Remember the following information: Tarhos Kovács, also known as “The Knight,” is a Killer in Dead by Daylight. He was introduced in CHAPTER 26: Forged in Fog, a Chapter DLC released on November 22, 2022, and retired on May 14, 2024. Despite his retirement, The Knight is still available in the In-Game Store and as part of the Endless Hunt Pack Chapter Pack DLC.
The Knight is a strategic Killer who can summon his loyal Guards to hunt down Survivors and damage battlefield objects. To maximize his potential, let’s explore his power and the best Knight builds in Dead by Daylight for 2024.
The Knight’s Power: Guardia Compagnia
The Knight’s power, called Guardia Compagnia, allows him to summon three distinct guards. Each guard has unique abilities. The guards can patrol areas, break generators, walls, or pallets. They can also hunt Survivors. The Knight summons guards by laying down a trail and activating the power button. The guard spawns at the end of the trail to catch Survivors off-guard.
Each of the three Guards has his special abilities: The Carnifex performs a Guard Order more quickly; The Assassin walks faster during a Hunt and inflicts hit Survivors with the Deep Wound status effect; The Jailer walks faster during a Patrol, has a larger detection range, and longer Hunt and Patrol durations.
Best Non-Teachable Knight Build
This build is the perfect starter kit for The Knight, featuring beginner-friendly, non-teachable perks.
- Sloppy Butcher (General Perk): Causes survivors to suffer from the Hemorrhage and Mangled status effects when hit, making healing slower and blood trails more frequent.
- Hex: Face the Darkness (The Knight): When you injure a survivor, a hex is applied that causes all other survivors to scream, revealing their locations.
- Nowhere to Hide (The Knight): After kicking a generator, the survivor’s aura within a certain radius is revealed to you.
- Hex: No One Escapes Death (The Knight): Once the exit gates are powered, survivors suffer from the Exposed status effect and your movement speed is increased.
This build is great because it provides consistent pressure through status effects and aura reading perks, while also offering a powerful endgame with NOED.
Best Knight Build 2024
This build is designed to complement the recent buffs to The Knight, maximizing his map control and survivor pressure.
- Dragon’s Grip (The Blight): After kicking a generator, for the next 30 seconds, any survivor who interacts with it will scream and become exposed for 60 seconds.
- Friends ’til the End (The Good Guy): Hooking a survivor who is not your obsession reveals the obsession’s location for 10 seconds and exposes them for 20 seconds. A new survivor becomes the obsession each time the current one is hooked.
- Hex: Face the Darkness (The Knight): This hex activates when you injure a survivor. Every 25 seconds, survivors outside your terror radius will scream, revealing their locations for 2 seconds.
- Eruption (The Nemesis): After kicking a generator, it activates. The next time a survivor is put into the dying state, all affected generators explode, losing 10% progress, and survivors working on them scream, revealing their auras for 12 seconds.
This build is great because it leverages The Knight’s recent buffs. The Knight’s buffs pressure survivors significantly. Survivors find it difficult to complete generators because of the constant exposure. It’s also challenging for them to hide effectively due to aura reading.
The Knight can capitalize on survivor interactions and transitions between hooks by using Dragon’s Grip and Friends Till the End. Eruption and Hex: Face the Darkness helps disrupt survivor strategies and maintain control over the game.
Chaser Knight Build
This build focuses on maximizing your chase potential and quickly downing survivors.
- Enduring (The Hillbilly): Reduces the duration of pallet stuns by 50%.
- Save the Best for Last (The Shape): Gain a token for each successful hit on a non-Obsession. Each token grants a 4% decrease to a successful basic attack cooldown. Lose 2 tokens for each hit on the Obsession. Maximum of 8 tokens.
- Hubris (The Knight): When stunned by a Survivor, the Survivor suffers from the Exposed status effect for 20 seconds.
- Hex: Crowd Control (The Trickster): The Entity blocks a window for 60 seconds after a Survivor performs a rushed vault through it.
Overall, this build is all about the chase and is meant to be a lot of fun.
Keep in mind that this build has no slowdown, so play at your own risk. But it can be incredibly satisfying to use. Give it a try and see how it fits your playstyle.
Best Knight Add-ons
- Map of the Realm: Increases a Guard’s vision range during the Patrol Phase by 2 metres.
- Call To Arms: Increases the Patrol Path’s maximum length by 10 metres. Increases movement speed while drawing the Patrol Path by +2.2 m/s.
- Dried Horsemeat: Increases the duration of a Hunt by 4 seconds.
- Treated Blade: Reduces the cooldown time after summoning The Assassin by 20%.
- Battle Axe Head: Cuts the cool-down time after summoning The Carnifex by -20%.
- Iridescent Company Banner: After summoning a Guard, all Windows on the Patrol Path is blocked for all Survivors for 25 seconds. All Windows vaulted by the Hunted Survivor are blocked from all other Survivors for the duration of the Hunt. The Exit Gates are blocked to the Hunted Survivor for the duration of the hunt.
