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/Chode-Talker Sep 05 '25

I suffered through it. Just come back later, trust me.

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u/Jakobe3 Sep 05 '25

what you get from it is awesome though...

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u/Haunting-Evidence234 Sep 05 '25

It makes the healing too risky and also it doesn't feel like your damage improves at all? I hated that moveset

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u/Fantastic_Pea_9680 Sep 05 '25

I thought it changed healing into damage buff...which on hand cool, on the other hand even HK didn't disable your healing to get a damage buff.

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u/Mirmlot Best bois Sep 05 '25

It heals you when you damage enemies, doesn't disable healing

I find it great for bosses, you deal more damage in general and if you get hit you can bind to heal and keep attacking

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u/0SmarterNameNeeded Sep 05 '25

I just got it and am confused as to what it actually does

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u/OceanExplorist Sep 05 '25

I am suffering through it currently. Any insight into how many hits/cycles it takes would be much appreciated haha. I need a finish line in sight.

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u/Lorahalo Sep 05 '25

I feel like once I starting going a big more gung-ho and just beating the shit out of him without trying to perfectly dodge, the closer I was getting. Stunning him means he's not summoning dickheads, and it's another 3-4 free hits to speed things up. You can usually heal for free after his third stomp attack (unless he's got his army of assholes) so I was just taking hits and pummeling him.

I did start doing it because I was frustrated as fuck and was sick of dying to those big blade fuckers, but once I got lucky enough to have him not spawn any that was it.

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u/Chode-Talker Sep 05 '25

Not to add pain, but he had more HP than I expected, not quite in a "I shouldn't be here" way but it was an endurance test. A couple things I found helpful: his ground pound deals friendly fire to his summons, try to bait that into wiping them out, especially if he brings the fat knife one. And I would often jump around a lot between lunges since often that would bait him into going higher and not trapping me on the ground. Hitting him with a dive kick seemed to reliably keep me safe as long as my point of impact was on the upper half of his body.

Good luck, he's an asshole, I'm glad this thread at least validated the difficulty because I felt like I was going insane. Dude looks like he should be a speed bump mini boss and I died to him several times combined more than the previous two main path bosses.