Hades 2: Scylla & the Sirens Boss Guide

Scylla’s most basic attack and the one she typically uses the most during the final stretch before defeating her. Basically, Scylla ‘winds up’ reeling her body and the microphone stand back before briefly flashing white and then stabbing forward with said microphone.

A very basic attack that’s very easy to avoid, just don’t stand directly in the path of the microphone stand and you won’t get hit.

This is typically the attack Scylla starts the fight with the most and also the one she uses when you tend to stay pretty close to her overall. It’s very easy to see, as Scylla essentially just unleashes a constant ‘wave’ of sound energy in a three-pronged triangular shape that deals constant damage if you’re inside it.

This is a very close-range attack and it’s incredibly easy to avoid as long as you keep your distance from Scylla (or even just attack her from the side) while she’s using it.

This is the circular AoE we’ve mentioned a couple of times already, and both Scylla and Roxy can use this attack in different ways, with Scylla using it the most primarily. Essentially, Scylla will wave her wand/microphone out in front of her, and lines of pink circles will start appearing on the floor. After a second of ‘pulsing’ these circles explode inward, dealing damage to anything inside before a new line of circles appears next to where the first appeared, and this continues until the attack covers the whole arena.

More often than not, the direction these lines of circles are moving in the same direction you’re trying to get out of the way in, so a lot of players often dodge one line of circles only to land in the next one and get hit. Try to keep track of the direction the lines are moving in and Dash the opposite direction. You can also Dash at the very instant before the explosion triggers and dodge the attack that way.

Scylla puts her arm up (the one not holding the microphone) and starts to almost ‘headbang’ while that same arm becomes surrounded by pink energy. Shortly after, she’ll fire out a spherical projectile with a musical note in the center that very much resembles the default Ω Special Melinoë has with her Wand weapon. Depending on the phase of the fight Scylla can fire anywhere from 1 to 3+ of these Specials at once, and they’ll track Melinoë for a short time before losing their tracking and exploding on their own shortly after.

These are a bit annoying to constantly avoid while fighting, but they’re not very ‘difficult’ to avoid if that makes sense. They track your location, but they move slowly so you can always stay ahead of them or, at worst, just Dash through them and head in the other direction.

We’re not entirely sure if these are actually meant to be shaped like Sea Urchins, but Scylla’s clamshell basically ‘charges up’ before firing out a line of about 12+ of these spiny projectiles in a shotgun spread.

Difficult to dodge if you’re close to Scylla when she fires them, but if you have any sort of space between you and Scylla, the projectiles will likely spread out enough for you to just walk through the space between them. Otherwise, you can also Dash through them.

For this next attack, Scylla first expels four lines of what appears to be blood in four cardinal directions. Then, after holding her free arm forward a sort of ‘star’ of pink energy appears below her hand and the four lines of blood burst into pink flame. Then, these now ‘activated’ lines start rotating around Scylla in a counter-clockwise direction for a short duration. If Scylla is the Featured Artist for the battle, she’ll use a variation of this attack that can also sporadically fire Sea Urchin Blasts in between the lines of blood as well.

Probably the most annoying attack to have Scylla use while you’re dealing with one of the other Sirens, but thankfully it’s not very difficult to deal with. Just follow the rotation of the lines and you can avoid all damage, or, at worst, just Dash through a line if it gets too close.

Scylla only uses her summoning ability during the last 10-15 percent of her HP Bar, and she basically has the same animation as when she uses her Musical Special, but she headbangs for longer and during this animation, a bunch of the Pinheads spawn from the waters around here and start to surround Melinoë infinitely until she finishes off Scylla.

Honestly, it’s typically worth just ignoring these fish entirely and focusing only on taking out Scylla during this attack. She’s in the last part of her HP bar at this point and the fish will spawn infinitely until she’s dead anyway. That said, they can stack up a lot of damage if you ignore them entirely, so try and use big AoE attacks that can hit Scylla and take out any nearby fish at the same time.

Between the two Sirens backing up Scylla, Jetty on the keytar has more attacks. Granted, it’s really only three attacks total, but that’s three more to keep track of mid-fight. Her first one just has her launching a couple of those bouncing projectiles similar to the ones the Shellback uses.

These projectiles bounce forward in a straight line so they’re relatively easy to avoid, just keep in mind that they bounce off walls too.

Jetty’s second attack option is a barrage of relatively narrow soundwaves (one of the only attacks that isn’t pink) fired directly at Melinoë. If any of these connect they’ll briefly stun Melinoë and typically keep her stunned until the barrage is over. However, this attack doesn’t deal any damage, it only stuns.

Not necessary to really even avoid, but getting stunned or pushed back into one of Scylla’s attacks with this is pretty frustrating, so it’s best to Dash through Jetty when she starts this and she typically won’t be able to turn fast enough to catch you before the attack ends.

Jetty’s third and final attack option has her rear back a bit on her tail before charging forward with her keytar. If she makes contact with a wall (or with you), she’ll release a shockwave of pink energy on the ground extending outward.

Can be difficult to avoid if she charges towards you from off-screen, but if you know it’s coming a simple Dash is easily enough to avoid this attack entirely.

When Roxy is the Featured Artist in the fight, she has an attack where she utilizes Scylla’s Sound Explosions, but in a different pattern. First, it starts out with a floral pattern surrounding Roxy, then individual lines of these circular explosions appear around Roxy, traveling in about a half circle around her. Oddly enough, this truly does seem to be Roxy’s only real attack she can use.

Similar to the default Sound Explosions, just Dash through them at the right time & Dash in the opposite direction they’re appearing in.