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"post": {
"title": "Best build in Vampire Survivors! (Free win!)",
"selftext": "I’ve beaten a couple runs on hyper and normal with this set, and it feels like the one of the strongest combinations to play with.\n\nWEAPONS:\n\nCore:\n\n- Santa Water:\nWorks great with candelabrador and spellbinder. By mid to late game you’ll have a circle of it around you, making it an ultimate defensive wall that weaker mobs can’t get past.\n\n- Vandelier (Peachone + Ebony Wings):\nUndoubtedly the strongest weapon in the game. Weak earlier in the game, but once you get that evolution combined with max Santa Water, virtually no enemies will get even close to you.\n\n- Runetracer:\nCombined with the other accessories that work great with the core, runetracer is just a really strong weapon that adds a lot of DPS that will help with large crowds.\n\n\nHighly Recommended:\n\n- Axe:\nCan evolve with candelabrador and adds a ton of DPS. \n\n- Cross:\nHas great knock back which is good defensively early to mid game. Good DPS too.\n\n\nFree Slots:\n\n- King Bible:\nIt evolves with spellbinder, but in my experience it didn’t add too much value since no enemies could even get close enough late game.\n\n- Laurel:\nA good addition for defence early to mid game when you don’t have the OP birds yet.\n\n- Anything else that adds DPS\n\n\n\nACCESSORIES:\nThis is where things get more debatable I think, but depending on your play style it’s pretty flexible.\n\nCore:\n\n- Spellbinder:\nGreat with all the core weapons.\n\n- Candelabrador: \nSee above reason.\n\n- Empty Tome:\nAlso very nice with the birds. Almost no cool down for their attacks.\n\n\nHighly Recommended:\n\n- Attractorb:\nI find it pretty useful for most of the game, much easier to get the gems in big mobs of enemies. Helps getting weapons built up quicker too.\n\n- Crown:\nVery useful to get your OP birds as soon as possible and other upgrades.\n\n- Duplicator:\nPretty nice with the core weapons.\n\n\nCONCLUSION:\nThis was my take on some of the strongest combinations in the game based on my personal experiences. It’s a bit hard to build up early game, but once you get Vandalier it should be smooth sailing from there.\n\nI’d love to hear any suggestions or changes anyone might have. I’ve been enjoying this game a ton and looking for some new ways to play it too :)\n\n[Showcasing the fun build at 23 mins](https://youtu.be/jIs3WwrbHew)",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/sjjmh6/best_build_in_vampire_survivors_free_win/"
},
"comments": [
{
"body": "I've tried several and have now very easily completed every stage.\n\n\nVandalier, Santa Water and Axe are a must have. \n\n\nThe Candelabrador, that is needed to evolve the Axe, also synergizes well with Santa Water and Vandalier, as it makes their impact zones bigger. The Attractorb, that is needed to evolve the Santa Water, also makes sure you pick up everything while safely being inside your death circle.\n\n\nOther than that, if you're farming Gold, the Golden Mask is nice, if you want an easier game, the Laurel is neat, since it saves you from mistakes.\n\n\nSo with Peachone, Ebony Wings, Axe, Santa Water, Attractorb and Candelabrador you have 6 slots occupied.\n\n\nI like to have Imelda as starting character as the Magic Wand is a very good weapon to have in early-to-mid game since it has knockback. It needs the Empty Tome to evolve which also synergizes well with everything else. Also she gets an XP-Boost which also helps with farming Gold.\n\n\n**So Peachone, Ebony Wings, Axe, Santa Water, Attractorb, Candelabrador, Magic Wand, Empty Tome are always there. That is all you need.**\n\n\nSo you have 4 (later 5) more slots that you can fill with either Armor/Laurel, XP Boost, Golden Mask or another weapon and it's evolve-counterpart (e.g. Fire Wand + Spinach for extra damage, or Runetracer).\n\n\nKeep in mind that you will very likely be forced to get 1 trash item so make sure to get your core items as soon as you can. With my combo you can also beat the game with 3/4 trash items.",
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{
"body": "I feel like la borra carries any build"
},
{
"body": "This is perfect, thanks!"
},
{
"body": "This is amazing. I used this build with Pasqualina and it works really well also"
},
{
"body": "i've lost to an easy level with this build...",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yeah I suppose it's not relevant anymore, I made that post two years ago, there have been tons of updates since then.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "I just started playing. any idea on what the new hottness is?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "as another new player, use what the challenges page tells u to level and evolve, try to complete at least 1 challenge if not multiple every game"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "I prefer bracer or spinach to Crown. I find that any extra exp I get from crown is overshadowed by how much extra exp I get from killing mobs faster with bracer/spinach. Bracer is great for runetracer, birds, and axe as well. Also, if you get forced into picking knife on a bad roll after you upgrade birds, it makes the knife far less of a punishing pick.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Upside of Crown is you can grind levels easier 25 gold per level at the end can add up if you have all the bonuses and you get to like level 120ish by the 30 minute mark."
},
{
"body": "Personally, I love knife."
},
{
"body": "Agreed! I did some more testing found that I much preferred spinach. Crown is pretty much only useful early game.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Getting out ahead and dominating early game can set you up for better success in endgame too."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Runes, Axe, Lightning, Santa, Vandalier, Fire Wand \nCrown, Candelabra, Duplicator, Attractorb, Spinach, Spellbinder/Bracer ( + Tome + Mask from Library, these go into bonus slots and can be leveled).\n\nMaximum aoe damage, but you don't have a lot of knockback/defense that you would from Magic Wand, Garlic or Bible. Except for the last 1 minute of the game, nothing should touch get within range of bible or garlic aoe anyway so they're pointless except as focused dps (evolved bible is best for that).\n\nAxe, Lightning, and Water can all do over 5 million damage, vandalier can do more. Nothing else comes close to these top 4 (maybe firewand if you evolve it first, but still not as helpful imo) \n\n\nEdit: after trying vandalier more, it really doesn't seem worth it because you're gimping yourself leveling 3 sets of weapons. I would take bible over vandalier and combine it with spellbinder. You can also drop crown for clover if you like 5 star chests over just getting a few more bags of money",
"replies": [
{
"body": "The opposite. Vandelier allows you to pick up an extra weapon for late game.",
"replies": [
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"body": "I always try for the magic birds and Vand. Two extras for late game. And vand with empty tome is pretty badass imho. Constant beams.\n\nNot to mention with Peachone and Ebony, you get an extra \"passive\" slot as well."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Holy shit that video!"
},
{
"body": "Pretty good, gonna try build this for my play thru",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Great, hope you have fun with it! Let me know how it goes :)"
}
]
},
{
"body": "I feel like almost every build can work, that includes vandelier, simply because upgrading it also frees up a weapon slot.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "There are definitely builds that don't work.\n\nEspecially if you're playing hyper mode.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "I meant builds that include vandelier, the upgraded birds.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yeah, it's pretty much just flat out the strongest weapon right now. I'd like to see a bit more even balancing among weapons at the top, but I assume they're probably planning on just adding more things to the game first.",
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{
"body": "infinite corridor says hello :)",
"replies": [
{
"body": "To be fair, reading my own comment, I don't think it's true anymore. They've added a lot more content in recent patches. I haven't been playing as often (just a run or two here and there) so I'm not even really sure what the strongest weapon is. Love that you can kill death with infinite corridor and crimson shroud combo :)",
"replies": [
{
"body": "yep you pretty much only need crimson shroud to kill one, i mean it just makes you immortal (the white reaper still ends you). i did a run with queen sigma the other day and killed one in under a minute without inf corridor, just cs.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "i take that back there are multiple ways of killing one"
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Vandalier is the biggest investment of any weapon though, so it kinda works out"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Worked pretty well. \nDidn't max out skull cause I was just unlocking O'Sole lvl 99 achiev. \nUsed library lvl \nArcanas were: Awake, Sarabande of Healing, Lost & Found Painting\n\n[O'Sole Build](https://ibb.co/9tTM9ZG)",
"replies": [
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"body": "Another build with **Gennaro** this time: (was pretty insane)\n\n[Gennaro Build - Inlaid Lib](https://ibb.co/2MFhZ1R)"
},
{
"body": "And another. They're similar. What can I say? I can't help myself. I love this and nobody else.\n\n**Imelda** \n[Imelda Build](https://ibb.co/QvcNtVL)",
"replies": [
{
"body": "MoarTowards the end (Dairy Plant) it got pretty hairy. But doge pulled through.\n\n**Sole** \n[Sole Shmergle](https://ibb.co/3hYNvJx)"
},
{
"body": "**Antonio** \nMad Forest\n\n[Ant Bel](https://ibb.co/x6TCtjm)",
"replies": [
{
"body": "**Zi'Assunta** \nMad Forest\n\n[Zi'Assunta](https://ibb.co/Yt6YhZx)"
}
]
},
{
"body": "**Pasqualina** \nLibrary\n\nPasqualina and a Pastry \n[Pasq's Task](https://ibb.co/Nrt6WgN)"
},
{
"body": "OOOOO. AHHHH. \nMask O' Death \nGreen Acres\n\n**Mask of the Red Death** \n[Masker Tasker](https://ibb.co/1ZBCzn8)"
},
{
"body": "**Leda** \nGreen Acres\n\nLeda \n[Leda's Lollygagging](https://ibb.co/V9bJBWS)"
},
{
"body": "Poppea - Inlaid Library \nFlowers... many, many, flowers... \n\n\n[Poppea - Poppy](https://ibb.co/WpbRQhJ)"
},
{
"body": "Trousers - Inlaid Library\n\nEven more flowers... \n\n\n[Trousers Flowers](https://ibb.co/0JSh7Rv)"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Screwed the pooch on this one. \nDidn't evolve the laurel in time.\n\n**Divano** \n[Divano Build](https://ibb.co/5R2dksC)"
},
{
"body": "**Minnah** (Didn't even know I had unlocked this guy, still don't know how I did)\n\nMinnah's Mega Massacre \n[Minnah - Green Acres](https://ibb.co/59JwdD1)"
},
{
"body": "**Boon Marrabbio** build \nProbably one of the more fun to play so far. \nA lot of circular movement. \nMore than likely, won't be able to kill Death.\n\n[Noobs Dood Build](https://ibb.co/1QHZj4C) \n[Noob Results](https://ibb.co/k29PC94) \n[Noob Gameplay Screenshot](https://ibb.co/PNh2pcf)",
"replies": [
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"body": "**Leda** Fast Bouncy Exploding Build \nDid the same thing as above with Boon, \n'cept this time I went for fast projectiles that explode and bounce. \nAnd hOOOOly crap. I was able to move freely around the level with very high curse. \nMy Leda has 96 eggs at the moment.\n\n[Leda FBEB Build](https://ibb.co/dkN6n6t) \n[Leda FBEB Results](https://ibb.co/RY5jRNY) \n[Leda FBEB Gameplay Screenshot](https://ibb.co/xsQZNWK)"
},
{
"body": "FBEB Build with Red Death \n\n\n[Big Red D FBEB](https://ibb.co/GWZmryF)"
},
{
"body": "And you can be a Tree now... secret playable char. \n\n\n \n[Peppino](https://ibb.co/VDrNPVC)"
},
{
"body": "Lol.. \n\n\n \n[Huh..](https://ibb.co/DzFQGWp)"
},
{
"body": "Pugnala end-game info only \n\n\n[Pugnala - LvL 100 Phieraggi](https://ibb.co/LRyHqck)"
},
{
"body": "Leda - Green Acres \n\n\n \n[Evolved](https://ibb.co/mhFFDHG) \n[Stats - End Game](https://ibb.co/8XPhwks)"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Level 300 with Pugnala and 4 weapons limitation (original screenshot says 299 but Red Death came and t-bagged me before I could take another decent one so I just pasted the lvl 300 bar at the bottom) I'm not sure it's possible, but I'm pretty sure I maxed out speed increase on Phieraggi, as it wouldn't show up anymore for like the last 60 ish levels, and it was spinning like a tablesaw.\n\n[Pugnala mamuh jamuh - Inlaid Lib](https://ibb.co/rZGTrZM)"
},
{
"body": "Sigma - No Evolution \nInlaid Library \nSeems I could have dropped Peachone and Dust for something more effective honestly. Dust is usually just for fun but I didn't use it at all really during this playthrough. The whole point of this run, I'm trying to find a way to make King Bible my main killer, but the knockback is putting a damper on that plan. I put as many Might buffs (along with speed) into it as I could.\n\n[Sigma Smegma](https://ibb.co/4NM0rWp)"
},
{
"body": "Arca - Inlaid Library - Single Weapon \n\n\n[Arca Whale](https://ibb.co/stVWL9s)"
},
{
"body": "Poe - Inlaid Library - Single Starting Weapon \n\n\n[Poe Shmoe](https://ibb.co/YQfGfTG)"
}
]
},
{
"body": "I find that Vandalier, Hellfire, Holy Wand produce almost equal DPS (however it highly depends on arcana you choose). And playing aggressively helps to survive really well.\n\nFor example, I played with Arca recently and picked the following arcanas:\n\n* Waltz of Pearls\n* Beginning\n\nAnd got the following results:\n```\nMad Forest - Hyper - Gold x 1.5\n\nSurvived: (MAX) 30:10\nGold earned: 7296\nLevel reached: 88\nEnemies defeated: 25519\n\nWeapon LV Damage Time DPS\nFire Wand 8 118k 5:19 368.7\nSanta Water 8 500.3k 7:49 1.1k\nMagic Wand 8 97.4k 3:20 486.3\nGarlic 8 48.4k 9:11 87.6\nPeachone 8 259.6k 4:14 1k\nEbony Wings 8 187.6k 0:52 3.6k\nSong of Mana 8 79.5k 1:30 881.5\nHellfire 1 7M 9:45 12k\nLa Borra 1 3.3M 6:49 8.1k\nHoly Wand 1 3.9M 5:32 11.6k\nSoul Eater 1 315.5k 4:33 1.2k\nVandalier 8 2.8M 3:43 12.6k\nMannajja 1 677.5k 1:27 7.8k\n```\n\nHowever, it did not help to survive reaper in the end 😅",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Also, if you are looking for an easy start — Porta with Twilight Requiem might be the one."
},
{
"body": "I think divine bloodline with miang or a high hp character works really well. Then pair that with la borra and smth else (like fuwalafuwaloo or other heals) and its crazy bro."
}
]
},
{
"body": "Don't mean to necro, but I just wanted to say after struggling many fkin times, this actually helped me win the first level for the first time. ty for these tips, really appreciate it"
},
{
"body": "Victory sword = auto win"
},
{
"body": "vandalier is trash bro. the weapons that are the strongest are the ones that can pair with an arcana card (or two or even three) that will completely overhaul how you can use the weapon. for example, crystal jail x out of bounds x heart of fire x boogaloo of illusions arcanas used with pugnala provolia. you want magic wand, bracelet or tri bracelet, runetracer, clock lancet and pugnalas two starting weapons. you want to make sure you dont evolve ANY of your weapons except the clock lancet. you want magnet, bracer, duplicator, crown, spinach, and empty tome. \n\nDisclaimer: you need to have unlocked inverse mode and endless mode to be able tk make this build"
},
{
"body": "Still holds up great as a build even after the new updates, im 10 minutes in and nothing can get near me."
}
]
}