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Capstones

Each tree ends in three capstones, one under each column. They open at 21 points in the tree, and you can own only one per tree (switching to another is free).

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  1. Pandemic Spark
  2. Shift Storm
  3. Runaway Replication
  4. Contrail Mines
  5. Pandemic Front
  6. Invisible Strain
  7. Fortified Provirus
  8. Every Winter
  9. Undying Strain

Pandemic Spark

Capstone · Replication

Critical hits arc to 3 nearby cells for 40% of the hit

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Shift Storm

Capstone · Replication

For 6s after you use your ultimate, Viral Burst fires on its own every 1.5s

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Runaway Replication

Capstone · Replication

Viral Load caps at 30 instead of 10 and doesn't drain while any cell in the room is alive

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Contrail Mines

Capstone · Transmission

Each dash drops a mine where it ends. Mines arm after 0.5s and burst for 200% of your damage

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Pandemic Front

Capstone · Transmission

Aerosolize becomes a wall of cloud that sweeps across the room in your aim direction

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Invisible Strain

Capstone · Transmission

For the first 4s in each new room you're invisible, and kills made while invisible don't raise Detection

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Fortified Provirus

Capstone · Persistence

While you stand still, take 40% less damage and regenerate 2 HP per second

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Every Winter

Capstone · Persistence

Seasonal Rebound fires on its own when a hit would kill you (90s cooldown)

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

Undying Strain

Capstone · Persistence

At 0 HP you get 3s of invulnerability. A kill in that time revives you at 25% health; otherwise you die. Once per room

  • 1 rank, 1 point
  • Opens at 21 points in the tree, level 23, 10 finished generations, reach organ 8 (Brain)
  • Only one of the three capstones in a tree can be owned at a time; switching is free
From the Codex

Your virus's experience and the skills it buys.

Fun fact: Switching to another capstone in the same tree is free: its point moves over.

Levels & Skill Tree in the Codex

See also