Shadow Pinion

Generates damaging zones when moving, strikes when stopping.

* Base
* Max

**Shadow Pinion** is a weapon in *Vampire Survivors*. It is the starting weapon of Concetta Caciotta. It is unlocked by surviving 15 minutes with Concetta.

Shadow Pinion can be evolved into Valkyrie Turner with Wings.

## Effects

While moving, drills spawn behind the character, which slowly accelerate backwards and deal damage to enemies walking over them. When the character stops or left/right clicks, all of them are fired at the direction the character is facing.

Movement Speed increases its overall spawn rate when moving, when the character stops it initiates the default Cooldown. Area also increases how far the drills travel when they are fired. Projectile Speed increases the acceleration.

The drills charge up before they are fired, every second it increase the Base Damage smoothly by the Base Damage. If it is charged for a second, it will deal double damage; for two and a half seconds, it will multiply the damage by 3.5. This only affect the damage when they are fired.

Shadow Pinion has a 2 seconds Hitbox Delay when staying on the ground, meaning that the same enemy cannot be hit more often than every 2 seconds by the same drill. However, because all active delays are reset simultaneously as soon as any one elapses, some enemies may get hit more often.

While playing with a keyboard, the drills are only be shot out in eight directions: the cardinal and ordinal directions. When playing with a mouse or gamepad, the drills are able to fired in any direction.

### Arcanas

Selecting Twilight Requiem (II) Arcana allows the drills to explode when they expire.

## Levels

Shadow Pinion has 8 levels. At max level, Shadow Pinion has +15 Base Damage, +0.75 seconds to Duration, and +1 Amount.

 Level 2
 Level 3
 Level 4
 Level 6
 Level 8

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Each Duration increase level up actually increases Duration by 0.25 seconds, the values in descriptions are rounded up to one decimal place

### Limit Break

With Limit Break, Shadow Pinion can be further leveled up.

 Area +2.5%
 Speed +5%
 Duration +100ms
 Amount +1

1. ↑ Base Damage +0.5

## Combos

*See Combos for a list of all item interactions.*

### Arcanas

1. ↑ Makes the weapon fire more rapidly when moving
2. ↑ Affected by Area and Duration
3. ↑ Affected by Might, Speed, Area, and Duration
4. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might, Speed, Area, and Duration
5. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Speed
6. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to flat damage
7. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Amount
8. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Duration
9. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Area
10. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might and Cooldown

## Tips

* By tapping rapidly in one direction, Shadow Pinion can quickly shoot out drills in the direction. This can be useful if moving forward into a dense group of enemies is necessary. It also retains the lower Cooldown from changing the animation frame of the character.
* Because of the unique movement patterns involved with effectively using this weapon and its evolution, it has negative synergy with Vento Sacro and Fuwalafuwaloo, which require continuous uninterrupted movement to reach maximum effectiveness.

## Gallery

* Normal
* Evolution
* Union
* Gift
* Counterpart
* Special