Why do people not think the detonator is a great item?

[Flavour similar to vanilla]

Detonators a great item but people only seem to pick it up for the bombs, why?
-Detonating bombs makes it easier to use them against bosses (make a pile Then lead the boss into them)
-makes it easier to use bombs as a weapon
-blue fires

[Nazemec]

In my opinion, bombs are usually better as a "key" to open secret rooms or blow up tinted rocks than using them as weapons. No timing required, so no point keeping the Detonator. The extra bombs are nice though.

What do you mean "blue fires"? Regular bombs work perfectly fine to get rid of them. Same for purple fires by the way, their shots aren't a problem.

[kone]

Some spacebar items are useful in more situations. Compare it to a book that gives health, a candle or most of the characters' starting spacebar items. It's a middle-of-the-road spacebar item for its activated effect. It's good for its bombs, but I would only stick with it if I had no luck with spacebar items, which is rare.

[LazyKirby]

Originally posted by Koffee:

Detonators a great item but people only seem to pick it up for the bombs, why?
-Detonating bombs makes it easier to use them against bosses (make a pile Then lead the boss into them)
-makes it easier to use bombs as a weapon
-blue fires

people hated it? I loved that item! it makes hitting bosses much more eaiser (and safe)

[beautheschmo]

It's not bad, there's just way better spacebar items out there.

Like Nazemec said, most of the time the primary function of bombs is just as another type of key and the detonator doesn't help that function outside of providing extra bombs. And since there are *plenty* of places to use bombs like that, most of the time the majority of your bombs are going to be committed to non-combat scenarios.

Besides, with some practice, you can usually get bombs to hit what you want them to without the detonator. Most enemies get blocked by bombs so it's not too hard to get multiple enemies to stack around a bomb when it goes off. It's more useful against bosses, who usually have patterns and AI that makes it harder/impossible to actively lure them into a bomb, but imo bosses are (mostly) less dangerous than regular rooms anyways and the vast majority aren't worth committing bombs to unless you're specifically going for speed or have had very bad luck with items (or just have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of bombs)

For me, it's not really anything other than a luxury item that's easily replaced. It feels good to use, but isn't actually helpful in most situations.

[usa60527]

Compared to most other space bar items, the detonators are worse. Of course if you have a dr fetus run then it is amazing against enemies that are otherwise annoying to kill with the typical bomb shots. Also if you have pyro (the 99 bombs one) you can basically one shot Isaac or the blue baby boss fights by spamming bombs all around them and detonating.

However if you got any active item besides the butter bean, don't give it up for the detonator.

(Tear detonator is super situational and garbage though)