Companions or Legendary Keepsakes for Hades covers a special feature for the game where players will be able to summon various entities to Zagreus aid during their dungeon runs. Players can only equip one Legendary Keepsake per run, which means they can only summon one of the available Companions per run. They can be upgraded to be summoned multiple times in each run. This page aims to present a list of all the Companions or Legendary Keepsakes in the game, how to acquire them, and how they can be used in combat.
Hades All Companions or Legendary Keepsakes
What are Companions or Legendary Keepsakes
Legendary Keepsakes or Companions are special Keepsakes that allow you to summon the aid of a friend for a period of time, depending on how the particular Legendary Keepsake works. Each Companion works differently when called upon - some will appear in the room to do their thing for a period of time, while another may only just enact a single powerful strike. They can only be summoned once per escape attempt at first but can be upgraded to be used up to five times at maximum in a run. They are acquired by building up Zagreus' relationship with particular characters until a certain point when he can give them Ambrosia.
How to Upgrade Legendary Keepsakes
Legendary Keepsakes or Companions can only be used once per run initially. However, they can be upgraded up to 4 times to a maximum rank of 5, allowing you to use them an additional time per run for each rank. You'll need the following amounts of Ambrosia to upgrade Legendary Keepsakes or Companions:
- 2nd Rank - 1 Ambrosia
- 3rd Rank - 2 Ambrosia
- 4th Rank - 3 Ambrosia
- 5th Rank - 4 Ambrosia
Companion Antos
Description: Your Summon deals 1500 damage to 2 foes one after another.
NPC: Achilles
Companion Battie
Description: Your Summon deals 2500 damage in an area near your closest foe, then continually down the line.
NOTE: This cannot be used when fighting against any of the Furies
NPC: Megaera
Companion Fidi
Description: Your Summon joins you for 30 sec, repeatedly firing shots that petrify foes and deal 70 damage.
NPC: Dusa
Companion Mort
Description: Your Summon deals 3500 damage in an area in front of you, after a brief delay.
NOTE: This cannot be used when fighting against Thanatos
NPC: Thanatos
Companion Rib
Description: Your Summon creates a distraction with 250 health, provoking your foes to attack it until it dies.
NOTE: This cannot be used when fighting against Charon
NPC: Skelly
Companion Shady
Description: Your Summon deals 1000 damage in an area and drops a smattering of 4 health orbs (healing 10 each), 10 Darkness, and 30 Charon's Obols.
NPC: Sisyphus
Hades Companions or Legendary Keepsakes Guide
How to Acquire Companions or Legendary Keepsakes in Hades
Legendary Keepsakes or Companions are acquired in a special way compared to the normal Keepsakes. First, you'll have to give multiple Nectar to each of the characters tied to the Legendary Keepsake to build up your relationship with them. Eventually, when you check the Codex for your affinity for that character, you'll see a heart with a keyhole in place of the usual hearts. This means that you won't be able to give them more Nectar to progress, but you'll need to talk to them to carry out a request or do something special to progress your relationship with them. Afterward, you'll be able to give them Ambrosia and they'll give you a Legendary Keepsake in return. The following NPCs are who you should give your multiple Nectars to:
- Achilles
- Dusa
- Megaera
- Sisyphus
- Skelly
- Thanatos
How to Acquire Ambrosia in Hades
After you clear the game for the very first time, you'll gain access to a feature called the Pact of Punishment. This feature will allow you to make your runs more difficult in a lot of different aspects, customizable by you, in order to also gain more rewards. For every single way you make your run more difficult, you get 1 Heat. Per amount of Heat, and per Weapon used, you can claim Bounty rewards for beating the Bosses in each Location in the Underworld. One of these rewards is Ambrosia, usually given after defeating both the Minotaur and Theseus.
Aside from this, you can also get Ambrosia through the following methods:
- Completing prophecies from The Fated List
- Buying them for Diamonds at the Wretched Broker
- Turning in Bass (fish) to the Head Chef
