Hades II does not hand every god the same-sized pile of boons, and knowing the real numbers changes how you plan a run: a god with 14 boons offers a far more predictable roll than one with 8. Every figure below is counted from the site’s own boon dataset, rebuilt from the wiki on 31 October 2026 — 327 boons across 22 sources, of which 37 are Duo Boons.
The nine Olympians — 14 boons each
Every Olympian is built on the same skeleton: one Attack, one Special, one Cast, one Sprint and one Magick boon, then a set of passives, one Infusion and one Legendary. That is why the count never varies, and why “which Olympian has the most boons” is the wrong question — they are all identical. The differences live in what the 14 actually do.
| God | Boons | Sample boon | Effect and scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aphrodite | 14 | Flutter Strike | Your Attacks deal more damage to nearby foes. Close-up Damage: +80%/+100%/+120%/+140% |
| Apollo | 14 | Nova Strike | Your Attacks deal more damage in a larger area. Attack Damage: +40%/+60%/+80%/+100% |
| Ares | 14 | Vicious Strike | Your Attacks deal more damage and inflict Wounds. Attack Damage: +20%/+30%/+40%/+50% |
| Demeter | 14 | Ice Strike | Your Attacks deal more damage and inflict Freeze. Attack Damage: +30%/+45%/+60%/+75% |
| Hephaestus | 14 | Volcanic Strike | Your Attacks can cause a blast that deals 400 damage in the area. Blast Recharge Time: 12/10/8/6 Sec. |
| Hera | 14 | Sworn Strike | Your Attacks deal more damage and inflict Hitch. Attack Damage: +50%/+60%/+70%/+80% |
| Hestia | 14 | Flame Strike | Your Attacks inflict Scorch. Scorch Damage: 30/45/60/75 |
| Poseidon | 14 | Wave Strike | Your Attacks hit foes with a splash that knocks other foes away. Splash Damage: 20/25/30/35 |
| Zeus | 14 | Heaven Strike | Your Attacks inflict Blitz. Blitz Damage: 80/120/160/200 |
All scaling values run Common / Rare / Epic / Heroic in that order.
Chaos, Hermes and Selene — outside the pool
These three cannot be steered the way the Olympians can, and their counts are lopsided because of how they are structured.
| Source | Boons | Sample boon | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos | 58 | Ordinary Strike | The next 2 Boon(s) you find are limited to Common blessings. Afterward, your Attacks deal +X% damage |
| Hermes | 13 | Winner’s Circle | You Channel your Ω Cast faster and your Casts expire faster. Omega Cast Speed: +100%/+125%/+150%/+175% |
| Selene | 9 | Phase Shift | Your Hex makes everything else move 50% slower for 4 Sec. Ready After: 130 Magick |
Chaos is the outlier at 58 and it is worth understanding why: a Chaos boon is a curse followed by a blessing, and the wiki lists each named pairing separately. Addled Flourish (drains Life per Cast, then boosts Specials) is a different offer from Atrophic Flourish (reduces Max Life, then boosts Specials). Some sites instead count 16 curses and 17 blessings and call it 33 — both numbers describe the same system, they just count different things.
The four NPC gods — 8 or 9 each
Artemis, Athena, Dionysus and Hades do not sit in the god pool. They appear in person, help you clear a room, then hand you a choice of boons. Because their pools are small, each one is far more likely to offer the specific boon you came for.
| Source | Boons | Sample boon | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artemis | 9 | Support Fire | After you hit with your Attacks or Specials, fire a seeking arrow. Arrow Damage: 10/15/20/25 |
| Athena | 8 | Divine Dash | Your Dash deals damage to foes in your path and can momentarily Deflect. Dash Damage: 10/15/20/25 |
| Dionysus | 8 | Tipsy Shot | Hold Cast to lob a large explosion. The binding circle forms there. Blast Damage: 300/450/600/750 |
| Hades | 8 | Life Tax | Restore Life for 1% of damage you deal, until you reach the limit. Max Total Life Restored: 100 |
The six allies — armour, supplies and inventions
Arachne, Narcissus, Echo, Medea, Circe and Icarus are the ones most players never count as boon sources at all, which is why their offerings get skipped. Arachne’s dresses in particular are pure Armor plus a buff that lasts only while that Armor holds.
| Source | Boons | Sample boon | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arachne | 8 | Lavender Dress | Don a +30 Armor Outfit that makes you Channel 40% faster |
| Narcissus | 9 | Verdure Sampler | Receive a gift of +1 Pom Slice, +2 Moly, and +3 Nightshade |
| Echo | 8 | Reward Reward Reward | Manifest a copy of your most recently claimed Reward |
| Medea | 8 | Life from the Dead | After a foe is slain, it has 5% chance to drop +10 Life, limit to 1 per Encounter |
| Circe | 9 | Word of Smaller Stature | Shrink in size, so that you move 10% faster and have +10% chance to Dodge |
| Icarus | 8 | Ingenious Strike | Your Attack Boon gains +3 Lv., but you Prime 35 Magick |
Echo’s boons are genuinely named with the word repeated three times — that is the character, not a typo. Circe’s familiar boon appears in older guides as “Chants to the Bewitched”; it is now Primal Psychic Connection. Icarus’s hammer upgrade appears in older guides as “Full Service”; that boon was removed and replaced by Latest Model.
The 37 Duo Boons
Duo Boons belong to two gods at once, so they are counted once, separately, and not folded into the table above. That is why the per-god counts look lower than the number of options a run actually shows you: Zeus has 14 boons of his own but shares 9 Duos, so a Zeus run presents 23 possible Zeus-flavoured cards.
The spread is even: Zeus and Hera sit in 9 Duos each, and the other seven Olympians in 8 each — 9 + 9 + (7 × 8) = 74 god-slots, halved to 37 Duo boons.
Those 37 boons sit on only 36 distinct god combinations, because Hera and Zeus share two: Queen’s Ransom and King’s Ransom. Both are +4 Lv. per boon sacrificed, pointing in opposite directions — Queen’s Ransom gives up every Zeus boon to level Hera’s, King’s Ransom gives up every Hera boon to level Zeus’s. You cannot hold both: taking the second removes the first along with all of the other god’s boons.
One structural fact is worth more than any tier list: only nine gods can make a Duo at all, and they are exactly the nine Olympians. Chaos, Hermes, Selene, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus and Hades have none. If your god pool ends up weighted toward those seven, no amount of rolling will produce a Duo.
There is also a single shared boon outside every pool — Shared Wealth, +90 Gold Crowns — which any Olympian can offer.
Counting this yourself
Two counts commonly disagree, and both are defensible:
- 327 — every named boon entry, with Chaos counted as 58 curse-blessing pairs and each Duo counted once.
- 302 — the same list with Chaos collapsed to its 16 curses and 17 blessings, i.e. 33 entries.
Neither is wrong. What is wrong is the flat “297 boons” figure that used to circulate, which came from a dataset that stored every Duo twice and a few Chaos rows twice over — and that same dataset also lost the effect text for every single row, which is how a table of 297 boons ended up with an empty reference column.
Related guides
- Boons database — search every boon by name, source or type
- Best boons tier list — which boons are actually worth a slot
- Legendary Boons — the 11 capstones and their prerequisites
- Duo Boon synergies — how the 37 pairs unlock
- Hades II hub