I was already mad about this particular Elden Ring knight before players used cannon science to prove it's even worse than I thought

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Be me, right? It's my first playthrough of Elden Ring. I'm playing a spell swordsman, which means I start a lot of fights in the Lands Between by chucking my strongest long-range spell. This strategy serves me well until I get to Castle Sol and chuck spells at the wrong dude. A notorious dual-wielding Banished Knight shrugs off my magic like it's a paper ball thrown his way, and then teleports behind me to turn my entrails into extrails before I know what happened. 

It was a humbling experience, and this specific knight has become notorious among Elden Ring players for his sheer tenacity and aggressiveness. He's a big surprise and difficulty spike for an otherwise moderate area, and it turns out this dude is even more overpowered than we thought. I may have triggered his teleport with a long-range spell, but even I didn't expect this guy to close the distance demonstrated by this clip from Reddit user oldeluke:

Before oldeluke can even load and fire a second shot of their long-distance cannon, the knight not only spots them in an instant but appears right behind them, swords drawn. Is there no limit to this dude's power? What I really want to know is: what the hell is this knight doing guarding some random corner of Castle Sol? Somebody get this guy a promotion. He at least deserves to be an Evergaol miniboss with moves like this. Now I want somebody to test how far this guy will chase you once aggroed, because clearly a few hundred meters is nothing to him. 

This knight is such a well-known roadblock that people have come up with cheese strategies just for him, which is about the highest praise a random NPC can get. He's hard coded to teleport right behind your character, which means you can aggro him with a ranged