Hollow Knight- Best Charms for Nail Damage + Charm Locations

There are a total of 40 charms in Hollow Knight but there are a few charm build that are best for doing damage with your nail. In this video I will share my favorite charm build for nail damage, show how they interact with each other and the location of each charm.

The first charm is the Fragile Strength or Unbreakable Strength Charm. It will take three charm notch slots to equip. This one will add 50% damage to your base nail damage (rounded up). After testing the charm I am not sure that we do a full 50% bonus damage but it is still a lot! The 50% number comes from the Hollow Knight wiki here:

Note that the fragile strength will not break when used against dream bosses. If you do use the Fragile Strength and get defeated, the charm will break and you will need to go back to the leg eater to get it fixed.

The second charm is the Mark of Pride charm. This will increase your nail reach by a huge 25% and will cost you three charm slots. This will make it so you can hit enemies from much further away. You are getting 8.3% reach per charm slot.

The third charm is the Long Nail. This one will cost two charm notch slots to equip. This will increase the nail range by 15% This is still really helpful when you can't afford three nail slots. having any extra range at all makes boss fight much easier as you can attack enemies without taking damage.

The last and possibly best charm for nail users is the Quick Slash charm. The charm will cost three charm notch slots to equip. This one will increase your attack speed by a total of 54%! Getting an extra hit or two in can make all the difference when fighting bosses. One extra hit in each round can make it easier to down bosses or finish the fight off quickly ESPECIALLY when combined with the unbreakable strength.

To equip all of these charms at the same time you will need a total of 11 slots. You start with three and can find 8 more. Check out the video below to find all the notches:

These are MY favorite charms for nail damage. Some people also like to use Nailmaster's Glory, Grubberfly's Elegy or Fury of the Fallen. Let me know what your favorite charm build is in the comments!

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[RelyeaGaming]

These are my favorite charms for straight nail damage. You can attach enemies from quite a distance and do some real damage using the quick slash and unbreakable strength charms. What is your favorite charm build as a nail user? Also what is your favorite spell build? After going over the best nail and spell charms I will likely do a video that talks about straight builds.

[kingpran]

Another great charm for nail damage in my opinion is steady body. It's really good to pair with quick slash and can increase your DPS by almost 50%

[meend]

5:47 BRUH Relyea:let's make it so we have "no charms on"
Also relyea: has the most op charm in the game on (wayward compass)

[The_Mobile]

*mark of pride + longnail + unbreakable strength*


the game is won

[davidkim]

Quick slash literally helps out in almost every situation, possibly the best charm out there. My favorite one in Hollow Knight.

[nikolapetric]

I think fragile/unbreakable strenght increases nail damage (pure nail) from 21 to 31, which actually means its 50% increased.

[mang]

Fury of the fallen is also pretty good, but it is very situational.

[laurinm]

downloaded Hollow Knights some days ago... love u for being so aktiv <3

[theuniquebean]

Thank you! This is one of the things about Hollow Knight that does trip me up a bit. I get too in my head about what to use when. Also love that little secret room at the end of the video. Congrats on hitting 7k 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Rogeriogames]

3:34

Wiiiu KABUM
Wiiu Kabum
* WIIU KABUM INTENSIFIES *

[bunmellow]

For anyone was wondering on how to upgrade the fragile strength to unbreakable strength, you have to activate the Grimm troupe and the small hut to the left of dirtmouth will have another vendor that eats your fragile charms. If you pay around 10000 geo you can get your charm back but it becomes unbreakable.

[dyslexyckid]

Finally, after all these years...
Quick slash, Longnail, Mark Of Pride, Unbreakable strength.
Sly: *I H A V E T H E M A L L*

[oh_its_just_eli]

Even after i do everything there is to do, your videos are still just as helpful. Great video, and congrats and 7k, don't forget about is og's once you finally get the subs you deserve ♡

[wade]

I’ve been going through this game without going out of the way to get charms and I now realize I really need to just grind geo and buy charms before continuing

[RyanPlayz-utpl]

You are the best walkthrough YouTuber for hollow knight

[DCul]

For the best damage, I've been using these charms:
Unbreakable Strength
Quick Slash
Sharp Shadow
Sprintmaster
Grimmchild Phase 4

I've been using this for the Watcher Knights Radiant fight in Godhome. Unbreakable Strength and Quick Slash are obviously to hit hard and quickly. Sprintmaster and Sharp Shadow work together for me as I can dash through the knights but walk back to them quickly to get in an extra hit. Grimmchild is just back-up damage but I could probably switch that charm out for something else. Not sure if Weaversong with Sprintmaster has a higher DPS than Grimmchild alone but I can test it out.

[KINGSNAKE-lhoe]

Personal favorite build is pretty much this. I replaced the longnail with the unbreakable heart, decent health boost and the loss of nail length isn't too noticable.

[shaynola]

Maan thank you so much for posting these awesome informative videos, I'd be so lost otherwise lol I've had hollow knight for about two years and have been too intimidated to get past the soul sanctum boss, but after watching your video and practicing like crazy, I finally got em and I've been flying through ever since. Just got the dream nail and I thought I was a ways from getting it! Again, thank you for these, I look forward to you covering silksong

[billnye]

Um, I i was under the impression that WAYWARD COMPASS was the best dps buff in the game, so why isn't it on this list?

[semolina__]

Used this setup to beat Pantheon 5 about 4 days ago. Just wanted to thank you for the guides.