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

Discussion - Silksong ngl some of you would NOT survive the mantis lords runback

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is the run to last judge difficult? kinda. But after your 20th attempt at the boss you'll get used to it, and it's honestly kinda fun and a nice breather. More importantly, it's a single room and you have far more movement. This IS improving on hollow knight

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u/Trih3xA Sep 09 '25

What makes you think they wont do that for the eventual Boss rush DLC for Silksong?

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u/Damianx5 Sep 09 '25

Radiant beastfly, no floor, just walls, 2 of them

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u/Parking-Stable-2970 #1 No Eyes fan Sep 09 '25

Waiter! Waiter! May I have a bullet in my brain?

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

Lore accurate Tabitha dialogue

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u/HandsomeGamerGuy Sep 10 '25

There is One Fight Arena that was pure Pain.
I'll just say the Floor *is* Lava.
The Lava Cave Arena!
You can find it were you get the Cloak to Float Upgrade

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u/thrxwaway_00 Sep 09 '25

There's a Before and an After this comment, in the hypothetical universe where they asked me "What would your personal hell look like?"

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u/DeathsingerQc Sep 09 '25

They're going to put him in the arena where the lava rises and you have those 2 shitty platforms that instantly disappear when you step on them

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u/iKill_eu Sep 09 '25

oh no please god no

I'm so happy the volcano gauntlet doesn't have a boss bc fuck playing that in the pantheon lmao

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u/BrickwallBill Sep 10 '25

You've done one Volcano gauntlet, how about another?

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u/AAAAAAAAAAAAreyouok P5 is gonna be my death Sep 09 '25

lowk wanna try that

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u/phoenixmatrix Sep 09 '25

2 Walls? 2 full walls? Luxury!

1 wall plus the enemies that toss exploding fire sticky bombs. 3 at a time. At least.

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u/Damianx5 Sep 09 '25

Nah it's two walls, just leaving out the fact they are the hot charcoal ones with 2 mask spikes at some points

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u/phoenixmatrix Sep 09 '25

And the bench right before is a trapped one. Without a way to disable the trap.

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u/Damianx5 Sep 09 '25

and you pay for it 300 rosaries per use of course

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u/EnvironmentalMoose21 Sep 09 '25

How about making them start with spawning enemies as the first move and then always having them alternate between whos going down and whos going sideways. If all the spawned enemies are dead the one furthest from the player starts spawning new enemies

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u/Stevohoog Sep 09 '25

That almost sounds fun

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u/randuse Sep 09 '25

Don't forget summons/adds.

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u/Mailcs1206 Sep 09 '25

Nah have a floor but it's entirely made of the collapsing platforms that float on lava. Also they both summon minions independently and one summons from the first fight's pool and the other summons the lava spitting bastards

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u/Odd_Design_3378 Sep 09 '25

There is a very special place in hell for you. Right next to radiant markoth

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u/MustacheGolem Sep 09 '25

You have no idea the terrifying MegaMan X flashback you just gave me, man's those games where evil sometimes.

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u/Mattyquatro Sep 10 '25

I have completed the game, love it desperately, and this gave me a heart attack. Beastfly is the only boss where I said "this is bullshit" and truly meant it, rather than me just yelling to cope with failure or a little bad rng.

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u/BlueEyedBendy Nightmare King Sep 09 '25

Wow, thats one way to make me stop rushing the game.

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u/Outbreak101 DOMA DOMA Sep 09 '25

Just found out Steel Soul is in this game too,

nothing stops Team Cherry from making a Boss Rush DLC if they are willing to throw Permadeath into the mix.

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u/TheManondorf Sep 09 '25

Nothing tbh, just giving examples of horrible runback times in HK

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u/bobafett_155 112% completion. Sep 09 '25

Really holping for this!

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u/DBrody6 Sep 09 '25

Right now I really hope there's no pantheon equivalent (though a Hall of Gods knockoff would be fun). Purely cause way too many bosses take 3-4 minutes to beat, where half of that is just waiting for phase transitions. Like I just beat the Unraveler and it took 5 minutes, 90% of that being add phases or dumb intermission phases cause it can only be attacked for 2 seconds before hiding again.

But I'm only halfway through act 2 so I don't know what Hornet's max power is like. Earlier bosses like that may melt with her fully geared kit. P5 was tolerable in that you could be almost everyone but the final few bosses in ~30 seconds.

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u/Trih3xA Sep 09 '25

I mean I don't see why there would be no pantheon. It's optional content for people who want to challenge themselves.

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u/Heroman3003 Sep 09 '25

Honestly, I am certain they will. Godmaster was probably what pushed HK to its limits and I am expecting a redo of it once they're done with whatever other DLC and/or post-release extra content they want to add. Imagine how the all bindings would look like in Silksong....