Hollow Knight Advanced Combat Tips & Tricks

This video goes over advanced combat tricks and tips that will help you complete GodHome challenges. (This video has been re-uploaded to boost audio)

The music in this video was all composed by Christopher Larkin and is copyright of Team Cherry

0:00 Introduction
0:37 Using the Nail
1:44 Mastering Spells
4:34 Advanced Movement
6:19 Nail Arts
8:17 Dream Nail
9:25 Ending

[mrgamepigeon]

finally, a hollow knight tip video for people who didn't just start the game.

[erikx]

Okay so why does this video have <1000 views? It's properly done and features perfectly solid content, I honestly didn't think about some of these tips and I've played that game for so many hours I'm ashamed to tell anyone.

[thelostnexus_]

bro you singlehandedly saved my bacon, thank you.

[its_saber]

Been a year since I first started Hollow Knight

I got it on Christmas 2021, but also got Sekiro Shadows Die Twice then Dark Souls after. So they took up my time instead of hollow knight. Eventually after seeing a meme about nightmare grimm on Reddit, I decided to play it again

I remember exactly how some days went. Especially against bosses like Grimm. I remember watching this video when exploring Greenpath and was having a blast.

Few months after that, I radiant every boss. This video really helped me get this far, so thank you so much

[fel]

You should make more like this. These tips are extremely helpful to a lot of people. Personally I know about most of these, but I still had fun watching them

[saixen]

This just beat me pantheon of the master, artist and sage in the space of an hour. Golden Sub.

[yentried]

FYI, you don't have to pogo Failed Champion. If you stagger him in the middle, it's easy to get *behind* him and reset the stagger timer. If you have nail extensions, you will want to up slash. If you're fast, you can do 3 heals, 3 dream nails, or some combination. If you're just learning this, try just once or twice.

If he staggers against the wall, pogo him, get on the wall, and slide down. You can safely up slash to reset the timer. If you get the glitch where he staggers above the ground, you can still do this trick.

[fleurflair]

So much useful info - I'll definately be practicing these in Godhome! Thanks!

[bacchus]

I’m trying to do P5 and this is helping me a lot in practicing in Godhome! Thank you so much!

[Smile-ovus]

This was very useful! I didn't realize you could keep the false knight and failed champion stunned like that! good to know for the future!

[agusvelozo]

I enter the video bc I wanted to know how to properly use the nail arts but I ended up learning a lot more, tysm!

[ahvevo]

Damn this really made me interested in using nail arts and spells more effectively, great video

[NatsuJayRockNeo]

What you could do if using the quick cast is swap the buttons for quick cast and focus. I don't know if it this also applies to keyboard controls but spamming spells was so much easier to do on a controller after making this simple change.

[kiiturii]

duude I never knew about quickcast, I always hated using spells because it felt too slow and reacting with ddark felt impossible, this tip is huge

[killemsgm]

This is one of the best guides for newer players I've seen. Great work 👍

[kxenyy]

Very impressive considering this is your first video and this is a small channel. I’m gonna assume you have previous video-making experience lol but the editing and pacing of the videos is perfect. good job

[ishaankhurana]

My god I didn't even know quick cast existed, this was incredibly useful thank you very much

[WTHSERIOUSLY]

I just beat P5 for the first time yesterday! I play on PS4 and got the platinum trophy for this game finally. Many of these tips allowed me to step up my game. Thanks so much!
I would love to hear your thoughts on something like "Charms that only advanced players realize are great." For example: I had always overlooked Steady Body. Once I practiced with steady body I realized that it actually allowed me to more consistently capitalize on other amazing charms like Quick Slash. In this example quick slash often increases hits per damage window by allowing you to get additional hits in (also generating more soul).. Steady Body took this increase and increased it further. I noticed that often quick slash increased hits per damage window by one or two hits. usually about 33 to 50 percent. Steady Body increased this often times by an additional hit AND avoided the annoying damage taken from knock back sometimes. Removing knock back really helped me in fights where you spend more time in the air like with the radiance.

[rusteth_art]

I like how you touch on the nail arts, especially cyclone slash. I am of the opinion, along with pretty much everyone else, that nail arts, particularly the cyclone slash, are pretty useless in the open world and even most bosses. I’ve discovered recently however, against the pantheons with all four bindings, the nail arts are your BEST tools. Without them, I NEVER would’ve beaten the Collector, Markoth, Oblobbobles (no idea how to spell those things), or even Grey Prince Zote. I have never realized how useful they really are when you’re stripped to practically nothing, and while I haven’t beaten the Pantheon of Hallownest yet, they will certainly be key to defeating the most annoyingly difficult bosses.

[melancholyman]

When you start to realize that HK has a hidden skill ceiling it gets really interesting, like I started to appreciate Nailmasters Glory and Steady body.