@@MythicMurdoc It's very relevant! It's the reason why the build is so strong in the first place. I'm using the Aspect of Achilles, and it gives you a 150% boost to cast and attack damage for four uses when you use the special and dash to it. The first four casts I drop have a huge damage buff after I dash to the special toss, and it's one of the most powerful aspects in the game because of this. From a balancing perspective, 150% is way too high, and it's the go-to aspect for cast builds as a result, with Poseidon and Talos in second and third place.

@@louieluigi3914 Tombstone would have been a perfect for this mix. I might update it for next Halloween...

@@marcingabrielbaczkowski909 You see the 1 beneath the summon item in the top left corner? That's how many uses you have for it during a run. Make sure that there's at least one use left before you reach Hades, and you can use it... UNLESS you haven't reached a certain point in the story, in which case the other members of the house can't get involved in the fight. I might be wrong about that second part, like that's just me speculating, but it makes sense. Hope that helps!

@@ByrneBaby thanks :) I know the first part with number of uses, but still it;s not working. Maybe I'll check later, I have already completed the storyline though.

@@Bababababat Thanks, crazy that I remind you of such a big 'tuber. I'll def get into shorts later down the road with other content, these Hades vids were silly little things for fun. The hunting blades vid I uploaded was the "last" one, and I want to switch gears with other stuff once I have a good chance to get back into the game.

@@BrandoNoCaps very random, but yes, I am lol

@@ByrneBaby I had a feeling you were 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿

More random question. Is Athena hot in this game?

@@ByrneBaby I knew it

@@espernova228 is it cuz you ain’t no girlfriend 🗣️

@@keerthan7558 If you want to up your chances, do this: - Never take Aphro with Beams, only with Hunting Blades. My fave god combo for beams is Artemis/Demeter/Poseidon/Dionysus. You can do Athena or Ares over Dio, but Dio works best with Privileged Status, plus his duos synergize the best with the rest. Ares synergizes the second best because his duos don't interfere with your beam build at all. - Check every well for one of the Chaos summons and extra casts, and run the mirror option for Duos and Legendaries to make getting Artemis' legendary easier, if you aren't already - If you don't take any call, run the Hades sigil after getting all the gods you want to increase your chances of finding non-core boons, plus it buffs damage by 100% at max usage - You can alternatively use the bone hourglass and try to find extra casts throughout your run if you choose a regular call - This one isn't about the cast part of the build, but for hammers, you always want flurry jab, and then if not that, just take whatever special ones you find to make runs easier. If you get flurry jab, get the extender or triple jab next. - Save your rolls for whatever's most important! If you got beams, roll for glare, if you have glare, roll for duos, but if you find duos first, take them and roll for whatever later. And I think that's it! Happy beaming :P

@@ByrneBaby Woahh wasn't expecting a detailed explanation hahaha. Welp ye i'm aware of these , appreciate it though 💜.it's just unfortunate circumstances and bad luck in those runs.I was basically forced into taking aphro core boons and ye no luck with extra casts in chaos. I'm gonna avoid aphro at all costs next time for sure.i'm pretty careful with rolls, i roll hard only for core parts of my build.

@@keerthan7558 Heck yeah! And yeah, I like breaking things down :P

@@YOMIsaac bro couldn't even take a DD, dude, he was so MID

That makes sense and is nuts and I need to see it one day

@@K713channel I didn't even notice that, he died so fast he didn't even have time to kneel lmao

I think I bugged the spear toss with reflect and removed the s on my call, I explain it more in the description :)

@@ByrneBaby thats absurd bro, im gonna try that

@@User-gd2fw SCRATCH THAT. Upon further examination, I knocked him into the wall an infinite amount of times. I reflected the spear into the wall, so he had to dash to it, and Splash damage can easily knock into walls or corners for extra damage. Because he was against the wall while I hit him, but fixed to his path to the spear, he just took giga damage and got super owned by infinite wall bump damage. You can see the damage numbers above his head are stacked on each other an absurd amount of times.

Skipped! I did so much damage that I finished the phase before he could trigger the summon.

also any tips on using fists?

@@timerska Malphon requires way more dodging and mindful play than the other weapons. You'll get a lot more mileage out of just not getting hit than coming up with silly builds. THAT SAID there's a lot of dumb builds, I'll list a few rq - the Yo-Yo build with Poseidon special on Talos, don't get other boons, just buff the special with poms - Artemis attack + Aphro dash with Heart rend. Hermes attack speed buff makes it super deadly, I think I have a clip of it - Merciful End with Ares attack and Athena's dash is the most broken fist build.

@@ByrneBaby definitely going to try malphon more, always thought of it as the weakest out of all the arms definitely going to try making these especially the merciful end one the rest sound very weird but very op at the same time ty for the advice and even the builds 🙏

Artemis Legendary boon (+2) with two Chaos cast boons (+1 each), I got very lucky :)

@@ByrneBaby well, that's insane.

@@hiddenscorpiusXI welcome to the broken zone its really broken now

🤣🤣🤣

It's honestly a really gnarly fight. I actually skipped another part of EM4, which is the Cerberus summon, like how Zag can summon Bouldy or Meg with the companions. If you do enough damage, you can simply end phase 2 before Hades gets a chance to trigger the summon.

it's a pretty free win even when it's suboptimal :P

Just started playing the game a couple weeks ago and I think the crystals are too broken if anything 😂

That's why I don't ever do approval process unless I'm going for boonless. It's already a dice roll, getting all these broken builds to begin with, getting blocked further makes it waaaay worse.

@@ByrneBaby Just double checked records since it was over a year ago and I had heat 32 on almost all Aspects. Turns that I didn't get Fully Loaded as well. That makes it even more frustrating.

@@pigifican u post a vid or pic of that? 32 heat on almost all aspects is no joke if that's real 😮

@@dontevenbruh I don't do vids. I also never took screenshots of my playthroughs. The only reason I was able to check was because I posted this story on reddit. I haven't touched Hades for over a year now and I uninstalled it long ago. Waiting for Hades 2 and a few other games. Sorry about that.

@@pigifi yea that's about what I thought..

Boon knowledge and a lot of luck. You choose your build before the run even starts and focus all your effort into getting and then buffing that build. The god keepsakes really help with this. I was personally going for a high level Glacial Glare, but kept getting the Beam itself on pom pickups. You can also keep your build "focused" by choosing non-boon rooms to keep your odds of pomming the boons you want high. The less boons, the better. I watched Haelian a bunch to get good at Hades, he's a speedrunner and drops tips a lot.

@@ByrneBaby how did you get so many bloodstones??

@@mythcat1273 Chaos! They have +1 cast as a reward option, and I also had the Artemis Legendary Boon, which gives +2. I normally aim for 4 total, since Achilles' cast buff can only affect 4 at a time, but got lucky with two Chaos cast boons.

I never finished Farewell, bro, I gotta get back to it one day. I'm so fuckin' tired all the time lmao

@@ByrneBaby that's just how life be, bro. Keep trucking, you slippery gorilla.

Lmaoooo 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I almost had a similar one with Hunting Blades but I was too lazy and I lost the run

I'm going to try this too 🤩

Randomiser probably

@@cCO2324 yeah, we were rocking s randomizer. It needed some tweaking for sure.

Wtf was the point of this video

@@HaydnG266Preserving a fun moment from an old stream :P