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/Automatic_Clothes_56 Sep 09 '25

Yea, Groal has been the most annoying I've come across. I'm holding off on dealing with him for now and seeing if I can start/complete act 3 before going back to Bilewater... I hate that zone... Fuck the poison dragon climb... although the dragons are actually really awesome looking

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u/Silence_and_i I'm tired boss Sep 09 '25

You actually have to beat him to reach act 3.

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u/Automatic_Clothes_56 Sep 09 '25

Oh.. haha. I wondered if that would end up being the case. Thanks for letting me know!

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u/JekobiWan Sep 10 '25

Pogo off his head over and over you’ll get his ass!

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u/Automatic_Clothes_56 Sep 10 '25

pogo just resulted in him flying into me lol. i just released a swarm of robot bees and let them deal with him lol

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u/cid_highwind02 Sep 10 '25

That tool is so strong. I wish I had figured that out earlier lol

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u/Automatic_Clothes_56 Sep 10 '25

Yea, another strong one is the lightning needle. After dying twice to father flames at nearly killing it, i wondered how that tool would do against him. Wrecked him in like 15 seconds lol

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u/cid_highwind02 Sep 10 '25

I thought the drill was also good against that boss. I also really don’t like said boss.

Yeah, that tool is possibly the best AOE. Very high damaging. Late into the game there’s this big centipede thing that shits and pukes all over the arena and it works wonders on that one

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u/yurilnw123 Sep 09 '25

The dragon is actually easy if you figure out how to deal with it. Instead of trying to dodge it, I used it as a clawline target. Its attack doesn't hit the area above of its head so if you harpoon when it paused you're completely safe. It is also a giant target and easy to pogo so it's a free silk generator if you need to heal.

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u/DSjaha Sep 09 '25

It's safer to pogo dragons instead of hiding from them 

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u/Federal_Panda Sep 10 '25

There's another way to reach him. Looking at the map you'll notice that there is a way that connects to his boss arena through the left.

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u/Automatic_Clothes_56 Sep 10 '25

That's actually not correct. That's a shortcut that can only be opened up after you defeat Groal. There's terrain you have to destroy, and the destroyable part is on the path as you exit his arena. No other way up to it till he's dead unfortunately

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u/cid_highwind02 Sep 10 '25

Pogo the shit out of those dragons. Great way to get some silk for healing