Rusty's 10... Okay-est Hollow Knight Charms?

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underline I'm a complete boomer when it comes to using Twitter or social media, so trust me, this is, this is as strange to me as it is to you, I think it's probably time to my. admit that I actually planned for this entire series to be just one giant list if I could go through almost 50 bosses in the same video and somehow not accumulate any complaints about the length of the video and I surely could have covered a slightly smaller number of the same manner.

In the right way, I had the entire script written up and ready to go and I sat in great contemplation for about three full minutes, deciding where each amulet should be placed in relation to each other based on their overall usefulness and enjoyment factor and the number of times they I actually felt like they were helpful and then, as usual, I realized that I had created too much work for myself to clean up in just a couple of days, so the script sat in the process for like a week, just getting old and For starters, rotting away and slowly losing what little relevance a list of

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night charm tears has in 2019 because I got hit with literally everything else I did in Blizzcon coverage on TG and here in the last two weeks making sure that you were correct in billing for such coverage. with editors working with writers preparing vacations travel life student loans in a US Constitution size the long list of others I don't feel like explaining at this moment that said I have told you my opinion on exactly 20

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, respectively being my 10 worst and my top 10 and I still have about five pages of bad jokes and your clever jokes to get something out of here, so I might as well pack up and finish a series I started for once

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, so instead of something. polarizing as usual, let's go over some

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that Rusty has no opinion on anything.

They're not good, they're not bad, they're just them. This shield may be strong, but nothing can protect me from crippling depression. The shield of dreams is not an amulet. I've always liked it, but there are too many players who think it's viable for me to try to deal with each opinion at once. I admit you can get some really good value during the more chaotic boss fights. like the High Prince's Oatmeal or other bosses that summon lesser enemies to help, like the Merchant Lord or the Rawhide for example, it can be a good failsafe if you get too overwhelmed with projectiles from multiple directions, but hey, that one It's the problem I have. with him, first of all, he can be your literal saving grace sometimes, but most of the time he just isn't.

The constant circular pattern in which the shield moves makes it difficult to intentionally block anything or deal damage to it at any given time. time and it doesn't help that this reaches the dizzying and blinding speed of the stripes. I just like having control of my entire character so when I have it equipped I feel like I'm forced to play around with it which ironically can lead to really poor moves and getting hit by even more things and what it does usually does something big. I can see why people like it, it's just not for me.

My therapist likes to tell me that coming out of my shell is a great way to deal with childhood trauma to which I just respond clearly you've never used the Balder shell amulet in a

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Gentleman and boy does it show, alas, she He just refuses to understand, like you've ever tried, you know, not to take? Damn, let's be honest, that's probably the best advice you'll hear me give in this entire video. This charm seems to be just a crutch for players who haven't yet practiced the concept of not being completely full and helpless when a bug appears.

No matter how hard he coughs in your direction, those who feel cured by panic can often only use this spell as a reminder not to do so. If you get caught by something while healing with the Balder, smaller projectiles and weaker enemy attacks will bounce off the surface. It lowers the stakes slightly when you make the big brain timing mistake - literally in the middle of someone else's attack animation you're once again a good crutch for newer players, but once you've gotten used to the controls for more than a period of time. In a few hours, that's not really a mistake you should be making anyway, so at that point it's time to kick off those training wheels and get a two-slot amulet that's really worth a damn, as my late uncle used to say.

Frederick, if the shaped oven is your favorite charm, then the first step to finding the problem is to admit that you have one. The one way is basically a really strange niche and poor version of the quick approach with less application and usability. It has its own uses, but it's the only real application. Uh Niz Form When you need to create your own window to heal reliably but don't have enough room for a quick focus in your build, the main function of the Uh Niz Form is to give the player an easier window to heal by decreasing the About the size of the Knights' hit box outline, you can heal while ducking under attacks from certain projectiles like the red bats he throws at you, for example, and you can also move a little while doing so so you're not completely defenseless here. , but it costs one. charm no less than the later mention, so I guess expecting it to live up to stopping concentrating is like putting too much faith in this charm to begin with, if you have room for fun then you probably also have room to focus quickly without doing Too big a sacrifice, the biggest and possibly single most notable feature of this charmer is the fact that you can become a Gifford spa just for bragging rights.

I guess the food song has always been a very middle-of-the-road charm. For me, its function and usefulness is quite simple. Taking damage allows the player to accumulate more soul as a reward for taking said damage, and as far as single-slot charms go, this one is about as average as you can get. It pulls exactly its own weight and no one else's, is perfectly average and impeccably mundane. The song offers exactly as much help as it sounds and absolutely nothing more than that. It's an average charm that offers an average benefit to the completely average player, so I'd go for it.

I deny it if I say I don't recommend it for an average ass like me, it's a good accessory for any bill, but that doesn't mean there aren't better ones available to you, especially for single slot charms, it's the kind of charm which just fits in anywhere without really having a certain specialty, more soul means you can heal more often and be more aggressive and it benefits the spell build because you can cast them more often, but other than that it's really nothing that can say about it. This amulet comes without any fanfare, no minions, no spiders, no nail lengthening, no magical shields, it's not like you're equipping this amulet and an ancient obelisk just stands in your backyard and gives you the gift of immortality or something like that, it's just a food song, that's the The beginning and the end are perfectly ordinary, neither good nor bad, it's just a food song and next on my list is Soul Eater.

It's a great charm with great usability that would have made it to my favorites list if it hadn't. a bit overpriced for its purpose, the main reason I never spent much time with this spell was simply because by the time you figure it out, there's a good chance you've already found another spell build that actually supports your playstyle. and here comes mr. Ford or Ford in the game and wants everyone else to give him a little wiggle room so he can get in, but this build really can't handle extra fat ass notches on top, so sadly this charm will have to go on the back seat.

There aren't many charms here that I'd be willing to commit four notches for anyway and I think people forget how high the asking price is, but this is definitely one of the more useful slot charms in the selection. that seems to go beyond just being a niche choice for certain fights, but if you're going to dedicate four full slots to a single spell, you might as well up the ante at that point and just love it to hell, but I mean. If the fascinating gameplay of standing in one place and taking off the B button and looking at everything in the general direction you're facing just crumbles into dust and rubble, then maybe Soul Leader is perfect for you.

Thorns of Agony aside from sounding like a twisted and cruel 15th century torture device has a lot of room to work well in melee builds, but it's really only for players who plan on taking damage, since the damage this does, for For it to be a single slot amulet, it might be a bit of a stretch. on the OFI side, but the good thing is that it doesn't really scale with enchantments like fury or strength, so the extra damage teeters right on the edge of completely ridiculous in my opinion, without crossing that line during moments of agony, for me it works like a sort of rescanned and repurposed Baldr shell and yes, the features can be completely different in comparison, but generally you're equipping these two for the exact same reason, which is to say, you know that whatever boss you're about to challenge will hand you over. your buttocks and I definitely plan on taking a few extra hits here and there.

It works extremely well against some bosses in particular like Watch or Knights because there will always be multiple targets on the screen at any given time for the thorns to hit, but going head to head. with a boss like the Pure Vessel, for example, it might warrant some more significant spells that strengthen your own playstyle. The thorns of agony are very crazy. I'd rate it two and a half stars out of five if I could, there are certainly the worst individual sample arms out there. What thorns, but there are definitely much better ones: The Dream Bearer Amulet is the third single-slot amulet on this list, and despite the amulet being placed in such an arbitrary position on my list, I really think this one It is a great amulet in itself. true, it's not a huge need for any build, but that certainly doesn't mean it doesn't have a place where your dream nail is usually meant to access dream battles and certain dialogues and stuff like that, and the dream bearer's amulet essentially take that. ability and more or less turn it into a weapon by drastically reducing its charge time to the point where you can easily dream of nailing slower enemies in combat.

As a bonus, you can dream about stabbing enemies to strangle your soul reserves if you're running low on your dream bearer. It definitely helps make it a little easier, but that doesn't change the fact that you stay completely still when using it, so although the movement is much faster, it's still a little inconvenient and awkward to use, especially with multiple enemies on the screen. You can get out of this thing in areas like the Colosseum of Fools, however, it's stupid, it's huge because if you're low on soul, you can kill all but one enemy on the screen to prevent the next path from entering. and then just shake that bastard for all he's worth, next we have a crisp shadow.

I just want to go ahead and say that I came super ultra mega close to putting this one on my list of favorite charms and if I were ranking charms as All In One Video, this would probably fall like a 13 or 14 or something like that. The extra damage is super nice, but the increased distance makes some platforms harder than they should be, just because a side effect of the sharp shadow is that you're pushing the distance away with the shadow. The cloak has actually been stepped up a bit and can really mess things up if you've spent the entire game getting used to the base distance your shadow run travels.

This is good for those really nice builds that players only tend to build for style. points, but a sharp shadow may be better unequipped when it comes to really precise rigs. I learned this lesson the hard way in the Queen's Gardens because after equipping her I thought the extra damage sounded good and it certainly is, I would try to dodge it. a thorn vine or something trying to get to another platform and then just trebuchet me past where I wanted it and headbutt another wall of thorns immediately in front of it. Definitely good for dealing extra damage against bosses, but only if you're really comfortable dodging and evadingattacks is too powerful.

I say even the Knights can't control it. You could also be trying to walk your 1500 pound pet bison on a leash made of string cheese if you're not, then you'd be overzealous and trying to take advantage of the extra damage from the charms can result in some risky plays that can easily lead to to receive unnecessary blows. This is one that I really had trouble with in terms of placement because the hardcore shell charm alone is nothing spectacular. Less than half a second is added to your cooldown when getting the kit and that bonus seems to be enough to avoid some attacks and in other situations lasts long enough to get hit by something else you weren't even looking at when the time window closes. closes on you again, pairing it with quick focus can slightly increase the time window for a heal and if you combine it with a quick slash, the increased invulnerability can give you enough time to safely land another hit before having to retreat.

It's also an extremely valuable charm to have in later rounds in the Colosseum of Fools, where enemies are as plentiful as particles in the air and you could practically stand ten feet from your controller shooting random buttons with a rubber band and still I have a reasonable chance of killing something, in which case the extra invulnerability is useful in a pinch, but that's the only specific application I can think of where I'd prefer such a big stalwart, so let go of that stalwart. and grab a shaman stone because the extra invulnerability doesn't really matter when there's no one around to hit you.

The wayward compass combined with the swarm accumulation. These two amulets make up every new explorer's favorite pair of hollow night trading wheels. They are the Tweedledee and the Tweedledum. of loads of hollow knives, the yin and yang of Eastern religion, the if and then of computing, name a more iconic duo, oh wait,

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, yeah, quick slash and Mark of Bright is a pretty good duo , but I don't know if I really did it. I won't need them for as long as I thought I would need them. I guess this is more a testament to how good the level design is than anything else because the screens in certain areas become really recognizable very easily due to all the backtracking you'll do.

I would probably be doing from one area to another. I found myself checking the maps less and less after a couple of hours because I could just look around for a couple of seconds and instantly know where I was in relation to everything else like, oh, this is the area. where I ran in and got my butt crushed by that giant guy from the Club, that means I need to turn around and go somewhere else as moments like these start to become more and more common, you just start knowing where everything is without needing to review a map. or a compass or something, plus with games like Hollow Knight, getting lost is half the fun anyway, gathering a swarm, same thing, remember being seven years old and thinking quicksand and T-rex were going to be much bigger problems in your life than them?

Now they're fine, that's the relationship he had with the swarm. I thought that spending and accumulating their currency would benefit me a lot in the long run because that only meant I could buy a lot more resources to help me through hours of gameplay later. I've cleared out all the stores in Hallo Nest and Sli is mobbing me because he thinks I'll be back for more. These are the two. Well, be min. Hello. Evening. I started ignoring these things not even halfway through the game and I never looked back, but newbie or veteran, if you equip these amulets from time to time, I don't know, it's not really a move that people will look down on you because they're not good , they're not necessarily bad either, like having a five-second conversation with your neighbor about the weather or someone's dog, like having small talk with your hairdresser about a topic you secretly couldn't be bothered to talk about, and, like my sense of humor on a good day, nothing impressive at all.

It's not irredeemable, but it's not exactly anything special, perfectly average, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to do me a big favor, please like and subscribe if you haven't already. I can't even begin to explain it looking at these numbers and just knowing that there is someone out there who is just as deranged as I am thank you for tuning into the forge. I'm rusty and keep giving me ideas for these videos too because the creative parts of my brain have been a Dust Bowl lately anyway, yeah, I'll guess. See you next time piss