Best Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel Character Builds

Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is a popular Roguelike Bullet-Hell, where you get to play as one of four currently available champions and slay hordes of monsters, finally leading up to a showdown against the mighty Jotunn. While you can get through the first few levels with random builds, as you progress, you'll need more refined builds to win the stages. So, to help you with that, we've compiled all the best builds for every character in Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel.

Best Berserker build in Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel

How to unlock: Unlocked by default (starting character)

The Berserker is one of the first characters you get unlocked in Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel. Being a typical Barbarian, the Berserker uses his melee skills and Rage mode to shred through most monsters. While lacking range, the Barbarian relies on brute strength to preserve. So, there are two builds you can use to make the most out of this character.

Zealot God Skill Crit Build

• Recommended Subclass: Zealot (All God Skill Cooldown -20%)
• Recommended Weapon: Crippling Axes (Critical Chance +5%)
• Skill Point Allocation: 7x Power (Thor), 7x Resolution (Freya), Evolved Divine Wave, Evolved Gambanteinn

This build is heavily reliant on God Skills, namely the ones from Freya. It uses the high critical chance of Berserker to continuously reset the CD of your skills and maximize the DPS. Once you have the essential skills unlocked, you can choose almost any AoE or high DPS God skill and clear the levels with ease.

Troll Scion Rage Regen Build

• Recommended Subclass: Troll Scion(Healing +50% HP Regen +3/s)
• Recommended Weapon: Stunning Axes (Stun Chance +5%)
• Skill Point Allocation: 7x Vessel of Pain (Class), 2x Adrenaline Rush (Class), 7x Sturdiness (Thor), 6x Recovery (Thor), 6x Defense (Freya), 2x Heroic Hymn (Freya), 2x Older Than Time (Odin)

Unlike the previous build, this build is completely dependent on the class passives and talent skills. This takes the luck factor out and is a more lengthy style of playing. Triggering rage every few seconds and tanking almost any amount of damage while recovering insanely fast. With the Troll Scion sub-class buff, you'll be almost immortal.

Best Seeress build in Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel

How to unlock: Unlocked by default (starting character)

The Seeress is the second starting character you get unlocked in Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel. Being a typical mage, the Seeress relies on her magical skills, and God skills to dish out massive amounts of damage. Even though she lacks defense, you can deal significant AoE damage with the right build. So, here are two builds to help you get started.

Hag God Skill Build

• Recommended Subclass: Hag (+25% Damage)
• Recommended Weapon: Asgardian Staff (Cooldown -10%)
• Skill Point Allocation: 6x Mastery of Fate (Class), 2x Divination (Class), 7x Power (Thor), 6x Sentinel (Thor), 2x Overwhelming Potential (Thor), 3x Lightning Strike (Thor)

While the Seeress lacks defenses, she makes up for it with insane firepower. Using this primarily God skills build, with her Hag subclass, you can clear almost any level with relative ease. The no CD skills paired with multiple stacks of God skill damage boost make this an ideal build for the Seeress, as well as any other hero that you want.

Best Revenant build in Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel

How to unlock: Unlocked by clearing Niflheim on Easy mode

The Revenant is a ranged hero that excels at dealing tons of long-range damage while also having a wolf companion on the side. This limits his build to two very distinct playstyles, completely relying on the bow and arrow, while the other is a summoning build. So, here's how you can use both of them.

Marksman Attack Speed Build

• Recommended Subclass: Marksman (When standing still, Attack Speed +50% and Knockback: Weak)
• Recommended Weapon: Winter Bow (Attack Speed +5%)
• Skill Point Allocation: 7x Rapid Fire (Class), 7x Lichborne (Class), 2x Aimed Shot (Class), 3x Focused Fire (Class), 7x Resolution (Freya), 7x Prowess (Odin), 2x Sleipnir's Speed (Odin)

As you may have guessed from the name, this build optimizes the Marksman subclass to create a hero that is essentially an arrow machine gun. The hero, if built properly, will shred through almost any amount of enemies, and acts like a shotgun when up against Elite enemies or even Jotunns.

Beastmaster Haunting Wolf Build

• Recommended Subclass: Beastmaster (Haunting Wolf Cooldown -30%, Damage +50%)
• Recommended Weapon: Winter Bow (Attack Speed +5%)
• Skill Point Allocation: 7x Lichborne (Class), 6x Wild Hearth (Class), 7x Power (Thor), 2x Heroic Hymn (Freya),

A more unique and alternative build for the Revenant is the Beastmaster build. This focuses on making the most of the Haunting Wolf passive of this hero. To supplement any damage, you can choose meta AoE God skills like Golden Discs to clear most stages. While not as consistent as the Marksman build, this can still be a fun option for most players.

Best Flame Sister build in Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel

How to unlock: Unlocked by clearing Niflheim on Normal mode

The Flame Sister is currently the last character you can unlock in Jotunnslayer. She is somewhat of an amalgamation of both the Revenant and the Seer. Because of this, you can create two distinct builds for her, one that takes advantage of her nimbleness and high attack speed, while the other maximizes her firepower. So, here's both the build for you to try out.

Ash Disciple God Skill Build

• Recommended Subclass: Ash Disciple (God Skill Damage +35%)
• Recommended Weapon: Cultist Dagger (Regen +1 HP/s)
• Skill Point Allocation: 7x Vital Spot (Class), 7x Power (Thor), 6x Sentinel (Thor), 2x Overwhelming Potential (Thor), 3x Lightning Strike (Thor), 7x Prowess (Odin), 3x Divine Wave (Freya)

This is the key build for the Flame Sister with the Ash Disciple. With the number of God Skill damage buffs stacked, this build has some of the highest DPS numbers you can expect. For example, I could clear the Flame Jotunn within 15 seconds with this build. Try to unlock the no CD skills as fast as possible, then just sit back and watch the destruction unfold.

Smoke Assassin Slay Build

• Recommended Subclass: Smoke Assassin (Slay Chance +20%)
• Recommended Weapon: Sisterhood Dagger (Evasion +10%)
• Skill Point Allocation: 2x Sprint (Class), 7x Power (Thor), 6x Massacre (Thor), 7x Resolution (Freya), 3x Divine Wave (Freya), 7x Prowess (Odin), 2x Slepnir's Speed (Odin), 7x Quickness (Loki)

This build is similar to the Marksman build of the Revenant, but the only difference is that this has a total of 40% Slay Chance, so almost every attack will one-shot regular monsters on any level. Apart from that, the high attack speed and status effects make it an ideal assassin build to clear any boss at relatively close range.

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