Hades (SuperGiant Games)

I started playing this a few weeks ago, about a run or two a day. Finally beat Hades on run 29, only due to having some boon that gave me constant life regen, which made the boss feel pretty trivial.

My problems are two:

  1. Fucking poison murders my face. How does one avoid poison, or do you just rush to the weird statue that removes poison?
  2. In the Hades fight, there are these big circles of explosion (green) that you can’t see to dodge behind a structure to avoid. Where do those come from, can you avoid them somehow (dodge through them towards the center of the circle?). If I knew WTF how to avoid those, that would be 90% of the damage I take on the boss level, which is…really sad. I only won the game once because there was enough time between those to regenerate.