Pluripotent Larva Risk of Rain 2

"Upon death, this item will be consumed and you will return to life with 3 seconds of invulnerability, and all of your items that can be corrupted will be. Corrupts all Dio's Best Friends." Void legendary from SotV DLC. Extra life on death, same as Dio's Best Friend, with a major twist: every corruptible item in your inventory instantly becomes its void counterpart on revival. Stacking gives multiple extra lives, each with its own corruption event. On-death effects like Her Biting Embrace explosion still fire.

Works identically to Dio's Best Friend on revival - 3 seconds invulnerability, no movement penalty. The revival itself is identical. You die, the item is consumed, you return after a brief delay with a 3-second invulnerability window. The difference is entirely what happens to your inventory at the moment of revival.

On revival: every corruptible item instantly converts to its void version. AtG Missile becomes Plasma Shrimp. Ukulele becomes Polylute. Tri-Tip Dagger becomes Needletick. All yellow boss items become Newly Hatched Zoea. Every white, green, and red item that has a void counterpart flips simultaneously. This happens to all stacks - 5 AtG Missiles all become 5 Plasma Shrimps in one event.

Items that have no void counterpart are untouched. 57 Leaf Clover, Tougher Times, Repulsion Armor Plate, and many others have no void version - they remain in your inventory unchanged. Only items with an existing void counterpart in the SotV item pool are corrupted.

Stacking multiple Pluripotent Larvas gives multiple extra lives, each with its own corruption. Two Larvas = two deaths before game over. Each death consumes one Larva and corrupts all currently corruptible items. By the second death, you've already been corrupted once, so the corruption pool is different - fewer base items remain to convert.

On-death effects still trigger before revival. Her Biting Embrace ice explosion fires. Shatterspleen self-damage is irrelevant since you're already dead. Any effect tied to your death occurs normally before the Larva revives you. The revival happens after on-death effects resolve.

Items gained via Larva corruption don't unlock logbook entries. If you get Newly Hatched Zoea or Polylute for the first time through Larva corruption, those logbook entries are not marked as discovered. To unlock logbook entries, the items must be picked up directly from drops or caches.

Deliberate death to get Newly Hatched Zoea from boss items. If you have several Titanic Knurls, Shatterpleens, or other boss items, dying with Pluripotent Larva converts them all to Newly Hatched Zoeas. This is one of the most reliable ways to get Zoea in a run. Some players intentionally let a hit kill them during a safe moment specifically to trigger this conversion. Zoea summons void allies passively every 60 seconds - potentially more useful than the boss items depending on your build.

Encrusted Key is the most reliable way to find Pluripotent Larva. There are only two void legendary items in the SotV DLC pool: Pluripotent Larva and Benthic Bloom. Each Encrusted Cache gives a void item choice. With enough Encrusted Caches you will eventually find Larva. Benthic Bloom + Recycler = guaranteed Larva since Recycler cannot reroll into the same item.

Stacking multiple Larvas gives true safety for high-difficulty runs. Two Larvas = two deaths before game over. Three Larvas = three. On Monsoon or looping runs where one mistake ends a 40-minute session, having multiple Larvas provides a meaningful safety margin. Each revival also triggers another corruption wave on any items acquired since the last death.

Revival priority matters in combined-item runs. If you hold both an Extra Life buff (from Shrine of Shaping), a Seed of Life, a Dio's Best Friend, AND a Pluripotent Larva, they fire in order: Extra Life buff first, then Seed of Life, then Dio's Best Friend, then Pluripotent Larva. Understanding this order matters when multiple safety items are active simultaneously.

57 Leaf Clover becoming Benthic Bloom on death can destroy your run. Benthic Bloom upgrades 3 random items per stage, but at the cost of corrupting all 57 Leaf Clovers. If you have 5 Clovers contributing to 100% crit and proc consistency, losing them all to Benthic Bloom on a Larva death can gut your build. This is the most dangerous corruption scenario - factor in your Clover stack before accepting Pluripotent Larva.