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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Aphrodite
03:50 Apollo
06:42 Zeus
10:11 Poseidon
14:50 Hera
18:55 Hephaestus
23:33 Demeter
27:34 Hestia
31:49 THE REST
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Zeus really doesn't feel good in most cases, unfortunately, unless you're going all-in on his cast. Getting Blitz on your main strikes makes it feel like you have no boon at all, most of the time. You could argue that adding it on a secondary button you're not focusing on could be a nice bonus to your main source of damage (like some people use Hephaestus), but since you'd want to keep reapplying it it takes more effort than it's worth for not even as much damage as you could get from other effects. It's sometimes kinda fun to use in niche builds (it was kinda cool to use it when I got that Dash Attack+Special hammer for the daggers, for example), but overall, you kinda never want it.
It also doesn't help that Air Quality affects like 2 things in the entire game, it feels like. So combined with all the other tier-2 boons that focus on lightning effects, it really feels like you should avoid him completely unless you go for the cast.
Zeus C tier? boy, bye
As a daggers enthusiast, the best way to use Scalding Vapor is with Aspect of Pan:
Put Poseidon on Special, Hestia on Cast, Hestia on Sprint -> get hook knives/concentrated flurry -> Scalding Vapor -> full circles of steam combustion as you reapply scorch via cast and slip via the daggers special.
It's fun, super safe and time grandpa just gets melted
Is glamour gain really that bad? I found it very useful on the daggers where magick consumption is not that high, and a passive magick gain means one less thing to care about… or maybe im just sucks at the game idk
im so glad that zeus is mid in this game. i was so tired of feeling obligated to pick him up every run! and the devs have left him in a much more interesting spot coming in to hades ii. his boons come off as 'greedy,' in that you have to devote a lot of slots in your build to his boons if you want to maximize their power. but, when you do, it feels great! especially if you have easy ways to proc static shock. hes a god who asks a lot of you, which feels thematically appropriate as The Patriach of The Family :3 i do think that blitz needs some work, though. seeing him pop up in oceanus for the first time in place of a god you actually want to build can feel pretty bad
I haven't really tested this out myself but I gotta ask: does Winter Harvest still work on bosses like it did in the first game? Cause if so that makes Shocking Loss totally irrelevant lmao
It's so funny origination is basically the main factor splitting the list of the main gods. All the top ones have good origination applications, all the bottom ones have impractical ones
Not going to lie, my current teir list would look way different. I think I'd be judging them on slightly different criteria though.
Personally, I find that Zeus absolutely mauls enemies when you use the Zoraphet (axe), especially with the hammer that lets you hit twice with your final strike. Will let you trigger lightning nearly every time you hit, sometimes applying it more than once before the attack ends. The chain lightning is great on nearly all weapons, and you can make all those lightning effects potentially hit twice. For me, Zeue belongs in B, maybe low A tier.
The tier list for high fear is soooo much different
Arti stays winning.
Heph in C is crazy 😀 His 2 defensive boons are simply amazing and needed for high level fears imo. I would rate him S just because of this 2 boons lol
Honestly, I kinda wish there was a boon shop that could appear in certain areas like the healing pools where you could sell off certain boons that don’t really benefit you; plus it would make Spiteful Strength a bit easier to use. Maybe a character could sometimes show up at Charon’s shop and you can sell to them? I know we have Hestia but 9 times out of 10 she usually asks for a boon that I don’t want to get rid of.
kinda weird to see Artemis in S, her boons are not that amazing imo, but since she only has 7 boons to offer, there's a good chance you'll get at least a very good one offered. still, I'd probably put her in A tier instead
now, kinda working the opposite way, I think Hestia could be A tier. unless you're running a build around cast, hers is always a good option to fill core boons and it can be a reliable origination proc along with Demeter's Gale Force and you can play around her duos, that you agree are good, I even think Hot Flash is good, too, despite how hard it is to apply Weak. she's not often as good as other gods can be on the Attacks/Specials boons department, but you know… Scorch good.
other than that, I think I mostly agree with this tier list. rly happy to see Aphrodite in S, btw, I think her boons are really good, really sad that her attacks/specials don't apply weak in this game, but considering how much she already buffs them, maybe she'd be too strong.
how do i get to the god boons list/info in game?
Mono god Hestia run with daggers and an extra sthing for origination is mwah chef's kiss.
For Heph, I'd like to see his attack and special boons function like Seismic Hammer, which can be stacked on top of another god's cast boon and shows a cooldown. I would feel much better about taking Heph's attack or special if they added the cooldown blast effect to whatever you've already got going on. That would also synergize with Spiteful Strength, as you'd still get the increased damage from not having a boon on your "regular" strikes.
cling clang disbeliever, burn him!!! 😤
cool tierlist, even though i have a lot of hours in the game its always nice to get some more opinions to make you consider trying for some new builds
For Hera's Legendary, I honestly think they should really lean into her Priming with Born Gain, maybe she provides more damage and defence the more magic that's been Primed. I think that would open up a lot of interesting builds and playstyles and her Legendary would work with the Prime boons that every god except Apollo provides!
More low hanging fruit I am lazy and don’t like reaching
If you're like me and play spin-to-win with the axe, then Aphrodite and Hera are your favorite gods to see.
I feel like heph’s blasts should just inherently apply vent and that would make them a lot better
Hestia and Apollo’s duo should be something to do with like fireworks or flash bombs. I feel like that would make much more sense and also just be way better than the current duo
i think the olympian tier list is pretty accurate, but i find myself ending up with demeter on my runs more often than apollo or even hera. also hestia scorch requiring you go into it fully isnt really true *imo*. i usually just take scorch ring for origination and it ends up doing a good chunk of dmg even as my only source of scorch it ends up pretty high on chart at the end.
honestly this fully depends on play style, i dont like omega cast but love normal cast, especially gale force+scorch.
also i miss hades 1 arty, in hades 2 a) feels like i dont see her much b)even when i get her, her boons dont feel that great, c)you only see her once
i feel like we should get more crit chance options, its a fun mechanic
also side note, i hope they make aphro legendary work with glam gain+ poseidon duo (maybe give it like 10 seconds cooldown?)
Are you sure about Soot sprint being bad? It lets you skip entire bullet hell rooms for free which lets you focus more on dealing more damage undisturbed
I think perfect image is going to become a better boon (or perceived as a better boon) as people get better and more practiced at the game to avoid damage better. It could use a damage buff, maybe, but I like it personally.
As someone who spent about 2 years playing on the first Hades, and now 150+h on H2, one thing I noticed about H2 is that compared to the first episode, there seem to have no specific synergies built in yet between the gods.
I mean, in H1, there were some very specific trio boons (duo boons between 3 gods) that were particularly synergetic between each other (thinking about Artemis/Aphro/Dionysos, or the triple A's : Athena/Aphro/Artemis, or Zeus/Poseidon/Dionysos). Somehow, I feel like H2 still lacks these kind of trio tag teams between their duo boons (with maybe the exception of Aphro/Apollo/Heph, with their Hearthrobs machine gun build, or maybe Zeus/Demeter/Heph with Hail storm and room temperature, basically letting you applying Hail Storm non stop. But so far, so little). We'd need some more of these. But it's all good, we're still on Early access, and this period is precisely to fine tune all these kind of things.
Who the fuck is Medea i did like 30 runs how did i never see them
Do weapons aspects tier list!