Blue Knight is one of the 31 Playable Characters in the game Castle Crashers. Their magical attacks are Ice and their starting weapon is the Sheathed Sword.
Blue Knight's specialties include ultimate crowd control, ultimate crowd clearing with easy basic juggling, and ultimate elemental combo locking.
Information
Description
Blue Knight, befitting of his name, dons a blue themed helm and tunic. He is usually portrayed as the most bored out of the knights. When injured, he can be seen crying or closing his eyes, mouth open.
Involvement
Blue Knight is one of the King's Knights, to whom he serves with loyalty, helping to get the princesses back and defeating the Evil Wizard.
Magic
Splash Attack
"Ice Shards"Element: Ice
Max Hits: 1 upgrade per level (max 7)
Damage/Hit: Base Magic Damage x 0.5
Use 
/ 
to perform. At max level, the "Ice Shards" Splash Attack has no gaps in their landing location and cover half a screen in width. With each shard being able to freeze normal enemies, this Splash Attack can be very useful with a full team of 4 able to Juggle freely without taking any damage.
Unfortunately, it has a major downside. Unlike all other Splash Attacks, its Magic cost actually goes up each upgrade level, such that you will never be able to cast more than two times in a single full Magic bar. Thus, it drains Magic desired for other Splash Attacks and cannot be used as often.
This Splash Attack will never hit enemies that are already frozen.
Magic Projectile
"Ice Bolt"Element: Ice
Damage: Base Magic Damage
Use 
/ 
to perform. A pointed bullet of ice. The fact that this freezes normal enemies makes it an extremely powerful Magic Projectile. Only one enemy is immune to its freezing effects, though. Also, this Magic Projectile will always do damage even on frozen enemies, which will unfreeze them.
Air Projectile
"Ice Shards"Element: Ice
Max Hits: 1 upgrade per level (max 7)
Damage/Hit: Base Magic Damage x 0.5
Use 
, / 
, to perform. At max level, the "Ice Shards" Air Projectile has no gaps in their landing location and cover half a screen in width. With each shard being able to freeze normal enemies, this Air Projectile can be very useful with a full team of 4 able to Juggle freely without taking any damage.
Unfortunately, it has a major downside. Unlike all other Air Projectiles, its Magic cost actually goes up each upgrade level, such that you will never be able to cast more than two times in a single full Magic bar. Thus, it drains Magic desired for other Air Projectiles and cannot be used as often.
This Air Projectile will never hit enemies that are already frozen.
This Air Projectile is probably the determining factor in Blue Knight being considered to have the best crowd control and best crowd clearing potential in the game, because you can use it in the air, in addition to the ground. It can potentially save your life when using it on the ground might screw you over.
An advanced use of Juggling, named Spellweaving, can use this Air Projectile for flashy techniques, albeit constrained to 2 casts.
Elemental Infusion
"Ice Encasement"Element: Ice
Damage: Base Magic Damage + Base Melee Damage
Use 
/ 
to perform. This is considered the best Elemental Infusion combo in the entire game, and for a good reason. This explanation gets into the technical details to teach you about some of the complex subliminal game mechanics that can potentially improve your overall skill.
When enemies are frozen, their hit counter will be reset. This means that even after unlocking the Level 50 Combo ( / ), using it is only a waste of time for Blue Knight and Iceskimo, since they don't need that second / in the Level 50 Combo to knock the enemies over and reset the hit counter because it's already reset by the Ice. Iceskimo and Blue Knight can therefore repeat this infinitely, and they're the only two characters that can do this. Everyone else needs to use / (sans Bear and Saracen) to reset the hit counter.
Since the pseudo-infinite can't be interrupted by anything except for straggling enemies and other players; that means that the damage is actually as high as the health of the enemy with the most health that can infinite, which is the Beefy Brute, who has 4,500 HP on Insane Mode, meaning that the max damage is 4,500.
If Trolls are used as an example, then the max damage is irrelevant, but proves the concept as true, as trolls can't be beheaded like every other regular playable enemy, so the combo can continue forever.
One can conclude that the Ice / is either infinitely better than all of the rest combined, or least 20.45x (4,500/220) better than the next best, which is Non-Elemental.
If using a weapon with the ability to Poison while doing this, the pseudo-infinite can potentially be broken, because the hit counter ticks with Poison, making ultimately Poison a terrible Special Effect when paired with Ice, so bottom line, don't use the Snakey Mace or Ninja Claw at all, when playing as Blue Knight or Iceskimo
Magic Jump
"Ice Fist"Element: Ice
Damage: Base Magic Damage
Use / to perform. A giant fist made of ice punches upwards, boosting you into the air. Freezes any enemies that you are overlapping when used. Note that it will do damage to frozen enemies and thus unfreeze them. This Magic Jump is easy to start up a juggle or the "Ice Encasement" Elemental Infusion psuedo-infinite.
Strategy
Overview
Blue Knight's Splash Attack and Air Projectile, "Ice Shards" are useful to immobilize groups of enemies immediately, dealing a good amount of damage. Blue Knight's Magic Projectile, "Ice Bolt" is good for individually freezing an enemy, with it also dealing a good amount of damage. Blue Knight's Elemental Infusion, "Ice Encasement" is great for infinitely combo locking an enemy until the enemy gets beheaded if done correctly. Blue Knight's Magic Jump, "Ice Fist" is good for immobilizing an individual enemy, like "Ice Bolt", except the Blue Knight has to get up close to do so and it boosts the Blue Knight into the air.
The only main downside to Blue Knight is that his Splash Attack and Air Projectile are expensive, only allowing 2 consecutive Splash Attack casts before needing to recharge fully to do again.
Due to Blue Knight's exclusive abilities, this considerably makes Blue Knight one of the best characters in Castle Crashers. In addition to this, Blue Knight arguably has one of the greatest unlock paths out of any character in the entire game, rivaled only by Orange Knight, normally.
Typically, a Blue Knight player tends to capitalize Magic at some point in time, due to how incredibly potent it is in said certain roles. After the hurdles of stat attributing subside, Blue Knight becomes a methodical killing machine that faces little to no problems in the game. Trivializing any encounter with regular-type enemies and Beefys alike.
One of the most difficult characters in the game.
Castle Crashers
Overview
Very good character in Castle Crashers. Capitalize on Elemental Infusion, at the minimum. Then, commit to maximizing Strength due to his downside. Animal Orb selection does make a bit of difference. The top 3 in Snoot, Piggy, or Hawkster will suffice.
Late game, Blue Knight lives up to his reputation. While boss fights may take longer to get through, boss slaying is not what makes or breaks a character, warranting Blue Knight's position in tier lists, as well as any character above, equal to, or below Blue Knight.
Arena
Overview
One of the most powerful characters in Arena. His entire kit is useful for mediumweight juggling, as well as having an oppressive neutral game.
Match-Ups
Conehead/Royal Guard/Gray Knight
Restrict Conehead/Royal Guard/Gray Knight's options, to a 50/50 including an okizeme. Difficult match-up.
Saracen
Restrict Saracen's options, to several 50/50s. but counter with a Shield bash. Watch out for his Magic Projectile because it is unblockable.
Bear
Restrict Bear's options to several 50/50s. but counter with a Shield bash. Caution is advised.
Orange Knight
Even match-up at the highest potential. Another "Shotoclone".
Fencer/Industrialist
Struggling match-up for Blue Knight with several 50/50s. Try not to whiff as much.
Blue Knight
Punish on whiff.
Fire Demon
A weaker Orange Knight. Splash Attack comes quick.
Iceskimo
A weaker version of Blue Knight. His Magic Projectile and Air Projectile can be converted to a confirm, another 50/50.
Necromancer
Restrict Necromancer's options to a 50/50. Watch out for his Magic Projectile and Air Projectile because they are the fastest in the game.
Alien
You are the only character, along with Iceksimo, to force Alien out of turtling in the Icy Arena. Decimating its plans. Punish on whiff.
Pink Knight
A weaker Orange Knight, thus a weaker Fire Demon. However, Pink Knight has the same physics as Conehead/Gray Knight/Royal Guard, so caution is advised.
Cult Minion/Skeleton
Punish on whiff.
Brute/Snakey
Splash Attack comes out quickly. Punish on whiff.
Barbarian
Punish on whiff.
Ninja
Splash Attack comes out quickly. Punish on whiff.
Blacksmith
His Air Projectile is the same, which could lead to a confirm.
Green Knight
A weaker Orange Knight. 50/50.
Red Knight
Punish on whiff. 50/50.
Killer Beekeeper
Punish on whiff. Watch out for his Splash Attack because it is a 50/50.
Thief/Stove Face/Peasant/Civilian/Open-Faced Gray Knight
Punish on whiff.
Hatty Hattington
Punish on whiff. However, Pink Knight has the same physics as Conehead/Gray Knight/Royal Guard, with its Magic Projectile and Air Projectile, so caution is advised.
King
Food.
Unlock Path
| Start Character | Unlocks | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Knight | Industrialist | Fencer |
Gallery
Trivia
- Blue Knight is the only character in the game with every magical attack being Ice.
- Blue Knight's weapon in the opening demo is a Thin Sword.
- On the Xbox 360, players can dress up their Avatar as the Blue Knight by purchasing both the helmet and tunic in the Avatar Store.
- Blue Knight appears on the waiting screen when searching or starting up a multiplayer match.