Silk Snipper

Silk Snipper
Health	29/58
Drops	18  27  4-6  5-8
Damage Modifiers	1    0.8    0.7    0.55    0.55
Journal kills	25
Singing

Scissor-wielding bug charged to cut and spool fallen dregs of Silk for return to the Citadel above.

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Is it the Haunting that drove them to cackling madness, or was their unending toil the cause even before that?

Silk Snippers are enemies in Hollow Knight: Silksong. They are scissor-wielding Moorbugs who are charged to cut and spool fallen dregs of Silk for return to the Citadel.

Behaviour and Tactics

Silk Snippers naturally wander back and forth, and stay alert once Hornet has entered their range, taking a stance with their scissors out and ready to attack. They also walk backwards or forwards in between attacks to reposition. Silk Snippers have 5 moves:

• Dash Cut: Opens their scissors wide for a moment before lunging at Hornet and snipping her. They can block attacks during the foreswing, but doing so resets their foreswing. Mindlessly attacking them only leads to them blocking every attack, so make sure to wait for openings. They always follow this move up with Backdash.
• Snip Flurry: Rears their scissors back and does a small dash forwards whilst snipping repeatedly. If Hornet is caught in the attack at any time, they combo her for +. They always follow this move up with Backdash.
• Scissor Parry: Holds their scissors up in front of themselves for 1.5 seconds, blocking any attack from that direction. If Hornet strikes the scissors whilst they are Parrying, they immediately follow up with either of the two attacks listed above.
• Backdash: Does a short dash backwards; almost always used as a follow-up.
• Jump/Dive Burst: Readies their scissors and cuts through any of the wooden platforms to get to Hornet. This move can be used to either get up or down to the layer Hornet is on.
  • During the enemy gauntlet fight in Chapel of the Reaper, they can burrow into the ceiling out of the arena, before burrowing down attempting to drop directly onto Hornet's position.

Silk Snippers deal with all attacks except Snip Flurry, and upon contact.

It is easy to stay on top of them with needle bounces, as none of their attacks have vertical hitboxes and they can only attack in front of themselves. Be careful that they don't dash backwards out of Hornet's range, however.
Also be wary when they're on a different elevation level than Hornet, as they can suddenly get to her platform even when seemingly idle.

Needolin Dialogue

• Spin it, send it...
• Catch it, spool it...
• Why... always this?
• Even these dregs...
• The air... the fields...
• Are we only dregs?

Location

Silk Snippers can be found in the western towers of Greymoor.

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  Location in Greymoor

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  Location in Greymoor Act 3

Gallery

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  Idle

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  Dash Cut attack

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  Snip Flurry attack

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  Scissor Parry

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  Striking during Scissor Parry

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  Backdash

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  Jump/Dive burst

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  Responding to the Needolin

Trivia

• The Silk Snipper's ability to block Needle strikes was first revealed by Matthew "Leth" Griffin in March 2024.
• In the Silksong reveal trailer, the Silk Snipper was voiced by Matt Trobbiani, but it was later given a different voice by an unknown actor.

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning/Explanation
Brazilian Portuguese	Corta-seda	Silk Cutter
French	Coupe-soie	Silk Cutter
German	Seidenschneider	Silk Cutter
Italian	Tagliaseta	Silk Cutter
Japanese	シルクチョッキン Shirukuchokkin?	Combination of シルク shiruku (silk) and チョキチョキ chokichoki (Japanese onomatopoeia for scissor cutting).
Korean	실크 자름이 Silkeu jareumi	Silk Cutting
Russian	Шелкорез Šelkorez	Silkcutter
Simplified Chinese	裁丝疯匠 Cái sī fēng jiàng?	Crazed Silk Snipper
Spanish	Cortador de seda	Cutter of Silk
Internal name	FARMER_SCISSORS	FARMER internally refers to Greymoor enemies.

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