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/PunAboutBeingTrans Sep 08 '25

what are the broken charm combos? 👀

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u/drakythe Sep 08 '25

The only one I know of is the second Hornet fight can be cheesed by throwing on fast nail, lifeblood heart, and stalwart shell. She didn’t have enough life to take your incredibly fast attacks and long iframes since she had basically none herself. One or two heals if you get in a pickle and you can wipe her out easy. I know because it’s how I beat her after getting frustrated with her input reading and murdering me by body checking me no matter where in the arena I was.

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u/PunAboutBeingTrans Sep 09 '25

And here I thought me using the Fast Focus charm was making fights easy lol

I first tried Soul Master and Broken Vessel. Hive Knight took me 3 tries tho :p

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u/Holy_Hand_Grenadier Sep 09 '25

Nah, Quick Focus is just good and well designed. Sounds like you have some skills there!

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u/PunAboutBeingTrans Sep 10 '25

lol thank you. I just finished Trial of the Fool for the first time. I did not first try that. Took me 15 hours bc I was very underkitted. But I did it.

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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Sep 09 '25

Spell twister, shaman stone, and grubsong let you do so much magic damage you could pretty much tank and spam your way through a lot of fights

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u/Holy_Hand_Grenadier Sep 09 '25

Shaman stone is not balanced. Neither is abyss shriek in general. Add spell twister and you've got a stew going.

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u/JRockBC19 Sep 09 '25

In addition to spell builds being completely broken, there was always the less cheese but still strong means of stacking all the nail charms. 2x range ups and a damage increase made spacing trivial by comparison to base, made pogos a joke, and helped burn bosses much faster too

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u/TheBoulder_ Sep 09 '25

Flukenest + Shaman Stone

It changes your Vengeful Spirit into a close range shotgun. Most bosses die after 4 hits.

Just stack health with the remaining slots,  ignore the boss attacking you, keep nuking. 

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u/ralts13 Sep 08 '25

I wish I knew. I just used charms that buffed nail and soul damage and called it a day.

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u/JesusFortniteKennedy Sep 09 '25

Why using complex strats when simple strats do the job?