Build to beat Death?

[SpriteTube]

How do u guys beat him?

[Ogami]

You cant without cheating. You are also not supposed to beat him. Every minute after 30 another Death will spawn till you are dead.
30 min is supposed to be the end of the run and Death is there to enforce that.

[Shinneh]

You need to get Toastie to lv200

Which requires crown and evolved pentagram. You can check some of the toastie topics here to see what other weapons people use.

[JustSmile]

You either exploit low lvl strats, or get toastie to lvl 200 at which point she gets enough armour and HP to actually tank death at which point you go AFK for an hour or so.

[Metal Paw™]

You can use one of the strategies found on the Vampire Survivors Fandom site to defeat Death. Personally, I used MissingNo with negative life (becomes immune to damage) and staying at level 2 till Death spawns - I kept getting killed around the 21 min mark with Clerici.

[Soft Lockpick]

Clerici is the earliest way to do it. And you'll probably fail a few times getting positioning right and learning exactly what's going on and how to survive it. Plus getting just the right weapons for it.

It takes a little time.

[KellyR]

Toastie + Armor + Evolved Whip + Cats + 3 hours or so.

At level 200, IF she picked up the Armor, Death can only do 1 damage per hit to Toastie. If you have the evolved whip, you're healing faster than he can kill you. And the cats do fudge tons of damage, so...

[Shin-ou]

Clerici method is the one you wanna do if your PC is too bad to not have the game crash in the multiple hours it takes for death to die to Toasty (on top of Toasty runs being insanely difficult lmao). All other options really are cheating

[BrenTenkage]

toastie? Uh who or what is that? and Cats? uh...is this arcana?

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Publicado originalmente por BrenTenkage:

toastie? Uh who or what is that? and Cats? uh...is this arcana?

Toastie is a new unlockable character and cats are the default weapon Giovanna Starts with.

[Laverne]

Freeze weapon + Lavender for shield + Witch character + evolved Santa Water + increase Area and Duration as much as you can + decrease cooldowns as much as you can + use correct arcanas (watch how broken evolved Santa Water is with the Arcana update)

[Jabberwock]

Level 2 Cerici method got easier with the arcana, take the revives so if things go to ♥♥♥♥ you can reposition a bit and try again same run. I've tried "Legit" kill runs and lasted to 36 min on library using Freeze + Laurel but I think I would need to last an hour to get through the 65 mil+health death gets in a standard run.

[Laverne]

Or you can try copying the strats used in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZ_fbnYU7I

[Jabberwock]

Publicado originalmente por Laverne:

Or you can try copying the strats used in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZ_fbnYU7I

That is just the Toastie strat that has been mentioned right? Amari is technically the highest dps weapon if you feed them enough chickens so it speeds it up but the only relevant part of the video is he got toastie to 200 so she can survive death attacks.

[KellyR]

Publicado originalmente por Jabberwock:

Publicado originalmente por Laverne:

Or you can try copying the strats used in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZ_fbnYU7I

That is just the Toastie strat that has been mentioned right? Amari is technically the highest dps weapon if you feed them enough chickens so it speeds it up but the only relevant part of the video is he got toastie to 200 so she can survive death attacks.

Note that just getting Toastie to 200 won't do the trick on its own. Without additional buffs, your armor will be 15 points shy of blocking Death's attacks, so you'll take 15 damage per hit and this will eventually kill you. Soul Eater won't help as it only does a 1 point heal on an actual kill and there won't be anything left that you can kill fast enough to matter.

If you get the Armor item though, or take Tiragisu and the resurrection arcana and use all your revives for extra armor, then you'll end up only taking 1 damage per hit from Death.

You can stay ahead of that just by running around and picking up floor chickens.

Alternatively, take the whip and the hollow heart and you'll be healing faster than death can hurt you.

Or both. Both is good too ;-)

[JustSmile]

Publicado originalmente por KellyR:

Alternatively, take the whip and the hollow heart and you'll be healing faster than death can hurt you.

Or both. Both is good too ;-)

And how do you actually end the run if you're healing for more than the Death can hurt you, by the way?