Boss Tips for Silksong, Part 8 – Be Aggressive! B! E! Aggressive!

The first boss you have to deal with is Signis. Once you get him to half health, Gron shows up. Now, while it might be tempting to try and AoE them both down, DON’T. When Gron arrives, he will have about 160 more health than Signis (Signis has 720, so half is 360). So, if you do damage to both of them perfectly equally, Gron will have 160 health when Signis dies. And therein lies the problem.

When one of the brothers dies, if the other one is below 350 health, they will heal for 200, making all the work you just did to damage them pretty much meaningless. As such, the best course of action is to focus completely on Signis. Base him down as fast as possible. Obviously, splash damage is unavoidable, but try to keep it to a minimum.

After Signis is down, Gron is pretty easy to take care of. Actually, the lavafall in the center of the arena is more dangerous than him. All Gron does is jump around and either throw his spear or try to pile drive you, both of which are easily dodged. All you have to do is chase after him.

First Sinner: Stand Still!

At the time of writing, this boss has given me more trouble than any other boss in the game, bar none. And the sad part is, I was constantly getting her to phase 2. The issue was, I was getting her there with only 1 Mask left, so I’d end up dying to a charge or a rune or by accidentally running into her when she teleported in front of me. Finally got her down though, so that’s something.

My best advice is to remember that the Clawline exists. Your windows are small for dealing damage, and if you are just running after her, you’ll miss most of them. Using Clawline to keep up means you’ll be able to hit her more often and even do some marginal damage with the ability occasionally, which will add up in the end. It’s also better than Silkspeed Anklets because Clawline will stop at the boss, while the speed boost for the Anklets might send you flying into her, causing you to take damage.

Like with the Widow, run towards Sinner to dodge the aerial claw lunge and jump over her to avoid the ground charge. If you are good with timings, Cross Stitch can help you avoid a few of the more pesky abilities. Also, while I don’t recommend it, you can dodge the horizontal Needle attacks by dashing (your hit box lowers enough to avoid the bottom Needle). Your timing does have to be on point, though.

Beast and Wanderer are your best bets for this fight. Sinner is too mobile for Witch, and since you respawn outside of her arena, you don’t get to refresh your tools, so after a few attempts, Architect becomes pointless. You could use Reaper to get extra Silk, which would help mitigate the Clawline cost, but that does require you to be very skilled at dodge to maintain the Bind effect for any length of time.