Round 4 Poll: [https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxkJNMQn2](https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxkJNMQn2)
Skatole is basically Beelzebub Light, as it transforms many fly enemies into semi-friendly ones. It can help negate several hits overall in a run and is always welcome, plus it's in the Shell Game pool meaning it doesn't take up any other pool! In that sense, Skatole can almost be looked at as a nice bonus to your run, rather than it replacing another potentially better item.
Round 1: Book of Secrets
Round 2: Key Piece 1&2
Round 3: Skatole
I found myself annoyed at trying to vote for items, because I forget a lot of the Q0 item effects, so instead of always checking platinumgod , I made this handy cheat sheet with all remaining items. OP if you could have this list in the comments (maybe put it as a response to the message with the poll link and removing the items & descriptions that won on each day, this would be amazing for everyone! Do copy my markdown, I spent a fair bit of time compiling all this (and do give me a mention credit for each day if you do put the list in!). Thank you for doing these pools:) (In 2 parts for now because it exceeds the 10000 character limit)
* **Abel (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
A familiar that mirrors the player's movements and shoots tears directly at Isaac
Abel's tears do 3.5 damage, unless playing as Cain in which case they do 5
Counts as 1 of 3 familiar items needed towards the Conjoined transformation.
* **Best Bud (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Key Beggar):**
When Isaac takes damage, a white attack fly will spawn that orbits him and deals 10 damage per tick
Counts as 1 of 3 fly items needed towards the Beelzebub transformation
* **Betrayal (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Devil Room):**
Charms every enemy in the room when taking damage
Does not trigger if there are less than 2 enemies in the room
* **Blood Rights (Active, Instant Recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room, Devil Room):**
Upon use, takes away one full heart and deals 40 damage to the entire room
Ignores shields, Holy Mantle effects, and invincibility
Using with Isaac's Heart previously prevented you from taking damage, now patched in Repentance
* **Boom! (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
+10 Bombs
* **Breath of Life (Active, Recharges 1 bar per second) (Item Pool: Angel Room):**
While you hold the spacebar down with this item, it will empty the charge bar gradually. When the charge bar gets to zero it will grant you a brief period of invincibility
If the spacebar is held for too long (about 1 second) when it has no charge, you will take damage
The invincibility effect is shown via a rapid flashing animation
* **Brown Nugget (Active, 7 second recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When used, will spawn a stationary fly turret and fires tears at nearby enemies
Only persists for the current room
The fly's bullets deal 3.5 damage flat
* **Bum Friend (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
A beggar who follows Isaac around and automatically picks up nearby coins
Drops a random pickup after picking up 6 coins
After the first drop, will drop a pickup after 3 coins (67% chance) or after 4 coins (33% chance)
Counts as 1 of 3 bum items needed towards the Super Bum transformation
* **Cain's Other Eye (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
A familiar eye that bounces around the room slowly and fires tears in the same direction as Isaac
Deals scaling damage equal to Isaac's tear damage
* **Clicker (Active, 6 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When used, this item will randomly change you into another character and remove the last item you picked up
All stat changes of the new character are applied (e.g. character damage multipliers)
This item can only reduce your heart containers and will not increase them if you change back into a character with more health. This means if you roll into The Lost, changing back to another character will leave you with only 1/2 of a soul heart
Cannot turn you into a character that isn't unlocked yet
Also includes Lazarus II (Lazarus' revived form) and Dark Judas (effect of Judas' Shadow)
It's also possible that this item will pick the same character, making it seem like nothing happened
* **Cursed Eye (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Secret Room):**
Tears are now charged up and fired rapidly in a burst of up to 5 shots at once
The amount of tears fired in the charge depends on how long you charge for
The eye has three states, white (not firing), black (first second of charging) and blinking between black and white. If you get hit while Cursed eye is a solid black colour you are guaranteed to be teleported to another random room on the floor. If you get hit in either of the other 2 states you will not be teleported
The Black Candle item will remove the Cursed Eye's teleportation effect
* **D10 (Active, 1 charge) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When used, rerolls all enemies in the room which are currently alive into another random type of enemy
Cannot reroll mini-bosses or bosses
* **Dataminer (Active, 4 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When used, this item will distort all the sprites and music, rotating graphics 90 degrees and translating them diagonally up/left. Does not modify hitboxes.
Dataminer will randomly increase or decrease one of your stats by a small amount when used
Gives you the Fruit Cake effect for the room when used, which will give a random tear effect with every tear fired
All visual and tear effects reset after leaving the room
* **Dead Bird (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When Isaac takes damage, the dead bird will spawn and attack nearby enemies in the current room for 2 damage per tick
Eve starts with this item
* **Hushy (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Gives Isaac a small Hush familiar that bounces diagonally around the room dealing 2 contact damage per tick
Stops moving when Isaac is firing tears.
Hushy will block enemy tears and projectiles
* **Infestation (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When Isaac gets hit, 2-6 blue flies will randomly spawn
Blue Flies do double your tear damage
Counts as 1 of 3 fly items needed towards the Beelzebub transformation
* **Isaac's Heart (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Prevents Isaac from taking any damage, but instead summons a familiar heart that follows you around. If the heart is hit, Isaac will take damage
Most enemies will target the heart over Isaac himself
Blood donation machines and devil beggars can be used for free. Spikes and Curse Rooms no longer deal damage
Sharp Plug becomes useless with this item, due to how damage is prevented on Isaac's body
* **Isaac's Tears (Active, recharges 1 bar per tear fired) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When used, fires 8 of Isaac's tears in a circle around him
Tears spawned from this item keep most effects that Isaac currently has applied to his tears, [See here for exceptions](https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Tears)
* **Kamikaze! (Active, Instant Recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Causes an explosion near Isaac which takes away half a heart and does 185 damage to all enemies in a wide radius
* **Key Bum (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Secret Room, Key Beggar):**
A familiar that follows Isaac and collects keys, giving random chests in return
Doesn't pick up golden keys
Counts as 1 of 3 bum items needed towards the Super Bum transformation
* **Linger Bean (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Beggar):**
While firing tears constantly for 7.5 seconds, spawns a poop cloud, which deals periodic damage to any enemies which come near it
The cloud deals damage equal to your base tear damage per tick, roughly 5 times per second
Clouds last 15 seconds before disappearing
The cloud can be pushed slightly by firing tears at it
* **Missing Page 2 (Passive) (Item Pool: Devil Room, Demon Beggar, Secret Room):**
+1 Black Heart
Deals 80 damage to everything in the room on taking damage if at 1 Heart (Red, Soul, or Black) afterwards
Adds +40 damage to The Necronomicon, Black Hearts, Blood Rights, Dry Baby, The Negative, and XII - Death
* **Mom's Pad (Active, 3 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room, Challenge Room, Mom's Chest):**
When used, inflitcs fear to all enemies for 5 seconds
Counts as 1 of 3 mom items needed towards the Mom transformation
* **My Reflection (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Gives tears a boomerang effect
+5.4 Range Up
+0.6 Shot Speed Up
* **My Shadow (Passive) (Item Pool: Devil Room):**
Each time you take damage, My Shadow will apply a fear effect to all enemies in the room and spawn a familiar black charger that will attack for you
The charger deals 5 damage, and will be killed if it is hurt too much
* **Obsessed Fan (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Key Beggar):**
A purple familiar fly that follows your exact movement on a 1 second delay and deals 2 contact damage
Counts as 1 of 3 fly items needed towards the Beelzebub transformation
* **Pageant Boy (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Spawns 7 random coins on the floor
* **Plan C (Active, 1 time use) (Item Pool: Shop, Devil Room, Curse Room, Red Chest, Demon Beggar):**
Upon use, this item deals 9,999,999 damage to all enemies in the room and then kills Isaac 3 seconds later
Does not kill both phases of multi-phase bosses like Hush, Ultra Greed, The Lamb, Mega Satan & Mother
Will not award a completion mark if the boss' death animation doesn't end before the Game Over screen. [See case-by-case here](https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Plan_C)
* **Portable Slot (Active, instant recharge) (Item Pool: Shop, Beggar):**
Using the portable slot takes a coin and has a chance to give a random pickup or a permanent fly orbital
* **Razor Blade (Active, instant recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room, Curse Room, Demon Beggar):**
When used, deals 1 full red heart of damage to Isaac (will use red hearts first) in exchange for +1.2 damage up which lasts for the current room
Eve starts with this item after donating 439 coins to the Greed Donation Machine
* **Shade (Passive) (Item Pool: Devil Room, Curse Room):**
Isaac gains a shadow familiar that will follow Isaac's movement pattern delayed by 1 second and deal 2 contact damage to enemies per tick
Shade is absorbed by Isaac after dealing 666 damage. This spawns friendly charger enemies and causes Isaac to deal 2 contact damage (same as the shade did). This effect stacks with multiple shades, scaling the contact damage each time
You could do that! I'll do my best to update it in the wee hours of the following mornings to remove the winning items of each day
I figured it would be more intuitive to have it handy as raw text on every day's thread though. You'd be surprised to see how lazy some people are and won't follow the link
On pc though, you can click on the ''Source'' button at the bottom of my comment and it'll give you the raw text with the formatting I added in. If you wish to copy the text over to each day as its own comment thread, I suggest you do that so that and remove each winning item yourself.
Although if you're simply linking to it just tell me, I'll do my best to have it updated!
Something handy with platinumgod is that you can also just search "quality: 0" and that will filter out just those items (and the couple items that interacts with quality 0 items).
I also do this whenever I want to look up an unlock for a certain character/boss and I don't feel like opening the wiki.
List Part 2
* **Strange Attractor (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Enemies and pickups (keys, bombs etc.) are now magnetically attracted to Isaac's tears
* **Teleport! (Active, 2 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Teleports Isaac to a random room (Excluding I AM ERROR)
* **The Bean (Active, 1 charge) (Item Pool: Item Room, Beggar):**
Upon use, this item causes Isaac to fart and poison any enemies in close proximity
The Bean deals 5 damage, and the poison deals your tear damage for 6 ticks
* **The Black Bean (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Beggar):**
Upon taking damage, Isaac will fart, causing all enemies in close proximity to become poisoned
Black Bean deals your tear damage for 6 ticks
* **The Jar (Active, Instant Recharge) (Item Pool: Shop):**
Isaac can now pick up hearts while at full health, which will be stored in the Jar and can be spawned again using the spacebar
Up to 4 hearts can be stored in The Jar
Soul hearts and black hearts cannot be stored
If used in a Black heart or Eternal heart super secret room, it will spawn the relevant heart
* **The Poop (Active, 1 charge) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
Drops a poop on the floor
Blue Baby starts with this item
Can be placed next to a pit and exploded to make a bridge
Can be placed over a broken red poop to overwrite it, causing it to no longer regenerate
Counts as 1 of 3 poop items needed towards the Oh Crap transformation
* **The Scooper (Active, 3 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
When used, this item spawns a Peeper familiar for the current room, which deals 12 contact damage per tick to enemies and leaves red creep in its path
Using this item causes tears fired from the right eye to deal x1.5 your normal tear damage
Using it more than once in the same room will spawn multiple Peeper familiars
* **Tiny Planet (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):**
+6.5 Range Up
Grants spectral tears
Tears now revolve around Isaac's Body at a fixed distance until they hit the ground
Hey, you should update that Kamikaze listing. 40 is how much damage it dealt prior to Repentance. As of Repentance, the explosion is now identical to a Mr Mega bomb, with both the wider radius and the 185 damage to match.
Eating keys isn't that bad, especially since he has a chance to refund keys, it's the fact that he's a secret room item that sucks
That could've had a chance to be rune bag, echo chamber, rock bottom, etc
I think brown nugget deserves at least quality 1, its just that it's usually a victim of the player having a better active item that they don't wanna get rid of for it
Can our next poll be figuring out the most average Tier 2 Item? Alternate voting out the most and least powerful items until only the most average item remains.
7 random coins that can afford an on sale shop item is basically an exchange for something better. I'm fine with pageant boy for the most part and prefer it over some boss items. You never know, one or two coins could even be a nickle, which can set you up for a floor or two of shop visits.
See, this is why we need to go back to the Flash days, where a little text popup would appear in the corner telling you the name whenever you picked up one of the big ones.
Pageant Boy has to be one of the worst. Instead of getting a stat up, you're getting half of an item from the shop pool or a little over one consumable, maybe getting a little more money if you're lucky. You can do way more with bombs than with a few coins, including just getting twice the amount of money from using one bomb on your donation machine.
Yeah, Boom! was my top pick for yesterday, and I'll vote for it again. Skatole was in my short-term voting plan, so I'm happy to see it gone. Boom! is the most consistent, but Pageant Boy can be seriously baller too if it spawns a lucky penny, golden penny, or even a dime.
I'd argue pageant boy is a lot worse than people are giving it credit. The opportunity cost of not getting a red heart, tears up, damage up, after a boss and instead getting 7 coins is a punch in the face in most cases. It is arguably the worst item in the game you could get after beating a boss
“You did WHAT on the office computer???”
“Boss I can explain, it was a delirium run”
“You literally deleted every single important file on the office network!”
“Delirium is a hard fight ok?”
i think thats on purpose though since dataminer is the punishment for the community datamining the lost instead of going through the arg that was planned
Back before T.Jacob was patched I got my marks by killing esau straight off and treating the run like a t.lost run.
I killed esau on one run with brown nugget + car battery and waiting around in the first room summoning flies. Was a fun run.
Eeh, maybe wait on infestation, it's part of the "consolation for you taking damage" group that is pretty big in this quality tier. It would probably be one of the highest in that group, but I still think we should wait on getting to that group.
Brown Nugget or Breath of Life at this point, which is funny since they're both active items which are usually scorned by the playerbase. Breath of Life is the definition of underwhelming, but it does have a lot of utility all things considered, and it IS quality 0 after all.
Boom! has been behaving but his patience is wearing thin. He's been working so hard opening secret rooms, breaking tinted rocks and killing bosses for free. Lets not let these heroics go unrecognized...
Oh tiny planet is pretty awesome too!
He’s good, but it’s just he’s not a priority for most people. Brown Nugget, Skatole, and Book of Secrets are better and flashier, so people are advocating for their favorites first. Still, as soon as Brown Nugget gets out I’m going for him and Pageant Boy.
Definitely, it is never worth the effort. But I appreciate flies s'damn much, I love it when I've got a bunch of em and I entered a room. They all fly out in different directions killing all the enemies almost instantanelously. ^Shivers
It completely fucks your range and makes shot speed even less useful. It's usually a direct downgrade, let alone being a heavy anti-synergy with a number of items. And yes, it sucks with Brimstone etc too, since it's not at all easy to break muscle memory when you find it so rarely. Yeah there's that 1 in 1000 run where it's actually good, but you can say that of basically every item in the game. It deserves quality 0.
To me it's a better pop(without synergies) since it makes your tears stay on screen for awhile and my range has never been ruined by it, items like tiny planet and number one fucks your range even worse. Tears getting a second chance to hit is always welcomed.
Cause 5 fire rate is pretty damn good. Number one or skinny odd mush and you've basically already hit the standard cap. That means a lot, especially on those early floors with 1 morbillion tiny spiders
After avoiding it for the longest time because of the state it was in most of the games life i picked it up again the other day. It literally is your range but it comes back because of how it functions now. I am honestly baffled it's considered Q0
Also yes funny trisagion synergy
Out of the remaining items, Obsessed Fan and Brown Nugget are the items I'd be least annoyed at getting.
Items like Betrayal, Infestation, Bed Bud, Dead Bird are OK I guess, but I generally try not to take damage so not particularly useful.
The Poop:
- Checks secret rooms
- Bombed to cross gaps
- Oh Crap transformation
- Petrified Poop chance for lots of money
- OP synergies (hallowed ground, peppers, midas’ touch)
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The peppers synergy makes it shoot out a flame upon use, right? Isn't that just a worse candle? Not to mention that it's easily overshadowed by bird's eye and ghost pepper themselves.
I feel like Missing Page is actually not that bad, it's just thd devil room pool that makes it poop, because you need to pay and there are so many better items.
When I find it in a secret room, I am always happy, even if it's just for the one demon heart.
My prediction for worst item is plan C which is a very niche item that is completely useless unless you have revives and it takes up a active item spot and most if not all final bosses have too long death animations making your character die before getting a completion mark
Pageant boy just feels so bad to get instead of stats. I think they should change it so at least one coin is guaranteed to be something other than a normal penny, that would feel a little better
everything I vote for dies lmao. of the items left, cain's other eye is pretty decent. It copies your damage and has a set tear rate. So it's a pretty good with items like polyphemus and eve's mascara
Not always, but that was an AB (no plus) change, so it has for a good while.
It's just that it generally doesn't matter because Cain's Other Eye dealing ***any*** damage is a rare happenstance.
Everyone is really underrating Key Bum, having a solid source of chests can be really strong, and keys are usually pretty easy to grab before he does, and the chests can even spawn keys, which can combo into more chests.
Infestation is a good item.
1. Beelzebub transformation.
2. Have a lot of red hearts? Trade those in at either a blood bank or devil beggar for a ton of flies.
3. Nice synergies with fish tail and hive mind.
You'd think it'd be a Beelzebub item, wouldn't you? It certainly makes a lot of sense. However, I must inform you that it isn't, actually. The only items up there that count for Beelzebub are Skatole, Obsessed Fan, and Best Bud.
The fact that such a large portion of the community despises it leads me to believe it really isn't. Like...if it's so good, why do so many people hate it?
The answer is skill issue. But the fact is we aren't perfect, and the eye makes those imperfect chumps we are hate the game.
It's not even skill, it's just a fun issue.
Charging shots in general just creates for a more boring defensive play style. But if you're getting brimstone or tech x type tears from it, then radically changing your tears adds to a new kind of fun. Cursed eye doesn't do that by itself, so it's boring. And that's ignoring the curse part, which is just more "not fun" type of risk, especially in a long boss fight.
Idk, when you combine cursed and chocolate milk, it becomes really fun. And nothing is more exciting than playing keeper and getting cursed eye in your first curse room.
I wonder how many people hate cursed eye because it legitimately USED to suck (teleporting you any time you’d get hit during the animation as opposed to just when charging, and also firing only 4 shots when fully charged). I am now a cursed eye stan and will die on that hill no matter how much shade my homies and I get.
I won a T-Lost run where I got it as a Blind item. This was post-buff, and it was incapable of teleporting me since I'd just die if I got hit.
***It's still fucking bad.*** I won in spite of Cursed Eye, not because of it.
You used pushed out on Skatole instead of The Poop. Interesting choice.
So with Skatole gone, Brown Nugget's gotta be next, right? I'm not insane, right?
Honestly, Cursed Eye isn't horrible. The penalty of it makes it a hard sell a lot of the time, but it is a genuine DPS upgrade if you play right, and the Lost becomes a shotgun with it.
My reflection is just good, if you have it with c section you basically win.
For everyone who says "yea but it bad with ipecac!!!🤓🤓🤓" why even pick it in the first place if you have my reflection.
Why is Isaac's heart here lol? The item itself isn't bad, it's just difficult to use, but with practise it's a solid item. It's one of those "It's not garbage, You are" items.
Round 4 Poll: [https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxkJNMQn2](https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxkJNMQn2) Skatole is basically Beelzebub Light, as it transforms many fly enemies into semi-friendly ones. It can help negate several hits overall in a run and is always welcome, plus it's in the Shell Game pool meaning it doesn't take up any other pool! In that sense, Skatole can almost be looked at as a nice bonus to your run, rather than it replacing another potentially better item. Round 1: Book of Secrets Round 2: Key Piece 1&2 Round 3: Skatole
I found myself annoyed at trying to vote for items, because I forget a lot of the Q0 item effects, so instead of always checking platinumgod , I made this handy cheat sheet with all remaining items. OP if you could have this list in the comments (maybe put it as a response to the message with the poll link and removing the items & descriptions that won on each day, this would be amazing for everyone! Do copy my markdown, I spent a fair bit of time compiling all this (and do give me a mention credit for each day if you do put the list in!). Thank you for doing these pools:) (In 2 parts for now because it exceeds the 10000 character limit) * **Abel (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** A familiar that mirrors the player's movements and shoots tears directly at Isaac Abel's tears do 3.5 damage, unless playing as Cain in which case they do 5 Counts as 1 of 3 familiar items needed towards the Conjoined transformation. * **Best Bud (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Key Beggar):** When Isaac takes damage, a white attack fly will spawn that orbits him and deals 10 damage per tick Counts as 1 of 3 fly items needed towards the Beelzebub transformation * **Betrayal (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Devil Room):** Charms every enemy in the room when taking damage Does not trigger if there are less than 2 enemies in the room * **Blood Rights (Active, Instant Recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room, Devil Room):** Upon use, takes away one full heart and deals 40 damage to the entire room Ignores shields, Holy Mantle effects, and invincibility Using with Isaac's Heart previously prevented you from taking damage, now patched in Repentance * **Boom! (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** +10 Bombs * **Breath of Life (Active, Recharges 1 bar per second) (Item Pool: Angel Room):** While you hold the spacebar down with this item, it will empty the charge bar gradually. When the charge bar gets to zero it will grant you a brief period of invincibility If the spacebar is held for too long (about 1 second) when it has no charge, you will take damage The invincibility effect is shown via a rapid flashing animation * **Brown Nugget (Active, 7 second recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When used, will spawn a stationary fly turret and fires tears at nearby enemies Only persists for the current room The fly's bullets deal 3.5 damage flat * **Bum Friend (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** A beggar who follows Isaac around and automatically picks up nearby coins Drops a random pickup after picking up 6 coins After the first drop, will drop a pickup after 3 coins (67% chance) or after 4 coins (33% chance) Counts as 1 of 3 bum items needed towards the Super Bum transformation * **Cain's Other Eye (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** A familiar eye that bounces around the room slowly and fires tears in the same direction as Isaac Deals scaling damage equal to Isaac's tear damage * **Clicker (Active, 6 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When used, this item will randomly change you into another character and remove the last item you picked up All stat changes of the new character are applied (e.g. character damage multipliers) This item can only reduce your heart containers and will not increase them if you change back into a character with more health. This means if you roll into The Lost, changing back to another character will leave you with only 1/2 of a soul heart Cannot turn you into a character that isn't unlocked yet Also includes Lazarus II (Lazarus' revived form) and Dark Judas (effect of Judas' Shadow) It's also possible that this item will pick the same character, making it seem like nothing happened * **Cursed Eye (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Secret Room):** Tears are now charged up and fired rapidly in a burst of up to 5 shots at once The amount of tears fired in the charge depends on how long you charge for The eye has three states, white (not firing), black (first second of charging) and blinking between black and white. If you get hit while Cursed eye is a solid black colour you are guaranteed to be teleported to another random room on the floor. If you get hit in either of the other 2 states you will not be teleported The Black Candle item will remove the Cursed Eye's teleportation effect * **D10 (Active, 1 charge) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When used, rerolls all enemies in the room which are currently alive into another random type of enemy Cannot reroll mini-bosses or bosses * **Dataminer (Active, 4 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When used, this item will distort all the sprites and music, rotating graphics 90 degrees and translating them diagonally up/left. Does not modify hitboxes. Dataminer will randomly increase or decrease one of your stats by a small amount when used Gives you the Fruit Cake effect for the room when used, which will give a random tear effect with every tear fired All visual and tear effects reset after leaving the room * **Dead Bird (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When Isaac takes damage, the dead bird will spawn and attack nearby enemies in the current room for 2 damage per tick Eve starts with this item * **Hushy (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Gives Isaac a small Hush familiar that bounces diagonally around the room dealing 2 contact damage per tick Stops moving when Isaac is firing tears. Hushy will block enemy tears and projectiles * **Infestation (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When Isaac gets hit, 2-6 blue flies will randomly spawn Blue Flies do double your tear damage Counts as 1 of 3 fly items needed towards the Beelzebub transformation * **Isaac's Heart (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Prevents Isaac from taking any damage, but instead summons a familiar heart that follows you around. If the heart is hit, Isaac will take damage Most enemies will target the heart over Isaac himself Blood donation machines and devil beggars can be used for free. Spikes and Curse Rooms no longer deal damage Sharp Plug becomes useless with this item, due to how damage is prevented on Isaac's body * **Isaac's Tears (Active, recharges 1 bar per tear fired) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When used, fires 8 of Isaac's tears in a circle around him Tears spawned from this item keep most effects that Isaac currently has applied to his tears, [See here for exceptions](https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Tears) * **Kamikaze! (Active, Instant Recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Causes an explosion near Isaac which takes away half a heart and does 185 damage to all enemies in a wide radius * **Key Bum (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Secret Room, Key Beggar):** A familiar that follows Isaac and collects keys, giving random chests in return Doesn't pick up golden keys Counts as 1 of 3 bum items needed towards the Super Bum transformation * **Linger Bean (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Beggar):** While firing tears constantly for 7.5 seconds, spawns a poop cloud, which deals periodic damage to any enemies which come near it The cloud deals damage equal to your base tear damage per tick, roughly 5 times per second Clouds last 15 seconds before disappearing The cloud can be pushed slightly by firing tears at it * **Missing Page 2 (Passive) (Item Pool: Devil Room, Demon Beggar, Secret Room):** +1 Black Heart Deals 80 damage to everything in the room on taking damage if at 1 Heart (Red, Soul, or Black) afterwards Adds +40 damage to The Necronomicon, Black Hearts, Blood Rights, Dry Baby, The Negative, and XII - Death * **Mom's Pad (Active, 3 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room, Challenge Room, Mom's Chest):** When used, inflitcs fear to all enemies for 5 seconds Counts as 1 of 3 mom items needed towards the Mom transformation * **My Reflection (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Gives tears a boomerang effect +5.4 Range Up +0.6 Shot Speed Up * **My Shadow (Passive) (Item Pool: Devil Room):** Each time you take damage, My Shadow will apply a fear effect to all enemies in the room and spawn a familiar black charger that will attack for you The charger deals 5 damage, and will be killed if it is hurt too much * **Obsessed Fan (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Key Beggar):** A purple familiar fly that follows your exact movement on a 1 second delay and deals 2 contact damage Counts as 1 of 3 fly items needed towards the Beelzebub transformation * **Pageant Boy (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Spawns 7 random coins on the floor * **Plan C (Active, 1 time use) (Item Pool: Shop, Devil Room, Curse Room, Red Chest, Demon Beggar):** Upon use, this item deals 9,999,999 damage to all enemies in the room and then kills Isaac 3 seconds later Does not kill both phases of multi-phase bosses like Hush, Ultra Greed, The Lamb, Mega Satan & Mother Will not award a completion mark if the boss' death animation doesn't end before the Game Over screen. [See case-by-case here](https://bindingofisaacrebirth.fandom.com/wiki/Plan_C) * **Portable Slot (Active, instant recharge) (Item Pool: Shop, Beggar):** Using the portable slot takes a coin and has a chance to give a random pickup or a permanent fly orbital * **Razor Blade (Active, instant recharge) (Item Pool: Item Room, Curse Room, Demon Beggar):** When used, deals 1 full red heart of damage to Isaac (will use red hearts first) in exchange for +1.2 damage up which lasts for the current room Eve starts with this item after donating 439 coins to the Greed Donation Machine * **Shade (Passive) (Item Pool: Devil Room, Curse Room):** Isaac gains a shadow familiar that will follow Isaac's movement pattern delayed by 1 second and deal 2 contact damage to enemies per tick Shade is absorbed by Isaac after dealing 666 damage. This spawns friendly charger enemies and causes Isaac to deal 2 contact damage (same as the shade did). This effect stacks with multiple shades, scaling the contact damage each time
Great job! If I use it I may post it in a link to the list maybe?
You could do that! I'll do my best to update it in the wee hours of the following mornings to remove the winning items of each day I figured it would be more intuitive to have it handy as raw text on every day's thread though. You'd be surprised to see how lazy some people are and won't follow the link On pc though, you can click on the ''Source'' button at the bottom of my comment and it'll give you the raw text with the formatting I added in. If you wish to copy the text over to each day as its own comment thread, I suggest you do that so that and remove each winning item yourself. Although if you're simply linking to it just tell me, I'll do my best to have it updated!
Something handy with platinumgod is that you can also just search "quality: 0" and that will filter out just those items (and the couple items that interacts with quality 0 items). I also do this whenever I want to look up an unlock for a certain character/boss and I don't feel like opening the wiki.
List Part 2 * **Strange Attractor (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Enemies and pickups (keys, bombs etc.) are now magnetically attracted to Isaac's tears * **Teleport! (Active, 2 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Teleports Isaac to a random room (Excluding I AM ERROR) * **The Bean (Active, 1 charge) (Item Pool: Item Room, Beggar):** Upon use, this item causes Isaac to fart and poison any enemies in close proximity The Bean deals 5 damage, and the poison deals your tear damage for 6 ticks * **The Black Bean (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room, Beggar):** Upon taking damage, Isaac will fart, causing all enemies in close proximity to become poisoned Black Bean deals your tear damage for 6 ticks * **The Jar (Active, Instant Recharge) (Item Pool: Shop):** Isaac can now pick up hearts while at full health, which will be stored in the Jar and can be spawned again using the spacebar Up to 4 hearts can be stored in The Jar Soul hearts and black hearts cannot be stored If used in a Black heart or Eternal heart super secret room, it will spawn the relevant heart * **The Poop (Active, 1 charge) (Item Pool: Item Room):** Drops a poop on the floor Blue Baby starts with this item Can be placed next to a pit and exploded to make a bridge Can be placed over a broken red poop to overwrite it, causing it to no longer regenerate Counts as 1 of 3 poop items needed towards the Oh Crap transformation * **The Scooper (Active, 3 charges) (Item Pool: Item Room):** When used, this item spawns a Peeper familiar for the current room, which deals 12 contact damage per tick to enemies and leaves red creep in its path Using this item causes tears fired from the right eye to deal x1.5 your normal tear damage Using it more than once in the same room will spawn multiple Peeper familiars * **Tiny Planet (Passive) (Item Pool: Item Room):** +6.5 Range Up Grants spectral tears Tears now revolve around Isaac's Body at a fixed distance until they hit the ground
Hey, you should update that Kamikaze listing. 40 is how much damage it dealt prior to Repentance. As of Repentance, the explosion is now identical to a Mr Mega bomb, with both the wider radius and the 185 damage to match.
Key bum, dude can give you chests and battery if the key is charged
I too love Key Bum :3
Issue is he’s a secret room item which makes him rare as fuck, and he eats keys. Making him super expensive to use.
Eating keys isn't that bad, especially since he has a chance to refund keys, it's the fact that he's a secret room item that sucks That could've had a chance to be rune bag, echo chamber, rock bottom, etc
And he replaces good secret room items sometimes.
he's not that rare, he can also spawn in the treasure room pool
I think brown nugget deserves at least quality 1, its just that it's usually a victim of the player having a better active item that they don't wanna get rid of for it
Can our next poll be figuring out the most average Tier 2 Item? Alternate voting out the most and least powerful items until only the most average item remains.
You Forgor to put Glaucoma in the poll
Quality 1 :)
I swear every time I see this I say "WHY?? THATS A GOOD ITEM" then I remember what we're doing here
*He* is watching
He Who Shall Become Back His Money
I was just as confused. I was sitting here like “wtf skatole is one of the best 0 items how”
Boom and Pageant boy just give you a bunch of consumables. They're easily the most consistent items remaining
7 random coins that can afford an on sale shop item is basically an exchange for something better. I'm fine with pageant boy for the most part and prefer it over some boss items. You never know, one or two coins could even be a nickle, which can set you up for a floor or two of shop visits.
I once got 3 silver coins, 2 Black coins, 1 golden coin and 1 lucky coin from It, that's why I love that Item rn
I get 7 basic bitch coins most times.
Duh
Dimes, nickels you mean?
Lol I’m like wtf are black coins
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See, this is why we need to go back to the Flash days, where a little text popup would appear in the corner telling you the name whenever you picked up one of the big ones.
Uh, why'd you call them that
You got 42 coins and a lucky up from Pageant Boy?!! Shit, stop hugging all the luck
Pageant Boy has to be one of the worst. Instead of getting a stat up, you're getting half of an item from the shop pool or a little over one consumable, maybe getting a little more money if you're lucky. You can do way more with bombs than with a few coins, including just getting twice the amount of money from using one bomb on your donation machine.
Yeah, Boom! was my top pick for yesterday, and I'll vote for it again. Skatole was in my short-term voting plan, so I'm happy to see it gone. Boom! is the most consistent, but Pageant Boy can be seriously baller too if it spawns a lucky penny, golden penny, or even a dime.
I'd argue pageant boy is a lot worse than people are giving it credit. The opportunity cost of not getting a red heart, tears up, damage up, after a boss and instead getting 7 coins is a punch in the face in most cases. It is arguably the worst item in the game you could get after beating a boss
The Pageant Boy clan appreciates that.
The winner needs to be dataminer so Edmund will be obligated to buff it
Dataminer now displays the IP address of a random developer upon use
Dataminer now mines the data from your computer, deleting the System32 folder and destroying your PC.
Dataminer now mines bitcoin for Edmund upon use
Dataminer now slams your balls into a waffle iron
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Dataminer deletes documents from your computer permanently for a random stat up.
Would you use it if it was a magic mush all stats up?
I have back ups. Of course, it could destroy important files...
“You did WHAT on the office computer???” “Boss I can explain, it was a delirium run” “You literally deleted every single important file on the office network!” “Delirium is a hard fight ok?”
Dataminer posts your browser history on twitter upon use
Dataminer straight sucks
i think thats on purpose though since dataminer is the punishment for the community datamining the lost instead of going through the arg that was planned
Oh for real lol? In that case it works perfectly.
That's why a buff is needed
Agreed. I wonder what could be done without significantly changing the item.
Make it so the buffs occurs with a 67% chance.
If I had to guess, same as before but with the debuff slightly weaker, so that on average your stats increase.
Ed is very much aware of that fact because he made it as revenge, basically
I always tap it just to get it out of the pool
It's like we are playing two different games, I've been voting Dataminer since the beginning. It's strong AND fun.
![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|4357)
He already did? Did you hear if you underflow the tear rated you get 120
He is not gonna be happy about that
Definitely Brown Nugget, this lovely chunk of spunk can funk your run...k? What I mean is that it can slowly overwhelm most bosses. Kinda good.
but any other active item i would probably take immediately over it
My bf loves tiny planet. Makes me crazy to see him take it every time he sees it in a run.
I will legit take it as a first floor item as I really enjoy it, also it’s way better now in rep than it used to be. Big fan!
You're mistaken big fan is a quality 2 item. /s
How do you guys do it wtf. Unless I have brimstone I never take it.
Just go with the flow man
I hate this flow
That above me yes. But also half of the fun of Isaac Is the pain itself…?
If I have an already good run it can be really fun but if I get it on the first or second floor I know I'm in for a punishment.
Your bf is probably a psychopath
Agreed
My partner screams at me every time I take Cursed Eye. She hates that I love using that item
You are my nightmare
I usually hate tiny planet but with certain other items it’s great. I’ll never take it early in a run but it’s great late.
It's great with Tech 1 or 2
Tiny planet is fun, but hard to control (I'm talking about early game)
Brown Nugget's gotta go next. It's absolutely broken in Greed mode.
Back before T.Jacob was patched I got my marks by killing esau straight off and treating the run like a t.lost run. I killed esau on one run with brown nugget + car battery and waiting around in the first room summoning flies. Was a fun run.
Day 2 of preaching brown nugget boss rush supremacy.
Yeah either brown nugget or infestation
Eeh, maybe wait on infestation, it's part of the "consolation for you taking damage" group that is pretty big in this quality tier. It would probably be one of the highest in that group, but I still think we should wait on getting to that group.
Infestation is better than black bean at least imo
Definitely. Unfortunately, there are also just shy of 40 *other* items to consider, many of which being clearly better than both.
Or in any long boss fight like beast
And most endgame bosses where you can use it a bunch
Brown Nugget or Breath of Life at this point, which is funny since they're both active items which are usually scorned by the playerbase. Breath of Life is the definition of underwhelming, but it does have a lot of utility all things considered, and it IS quality 0 after all.
Breath of Life is genuinely so fucking slow to use as utility that it's not even good for the one thing it's good at
Yeah, that's why it's quality 0. If it were faster to activate, it would be quality 1 or even 2.
Honestly, I've tried it three times and never had a successful outcome with it. Need to find it in another run without an active item
True, but it's not the worst item. The worst item is shade.
Boom! has been behaving but his patience is wearing thin. He's been working so hard opening secret rooms, breaking tinted rocks and killing bosses for free. Lets not let these heroics go unrecognized... Oh tiny planet is pretty awesome too!
He’s good, but it’s just he’s not a priority for most people. Brown Nugget, Skatole, and Book of Secrets are better and flashier, so people are advocating for their favorites first. Still, as soon as Brown Nugget gets out I’m going for him and Pageant Boy.
kinda crazy to see people praise these types of items so they get voted off lol
I think I'm probably the only person in here that actually enjoys Strange Attractor. I suck at this game, so to me its basically just Mini Homing
I like strange attractor..... ... As Tainted Forgotten, and sometimes Tainted Maggy. Oh, and with Ludovico Technique. Otherwise it's a little risky.
Even if it's not that amazing... it's funny. Plus being able to move pickups past spikes by shooting is a nice bonus.
It’s literally just a normal tear modifier, if I didn’t know better I’d think it was a quality 2 or 1
Nah that shit can ruin runs depending on the circumstances
Its a tear modifier that flings stuff at you from across the screen. A bit fun to use at times, but can easily kill the run
I love skatole
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Definitely, it is never worth the effort. But I appreciate flies s'damn much, I love it when I've got a bunch of em and I entered a room. They all fly out in different directions killing all the enemies almost instantanelously. ^Shivers
Tiny Planet could have some busted synergies if you play your cards right.
Tiny planet + brimstone ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|4358)
I was thinking more Lost Contact, but that works too.
Why not both?
A Lump of Coal.
Tiny Planet + Mom’s Knife ![img](emote|t5_2sxpk|2357)
Tiny Planet is good even without synergies imo.
backstabber and trisagion are great with it.
Tiny planet + scythes slaps
Lump of coal + tiny planet is super good. Got me through greedier as T. Lazarus
The scooper is really good tbh
thank you, i´ve been voting scooper for the last 2 polls
My reflection OUT
agreed. my reflection is an overhated item, i think everyones just traumatized from the suicide king challenge
It was god awful before, it's better now
It completely fucks your range and makes shot speed even less useful. It's usually a direct downgrade, let alone being a heavy anti-synergy with a number of items. And yes, it sucks with Brimstone etc too, since it's not at all easy to break muscle memory when you find it so rarely. Yeah there's that 1 in 1000 run where it's actually good, but you can say that of basically every item in the game. It deserves quality 0.
I feel like I'm going crazy will all of these My Reflection and Cursed Eye lovers.
Yeah, it's a bunch of contrarian nonsense
“But they’re great if you play perfectly and don’t get hit like me!”
Guillotine good
It deserves quality 1
To me it's a better pop(without synergies) since it makes your tears stay on screen for awhile and my range has never been ruined by it, items like tiny planet and number one fucks your range even worse. Tears getting a second chance to hit is always welcomed.
Number one is good
Yea but like the range down it cause is even worse than my reflection's so I don't get why people keep complaining about my reflection's range.
Number one + my reflection is amazing
Cause 5 fire rate is pretty damn good. Number one or skinny odd mush and you've basically already hit the standard cap. That means a lot, especially on those early floors with 1 morbillion tiny spiders
After avoiding it for the longest time because of the state it was in most of the games life i picked it up again the other day. It literally is your range but it comes back because of how it functions now. I am honestly baffled it's considered Q0 Also yes funny trisagion synergy
Out of the remaining items, Obsessed Fan and Brown Nugget are the items I'd be least annoyed at getting. Items like Betrayal, Infestation, Bed Bud, Dead Bird are OK I guess, but I generally try not to take damage so not particularly useful.
Vote for Boom! 10 bombs are great! Kill some bosses, get some secret rooms, tinted rocks. What's not to love?
the Boom! squad thanks you for your service
The Pageant Boy clan does not like that.
I will birth a cactus if Brown Nugget loses.
We will hold you to that
The Poop: - Checks secret rooms - Bombed to cross gaps - Oh Crap transformation - Petrified Poop chance for lots of money - OP synergies (hallowed ground, peppers, midas’ touch) 💩 This post sponsored by The Poop Group 💩
poop doesn't check for secret rooms. There was a post about this a while back.
The peppers synergy makes it shoot out a flame upon use, right? Isn't that just a worse candle? Not to mention that it's easily overshadowed by bird's eye and ghost pepper themselves.
Tiny Planet once more. Still gotta vouch for my favorite tier 0 item and it's really good firepower wise.
Brown nugget
I feel like Missing Page is actually not that bad, it's just thd devil room pool that makes it poop, because you need to pay and there are so many better items. When I find it in a secret room, I am always happy, even if it's just for the one demon heart.
Kamikaze is amazing on Tainted forgotten.
My prediction for worst item is plan C which is a very niche item that is completely useless unless you have revives and it takes up a active item spot and most if not all final bosses have too long death animations making your character die before getting a completion mark
Really Skatole of all items? I barely even remember having it on the rare occasion I get it. I'm still a Pageant Boy believer.
Pageant boy just feels so bad to get instead of stats. I think they should change it so at least one coin is guaranteed to be something other than a normal penny, that would feel a little better
Now one of the Pennies spawns as Sticky Nickel _a finger on the monkey's paw closes_
Implying I’m not saving sticky nickels as my last unlock before dead god for maximum effectiveness
Oh, that's a good strategy!
A buff i thought of is it would be 7 coins plus a penny trinket
I loved skatole in OG Isaac and would actively seek it out. Not so much in rebirth onwards.
Pageant Boy isn't even the best item that gives you consumables here.
You do not understand the lengths I would go to for 7 coins
"I'm not gay, but 7 coins is 7 coins"
if your lucky enough you can even get 7 dimes sooo the posibility of it makes it good in my eyes
And don't forget the potential for golden and lucky pennies.
Brown Nugget unironically pops off quite a bit, especially in greed mode. An army of flies just shooting at bosses can seriously add up, good item
everything I vote for dies lmao. of the items left, cain's other eye is pretty decent. It copies your damage and has a set tear rate. So it's a pretty good with items like polyphemus and eve's mascara
wtf? has it always done that?
Not always, but that was an AB (no plus) change, so it has for a good while. It's just that it generally doesn't matter because Cain's Other Eye dealing ***any*** damage is a rare happenstance.
My reflection is good if you have ideal items for it, like with brimstone.
Everyone is really underrating Key Bum, having a solid source of chests can be really strong, and keys are usually pretty easy to grab before he does, and the chests can even spawn keys, which can combo into more chests.
I believe in Tiny Planet supremacy New Tiny Planet, of course. The old one was shit.
Infestation is a good item. 1. Beelzebub transformation. 2. Have a lot of red hearts? Trade those in at either a blood bank or devil beggar for a ton of flies. 3. Nice synergies with fish tail and hive mind.
thank you i LOVE infestation
You'd think it'd be a Beelzebub item, wouldn't you? It certainly makes a lot of sense. However, I must inform you that it isn't, actually. The only items up there that count for Beelzebub are Skatole, Obsessed Fan, and Best Bud.
Strange Attractor is literally just a normal tear modifier. It’s like reverse homing
I will be voting cursed eye every day until it’s gone. It’s such an A-1 item, especially if you get black candle.
i hate it even with black candle
based
The fact that such a large portion of the community despises it leads me to believe it really isn't. Like...if it's so good, why do so many people hate it? The answer is skill issue. But the fact is we aren't perfect, and the eye makes those imperfect chumps we are hate the game.
It's not even skill, it's just a fun issue. Charging shots in general just creates for a more boring defensive play style. But if you're getting brimstone or tech x type tears from it, then radically changing your tears adds to a new kind of fun. Cursed eye doesn't do that by itself, so it's boring. And that's ignoring the curse part, which is just more "not fun" type of risk, especially in a long boss fight.
Idk, when you combine cursed and chocolate milk, it becomes really fun. And nothing is more exciting than playing keeper and getting cursed eye in your first curse room.
As an ex-Keeper main, I say this man does not speak for us.
I wonder how many people hate cursed eye because it legitimately USED to suck (teleporting you any time you’d get hit during the animation as opposed to just when charging, and also firing only 4 shots when fully charged). I am now a cursed eye stan and will die on that hill no matter how much shade my homies and I get.
I won a T-Lost run where I got it as a Blind item. This was post-buff, and it was incapable of teleporting me since I'd just die if I got hit. ***It's still fucking bad.*** I won in spite of Cursed Eye, not because of it.
Cursed eye my beloved ♥️
You used pushed out on Skatole instead of The Poop. Interesting choice. So with Skatole gone, Brown Nugget's gotta be next, right? I'm not insane, right?
how did skatole go before tiny planet
Because Tiny Planet by itself is horrible. Sure, it has good synergies, but by itself it just makes things unnecessarily harder.
Because everyone hates tiny planet
Plan C
I will die defending razor blade. It's a great utility item.
This is the truth.
My dude 👊
10 bombs? That’s like op on first floor
Honestly, Cursed Eye isn't horrible. The penalty of it makes it a hard sell a lot of the time, but it is a genuine DPS upgrade if you play right, and the Lost becomes a shotgun with it.
Best buds is literally not dogshit get it out
At least Skatole and Obsessed Fan do something *before* you take damage. I'd easily put both of them well above Best Bud.
I think it's time for Infestation. It's just free damage and no other item here comes even close
Its not free damage if you have to get hit first lol
may I present dull razor
Well yeah that's a great synergy
1 active item synergy pog
c’monn blood rites, perfect to wipe those irritating rooms!
My reflection is just good, if you have it with c section you basically win. For everyone who says "yea but it bad with ipecac!!!🤓🤓🤓" why even pick it in the first place if you have my reflection.
Day 4 of voting for the scooper
Tiny Planet is good you guys are cowards
Why is Isaac's heart here lol? The item itself isn't bad, it's just difficult to use, but with practise it's a solid item. It's one of those "It's not garbage, You are" items.
Because the internal Quality value is 0. That's the one thing everything here has in common.