Hades Tips: 10 Crazy Tricks & Builds You Need To Try

Though at first, the gun's piddling attack range and slow special might make it unsatisfying to wield, if you look at the Hades speedrun leaderboards, you'll find that the gun dominates the category - specifically the Eris gun.

The damage provided by the special bomb on Eris, added onto specific combos involving the special (the most appealing combinations involving turning the gun into a rocket launcher, and the upgrade that turns the bomb into five smaller bombs), allows players to clear rooms quickly. Triple bomb also works well, showing that when it comes to speedy gun builds, the special is often more valued than the primary fire.

That's not to say the primary fire can't do immense damage, however, as proven with the Hestia gun (where the next shot after manual reload is empowered with a high base damage). Lucifer aspect's "supersoaker" build with Poseidon on the almost nonstop attack is also popular.

Combos involving Artemis critical damage and anything that adds to that damage - including Aphrodite, Dionysus or Athena duos, as well as Chaos boon damage upgrades, make clears go even faster, and are the speedrunner's bread and butter.