Hollow Knight Pantheon of Hallownest Encounter Guide

If you’re tired of beating your head against a wall trying to reach Absolute Radiance to obtain that final achievement this guide is for you. I’ll explain what charms are best, how to defeat the most troublesome bosses, and obscure tips to dodge some attacks.

チャーム

IMO the best charms for this 43 boss rush are, Quick heal, Double heal, the shape of unn and grubsong (for an extra amount of soul) probably the most underappreciated charms since most players only equip one of them at the time but together they’re super strong to keep you alive. also I know it’s hard to have to unequip mark of pride but trust me if it’s possible to defeat a boss without a bigger nail you should defeat it without a bigger nail. btw focus on attacking too not just healing.

Sisters of battle

The 1st boss you should have trouble with is the Sisters of battle, shape of unn is very useful here since you can heal when one of the sisters is doing the dash attack, you’ll be below the spear and shouldn’t take damage.

Soul Tyrant

For the 1st phase of soul master the only attack of his you can heal is the one where he crosses the screen with floating soul balls floating around him, on his 2nd phase when he does the ground pound attack you should jump right when he teleports above you, then dash when he goes down, the shockwave hitbox is smaller on top than on the ground. also when he staggers on the 1st phase casting abyss shriek does a lot of damage to him.

Traitor Mantis

The traitor mantis fight is very tricky since he does 2 masks of damage, thankfully his health is pretty low so using the shape of unn to get away from him then spam the x button to attack, makes it a lot faster to defeat him.

Failed Champion

Probably the 2nd hardest boss in the pantheon since he moves very very fast and it is another boss that does twice the damage (thanks team cherry) but he only haves 2 攻撃, if he holds his weapon above his head he’s gonna hit the ground and cause a shockwave (stay away from him as fast as you can) and the one where he jumps on you this is the moment you should attack him, just dash bellow him when he jumps and keep attacking when he staggers you can hit his armor and dream nail, hit it again then heal, only when you have full health and full soul you should attack the maggot, on the attack where he stays in the middle of the arena spamming shade soul should take a lot of health from him, repeat until he dies.

NKG

There we go, the REAL reason why we did equip shape of unn during this pantheon, you should dodge all of his attacks with a double jump, it is best only to deal damage on him during the bat’s attack, if you’re fast you can hit him up to 3 回, u can also strike him on the flame pillar attack but this one is best to heal you see if you time it right when the 1st pillar goes up immediately start healing, with shape of unn move away from the 2nd pillar you should be able to heal twice if you dodge all 4 柱, and for the pufferfish attack if you’re REALLY bad at dodging it spam descending dark for some invincibility frames.

Pure vessel

Or should I say poopy vessel, this is the hardest boss in the whole game, even harder than fricking abs radiance, but one thing that helped me a lot during this fight is: if you feel like he gonna teleport or attack you should just double jump you’ll dodge most of his attacks (except the void attack, この場合, use descending dark if you aren’t able to pogo on him) even the one where he teleports above you (just make sure to move left or right fast enough to dodge him) also it’s possible to heal twice during the focus attack if you get lucky, btw try to keep an eye on him all the time to know what attack he’s gonna do next, just don’t give up and try to consistently beat him on the hall of gods.

ABSOLUTE RADIANCE

Congrats you beat the hardest boss in the game, now its time for the most rng dependant boss in the game, her 1st to 3rd phase shouldn’t give you much trouble, theres plenty of attacks where you can heal and damage the radiance, now the 4rth phase, just try to stay on the lower platforms and wait till the radiance gets to a platform near you and spam the atack button, and again, healing is pretty easy since most attacks don’t aim directly at you (except of the yellow ボール atack) when you get to the 5th phase PRAY for the fricking lazer to not hit you and try to get up the ladder as fast as you can to reach: the 6th phase, now this is the easiest phase but just be careful cuz if you f*ck it up you’ll have to redo the entire pantheon again 🙂 ,also if you double jump as soon as the yellow ボール spawn they’ll try to follow you end up off-screen and then they’ll disappear, abyss shriek helps a LOT if you can time it right, you’ll need to hit the radience 14 回 (if u don’t use abbys shriek) to beat the 6th phase and end the pain of not having all hk acheivements.