Damage Values and Enemy Health (Hollow Knight)

Although there is no in-game visual representation, Enemies in Hollow Knight take different amounts of damage from different attacks. Unlike damage to the player (which is represented in Mask hits), enemy damage is calculated as plain numerical values.

Damage Values

Nail • Nail Arts • Spells and Abilities • Charms

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Health Values

Standard Enemies • Bosses and Minibosses

Damage Values

The following is a list of all damage-dealing Nail attacks, Spells, abilities and Charms the player can use, along with their Damage Values.

• The word "Nail" in the Damage column represents the current damage value of the player's Nail.

• Multipliers that result in a decimal value are always rounded up by the game. (Example: Fury of the Fallen with the Pure Nail does 21 × 1.75 = 36.75 ≈ 37 damage per hit.)

• A forward slash / or an × represents a division of damage due to the attack dealing several hits.

• Where 5 values are shown, it's the health value for each Nail upgrade.

Nail

NAIL		NAIL ARTS
Source	Damage	Source	Damage
Old Nail	5	Great Slash	2.5 × Nail
Sharpened Nail	9	Cyclone Slash	1.3 × Nail × 3–7 hits (average)
Channelled Nail	13	Dash Slash	2.5 × Nail
Coiled Nail	17
Pure Nail	21

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Spells and Abilities

SPELLS AND ABILITIES
Source	Damage	with Shaman Stone	Source	Damage	with Shaman Stone
Vengeful Spirit	15	20	Shade Soul	30	40
Vengeful Spirit + Flukenest	36 total: 4 × 9 Flukes	45 total: 5 × 9 Flukes	Shade Soul + Flukenest	64 total: 4 × 16 Flukes	80 total: 5 × 16 Flukes
Vengeful Spirit + Defender's Crest + Flukenest	29 total: 1/tick (Needs retesting)	32 total: 1/tick (Needs retesting)	Shade Soul + Defender's Crest + Flukenest	29 total: 1/tick (Needs retesting)	32 total: 1/tick (Needs retesting)
Desolate Dive	35 total: 15 dive 20 shockwave	53 total: 23 dive 30 shockwave	Descending Dark	60 total: 15 dive 30 hit 1 15 hit 2	88 total: 23 dive 50 hit 1 15 hit 2
Howling Wraiths	30 total: 10×3	45 total: 15×3	Abyss Shriek	80 total: 20×4	120 total: 30×4
Crystal Heart	10	-

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Charms

CHARMS
Source	Damage	Source	Damage
Fury of the Fallen	1.75 × Nail	Fragile Strength	1.5 × Nail
Thorns of Agony	2 × Nail	Sharp Shadow	1 × Nail
Defender's Crest	1 per tick	Spore Shroom	28 total: 1/tick（28ticks）
Fury of the Fallen + Fragile Strength	2.625 × Nail	Grubberfly's Elegy	0.5 × Nail
Grubberfly's Elegy + Fury of the Fallen	0.70 × Nail	Grubberfly's Elegy + Fragile Strength	0.76 × Nail
Grubberfly's Elegy + Fury of the Fallen + Fragile Strength	1.14 × Nail	Sharp Shadow + Dashmaster	1.5 × Nail
Spore Shroom + Defender's Crest	40 total: 2/tick（20ticks）	Glowing Womb	9 per fly
Glowing Womb + Defender's Crest	8-9 per fly total: 4+1/tick（4-5ticks）	Glowing Womb + Fury of the Fallen	14 per fly
Glowing Womb + Fury of the Fallen + Defender's Crest	13-14 per fly total: 9+1/tick（4-5ticks）	Template:GTIconMini Weaversong	3 per spider
Template:GTIconMini Grimmchild Lv2	5 per shot	Template:GTIconMini Grimmchild Lv3	8 per shot
Template:GTIconMini Grimmchild Lv4	11 per shot	Template:GTIconMini Dreamshield	1 × Nail

Health Values

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The following is a list of all Enemies in the game and their Health Values.

• Enemies with 1 Health may not necessarily have 1 HP, but are immune to tick damage (such as Spore Shroom) and have low enough health that the starting Nail kills them in 1 hit.

• Enemies with "—" health cannot be damaged.
• A forward slash / represents a division of health from that enemy's multiple health pools.

• Parentheses () clarify the nature of that enemy's health.

• Certain enemies and bosses gain HP after the player upgrades the Old Nail. Enemies with this change are noted in parentheses.

Standard Enemies

MAIN GAME
Name	Health	Name	Health	Name	Health
Aluba	1	Ambloom	12	Armoured Squit	40
Aspid Hatchling	5	Aspid Hunter	15	Aspid Mother	20
Baldur	15	Battle Obble	70	Belfly	5
Bluggsac	20	Boofly	40	Carver Hatcher	35
Charged Lumafly	—	Corpse Creeper	18 (15 after transformation)	Cowardly Husk	20
Crawlid	8	Crystal Crawler	15	Crystal Hunter	25
Crystallised Husk	35	Death Loodle	45	Deephunter	18
Deepling	15	Dirtcarver	20	Duranda	30
Durandoo	30	Elder Baldur	60	Entombed Husk	45
Flukefey	15	Flukemon	55 total: 25 whole 13x2 halves	Folly	13
Fool Eater	16	Fungified Husk	15	Fungling	10
Fungoon	15	Furious Vengefly	40	Garpede	—
Glimback	35	Gluttonous Husk	30	Goam	—
Great Hopper	130	Great Husk Sentry	170	Grub Mimic	45
Gruzzer	8	Gulka	10	Heavy Fool	90
Heavy Sentry	35	Hive Guardian	100	Hive Soldier	65
Hiveling	18	Hopper	50	Husk Bully	15
Husk Dandy	20	Husk Guard	70	Husk Hive	60
Husk Hornhead	15	Husk Miner	25	Husk Sentry	25 (Nail 0) 28 (Nail 1)
Husk Warrior	15	Hwurmp	25	Infected Balloon	15
Kingsmould	170	Lance Sentry	25	Leaping Husk	15
Lesser Mawlek	60	Lifeseed	1	Lightseed	1
Little Weaver	30	Loodle	30	Maggot	1
Mantis Petra	45	Mantis Traitor	74	Mantis Warrior	20
Mantis Youth	15	Maskfly	1	Mawlurk	135
Menderbug	1	Mistake	13	Moss Charger	15
Moss Knight	50	Mosscreep	10	Mossfly	15
Mosskin	15	Mossy Vagabond	25	Obble	10
Ooma	1	Pilflip	30	Primal Aspid	35
Royal Retainer	5	Shadow Creeper	20	Shardmite	15
Sharp Baldur	65	Shielded Fool	65	Shrumal Ogre	80
Shrumal Warrior	20	Shrumeling	5	Sibling	25
Soul Twister	35	Soul Warrior	180 [1] 300 [2][3]	Spiny Husk	44
Sporg	25	Squit	10	Stalking Devout	100
Sturdy Fool	80	Tiktik	8	Uoma	1
Vengefly	8	Violent Husk	40	Void Tendrils	—
Volatile Gruzzer	40	Volatile Mosskin	15	Volt Twister	80
Wandering Husk	15	Winged Fool	70	Winged Sentry	25
Wingmould	—
Template:HDIconMini HIDDEN DREAMS
Winged Zoteling	20	Hopping Zoteling	20	Volatile Zoteling	30
Template:GTIconMini GRIMM TROUPE
Grimmkin Master	80 / 120 / 180 / 210 / 240		Grimmkin Nightmare	100 / 180 / 240 / 280 / 320
Grimmkin Novice	50 / 90 / 120 / 140 / 160
Template:GMIconMini GODMASTER
Pale Lurker	290		Flukemunga	150
The following Zotelings are the versions from The Eternal Ordeal.
Zoteling the Mighty	200, after first kill 120
Winged Zoteling	60	Hopping Zoteling	60	Volatile Zoteling	30
Heavy Zoteling	190	Turret Zoteling	100	Lanky Zoteling	150
Zote's Curse	100	Head of Zote	200	Fluke Zoteling	100

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Bosses and Minibosses

For a set of Template:GMIconMini Godmaster hp values see here.

MAIN GAME
Name	Health	Name	Health
Brooding Mawlek	300	Crystal Guardian	280 (Crystal) 450 (Enraged)
Dung Defender	700 / 750 / 800 / 850 / 900	Elder Hu	250 / 420 / 550 / 600 / 650
False Knight	255 total: 65×3 (Armour) 40×4 (Head)	Failed Champion	1260 total: 360×3 (Armour) 60 + 40×3 (Head)
Flukemarm	350	Galien	230 / 368 / 479 / 570 / 640
God Tamer	1100 total: 600 (Tamer) 500 (Beast)	Gorb	200 / 320 / 479 / 570 / 640
Gorgeous Husk	220	Hornet	225 (Protector) 700 (Sentinel)
Gruz Mother	90 (Crossroads) 120 (Colosseum)	Traitor Lord	800
Soul Master	385 total: 275 (Phase 1) 110 (Phase 2)	Soul Tyrant	1250 total: 900 (Phase 1) 350 (Phase 2)
Massive Moss Charger	100	The Radiance	Stages 1/2/3/4 respectively: 350/400/250/700 Total: 1700
Uumuu	300	The Hollow Knight	1000 +250 (If Phase 4 is reached)
Soul Warrior	180 (Soul Sanctum) 300 (Elegant Key Room & Colosseum)	The Collector	750
Broken Vessel	525	Lost Kin	1200
Watcher Knight	1320 total: 220×6	Vengefly King	90 (Greenpath) 100 (Colosseum)
Mantis Lords	210 (Phase 1) 160 + 160 (Phase 2)	Markoth	250 / 400 / 520 / 624 / 705
Xero	200 / 320 / 416 / 500 / 570	Marmu	200 / 320 / 416 / 500 / 570
No Eyes	200 / 320 / 416 / 500 / 570	Nosk	680
Zote The Mighty	200	Oblobble	2x260 (Initial) 300 (After 1 killed)
Template:HDIconMini HIDDEN DREAMS
Grey Prince Zote	1200–1500 (+100 per fight for 4 fights)	White Defender	1600
Template:GTIconMini GRIMM TROUPE
Grimm	800 / 800 / 800 / 930 / 1000	Nightmare King Grimm	1500
Template:LBIconMini LIFEBLOOD
Hive Knight	800 / 800 / 800 / 850 / 920
Template:GMIconMini GODMASTER
Brothers Oro & Mato	500 (Oro, Phase 1) 600 + 1000 (Oro + Mato, Phase 2)	Paintmaster Sheo	950
Great Nailsage Sly	1050	Pure Vessel	1600
Sisters of Battle	500 (Phase 1) 750 + 750 + 750 (Phase 2)	Winged Nosk	750
Absolute Radiance		Stages 1-6 respectively: 400/450/300/750/300 Total: 2200

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