How to beat Red Death in Vampire Survivors (2023) (2023)

Death comes to us all, especially the guy who throws little spinning scythes at you in Castlevania games. Death is also the confusing endgame flag in Vampire Survivors, the sign that you've "completed" your level but still can't make it out alive. But what if you could beat them, what if you could kill death itself and transcend the barriers of time, space and video games? In this case, there is an answer. And strangely enough, this near-impossible task is also how to unlock the Mask of Red Death character. This is easy with Prima GamesDecide the outcome with Reaper.Steps to defeat Red Death are below.

How to kill Red Death in Vampire Survivors? Answered

Now you can kill Death without shame! Since the latest update, everyone's favorite levelender has become a little more vulnerable. With the new equipment you can craft by picking up the rings and Metagilo items in each level, you essentially get a Kill Death Kit. You are missing:

• Metagilo Left + Metagilo Right + Laurier =Crimson shroud
• Gold ring + silver ring + watch lancet =Infinite time

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If you can get these items (and it can take almost an entire run to do so), if Death shows up at the end, you have a good chance of taking him out. You might have to eat a few revives (maybe three!), but if you manage to do that, death will now drop a bunch of golden eggs.

The fun part? If you kill Death now, the timer will stop! What could that mean? Well, it means something even more vicious than Death is about to destroy you. We leave that to you to see for yourself.

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Vampire Survivors Kill Death Guide - Hoe Mask of Red Death te ontgrendelen

At this point, there is only one legitimate way to fight Death. It's an improvement over the past, where it was only possible by cheating. This particular method also feels like cheating, but it is also a matter of patience, knowledge and a little bit of luck on the side. We're going to be utilizing several aspects of Vampire Survivors to accomplish this feat, so we're not really going to have fun here. Not yet anyway.

Trin et: Enormous runesporer for clerics

To even have a chance to take down death, you need to pick Clerici and play at the library level. Then make a mad dash and move left to grab the green XP gem on the table. If you don't roll Runetracer, give up and try again. Don't use your rerolls; just stop driving and restart. Once you have it, immediately run into the small, mostly enclosed room. It has a table and some chairs, two bookshelves on either side, a clock and a painting or something on the wall.

Align Clerici so her right hand is in line with the clock and her left hand is in line with the painting. Place her directly above the far left seat and don't move. Cool down. Or laugh at how ridiculous this scenario is.

Basically, Clerici have a "temporary" area bonus that is more powerful than what you can normally get. But temporarily it means that once you level up, it gets smaller and smaller. So the idea here is to stay at level 2 so that the giant Runetracer sticks to the furniture and becomes a de facto shield. When placed correctly, Clerici is safe from all sides and cannot accidentally pick up XP.

Note: Check your power-ups and discard anything that might make this harder than it should be. You'll also occasionally have to open a treasure chest during the run, which is a good thing.

Step Two: Hurry and wait (when a red gem appears)

While you're standing here wasting anything that comes close, keep an eye out for a red gem for the first few minutes. This is the cornerstone of the entire operation. If about three minutes have passed and you don't see a red gem on the screen, you've been tricked by RNGesus and need to restart. If you confirm the red gem and it's pretty close, you can just do whatever you want for the next 27 minutes.

But when the clock strikes 30, you better be ready to fight for your life.

Step Three: Go Crazy!

The second you hit 30:00, and I mean literally the second, all enemies will disappear from the scene. Then you might have half a breath before death shows up to ruin your fun time. Just as the clock strikes 30, book it to the red pearl. You'll hit other gems and maybe chests along the way, and that's fine. But your target is the red gem because math or whatever.

Trin fem: Anti-Death Build

As you speed through levels, you need to grab certain items, which is why we don't use Reroll at the beginning. There are items you need, items you probably need, extras, and then everything else is a string of Don't Touch. I will list them for you:

Need:

• Santa Water and Runetracer (you start with these; upgrade them)
• Laurier
• Clock Lancet
• Clamp
• chandelier
• Spellbinder
• To that

You need all of these or you probably won't make it.

Fantastic:

• Bot
• Mes
• Duplicator-ring
• Spinach

You can't have all of these, but they are the ones you will look for once the "needs" have been met.

Bonus:

• Magic wand
• Cross
• Attractorb (to develop Santa Water)
• tiragisu
• You don't need to stress about these, but they definitely help minimize stress.

Forget everything else. Seriously, don't touch that fire rod. You will regret wasting thirty minutes.

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Step Six: Run More, Fool!

Touching the red gem doubles back to where you came from while setting up your gear. It's annoying, but it just has to be. Go back to the small table room, but this time go further back, stand between the table and the right chair, and align Clerici's right hand with the painting. If you have the knife, aim down.

If all goes according to plan, Death will be stuck on the table so you can stand there and defend them with as much damage as possible. Don't move unless you need to straighten your blades, and even then just push enough to aim down. Then just sit back and let Vampire Survivor's systems do the work for you.

Step seven: all or nothing

What we've kind of done is take advantage of Death's stats, which adjust to your level when he spawns. If you leave all the XP until the end, you're not only holding up your growth, you're also cheating death and tipping the grade scale. However, it is still not good enough. After a minute, another death will occur. Then a third. You can kill death, but you can't beat death either. Unfortunately, the RNG kicks back a bit here.

You can fight it though! Deaths two and three will be stuck on the leftmost bookshelf and stay there for a while thanks to your Clock Lancet. And you chose the weapons you did because of their range. Death has a negative knockback stack that viciously pulls them towards the player with each hit. So if you're not firing stray shots with the Fire Wand or Lightning Ring, you don't have to worry about pulling the other two over you.

Yet they still come. Hopefully you can deal just enough damage to the first die to send them off before the second one closes the deal. But this is also where, having the power of revival and possibly intercepting it, that Tiragisú is useful. There isn't much room for error, but the revived and Laurel can work together to buy some time. If your skeleton enemy blasts off like Mega Man, you've done it! Congratulations. Sorry, but you still have to lose.
If you manage to do this, you will not get an achievement. You technically couldn't do this yet! However, the creator of Vampire Survivor threw the community a bone (literally) and replaced a bug with a new character. Mask of the Red Death is a smaller version of the real deal, but compared to the rest of the list, they're still a beast.

Red Death comes with the Death Spiral, which usually requires an ax upgrade. Their stats are all normal, but their two bonuses are wild; Red Death starts at 45% strength and a whopping 110% movement speed. You can get some serious shenanigans with this character. And hey, the effort it took to get there is ridiculous.

Have you unlocked Red Death? Or are you waiting to see if more strategies are discovered or introduced? What is your best build with them? Let us know on Twitter and stuff.