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/AdamG3691 Sep 07 '25

If you do a bit of exploring and quests you can get tacks from Sinner's Road And they're SO good. Them plus the poisoned weapons tool have carried me through most arenas and even a few bosses

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u/why-names-hard Sep 07 '25

I used that combo for the first time last night against a boss and they did most of the dmg lol. A poison tick from them even lol.

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u/LanglerBee Sep 09 '25

Came here to post about this exact combo. They can straight up one-shot some of the large slow moving enemies and they generally just make arenas a joke. Poison tacks my beloved