Staff Cherry’s Metroidvania action-adventure recreation, Hole Knight, follows the journey of a anonymous warrior known as the Knight as he travels via Hallownest, which is now a kingdom in ruins due to a supernatural illness. Because the Knight journeys via Hallownest, he’ll encounter totally different enemies, bosses, mini-bosses, and even non-obligatory bosses. Certainly one of these non-obligatory bosses is Crystal Guardian.
Crystal Guardian is an non-obligatory boss within the recreation that obstructs the Knight from resting on a Bench within the Crystal Peak space. The Crystal Guardian has a second kind, the Enraged Guardian. Happily, the Knight has to battle its second kind individually and never in the identical battle because the Crystal Guardian.
In accordance with in-game lore, Crystal Guardian is likely one of the Miners within the Crystal Peak space who was a sufferer of the An infection. The Crystal Guardian, nonetheless, seems to be greater than the opposite Husk Miners within the space and has extra mastery over the crystal’s gentle than the opposite Crystallised Husks.
On this information, you’ll learn to defeat Crystal Guardian!
Location
The Crystal Guardian will be discovered on a Bench in the course of Crystal Peak.
The Crystal Guardian seems to be inactive however prevents the Knight from resting on a Bench however attacking the Crystal Guardian will wake it up and begin the battle.
Strikes
In battle, the Crystal Guardian will carry out the next strikes:
The Crystal Guardian will transfer by randomly hopping inside the realm in both a brief or lengthy distance.
The Crystal Guardian will goal the Knight with its arm and shoot out a beam of crystal vitality from its hand. The Crystal Guardian will solely fireplace a beam the place its hand was initially focusing on, and the beam of crystal vitality will solely final for nearly half a second.
The Crystal Guardian will scream, and as much as 4 beams of crystal vitality will shoot down from the ceiling and geared toward totally different elements of the sector. The beams of crystal vitality will set off at barely totally different occasions. Every beam of crystal vitality will final for nearly half a second, and the Crystal Guardian might use this assault with the Laser Beam assault. The Crystal Guardian will all the time begin the combat with the Sky Beams assault.
Technique
The participant will know at any time when a beam of crystal vitality can be shot, via the Laser Beam assault or the Sky Beams assault, as there can be a thin beam of sunshine from its supply. It is very important be conscious of the place the beams of crystal vitality can be shot as it might be arduous to maneuver across the enviornment through the Sky Beams assault, particularly if the Crystal Guardian carried out it with the Laser Beam assault.
The primary technique for defeating the Crystal Guardian is putting it a number of occasions in between its Laser Beam assaults. The Knight may also shortly get to the opposite facet (the facet that’s not attacking) of the Crystal Guardian to soundly assault it a number of occasions.
Because the Crystal Guardian has an armor of crystal on its head that prevents it from taking injury from Nail-bouncing. The Knight must also keep away from being on high of the Crystal Guardian because the Knight might get hit and take contact injury when the Crystal Guardian hops to maneuver across the enviornment.
As for Spells, the Vengeful Spirit Spell or the Shade Soul Spell (the improve to the Vengeful Spirit Spell) and the Desolate Dive spell or the Descending Darkish spell (the improve to the Desolate Dive spell) could be helpful as these are fast spells however deal big injury. The Howling Wraiths spell or the Abyss Shriek spell (the improve to the Howling Wraiths spell) can be utilized towards the Crystal Guardian, nevertheless it ought to be solid proper subsequent to it, which suggests the Knight could also be susceptible to assaults.
Charms are additionally very helpful in combating the Crystal Guardian: the Fast Focus Allure will be nice to have as it could possibly assist the Knight heal sooner, the Mark of Delight and Longnail Allure will help by growing the size of the Knight’s Nail, the Shaman Stone Allure will help by growing the scale and injury of Spells, the Soul Catcher and Soul Eater Allure will help by growing the quantity of Soul that the Knight will acquire when hitting enemies, The Kingsoul Allure will help by regenerating Soul each two seconds, the Grubsong Allure can profit by gaining Soul each time the Knight takes injury, the Spell Tornado Allure will help by decreasing the quantity of Soul wanted to solid Spells, the Stalwart Shell Allure will help by growing the invincibility time and lowering the recoil each time the Knight takes injury, the Thorns of Agony Allure will help by sprouting out thorny vines that may deal injury to enemies as soon as the Knight takes injury, and the Fragile Energy Allure or the Unbreakable Energy Allure which will help by growing the injury output of the Knight’s Nail by 50%.
You mustn’t get grasping in attacking the Crystal Guardian, as it will end result within the Knight being trapped between the beams of crystal vitality. Be taught when to assault, when to not assault, and when to dodge, and also you’ll defeat the Crystal Guardian very quickly.