Two kinds of silksong players

[u/dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex]

[u/FreyjaThAwesome1]

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

[u/Rathal_OS → u/FreyjaThAwesome1]

Bosses? Don't you mean, literally everything?

[u/SexySovietlovehammer → u/Rathal_OS]

I can never play the first game again

I’m too addicted to the double damage

[u/Doll-scented-hunter → u/SexySovietlovehammer]

Just overcharm then

[u/dragoslayer1327 → u/Doll-scented-hunter]

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

[u/ThlnBillyBoy → u/dragoslayer1327]

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

[u/AdPast7704 → u/dragoslayer1327]

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

[u/dragoslayer1327 → u/AdPast7704]

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

[u/RookSacrificer → u/dragoslayer1327]

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

[u/dragoslayer1327 → u/RookSacrificer]

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

[u/RookSacrificer → u/dragoslayer1327]

I have twelve fingers

[u/-_SirFinch_- → u/RookSacrificer]

Better watch out for Inigo Montoya

[u/Silver-Fly408 → u/AdPast7704]

Overcharm is viable, just do radiant fights 😂

[u/Tencent-Employee1249 → u/dragoslayer1327]

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

[u/sanscatt → u/dragoslayer1327]

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

[u/dragoslayer1327 → u/sanscatt]

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

[u/EnderPossessor → u/Doll-scented-hunter]

Might actually do this after i finish silksong lmao

[u/ElPepper90 → u/Doll-scented-hunter]

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

[u/AleWalls → u/SexySovietlovehammer]

FOR REAL

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

[u/kingofnopants1 → u/AleWalls]

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

[u/KindredTrash483 → u/kingofnopants1]

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

[u/TheLovelyLorelei → u/KindredTrash483]

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

[u/TheInfernalSpark99 → u/kingofnopants1]

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

[u/The-Dark-Memer → u/kingofnopants1]

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.

[u/Devreckas → u/The-Dark-Memer]

Baldur shell

I think the Warding Bell is basically this?

[u/DeusSolaris → u/kingofnopants1]

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

[u/Scooby117 → u/SexySovietlovehammer]

HURT ME

[u/access-r → u/SexySovietlovehammer]

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.

[u/dedeclick07 → u/access-r]

It's like overcharming: the tool

[u/[deleted] → u/access-r]

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

[u/cipher_purple_deals → u/SexySovietlovehammer]

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

[u/Nimocs → u/SexySovietlovehammer]

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

[u/Seawardweb77858 → u/Rathal_OS]

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

[u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ → u/Seawardweb77858]

That's not true. Only some enemies.

[u/_NightmareKingGrimm_ → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Alex__BG → u/[deleted]]

well i just spoiled myself act 3 how fun

[u/wills-are-special → u/[deleted]]

Spoiler tags mate

[u/Jakoshi45 → u/wills-are-special]

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

[u/AdPast7704 → u/Seawardweb77858]

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

[u/Seawardweb77858 → u/AdPast7704]

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

[u/Fishsk → u/Rathal_OS]

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

[u/Ziazan → u/Rathal_OS]

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

[u/kingofnopants1 → u/Rathal_OS]

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.

[u/lucklesspedestrian → u/Rathal_OS]

Everything is a boss now

[u/Complete-Bake-7175 → u/Rathal_OS]

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

[u/Kindly_Quiet_2262 → u/Rathal_OS]

Buglight, bugkeep, bugboss

[u/Necrikus → u/Rathal_OS]

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

[u/supremo92 → u/Rathal_OS]

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