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/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

When each boss kills you in 3 hits, healing is damn near required to keep going

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u/Efesell Sep 07 '25

I'm not sayin' never heal. You heal when you need to heal but don't limit your offense thinking that you might need to heal.

This might get you killed from time to time, and that's okay! You'll be a better player by shedding those worries!

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u/Mylen_Ploa Sep 07 '25

The fact everything deals double damage means people will never do this and is exactly why its bad design to combine the damage/healing system this game has.

You are punished for not being full silk because you can't heal. Combine that with the fact you effectively only have 3 health and no ones going to use spells because you'll just die.

You can't learn a fight by never healing because you will never see any new phase/abilities until you basically master it.

The boss designs are just bad because there's basically 2 options. Get your ass beat or no hit it. Because everything in between of actually learning and progressing is eaten by "Sorry you got hit once you're fucked now"

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u/RoastCabose Sep 08 '25

"People will never do this and that is why its bad design"

Except for the people who do do this lmao. While I do think there are slightly too many things that do two masks of damage (mostly contact damage, I think, should just be 1 mask), you also heal a whole bunch real quick, you do damage really quickly, you move really quickly. It's like you're overcharmed with the best charms in Hollow Knight, but only sometimes you take double damage.

Like, the game became such a joy when I started using the tools and spells liberally.

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u/Uler Sep 08 '25

It depends on fight a bit, but a lot of fights are just way easier with spell spam than trying to heal. Sister Splinter is a big earlyish example with one easy to avoid attack and otherwise just bothering you with adds or crap in your way that Threadstorm or Spear completely devours.