Talk:The Nameless King/@comment-59.178.211.72-20161018150600/@comment-4511886-20161128085204

Some things stick with you past hollowing, as is apparent with many hollows of a military background sticking to guarding a specific area, while hollowed characters like the Crestfallen Warrior, Griggs and Laurentius still fight like they would prior to hollowing. (In this case, parrying without a specific stance, using sorcery and using pyromancy, respectively.) Additionally, hollows very clearly do not attack other hollows and sometimes even leave others alive.

Since the lore never brings up the "hollowing muscle memory", it is possible that absorbing another's soul was common enough to be included in that when the God of War became one. Meanwhile, things like riding a dragon and especially throwing Sunlight Spears is something that he would've retained through his hollowing.