Enraged Guardian

"Heavyset miner of the Crystal Peak overcome by crystal growth. Can discharge blazing beams of light from its crystallised limbs. How does the world look to this creature, gazing out from within its crystal prison? Does it see only light? Is that what drives it into a frenzy?"

The Enraged Guardian is the second form of the Crystal Guardian and an optional boss in Hollow Knight. It is faster and tougher than its original form and deals twice the amount of damage from physical attack or with its yellow light beams. Both forms have to be beaten to unlock its Journal entry.

Behaviour and Tactics
The Enraged Guardian has the same three manoeuvres as its first form:
 * Laser Beam: shoots a beam of crystal energy from their hand. It targets the Knight with its arm, firing a beam where they were when it started its attack. The beam is dangerous for only about half a second.
 * Sky Beams: the Guardian screams, and up to four beams of crystal energy simultaneously shoot down from the ceiling throughout the arena. These beams trigger at different times each and stay dangerous for about half a second. This attack can happen in conjunction with the Guardian's Beam attack. Each beam can be at a different angle between plus and minus 15 degrees of vertical.
 * Hop: hops to move within the arena, randomly on short or long distance.

The Enraged Guardian has the same attacks as before but is more aggressive; its attacks deal two masks of damage instead of one, and the Sky attack's beams appear one after the other rather than simultaneously. Visually the beams are now orange instead of pale pink.

The strategies discussed for the Crystal Guardian work for the Enraged Guardian too. In addition, when standing on the far right of the room, most of the beams from above will not hit the Knight, so they only really have to watch for the Guardian's Laser Beam attack. When the Enraged Guardian jumps close to the Knightr, it tends to shoot backwards giving time to land multiple hits during each backwards Laser Beam attack.

Location
The Enraged Guardian is directly above the room where the Crystal Guardian is fought. It can only be encountered if the first form has been defeated. Reaching it also requires the Monarch Wings.

Trivia

 * The name Enraged Guardian was coined in the Godmaster content pack, prior to which it was commonly referred to as simply "Crystal Guardian 2".
 * Beating the Crystal Guardian's first phase in Godhome will not contribute to unlock its Hunter's Journal second entry.

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