Vermivorous the Invincible - How to spawn him - rumour busting - Borderlands 2

Hi there! Please read this. It's a lot, but it's all important. All Invincibles: http://goo.gl/U3z43 This is all about spawning Vermivourous the Invincible by evolving varkids through making them pod up. It's entirely random, and there's no guarantee to make it happen. It's a pain in the bum, and the payoff isn't necessarily worth it. Just so you know. So, there's a lot of information to impart. I'll start with the basics. The spawn runthrough starts at 6:30 ish, but I recommend watching the whole thing if you're having trouble. There are a lot of useful tips (I hope). That being said, for the impatient, here's what to do. 1) Go to Tundra Express Farmhouse (how to unlock is at 12:55). Caustic Caverns works fine. But I like the farmhouse to hide in. 2) Run around and aggro the larval varkids (you can shoot them, it's fine). 3) Run into the farmhouse. 4) Shoot the walls. 5) If the buzzards turn up before he spawns, quit and start again. 6) Trying to spawn him solo is going to be a freaking nightmare. 7) I don't think you can spawn him on playthrough one. Playthrough 2/2.5 (True Vault Hunter Mode) only. 8) They're not Goliaths. You don't need to "feed" them on other monsters. For trading, why not try the forums? http://lickmyear.org/forum Ok, more details. They'll evolve under a number of conditions. - Immediately. - after attacking you. - after being damaged - nearly dead - never There seems to be a limit of evolved varkids at any time. That is, kill an evolved one, and another will evolve immediately afterwards. I have seen this behaviour repeatedly. It may simply be a larval that evolves to an adult, but it will happen. Any given larvid has a percentage chance (which may be 0%) to spawn to the next stage. This chance may start at 100%. Damaging them will increase the chance to make it evolve. You care about the ones who will evolve immediately, the ones who will evolve after a little damage, or when a friend of theirs dies. The theory that you need a family tree is nonsense (see: 4:50). I've spawned a lone varkid to an ultimate, with no-one around. The only difference is more varkids mean a greater chance to spawn Vermi. Using my method, he'll spawn about 1 in 4 in runs, or about once per 40 minutes. He can be spawned anywhere there are varkids (Caustic Caverns, for example). I use Tundra Express because there's a great hiding spot. I die too quickly otherwise. Perhaps with better equipment, elsewhere would be better, but it's not about killing, it's about staying alive while they evolve. Equipment: Shield: no-damage (it'll kill larvals too easily if it spikes or novas them) Relic: I use loot, but whatever works. Mod: Shield regen, health regen are advised, but take what works for you. Weapons: Make sure you can kill a badass varkid in a single "fight for your life". I use a moxxi's acid weapon. I haven't farmed anything serious - this is all fairly vanilla gear acquired through chests and machines. Using a Conference Call and a Bee shield would certainly slay him quickly, but I wanted to show an average player can do it. He will spawn in Playthrough 2 as well as 2.5 (he'll be either level 42 or 53 respectively). I don't think he'll spawn in playthrough 1. I never even saw an ultimate badass varkid in playthrough 1, and I had 10 or so supers at one point. I'm using a 4 player slider, which lets you simulate 4 players (PC only). Solo is so unlikely. Playing solo, 1 run in 4, I would see an ultimate badass spawn, and never saw Vermi. With 4 players, Vermi spawns 1 time in 3-4. (http://myborderlands.com/FourPlayers.aspx) If the buzzards turn up, quit and start again. You can evolve him afterwards, but honestly? It's more hassle than it's worth. He can evolve quickly, so don't waste time trying to force it. It's all about knowing when you cut your losses, and the buzzards act as a great timer/reminder that it's time to go. The runthrough I show at 8:14 finishes at 11:14 and runs at double speed. So it's about 6 minutes for him to appear. Hard numbers are here. Credit to DrZed at the Gearboxforums.com http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showpost.php?p=2916795&postcount=341 Bottom line: Chance of Larval evolving to Vermi in playthrough 2.5 1 player: 1:2381 2 players: 1:417 3 players: 1:141 4 players: 1:60 So, 4 players, 15 varkids, 1 in 4 chance. Ish.

Comments

1. how'd you get it to spawn solo? I had four people in TVHM and we couldn't get the ultimates to evolve. I looked on the wiki and it said even with four players in TVHM, you have a 1.67% chance or so of evolving an ultimate. what the hell?!
2. This was very helpful, thank you. I've been trying to do this for days...I didn't realize it wasn't possible on your first playthrough. I also haven't visited the farmhouse, was just using regular tundra express (damn mordecai kept killing my weakened badasses) or caustic caverns (because of the already spawned badasses that show up) I am curious though as to how high level the badasses will morph (as in, is there a level limit, ie would a level 30 badass be more likely to polyp than a lv 15?) and also, because i have only seen the ultimate badass varkid in the natural selection annex creature mission, do regular badasses evolve further than their original state in the first playthrough? I've looked through many videos and yours was the first helpful one so thanks very much for posting this.
3. It sounds like your recording this on the shitter!
4. On my second playthrough I went to caustic caverns and the cave just out side of spawn varikids started evolving and I got him level 46 and I was level 40 I don't know how I killed him I got shit stuff aswell
5. Can someone help me spawn him?
   Psn: Jack_Kunasaki
6. I had an ultimate pod spawn when I was trying to
   get him on solo and freaking Mordechai kills him I almost threw my freaking controller and j still can't get him to spawn again after 2 hours
7. I had an ultimate pod spawn when I was trying to get him on solo and freaking Mordechai kills him I almost threw my freaking controller and j still can't get him to spawn
8. I had an ultimate pod spawn when I was trying to
   get him on solo and freaking Mordechai kills him I almost threw my freaking controller and j still can't get him to spawn again after 2 hours
9. I did this during son of crawmerax with the regular varkids and I was fighting 2 raid bosses at one time
10. how do you get the 4 player difficulty
11. oh that was a waste of a video. should probably mention the four player thing at the beginning.
12. o punched my TV in half just now because of you I got all the way to super badass and the air Marines killed iy
13. I've tried spawning vermi a couple of time now but I've only been able to get to the ultimate badass varkid and that's about it, help?
14. So basically its impossible to spawn her if you are solo and don't have the 4 player slide. sigh...
15. update: nothing R.I.P.
16. after watching this, the next run I got two ultimates. still going on, will update
17. This works in castic caverns right?
18. You've got to speak louder or you aim directly at the mic.
19. Can anybody help me spawn vermivorous I play on xbox one my gt is ForeverYoung089
    
    I have spawned it once and it didn't drop anything it spawned in the warehouse in caustic caverns, I really want to get the skins and a shock, slag, corrosive norfleet.
20. Any truth to the rumor of Vermi being born from a Larval Blood Varkids?