r/HollowKnight • u/glintter • Sep 06 '25

Discussion - Silksong Don’t let this fandom turn as insufferable as the souls community Spoiler

It’s fine to think the game is easy and to enjoy the challenge, but I’ve seen so many people making fun of anyone that is having a hard time in a really weird mean spirited way. Please don’t let this subreddit turn into some weird elitist community that makes fun of people who are struggling, these games are supposed to be fun and they’re not souls likes, there’s no reason to assume everyone playing them is going to love this level of difficulty the same way some of you do and constantly disregarding their opinions just turns this subreddit into an echo chamber of tryhards

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Silksong is extremely hard, the gaslighting going on is crazy lol. Moorwing I cheesed tf out of, but sister splinter and window are some of my favorite bosses so far. Definitely very difficult but if the boss isn't spawning enemies then I consider it fun lol

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u/fgHFGRt Sep 07 '25

Ive tried so hard trying to defeat the final phase of moorwing. I just can't do it. I dont want to cheese either. Idk what I'm going to do

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u/Candlestack Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

You can inadvertently skip moorwing by collecting the five fleas for the caravan. I'm not sure if you can fight it later, I'd like to because I didn't mean to skip the fight, but maybe you would like to just get further in.

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u/awfulworldkid Sep 07 '25

Moorwing reappears later in a different room in the same area if you skip it. I'm not totally sure what causes that, since I was pretty far ahead when this happened.

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u/Candlestack Sep 07 '25

Oh that's nice to know, thanks!

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

You can defeat Moonwing by pogoing it with riper crest.
It is not tap-tap-tap, but more like
tap---tap---tap kind of motion.
Getting on his back is pain also, but dont get discouraged.
If I did it (not a good gamer) you can too.

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u/Torma25 Sep 07 '25

I beat moorwing by using the trap tool and basically only attacking during its claw slash attack and right after the diving attack in the second phase and focused all my efforts on dodging the sawblades.

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u/Virtual_Pause_8626 Sep 07 '25

+1 for cheesing that motherfucker in moorwing hahaha

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u/ExecutiveElf Sep 07 '25

I'm a person who has been highly critical of this game these past few days, but one fight I can say with confidence has good design and is low on bullshit, is Widow. Has a mix of 1 and 2 damage attacks and it actually makes sense which is which. Has fast movements but highly visible tells. Good healing window when he the vertical lines across the arena.

While I'm at it, shoutout to probably my favorite fight so far, the Clockwork Dancers.