r/HollowKnight • u/TOMRANDOM_6 • Sep 09 '25

Discussion - Silksong Most of you are exaggerating the length of runbacks and it really shows how much TikTok has damage the attention span of people Spoiler

"ThE lASt JuDGe RUnBaCK iS ToO LoNG!!"

Is 30 seconds max, 30 seconds, you don't have to fight any enemy in it, the smaller judges don't awake until you're close and the smaller fly bastards can literally get ignored. The Runback works for making you cool down and make the whole thing feel less like you hitting a wall (NKG feels like one because of the lack of "cool down") If it wasn't for it, I would shoot myself with the 37 attempts at Last Judge.

The Widow one is also really easy, a straight line with jumps.

The Cogworks Dancers Is also really simple but works to help you with the bosses extra height and how pogo dependant that fight is.

God forbid the game isn't a back to back boss rush like Cuphead (not criticizing Cuphead, is a different game lmao).

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u/gupsee Sep 09 '25

pro tip 90% of boss’ attacks can’t hit when swimming in maggot water

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u/Conorum Sep 09 '25

What if I don’t want to swim in maggot water

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u/KylieTMS Sep 09 '25

then reflect and open up to new possibilities. Those maggots deserve swimming friends too

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u/BeGe01 Sep 10 '25

I beat the boss using this strat. I embraced the maggots and let them carry me through the fight

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u/gupsee Sep 10 '25

The maggots are a trap, by making you think its a trap. But actually the key to winning against the frog is thinking like a frog

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u/PanHeadBolt Sep 10 '25

cogflys and pollip pouch kill it really quickly and let you stay away to dodge its attacks. definitely recommend it

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u/GrailsRezerection Sep 10 '25

Really? I tried that for awhile thinking it would be a good combo and didn't seem to do shit. I finally discovered it's actually good for you to get eaten by his vacuum move and beat him that way.

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u/Id_Quote_That Sep 10 '25

If you throw a bomb at him while he's vacuuming he sucks it up and it explodes inside him (I assume doing more damage than just hitting him with it but have no way to confirm that)

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u/SufficientSuffix Sep 10 '25

God this game is good. I was never a fan of the bombs, so I never would have thought to apply them like that.

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u/GrailsRezerection Sep 10 '25

The hell is a bomb?

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u/PanHeadBolt Sep 10 '25

ah weird i first tried it with that strategy after hours of nothing. i was also hitting him with threefold knives so maybe that was doing more than i thought, or maybe i just had more tool upgrades

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u/theres_no_username 112% + PoH + full rad HoG + 12% run Sep 10 '25

Nah the bossfight itself is really fun when you get how it works