How to Unlock Knighthood in Gotham Knights

This guide explains what Knighthood is in Gotham Knights, how to unlock it and what advantages you gain from this feature!

Unlocking the Knighthood tree is a big deal in Gotham Knights. It allows you to have your own unique experience with the game. It creates more immersion with the character and adds more depth to your gameplay.

What is Knighthood in Gotham Knights

When you first play the game, you see 3 skill trees for each of your heroes. And then there is a 4th one, which is locked but you can see the name of it: Knighthood. It is a tree that harbors an extra set of skills that you can unlock if you complete several missions.

The next segment of the guide will detail each step you have to take in order to unlock your Knighthood for your first character as well as all the rest. This is done in three major steps.

How to unlock your Knighthood: The Challenges

To unlock your Knighthood in Gotham Knights you have to complete a number of challenges. The missions range from interrogating criminals to doing advanced training and defeating 3 mini-bosses that can be found all over Gotham. Look at it like it is a rite of passage, or an attunement to show that you are worthy of Knighthood.

The first thing is the easiest one. Go to the Belfry and look for the training dummy. Select “Advanced Training” and there are 3 challenges that you will need to complete in order to complete your journey:

• Perfect Evade and Perfect Strike
• Timed Strikes
• Evading Enemy Attack Chains

Perfect Evade and Perfect Strike

Performing a Perfect Evade gives you the opportunity to follow up with a powerful Perfect Attack counter. Wait until the right moment and Tap your counter button to Perfect Evade then strike an enemy to perform a Perfect Attack.

The perfect moment to evade is when you see the fist of your opponent light up with a sphere that spikes around it. When you see that appear then it is time to hit your evade button.

Once you have successfully evaded the attack of your opponent it is time to hit strike as fast as you can so you will counter the attack of your opponent by striking him hard.

These moves, Perfect Evade, and Perfect Strikes have saved my life so many times in-game. So you would do well to practice that. It’s a true lifesaver.

Timed Strikes

Timed Strike uses a ranged attack in the case of Red Hood. As the attack i about to hit an enemy, tap Q to perform a Timed Strike, dealing multiple shots for increased damage and building up Momentum.

This one is pretty tricky, especially when you have multiple enemies incoming from all sides. You are too busy evading them while focussing on one. This is why I deem Perfect Evade and Perfect Strike far more important than Timed Strike.

Evading Enemy Attack Chains

When an enemy performs an Attack Chain, tap your evade button to dodge their final strike and perform a Perfect Evade. This also leaves the enemy open to a Perfect Attack.

This is another very useful move to master. Especially on the mini-bosses who can hit very hard and often enough have a shield that you can barely break through. The other mini-bosses are also hard but the shielded ones are nearly invulnerable and knowing how to evade the chain and counter it at the last second is another lifesaver. Very useful to master.

Once you have done all that, you have finished step 1 on the road of Knighthood and it is time for the next step.

How to unlock your Knighthood: One Step Ahead

The mission “One Step Ahead” requires you to be in the Belfry before you go out for patrol. Whenever you are in the Belfry, you get the pop-up that says: New premeditated crimes have been added to the map. A premeditated crime can be a lot of things. There are different icons with different meanings.

Sometimes it’s a crime in progress that you have to stop like a bank robbery or you enter a crime scene where you have to pick up the clues by collecting technical evidence. Other crimes involve releasing hostages and taking down a whole community of Freaks.

You need 10 of them in order to unlock Knighthood. It is no easy feat and it sometimes is a bit of a grind.

The red with white icons indicate that there is a Premeditated Crime happening. Get there as soon as you can!

How to unlock your Knighthood: Against All Odds

The mission called Against All Odds is where you will have to defeat 3 mini-bosses anywhere in Gotham.

There are shielded ones, there are ones with a ball and chain of fire and there are the ones that will electrocute you or the ones who carry a shield and hit you with it.

Once you have done that, head back to the Belfry.

Unlocking Knighthood for the first time

If you have followed all the steps described above, you should see your character’s unique icon hovering over Batman’s shrine. Click it and watch the beautiful cut scene.

In my case, it was Barbara Gordon, who figured out how to make her cape glide. It was a beautiful milestone in my character’s story.

Knighthood Ability Tree
Knighthood Abilities are now available in the Ability Tree. These Ultrapowerful combat techniques are unique to each member of the Batman Family. Explore the Ability Tree to see unlocked and available Knighthood Abilities.

Now for the difficult part. Once you have unlocked Knighthood and gazed over all abilities of your character, you have to do it all over for the other 3 characters. The Premeditated Crimes are a grind and you don’t want to burn out on the game but enjoy it rather.

Here is some advice if you start playing Gotham Knights:

Try out all of the characters. The action points that you earn go to all in your party.

Your entourage levels with you even if they rarely leave the Belfry. For instance, I leveled Batgirl and she is my main character. I have leveled her up to level 20. If I swap to Robin, then I’d have 20 points on Robin that I can assign as I see fit.

The only thing you can’t unlock is the Knighthood tree. That’s something you really need to do on the character.

The last thing you would want is to pick the character whose fighting style doesn’t suit you at all but you are stuck with it because that character has Knighthood unlocked.

Quick Step-By-Step Walkthrough to unlocking your Knighthood in Gotham Knights

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Here is a quick summary organized in steps you should follow to unlock the Knighthood of your character in Gotham Knights.

Instructions

1. Go to the training area in the Belfry.
2. Open the menu and complete the Advanced Training session.
   This session consists of of 3 parts: Perfect Evade and Perfect Strike, Timed Strikes, and Evading Enemy Attack Chains.
3. Complete the mission "One Step Ahead".
   Open the Batcomputer and you find premeditated crimes. They are refreshed after you close a session every time. No patrol is ever the same. They are completely randomized and there is no pattern.
4. Complete 10 Crime missions.
   This will progress you to the next and final step of unlocking your Knighthood.
5. Defeat Mini-Bosses.
   They are all over the map and often enough you can find them in groups while you are out doing premeditated crimes. So that's two birds with one stone.
6. Go back to the Belfry and click on Batman's broken armor.
   Watch the cutscene that plays and you will have unlocked your first Knighthood tree.
7. Repeat the same for the other 3 characters.
   To unlock the Knighthood Skill Trees for the other characters, repeat all the 3 steps.

Knighthood Skill Trees for all Characters

This is a full list of all newly unlocked Skills from the Knighthood tree for each of the four main characters in the game.

In the tables below, the number in the lower right corner of the icons is the number of Action Points required to unlock this Ability. The first ability is earned automatically when you complete the Knighthood quest.

Batgirl’s Knighthood Skill Tree

Icon	Name	Effect
	Glide	Batgirl uses her cape to glide through the air. She can adjust her pose to turn and gain or reduce her glide speed.
	Grapple Pull	Batgirl uses her grapple to pull an enemy towards her. When used on a large enemy, Batgirl puls herself toward the enemy.
	Fear Takedown	Ambush Takedown inflicts Feat in nearby enemies. Critical damage and Critical chance increases by 15% for 10 seconds.
	Health Regen	When outside of combat, Batgirl’s health automatically regenerates up to 40%.
	Enhanced Combo	Increases the number of attacks in Batgirl’s Melee and Ranged Attack combo by 1. The last Melee hit is a knockdown.
	Drone Firepower	Increases Firing rate of Batgirl’s drone.
	Drone Ambush Blast	Once per summon, Batgirl’s drone unleashes a large burst of damage on all nearby enemies.

Red Hood’s Knighthood Skill Tree

Icon	Name	Effect
	Mystical Leap	Red Hood traverses through the air using spirit platforms.
	Ranged Terror	Every shot that knocks out a target inflicts Fear in nearby enemies
	Weak Spot Damage+	Increases headshot and weak spot damage by 15%
	Grab Dread	Grabbing a target inflicts Fear in nearby enemies
	Combat Mastery	Increases the number of attacks in Red Hood’s Ranged Attack combo by 1. The last hit is a knockdown
	Ducra’s Training	Mystical Rounds requires 50% less time to lock on targets
	Shadow Vengeance	Mystical Rounds shoots 2 rounds instead of 1

Nightwing’s Knighthood Skill Tree

Icon	Name	Effect
	Flying Trapeze	Nightwing uses his Flying Trapeze to glide through the air. He can also rebound off of walls to gain altitude and speed
	Triple Darts	Nightwing shoots three darts at once instead of one
	Strike Distance+	Nightwing’s melee attacks can strike enemies from further away
	Guardian	Defeating an enemy reduces Nest ability cooldown by 15%
	Combat Expertise	Increases the number of attacks in Nightwing’s melee combo by one. The last hit is a knockdown
	Nest Buffs+	Nest damage is increased by 150%, and the healing effect is increased by 100%
	Bigger Nest	Increase the size of Nightwing’s Nest

Robin’s Knighthood Skill Tree

Icons	Name	Effect
	Slideways	Robin activates and enters a temporary portal, which he can use to relocate to a new position.
	Stealth Takedown+	Performing a takedown increases Robin’s damage, critical chance, defense, and elemental build-up for 15 seconds
	Aerial Attack Smoke	Robin’s aerial attacks are followed by a small cloud of smoke, allowing him to re-enter stealth.
	Microbots Cooldown Reduction	Robin’s Microbots Ability cooldown is reduced by 20%, allowing him to call them more often
	Combat Expertise	Increase the number of attacks in Robin’s Melee and Ranged combos by 1. The last Melee hit is a knockdown
	Slideways Takedown	Robin opens a small portal and pulls an enemy through it to perform a takedown
	Microbot Target+	Robin improved the particle accelerator in the microbots’ core engine. He can now call five microbots instead of three.

The importance of unlocking the Knighthood tree

The Knighthood tree is essential so you need to unlock it as soon as possible. The tree has so many powerful abilities for your character that you will need in order to progress. For instance, a fight against Harley Quinn or versus Mr. Freeze can’t be won without you having your Knighthood Abilities.

Like I said before, it can be a grind to open that Knighthood Ability tree, but it pays off big time. So right off the start, go out on patrol. Go back to the Belfry, go to the Batman shrine and click that icon to start the mission, and do all the things you need to do to unlock it.

Not only is it essential to unlock the Knighthood Tree, it also adds a lot more depth to your character. It offers more immersion with your character as you fight your way through the side missions and main story. The uniqueness of each character’s own Knighthood Tree plus their unique of traveling after you unlock the tree. For instance, Batgirl glides and Robin teleports. Red Hood uses a mystical portal to travel and Nightwing uses his acrobatics.

As I said, it all makes for a better immersion with the character you play with. So next to it being essential for progress, it is also a lot of fun.