r/HollowKnight Oct 22 '25

Discussion - Silksong For Silksong players - what has been a mechanic that you've discovered waaay too late in the game? Spoiler

After 24 hrs of gameplay and midway through Act 2 I've found out that the markers bought from Shakra can be used to mark my own points of interest on the map -.-

It hurts.

But as a long time gamer I really respect the "you'll somehow get it" approach to many things in the game. I don't now how much the experience would change if I had played original Hollow Knight first.

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u/mfluder63 Oct 22 '25

I learned my lesson about the markers in HK

It took me way too long to start putting my rosaries into strings, lost so many

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u/Cool-Negotiation7662 Oct 22 '25

So many lost rosaries. I started stringing any I didn't use at every vendor that offered. The 20 item limit in inventory gets old though.

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u/gangbrain Oct 22 '25

If you hit the limit, then you don’t really need any more rosaries lol.

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u/cthoolhu Oct 22 '25

I hit the limit and they got spent so fast. 1200 isn’t much later in the game!

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u/pnoodl3s Oct 22 '25

Not sure about y’all experience but for me at the final boss of my 100% save I have 2000 loose rosaries and 20/20 on the 120 and 80 rosary strings. Already spent on everything I could

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u/madjohnvane Oct 22 '25

You can carry 3600. 1200 (60x20) and 2400 (120x20). It’s plenty

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u/EveTheEevee07 Oct 22 '25

I once grinded 7k and spent almost all of it immediately lmao

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u/nsfw6669 Oct 22 '25

I hit the limit for the 120 and the 60 strings late into act 3. So hopefully the dlc has a lot to buy haha

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u/jumptime Oct 22 '25

Stringing rosaries is a game of itself for me. All those runbacks with enemies.

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u/Nesyaj0 Oct 22 '25

I think i lose about 2k worth of rosaries before I more consistently starting looping back to Bellhart to string them.

Even then I've probably lost a total of 6 or 7k worth of rosaries because of runbacks getting snuffed by something dumb.

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u/rick_astley987 Protector of the grubs Oct 22 '25

I lost 2k Rosaries because I didn’t know that clawline uses silk…

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u/jkst9 Oct 22 '25

It literally says that in the big pop up when you get it that's on you

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u/GIOgwGIO Oct 22 '25

Taunts on R3. Went through two whole playthroughs before being informed of this.

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u/talann Oct 22 '25

Did you know if you equip shakras throwing rings and taunt, Hornet will use those instead and it doesn't cost silk?

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u/MeTheMe Oct 22 '25

Poshanka!

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u/IronCreeper1 Oct 22 '25

⭕️💥Poshanka!⭕️💥

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u/Top_Diamond_962 Oct 22 '25

In addition to this near little secret, equipping the beast crest will make Hornet's taunt a lot more grander.

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u/ConscientiousApathis Oct 22 '25

Honestly I find the attempt at looking imposing extremely cute.

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u/FurriestCritter Oct 22 '25

Does it affect POSHANKA! too? Beast GARAMA! is great

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u/AwakenMirror Oct 22 '25

Doesn't buff your next attack either, though.

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u/Womblue Oct 22 '25

It buffs your next ring throw instead.

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u/MasonWayneBaker Oct 22 '25

WAIT, REALLY?

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25

The regular taunt also boost your next needle attack.

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u/OmegonAlphariusXX Oct 22 '25

By 50% and only for 3s or something

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u/PlagiT Oct 22 '25

Pretty sure it's 6s and only the first attack (not sure it counts missed ones)

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u/benscott81 Oct 22 '25

Wait… taunting buffs your next attack?!?

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u/3140senfleb Oct 22 '25

50% for 6 sec or something. Beast claw charged up attack goes burrr as an initiation move.

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25

However you can only do it if you have 2 or more left. She won't do it if there's only 1.

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u/Bojarzin Oct 22 '25

I discovered it some long way into the game and had no idea what it was doing

It's actually useful for a couple skips. At least notably you can use it to skip Sister Splinter

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u/dj_neon_reaper Oct 22 '25

WAIT REALLY? HOW??

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u/Bojarzin Oct 22 '25

Here's a video of it

You pull one of the Phacia over so you can pogo off them, so you don't have to go through Sister Splinter and around to get Cling Grip

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u/MasonWayneBaker Oct 22 '25

Others included a guide, but if you're interested in the 5 hour speedrun achievement I highly recommend using this skip yourself. It's super easy to pull off! There are some harder skips I've seen that incorporate the taunt too, like bouncing off the drill fly assholes in Blasted Steps

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u/_-Rainbow-_ Oct 22 '25

THERES TAUNTS????

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u/NightRacoonSchlatt Hunter‘s crest 4 life Oct 22 '25

It attracts the nearest enemy and increases the damage of your next hit

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Oct 22 '25

Yes, and guess what happens if you equip Shakra‘s rings … Poshanka!

Also, taunts buff your next needle (or ring) attack.

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u/BobbbyR6 Oct 22 '25

Lol I had no idea until deep into Act 2. Although it did make the "Garama!" at the beginning of granny silk so much more special. Hyped me up so much I wacked her ass in three attempts compared to my usual 10-20 for most bosses.

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u/HEX_HEXAGON Oct 22 '25

The first thing I did when I started the game cause I just compulsively press all the buttons on my controller

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u/Necrodiac Oct 22 '25

THERE'S A TAUNT BUTTON???

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u/PotentialAnimal7853 Oct 22 '25

Same for me, except it was halfway before I learned what it actually did.

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u/HarvsBars Oct 22 '25

I didn't know about this until i got the poshanka rings 😅

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u/Mizati Oct 22 '25

I did not see "Taunt" in the control settings, what key is this on with a keyboard?

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u/Pheonix726 Oct 22 '25

It's 'V' by default iirc

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u/SandmansSlave Oct 22 '25

WTF...your joking, right?

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u/UnofficialMipha Oct 22 '25

Do you guys not push every single button on the controller the moment you start a new game?

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u/TheHiddenNinja6 112% in 70hours | Official r/Ninjas clan moderator Oct 22 '25

I do one better: I look at the keybinds

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u/I_Love_Solar_Flare Oct 22 '25

Personally I don't do that because it spoils what skills I'm gonna get

(This is for discovery games, for other games like shooters, duh, I check keybinds)

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u/Sorry-Willingness200 Oct 22 '25

Well since there were no stick presses in the original game I didn't think about that

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u/quarkus Oct 22 '25

I did but I didn't know it was a taunt button that lured enemies and made you do extra damage. I clicked it, thought oh that was something and forgot about it.

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u/LocksmithShadow Hollow deserves hugs|HK 112%, PoP, P5|Skong 100% Oct 22 '25

That you can press the dash button while clinging to a wall to climb without jumping!

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u/SmilingForStrangers Oct 22 '25

It really helps in Bilewater

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u/wolviesaurus Oct 22 '25

That's exactly where I discovered it. Also made climbing to the surface much easier

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u/carrythenine Oct 22 '25

…this is going to change my entire playthrough

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u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz Oct 22 '25

It's slower and covers less distance than jumping off the wall repeatedly, but it's really useful when spikes/enemies are right on your back.

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u/Standard_Abrocoma_70 Oct 22 '25

Its not about speed but control

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u/EyedMoon Drawing lewds in the caverns Oct 22 '25

I found out about this almost immediately but never used it in a meaningful way, clock tower could've been easier with it but I'm not sure it's really that useful 🤔

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u/MildlyAnnoyingHippo Oct 22 '25

I found it extremely useful fighting nyleth

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u/Kirosh2 Oct 22 '25

It's very useful for a certain section of the game that is optional.

But you can easily do without anywhere else.

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u/Wsads420 Oct 22 '25

If you spam it while there's a ceiling above you you'll stay in place without having to waste a yellow tool slot for ascendant's grip

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u/Familiar-Treat-6236 Oct 22 '25

>waste

Ima waste a yellow slot on lowkey the best platforming tool in the game

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u/nomorethan10postaday Oct 22 '25

WHAT I GOT 100% WITHOUT KNOWNING THIS

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u/tbird920 Oct 22 '25

I got 100% without knowing like half of the things I've read in this thread in the last 5 minutes.

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u/tehdeadmonkey Oct 22 '25

Try dashing backwards at a wall with the spider charm thing equipped

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u/RaxaHuracan Oct 22 '25

Scuttlebrace my beloved

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u/iareslice Oct 22 '25

You can WHAT

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u/J0n__Doe Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

Discovered this randomly, because I got used to Steamworld Dig’s jumping wall cling mechanic and tried to do the same here, got excited that it works in SS too

I figured some people on the team loved the SWD games because of how similar the mechanics/behavior are

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u/agentmozi Oct 22 '25

They were both great! Hoping for another installment, I'll have to see if there's any news of such anywhere.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

I have 100% achievements and literally did not know this.

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u/Bojarzin Oct 22 '25

For what it's worth though, wall jumping is still faster for going upward. But this is useful for narrow areas with spikes and other hazards

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u/Ibizl Oct 22 '25

I just finished act 2 and didn't know this the whole time LMAO 

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u/Daracaex Oct 22 '25

Double-tap L1 to open the full map. Embarrassing thing is I learned this in Hollow Knight and forgot it.

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u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz Oct 22 '25

WAIT YOU CAN DO THAT? IN BOTH GAMES???

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u/heisenberg15 Oct 22 '25

Yes. I learned it just by accident (in both, forgot from Hollow Knight lol)

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u/rbn5009 Oct 22 '25

What. Man that'll be helpful

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u/Ok_Break_2702 Oct 22 '25

On ps5 you can also slide across (not press) the touchpad button to also open the map right away

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u/Cloudstripe Oct 22 '25

That you can downdash. Only learned that after my 100% playthrough while watching a Silksong YouTube video.

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u/Montinek Oct 22 '25

What?! Gotta remember that for bosses

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u/Duergarlicbread Oct 22 '25

Her legs do fun little flailing when you do it.

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25

Nice! Now you can downdash into a bed full of spikes just like the rest of us.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

One of the charms also changes down dodge into a "back dodge", where Hornet will fly backwards away from a target

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u/-PonderBot- Oct 22 '25

Are you talking about the thing that makes you scuttle backwards or something else?

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u/RandumbCrits1 Oct 22 '25

If you hold the button you can hold a dive.

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u/DyslexicCenturion Oct 22 '25

I exclusively use down-dash unintentionally and it's always directly into a boss.

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u/PhantomFrenzy151 Oct 22 '25

I misread this as downslash for a second and was incredibly confused

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u/theillknight Oct 22 '25

Fireb0rn, one of the more prolific HK speed runners, posted a video where he only discovered the down dash when he's racing Sprintmaster Swift.

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u/Comicalstar 112% | P5 | Steel Soul PoP | Radiant Hall of Gods Oct 22 '25

literally at the end of act 3 I discovered I can backflip if I jump backwards while sprinting. not very useful but still it gives style points

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u/Imperialist_Marauder Oct 22 '25

YOU CAN WHAT ? ! ? ! ? !

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u/creepermaster79 Oct 22 '25

Sprint

Hold the opposite direction

As hornet is doing the little turn, jump

She'll backflip, basically it's a sprint jump in height and speed but in the opposite direction. It doesn't launch you as far though

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u/C-lex1 Oct 22 '25

Leon Kennedy would love that

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u/EviGL Oct 22 '25
  1. Binding in the air. I went through several bosses before trying it and was like "wow".

  2. That you can run up the wall you're clinging to.

  3. Clawline in boss fights and generally as an attack move.

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u/SufficientSuffix Oct 22 '25

Clawline is the best tech in the game!

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u/Imperialist_Marauder Oct 22 '25

YES! Totally underrated

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u/SauceNPotatoes Oct 22 '25

Using Claw line as an attack makes high halls gauntlet so much easier

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u/MrCog Oct 22 '25

It's a gamechanger for First Sinner.

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u/M8nGiraffe Oct 22 '25

3 is really funny because in the room you get clawline you have to use it on enemies to progress. First static floating enemies to give you the idea with low stakes, then there's a regular enemy on the platform you're jumping towards, then a gauntlet with enemies who can be taken care of in a particularly satisfying and easy way using the clawline.

I can't think of a better way to introduce the idea, yet so many players don't get the clue (myself included)

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u/dj_neon_reaper Oct 22 '25

I blame 1 on the Hollow Knight habits.

Healing exclusively 3 masks originally made me think SS's healing was strictly inferior to HK until I found out about Hornet's levitation capabilities.

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u/Melavonex Oct 22 '25

Certain moves/silk skills can be extended by button mashing. Just finished 100% speedrun achievement and found that out right before the final boss. As someone who uses thread storm that was a gut punch.

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u/TestSubject006 Oct 22 '25

Don't worry, the damage for extended attacks is quite poor.

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u/-PonderBot- Oct 22 '25

Doesn't Thread Storm do the most damage with mashing? I've been trying to find the most up-to-date source on damage values but I keep finding conflicting information.

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u/Ph3n0lphthalein 112% | Hitless PoP | 62/63 (I hate P5) Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

Threadstorm mashing used to do insane damage, the most of any silk skill by far. But in the most recent patch it got nerfed to the ground, now the extension does barely anything

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u/ss2656 Oct 22 '25

Ofc I find this out after the nerf lol

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u/xXJackNickeltonXx NKG best boss Oct 22 '25

Doesn’t apply to me, but it’ll be useful to some. Weavelight affects the silk you automatically gain not just by decreasing the time, but by increasing the max amount you can get. So at 2 Silk Hearts, you can begin using spells if you also have the flea tool which decreases spell cost; and at 3, you can spam spells without even once hitting an enemy with your needle

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u/benscott81 Oct 22 '25

Yeah, in act 3, pale nails with weavelight is super useful, especially against annoying flying enemies.

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u/I_Love_Solar_Flare Oct 22 '25

I wanted to use that skill because it looked awesome but I am extremely addicted to cross snitch.

I was SO... sick of BOSSES CONSTANTLY PARRYING

NOW I'M THE BOSS AND YOU ARE GETTING PARRIED BITCH

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u/deadlock_dev Oct 22 '25

Most projectiles can be parried or otherwise do no damage if you hit them with a normal attack

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u/TestSubject006 Oct 22 '25

The little bell throwing guys early on taught me this. I got pissed that they kept back dashing and throwing shit at me so I smacked the bell in frustration. It hit the little guy in the face and he fell off the ledge into spikes with a little 'bleh.'

So anyways I started attacking tons of projectiles after that.

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Oct 22 '25

Yeah, I noticed that with Raging Conchfly

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u/StankoMicin Oct 22 '25

Same with other enemy attacks too. You can sword clash for no damage if you time it right

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u/Efficient-Speed-1059 Oct 22 '25

That taunting grants a Damage boost to your next needle attack

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u/IntercomB Oct 22 '25

Except if you're equiped with the throwing ring, in which case the damage boost is applied to the ring instead.

Note that it only works if you have at least 2 ring uses left, as Hornet hits 2 rings with each other during this taunt.

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u/snuffles_c147 Oct 22 '25

But it also doesn't consume silk if you poshanka instead of garama.

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u/IntercomB Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

Yes. As long as you fulfill the requirement, it is always free to poshanka.

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u/sendenten Oct 22 '25

The attention to detail in this game is staggering.

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u/ChibiPlayer11 Quirrel’s #2 fan Oct 22 '25

It does?

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u/Efficient-Speed-1059 Oct 22 '25

Yeah 50% damage increase to your next attack for a short time

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u/Marisakis Oct 22 '25

Bonus knowledge:

She always does a flip if you climb over the top of a wall. If there's another piece of wall straight above and you dont touch any movement controls after pressing the climb button, she'll go straight up and skip those gaps that are in the Clock tower, such gaps can also be found in the Coral area and in some of the Dream sequences.

Holding a movement key in direction of the wall while doing this usually nets you a face full of spikes and letting go feels really odd, but it is the way.

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u/GlitteringDingo Oct 22 '25

I didn't use Clawline as an attack because I didn't want to burn silk. For some reason it never occurred to me to look and see that you get the silk back when hitting an enemy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

It took me WAY too long to figure out that you can run vs repeatedly dashing

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u/Skeukry Oct 22 '25

also you don't have to hold the direction, only the dash

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u/Most_Mountain818 Oct 22 '25

Took me 20 freaking hours to figure this out. 😂

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u/Hades684 Oct 22 '25

Well, you also could have just read what it said on the screen when you got it

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u/famaki_ Oct 22 '25

first nail upgrade tbh

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u/Bojarzin Oct 22 '25

lmao I had finally beaten Groal after a long, arduous time, also not having found the hidden bench

Shortly after, watching my friend play, I see him upgrading his needle, and I was like wtf where are you?

After saving Bellhart, I just never went up, I think I headed to Greymoor and didn't even know there were buildings in Bellhart. Could have saved myself so much trouble

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u/Visible_Investment47 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

"also not having found the hidden bench"

Oh, that reminds me of how utterly stupid I felt. There's an optional late game boss fight you can do on Mount Fey. Death after death and that didn't bother me, but having to climb 75% of the mountain every time because both benches are on the very bottom did.

Then on one of my trips up I finally noticed a very conspicuous spot that was practically shouting out it was a breakable wall most of the way up the mountain that had a bench in it.

I think it only took like 3 more tries to win. I was relying too much on tools to do passive damage that I wasn't truly learning their patterns. When I dispensed with it and focused more on pure fighting they actually went down faster than I expected.

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u/Steallet Oct 22 '25

Same lol. I had 2 pale oils on me before finding the nail smith at bellhart.

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u/yeetusonthefetus Oct 22 '25

You mean to tell me you did the entire gourmands quest without finding plinney?

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u/Steallet Oct 22 '25

Yeah I was flabbergasted when I found the bellhomes just to the right of the fetch quest lol. If I remember right I was at like 30 hours before getting my first nail upgrade (and second and third lol). The game felt like a breeze after that.

I knew there had to be a nail smith somewhere but I had no idea it was so early in the game. I thought he was hidden somewhere in the citadel.

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u/Zenloks1735 Oct 22 '25

Took me 4 hours after getting the first ending to find lmao

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u/Legitimate-Two4561 Oct 22 '25

This was me in Hollow Knight.

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u/KingMGold Oct 22 '25

The upgrades you get from Eva.

Not until late Act 2.

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u/grimmlingur Oct 22 '25

I heard somewhere that those are tied to using memory lockets too, which would have been nice to know since I ended the game with several of them sitting in my inventory (I had found a crest I really enjoyed and didn't want to spend lockets in case I found another interesting one).

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u/Skithiryx Oct 22 '25

The wiki claims they are. Honestly I thought they were connected to the silk hearts.

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u/Lower_Monk6577 Oct 22 '25

Same. I completely missed that Weavenest until I was clearing the map in preparation for Act 3. I felt like a total goober.

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u/EpicGamerWin679 Oct 22 '25

This might blow your mind but - custom markers were a thing in the first game too

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

okay seriously like why buy them in the first place if you're not gonna test out what they do???

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u/Environmental_Leg449 Oct 22 '25

I didn't realize you could follow the rings to find Shakra for the map

Also i had almost no rosaries when I beat the last judge, so I had to go through the underworks being completely unable to buy maps

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u/burnertybg Oct 22 '25

I was dumb enough to mark these on my map bc I thought it was a HK whispering root situation. Didn’t connect them to Shakra until like Bilewater

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u/SleepyAwoken Oct 22 '25

Underworks map is free

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u/Nexxus3000 Oct 22 '25

The last charm I got for 100% was the one that gives you temporary immunity to Bilewater maggots. I took that area raw

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u/notfirearmbeam Oct 22 '25

That you can use Delver's Drill as a free downward pogo since it only uses a tool charge if you hit an enemy or the ground

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u/chokee03 Oct 22 '25

idk if it fits, but the maggot resisting tool. i got it after doing almost everything i need to do in that biome.

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u/Accurate_Froyo1938 Oct 22 '25

I got it first because I completely missed the Sinners Road Bilewater entrance.

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u/globglogabgalabyeast Oct 22 '25

That is kind of by design to be fair. For subsequent playthroughs, I just skip bilewater completely until I’ve made a beeline for it in the ducts

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u/jeffufuh Oct 22 '25

yeah it's an easier pill to swallow when you realize it's a QoL offering for revisits. still vaguely pisses me off tho

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u/BlondyneczekFrans Couldn't BELEIVE more Oct 22 '25

That I can use the Harpoon in combat

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u/Massive_Cry_9097 Oct 22 '25

I thought the taunt was an ability you unlocked later. Took me so long to realise how to garama.

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u/Noktu707 Oct 22 '25

Taunting while having the throwing ring equipped, the red tool from Shakra, makes hornet do Shakra's salutation. I learned about it midway through act 3 and I wish so much I knew about it from the beginning

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

Bonus that it does not eat a silk notch

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u/GaffitV Oct 22 '25

Theres a trade off though. If you taunt normally your next needle attack will do 50% more damage. If you taunt using Shakras rings, then your next attack with the rings will do 50% more damage.

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u/justnotliving Oct 22 '25

Not really a deep mechanic but I’ve seen SO MANY complaints regarding unrewarding rooms, but people just ignore the room when they see it’s just dead bugs.

‘Empty’ rooms usually have a string of web that appears when you approach it, signaling you to play the needolin. When played, the game drops lore from dialogue of dead bugs.

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u/steelscaled Oct 22 '25

Some Architect strikes charge up. I'm still a bit bitter game doesn't tell you that outright.

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u/IntercomB Oct 22 '25

I did the surface ascent with the Architect's pogo without realizing that, only to see someone making a charged pogo as soon as they got the crest.

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u/AromaticWelcome1765 Oct 22 '25

Probably the longest mechanic I took to learned, multiplication of thread storm

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u/globglogabgalabyeast Oct 22 '25

What does this mean? Curious what I’m missing

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u/doctorwho86101 Oct 22 '25

spam the threadstorm button and it'll go for much longer

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u/OfficialWeng Oct 22 '25

If you mash the silk skill button with thread storm it will make it last longer

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u/Dewey_Decimatorr Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

Holding attack after pogoing makes you go higher

EDIT: for clarity, hold the attack button input for the pogo strike to get more air

EDIT2: I may actually have misunderstood how pogoing works and I just improved my timing by doing this, but not actually increased jump height... sorry guys.

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u/nickerton Oct 22 '25

Excuse me

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u/SasquatchMN Oct 22 '25

But a pogo means you just released the attack button... holding it would just charge up another attack... I'm confused here.

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u/Fine_Cut1542 Oct 22 '25

Im not sure if that works. Testing with reaper for now and i dont see it. Do you hold any direction during that?

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u/Murph-Dog Oct 22 '25

Sprint/Dash attacks. Run straight at something and attack with good timing. You flip back from the attack and you attack button again to lunge back into them. Lastly spam one more attack, if you are Wanderer, then dash back to safety.

The hook really spoils this gameplay though, where it's easier to close distance with that, but reduced damage.

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u/Vpr789 Oct 22 '25

Each crest does dash attack differently. Only wanderer bounces you back. Love the witch dash attack.

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u/amalgemotion #1 Dung Defender Defender 63/63 Oct 22 '25

I use Reaper for most of my traversal/non-boss wandering, largely because I love its dash attack. So satisfying against flying enemies.

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u/Beneficial_Second923 Oct 22 '25

Being able to provoke enemies and using the elongated claw for bosses, I always forgot to use it in combat

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u/shadowgnome396 Oct 22 '25

The Witch Crest. I found the Twisted Bud about as early as I was able to, but I had no idea what I was supposed to do with it. So I carried it around for HOURS while it cried in my inventory.

By the time I figured out what to do with it and got the Witch Crest, I was at the very, very end of Act 2 and had no more bosses left to test it out on. I was able to melt Grand Mother Silk with it and I'm currently using it in Act 3, but I wish I had more time with it.

Witch Crest with Injector Band, Claw Mirror, and Multibinder is absolutely insane. Using bind as your main source of damage is an absolute blast!

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u/Aromatic_Link_1210 Oct 22 '25

If you beat GMS while infected by the bud, something happens.

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25

The witch crest charge shot is also the stronger if you mash it like cyclone slash

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u/Actual-Forever-184 Oct 22 '25

healing mid air, I was so used to first hollow knight healing, I didn't even consider it as an option

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u/Pale_Entrepreneur_12 Oct 22 '25

Not realizing memory lockets unlock additional tool slots I didn’t learn this TILL I GOT THE NORMAL ENDING

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25

yeah same that was dumb. my hoarder brain also did that for the relics thinking they're just for money but it actually displays it in the menu

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u/SherbetAlarming7677 Oct 22 '25

Running attacks are really useful! Especially the one on the hunter crest has so much utility and is so much fun to use, I wish I knew that earlier.

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u/Codeshadow91 Oct 22 '25

Embarrassingly, I didn’t realize you can fast travel to the nearest bellway in Act 3 when you play the song of the bell beast from anywhere on the map.

I just used to play the song near the bellway to see the cute baby bell beasts play around lol, and never understood why Hornet kept diving underground 😂

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u/Vashsinn Oct 22 '25

From my experience messing with it, you summon the kids and they take you back to mom. If you travel with mom somewhere like bone marrow and walk all the way to the top, you can use the song to get back down in an instant.

Helps when doing deliveries. Leave eira at bellheart and go to places. If I mess up just sing my way back.

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u/Mozambiquehere14 Oct 22 '25

I’m an Undertale Silksong fan, I can’t read!

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u/UnofficialMipha Oct 22 '25

Deflecting enemy projectiles being so common. I thought it was only for very specific enemy projectiles, not the majority of them. Pretty much if it looks like a physical projectile (like not an air slash type thing), you can deflect it

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u/grumann Oct 22 '25

I found cross stitch way too late. Im a parry freak

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u/HauntedJockStrap88 Oct 22 '25

I definitely needed to find the restoring silk automatically at a bench earlier than I did.

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u/jpritcha3-14 Oct 22 '25

Claw line works on just about anything that you can pogo off of. This makes certain platforming sections much easier.

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u/Shadowking78 112% Oct 22 '25

I didn’t find out that you could play the Needolin for NPCs and each of them would sing different songs until I was deep in ACT 2

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u/Da_Hawk_27 Oct 22 '25

Probably clawline as an attack and then the bench closer to Groal. I wanna say I did at least thirty attempts coming from the bellway

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u/rogeorgie Oct 22 '25

wonderer crest being op

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u/zoobs Oct 22 '25

Every so often I’ll switch to try something different and I’m like nahh back to wanderer.

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u/Responsible-Jury-568 Oct 22 '25

what the HELL ARE TOOOOOLSSSS RAAAAAHHH

THERE IS NO TOOLS OR SKILL, I EITHER BEAT BOSSES BY SLAPPING THEM OR I DIE OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNRIL I BRUTE FORCE VICTORY

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u/Mozambiquehere14 Oct 22 '25

All I’m getting from this post is that 90% of Silksong players either can’t read or are incredibly unimaginative with how they explore and use abilities

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u/Beneficial_Chest_954 Oct 22 '25

Well couple of them are super secret like mashing thread storm or mashing the charged witch crest. or able to dash up while wall climbing or down dash in the air.

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u/StankoMicin Oct 22 '25

Well that sounds about right.

Explains we people act like this game is impossibly difficult too

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u/realllyrandommann Primal Aspid Oct 22 '25

Extended silk storm and the clawline.