Floor skip is bad

[A Little Rat Boy]

So to me it looks like items such as we need to go deeper and the rune that lets you skip floors is just bad, you don't get the item for killing the boss. Is there any time where this would be useful. I figure if your strong enough to skip the floor and not need the item you may as well kill the boss anyways because its easy so why use these?

[edger]

theyre useful if youre late for boss rush/hush

also they can generate a crawl space or black market so thats good. pretty sure you can also check for secret rooms with it too since the trapdoor won't spawn right outside the secret room

[JellyPuff]

Floor skips are also very useful, before unlocking "It Lives!", since this can allow you to go to Sheol, without having to rely on getting a Devil Room. In other words, this can speed up certain unlocks.

(Unless they've patched it in Repentance) Floor skips also allow you to get more points in daily runs, by going beyond Mom or Mom's Heart, if the run would end there.

[Marceloid]

Originally posted by G.:

theyre useful if youre late for boss rush/hush

also they can generate a crawl space or black market so thats good. pretty sure you can also check for secret rooms with it too since the trapdoor won't spawn right outside the secret room

This.

There's a 10% for a crawlspace, so it's not too shabby (still kinda meh), especially if you can find a few batteries.

If i'm feeling strong, i would probably skip Womb 1 to preserve extra health & time, if I want to go to Hush -> Deli or Mega Stanley.

You can also use it to get Challenge Room items for free and Curse Rooms for half the price:
Clear the floor, grab the loot, and dig down :D

[Toxi]

They've only been useful to me for challenge runs or crawl spaces, in the challenge runs that deprives you of things anyway.

I don't think it really redeems these items in any way, they're still item pool polluting garbage in my eyes, you could've gotten an item that played an active part in beating the challenge and better helps you succeed in the proceeding floor and as for boss rush, hush or 100% void portal? On boss rush you have 30 bosses and the other 2 are the hardest end-game bosses, so I think you need better items to beat them and better items also get you faster floor clear times.