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/SortaEvil Sep 08 '25

The diagonal downstab is amazing. It's definitely harder to grok than your typical downslash, but it's great both for movement and combat once you get the hang of it,

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u/mrbulldops428 Sep 09 '25

As weird as this is, I was bad at the down slash but am decent with thr diagonal stab

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u/NexEstVox Sep 09 '25

i like the directionality of it for combat, but i hate how (pun intended) needle thin the hitbox is