Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight

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Tip for The Path of Pain ( english)
By Alter
This is a tranlation of my guide. This is a list of tips for those persons who want to doit, and to make them suffer less. This may contain spoiler of the game. If you are here, I suppose you finished the game or you know the lore behind the game.

Note: english isn't my first lenguage, so this can contain errors

I used the next charms: Defender's Crest, Grubsong, Longnail, Shaman Stone, Fragile/Unbreakable Heart, Soul Catcher. You can use what do you want, but before getting to the fight against the two gards, and at least you are the master of pogo with the nail, it is recomended that you equip Longnail, or mark of pride. Personally I prefer Longnail before the mark of pride because the range for the pogo is suitable for low roof areas.

The statues that there are in there have infinite soul so you can take advantage of it to recover HP, and this same statues are like some tipe of checkpoint if you have HP, but if you die, you have to star again all the way at the point where you died. There are two hidden statues: in the beginning, to the left and the area where there is a tunnel of thorns, on the right. you can find them if you hit the wall with the Nail, it does not produce sound.

I highly recommend that you have all the mask of HP, all nail upgrades, monarch wings and shade cloack.

In the final room, before the fight the guards and where are intermittent spikes, to coordinate the jump pay attention to the saw of your left since it is syncronized with the one on the right and it will be very useful to know at what moment jump.

If you are tired and don't want to lose progress, you can minimize the game and put to hibernate the pc and you will not lose the progress.

Is really recommended to use vengeful spirit and Darck Descent boosted for the Shaman Stone.


It is also advisable to see what type of combination goes with each one.
Here is a list of charms that are very useful for some areas where statues are not available:
Hiveblood, Kingsoul before converting it into the Void Heart, deep concentration. (more will be added in the future)
It is necessary to emphasize the amount of space that each charm or amulet occupies, therefore make tests with which they are worse or better.


Have patience and perseverance !!!! luck!!

Thanks so much for reading!!!!

Edit 15/07/2023: Some spelling and gramaticals errors corrected. When I made this guide I barely knew english, so some words were passed through a translator. Those were corrected as well

   
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Alter  [author] 15 Jul, 2023 @ 12:13am 
it can be usefull. But it is preferable to use the statues for the soul instead if the kingsoul because of the amount of notches that it uses
AndiSultan 14 Jul, 2023 @ 9:02pm 
do kingsoul is even useful?
tuwim 1 Mar, 2022 @ 5:32pm 
what the heck is the "Amulet of the pale king" and "heart of emptiness"
adraincutarnatlon123 4 Oct, 2018 @ 4:23pm 
fyi you just need to have hiveblood qslash grubsong shaman stone and you're set for pop charm wise
dschoon 4 Oct, 2018 @ 2:56pm 
Aren't they just 2x Kingsmould? I don't remember any way in which Defender's Crest would help. You don't even have Deep Focus equipped (which was what I expected).

https://hollowknight.wikia.com/wiki/Kingsmould
Alter  [author] 4 Oct, 2018 @ 5:00am 
For aditional damage for fight the two guards at the end.
adraincutarnatlon123 16 Sep, 2018 @ 10:52pm 
why the hell are you using dcrest?
dschoon 14 Sep, 2018 @ 3:30pm 
I have no idea why you're wearing Defender's Crest -- is there a hidden interaction I don't know about?
Hoppers 26 Jan, 2018 @ 5:05pm 
tnx bud!