Dumbest Steel Soul Deaths

[Spitfyre37]

Question time! What's the dumbest way you've ever lost a Steel Soul run? Use this to vent your anger, or just to tell a story about your adventures in Steel Soul.

[Spitfyre37]

I'll start: I had a Channelled Nail, 7 Masks, and over 7000 Geo. Then i decided to fight uumuu. Stupidly decided to heal during the tracking electric attack, and got knocked into the water. The water made me too slow to move away, and i got smashed by like 3 different attacks at once. And yeah, im still mad.

[Darc Vader]

I've had one Steel Soul death and one where I felt justified in quitting to menu, which I only did that one time as far as I can remember. For the first, it wasn't necessarily 'dumb', but I thought it would be a good idea to fight the Radiance; I got hit by the sweeping laser immediately after triggering the final phase of the fight.
The time I quit to menu was in the Colosseum: My computer minimized the game to tell me about a windows update or something and apparently Hollow Knight doesn't pause if it loses focus. This just so happened to be during the part where the entire floor was spikes. I barely managed to get back to the game in time to avoid dying.

[Onni]

My dumbest moment was where I finished the game but one month later I wanted to play again. I started up my Steel Soul save file and then I thought I want to fight a boss (worst decision ever). Only boss alive was the Final boss, I went and killed them but chose to fight the Radiance. Then I died and Had to resart the game again so I would have a 107% Steel Soul save again.

[Aval4nche]

I don't know how this happened but I actually didn't die in steel soul mode :/.
the only moment where I almost died was at the big champignons in fungal wastes.

[NSK]

I was trying to complete the game as fast as possible. It took me 3 hours to get to Uumuu and around 20 seconds to die from it.

[arceus03]

...
I once died to Gruz Mother on a Steel Soul run, so yeah.

That, and my first ever "Soul Steel" run was even it. I had no idea the health bar was supposed to look different. Only realized after opening Jiji's cave (as I knew I should be seeing Jinn ibstead of Jiji) and I was like "waaaaait a moment, thus doesn't look right."

[OniGiRiGO]

around 80% completion, underestimated the post-Lifeblood Traitor Lord and got rekt

[thorin.hannahs]

Originally posted by Rhxxi:

around 80% completion, underestimated the post-Lifeblood Traitor Lord and got rekt

^^^ This I posted it awhile back, I called him a glorfied mobile trampoline (pre-lifeblood) and proceeded to die rather quickly. The worst time was a death to the two Elder Baldurs in the Howling Cliffs area for whatever reason I panicked and died berating myself afterwards about how I could of just stood next to one and killed the other.

[Syndiciate]

I found the Brooding Malwek on my first Steel Soul run and beat him without too much trouble so, feeling cocky, I decided Hornet would be a piece of cake and went to fight her immediately. I got my ass handed to me as a result.

[Kanra]

I haven't actually died in Steel Soul but the closest I've been to it has been a rather silly situation:

I was early game, wandering around the Fungal Wastes, managed to take a few hits, and as I was being chased by one of those explosive things I managed to slip and fall into acid. The only problem with that is that I respawned exactly where the exploding thing was, exactly as it was going to explode. Somehow still managed to get away, but that was quite the scare I got.

[Kaza_IA]

My stupid ass thinking im in a safe spot so I go get some water and when I come back something had killed me fml.. Note to self, pause the game when leaving for something!

[GooGroker]

the main entrance room to the ancient basin, after the vertical shaft

to a husk bully

i'm fine, i swear

[Hyped 4 Shrek 5]

My first Steel Soul run died on Hornet in Greenpath because I didn't get gud.

[libertasgrace]

My first Steel Soul run ended when I got frantic against a Mosskin Knight in Greenpath, I forgot how hard they hit in the beginning. ...Oh I necro'd a post, whoops.

[mattwarbuckle]

You know that room on the top right of the City of Tears? Where they spawn gank mobs of spear dudes? I freaked out and died there. LUL