1 WEIRD TIP vs Every RADIANT Hollow Knight Boss 

16:03 I blacked out. No idea how I didn't get hit there. Anyways, timestamps for specific bosses in description. EDIT: I forgot Flukemarm, but... I don't think anyone needs tips for that one, so. Meh.

10:50 "stay still to avoid danger" Ah yes, my whole life

When I did radiant marmu, my final hit traded with her, which killed me, but the game was generous enough to give me the win anyways

Hey, this isn’t Lo-Fi beats to study to, how did I end up here?

"Use what i and many others have been calling the noob build" *shows my exact build*

the mmc alliteration made me break out in a huge smile, it never gets old (':

"Clearing the entire hall of gods took me 6 days, 5 of which were spent on GPZ, Markoth, and AbsRad." I've never felt a statement more.

9:30 "everyone probably already knows this" y-yeah, totally! Desolate Dive is my main attack, I absolutely never forget it even exists noooo

You CAN NOT talk about massive moss charger without flexing your insane writing skills huh? 😉

Tip: Grubberfly’s Elegy works as a supplement to fragile strength in fights with larger enemies such as Abs Rad of Failed Champion since you can’t take damage and lose it. Combining them means you shred through some bosses with 48 damage per hit and quick slash combined.

I've tried Defender's Crest on Broken Vessel and Lost Kin, and it actually does a pretty good job at killing those little globs of infection all around the screen.

Rusty: **RADIANT mantis lords** Also Rusty: Thorns Of Agony

Best tip for Radiant Absolute Radiance: *Give up*

Just started my hollow knight journey, tbh you sold me on it

10:52 "The longer your nail, the better" -Rusty 😏

Best tip for AbsRad: Use Descending Dark on her floor spikes. I've lost many fights to her camping on top of her floor spikes, leaving me no chance to damage her, and eventually get hit due struggling to balance dodging while finding an opportunity to damage her. Let that be a lesson for all bosses in general. The faster you kill the boss, the less opportunities there for to make mistakes.

7:05 Did you just call my main loadout a build for noobs? I'm offended.

Finally someone who appreciates just how great sharp shadow is.

Basically: Sharpshadow to the win.

Heh, imagine killing broken vessel on radiant and then getting hit by a infection blob and it doesn’t count *Cries in a corner*

If you don't mind abusing a bug: enter attuned or ascended of any boss with fury of the fallen equiped, get to 1 hp, dream nail + up to exit the fight You now have fury status until you rest or get hit (which you aren't allowed to do in radiant anyways) Enter any radiant boss and enjoy the free damage.

You’re the one that got me into Hollow Knight Rusty!!! Thank to you I’ve found one of my favorite games of all time! (Currently on the 4th pantheon)

Just 100%ed the Hall of Gods about 10 minutes ago, and I couldn’t possibly be happier to be done with it. If you’re not a big spell user, here’s a few tips for Abs Rad: -If you have Strength, Quick Slash, and Grubberfly Elegy, you can be dealing either 46 or 62 damage per hit, since some projectiles can hit twice. -If you’re super brave, you can skip a ton of time on Phase 4 if you have the above load out. I waited for Abs Rad to teleport above a platform, and then keep my feet on the ground while spamming up slash. If you’re quick enough, she might only be able to teleport once or twice before going up. -On her last phase, do NOT play aggressive, even if that’s your main play style. There’s nothing more embarrassing than dashing straight into an orb or mis-timing your double jump and falling into the void. This boss took me 4 days to beat, compared to the 3 I took for every other boss combined. This is a patience test, because there are a ton of times where you’re going to die over something that’s way too difficult to dodge or read. Don’t be afraid to takes breaks, and you’ll beat her eventually.

Next Video: "Ranking RADIANT Hollow Knight Bosses from Worst to Best" Edit: Holy shit, this comment got more likes than most of my videos. Thanks guys

I honestly would love a difficulty ranking for this, the radiant mechanics completely change the fights. Like Gruz mother becomes way harder because of the spikes, no eyes and Markoth become hell, meanwhile bosses like Traitor lord and enraged guardian drop down on the list because their damage is now equal to all other bosses

Ah, Rusty. You and your alliterations go together like Markoth and broken controllers. Or the Radiance and swear words. Or Flukemarm and strange Hall of Gods references to her sensuality. Take your pick. Edit: Ay, thanks for the likes! 😁

Just another tip for failed champion is that when he is knocked down on his last phase DO NOT ATTACK HIM he will not get back up and you can effectively get infinite soul from him using the dream nail, Its especially helpful in the POH as NKG comes right after failed champ and having full health will increase your chance of beating him! Good luck

Ok so while this may be hard to pull off, THIS IS AN EXTREMELY HELPFUL tip for fighting grimm and maybe nkg. When he is in "pufferfish" mode you can actually shadow dash above him while avoiding the fire balls and pogo off his head at the right time and you can get a cheap hit when he stops. This helps get rid of the dodging part but it is very stressful and hard to pull off but it is so helpful!

I thought you would just say ''This one is impposible, good luck.'' At Absolute Radiance

Another strategy for Marmu: Long Nail, Mark of Pride and stay in a single corner. Everytime they come your direction hit them away from your corner by jumping toward them and slashing. Marmu's bouncing is much more predictable this way and you spend less time re-adjusting your positioning. Think of it like king of the corner, that corner is yours and if Marmu gets to close, you push them away.

Your Bloodborne/Hollow Knight content is so helpful and I can tell how much work you put into your guides and videos :) just want to say thanks for the helpful info

"It took me 6 days to complete the hall of gods." Me with 400 hours and has only beat p5 with the debug mod: heheh, yeah you suck. Edit: now rounding to 500 hours. Still no win but I'm doing steel soul for the "first" time for the 8th time (think about it).

Man, GPZ took me like 3 attempts, was I just extremely lucky? On the other hand, I have 20+ attempts on oblobble and haven't beaten it yet .

My recommendation for radiant markoth and how I beat them is I made a full spell build (spell twister soul catcher and eater, and shaman stone) and then I add nailmaster's glory and use exclusively great slash until phase 2 and then I have enough soul for 8 spells (soul twister) and the damage from shaman stone, so he has basically no health in phase 2 Also you can easily get 2 great slashes in before he starts attacking, and maybe 3 depending on his movement. Also great slash can get past the shield

This video is actually amazing, I don’t know what else to say. Fantastic job!

Quick tip for pure vessel. After every attack of his you can get in one to two hits. Dash through the daggers and jump over everything else. Every time after you attack you should jump. His three swipes attack will need a dash to clear. When he dashes at you don't pogo, just land and strike. When he does the blades from the ground it is easier to evade in the air because the blades are tapered and, you are more maneuverable in the air.

Lol, I can't even beat the regular Mantis Traitor. I've stuck on him for days now, with Grimm whooping my ass in between ragequits.

Oh don't worry I missed clicked this video while trying to click lofi deepnest ambiance. It's a great song you should look it up. Or make it.

As someone who uses Mark of Pride, Strength, and Quick Slash 99% of the time, Im surprised people would call it the noob build. It's more of a nail focused set, partially because I don't have to worry about filling up a meter for my main attack. It also makes my counters much more consistent.

I've been trying all radiant for a little over a week now. I just have to do markoth and absrad and i feel that these tips helped me quite a lot! thanks!

Another tip for hornet protector: If you use grubberfly's elegy and quickslash, you can stagger her so often that she can almost never pull off an attack. Grubberfly's elegy is important because no matter where you are, there's a good chance you can hit her from there and keep the hit chain going for a quick stagger. Hope this helps!!

You can avoid the pufferfish attack from grimm by pogoing directly above him

0:17 Orrrr I clicked on this video cause its in my subscription list and I love your content! (also maybe I want to try these bosses in the future)

Appreciate the help! The grind is real

When he said you won’t finish this in a day I just immediately thought of crankytemplar

Traitor lord’s dash can be tricky to time even with sharp shadow, so a pre emptive jump isn’t harmful. Ironically, sharp shadow will make this method less effective due to the increased dash distance

Nice video ! Also one complete cyclone slash (7 hits) and 3 normal hits is enough to knock the false knight down with the default nail so you can really abuse him, it gets to a point were you can knock him down before he begins an attack

Dude, just the day before yesterday I started doing the bosses in radiant difficulty! I'm over halfway done, so there's that, but I have to say I had to learn many of these tips by force to get through haha. The one thing i'm going to say is that i rather use nail arts on many of them, because first it takes up 1 notch compared to 6 from strenght + quick slash, and second, because on many of the bosses you can just nail art and then do some dodging until it's the next time to strike, instead of having to constantly be at close range, especially for Grimm/NKG, because they disappear so fast and you can get 1 hit in pretty much every attack like you said, but with the nail art that hit really counts.

Here's a tip for regular grimm in general: Stay close to the middle, and have at least refined nail. You also want cyclone slash. When grimm stabs his cloak into the ground, cyclone slash him during the attack.

I was literally trying to click a music video 10 hours 😅

I can tell you had fun with the mmc section

I started playing hollow knight 2022 autumn so I'm pretty new player. I can say that I'm very addicted to the game, hollow knight is probably my favorite game! I don't know how it happened but I have won almost all radiant fights and done two pantheons with all bindings. Right now I am fighting with absolute radiance (really cool and also hard boss by the way) and waiting for silksong. Your tips really helped me with radiant fights (especially markoth) so I wanted to say thank you for these tips!

Me, watching the video after beating every boss at Radiant: _Interesting_

2:07 Correction, dreamnail his body, because his head isn’t part of the dream hitbox.

These tips are actually so useful?!?! I'm def using this

These tips are great, and I found that watching a speed runner can also help, particularly for some of the earlier bosses like hornet sentinel. This is because they have already figured out a solid method to finish the boss as fast as possible with their current load out to get the fastest times. By watching some speed runners like fireborn, I learned some great damage combos that I am using for bosses to be aggressive, yet safe while trying P5 with all bindings.For hornet sentinel, for example, while she is downed, you can hit her once directly, then immediately jump up and strike horizontally again. Your jump will meet her instant jump after you take her out of her downed phase. Then, immediately fire an abyss shriek and then hit her horizontally again when she lands on your other side. If you have extra soul, you can combo this last hit with a shade soul and that will knock her back, possibly hitting her twice. All this from her knocked phase. I got it all from speed runners and added the abyss shriek because speed runners would have only had vengeful spirit when fighting hornet and they would upstrike her after the second hit instead. Edit: Oh, and also, the watcher knights is a must do boss for speed runners in the any percent category. By watching them, I learned an aggressive approach that works well when you have one of them alone or just have a bit of time with the two on opposite sides of the screen. You get it to do the attack where it swings twice at you and then go on its opposite side. Hit it once, then while it tries to counter you with the same swing attack, pogo it & dash to its other side. Then repeat this process, adding a shade soul on the first hit. This sounds confusing, but it is much easier than it sounds and you can watch a speed runner do it for reference. The other thing they do is time their shade souls when they can hit both watcher knights. It does a ton of damage. When both of the knights are together, desolate dive works best because it gives you invincibility frames and hits them both.

Just change your channel name to ‘Hollow Knight Bosses’

"took 6 days to beat HoG" *spends week on killing attuned NKG*

awesome! I cant wait to save this so i can finally attempt the pantheon like a year+ from now :)))

So i'm goin' to assume these methods work for the regular bosses too, so thamks for that one mate, needed this.

There is also a bit of a "safe spot" under Grimm and NKG when he is in the puffer fish phase where you fire off a few abyss shrieks. However this is quite risky if not done correctly so this strategy may not be the most viable for radiant mode. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TmcxrvqUiTU.html&t at 16:10

Don't mind me just commenting for the algorithm

just started and already lovin it

your hollow knight videos are saving me from this deadly quarantine. thank you.

13:48 That should spell death on the spot. Half the body inside SlyTheBuzzsaw. How???

Do I win something if I do it in a day? Can I be proud of my life's choices?

I have never thought about using the baldur shell charm!! I feel stupid now thanks for the tips

For False Knight and Failed Champ, if you hit their armor, it resets the wakeup cooldown, and if you get behind him, you can smack his butt, and you get get full soul.

I already beat ab rad even with every handycap on... But I'mma still watch this. Why? Because Unlike the first two reasons given, I think Rusty is a cool youtuber. End of story. So I'm gonna keep watching his stuff till Silksong and then watch that too.

As someone who is already done them all, this is pretty accurate. Have fun

Thanks for the tips!

with normie grimm, I found that when he bows at the start of the fight, you can dream nail and then use howling wraths and the attack isn't interrupted. It takes a massive chunk of his health

Soon, it will be "those 46 dislikes are from the bosses who you told everyone how to kick the ass of"

Healing: *Exists* Double-damage based bosses: *Woah....this is worthless!*

When Grimm or nightmare Grimm goes into the bullet hell mode and, you can charge a nail art and do the dashing one right when he gets out of his shell and starts disappearing.

Thank you Rusty, very cool

I have nothing smart or clever to say so I'm just gonna leave this comment because why not.

I love using sharp shadow in nkg. You can damage him in the uppercut, the dive (though it is very difficult to pull off) and the flame pillar attack. I never use spells on nkg since I just find it easier to prioritise the nail over where to cast spells

This video literally helped me to complete the whole hall radiant except for AbsRad - but honestly I'm shocked NKG and Markoth worked so well with just a bunch of tips

Wow I really wish I had known about shade soul-ing ascended markoth when I did it. I’ll definitely use that in the pantheon!

I always like your jokes. They are so depressing but funny

(I am not sure if this works with the broken vessel) If you have a problem with Lost Kin than grab: Grimmchild, Glowing Womb, Grubsong, Weaversong and Defender's crest. When the fight starts go to the right wall, mantis claw up until you barely can see the knight and hold crystal dash. The Lost Kin can't jump to you, the ghost are killed by Grimmchild, Glowing Womb attacks the boss, and Weaversong collects soul. Now just hold the button and wait. If your weaver get's stuck just Crystal dash into the other wall and reposition yourself.

Very good info in this. I'm a hard headed player and only used one build tho lol have 11 left on radiance mode so gonna try your builds

dude I know you probably struggle with money and I want you to know you are a great youtuber and I watch every video of you, will make it through this don't stop making videos with hope - your biggest fan

That shade souls with hornets spikes is amazing wish I new that before I beat it lmao 😂

14:46 charms, u can replace the mark of pride into the long nail and add the glowing womb for the nightmare king grimm for it helped allot to reduce the health while continuing dodging, and most of the time, you are supposed to be near king grimm when he is idle/ about to teleport, and mostly he does before, during or after his attacks.

Tip for GPZ, D-Dive is your most valuable asset because of the invincibility frames. You can use it to counter most of his attacks, such as his nail flail and ground pounds. Specifically, the one where he teleports off-screen and comes crashing down, you can stand still and time a D-Dive to evade his shockwaves and make use of the long stagger animation to get some hits in.

Actually been waiting for this for a whilehuh

Recently made it to 112% thanks to your videos, Relyea and Perpetual noob, as well. I'm saving myself the mental anguish from doing radiant fights. doing the 5 pantheons once was plenty enough LOL :'D keep up the good work, man! \,,\

For Abs Rad: If spell builds aren’t working for you, Steady Body + Quickslash is lowkey broken against Radiance. She doesn’t deal contact damage, so you can go nuts before she even starts attacking. The build I had equipped when I beat radiant Radiance was Strength, Shaman Stone, Quickslash, Steady Body, and Mark of Pride.

14:58 i have just been pogoing on his head during that attack and it works just fine

3:33 Radiant Sisters of Battle was so much fun once I got a rhythm going. Didn’t take me too long to beat after practicing on Ascended

thanks so much, i tried to beat radiant markoth for so long, and ive finally done it now

I found this interesting thing you can do with hornet protector where if you have quick slash equipped you can charge at her start spamming and she will rest and when you hit her she will jump away but you can do the same thing again

Dude, thanks for the Markoth tips

Honestly I just like your content!

Moss charger: Quick slash, heavy blows, grubberfly elegy. He never even got close to me with this setup. Just dodge his leaps until he goes for the straight charge.

Love this channel ❤️

I'm thinking about trying a steel soul playthrough soon. (not necessarily looking to 112% it, just see if I can beat any of the endings.) And honestly, after spending so much time practicing these fights, I'm more scared of that crystal tunnel on the way to the dreamnail than I am of any of the bosses.

with protecter hornet you can use quick slash and grubberflys elegy to keep her on one side of the arena for the whole fight