Ebony Wings

Bombards in a circular area.

* Base
* Max

**Ebony Wings** is a weapon in *Vampire Survivors*. It is the starting weapon of Exdash, and is unlocked by getting Peachone to Level 7.

Ebony Wings and Peachone can be united into Vandalier.

## Effects

Ebony Wings is a bird that flies around the player and bombards a circling zone with projectiles. The zone revolves counterclockwise around the player. The bird moves behind the player at a slower speed, but the bombarding circle will always stay in a position relative to the player.

By default, Ebony Wings fires 4 sets of 4 projectiles. Each set fires all of its projectiles at about the same spot, set by the position of the visible zone at the instant that set starts. A set firing is on a different timer to the zone being active, so the first set can start firing up to a second after the zone lights up. This means that the number of sets per activation can vary by 1.

Duration increases the time bombards are active, with 1 second roughly equal to 1 set by default. Area increases the Area-of-Effect of the projectiles, but not the size of the bombarding circle itself. Projectile Speed increases how fast the circle moves. Amount increases how many projectiles are fired per set. Cooldown bonuses reduce the time between each activation, the time between each set of projectiles, and the time between each projectile within a set. The movement speed of Ebony Wings can be increased with the Movement Speed stat, but it has virtually no effect to its capability.

### Arcanas

Selecting Gemini (I) Arcana creates a counterpart - Zhar Ptytsia - that is functionally the same as Ebony Wings. It levels up as Ebony Wings does and benefits from Limit Breaking.

Twilight Requiem (II) allows the projectiles to explode with a different effect when they hit the ground.

## Levels

Ebony Wings has 8 levels. At max level, Ebony Wings has +20 base damage, +120% Area, +7 Amount, and -0.5 seconds of Cooldown.

 Level 2
 Level 3
 Level 4
 Level 6
 Level 7

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Each Cooldown reduction level up actually reduces Cooldown by 0.25 seconds, the values in descriptions are rounded up to one decimal place

### Limit Break

With Limit Break, Ebony Wings 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. ↑ Does not have any tangible benefits for bird, however, it increases the bird's movement speed
2. ↑ Affected by Area and Duration
3. ↑ Affected by Might, Area, Duration, and Speed
4. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might, Area, Duration, and Speed
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

* Ebony Wings benefits the most from Cooldown and Duration bonuses increasing the active duration and attack more often when so.
* Ebony Wings should not be considered a main damage dealer, but rather supplementary damage. It works the best in large crowds of enemies. The projectiles have infinite pierce.
* Ebony Wings has an interesting interaction with the Chaos in the Dark Night Arcana where every 10 seconds the circular zone slows down, stops, changes direction, then accelerates rapidly, and every 10 seconds starting :05 its speed doubles and halves alternately, in total causing its speed to increase every 20 seconds.

## Trivia

* Movement Speed used to increase the bombarding circles' speed, like Projectile Speed, however, this was not intended and was fixed eventually.
* Ebony Wings's zone circles counterclockwise, which is the opposite of Peachone
* This weapon is inspired by the sub-weapon version of Suzaku from the *Castlevania* series. The attack pattern is similar to the Item Crash of Cardinal, Red Bird.
* The item's name is likely a reference to the theme "Ebony Wings" from *Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.*
* Ebony Wings and Peachone are among the few weapons that do not require a passive item to be evolved/united.
	+ This trait is shared with Bracelet, and technically Vento Sacro, as the normally requisite Hollow Heart can be avoided under certain circumstances, such as by playing Minnah Mannarah, who has Bloody Tear as her starting weapon.

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