Silksong - All Bosses (No Damage) & Endings
2,779Defeating what should be every boss in Hollow Knight: Silksong without taking damage. The majority of them are also needle only with Grand Mother Silk/Nyleth (clawline), Court of Craws (tools), Karmelita (spells), and Groal (lots of tool spam) not doing so unless I really forgot something. If I did miss a boss do let me know!
I'm not a huge fan of enemy gauntlets as part of boss fights. So spells/tools were useful for managing minions for Court of Craws and Karmelita but the runback on Groal was a bit more frustrating (and to add insult to injury, I found the closer bench after the fight). Combine that with Groal's adds being somewhat tanky and doing their best to keep at range and I opted to do the fight hitless in a cheesier way. I suspect in the future knowing about that second bench I'll practice it needle only (or if a Godhome area is introduced in future content packs) but for now I'm at least content with how things turned out.
Shakra and Garmond have duels that you can be locked out of in Act 3. In Garmond's case if you advanced Songclave's quests far enough that he idles in town you missed the opportunity for the duel. You need to unlock the area to the right of Songclave (where that flea is located) and when I later returned there he was available to duel. You don't need to have Garmond's help with any fights for accessing the duel. Shakra's is much easier, as once you finish Trail's End there will be a post in Greymoor right outside Bellhart you can hit to summon Shakra and duel them. Summoned Savior is a steel soul exclusive boss from a quest that begins in Blasted Steps and requires checking three spots (one of which was in High Halls) before finding the boss around Bonegrave.
Endings are pretty straightforward: Weaver Queen you'll get by default if you face Grand Mother Silk early (and if another option is available you can still choose to bind to get this ending). Twisted Child is from getting cursed as part of the Rite of Rebirth quest and then defeating Grand Mother Silk instead of curing Hornet (being cursed removes your ability to heal and tools so it is a bit more challenging). Snared Silk requires getting the Silk and Soul quest from completing all the quest boards in each town and finding enough fleas to move the caravan to the Putrified Ducts, and then defeating Groal, talking to the Bell Hermit and Chapel Maid, and finding the snare tool in Weavernest Atla. While technically an ending, it actually begins Act 3. From there, finishing Act 3 gives the Sister of the Void true ending. If you also completed the Passing of the Age quest you'll get the Mister Mushroom scene after the true ending.
Overall a fantastic game that I'm glad to have played, even with some frustrations with runbacks (as in particular hitless attempts usually involve quite a bit of tries to succeed) and definitely room for myself to improve with these boss fights. I'll be looking forward to trying steel soul and whatever slightly more challenging boss fights the modding community comes up with.
0:00 Moss Mother
0:46 Bell Beast
1:49 Lace
3:13 Fourth Chorus
5:04 Moorwing
6:33 Sister Splinter
8:43 Widow
11:31 Skull Tyrant
13:08 Savage Beastfly
15:06 Great Conchflies
16:52 Last Judge
19:40 Skull Tyrant (Bone Bottom)
20:32 Cogwork Dancers
23:57 Savage Beastfly (Far Fields)
25:42 Trobbio
28:14 Lace Rematch
31:49 Moss Mother Duo
33:10 Raging Conchfly
35:12 Garmond Duel
36:42 Shakra Duel
38:51 Summoned Saviour
40:58 First Sinner
43:52 Grand Mother Silk
47:09 Twisted Child Ending
47:53 Weaver Queen Ending
49:24 Snared Silk Ending
51:03 Broodmother
52:48 Disgraced Chef Lugoli
54:32 Second Sentinel
56:24 Phantom
58:25 Groal the Great
1:00:09 The Unravelled
1:03:31 Bell Eater
1:06:30 Forebrothers Signis & Gron
1:08:29 Father of the Flame
1:10:29 Gurr the Outcast
1:11:27 Lost Garmond
1:13:13 Voltvyrm
1:14:22 Crust King Khann
1:16:53 Court of Craws
1:19:16 Tormented Trobbio
1:22:20 Shrine Guardian Seth
1:24:48 Nyleth
1:26:12 Pinstress
1:28:59 Palestag
1:30:34 Clover Dancers
1:33:00 Watcher at the Edge
1:34:50 Skarrsinger Karmelita
1:38:24 Plasmified Zango
1:39:03 Lost Lace
1:43:41 Sister of the Void Ending
1:46:03 Mister Mushroom Scene
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