why SHOULDN'T you upgrade your nail?

you'd think people actually learned this in grub school or something?

also there's this...

#windette #hollowknight #shorts

Don't even think about it

[kingbubbles]

In normal games it is absolutely worth it to upgrade the nail because even with added health, the added damage still makes everything die in less hits. The only time it isn’t worth it is during speed runs due to nailsmith being out of the way of everything

[nicor]

Common misconception. The nail upgrades still make the game easier for the average playthrough, but they aren't good in speedruns because the benefits from it are greatly outweighed by the loss of up to a few minutes for the upgrade

[SirPanikalot]

Counter point: buy the nail upgrades because primal aspids exist.

[dietcoke]

Jokes on you, I'm too stupid to use spells.

[Stopped-Working乂]

you need 140 hits (700) to kill the dung defender with the first nail, and you need 43 hits (900) to kill the dung defender with the pure nail

[ItsCforCattail]

That is a common misconception about nail upgrades. It’s true that bosses gain more health but the % gain of nail upgrades far outweigh the % gain of the boss health. The only reason that it may be bad is because spells still deal the same damage so if you are running a spell build, yes nail upgrades are bad but a nail build? DEFINITELY get nail upgrades.

[justalapis]

Mans never gone full nail build in his life

[joshuasmyth]

The dream bosses get stronger because a sharper knife doesn't do shit against a sleep paralysis demon, but will still cut normally.

[martinrose]

i lost braincells and gained geo from watching this video

[abadminecraftplayer]

Well, if I remember correctly, pure nail does 21 damage and the base nail does 5. So in order for this to make fights take longer, the bosses would have to get MORE THAN FOUR TIMES THE HEALTH. Which I highly doubt.

[nightmaresans]

For a casual playthrough, it does make the enemy health lower for all but the dream warriors.

[zzzergling]

nail raises enemies health BUT nontheless you now need less hits to kill em

[SmokeGravity]

Have you DONE Nail 0 Collector fight? what are you smoking

[Obviouse]

Love someone who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about

[Ihateterrariabats]

It pleases me to know that dead cells had a two way crossover with hollow knight

[ButtersStoch]

They get balanced because they dont want you to be overpowered for bosses meant to be fought farely late into the game.

[Thequeerarmy]

It may make them have more health but you still kill them in less hits. The only downside to upgrading your nail is that the mentioned bosses harder in godhome with the nail binding. (pure and coiled nail both and the one directly before that do 13 damage with said binding.) take a way, only get the 1st and 2nd nail upgrade.

[ekholocation]

that was a very creative way to loop the short at the end there, well done wimdy /gen

[tuachixiong]

Me on my way to get *_EVERYTHING_* on my ever first Hallow Knight game run: "Oh is that so? Welp gonna find some more metal."

[DiegoDiaz-kkxh]

Aww hell yeah! I got an additional two braincells apparently. Upgrades people upgrades!