Vaal Summon Skeletons

For the non-Vaal counterpart, see Summon Skeletons.

Vaal Summon Skeletons is a vaal spell that summons an army of skeletons, led by a skeleton general.

Skill functions and interactions

One of several general variants will be randomly summoned on cast.

• Aura General: Skeleton General that wears armor, somewhat similar to Vaal Fallen. Has an Aura that grants 10% of physical damage as extra fire damage.

• Melee General: Skeleton General that wields a mace. It has melee splash attacks that are slow but deal high damage.

• Archer General: Skeleton General that uses a bow. It can use the Rain of Arrows ability.

• Mage General: Skeleton General that doesn't use weapons. It mainly casts Summon Raging Spirit.

This skill works with the passive skills that increase the maximum number of skeletons. But like Summon Skeletons it does not gain an increase in the amount spawned at each use. If one were to cast the ability while it is still in effect its behavior is similar to Summon Skeletons; first it spawns new skeletons up to the cap, then it start replacing the oldest one. When replacing, no consideration is taken to what kind of skeleton is summoned or replaced. Hence it's possible to have two generals at a (short) time. At gem level 20 with all passives and no unique items the chance is 6/(36+6).

Gem level progression

Level			# Skeleton Warriors	# Skeleton Archers	# Skeleton Mages	Skeleton Maximum	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	10	29	14	2	N/A	17	0	0
2	13	35	15	2	N/A	18	9569	9569
3	17	43	15	3	N/A	19	28189	37758
4	21	52	16	3	N/A	20	59146	96904
5	25	60	16	4	N/A	21	111192	208096
6	29	69	17	4	N/A	22	193800	401896
7	33	77	17	5	N/A	23	320280	722176
8	36	83	18	5	N/A	24	359090	1081266
9	39	90	18	5	1	25	498508	1579774
10	42	96	18	6	1	26	682057	2261831
11	45	102	18	6	2	27	921777	3183608
12	48	109	19	6	2	28	1727879	4911487
13	51	115	19	6	3	29	1791769	6703256
14	54	121	20	6	3	30	2353679	9056935
15	57	127	20	7	3	31	3070912	12127847
16	60	134	20	7	4	32	9095466	21223313
17	63	140	20	8	4	33	16039890	37263203
18	66	146	21	8	4	34	29817117	67080320
19	68	151	21	8	5	35	62895056	129975376
20	70	155	21	9	5	36	212051599	342026975
21	72	159	22	9	5	37	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	22	9	6	38	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	22	10	6	39	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	23	10	6	40	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	23	10	7	41	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	23	11	7	42	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	24	11	7	43	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	24	11	8	44	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	25	11	8	45	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	25	12	8	46	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	25	12	8	46	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	26	12	9	47	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	26	12	9	47	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	26	12	9	48	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	26	12	9	48	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	27	12	9	49	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	27	12	9	49	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	27	13	9	50	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	27	13	9	50	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	27	13	10	51	N/A	N/A

Skeleton limit

The skeleton limit can be increased with certain passive skills or items.

Unique items

The following unique items affect the player's skeleton limit:

Passive skills

The following passive skills increase the player's skeleton limit:

Limit

The Player can have a maximum of 47 (or more) Skeletons from this skill gem Active at once:

• 36 from level 20 skill gem
• 6 from passive skills
• 3 from unique equipment (wearing Alberon's Warpath, and dual wielding Midnight Bargain)
• 2 from a body armour with Catarina's mod

Note, that To Dust (previously named Army of Bones) no longer grants +2 to Maximum number of Skeletons.

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Vaal Summon Skeletons:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Vaal Summon Skeletons.

Alternate skill effects

Vaal Summon Skeletons has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Summoned Skeleton Mages now deal 50% more damage, and their projectile speed has been doubled.
1.1.3	Solved a situation where Vaal Summon Skeletons summoned fewer skeletons if the summoner had summoned skeletons from a standard Summon Skeleton skill.
1.1.1b	Fixed a bug with Vaal Summon Skeleton's placement of skeletons.
1.1.1	Introduced to the game.