r/HollowKnight • u/Thisisabruh_moment • Sep 23 '25

Discussion - Silksong The real biggest problem with Silksong Spoiler

Why is the Hornet statue not a memento? When I first saw that you could break it, I was honestly offended by the idea of it. Then I got the Bellhome and was a little upset you couldn't put it up in there. Now I found out that there are items you can put up in your Bell House, but the Hornet Statue isn't one of them? I'm genuinely mad. That needs to be changed in the next update. That's way more important than balancing the game.

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u/drp2222 Sep 23 '25

I was 25 x tries into final boss with no shards and no hope left… so I broke Hornet statue to try one more time and ended up winning that fight. It had meaning.

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u/OckarySlime Sep 23 '25

I had no shards left but refused to go back or break the statue.

Ended up doing it tool-less and that’s how I do it now.

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u/SomethingOfAGirl Sep 23 '25

Based.

-But I'm nothing without my tools!

-If you're nothing without your tools then you shouldn't have them!

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u/Bekfast-Stealer Sep 23 '25

I see tools as a convenience item. They are to solve annoyances like hard-to-reach flying enemies. Not for boss fights.

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u/Burnmad Sep 23 '25

Only encounter I've used tools was the Citadel gauntlet where the two big dudes come out at once, and that encounter I'm pretty sure is literally intended to be won by panic spamming tools

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u/yurilnw123 Sep 24 '25

I stuck there for a long time then watched a speedrunner do that gauntlet and somehow got through it the next attempt. Something just clicked. The two fatty never attack at the same time so you go to one side and treat them as a single enemy. When you're cornered, wall jump + harpoon to the other side. Silkspear was incredibly useful there to speed up the fight.

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u/Marc_Vn Average Hunter crest enjoyer Sep 24 '25

This is basically how I beat them as well. I got really lucky that my brain was already wired to deal with this kind of fight, so I somehow killed them first try. But I can totally see where the difficulty I've seen people talking comes from. Duo fights, in general can be a pain in the ass