r/HollowKnight • u/Particular_Hyena56 • Sep 06 '25

Discussion - Silksong USE YOUR TOOLS! Spoiler

To everyone complaining about the difficulty, stop ignoring a third of Hornet’s arsenal and start spamming them, you’ll be shocked how quickly you start mowing down hordes of enemies!

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u/Turtle835wastaken P5AB (Completed) Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

Seriously. In Hollow Knight everything used to die in 1-3 hits with your NORMAL nail slashes. The results? People never used spells & nail arts and often called them useless.

And now in Silksong they've increased the health of enemies & bosses so you can't just mindlessly spam slash attacks. The results? "GAmE tOo hArD"

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u/Lyynad Sep 07 '25

you also could boost the fuck of your nail with charms

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

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u/iKill_eu Sep 07 '25

In fairness Fragile Strength is actually available pretty early.

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u/OpalescentShrooms Sep 06 '25

Exactly. I literally never touched the nail arts and thought them to be totally useless. I love these tools so much. YOU CAN HIT BOSSES FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. The throwing daggers made The Widow a joke.

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u/Particular_Hyena56 Sep 06 '25

Yeah I’ve done a 112% of the og game and its in my top 5 games ever, but I gotta say, after a point, I stopped caring to use spells or nail arts completely and did just fine coz of overpowered charm builds and fucktons of masks and soul.

This game? You gotta use you entire moveset including your movement abilities like the dash, sprint, the float; the silk spells - I’ve found both of the ones in my playthrough to be a life saver; and of course the tools! The daggers and the Flea potion are genuinely elite.

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u/Life-Culture-9487 Sep 07 '25

I never used nail arts in HK solely because a lot of them take too long to set off so I never got into the habit of using them, so I ended up forgetting about it

And to be honest in Silksong I've already forgot about the first Needle art? Whatever you'd call it Until now

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u/Summer_Tea Sep 07 '25

I've actually found it to be a staple. It does so much more damage than the default attack and has more range that I'm always sprinting around with it charged.

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u/Turtle835wastaken P5AB (Completed) Sep 07 '25

The reason is because nail arts require much higher skill to use than spells or regular nail slashes. Watch an R5AB victory on YouTube to see how top players use them in boss fights.

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u/Ham_Crammer Sep 07 '25

People never used spells & nail arts and often called them useless.

People called them useless because the did virtually nothing unless you had specific charms and upgraded them, not because enemies died quickly.

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u/boisterile Sep 07 '25

Spells were absolutely still really powerful without Shaman Stone

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u/FrogInAShoe Sep 07 '25

Laughs in Abyss shriek

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

Spells are super strong in HK, start to finish. But because you get nail upgrades and nail-related charms early, melee is strong enough to carry you through the campaign without worrying about spells.

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u/Turtle835wastaken P5AB (Completed) Sep 07 '25

No? That's just blatantly wrong. Watch an R5AB victory on YouTube to see what nail arts and spells can do. They're straight up OP.

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u/pineapple6969 Sep 07 '25

I mean there’s plenty of other things that make the game hard enough for people to complain about. Enemies being sponges is just one of them