Wow not even an honorable mention for crystal beam memes. You just throw down as many casts as possible and let them do all the work! XD

I actually had a demeter fist run that was just amazing. The main strategy was getting Dio's attack, then Artemis special and Aphro dash. Then the core duo boons that you want are splitting headache and low tolerance to just do insane damage. It might not seem like much, but this simple combo + priviliged status just melted Hades

My take: Spear (an aspect with the thrown special), curse of pain from Ares so special inflicts doom, and the Daedalus hammer Chain Skewer so the special ricochets between enemies. Then anything that buffs Doom damage. I also had Weak effects on my dash and attack, and the Curse of Longing duo boon so that doom effects keep striking weakened enemies. It was my fastest run yet; I was clearing big rooms in Elysium in a handful of casts with ease!

Poseidon with Athena and Artemis is pretty fun to play

I've recently come to really, really appreciate Backstab Arthur. Shadow Slash+Heartbreak Slash means you're punching for 500 on your first like 1000 with your second swing (upwards of 1500-1750 even, if you put Boiling Blood and Privileged Status on that enemy) if you backstab, which is weirdly easier for Arthur than other weapons I find, because you can buffer the dash in your attack instead of an attack in your dash, which gives you way more control over the hitbox's timing and direction. One time I got Hoarding Slash from Daedalus' Anvil at the end of a on a run where I had like 2500 gold at the start of Styx because I was planning on buying the Titan Blood. Needless to say, fuck Titan Blood when you can humiliate the God of the Dad, and I just proceeded to 2-shot each of his HP thresholds.

I think the devs should bring Hermes and Chaos Duo Boons as a big update.

Thank you so much for this video! For the last past 2 weeks, I tried my best trying to complete the game and wasn't having much luck, until I copied your fist build and now I can finally say I have finished Hades! Can't wait for Hades 2 now :D

For Rail I thought the supersoaker build would make it into the list but this Eris build looks really fun! Cant wait to try it out

One of my all time favorites was the homing special bow plus zeus boons. If you get that chance to apply the electricity twice that's already good, if you get his legendary boon it just melts enemy hp. The artemis hybrid boon goes well with it.

Here are some of my favourite builds apart from hunting blades: Crit-a-cutter, putting Artemis on Demeter Special and getting Kinetic Launcher (with Heart Rend if Aphro on attack or dash) Meme Beam, with crystal clarity, extra casts or cast damage, and arctic blast if beams are applying chill

Not particularly creative, but I enjoy just how much you can explode bosses with aspect of chiron, artemis on special, aphrodite on attack, and heart rend. Just... boom, headshot.

Saw Beowulf and Trippy flare and got excited. One of my favorite builds, but I love to add in Ice Wine with it. Taking a Dio on attack also unlocks fun hangover + festive fog stuff

The game isn't super complicated but there is a learning curve and figuring out the little things is so satisfying. Like buying temporary items for encounters is so worth it, especially if one of those encounters is a boss. Or being super frugal with your chairon coins until mid-end game. I used Aspect of Eris and was able to shoot it three times for bonus damage, Curse of Nausea to stack Doom and Hangover Damage, I used Ares cast with 4 casts and Billowing Strength for 15% bonus damage after using my Call. Plus the Daedelus Hammer upgrade so I had 3 round burst with no reloading. Such a fun build, cleared the satyr chambers in seconds and finally beat Hades. Now I can't put the game down.

Personally I love Rama bow with relentless volley and Zeus on special. Getting Poseidon on cast and then all his fun damage adding boons or going with Ares on main to drop out Doom. There is so many different complimentary gods that work with it. Add in Hermes special speed and then Artemis on call. Using a bunch of the different boons to load up on double strike, damage output goes through the roof and the icing on the cake is getting Lightning rod. If you can manage to get an extra cast or 2 from Chaos and the pool, having 5 casts out there just pounds out the damage. And then having support fire and some other stuff to amp up how quickly you can drop your call, you can 1 shot chunk entire phases of the bosses. This build lets me even just run around Hades and not even need to touch him between the lightning rod strikes and then Arty Call. It's absolutely my favorite build to run.

My first win against Hades was with Cluster Rocket on Adamant Rail. I think even the same aspect as the one mentioned here. It was on my 28th overall run and 2nd time playing with the Adamant Rail. After that, I start seeing videos like this to learn more about the game as I continue.

Great production value!

I like Gilgamesh for Merciful End, the extra dashes really help it and dash upper helps while putting the build together.

Hey Haelian, what i love about those videos is the simple fact, that you show icons and names for the boons. Not "just" a playthrough. This feels more like a quick and dirty guide, just what I need sometimes!

I tried the bow build you mentioned. And while it is extremely powerful, I found more raw damage in another bow build. Chron/heart rend. Now this is a difficult build to achieve properly, same as cluster rocket. You need both the +3 dmg for each consecutive hit hammer, as well as the + 5 arrows to special hammer. But if you get both of those, + heart rend, and might as well aim for Sweet Surrender while you're at it, it absolutely melts Hades. I'm talking 1/3 his HP bar PER special. Granted I had a +special dmg boom from Chaos. But even without that it would be absolutely OP. And easier to play, similar to the ease of Merciful End. Like you said, it's about builds that make the game play itself and this build fits that bill moreso than Rama.

Learning that Shadow Slash doesn't affect Dash Strikes is really upsetting 🤔. But for Merciful End on the Fists, I'd strongly recommend building it on Talos. Talos is one of my fave aspects bc you pull the enemies wherever you like. Just apply Ares' Doom on the Special which pulls the enemy to you, then hit with Athena on the Strike & you'll be deflecting & also activating the Dooms

To be honest I think what makes the game the easiest to be is Crystal beam either with the Boon that follows enemies quickly or if you learn how to use it the one that follows you can be pretty good as well but it's definitely harder to use in some situations

Well ... chaos shield with ares is my favorite .... But there is so much builds which are fun to play !

My favorite build is the shield with hangover on the special, I had the chaos boon to give me +49% and doom on attacks (didn't use them as much) just focus on upgrading the hangover and you're good

This is great. I love your guides!

great editing on this one :)

Just tried the Rama Triple just now nad you are right, it was OP! Was confident enough to take on Charon with it albeit I'm still very inexperienced with it (and my fave weapon is Coronacht, too). Was only planning to try on Ares Special with it but lucky enough to find Triple Shot Hammer, too, as well as Artemis' Deadly Strike in Tartarus! I'm still a bit rusty on Rama but it really was very powerful especially when I combined Ares and Artemis on it!

That was the funniest subscription reminder I've seen in a while.

Honestly everything I build with the shield feels OP😂

Dude you're a legend, a weird legend! Thanks for making great content.

malphon aspect of zag, aphrodite/dionysis damage reduction tank build, athena dodge with feather for dodge/ms on fast clear. basically you can't lose.

demeter's cast with crystal clarity, ravenous will, glacial glare, killing freeze, pressure points, and some chaos boons is also pretty broken on the achilles spear

Achilles Blizzard Shot + Mirage Shot has crazy damage and is def one of my favorites and if you get Flurry Jab + Zeus Attack you've made one of the best overall builds in game.

Ha, just got that last build and finished my 6th escape. Really satisfying. Just checking some vids to calm down for the excitement and then you cover exactly this build 😄

dio cast beowulf has been one of my favourites, also did 10:36 w/ eris today (heat 9) and almost on my 90th clear. not the fastest but anyway I enjoyed and learned with a lot of your videos, really appreciate the content. cheers!

My favorite accidental build was having six Crystal beams from my cast and also having the tracker boon from Demeter that makes the crystal beams track a Target faster

I had a really overpower run recently where I had aspect of Lucifer with infinite ammo, and every tick of fame from the gun, the enemy got struck by a lightning bolt. I had Poseidon’s attack with him and zues duo boon

Excalibur + Aphro attack will always have a special place in my heart (not exactly a "broken" build, but man, is it satysfing to use)

My three favorite builds zag Fists- poison basics with doom specials. Cool looking combo with easy clear and since fists are super fast stacking poison is cake. Nem Sword- basically the same setup you used except I use Athena dash for safety. Chiron Bow- doom basics + poison special. I like the non charge basic upgrade since charging shots takes too long in most situations or I'm just terrible at timing it .. turning it into a standard attack makes life easier for me atleast.

Glad I found this channel. Late to the party but damn this game is addictive. 1 more run.

It's not *as* busted as say merciful end fists, but one of my favorite builds is Zag Spear with Sea Storm on special. You get knockback, lightning, rupture, and jolted, all on one fast, easily spammable button. It turns EM4 into a joke.

don't forget the ultra meme beams on achilles!

Aspect of Poseidon + Ice Wine - ever since I combined Ice Wine with Flurry Cast and 5 total casts that Duo Boon has been my favorite for just ripping through a run with ease. Adding Poseidon and any other cast boosts just makes it all the easier. I just tried this and didn't even come close to totally loading up (no bonus casts, though I did get a nice Chaos boost for cast damage) and it was chunking damage like crazy!

I just had a Gilgamesh/Merciful End run that started in Tartarus and it was so easy. I got all of the boons that you listed, it was just so crazy

Rama with Demeter's special and Killing Freeze - good indicator for when you've applied the special to every enemy before you start blastin'

I remember a time where I got a rather ridiculous bow build with the Zagreus aspect. At the end of the day, I had Double Shot, Rapid Fire, Artemis Attack & Dash, and some other Artemis boons to make my Crits cripple even the likes of Asterius in about 30-ish seconds. It was… almost sad seeing him die so fast lmao.

I'm surprised the Zag bow with shotgun special hammer wasn't in this list. That's a juicy ass list though.

Rama with explosive and twin shot phases Hades in 1 shot! Big numbers babyyy

The best run I ever had was as insane as any if these. Posiedon aspect sword with blizzard shot and mirage shot. Best part was that I had stygian soul and managed to get 5 casts from chaos and the well. So, with mirage, there were 10+ blizzard shots on screen at a time and I didn't need to collect the stones. Killed each phase of Hades in about 4 or 5 seconds. It required zero skill, but it was super satisfying.

Two of my favorites are Rama with Zeus on the special with relentless volley. Get more Zeus combos to get the lightning legendary and it's icing on the cake. How I got my first 32 heat run. You can also hope for cold fusion to get that jolted stuck. Another really powerful yet unusual build I've found among my group of players is lucifer with cluster bomb. While I've mostly used it with Poseidon on the special, hitting an enemy with 3 or 6 bombs will just erase their hp. This damage is so insane I once went through a Charon fight in Asphodel and didn't get hit the rest of the run because I was just destroying enemies. You do have to really time your shots to deal damage this way.

That last build was literally what helped me clear hades for the first time. I had artimis triple rockets, but used the hammer anvil trade and got 5 rockets arc instead of triple shot. I was thinking I fucked up, then I noticed how everything melted in the sewers and then I knew I found a gem. God damn insane damage.

if you use the twin fists, getting tempest strike with second wave and sea storm, along with static discharge and double strike, you can rack up some insane damage

You forgot to mention Ice Wine with Beowulf.

I like using merciful end with the zues shield and the arena attack boon with the hammer that makes your attack hit twice but not knock back. It's a little hard to setup the shield in the best spot, but when you do it chunks bosses really fast.

Fantastic video!

The nemesis one is a killer 😎 Thank you! Blasted through 3 consecutive

My go-to easy build that got me through Extreme Measures Hades for the first time a couple days ago is Aspect of Zeus with Thunder Flourish. Once you have that, the rest of the build is somewhat flexible, but I really like to go with Artemis or Poseidon for attack, always splash dash, and if you get splitting bold or sea storm then you're set

Is there a part 2? these are all fun

I bought this game maybe a week or so ago, I've been binging yours and Jawless Paul's content like crazy. Love the vids man. I'm already at 44 clears, enjoying the Tartarus out of this game.

The build I beat the game the first time with was the spear with all the Poseidon boons (without the sunken treasure or whatever useless things he offers), a little Artemis for Crit, and Zeus. Catch is you have to get exploding landed and chargey boy for it to be super good. Absolutely insane.

I love this content. Thank you

Great guide, thanks

I beat this game like 6 times and I'm still playing it but I have never seen these bosses get melted like that. Good jod. I'm gonna have to try these builds.

My best build: Achilles or Zagreus aspect Flurry jab Divine flourish (Athena Attack) Support Fire And then do any boon This combo will make u deflect anything plus the bonus damage of support Fire

I stumbled into Beowulf/Trippy Flare the other night and it was one of most fun but also easiest runs I've ever done. I'm working up to Skellys prizes and I think this will take me there.

There's also the invincible build where you use the mirror power ruthless reflex with shadow attack then combine it with the max malphon fists, the maxed plume of Hermes, &bouldie helper. You need to try to get the Athena divine strike/dash boons, holy shield boon, &also her legendary (if possible). Her bronze skin, blinding flash, &brilliant riposte all add to the build. You will need Hermes evasion, hypersprint or heal dash, and attack speed(for invincible purposes) or rush delivery if you can get a third. For chaos get strike, lunge, and ambush (also assault if you can get more). With Daedalus use rolling knuckle/ breaching cross combo, or colossus knuckle(invincible purposes), and concentrated knuckle (if possible to get three). You can beat the game maxed out on almost all heats basically completely invincible 😅

hunting blades with stygian soul and more than 3 casts is great. it demolishes bosses.

I hope that Poseidon Blade with Artemis' skill that causes damages on dislodging bloodshards will be featured !

I was wondering if it’s possible to use Artemis call to fully kill the bull in the first 1v1 match with him, by using the call to knock him all the way to zero before he stops the fight ?

Running theme is to continue to pray to the goddess of crits.

If you hate dying, or even getting hit at all, here's a build for you. With the twin fists, if you max out the aspect of Zagreus to get 15% dodge chance, get Hermes' boon greater evasion which gives you 20% dodge chance, Get Hermes' keepsake which gives you 20% dodge, Athena's attack as well as her dash to deflect, some damage reduction and some healing boons, you have a 55% chance to not be hit, and will be unstoppable. If you grab some revenge boons along the way, even if you do get hit, your enemies instantly die. Just slap on an Ares special and if you get lucky you can have the duo boon merciful end. Have fun not dying!

one of my favourite builds so far has to be Stygius with Aspect of Zagreus with Cursed Slash from the hammer, Dionysis' attack and Athena's aid. It's not the biggest damage output but it makes you much tougher to kill. by the time Hades bashes me to the point of being in danger, i'll have a max athena aid to use to get aaaaall that heath back. bonus points if you can get faster attack from Hermes, Hunter's Mark and Support Fire from best girl Artemis and any boons that improve your god gauge. i've also found that the Athena Demeter duo is quite good for this setup, as well as Ares in place of Dionysus. for a while Ares attack with Dire Misfortune was my go to with this.

A good combo is railgun with Poseidon attack boom and the duo boon with Zeus, each time you push a enemy a lightning struck, combining it with the Zeus's boons that enhance the lightning results in a pretty powerfull build

My personally favorite build is Rathma Bow and Hangover Special, and the duo boon that lets hangover stack 8 times. Paired with the hammer that lets Rathma shoot more arrows per special, I end up dotting everyone to death.

I have a build that allows me to pull enemies towards me and push them away and cause an explosion after that... It was op because none of the enemies couldn't do anything they just sat there and watched me knock them around and was good against bosses aswell

Trippy flare is insane lol. I had it with 6 casts and a 100% cast damage from chaos. At the end I was chunking for 6500. Legit the only time that I thought that em4 was unfair for dad

One build I never see is ZEUS'S SUPER SOAKER build. It uses the aspect of LUCIFER RAIL with the INFINITE AMMO hammer upgrade. Zeus and Poseidon are going to be your main boons. Use Poseidon's flood shot for primary and thunder flourish or cast, that way you can get SEA STORM. Then you want to make sure you get STATIC DISCHARGE and RUPTURE for instant double curses. Then to top it all off you want BREAKING WAVE. This literally gives you an eraser gun lol. It completely melts bosses and if any enemies some how aren't dead by the time their pushed into a wall, breaking wave will just obliterate them Then if your lucky enough, you can throw SECOND WAVE and SPLITTING BOLT (along with anything else you wanna pack in there along the way). And personally I prefer to have TIDAL DASH for instakills in the temple of Styx. A difficult build to pull off but once you got it it immediately becomes your favorite build. Practically puts the game on easy mode. Lol

This is the content I want to see

Im still new to all the builds but i like the shield with aspect of zeus and doing a merciful end build with the double strike... if i can aim it right i can kill hades on his first laser where hes just standing still. With the shield spinning on top of him and double strikes, its pretty nuts how fast his health goes down

My favorite is getting all the revenge boons and then getting the duo to randomly trigger, plus the Ares/Athena duo.

This is just my oppinion but the cast shot bow has some insane potential i think, i mean when loaded fully it consistently deals 1500 to 2000 Damage and if you get Hermes boon that cast drop out after 1.5 secs, you can play rather save and still destroy everything, it is not as op as theese ones but one nice thing is that you can get first boon aphrodites crush shot and have something for the early challanges. Furthermore it can still be upgraded by getting exit wounds and with exit wounds as the requirement you could even get her legendary granting extra casts which was huge. As for the dash, it just is athena dash because that is probably one of the best dashes and gives this build savety to run in and retrieve the casts

Haelian is that really the standard mirror you thnk is best for high heat runs?

I know this video is a year old, but a low investment bow build I found amazing is Zag bow with flurry shot and charged volley for the hammers, and Aphro attack, Artemis special and call, heart rend, Support fire, and that’s it. You can add on to it, maybe add Athena or splash dash, Crystal clarity, hunting blades, maybe even slap on PP and hunter’s mark, but you just need a basic set up I listed. It shreds the furies, Lernie, and Hades, and deals good damage to the champion and obliterates any miniboss that isn’t named Asterius. This build gave me my second Hades fight win and also didn’t require me to perfect the charge timing, since all you need to with this build is use special up close and sherd hp bars, and Artemis greater call Lernie’s and Hades’ third phase away

I'd argue that a better option for the Rail is to get Dionysis' boon on the attack, since it's relatively easy to get full Hangover stacks, then get a boon from Aphrodite or Ares to qualify for their Duo boon with Dionysis to either get more Hangover stacks or quicker damage from it.

I love the Dio Attack Lucifer with every duo boon in the world build. Splitting Headache Low Tolerance Curse of Nausea Heart Rend Curse of Longing (not that it really helps but this one is for the meme)

This may be a lot but I had a fun idea that may or may not work a Merciful end and Curse of Longing Build. Athena Attack, Ares Special, Aphro Dash. Probably on the fists the numbers may not be bonkers but that dps in theory would be spicy.

A truly nutty combo in my experience has to be an Aphrodite attack/Ares special Chiron aspect with curse of longing. Especially when you have dire misfortune.

for those of us who suck at the game aspect of zeus and ares doom on special work super well together. sure it doesnt melt everything instantly but you can switch off your brain since you can throw and have a shield, not to mention the fact its really good against shields

I recently just found the cluster rocket build by accident when trying to use the rail. I got an Anvil of the Fates that was super lucky apperently.

The most amusingly busted build I ever got was when I got the sword upgrade that heals you each hit, coupled with the upgrade that makes you hit incredibly fast by holding down attack. My boons barely even mattered, I just waded into the enemies, held down attack and let the game play itself.

I love Chiron Bow + Dio Flourish with Aphrodite and Ares duo boons. On paper it should rock (+3 Stacks, Proc every 0.35 Seconds, massive hangover damage). That being said, Hangover still is kind of slow to kill stuff and there are so many potential duo boons it is not easy to get. I think the best non-crit Chiron bow build I've had was Poseidon's Special with Sea Storm + Jolted/Cold Fusion + Rupture & 40% Extra Boss Damage. That combination rips through hades incredibly fast and it's not much harder to get than the Dio/Aphro/Ares boons as long as you don't also take Poseidon's cast or Athena/Artemis boons, which will dilute your boon pool with too many unnecessary duos.

Do you not think Gilgamesh is the best for merciful end given the inherent dash increases that allow for divine dash and doom attack to trigger more often? I think that alone makes it the aspect of choice for fists merciful end.

I haven't played much but I have beat Hades 3 times so far, and I only have zagreus aspects. It was pretty tough to beat hades except this last time I had lvl 6 cast boon, and 2 hermes boons. Epic reduced drop time, and legendary that picks them up as soon as they fall off. I just ran around and cast. And I didn't need any deaths defiance which I usually need a few when I beat hades

Coronacht Zag Aspect + Artemis boons for even more critical chance + Double shot + The "hold one button" upgrade on the bow + anything else that's able to up your damage

Is it possible to put merciful end and Divine dash together? I heard that you can't

i once had Scintillating Feast and Lightning Rod duo boons and basically the game plays itself :D

I'm glad Chiron at least got mentioned, Chiron Hangover is a bit silly.

Poseidon's Aid with Rip Current to drag opponents to yourself. Add boosts (Boiling Point, Proud Bearing, Clouded Judgment, Billowing Strength, Smoldering Air, Quick Favor) and you're unbeatable.

How many casts can you load at once with naegling’s board

My luckiest built with aeris: I had roquet deadalus upgrade then got unlucky for the second deadalus upgrade. Had poseidon on special with rupture, typhoon fury(take damage when slammed into barrier), second wave (do a second knock away) with the dual with zeus for extra damage. On the last lvl, I had the option to change one deadalus upgrade for 2 random and I got 3 special in rapid successions and the one with 5 missiles... everything just whent flying and blowing up... plenty of fun to watch.

Hello, thank you for these nice builds ! About Beowulf, did you try same build with Dyonysos + Demeter (and still a few artemis/poseidon) ? Because I think it's even more powerful ! Amazing synergy with demeter duo ang leg of demeter, because fog become rotating frozen (with still fog damage) + more froze explosion damage + explosion damage of frozen killed (leg) I really love it !!