Dark Souls - Anor Londo - 7 ways to beat the Greatbow Knights
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Using the Fog Ring will help you if you try the Arrow method.
This video shows some ways how to defeat the Greatbow Silver Knights in Anor Londo.
Hopefully the video helps you to make your way to the inside bonfire of Anor Londo.
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Anor Londo Snipers: hardest boss in the game.
Lowkey the parry idea makes them 100000000000× easier
Facts, I've beaten dark souls like 10+ times on my ps3, like 3 times on my ps4 and now I'm running through it on switch and this part feels so much harder for some reason which is why I'm even on this video lol
HOW ARE YOU NOT GETTING SHOT IN THE BACK?! I've done this like 20+ times and the other archer hits me in the back no matter where i stand.
I gave up and patiently sniped them both lol.. luckily it only took about 10 min
From a dude on reddit
Step 1, wait behind the pillar until they stop firing (optional)
Step 2, walk around to the ramp, then run straight up it without stopping
Step 3, walk to the right and get close enough to that archer that he draws a sword
Step 4, run back down behind the pillar. The archer that drew a sword will fall and die every time.
Step 5, run back up the ramp, ignoring the archer on the left and proceed along the path to the right the other archer guarded.
Works every time.
Yeah this is obviously the optimal strategy; he reliably jumps to his death every time.
Doesn’t work he keeps shooting arrows
@@ihmpall you get close enough that he draws his sword, then back off. He'll fall every time. Every speedrunner uses this trick; it always works.
@@theftking got him to run at me for like 2 seconds and then he pulled out his bow despite being like 2 meters away :/
@@boza8737 I don't know man, watch the speedrun; all the categories that go through Anor Londo use it.
"How to do the exact same thing while having something else equipped"
FTFY
Yeah, would be fine if I wasn't as terrified of heights in games as in life.
Option 5....Shield bash worked flawlessly. Thank you
Congrats on your achievement 5 years ago!
@@some-say-gregms lol
2 ways to beat the greatbow knights, one of them 6 times!
1. Parry riposte with low damage weapon/without weapon so that the knight falls down
2. Parry riposte with a high damage weapon (yes, also a parry)
3. Wrath of God without blocking
4. Only Blocking till the knight falls down
5. 2h right Shield bash so that the knight falls down
6. Fun Run (yes parrys)
7. Poison Arrows
so... one of them 6 times? Really?? :-D
to be fair there's really 4 ways, not 7, 3 of which are parry/ripostes. i guess it all depends on how hard you want to make it for yourself. :P
wistfulrobot If I would record this place again, there would be some other ways as the shown, but the main interest of this video was to help some player to manage this 2 Bow Knights :-)
You forgot the best way just run to him and wait till he takes out his sword and just run back and he will fall down! :D
The easiest and fastest way is to lure the right archer onto the ledge from which you came from. Once you do that, you can easily pass him and run.
In ng+, I send them flying to their death with dragonslayer bow+ hawk ring. Most satisfying thing ever.
+Bahadırhan Erdoğan Bir hafta önce NG+ aynı yerdeydim Dragonslayer bow aklıma geldi ama 4 tane ok vardı sadece kullanmadım bi dahakine kesinlikle deniycem eğer sarsılıyolarsa o oklardan :D Şimdiye kadar bitek greataxe r2 ile sarsabildim silver knightları.
+Olcay Alp Bayram Dragonslayer ve dlc deki Gough's greatbow silver knigtları uçuruyor. Burada o oku kullanmanın en risksiz olduğu yer 2 batwing demonun karşılıklı durduğu yerden sağ taraftakine nişan almak ama düşmesi için tek isabet yeterli değil, duruma göre 3-4 adet okun isabet etmesi gerekebiliyor. O öldükten sonra da sıkıntı kalmıyor.
Anor Londo'da giant blacksmith ve Oolacile Township'te hawkeye gough o oklardan sınırsız miktarda satıyor, baya pahalı ama kullanması gerçekten çok eğlenceli.
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En son Hawk ring ve black bow of pharis kullandım normal oklarla öldürdüm. Normalde koşuyodum üzerlerine yakın dövüşte hallediyodum da NG+ olunca olmadı ya 2 gece uğraştım onlarla. Şimdi de Tomb of the Giants large divine ember olan yerdeki devleri halledemiyorum emberı aldım ama hala içimde kaldı öldüremedim onları :D
+Olcay Alp Bayram Onları öldürmenin en rahat yolu odanın içine inen merdivenin ucunda durup lightning spear ya da normal ok gibi aşağıya nişan alabilecek silahları kullanmak. Toplam 6-7 civarı dev var içeride, mümkün olduğu kadarını öyle öldürdükten sonra havel zırhıyla aşağıya inip, greatsword yada great hammer kategorisinde olan bir silahı iki elle kullanıp diğerlerini öldürebilirsin çünkü o sınıftaki silahlar iki elle tek isabetle o devleri sersemletebiliyor.
Stupidity of showing off the most bull-crap way to do this, ever.
The easiest is to:
(1) Equip Slumbering dragon crest ring
(2) Cast Hidden body when you reach the middle platform, they wont hear or see you coming.
(3) Get a bit closer to lock on to the right one and Cast Heavy great soul arrows and they will either die from one shot or most likely fall of the ridge.
(4) Do the same with the one of the left as well.
I cannot thank you enough for sharing this method.
"just blocking" yeah right, it's not like one sword hit doesn't drain 2/3 of my stamina. This video should be called "How to beat the archers on NG++
Geo Rabbit Not really, just a high stamina bar and he's using a Balder shield and an Eagle shield both have high stability when upgraded. Stability decrease stamina drain.
On a certain level, yes, but not after 14 consecutive hits. He barely loses stamina, for the allmaker's sake!
learn how to control your stamina , you only need to block the hits , drop shield in-between attacks to refund stamina quickly , game gives you more than enough time to do that and you can block pve enemies forever
I already got past them by parrying inthe right moment, but thanks for the advice. I just think it's highli illogical to book it into your stamina here
I did it at soul lv 1 it worked for me it should def work for you
Will definitely be looking to use the poison arrows. This video is very helpful.
using fog and slumbering dragon ring you can go up first ramp and behind that tower an then step around the edge to shoot him, he won't agro till you hit him so you can shoot an step back around the corner a few times. if it's ng+ an you have the dragon bow it'll knock him off in like 3 shots.
Thanks very much for the Poison Arrow position
I used the eagle shield and smashed him away lol. Thank you! I dont understand why anyone would thumbs down the video. Probably people who are pissed off because they still died
+Zeo Dark yes, maybe. But the interesting part for me is that the video could help other players like you a little bit :-)
thank you for this video, I was able to get pass those B.S archers because of you.
Dark Souls Master. Much respect!!
there is one more, imo easiest way, because you don't have to fight: run to archer on the right side, when you reach him run back just when he changes bow to sword&shield, he will try to follow you and most probably fall down by himself. if he won't fall and follow you then go around tower in middle-way and you have free way.
very "helpful". because everyone has 3 billion stamina on their first playthrough to block all of this shit
Then use the dual wielded shield bash if your stamina is to low for a normal block... or the poison arrow method... or the parry... :-) The dual wield shield bash is very very simple and does not need high stats, trust me ;-)
ok i'll try
tayyib shahid no actually I made it on the first try. The Video shows a ng+ or late game character. That was my Problem
Hightower2804TP if I remember correctly, it was NG+7, yes. Did the dual wield shied bash worked for your character?
***** no I just killed him the normal way.But It was mere luck I think ^^
I just sprint immediately to the archer on the left, either kill him or knock him off. Then I get close to the other archer, make him draw his sword. Then when he follows me around the corner he falls off.
Dude...like what...I was buggin out cause the 1 method I usually always use...poison arrows was nixed thanks to my souls lv 1 run...dude I did the block method holy shit...it worked first time I'm elated! Tysm!!!
After 20 Deaths.....i made it. Thx to your video. ❤❤
thank you so much for your video. After dying at least 15 times at this spot, I was nearly quitting the game. I used your 4th tip, just blocked the right knight until he fell down
Nice to hear that the Video helped you out :-)
Thanks the poisoned arrow trick worked first time
thanks man, the shield bash worked like a charm!
most. satisfying. video. ever.
Poison arrows for the win
Thank you! I knew there had to be a way to snipe these guys. As soon as you see them stager from a regulare hit, switch to poison arrow and 2 in a row takes them out. :)
OK. This video is kind of ridiculous with the exception of the blocking technique and the poison arrows. The reason being is that everything else you did is what a seasoned player would do.
omfg thanks so much it took me 2 hrs and i broke my headphones and mouse but ty
+Dizziti On my first run it was also nearly impossible for me to get past this enemys :-)
i used just block, worked perfectly, thanks dude :D
-you got skills love the methods.you use
A good one strategy too is use the ring of fog or cast hidden body
The first run you did on the Archer on the right ,was some straight TEA BAG action.I love it....LMAO!!!!
2:06 this is the best and safest way imo.
Thank you for making this
Very interresting thank you
I tried using Heavy Shields and died two times since it was my first run. The only cheesiest option I got is to kill that Silver Knight with a Long Bow +4 with 200 Standard Arrows and hid behind the second tower to get in closer range to deal some damage.
This guy is next level
So, really 3 of the seven methods here are actually just parry and riposte (#1 No Weapon, #2 Parry and Riposte, and #6 Dark Hand), which is useless for me since I'm terrible at parrying >=/. However, this is still helpful for me. I made it to NG+ years ago, and then I stopped playing. Now I am on NG++ and got stuck at this part again since I totally forgot how to do it. I'm about to 1000GS this game once I make it to the Giant Blacksmith, and it will be one of my proudest 100% completions. Thanks for posting.
Edit: You might want to add that you are using the Fog Ring when you use poison arrows. It would be helpful.
I added the info with the fog ring, thanks for the hint. In my opinion the method with the shield bash is the easiest, because the 2h shield give you a lot of stability during blocking.
***** You're welcome, and thanks.
you forgot the way where you run straight to the the right knight and kill him
So you can't kick him down? If you can, I'm surprised this did not make the list.
HamsterHearthstone sadly theyre to heavy to kick off
Thank you so much really helped
Gracias amigo.... Me ayudaste mucho... Despues de jugar elden ring me puse a jugar todos los dark soul...
and how the heck do you have such a hot character! My guy looks like a piece of well chewed beef jerky!!
thanls m8 you deserve a hug
Great vid! Help me alot :D Now i can go beat Smough and Ornstein :DD
Great :-) Good Luck with Ornstein and Smough ;-)
thanks, man!
I honestly wouldn't care if they killed me 6 million fucking times. I HATE running ALL THE WAY BACK just to die again.
#7 was cool....a slow and pain death!
I used block to get past him, but I had no idea shield bash pushed him back that far otherwise I would have done that. I always thought shield bash was a useless move.
It's actually super easy to parry these guys I found out kinda makes them not as scary as I thought now
The no weapons bye bitch scene is epic ❤
Thank you
thank you so fucking much dude! I did it on the first try by the 2nd way you said and I finally got past the bastards. Every other part of the game is a breeze but this bs gets me every time.
+Grim Reaper Yeah I know, at my first runs it was like hell, too... Have fun with DkS1 :-)
Best of luck as well ;)
nice tips bro
i've spent more time on this than any boss in the game so far.. it's driving me insane, I keep getting shot off the ledge by leftie
You can hear the Arrows from the Knights, so try to reach the upper Wall short time after the left Knight shot on you. So you have time during reload time to move to the right far enough so that the left Knight can't hit you.
must be nice not being shot with two arrows on either side like I am constantly
You can hear from which side the arrows are fired and on your way up you are covered from the left Knight in a small area before you reach the top wall. So reach the covered area and start running to the wall and to the right Knight shortly after you hear that the left Knight fired. This should give you enough time to get out of the hitrange of the left Knight. The shots from the right Knight can be easily dodged because you see him shooting.
Good luck :-)
@@AtlanUSO Hey I got through them and I got through smough and orstein. I ran up the column thing wearing the ring of fog and I just got really close to the one silver knight archer and hacked away and he fell, I ran around the corner and that beautiful bonfire awaited me there. Ughhh one of the harder parts in gaming history. The round through playing dark souls its somewhat easier in my first attempt a couple years back oh my goodness I was killing blacksmiths and everything I just didn't know the game at all. I pretty much did every single thing you do in the game to make it epic hard but I am at around an 80 character point thingy. I have 40 vitality 25 attunement 20 endurance, 18 dexterity, strenght12 faith 08 intelligence 40 resistance 12 or something close to those stats. I have a magic plus 2 long sword and a stock of 16 super heavy soul arrows and 60 soul arrows and 20 heavy soul arrows and then I walk around with my magic user staff shooting stuff, when they get close I use longsword, If people are far away I snipe with my magic fire bow and If its a boss thats super tough I use a shield with a sour arrows but then I have to use my other hand with the staff because the shield can only be used in one hand. I also use the ring of fog and the bellowing dragoncrest ring and currently I sway between gold trimmed robes and havel armour. Ok enough about me what do you use? and also can you please tell me where I can take my embers , andre and the guy in new londo cant use them I have like two or three different ones, also I dont know how to use my soul of sif and my soul of iron golem and lastly is there any online play it looks so fun!!
@@planes3333 Great that you reached the next boss! On Spellsword Chars I use often the Moonlight Greatsword or later if I reach 40 dexterity the uchigatana. For armor I prefer equipment which is not heavy so I can make fast rolls at 40 endurance. And of course the crown of dusk for extra magic spelldamage. And my standard shield is the grass crest shield or the balder shield. If I need a shield against fire I use the black knight shield if my char can use it. Here you can find all blacksmiths for the different upgrade paths: darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Upgrades
@@AtlanUSO Thanks for the information. Its weird though becuase the blacksmiths are acknoledging my embers but then their like "I cant make it though derp" ......I think I have a crytal, large flame, and chaos ember. But I am scared to upgrade crystal becasue everyone says its so breakable (though powerful ) and I am not stupid but the scaling is kind of confusing to me. I did better with the scaling in dark souls three it just was far less confusing to me, I have average with most stats and only 8 with faith and 12 with stenghth, 18 dex, 40 intelligence and 35 health, resistance 10 attunment 20. What ember would you suggest I upgrade my weapons with if I have the crystal , large flame and chaos ember. I have my longsword which is like a enchanted +1 that I always use and then my occult club and enchanted falchion. I guess I have some ok stuff, I am at crytal caves now its so tough LOL anyhow I know this is kind of confusing how I wrote it , do you have any advice for what I told you I have, (I really wanna build my strenth but its so hard getting my stats upgraded it takes like 40000. now guhh ok im out take care let me know if you have any thought on my build and what to do. He if you ever play war thunder we should clan up I have like so much op planes and tanks, being playing for years but not so much lately. trust me its so epic. Ok peace man
@@planes3333 In all the years playing Dark Souls I never used occult or crystal upgrades. Usually on low faith chars I make a devine reinforced club +10 for the skeletons in the catacombs and nito to stop resurrecting. If i want a fire weapon i choose the chaoes upgrade. But with high intelligence I would suggest to go to the dukes archive to get the moonlight greatsword from the boss tail and afterwards to the The Great Hollow area and get the dragon scale upgrade stones to level the moonlight greatsword to +5. Choose a shield which you prefer (i would suggest a parryable shield with high physical damage reduction) and level it up to +14 to decrease the stamina consumption if you block an attack. As mentioned, the grass crest shield and the balder shield are my favorites.
8: “Poetic Justice.”
Using the Dragonslayer Bow *and* arrow (With Hawk Ring) on them in New Game + and see how THEY like to be painfully hit again & again with Telephone Poles from afar. 🏹😛
you forgot pancaking/stun locking with a strength weapon.
Kinda ashamed to look up tutorials, but hey I already did it without help once so I'm worthy.
when i try and go for the archer on the right i keep getting shot by the one on the left
I suck at parrying
Super. Leider etwas dunkel, aber echt sehr schön gemacht. Mach weiter so.
Super Atlan, das mit dem Parry versau ich da oben aber immer :)
Mit Ultragoßschwertern kommt man dem Ritter auch ganz gut bei da der Schlag den zu Boden schmettert nur leider falle ich dabei öfters mal runter^^
Never thought to try shield bashing/pushing back in the day. I'd usually just try to take him down quickly using the crystal halberd from the mimic near the bonfire.
Worked like a charm on only my second try.
2:05 wrath of gods is so op. Even in dark souls 2. The first cleric npc you encounter uses WOG a lot if you aggro her. She takes so little damage even if you're a high level melee character. It's bullshit.
Find crystal halberd weapon. It will kill them with two good hits. Dont worry about the one on the left. I almost gave up but the crystal halberd got it done. Dont use it on other enemies before this though it breaks easily
Hallo Atlan, super Video, was bin ich an dieser Stelle bereits verzweifelt!
Sag mal, mit der Dark-Hand: wieviele Humanity hast du denn dort bekommen?
Und mit den Giftpfeilen: das habe ich nie hinbekommen, aber von dieser Pos. geht es gut, weil die net zurückschiessen! Als low level toon hat man es aber vorher mit den Flamingo-Dämons net leicht!
so.... where do I get poison arrows in Anor Londo?
I was afraid that was the point where I'd be stuck forever, after arriving to that point after beaten crazy army stop right near the end would me pissed of.
Better for me is arrow way, I already tried but I can shoot with a bow so far.
What did you use to make the video?
Hey, it could be a little bit difficult to hit and you have to aim higher because of the arrow drop. And you can use the hawk ring to extend your bowrange, but you will find him later in Anor Londo. The Black Bow of Pharis has a range of 65m and should be good at this spot.
Ascended pyro flame +5 Chaos fireball one shot one kill
"Ah... Classic platforming! And here I thought this game was nothing but buttrape."
(gets shot by a parasol)
"..."
What is this gut punch move you're doing??
I guess you mean the dark hand:
darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Hand
it's all fun but let's assume ppl there weren't yet New Londo or didn't join Darkwraith wchich aren't mandatory at this point of the game not to mention that hp pool. Easily Force them down (12 faith at firelink) cheers.
You know that is really funny? I've killed archer to the left(to collect soul behind him) and while I was close to second knight he just hit me while I was blocking. Yoah, I didn't have shield exactly between me and arrow... I died thanks to knockback.
Oh yeah, the knock back is bad, but the knock back pushs you always to the direction of you back (if you block the arrow). So if you turn your back always nearly to the wall, you will always be pushed against the wall. Just try it :-)
You know that I didn't realised that it can be so easly done? Thanks, maybe now I will be able to complete this game(only problem may be Tomb of Giants and well... giants in darkness inside)
You are welcome :-) Tomb of the giants is a great level, I really love it. I hope you know that you can use the sunligh maggot from the the level of bed of chaos to get some light into tomb of the giants. Good luck :-)
***** Does this light up whole level or just work like skull lantern? Because if it works like skull lantern then I can use lantern to walk and take shield when some enemies appear. As far as I know lantern is really light if it's not even weightless and I will need some souls from Frampt. I Hope he likes this maggot. And can I trade this maggot with this... thing in nest in Undead Asylum? I know I can do that with lantern.
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It will brighten up the area around you. The advantage is, that it is a head item so you can use a shield and a weapon in your hand slots.
You can also use a magic spell "light" which does the same like the sunlight maggot.
I'm not sure if you can trade it, but I would recommend not to trade or sell it. It is a very good item in Tomb of the giants.
Yea just go with the agressive and get very close on his left side and parry and riposte
Looks like ima go get poisen arrows cause my parry skills aint god level.
Blocking is the best
Where can I buy poison arrows ?
Undead female merchant
what's that armor called and where can i find it?! :D
This has to be literally the most cancerous part in the entire game.
Oh at last! See if you're a tank like me: for the love of god- ROLL
I swear, if it were only that easy...
Or just cast hidden body and take the right Knight down with a Soul Spear from the bridge. With hidden body they will not start to shoot if you are on the bridge.
i hated that part on my first playthrough...finally after a hundred times got past the asshole and then decided to fall off.....cheesed him with poison ever since..lol
the only thing harder than this, is maybe knight atorias or the final boss
What was that exploding thing?
Do you mean the Dark Hand?
***** He probably means the miracle you were using in #3 Blow Him Away. I'm not sure what it's called since I never use miracles.
Wrath of God?
***** Yes, that's right. Except the miracle is called Wrath of the Gods.
Waaay cool. :)
Homing soulmass or it's crystal equivalent
Estrus +7??? I got + one and not these op weapons and I’m there 😭
If I remember correctly, this character was in NG+7 or more and not, like your char, in NG0
7 ways to beat the Greatbow Knights? Or beating the Greatbow Knights in 7 different ways? You decide. -_-
thanxxxxxx
Literally have never had an issue with these knights...
Can the silver knights estus?
you can combine 1,2 and 6 in the same category, 3 and 4 just no, dont expect beginners be able to have equipment good enough or parry skill to do all those. 5 and 7 are pretty much only legit strategies.
i be cheesing with poison arrows lol
....wobei, die Helligkeit passt schon. Das Bild war nur zu Beginn etwas dunkel.
Three of those were the same thing.
only the arrow method is unique everything else was pretty much go up and deal with the archer .