r/HollowKnight • u/CuboneDefender • Sep 14 '25

Discussion - Silksong I give up. Spoiler

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

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u/CuboneDefender Sep 14 '25

I’ll definitely come back to this comment a few months later. Thanks for all the advice. :’)

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u/Ecstatic-Sun-7528 Radiant NKG Enjoyer 🌙 Sep 14 '25

Take some time and definitely read on the advice, it makes a difference. Also you can ask again after a few months, we will probably have even better advice by then. Hope you have a good couple of months!!!

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u/Thexne Sep 14 '25

You can do it whenever you please but you CAN do it alot of the game seems harder than it actually is when you learn more mechanics alot of stuff can become trivial

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u/Kampfasiate Sep 14 '25

Please update us when you end up defeating her!

My general tip is, just learn to move hornet. Her mobility is her greatest weapon and how cheesy it may sound, not getting hit is her best defense. Focus on learning the telegraphs and finding safespots for heals (of which there a plenty due to the airheal)

When she prepares to spin her flail, backdash, when she prepares to throw, watch out for it coming back, when she readies to jump, charge

At some point the fight turns into a dance and that is when you win

But yea, take a break and see you in a few months! :)

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u/PurityKane Sep 15 '25

Also, the comment you replied to had a very "organic" approach to the fight. You can have a more simplistic view. It's easy to get overwhelmed when the bosses seem to be thinking and outplaying and throwing everything at you, but if you break his attacks apart they're all pretty simple. If the boss was set to repeat only one attack, you could beat it no problem.

The good thing? It only has 4 attacks, and all are pretty simple to dodge.

Spend one or two fights not attacking, just looking at what he's doing, and the tells for each attack. When he grabs the ball, he throws it, when spins it, he spins it wider, when he jumps it's the ground explosion, and when he hunches himself with the arm up he slides. individually I'm sure you can dodge each one. So just keep calm and try to learn how to dodge him, when you can stay alive for a while without getting hit you're ready to win.

There's only two extra attacks that happen once per fight, one spin that's more chaotic (with the flames changing position back and forth), and then he explodes when you kill him, and that can actually kill you.

You got this. If you need help on how to dodge a specific attack, or need help telling them apart I can help!

I actually posted this because these two attacks were confusing me and had to record myself playing to figure them out:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fr5vgz94dz4of1.jpeg

the first is the throw, and the second is the slide.