Attuned or vanilla FC only takes the 3 Abyss shrieks (and 1 shade soul sometimes). – Radiant/Attune, Radiant health is a lot more so will take 3 Abyss shrieks, 3 shade souls and potentially more nail hits. He falls just short of being in the hardest to beat club. – Centre rock spam 1:02, you can hit the rocks at FC to cause damage. If you have played Hollow Knight over the course of a short period of time, then your muscle memory from Soul Master should kick in and make this guy a doable task. Then dash to the side, using the remaining soul for shade souls. 2 hits will start the next part, then use 2 abyss shrieks, get close as he is the center 1 abyss shriek. While the falling rocks do no damage when they hit the armour from. This can be an infinite loop, so maximise soul & health (if not doing radiant). The Failed Champion is his dream form, faster and stronger.
In that time you can get 2 dreamnails off for soul (or 2 heals). – Cheese 0:39, when he staggers if left for a period of time he will get up again, when you pogo (downstrike) on his armour this resets that period of time.
Biggest danger is when jumping over the shockwave so keep in mind. Pale Lurker is a mini-boss style enemy that is first encountered sitting idly and muttering over her key.Once approached, she screams and proceeds into her arena. – Falling rocks, trying to walk between only using shadow dash if specifically needed. Pale Lurker is an enemy in Hollow Knight.She is an uninfected former champion of the Colosseum of Fools who was drawn away by strange obsessions, eventually becoming insane. Keep in mind the falling rocks, using a shadow dash or Desolate Dive if needed to avoid. – Shockwave, through the phase you should always be keeping distance so jumping over this should be fine. It is also a social creature but it can be aggressive if it unable to adjust with other creatures of its own species. It's guarded by two Lesser Mawleks, which you'll need to defeat to get past. This is also due west from the main entrance into the Ancient Basin from the north. You'll need to head up to the northwest portion of the area, west of the tram station. – Jump Slam, If he does in the middle of the arena I dash to or stay near the closest wall, when he is goes to do this near the wall dash under and get some hits in. Hollow Knight is a very ferocious creature. One Pale Ore can be found in the Ancient Basin. – Pattern 0:14, You want to be going to the opposing wall from FC dodging the shockwaves and falling rocks, and dashing under him when he goes for the jump slam, getting some hits in before again going to the other wall. – Opening 0:11, As he drops down you can get some extra hits in.