The Best Charm Combos In Hollow Knight

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Hollow Knight offers players a lot to discover in its gargantuan world, with every nook and cranny hiding secrets. It is also a hard game, the kind that enjoys pitting the tiny Knight player character against creatures much larger than it. The game doesn't go easy on beginners, and life can be rough for the little Knight when he's just starting out.

Thankfully, Hollow Knight also has a lot of freedom when it comes to building a character, and that's where charms come in. By altering moves and effects, charms provide wide player expression, and can be very powerful when combined properly.

Though it's not part of the main game, this wouldn't be a Hollow Knight charm list without mentioning the Path of Pain and Hiveblood. The quality of this DLCis a testament to why it is one of the most beloved Kickstarter games ever made, better than many of the most successful projects on the platform. Added as a secret area in the free Grimm Troupe DLC, the Path of Pain is a brutal platforming challenge meant to be the most difficult in the game. Hiveblood, however, is a charm that passively restores one mask's worth of health. Because the Path of Pain has very few enemies to fight, building soul to heal is, in most areas, impossible. Hiveblood helps.

But this is a charm combo list, so here are a few builds to help make the Path more inviting. A charm synergy exists between Hiveblood and Joni's Blessing, which increases the Knight's masks by 40% and changes all masks to Lifeblood, but makes it impossible to heal via soul. Normally Lifeblood cannot be regained, but Hiveblood can regenerate the ones created by the Blessing charm, albeit very slowly. With a little patience, this charm combo lets the Knight take some hits without worrying