Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It's Binding of Isaac without items! ...Almost. The Wafer is used for later chapters and for certain bosses/floors that were too hard, I allow a trinket. Some of the early floors also pick up trinkets before I decided to ban them too. Cards are mostly allowed. Pickups like bombs and soul hearts are allowed (and later floors start with them). Goal is to clear every single room of the floor, and then fight the boss.
This series is just as much to show off the game's content as much as my own skill, so don't take it too seriously when I cheat and start with an advantage or segment up a run. Usually that just means it was too hard for me to do normally.
Mods featured:
Fiend Folio
Harder Bosses (not used anymore from ch.4 onward)
Hard Mode Major Boss Patterns
Revelations
It's Binding of Isaac without items! ...Almost. The Wafer is used for later chapters and for certain bosses/floors that were too hard, I allow a trinket. Some of the early floors also pick up trinkets before I decided to ban them too. Cards are mostly allowed. Pickups like bombs and soul hearts are allowed (and later floors start with them). Goal is to clear every single room of the floor, and then fight the boss.
This series is just as much to show off the game's content as much as my own skill, so don't take it too seriously when I cheat and start with an advantage or segment up a run. Usually that just means it was too hard for me to do normally.
Mods featured:
Fiend Folio
Harder Bosses (not used anymore from ch.4 onward)
Hard Mode Major Boss Patterns
Revelations
![Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Moss Mother]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RZ-lH8Dh5-w/mqdefault.jpg "Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Moss Mother]
Silksong is here! Training for Steel Soul, I decided to record relatively clean battles vs every boss. Rules for each are simple; no tools, crests, or skills besides the default Hunter and Silkspear, no healing, and my attacks deal half damage (via mod)
Moss Mother still goes down lightning quick even with effectively double the health. Being a tutorial boss, this is no big surprise. Not much to speak of strategy, you can heal in midair in this game so if you need health simply jump into the air as she passes under. In general, Ive decided not to show healing opportunities in this game because midair heals make it possible to get away with an almost unlimited number of ideas.
Also its kinda funny that Moss Mother, the tutorial boss, has more than a couple things in common with Winged Nosk, one of the very last bosses you ever see in the original game.")
![Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Watcher at the Edge]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rfo3beDywZw/mqdefault.jpg "Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Watcher at the Edge]
Silksong is here! Training for Steel Soul, I decided to record relatively clean battles vs every boss. Rules for each are simple; no tools, crests, or skills besides the default Hunter and Silkspear, no healing, and my attacks deal half damage (via mod)
Yet another Barely-A-Boss. Hes got high HP and even a stagger, but no music or any real reward. All you get is a cosmetic trophy, and the journal entry. Just punish any time he swings his sword into the ground and youre good.")
![Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Nyleth]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SRuzyISOsVk/mqdefault.jpg "Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Nyleth]
Silksong is here! Training for Steel Soul, I decided to record relatively clean battles vs every boss. Rules for each are simple; no tools, crests, or skills besides the default Hunter and Silkspear, no healing, and my attacks deal half damage (via mod)
I thought this would be way worse than it was. I was fearing Id have to lift a rule to make this reasonable, turns out primarily melee works just fine and silkspear is actually very capable here.")
![Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Palestag]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Se7esDMg6wA/mqdefault.jpg "Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Palestag]
Silksong is here! Training for Steel Soul, I decided to record relatively clean battles vs every boss. Rules for each are simple; no tools, crests, or skills besides the default Hunter and Silkspear, no healing, and my attacks deal half damage (via mod)
Barely-a-boss. It has very low health and only 1 attack. If this gives you trouble this deep into the game, I dont know what to tell you.")
![Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Groal the Great]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tt45kDJ_GtQ/mqdefault.jpg "Hollow Knight: Silksong Boss [Groal the Great]
Silksong is here! Training for Steel Soul, I decided to record relatively clean battles vs every boss. Rules for each are simple; no tools, crests, or skills besides the default Hunter and Silkspear, no healing, and my attacks deal half damage (via mod)
Skipped the waves of enemies that come before (and definitely healed up during that portion) because the boss is hard enough and the runback is terrible, even with the hidden bench. Good fight though, shame about the more frustrating elements surrounding it. Nail arts can be done as he emerges, dont be too aggressive otherwise.")
