Every hit poisons. The damage stacks up while your target drinks its soups.
Each of your melee hits applies Poison I for 4 seconds.
Poison does not kill — it never takes you below half a heart — but it cancels part of every soup your target drinks. Over a long exchange, your opponent empties their inventory twice as fast as you do.
The Viper has no range at all: everything happens up close, and you have to hold that distance long enough for the poison to do its work.
Place in the progression#3 cheapest kit out of 40
About 25 kills to unlock it, at ~20 coins per kill.
Two paths, one kit
500 coins, earned in combat. That is the normal path, and the one most people take.
Identical for all 40 kits
Everyone leaves spawn with the same gear. Only the ability changes.
In the same price range
A bow and a full quiver. You harass, you finish, you do not hold the melee.
500coins
Immune to fire and lava
500coins
Runs faster on sand
500coins
It is waiting for you in game
Log in, chain the kills, and it is yours. 500 coins goes faster than you would think.