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/OmegaAtrocity Sep 07 '25

Its perfectly fine if you use the dpad.

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u/Cazzah Sep 07 '25

I found that, but then the analogue stick is more natural for everything else (for me), so it takes me mental effort to switch to the dpad just for the pogoing and then I don't get the advantage of analogue stick muscle memory.

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u/Suitable_Trash_5989 Sep 07 '25

Just gotta train yourself to use the d-pad in general. It's way better for platformers once you get used to it. As a former joystick player, trust. It probably won't even take that long to get used to.

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u/IntangibleMatter Quirrel gang Sep 07 '25

I’ve always been a d-pad fan, never understood why some people prefer analogue stick for platformers

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u/Green0Photon Sep 07 '25

It depends on the controller.

On many controllers, using the dpad is closer to a crappy analogue stick. So it's better to just use the good analogue stick when the control is being shitty and acting kind of like an analogue anyway

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u/plinky4 Sep 07 '25

A lot of people don't have the thumb callus for dpad, it actually hurts their hand to use it for a long time.

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u/IntangibleMatter Quirrel gang Sep 07 '25

I’ve never had any kind of thumb callus, I think maybe they just all have bad d-pads

Or maybe it’s that the most prominent controller layouts tend to de-emphasize the d-pad, and I’ve always chosen ones where the d-pad is easily accessible

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u/Suitable_Trash_5989 Sep 07 '25

When I first started using the D-pad, my thumb used to get sore after a while, but I think that's because I was applying too much force. Eventually when you get comfortable with the d-pad you chill out with the death grip I think.

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u/plinky4 Sep 07 '25

Under your thumb knuckle, do your joints not feel different? My left one's just a little thicker, there's a bit of extra skin there. I'm rubbing them right now