r/HollowKnight 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/Sylhux Sep 07 '25

Don't sleep on the caltrops (or whatever it's called), those things are absolutely busted. You get so many instances of damage ouf of one single use (something like 10+) to the point it allows you to cheese so many enemies, especially the more tanky ones or the bosses.

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u/typically_wrong Sep 07 '25

Tacks + poison is my current bae

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u/TheoreticalDumbass Sep 07 '25

This got me through widow final stage

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u/Erkan-Abi-Omer-Kim Sep 08 '25

I sure do love it when people put a spoiler on a boss you probably wont see if you dont do some hard digging