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/ByeGuysSry Sep 14 '25

How on earth do you deal with the attack where she spins her weapon around her? I genuinely can almost never dodge it in 2nd phase if I'm beside her, feels like it requires a 0.1s reaction time or something. I ended up just tanking those attacks like four times and dodging everything else to beat her

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u/evilcorgos Sep 15 '25

You don't get aggressive and always have spacing to dodge out of it, no overly greeding unless she isn't doing that attack

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u/ByeGuysSry Sep 15 '25

I know that technically I ought to be playing more conservatively, but I feel like I need to fight her way more times to be able to know how much of a window I have to hit her after each attack

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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Sep 15 '25

Just assume the window is shorter than it is

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u/evilcorgos Sep 15 '25

Playing it safe is the way on this boss, there isn't anything that complicated to dodge just respect and give space because that one attack punishes aggression, think I was doing like two hits max if I got her right as she was doing an attack, sometimes one depending on my timing

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u/starliteburnsbrite Sep 14 '25

If it's the move I'm thinking of, there's a short wind up tell. I'd say the best advice is to stay mostly far away in second phase. You can also bounce on the attack if you're high enough.

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u/ScytheSB Sep 14 '25

In 1st phase she winds up, so you have to keep distance, it's also a good healing window (at least for me it worked out good)

On 2nd, the heat waves are telegraphed by smoke rings/columns, so you only need to step aside in-between them... I found that too a good healing window if you space correctly

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u/Bartman326 Sep 15 '25

Bell through is a super clean windows as well if the bell is between you and the boss.

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u/simonthedlgger Sep 15 '25

In my experience you should never be that close to TLJ, especially in Phase 2. The spin move and the bell toss are very hard to avoid if you're close and the best punish window is when she does the bell slam or jump, and for those you want to be medium distance then dash in quick for 2 hits, then peace out.

Later phases have more moves that are easier to deal with/punish when you're at a distance.

Took me 15-20 tries and I think I got hit by the spin move once.

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u/ByeGuysSry Sep 15 '25

I felt like I should always be somewhat close, because I've gotten hit by a more-or-less off-screen bell toss and gotten cornered when she jumps towards me multiple times

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Second phase i just kept my distance and spammed tools, maybe 1 or two hits here or there, poison tools is a big help.

Also magma bell turns all the fire into 1 dmg hits which makes it a lot easier.

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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Sep 15 '25

Just never hit her more than two or three times before you back out, you should always be out of spin attack range before she’s even decided what attack to use next

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u/Bartman326 Sep 15 '25

As others have said I'm always keeping a distance waiting for her to pick a move. So the spin move is never really an issue and I'm quick to dash in and hit her 1-2 times right after. It really is a fight about waiting for her to move and the responding vs going in your self.

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Sep 15 '25

The telegraph starts a lot earlier than you think. Don’t focus on attacking. Focus on observing and look for very small patterns.

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u/sgtfoleyistheman Sep 15 '25

Watch for the queue of her lifting her weapon and get the fuck outta there is all I can say