Almanauts
Hollow Knight
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Infected Balloon icon

Infected Balloon

Single cell of infection. Has a simple mind and can float using internal gasses.

Hunter’s notes

The infection creeping through the Kingdom’s dead veins... does it have a mind? Does it produce soul? Is it truly alive?

The notes unlock after 10 kills.

Nail hits to kill

Its 15 HP over the nail's damage per hit at each upgrade, plain and with Fragile or Unbreakable Strength (×1.5, rounded the game's way).

NailDamageHitsWith Strength
Old Nail532 (8 a hit)
Sharpened Nail922 (14 a hit)
Channelled Nail1321 (20 a hit)
Coiled Nail1711 (26 a hit)
Pure Nail2111 (32 a hit)
  1. Broken Vessel525
  2. Mawlurk135
  3. Lesser Mawlek60
  4. Shadow Creeper20
  5. Infected Balloon15
HP of the enemies found mostly in Ancient Basin, highest first.

HP and Geo stay with their own scene and form. Geo with Fragile Greed gives each coin size 20% more coins, rounded up.

Ancient Basin

6 placed · 2 scenes · HP 15

Placements, stats and map links

Abyss 19 · Parasite Balloon

4 placed

HP
15
Geo
5
With Greed
6

Abyss 20 · Parasite Balloon

2 placed

HP
15
Geo
5
With Greed
6

Overview

HP
15
Geo per kill
5
Geo with Fragile Greed
6
Kills for the Hunter’s notes
10
Placed copies
6
Kind
Enemy

Also mostly in Ancient Basin 4