Summary
- Vampire Survivors, the Castlevania-inspired indie hit by developer Poncle, offers a challenging roguelike experience with valuable items and weapons.
- The game features a variety of weapons, with some standout options for maximum damage, like the evolved Heaven Sword and Vicious Hunger.
- Players can evolve their weapons with the right items, such as Clover or Stone Mask, to unlock more powerful forms and abilities.
In Vampire Survivors, the Castlevania-inspired indie hit by developer Poncle, you face an endless tide of enemies, collecting valuable items, experience, and most importantly, weapons as you try to stay alive just a little longer. Roguelikes and roguelites do enjoy piling on the🌜 challenge.
Not all weapons are created equally though, and while none of them are useless, there are definite standouts in your arsenal that you should favor for maximum damage. Keep in mind that if you have the right item(s) for the corresponding weapon, you can Evolve them into more powerful forms. You should always have a few evolved weapons in your build, so here are some of the very strongest to pick (along with the required item to Evolve them) in this 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:fun and engaging roguelike.
Updated September 25, 2023, by Christopher Padilla: Almost a year since Vampire Survivors got its 1.0 release, it has gotten two DLCs: Legacy of the Moonspell and Tides of the Foscari, which added new weapons, mechanics, and characters. With that in mind, we've completed this list by adding the last of the non-DLC, non-character-specific weaponry, and the items/other weapons they evolve with.
20 🃏 Cross (Heaven Sword)
Evolved By: Clover
Cross might seem initially underwh🍎elming, dealing decent damage but having long delays between firing. Its boomerang-like properties can also make it unreliable to hit, since it flies out a short distance before flying back until it exits the screen. These traits make it a bett🐼er support weapon than a main source of damage.
Once it evolves into Heaven Sword, it pops off, becoming a larger projectile sword and flying out much farther initially before returning to exit the screen. It also gains the ability to critica෴lly hit, which complements the Clover item nicely. Unfortunately, it still retains a long delay between shots, so even in late game, it works better as support damage.
19 Gatti Amari (Vicious Hunger)🎃
Evolved By: Stone Mask
The strangest weapon in Vampire Survivors, the Gatti Amari 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:summons cats to roam the battlefield, occasionally scratch♎ing at enemies and more worryingly, you. When two cats meet, they have a chance of getting into a scuffle, throwing up a big cloud of smoke that deals a lot of damage over a large ar🥃ea.
As they meo🃏w up and down the field, they can also consume items, which have all sorts of effects on them. Upon evolution into Vicious Hunger, the cats become decidedly less cute, turning into fast-moving eyeballs that cut a swath across the battlefield. Enemies killed this way have a chance to be turned into gold. Vicious Hunger still consumes items, but sometimes🐽, transmutes those into gold coins.
18 ♉ Song of Mana (Manajja)
Evolved By: Skull O' Maniac
The Song of Mana might seem limited at first, only hitting in a relatively narrow column at the center of the screen, but with a little bit of investmen💧t, it’s actually pretty powerful. With some upgrades and investment into area of effect, the column can get pretty wide, almost cover🥃ing the center third of the screen.
As it grows more powerful, the waves of damage bounce off the top and bottom of the screen, as well as 🎃off the horizontal boundary of the attack, shredding enemies caught in its area.ꦗ This is even before you evolve it into the Manajja, which not only increases its Area and adds more waves to the attack, but it can also permanently slow-struck enemies.
You’ll want these buffs, since it evolves from the 🐽Skull O’ Maniac, which makes enemies more difficult upon acquisition.
17 Shad🐠ow Pinion (Valkyrie Turner)
Evolved By: Wings
Like the Knife (Thousand Edge), there’s a degree of interactivity with Shad💞ow Pinion above the fire-off cooldown philosophy of the other weapons. You leave a trail of drills as you move, which deal damage to enemies that pass through them. However, when you stop moving, the drills all fire in the direction you’re facing, dealing more damage the longer you’ve gone without sending them flying. You have a finer degree of control over which ꧑direction the drills fly if you use a mouse or a controller.
Valkyrie Turner operates largely in theꩲ same way, but with the drills replaced with much bigger rainbow-colored flames. Firing them toward your character can often cover a majority of the screen when they’re released.
16 ꧙ Phiera Der Tuphello/Eight The Sparrow (Phieraggi)
Evolved By: Eight The Sparrow/Phiera Der Tuphello +Tiragisu
A pair of decently powerful weapons, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Phiera Der Tuphello𝔉 and Eight The Sparrow both f🦋ire shots in every diagonal direction, dealing good damage at a rapid pace, especia🐽lly when paired. The only difference being that Phiera fires red bullets while Eight fires blue bullets.
When they evolve into Phieraggi, however, the ability becomes something else entirely and is perhaps the most powerful non-expansion weapon in Vampire Survivors. Instead of firing bullets, you radiate lances of pulsing light that deal heavy damage and pierce through multiple enemies. A higher Amount will give you more lances while cooldown increases the uptime of Phieraggi &ndas🀅h; up to always being up with enough cooldown.
15 Laurel (C𒆙rimson Shroud)
Evolved By: Metaglio Left + Metaglio Right
Even before getting an evolution, the Laurel was a useful bit of kit, giving players a bit of protection by maki♑ng them briefly invincible on hit, with upgrades adding extra shields or extra duration on the invincibility.
The Crimson Shroud adds a 🎃bit of offensive utility in the form of retaliatory explosions as well as another defensive buff that caps the damage you take at ten, making you even harder to kill. To get the Crimson Shroud, you need to fully upgrade the Metaglio Left and the Metaglio Right, both of which have nine levels. Is it worth it? Probably not, since if you’re already in the position to last long enough to get the Crimson Shroud, you probably don’t even need it anymore.
14 🌸 Clock Lancet (Infinite Corridor)
Evolved by: Silver Ring + Gold Ring
T🥃he Clock Lancet was an underwhelming weapon when Vampire Survivors first came out, since all it did was freeze enemies in a line, which was decent for crowd control, but there’s a bevy of better weapons to equip than this purely defe🎃nsive tool.
Its evolution, the Infinite Corridor, is♚ far more powerful, since it fires far more often and in a predictable pattern– firing at 12, one, two, three, etc. positions of a clock. When you get back to 12, you fill the screen with rainbow light, halving the HP of all enemies on screen. Unfortunately, it suffers from the same problem as the Laurel, where evo𝓰lving it might be more trouble than its likely worth.
13 ꦑ ♋ Pentagram (Gorgeous Moon)
Evolved by: Crown
In theory, the Pentagram can be used to make the game easier by wiping out all enemies on screen when it activates, but in reality, it’s a crutch that can just as easily cripple you, since when it wipes out the screen, it also destroys any gems and other items– including those that would have been dropped by the slain enemies. This can leave you starved for experienc🍨e and underpowered in the late game, something that leveling the Pentagram 🌠only mitigates a little bit, up to 65 percent of a chance not to erase items.
The Pentagram’s evolution, Gorgeous Moon, might just make the hardship worth it, since in addition to its erasure effect, it generates more gems and no longer erases existing gems before vacuuming all the items on the level up. This evolution makes it a decent end🌺game win condition and is particularly useful in stage five, where it can erase a difficult-to-hit and potentially run-ending enemy.
12 🐼 Runtracer (NO FUTURE)
Evolved by: Armor
Even without an evolution, the Runetracer is a strong offensive pick, since it fires a decent amount of projectile🌟s that do good damage and also bounce around the map. With its evolution, NO FUTURE, there’s even less reason not to pick this weapon.
This evolution is one of the less drastic ones in Vampire Survivors, basically just adding explosions to the ricochets or when you’re hit, but it was already pretty goꦬod to begin with. This weapon also incentivizes you to pick up Armor, which is also a good item in its own right.
11 ▨ﷺ Whip (Bloody Tear)
Evolved by: Hollow Heart
Probably the first weapon you’ll use in Vampire Survivors, the Whip can seem underwhelming with its slow attack time, short range and limited area of effect (espec♈ially when compared to flashier options early on).
Stick with it, though, �♐�and you’ll find that the Whip can be a reliable workhorse with a little investment.
It deals the most damage per hit of all the weapons available early on, and while the area it hits isn’t huge, it’s still enough to take out a few enemies per swipe (knocking away anything that isn’t killed outright). In the late game, the whip’s abi🅘lity to knock back enemies is invaluable. Its 🌠evolved form, Bloody Tear, is one of the few ways to heal in the game, pairing nicely with the bonus max HP of Hollow Heart.
