Hades Beginner Guide | What Are The 3 Best Keepsakes for New Players?

What Keepsakes should Beginner Hades players take? Is it better to build tanky or damage? Should we give nectar to the gods first? How can we create the best early builds? Tune in for the 3 Best Keepsakes for Beginners! I explain the Keepsakes that Beginners have easy access to and that will help new players construct their best builds for escaping the Hades underworld as soon as possible.

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Table of Contents

00:00 Video Introduction
00:44 The First Keepsake That You Should Take
01:42 The Second Keepsake That You Should Take
02:42 The Third Keepsake That You Should Take
03:51 Summarizing Early Game Keepsakes
04:43 Video Outro
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Hades is the new Roguelike game being developed by Supergiant Games. The game is phenomenal, with deep combat systems and classic roguelike elements and I'm here to break them down and serve you the best tips and tricks to help you make the most of your runs.

In this Hades Beginner Guide series I will be creating simple How To videos for players new to the game and just getting started. We will be examining the resources available in Hades, the powers you collect during a run, and the tips and tricks of combat and building successful runs. I break down the Hades game systems into simple beginner tips that new players can use to guide their runs as they learn the game. I hope you find them valuable!

Want to know what the best Hades Beginner Builds are? The best boons for each of the infernal arms? How about what keepsakes you should unlock and level up first? You've come to the right place!

Each week I will be releasing Hades Beginner Guides and tips to explain the games systems and how to best reach the end game and enjoy all that Supergiant's amazing game Hades has to offer!

[mattsimus]

Hi Everyone! I Hope that you found this video valuable, if you have any other questions about Hades, post them in the comments below! I'll answer your questions in the next video!

[skoog]

I’ve been playing Hades for a few days now, and I can say that the Cerberus collar is very helpful, as it helped me get to the stage after Asphodel for the first time

[jasonmelanconjm]

Great list. Chthonic coin purse is the most helpful IMO of these because it is the only one that will stay with you after removing it at the end of Tartarus (out of all of these)

[scottnito]

Cerb collar, lucky tooth and hourglass would be the early helps for me but I love the others you said too.

[pablosanfabio]

Oh my god I missed smellys tooth because I assumed I had given him a nectar as I see him every run

[shaekelley]

I know this is an old ass video but you seriously just help me realize a huge misconception I had about the shackle. By the description I thought in order to get the full wide attack special and cast buffs, you needed to just only put balloons on anything that wasn't those three. And if you even added one it took away the global buff. But now I know it just made you stronger one of those abilities wasn't blessed apologies for typos I'm completely blind but love Hades and your guides are amazing hope you're enjoying the sequel

[vongod]

Wow thank you Matt for the guide! All the keepsakes are a bit overwhelming as a new player so this was very informative :))

[murpium]

Oh man I’ve been playing for dozens of hours and never realized what shattered shackle actually did. I thought as soon as you got any boon its effects went away. I didn’t realize it was per attack move (attack, special, cast). It’s probably the only one-star keepsake in my cabinet.

[bryanthevery]

Great channel! Very concise and well explained. Definitely been a help boosting my skills for Hades

[Kevfactor]

Coin purse is like what I start every run with. I’m trying on crazy heat yet with bad store prices so it helps out a lot in being able to buy a blood at the end of every run

[dazkaris]

I didn't even realize I can give nectar to Cerberus, thank you!

[LoskiBroski]

Another great early keepsake is the myrmidon bracer. Give a nectar to Achilles to get it.

[ashleighdennis]

Anything we need to do before giving? Or as soon as we get it we give it away and can get?

[sayonarajames]

Hey Mattsimus sort of unrelated, but still related to Keepsakes, is there a way to not take boons if you want to use Sysphius' shackle to do a no boons run?

[kiran]

I prefer lucky tooth, goes upto 100 health return

[keystonelyte]

By the time the Cerberus keepsake is useful, you'll already have enough darkness to raise your starting hp to 100... shit's useless. Achilles' bracer is far more useful for survivability, as reducing damage is better than having more hp.