Here it is! Let’s look at the Shield and Bow this time. What do I think of each aspect, what would I rank it in terms of power level, and what are some good build ideas? Thanks for tuning in!
Shields:
Zag: 0:38
Cha: 1:54
Zeu: 3:47
Beo: 5:43
Bows:
Zag: 8:53
Chi: 10:26
Her: 12:03
Ram: 14:04
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ABOUT THIS GAME
Hades is a god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler that combines the best aspects of Supergiant’s critically acclaimed titles, including the fast-paced action of Bastion, the rich atmosphere and depth of Transistor, and the character-driven storytelling of Pyre.
BATTLE OUT OF HELL
As the immortal Prince of the Underworld, you’ll wield the powers and mythic weapons of Olympus to break free from the clutches of the god of the dead himself, while growing stronger and unraveling more of the story with each unique escape attempt.
UNLEASH THE FURY OF OLYMPUS
The Olympians have your back! Meet Zeus, Athena, Poseidon, and many more, and choose from their dozens of powerful Boons that enhance your abilities. There are thousands of viable character builds to discover as you go.
BEFRIEND GODS, GHOSTS, AND MONSTERS
A fully-voiced cast of colorful, larger-than-life characters is waiting to meet you! Grow your relationships with them, and experience thousands of unique story events as you learn about what’s really at stake for this big, dysfunctional family.
BUILT FOR REPLAYABILITY
New surprises await each time you delve into the ever-shifting Underworld, whose guardian bosses will remember you. Use the powerful Mirror of Night to grow permanently stronger, and give yourself a leg up the next time you run away from home.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Permanent upgrades mean you don’t have to be a god yourself to experience the exciting combat and gripping story. Though, if you happen to be one, crank up the challenge and get ready for some white-knuckle action that will put your well-practiced skills to the test.
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You NEED to branch off to other games once you have covered more of this game. You are too good of a creator.
A little note about the Beowolf shield: if you get the "bull rush fires a shot" hammer, the casts still go off around you. It took some adjusting for me to cope with that, but it still turned my Zeus cast into a monster.
110 subs to 10k let's gooo
Been trying to get Aphrodite cast with my Hera bow for last 3 runs but no luck. Can someone who managed to try it tell me what is the effect of this combo?
For the aspect of hera i disagree with you with some point, the artemis cast i was disapointed and Are slicing shot… just amazing when you figure out how to use it early the damage do not falter against dyonisus or aphrodites cast… if you manage to get duo with artemis your slicing shot become a seeking tornado blade of doom… just so fun so powerfull… special mention to poseidon cast, if you manage to get the duo with demeter you dont full charge your bow attack and it lauch a piercing ray with little ice slicing shot very weird to play didnt figure how to optimize it yet but has potential… sometimes i OS an Hades phase with it, dealing more than 2K damage with only 3 cast, sometimes i deal less than 500…
Just got to Heat 23 with Chiron, it's just super fun and it works with a lot of builds.
I am realy waiting for the next pair fist and gun
Hey man! Still haven't beaten final boss yet, how do you get so much Titan's blood/Ambrosia/Diamonds?
Can't wait for the rail!
What the hell? Chiron and Hera in A tier, but Rama in S tier? Seems like a mistake
Actually beat my first run with the bow of Zagreus. I just love them crits. I also got Demeter regularly attack chill upgrade and then the marked upgrade on artemis and got the auto attack bow upgrade nothing could touch me and everything was dying
Great video as aways. Also, I just noticed you reached 10k subs, congratulations man you definitely deserve it.
Not saying it's better than Chaos aspect, but I have a lot of love for aspect of Zeus shield. One of the first times I beat Hades was with it, at lvl 1. Lightning build on it was one of my crazier runs yet.
Man I Discovered your channel a few days ago and I saw you playing alot of hades so I went to try it and now I have 20 hours of play time so thanks for all your wonderful videos and keep doing it as long as you having fun😄
Regarding the shield of zeus aspect. A good strategy is to launch it in front of you and shield dash while you follow. You double up on the damage and it works really really well. Also, aphrodite’s book that launches arrows on every strike makes it godly.
It synergies really well with a dash strike type of playstyle like this. Launch special and then go YOLO. (It’s the only aspect with which you can do it while the shield flies)
Finally, dionysos and Demeter are really good gods for this special as they stack with multiple hits, which the shield does a lot, especially at level 1.
Just wanna thank you for doing this guide. Thanks to this I tried out the bow Hera aspect with Dionysys's cast + Frozen Wine and with Poseidon's cast with the Poseidon + Artemis duo boon in successive runs and both did great. I didn't understand what the aspect did before and now it's my favorite bow build
Are you sure Chaos shield aspect is still S+? I'm actually finding myself really struggling with it after the nerfs — like, more than any other weapon or aspect. I just can't seem to do any damage with it, so much so that I actually run out of time with 2 ranks of the time limit modifier, even on runs where I have heroic special boons!
hi, im new 😉
will you make another video for the last 2 weappons?
The Zeus shield is Godly. The trick is that when you enter a room, throw it at the enemies on one half of the screen and then dash towards the enemies on the other side of the screen. The Blitz Disk basically screens and culls the other half of the room, and once you clear call it back to you and it tends to nuke everything spawning in the middle that spawns as the two of you slide back toward each other.
What are this little stickers with faces on your keepsakes?
My only issue with the Aspect of Rama is the attack is as you said clunky. But it's actually pretty bad when the special is really the only reason I use the weapon. I prefer using the special and special only. I know it is limiting the damage but there are just too many fights, especially in Elysium and onward where enemies are too mobile and attack way too fast. It even starts being an issue as early as Asphodel and even Tartarus if you get a lot of small quick moving enemies. If the charge time was maybe cut down a bit I'd likely start using the attack more. But I did one special only run with it earlier and all the hammers I got were just for the attack which made it even clunkier and I just didn't even use that button.
I'd say aspect of Hera is S-tier just because of how powerful it can be for so little investment, making it really useful for advancing meta-progress for beginners.
Story time: I'd been playing for a few days now and never made it to Hades. Yesterday, I just unlocked the aspects and decided to select one for my bow because up until then Id only used it once right when I got it at the the beginning and decided the bow was wack. On my first try with aspect of Hera, I got to and killed Hades with 1 death defiance left. I was in shock. And I didn't even have a particularly good cast for the bow (Athena's phalanx Shot).
Aspect of Hera is incredible and I demand it be placed in S-tier 😤
Does anyone has a Tipp for me? I’ve used 6 titanblood at the speer and killed hades with the shield. Do I have to kill hades with the Speer to get the secret aspect? Thank you all for the answers
All yah had to do was give an S rating on the third so we'd have "A S S"
I’m so bad at using the bow! I can never get past the Hydra :/
I know this is just the Aspect's that you're reviewing and not so much the boons so I don't disagree with your assessment. But with boons, I think the Zeus shield has some insane potential for creative playstyles. I've been experimenting with it the last couple days, you can get some super broken builds.One one run, I put Athena deflect upgrades one it, and in boss fights like Theseus, you basically have a persistent deflection shield, as long as you stand opposite of theseus, every shot he takes is deflected back at him. Same for any projectile enemies really.
On another build, if you do the artemis focus, where all damage you inflict causes an arrow to fire, just hurl the shield into enemies, and the constant spin will cause just a constant stream of arrows to fly into the targets separate from whatever else you are doing.
Lastly, I did one that basdically turns the shield into the bow lol. It takes 2 hammers – one to replace bull rush with the blast, and then one that reduces the charge up speed of bull rush – that basically allows you to fire arrow blasts in place, and if you have your shield spinning in front of you, it'll protect you while you shoot.
Using aspect of Zeus with thunder flourish is really strong in the beginning of the game when you don't have a lot of titan blood to go around. The speed at which the lightning bolts hit deals massive damage.
The shield has become my favorite does a shit ton of damage. Fuck the bow in late game
i HAAAATE bull rush with a passion.S tier?!
Thanks for all the video's – eveyr since watching your channel my runs are getting exceedingly easier
Hey man, found your channel recently after picking up the game and I love the Hades content. Quick question, how do you have so many resources?! I haven't completed the game yet but is there like some new game + grinding mode or is it just because of all the time you've put into the game
I had a question about the Beowulf aspect
When you hold your attack, for the rush move, you kinda hold your shield on the side for the wind up, as opposed to in front as with the other aspects.
Does that mean you can't hold attack to block incoming attacks from the front?
Zeus shield + Zeus Q + jolted is AMAZING. Especially with the Demeter/Zeus Duo Boon.
The Poseidon Cast with Hera Bow is amazing, too. Add the Mirage shot Duo from Poseidon / Artemis and it turns into a single-shot roomsweeper that can do 2000+ in a shot.
Can you update this after the bow nerf? Does it change any of the rankings?
Aspect of Hera was how I got my very first clear. I had Aphrodite on my attack, and Artemis on my special. Fire high damage shot, get behind Hades, and unload insane damage into his back with damage buff and high crit rate.
I've had some success with doom special on the normal bow. It's good spread, and later with the stacking doom boon you can occasionally get much more damage with the shotgun
just ran the bow with the one that lets you load your cast onto your attack, then built out my casts with chaos blessings and hermes until i hit 6/6 then i got the homing casts and crit casts so my arrows would ride the bloodstones to the target even if i missed on top of the obscene damage, this game is freaking amazing with how diverse you can build, there was a bunch of other stuff i was able to add on as well, like the casts fall out after 3.3 seconds and when they drop out they do 100 a piece so in total with marking and crit at around 10-15% i was hitting for 1200-1800 all told with ragnarok double arrow and extra dmg, who knows what else, i pretty much killed hades in 8 shots stage 1 and another 12 stage 2. Truly this game is wondrous, at fist its ball bustingly difficult and then it just becomes so pleasant, still hard but the freedom just boggles my mind. I wonder if they are gonna make a dlc or add some weapons, I'd be more then happy to pay a bit and give them some more support.
I got a really busted run on aspect of chiron. That this is broken with zeus Artemis combo with +4 on special and stacking damage on special its was insane! All the bosses just melt with this thing. My favorite weapon
Literally upgrade my shield so my bull rush can stop charging enemies.. Then my 1st cleared happened just by camping at corner and block every attacks from hades lol
Chiron and Rama are S tier for sure, Hera and Zagreus bows are both B tier for me; the shotgun effect of the Zagreus special is risky, and I'm not a cast player, so the upside to Hera is totally lost on me. Literally took Rama out for the first time today and with Athena's Call, Support Fire, Herme's special speed +30% and Dionysus putting 18 drunk on each arrow, it made for a very easy Hades fight. Lost 27 health the whole fight because of a chariot he summoned got me before I could kill it. Didn't use the charge shot much at all except for Lernie, where I could just about take two heads out with one shot. Chiron just wins runs if you put doom on the special, it and Rama are probably my two favourite weapons in the game.
When it comes to bow with aspect od Zagreus special is awasome when you get deflect on it. It's just "negate range damage from the 90° angle"
Personally my least two favorite of the weapons I’ve hardly used them
Wht button do you press to be able to open the menu to upgrade weapons. I've beaten hades around 7 times now and I didnt even know upgrading weapons is an option