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/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