Worst items/power ups in the game.

[Holding These Alligators Down]

Im going with orbiting tears and controlled tears, they suck balls have both ruined my runs because i forgot what they looked like before i picked them up.

[Brulebassani]

Tiny planet is amazing if you have enough atk speed, or with some other itens, and "controlled tears" i think you are saying Ludovico right?, in that case you are lost, is a awesome item that synergy with a LOT of other itens, is pretty much a insta win item,

i think you cant controll the tear and you char at the same time, that is why you are complaining about it

if you are having trouble with that, wait till you get cursed eye, that will make you cringe

[Holding These Alligators Down]

Originally posted by Brulebassani:

Tiny planet is amazing if you have enough atk speed, or with some other itens, and "controlled tears" i think you are saying Ludovico right?, in that case you are lost, is a awesome item that synergy with a LOT of other itens, is pretty much a insta win item,

i think you cant controll the tear and you char at the same time, that is why you are complaining about it

I don't like controlled tears because if your shot speed is slow and you have the tear on the other side of the screen, you can easily get pinned in a corner. Also, yeah it is a pain the arse trying to control your shot and Isaac on the more hectic levels.

[lazyhead]

I once had bob's brain + fire mind. I was blowing myself up left and right but luckily I had an item that would sometimes drop hearts whenever I was hit.

[R3sistance]

Almost all items have something they synergy well with... even if the base item sucks really hard... I think the following are possibly some of the worst pick-ups.

Bob's Brain is pretty bad since you end out doing more damage to yourself than your enemies.

Isaac's tears seems pretty bad most of the time unless you have a slow powerful tear effect to use it with.

Kamikaze! is still horribly bad unless you have Pyromaniac or something like that.

Monster Manual... takes up active item slot for a random familiar every now and then, rather just finding a familiar....

Anti-Gravity... not seen any good use of this but would synergy well with lump of coal, probably need homing and definitely don't want brimstone or technology effects.

Number one, unless you have Technology, there is no reason to get this, greatly reduced range for greatly increased fire rate.

Soy Milk, to often this leaves you do such little damage you might as well not be attacking. You really have to rely on a synergy if you pick this up or hope you get a lot of +attack soon.

Mom's Toe Nail... random mom's foot, can go off at any time and can hurt/kill you. Does do a lot of damage if it hits enemies tho.

Hook Worm.... can make hitting enemies harder... a lot harder.

[CyberCobra]

Originally posted by R3sistance:

Bob's Brain is pretty bad since you end out doing more damage to yourself than your enemies.

Anti-Gravity... not seen any good use of this but would synergy well with lump of coal, probably need homing and definitely don't want brimstone or technology effects.

Number one, unless you have Technology, there is no reason to get this, greatly reduced range for greatly increased fire rate.

i have to disagree with these 3.

bobs brain is very tricky but if you get used to it it can realy give you a nice damage boost when you need it, if your damage is fine and dont have alot of health then you probably dont want to pick it up.

anti gravity does have some good synergies. i once had a run where i had it + my reflection (cuasing the tears to gravitate towards you and sort of swarm around you before firing off) and shielded tears. i basicly had this cloud of inpenetrable tears protecting me at all times.

number one can increse your damage a TON. and the reduced range is very easely dealt with.

[The Ripper {Panda}]

Bobs Brain and anything that makes you "stompy"

[Idiotechnical]

Cursed eye. Accidentaly picked it up before the (spoiler?) fight with mega-satan. Let's just say I didn't win that fight.

[MonadsSuck(PC)]

I shall be another voice lamenting the run that fell thanks to Cursed Eye. Eve run, very little health. Get hit, go to the curse room. Get hit right after leaving, back in you go! It's a special kind of sadism an item has when it kills you by making you walk over spikes again and again.

[fragmend]

Anti gravity is amazing with brimstone and has other good combinations so I don't think it should have a place on a worst items list. Additionally I actually find it helpful by itself but I may be alone in that xD

[Athéri System]

Personally I find Bob's Brain to be almost a run winning item. I've gotten so used to using it that whenever I have it there are very few rooms where most enemies DON'T die in one shot.

The item I hate the most is Cursed Eye... But only because of the teleporting. Otherwise it's a decent item.

[Powermonkey]

I initially hated Bob's Brain and Cursed Eye, but after learning how to use them properly have found them to be absolutely fantastic. Both just require a little more thought and self-control to work around the side effects. Don't just give up the run next time you pick up one of these. Force yourself to learn them, it is worth it.

For example, cursed eye + mutant spider + polyphemus results in most bosses going down in ~2 charged shots. You almost cannot lose with this combination.

[R3sistance]

Originally posted by CyberCobra:

Originally posted by R3sistance:

Bob's Brain is pretty bad since you end out doing more damage to yourself than your enemies.

Anti-Gravity... not seen any good use of this but would synergy well with lump of coal, probably need homing and definitely don't want brimstone or technology effects.

Number one, unless you have Technology, there is no reason to get this, greatly reduced range for greatly increased fire rate.

i have to disagree with these 3.

bobs brain is very tricky but if you get used to it it can realy give you a nice damage boost when you need it, if your damage is fine and dont have alot of health then you probably dont want to pick it up.

anti gravity does have some good synergies. i once had a run where i had it + my reflection (cuasing the tears to gravitate towards you and sort of swarm around you before firing off) and shielded tears. i basicly had this cloud of inpenetrable tears protecting me at all times.

number one can increse your damage a TON. and the reduced range is very easely dealt with.

I've switched on bob's brain now, it just takes practice but it's actually potentially one of the best items as it counts as bomb meaning it gets all bomb synergys... haven't tested it with sad tears but have with butt bombs which causes the butt bomb effect, effectively for free.

I've more seeing Anti-gravity as just bad, yes all bad items have some good syerngy but anti-gravity is just bad in 97.5% of the time... I'd place it as simply worst item going next to magnetic tears. I generally don't avoid bad items but Magnetic Tears and Anti-Gravity I will always avoid.

Still maintain number 1 is bad, it can become good if you get +range but the amount it decreases range... can be very dangerous.

[West Taiwan]

The controlled tears is so good if you use it right. I've won every single time I've picked it up so far.

[R3sistance]

Originally posted by Uncle Touchy:

The controlled tears is so good if you use it right. I've won every single time I've picked it up so far.

By "The Controlled Tears" do you mean The Ludovico Technique? If so, it far from the worst but it's not great unless you get a good syenrgy gooing.

[Aeon]

Soy Milk by far.