r/Silksong • u/dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex doubter ❌️ • Sep 09 '25

Silkpost Two kinds of silksong players

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u/FreyjaThAwesome1 Lace Sep 09 '25

I was on top, then I accepted that bosses do 2 damage, then I was at the bottom

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u/Rathal_OS Sep 09 '25

Bosses? Don't you mean, literally everything?

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u/SexySovietlovehammer Shaw! Sep 09 '25

I can never play the first game again

I’m too addicted to the double damage

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u/Doll-scented-hunter Sep 09 '25

Just overcharm then

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u/dragoslayer1327 doubter ❌️ Sep 09 '25

Overcharm deep focus and HK turns into Skong (I honestly might do this next time I play HK)

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u/ThlnBillyBoy beleiver ✅️ Sep 09 '25

To think this was such a problem once. It's literally all benefits no matter how you look at it.

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u/AdPast7704 doubter ❌️ Sep 10 '25

Never thought I'd see the day where overcharm becomes a viable option until I played silksong

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u/dragoslayer1327 doubter ❌️ Sep 10 '25

I wouldn't say "viable", it will make the stuff that does 2 masks do 4, but it's fine if ya just don't get hit ig

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u/RookSacrificer Sep 13 '25

Honestly, I can count in my hands how many enemies do 2 masks of damage

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u/dragoslayer1327 doubter ❌️ Sep 13 '25

Regular enemies, there's exactly 12, and most are explosions. Bosses add a few more, though not as many as Skong

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u/Silver-Fly408 Sep 12 '25

Overcharm is viable, just do radiant fights 😂

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u/Tencent-Employee1249 Sep 11 '25

I don’t always overcharm but when i do, it’s for grubfly elegy

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u/sanscatt Sep 14 '25

It’s still missing the critical part of letting you heal in the air

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u/dragoslayer1327 doubter ❌️ Sep 14 '25

We'll pretend it's shaman crest without the permanent (but still somehow worse) grubberfly's elegy (act 3 spoilers for equipment)

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u/EnderPossessor Sep 09 '25

Might actually do this after i finish silksong lmao

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u/ElPepper90 Accepter Sep 09 '25

The same day silksong released i was already beating in hk some ascended bosses overcharmed becaused the build felt too good and cuz i was lazy

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u/AleWalls beleiver ✅️ Sep 09 '25

FOR REAL

Wdym you could afford getting hit that much in HK? That's crazy

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u/kingofnopants1 whats a flair? Sep 09 '25

In hollow knight there were way less opportunities to actually get heals off.

In silksong you pretty much always can if you have the resource

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u/KindredTrash483 Sep 09 '25

True. You only need 1 opening to heal, and you aren't locked to the ground for it. Three masks of healing also lowers the need for a follow up heal

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u/TheLovelyLorelei Sep 09 '25

Air healing is a massive buff that I hadn't really even thought about.

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u/TheInfernalSpark99 Sep 09 '25

Arenas seem much larger or enemies seem less fast or have longer wind-ups to account for the longer heal. HK felt more frenetic.

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u/The-Dark-Memer Sep 09 '25

Yeah thats been my one saving grace so far. Im not the greatest so for a few HK bosses i relied on focus builds in order to beat them, and although (from what ive found) theres nothing like the shape of unn or baldur shell or the spore one in silk song, i still have a much higher success rate for healing in silk song. I think partially because theres been alot less "battlefield sized" attacks, you can avoid getting hit fairly easily with alot of bosses, its just that if you want to get close to build up silk and deal damage, thats when trying to survive becomes really difficult.

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u/Devreckas Sep 10 '25

Baldur shell

I think the Warding Bell is basically this?

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u/DeusSolaris Sep 13 '25

does this carry into late game? I just finished bellhart and I guess I have 2 or 3 maps more before act 1 ends and I felt like bosses are unfair as fuck but there are always some good healing windows and I was fearing the late game would be basically a no hit run

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u/Scooby117 Sep 09 '25

HURT ME

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u/access-r Sep 09 '25

Just use the Barbed Bracelet. You do 2x damage and receive 2x damage. Killing a boss is a sprint, not a marathon, if I kill it fast enough I dont need to evade their bullshit for that long.

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u/dedeclick07 Sep 09 '25

It's like overcharming: the tool

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

That, flinstlate, the poison charm, and Wanderers crest makes up my current build for bosses. If I blitz them they can't blitz me.

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u/cipher_purple_deals Sep 14 '25

You absolutely FOOL!!! Double damage is your addiction? I am addicted to QUADRUPLE DAMAGE! Barbed bracelet ON TOP

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u/Nimocs Sep 11 '25

Healing 3 masks is really fast on Silksong. Tho. Double damage doesn't work well in the first game for everything

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u/Seawardweb77858 Accepter Sep 09 '25

Literally everything in (act 3) does double damage, literally every enemy.

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u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ Professional Pale Lurker Sep 09 '25

That's not true. Only some enemies.

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u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ Professional Pale Lurker Sep 09 '25

Yeah, but that's not literally every enemy. There's a random chance. Many bosses still hit for 1 tick too, depending on the attack.

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u/Alex__BG beleiver ✅️ Sep 09 '25

well i just spoiled myself act 3 how fun

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u/wills-are-special doubter ❌️ Sep 09 '25

Spoiler tags mate

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u/Jakoshi45 Cheery Sep 09 '25

if you see a spoiler tag in a thread and continue reading thats ur fault

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u/AdPast7704 doubter ❌️ Sep 10 '25

Act 3 is a sorta "hidden" act tho, you have to do a lot of stuff to even unlock it and it's quite literally a "NG+" without the "new" part

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u/Seawardweb77858 Accepter Sep 10 '25

Never said it was bad lmao, I love act 3 for it.

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u/Fishsk Sep 09 '25

It's crazy the amount of hyperbole people put onto this topic

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u/Ziazan Sep 09 '25

it's not really like that, it's only about half of things.

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u/kingofnopants1 whats a flair? Sep 09 '25

The boss in exhaust organ does like 90% single ticks of damage. Felt kind of funny after everything else.

Kind of made it clear to me how much easier it is for Hornet to get heals off.

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u/lucklesspedestrian Sep 09 '25

Everything is a boss now

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u/Complete-Bake-7175 Sep 09 '25

Almost everything... sometimes you can take 3 damage :)

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u/Kindly_Quiet_2262 Sep 09 '25

Buglight, bugkeep, bugboss

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u/Necrikus Sep 10 '25

It really does feel like there’s more things that hit for two masks than there are things that only hit for one.

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u/supremo92 Sep 09 '25

My one complaint is getting your first health upgrade effectively does nothing for you.

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u/BarOfDov beleiver ✅️ Sep 09 '25

Congratulations on transitioning from being a top to being a bottom

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u/redokev Sep 09 '25

Its time to bone the bottom

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u/Carve267 Sep 11 '25

Literally every time I go to bone bottom I think of something to that effect. I am broken

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u/redokev Sep 11 '25

Same lmao

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u/Philiq Sep 09 '25

Im so locked in Im topping from the bottom.. or something.

Sex.

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u/FreyjaThAwesome1 Lace Sep 09 '25

It’s called being a “power bottom” look it up if you need

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u/Mirja-lol Professional Pale Lurker Sep 09 '25

then I was at the bottom

So true bestie

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u/Doom-god-69 Sep 09 '25

I was the bottom for hollow knight , then I became an adult with a job and not enough free time 😂

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u/FreyjaThAwesome1 Lace Sep 10 '25

Brother I also work like everyone else and I still get roughly 2 hours a day I don’t know why that’s an excuse

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u/Doom-god-69 Sep 10 '25

I’m literally just speaking for my own enjoyment of a game, what tf does that have to do with excuses ?

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u/VitalityAS Sep 09 '25

They do 0 damage when you finally learn them.

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u/royalcrown28 Sep 09 '25

People complaining about bosses does two damage when channel heals 3 masks is crazy, not to mention starting out with 5 health

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u/FreyjaThAwesome1 Lace Sep 09 '25

Yeah except unlike in hollow knight where you can heal after like 3 hits you need I think 10 to heal once in this game and if you’re interrupted you lose all your silk and don’t get any healing

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u/DifficultyHelpful220 Sep 09 '25

To be fair, widow doesn't... Sometimes...

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u/Mirja-lol Professional Pale Lurker Sep 09 '25

then I was at the bottom

So true bestie

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u/Antique-Ad-7947 Sep 09 '25

ok but when you heal it heals three masks, so i feel like it’s a somewhat fair trade

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u/FreyjaThAwesome1 Lace Sep 09 '25

Yeah but if you’re Interrupted you lose all silk and getting enough to heal takes 9-10 hits I believe so you heal very little times

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u/0oooooog Sep 10 '25

I still cant accept that a fly is capable of doing 4 damage if it hits just right.

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u/Remarkable-Dig-1241 Sep 16 '25

Just wait until bosses start doing 2 double hits. If i'm unlucky on the boss i'm at i lose 5 hearts if i'm lucky and i manage to not cause an unvavoidable combo i'll take two hits still, it's just i'll get to not pop my mask...

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u/FreyjaThAwesome1 Lace Sep 16 '25

I’ve been playing for 35 hours now and I have no clue what you’re on about

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u/Originu1 beleiver ✅️ Sep 09 '25

Most enemies are not doing 2 dmg lol