can’t wait for the new incantation in the dlc

ONE STEP CLOSER TO ALL BOSSES RANKING

Just by looking at the thumbnail, I got an idea for the dlc. A crucible knight summons, but to make it not overly powerful, it would take a 1000+ hp to summon it.

15:00 yay! Gug got the #1 spot

Only Rusty could use the phrases "pinultimate biome" and "dimwitted giga-virgin step cousin" in the same video and have it make perfect sense

7:55 "i guess we are saving that shit for the dlc or something" lol. they did.

Poor rusty, reduced to countdowns until shadow of the erdtree comes out. Hope you don’t need to make a second weapon list for the dlc items

The fact that every time you get invaded in the whole end up with you fighting a player model (yes, the sanguine noble in the snowfield is an player model, he has 2 reduvias) and then you slap tanith and you get invaded by an actual boss only happens once makes me kinda sad because of just how hilarious it is on a first encounter.

The Farum Azula rooftop crucible knight also fights invaders, and they can fight it too. Do with that information what you will.

And then Devonia cleared all of them by having her own helmet, weapon and moveset, being the only one of her kind, and even showing off a unique Crucible spell we have never seen before.

Never thought this day would come 😭

I actually think the 16 Crucible Knight detail is still valid and has important lore implications. Let me just establish some facts real quick taken from the lore. 1. Godfrey's symbol is the axe 2. There are 16 Crucible knights in the game. 10 wield swords. 6 wield spears. 3. The Crucible existed before Godfrey. Now, let's look at the roundtable of the roundtable hold. Embedded in it are 10 swords and one axe. I believe that Siluria's Armor is what the original Crucible Set looked. I think Ordovis and his 9 followers swore an oath to Godfrey at the roundtable when he became Elden Lord and changed their armor to suit that role. This is why their helmets are axe-shaped. The symbol of Godfrey. Siluria and her 5 followers may have been less enthusiastic about this change in leadership and chose to keep their armor as is, in reverance of the crucible itself instead of to a lord.

Next he’ll rank all the Deers

2:24 hey look it’s Mr. Duo fight Necessitation man 🤣

The Rampart Tower Crucible Knight is actually one that stands out to me because of some cheese I stumbled upon during my first encounter with it. I ran past the thing like a coward and took a moment to breathe when I reached the lift, only for the knight to catch up. What followed was a bout of panic rolling that resulted in the lift going up without me, and the knight taking a ride. I thought, "Well, bye now." Then I had a good laugh when seconds later, I saw the knight fall to its death.

*rank the small animals*

Rusty, make a tier list video of your Elden ring tier list videos

Honestly, the Crucible Knights are one of my favorite enemies, even if it took me 10 playthroughs to learn how to fight them properly. They're always an intimidating encounter and they're vidual and combat design are among the best in Elden Ring

Eventually the only thing left to rank is all ~311 sites of grace! Something to look foreword to, but I'm loving these ranking videos! The comedy is there and they're fun to watch.

boutta see "ranking all the demi-humans" next

is the dashing thing he does instead of rolling a mod?

9:50 boy was it wild to hear SuperTF's intro music in the wild

“Mr. Girl Boss” made me laugh harder than I think it deserved 😂😂😂

Ranking all loading screen next

'Can I Beat Elden Ring Before My Eviction Notice?' is top tier, hope mr banana picks that one up :)

Cool video, I’m excited for the misbegotten ranking next.

I had absolutely no idea about 3 of these knights. This game will hide shit from me for the rest of my life.

During my playthrough so I can get a non-NG character in the DLC. I went full-on crucible knight in my build, I hate to encounter them, so why not become one... I don't regret that choice. Now I love them. (and with a mimic tear, you got yourself a duo..) The shadow of the Erdtree will feel the wrath of what were before it.

The crucible knight in the evergoal and the one in stormveil castle gave me so much trouble on my first playthrough that I made sure to be stacked and had all their moves memorized for any crucible knight I saw later and would kill them with heaviest weapon and with spirit ashes with no shame, I tried to experiment with different weapons and use no summons for most bosses to make game a little more fun and challenging but not for them

The way you described #1. I felt that, well said.

#7, or as I like to call him, “fuck it I’m tired of Farum Azula and I’m running by him.” 😂

The Nokron Belfry Knight not being dead last is a shocker to me, all that setup of him being visible earlier, the vista he's on when you fight him, finding and spending an imbued key just to get to him.....just for him to be a generic Knight who drops literally nothing aside from like 2k runes is just....why.....the sheer disappointment of actually fighting him undoes all of the points he gets from his location

Man the dlc needs to come fast or rusty about to rank all magma worms.

What I really appreciate about the Crucible Knights is how they communicate to the player how strong they've become. That Crucible Knight in the Evergaol will have players struggling, but eventually, they're on the same level as normal enemies.

Every Tree, Bush and Grass ranked, thanks buddy 👍

“People change. Just not the way you want sometimes.” Rusty speaking truth in a tier list.

I love all the crucible knights, you are exploring then boom these brick walls of pure angry show up

30+ hours into my third playthrough and that evergaol crucible knight is STILL the one that took me the most attempts to heat💀 (27 tries)

I concur with this list except i think Ordovis shouldve been 3rd. But yah, the Stormhill one was such a challenge on my first playthru, then seeing these guys throughout the world always sent chills down my spine. But the one at Taniths side was the one that surprised me the most when i first saw him but didnt realize til this video that he was indeed the only one that went against the Erdtree. Thanks for that 👍!

Sponsorships for games that I love? I was legitimately happy to see that

I always thought that the crucible knight looking at the mural of the erdtree was thinking about what had come before, and the perhaps one of the few knights knowing of the unsung slaughter dealt by the impaler.

Crucible Knights are elite soldiers. Uniformity is quite prevalent in military units, so I get why so many of them are similar. Not dissimilar to the Black or Silver Knights, Haligtree Knights etc. who come is select variations.

"weird claw attack slicing ham etc etc" bro i got rollcaught by that spell seven times in a row once that is the single most irritating move they have

I like the crucible knights, not because they're fun or challenging, but because I just buly them into oblivion. Every time they use an attack (that's not an AotC incantation), I just parry them and tell them "No." My friend has even said that what I do to them is not bullying, it is abuse since they don't get a chance to fight back.

I think the Rampart Tower knight deserves a higher ranker just because he was my first ever encounter with a crucible knight and that was absolutely terrifying.

At this point, by the time the DLC comes out, I'll be watching him rank all the hairstyles (Two videos: one for vanilla, one for modded)

While fighting both of them is absolute CBT, there's something really wholesome about the fact that one of Ordovis's soldiers was so loyal to him that he chose to also help guard the grave along with his commander.

I can't wait for the "rating all my ratings videos" video.

8:07 I can't help myself with this guy. I just love sneaking up behind him and launching him off the waterfall with horn of the crucible 🤣

Rusty please to a play through with only using the worst item in every tier list you’ve made. (Worst staff, worst incantation, worst dagger, etc)

Can say for sure that the Erd Tree Sanctuary knight successfully impaled me and threw me off the railing. Was one of my favorite moments ever fighting a crucible knight.

It's been a long time since I actually laughed for real at someone dry humor. That fighting in a studio apartment and fridge shit actually got me. I'm subbin

Trusty Rusty always ready to remind me that i only found 98 percent if elden secrets.

Just want to say: I appreciate the summary at the end listing your rankings. It's not exactly easy to remember how you ranked everything after a video the length of a nature documentary, so any assistance we can get is helpful. Great video as always.

I was expecting just an average tier list video, but you were actually kinda funny. Good job.

Convergence mod ranking videos! Starting classes, unique weapons, unique talismans, unique bosses, unique spells, and more! Plenty of content.

Another thing that boosts tanith's knight is that you see him just chilling when you first see him, and then when you attack her, he finally kicks into action

Rusty has ranked all staves, all bows, all weapons, all incantations, all sorceries, all magic types, all ashes of war, all spirit summons, all caves and probably a few others that I may be missing but one thing stands out. He ranked the staves, yet he hasn’t ranked the sacred seals.

Your male character sitting down in fia's room looks like Gary Oldman in that one movie with the french hitman and the kid

V Rising should have sponsored a video ranking all the Rises and their puzzles

I would also like to see more boss ranking videos. I always learn new things from your work, and the fast paced, unpredictable verbiage makes for frequent rewatches.

man i wish rusty would share his character sliders he really did a great job with it. awesome video as always!

So glad Tanith's knight finally got some appreciation

Crucible armor with one of the stone imp heads can be fantastic, you just switch which one you need like you're Peacemaker

I swear he will rank all the boulders in Elden Ring first, before he does his own Spell Mod ranking

Rusty slowly reveling his past is just so fucking funny

Hey Rusty, what are you doing today? Rusty: Leave me alone! I'm ranking all the Black knife assassins!

7:46 Crusible knight: watch how goddam big I can make this number. *tries so hard that he explodes*

The Nokron Knight standing in water is my favorite to send flying with the horn incantation

resident evil tier lists WHEN, i’d listen to you read the phone book man

i hadn’t even considered tanith’s knights lore, definitive goat of all crucible knights. i just loved that pose, the gigachad bodyguard.

i was playing v rising with this in the background when the sponsor came on and I lost it

I'm pretty sure Tanith's Knight was actually supposed to be Ordovis, see him actually being the only other knight to use Ordovis' vortex, before being changed and stuck down into a grave with the Spear Knight. I think Ordovis being the one to have abandoned his oath and take arms against the Erdtree would've been such a cool lore detail.

Fun fact: the one under the dragon has a habit of flying out the open window and falling to its death! Happened to me twice

4:47 this is what they did to the Avatar on the bridge in the Haligtree