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sprint/dash only run ideas: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hephaestus.

honestly, the surface path is much harder than the underworld path. the surface has fewer biomes, but comparatively, the city and the ship are much harder than Erebus and Oceanus. Polyphemus and Eris are also much harder than Hecate and Scylla. there are fewer healing opportunities (no Charon wells) and the enemies hit harder and seem to spawn more endlessly.

Amazing run. Idk why the cat is programmed to run away after using all attacks. Feels unnecessarily annoying. Why didn't you take skelly tooth for your final keepsake? You could have had an extra DD for the final boss. Especially since the silk sash went away very fast.

35:05 the snake women on the islands die automatically once the big one is defeated, you can completely ignore them

DAISY SWEEP only other toula thing id try is white antler crits? i doubt it lets toula crit tho

It's really cute how you keep confusing her for daisy

Btw you can give up when you see a viable start and get the exact same seed when you return, amazing run btw

i feel like since we *know* she can beat the first two rooms and that the run is p much impossible without phoenix skin, skipping over them to see if the run was even viable seems like totally fair game to me. it was just a time saver since you were already restarting runs, I think it's valid

also aphros dash sucks for damage lmao, try zeus/poseidon/hephy

The in game timer pauses periodically during certain events. This includes loading screens, while in the presence of Charon, and while fighting rooms with other characters around, like Artemis, Heracles, or Icarus. If you want proper RTA you would need an external timer

There is this high fear build I like where you get Zeus infusion, some source of blitz, Demeter cast and gale force. Once infused, the cast will deal 120 damage/sec proccing blitz every second. The no mana fear, the rarity punishing fear and the shield fear are freebies, they won't matter at all

"I guess I could look it up, but that takes effort" he says after 18 resets to set up a challenge run that makes the game vastly more difficult than intended. Also, please give Daisy pets as thanks for her important contribution to this video!

Toula two, electric boogaloo

Ah, the continuation of cat supremacy

That was freaking insane XD I love Toula

Loved the run and I love Daisy as well <3

In case you ever need to know this. SPOILERS FOR FINAL FIGHT Before you can get a fix for the pausing thing in game. If you window out (alt tab) you can pause the whole program which the game can’t do anything about. I just know if I were you I would cry having to sit in one spot for 50 minutes no breaks

can you beat the game with only the frog now?

Great video! You should add some chill background music!

I wonder if your toula run influenced them to change her behavior in field of morning. It was definitely on their radar

Ha ha, thanks for the shoutout!! Glad you enjoyed the comments and the math. If you ever have some specific math you'd like me to give a shot at, definitely let me know. Nice idea with the Demeter route: I would have thought of Hephaestus or Hestia as more direct damage dealers, but the Demeter damage was actually solid, and bonus points to her for being able to activate the Origination debuff all on her own. (edit: Oh NO you didn't have the Origination arcana active... welp, all the more challenging, then.) I'd submit a bug report about the Frinos damage, it definitely starts at 10 and is supposed to be higher if you've leveled up that aspect of his bond. It says something about how rarely he actually hit anything that I've never heard anyone else comment on that: like I said elsewhere, I've only actually observed him actually inflicting damage when he just happens to land on Nemesis, procing her big obvious invincibility shield. (Terrible challenge idea: let Frinos be the finishing blow to each of the four Guardians. Which means figuring out a build that will let you get them as close to death as possible, and then stalling until you can get Frinos to land a few hits. Probably terrible because there wouldn't be anything particularly interesting about the encounters leading up to the Guardian, and now that Momus doesn't heal you anymore, stalling on Chronos will be really rough.) The Chaos Curse is ROUGH... good to know that his curses can't kill you, though, aside from the -500 HP penalty. And trying to fight in that tiny room while Hestia plays The Floor Is Lava, good lord. Love to see a run where the player manages to salvage it from an early rough patch, kudos to you for not quitting. As a headsup, Narcissus can also restore a lost Death Defiance: he has a "Life Savings" (great name) offering that only shows up if you've lost a DD, which gives you back a DD + a Deathcap. This is niche, but you also might want to have taken Hestia's Special instead of Natural Gas -- if Hades 2 works like Hades 1, there's a bias towards offering you boons that fill "unfilled slots" (Attack/Special/Cast/Sprint/Magick Restoration), and likewise, a bias against offering you a boon that overlaps a "filled slot," forcing a sacrifice. Using a "worthless" Boon selection to fill those slots might help you get a better Demeter boon later, since the Special slot will be taken, biasing your selection away from the Demeter Special and towards something else. I'd definitely give a Destiny video by you a try! I don't know for sure if I'd enjoy it (I don't know anything about Destiny, really, except that at one point there was going to be a Destiny crossover in Arknights that never seemed to materialize), but I like your commentary, so I'd give it a shot. Most difficult: Definitely Chronos as the hardest, then Eris, then Polyphemus right below her. Eris is way more variable: some builds wreck her, some builds struggle, and slipping up against her can annihilate your HP in no time at all. Polyphemus just always feels like a pain in the butt: between his kick-waves and that expanding slam attack he does when he's nearly dead, it's so hard not to keep taking damage against him here and there. After that, definitely Scylla. Cerberus isn't trivial, but I find you can get past most of his HP just by committing to standing near him as much as possible and constantly dashing through him. It's only at the very end, when he starts using his "temper tantrum" move, that it becomes really difficult, and even then, using your Cast to limit his movement helps a ton. Hecate feels basically free, I feel like I could beat her without either the Arcana or Boons at this point. Supergiant isn't afraid to give the player powerful tools, and it makes their games feel real good. I love it. Letting the player be powerful + letting them craft their own difficulty setting via Fear/Heat is basically my favorite approach to roguelike design. Excellent use of Doom music. Definitely the very best soundtrack, like no other ever was. It never occurred to me how funny the line "My forces are a numerous as grain of sands!" is in the context of him summoning a whole two guys to fight you. Do you have any idea how many grains of sands there are on a beach? Literally, dozens. Congrats on the win!! And you didn't even need Echo's Death Defiances in the end. 36 minute clear, too: again, despite the heavy restrictions you put on yourself, you could've survived one rank of the time limit vow, pretty cool to see. Something very random and funny: I thought your damage leaderboard numbers looked higher here than in previous runs, so I added it up vs. your Toula-only and your No-Attack runs, and what's wild is that your no-attacks run ended up showing 247,320 damage on the leaderboard, whereas this run has 247,390 damage showing: only 70 damage separating the two. (Meanwhile, the Toula run had far less damage showing? A mere 205,812? I wonder where that 42,000 additional damage went...) Thanks for the video!

Toula ✅ thumbnail awesome also HI DAISY I love that she's part of your intro lol

No scat, no cat, only cast

Sprint only would be fun i think

How have I not found this channel before. I salute you, fellow hades 2 addict🫡 Edit cause I just thought of a suggestion, a build where you see how low of a cool down you could get on Hephaestus attack would be cool to see.

On the topic of the Hades boon you were going for. Last Grasp. I admit the wording is ambiguous so I could be way off-base here, but I don't think the game is tracking how many times you've used Death Defiance, it's tracking how many you _don't_ have. To put it another way, I always interpreted it as it being based on how many "empty" Defiances you have. So Toula and the Lucky Tooth could increase the Last Grasp damage but not Echo or other refill type effects. I've done no testing though so this is just my guess based on the wording.

have you seen the balance patch? really cool stuff they added in some aspects. also i know you wanted that apollo boon in oceanus but honestly the situation you were in for that layer is the perfect use case for moros's engraved pin, since it can be used once every encounter. you can then purposely heal (if you are lower than the amount it restores) by letting the final enemy pop the pin and then ending the encounter easily ALSO gen 3 best games

Everyone else may be here for the Hades 2 content. I'm here for the Daisy content.

I wonder how much faster it would be with the origination arcana. 50 percent more damage since the cyclone and freeze count as two separate curses

I would be really interested to see a full underworld run with Eris' keepsake, the discordant bell on the entire time

Great run, love your content. Small optimization, I don’t know your arcana setup but there is an arcana that gives a 40% damage buff when an enemy is affected by two status effects. Demeter is a fun god because she inherently has two different status effects. I don’t remember the name but in hades 1 it was called privileged status.

Another classic W, gonna have to try to get that Apollo Zues duo myself now!

we are here for the hades content. And also your content is weirdly captivating.

Great content! I think you're gonna blow up with this content. Here's a challenge run idea. Max hammers. Get a shiny Double Up from Poseidon, get one hammer at any time, then pray for double up on a hammer right before echo. Get a fourth hammer from echo and pray for another double up for five. Then use the experimental hammer keepsake in Tartarus for six. I think with a pommed up epic or heroic double up, the RNG wouldn't be too punishing

Yeah I can def see the difficulty of topping the Toula challenge haha! That being said maybe this'll lead you to come up with ideas that otherwise no one else would've tried? The tricky thing with Hades is there's a limited amount of avenues to allow you to change the game in a really unique way (apart from Toula only!) With fear, its sort of straight forward in terms of difficulty. More fear, more hard. I think figuring out a really interesting challenge somewhere away from that simple fear challenge is what would really be fun to watch! I wonder if since the game Hades is quite linear with its difficulty progression, there could be an external challenge that could be creative and unique? Could be irl, could be a program on your computer, not entirely sure. But regardless I look forward to seeing what you cook up next!

I would have loved to see the in game timer in this vid as well! (IGT cuts out time idling in boon selections and things of that nature)

also awesome run!!

Could a Hera revenge build also work? Same Hephaestus sprint to get it started but then get that 1000% hitched revenge damage, Aphro / Demeter / Posioden for a metric ton of health and then let your enemies pray

This man’s training for that 55 fear run

I thought "Hephie's sprint" the moment i saw the title) Great video) Couple of run ideas: the "worst choices" run, where you make the worst possible choices with every boon (don't expect to win that one xD) and the "even more random" run, where you make each choice by random generator picking a number 1 through 3

Glad to see you can do a fun run that doesn't take over 4 hours

i feel like i watched one of those tiktok videos where a guy uses a toothpick to drink 10 liters of water for 10 hours strait

A small run optimization here. If you put Apollo on your attack or special, the Hephaestus/Apollo duo increases the range of the burst. This is so big that you can run around Cerberus’s AoEs and still proc the burst on him. It also makes the non boss rooms a lot quicker and passively deals with any adds in the boss rooms. Then if you also use Aphrodite the Apollo/Aphrodite duo creates more heartthrobs which can chunk boss health even more.

What a fun run!! And honestly, you're underselling yourself: the description says "no damaging with enemies with casts," but that would still allow the use of normal casts (without damaging boons, of course) to help crowd-control enemies, and you didn't even do that! I have been watching a fair bit of Hades 2 content, and I haven't personally seen anyone else attempt anything like either of these runs. It's so wild to see someone doing such impressive challenge runs while still having unchosen boons for prophecies, that's wild and cool to me. (Maybe it's just me, but when I have that prophecy scroll on my boon selection screen, it takes all my willpower not to autopick it. Prophecy! Progression! Completionism!!) How many hours do you have in the game? Yeah, the Hephaestus sprint boon is nuts: hits like his attack/special boon but without the 12/20 second cooldown! Seems like sprinting doesn't immediately shut off your magick regen like omega channeling does, which helps a lot when it comes to regen. Just to be sure, you know that Frinos can block Hecate's morph hex, yeah? It's technically a projectile! Apologies if I'm telling you something you already know, just wanna make sure you know that. I discovered it by accident, personally. The moneybag enemies do give you money when you defeat them! It's bizarre that the miniboss version doesn't, but I guess that's made up for by all the golden urns in its room? (I think Vent might be a 5-second cooldown, not a 6-second one? Also, the Engraved Pin comes from Moros, hence him counting down when it activates, predicting your doom. Odysseus gives you the Knucklebones keepsake, I guess to reflect his advice on all those Guardians he's personally encountered.) 28 and a half minutes in-game time is super impressive too... you almost could've taken two ranks of the "deadline" vow and still cleared, which is wild given how restrictive the challenge is. I tried to estimate how many times you would have had to proc the sprint, but between being able to hit a whole crowd of enemies, having the damage increase as the run progressed, sometimes dealing extra damage due to Weak, etc., that's not really feasible to do accurately. What I can say is that your sprint damage ranged from 300 to 524, so dividing 187,094 by that gives us somewhere between 357 and 624 sprints _hits_ (as opposed to procs, e.g. hitting 2 enemies counts twice) to clear, with the actual number probably being on the higher end of that, due to it starting at 300 and due to you giving up the extra damage from Weak before the end of the run. As for challenge run ideas, hmm... would a Cast-only build be interesting at all? That might end up being more tedious than challenging. Maybe trying out a less popular aspect and trying to optimize it? Maybe you'll come across something like that while making some of the comparison videos you mentioned wanting to make?