Find Every Pet in Hades 2: How to Unlock All 5 Familiars, Where They Live, and What They Do
Here’s a concise, friendly guide to every animal familiar in Hades 2 and exactly how to unlock them. Read on for locations, dedicated resources, and the precise bonuses each familiar brings.
How to unlock animal familiars in Hades 2
First, you must unlock the Faith of Familiar Spirits incantation. To do that, complete these four tasks during your runs:
- Defeat Hecate five times.
- Mine an outcropping with the Crescent Pick twice.
- Interact with a lonely shade using the Tablet of Peace twice.
- Dig using the Silver Spade once.
After completing those tasks, the Faith of Familiar Spirits incantation appears at the Cauldron. You can unlock it with one lotus and two nectar. Once unlocked, find each familiar during a run and give them a witch’s delight to invite them back to the Crossroads.
Finally, note this: after you use at least three witch’s delights, you unlock the Bravery of Familiar Spirits incantation, which lets you upgrade familiar abilities.
All animal familiars in Hades 2
There are five animal familiars. Each appears in a specific area and focuses on a particular resource. Below are their locations, resources, and abilities with their upgrade numbers.
Frinos the Frog
Location: Frinos is the first familiar you’ll encounter — they sit waiting after runs in the Crossroads area.
Dedicated resource: grasp — Frinos helps compel Lost Shades.
Abilities:
- Life Bond: While together, you have +10/20/30/40 max life.
- Soul Bond: While together, you are 20/30/40/50% more likely to find Lost Shades.
- Drive Bond: Frinos deals 0/10/20/30 damage by leaping onto foes.
Toula the Cat
Location: Surface path, between the City of Ephyra and the Rift of Thessaly. Find Toula napping on the docks near the left edge of the map.
Dedicated resource: fish — Toula instantly catches fish from fishing points.
Bonus: If Toula joins a run, you gain an additional Death Defiance.
Abilities:
- Heart Bond: Death Defiance effects from Toula restore 20/40/60/80 life.
- Sense Bond: While together, you are 20/30/40/50% more likely to find fishing points.
- Claw Bond: Toula claws at surrounding foes 4/6/8/10 times before losing interest.
Raki the Raven
Location: Underworld path, in the fountain room in Erebus. Raki sits beside the encounter entrances.
Dedicated resource: ore — Raki destroys outcroppings for you.
Abilities:
- Vision Bond: While together, you have +1/2/3/4% chance for any damage you deal to be critical.
- Stone Bond: While together, you are 20/30/40/50% more likely to find outcroppings.
- Wing Bond: Raki swoops down to peck at foes every 9–10 / 7–8 / 5–6 / 3–4 seconds (per upgrade level).
Hecuba the Hound
Location: Surface path, in the Fields of Mourning. Hecuba is in the same room as Echo, waiting at the end of the room just before the encounter doors.
Dedicated resource: seeds — Hecuba digs for food and resources in the dirt.
Abilities:
- Spirit Bond: While together, you have +15/30/45/60 max magick.
- Earth Bond: While together, you are 20/30/40/50% more likely to find digging spots.
- Guard Bond: Hecuba stuns surrounding foes every 9–10 / 7–8 / 6–7 / 5–6 seconds (per upgrade level).
Gale the Polecat
Location: Mount Olympus path, in the room just before the boss (not the Summit boss).
Dedicated resource: flora — Gale picks up greenery and flowers for you.
Key defensive ability: Gale can block incoming damage a limited number of times per region.
Abilities:
- Veil Bond: While together, you have +3/4/5/6% dodge chance and move speed.
- Nature Bond: While together, you are 20/30/40/50% more likely to find flora.
- Wild Bond: Gale deals 250/300/350/400 damage when scratching foes in retaliation.
