How to have fun with tainted lazarus?

[Piresphant]

Seriously, I get 30 min into a run, even really really good ones and i just quit, not fun at all. Rework needed asap

[Cirth]

Try with the birthright.

[JellyPuff]

He's already been re-worked. "Flip" didn't used to create spectral items behind pedestals before and his "Birthright" wasn't implemented.

The shop's one of the most useful rooms for T.Lazarus, because of all the battery-items and "Birthright", which is pretty strong for him, considering how consistently it appears in shops. The rest is micromanaging "Flip"-charges to get the most out of Treasure and Angel Room pedestals. Make a habit of leaving some rooms uncleared, so you can use them to strategically change characters.

Boss Rush and Hush will always be a pain to get to on hard-mode, though. It's just a bit more rare with slower characters, that have to min/max with their gimmick.

[Danizk0]

You don't. Trying to make smart plays is a waste of time because you'll always get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over by weird-ass item interactions, unintuitive item charges, enemies spawning in rooms that you were expecting to be empty and causing you to switch forms etc. Just try to power through the game as fast as you can.