Black Knight

Black Knights are powerful enemies. They are encountered, individiually, in many areas of the game as non-respawning challenges for players. At the Kiln of the First Flame, however, they do respawn.

The Black Knights were once the proud Silver Knights of Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. They travelled with him to the Kiln of the First Flame, and were burned when he linked the First Flame.

Strategy
Lock onto the Knight and walk around him in a circle towards his shield arm until you end up behind him, then backstab him.

Pyromancy is very effective against Black Knights, try to hit them with a pyro spell between attacks. Combustion is best for it's speed.However it should be noted that Black knights have a high fire defense, so only upgraded pyromancy will have a significant effect on them. Like most heavy armor enemies they have a weakness to lightning.

When they attack, dodge backwards and attack them a few times from range, they take fairly long time to recover from their attacks.

Thanks to their slow attacks, Black Knights are fairly good candidates for parrying and riposting; however, a failed parry will result in very heavy damage.
 * When they plunge their sword into the ground (I think with a forward slash) don't parry on the initial plunge, rather wait until they are bringing the sword out of the ground, then parry.
 * Knights carrying heavier weapons can easily break the player 's guard at lower levels, which results in a deadly, often fatal critcal hit. Dont block if you think you lack the stamina. Its much safer to take a huge amount of damage than risk a critcal guard break attack which inflicts double damage.

Drops

 * Sword Black Knights drop regular titanite chunks. The exception to this is one in the Undead Asylum, who instead drops a red chunk.
 * Greatsword variants drop red titanite chunks, with the exception of the one found in the Undead Parish, who instead drops a regular chunk.
 * Greataxe variants drop blue titanite chunks
 * Halberd variants drop white titanite chunks
 * All variants have a chance to drop the Black Knight Shield and the weapons that they wield.