Which is Better?... but explained in insults.

Warning, you are all disappointments and you do not deserve my pity if you are not prepared to be yelled at right now you are in the wrong place. Okay, so let's do this. Hello, absolute idiots. My name is Windet and welcome back to idiot central today we're covering a topic I was hoping we wouldn't have to, but as you guys made surprisingly evident on my discord server, none of you seem to know how damage works in Hollow Knight, the question is as such,

which

is

better

the nail or the genius spells. I'm once again teaching a group of five-year-olds how numbers work and I've run out of patience for you, so let's get this over with first.

There are three total ways to kill something in Hollow Knight, your nail throwing spells and the most dangerous of all, the last one doesn't affect us at all, so just tell one of your limited brain cells to forget about it and make room For something useful, the nail without upgrades, charms or Nail Arts can attack a little faster than once every half second with a base damage of 5 per hit as a reference. The hornet in Greenpath has 225 hp in Kingdom's Edge he has 700 and Zot has none. If you're too stupid to do the math, then I'll do it. do it for you, it takes 45 hits to defeat the short hornet with this nail and 140 to take him out in sentry form in case you idiots haven't realized yet, that's really slow, if you don't believe me let's take a moment to look.

In the most basic spell in the game, Vengeful Spirit with no upgrades, no amulets and not a single one to give, this spell deals 15 damage, in other words it is three times stronger, not to mention that the other two spells deal more than twice as much as base. dive with 35 and rates at 39, so without a doubt we know that spells do more damage, but this was obvious, of course, oh my god, how could I forget that I was dealing with you? Okay, see if base values ​​alone don't do it. through your thick skulls then maybe the next section is upgrades, upgrades for the nail are pretty straight forward, you go to the nail smith, pay him a bunch of geotrade with more and more payload as the upgrades get

better

until you finally reach its pure state and kill. the guy who helped you do it at full power of him, the damage from nails without charms reaches a huge total of Am I reading this right?

It says 21, damn, at least that number is higher than your IQ, regardless of 21 damage per hit being a lot more. From what we were doing at the beginning of the game, you're more than four times stronger and you probably have one or two spells that can help you, but before you idiots jump to conclusions, let's look at the spells first, oh my. It seems we have to do more calculations. I know I shouldn't have signed up to explain this if we wanted to upgrade all of our spells to their full potential without charms. We're looking at around 800 geo to get the fancy key. 1800 for the optional flashlight and a Kings brand so 2600 geo in a hornet fight for some reason I thought this would take more than that you are still following there is no way your brain is already fried no matter how cheap they are surely they are No It's like that, much better, right, sorry, I just read that Abyss Shriek deals more than double damage.

Now wait, the other spells pretty much do the same thing. Well, this seems very one-sided right now. Surely we can balance this. Somehow there's no way the spells are this broken, otherwise everyone would be using them. I need to know the reason why every idiot on my server still exclusively uses cloves as if it were some kind of crutch. Oh yeah, I still have one more point to cover. amulets surely this one will settle the debate let's start with the nail, okay when it comes to damage, I'm going to say that these three are the most influential, sorry fury, you're not invited, we have strength to push our nail with a whopping 50 quick slashes to increase our attack rate almost double and keep the body stable to maximize our ability to hit the damn thing we're attacking, assuming you idiots aren't moving this thing around aimlessly with all these charms added to our nail deals 32 damage at a rate of 4 hits per second, this gives us a total dps of 128.

Damn, that's not bad, in fact it's more damage than a fully upgraded abyss cry, well keep in mind that it only has an amulet equipped and is cast in singular time, okay? It doesn't matter, let's look at the spells first, let's not jump to conclusions today, so what spells affect the spells well given that you can't cast them indefinitely. I'm going to have to include spells that help your casting ability as well,

which

leaves us with two amulets, okay, at least you won't be confused because the first shaman stone amulet does two things: it increases the damage of our spell, but differently for each spell shadow, soul is enhanced by thirty-three percent, immersion by forty-seven and a bish.

Shriek gets a huge fifty stare. I know that was a lot of numbers for the three remaining brain cells to handle, but stay with me here as a bonus. Each of the spells gains an increased hitbox size. The most dramatic change to the hitbox is for the shadow soul. which is doubled and allows us to hit enemies up to three times. Taking all this into account, this means that the maximum damage each spell is capable of doing in a single cast is 120 for the triple hits of the shadow soul, 120 again for four hits with the screech and a measly 88 for the diving pair, this with spell tornado and you can do a terrifying total of barely 500 damage on a full soul meter, but I guess this brings us to the final conclusion of which is better nail or spells at the end of the game when you've already spent everything on it your money, patience and will to live this guy with a hammer, the nail easily comes to the top, is more consistent, has infinite ammo and allows you to get up close and personal with each and every boss and It is not surprising that people are so used to using this thing since it's your only option at the beginning of the game and if you're still alive at the end it will actually do the most damage, so why am I still here?

Well, sure at the end of the game, when you've already got everything, you've spent countless hours exploring and experiencing Hello Nest, it almost makes sense that the trusty weapon you've always had at your side becomes your strongest asset, but what? happens at the beginning of the game? game when you're just starting to bounce through Greenpath and the City of Tears, taking in the sights and being fully aware that you haven't found Quickslash yet and b have virtually no upgrades, it shouldn't surprise you that when your nail hasn't. Spells that haven't been fully upgraded don't deal more than 200 damage and just pressing three buttons sounds better than pathetically poking at the boss you've been stuck on for half an hour or gaining temporary invincibility while dealing splash damage.

Sounds more appealing to you than having a face full of Observer Knight If being able to deal endgame damage in less than an hour of play sounds like a good idea, pick up shaman stone and a couple of upgrades and use them to overcome the holy . And with that, thanks for watching this was an interesting video and I actually ended up learning a lot more than I thought I would by doing it. I'm working on some interesting ways to tackle the deep nest and some other areas in my next videos, so keep your eyes peeled if you're looking for more content like this, then tell me what you want to see.

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