Viktor the Vampire is the first Crusader in the third tier of the Emo's New Moon Event, and the first Crusader in slot 26.
Viktor is a buffer that converts adjacent Crusaders into vampires, granting them supernatural abilities and additional effects. At level 50, Vampiric Germ will temporarily give a random neighboring Crusader the Supernatural tag, and his other upgrades will add various effects. At level 800 Epidemic increases the duration of the tag and the resulting effects.
Night Wing
In Emo's New Moon 2020, Viktor goes a little batty.
This creates a single set of tag changes:
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Upgrades[]
Upgrade
Level
Cost
In-game Description
Vampiric Germ
50
2.50n
Bites a random adjacent Crusader every 15 seconds, granting them the Supernatural tag for 30 seconds.
Quote: You vill make vonderful minions!
Allure
100
1.00d
Increase the Base DPS of Male Crusaders affected by Vampiric Germ by 50% and Increases all Gold found by 10% for each Female Crusader affected by Vampiric Germ.
For every 25 levels over and including 200, Viktor the Vampire's DPS is multiplied by 4x. This multiplier stacks.
(Can't be buffed by Formation Abilities)
Quote: You vill learn to live vithout mirrors.
Garlic Allergy
300
1.60T
Increases the health of all Crusaders by 20% for each Dwarf Crusader affected by Vampiric Germ and Increase monster spawn speed by 10% for each Dragon Crusader by Vampiric Germ
Quote: Such a shame, it vas my favorite.
Stake Aversion
400
64.0Qt
Increases the DPS of all Crusaders by 25% for each Human Crusader affected by Vampiric Germ and Adds a 10% chance for monsters to drop two quest items at once or count for two kills at once for each Leprechaun affected by Vampiric Germ
Quote: I svear I vill never go tenting again.
Moonlight
600
25.5St
Increases all healing done by 20% for each Elf Crusader affected by Vampiric Germ and Deal 10% of your DPS to all monsters for each Orc Crusader affected by Vampiric Germ
Quote: Ah, such vonderful radiance.
Epidemic
800
10.2v
Increase the duration of Viktor the Vampire's Vampiric Germ ability by 50%
Increases the effect of Allure, Garlic Allergy, Stake Aversion, and Moonlight ability by 200% Legendary: Increases the DPS of all Crusaders by 100% when there are 4 or more Supernatural Crusaders in the formation
Increases the effect of Allure, Garlic Allergy, Stake Aversion, and Moonlight ability by 300% Legendary: Increases the DPS of all Crusaders by 100% when there are 4 or more Supernatural Crusaders in the formation
Uniquely, if Mindy or Torakichi copies Viktor, their bites will be a different color from Viktor's bites - pink instead of green.
There is a visual glitch where the bite will seemingly disappear from a crusader prematurely; however, its effects will still be active. This can sometimes be fixed by moving or benching the crusader (the bite will persist on benched crusaders, duration permitting), but the glitch can also just happen again.
His Vampiric Germ grants supernatural tag temporarily to bitten crusaders, allowing the latter to be buffed by supernatural buffers such as Shadow Queen's Corruption from her Legendary gem.
For speed, he increases double drop/kill chance and monster spawn speed if he bites a Leprechaun or Dragon, respectively. However, due to requiring (a) Leprechaun(s) and (a) Dragon(s) to bite, he effectively takes up three spaces for a speed and/or double drop buff of mediocre power. Using Larry and TES as targets, Taskmasters can be used to cast MagnifiedStorm Riders on cooldown while also gaining the speed buff for the early part of a run, allowing deeper runs to increase idol gain even if the clear time is slightly slower.
Due to the 45 second duration of Vampiric Germ, only 3 crusaders are able to be bitten at any given time. However, upgrade buffs can affect Epidemic to increase this duration.
Uniquely, Stake Aversion is the only source of double quest rewards that is an Upgrade, instead of a Formation Ability. This allows the doubling chance to be improved by bothGemthel's Norog Spice and upgrade buffs. Even without these, with a sufficiently high-level slot 5 rune, Stake Aversion can reach 100% without any other crusaders.
Vampiric Germ will also check tags that are added by Formation Abilities (i.e. Evanescent's The Great Equalizer and Odile's Pristine Avalanche Sculpture). Combined with a propagator or 2, these can help make Viktor much more space-efficient, since you would only need 1 of each desired tag in the formation to gain its effects multiple times, especially with buffed duration.
All of Viktor's upgrades apply their effects to all bitten crusaders. As a result, all of their effects stack multiplicatively (except for the spawn speed). Thanks to this detail, Viktor's Garlic Allergy has the highest health increase of all abilities, giving over 1e120 health in very specialized formations.
If Viktor is able to bite a propagator, then he will also be able to bite any crusader that is targeted by that propagator, including himself if applicable.
If the propagator themselves are bitten directly, then all of their tag-specific effects will be propagated to targeted crusaders. For example, if Langley is bitten directly (and is Human), then they can propagate the Human effect from Stake Aversion to Emo Werewolf (a non-Human), even if Emo is not bitten at all.
Karen's Center of the Universe will not interact with Vampiric Germ. She must be in range of Viktor to be bitten.
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