Chronos, the Titan of Time, is the real final wall in Hades 2. His fight has two long phases that test crowd control first, then survival in a hazard-filled clock arena.
He shrugs off time-control tricks until you’ve unlocked special incantations, so plan around raw skill, careful positioning, and a build you’re comfortable piloting.
How Should You Prepare Before Facing Chronos?
Before fighting Chronos, tailor your build to your strengths by picking a weapon you know well, ideally mid-range or ranged, so you can read his moves without risking constant melee trades.
The Argent Skull stands out because its charged special wipes out minions fast and chips away at Chronos’s health safely.
Umbral Flames work well when you want steady damage from a comfortable distance. If you prefer melee, the Sister Blades can work thanks to their quick dashes, which make slipping behind his swings easier.
Build around one or two main damage types (say, an empowered Attack or Special with a strong Cast) and avoid diluting your strength across many moves.
Apollo and Zeus offer strong ranged pressure, and Selene’s Moon Water keeps you healthy and more durable.
Use these Arcana cards where Death adds a second life, The Unseen regenerates Magick for Omega attacks, The Huntress increases damage when Magick is low, The Centaur raises HP and Magick over time, and Excellence raises the chance of rare or legendary boons.
Choosing the right keepsake also matters, with Lucky Tooth giving a lifesaving heal on revive, Evil Eye boosting damage against the foe that last killed you, and Knuckle Bones cutting damage if equipped before facing Chronos.
On the way down, visit Hades and pick up boons like Old Grudge to cut Chronos’s max health and Deep Dissent to reduce his minions and banners.
Unlocking Power to Pause and Reflect and Temporal Fluctuation later gives you extra control to pause mid-fight and bypass Chronos’s immunity to time effects.
What Should You Expect in Chronos’s First Phase?
Chronos starts out seated on his throne with satyr minions at his sides, and the first thing to do is take those satyrs out so their projectiles don’t distract you while you learn his patterns.
Using Omega Casts is a great way to wipe them out quickly and safely before turning your full attention to Chronos.
Once the room is safe, turn your attention to reading and reacting to his signaled attacks. When he pulls his right arm back for a big scythe slash, dash through or past his side, and strike his back during the recovery.
When you see a sudden white flash and he lunges, move sideways or slide behind his left hip to evade the opening slash and the delayed dark trail it leaves.
If you hear a grunt and see him lift the scythe to his left, prepare for the boomerang scythe; either step in close and dash through the arc or back away to avoid the returning blade.
Circle him clockwise during the vacuum cyclone and projectiles to avoid being pulled in, then strike after the shot whiffs.
When he surrounds himself with orb shields or spinning orbs, it’s safest to stay back or bait him into dashing into a wall to break them.
As the fight progresses, Chronos starts to layer more mechanics. At about half health, he summons four hourglass-style banners that give him shielding.
You don’t have to destroy every banner, but taking out one or two can make it easier to keep damage flowing. Once Chronos reaches about 30% health, satyrs spawn again.
Clear them fast or risk getting caught between their hits and his combos. After falling under half health, his patterns accelerate and become more punishing, with up to three scythe swings chained together.
Dash cleanly through each swing, reset your position, and strike only when it’s safe.
What Should You Expect in the Second Phase?
Chronos heals to full in the second phase and changes the battlefield to a giant clock arena with extra stage-wide dangers.
The countdown blast is a main mechanic where the screen turns red, and one clock number shows the safe zone. Sprint to that glowing segment and stay there until the explosion passes, or you’ll be instantly killed.
Another is the inner safe ring, where the arena goes dark except for a single halo of light near the center. Stand inside this lit area, but avoid hugging Chronos himself, and use the downtime to land safe ranged damage.
You’ll also have to handle other hazards layered in with his normal moves. When the clock hands spin clockwise, watch for an opening and dash through instead of making a full lap.
A fire ring sometimes starts at the edge of the arena and moves inward, so you must dash through it. Time bubbles appear as golden spheres that freeze you if touched, so hold your dash until you’re sure of his swing to avoid getting trapped mid-attack.
When Chronos drops to about half health, he’ll call in hourglass minions that slowly restore his HP if left alone.
Destroy them when it’s safe, but don’t give up good positioning just to reach them. All of his phase one attacks remain, but he’s stopped linking long combos and now floods the field with overlapping hazards.
Keep your distance at mid-range, watch the floor cues for where it’s safe to stand, and punish only when there’s a clear opening.
How Do You Handle Unrivaled Chronos?
Facing Unrivaled Chronos makes the fight faster and harsher, but keeps the same core mechanics.
His delayed scythe swings now sweep a larger area and can hit twice, while the usual ring waves stack with extra layers to dodge.
Areas that were safe before now contain rotating clock hands, so timing matters more than position. He opens phase two with a chain of Gathering Time one-shot attacks that require fast reaction to the floor cues.
Slow Omega wind-ups are risky here, so keep moving and strike in short, safe bursts.
In his final stage, the arena changes again with red lines crossing the floor, so keep moving, avoid the center where attacks meet, and step back to reset if needed.
You will beat this stronger rematch by sticking to what worked. Read the floor markers, break hourglasses when safe, and dash with control.
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