Silksong Player comes with a ridiculous New Boss Challenge

One player tries to beat all the bosses Hollow Knight: Silk Song by only using the Hornet's taunt. While Hollow Knight: Silk Song is already a tough game, this new challenge takes the difficulty to a whole new level.

After years of anticipation, Silk song has pretty much lived up to the hype for many fans since its September release. Team Cherry's latest game has already sold over 7 million copies, with millions more players playing on Xbox Game Pass. Additionally, the game was nominated for numerous awards, including Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025. While losing to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33the game has undoubtedly been one of the most popular titles of the year. With so many people playing the Hornet's new adventure through the Kingdom of Pharloom, some unusual challenges have been shared online.

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One of these bizarre player-created challenges was made by YouTuber Bloblumord The 3rd. As their latest videos prove, they attempt a run of the game called “Garama%” where they defeat bosses using only the challenge ability. Although not noted in the game's control options, players can press the right thumb stick (V on the keyboard) to perform a taunt-like maneuver. Although mostly for show, the move does a small amount of damage to enemies. Bloblumord The 3rd has taken this and turned it into a grueling challenge, which has already beaten a variety of bosses. For example, one of their more recent videos saw them take down Trobbio in Silk song.

This battle illustrated how difficult the challenge is, as it took over 20 minutes to defeat the boss. With the player only able to rely on one ability, learning the pattern of the boss is very important. It is worth noting that Bloblumord The 3rd enlisted the help of Shakra for a fight in the High Halls. According to the YouTuber, it's “impossible” to take down the Maestros and their Cogflies with taunts during several of the later waves. While the overall challenge is daunting, the flying enemies come in Silk song can be a particular problem.

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It will be interesting to see how long Bloblumord The 3rd takes to complete its challenge run. They've already taken some of them down Silk songs most famous managers. They even went out of order with one of their first videos, showing them defeating the final boss using this method. No matter how long it takes, the challenge reveals the skill of the player as many have struggled to beat some of the game's bosses while playing regularly.

Team Cherry will be adding more bosses to Silksong in Sea of Sorrow

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When players come up with new challenges Silk song even harder, Team Cherry is busy working on new content for the game. Specifically, the developer revealed the free Sea of Sorrow expansion earlier in December. Although details were sparse, a release window of 2026 was announced. Additionally, Team Cherry revealed that more bosses would be coming to the game. With this in mind, Bloblumord The 3rd could choose to continue its challenge with the new expansion's content.

Unfortunately, it is unknown when Silk song's Sea of Sorrow expansion will be released in the new year. But given Team Cherry's reputation, the wait will likely be well worth it. Fans will remember new bosses like Nightmare King Grimm from the original Hollow KnightThe DLCs were some of the most exciting in the entire game. Time will tell what unique challenges inventive players will come up with for the new bosses that will be added to Sea of Sorrow.