Quick Slash

Quick Slash
Born from imperfect, discarded nails that have fused together. The nails still long to be wielded. Allows the bearer to slash much more rapidly with their nail.
Effect	Decreases Attack Duration (How long the hitbox is active) from 0.35s to 0.28s Decreases Attack Cooldown (Total time between attacks) from 0.41s to 0.25s
Notch Cost

Quick Slash is a Charm in Hollow Knight. It allows for more rapid Nail strikes.

Usefulness

Quick Slash can increase total damage output while slashing with the nail by the same amount. This charm is more effective than Fragile Strength in most situations, as it not only increases the rate at which the nail deals damage but also how quickly it accumulates SOUL.

How to Acquire

Located in Kingdom's Edge, upon a massive anvil in a hidden room in front of a massive corpse known as an "Ancient Nailsmith".

Finding it requires travelling to the very east end of Kingdom's Edge past Oro's hut and locating a breakable floor next to his training dummy. After traversing down a few levels, and looping up the west end of the section, there will be a small tunnel located within a wall leading to the Charm.

Location in Kingdom's Edge

The breakable floor leading to Quick Slash

Entrance of the tunnel leading to Quick Slash

Anvil upon which Quick Slash can be found

Charm Interactions and Combo Tips

	Fragile Strength Especially effective in combination with Fragile Strength, increasing damage output by a total of 131% from constant slashing.
	Soul Catcher Excellent when used with Soul Catcher and Soul Eater for producing large quantities of extra SOUL from frequent hits.
	Stalwart Shell The additional invulnerability time from Stalwart Shell makes it more effective to stay and attack an enemy after taking damage.
	Steady Body Steady Body removes the additional displacement suffered by landing nail hits more frequently.
	Grubberfly's Elegy Allows the Knight to launch projectiles with Grubberfly's Elegy more rapidly.
	Longnail Can be used effectively with Longnail and/or Mark of Pride as it allows the player to keep an enemy within reach of constant nail attacks more easily.
	Mark of Pride Can be used effectively with Longnail and/or Mark of Pride as it allows the player to keep an enemy within reach of constant nail attacks more easily.
	Heavy Blow Effective when combined with Heavy Blow to knock back enemies at a faster rate.

Trivia

• Before the 1.0.1.1 update, Quick Slash only cost two notches. From version 1.0.1.1 and onwards, Quick Slash cost three notches. This only affects newly created save files- old saves will not be affected by this change.
• When using the Dream Nail on the Ancient Nailsmith it will yield the line " ...Pure... ".
  • Similarly, "Pure..." is also the Dream Nail dialogue of the corpse of the Nailsmith found in the Junk Pit.