Knight of the Blinding Dawn is a boss that appears during the Flight of a Fledgling quest in Final Fantasy 16 (FF16). See the best strategies for how to beat Knight of the Blinding Dawn, how to counter its attacks and abilities, as well as its location, quest appearance, spoils, and drops.

Knight of the Blinding Dawn Overview

Knight of the Blinding Dawn Location and Drops

Knight of the Blinding Dawn
Quest	Flight of a Fledgling
Location & Region	Phoenix Gate , Grand Duchy of Rosaria
Rewards	・63 EXP ・75 AP ・0 Gil
Abilities	・Jump ・Double Jump

How to Beat Knight of the Blinding Dawn

Step-by-Step Guide
Patiently Time Your Evasions Execute Combos After Evading His Jumps

Patiently Time Your Evasions

The battle between you and the Knight of the Blinding Dawn involves a lot of dodging and evading as his attack patterns and animations have a lot of combos and follow-up attacks using aerial spins with his lance. You will have to patiently wait for his combos to finish before getting the opportunity to strike back.

If you're having a difficult time evading, use range attacks first to deal damage until you become familiar with his moveset.

Precision Dodge During the Follow-Up Attack

A key thing to knowing when to evade is waiting for the follow-up attack and using Precision Dodge during the last few moments of the second attack animation. If successful, this will allow you to launch a counter attack afterwards.

How to Parry Attacks

Use Phoenix Shift to Close in on the Knight

After successfully dodging an attack, you can quickly close in on the Knight by using Phoenix Shift then unleashing Rising Flames to deal damage to him.

If he isn't staggered after this, move back and evade his attacks again until the cooldown of Rising Flames ends, then repeat the same process until you've broken his will.

Equip the Ring of Timely Evasion

If the timing of the Knight's combo attacks are proving to become too difficult to evade, the Ring of Timely Evasion will assist you as it will automatically dodge incoming enemy attacks.

This removes the need to anticipate attacks and pressing the dash/dodge button at the correct time.

All Timely Accessories are enabled by choosing the Story Focused Mode difficulty before starting the game, or changing the Focused Mode in the Settings menu.

Timely Accessories Guide

Execute Combos After Evading His Jumps

Attacking him after successfully evading his jumping abilities is the best way to unleash your combos as he'll be recovering for a few seconds after this.

Be on the lookout for the blue light markers on the ground as this is where he'll be landing; quickly use Rising Phoenix (if it's not on cooldown), then spam your attack button to deal damage to him.

Evade Twice During Double Jumps

After staggering him during the Cinematic Strike in the latter half of the battle, he'll begin using Double Jumps so you'll have to dodge twice this time!

Final Fantasy XVI (FF16) Related Guides

List of Bosses and Formidable Foes

All Formidable Foes

All Formidable Foes
Gigas	Morbol	Knight of the Blinding Dawn
Eikon of Fire	Shiva's Dominant	Tiamat
Dragon Aevis	Fafnir	Midnight Raven
Chirada	Suparna and Chirada	Benedikta
Garuda	Knight of the Dying Sun	Iron Giant
Infernal Eikon	Infernal Shadow	Imperial Cannonier
Akashic Dragon	Typhon	Republican War Panther
Akashic Morbol	Flame Lizard	Liquid Flame
Coeurl	Hugo	Undertaker
Titan	White Dragon	Necrophobe
Bahamut	Sleipnir	Barnabas (First Encounter)
Control Node	Aurum Giant	Barnabas (Second Encounter)
Behemoth	Ultima (First Encounter)	Ultimalius