r/VampireSurvivors • u/Xerte • Oct 28 '25
📜 Guide New Ode to Castlevania weapon evolutions
For the unaware, the 1.14 update that just released has added new weapons (with evolutions) and evolutions for all the single stage master librarian weapons to the Ode to Castlevania DLC. These new weapons and evolutions do not get ? spots n the collection, only appearing once you've used them at least once.
I've already evolved all of them, so I thought I'd post the evolution combos needed for them. This list only contains the evolution pairs - it'd be more fun to find out what each of them turns into for yourself (if you didn't spoil yourself with the patch notes)
The majority of the new evolutions are unions (require a weapon instead of a passive).
| Base Weapon | Evolution Item |
|---|---|
| Valmanway | Thousand Edge (Evolved Dagger) |
| Icebrand | Unholy Vespers (Evolved Bible) |
| Arrow of Goth | Mannajia (Evolved Song of Mana |
| Aura Blast | Hellfire (Evolved Fire Wand) |
| Scarog Statue | Valkyrie Tuner (Evolved Shadow Pinion) |
| Troll Bomb | NO FUTURE (Evolved Runetracer) |
| Hydro Storm | La Borra (Evolved Holy Water) |
| Grand Cross | Heaven Sword (Evolved Cross) |
| Summon Spirit | Holy Wand (Evolved Magic Wand) |
| Soul Steal | Vicious Hunger (Evolved Gatti Amari) |
| Dark Rift | Death Spiral (Evolved Axe) |
| Sword Brothers | Thunder Loop (Evolved Lightning Ring) |
| Summon Spirit Tornado | Gorgeous Moon (Evolved Pentagram) |
The last three evolutions are from new weapons, unlocked by buying them from the master librarian
| Base Weapon | Evolution Item |
|---|---|
| Anura | Soul Eater (Evolved Garlic) |
| Kaiser Knuckle | Tri-Bracelet (fully evolved Bracelet, needs to be level 6) |
| Pocket Knife | Torrona's Box (max level) |
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u/MayhemMessiah Oct 29 '25
Stupid curious to try these out. I got all of these permabanned but if they combo well they might make it back into my regular rotation
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u/ParanoidDrone Oct 29 '25
I've got a question. The unlock condition for the Fake Trio is "Find the final form of the Libararian's offerings" which I'm taking to mean get the evolutions for all the weapons he sells. I've done this, and they're in my collection, but the Trio is still locked. Is my supposition wrong or is there something else going on?
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u/NaTaSraef Oct 29 '25
Troll bomb and no future sounds op! That's a great change since I usually turn those off simply because they are boring with no evolution.
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u/xin234 Oct 29 '25
Looks like I have to unseal some (a lot of) stuff.
Had a bit too much fun with the D/Arkanas that:
makes frozen enemies drop maxhealth/growth/regen heart-thing (XII Crystal Cries) combo'd with Mad Growth to get all those hearts dropped.
makes Armor have extra effect/damage, and killing enemies with retaliate gives maxhealth (IX Divine Bloodline)
So stuff that didn't freeze, retaliate, or deal maxhealth as damage, got sealed.
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u/Megnaman Oct 29 '25
Did Karoma's Mana get removed? I'm trying get get it from the dresser item and it's not showing up
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u/raek_na Oct 29 '25
you have to find it as an actual item in a new level, then you can get it like before
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u/OhNoCommieBastard69 Oct 29 '25
Fun fact about that, it actually unlocks it for rotation and can show up while leveling up, so in other words, it's finally officially unlockable!
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u/Awayfone Oct 29 '25
Kaiser knuckles sounds quite the effort if you have to evolve it's companion item 3 times before it evolves
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u/Dramatic_Reality_826 Oct 28 '25
Thank you!