Rusty's 10 Most Forgettable Hollow Knight Charms 

Until you lose a mask ...

@@b1akn3ss93 I hate to be that super nerdy guy, but actually it's the same with the master sword at least in link to the past.

@@b1akn3ss93 well the master sword only shoots beams when you have full health

@@b1akn3ss93 that's literally how the master sword works

Everyone here is rushing to pull the "But aCtUaLlY" lol

And in charm combos

It's effect with Spore Shroom is decently powerful, dealing as much damage as Shade Soul with Shaman Stone

yeah, I've always had a hard time with lost kin. Last time I went there, I went all defense. defenders crest was a big part of it. It was the easiest fight yet

@@valarmis except shade soul shaman can hit 3 times

@@youtubeisstupid1952 yeah but that requires you to know what you're doing and I don't

They skip it on any%!

I didn't even know this charm existed until I found it

If Fury of the Fallen was ONE notch instead of TWO it would a lot more played in early games, but as it stand you get better use of your starting notches by using any other more proactive charm.

@@BeaDSM but speedruns on poh uses fury of the fallen

@@zionxxv that’s how finding things in the game works

You can hold forward too (just gotta be careful an enemy doesn’t move towards you)

Or you can... you know... hold up like a speed runner so you don't take knockback

@@tkpaura8926 that require much more careful spacing

i use steady body alot to deal alot of damage and staying in one place and im not ashamed

@@tkpaura8926 you can't do that for everything, it's a much smaller horizontal hitbox

Don't Do That. Don't Give Me Hope.

Never confirmed news was coming but sure

@@arkalt4066 why not? it is an indie game?

@@mr.irrelevent8956 idk, to me it feels more like a nintendo direct thing. It seems too well known to be wasted on a showcase not that many people watch

@@arkalt4066 just because its the most important game in your existence dosen't mean nintendo thinks its that important. We could get news, and if we're super lucky, a release date.

Or unlock Salubra's next notch.

That's how forgettable they are 😂

Do double damage bosses take 4 masks then?

@@sharpfang I bet

@@sharpfang fun fact: ascended double damage bosses deal 8 damage when you're overcharmed,

@@pulim-v Nearly as much as Zote if you're insistent enough.

@@sharpfang oh yeah final gpz can do like 18 masks if you're overcharmed right?

Yeah, I realized that when I first did the later White Defender and Grey Prince Zote fights. Those are like the two fights where the lifeblood charms help a lot as they do so much damage

Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that. It adds 40% of your max health, rounded up. So at 5 max you get 2 extra, 6 and 7 get 3, 8-10 get 4, and 11 gets 5.

@@neptune7872 Wait you can have 10-11 masks? I know unbreakable heart exists but thats i l l e g a l

really, the only thing it's actually pretty useful for is getting lifeblood core.

But you need joni's blessing to have lifeblood core

Wise words spoken, friend.

Rusty is much better than Watchmojo

@@ntc1000 My ass is better than watchmojo, not intending to insult rusty of course.

@@randomdudeofdahood3973 literally anything is better than watchmojo, such a dogshit channel

@@timklafke4712 Agreed.

What dose it do?

@@wolfhiker7878 it creates an aura around you that does a small amount of damage constantly

@@wolfhiker7878 it also change the effect of some abilities but you'd be better just looking up the best combos

@@Hk-ox4bb the only issue is that all synergies make the charm that defenders crest interacts with objectively weaker (except for spore shroom).

@@sanikuanonym1105 depends on what you want to accomplish

I wanted it

And needed it

Why would you take off wayward compass it’s the best charm in the game

Nailmasters glory, grubsong, literally anything else,

@@noone6991 because sometimes a bench is right next to a boss fight ,so there's no need to know where your going.

@@sirblue5586 r/woosh

you took wayward compass OFF!?!?!

Radiant boss fights

He's already talked about bosses

@@izscott264 that's the point

@@metajmw4717 ok

Ok hacker cat

And pogo.

And also an good tone for the rest of the game

I found the charm after getting mantis claw

@@zenu8830 same. I honestly used that charm a few times because i had no idea what else would fit better and it actually somehow helped me a bit before getting more charms and further progressing in general

i got fury of the fallen after i killed the first dreamer

add Longnail and Mark of Pride and you don't have to get anywhere near enemies

I wont lie though, it was never the enemies that made that quest difficult. It was the hazards lol

It’s also pretty good for fighting, steadybody isn’t really a forgettable charm, the charm can allow you to get extra hits in on bosses like nkg without the worry of crashing into his flames as such, improving your dps against bosses, it’s S tier (Theres also a video on the hk disc showing how good it is.) you’d do a lot more damage with SB than you would upstriking as well, this comment on the discord should explain why it’s good better than I can tho lol. “Steady Body is an excellent charm for a number of reasons: 1. It makes bosses that take a lot of knockback/move away from you far easier. With knockback, it is extremely difficult to get very many nail hits in because you constantly have to chase them after they get pushed away. However, with Steady Body equipped, you get to move with the bosses, allowing you to get more nail hits and far higher dps. 2. It helps against attacks that limit your movement options. These attacks include the lances attack from PV, the fire pillars from NKG, and the orbs from Absrad. These attacks have tight spaces where even the slightest knockback can lead to you taking damage. 3. You don't have to constantly hold forward. While it is not too difficult to adjust for the knockback by moving forwards slightly, Steady Body removes the need to worry about that completely, and completely removes the chance of accidentally walking too far forwards and taking damage. 4. It's among the best one notch charms. One notch charms are incredibly useful for overcharming or simply general purposes, and for the above reasons Steady Body is an excellent choice. The low notch cost also allows Steady Body to fit into many charm builds, making it incredibly versatile. This means that you can almost always equip Steady Body with Quick Slash, which allows it to truly shine.”

@@Arsarossa Its not to forgettable cause I remember it from the moss charger fight

@@someguyonth lol

OR doing a Mask binding. Seriously I heal when I’m at one mask left but when it activates I often kill of the boss and can heal before the next one

Not really. Take it from an expert.

Same. I still use it in deepnest, at that one section, when I'm nail pogoing off those centipede feckers to get at a piece of vessel fragment. I suck at nail pogoing, especially vertically up a moving enemy and steady body stops me bouncing off into the void.

still use it even in end game, i really just dislike having to hold a or d just to not take kb when i attack

I still pair it with quickslash. The dps increase I get from being able to combo enemies is too good to pass up for just 1 notch cost

@@jj2hostetler108 exactly. Sometimes I feel like the steady body haters are just spell build people

fireborn cant forget about it because someone glued it to his forehead and he cant get it off

Thanks! It was fun to help Rusty out with that.

@@TheGrinningGamer ?

@@eyald.8252 Twas my voice.

@@TheGrinningGamer why aren't you credited then? Edit: nevermind, just checked the description

@@eyald.8252 Yeah, Rusty tries to shy away from credit end cards, which I get, but he never fails to give credit for stuff in the descriptions.

Honestly these rankings seem applicable mostly to godseeker/really late-game content - steady body is great for bruteforcing weaker bosses & landing consecutive hits more consistently. The geo duo is at least decent until you buy everything you need. I personally ran hiveblood + elegy for my first coliseum clear - which made things a LOT easier. It feels a bit weird to rank them 'universally' instead of best/worst for the endgame specifically.

@@TyrantNomad If you're good enought to dodge attacks until your mask regenerates, you have the talent to use a charm that speeds up the trial a little. Hiveblood is the worst charm in the game, in my opinion.

@@legrandliseurtri7495 it's way easier to completely avoid attacks than to both avoid attacks and quickly kill enemies - more so in the coliseum where there's either plenty of space or walls. Hiveblood alone makes the trial of fools a trivial challenge. It also allows you to save focus for attacks in this scenario.

@@TyrantNomad To each their own, I guess.

@@legrandliseurtri7495 Also soul being saved for spells instead of healing is always good

Agreed

Me too, I only take it off when I fight bosses. I mean, what else should I take with me while strolling around Hollownest? I'm just a man with his nail who tries to get rich. 😂

@@advo9226 are you sly?

same, sameee

Quick Slash and Strength make you a boss shredder on their own though. You don't need Steady Body for it, you can just counteract the knockback.