Eight The Sparrow

Fires quickly in four fixed directions.

* Base
* Max

**Eight The Sparrow** is a weapon in *Vampire Survivors*. It is one of the starting weapons of Pugnala Provola. It is unlocked by surviving 15 minutes with Pugnala.

Eight The Sparrow can be evolved and united into Phieraggi with Tiragisú and Phiera Der Tuphello.

## Effects

Eight The Sparrow shoots a circular blue energy bullet toward each of the four corners of the screen. Each bullet can initially hit one enemy before dissipating. The bullets cannot pass through walls.

Each point in Amount grants an additional bullet in all four directions.

### Arcanas

Selecting Iron Blue Will (VII) Arcana allows the bullets to bounce off of enemies once and temporarily have infinite Pierce. Upon bouncing, the bullet completely reverses its horizontal and vertical speed returning to the direction it came from.

Jail of Crystal (XIV) gives the bullets a 25% chance to freeze enemies. This chance is affected by Luck.

Gemini (I) creates a counterpart - Twice Upon a Time - that is functionally the same as Eight The Sparrow. It levels up as Eight The Sparrow does and the angles it shoots at is slightly more vertical but does not benefit from Limit Breaking.

## Levels

Eight The Sparrow has 8 levels. At max level, Eight The Sparrow has +10 base damage, +50% Projectile Speed, +2 Amount, and +6 Pierce.

 Level 2
 Level 3
 Level 4
 Level 5
 Level 6
 Level 7
 Level 8

### Limit Break

With Limit Break, Eight The Sparrow can be further leveled up.

 Area +2.5%
 Speed +5%
 Amount +1
 Pierce +1

1. ↑ Base Damage +0.5

## Combos

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

### Arcanas

1. ↑ Affected by Area
2. ↑ Affected by Might, Area, and Speed
3. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might, Area and Speed
4. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Speed
5. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to flat damage
6. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Amount
7. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Area
8. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might and Cooldown

## Tips

* Eight The Sparrow already has low Cooldown, and having more Cooldown reduction can turn the weapon into a stream of bullets, especially when combined with Phiera Der Tuphello.
* By moving in a single direction, with high Pierce and Amount, bullets can stay on screen forever. It can have relatively high damage per second on group control.

## Trivia

* Eight The Sparrow, along with Phiera Der Tuphello and Phieraggi have values in the attributes of "critChance" and "critMul" like any other weapons that can deal critical damage, but they do not have the ability. Given that it is not among the weapons listed by Slash (XVI), there is a possibility that one of the upcoming Arcanas will enable it.
	+ This was thought to be bug before Arcana was introduced, however, since Slash does not list them, it is likely that the "canCrit" attribute was not set to true intentionally.
* This weapon is very similar to Knife, both can deal critical hits by default, level ups increase base damage by 10, with focuses on Amount and Pierce. They also fire in relatively fixed directions.
* It is similar to a joke song written by Italian comic duo "Lillo & Greg", "8 the Sparrow". It may also be an English pun as "ate the sparrow".
* The pronunciation of the name resembles the Italian phrase "e io ti sparo", literally meaning "and i shoot you".
* This weapon may be inspired by the bullets from the *Touhou* series. With the sheer amount comparable to what the enemies from that series spawn, circular blue bullet on the edge and fading into white in the middle.
	+ Coincidentally, the eighth game in the Touhou series, *Imperishable Night*, contains an enemy that is a sparrow.

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