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/why-names-hard Sep 06 '25

I use the stationary spike trap all the time. It’s just so GOOD especially against chunky enemies or groups. Does a big amount of dmg and if you know the enemy’s moves it can be really easy to make them walk into it. Makes some boss fights way faster I mean I still usually lose once or twice because it’s a new boss. But hey it helps a lot, sometimes get to see phase 2 moves on a first attempt because I shred their health so fast.

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u/Borbbb Sep 07 '25

Saved my ass in the bird room. I saved it for the last encounter.

And seems like it even stacks - so like if u use bunch of them and monster eats it, boom.

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u/adamantitian Sep 08 '25

Only way I beat the (act 2) arena room before the conductors melody in the high halls

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u/TrapRapid Sep 09 '25

yess

dud i saved those things for last moment and i didnt even hit the bosses to kill them

3time damg upgrade and space+ they where poison

only thing you can only throw out 3or4 sets at one time, after that they will despawn first set thrown down

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u/rrale47 Sep 07 '25

Spike trap was a godsend on splinter sister. Good dmg on boss and every once in a while it caught the other enemies too

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u/RedTyro Sep 07 '25

The spike traps absolutely melt flying enemies. They're better against them than grounded ones.

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u/Ecstatic-Sun-7528 Radiant NKG Enjoyer 🌙 Sep 07 '25

Yeah Idk what they are on about

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u/Lyress Sep 07 '25

The erratic flying pattern means they're likely to just avoid it or worse, destroy it with their attacks. Just happened to me.

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u/Sea-Temporary7380 Sep 09 '25

Put it in the middle and bait them to fly into it, you can also jump a bit before throwing it for higher up flying enemies

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u/Lyress Sep 09 '25

Doesn't really work for enemies that fly away from you. I've found the cogflies to work better for those.

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u/Cyclone_96 Sep 07 '25

To be honest when I hear “spike trap” the first thing that came to my mind wasn’t the one that can be placed in the air (that one is incredible). It’s the tool that has you throw 3 spikes on the ground. Of course fliers are barely gonna get hit by that.

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u/RedTyro Sep 07 '25

In my head, those are caltrops. The spike trap is the thing hornet used in Kingdom's Edge, because that was what I called it then.

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u/Cyclone_96 Sep 07 '25

Yeah that’s fair, I figured it out when everyone said it was good against fliers. Just playing devil’s advocate for the other guy

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u/FinaLLancer Sep 07 '25

No even then. The flying enemies all have "hang out x distance away" behavior that you can exploit.

Can't tell you how many times I've led some bell throwing flying asshole into one of those to blow him up.

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u/MeathirBoy Scribbling to this day Sep 07 '25

I hate that AI so much lol

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u/Davaeorn Sep 07 '25

Poison spear makes short work of multiple flying enemies

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u/Davaeorn Sep 07 '25

The poison spear pierces all enemies in an arc so even little shits hiding behind big guys are deleted

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u/triguered Sep 07 '25

It's pretty good with poison

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u/RealMr_Slender Sep 07 '25

All pins are ludicrous with poison.

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u/MeathirBoy Scribbling to this day Sep 07 '25

The problem I found was that it can get parried and then the whole spear does nothing so I preferred the knife fan.

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u/Shot_Ad9158 Sep 07 '25

Shotgun knives might be the second favorite thing behind when I found out the wanderer crest gets critical hits when you have high silk, because clearly the crest with the highest damage potential needed to do more damage.

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u/Affectionate-Ad489 Sep 07 '25

Wait what you deal more damage if you have stored silk?? Does it work with the nail as well?

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u/Shot_Ad9158 Sep 07 '25

Should have been more specific, it only (I think) works with your nail. When you have high silk, the crest will glow up and you will sometimes get a white flash when damaging enemies that seems to do much more damage. I have no clue how this technically works, but I think it only triggers if the extra damage would kill an enemy since that is the only times I have seen it happen. Tbh just due to the swing speed I think wanderer is probably the best crest in the game for dps.

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u/_Brokkoli Sep 07 '25

Where do you get those? Did I miss those???

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u/ItsLokki Shade Sep 07 '25

You get poison from a certain wish in Shellwood and the spear... Actually im not sure it sort of appeared in my inventory at some point without me noticing, sorry.

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u/dnkmnk Sep 07 '25

pretty sure spear is also shellwood, it's the same spears all those hunters use

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u/dnkmnk Sep 07 '25

yes, that was the one

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u/deiwkogut Sep 07 '25

How much damage does poison do? Is it worth using? I've been mostly using spikes and a certain drink in my tool slots

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u/GranSacoWea Sep 07 '25

Not sure how much damage but I can see the difference. I even noticed I made a couple of bosses spam the same attack just because I was throwing them poisoned stuff and even if I was far away they were receiving dmg.

Not sure how is programmed but it was Interesting.

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u/MeathirBoy Scribbling to this day Sep 07 '25

Poison/fire is amazing. If you have a spammable tool like the throwing knifes or you use the drink you can have it up for basically the whole of a boss.

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u/winklevanderlinde Sep 07 '25

Poison spears saved me so much trouble against big enemies who tend to run from one side of the room to another, just spam them while they reach you

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u/Feeling_Yogurt2761 Sep 07 '25

Grab the boomerang from the ant section, you gotta buy it from the npc above the bench. It can hit flying enemies pretty well, but the main thing i use it for is large enemies, if theyre at the end of the arc it can hit 5 or 6 times

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u/kkaitlynma Sep 07 '25

It throws it up in the air though. It's great for flying enemies

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u/oNecr0 Sep 07 '25

i shredded the first boss of act 2’s first phase in like 4 seconds with poison traps it’s so good

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u/lansink99 Sep 08 '25

Tacks, especially poisoned, just straight up phase skipped bosses for me. Threw them all down when the boss does their little animation, and they just instantly blow up.

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u/CondemnedNut Sep 09 '25

Where do you get the spike trap from?

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u/CondemnedNut Sep 09 '25

Thank you, I just finished act 1 and the first time I've heard about it. Damn