THE ULTIMATE PENTAGRAM BUILD! - Vampire Survivors

[@Aliensrock]

The wait is over! This is likely the most unique build you'll ever see in this game.

[@xman9354]

nice

[@bubblymarmar]

Starting now, should be a fun vid!

[@Xyxyoler]

Hu

[@massivebacon5213]

less gooooo

[@maxmcculley675]

MissingNo enters the chat

[@bang_lihat]

Its cool that the pentagram flashes RED when it deletes everything and BLUE when it keeps the item. Subtle, but still cool.

[@MandrakeGuy]

why did you CAPITALIZE only the COLORS but not the rest of the words in the SENTENCE

[@hazeltree7738]

@@MandrakeGuy To EMPHASISE the COLOURS as THEY were the main TALKING POINT of the SENTENCE

[@MandrakeGuy]

@@hazeltree7738 to be FAIR though it SEEMS very UNNECESSARY

[@Scaarus]

What a legendary build! I was shocked when the second reaper came out at the end, I'd never seen that before. Can't wait to see you dominate endless with this!

[@watchlook85]

The game spawns 1 reaper every 1 minute passed the 30min mark, the game dev coded that probably just to add difficulty to people who finds strats like this.

[@yusufcaliskan8175]

Sen bir kara lahanasın

[@pvic6959]

the second reaper was hilarious!! it was like the first one called in for back up

[@XiuHang]

BTW you only need the Laurel and the Clock Lancet to summon multiple reapers. Spellbinder and Empty tome help make it easier, but you can totally survive long enough with just those two.

[@Joryho]

@@yusufcaliskan8175 best insult I’ve heard in AGES “You are a black cabbage” is genius.

[@mementomori5580]

The Grim Reaper has 450k HP for EVERY Level that you have. You were lvl 68 when he spawned, so that makes 30.6 Million HP for the first one ^^

[@pentagonofpeople]

If I remember correctly that's on top of a base of 64mil hp

[@ModWalker]

@@pentagonofpeople makes sense on why its hard to kill the first one before the second and third come out

[@livedandletdie]

It is more I believe. 655350 HP per level...

[@nobodyasked4510]

Pentagram after combining the birds for late game is really good because of the screenclear on level up.

[@pyritepanx]

I love vandolier but god is it inaccurate

[@zacattack32441]

@@pyritepanx it is but late game the screen is so full it doesn't really matter.

[@bengoodwin2141]

Can you use screen clear on level up to kill death? Edit: he talks about it, nevermind

[@Willdroyd]

@@pyritepanx well vandolier isnt innacurate it attacks around you. The pidgeons tho ... yeah i got no words im a pidgeon fan but

[@CompletelyRandomNick]

In library you can do this build a bit easier since there's empty tome sitting in the map. What makes it easier is if you get all passive item slots filled, empty tome is added into the third additional row of items. Same goes for empty mask.

[@alexstewart9592]

When this map got changed, items were added to it. There is a 50% chance of an Empty Heart above spawn, and a 20% chance of a Pumerola way below spawn. Oh, and multiple places with various chances of a Clover.

[@Red-Tower]

@@alexstewart9592 true, but it's harder to keep track of where to look for them because of how open the map is. Library is easy because you can just go left for tome and right for mask. I suppose technically you can go straight up and down for the first couple items on forest, but I know one of the clover spawns is up and left a ways and I think off to the lower right somewhere. Plus they spawn in different scenery areas. I'm sure once you get familiar with it all it'll be easier to find them, but they also only have a chance to spawn at all.

[@Auraknight]

As far as i understand it, for the first part, the odds of keeping the drops was 37.5% 25% from base, 12.5% from your +50% luck.

[@Akrna47]

Have you unlocked the "5000 Coin in 1 run" guy yet? I found unlocking him was a fun challenge. Doing it on hyper mode is easier, but doing it not on hyper mode is brutal. Big recommend. Overall this was a sweet video

[@vampyrecat4458]

More characters? More videos of Tyler playing vampire survivors? Yes please.

[@Leadvest]

I got 5.8M damage on Runetracer with him. His stat boosts are insane.

[@mattg00004]

@@Leadvest YES! i got a lucky run where i had ~4500 coins but the 500 boost at the end of the run put me over to unlock him and he was literally made to be OP esp with the bible weapon

[@ajinasawor]

@@Geth270 well if you still in early game and don't have many power up, it is really challenging. Maybe try no UPs challenge and try get 5000 gold run?

[@ZentoPlays]

From what I’ve heard btw, the reaper after 30 minutes has 6 million HP.

[@apostateCourier]

it's actually ~600k x your level

[@ZentoPlays]

@@apostateCourier good to know! 👍🏻

[@achi5170]

@@apostateCourier Where did you learn that?

[@Akita23]

@@achi5170 steam guide comments mention it all the time. It's presumably easily found in the game files since you can easily edit stats like how much damage weapons do or how much meta passives heal, etc

[@achi5170]

@@Akita23 so thier hp is between 42 million and 60 million depending on how many levels you have by the end... with an optimal build you could probably deal 5 million damage every 30min, which lands us on 8-12h of constant damage just to kill one.

[@matthewlols775]

I love how Tyler isnt afraid to try out new games on the channel

[@killerfishe5092]

i mean, that's kinda been his thing for the past 2 years almost

[@pessskychaos4874]

Yeah

[@WanderTheNomad]

His personality carries the videos for the most part even if people don't really like the game initially.

[@pessskychaos4874]

@@WanderTheNomad yeah

[@L4Vo5]

Maybe Arca (-15% cooldown) or exdash (+100% luck) would be better picks for the pentagram itself, though they make the tanky part of the build weaker. Also, the library allows you to get empty tome as a 7th passive item (and if you really want it, stone mask as well). It's great for when you want a build to be as strong as possible

[@1vader]

Actually, the reaper has negative knockback, meaning every time you hit it it will get "knocked" closer to you. That's one of the reasons why it sticks so hard to you.

[@pumbaa667]

good to know, thanks

[@PaulyPop]

Yeah, this one was way worth it, the excitement at the end when another grim reaper showed up my jaw actually dropped lol

[@VXTauspectre]

Slight tweak to this build based on my experience in getting to 33 minutes on Hyper Mode: Garlic is a trap, something like the evolved bible/axe for actively keeping enemies away between pentagram procs makes getting to 30 mins easier! Extra duration from spellbinder synergises with clock lancet & laurel for significantly more tank/control than I've had with Evolved Garlic, and I think for going endless the longer freezes and immunity from laurel will allow you to move into whatever gaps end up existing between waves!

[@somenerdlol]

Everyone's chilling until the reaper multiplies

[@MonsterPumpkin]

The run was well worth the wait, did not think that a second death would come out in the end lol

[@zenter7141]

i have been anticipating this video wayyy more than I reasonably should have

[@VivBrodock]

I'd love to see a legit attempt at killing death using clock lancet and weapons that autoaim so you don't have to micro Blue-wand and birds comes to mind

[@Arkan-gn7hk]

Death has several thousand quintillion health, and every 1minute mark after 30minutes addicional reaper spawns, so killing him legit is literally impossible

[@jamesbaker5614]

@@Arkan-gn7hk *ts obviously possible as there is a secret character for killing it (apparently). Its just very very very hard. I saw somewhere that the reaper's health is influenced by what level you are. So if you were super lucky and could get a good build with few levels, it could possibly work. Obviously with clock lancet and laural so you cama freeze it

[@sitonkim8371]

Nope its not its 450k hp times your level

[@MissSmoozie]

I've killed the reaper "legit", you can do a bunch of super cheesy stuff to stay level 2 until it spawns to get a 900k HP pool, and then grab all the xp and chests, hoping for bone, and evolved wand. Then you abuse the bookshelves to hopefully get the 2nd and beyond stuck and pray they don't get hit.

[@pessskychaos4874]

I love how you can walk through frozen enemies You've gotten 1 other jackpot on cam

[@UnableToucan]

"not quickly enough to get crown or anything" A few months later, that is the exact item that is needed to get the evolved pentagram

[@MachJacob343]

There's actually a hidden character unlocked for killing the Reaper. The recommended way to get it right now is to edit the game files so something does 10000000 damage.

[@shinyrayquaza9]

that causes self damage now so you need to modify a character too

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmm]

@@shinyrayquaza9 You can avoid this by enabling the debug mode so that you have a button to full heal and a button to auto clear the screen and a button to automatically advance 1 minute

[@stephenmemelord2303]

@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm how does one activate debug mode and do this?

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmm]

@@stephenmemelord2303 I don't remember, but I googled something about hidden characters in this game and a Reddit post came up that explained it.

[@Lombinian]

Just enter debug mode and press I for Invincibility and K to kill everything on screen

[@hamburgler1811]

Just want to let you know, if theres an elite in the back of a crowd you can run away and the same elite will follow u and spawn again on the side of the screen, elites cant be walked away from

[@Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head]

Oh my gods that end! It's like dodging the yeti at the end of SkiFree

[@404missingname7]

Been playing this game for the past couple days and just got my first win, and yet here you are doing the most ridiculous of builds. Keep it up!

[@alvin41712]

If you kill the Grim Reaper, you actually play a him. Or u can just modify the files too, but that isn't as fan.

[@WowieZowie123]

i still can't believe tyler guessed the reaper strat

[@noellesears10]

11:26 man i miss the luck be a landlord days where he’d say “this run has legs” on every good item

[@serketenglish5963]

Something great about Pentagram, is that even though it looks like it deletes the enemies, all the enemies it kills instantly respawn at the edges of the screen. It’s effectively a random “Oh Crap” button at worst, and free loot at best.

[@icycloud6823]

I don't think that's how it works. I think it just kills only the stuff that is currently on screen, while everything off screen survives. So if you have a hoard following you backed all the way off screen, it will only kill the ones on screen, while the rest of the hoard survives. So for maximum destruction it's best to be basically at the center of the hoard when the pentagram goes off, otherwise you'll miss some of the monsters.

[@serketenglish5963]

@@icycloud6823 Yes, but also, whenever a wave dies, it immediately spawns the next wave, and not a moment sooner to avoid lag. This would mean that Pentagram effectively resets the wave instantly, causing little downside, with the chance to get free XP.

[@icycloud6823]

@@serketenglish5963 I think I understand what you mean. Sounds very good if it's true.

[@serketenglish5963]

@@icycloud6823 Ye, lol. Oh also, enemies off screen get despawned after a certain distance. The way I personally discovered this wave mechanic is by playing as Poe in the library, and just going in one direction, while making sure to kill all the enemies on that side. Go left, move up/down to kill enemies, go left and more enemies will instantly come on screen. If you go right however, there won't be a massive hoard of all the enemies you missed, instead a wave nearly equal to the one on the left. And then, bosses get despawned too. If a boss vanishes off the right side of the screen while you're going left, it'll teleport to the left side, with the same amount of health as before.

[@AsteroidWrangler]

Thanks to these videos, I listened and picked up Vampire Survivors. Damn is it fun, even at the start when you'd think you wouldn't have a chance, all it takes is good luck to make it to 30 minutes.

[@hmanballer1491]

This was such a good build and so fun to watch (pls find a way to kill the reaper cause there is an Easter egg if u do)

[@krytenfivetwothreep2485]

The only way to do it is to edit game files

[@huuphatnguyen604]

@@krytenfivetwothreep2485 you can do it legitimately, though RNG plays a HUGE role in it.

[@krytenfivetwothreep2485]

@@huuphatnguyen604 You can now, but when I wrote the comment editing the game files was the only way

[@j4kob2]

Finally! i’ve been so hyped for this episode, keep up the good videos!

[@Roger_808]

the absolute best thing would be to replace the mask with the Candelabra to have giant whip and garlic, but this was still super amazing.

[@arichiquabtd8092]

Got home super late today and been waiting for Pentagram patiently yet excitedly. This is going to be a very nice evening, thank you Tyler!

[@oriontherealironman]

This is why I watch you. Your methodical builds and well thought out game play are so refreshing compared to youtubers who just don't know what they are doing and don't care to learn the games. Beautiful 😘👌

[@Chowbogan]

I had a build that was struggling in the late game but I had an open weapon slot, so I took pentagram. Since it triggers when you take it I was able to selectively trigger it by leveling and chests and it won me the game

[@lapz]

Let’s goooo! Pentagram build delivered!

[@achi5170]

After a 67 minute run I calculated that I've dealt about 700k dmg to the oldest Reaper, which was not enough to kill it. We have no clue how tanky it is, but we can safely assume that it has over 1 million hp.

[@crazybeatrice4555]

If it scales with your level then presumably if you increased your level over that time frame then the reapers HP would increase as well.

[@achi5170]

@@crazybeatrice4555 if it updates the value whenever you level up, but it would make more sense if the value was determined right when it spawned

[@Cfomodz]

That was awesome to see you live for 1:33 over!

[@lekoe961]

Santa Water has quickly become one of my favourite upgrades. I was playing the character with increased weapon duration that starts with King Bible and maxed out Spellbinder, Duplicator, Candelabrador and Empty Tome and when I stood still there was an almost permanent ring of Santa Waters around me. That combined with evolved Bible and Garlic meant I could stand still for the entire last 10 minutes of the library on hyper. Greatly recommend you try out a build similar to this because full investment in Santa Water is some of the most fun I've had with this game

[@eliaparicio9178]

I bought this game because of your videos and I love it!

[@Vizaru]

same! $3 is such a steal for this gem

[@ivyknightproductions5997]

I love this just as much as Inscryption, you make the best videos commentary and gameplay, you're on the same level of entertainment as the BIG SHOTS of KZbin Id say

[@bubblymarmar]

Finally. I’ve been postponing sleep for this midnight vid

[@muliro995]

I'd absolutely love to see a run focused on killing one or more reapers!

[@serload]

To freeze the reaper, you just need to run in the direction oposite of the lance shooting direction, so the Reaper will be in the back. Sadly only the lance and lorrel are helpful here. Maybe move speed as well.

[@ShadowGod64]

Clockwork could and should have a smaller arrow thing like the hour hand, and maybe have it rotate half as much as the long one.

[@ZarHakkar]

Should be it's interaction with duplicator

[@puffy_btw]

it destroys every thing including XP, Chests and Firepits

[@shabitai1]

I rarely comment on KZbin. But this video reminded me of the early disguised toast videos, where he pushed hearthstone to its limits. Very cool video. very cool ending.

[@TheThunderMunch]

If you somehow manage to kill the reaper at the end you unlock a secret character.

[@Blubbpaule]

Only via cheating.

[@TheThunderMunch]

@@Blubbpaule Ah I see, My bad I should have looked into it more closely.

[@pixelator5312]

well, while technically possible, the character may as well only be unlockable by cheating; the reaper has around 650,000 hp for every level you have, meaning by the time you see him, his hp will likely be in the tens of millions, not to mention the fact that a new one spawns every minute

[@juliensloan]

Best run yet!

[@tuckerlikesbees]

Such an amazing build, very worth the wait, keep up the good work

[@MajkaSrajka]

Not only Clock Lance hits in a clock-wise direction, so did the circles of the bird attack - except the circle invisibly moved even when it was on cooldown. Many of the weapons patterns look like this.

[@Vizaru]

Santa water also rotates in a clock-wise direction. once at higher projectile counts it becomes clear

[@sk0p562]

This guy is amazing! He just casually masters every game he plays!!

[@gustavonomegrande]

The updated forest has items spread throughout it, someone on the game's discord made a map with the chances, there's a pumarolla, spinach, black heart and a clover.

[@justVinc]

very cool idea :)

[@ace_falken5362]

What a run! Even got to see more reapers come out :) Next run. "Making it to 1 hour in vampire survivors"

[@chas9940]

Been waiting for this ever since you revealed it!

[@reee2754]

the wait was worth it, this video was incredible

[@jarlsigurdstorvann9885]

1.King Bible - push enemies away and keep them on a distance to the point you can allmoste stand still all game and win 2.Empty Tome - to spawn the bibles faster. if you evolve it, it never stops spinning. 3. Chandelure - for better aoe effects 4.Axe - more aoe with Death Spiral, wich you get thanks to chandelure 5.Garlic - constant free damage within a radius of your posistion is nice 6.Duplicator - fire more projectiles wich effects all weapons you have so far. 7. Santa Water - gives you alot of free aoe damage. if you evolve this, then it covers a radius around your posistion very much like garlic. but i think its much better then garlic too be honest. but garlic works early game and the evolved form of Santa Water, being La Borra, covers your late game. these are 7 items that really would cover your back through thick and thin with an item that just straight up deletes evrything.

[@brody7714]

It’s probably the pentagram non-delete chance (eg 25, or 45), multiplied by your luck (eg 60). So say you have a forty five percent non-delete chance, you’d multiply that by your luck (so 0.45+(60%)=0.72), makes 72%.

[@icycloud6823]

Either that, or the pentragram's non-delete chance is uneffected by other modifiers like luck. Judging by how 'unlucky' tyler was getting with the drops. I'd guess that the drop chance is uneffected.

[@brody7714]

@@icycloud6823 that is certainly also a good possibility. Difficult to tell with such a small sample size.

[@CowKirbo]

Clock lancelet is actually amazing. Maybe it's not great in every build but that freezing is insane

[@SuperSonicBlur]

The best time I've managed to get is just over 33 mins in the library. Death comes in from the sides so if you position yourself in a corner of the piano bookcase, they will get stuck. Could be interesting to try with a lorel clock hand build

[@euandouglas4674]

when you first mentioned the ungodly pentagram build I had to try it out for myself first, and basically what I ended up with was a tank build that happened to have pentagram lol

[@benbaker2456]

I have been waiting for you to do this since I heard this might be possible, holy crap YES

[@ab.y889]

I saw Sifd's video of the missingno character, he had a really fast cooldown (especially on laurel) which helped him survive about 38 minutes. Maybe you should try clock lancet with it?

[@ShadowGod64]

I've seen 2 jackpot chests from you I think, gg. Pentagram is op.

[@noiselesssun]

ok, crazy idea, but if you perfectly time out pentagram, that could be the thing that kills the grim reaper at the end, right?

[@cptnkaladin]

Nah it doesn’t do enough damage (it only actually does 666 damage, the reaper has way more HP then that)

[@noiselesssun]

@@cptnkaladin lmao i typed the comment right before he said that

[@atomicluke7053]

There is actually another secret character that I would like to see you play at least once, and his name is missingno. The only way to unlock him is through a little file tampering, because his unlock condition is to kill a reaper and I don't think anyone has managed that. But his stat's are all randomized every time you load up the character selection screen so you can see some insane stuff, like -100% cd.

[@trickygamer555]

funni

[@PhilBushay]

that was incredibly satisfying

[@person0192]

Totally worth the wait

[@NightChime]

I think you succeeded in the best way to define a Pentagram Run: more than 50% of your damage has to come from Pentagram for it to be a "success". I've thought of ways to horribly restrict choices - which is especially easy now that we have rerolls and skips - to *enforce* the... Pentagram-ness of the run... but % damage makes the most sense to still allow player choice and ingenuity. It also allows for degrees of success. I propose "scoring" runs by taking the % of damage dealt by Pentagram over the run, and multiplying it by the total damage dealt by Pentagram. This incentivizes "purity" of Pentagram but also just general Pentagram effectiveness, so that it doesn't lean too hard on a "just don't die" run.

[@OhPinki]

19:10 the way I think luck works in this scenario is it has a 100% chance to roll 45% drops again if it doesn't work the first time and an extra 5% chance to roll a third time if it doesnt work the second time. At least that's my theory, luck in games work in different ways

[@mr.cryosx4587]

You should try a time lance run, last as long as you can

[@vyngeance1128]

That was amazing. It was so exciting to see the second reaper! Now I have to try this out for myself lol

[@lukedavo7912]

Waiting for that horticulture episode D:

[@Aliensrock]

This weekend or early next week hopefully! :)

[@slymate924]

U and me bud

[@willemschipper7736]

Finally! Can't wait so see what it does

[@vicinity1337]

You're supposed to move in the opposite direction of the clock Lancet against the grim reaper.

[@cinnamonjam9173]

If you haven't noticed yet, santa water fires bottles in circles that also correspond to a clock like the clock lancet

[@foggy9900]

this build is pretty awesome

[@Blixt.]

Made it early, have been looking forward to this build as Tyler has been hyping this up for some time, and I have been waiting to see this. Now I can rest

[@ShiningDarknes]

Stone mask has exactly one purpose: being a free item along with tome in library so you can get EIGHT passives (also it is the easiest and most consistent way to get the 5k gold in one run achievement)

[@jamesmccaffrey9042]

Loving this series man

[@owencooke3022]

Aliens rock, you know who else rocks? You do Tyler. And so do you random person scrolling through the comment section.

[@jordand69]

This build bout to go crazy 😳

[@willsenay]

ending at level 69 was the icing on the cake

[@SilvaDreams]

Clover is really important for using pentagram because it deleting items is luck based. So the better your luck the less likely it is going to nuke your items on screen.

[@rainemaker12]

Hey Tyler, you can actually unlock the Grim Reaper character as a hidden extra. His name is Missingno, in reference to the glitch, and all you have to do to unlock him is go to the files and edit the damage of something like garlic to a billion, or something, and one shot the reaper. you'll have to quit the game after as it doesn't know what to do, *BUT* you'll have it unlocked as you cheated death! then you gotta just edit the files to be correct damage again which for garlic is base 0.5. Don't wanna take any garlic upgrades as it would reset the damage but ye.

[@DjesseVol2]

Awesome build! A cool idea would be tackling a reaper killing build with similar items but higher dps overall. Love the vids!

[@DrApylon]

Exdash is actually super good for this build, at 200% luck a 45% chance to not delete is very near 100% not to destroy items (makes it more viable earlier).

[@mayo_nnaise7112]

I just randomly found this series, and wondered when he would make the pentagram build... I guess I don't have to wonder anymore

[@pixel_biscuit]

Not sure if you noticed but you ended on 69 levels on the epicest and nicest of runs.

[@jurrifired3441]

He finally did it. Let's gooooo!

[@oceanbeans8546]

If you have max lvl and the chest is dropped after 10 minutes you’ll always get the evolved weapon

[@Vizaru]

ohhh, I didn't know you also had to wait for the 10 minute mark. that explains why a couple of my runs I didn't get the evolved weapon as soon as I had unlocked it

[@kageraavarrthun]

That was amazing.

[@genijable]

Holy water also drops in a circle around you, similar to the lancet. But it has more than just 12 throws to complete a circle

[@Vizaru]

yeah this one took me a while to realize. it wasn't until I evolved Santa water a couple times that I noticed it was drawing circles around me

[@chrislaws4785]

Yeah, at the end the "technique" is called "Circling them and allowing freeze to constantly hit them and NOT standing there allowing it to miss."

[@TheRubySpider]

If you hadn’t been forced to take the Stone Mask, you could have theoretically taken wings, and the speed boost from that might be enough to keep up with the Clock Lancet and circle the reaper indefinitely. The second reaper obviously complicates things, but I’d imagine extra speed would be incredibly useful regardless.

[@oskark7676]

clock lancet does not reapply freeze to frozen enemies so the reaper would always get a fraction of a second of movement even with perfect lancet micro.

[@exiledtobronze8694]

I just picked up this game from this video... i got a jackpot my 2nd run ever lol :D

[@garynormand5692]

Can’t believe I’ve watch my man Tyler for nearly 4 year and never once liked a video!! I’m such a bad viewer when it comes to liking videos. I’ll watch every god damn video from all of my subs but never 👍. I’ve got about 900 vids to upvote for my main reasons to open my eyes after that awful alarm in the morning. Keep up the good work and honestly aliens do rock 😂😂

[@Lildoc911]

One of these days you will get the timing down for the lancet! It really doesn't matter since you can't kill the reapers I think. GG!

[@MonsterPumpkin]

Will you try to unlock "missing no" ? Or do you consider it cheating and will skip it ?