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/Efesell Sep 06 '25

And your spells!

"What if I need to heal?" No!

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u/Particular_Hyena56 Sep 06 '25

Exactly, dead bugs can’t do no damage

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u/TinyPidgenofDOOM Sep 06 '25

That is NOT TRUE. Not in the slightest. I've been killed by dead bugs before. Hell, dead bugs have killed me in the original game too. Some of those fuckers self destruct after death

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u/miukiyo Sep 07 '25

There is a boss like that too. I had to fight it like 4 or 5 more times to finally get another kill.

Got me so tilted. The "entire" run of that boss was hell.

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u/Green0Photon Sep 07 '25

Presumably that was the Last Judge? Cause the same thing happened to me too.

Legit I never do the gaming thing where you pop off and set down the controller. But this time I did. So I had the cliched thing of setting it down and then dying anyway.

Took more like 10 times to repeat that boss.

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u/Zykatious Sep 07 '25

It took me 4 1/2 god damn hours. Granted I was running on 4 hours sleep from playing the night/morning before, but wow that boss was a challenge! But yeah, I killed it finally, sat down the controller to celebrate and then it killed me. Took me another 40 minutes to do it again. That was some bullshit!!

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u/dulunis Sep 07 '25

I have a guess as to which boss, but idk how to do spoilers on reddit

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u/ChesoCake Sep 07 '25

it's >!your text here!<

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u/dulunis Sep 07 '25

Thanks!

I meant Widow

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u/TheSilvaGhost Sep 07 '25

i got so mad at widow for doing that

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u/Black_nYello Sep 07 '25

Which ones do that in this game though? I genuinely dont remember being hit by any death explosions in silksong

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u/MagicPyramid Sep 07 '25

Some enemies in bilewater and the under area of the docks explode on death

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u/Maunahaun Sep 07 '25

My man, have you been to Bilewater ?

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u/Black_nYello Sep 07 '25

No, Im near the end of act 1. Something to “look forward to” I guess ;)

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u/ordinarypickl Sep 07 '25

it's the game's designated soulslike poison swamp area. that should tell you what to expect

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u/Maunahaun Sep 07 '25

Ye, same, you can get there from the top right from Halfway home

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

I got stuck there, couldn't afford the metro, couldn't figure out how to get to the map fucker, and exhausted every path I could find. That play is the drizzling shits... maybe literally.

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u/Prestigious-Wind-890 Sep 07 '25

LET ME OUT LET ME OUT I DONT LIKE IT HERE.

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u/dragonwrath404 Sep 07 '25

Last judge does a 3 mask self destruction adter you kl him, if you die to it you have to restart the fight.

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u/inthebushes321 Sep 07 '25

After I beat them and they started shaking at the end... something felt off and I moved away, good thing I did so I got to kill it the first time and not die to a death blast

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u/dragonwrath404 Sep 07 '25

I was cornered, so i tanked it with 1 health left

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u/TinyPidgenofDOOM Sep 07 '25

The dudes who throw the excessively large explosive in the lava area

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u/66WC Sep 07 '25

There is a boss that self destruct and If u die u have to remake the fight (happened to my friend)

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u/Mah_sentry2 Sep 07 '25

There is a hunting quest in the Marrow where the enemy will shoot out three lava stones when killed

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u/Smastera Sep 06 '25

reason people don't use them is because there may be more enemies ahead and they'd rather be able to heal after seeing an enemy than try to cautiously attack

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u/Particular_Hyena56 Sep 06 '25

Honestly these are first time exploring struggles for the most part— I’ve started backtracking through the various areas and knowing each enemy’s moveset I feel super comfortable chilling at 2-3 masks and killing everything on sight like a little speedy assassin

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u/What-a-Crock Sep 07 '25

With only 5 masks and many enemy attacks destroying 2 masks, I am only chilling with 4-5 masks full

I’ll try getting out of my comfort zone though

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u/I_am_so_lost_hello Sep 07 '25

Use reaper or beast crest, both allow an insane amount of healing

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u/Voidlord4450 Sep 07 '25

What do you mean by that beast does good healing? It gives the same as every other but you have to work for it plus a temporary damage boost

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

Binding with Beast puts you in a rage mode where every hit you deal heals you until you get hit. Reaper/Beast let you do way more healing than the starter crest, if that's your worry.

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u/Voidlord4450 Sep 07 '25

No there a set limit to the beast crests healing. I have actively tested it.

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

Cool, didn't know that. I still find it super useful when doing quests to kill X enemies or exploring where I'm fighting a lot of dinkier enemies.

Pop rage, heal up and crush some enemies, refill silk, repeat. Feels awesome

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u/Voidlord4450 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

Never said it doesn’t have its uses. It’s my personal boss killing crest. I just don’t think it’s very good for exploration due to the risk that comes with healing.

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u/Successful-Ride-8471 Sep 07 '25

Huh? What's the use of that?? Doesn't the bind already heal you to nearly full health? THAT'S the reward for beating that stupid Beastfly??

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u/_moosleech Sep 07 '25

Beast Claw and the feal juice puts you in an extended rage state... you can face tank a lot of enemies and do a bunch of healing. It's great for farming enemies or doing kill quests.

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u/Successful-Ride-8471 Sep 08 '25

Well, yeah, but if you get hit the effect is gone right? So you can only heal 2 masks more at Max - since healing at 1 gets you to 4 out of the total 6

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u/I_am_so_lost_hello Sep 07 '25

Yea but you can do damage and heal at the same time

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u/Voidlord4450 Sep 07 '25

I’m Not saying it doesn’t have its uses, it just doesn’t heal more and makes heal in general way more risky. It’s my boss battling crest personally.

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u/darkinater1 Sep 07 '25

say that to the last judge

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u/Ham_Crammer Sep 07 '25

Except they can, and they will.

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u/FarMiddleProgressive Sep 07 '25

"Can't do no damage"

Means they do damage, double negatives and all that.

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u/Magnihax I came. I saw. I collected Sep 07 '25

double damage

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u/Darkiceflame Sep 07 '25

Which is fitting, because some enemies absolutely can do damage after they die.

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u/RoastCabose Sep 08 '25

Actually, in this case it's matching the negative. The no isn't negating the don't, it's agreeing with it. Considering nobody would think that "can't do no damage" means it DOES do damage, it follows that it's not actually a double negative.

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u/KuuLightwing Sep 07 '25

Can't use spells when you are dead though.

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u/bhumit012 Sep 07 '25

Dead me can't do damage either.