It's also nuts that they are able to do that so early in the game. Like most other early game bosses are easy because you don't have that much skill/power/ability, yet Mantis Lords manage to be a fun challenge that makes you feel goated.
I stopped playing Hollow Knight because of that boss, after seeing Atrioc beat the game I didn’t want to be out-done by an old, one foot in the grave, receding hairline, wrinkly old boomer so I tried it again, played for 2,5 hours, got to the second phase like 5 times during that entire time and then ragequit the game. Coming back with the grindset soon though
@@erlandochoa8278 I found a way to skip the entire second phase, just use Spell Twister and Shaman Stone (and Nailmaster's Glory for the 1st phase). Don't use a single spell until you he spawns his second shield, then, *absolutely BLAST* him with Shade Soul while he's spinning his shields, kills him every time.
I’m so happy that the game is finally starting to get some big streamers/TH-camrs playing it! I think it’s one of the greatest games I have ever played
I‘ve owned hollow knight for years, but never really got into it. Picked it up again because of atrioc and cannot put it down. I didn‘t watch the streams, just some of the videos here, so I‘m still mostly spoiler free regarding the lore and it‘s awesome. Such a beautiful game. Really glad I gave it another shot. Edit: And I definitely feel the same about the mantis lords fight. It‘s just difficult enough to be a real challenge without being frustrating.
I’m legitimately at a loss for why they added him in as a boss. Not his normal version which is fine but his fucking ascended version is the dumbest piece of shit in the entire game by far.
You made me buy hollow knight. I loved your hollow knight streams, and when it went on sale on steam two days ago, i had to buy. Im really loving it so far
Atrioc inspired me to get back into Hollow Knight and I've been loving it, but HOLY SHIT Watcher Knights were the tensest thing EVER. The entire fight was so difficult that by the end I popped off so hard after I finally killed that last one. Best fight so far for me honestly.
I don't think steel soul is particularly fun, but I HUGELY recommend doing an item randomizer, its super fun and really tests your abilities to problem solve
Hay Atrioc! I just want to say that, because of you, I started playing Hollow Knight, and I got hooked. I mean 10 hours a day hooked. I have been playing for 4 days, and man. This Trial of Fools shit. haha. 6 hrs so far and have yet to beat it. Fuck i hate this trial of fools shit. But besides that it do be a cool game.
ngl the amount of death's you had from acid pools I thought you weren't gonna stick with it. But you did and I am glad that you did cause HK is one of the best platformer game sick vid Big A.
Seeing how different people struggle on different things in this game is pretty funny. I first tried watcher nights without shadow dash or even knowing about the chandalier thing, but delete the game while struggling with the bee knight fight.
i kinda like the whomegalul soul warrior because it has the same moves as the sisters of battle so its good practice for that edit: i just liked my own comment thinking it ws someone else's, i forgot i commented
I have been facing Soul Tyrant for like 4 hours, basically going zero hits in the first phase for 10 minutes then dying on the second phase from orbs spawning on me.
:( was honestly the 3rd hardest boss for me in hall of gods. 2nd phase was really annoying and 1st phase is really long, tests patience. GOOD LUCK YOU WILL GET IT!
@@atrioc thanks big dawg, only downside to this game are those time consuming bosses but its probably good for pacing. I haven't been this invested in a game since I was a teenager, 10/10
A fun story about my experience with watcher knights: So I beat them like on my 2nd or 3rd time on my first playthrough, thanks to weaversong and wall clinging (I had pretty low equipment too), but I think that I got very very VERY lucky with rng that time, because once I tried again in the hall of gods and other playthroughs... it didn’t work once lol. Yeah... so that’s a strat I guess. But then I thought that they were super overrated because I beat them almost instantly, but I quickly found out that I just got lucky.
Maybe got a little lucky but also did things in a very different order than a lot of people. Most people don't tend to get lantern before Mantis Lords so they tend not to explore Deepnest until much later. The sort of 'standard' line would lead you right into West City of Tears and Watcher Knights after Mantis Lords. What I love about this game though is that everyone seems to have one or two bosses that they just struggle with while they easily beat bosses that other people scratch their head at. I got the hang of Mantis Lords really easy but I got wrecked by Soul Master easily a dozen times in my first playthrough and I know people who had exactly opposite experiences.
radiant markoth is the only radiant boss i havent beat, and the only one i will never beat because 1 more shiny statue doesnt feeel worth the pain, so i agree 100%
It looks really boring. When he was going on about how "It's one of the best designed fights in VG history. It looks so impressive" all I could think is how it's just another sidescroller boss fight we've been seeing for the past 30 years. What's so good about this game?
@@bruhmoment1835 creative world, fluid movement, character customization which really effects your playstyle, goated bosses, great music, its not just another sidescroller it is the pinnacle.
Some bosses I really like: Traitor lord is incredible environment storytelling. Uumuu in the Hall of Gods/Pantheons is a pretty good boss IMO. But I can see why others don’t like him. False knight is one of my favorites because of where you are in the game when you fight him. It’s something I look forward to every time I replay, just to see how much better I am now than I was before. It’s a reminder of how far I’ve come. Radiance = D for me. I’ve never beaten Abs Rad because I never made it to the end of Pantheon of Hallownest (I hate pantheon 5, because it’s just pantheon 4 but you need to wait 40 minutes between attempts and then get your ass kicked at the end) I think regular Radiance is a repetitive boss whose only variety comes from RNG teleportation. It’s a cool event, not a cool boss. Grimm is repetitive as fuck. Cool the first time. Boring after. And they make you fight him before Pure Vessel and Abs Rad every time.
I think it really speaks to Hollow Knights quality that people rank the bosses so similarly. No matter your skill or playstyle, the bosses that are good and hype are good and hype universally.
Once i figured out i could pogo my way through the 3rd phase of absolute radiance it became a goddamn cakewalk. Was a pleasure watching u go through this game tho, awesome stuff!
Atrioc you should consider playing dark souls on stream if you liked the difficulty of hollow knight, where it’s your fault every time you die and super satisfying to beat a boss
You believe Atrioc completed all encounters in Hall of Gods (HoG) on radiant off stream when he spent his prior 4 stream sessions struggling on Pantheon of Hollownest (PoH)? Atrioc streamed ~11 hours’ worth of attempts (I counted 12 total attempts) in 4 days. On his second to last stream you can see that he had not completed radiant Soul Tyrant or radiant Dung Defender. On his final stream when he completed PoH he said that the reason why he took longer to go live was because he was busy completing all the unfinished bosses on radiant off stream “all day today”. This is nonsense. Anyone who believes this lie likely has not attempted the more difficult radiant encounters in HoG or completed PoH with no bindings. Anyone who has completed both knows the vast difference in skill that is required between the two. There is zero chance he completed whatever he had not finished in HoG before his stream with his current skill, and it is not a coincidence that he chose not to complete HoG on stream but claims to have done so legitimately.
You believe Atrioc completed all encounters in Hall of Gods (HoG) on radiant off stream when he spent his prior 4 stream sessions struggling on Pantheon of Hollownest (PoH)? Atrioc streamed ~11 hours’ worth of attempts (I counted 12 total attempts) in 4 days. On his second to last stream you can see that he had not completed radiant Soul Tyrant or radiant Dung Defender. On his final stream when he completed PoH he said that the reason why he took longer to go live was because he was busy completing all the unfinished bosses on radiant off stream “all day today”. This is nonsense. Anyone who believes this lie likely has not attempted the more difficult radiant encounters in HoG or completed PoH with no bindings. Anyone who has completed both knows the vast difference in skill that is required between the two. There is zero chance he completed whatever he had not finished in HoG before his stream with his current skill, and it is not a coincidence that he chose not to complete HoG on stream but claims to have done so legitimately.
Big A! You should do some videos with some other creators from the hollow knight community. Maybe some speed runners! It would be awesome too if you guys figured out a bros vs pros in hollow knight.
Zote is such a goated character. Very underrated imo and one of my favorites. I wish the Hollow Knight Kickstarter got funded a bit more so we could have that Zote game. Would've loved to see how that would've turned out
The tier list is super good, besides the fact that zote (the actual boss) is my least favorite boss in video game history. I hate him with a burning passion, and for some reason I had more trouble beating him than any other boss in pantheon.
There's a game called crowsworn coming out probably a bit after silksong. It totally copied hollow knight's gun mechanic though. All joked aside it's supposed to be hollow knight, where you play a plague doctor with a scythe and duel revolvers. It's extremely similar to hollow knight with the same HP and soul mechanics, but it has combos (kind of) and the enemies are like devil may cry, while the bosses are like bloodborne. I don't wanna sound like a 9 yr old but LIKE SO ATRIOC CAN SEE. Also here's the trailer. th-cam.com/video/dFndf7y4CeY/w-d-xo.html
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I can't believe Atrioc forgot to rank the acid pools. Never forget where you started, Big A
0/10 "Impossible"
-Atrioc probably
He named a category after it "rancid dogwater"
Literal RANCID DOGWATER
Atrioc going from struggling with simple platforming to becoming a full-on Hollow Knight nerd is one of the best character arcs
Still shocked at how impactful mantis lords are as a boss fight. Ingenious design.
It's also nuts that they are able to do that so early in the game. Like most other early game bosses are easy because you don't have that much skill/power/ability, yet Mantis Lords manage to be a fun challenge that makes you feel goated.
They genuinely make you better
I somehow missed them and didnt find them until I had pure nail and I really wish I found way earlier
The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
Nobody gets that sigma grindset quite like zote, S++ deserved only the real will understand
Radiant Markoth is one of the most bullshit things I've ever done in a videogame. grinded it for hours, beat it once, and I'm never doing it again
I stopped playing Hollow Knight because of that boss, after seeing Atrioc beat the game I didn’t want to be out-done by an old, one foot in the grave, receding hairline, wrinkly old boomer so I tried it again, played for 2,5 hours, got to the second phase like 5 times during that entire time and then ragequit the game. Coming back with the grindset soon though
@@erlandochoa8278 I found a way to skip the entire second phase, just use Spell Twister and Shaman Stone (and Nailmaster's Glory for the 1st phase).
Don't use a single spell until you he spawns his second shield, then, *absolutely BLAST* him with Shade Soul while he's spinning his shields, kills him every time.
His reaction markoth whilst he was running through POH gave it away that he'd at least attempted it.
"Lost Kin" more like "Trash Bin"
Thank you rusty, very cool
*laugh track*
Thank you rusty, lost kin is shit
Lost Kin is awesome!!!! It was super hard the first time I fought him but now I actually love to do it for fun
Hello checkmark
so hyped to watch atrioc play Silksong and fall into acid 100 times over again while learning hornet's new schmovement
I'm pretty sure the new thing in silksong is LAVA.
Damn
I'm still really sad we didn't get more hollow knight videos on most of his playthrough on this channel
watch the vods on his twitch channel. i am youtube only. but i watched 35hours gameplay of his hk playthrough. it was fantastic
I’m so happy that the game is finally starting to get some big streamers/TH-camrs playing it! I think it’s one of the greatest games I have ever played
I‘ve owned hollow knight for years, but never really got into it. Picked it up again because of atrioc and cannot put it down. I didn‘t watch the streams, just some of the videos here, so I‘m still mostly spoiler free regarding the lore and it‘s awesome. Such a beautiful game. Really glad I gave it another shot.
Edit: And I definitely feel the same about the mantis lords fight. It‘s just difficult enough to be a real challenge without being frustrating.
@@tobiasjennerjahn8659 legit same im now at the PoH after grinding all week
10:15 love cloth’s new battle cry
i didnt realize how perfect it lined up, i was more focused on wtf the noise was and where it came from
@@moonsquid9310 W OMEGALUL RK
@@No-ss4dz what does WORK have to do with what i said, nice cat pfp btw very cute
@@moonsquid9310 That's the noise it makes when he gets a message from work, happens all the time on stream
@@No-ss4dz ahhhh ok thank you! im a youtube frog so i had no idea what it was
Markoth is literally just rng the boss
I’m legitimately at a loss for why they added him in as a boss. Not his normal version which is fine but his fucking ascended version is the dumbest piece of shit in the entire game by far.
Based take man 🔥🔥🔥😮💨👌👌
To this day I've never seen a better video on this platform
You made me buy hollow knight. I loved your hollow knight streams, and when it went on sale on steam two days ago, i had to buy. Im really loving it so far
I come back to this video every time I really need to fall asleep, thanks Big A for this masterpiece
Atrioc inspired me to get back into Hollow Knight and I've been loving it, but HOLY SHIT Watcher Knights were the tensest thing EVER. The entire fight was so difficult that by the end I popped off so hard after I finally killed that last one. Best fight so far for me honestly.
Had to come back to this banger! Truly the best video A-meister has ever made…
He’s gonna pop off with Celeste
Hahaha hahaha
@@ghostkill221 Naw trust, he'll play Celeste right after he plays silksong (which will never come out)
I don't think steel soul is particularly fun, but I HUGELY recommend doing an item randomizer, its super fun and really tests your abilities to problem solve
Hay Atrioc! I just want to say that, because of you, I started playing Hollow Knight, and I got hooked. I mean 10 hours a day hooked. I have been playing for 4 days, and man. This Trial of Fools shit. haha. 6 hrs so far and have yet to beat it. Fuck i hate this trial of fools shit. But besides that it do be a cool game.
Beating the Trial of Fools is so satisfying though. Hope you managed to finish it by now.
Who else is here after the community post by the Big "Glizzard Wizard" A himself.
The mantis lords fight for me is the coolest fight in the whole game, but I can agree with most of your list
the glizzy god himself is back at it again
Atrioc put Zote in S tier because he's a fellow senior citizen
ngl the amount of death's you had from acid pools I thought you weren't gonna stick with it. But you did and I am glad that you did cause HK is one of the best platformer game sick vid Big A.
couldnt agree more about mantis lords and grimm. some of the best designed bosses ive ever encountered
who here from the community post
Seeing how different people struggle on different things in this game is pretty funny. I first tried watcher nights without shadow dash or even knowing about the chandalier thing, but delete the game while struggling with the bee knight fight.
i kinda like the whomegalul soul warrior because it has the same moves as the sisters of battle so its good practice for that
edit: i just liked my own comment thinking it ws someone else's, i forgot i commented
It may have taken me like 1k channel points of highlighting messages, but eventually I got him to make this. Thank god.
I have been facing Soul Tyrant for like 4 hours, basically going zero hits in the first phase for 10 minutes then dying on the second phase from orbs spawning on me.
:( was honestly the 3rd hardest boss for me in hall of gods. 2nd phase was really annoying and 1st phase is really long, tests patience. GOOD LUCK YOU WILL GET IT!
@@atrioc thanks big dawg, only downside to this game are those time consuming bosses but its probably good for pacing. I haven't been this invested in a game since I was a teenager, 10/10
Hornet and mantis lords make me feel like a ninja
Thanks for sticking with the game man. It was really fun to watch my favorite streamer play my favorite game. Keep up the good work Big A.
Still an absolute masterpiece!
Had to watch it again
Ludwig was so off-base saying this video was bad. Big A can make almost anything interesting
A fun story about my experience with watcher knights:
So I beat them like on my 2nd or 3rd time on my first playthrough, thanks to weaversong and wall clinging (I had pretty low equipment too), but I think that I got very very VERY lucky with rng that time, because once I tried again in the hall of gods and other playthroughs... it didn’t work once lol. Yeah... so that’s a strat I guess. But then I thought that they were super overrated because I beat them almost instantly, but I quickly found out that I just got lucky.
Maybe got a little lucky but also did things in a very different order than a lot of people. Most people don't tend to get lantern before Mantis Lords so they tend not to explore Deepnest until much later. The sort of 'standard' line would lead you right into West City of Tears and Watcher Knights after Mantis Lords. What I love about this game though is that everyone seems to have one or two bosses that they just struggle with while they easily beat bosses that other people scratch their head at. I got the hang of Mantis Lords really easy but I got wrecked by Soul Master easily a dozen times in my first playthrough and I know people who had exactly opposite experiences.
Love coming here to rewatch this piece of masterclass level entertainment.
radiant markoth is the only radiant boss i havent beat, and the only one i will never beat because 1 more shiny statue doesnt feeel worth the pain, so i agree 100%
One of the devs made a video of himself beating radiant markoth 4 times in a row, and I have never felt so insulted
Genuinely the best video on this entire platform
Just Started playing hollow knight cause of you already got 12 hours
came here to rewatch this thanks to the latest community post
You have inspired me to go back to the pantheon of hollownest.
Thanks
I was told on stream to come watch this, so here I am. Good video
Zote is kinda like Loki, that is why I love the boss so much
In Dungeons and Dragons Heroes for the original Xbox the shopkeeper Rik Is actually the final boss, I always loved that twist.
Everytime I hear silksong I become sad.
Brandon Nvidia GlizzyHands the second makes an astounding tier list for his favorite game hollow knight. How dashing.
Just came back to admire Atrioc's Magnum Opus: The Hollow Knight Tier List
I am here from 2024, I am falling in the atroic rabbit hole. Please send help
This is a certified Atrioc classic
Oh no, the “certified Atrioc classic” infection is spreading to this channel too
@@Cgaffman This is a certified Caden Da Bobby classic
Hollow Knight is a masterpiece for 15 dollars, on all gaming platforms, made by three people.
It looks really boring. When he was going on about how "It's one of the best designed fights in VG history. It looks so impressive" all I could think is how it's just another sidescroller boss fight we've been seeing for the past 30 years. What's so good about this game?
@@bruhmoment1835 creative world, fluid movement, character customization which really effects your playstyle, goated bosses, great music, its not just another sidescroller it is the pinnacle.
@@bruhmoment1835 If you think hollow knight is "Just another sidescroller" you need to actually play the game and prove yourself wrong.
Absolute masterclass by the glizzy glizzy coffee cow. Up there with other masterclass classics such as George Bush’s.
Some bosses I really like:
Traitor lord is incredible environment storytelling.
Uumuu in the Hall of Gods/Pantheons is a pretty good boss IMO. But I can see why others don’t like him.
False knight is one of my favorites because of where you are in the game when you fight him. It’s something I look forward to every time I replay, just to see how much better I am now than I was before. It’s a reminder of how far I’ve come.
Radiance = D for me. I’ve never beaten Abs Rad because I never made it to the end of Pantheon of Hallownest (I hate pantheon 5, because it’s just pantheon 4 but you need to wait 40 minutes between attempts and then get your ass kicked at the end) I think regular Radiance is a repetitive boss whose only variety comes from RNG teleportation. It’s a cool event, not a cool boss.
Grimm is repetitive as fuck. Cool the first time. Boring after. And they make you fight him before Pure Vessel and Abs Rad every time.
love atrioc editors putting omori music in the background
"Can not wait for silksong" haha I can feel the pain of an entire comunity in this phrase weird
I think it really speaks to Hollow Knights quality that people rank the bosses so similarly. No matter your skill or playstyle, the bosses that are good and hype are good and hype universally.
I know this isn’t going to be a big video of big A’s but I’m still gonna watch and love it
as a huge hollow knight fan, this is a great tier list
Once i figured out i could pogo my way through the 3rd phase of absolute radiance it became a goddamn cakewalk.
Was a pleasure watching u go through this game tho, awesome stuff!
Another great video. Well done quack you are really carrying the entire atriocFAM on your back
cannot wait for silk song? Interesting
LETS GOOO NEW THUMBNAIL FACES
It’s crazy how much better of a streamer atrooch has become
If keep watching this video on loop, eventually it will become Atrioc's most viewed video.
I am happy to hear that this was not the most accurate. It was PERFECT!
Ok, I was literally looking for a hollow knight boss ranking when this came up!
2:27 what about Charon in hades
The only atrioc tier list I will agree with. I still remember the disaster that was the Disney tier list.
Sometimes you have evidence, other times you have opinion, Yes Atrioc!
Did he just skip talking about False Knight/Failed Champion altogether?
11:10 how many people were like me and didn’t even have dream nail before defeating these fuckers
Atrioc you should consider playing dark souls on stream if you liked the difficulty of hollow knight, where it’s your fault every time you die and super satisfying to beat a boss
Radiance was kinda underwhelming for me and it only took a few tries.
Mostly because I grinded NKG and beat him.
You believe Atrioc completed all encounters in Hall of Gods (HoG) on radiant off stream when he spent his prior 4 stream sessions struggling on Pantheon of Hollownest (PoH)? Atrioc streamed ~11 hours’ worth of attempts (I counted 12 total attempts) in 4 days. On his second to last stream you can see that he had not completed radiant Soul Tyrant or radiant Dung Defender. On his final stream when he completed PoH he said that the reason why he took longer to go live was because he was busy completing all the unfinished bosses on radiant off stream “all day today”. This is nonsense. Anyone who believes this lie likely has not attempted the more difficult radiant encounters in HoG or completed PoH with no bindings. Anyone who has completed both knows the vast difference in skill that is required between the two. There is zero chance he completed whatever he had not finished in HoG before his stream with his current skill, and it is not a coincidence that he chose not to complete HoG on stream but claims to have done so legitimately.
You believe Atrioc completed all encounters in Hall of Gods (HoG) on radiant off stream when he spent his prior 4 stream sessions struggling on Pantheon of Hollownest (PoH)? Atrioc streamed ~11 hours’ worth of attempts (I counted 12 total attempts) in 4 days. On his second to last stream you can see that he had not completed radiant Soul Tyrant or radiant Dung Defender. On his final stream when he completed PoH he said that the reason why he took longer to go live was because he was busy completing all the unfinished bosses on radiant off stream “all day today”. This is nonsense. Anyone who believes this lie likely has not attempted the more difficult radiant encounters in HoG or completed PoH with no bindings. Anyone who has completed both knows the vast difference in skill that is required between the two. There is zero chance he completed whatever he had not finished in HoG before his stream with his current skill, and it is not a coincidence that he chose not to complete HoG on stream but claims to have done so legitimately.
Lol
Big A! You should do some videos with some other creators from the hollow knight community. Maybe some speed runners! It would be awesome too if you guys figured out a bros vs pros in hollow knight.
shopkeeper becoming a boss, havent seen that in other games
Charon: ...
A true and real Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing classic
Really motivating me to try out hollow night, it's been in my backlog for years
Zote is such a goated character. Very underrated imo and one of my favorites. I wish the Hollow Knight Kickstarter got funded a bit more so we could have that Zote game. Would've loved to see how that would've turned out
Having never player Hollow Knight and having never watched anyone play it, I really enjoyed this video
Mantis lords is the best no other opinion is correct
stopped watching stream to check out new atrioc video POGGIES
I don’t even want to attempt nightmare Grimm
do it he said it's fun
I know this can be said about any boss but NKG feels impossible at 1st but when you grind it out he becomes easy just gotta learn.
I am not happy with my placement - Zote
Only real ones remember the first thumbnail
Hollow Knight: Zote's Journey coming 2027.
has Big A done the Eternal Ordeal?
Get Ludwig to play this game please
The tier list is super good, besides the fact that zote (the actual boss) is my least favorite boss in video game history. I hate him with a burning passion, and for some reason I had more trouble beating him than any other boss in pantheon.
New thumbnail reaction??
This is a Cheese certified tier list, well done!
Saving this vid for after I 112% the game, started playing after watching u complete it, but saving it till after for no spoilers!!
okay im back. im cracked and stacked.
There's a game called crowsworn coming out probably a bit after silksong. It totally copied hollow knight's gun mechanic though. All joked aside it's supposed to be hollow knight, where you play a plague doctor with a scythe and duel revolvers. It's extremely similar to hollow knight with the same HP and soul mechanics, but it has combos (kind of) and the enemies are like devil may cry, while the bosses are like bloodborne. I don't wanna sound like a 9 yr old but LIKE SO ATRIOC CAN SEE. Also here's the trailer. th-cam.com/video/dFndf7y4CeY/w-d-xo.html
i see atrioc has not changed his thumbnails
Fire vid bro
if he doesn't return for silksong I'll km$
He peaked with this video fr
hmmm pure vessel or NKG. which do I like more... probably grim but I don't know
i have beaten them both in radiant. so i mean i got the experience. but which... is... better...
I want to see some of his streams of it on his twitch, but I don’t know which streams he’s played the game in
Just go to his vod channel, they are numbered
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