Game:Hades

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Hades is the scheming and uncaring god of the Underworld as well as a major antagonist in the Olympus Coliseum in both Kingdom Hearts titles. He can only be encountered in boss battles such as in the final seed of the Hades Cup in Kingdom Hearts and in the Hades Paradox Cup in Kingdom Hearts II. He, like Hercules returns from the Disney hit animated movie Hercules. In these series, he was also a major threat and enemy to Hercules.

Kingdom Hearts

Hades appears as the tenth seed of the Hades Cup. The arena where you fight Hades is a octagonal one with pillars, meaning reduced space.

He starts off by spraying flames in front of him (indicated by the line "Take that!"), and then to the side - here, it is recommended that Sora use Dodge Roll to avoid the flames at first, and once the flames disperse, Sora can attack him from the front. It is impossible to go to Hades' back and attack him because Hades will always face Sora.

When Hades says "Feel the heat!", be on your guard - he will turn red and go to the centre of the arena and create a revolving wall of flame (similar to Larxene's wall of thunder in Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+. The best way to stay away from the wall of flames is to head to one of the pillars in the front or the back of the arena - the flames do not reach these areas, and Sora will be unhurt. DO NOT go to the sides of the arena when Hades unleashes his wall of flames, because the flames do extend to those areas.

When Hades says, "That's it!", this indicates that he will throw fireballs at Sora. This is the cue for you to use Guard to deflect those fireballs. While he's still red hot, he will bring his arms down in a fit of rage, along with some flames - try evading that with Dodge Roll.

When Hades cools down and revers to blue, he'll repeat his first attack - and the entire sequence of attacks mentioned above will repeat itself. Hades' attacks are rather predictable, so attack him in the same sequence until his HP is depleted.

Every now and then, use physical attacks on him, and use Blizzaga - that works well.

Kingdom Hearts II

The best way to fight him is to have a full magic meter, and definatly have some Ether, because you can only defeat him by using Aura Sphere and with magic, since you can't use your Keyblade. Try to keep Donald out so that you can go to Wisdom Form and have extra magic power, or the Master Form so that you can use endless magic combos.