Apollo Boons and Gameplay Tips

Apollo is one of the Olympian Gods that can assist Melinoe in Hades 2. The God of Light empowers your attacks and makes your enemies miss theirs. Read on to learn more about Apollo, their boons, and gameplay tips for their Boons in this guide!

All Apollo Boons

List of Standard Apollo Boons

Boon	Description	Stat Improved
Nova Strike	Your Attacks deal more damage in a larger area.	Attack Damage: ・Common: +40% ・Rare: +50% ・Epic: +60% ・Heroic: TBD
Nova Flourish	Your Specials deal more damage in a larger area.	Special Damage: ・Common: +60% ・Rare: +80% ・Epic: +100% ・Heroic: TBD
Solar Ring	After your Omega Cast expires, reapidly deal damage in the area for 2 Sec.	Omega Cast Damage: ・Common: 10 (every 0.13 Sec.) ・Rare: 15 (every 0.13 Sec.) ・Epic: 20 (every 0.13 Sec.) ・Heroic: 25 (every 0.13 Sec.)
Blinding Sprint	Your Sprint is faster and inflicts Daze on nearby foes.	Sprint Speed: ・Common: +15% ・Rare: TBD ・Epic: TBD ・Heroic: TBD
Lucid Gain	While standing in your Casts, gradually restore Magick.	Magick Restoration: ・Common: +12 (every 1 Sec.) ・Rare: +18 (every 1 Sec.) ・Epic: +24 (every 1 Sec.) ・Heroic: TBD
Self Healing	Infusion Boon Requires: 1 Fire While you have at least 3 Fire Boons, whenever you take damage, restore some Life.	Damage Recovered: ・Common: 30% (over 5 Sec.) ・Rare: TBD ・Epic: TBD ・Heroic: TBD
Super Nova	Your Casts expand in size until they expire.	Max Cast Size: ・Common: +40% ・Rare: +50% ・Epic: +60% ・Heroic: TBD
Light Smite	After you take damage, your foe takes damage and you inflict Daze on all foes.	Revenge Damage: ・Common: 50 ・Rare: 75 ・Epic: 100 ・Heroic: 125
Extra Dose	Your Attack has a chance to hit 2 times.	Double Strike Chance: ・Common: +5% ・Rare: +8% ・Epic: +11% ・Heroic: TBD
Perfect Image	In each Encounter, you deal more damage until you take damage.	No-Hit Bonus Damage: ・Common: +10% ・Rare: +15% ・Epic: +20% ・Heroic: TBD
Back Burner	Foes with Daze take more damage if struck from behind. ▶︎ Requirements: Blinding Sprint / Light Smite / Dazzling Display	Backstab Damage: ・Common: 100 ・Rare: TBD ・Epic: TBD ・Heroic: TBD
Critical Miss	Foes take damage whenever Daze causes them to miss. ▶︎ Requirements: Blinding Sprint / Light Smite / Dazzling Display	Miss Damage: ・Common: 100 ・Rare: TBD ・Epic: TBD ・Heroic: TBD
Dazzling Display	Your Attacks may inflict Daze. ▶︎ Requirements: Nova Strike	Daze Chance: ・Common: +10% ・Rare: TBD ・Epic: TBD ・Heroic: TBD

List of All Boons

List of Apollo's Duo Boons

Boon and Effect	Requirements
Sun Worshiper In each Encounter, the first foe you slay returns to fight for you.	Any of these Hera Boons: ・Engagement Ring ・Nexus Sprint ・Born Gain Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Solar Ring ・Blinding Sprint ・Lucid Gain
Sunny Disposition Whenever you create Heartthrobs, create more.	Any of these Aphrodite Boons: ・Heart Breaker Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Nova Strike ・Nova Flourish ・Solar Ring ・Lucid Gain
Beach Ball Your Sprint creates a watery sphere behind you. After you stop, it surges ahead and bursts.	Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Blinding Sprint ・Lucid Gain Any of these Poseidon Boons: ・Breaker Sprint ・Fluid Gain
Stellar Slam Your blast effects from Hephaestus deal damage in a larger area.	Any of these Hephaestus Boons: ・Volcanic Strike ・Volcanic Flourish ・Smithy Sprint Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Nova Strike ・Nova Flourish ・Solar Ring ・Super Nova
Glorious Disaster You can Channel +30 Magick into your Omega Cast to repeatedly Strike foes with lightning bolts.	Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Solar Ring Any of these Zeus Boons: ・Heaven Strike ・Heaven Flourish ・Thunder Sprint
Phoenix Skin Give up 100 Max Life. If you do not take or deal damage for 3 Sec., rapidly restore Life.	Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Nova Strike ・Nova Flourish ・Lucid Gain Any of these Hestia Boons: ・Flame Strike ・Flame Flourish ・Smolder Ring Any of these Hestia Boons: ・Burnt Offering ・Flammable Coating ・Hearth Gain
Torrential Downpour Each time you use your Omega Cast in an Encounter, it gets stronger but uses +5 Magick.	Any of these Apollo Boons: ・Solar Ring ・Blinding Sprint ・Lucid Gain Any of these Demeter Boons: ・Arctic Ring ・Frigid Sprint ・Tranquil Gain

List of Duo Boons

How to Get Apollo's Legendary Boon

Boon	Requirements
Exceptional Talent ( Apollo ) Your Omega Attack and Omega Special fire 2 times, but use more Magick.	One of these Boons: ・Nova Strike ・Nova Flourish One of these Boons: ・Solar Ring ・Lucid Gain One of these Boons: ・Extra Dose ・Super Nova

To meet the requirements for Apollo's Legendary Boon, we recommend getting Nova Strike first, then Lucid Gain, into an Extra Dose boon.

This boon build path offers the best synergy leading up to Exceptional Talent, providing constant Magick Recovery, allowing you to spam Omega Attacks and Specials within your Casts.

List of Legendary Boons

Apollo Keepsake

Purest Hope

At the first instance that you give an offering of Nectar to Apollo, you'll receive the Purest Hope Keepsake in return.

You can equip this keepsake by the Silver Pool before every night to increase chances to receive Boons from Apollo, as well as an option to rarify his boons.

Best Keepsakes Tier List

Apollo Info and Gameplay Tips

Character Info

Apollo	Epithet	God of Light
	Faction	Olympian
	Voice Actor	Colin Ryan

Playstyle

Apollo's Boons directly empowers your attacks by increasing their damage and/or range of effect. Some of them can also inflict a curse that can make enemies miss their attacks.

The curse can be applied by either getting hit or by Sprinting into enemies, allowing an Apollo-focused build a more aggressive playstyle as you can worry a little less about dodging and focus more on attacking.

Synergies

Apollo's Boons are best paired with defensive Boons from other gods as a "safety net" for Daze. You can look for Aphrodite to enfeeble enemy attacks in case Daze fails or straight up boost your defenses with Hephaestus's help.

If you're going for a glass cannon build, add Zeus's Blitz or Poseidon's Slip to your kit then top it off with Artemis's Pressure Points Boon!

Apollo Curse and Effects

Afflicts the Daze Curse

Daze is Apollo's curse that makes enemy attacks miss 20% of the time, increasing your survivability, albeit based on luck. This can still be very useful in a lot of situations, especially if the enemy hits hard but attacks slowly.

Hades 2 Related Guides

Characters

Character Guides

Hades 2 Characters

The Unseen
Melinoe			Dora			Schelemeus			Charon
Nemesis			Odysseus			Hypnos			Moros
Frinos			Toula			Homer			-
The Gods
Zeus			Hera			Poseidon			Demeter
Apollo			Aphrodite			Hephaestus			Hestia
Artemis			Hermes			Selene			Chaos
Bosses
Hecate			Scylla			Cerberus			Chronos
Underworld NPCs
Arachne			Narcissus			Echo			Hades
Surface NPCs
Medea			Circe			Heracles			Icarus