How does the combo system work in Vampire Crawlers

There are different ways to win in Vampire Crawlers, and it’s crucial to chain your weapon cards to do more damage. Combos allow you to multiply the effect of your weapon cards and cause the highest possible damage to eliminate enemies.

There are different ways to create weapon combo chains, and this guide will break down the complete system.

Vampire Crawlers weapon combos explained

In simple words, weapon combos refer to multiplying the damage and effects of the cards you use. This usually involves amplifying the base damage of a particular weapon card by playing the items in a correct order.

To land a combo, you’ll have to play the cards in an increasing mana-cost order. Every card you play has a specific mana cost. If you refer to the image above, there are some cards without a mana cost, and some with one or two. To chain a combo, you must play the card that costs zero mana first. Then, you have to play the card that requires one mana.

While this is the basic way to create a combo in Vampire Crawlers, there are additional ways to create these chains.

How to create combos in Vampire Crawlers

The basic system is to create cards in an ascending mana cost. However, there are two additional ways to create these chains.

You’ll come across Wild Cards that don’t consume mana and allow you to continue existing combos irrespective of their cost. If you have a Wild Card, you can create a combo by bypassing the basic law of playing them in ascending mana cost.

In simple words, you can completely ignore the mana cost of the next card being played. Hence, they create unique opportunities that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.

While you can use a Wild Card just once (then, they get removed from the round), they’re extremely useful when it comes to creating overpowered chains.

Let’s say I have three cards: a Wild Card, a card with 0 mana cost, and a card with 2 mana cost.

• Typically, there’s no way to create a combo, but the Wild Card allows you to change that.
• You can play the 0-cost card, then play the Wild Card.
• Then, play your card that costs 2 mana. It will still activate as if you have triggered a combo.

You’ll also come across gems at random in your run. Gems are usually obtained when you level up or when you open a chest. While they’re obtained randomly, gems will strengthen your cards and add extra effects when you play them during a fight.

If you get the Reverse Combo gem, you can combo a card with another one that costs one less mana. This allows you to multiply the effect of your weapon card that costs less (since you can play it in a non-ascending order and still create a combo).

The Easy Combo gem, on the other hand, allows you to chain two cards irrespective of their mana costs. You can completely ignore the ascending mana cost factor and yet create the combos to your liking.

Since combos help you deal significantly more damage, you should draft cards and power-ups in the same way.

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Vampire Crawlers offers different Gems for you to obtain on your run, and you can use them to modify the cards in your deck. They’re obtained randomly, but some of them will dramatically change how your drafted deck works.

You can use this guide to keep track of how every Gem works before you choose one on your run.

All Gem effects in Vampire Crawlers

The table below has a list of every Gem along with its in-game effects.

Name	Effect
Amount	Adds the number of projectiles.
Area	Adds the area effect of a card.
Armor	Adds Armor.
Armor Strike	Deal Armor as damage when played.
Bombard	Adds an explosive bomb.
Coin Card	Creates Coin Shards.
Copy	The card is copied when used.
Countdown	Mana cost reduces when not used.
Crawler Caller	Summon all Crawlers to Hand.
Decimate	Deals 10% of enemy’s health as damage.
Destroy	The card gets destroyed, but you get coins in return.
Double Damage	Hits twice as hard.
Drain	Heals when the card kills an enemy.
Draw	Draws an extra card.
Duration	Increases Duration stat.
Easy Combo	The card always benefits from combo.
Echo	Replays the previous card’s effect.
Evolution	Evolves the card into a more powerful weapon.
Greed	Increases Greed stat.
Growth	Increases Growth stat.
Increase Mana Cost +1	Mana cost is increased by 1, so it can be used in a higher Combo.
Increase Mana Cost +2	Mana cost is increased by 2, so it can be used in a higher Combo.
Kill Count	Deal current kills total as damage to a random enemy.
Leader	Attacks deal extra damage while the card is in your Hand.
Magic Hat	Beckons a dove from above.
Magnetic	Draws another of the same card, if you have one in your deck.
Mana Rebate	If the card would reduce Mana to 0, receive double Mana instead.
Midas	Playing cards earn coins while this is in your hand.
Might	Increases Might stat.
Mug	Earns coins when the card kills an enemy.
Nduja	Deals spicy damage.
Purple Trigger	Adds Purple color trigger.
Quick Draw	The card is always drawn first at the start of an encounter.
Rainbow	Adds all color triggers.
Recycle	Card skips the Discard pile.
Reduce Mana Cost -1	Mana cost is reduced by 1.
Reduce Mana Cost -2	Mana cost is reduced by 2.
Refund	Refunds Mana to play.
Restore HEalth	Recovers health after an encounter.
Retain	When the card is drawn, it stays in Hand until used.
Return	Returns to hand after playing.
Reverse Combo	Allows the next card to continue the combo while breaking the base rule of increasing mana ascendancy.
Triple Damage	Does three times the base damage.
Wild	Makes the card Wild.
Yellow Trigger	Adds a Yellow Color trigger.
Yin Yang	If you’re on even mana, you’ll gain 1 mana. If you’re on odd mana, you’ll draw 1 card.

When drafting in a Gem, you should always pay attention to the character that you’re using in your deck. Vampire Crawlers offer 21 characters to unlock and equip, and they have their unique strengths. Also, pay attention to the weapon combinations and evolutions since the effectiveness of a specific Gem will depend on your existing deck components.

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