Death's Scythe

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Death's Scythe
Internal name	AdeleScythe
Type	Melee Weapon
Scaling
Combo rate	One 4-hit combo every 2.24 seconds
Base price	2000
Damage
Base DPS	158
Base combo damage	355
Base first hit	75
Base second hit	90
Base third hit	110
Base fourth hit	80
Blueprint
Location	Drops from Death (1st kill)
Drop chance	100%
Unlock cost	50

The Death's Scythe is a sword-type melee weapon added in the Return to Castlevania DLC. Forces the spirit of enemies you killed to help you, summoning them as allies. They will target and explode on near enemies, dealing a Critical Hit.

Details

• Special Effects:
  • Enemies killed by the scythes will be reanimated as ghosts.
    • The ghosts follow the player around and will attack enemies, dealing critical damage exploding.
      • The damage dealt is decided by the health of the enemy that created the ghost.
      • Enemies killed by the ghosts do no create new ghosts.
        • The Legendary affix Cascading Ghosts makes this possible.
    • The ghosts follow the player after using a teleporter.
    • The ghosts do not follow the player through doors into sub biomes.
    • The ghosts dissapear on their own after a while.
• Breach Bonus: 0 / 0.3 / 0.5 / 0
  • Base Breach Damage: 75 / 117 / 165 / 80
  • Base Breach DPS: 195
• Combo Duration: 2.24 seconds
  • First Hit: 0.6 (0.3 + 0.3 + 0)
  • Second Hit: 0.28 (0.1 + 0.18 + 0)
  • Third Hit: 0.83 (0.43 + 0.4 + 0)
  • Fourth Hit: 0.53 (0.16 + 0.37 + 0)
• Tags: NoCritical
• Legendary Version:
  • Forced Affix: Cascading Ghosts
    • "Enemies killed by ghosts become ghosts themselves"

Synergies

• Weapon can benefit from Instinct of the Master of Arms, since ghost deals Critical Damage.

Notes

• Most enemies spawns ghosts, there are however few exceptions like Myopic Crows and Protector.
• Like all weapons added in Return to Castlevania DLC expansion, Death's Scythe is based on weapon from Castlevania series. In this case it is known under the same name
  • Look-wise, no known version of Death's Scythe resembles one from Dead Cells. However, half of it looks similar to one from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
  • Function-wise, closest variation is from Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

History

3.3: Introduced.

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