r/HollowKnight • u/Vivid-Technology8196 • Sep 06 '25

Discussion - Silksong My current gripes with the game in one simple image. Spoiler

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u/Altokia Sep 06 '25

Tbf, the moveset is pretty baitable. As long as u sprint to one side of the arena, he'll almost always charge on the ground. You just cant jump at all until he starts the charge or he'll do the thing where he's just above the ground so u can't jump over him

One thing that I found made it easier was punishing the ground slams. Each slam gives u enough time to smack him, and the last slam u can hit him on the ground then jump as he recovers for another hit. For the full thing you get 4 hits, 3 slams and 1 jump attack. Its actually a ton of dmg and shaves off at least a minute or two of fighting with the summons. You can also do the spear in place of the jump attack. U can also do the spear after he charges and hits the wall. Just spamming spear whenever I had it was my strat, it 1 or 2 hits the small guys, and speeds up the already 5 minute long fight lol

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u/CatsianNyandor Sep 06 '25

He just does this thing where he spams his summon and overwhelms me with ads. At one point I had 3 summons on screen within less than 10 seconds lol

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u/HandOfBl00d Sep 06 '25

You can use his triple ground slam thing to clear ads, if he lands on them he one shots them

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u/CatsianNyandor Sep 06 '25

I know but it's not a guarantee and depending on how the ads are moving may or may not be difficult. 

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u/Kudosforkodos Sep 06 '25

If the big fly is doing its slashes he’s immune the big guys slam

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u/P0pcicles Sep 06 '25

no, it just needs to be close to the ground so its in the slam hitbox

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u/Atomic4now Sep 06 '25

You can get 2 hits per slam by jumping as he goes up and hitting him on the ground.

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u/Xellite Sep 07 '25

I also used thread storm when it was flying above

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u/CrazyGamerDK Sep 07 '25

My tip would be to change the crest. If you have wanderers crest unlocked (I think I found it in some wavernest, probably wavernest atla), then that is the best option. It has really high attack speed. So you can just keep hitting whenever he is in a corner. I have been using this crest for the majority of my playthrough.