Buy the lantern, it turns hell into a slightly brighter hell

pov: you’ve already played hollow knight but you’re being starved by team cherry

Tip: Don’t worry about not having found the fog canyon map yet, you will get it eventually.

Me: (has been playing Hollow Knight for a long time) Also me: (still watches this beginners' video)

What I wished I knew about hollow knight is that I would be getting lost every two seconds

"Listen carefully" Me who played the game without headphones: interesting

Tip: Do not stick to one specific charm build all the time, switch them depending on the situation. Also some charms have interesting interactions with each other, so don't be afraid to try new stuff.

Another tip I could give is don't freak out if the game traps you somewhere. It wants you to explore it and always has something very important in it

If you’re down to one mask and don’t want to risk having to go reclaim your shade if you die, just quit the game and save, then reload - you’ll be back at the same bench you would of if you died anyway, but with your geo and shade intact

If you die and lose your geo (in your shadow) in a place where its probable you'll die for a second time (which means to lose all the geo). The Shaman, to the right of Dirtmouth can bring your shadow to you by giving him a rancid egg. NOTE: rancid eggs are not that common early in the game.

Something I wish I knew when playing HK is that when you sit on a bench, all the big enemies you killed will respawn! Whether you want to bench extra to kill them again and harvest geo, or whether you want to make sure you have an easy time by not benching and thus not running into the same enemies again is 100% up to whatever you need at that moment. :)

Right now, any hollow knight content eases the pain of waiting for silksong

People want Silksong to be rushed and be completed NOW. But look at how Cyberpunk turned out. As much as we want it too come out we don’t want to rush Team Cherry into making an incomplete game.

2:13 that tip is so good. I bet whoever wrote it is a very good person and very handsome

Another tip: Throughout the game, even after you you think you bought everything from iselda, go back. There are things that only appear in her shop after you’ve encountered them. Also, tip 2, the way things are drawn hints at where they go. Like the shopkeepers key or elegant key. If you look at them it hints at where they go just by the art.

A little tip after the video: If you play piano learn some of Christopher Larkin's work you won't regret it. That way you don't have to sit in greenpath to listen to the music. The alternative is to listen to the lofi hollow knight stuff Relyea has on his channel 👍

maybe it be “you can look down” a lot of times i died because i don’t know i can look down

I have some tips 1: Upgrade your nail with pale ore, it makes the game so much easier 2: You don’t have to make blind jumps! You can look up and down but holding up and down on the controller or keyboard 3: Using spells, it is often better than healing, ending a fight faster can be a better way of surviving than healing! 4: When I first played the game I thought I would have to pay every time I used the stagway so I didn’t open them up, you just need to pay once to open it up and then you can use it whenever you want! 5: This is kind of cheating, but if you’re about to die, then just leave the game and you will be teleported back to your bench with no consequences at all you won’t lose any upgrades or items you’ve collected. 6: Final tip, keep playing the game, it starts slow, but once you get access to the mantis claw the game gets really interesting. Have fun and play Hollow Knight!

I would say that the biggest mistake I've made was: Not marking every godamn suspicious thing I found or an item couldn't get at the time. Since the game is massive, I had to backtrack through the stages constantly, because I've got the memory of a goldfish. :(

Personally I color coded my map with the pins so that each pin referred to a specific ability I would need to access that new area and it helped a lot to know which places I could explore after having gotten a new ability.

I can't get over how cool your custom skin is lol

Hollow Knight tip: Take in the sights. It's okay to take things in patiently. There is a lot in the game. You can save "4hour/20hour" completion achievements for omce you know the world of Hollownest.

Don't immediately sell your relics! You don't lose relics upon death, but you can lose your geo! Keep your relics until you need the geo for something. Also, there's no shame in stubbornly assailing the same boss until you beat it, that said, there's no shame in saving a boss fight until you're ready for it. Remember, it's just a game and you've got nothing to lose!

One thing I really wished I knew is: You can pogo of spikes

I can beat the Mantis lords, Grimm, Hornet and others on my first try almost every time, but thats only because I spent hours loosing to them. In no other game have I ever felt so triumphent in mastering a boss. It's ALL skill, that you develop in real time, and you should be proud of yourself for besting them. Because it really is a truly impressive feat.

Don't try to hug Myla even your're sad, there's no hug button...

I think another good one to remember is that it's possible to dream nail some of the stationary enemies and unkillable bugs for free soul, too. The garpedes in deepnest, for example. So I would encourage newer players to try dream nailing anything with eyes.

Here’s my tip. I call it the noob loadout. Compass, Mark of Pride, Defenders Crest, Spore Shroom, Grubsong, Lifeblood Core, and any other one notch charm.

With the backtracking thing, I would often backtrack to an area only to find out I needed shade dash to get past, so I ended up using the map markers to cover these places so I knew not to explore there yet lol

The first video I watched on hollow knight was about charms and I proceeded to spend the next 2 weeks figuring out why Wayward Compass is so OP. Trust me, you'll find out eventually.

desolate dive is my favorite -it gives knockback to enemy -gives invincibility frame -can glitched boss yes I killed the second hornet battle by desolate dive when we both in the corner, the knockback glitched hornet to wall and killin her, it also work with lost kin and enemy that have the same type of body frame

Ahhh I can’t take the wait for silksong anymore!!!!

The best thing I learnt is that getting lost in places is good, there is probably something to find. I got howling wraiths quite early so soul master was a breeze, although mantis lords I did after getting desolate dive

Here's the three most general tips I have to offer (there are so many more I could give): 1) Dodging is generally the best way to play a fight. Each enemy or boss has its own attack patterns, and figuring out how to play those to your advantage is generally not achieved by just facetanking. There are certain enemies and bosses where you can pull it off, but I would only recommend going in nail swinging if you've nothing better to do and dodging isn't proving to be any help. But it's better to dodge an attack without landing a hit than to do some damage while taking a hit yourself. 2) Poke, prod and swing at every available and suspicious surface you can. If you can spare the soul use a desolate dive/descending dark or vengeful spirit/shade soul to smash any floors or walls respectively that looks more cracked than normal. So many secrets in this game are hidden by secret passageways you didn't know about. To this day I'm still finding surprises despite well over a hundred hours in game. 3) Taking breaks is very important to truly enjoy this game, both in game and real life. Benches are for the most part completely safe havens where you can heal, fill out your map more, swap out charms and just in general reflect on where you are at the moment. They are so incredibly useful and many newbies don't rest up as often as would be most beneficial for their immediate gameplay. Similarly this game can get immensely frustrating in many places. Just leaving it for a bit before you give in to the urge to break something important and coming back later can help you to properly appreciate this masterpiece.

Why did no one mention this? ✅ *Huge HK Survival Tip:* Did you know that you can save *all your progress,* fully heal and instantly teleport to the last bench *all at the same time* by just Start (or Esc) > Quit to Menu? 🤔 This single tip can prevent permanent Geo loss and a lot of backtracking and was incredibly helpful for me 🙂 Hope it can help you too in very dangerous situations!

Buy the Lumafly Lantern relatively early. You will need it for the darker areas of the game, which you can wander into quite easily. I fell into deepnest before I had the Lumafly Lantern and thought it was supposed to be that dark and had a horrid time trying to get through and get back out.

You will become sad or depressed at some point in the game. No matter how tough you think you are, a tear will be shed. And deepnest will make you get lost.

One of the charms that saved me was quick focus in salubras shop, since it opens up more healing opportunities and makes losing health far less dangerous (but not trivial).

tip: equip the soul catcher and soul twister together. this will earn you more soul, and will consume less soul while casting spells such as vengeful spirit and desolate dive

When you have finished the game in any way you want, take a break for like half a year. Then start a new world and you will feel so much nostalgia, it's the best feeling ever!

Also, get used to dream nailing everything you find (like corpses, objects or npcs, not enemies), it helps so much with the lore and it gives some really cool details, like the corpses on the failed tramway.

I absolutely love map markers. I cleared out the shop of everything and all the markers got used to the point that at a few moments I needed more but had nowhere to get them. I use them specifically for points I can't access because I either don't have an ability or am missing an item and boss battles I need to get back to. And if you do this, keep in mind what colour you use for what or you will get confused and spend a lot of time roaming without actually doing anything because of forgetting what thing you need for where. I used gold for boss fights just so it would remind me every time I looked at the map. Also, abuse Nail Arts when you have them, especially in the Colosseum.

I came to realize after once I obtain Descending Dark that it plays a big role in this game. Its a game changer when fighting Pantheons. I was always afraid of using spells at that time. Don't be afraid to use spells. Use them well and they will help you. Edit: MR. C Gaming already said this. I was typing while I was watching to full video lmao. I'll just leave this here.

This is one of my tips: If you get to the point where you start finding artefacts (the ones you can trade for money with relic seeker lemm) never spend them all right away. IF you happen to die, you still keep the relics and it could bee a great geo boost. 18:48 "Cornifier". That sound like a mage that turns people into Corn.

Never,ever Dream Nail Marissa. Just let her know that she still have audience(you).

9:36 50+ hours of gameplay and I am just learning this now

“It is an awesome game” Me: Awesome is an understatement! If only there was an appropriate word to describe how amazingly incredible and beautiful Hollow Knight is! ❤️

It took me far too long to realize that you can cancel crystal dashes

08:00 When I started playing, I immediately fell in love with the world and atmosphere. But I was also afraid the game would be over too quickly, so I tried to not explore too much and leave rooms for later... Before Hollow Knight I played Machinarium (an awesome but rather short game), maybe that's why I had this feeling. Turns out that this game is just huge! So don't be afraid to explore as much as you want. It won't be over soon, I promise.

"Try dodging instead of attacking" Tell that to the Grimmchild.

When I finish a successful boss fight, I watch other videos of players defeating the same boss, you discover new ways to attack and dodge

One charm combo I've stuck with for most of the game and has helped alot is grubsong, soul catcher, lifeblood heart, thorns of agony, wayward compass

Quick story, after I finished the mantis lord bossfight I decided to explore a bit with my newfound attack range and mantis claw, then I wound up with 2000 geo, so I was like "great, I can finally buy the lantern!", so I got the lantern, then went to the first place I could think of, being the dark room to the far right of crossroads, the one with the scratchy noises. I was expecting just a small segment, but I wound up in an entirely different area and got hella lost, then I managed to lose my way even further to the sacred grounds, and that's how what I thought would be a small couple minute exploration before I closed the game turned into me getting something I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to get at this point. This game is so cool!!

Therapist:relyea vessel is not real,it can’t hurt you Relyea vessel:

I was so happy to see that my comment was used in the vid! Honestly Relyea, you are one of the only youtubers who really tries their best to respond to comments on vids, posts, live streams, etc. It feels so good to see something that you said read by one of your favorite youtubers. I hope that once you get really massive, you still keep this trait, because it makes me love to comment and pop into streams, even if I don’t really know what the stream is about.

Thanks for the tips! Here's one of my own: Try and sit on a bench before a bossfight that way, if you die (very likely) you won't be as frustrated!

For real though: The need for wayward compass can be bypassed entirely if you buy the bench pins. Then, you always know what bench you are at, and you can track your progress in each new room if you regularly look at the map.

I definitely agree on the pogo, it's a mechanic that is never explained and it's required in a couple places. When I reached the purple mushrooms in fungal waste in my first playthrough I thought I needed some special ability to progress. Since it seemed everything else was also blocked, I had to look it up and it's how I figured I could pogo on them (and that pogo was a thing at all)

Thanks for the video, just got this game yesterday and I'm already loving it. Great tips without spoilers, exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!

I bought hollow knight on a whim in late 2022… I live under a rock and didn’t realize the massive community and popularity. Now I’m super hyped for silk song and I’m sorry for those who have been waiting so long for silk song.

honestly, my favorite charm loadout for playing in general (with 9 slots) is wayward compass, dashmaster, sprintmaster, mark of pride, and weaversong/lifeblood heart

Another tip: if you've died in a difficult area and you don't want to go back and risk dying again before you've found your shade, you can visit Confessor Jiji in Dirtmouth and give them a rancid egg, and they'll summon your shade to you. Requires a simple key to get through the door the first time.

Thanks for these tips! I just started playing and they really helped me know what to do. Keep up the GREAT content!

Thank you so much, Relyea! I'm introducing my friends to Hollow Knight and these tips will surely help!

I think the best tip I could give is to know that when you’re overcharmed attacks deal double damage! 😭

I 100% agree with getting nail upgrades asap. I played Hollow Knight without guides or anything (to the most part) and didn't know that you could upgrade your nail until after hornet two. After failing on the fight over and over again, I looked up a guide, and the first thing they said was like, "I highly recommend having at least the second nail upgrade before attempting the fight," and I was so confused. Turns out, there are nail upgrades in this game! Get them.

Thanks for this video. I'm downloading HK right now, can't wait! Favorite tip? I'm really glad to know that you start without a map and get one later... Getting lost in this little world sounds very fun 😁

I feel like a good tip is finding out what charms to use in a boss fight, I just beat that infected husk boss and I used Thorns of Agony, Dreamshield and Soul Catcher and also never charge in on a boss if you know if it will attack sooner, keep safe don’t rush

Definetely the pin one, I used the red ones to mark places where I think I needed a new ability to access it or something like that

There was a boss fight I died to a lot. The Mantis Lords. Here's a tip. There's a lifeblood cocoon in the top left corner of their boss room. I didn't know about it till I looked up a vid on all lifeblood locations. USE IT if you feel you need that extra health when facing them.

Just found your channel, thanks for these content! One useful tip I used: Make a note about everything you found and where! (f.ex.: mask shards, abilities, upgrades etc...). I wrote them down to a sheet of paper but a Word file is probably more sophisticated for the job :D

My friend started blind like 3 days ago and by yesterday in the nighthe was only missing monomon, its nice to see him understand everything by himselfe... but not the lore lmao, he knows about silksong, and he thinks silksong will be the answer to "why is everything so dark and dead", i didnt wanted to tell him there is all the neccesary lore he just needs to find it until he at least defeats HK

Tip: If there is a moss charger hiding on a platform just look at the top surface of the platform and you'll see a very small amount of leaves hovering around the place where they appear.

You’re channel has helped me out so much of it didn’t exist I would still be at the crossroads now I have the infected crossroads

I'm glad i watched this. I had got pretty far myself in the game and recently started looking at a walkthrough after Soul Master. I'm gonna close it and play how I want until i get stuck again. Thanks

One of the best ways to find out something new when you're stuck is just to look at your map and find every single exit you haven't been through, and check each new room out. If you can't reach it yet, and need another ability, just put down a marker there, so you remember to go back to it later when you've obtained another movement ability, and maybe you'll be able to get through.

Late tip addition; dont let articles about its difficulty discourage you. There are definitely some difficult parts and yes the punishment for dying multiple times in a row can seem overly harsh... But overall the game is more a "solid medium" in terms of difficulty. Just take your time and learn enemy/boss behaviors/mechanics, you'll be fine and this game is amazing! Dont miss out because someone overhyped the difficulty!

something i wish i knew before i ran in swinging my nail all about like Zote in the coliseum there are small little choices you can make that effect different characters, like saving or not saving Zote sometimes its good to step back and think about these things like should you murder this man because he asked you to? or should you just leave him alone for a while and let him come to his senses? sometimes its nice to not get your new best friend killed on the spot :)

I’m just getting started with the game and I wanna say this was a lotta help

tip: in the mantis lords fight claw up in the door they close, once you reach the top attack the wall you are walljumping on i hope this helps someone playing HK for first time

Lets be honest Relya is super underrated! dude you deserve 1mil subs i wish everything good to you

When did the knight get that mustache? It looks good on him to be honest

The tip about dodging rather than attacking. You find that each boss will probably have exactly only one optimal window time to attack for like 1 to 3 strikes and rinse and repeat dodging patterns again before the next same window opens and Instead of attacking you probably can heal once with quick focus. Also after a certain amount of damage the boss will puase for a second to catch their breath, this happens like 3 times and is a sign of the progression of the fight, these are the moments you should heal if needed.

Been a bit since I've checked out your vids. Nice mustache my guy. Coming along awesome!

My tip would be to find a safe area and really learn to control the knight, things like double jump then pogo then dash. Movement is usually the key to beating the bosses.

My tip playing, is to use the bank. If you find it early like I did, I wish I used it sooner because I died several times in late game and lost a lot of geo. Its very helpful for 100%ers

I felt the same way. Early on I would backtrack to areas I needed an ability for and it was so annoying. Eventually I started using the map markers to mark things I need an ability for. So blue for dash, red double jump, etc... Really helped me keep track of when I should backtrack to unexplored areas

When jumping on the Purple Bouncy things, if you are struggling PLEASE TRY The Charm "Steady Body" as it will stop the Purple thing pushing you off to the side surprises me none of the "Influencer's" haven't mentioned this😁🇬🇧👍

Finally like 300 hours into the game I have started to use a decent amount of spells They're definitely good when gotten used to

"try not to look stuff up" me who played while having a guide with me the whole time: Interesting.

My fav- there’s not always a goal, just explore and have fun. This idea never crossed my mind before now

Loooove this!! Learn to dodge boss attacks first. May sound obvious but I get so focused on getting hits in that I think my number of attempts is a lot higher than it needs to be because it takes me longer to figure out how to dodge AND hit.

The most useful thing for me is that you can pogo enemies and slash upward :v took me around 10 or 20hrs to realize that you can do that instead of slashing forward, and you can pogo off spike too. Playing this game is one of the best decision i've made, take your time and enjoy the game. I got 112% after 80hrs, but pantheon 5 maybe too much for me :D

Hollow Knight is one of those games where I wish I could experience it for the first time again.

tip: descending dark spell or deselote dive both do a lot of damage plus giving you about 2 second invinciblilty frames, this helped me in my first playthrough

It took me a 3 weeks to get out of the crossroads because I thought it was the entire game. Once I made it into green path I realized how much more beautiful and huge this game is. Been playing for about two years now. Still play the game after beating it a million times.

So I've started this game 3 times. First time I got overwhelmed and didn't know what to do. The next time I had more fun but could not beat watcher knights and stopped. Now I'm at 108% beat path of pain. Grinding out the pantheon. But really quick question, I like Zote why not save him? His interactions with Bretta is so good and my favorite

I started playing Hollow Knight a couple months ago. I thought it would be easy enough... I died like 10 times in about half an hour of playing :’) I did NOT think Forgotten Crossroads would be that hard. I knew Hollow Knight was extremely hard, but not “failing the tutorial-first-area” hard. Or maybe it was just me with almost no previous gaming experience (I don’t really play combat-based games, the onky things i played before trying Hollow Knight was Pokemon shield, Minecraft on creative mode and Slime rancher :^)

I second a lot of these. I suck at the bosses. Learning the fight style and taking a break when you keep losing has helped me improve my gameplay.

1. *Charm loadout:* having an exploration loadout (compass, gathering swarm, etc.) and a bossfight loadout (contextual, but could be a nail or soul loadout). 2. *Dream Nail:* much more effective for gathering soul, weak mob enemies respawn with every "room" refresh; unlimited soul supply. 3. *Store your Geo:* it can be "held" by Millibelle the banker/thief or the Grub Father (by simply not going to collect), it's a good way to secure your capital from loss and easy to collect when you need some liquidity. 4. *Mark the map where abilities are needed to explore:* better than trying to remember and a practical use of those pins, this also works well for boss fights and other oddities or curiosities (simple-lock doors, etc.) you need to revisit. 5. *Learn how to use the Rancid Egg:* if you've just died, lost a lot of geo in a bad place you might not be able to get back to, visit Confessor Jiji in Dirtmouth to summon your shade to you instead. At around mid-point of the game you'll be able to buy Rancid Eggs off of an npc with unlmited supply.