Want a complete guide to help you make the most of your Hades 2 Zeus builds? Then you’ve come to the right place.
Supergiant Games just dropped the 1.0 version of Hades 2, which is now available on PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store) and Nintendo Switch 2. Regardless of platform, cross-save is available, making it a godsend in case you were playing during early access and decided to switch, too (I had to do it).
Zeus retains some of his boons from the first game, but his new gimmick in the sequel is the Blitz effect. In this guide, I’ll break down all Zeus boons (regular, duos, legendary, and infusion boons), the best weapon synergies, and the boons you should always look out for.
All Zeus Boons In Hades 2
Zeus has a total of 13 regular boons, 8 duo boons, 1 infusion boon, and 1 legendary boon. Here is the full list.
Common Boons
All damage values and other stats are based on the common version of each boon. These numbers will vary depending on rarity (Common, Rare, Epic, Heroic). Some boons have offering requirements; these will be listed separately.
- Heaven Strike: Your Attacks inflict Blitz (80 damage)
- Heaven Flourish: Your Specials inflict Blitz (100 damage)
- Storm Ring: Your Casts cause lightning bolts to repeatedly strike 1 foe at a time in the binding circle (25 damage per 0.35 sec)
- Thunder Rush: Rushing causes surrounding foes to be struck by lightning bolts (20 damage per 0.35 sec)
- Ionic Gain: In each Encounter, an Aether Font appears in the area and restores all Magick when used. (10 seconds reappearance time)
- Power Surge: Whenever you use Magick, a random surrounding foe is struck by lightning (30 damage)
- Divine Vengeance: After you take damage, your foe is struck by lightning, and again 50% of the time (100 bolt damage, up to 2 times)
- Static Shock: Your strikes emit chain-lightning that bounces up to 4 times, but you Prime 50 Magick (10 damage per lightning)
The common boons that require prior boons to get are:
Lightning Lance: Hold Cast to aim where the binding circle appears. Foes within are struck by lightning. (50 bolt damage). Required offerings:
- Rapture Ring
- Solar Ring
- Arctic Ring
- Anvil Ring
- Engagement Ring
- Smolder Ring
- Tidal Ring
- Storm Ring
- Sword Ring
Double Strike: Your lightning effects may strike 2 times (10% bonus Bolt chance). Required offerings:
- Heaven Strike
- Heaven Flourish
- Storm Ring
- Thunder Rush
- Power Surge
- Divine Vengeance
- Lightning Lance
Arc Flash: Damage from Omega Moves immediately activates Blitz effects and makes them stronger. (30% Omega-Blitz bonus damage). Required offerings:
- Heaven Strike
- Heaven Flourish
Electric Overload: Your chain-lightning deals more damage and bounces up to 3+ times. (20% chain-lightning damage). Required offerings:
- Static Shock
Infusion Boon
Zeus has one infusion boon, Air Quality, which requires 3 Air boons to show up as an offering and 5 to trigger. Infusion boons don’t have different rarities.
- Air Quality: While you have at least 5 Air boons, you can never deal less damage than the limit (50 damage)
Legendary Boon
Zeus’ legendary boon is Shocking Loss, which requires three different offerings to appear.
- Shocking Loss: Whenever you first deal damage to susceptible foes, you may destroy them outright (25% instant destruction chance)
The required offerings are the following:
One of the following:
- Heaven Strike
- Heaven Flourish
- Storm Ring
- Thunder Rush
- Ionic Gain
One of the following:
- Static Shock
- Power Surge
- Lightning Lance
- Divine Vengeance
One of the following:
- Arc Flash
- Double Strike
- Electric Overload
Duo Boons
Duo boons require you to get two offerings from different gods. Zeus has a total of eight. These don’t have rarities, and all values will always remain the same.
King’s Ransom
Give up all your boons of Hera. For each, raise a level for all your boons of Zeus. The required offerings are:
- Hera: Engagement Ring, Born Gain, or Nexus Rush
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, Heaven Flourish, Storm Ring, Thunder Rush, or Ionic Gain
Killer Current
Your lightning deals more damage to Froth-afflicted foes (30% bonus lightning damage). The required offerings are:
- Poseidon: Tidal Ring or Slippery Slope
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, Heaven Flourish, Storm Ring, Thunder Rush, Divine Vengeance, or Lightning Lance
Hail Storm
Your freeze effects also cause lightning bolts to repeatedly strike afflicted foes (30 lightning damage per 0.5 sec). The required offerings are:
- Demeter: Ice Strike, Ice Flourish, or Arctic Ring
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, Heaven Flourish, Storm Ring, Thunder Rush, or Ionic Gain
Glorious Disaster
You can channel 30 Magick into your Omega Cast to repeatedly strike foes with lightning bolts (20 bolt damage per 0.13 sec). The required offerings are:
- Apollo: Prominence Flare
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, Heaven Flourish, Storm Ring, or Thunder Rush
Romantic Spark
Rushing into foes with Blitz immediately activates the effect and makes it stronger (80% bonus Blitz damage). The required offerings are:
- Aphrodite: Flutter Strike, Flutter Flourish, Rapture Ring, Passion Rush, or Glamour Gain
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, or Heaven Flourish
Thermal Dynamics
Your Blitz effects also inflict Scorch whenever they deal damage (160 Scorch damage). The required offerings are:
- Hestia: Flame Strike, Flame Flourish, or Smolder Ring
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, or Heaven Flourish
Master Conductor
Your chain-lightning can bounce off of you and deals increasing damage to foes (15% damage per bounce). The required offerings are:
- Hephaestus: Volcanic Strike, Volcanic Flourish, Anvil Ring, Smithy Rush, Tough Gain
- Zeus: Static Shock
Heinous Affront
Inflicting Wounds can also inflict all your “after you take damage” effects (6 sec recharge time per foe). The required offerings are:
- Ares: Vicious Strike, Vicious Flourish
- Zeus: Heaven Strike, Heaven Flourish, Storm Ring, Thunder Rush, or Ionic Gain
- Third offering: Visceral Impact (Ares), Light Smite (Apollo), Divine Vengeance (Zeus)
Best Weapons For Zeus In Hades 2
Zeus thrives with high APM (actions per minute) weapons, so using the Sister Blades and The Umbral Flames are my go-tos. Zeus’ main buff is Blitz, which does the following:
- Afflicted foes are struck by lightning after they take 120 damage or after 4 seconds.
Sister Blades
For the Sister Blades, my recommended setup is the following:
- Aspect: Melinoe or Artemis
- Hammer upgrades: Sweeping Ambush, Rapid Onslaught, Skulking Onslaught (Melinoe), Wicked Onslaught
- Zeus boons: Heaven Strike, Arc Flash, Static Shock, Electric Overload, Power Surge
Whether you’re using Melinoe or Artemis aspects, the blades are definitely the best way of taking advantage of Zeus’ strength, which is consistently triggering the Blitz curse on enemies.
You’ll be consistently using your Omega attack to either take advantage of the backstab (Melinoe) or to parry and trigger Riposte (Artemis), so having Arc Flash and Power Surge is a no-brainer. A good way to tack on extra damage is Static Shock, but this will cost you a whopping 50 Primed Magick, so getting a boon that refills your Magick is a must (my go-to is Hestia’s Cardio Gain, but Zeus’ own does an okay job).
A few other support boons you should consider are Double Strike and Air Quality. Zeus’ infusion sounds stronger than it actually is, but if you go for things such as Hestia Scorch or Demeter’s Gust, then you’ll get the best usage of Air Quality, and it will give those two curses a major damage bump.
As for hammer upgrades, can’t go wrong with any of the ones I mentioned, just keep in mind Skulking Onslaught is much more situational than the rest, as it only buffs backstab damage, and Sweeping Ambush will make you spend an extra 20 Magick per Omega attack.
The Umbral Flames
- Aspect: Moros and Supay
- Hammer upgrades: Hidden Helix (Moros), Clean Coil (Moros), Melting Helix (Moros), Enduring Coil (Moros), Rising Helix (Moros), Dividing Blaze (Moros), Leaden Blaze ( Demonic Cell (Supay)
- Zeus boons: Heaven Strike, Thunder Rush, Power Surge, Arc Flash, Air Quality
I debated between Moros and Eos, but ultimately, I believe the latter benefits more from other gods. With the Aspect of Moros, you’ll be chugging attacks left and right, which will then explode with your specials. You can go for Heaven Flourish over Strike, but I much prefer having my attack be the one progging Blitz.
Again, since this build requires constant Magick (you’ll use your Omega attack and special constantly), Power Surge and Arc Flash are a must, with a decent Magick replinishing boon (please go for Hestia’s Cardio Gain) to keep you topped up.
Moros has a plethora of good hammers to choose from; some are very utility-based, like Clean Coil (faster Omega special charge and uses 10 less Magick), but others can really ramp up the damage, particularly the two Blaze ones, as they buff raw power (+10 added to base power) or in the case of Leaden Blaze, break your attacks into two which will let you trigger more explosions.
As for Supay, it’s all about empowering your rush (sprint) with Air Quality. That’s it. Gather as many Air boons as you can and pray the RNG gods for Air Quality to drop.
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