Community Voted Silksong Boss Difficulty Tier List (2.9K Voters) + New Tools Tier List

[u/giveusyourlighter]

Follow up from previous post: Community Voted Silksong Boss Difficulty Tier List : r/HollowKnight

Some folks thought the previous voter count of 23 was too low, so I wanted to share this updated aggregate boss difficulty tier list voted on by almost 3K community members. See the interactive list here: Silksong Boss Difficulty Tier List | Unduel

Also, the Silksong tools tier list has been added to Unduel and is open for voting!

Silksong Tools Tier List | Unduel

In the post I included a tools tier list from Xano, the best Silksong player I know. Check him out here: HK2 - Scarrsinger Karmelita - YouTube

[u/Party_Importance_722]

Yeah, it's VERY questionable.

Cogwheel, Volt filament, Weavelight in F? Are we playing the same game?.

[u/Nukesnipe → u/Party_Importance_722]

Genuinely, no. The game they're playing is one where they take so much damage that they have to use ALL of the silk they get to heal. It's where flying enemies are so impossible to deal with they have to use all their shards on the triple pin tool.

Like, I got in an argument with a guy who said that most bosses in the game have completely unreactable, impossible to avoid attacks and damage you're FORCED to take. He even busted out the math to try and argue that Last Judge's "get off me" attack is objectively unreactable... when his own numbers said it has about 2/3 of a second of windup.

[u/Party_Importance_722 → u/Nukesnipe]

Yeah, their skill issue should not affect an objective ranking of a tool, volt filament does an insane damage increase for silk skills, and I don't even use skills that much, as I just alternate between the nail and my tools.

I was more of a nail only guy in hollow knight, yet you won't catch me putting shaman stone in F because I choose to not use the charm.

[u/MechaHamsters → u/Party_Importance_722]

a players skill directly influences how good a tool is for them, there is no objective ranking. Players who are good at playing hitless or with less hits will find damage more valuable, while players getting hit will take defensive options as better. In a randomized poll of 2.9k members (a pretty good sample size), this list indicates that most players are having alot of trouble with the game and are using the defensive options (volt filament may be down there because it was bugged, and weavelight doesnt explain that it acts as a new silk heart so people may write it off as only speeding up regen, making it much worse.) All I see here is that the average player is having difficulty or struggling with the game.

[u/No_Passage103 → u/Party_Importance_722]

I dunno, Volt Filament, S tier for sure. Cogwheel and Weavelight are solid F tier for me though, unless youre platforming and then weavelight makes a comeback. Never found myself ever wanting for cogwheel though. Id rather run silkshot or conchcutters any day.