Purple Rain

'' ' Sucks up all the blood in one draw of the syringe. ' ''

Purple Rain is a variant of Nekro that is unlocked by reaching round ten in the Sewers. It has one charge, heals a great amount and has the standard berserk effect. However, the main advantage of Purple Rain is the nigh-instantaneous speed at which it draws blood from convulsing corpses, which makes it considerably easier to refill in combat than other variants of Nekro.

Strategy
This drug has a very powerful and useful effect of near-instant Nekro extraction. Normally, it is nearly impossible to harvest all of the Nekro from the convulsing enemies since it takes too long, and enemies will prevent you from doing so. However, this drug makes such a feat easy to do. Although an inefficient healer for the Nekro required and an extremely inefficient berserk drug, it makes up for it by essentially giving access to far more Nekro in practice.

Normally, gibbing, smashing heads or any other kill that renders an enemy unable to convulse to provide Nekro is not a severe detriment in moderation as you wouldn't be able to harvest all of the Nekro anyway. However, this isn't the case when using this drug, so it is advisable to avoid doing this at all costs to maximize the amount of Nekro you can obtain, especially since it requires more than other strains.

Since it uses up a lot more Nekro than other drug strains, this also makes this drug have a severe disadvantage when not playing solo, as a player with this drug will essentially deprive other players of Nekro available, so it is advisable to only use this when playing solo.

Trivia

 * The Purple Rain is a cocktail consisting of vodka, lemonade, blue curaçao and grenadine. The grenadine is added as the final ingredient, since the sinking of the red grenadine through the blue of the other ingredients creates the impression of purple rain.
 * It is named after an album by the musician Prince of the same name.