Does Bethany kind of suck?

[funy]

With most methods of soul heart generation stomped into the curb in the nerf tsunami, her entire gimmick centers around a four-room charge spacebar item that can be completely nullified if a spider or a normal black fly gets within 5 feet of you. At that point she's just Isaac without the D6 and she can't get any health from soul hearts. Am I missing something? I've had a couple dozen runs as her with all manner of spacebar items and builds and nothing made her fun or interesting to use.

[Revalopod]

her space bar item combines with any active item you pick up. but nothing crazy I've seen so far.

[funy]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

her space bar item combines with any active item you pick up. but nothing crazy I've seen so far.

Yeah but that's the thing, not only are a lot of the combos underwhelming, but it's so hard to actually keep her orbitals up for more than a couple rooms. They go out instantly if anyting gets anywhere near them or even shoots at them. I've gone whole floors without taking damage multiple times but I'm lucky to have even one fireball left by the end.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Pineapple Cilantro:

Originally posted by Revalopod:

her space bar item combines with any active item you pick up. but nothing crazy I've seen so far.

Yeah but that's the thing, not only are a lot of the combos underwhelming, but it's so hard to actually keep her orbitals up for more than a couple rooms. They go out instantly if anyting gets anywhere near them or even shoots at them. I've gone whole floors without taking damage multiple times but I'm lucky to have even one fireball left by the end.

you can store all the soul heart points throughout the game and then spam a bazillion wisps on a final boss, only for them to all die in a few seconds.. yeah Bethany kind of sucks

[K1]

for beth i recommend getting an active item with low recharge like bobs head or portable slot machine. the latter of which only pays out a wisp when u win.
yes its still terrible, but at least u get more wisps.

also no, how to jump doesnt spawn any wisps.

[24/7🔴Triple B>Backpacks/Keys]

She is crazy with shoop da woop. Basically auto win.

[The Face]

Originally posted by TripleMasterA quicksell.store:

She is crazy with shoop da woop. Basically auto win.

Don't say that too loud. They'll nerf it D:

[SeaSaw]

She is pretty fun, but yeah, not being able to have soul hearts is terrible.

Had a pretty good run with kamikadze - basically has an ipecac, but better.

[Shinen]

I really like to use Spin to win with Bethany, really fun combo

[Jevmen]

bethany can use the erraser infinite times, so i just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deleted every enemy and molst rooms were empty

[Stiksu]

The fact that box of friends crashes the game also doesn't help. I just from 1 familiar, to 4, to 8 to crash. It's really annoying cause I keep forgeting that overdoing it will crash the damn game...

[K1]

Originally posted by Jevmen:

bethany can use the erraser infinite times, so i just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deleted every enemy and molst rooms were empty

lol i have got to try that XD

[Miles (Tails) Prower]

It does only suck on soul heart department. When everything is now being faster and some rooms have overwhelming amount of enemies (like yellow spiders), well, it feels nearly impossible to get angel deals. I was really looking to finish mega satan as Bethany, but I keep losing chances for probably 20 runs already.

Book synergies is what makes this character good. By far I like spin to win, glass cannon & pause synergies.

[Mats]

Originally posted by Miles (Tails) Prower:

It does only suck on soul heart department. When everything is now being faster and some rooms have overwhelming amount of enemies (like yellow spiders), well, it feels nearly impossible to get angel deals. I was really looking to finish mega satan as Bethany, but I keep losing chances for probably 20 runs already.

Book synergies is what makes this character good. By far I like spin to win, glass cannon & pause synergies.

I just had a really good Bethany build with several extra lives and the door to Mega Satan was open, but then I accidentally touched the chest in the other boss room just as it spawned and the run was over...

[deathwish9x]

Originally posted by K1:

for beth i recommend getting an active item with low recharge like bobs head or portable slot machine. the latter of which only pays out a wisp when u win.
yes its still terrible, but at least u get more wisps.

also no, how to jump doesnt spawn any wisps.

Funny, when I used beth with How To Jump yesterday, a wisp would be crated at the spot you jumped from, with a max of 5 or so wisps in the room, after one was eliminated another could spawn. Granted, they couldn't move, just shoot in the direction you pushed the button, but it's something.

[null]

just had her with guppy's head + BFF and it was ggez