Scalding Water
Poseidon's waves vaporise when they strike a burning enemy, causing a supercritical steam blast that consumes every Scorch stack for instant burst damage.
Pairing
Why this pairing works
Scalding Water solves the one weakness of Scorch builds: burn damage is slow, and bosses often die before the damage-over-time pays off. This duo lets you cash in the entire stack instantly. The trade-off is that consuming the stacks resets your burn, so the duo favours burst windows over sustained pressure.
Playstyle
Build Scorch stacks with fast Attacks, then detonate with a wave. Against bosses, hold the wave until the stack count peaks rather than firing on cooldown. Works best on weapons that can stack quickly — Sister Blades and Umbral Flames are the strongest carriers.
Recommended weapons
Aspect of Pan
Thrown blades seek enemies standing inside your Cast, and Omega Special fires many more of them. This is the strongest Aspect in the game for melting bosses: drop a Cast, then shred everything inside it from a safe distance.
Aspect of Moros
Fireballs from your Attack explode the moment your orbiting ring touches them, dealing area damage. This turns every shot into a chain reaction and makes Moros the highest sustained-damage Aspect on the weapon.
Aspect of Melinoë
Attack and Special gain critical chance and armour penetration when they hit from behind. Combined with the Omega Attack teleport, you can reliably strike from the rear on demand.
Featured Builds
Pan Cast Shredder
Drop a Cast and let Aspect of Pan's seeking blades delete everything inside it. The highest sustained single-target damage setup in the game, and forgiving enough to run at high Fear.
Moros Chain Detonation
Fireballs from your Attack explode the instant your orbiting ring touches them. Keeps constant area pressure while the ring also blocks incoming projectiles.
Related Topics
Poseidon
God of the Sea
Hestia
Goddess of the Hearth
Aspect of Pan
Thrown blades home in on enemies inside your Cast
Aspect of Moros
Fireballs detonate when your orbiting ring touches them
Aspect of Melinoë
Bonus crit chance and armour penetration from behind
Pan Cast Shredder
Drop a Cast and let Aspect of Pan's seeking blades delete everything inside it. The highest sustained single-target damage setup in the game, and forgiving enough to run at high Fear.
Moros Chain Detonation
Fireballs from your Attack explode the instant your orbiting ring touches them. Keeps constant area pressure while the ring also blocks incoming projectiles.
Plan it with a tool
Duo Boon Finder — Prerequisite Checker
Select the gods in your run and see which of the 4 Hades 2 Duo Boons you can trigger, which prerequisite boons you still need, and the aspects that use them.
Build Planner — Weapon, Aspect, Boons & Arcana
Assemble a full Hades 2 loadout: pick 1 of 6 Nocturnal Arms and 1 of 18 Aspects, layer boons, set a Keepsake route and attach an Arcana loadout.