Metal: Hellsinger features a powerful Hit Streak Boon system, granting players temporary buffs that activate once they reach a specific hit streak threshold. These boons remain active as long as your hit streak continues, offering various advantages such as increased Fury retention, stronger dashes, and explosive finishers. Understanding how to maximize these boons can significantly enhance your gameplay and even help you break high-score records.
This guide will break down each Hit Streak Boon, how they work, and how to utilize them effectively.
Understanding Hit Streak Boons
Hit Streak Boons differ from Sigils—they are temporary buffs that only activate when you hit a specific combo threshold. They disappear if your hit streak resets due to damage or inactivity.
There are four main Hit Streak Boons, each unlocking as you progress through the game:
- Enduring Fury (Hit Streak 6) – Slows Fury Decay
- Faster Ultimate Gain (Hit Streak 10) – Speeds Up Ultimate Charging
- Deadlier Dash (Hit Streak 22) – Increases Dash Damage
- Explosive Slaughters (Hit Streak 30) – Turns Slaughters into AOE Explosions
Now, let’s break down how each works and when to use them.
1. Enduring Fury (Hit Streak 6)
- Unlocks After: Completing Voke (First Level)
- Effect: Slows Fury decay by 50%, meaning your Fury stays active for longer.
- How It Works:
- Fury usually decays rapidly when you’re not attacking. This Boon slows the decay, allowing you to maintain high multipliers with fewer hits.
- It does not increase Fury gain, but it ensures you don’t lose Fury too quickly.
- Best Use:
- Great for maintaining maximum damage output without needing to constantly land hits.
- Combine with Paz (the talking skull) to keep your Fury meter active even when no enemies are present.
2. Faster Ultimate Gain (Hit Streak 10)
- Unlocks After: Completing Stygia
- Effect: Weapons charge their Ultimates faster when swapping between them.
- How It Works:
- If one weapon’s Ultimate is on cooldown, switching to another weapon builds its Ultimate faster.
- This means constantly swapping weapons helps charge Ultimates quicker.
- Best Use:
- Works exceptionally well with the Sword due to its rapid attack speed.
- Allows for frequent Ultimate usage, keeping fights explosive and high-scoring.
- Tip: Place an Ultimate (such as the Hellcrows clone), then swap to another weapon to charge it faster.
3. Deadlier Dash (Hit Streak 22)
- Unlocks After: Completing Incaustis
- Effect: Dashing deals damage to enemies and can stun shielded foes.
- How It Works:
- When dashing into enemies, you inflict damage.
- Against shielded enemies, the dash stuns them, opening them up for attack.
- Best Use:
- Helps deal with shielded demons, making them easier to kill.
- Can be used defensively to escape tight situations while still dealing damage.
- Combine with Hellcrows for additional stun stacking.
4. Explosive Slaughters (Hit Streak 30)
- Unlocks After: Completing The Hells
- Effect: Slaughter attacks cause AOE explosions, damaging nearby enemies.
- How It Works:
- Normally, Slaughters only affect the target. With this Boon, they become area-of-effect (AOE) attacks.
- Enemies close to the Slaughter target take splash damage.
- Best Use:
- Excellent for clearing groups of enemies quickly.
- Increases multi-kill potential for higher scores.
- Tip: If you want to maximize score, avoid unlocking this Boon. Some high-score players avoid it because stacking manual Slaughters can give higher multipliers than explosive ones.
Pro Scoring Strategy – Avoiding Explosive Slaughters
One advanced high-score strategy involves intentionally avoiding Explosive Slaughters to maximize points.
- Players like Edgar Rector achieve over 1 million points by not unlocking Explosive Slaughter.
- Instead of relying on AOE Slaughters, they:
- Weaken two enemies.
- Perform Death from Above Slaughters on both.
- Chain multiple Slaughters instead of exploding them all at once.
- This method stacks multiple high-score actions, resulting in higher multipliers.
If your goal is purely high scores, you may want to avoid unlocking Explosive Slaughters.
How to Maintain Hit Streaks Easily
Keeping a hit streak can be challenging, but here are some pro tips to stay consistent:
- Use Paz (the skull) to keep the hit streak alive when no enemies are around.
- Time your dashes properly—mistimed dashes can break your streak.
- Stay on beat—Perfect or Good hits maintain streaks, but missed beats break them.
- Plan your Ultimates—Ultimates don’t require on-beat timing, so use them strategically.
Final Thoughts – Mastering Hit Streak Boons
Mastering the Hit Streak Boon system in Metal: Hellsinger can drastically improve your gameplay experience, helping you maintain Fury, deal more damage, and clear enemies efficiently.
- For aggressive players: Focus on Explosive Slaughters and Deadlier Dash.
- For high-score hunters: Avoid Explosive Slaughters and stack Death from Above kills.
- For Ultimate spammers: Use Faster Ultimate Gain and weapon switching.
By incorporating these strategies, you can dominate the rhythm-based combat and carve through Hell with perfect precision!
For more Metal: Hellsinger guides and pro tips, stay tuned for future updates!
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