Backasswards challenge?

[BCS]

Tips for this mode? I can't believe I beat Mega Satan and died to Mask of Infamy....

[Sammyrism]

This challenge is one of those challenges that in theory is a fun idea, but it just doesn't turn out very well. What I did was just restart until I got a few good items (I got Godhead and Holy Mantle after about 10 resets!) and after that I just proceed down each floor.
Make sure you pick up some good items on the way, as the items you start out with will slowly get taken away from you as you go "up".

[dribson]

Unless they fixed it, just quit and continue when you start the mega satan fight, since that will skip it and you can go right up to Sheol.
Pick up devil deals as much as you can; you lose red heart containers each floor, but not soul/black hearts. Again, unless they changed this.

[cinemamonster]

Prostrats/hax: if you spawn with more than one life (1UP, 9 lives etc.) and then die during megastan fight, you'll respawn outside of the megastan room and won't have to fight him.
Maybe that will work with other bosses as well, iunno.

[dexterek]

^ pretty much this, getting multiple lives via 9 lives is how i did it, allowing me to skip half the bosses to just dying to them. Getting that + paw let me go through the rest of the floors with ease

[The Mad Doctor]

Just quit the game and come back.

[The Mad Doctor]

Originally posted by DrunkenCelt:

There's a bug you can exploit if you feel inclined, as soon as you start the challenge, exit out then continue from the menu, skips the entire mega satan fight.

Welp, The Mad Doctor beat me to the punch.

Rip

[burn1none]

Originally posted by cinemamonster:

Prostrats/hax: if you spawn with more than one life (1UP, 9 lives etc.) and then die during megastan fight, you'll respawn outside of the megastan room and won't have to fight him.
Maybe that will work with other bosses as well, iunno.

yeah this is a good way of doing it. also cursed eye isnt so bad in this challenge for that reason.

[Flavorable]

Guess I got lucky..

Started out with Ipecac, Tech X and Quad Shot (and a couple more items including Guppy's Collar). Ipecac was the first to go after I went back up to Sheol, though.

But I did pick up some nifty items in the Devil Rooms along the way (mostly Guppy and the Locust of Pestilence trinket), all the while holding Guppy's head as my active item (which I got in a chest in the Dark Room after I accidentally used what appeared to be a telepill.

:D Yay

[derw4tz]

restart till you have a decent amount of damage

[Mephisto-Luzifer]

Idea is nice, but thats all. Challenge is broken as hell. Every time i start with stats like i have in a normal run at basement.

[BOYCOTT]

Originally posted by Mephisto-Luzifer:

Idea is nice, but thats all. Challenge is broken as hell. Every time i start with stats like i have in a normal run at basement.

QFT

[zverozvero]

Yep, this one is restart-fight if you want to actually fight it through. Made i on fruit cake epic fetus.

First started with bobby bombs, mascara, dr.fetus and scissors trinket. Thought thats neat loadout for challange (allmost made it through MS)... Second run - godhead +experimental treat - cant kill mini sins he spawns :)

[BandiT]

ipecac godhead sacred heart
(chain restart)

[Goiledeth]

I finished the challenge but I had anything unlocked even the challenge counts as " done" ... help? Tried skipping mega satan and not skipping him (2 full runs separatedly)

[Kanra]

I managed to destroy my fingers due to getting Soy Milk, Tech X and Technology. It turned out quite okay in the end, even though I didn't bother skipping the Mega Satan fight.