I need help with Tainted characters

[aaronkl]

I just finished completing all normal characters completition marks and I want to start doing tainted ones, I already have all t isaac, t azazel and t lilith marks, what t characters do you guys recommend playing next (I've tried most of them and they are not really catching my eye, so I wanted some recommended order or sth)

[RedSage]

If you're just looking for character recommendations, Judas is a pretty safe bet. Great for just mowing down enemies thanks to Dark Arts. I'm also a pretty big fan of Eve. If you can get a good enough army of clots going and get some decent items, you'll be unstoppable. I also find Forgotten pretty fun as using the Forgotten as a thrown weapon is a pretty fun twist.

However, if you're looking for some good unlocks to play for:

Eve's Isaac/Chest/Satan/Dark room unlock: Strange key. A trinket that allows you to enter blue womb without having to worry about the time limit. Up to you how useful you think this is.

Eve's Mother unlock: Lil clot. Ever wish you had a somewhat lesser Incubus as your trinket? That's exactly what this does. Spawns a clot that uses your tears, range, shot speed, and tear effects, and deals 0.35x your damage. Plus, even if it dies, it will respawn in the next room.

Most Mega Satan unlocks: Most of them introduce mechanics that are generally beneficial. Keeper's golden pennies are great for extra money when one spawns, Eve's horse pills can be useful (or super detrimental) when one shows up, crane games from Samson can make shops (in Greed mode) and arcades even better. Confessionals from Bethany are also the only way to heal broken hearts, so that'll be useful to unlock once you start unlocking more things that give broken hearts.

Lazarus Delirum unlock: Flip. Want extra items from pedestals? Cool. An active item that allows you to grab the first item, then use flip to grab the second. Works just like it does on Tainted Laz, but all the items go to one character.

Greedier Maggy: The Lovers?. Spawns an item from the current room pool at the cost of 1 red heart container (or 2 soul/black hearts if you have none) and giving you 1 broken heart.

If you're ok with incredibly hard challenges, beating Beast as Lost unlocks Sacred Orb. Quality 0 and 1 items are rerolled instantly and quality 2 items have a 33% chance of being rerolled.

If you can manage to beat Greedier as Jacob, you'll unlock a duo of cards, but the one you really want is The Moon? as it acts as a teleport to the Ultra Secret room. The path back to the rest of the map will be made up of red rooms.

Not sure about others, but I'm a big fan of Forgotten's Beast unlock, Isaac's Tomb. Spawns an old chest every floor, which can have 1-3 soul hearts, 3 trinkets, an old chest item (mom and dad items) or an angel room item.

[lieutenantkirtar]

Tainted Samson has been pretty fun so far. Basically a regular playthrough with the occasional super mode that lets you decimate a room or two.

[kone]

T. Maggy makes contact damage fun.
T. Apollyon is meat and potatoes basic but still engaging.
T. Bethany can be exponentially powerful.
Every other character has some tedium or has a tough challenge. Though my favourite tainted of all is T. Lost.

[aaronkl]

Originally posted by RedSage:

If you're just looking for character recommendations, Judas is a pretty safe bet. Great for just mowing down enemies thanks to Dark Arts. I'm also a pretty big fan of Eve. If you can get a good enough army of clots going and get some decent items, you'll be unstoppable. I also find Forgotten pretty fun as using the Forgotten as a thrown weapon is a pretty fun twist.

However, if you're looking for some good unlocks to play for:

Eve's Isaac/Chest/Satan/Dark room unlock: Strange key. A trinket that allows you to enter blue womb without having to worry about the time limit. Up to you how useful you think this is.

Eve's Mother unlock: Lil clot. Ever wish you had a somewhat lesser Incubus as your trinket? That's exactly what this does. Spawns a clot that uses your tears, range, shot speed, and tear effects, and deals 0.35x your damage. Plus, even if it dies, it will respawn in the next room.

Most Mega Satan unlocks: Most of them introduce mechanics that are generally beneficial. Keeper's golden pennies are great for extra money when one spawns, Eve's horse pills can be useful (or super detrimental) when one shows up, crane games from Samson can make shops (in Greed mode) and arcades even better. Confessionals from Bethany are also the only way to heal broken hearts, so that'll be useful to unlock once you start unlocking more things that give broken hearts.

Lazarus Delirum unlock: Flip. Want extra items from pedestals? Cool. An active item that allows you to grab the first item, then use flip to grab the second. Works just like it does on Tainted Laz, but all the items go to one character.

Greedier Maggy: The Lovers?. Spawns an item from the current room pool at the cost of 1 red heart container (or 2 soul/black hearts if you have none) and giving you 1 broken heart.

If you're ok with incredibly hard challenges, beating Beast as Lost unlocks Sacred Orb. Quality 0 and 1 items are rerolled instantly and quality 2 items have a 33% chance of being rerolled.

If you can manage to beat Greedier as Jacob, you'll unlock a duo of cards, but the one you really want is The Moon? as it acts as a teleport to the Ultra Secret room. The path back to the rest of the map will be made up of red rooms.

Not sure about others, but I'm a big fan of Forgotten's Beast unlock, Isaac's Tomb. Spawns an old chest every floor, which can have 1-3 soul hearts, 3 trinkets, an old chest item (mom and dad items) or an angel room item.

Thank you so much, this was very helpful. I'll probably start with Judas and come back to this to see some cool unlocks ;)

[aaronkl]

Originally posted by lieutenantkirtar:

Tainted Samson has been pretty fun so far. Basically a regular playthrough with the occasional super mode that lets you decimate a room or two.

Yeah I gave him a run or two but idk, not really catching me. Maybe with a good first item he will be a bit funnier

[aaronkl]

Originally posted by kitten exterminator:

T. Maggy makes contact damage fun.
T. Apollyon is meat and potatoes basic but still engaging.
T. Bethany can be exponentially powerful.
Every other character has some tedium or has a tough challenge. Though my favourite tainted of all is T. Lost.

Yeah T Lost is the only one that I really want to play but I just have to get better :)