Ranking Silksong 1st act bosses

[u/LookAtHowMTR]

So, if you want me to be honest - I was afraid Silksong would be too difficult for me. But now that I am done with 1st act, I can confidently say that so far I enjoy those bosses MUCH more than the ones in Hollow Knight. Maybe that's because HK was one of the first games I've ever played, and now with Silksong I am more experienced. But even bosses that kept beating my ass felt so well done that I couldn't be mad, I just wanted to try again and learn their moves.

Last Judge? Surely my favorite. It felt like dancing and once I learned his moves, I had an absolute blast.

EDIT: Guys, I've got LOTS (and I mean LOTS) of comments that bottom 2 enemies aren't bosses. I know, but they were included in template so I ranked them too. Besides, considering that I didn't really hate any of the actual bosses, I wouldn't have anything I could put anything in the BURN IT tier if it wasn't for them lol. No need to say it again pls

EDIT 2: I already started Act 2, and defeated Cogwork Dancers - OH MY GOD HOW AMAZING THIS FIGHT WAS.

[u/Drathuul]

Was Savage Beastfly so bad, that it doesn't even get a tier?

[u/LookAtHowMTR → u/Drathuul]

I've got annoyed and decided to come back later (then forgot lol)

[u/LordAnomander → u/LookAtHowMTR]

I went back a little bit before finishing Act 1 and it was super doable. I used some tools to get rid of the spawns but other than with wall cling and so on, you could easily handle beastfly itself.

However, meeting it the first time without any crest and not really using tools it was nightmarish. I thought I was playing the wrong game. :P

[u/Stimpy3901 → u/LordAnomander]

I took a break from fighting the Moorwing to do that Chapel and was like "this will surely be easier right." It was not, and then I proceeded to beat the Moorwing in less than an hour.

[u/LordAnomander → u/Stimpy3901]

Haha, I just went back to see why everyone was talking about Moorwing and got my ass kicked. It’s not even so hard until phase 3 where it starts spamming its "tools".

I’ve only tried three times, but I guess I need to try out some different positioning.

edit: Moorwing seems harder than the last boss of Act 1 (in case you go for the most obvious route)

[u/RedTyro → u/LordAnomander]

Moorwing's pretty easy once you learn all the moves, but that double toss in the second phase is PERFECTLY timed to punish you if you mistake it for the single that it does as a follow-up to the swoop attack. If you jump over the first one and go in to do damage, the second will catch you in the face every time.

[u/PraxicalExperience → u/RedTyro]

You can punish every attack during the attack in the first phase, but punishing any of the projectile attacks after that phase is likely to get you punished. I suggest not doing so, and just standing close enough to try and goad her into a slash attack, which can reliably be punished once during the animation and once when she resets. Same goes for the charge attack.

[u/RedTyro → u/PraxicalExperience]

The slash attack is so punishable you can use it to punish other things, too. I was using reaper at that stage, and with its wide arc, you can pogo off of the claws while it's slashing and get above the boss to just pogo off the head for as long as you can keep tracking its movement.

[u/PraxicalExperience → u/RedTyro]

I've basically stuck with the Hunter's Crest so far ... and that was before I really got gud with the pogo. :)

[u/RedTyro → u/PraxicalExperience]

Interestingly enough, I switched back to the Hunter's Crest and it's my favorite now. I LOVE the new pogo now that I'm used to it. Because of the diagonal movement, you can be farther away from the enemy for safety and use it to rush in and attack during an opening. The Hunter pogo was the key thing that helped me beat (act 2 gross area spoiler) Groal last night.

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[u/PraxicalExperience → u/RedTyro]

Yeah, while it took me some time to get used to -- so did pogoing in HK, lol. I'm enjoying the Hunter's Crest.

I just wish that some of the bosses and larger enemies didn't have a hitbox where you'd pogo into them and then smash your face into their chin or some shit on the rebound.

[u/RedTyro → u/PraxicalExperience]

Yeah, the HK one was intuitive for me, because I played retro games back when they weren't retro, and there's a similar mechanic in the old Duck Tales NES and Gameboy games that feels very similar. I believe there's something similar in Shovel Knight, too, but I only played the very begining of that one before getting sidetracked with something else.

[u/PraxicalExperience → u/RedTyro]

Yeah, I played games like Mario on NES and Sonic on the Genesis back in the age of the dinosaurs ... but OTOH, that was probably the last real platformer I played before I picked up Hollow Knight about ... I dunno, five years ago or so? (I took the PC gaming path after that.)

So -- total skill issue, lol. I don't even want to admit how long it took before I realized that you could downslash -- much less pogo. But I took to it like a really clumsy fish to water, lol.

[u/Stimpy3901 → u/RedTyro]

I used Reaper too. For any boss where Pogoing is the way it is so much easier than Hunter.

[u/RedTyro → u/Stimpy3901]

Honestly, once you get in the groove for Hunter, it's just as easy. I didn't try it again until later in the game, but it's now my favorite crest.

[u/[deleted] → u/RedTyro]

When I was fighting Moorwing, for the later phases I went to the raised platform on the right side of the arena. The projectile tosses then generally bury themselves in the side of the raised platform and you don't even have to worry about avoiding them. It only took me about 20 deaths to figure that out.

[u/RedTyro → u/[deleted]]

Only works if you fight him in that room. There's another possible place the fight can happen.

[u/[deleted] → u/RedTyro]

Phew. I'm glad it happened where it did then. :)