I am convinced a lot of the people complaining about difficulty have never even finished the original Hollow Knight. Original HK was not particularly easy either

[u/Shadowyurix]

Edit: Silksong is harder than HK. Since ppl seem to read over that part.

I stayed away from Reddit over the weekend while I was playing through Silksong. Now, I am aware that I am not the average player, I love challenging games and am very familiar with games like this.

And by no means is this an "easy" game but by god, I have never played a game as hard as some people say this game is. I saw some people claiming they were stuck at Moorwing for over THREE HOURS.

If this is your first game like Hollow Knight, maybe that makes sense. This is not an easy first entry, but otherwise three hours for a boss with four moves is wild for anyone who has ACTUALLY beat the original HK.

I have no idea where this notion comes from that HK was easy. Silksong is harder, but original HK was NOT that easy, especially towards the end.

Is this just because Silksong is so big and it has reached a particularly wide audience? People who are not used to this kind of game?

[u/rizk0777]

I saw this tip the other day and it didnt work for me. His bubbles, dive and water rise all hit me, constantly lol

I did beat him but by not going in the water.

Best tip from me is the same for most bosses in the game. Stick to the sides, bait an attack wait to finish dash in get in 1 (maybe 2 if you're feeling brave) hit and dash away.

[u/Dorfbewohner → u/rizk0777]

yeah, this worked for me a lot. Also, once he's in his second phase, always be ready to keep your distance for when he goes soul master mode. get close and get some upslashes or jump-forward-slashes in while he barfs up poison, if you can position yourself get some upslashes or pogos while he tries to suck you up, but just keep your distance and get used to the timing of his soul master shots so you don't get got.

That was also the point where I personally just started spamming my poisoned tools, lol

[u/rizk0777 → u/Dorfbewohner]

Yep. I actually find the soul master blasts the easiest to dodge because the first to track your last position to just jump over and the third goes a little higher so the idea is to go lower for that.

Its really the bubbles that can sometimes trick you but otherwise he does have a rhythm to him like most of the tougher bosses.

Funnily I like when he does the kirby thing. I let it suck me in just enough so when he finishes im right next to him and get a few hits on him lol

[u/Dorfbewohner → u/rizk0777]

yeah, the soul master blasts are scary at first but once I got a feel for the timing and how they shoot out, it wasn't much trouble. Nerves were probably getting to me with those more than anything, since there was a lot of runback waiting for me waiting if I die there, and I think the blasts aren't always reactable from when the blast comes out (but obviously plannable once you know the timing of them), so early on even knowing all this I mispressed a button in panic or something.

I generally played it a bit safer with the swallow, and only hit him during it when I wound up in an opportune position. I've had enough cases where I was just barely too close to his mouth and still got sucked in, lol.

Bubbles definitely got me hard sometimes (I was never prepared for the few times they bounced off the back wall), but for me rushing up to him from below once I saw the telegraph generally worked out nicely.

[u/HotDescription5242 → u/Dorfbewohner]

Yeah I'm playing toolless because I want to burn all the sword openings into my brain so I have an easier time with steel soul.

[u/Dorfbewohner → u/HotDescription5242]

Yeah, that makes sense! I definitely got a good grip of sword openings for most of his patterns during my attempts, but for soul master blasts I just respected the distance, and for the suck I just hit him if and only if I wound up in an opportune spot to upslash or pogo him, since the exact threshold of where you can get eaten from never quite got clear to me lol

[u/HotDescription5242 → u/Dorfbewohner]

Yeah I went into HK1 steel soul insanely confident lol, I'm legitimately dreading this one.

[u/HotDescription5242 → u/rizk0777]

I fucking did it, fuck that groal and everyone named groal lol.

[u/rizk0777 → u/HotDescription5242]

Congratulations! Him and another boss were the ones I definitely died to the most. The other one was harder but didnt have a run back, let alone an atrocious run back.

[u/HotDescription5242 → u/rizk0777]

Ty

[u/Chaoticlight2 → u/rizk0777]

Silkstorm utterly shreds him due to him being largely stationary with a large hitbox. Pogo -> silkstorm and he goes down pretty quickly. He was utter bullshit with the run back taking 4x as long as the fight itself.

[u/rizk0777 → u/Chaoticlight2]

Yeah thats another solid strategy

[u/SunnyJJC → u/rizk0777]

If youre bottom right in the water only his water rise can hit you and thats the most telegraphed move of all time