How am I supposed to beat Delirium with tainted forgotten?

[Eprico]

What's a good strategy to go for here? With the last two characters that i need to beat Delirium on being tainted lazarus and tainted forgotten, tainted forgotten seems to easily be the hardest. You just can't consistently damage him while he's teleporting all over the place. Even with star of Bethlehem giving the body ridiculous damage, tears and homing, I literally got steamrolled. How did you guys manage?

[Sniper fox72]

polyphemus helps the forgotton and tainted forgotten quite alot in my experience and i had it when i beat delirium
i also had saturnus which makes tears orbit on the skull instead of the soul

[Man of Culture]

I haven't really been thinking about that fight but having read your post I feel like I might cheese the ♥♥♥♥ out of that fight with gnawed leaf and hope I find some good orbitals.

[Eprico]

Originally posted by The Merovingian:

I haven't really been thinking about that fight but having read your post I feel like I might cheese the ♥♥♥♥ out of that fight with gnawed leaf and hope I find some good orbitals.

I don't even know if gnawed leaf would work, I think all items only affect the body

[Sapatos]

Get lucky.
You' should aim for Delirium when he's on the normal form, since there's no boss armor there.

[Man of Culture]

Originally posted by Eprico:

Originally posted by The Merovingian:

I haven't really been thinking about that fight but having read your post I feel like I might cheese the ♥♥♥♥ out of that fight with gnawed leaf and hope I find some good orbitals.

I don't even know if gnawed leaf would work, I think all items only affect the body

Frick I think you're right. Well then. I guess in that case maybe hope for a chaos card or else suffer from having to track him down and hurl yourself into it.

[restore]

"The Soul is invincible as long as the bone club is not used and The Forgotten is not thrown, even if The Soul is holding The Forgotten and moving around."
It could work even better than you think, altho im not sure now if orbitals of skull do dmg while being held

edit: chaos does not work on delirium :D

[patrol]

Any item that will freeze delirium is a godsend since it moves so randomly , I cheesed it on tainted isaac by getting myself 14 luck and tear rate of something along 6.5 while having mom's contacts. If you get lucky pause will give you 30s of uninterrupted dmg from orbitals to delirium

[alex]

I had an insane 30+ damage run. I still got hit about 5 times. The goal is to have massive range and attacking him while he's in his stationary, unarmored form.

[King Joshington]

I read on here that the Delerium fight will be tweaked and I hope so because although I've beaten him a small number of times, I feel like it's always been because of an insane synergy rather than skill.

[Deadeye64]

Originally posted by King Joshington:

I read on here that the Delerium fight will be tweaked and I hope so because although I've beaten him a small number of times, I feel like it's always been because of an insane synergy rather than skill.

Beaten Delirium several times myself, and yea I feel ya, I always had some ridiculous build by the time I reached him that it was to the point you had to TRY to lose if you were going to lose.. Delirium is a pain..

[NERV]

Just blew up the skeleton with "Kamikaze!".

[Eprico]

Originally posted by NERV:

Just blew up the skeleton with "Kamikaze!".

That's actually huge, I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks

[Okami]

get lucky.
Literally what makes you win runs like that.
Just had a lost run where i got book of shadows with 4.5 volt and it pretty much gives you infinite invulnerability aslong as you can deal enough damage.

[Blind]

gnawed leaf is op because while holding not the bones you can't actually break invincibility unless you pick up/use an item or drop a bomb