Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The first phase is always the hard part here. His summons have ridiculous amounts of armor.. Breaching Slash definitely would have been nice, but some weapons don't have an equivalent skill so they can take ages to kill. He kind of just stands around in the 2nd phase and in then the 3rd phase you're mostly fighting the urns and fog.
There's just too much RNG in this fight and some of the summons are like impossible to hit with certain builds. The ghosts and jumpy rock guys are the worst. The Medusa heads and butterfly balls aren't too bad since you can kill them before Hades starts attacking again.
Finding Patty and some wells near the end helped saved this build. I got screwed over with only like one Aphrodite all game, and then got stuck with Demeter who kept showing up.. she only has like 2 useful passives and a lot of awful duo boons I don't want to unlock.
I was planning on going Heart Rend but I only saw Aphrodite like once and couldn't even get Privileged Status up consistently.. I should start keeping 1 cast on Infernal Soul if I'm not going to use it. This game really loves forcing me to take Ravenous Will when I'm not using Beowulf. It's rarely worth trying to set up.. I'd rather have Snow Burst but I'm not wasting rerolls on Demeter's nonsense.
I also could have used some decent back attack boons from Chaos but backstabs seem a bit inconsistent with the huge hitboxes on Arthur. You kind of need to stand back or dash away against some enemies.
It's really annoying because you need Athena's attack or special to get Deadly Reversal, which is a lot more situational and not as strong as easier to unlock boons. It might be easier to look for Pressure Points early and level that up instead. 15% crit chance on Artemis attack is a bit too low.
The first phase is always the hard part here. His summons have ridiculous amounts of armor.. Breaching Slash definitely would have been nice, but some weapons don't have an equivalent skill so they can take ages to kill. He kind of just stands around in the 2nd phase and in then the 3rd phase you're mostly fighting the urns and fog.
There's just too much RNG in this fight and some of the summons are like impossible to hit with certain builds. The ghosts and jumpy rock guys are the worst. The Medusa heads and butterfly balls aren't too bad since you can kill them before Hades starts attacking again.
Finding Patty and some wells near the end helped saved this build. I got screwed over with only like one Aphrodite all game, and then got stuck with Demeter who kept showing up.. she only has like 2 useful passives and a lot of awful duo boons I don't want to unlock.
I was planning on going Heart Rend but I only saw Aphrodite like once and couldn't even get Privileged Status up consistently.. I should start keeping 1 cast on Infernal Soul if I'm not going to use it. This game really loves forcing me to take Ravenous Will when I'm not using Beowulf. It's rarely worth trying to set up.. I'd rather have Snow Burst but I'm not wasting rerolls on Demeter's nonsense.
I also could have used some decent back attack boons from Chaos but backstabs seem a bit inconsistent with the huge hitboxes on Arthur. You kind of need to stand back or dash away against some enemies.
It's really annoying because you need Athena's attack or special to get Deadly Reversal, which is a lot more situational and not as strong as easier to unlock boons. It might be easier to look for Pressure Points early and level that up instead. 15% crit chance on Artemis attack is a bit too low.
