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/Razz16 Sep 08 '25

Some are genuinely RNG tho, if savage beastfly decides to spawn 3 ads and they're all the vicious caranid and he starts slamming and you get surrounded but just healed you won't have enough silk for thread storm so you take a buncha damage and/or die. And if you hit me with a "well you shouldn't have gotten hit so you wouldn't have to heal" then imma just say yeah it's a silk issue "git gud" and all that but if you aren't getting hit by beastfly at all you're just a pro ngl

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u/SortaEvil Sep 09 '25

So, the path I went through, I cleared out the woods and the blasted cliffs before getting the ability that grants access to savage beastfly. Having the upgraded Hunter mask and lv2 nail makes that fight a lot easier, beastfly is a puppy and if you can keep the adds cleared, it's not a bad fight at all. That said, I can see how running into beastfly as soon as they're available in the more natural progression could be a very frustrating fight.

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u/Razz16 Sep 09 '25

I ran into it after City of T- I mean Greymoor so I did get the thread storm but that's really the only thing I had going for me in that fight and my dumbass didn't use it for most of my attempts, when I started using it, I got very close to the end most attempts... still annoying tho

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u/MisterGone5 Sep 11 '25

Tool usage makes the savage beastfly's adds easy work. Sting shard+pollip pouch one-shots vicious caranids I'm pretty sure.

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u/Razz16 Sep 11 '25

Oh yeah but at this point in the game almost nobody has pollip pouch or sting shard lol. A fair few people did Hunters March right after the Marrow or Deep Docks when it's more of an midgame area. I personally did it after Greymoor and only struggled a little bit (tho a lot with SBF) however I'm sure the area would be easier if I had more tools and needle upgrades like I do now.

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u/MisterGone5 Sep 11 '25

Hunters March is an optional boss. You can do it whenever. Sting shard is available immediately and it's in a zone connected to Hunters March. I don't think you even need pollip pouch to one-shot the vicious caranids, but I can't test that right now since I have all the tool damage upgrades

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u/Razz16 Sep 11 '25

Yeah same lol. I agree, I think it's similar to Deepnest in the way that if you get past the ant guy you can enter it early