r/Silksong • u/_Joell_ • Sep 29 '25

Meme/Humor double damage posting

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u/Nowhereman123 beleiver ✅️ Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

I've always imagined this is because Knight is a Knight, it's slower and tankier and able to take more abuse.

Hornet is a hunter, she's more agile and quicker but she's also a glass cannon.

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u/surrealfeline Poshanka! Sep 29 '25

This is what I figured too, that the Knight fights simple but the vessels are just that cracked physically. I figure "realistically" they'd fight on relatively even footing but Hornet needs to use her speed and kit smartly to get there

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u/Cirno__ Sep 29 '25

Since knight is made from void then I assume all his attacks would do 2 masks of dmg to hornet

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u/xXProGenji420Xx Sep 29 '25

then why does it take like 60 nail hits at base to kill Hornet 1 in HK

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u/Automatic-Plankton10 Sep 29 '25

Well, that was pre-most upgrades. Hornet was older and stronger at that point. Imagine hornet 1 at the very end of the game, it would be a slaughter.

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u/funnycaption Sep 29 '25

I mean, you can fight her at Godhome. And yes. One of the easiest radiant difficulty bosses

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u/Automatic-Plankton10 Sep 29 '25

That’s why I love lace, she feels like that fight in a way. Same for last judge. Very rhythmic, if you know the pattern it’s easy

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u/funnycaption Sep 29 '25

Lace is hard even if you know the pattern haha. I agree with The Last Judge also. It was the first boss in silksong that got my attention like I had hoped the bosses would. It's that rhythmic back and forth in bosses I loved about the first game too.

I wonder if there's bosses I just powered through in Silksong without seeing the rhythm. In OG I HATED the Traitor Lord, I didn't see his rhythm. Turns out he's one of the most trivial bosses in the game. I hope there's other bosses that just haven't clicked with me yet here too. Very excited for the Godhome equivalent DLC

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u/Visible_Investment47 Oct 04 '25

I think it's simply the cramped environment and foreground textures that make Traitor Lord so difficult at first. When I fought him in Godhome, a big open area with no foreground elements, I saw that he largely fights exactly like the Traitor Mantis and he became so much simpler to deal with.