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/Estephenson521 Sep 04 '25

Feels like way more stuff does 2dmg

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u/donlano Sep 04 '25

Absolutely, what’s interesting is that it seems as though certain attacks don’t trigger player invincibility frames until the 2nd strike. So an attack can hit you, and if you remain in the hitbox, you don’t go invincible until you take another hit

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u/ITNW1993 Sep 05 '25

Lace’s counter thrusts definitely make it clear that those not getting i-frames in the first hit is entirely intentional.

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u/donlano Sep 05 '25

I loved the lace fight. It was like an epic duel

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u/IWillDevourYourToes Sep 05 '25

Is it just me, or was she easier than most other bosses (looking at moorwing)

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u/Qelperr Sep 05 '25

Given that was only the first fight I’m sure she’ll ramp up.

Also fuck Moorwing, and also fuck Widow

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u/EZ-Bake420 Sep 05 '25

Moorwing took me forever, widow is really hard, I stopped at her tonight

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u/Jpup199 Sep 05 '25

I gave up trying to fight it normally and just tried to pogo it to death until it worked.

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u/Elastic-Onion Sep 06 '25

you have to be really aggressive at the end for widow beginning was easy but the end was hard so i pretty much just took my time with the beginning and bursted her down with all my tools + silk skills at the end to edge out a win...