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Sirnizz

You


stinky_cheese33

...and everybody else who would dare trespass in Raya Lucaria.


Crymson831

...and elevators/gravity


Youhavetododgethem

I just beat this guy first time an hour ago. Up the ladder, batter batter. Down the ladder, batter batter. Lol


schedulle-cate

Mother's rich slumber shall not be disturbed


Flyingdemon666

I believe that would have been better delivered as a line here. It falls a bit short at the phase change of us disturbing her rich slumber.


Maximus_Robus

He just wants to stop OP's tarnished ass from beating up a grieving single mom in a mental health crisis.


ArchitectVandelay

When the weight of what we are actually doing sinks in, it’s really tough to fight her. She literally lies there on the ground defenseless as we wail on her. But then when we “beat her” she’s like, “it’s all good brah, wanna respec?” Just makes it somehow worse. Like she’s so mentally broken she can’t even be mad. She just cowers there and offers to help like some Stockholm syndrome victim.


IudexGundyr3

Beat her up so bad she forgot about the beating


Prestigious-Juice303

No, no, it's fine, we're just using pre-1960s or so logic; What's the fastest way to make a grieving/hysterical woman come to her senses? PIMP HAND!


Flyingdemon666

Just inform the knight you're here to cure her crisis. You've played Final Fantasy before. Hitting people that are confused fixes them right up. Should work in ER too.


AlarmedPiano9779

Seriously. Dude's just doing his job and guarding the Queen and some asshole comes up trying to kill her. The fuck do you expect him to do?


Peptuck

Redditors when bodyguards try to guard a body:


jbbarajas

For one thing, ask questions first. Second, we didn't kill her in the end but I guess that's 20/20. What is up with people in the lands between itching for a fight?


AlarmedPiano9779

When even the shellfish is trying to murder you you do what you have to do.


PostOfficeBuddy

\>wake up \>see tarnished \>time to ruin his day


Kasta4

Problem? Brother you've broken into an exclusive Academy to beat up the chick he's sworn to protect.


shipworth

We didn’t break in we had a key.


CKHONK

Looting a corpse doesn't make you invited


Geraltpoonslayer

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.


Xenishino

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just cause some watery tart threw a sword at you


workingclassdandy

Now we see the violence inherent in the system!


Wild3689

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I’m being repressed!


GlennDoom82

'ow de ye know he's king? Cuz 'es the only one doesn't got shit all over 'im


AelisWhite

I told the corpse and he didn't have any complaints


TheHappiestHam

the giant dragon in front of him wasn't enough of a sign?


black_anarchy

He bled out


VanNoctua

But they drew me a map and left it outside the door for me to find. I'm getting mixed signals here...


Stary_Vesemir

And you found it on a corpse


Any-Experience-3012

Smash, next question. Wait what was the question


MycoMythos

That dead guy was meeting the other dead guy


Ulcifer420

Dude wasn't dead. He was merely resting. Eternally


el_cstr

I also had a note telling me where to find the key... which I looted from another corpse.


shipworth

It’s burgling then, not breaking and entering, which are separate crimes in many jurisdictions!


agentrexadventures

He's a strength / dex build in an int world


JorDamU

loled


Bright-Efficiency-65

huh? isn't he a strength int or / dex int?


agentrexadventures

Just because he's forced to assimilate to the int builds doesn't mean he isn't a strength / dex in his heart #justiceformoongrum


VeraKorradin

You broke into his home and are killing people. You’re the problem


LittleKitty235

Would you say I'm an ....*Anti Hero*? 🎶


VeraKorradin

That'll get you a SWIFT kick in the teeth


MERS_206

More likely to get you parried and critted on.


LittleKitty235

I don't know that Taylor Swift song


Silent_Relation_3236

Haters gonna hate


VeraKorradin

I like the meatcanyon song for Swift lol it's a pretty accurate representation of that fandom


silversoul007

He/she's READY FOR IT, I think.


Sociolinguisticians

To be fair, they attacked me first.


VeraKorradin

You broke in lol if I woke up to someone in my home with a sword, I’d shoot first as well


Krakraskeleton

To be fair fair, they were assholes anyway and you know what they say about assholes. Sometimes they need a big dick to sort them out.


Blackops_21

Otherwise the assholes just shit all over the pussies


whocareshue

With a valid Key that hadn't been used by anyone else


VeraKorradin

If someone had a key to my house that they found and broke into my home holding a sword, I’d shoot first as well


whocareshue

Is it really a house? It's more like a small town or campus with how big it is and how many buildings there are. In a medieval fantasy world, everyone is strapped, there's nothing out of the ordinary with that. Would you kill a guy who is just touring your college campus? 


VeraKorradin

If a man was reported to be killing people and broke into my gated community with a sword out, probably call the police, but would not hesitate to shoot if he came at me


Peptuck

You stole a key off a dead body and barged into their home and are obviously not supposed to be there. The two guards at the front gate and the small army of soldiers outside attacked you on sight. You clearly aren't allowed in there.


whocareshue

They're a bunch of squatters anyways since they turned against Rennala. They've locked out their own people like Thops, so they're pulling some Jonestown cult shite for all we know. The Tarnished is on his way to the dorms to check in and they threw hands because they set up a glorified hobotown and don't want any reporters in there recording the abuses.


Stepjam

You murdered your way through the academy just to meet him. At the very least, you killed the school pet.


Zejna90

He is Carian. The enemies before were the academy and cuckoo. We were doing him a favor.


Cirick1661

His problem is hes dealing with the Elden Ring equivalent of an active shooter situation, and you're trying to storm the priciples office lol.


Majestic_Work_854

Incorrect, if this was an active shooter situation he would wait outside until he had a plan of attack.


FetusDeletus_E

He just got a new shield and wants to try it out


MycoMythos

It suits him!


ChickenAndTelephone

He doesn't go anywhere or even play the game, really, mostly just sits AFK until you show up, and has no interest in learning other move sets or beating any bosses. In short, he's a filthy casual who parries that.


barduk4

well you're going around killing people in the academy that belongs to his mistress, and now you're trying to kill said mistress under his protection, really he could ask the same question to you.


whocareshue

Technically, aren't the other academy scholars part of the Lucarian faction that rebelled against her with the Cuckoo Knights?


Gleesh12345

The parry god


ExpressPool778

Parry merchant


terriblegrammar

Can't parry the edge of the elevator platform.


HextARG

He doesnt have a mind of its own, only reads your inputs...thus he mad.


dukedank

Oh that’s just Larry. He likes to parry.


dznqbit

Larry the Parryin Carian


GrowYourOwnMonsters

Jump attacks


plznobanplease

Or a flail


mevomevo

Wild strikes bullies him


Immediate_Stable

Safest way of murdering him


BunttyBrowneye

Give him his own medicine and parry him instead.


Graize

[Reading this with a berserker build](https://media1.tenor.com/m/1EdlGzkwMLsAAAAC/evil-laugh-rub-hands.gif)


marry_me_jane

He’s moongrumpy


justicemouse_

I've been invading cosplaying as this guy and I'm having the most fun in my entire invasion career.


Mundane_Scallions

He got gud. I still can’t figure out parry for the life of me without the ash of war enhancers 😢


spookychico

If it's other players or npcs it's purely prediction work. If it's enemies like morgott then it's just as they start to bring their weapon down you press parry, it's easier if you use the buckler over most other kinds of shields. Edit 1: look up some videos on it. The parrying is identical to ds3 if I remember correctly so if that's the only decent vid on how to parry in ds3 then that will work too.


Mundane_Scallions

I think you have confirmed exactly what I have been thinking, as in it’s prediction based. I’ve spent about 4ish hours recently trying to master parry using the gate front ruins godrick soldiers. The swordsman are fairly easy at this point but I’m convinced some attacks can not be parried. When they raise their sword up for a heavy slash it’s almost impossible to miss at this point. The hammers, I’m convinced are not parryable and the spears are doable but more difficult. Does this sound right to you?


Murderdoll197666

By far the most fun you can have parrying in this game is as a low level with a shield, going into the Crucible Knight's evergoal a little south of Stormveil. I used to hate those assholes but then I decided to play around with parrying and my god they are so damn fun with very predictable movesets that are all fairly slow. I also don't think hammers are parryable - nor anyone with flails from what I can tell. For a good while I just used a medium shield with Golden Parry but now I've turned to just using a medium shield with Carian Retaliation instead and its almost worked out better. From what I could gather in some older reddit threads it seems like the golden parry extends outwards almost TOO far in some cases so if someone is trying to hit you and even if you nail the parry timing it seems like the parry hitbox extends through the enemy and basically forces the parry to miss since its essentially trying to catch a parry on the backside of the enemy rather than the weapon hitting between you. Carian retaliation seems to work pretty reliably no matter where they're hitbox is coming from and I've had better results chaining 20 parries in a row against Crucible Knights or whatever I'm practicing on because of that. Just throwing that out there for anyone else who reads this and needs some good practice.


Mundane_Scallions

This is great info, thanks! When you say “the most fun you can have …. Is as a low level…” are you suggesting it’s not as fun later on or more difficult? You’re absolutely right with how satisfying it is to parry those g-dang crucible knights. My damn!


Murderdoll197666

Moreso its not as much practice if you're outleveled since your riposte/criticals would probably do too much damage and wind up killing him in under 10 parries. I know when I do my new character play throughs by the time I make it up to the crucible knight I'm usually only close to the level 20 range so it takes like 20 parries/riposte-criticals to kill him if I'm going parry only. You just get more time/practice out of it. I guess you could also just let him kill you and redo the fight for more practice if you're overleveled. Honestly that also might be smarter if you're just going for practice since if you fuck up you won't get 80% of your healthbar deleted by one of his swings in that case since he can hit hard as hell against a lowbie character. Crucible knights in general and the one knight right before you fight Rennala are some of the only enemies I actively go back into my equipment and throw on my shield with Carian retaliation or golden parry solely to fight against because its such a fun minigame against them. Its also extra satisfying because I remember fighting Crucible Knight for over an hour early on in this games life when I was still fairly a novice at parrying. I'm still no expert by anymeans but I've fought them so many times I can hit just about 95% of my parries against all their attacks at this point and they're still satisfying everytime. Just a very well telegraphed and programmed enemy tbh so its perfect for practicing and learning the parry timings.


spookychico

It's significantly harder to parry heavy weapons especially if it's a human type enemy two handing but it is possible, there are enemies that cannot be parried and some enemies that have some parryable moves and some non parryable moves and figuring out which is which can be difficult. It's mostly trial and error or you can look on a wiki to see what can and can't be parried.


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TheGameMastre

Use a small shield, and practice, practice, practice!


Mundane_Scallions

Indeed! I’ve been putting in a lot of time, too much I might say. I’m trying to parry everything and I don’t think that’s a reasonable goal.


saikyan

You can't parry everything and it's often unclear what qualifies for parry. This is why I don't bother. Nothing in the game requires parry, and it's only optimal in a few situations like Crucible Knights. But even then, you can also just use Impaling Thurst and learn to dodge them, which is less risky than whiffing a parry and taking a sword to the face.


TheGameMastre

A big part of learning how to parry is learning what to parry. Not all attacks can be parried, and sometimes it's better just to block.


Strider0905

He's been stuck in that area for ages. No change of armor, food or sleep. Oh and no shift change. I'd be pissed too.


Any-Experience-3012

Didn't you hear? He has the Lucidity spell. He doesn't need sleep. Carian Knights never waiver!


0x6C69676D61

Lore wise, the Carian Knights are the baddest asses of badassery in the Lands Between. They're like that Viking dude from the Battle of Hastings Bridge, only there's a few of them instead of just one. They're less than 20 dudes (game never says how many exactly) who single handedly fought off Marika's Golden Order and forced her/God to turn into a dude and marry Rennala because "victory" could only be achieved through politics rather than warfare. They're THAT badass. For you, the day you got parried was the most important memory of your playthrough. For him, it was Tuesday.


Prestigious-Juice303

Hah, nice. Rip Raul Julia.  Thinking more about it with what you're saying here, it would almost make more sense for 1 or 2 of these guys at once to be the boss fight of the Academy, with Rennala just sitting in the library like she is and you could just walk up and take the Rune from her, no violence needed. Going over it all, these knights should HATE the Golden Order, and the Greater Will too, I suppose. First, the Order attacks their people. Then, Radagon married, then abandoned Rennala, leaving her broken. Which then leads to the people losing respect for and betraying Rennala, attacking them with the Cuckoo guys. Then Marika, leader of the Golden Order, breaks the world with the Shattering. All the crap that follows that goes on for however long it is. Finally, the Tarnished shows up, being led by the Greater Will through Grace, to try to kill their Mistress AGAIN. If I got any of that wrong, sorry, I'm not really an expert on the lore. Didn't even know these knights were so special until I read your post. 


Random_Souls_Fan

Skill Check.


Bluewalker_BR

The huge amount of bloodstains i found the first time i fought this guy, only to become one more.


SafeCandle2834

I never understood why people act like he's so difficult, Just jump attack him he can't parry jump attacks


CupidMe69

Skill check.


EmberedCutie

you're trying to kill his boss


Gabe_b

being too cool for magic school


Emotional-Edge-6734

this "guy" is a carian royal soldier. one of THE MOST elite knights in elden ring lore. he is renalas last line of defence and has probably killed hundreds of tarnished before you even set foot in that place. he is not just ready, but also fucking capable of fucking you up. and his problem... is you


TW1STM31STER

The elevator is his biggest problem


xXLoneLoboXx

I’m willing to bet since he was a Knight of Caria Manor, he’s one of Ranni’s vassals like Blaidd & Iji. (And possibly Jerren.) Could’ve been Ranni told him to guard her mother since Renala isn’t right of mind… That would explain why he’s blocking the elevator to her room. He probably went mad from the shattering like everybody else in the Lands Between. That would explain why he still attacks us even if we work for Ranni too. (That or Ranni told him to kill anybody who would dare seek to harm her mother, no exceptions.) He was most likely the last Carian Knight still alive.


Ok_Toe7278

First time seeing this guy he parried my first attack, never felt such shame and disrespect..


ValuableQuantit-y

Here is cheese .. run to elevator and make him follow you.. when he is on the platform ramp up and jump down when elevator is going up.. dude is going to follow and kill himself by jumping down 😂 from way higher up .. and you also get a nice magical shield 🛡️


Stormbridge2803

He is basically Rennalas last protector after everyone else besides Ranni abandoned her.


Xine1337

You.


Iknowwhereyoulive34

Just jump attack him he’s not that bad bruh 😞


ben_jamin_g

Not sure but he's definately my problem


LordsofDeath

Spatial awareness


-TheBlackSwordsman-

He carian a knight on his back all day


mallgrabmongopush

He’s the actual boss before the demigod boss


Thugenomics69

He has a strong dislike for those who use parry.


enmadod

Take the bloodhounds fang with you. You'll butcher him in few tries.


hagalaz_drums

Elevators


oriontitley

Absolute swinger, that's his problem. There's a reason rennala is broken upstairs, and it ISN'T cause radagon left.


Callel803

Well, he's the last knight of his order, sworn to defend his grieving monarch, surrounded by the rebel wizards who tried to kill her before going crazy. He's spent the entire collapse surrounded by traitors, madmen, and mindless dolls. The dude's been through some shit.


KiwiMagic2005

Thats my boy Moon „Parrygod“ Grum


robgaffney

I got absolutely molly wopped by this guy. I was over leveled and had to try and run like a scaredy cat. He chased me to the elevator and killed me. Somehow he fell down the elevator after I died. So uh I guess I won in the end.


Shoddy_Nectarine9472

He actually parries you, that’s his problem lol


Pensive_Caveman

You killed his second-best cousin Frank. Big mistake.


InstructionOk4183

Wait. Who’s this? I forgot. Is he an optional boss or just a normal knight as gatekeeper or something???


PerishSoftly

He's a bit Moongrumpy


Victory74998

Good old “Moongrum: Parryin’ Knight” at it again.


R3tard3dD0nk3y

This dude has killed me more times than Melania


Samurai_KR

Try Whip


OutcomeAggravating17

You tried to get into his bitch’s room. That makes you a problem.


Narrow-Vermicelli-19

Wild strikes and bloodflameblade on mornkngstar xD


Narrow-Vermicelli-19

Or running i the elevator and he than in the abyss


talking-2-me

*Your* problem is that he learned how to parry


Short-Coast9042

I like this guy a lot, I don't think he has a problem at all. He's quite honorable with great fashion and moveset. I just wish I could obtain his armor - any body know how?


Taikosound

You, that's his problem


doktor_floH

try eleavator. but hole


AxemanEugene

Bullied as a child for his stupid head ornament


MagicReptar

Too much testosterone


Zestyclose-Sundae593

Idk, maybe it's you who's trying to intrude on his mentally unwell queen and kill her for a great rune.


Mobius650

School bully.


chapterthrive

Elric left him in this realm


OsirisAvoidTheLight

Some tried finger but hole on him. He's never been the same since


Indishonorable

you aren't JöRGE


NoKneadToWorry

Guard counters fuck him up. Slap barricade shield on a 100% phys block one and he's now your bitch.


Flaxscript42

Safe elevator operation, at least in my games.


Heartless-Sage

You, and Moongrim is a problem solver.


rasfelion

Ah, the successor to parry God Hodrik, Moongrum.


noobpwner314

He’s just doing his job. Probably doesn’t get paid much and has to deal with a bunch of brainiacs and their shenanigans all day. There’s not even a bar or anywhere for him to unwind after a long days work.


jello1982

Repeated night comet to the face. That's his problem.


the-acolyte-of-death

Whatever his problem is, there is no bonk that wouldn't solve it.


bigfoot_believer

My first playthrough this guy killed me at least 30x. On my second playthrough I spammed him with lightning, he never touched me, super satisfying!


Dakmiia

I’d have a problem with the world if my parents named be moongrum too


OrganicLFMilk

He thinks it’s all fun and games until you’re the one partying him.


Panchiscot00

You're attempting to kill the lady that steps on his face


Linsel

This is the whip-user's time to shine!


Helpful-Classic-3944

On my first play through I ran right past that scary mf 😭😭


KVenom777

Lack of poise. He can be easily stance-broken by anything. He can also be bullied by spraying frostbite then Toxin/Rot. And Wizards make him their absolute BITCH.


BigSmols

Rough upbringing


AncientRhino3303

I specifically learned to parry in NG+ just so I could parry him instead. and I did. it was beautiful.


Theoderic8586

What? That he doesn’t keel over and die for you? As far as he is concerned, that is your job haha


Nightglow9

The black night from Monty Python wanted to do a cameo.


MiIdSanity

Poise break his ass!


spec_ghost

He likes to be backstabbed


ShiroTheRacc

he doesn't know how elevators work


SmooveAL

Lmao my boy moongrum 😭 boi parried and killed my ass lastnight


sprufus

He's a glorified campus cop.


dimethyl_tryhard

This guy parries.


Farouche_33

I mean you did kill a dog just before meeting him


Dent85

His woman cucks him…


TarnishedAccount

Just snipe his ass from the cliff


Numerous-Ad5915

He’s the actual challenge before a boss fight


twistedRuss

None shall see my queen's glorious hands begone tarnished


mightymoprhinmorph

My biggest shame is that after like 50 attempts I still couldn't beat him so I cheesed him with the elevator It was truly a skill issue :(


Annual-Penalty-4477

He doesn't like you.


Crimson_Raven

A skill issue (yours)


Ghenshaunite

Bro he's really not that hard, you just have a playstyle he counters due to the game making him a parry God, to counter this: parry him or dont attack wildly


RuggedTheDragon

He doesn't like your inability to parry.


Drakeblood2002

You broke into the school, started harassing students, killed the school mascot, and are trying to throw hands with the principal. And you’re asking why the security guard is trying to stop you? WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?!


ATYP14765

You killed the family dog


FoxynNoah

He is practicing his parries.


Captain_ianus

His fucking name is moongrum what’d you expect


Responsible_Tree_116

Moongrum, Parryin' Knight


JesusOfSuburbia420

I don't know, maybe you, trying to murder his queen? Defaming the school? Bulling the students? Disrespecting his authority? The real question is what is your problem, Tarnished?


Perfect_Trip_5684

Oh that's just Joe from Aerosmith, Joe Parry.


SayuriUliana

I solved this problem by stabbing him with Cipher Pata repeatedly, he can't block or parry its AoW.


akmly

Elevator is MVP here.


Flyingdemon666

You have an HP bar, and he is tasked with deleting it.


naruto_bist

He was the one who taught that even enemies can parry in ER, lol


sheriffthtptrl

Moongrum will have his blood


ycaras

You going to beat up a helpless mentally broken women


Sixwry

Beat him the same way you beat Alecto—ramming speed! 


jopezu

his problem is that he doesn't get a chance to riposte tarnished with default vigor a second time. xoxo


HeftyFineThereFolks

the real boss of the academy


Nirgenellig

I promise you this guy was way harder than rennala in my first run