| First encounter | I am Gorb! Bow! Bow bow bow bow to Gorb! |
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| Listening again | Ascend! Ascend! Ascend ascend ascend with Gorb! |
Gorb
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 I am Gorb!  |
Gorb is a Warrior Dream boss in Hollow Knight.
Lore
Gorb the Great Mind was a mystic creature with a distended brain who claimed to be all-knowing.[1] They goaded others to revere their mind and ascend with them to a different plane of existence.[2] Their remains were buried on a hill atop the Howling Cliffs, with a tombstone carved in their image.
In-game events
Gorb's spirit appears at their tomb after acquiring the Dream Nail. They try to make the Knight follow their mystic ways.[3] After their defeat, they give up before shattering into 100 Essence collected by the Dream Nail.
Behaviour and Tactics
Gorb has two attacks in addition to teleportation:
- Spear Cast: Gorb fires a ring of 8 spears outwards in a circle from their location. The spears travel through the environment and deal contact damage. Gorb almost always automatically uses this attack if hit, otherwise Gorb normally waits 1-2 seconds before launching another wave. At 70% HP, Gorb fires 2 waves in alternating patterns, and at 40% HP, Gorb fires 3 waves.
- Directed Spear: Gorb fires a single spear angled directly towards the Knight every 1-2 seconds. This attack does not occur while close to or extremely far away from Gorb.
- Teleport: Gorb teleports to a random location in the arena and continues attacking from there.
Gorb's main attack is slow enough to dodge with good timing, though when close-up, they are clustered enough that it is hard to get in time for a Nail strike unless the Knight has acquired the Shade Cloak. Using ranged attacks and Spells mitigates this problem.
Godmaster Content |
Gorb Hall of Gods text: "I lie dreaming at a wind-blasted peak" | ||
| Pantheon | Pantheon of the Master, 6th boss | ||
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650 | |
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1000 | ||
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| Arena changes | The ground is replaced by three platforms on Ascended difficulty or above. | ||
Dialogue
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Location
Gorb's grave is located in the northeast part of the Howling Cliffs.
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Location in the Howling Cliffs
Gallery
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Spear Cast attack
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Directed Spear attack
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Gorb's spirit at its grave
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Arena in the Howling Cliffs
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Attuned Arena in Godhome
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Ascended/Radiant Arena in Godhome
Trivia
- Gorb was originally a slug with a blade held in their mouth.[4]
- Despite Gorb being known as the "Great Mind", Gorb's in-game dialogue appears simplistic, marked by a childlike speech pattern and a limited vocabulary.
- Gorb used to be named after their backer, Aladar. They have several cut dialogues under this name:
- Greetings pale thing. Do you seek my knowledge? That I cannot give. Only an end.
- Would you accept the end I offer?
- Alas. It destroys...
- In the French translation of the game, these cut dialogues are used instead of the final one.[5] This is because the French translation was made while the text was still being finalised before launch, while the rest were made only afterwards.[6]
References
- ↑ Gorb Hunter's Journal entry: "A mysterious life-form that claimed to contain all of the world's knowledge inside of its distended brain."
- ↑
Hall of Gods description: "Dreamborn god of the beyond"
- ↑ Gorb: "Ascend! Ascend! Ascend ascend ascend with Gorb!"
- ↑ Source: Twitter DMs, can be found here.
- ↑ French translation of the English line "Ascend! Ascend! Ascend ascend ascend with Gorb!": "Veux-tu la fin que je t’offre ?"
- ↑ Discord message from Leth.
