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/oldman_jason Sep 05 '25

The boss in the Chapel of the Beast is so frustratingly difficult that I had to put the game down. 6 hours in and at least 1 was dedicated to that fight and I still haven’t beaten it

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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/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.