The Hardest Enemy In Each Area in Hallownest

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[@mrblakeboy1420]

on my first playthrough, i had a very strange route. i didn’t know where to go after killing false knight, so i grinded geo for lumafly lantern and got the dream nail. from there, i killed xero, then headed to greenpath and got the dash. i progressed somewhat normally from there to mantis claw except for the fact that i killed elder hu. immediately after getting mantis claw, i killed the mantis lords and went to deepnest. i somehow got to the beast’s den, and killed the first stalking devout by repeatedly dream nailing the small children whose names i can’t remember, then vengeful spiriting the stalking devout like 6 times i think until it dies. i killed herrah, and somehow got infected crossroads with 6 masks and having never been to the city of tears

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

omg wth that is the strangest route ever, I might make a youtube short on this if thats fine

[@mrblakeboy1420]

@@MaskerHollowKnight sure, you can make a youtube short. for more details, i grinded on the husk guard just outside false knight. i learned where to get dash after asking my friend if you got the dash at 200 essence, so she told me to go left at the top of the elevator shaft. also, i took like an hour and a half off call and 15 minutes on call with her trying to find the statue she mentioned to get to the city of tears, which i didn’t go to earlier because i thought i had to get some other movement tech to dash up to get to it(i tried to go there immediately before getting mantis claw, then marked it in my brain that i couldn’t go there yet and forgot about it until i couldn’t remember the order of those events). anyway, it also took me three days to get to kingdom’s edge, like 30 minutes of which was after looking it up. also, i killed the nailsmith, not because i didn’t know you could spare him(i don’t know why i knew you could), but because i thought he had a hunter’s journal entry that would be required for the hunter’s mark(i don’t know why i knew the hunter’s mark existed) now that i’m better at, i’ve gotten every ending, including the land of storms if you can count that, i’ve gotten radiant on all bosses except gpz and absrad, i have all bindings on the first three pantheons, i’ve gotten 84 zotes as my record, i got 62 zotes while overcharmed by one slot(with gathering swarm equipped, so it’s functionally the normal amount of charm slots), and i’ve gotten 59 zotes charmless. i’ve also done a low% thk run, and the hollow knight was actually harder than ascended absrad, roughly the difficulty of radiant markoth. in the same run, i did darknest and found it fun. i once did a minimum kills run by my own rules, which forced me to do the dark crystal peaks room without the lumafly lantern. my main save file has every hunter’s journal entry except menderbug and the radiant void idol. also, path of pain is a lot of fun for me and i wish i could replay it without having to make a new save file every time. edit: i switched from console to pc and died in king’s pass in the same spot i did in my first run, so i’m not that good

[@snowqueen3166]

that's an absolutely legendary run LOL

[@latattack2676]

@@MaskerHollowKnightI remember spending 60 attempts on hornet sentinel with like 5 charm notches and 5 masks 😂

[@supercyclone8342]

This is why I love this game! Even more than most games, your first playthrough of hollow knight is truly special

[@westinpeace1234]

I love how for most areas there’s a clear hardest enemy but then for crystal peak you could make an argument for like 4 different enemies as the hardest.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

true actually

[@id_0m38]

Nothing is more annoying than those crystal hunters on the way to descending dark

[@sp4cef0rc37]

​@@id_0m38 yes.

[@v4n1ty92]

Crystal hunters give me more trouble than most of the bosses in the game. I try to avoid crystal peak as much as possible cause I don't wanna deal with them lol

[@snowqueen3166]

5:35 I think we've forgotten about the room where all the dreamers' graves are, unlocked after a few hundred Essence in the top right. If you dream-nail any of the graves... the enemy that comes to kill you in revenge is named Revek. He is definitely the hardest in the Resting Grounds, if not the hardest non-bossfight Dream Warrior in all of Hallownest.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yes ik, I can't belive I forgot about her edit: idk gender

[@V1_the_scug]

@@MaskerHollowKnightyeah, he is definitely hard to beat, 2 masks of damage, hard to parry and is invincible

[@BenjaminGoss-c8p]

Your right and if we we're talking about bosses it would be hornet I died 20 times

[@MinnieRightHere]

Revek is actually very interesting language-wise, because in the original, he’s a boy, but in my native language, he became a girl for no reason

[@Ufocool70]

It’s actually quite easy to hit Revek with sharp shadow, and its a lot easier to parry them with it instead of the nail

[@I_Am_G0rb]

Bow to Gorb! Ascend! Ascend with Gorb! The great mind!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

hello gorb

[@Hardcorekubi]

O Wielki Mistrzu Gorb Kłaniam ci się

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

same

[@Kyra-Nostal]

Is Gorb a alien?

[@ikepog2862]

ANCEND WITH GORB

[@JF_9]

The fact it’s ur first vid is fabulously good The idea was amazing And the edit was great And u went 10/10 of picking hard enemy Keep it up❤

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot!

[@ahmedhabib1112]

​@@MaskerHollowKnight what where you smoking in ancient basin because I want some,did you forget lesser mawleks exist ?

[@KKTHEATOMIZAAAAAA]

@@ahmedhabib1112lesser mawleks are fine

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

@@ahmedhabib1112 ayo, also they weren't that hard for me

[@Bukem453]

Ikr

[@Joshuzard]

The fluke munga made me die on my steel soul run where I had done nearly everything

[@ActualPierce_]

in my opinion, the sporgs would be the hardest enemies in Fungal Wastes (if you're not speedrunning lol), I think that once you get the hang of it, the Shroomal Ogres are pretty easy to kill. great video btw!

[@slimic]

You can say the same thing about any enemy. "Easy to kill when you get the hang of it". Sporgs are so much easier to get the hang of than the Ogres.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

true acctually, I died to sporgs on steel soul once, but never shroomal ogres

[@wta1518]

@@slimic Umm no? The sporgs are still difficult even when you get the hang of them because they're often placed in difficult to reach places. The Shrumal Ogres are just a bigger Moss Knight.

[@slimic]

@@wta1518 I just find them easier imo

[@Arkson513]

I agree with the shroomal ogres take but I think the warriors are actually harder or atleast for me

[@mrtheunknownytquestion4592]

I wish there were more KZbinrs like this. the tone is very nice and it's not screaming at the mic with 50 silly sound effects playing on the screen in a second. hope you get more subs by the next videos. I honestly thought this was around your 50th video or something

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks

[@Sque_ze]

I think technically grimm or the shade when you give the shade catcher far right of dirtmouth an egg would count as the hardest enemy! Probably not grimm because that counts as a boss, so when you fight your shade, that would be the “hardest enemy”

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ig so but I didn't really count that as its not really an enemy imo

[@AnnoyedHoneyBadger-ql9rj]

what about the zotelings ??? they are in that room in dirtmouth, well kinda i guess it is in a dream but it is in dirtmouth

[@only1gaming_gr933]

You can actually kill the annoying laser bugs in the mines by just using spells

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ye ik that's why I said "kill with nail", though I didn't know this for a long time lol

[@thomasiobst8174]

Defender's crest was a lifesaver against those things

[@Toppertapper]

It also works with minions such as grimkin

[@StephenHogarts]

Grimm kins are so annoying

[@adamdinar376]

You can also kill them with nail arts

[@DomtendoSongsAI]

wow im surprised at how well-made this is. keep it up man you deserve more subscribers

[@Nebula_Dreamscape_Plays]

indeed

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@latattack2676]

@@MaskerHollowKnightwow

[@Renikee]

I still think the sporgs, those bomb shooting mushrooms are way harder, and there are more of them. And I think the big mushrooms that you said can be kinda cheesed by just jumping up and hitting them from there, when they hit their heads to the ground they can be hit, but you won't be hurt unless the other is shooting at you.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah

[@QW3RTY_101]

Honestly i had way more issues with the infected mantis in Queens. Gardens, mantis petras u can just bait out their flying disc and yeet around them, theyre more annoying than anything. Surpised you didnt say anything about the crystal shooter guys(forgot their name) theyre the dumbed down version of crystal guardian. I had a ton of trouble with those guys the first round. The ones u chose u can literally just be patient with them and ur fine. U can also just kill them with spells if u really feel the need edit: u forgot to add the Uuoma (fog canyon) onto your map :(

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

oh ye lol ur the first person to tell me about the map lol

[@Knurvwastaken]

Bruh anyone who says the mantis Petra isn’t the hardest needs their existance permit revoked, not their life permit, no, their existance permit.

[@extremelynoobgaming4742]

​@@Knurvwastaken mantis petra aren't hard, they're sometimes placed in congested areas with thorns everywhere so they're more annoying than hard

[@Gordon_Freeman484]

Hey you forgot about the Dirt-Mouther, the secret enemy in dirtmouth that you can only get when you get exactly 69420 geo and go to Slys house. He is said to be harder than NKG, Abs rad, and PV combined and takes 100000 hours to beat

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

omg ofc I forgot about that!

[@Ned_the_Nerd]

And there's also elderbug. Ever since patch 69.420, elderbug now becomes a boss if you don't say hello to him when you enter dirtmouth and deals 69 masks of damage.

[@ActualPierce_]

@@Ned_the_Nerd u dumb? if you have heavy blow on, you kill him easily. really, the hardest is bretta, if you don't sit at the bench when she's on it, she becomes a boss and deals 420 masks of damage, and neither heavy blow or wayward compass are allowed in the fight

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

​@@Ned_the_Nerdhe also has 420 million health

[@damianszulik664]

kings pass is technicly dirtmouth

[@thelastlaughter6454]

0:20 Grimm & grey prince Zote left the chat

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

I didn't count bosses in this video lol

[@bow_to_gorb]

I think you could make an argument for Revek being the hardest enemy in resting grounds, since he is technically killable.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah i forgot about them

[@fritzyfox3713]

Not bad for a first video. I really like how you chose to edit it. One thing I will say is that you do repeat yourself a bit but that’s understandable for a ranking video. Really good job dude. Hope to see more from you like this in the future 👍

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks, I'll be making more videos very soon, so make sure to subscribe and stay tuned! thanks again

[@typhoonboom]

@@MaskerHollowKnight i'll defenitly subscribe, though i do agree that you do the "at first i though" thing way to much. i did really enjoy the rest, like the great editing and picking good options imo, though i'd still pick the crystal hunter over the gem lazer guys.

[@mrblakeboy1420]

crystal hunters are way harder than the crystal crawlers, especially if you do what i did on my first playthrough and go there before getting the dash and then not realise you can deflect or destroy the crystals

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah but once you know they are easier

[@razzdrew6697]

Enjoyable video :3 I would like to point out two things: 1) Technically speaking, there can be an enemy in Dirtmouth: your shade. In Normal mode, you can bribe Jiji to call back your Shade specifically to Dirtmouth if you would like to count that. 2) In the Resting Grounds, there is the Spirits' Glade where various backer OCs can be found and talken to. Revek is also there, the so called guardian of the place. If you Dream Nail any spirit there, he will turn aggressive, dashing towards you periodically while invincible. If you manage to dreamnail all the bugs in the Glade and reset the room, you can come back and dreamnail him too.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

I don't agree with the shade one but I completely agree with revek, hardest enemy in resting grounds, I just forgot about her

[@meirl2941]

@@MaskerHollowKnightwait why not the first one

[@mysterypepper]

Grey Prince Zote is also in Dirtmouth, and he provides some enemies that I would say are significantly more difficult than your shade. Volatile zotelings can be summoned very quickly and will explode if not dealt with quickly, and there is a short window to kill them, which makes them extremely difficult to kill alongside fighting GPZ. There are also the other ones he summons (The winged zotelings and hopping zotelings).

[@ErykBeyk]

​@@mysterypepperthey are part of a boss fight so they don't really count

[@ErykBeyk]

Isn't the summoned shade docile? I never really had to summon so i honestly don't remember

[@Firethorn.gaming]

For the Devouts, I use Great Slash, because the hit triggers the attack, but the hitbox lasts long enough to hit the inside.

[@themusicman5976]

I would rank a few differently, but most of the enemies I would agree with Personally I will always find crystal hunters the most annoying enemy, esp since in some rooms you have to deal with multipal that it gets overwhelming, and in other places they can easily fly out of reach. J forgot the name but the ones you ranked to be the hardest are annoying but atleast they have a pattern, which IMO makes them way easier to deal with Also, in resting grounds there are actually 2 enemies. The lil flies that hang on the ceilings who will charge at you and explode are also there. Though I find the one you ranked to be harder to deal with Ill edit this comment if I recall anything else that I wanted to mention but for now this is it. Great video for your first one here on the platform, hope to see more!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

I acctually agree with the crystal hunters, as for an upcoming video (I won't spoil it) I struggled alot with them

[@GestirnErde]

great video, good points, great editing and awesome video in general one suggestion: simce you are including minibosses i would put brooding mawlek as the hardest enemy in crossroads also in resting grounds there are also the belflys in the secret rooms, hope you make more awesome videos you deserve more attention

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot, also I don't think brooding mawlek is a miniboss, as its in pantheons, and yeah I forgot about the belflys

[@Vegathron]

Hey great first video man! watched the whole thing. I agree with all your choices (Especially Primal Asprids)

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks so much! I'm thinking of doing celeste content aswell, would you like to see that? also I'm getting microphone soon

[@erwinzmuda134]

Bro you make video abaut hardest enemy or the most anoying

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ye ik

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

hey im watching your charm guide video rn

[@Vegathron]

@@MaskerHollowKnight haha nice! Hope you enjoy :)

[@l1nx915]

Wow this video is amazing. You deserve much more subscribers.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks, if you subscribe now you will be a masker OG!

[@dewroot5176]

These are some fairly interesting thoughts. Only criticism is that you should be a bit clearer with how each enemy behaves (e.g. Primal Aspids' three-spread shots, how Mantis Petras' projectiles boomerang upwards).

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ok, ill make sure to do this if I do something similar in future

[@thatkidoverthere2925]

Dude, great first video, hope to see more videos from your channel soon, keep it up!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@MrCatz64]

Well made video, very underrated!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks! im thinking of also doing celeste content

[@Roted_K]

although the quality isn't very good, but I got immedately hooked up for some reason and I can see all the work you put in this singular video. good luck man, hope you get the recognition you deserve.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah, quality is slowly improving with every upload, check out my 2 other videos if you'd like!

[@Kanapkaaa288]

Bro when i was watching this i thought that u have like 10k subscribers but you have 500 man you are so underated keep up the work man

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks

[@StephenHogarts]

Very true

[@Cooleg_]

tbh, i thought this would be a 10-25K subs video. You deserve more subscribers than 198!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks bro!

[@bazel6074]

Great Video! Love watching quality hollow knight content while waiting for silksong. You just got a new subscriber

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks

[@fallen9997]

"There are no enemies in Dirtmouth" King's Pass and Grimm Troupe:

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

kings pass I counted as howling cliffs, and bosses didn't count

[@fallen9997]

@@MaskerHollowKnight well, King's Pass technically counts towards Dirtmouth (since it's on the Dirtmouth Map), or you could count it as a seperate area, like Mantis Village.

[@Vlyg11]

this is pretty well edited honestly, you deserve more subscribers, also I might consider revek as an enemy, since he attacks you, then again, you don't exactly fight him unless you dreamnail him, but he DOES fight you, though entombed husk is an actual enemy and revek doesn't have a journal entry, so, eh

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

I forgot about him

[@pineappleink9232]

congrats on your first video! your editing is pretty dang good, and you had good points set up for each bug >: D

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot!

[@GlodGlamerz]

in resting grounds, Revek is much harder than entombed husk. It also deals double damage and has much harder attacks to dodge.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah ik I forgot

[@EthanJackson-e4g]

the hive guardian is a solid contender for the hardest hollow knight enemy but god nothing is more terrifying than fighting a stalking devout on 1 mask with no soul. there is legit no easy way out of that situation except fight it

[@StephenHogarts]

Really hope you get to 1k soon (and beat trial of the fool)

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks lol

[@mikecraftbro]

Wow I didn’t release this was your first video I’m watching almost all of your 4 videos so far I’m definitely going to subscribe and stick around you feel like you’ve bee doing this for years

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

haha thanks, I have some past experience but have never had this much success, thanks for your support

[@Theroeful]

Seems like this dudes gonna be the best hollow knight KZbinr at some point

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

subscribe and you'll find out 🔥 thanks btw

[@TheToucanMan]

Pretty good for a first video! I’m excited for more

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@TheToucanMan]

no problem @@MaskerHollowKnight 👍

[@Lxcxs18]

Incredible video, can’t wait to see more content :)

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks

[@Itsss.Abbiii]

I gave 100% approval when you said primal aspid

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ha lol

[@Itsss.Abbiii]

I swear in my mind I was saying if u didn’t say primal aspid I was gonna leave

[@JustCallMeRezu]

4:03 you can dash through stalking devourer if you have the shade cloak. you also said alot of the enemies are really difficult to kill, although if you've progressed pretty far in the game and gotten at least 1 level two spell/upgraded your nail somewhat, all these enemies get really easy to kill, just incredibly annoying imo.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah

[@thebruh5667]

I’m excited to see you grow because this is soooo high quality

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks man, if you subscribe you can forever say your an OG

[@thebruh5667]

@@MaskerHollowKnight i already did 👍

[@Jonrocks7]

Wow cool, i farmed the husk guard on my first playthrough. Aspid mother gave me trouble for so long 😂😂😂

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yes same with both!

[@Jonrocks7]

@SNUGGETNUGGET huh?

[@Jonrocks7]

@SNUGGETNUGGET yes im aware of them, but what about the infected balloons is difficult? They have one health, defenders crest makes you immune to them, and they don’t spawn that often.

[@Jonrocks7]

@SNUGGETNUGGET again, defenders crest. Or just KILL IT AND THEN HEAL, ITS NOT DIFFICULT

[@Jonrocks7]

@SNUGGETNUGGET i have 112% as well, and they are zero issue… just hit them once and move on

[@SarthakWasNotTaken]

Honestly you can tell this was he's Frist video but still it's very good

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot!

[@nazgardthecartographer6172]

Not a bad video, but man, work on your vocabulary. You used same sentence structure and the exact same words for every location

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ye ik idk many word

[@deathbomb926]

You have uploaded anything so you can’t say anything

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

huh

[@nazgardthecartographer6172]

@@deathbomb926 I don't have to be a baker to tell if the bread is rotten

[@LostTemplars]

@@deathbomb926 That is an autistic statement

[@Bundugulskog]

Well made video! Keep up the great work! Deserves way more attention.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@juliarose3826]

Nice video! I always love finding new small channels. One small thing is ya repeat yourself maybe a bit too much, just like word choice of "annoying" got a little repetitive. You could also maybe expand more on "hard to avoid", like some attacks are hard because they are homing in on the player (like the sporg), while others because of large area of effect, or speed they come at you etc, just think mentioning aspects like this more (you did do this some with Hive Warrior highlighting its huge hitbox) might help with greater variety/depth in your critique but otherwise really great content. It always so interesting to see what enemies different players struggle with. Shroom Warrior and Shroomal Orgres as hard in Fungal Wastes surprised me lol, I definitely struggle with the sporgs more, 100% agree with the damned Hive Guardian though, I hate anything that shakes the screen

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks for this comment, this is my first video and it got no views for the first 8 days, but suddenly today is already got like 3k which is insane and I love all the support and positive comments everyone is giving me, so this really means alot, thanks

[@lx5323]

I agree with you on a majority of the list except for three things. The Sporgs in Fungal Wastes are way to annoying for me, way more so than any other Fungal enemy There are actually Belflys in Resting Grounds, and as Windette said: “tHeRE bE BAts hIdiNG iN tHe CElInG!” Jokes aside, they are definitely more difficult than the husks And finally, the Crystal Hunters in Crystal Peaks were just way to annoying for me, they are essentially Primal Aspids but slightly slower with deflectable projectiles, and the ones on the way to D Dark gave me an aneurism

[@mustlovebooknerd]

I agree with and guessed most of these. I forgot flukemungas existed and guessed the flukefey for Waterways and I feel like the mantis traitor is harder for me than the Petra. But otherwise, all of my picks were the same as yours.

[@Churito144]

great video man i loved the editing

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@Alex-ko897]

in resting grounds there is the spirit's glade, where you fight revek (if you try to dreamnail any spirit there) and its far worse than the entombed husk

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah ik I forgot about her lol

[@markedfang]

Trying real hard to make it sound like a compliment but it's adorable to see someone less experienced give their opinion on "difficulty" in hollow knight. I still personally kill moss charger in a goofy way out of habit and my friends jaw dropped when I punched out radiant Zote drunk and slung together words boasting about how easy he is ... Thing is we're not all speedrunners, so it's nice to see what others are struggling with. Thanks youtube, for recommending this.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks, I've only played hk for a few months, and I'm hoping to soon beat the rest of the pantheons (I've only beat pantheon 1) and also beat trial of fools, and zote boss

[@NukeTheLear]

Isn't nkg technically in dirtmouth?

[@StephenHogarts]

True

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah but I didn't count bosses

[@johnlemieux2226]

First video? You’ve got talent my friend

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks

[@nonsenf.]

Kings pass technically counts to Dirtmouth as you also automatically have the map for it just like Dirtmouth so it probably counts towards Dirtmouth. So the hardest enemy in Dirtmouth would be Vengefly

[@originals6270]

Fun video. I haven’t played hollow knight but it’s still is fun to watch the videos.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah, I'm at the stage where I just have pantheons left

[@Joe-oq1ji]

2:20 thought the video was glitching 😂

[@Iamspud69420]

Lol same

[@ihavenoidea1304]

Great video, i didnt brlive you had just 62 subs, continue like this and you will hit 100 pretty soob

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks

[@epicporkapis0959]

KZbinr: i first thought of belflies and then great hoppers Me: Stupid, primal aspids should be the first to come in mind (belflies - learn to dodge, great hoppers - stay away)

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah I remembered them and i was like: what was I thinking?

[@BBJJ11]

Damn that's your first video this is too well made

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@FractotheGamer]

I have a load of mixed opinions on this. Husk guard was definetely the hardest none boss enemy, since on my first playthrough i did not get the map after beating false knight (somehow), I thought the husk guard guarding the grub was the area's boss, literally. Agree with you with the infected crossroad pick. Nowadays i use Strength charm + great slash to dispose of them. Moss knight ngl was easy for me (spirit spam), I had much more trouble with the moss chargers which I just could not understand for some reason ON MY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH. Ooma or Uoma or exploding homing jellyfish being the hardest enemy I agree with you, but not in the way you might think. On my first playthrough, after realising they release explosive homing missiles after they die, I just ignored them. But fuck the ones in the Uumuu boss fight at godhome. Mantis warriors are imo the hardest enemy in fungal wastes. Shrumal warriors might have been confusing and shrumal ogres were just slabs of meat that had easy-to-avoid attacks. But I still coudn't get my head around the mantis warriors, even in my 112% steel soul run when I had already dumped 200 hours in the game they still were annoying as hell. FYI: Mantis village is a sub-area, not a whole area, and I'm counting them as part of the whole area Deepnest Stalking Devouts are annoying even on your 6th playthrough. Their just sould drains, and if you don't have any soul, your in a world of hurt. Those fucking teleporting all-spamming soul twisters could go jump in a deep fryer and get hung, drawn and quartered. The infected Mantis traitors are harder than the mantis petras, althoguh there are less than them, they are literally Mantis warriors on crack. Their slash attack covers half the floor, which as little bit too much, and coupled with the occasional boomerang from the petras. You would sometimes jump up to avoid the dash-slash only to be face-fucked by another traitors jump-slash or a boomerang. On my first playthrough, didn't even know the crypts existed till I began doing the Grimm Troupe quest, and by then I was stacked. And the entombed husk got in the way a lot, and belflies didn't really do much at this area. So I agree with you on this one. Crystal hunters could go jump off a 1000m cliff into a pit of red hot spikes. Because they fucked up one of my steel soul runs in the crystal mound. Royal Waterways had a problem on which enemy was the hardest and which was the most annoying. And my brain just could not separate these two. On one hand the Flukemungas only appeared in one room but where half-impossible to kill without being hit. On the otherhand the flukefeys would appear in half the rooms, mess up the parkour to Cornifer and fly around you when your stuck in water like the fat fly which hangs around your head while your hiking a mountain. But I digress, the Flukemunga is the hardest enemy. Kingdom's edge is an extremely hard area to rank because of the 2 sub-areas (CoF and the Hive), so i'll be ignoring the CoF and i'll count the Hive as a separate area. Firstly, primal aspids have aimbot, easily hardest enemy in Kingdom's edge. The Hive guardians were an easy pick, the obese mf would bounce around and sometimes ricochet off some off-screen platform and into your face. Plus hive soldiers were easy to deal with and husk hives were free soul reserves. The mini lurking mawleks or whatever their called where the hardest. The Malurks just made you play TouHou in a side-scroller and were easy to deal with but the fucking minature mawleks would crawl around, spit acid, and do a decently hard to avoid slash woith a deceptively long range when you get close. Not sure if this is controversal but the VENGEFLYs were the hardest/most annoying in Howling Cliffs. By the time you reach Howling Cliffs you'll probably have a bunch of abilities because you would've only thought about going there when you have nothing to do and probably searched up a guide to Grimm Troupe. Making the Elder Baulders extremely easy to deal with if you know their mechanics. Meanwhile vengeflys get in the way, make you take unnecessary damage and fuck you over as to try to do the whispering root. And also judging by how they SOMEHOW killed me in my 3rd or 4th playthrough while I took no damage from the Elder Baulders. The abyss only has one enemy which is the sibling and as a result, it is the hardest/only enemy in the abyss. Whitepalace has kingsmoulds which fucked up my second PoP run, which took an hour. Edit: Howling Cliffs is so forgettable I accidentally called it Kingdom's edge.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks for the comment, I read all the way through and agree with some of your points!

[@anormalgreenslime6843]

You called the howling cliffs kingdoms edge while talking about vengefly’s

[@V1_the_scug]

I like how bosses weren’t included unlike some other videos

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yea that's how I made it original

[@V1_the_scug]

@@MaskerHollowKnight which is why I like this channel

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah thanks, I'm hoping to release some more original videos soon

[@doe9000]

big bee is a pain in the ass, especially since you always encounter two along with two stinger bees

[@gracen1929]

soul twisters ARE harder than soul master.

[@ArctixFoxTSB]

Nice first video, keep it up👍

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

Thank you, I will

[@PintoSwinto]

Nice video for a first video dude! I listened to it in the background while doing some drawing, thanks for this little listen! :)

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

you're welcome! thanks for watchi- I mean listening!

[@nakuky456]

Fantastic video, i hope you make more videos like this🎉

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks, I will!

[@jujudasouk8528]

For your first video, this is incredible! Already about 30k views, keep up the work and you’ll get even more popular.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@PixelPathways]

primal aspids are not only the most annoying enemy they are also even harder than any boss, (other than cornifer the map maker)

[@blindtreeman8052]

I still remember losing a steel soul playyhrough cause i got too cocky and careless with a husk guard. That was my one and only steel soul playthrough

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

haha lol, I tried steel soul like 10 times but kept dying early game

[@blindtreeman8052]

@@MaskerHollowKnight that steel soul playthrough of mine ended up dying after getting the most basic ending(went straight to the hollowknkght and didn't bother with kingdom's edge.) I was planning to get to atleast get true ending with it, but I got the titlescreen for steelsoul and I just lost motivation lol.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

@@blindtreeman8052 lol

[@LAZARUS_PRODUCTIONS]

0:01 sir that’s the knight *one second in and he made the mistake everyone did when they first played the game*

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ye ik but by the end of the game he becomes the hollow knight sooo 🤷‍♂️ also I wanted something to point the arrow at

[@LAZARUS_PRODUCTIONS]

@@MaskerHollowKnight true

[@LAZARUS_PRODUCTIONS]

@@MaskerHollowKnight actually point it at the sky cuz that’s where the hollow knight goes after the game

[@FuyoBuho]

your content is always relevant and incredibly well presented!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks man ❤️

[@beamtrigger]

Lance Sentry and great husk sentry in resting grounds has left the chat.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ye ik I forgot lol

[@StephenHogarts]

For a first video this is great!! But in my opinion volt twisters are one of the easiest enemies in the coliseum of fools.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yeah I dont really know bcs I've never beaten trial of fools

[@StephenHogarts]

Oh that makes sense. Volt twisters seem pretty powerful when you first get to them

[@belfee]

THIS IS YOUR FIRST VIDEO?!?!?!?!? amazing work i wish you luck on your future videos

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks!

[@Persona-vj5xp]

This was a great video, one small tip for you though is that you should change up your word choice some more, you said however like 20 times. However, it was still a great vid. You just earned a sub!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot, I've tried to improve this in the 2 more videos I've done since

[@Firethorn.gaming]

There is another enemy in the Resting Grounds, that being the Belfly. Also, you could also count Revek.

[@abs_rad]

Incredible video! Until looking at the comments I had no idea this was your first video. Great work!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot man!

[@pauldunn-m1d]

the mantis warriors are the hardest in fungal wastes because openings on them require baiting them, and their attacks are a pain to dodge.

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

I put them in mantis village seperately

[@Gabrin1011]

Nice video Really crazy to see how much subs you got in such a short period of time Hope to see more of this great content

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ikr thanks

[@matthewwilson7590]

I grind husk guard. Go to crossroads stagway. Save. Use defensive nails. Kill the three enemies. Go up and kill husk guard by. Unleashing hell upon it, and then tanking hits. You also want the charm that auto picks up geo

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

this is good, but I think farming the moss knights with the greenpath stag gets u more geo and is faster

[@random_adrian07]

hey when did you start playing this absolute masterpiece of a game? Also this was an awesome video dude keep it up👍

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

a few months ago, I have 100 or do hours on it

[@klopsmmm]

Damn I didn't realise this is your first video, great job, keep making more

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks alot!

[@goldanddiamonds6561]

wake up babe a new hollow knight channel just dropped

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

haha

[@mysistersandilovetoplaycotl]

I think the hardest enemy in queens dardens is the loodle

[@joenoodle6914]

The subtitles you use a lot of the time look like the somethng youd see in youtube shorts. Id reccomend maybe removing some of the effects, like them falling down or expanding to appear, and putting more words in one subtitle instead of having a few at a time, would work better with long form content imo. Otherwise great video :)

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yes I was thinking of that also did you notice that the font was the same font used in hollow knight speech

[@spamton-e]

I would say in crystal peak those mini crystal guardian enemies are harder. They ave long range, fast movement speed and a high enough health. Also i would say that the little mawleks under the tram pass in ancient basin are harder.

[@ja-nozreaper5865]

Mawlerks? What about the smaler versions?

[@clawdy6903]

"Yeah there's no enemies in Dirtmouth" *Sobs in NKG*

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

he counts as a boss I didn't count bosses

[@syedsakifrahman3021]

Great video, especially for a first one. I generally agreed with your picks. I forgot that the entombed husk even existed so props for that, though it's also been some time since my last playthrough. Minor nitpick, hitbox refers to the place where someone can take damage while hurtbox is where they deal damage so small mistake there but don't worry about it, it's just me being picky. Best of luck!

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

ok thanks!

[@kirbattaquesmash5055]

No he was right hitboxe is the attack Hurtbox is the enemy (at least in smash bros it’s the case)

[@rayray5878]

Fun fact : most of these enemy’s drop exactly 50 geo (except abyss,primal aspid , mantis petra and canyon I think)

[@lbboy1036]

There is also the dive bombing bats in resting grounds

[@gim-8]

"entombed husk is the only enemy" belfly;

[@kqtsune]

finally a new hollow knight ytber :D

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

yes

[@darklogh9715]

Keep up the great work man you earned yourself a subscriber 🤝

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks so much!

[@rachelmaltby1229]

4:50 primal aspid: allow us to introduse ourselves

[@epicpro5575]

That Husk Guard in the room near False Knight was my friend. I miss him so much. I also miss the money he gave me after a hangout.

[@lallal]

The random subtitles are kinda weird but for a first video this is pretty good, better than anything i could do for sure

[@MaskerHollowKnight]

thanks