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By Hexagons, 3 months ago, In English

Ascended/Radiant Markoth is a really terrifying boss in hollow knight, and has caused grief to many players trying to beat him on radiant difficulty, so I wanted to share this blog so that it may reduce the suffering and ease defeating this boss

Tips to defeat Markoth on radiant mode :

1. Charm build :

  • Gubberfly's Elegy : really useful for attacking him while avoiding the dreamshield

  • QuickSlash : for improved hit rate

  • Mark of Pride : for improved range

  • Steady Body : to avoid recoil just in case

  • Fragile/Unbreakable Strength : for extra damage

    Charm Build

2. Strategy/Tactics :

  • During nail barrage prioritize survival over dealing damage, but attack if possible to deal safe hits

  • Best opportunity to attack is when he is spinning his dreamshield

  • Try not to jump in the air too often as there is no ground to stand on, and you can fall off platforms easily

  • Try to tank much damage when he is spinning his sheild right before his second phase, to shorten its duration

  • Critically prioritize survivng during the nail barrage in the second phase

  • During his dreamsheild-spin attack in the second phase, wait until a radial gap appears between the orbits of both dreamshields, and attack from this gap

    Markoth Himself XD

3. Prerequisites :

  • Would recommend doing path of pain first to get used to the ascended arena

  • Would recommend doing Xero (to get used to semi-floorless arenas too) and Soul Tyrant on radiant to get used to homing projectiles

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By Hexagons, history, 18 months ago, In English

Do you prefer Bedrock Edition or Java Edition? And state reasons for your choice.

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By Hexagons, 19 months ago, In English

What is the hardest non-boss common mob to defeat in minecraft?

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By Hexagons, history, 19 months ago, In English

What happened to sparky? he stopped blogging since mid-2022 I think, Is his account somehow shadow-banned or blocked from blogging? (he can still write comments)

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By Hexagons, 20 months ago, In English

Is it subjective on which is better, or is it something objective by codeforces?

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By Hexagons, 20 months ago, In English

Whenever I start counting the CF Tags I know one by one, Geometry Always comes almost the last, I think it is very unpopular on CF aswell.

Geometry problems, add more geometry problems
I have seen a lot of great adhoc ideas be used in several topics and tags, but geometry and some others occurred very rare, I think trying to take advantage of such uncommon ideas may help in getting ideas for problems.

I have noticed though that in the early years of codeforces some really good geometry problems were proposed, I think it will be cool to revive this era.

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By Hexagons, 20 months ago, In English

I am sure you already know the infamous Sparky_Master_WCH1226, he is the highest rated troll account, I am now asking for something related to that, is there a list of the top 10/100 troll accounts by rating?

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By Hexagons, history, 20 months ago, In English
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By Hexagons, 21 month(s) ago, In English

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By Hexagons, 21 month(s) ago, In English

The cow in the "Perhaps" meme is actually smiling :O

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By Hexagons, 22 months ago, In English

Codeblocks

VS Code

Sublime

CP Editor

VIM

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By Hexagons, 2 years ago, In English

Define a function $$$s(n)$$$ (where $$$n$$$ is an integer) which returns the successor of the integer $$$n$$$

Define another function $$$f(a,b,k)$$$ such that $$${a,b,k}$$$ belong to integers, $$$f(a,b,0)$$$ = $$$s(s(s(.....s(s(a))......)))$$$ (call function $$$f$$$ on $$$a$$$ for $$$b$$$ times), and $$$f(a,b,k)$$$ = $$$f(a,f(a,f(a,.......f(a,f(a,b,k-1),k-1),k-1),......),k-1)$$$ (call function f such that the second parameter b is this function nested b-1 times and the third parameter is k-1)

It can be shown that $$$f(a,b,0)$$$ = $$$a+b$$$, $$$f(a,b,1)$$$ = $$$a*b$$$, $$$f(a,b,2)$$$ = $$$a^b$$$, and $$$f(a,b,3)$$$ = $$$a↑↑b$$$ (Tetration symbol)

Any thoughts about this function and the best different complexities to calculate it in terms of $$$a,b,k$$$ in preprocessing and the call of this function?

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By Hexagons, 2 years ago, In English

You are given a hexagon in which all his angles are equal in measure, you draw a circle inscribed inside the hexagon and tangent to the hexagon's sides, and another circle which is the circumscribed circle of the hexagon (all the hexagon vertices lie on the circumference of this circle), suppose the side length of the hexagon is $$$X$$$, find the area of the ring between the two circles in terms of $$$X$$$.

The ring in yellow is the required ring


BONUS : Find a general solution in terms of $$$N$$$ and $$$X$$$ (where polygon $$$P$$$ is a regular $$$N$$$th-gon of side length $$$X$$$ each) for the area of the ring between the circle inscribed in $$$P$$$ and the circle $$$P$$$ is inscribed in

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