Primal Aspid

Hunter's Journal


''Wilder, ancestral form of the Aspid. Once thought extinct, they have reappeared at the edges of the world.''

'' These cruel foes will ambush you and relentlessly attack with their searing venom. How strange that their descendants are so weak. If I have children, I hope they will be stronger than me...''

Behaviour
Primal Aspids behave very similarly to regular Aspid Hunters, trying to hover outside of the Hollow Knight's nail reach and pelting them with venom bolts. The main difference is that the Primal Aspid fires three bolts at once in a spread, with the central one typically aimed at the foe and the others to make the attack harder to dodge, especially at close range. They also have higher health.

Tactics
Primal Aspids are very annoying to deal with due to their tendency to hover out of range, their hard-to-dodge attack and their surprisingly high health pool (enough health to survive a normal hit from a Pure Nail). Nail Arts are recommended to deal with them, to both kill them in one strike and close the distance with them. It is recommended to try and kill a Primal Aspid with a Great Slash or Dash Slash before it gets the chance to attack or escape.

They often are found in groups, assisting other enemies, or in areas where the terrain makes them hard to catch. In the Colosseum of Fools they should be high priority targets, to kill as soon as they spawn.

Trivia

 * They are somewhat memetically infamous among the Hollow Knight fanbase for being so difficult to deal with.