An Early, Unassuming Miniboss Is Wrecking Hollow Knight: Silksong Players

If you're merrily strolling your mode done Hollow Knight: Silksong close now, not a attraction successful the world, you whitethorn privation to brace yourself. Because speech from Silksong's accustomed slate of super-tough bosses that'll person you corpse moving implicit and implicit again, there's 1 precise aboriginal miniboss force that's causing a batch of players a full heap of trouble.

Warning: Very insignificant spoilers for an early-game miniboss successful The Marrow look below. Don't work connected if you don't privation to cognize thing astir immoderate of the game's enemies.

The miniboss successful question is considered truthful insignificant by the crippled that it doesn't look with a sanction on-screen, making it pugnacious to Google a usher erstwhile you get stuck connected him. But his sanction is Skarrgard, and he's a bulky reddish bug force wielding a large portion of bony arsenic a weapon. You tin find him waiting successful a cave connected the eastbound broadside of The Marrow, conscionable supra the prison.

Skarrgard seems inocuous erstwhile you archetypal attack him, conscionable similar a somewhat tougher regular enemy. But this feline truly has immoderate folks connected tilt. He's got 3 attacks: 1 wherever helium disappears underground and pops up for an attack, a leap attack, and 1 wherever helium swings his bony around. He's got immoderate existent scope connected that bony weapon, and due to the fact that the passageway is truthful tiny, astir of his moves are precise hard, if not impossible, to leap over. What's more, his attacks deed for two full masks of damage alternatively than conscionable one.

There are 2 ways to bushed Skarrgard, the casual mode and the hard way. The hard mode is to support practicing and yet decision him (see our reddish axe ant mini brag happening strategy usher for precisely however to bash bushed him early). You tin lure him down the constrictive passageway a spot truthful helium can't bash his leap onslaught more, and if you tally past him whenever helium goes underground, you tin benignant of bounce him backmost and distant successful the halfway of the room, taking cautious swings, and yet bring him down.

But I urge the casual way, which is to travel backmost later. You'll yet get a dash quality that makes it much easier to debar his hits, and it seems similar you're meant to person that quality earlier challenging Skarrgard for real. Even if you're tempted by a juicy reward for sidesplitting him early, possibly don't bother? The reward for warring him is that it unlocks entree to a caller area, and if you're warring him aboriginal you astir apt person plentifulness other to research that isn't hidden down a giant, bone-swinging bug man.

Either way, bully luck with this guy. For many, he's importantly tougher than immoderate of Silksong's aboriginal existent bosses, truthful don't consciousness discouraged if you dice to him a batch earlier you yet people a win.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is retired now, and we're hard astatine enactment connected our Wiki guides of everything you mightiness perchance privation to cognize arsenic you commencement your adventures successful Pharloom. We've besides got a review-in-progress covering our thoughts truthful acold that we'll update with a people arsenic soon arsenic we've finished the game.

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