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Duo Boons are a type of Boon which combine the powers of two different gods for a unique effect. Duo Boons can only be obtained when you have the prerequisite boons and, like all boons, are lost when Zagreus dies and returns to the House of Hades.

In Hades there are 28 Duo Boons, shared between 8 different gods: Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Demeter, Poseidon, and Zeus. Neither Hermes nor Chaos will offer Duo Boons. Every god that may have Duo boons shares one with each other god.

The chances for Duo Boons can be increased with specific gods' Keepsakes, Eurydice's Refreshing Nectar, Well of Charon item Yarn of Ariadne, and the Mirror of Night talent Gods' Legacy.

Acquiring all Duo Boons awards 15 Ambrosia from the Fated List of Minor Prophecies.

  • Note that when using certain Weapon Aspects, prerequisite boons may have different names. Example: Aspect of Beowulf: Flood Shot -> Flood Flare

List of Duo Boons[]

Aphrodite
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Curse of Longing
Your Doom effects continuously strike Weak foes.
  • Successive Hit Damage: 50%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, or Passion Dash
  • Ares: Curse of Agony or Curse of Pain
  • To clarify, each successive Doom hit will deal 50% of the previous one.

Heart Rend
Your Critical hits do more damage to Weak enemies.
  • Bonus Critical Damage: +150%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, or Passion Dash
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare

Parting Shot
Your Cast gains any bonuses you have for striking foes from behind.
  • Bonus Backstab Damage: +35%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, Passion Dash or Aphrodite's Aid
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Phalanx Shot, Divine Dash, or Athena's Aid
  • Cannot be combined with Aspect of Beowulf

Cold Embrace
Your Cast crystal fires its beam directly at you for +4 Sec.
  • Bonus Cast Damage: +30%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Passion Dash, Heartbreak Flourish, or Aphrodite's Aid
  • Demeter: Crystal Beam
  • Cannot be combined with Crystal Clarity
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Low Tolerance
Your Hangover effects can stack even more times against Weak foes.
  • Max Stacks vs Weak: +3
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, or Passion Dash
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, Drunken Dash or Dionysus' Aid

Sweet Nectar
Any Poms of Power you find are more effective.
  • Bonus Level from Poms: +1
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot / Passion Flare, Passion Dash, or Aphrodite's Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, Tidal Dash, or Poseidon's Aid

Smoldering Air
Your God Gauge charges up automatically but is capped at 25%.
  • Auto Gauge Gain: 1% (every 0.2 Sec)
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot / Passion Flare, Passion Dash, Aphrodite's Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid
Ares
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Curse of Longing
Your Doom effects continuously strike Weak foes.
  • Successive Hit Damage: 50%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, or Passion Dash
  • Ares: Curse of Agony or Curse of Pain
  • To clarify, each successive Doom hit will deal 50% of the previous one.

Hunting Blades
Your Cast is a faster Blade Rift that seeks the nearest foe.
  • Seek Duration: 3.3 Sec
  • Ares: Slicing Shot
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, Hunter Dash or Artemis' Aid
  • Cannot be combined With Freezing Vortex
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Merciful End
Your attacks that can Deflect immediately activate Doom effects.
  • Doom Combo Damage: 40
  • Ares: Curse of Agony or Curse of Pain
  • Athena: Divine Strike or Divine Flourish

Freezing Vortex
Your Cast inflicts Chill, but is smaller and moves slower.
  • Blade Rift size: -15%
  • Ares: Slicing Shot / Slicing Flare
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid
  • Cannot be combined with Hunting Blades

Curse of Nausea
Your Hangover effects deal damage faster.
  • Hangover damage rate: 0.5 āžœ 0.35 Sec.
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, Drunken Dash or Dionysus's Aid
  • Ares: Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, or Curse of Vengeance

Curse of Drowning
Your Cast is a pulse that deals damage to foes around you.
  • Pulses per Cast: 3
  • Ares: Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, Blade Dash, or Ares' Aid
  • Poseidon: Flood Shot / Flood Flare
  • Cannot be combined with Mirage Shot or Blizzard Shot
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Hera

Vengeful Mood
Your Revenge effects sometimes occur without taking damage.
  • Auto-Revenge Rate: 3 Sec.
  • Ares: Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, Slicing Shot / Slicing Flare, Blade Dash, Ares' Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash, Zeus' Aid
  • Revenge Boon: Wave of Despair (Aphrodite), Curse of Vengeance (Ares), Holy Shield (Athena), Frozen Touch (Demeter), or Heaven's Vengeance (Zeus).
  • Vengeful Mood requires at least 1 Revenge Boon from any god.
Artemis
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Heart Rend
Your Critical hits do more damage to Weak enemies.
  • Bonus Critical Damage: +150%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, or Passion Dash
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare

Hunting Blades
Your Cast is a faster Blade Rift that seeks the nearest foe.
  • Seek Duration: 3.3 Sec
  • Ares: Slicing Shot
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, Hunter Dash or Artemis' Aid
  • Cannot be combined With Freezing Vortex
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Deadly Reversal
After you Deflect, briefly gain +20% chance to deal Critical damage.
  • Critical Duration: 2 Sec.
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare, or Artemis' Aid
  • Athena: Divine Strike or Divine Flourish

Crystal Clarity
Your Cast is stronger and tracks foes more effectively.
  • Beam Damage: +10%
  • Demeter: Crystal Beam.
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, Hunter Dash, or Artemis' Aid.
  • Cannot be combined with Cold Embrace
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Splitting Headache
Hangover-afflicted foes are more likely to take Critical damage.
  • Bonus Critical Chance per Hangover Stack: +1.5%
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, or Drunken Dash, or Dionysus' Aid
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot, or Artemis' Aid

Mirage Shot
Your Cast fires a second projectile, though it has reduced damage.
  • Secondary Shot Damage: 30%
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare, or Artemis' Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, Tidal Dash, or Poseidon's' Aid
  • Cannot be combined with Curse of Drowning

Lightning Rod
Your collectible Cast Ammo strike nearby foes every 1 Sec.
  • Lightning Damage: 70
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare, Hunter Dash or Artemis' Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash or Zeus' Aid
  • Requires the Infernal Soul Mirror Ability
  • Lowers the range at which you can pick up Cast Ammo
Athena
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Parting Shot
Your Cast gains any bonuses you have for striking foes from behind.
  • Bonus Backstab Damage: +35%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, Passion Dash or Aphrodite's Aid
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Phalanx Shot, Divine Dash, or Athena's Aid
  • Cannot be combined with Aspect of Beowulf

Merciful End
Your attacks that can Deflect immediately activate Doom effects.
  • Doom Combo Damage: 40
  • Ares: Curse of Agony or Curse of Pain
  • Athena: Divine Strike or Divine Flourish

Deadly Reversal
After you Deflect, briefly gain +20% chance to deal Critical damage.
  • Critical Duration: 2 Sec.
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare, or Artemis' Aid
  • Athena: Divine Strike or Divine Flourish

Stubborn Roots
If you have no Death/Stubborn Defiance, your Health slowly recovers.
  • Life Regeneration During Battle: 1 Health (every 0.8 Sec.)
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Phalanx Shot / Phalanx Flare, Divine Dash, or Athena's Aid
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Crystal Beam / Icy Flare, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid

Calculated Risk
Your foes' ranged-attack projectiles are slower.
  • Foe Projectile Speed Reduction: +50%
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, or Drunken Dash, Dionysus' Aid
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Divine Dash, or Athena's Aid

Unshakable Mettle
You cannot be stunned, and resist some damage from Bosses.
  • Boss Damage Reduction: +10%
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Phalanx Shot / Phalanx Flare, or Athena's Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, or Poseidon's Aid

Lightning Phalanx
Your Cast bounces between nearby enemies.
  • Max Bounces: 3
  • Athena: Phalanx Shot
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf
Demeter
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Cold Embrace
Your Cast crystal fires its beam directly at you for +4 Sec.
  • Bonus Cast Damage: +30%
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Passion Dash, Heartbreak Flourish, or Aphrodite's Aid
  • Demeter: Crystal Beam
  • Cannot be combined with Crystal Clarity
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Freezing Vortex
Your Cast inflicts Chill, but is smaller and moves slower.
  • Blade Rift size: -15%
  • Ares: Slicing Shot / Slicing Flare
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid
  • Cannot be combined with Hunting Blades

Crystal Clarity
Your Cast is stronger and tracks foes more effectively.
  • Beam Damage: +10%
  • Demeter: Crystal Beam.
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, Hunter Dash, or Artemis' Aid.
  • Cannot be combined with Cold Embrace
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Stubborn Roots
If you have no Death/Stubborn Defiance, your Health slowly recovers.
  • Life Regeneration During Battle: 1 Health (every 0.8 Sec.)
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Phalanx Shot / Phalanx Flare, Divine Dash, or Athena's Aid
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Crystal Beam / Icy Flare, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid

Ice Wine
Your Cast blasts an area with freezing Festive Fog that inflicts Chill.
  • Blast Damage: +30%
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash or Demeter's Aid.
  • Dionysus: Trippy Shot / Trippy Flare

Blizzard Shot
Your Cast moves slowly, piercing foes and firing shards around it.
  • Shard Damage: 40
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid
  • Poseidon: Flood Shot
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Cold Fusion
Your Jolted effects do not expire when foes attack.
  • Jolted Duration: 10 Sec
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid
  • Zeus: Static Discharge
Dionysus
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Low Tolerance
Your Hangover effects can stack even more times against Weak foes.
  • Max Stacks vs Weak: +3
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot, or Passion Dash
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, Drunken Dash or Dionysus' Aid

Curse of Nausea
Your Hangover effects deal damage faster.
  • Hangover damage rate: 0.5 āžœ 0.35 Sec.
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, Drunken Dash or Dionysus's Aid
  • Ares: Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, or Curse of Vengeance

Splitting Headache
Hangover-afflicted foes are more likely to take Critical damage.
  • Bonus Critical Chance per Hangover Stack: +1.5%
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, or Drunken Dash, or Dionysus' Aid
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot, or Artemis' Aid

Calculated Risk
Your foes' ranged-attack projectiles are slower.
  • Foe Projectile Speed Reduction: +50%
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, or Drunken Dash, Dionysus' Aid
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Divine Dash, or Athena's Aid

Ice Wine
Your Cast blasts an area with freezing Festive Fog that inflicts Chill.
  • Blast Damage: +30%
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash or Demeter's Aid.
  • Dionysus: Trippy Shot / Trippy Flare

Exclusive Access
Any Boons you find have superior effects.
  • Minimum Boon Rarity: Epic
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, Trippy Shot / Trippy Flare, Drunken Dash, or Dionysus' Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, Tidal Dash, or Poseidon's Aid

Scintillating Feast
Your Festive Fog effects also deal lightning damage periodically.
  • Lightning Damage: 60
  • Dionysus: Trippy Shot
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid
Poseidon
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Sweet Nectar
Any Poms of Power you find are more effective.
  • Bonus Level from Poms: +1
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot / Passion Flare, Passion Dash, or Aphrodite's Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, Tidal Dash, or Poseidon's Aid

Curse of Drowning
Your Cast is a pulse that deals damage to foes around you.
  • Pulses per Cast: 3
  • Ares: Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, Blade Dash, or Ares' Aid
  • Poseidon: Flood Shot / Flood Flare
  • Cannot be combined with Mirage Shot or Blizzard Shot
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Hera

Mirage Shot
Your Cast fires a second projectile, though it has reduced damage.
  • Secondary Shot Damage: 30%
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare, or Artemis' Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, Tidal Dash, or Poseidon's' Aid
  • Cannot be combined with Curse of Drowning

Unshakable Mettle
You cannot be stunned, and resist some damage from Bosses.
  • Boss Damage Reduction: +10%
  • Athena: Divine Strike, Divine Flourish, Phalanx Shot / Phalanx Flare, or Athena's Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, or Poseidon's Aid

Blizzard Shot
Your Cast moves slowly, piercing foes and firing shards around it.
  • Shard Damage: 40
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid
  • Poseidon: Flood Shot
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Exclusive Access
Any Boons you find have superior effects.
  • Minimum Boon Rarity: Epic
  • Dionysus: Drunken Strike, Drunken Flourish, Trippy Shot / Trippy Flare, Drunken Dash, or Dionysus' Aid
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, Tidal Dash, or Poseidon's Aid

Sea Storm
Your knock-away effects also cause foes to be struck by lightning.
  • Lightning Damage: 40
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, or Poseidon's Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid
  • This includes non-boon sources, like the Shield's Attack and the Sword's Thrust and Special.
Zeus
Boon Effect Required Boons Notes

Smoldering Air
Your God Gauge charges up automatically but is capped at 25%.
  • Auto Gauge Gain: 1% (every 0.2 Sec)
  • Aphrodite: Heartbreak Strike, Heartbreak Flourish, Crush Shot / Passion Flare, Passion Dash, Aphrodite's Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid

Vengeful Mood
Your Revenge effects sometimes occur without taking damage.
  • Auto-Revenge Rate: 3 Sec.
  • Ares: Curse of Agony, Curse of Pain, Slicing Shot / Slicing Flare, Blade Dash, Ares' Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash, Zeus' Aid
  • Revenge Boon: Wave of Despair (Aphrodite), Curse of Vengeance (Ares), Holy Shield (Athena), Frozen Touch (Demeter), or Heaven's Vengeance (Zeus).
  • Vengeful Mood requires at least 1 Revenge Boon from any god.

Lightning Rod
Your collectible Cast Ammo strike nearby foes every 1 Sec.
  • Lightning Damage: 70
  • Artemis: Deadly Strike, Deadly Flourish, True Shot / Hunter's Flare, Hunter Dash or Artemis' Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash or Zeus' Aid
  • Requires the Infernal Soul Mirror Ability
  • Lowers the range at which you can pick up Cast Ammo

Lightning Phalanx
Your Cast bounces between nearby enemies.
  • Max Bounces: 3
  • Athena: Phalanx Shot
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid
  • Incompatible with Aspect of Beowulf

Cold Fusion
Your Jolted effects do not expire when foes attack.
  • Jolted Duration: 10 Sec
  • Demeter: Frost Strike, Frost Flourish, Mistral Dash, or Demeter's Aid
  • Zeus: Static Discharge

Scintillating Feast
Your Festive Fog effects also deal lightning damage periodically.
  • Lightning Damage: 60
  • Dionysus: Trippy Shot
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid

Sea Storm
Your knock-away effects also cause foes to be struck by lightning.
  • Lightning Damage: 40
  • Poseidon: Tempest Strike, Tempest Flourish, Flood Shot / Flood Flare, or Poseidon's Aid
  • Zeus: Lightning Strike, Thunder Flourish, Electric Shot / Thunder Flare, Thunder Dash, or Zeus' Aid
  • This includes non-Boon sources, like the Shield's Attack and the Sword's Thrust and Special.
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