While sometimes, slow and steady wins the race, you can't deny the power of quick and rapid and speedy. The Sister Blades provide just this on the battlefield in Hades 2, being a pair of weapons that reward hit-and-run tactics, stealthy strategies, and getting up-close with your enemies.
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PostsA far cry from the default Witch's Staff, the Sister Blades provide a very aggressive playstyle for Melinoe as she makes her way down to the underworld to confront Chronos, and they will prove themselves stalwart allies for the duration of her quest. If you're looking for some staccato stabbing, look no further.
Hades 2 is currently in Early Access, meaning that the details below may change over the course of development.
Updated June 9, 2024: We've updated this guide to reflect the changes made by Early Access Patch 2.
Sister Blades Moveset
The Sister Blades are, as a pair of daggers, a very quick pair of weapons that reward a bit of button mashing - but they also have some strategic outlets.
Its moveset is very quick:
Attack
Description
Attack
A four-hit combo that starts with two swipes, transitions into a flurry of stabs, and ends with a sweeping strong attack. There is room for a quick dash between the flurry of stabs and the sweeping strong attack, in case you want to aim it at a more fitting target.
Omega Attack
Charging this attack will place a reticle underneath your target. Launching the attack will teleport Melinoe to the target and deal a large amount of damage at once.
This charge can be held as Melinoe moves around, letting her get closer to her target or move away from a wrong target.
Special
A very simple ranged, linear attack that involves Melinoe throwing a dagger at her target. This can be chained with itself quite rapidly.
Omega Special
Melinoe charges up a flurry of daggers that are primed to be launched out in a fan formation. Meant for targeting large groups of enemies, but can be fired at large enemies up close to hit them multiple times with the same attack.
This Omega Move can also have its charge held, with Melinoe being able to rotate on the spot to pick the right angle for her fan of attacks.
The Sister Blades require a little finesse to make the best use of them. Generally speaking, the specials inflict less damage than the regular attacks, so they should be used sparingly - such as when you need to keep your distance from a foe or just need to finish a distant foe off.
The Omega Attack is situational but can shine - especially when paired with specific and powerful Daedalus Hammer upgrades or the right god Boons.
It cannot be understated how useful the Omega Special can be when used to fire off many fans when right up-close to a large enemy. Especially when paired with Daedalus Hammer boosts to your specials, this can melt enemies in record time.
The shining star of the moveset is the regular four-hit combo. It deals a lot of damage and synergises really well with certain god Boons that benefit from striking multiple times. In many ways, this underlines the Sister Blades as the polar opposite of the Moonstone Axe, which is very slow and shines with benefits to its very powerful single attacks.
Sister Blade Aspects
The Sister Blades currently have three aspects to choose from, once aspects are unlocked.
Aspect
Description
Aspect of Melinoe
This is the Sister Blades' default incarnation. It has no special effects to begin with, but upgrading it will give it a Backstab modifier that grants extra damage to attacks that target, surprise, the enemy's back.
Aspect of Artemis
This aspect powers up your Omega Attack, not only speeding up its charging window but giving the charge a Parry (every 15 seconds). A successful Parry will give you Riposte, which grants you critical chance boosts for 9 hits. The blocking effect of the Parry will trigger automatically if it refreshes while you are charging an Omega move.
Aspect of Pan
This aspect powers up your Specials, making them home in on foes within your Casts and adding more blades to your Omega Special.
Your choice of aspect will heavily encourage you to change your main damage-dealing strategy. Going with Artemis will encourage a riskier style of play that focuses on exploiting Parries as much as possible and then using Ripostes to inflict massive bursts of damage, while the Aspect of Pan encourages a more ranged style of play.
Best Boons And Upgrades
As with all weapons, your playstyle will be massively affected by the Daedalus Hammer upgrades and the god Boons you pick up during a run. Naturally, you'll want to pick up the right upgrades for your playstyle and chosen aspect.
Good Daedalus Hammer upgrades of note are the following:
Upgrade
Effect
Skulking Slice
Your attacks deal 200% more damage when hitting foes' backs.
This will either give an alternative aspect the Backstab effect of Melinoe's default, or severely improve Melinoe's aspect's natural abilities. It's a win/win, especially for runs that use regular attacks a lot.
Melting Dart
Your special will erase 50% of a target's Armour.
Being able to destroy Armour quickly will seriously speed up many fights, especially those against elite enemies.
Hook Knives
Your Specials return to you, dealing damage on the return.
Unless you are attacking foes from the maximum range of your specials, this upgrade effectively doubles your damage output. Useful on its own, it shines when paired with Boons that take effect on special hits.
Escalating Ambush
Grants a power bonus to your Omega Attack after it kills an enemy during a single encounter.
Normally a pretty niche upgrade, this is a perfect accompaniment to theAspect of Artemis for those who are good at using Parries and Ripostes.
Dancing Knives
Specials deal more damage and the knives bounce between foes up to three times.
This synergises extremely well with any other boosts to your specials and makes your special a decent tool for dealing with crowds, something the Sister Blades struggle with at times.
Sureshot Flurry
This attack modifies your Omega Special to fire every dagger in one line.
This is most useful with the Aspect of Pan once upgraded, as this adds lots more blades to the Omega Special and will turn it into a very powerful burst attack.
In general, upgrades to avoid are Spiral Knives (which turns your Omega Special into a large-area attack that targets enemies in a circle but makes it very difficult to aim at key enemies) and .
A very important upgrade to avoid is Rapid Onslaught, lets you hold down your attack button instead of mashing it, slightly increasing your attacks per second. It provides no other benefits, and should be taken only once to fulfil the Fated List requirements.
As for god Boons, the Sister Blades have some pretty natural partners in crime:
God
Evaluation
Zeus
Blitz and chain lightning both do very well with Sister Knives, as it's quite easy to inflict lots of damage in a short amount of time. Zeus is underpowered in general at the moment, but will do in a pinch.
Hera
With builds that manage to inflict hitch on a lot of enemies at once, the Sister Knives synergise incredibly well with Hera, but this requires some setup and effort.
Poseidon
Wave crashes work really well with regular attacks and specials for very different reasons, but they're both well-suited thanks to their high-hit outputs. You can inflict a lot of damage in a short amount of time over a very large area.
Demeter
Freeze is one of the best status effects in the game, and works incredibly well with any Backstab effects, letting you get around an enemy and inflict a ton of damage with little effort.
Apollo
Extra damage is nice, but the Sister Blades are very specific with their hitboxes - they don't benefit too much from the increased area of effect.
Aphrodite
A close-range damage-up is incredible for the regular attack but should be avoided for specials. Very situational.
Hephaestus
Thanks to how reliably and easily you can keep the pressure on your foes, you won't waste much time having Hephaestus's explosive effects on cooldowns, making these easy Boons to take.
Hestia
With the high number of hits this weapon can dish out, scorch is a wonderful status to have. Synergises extremely well with Hook Knives and Sureshot Flurry.
As for non-standard Boons, it's a good idea to take Support Fire from Artemis whenever it shows up. Thanks to the high number of hits the Sister Knives can output, adding more projectiles to a fight is only a good thing.
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