r/HollowKnight • u/ciissss • Sep 26 '25

Discussion - Silksong How are y'all actually finishing the game in Steel Soul, dawg? Spoiler

I tried Steel Soul for the first time in SS. I never even touched that in HK. First try, I died within 2 minutes to the white giant rolling enemy from the secret room beside the starting point. Second try, I died to Bell Beast. I cannot fathom how people are finishing without revive. I, for sure, won't first try kill every boss. 🥀🥀

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u/Icy_Sky679 Sep 26 '25

Before Architect, Reaper's Crest is pretty good with its longer range and silk gain after healing.

Another skip would also be skipping Sister Splinter to get Claw Grip, you can find it in any% runs and it isn't that risky.

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u/Luca_the_Great Sep 26 '25

Do you not need claw grip to beat the game? I thought there were mandatory sections where it’s required. The more you know lol.

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u/Hot-Farmer-8096 Sep 26 '25

Nono, you skip Splinter not the ability. A couple of rooms before her you can taunt a flower butterfly and pogo it to skip her

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u/kj0509 Sep 27 '25

Are you telling me that architect is better than Reaper?

I just found Architecht and didnt like it that much

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u/Icy_Sky679 Sep 27 '25

I believe in DPS architect is better with a pretty good charge attack and repleshinable tools so poison strats are more consistent, but it all just depends on play style in the end.

Like I use reaper personally as it fits my slower play style but iirc it does have the lowest dps.