The telltale sign of this attack is when he starts to kneel and gets in a pouncing stance, once he does this, prepare to roll out of the way. Ornstein will glide across the room as he makes his way to stab you.
If you are close enough, instead of the lighting bolt, he'll stab you with it. You can also make smart use of the pillars to block this attack. Thankfully, the bolt moves fairly slowly, but it is guided and will connect if you roll too soon.
Until he throws the bolt, he will track you, so be prepared to dodge. The cast time is relatively long, so take this time to get some hits in on him or Smough, provided one is close enough. The attack has decent tracking and hits rather far in front of it and can go through pillars if you are close enough, but its hitbox is quite narrow, simply roll to the side. Ornstein jumps and stabs his spear down in front of him. The move has relatively decent tracking and range and is fairly easy to block. Use this chance to either get around him and hit him between swings or move towards Smough while he is executing this move. Ornstein will swing his weapon in vertical and horizontal arcs, up to four times. If he survives Smough, he absorbs his fallen partner's corpse, and his already-long attack range becomes even greater and several of his abilities gain different attributes from his increased size and strength. Attacking with leaps, thrusts, large arcing sweeps and shooting bolts of electricity from his spear. Quick and agile, Ornstein is opposite of his partner Smough. Whoever you decide to kill first, you should make that decision before entering the boss area, and stick to it.ĭragon Slayer Ornstein (The Spear Knight) If you prefer a tougher battle with an extra piece of loot, as well as Ornstein's armor, kill the crazy executioner first. If you wish for an easier fight and fancy Smough's armor, you might wanna take his partner out first. The course of this fight changes, depending on how you approach it. Whether he does so out of loyalty to Gwyndolin or he, too, has been fooled by the illusion of sunlight is not clear. Though, after the gods fled Anor Londo, he remains in defence of Gwynevere's illusion. Regarded as distasteful by his masters, the royal family never raised him to the rank of knight.
However, such was his relish for his work that he soon began to eat the bones of those he had executed. The executioner for the royal family of Anor Londo, Smough dreamed of being anointed a knight of Gwyn. There is also the matter of his armour being present in Archdragon Peak, suggesting he followed Gwyn's Firstborn after his betrayal, with some suggesting he even shed his armour and body to become a dragon – not least as the Nameless King echoes the Ornstein and Smough boss fight in absorbing the lightning of his stormdrake, The King of Storm. This is evidenced by his presence in Drangleic, at Heide's Tower of Flame, where we can speculate he might have fled with Gwynevere. However, there is reason to believe that Ornstein's presence in Anor Londo is an illusion, much as Gwynevere and the light of Anor Londo is a mere facade maintained by Gwyndolin. It is believed that he was left behind with Smough to guard Anor Londo's cathedral after the gods fled. He wields his Dragonslayer Spear, a sword-spear after the fashion of Gwyn's Firstborn's own weapon. Ornstein is the captain of the Four Knights of Gwyn Lord of Cinder, serving alongside Artorias the Abysswalker, Lord's Blade Ciaran, and Hawkeye Gough. As his name would suggest, he was an honorary dragon slayer. Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smoughĭragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough are Bosses in Dark Souls.