Hades 2: Chronos Boss Guide

Depending on how generous the AI for your Chronos happens to be, this may be the attack you see the most. To summarize, Chronos wings up his scythe, cane…thing before flashing white and then slashing in a wide crescent arc in front of him. You’ll notice that this slash leaves a deep cut in the shape of the path on the ground as well, and this cut then ‘triggers’ with a bunch of explosive AoE’s that start at the beginning of the slash path and quickly travel to the other end. Additionally, Chronos may do two slashes in a row, one in the direction he’s facing, and then one in the opposite direction, enclosing himself in these rivets.

The core of the strategy for dodging this attack is simple, don’t get close when he’s winding up his scythe. You can Dash through the actual slash itself, but the timing is tight and you’ll usually get clipped by the explosion AoE’s after. Instead, just keep your distance, and Dash in right when the explosions pass you by. Just be careful, those AoE’s are deceptive in their range.

Out of all of Chronos’s moves, this is probably the second-most irritating to deal with. Essentially, Chronos tucks his body in, storing up energy as if he’s about to ‘push’ off the air like it’s a solid wall. Then, shortly after, he’ll dash forward at an incredibly high speed to try and make direct contact with Melinoë, leaving another deep cut of sliced time/space behind him. There may be times where Chronos first summons a bunch of rotating Ω Specials around him first before using Stinger, so beware of that too.

This dash can be the bane of your existence if Chronos decides to rely on it a bunch. It goes incredibly far, the timing to Dash away from it is incredibly tight, and even if you do get away from it you have to put more distance between you before the AoE explosions from the deep cut start going off.

It happens infrequently, but there are times when Chronos does three Stingers in a row, giving you a half-second or so between each one to adjust. Typically, he’ll almost always have a ring of Ω Specials around him when he does the Triple variant, and he typically waits until the fight is pretty well underway to start using it as well. During his second phase especially, he almost always uses the Triple variant instead of the default one.

Same strategy as the default Stinger, but do it three times. If your sprint speed has been increased at all through a Boon or an Arcana Card, it’s also typically better to just run and stay on the exact opposite side of the arena, if possible, while he’s using this attack.

This one is probably the least ‘dangerous’ of all Chronos’s default attacks, and it’s the one where he starts spinning his scythe in front of him at an absurdly high speed. Such a high speed, in fact, that he creates a suction in a straight line in front of him, which he’ll follow you with to try and suck you into the spinning blade. After about 7-10 seconds, he’ll stop spinning the scythe and use it to launch a wave of golden energy forward at the same time.

Honestly, this move isn’t tough to deal with at all. When it starts, just try and stay out of the cyclone using Dashes or your Sprint, and you can even Dash through the spinning scythe itself to get on the other side of Chronos and attack him during this animation. The only areas where this attack can actually cause damage are if you make contact with the spinning scythe or are hit by the wave of energy he fires off at the end of the attack.

Our personal least favorite attack that Chronos has, and the one he seems to use the most overall is the Boomerang Scythe attack. This is the one where Chronos, again, winds up an attack, but this time he crosses his scythe over his body to get more space to throw it with backspin. He then launches said scythe in the direction opposite of the side he crossed the scythe over onto, and it spins in a large AoE crescent path before returning back to Chronos on his other side.

This attack has a very short windup and it is pretty difficult to react to on instinct. You can Dash through it if you time it very well but it’s typically better just to stay in the small area in front of Chronos where the spinning scythe never passes over. That or Dash through Chronos as he starts this attack up and hit him from behind while he waits for his scythe to return to him.

While floating stationary, Chronos will create a large circular telegraph around himself before snapping and reappearing somewhere else in the arena, leaving a dome of sand in his previous location that stops time for anything caught inside.

Essentially this is just a little ‘feint’ move Chronos uses to try and trap you in a time freeze for a few seconds and get a free hit. Very easy to avoid, just get out of the telegraph as soon as you see it appear on the ground and avoid the dome of sand once it appears, as you can still get ‘caught’ in it if you walk into it afterward.

Chronos raises his scythe into the air, almost like he’s making a toast with it, before 4 flags bearing his insignia rise from the ground in a square formation. While in the area of these flags, they’ll give blue hearts to anything inside in short intervals, which take a hit per heart for Chronos (or his cronies) regardless of the damage of said hit.

As soon as these flags spawn you’ll want to focus on taking them out as quickly as possible. The longer they’re around, the less damage you’re dealing to Chronos and the more irritating it is to deal with whatever mobs he ends up summoning.

In the last 30 percent or so of his life bar, Chronos will quickly teleport to the throne area he was sitting on at the beginning of this fight and summon about 4-6 Satyr Vierophants. From here, he’ll continue with any and all of his other attacks while the Vierophants continue to get in the way.

Like with the Flag Summon, you’ll typically want to deal with these Vierophants as soon as possible. There’s already a lot going on in this fight visually, and having a bunch of mobs attacking on top of everything can be absolutely overwhelming.

As soon as the fight transitions to Phase 2 with your entrance into the new arena, Chronos will try to immediately take you out using an attack that deals 999 damage. To know this attack is coming, Chronos will hold his scythe vertically high above his head, and the arena itself will immediately darken, save for one area. Look for the light in the arena to see a ticking clock symbol on the ground, stand here, and wait until after Chronos’s scythe ticks (AKA rotates) about 6 times, then the whole arena flashes gold. You’ll then be good to move again and continue the fight.

There’s only one strategy for this move, and that’s standing in the clock symbol and waiting it out. Be cautious, because Chronos does use this attack multiple times during phase 2.

Chronos typically won’t use this variant of The End of Time attack until you’re about halfway through his second HP bar, but that’s not a 100 percent guarantee. Essentially, Chronos moves to the center of the arena and holds his scythe above his head like he would for the standard End of Time Attack. However, instead of there being one circular lit area for you to stand in, there’s instead one semi-wide circle area around Chronos for you to stand in. Stand anywhere in this circular border and wait for the effect of this attack to trigger.

Same strategy as the default End of Time Attack, you just have to stand somewhere different.

A move Chronos uses pretty rarely where he literally slows down Melinoë for about 3-5 seconds.

Not really able to be avoided, but Chronos rarely directly attacks you with anything new while you’re slowed down like this.

It doesn’t seem like Chronos has any sort of animation to telegraph this attack is incoming, you’ll just need to keep an eye out for when the edge of the arena starts closing in with this dark shadow with a gold border similar to the face of a clock in the center. If this gold border passes over you, it’ll deal quite a lot of damage.

Keep an eye on the border closing in and Dash through the gold border as soon as you can. Wait until the circle closes completely before you head back to the center of the arena.

Similar to the Encroaching Time attack, this one just seems to trigger on its own without any input or animation from Chronos himself. Essentially, these golden clock hands will appear on the arena in a variety of different formations, and if they pass over you, you’ll be stunned for about a second. Again, there are multiple variations of this, it could just be one clock hand ‘ticking’ clockwise around the arena, or it could be 8 of them, one in each direction.

This isn’t that scary of an attack, it’s really just meant to get in the way and potentially stun you into getting hit by one of Chronos’s other attacks. Simply Dash through the gold clockhands or avoid them entirely.

This next attack is very similar to the Time-Stop Trap that Chronos will use in his first phase, but instead of putting the dome of time-stopping sand around his current position, he’ll put smaller domes all over the arena. However, these will have telegraphs on the ground to show where they’ll pop up. There are two variations of this, one where he creates a bunch of medium-sized domes, and one where he creates many small-sized domes.

Same strategy as with the normal Time-Stop Trap, just avoid the telegraphs and domes entirely if possible.

Chronos will spawn red telegraphs on the ground in a couple of different patterns, shortly after he’ll then summon a bunch of rotating Ω that follow those same patterns. He’ll stand stationary in the center of all these Specials for about 5-10 seconds while they rotate around the arena.

The red lines of the telegraphs denote where the Ω Specials will spawn, make sure not to be standing near any of these lines and you should be good when they do spawn. However, it’s probably worth it to stay still while this Attack is occurring, as it’ll be difficult to get any attacks in or even move without bumping into at least one of these Ω Specials.

Chronos appears in the center of the arena, surrounded by an unbreakable shield. He then summons a whole host of Tempus before firing out a barrage of Ω Specials in a sun-like pattern with him as the center. From here he’ll typically do either one of the End of Time attacks before going back into his standard patterns.

These Tempus can be a huge detriment to your chances if left alone due to their projectiles. Try and take them out whenever you can while also dealing damage to Chronos. You don’t need to prioritize them as much as his other summons, but absolutely don’t ignore them.