This Saros Corruption Guide details everything you should know about Corruption in the game and how you can remove it. During an Eclipse in Saros, combat becomes more intense and dangerous. Enemies grow stronger and start using attacks that can apply Corruption. At first, you may feel the need to avoid it, but that is not entirely good. Learning when to remove Corruption and when to keep it can actually make you much stronger in certain situations.
Corruption Guide – Saros
When the Eclipse is active, some enemies fire yellow projectiles instead of the usual ones. These attacks don’t deal normal damage in the usual way. Instead, they reduce your maximum health.
This means even if you try to heal, your health bar won’t fully recover until the Corruption is removed. The more Corruption you have, the smaller your total health becomes, which can make boss fights and tougher enemies much harder to survive.
How to Remove Corruption
The good news is that Corruption isn’t permanent. You can clear it during a run by playing aggressively.
Using your Power Weapon removes part of the Corruption each time you fire it. Because of this, it is important to build up Power by absorbing blue projectiles with your shield, then use that energy to attack and replenish your health back up.
Later on, you can also remove Corruption through parrying, which gives you another way to manage it during fights.
When Keeping Corruption Helps
Even though removing Corruption is usually the safer choice, there are moments when keeping it can be beneficial.
As you progress during an Eclipse, you may find special weapons that become stronger the more Corruption you have. These weapons can deal extremely serious damage when your Corruption level is high, allowing you to defeat enemies very quickly.
The downside is that your health is much lower, so you become easier to defeat. This creates a high-risk, high-reward situation where you deal massive damage but have very little room for mistakes. However, if you can easily maintain a balance between dodging and parrying, you can easily go through this moment.
If you are struggling to survive, it is better to clear Corruption and keep your health high. But if you are confident in dodging and reacting to attacks, letting Corruption build up can give you a huge damage boost. Mastering this balance is what separates beginner players from more experienced ones.
That is all for this guide. Additional Saros guides are linked below:
- Saros Barriers Guide – How to Break Yellow and Red Barriers
- Saros Grappling Guide – How to Unlock. How to Use
- Saros Beginner’s Guide – Top Tips to get Started in the Game
- Saros Combat Guide – Top Tips for Mastering Combat in the Game
- Saros Carcosan Modifiers Guide – How to Unlock, Best Modifiers
This concludes our Saros Corruption Guide. If you want to add anything to this guide, feel free to use the comments section below.
