So a little bit about me: I am NOT a speedrunner, a fan sure, and I dabbled in running here and there but I've got no major accomplishments aside from beating Hades 1 under 10 minutes and Hollow Knight under an hour. I am a big fan though and for Hades 2 - yknow, I wanna dabble again, but this time maybe a bit harder.

So, I looked far and wide for some proper guides but didn't really find anything, so through observations and my own intuition - through the help of the save files available here in the resources tab...

I created this: https://app.milanote.com/1Sav7118Rv3d1k?p=TvIj2E4UDGI

A more or less visual guide to a Hades 2 speedrun setup. Would love to hear what the experts and newbies alike think about this as I'm heavily considering turning it into a full on VideoGuide if I get at least some confirmation that all the stuff I've dotted down actually makes proper sense!

For Momus special build its actually to your advantage to start with vow of panic b/c you won't be using mana anyway and you want 0 for stuff like spirit surge. Also vow of fury does make bosses phase faster and enemy spawns faster but its preference on 1 or 2 rn

see thats the kind of insight I was hoping to get - the 0 mana thing does make sense, so technically if someone wanted to go with a more beginner friendly setup they can use what i posted as any fear but keep mana at 0 for momus

any clue why fury is prefered on 1 or 2 though? i mean, logically you want stuff to spawn as fast as possible no? at least thats how i remember it being back in hades 1

From what I understand as someone who is not great but watched a few of the best runs, not everyone is convinced that Fury 2 is actually any faster than Fury 1. At least, that is what I heard when watching one of Corvus’ runs, who is currently 2nd on the leaderboard. While vow of fury makes enemies spawn faster, 2 is thought to not make a difference over 1, so some runners don’t use it.

hm! so, in an any fear run it may or may not make a difference - whereas in 32 fear its better to go for lvl2 fury, since fear points, would that be correct?

also, im mostly trying out 32 runs right now, testing a bunch of ideas but have yet to finish a single run - one was damn close to 2nd place time but i fumbled chronos, and it was momus poseidon + hephastus mint condition (impervious for x seconds)