Gains Boros is one of the secret playable characters in Vampire Survivors. Its starting weapon is Heaven Sword.
Unlocking[]
"Find the only one place where flowers bloom in The Bone Zone."
Due North of spawn in The Bone Zone (beyond Silver Ring), there is a ring of flowers which heals the character by 8 every 0.5 seconds. By staying in the ring for 10 seconds, a jingle is played and the ring disappears. The healing from the ring will continue.
After unlocking, Gains will be able to be purchased for 
666, which scales with other characters purchased.
Alternatively, Gains can be unlocked in the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane by casting the Spell "highfive".
Passive bonuses[]
Gains gains +2% Growth every level. There is no cap on this bonus.
Tips[]
- Gains is one of the most useful characters to use if a player wants to see just how powerful any given weapon can become when leveled to max with Limit Break, as its Growth growth means it will get levels up faster and faster as time goes on.
- Wicked Season (XIII) can help push Growth even further, and it also increases Curse, which means more enemies to drop experience gems. Because Gains starts with an evolved weapon, it can usually easily survive the early game even after picking Wicked Season as its first Arcana.
- The damage of Game Killer (0) is multiplied by Growth. Picking this arcana in the late game, likely after Gains has acquired a thousand or more levels, will result in insane damage output from the experience gems, especially if paired with Boogaloo of Illusions (XVIII) to increase the area of each explosion.
- Using the map as a reference (where 1 unit = 1 square of the map), the flower circle to unlock the character is exactly 10 map units north of the merchant directly in the intersection of the map units.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Gains Boros may be a reference to "Aerith Gainsborough", a character from Final Fantasy VII, which also has couple other references in the patch the character was released in.
- To unlock Gains, the player must stand in a place with flowers where everywhere else is in ruin. Similar to the church where Aerith take care of her flower as a flower girl in the Slums, which is also reference in the code name for the secret checklist, "SlumsFlowers".
- The update name "The Winged One" may be a reference to "One Winged Angel", the theme of the main antagonist Sephiroth.
- The relic Great Gospel that unlocks Limit Break mechanic is the name of the final limit break ability for Aerith.
- In the update 0.10.0, a list of spells are added. The spell to unlock Gains is "highfive" which may be a reference to the multiple awkward high fives in Final Fantasy VII Remake.
- The spell to unlock Great Gospel is "icanhearthecriesofcaptainplanet" is a reference to the theme "You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet" which plays in the Forgotten City. The code has the "the" replaced with "captain", referencing Captain Planet.
- Given the general tone of the game, it's also possible that the name was chosen due to its resemblance of the vernacular Italian (specifically from the Veneto region) exclamation "ghe sboro", which literally translates to "I cum on that", but is mostly used without vulgar intent to express a vast array of emotions, or just as a filler word.
- Gains Boros is likely also a reference to Ouroboros - a serpent or a dragon eating its own tail, symbolizing eternal cyclic renewal. This apparent in its trait that indefinitely increases its experience gain as it gains levels.
- Prior to version 0.10, Gains Boros' and Leda's sprites were mirrored and their horizontal movement was reversed to account for that. Vento Sacro and its evolution Fuwalafuwaloo would slash to the back instead of the front.
