Holy Knight (Tactics)

Holy Knight is a special job in Final Fantasy Tactics. It is Agrias Oaks's default job, and focuses on swords and techniques that cause heavy damage from afar. It requires 3,350 JP to master.
Delita has the Holy Knight job from Chapter 2 onwards, with the addition of Chant ability from Squire. Wiegraf is a White Knight with the same abilities as the Holy Knight, excluding Divine Ruination.
==Stats==
===Agrias===
Prerequisite	Weapons 	Helmet 	Armor 	Equip Shields?
None 	Swords, Knight Swords	Helmets	Armor, Robes	Yes
Move Rate	Jump Rate	Speed	Physical Evasion Rate	Base Attack	Base Magic	Base HP	Base MP
3 	3 	6 	25% 	High 	High 	High 	High
===Delita===
Prerequisite	Weapons 	Helmet 	Armor 	Equip Shields?
None 	Knives, Swords, Flails	Helmets	Armor, Clothes, Robes	Yes
Move Rate	Jump Rate	Speed	Physical Evasion Rate	Base Attack	Base Magic	Base HP	Base MP
4 	3 	6 	10% 	High 	High 	High 	High
===Wiegraf===
Prerequisite	Weapons 	Helmet 	Armor 	Equip Shields?
None 	Swords, Knight Swords	Helmets	Armor, Robes	Yes
Move Rate	Jump Rate	Speed	Physical Evasion Rate	Base Attack	Base Magic	Base HP	Base MP
3 	3 	6 	15% 	High 	High 	High 	High
==Abilities==
===Holy Sword===
Agrias, Delita, and Wiegraf must be equipped with a sword to use Holy Sword abilities.
Damage inflicted with Holy Sword abilities is calculated by a unit's physical attack and its right-handed weapon's strength. Holy Sword contains powerful abilities that deal damage and inflict status effects to the target without the requisite of charging time or MP. The user must be equipped with a sword or a knight sword to use them.
Despite its name and help message, Holy Sword abilities are not associated with the Holy element. Instead, the elemental attribute depends on the user's equipped weapon, primarily the one on the right hand. The AI still mistakenly regards them as Holy-elemental, and will not use them if the target is immune to Holy.
Name	Range 	Effect 	Speed 	JP Needed
() 	2 	2 	Now 	100
() 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Stop.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Life is short... Bury! Steady Sword!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Stop.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Life is short... Bury! Steady Sword!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Stop.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Life is short... Bury! Steady Sword!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Stop.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Life is short... Bury! Steady Sword!"
() 	3, Vert.0 	1 	Now 	400
() 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Doom.Damage: Physical Attack x (3 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The devil's spirit of restlessness... Split Punch!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Doom.Damage: Physical Attack x (3 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The devil's spirit of restlessness... Split Punch!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Doom.Damage: Physical Attack x (3 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The devil's spirit of restlessness... Split Punch!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Doom.Damage: Physical Attack x (3 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The devil's spirit of restlessness... Split Punch!"
() 	3, Vert.1 	1 	Now 	500
() 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: KO.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The doom of a planet... Crush Punch!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: KO.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The doom of a planet... Crush Punch!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: KO.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The doom of a planet... Crush Punch!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: KO.Damage: Physical Attack x (2 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "The doom of a planet... Crush Punch!"
() 	3 	2, Vert.1 	Now 	700
() 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Silence.Damage: Physical Attack x (4 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Absorb power in the sky and strike! Lightning Stab!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Silence.Damage: Physical Attack x (4 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Absorb power in the sky and strike! Lightning Stab!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Silence.Damage: Physical Attack x (4 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Absorb power in the sky and strike! Lightning Stab!" 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Silence.Damage: Physical Attack x (4 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Absorb power in the sky and strike! Lightning Stab!"
() 	4-dir. 	5, Vert.2 	Now 	800
() 	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Confuse.Damage: Physical Attack x (5 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Heaven's wish to destroy all minds... Holy Explosion!"	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Confuse.Damage: Physical Attack x (5 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Heaven's wish to destroy all minds... Holy Explosion!"	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Confuse.Damage: Physical Attack x (5 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Heaven's wish to destroy all minds... Holy Explosion!"	Channel holy energy through sword to inflict damage.Element: Weapon's Element.Effect: Confuse.Damage: Physical Attack x (5 + Weapon Strength) Quote: "Heaven's wish to destroy all minds... Holy Explosion!"
() 	1 	1 	Now 	0
() 	Sacrifice HP to restore twice as much to an ally.Note: Only available to Delita. 	Sacrifice HP to restore twice as much to an ally.Note: Only available to Delita. 	Sacrifice HP to restore twice as much to an ally.Note: Only available to Delita. 	Sacrifice HP to restore twice as much to an ally.Note: Only available to Delita.
===Reaction abilities===
Name	Description 	Trigger 	JP Needed
 	Counterattack with a tackle.	Physical Attack	180
===Support abilities===
Name	Description 	JP Needed
 	Equip axes, regardless of job. 	170
() 	Adds an ability to all monsters in neighboring tiles with an elevation difference of 3h or less.	200
 	Defend oneself against an attack. Adds the Defend command. 	50
() 	Increase the amount of JP earned in battle. 	250
===Movement abilities===
Name	Description 	JP Needed
 	Increase Move by 1.	200
== Overview ==
The Holy Knight is one of the "special Knight" jobs, capable of dealing physical damage from both short and long ranges, while boasting high stats across the board. Its Holy Sword is a force to be reckoned with, and it has some of the strongest abilities in chapter 2, being instant and costing no MP, and also having a small chance to inflict status ailments onto the targets. Holy Sword abilities become even more powerful once the player obtains knight swords, which not only have high power, but also grant passive effects to their wielder. Agrias is the only playable Holy Knight (should the player recruit her), with Delita's being a guest character. Wiegraf is an enemy "White Knight" with similar abilities and strength to a Holy Knight.
The Holy Knight has high magickal stats and MP, making it effective with job commands that focus on spellcasting, specially supportive. Time Magic, in particular, is useful for Haste, to further enable the Holy Knight and its allies, while White Magick can aid the team with healing when needed. The Holy Knight can be equipped with robes to increase its MP pool. The Holy Knight can also make decent of use of Geomancy, primarily the free reaction ability, Nature’s Wrath, as its damage is calculated on both physical and magickal attack.
If the player manages to steal a Runeblade from random encounter knights in chapter 3 (before it becomes available in stores and power crept by chapter 4 knight swords), it boosts Agrias's magick attack by 2 and vastly improves Iaido and Orator builds, with another +2 MA from a Wizard's Robe.
To maximize the Holy Knight's damage output from Holy Sword, it is recommended to boost physical attack as much as possible. The Geomancer's Attack Boost support ability increases attack by 33%, while the Dancer's Fury reaction ability grants +1 attack whenever taking damage. The player can further supplement the job with accessories, such the Bracers or the Tynar Rouge, with the latter being one of the strongest accessories in the game, only available for female units.
Agrias's Holy Knight has second highest physical evasion of all classes after Ninja, and tied with Balthier's Sky Pirate. By equipping her with high evasion shields, cloaks, and the Shirahadori reaction ability from Samurai, Agrias becomes very hard to hit.
The Holy Knight's downsides lie in its low mobility, speed, and physical attack. The Holy Knight benefits from movement abilities, such as its own Move +1, Thief's Move +2, or even Teleport, as well as Battle Boots, which help tremendously when Agrias is a guest.
The downside of the low physical attack can be mitigated with good support skills, such as White Magick, Iaido once katanas are in stock from chapter 2 (Samurai also has doublehand), or Mystic while quickly getting JP after using the Equip Sword ability and reverting to this job. 
Hermes' Shoes and Adrenaline Rush can help with speed, though chapter 4 has much stronger characters with the Divine Knight Meliadoul Tengille and Sword Saint Cidolfus Orlandeau, who join with powerful knight swords while able to increase strength with power garbs and the Sword Saint can boost speed with a Thief's Hat to hold its own.
==Behind the scenes==
The concept of Northswain's Strike's additional instant death effect refers to the Chinese deity of Northern Dipper being associated with death, whose role is similar to that of the Grim Reaper.
In the original version, "Stasis Sword" is mistranslated as "Steady Sword" in the battle line.
==Other appearances==
===Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia===
DFFOO Hallowed Bolt.png|Hallowed Bolt.
DFFOO Judgment Blade.png|Judgment Blade.
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
PFF Hallowed Bolt.png|Hallowed Bolt.
PFF Judgment Blade.png|Judgment Blade.
PFF Northswain's Strike.png|Northswain's Strike.
===Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade===
Some of the Holy Knight skills appear used by Agrias and Delita who appeared as Holy Knights.
;Ability Cards
FFAB Cleansing Strike R.png|Cleansing Strike (R).
FFAB Cleansing Strike R+.png|Cleansing Strike (R+).
FFAB Hallowed Bolt SR.png|Hallowed Bolt (SR).
FFAB Northswain's Strike - Delita SR.png|Northswain's Strike (SR).
FFAB Hallowed Bolt SR+.png|Hallowed Bolt (SR+).
FFAB Northswain's Strike - Delita SR+.png|Northswain's Strike (SR+).
FFAB Divine Ruination - Agrias SSR.png|Divine Ruination (SSR).
FFAB Judgment Blade - Delita SSR.png|Judgment Blade (SSR).
FFAB Northswain's Strike - Agrias SSR.png|Northswain's Strike (SSR).
FFAB Cleansing Strike - Agrias SSR+.png|Cleansing Strike (SSR+).
FFAB Divine Ruination - Agrias SSR+.png|Divine Ruination (SSR+).
FFAB Judgment Blade - Delita SSR+.png|Judgment Blade (SSR+).
FFAB Northswain's Strike - Agrias SSR+.png|Northswain's Strike (SSR+).
FFAB Divine Ruination - Agrias UUR.png|Divine Ruination (UUR).
;Legend Cards
Agrias II Brigade.png|Divine Ruination (Summon).
Agrias I Brigade.png|Hallowed Bolt (Summon).
Judgement Blade Brigade.png|Judgement Blade (Summon).
Northswains Glow Brigade.png|Northswain's Strike (Summon).
FFAB Judgment Blade - Agrias Legend SR.png|Judgment Blade (SR).
FFAB Judgment Blade - Agrias Legend SR+.png|Judgment Blade (SR+).
FFAB Hallowed Bolt - Agrias Legend SSR.png|Hallowed Bolt (SSR).
FFAB Hallowed Bolt - Delita Legend SSR.png|Hallowed Bolt (SSR).
FFAB Judgment Blade - Delita Legend SSR.png|Judgment Blade (SSR).
FFAB Northswain's Strike - Agrias Legend SSR.png|Northswain's Strike (SSR).
FFAB Hallowed Bolt - Agrias Legend SSR+.png|Hallowed Bolt (SSR+).
FFAB Hallowed Bolt - Delita Legend SSR+.png|Hallowed Bolt (SSR+).
FFAB Judgment Blade - Delita Legend SSR+.png|Judgment Blade (SSR+).
FFAB Northswain's Strike - Agrias Legend SSR+.png|Northswain's Strike (SSR+).
FFAB Cleansing Strike - Delita Legend UR.png|Cleansing Strike (UR).
FFAB Cleansing Strike - Agrias Legend UUR.png|Cleansing Strike (UUR).
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
FFRK Cleansing Strike.png|Cleansing Strike.
FFRK Divine Ruination.png|Divine Ruination.
FFRK Hallowed Bolt.png|Hallowed Bolt (Player version).
FFRK Hallowed Bolt EA.png|Hallowed Bolt (Enemy version).
FFRK Judgment Blade EA.png|Judgment Blade (Enemy version).
FFRK Northswain's Strike.png|Northswain's Strike.
===Final Fantasy Brave Exvius===
FFBE Hallowed Bolt.png|Hallowed Bolt (Delita's version).
FFBE Hallowed Bolt EA.png|Hallowed Bolt (Wiegraf's version).
FFBE Stasis Sword.png|Judgment Blade (4★).
FFBE Stasis Sword 2.png|Judgment Blade (5★).
FFBE Northswain's Strike.png|Northswain's Strike.
==Gallery==
FFT Split Punch.png|Cleansing Strike.
FFT Crush Punch.png|Northswain's Strike.
FFT Lightning Stab.png|Hallowed Bolt.
FFT Holy Explosion.png|Divine Ruination.
FFT Chant.png|Chant.
Category:Jobs in Final Fantasy Tactics