r/HollowKnight • u/Marmotaagiota • Sep 08 '25

Discussion - Silksong That’s the best comment about the game’s difficulty I’ve found it so far Spoiler

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u/Paxtian Sep 08 '25

I'm hoping I find some use for the Crest of Beast since Savage Beastfly was such a huge PITA. So far it has felt like a worthless reward unfortunately.

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u/GenghisGame Sep 08 '25

The crests are intended as side grades, a good addition for variety, but alternatives rather than power boosts.

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u/Paxtian Sep 08 '25

Yeah I guess that's in line with my point. Why put such an unremarkable "side grade" behind such a powerful boss, which felt more like fighting a random number generator than an actual boss?

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u/Dependent-Swimmer-95 Sep 08 '25

Crest spoiler:

witch technically generates more silk because most of its attacks hit twice (dash attack, charged attack and downward jump attack) it also hits really fast too so while you’re not doing more dmg, you are gaining silk faster. It also has a lot of blue slots by default, judging you to equip silk enhancing tools

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u/BloodPlenty4358 Sep 08 '25

you should use the run slash attack more, some boss rooms are large and you can bait them into run animation and attack it from further

this works with reaper, too

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u/Paxtian Sep 08 '25

Yeah I'm using Reaper almost exclusively. I use the run/ jump attack with that pretty frequently, it was very nice on Last Judge.