A few days ago, YouTuber Sax Slave Gael asked the Elden Ring Reddit community a simple question: "Anyone here enjoy Basic Sword and Board Knight Builds?" It turns out a lot of people do. Gael's clip of a knightly Consort Radahn fight did some numbers among the community, so he soon returned with another duel pitting the knight against fan-favorite boss Bayle the Dread, which quickly racked up nearly 10,000 upvotes.
For the true creation of the Lore Accurate Knight, one of my new favorite Elden Ring original characters, we have to go back to Gael's video from March on "How to Create an Authentic Knight Build" focusing on blocking and guard countering. But it was the Knight's battle with Bayle that put his saga on my radar, and Gael tells me that after this unexpected spike in popularity, his fight is not yet over.
