Tech X best item in game?

[Phyre]

I think Tech X is best single item in game. I would take over any other single item. Yes even a Godhead, and any of the other best tear modfiers in game and here's why.

Tech X benefits a ton from tears up, unlike Brimstone, which does benefit but there's always downtime, and Brimstone hits a much smaller area, minus certain synergies like Spoonbender. With good tears Tech X can keep a constant stream of pain on your enemies.

It's amazing on boss rush and Hush, because range is always max. You can be long distance while non-stop laying siege on everything. It also helps greatly in being under the time limits for boss rush and the Blue Womb, while exploring everywhere because you can clear every room in seconds. The range, area and piercing ability(which I get to next) is great on Mega Satan too!

It has some of the best tear modifications essentially, basically spectral tears and piercing tears. The peircing is amazing on everything but again really helps with boss rush or Hush in taking no damage. I believe it's the best item in attaining a high score also, because of speed of kills and being able to stay out of range of many bosses and enemies.

Another tear modifier I love is Deaths Touch, but that like a lot of the other nice modifiers has a big drawback if you have a high tear rate and/or incubus along with high damage and certain other tear modfiers. That drawback is things like enemies shots easily get hidden in you tears, this happens with anything that covers areas of your screen. Tech X area is mostly not covered even though it hits a huge area. This allows you to still see danger and effectivly dodge enemies and thier attacks in longer battles.

I don't really feel like I even need to cover the amazing synergies of Tech X. I think Tech X is so good because it doesn't even need anything else to do massive damage in a large area. Any run you get Tech X is a great run, you don't need much of anything else to finish that run regardless of character, minus Azazel(WHY IN GODS NAME DOES TECH X NOT OVERRIDE AZAZEL'S BRIMSTONE LASER?! It should just replace it if the game doesn't want to give you the normal Brimstone with Tech X synergy). Also unlike many of the other great items, there's no way to get them as your first item in a run, that is you don't have to open devil/angel rooms or use a sacrifice room to get the item, you don't even have to unlock Tech X AND it's not a special item! So even if your a new player, you can get it.

Some of the Negatives are that it does not benefit from the range up stat, unless you get Libra. If you fire fully charged shots they can't hit certain enemies in corners. It takes a bit of getting used to for being able to fire at the right rate if your new to useing it, this can distract you from evading things. Also the above mentioned Azazel issue, in that it's basically worthless with him. All these negatives are minor and the positives are so overwhelming.

Overall Tech X is great, so I'm sure it's getting nerfed for the next addon.

[FALLENV3GAS]

The bean is still better.

[Misirter E]

Tech X is fine, but praise be unto Bumbo.
also the butter bean

[Phyre]

OH MY GOD I FORGOT THE BUTTER BEAN!!!!!

Shame on me!

I take everything I said about Tech X back, it sucks.

[AutumnLeaf]

Tech X is pretty good. I wish it would show up in my runs once in a while.

[leo el peo]

Abel is obviosly the best item in the game, a real run-winner

[Phaper]

I still think Stop Watch is better, in terms of overall usefulness.

High damage is great, but it's easier to survive with lower damage + Stop Watch than it is to have high damage and be squishy as hell.

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by Phaper:

I still think Stop Watch is better, in terms of overall usefulness.

High damage is great, but it's easier to survive with lower damage + Stop Watch than it is to have high damage and be squishy as hell.

I would even disagree, if we'd talk about the pre-Afterbirth Stopwatch.

The question about which item is the best has been answered in countless threads already:

Bumbo

What's better than Tech X? Bumbo dropping you Tech X.

[Phyre]

Stopwatch and low damage won't get you in time for boss rush and Hush in one game unless you got useful orbitals with something like Unicorn Stump, or a few other ways, but just Stopwatch on it's own is only good for surviving a run, not playing fast. I was saying overall including playing a game fast and taking zero damage, I would take it over everything else in game. Also because you can clear most rooms with Tech X very fast it helps minimize damage.

Yeah Bumbo is awesome, but the chance of him giving something great are small, however, he owns in any case I agree. I think the drawback of Bumbo can be a little greater without explosion protection. His bombs can sometimes cause accidents to you or other things. Also letting Bumbo take coins lowers your score, or might cause you to not afford something. AND HE WANTS YOUR COIN!

When I say do a run in no damage I mean not taking any damage for entire run for high score, I think nothing works better in game, as a single item than Tech X. There are some synergies overall that are much better I believe yes, but Tech X as a stand alone item lays waste.

Cases for other items are apreciated, play style also dictates which items work well for other people, I just love Tech X, as stated I just think it's amazing=)

[JellyPuff]

Objectively, yes, Tech X may be the best single item in the game. It's not yet considered a special item either.
I think the D100 (or D4) is equal - if not superior, since it doesn't only allow you to re-roll until you're OP (aka, re-roll until Tech X), you'll most likely grab Spun, Conjoined and Beelzebub along the way as well.

But the king of no-damage run setups would be Tammy's Head+Brimstone, preferably with some battery-items. (9-Volt, The Battery, Car Battery)

As a fun sidenote: Technology + The Ludovico Technique = remote-controlled Tech X.

[Phyre]

Yeah Brimstone and Tammy's Head is so amazing even without battery items, with them it's not hardly fair, with exception of the two big boss fights, Hush and Mega Satan, you still have to work on them somewhat.

The Ludovico technique has fun synergies, but I honestly hate useing it unless I already have items that synergize well with it. Not sure if I'm alone on that one or if other people don't like it as a single item as well?

[e-v-a-n]

Tech X is certainly a fantastic item - I wouldn't say the best one though. It's definitely in the top 5 though - possibly even top 3.

[TheJadeMirror]

just won my first round in afterbirth+ with it and technology 1