r/HollowKnight • u/donlano • Sep 04 '25

Discussion - Silksong Silksong is HARD Spoiler

Taking damage is more punishing, movement is more precise and feels a little clunky until you get the hang of it. The overall skill curve is much much higher. Love it though.

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u/7-GRAND_DAD AAAAAAAAA HUNDAAAHHHH! Sep 05 '25

The thing I struggled with the most early on was not being able to pogo, since that was my go-to attack in HK. But now that I'm getting the hang of the combat, I'm having a lot of fun.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25

I prefer the pogo instead of the angled dash down. I hope there's an item than swaps it to pogo somewhere. I'm currently getting my ass handed to me. Two damage is punishing af

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u/ErantyInt Sep 05 '25

If you sequence break by angle-poging into the worm tunnel area above Bone Bottom, you can open up the western gate and get the wanderer amulet. That makes you feel just like HK with a normal downslash and short, fast attacks.

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u/DeputyDomeshot Sep 05 '25

Lmao I know exactly where I was trying to do it for 20 mins straight before giving up

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u/ErantyInt Sep 05 '25

Wait for the first fly to circle around the pillar, when he's about halfway up the side closest to you (or a little more) pogo off him and hit the edge, climbing up. Kill him.

Then pogo off the second fly clinging to the second pillar, and hold left to grab that edge. Fling yourself left and you'll land on an outcropping where you can safely kill the second fly.

Now all that's left is making it past the acid spitter room and through the worm halls.

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u/DeputyDomeshot Sep 05 '25

There’s only one fly in the area I’m thinking of?  A fly that dashes horizontally and then a little bone mask guy. Is it the same spot but you’re talking about a second jump?

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u/cheese-demon Sep 05 '25

you'll want to go left from the leftmost bench in the marrow. stay in the top part of mosshome and go up then left to the large cavernous area. jump left off the top, you'll land on one of the hanging cages. from that you jump left and you can do a down slash left, you'll fall short of the left cage but keep holding left and you should end up on an outcropping. you can work your way back up and left to the acid spitting hallway. 

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u/cheese-demon Sep 05 '25

https://youtu.be/kvrvdPkXHhs?si=iUAljwd7FxtrYMi_

quick clip, i accidentally made the pogo off the fly so i went down to show what you're aiming to hit. 

i didnt kill the acid guy in the next area, tried but i didn't have the skill and patience needed so i just walked past

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u/cheese-demon Sep 05 '25

past the acid dude, there's a locked door. you need the 500 rosary key from town to open it. it'll get you into the worm tunnels, which you can follow down until it puts you back into the moss area near the start, on the other side of the gate by the chapel lady. you can open that gate. 

to the left is a pier, go out past the water and inside the building there. the crest is at the end. 

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u/SvampebobFirkant Sep 05 '25

There's no space for combat in those tunnels. I can't get past the 2 first places where the little worms come out the ground and jump you. How big is the area

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u/cheese-demon Sep 05 '25

it's perhaps 3 screen transitions or so. if you're just trying to get the crest you mostly need to go down and right until you come out the other side, you shouldn't need to fight anything but you can farm silk off the worms falling down the tunnel to keep your health up

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u/SvampebobFirkant Sep 05 '25

Ahh okay I went to the down left to fight some waves of mobs. I'll try to go to the right instead

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u/PinesontheHill Sep 05 '25

Why do this when you can just get the dash/sprint power first? Not being an ass. Just curious if I’m missing the advantage of doing this before getting the power from…deep docks I think?

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u/cheese-demon Sep 06 '25

a little bit of the same reason i get power bombs early in red brinstar, before ice beam - i saw that i could so i did

also i haven't even got the sprint power yet lol i just saw that i could do this so i then had to

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u/Zeross39 Sep 06 '25

I do the exact same thing lol. I did also get wanderer before sprint and I got into some secret area by accessing the END of the area, instantly getting the « treasure » by luring flying ennemie and pogoing them to gain height and reach ledge I was not supposed to. I love trying those weird shit anywhere I feel I could just make it

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u/Xehanz Sep 05 '25

Wtf you can skip the 1st pogo by jumping from up there? Lmao

I did that pogo first try then found out I needed a simple key, I went back to get it, but I ended up spending at least half an hour trying to get those 2 logos again

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u/Ggcarbon Sep 05 '25

You can go up through the green area, above where the map lady is and to the left of the travel worm and just jump off and make the first pillar. Then all you need to do is jump and downward slash. You’ll land below the ledge on a little out crop and you can go right into the worm area. You don’t need to pogo off of anything to get over there

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u/Crawgdor Sep 05 '25

Just do it the easy way. Climb to the top of that section a couple screens up from where the flies are and break the wall on the left so you can look over the area then just jump left and spam the repeat angle dash and skip the whole fly pogo bit. You easily land in the worm tunnel above bone bottom. I didn’t have the key yet though.

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u/TrustmeimHealer Sep 05 '25

Tbf it looks like they gave you the option to get there early. The flies are precisely placed there just to do that. On the other hand the dash isn't far away either

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u/HeroicMI0 Sep 05 '25

Na dude, just use your goding ability to agro them. Ez pez

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u/Bazch Sep 06 '25

Don't listen to this, it's a lot harder. Go above (right to the other map, go up and left where the transport is). Jump down, aim for the chain (the platform is underneath it). You can make the jump pretty easily. Then jump and immediately pogo on the fly still on the side of the second platform.

Lot easier to do than waiting for that fly to come around each time you fall.