La Borra

Evolved Santa water. Damaging zones follow you and grow when they move.

* Base

**La Borra** is a weapon in *Vampire Survivors*. It is the evolution of Santa Water, requiring Attractorb.

## Effects

La Borra rains down bottles of holy water from the sky, which break upon impact with the ground, leaving puddles of slightly paler water and blue flames that damage enemies similar to the Santa Water. La Borra's pools of holy water slowly creep towards the player and spawn at six set places. They increase in size as they travel and have a cap in size.

La Borra's puddles have a bigger Area, increased Duration, and lower Cooldown. More pools can be on screen at once with a high Pool Limit.

The puddles' speed and growth rate are based on multiple factors:

* With Projectile Speed and Movement Speed, the puddles move and grow faster. Both increase the growth rate by the same amount but Movement Speed increases move speed of the puddles a bit more.
	+ If La Borra does not receive any Speed bonuses, the puddles still travel slowly but they do not grow larger.
	+ Negative Projectile Speed shrinks the puddles and make it move away from the player, it may even grow once again after it shrinks to a single point.
	+ Movement Speed has a minimum cap on the base value. It does not shrink the pool, make them slower, or reverse direction, but can still lower the speed and growth rate with a higher Projectile Speed.
* Duration slows down the growth rate of the puddle but not the speed, making them reach the max size when it ends. This stops an infinitely growing pool lasting very long and cover the entire screen even when the character is moving.
	+ Duration being less than 100% will make it grow faster. It being less than or equal to 0% ends the effect immediately.

La Borra has a 0.5 seconds Hitbox Delay, meaning that the same enemy cannot be hit more often than every half a second by the same puddle. However, because all active delays are reset simultaneously as soon as any one elapses, some enemies may get hit more often.

### Arcanas

Selecting Tragic Princess (III) Arcana reduces the Cooldown when the character is moving.

## Levels

With Limit Break, La Borra can be further leveled up.

 Area +2.5%
 Duration +100ms
 Amount +1

1. ↑ Base Damage +0.5

## Combos

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

### Arcanas

1. ↑ Increases how fast the damage zone travels and grows in size
2. ↑ Decreases how fast the damage zone grows in size
3. ↑ Increases how fast the damage zone travels and grows in size
4. ↑ Affected by Area and Duration
5. ↑ Affected by Might, Area, Duration, and Speed
6. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might, Area, Duration, and Speed
7. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Speed
8. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to flat damage
9. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Amount
10. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Duration
11. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Area
12. ↑ Indirectly affected by bonuses to Might and Cooldown

## Tips

* With enough Duration and Cooldown bonuses, La Borra will replace itself fast enough to be persistent. With enough Amount bonuses, it can reach the Pool Limit. Combining all three, you can create a circle of La Borras around the player that never goes away.
	+ A particularly effective strategy is to combine this with King Bible and Garlic. Enemies will practically never be able to reach the player.
* La Borra works effectively while moving, as the damaging zones will be able to move and catch enemies moving closer to the player, if they are off-screen, it will still damages some enemies that the player cannot reach; It also works well while staying still, because the damaging zones are capable of stacking on top of each other, each damaging enemies separately and staggering them.

## Trivia

* In update 0.5.0, Movement Speed no longer affects La Borra at all and a cap in size has been added. 0.5.1 reverted the Movement Speed changes but made its effect less pronounced compare to how it originally was which used to be about twice as much as Projectile Speed. The cap in size still exist but it has been increase to almost double the radius compare to 0.5.0.
* This weapon is inspired by the holy water sub-weapon from the *Castlevania* series with similar lingering Area-of-Effect damage.
* The noun "borra", originally meaning "Pellet" (bird of prey's puked leftovers) has quickly become an Italian meme after TV conductor Antonella Clerici misunderstood the word for sborra (a pejorative term for "semen") [Cf. the verb "sborrare", i.e. "to ejaculate" (also in vernacular fashion).]
	+ The character with Santa Water as the starting weapon is also a Clerici.

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