Best Friend

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Best Friend is an activated item.

Effect

  • Spawns a decoy vaguely resembling Isaac in his crying animation, which explodes after 5 seconds with the blast radius of a Mega Troll Bomb.pngMega Troll Bomb.
    • (except in Repentance and Repentance+) The explosion deals 110 damage.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) The explosion deals 185 damage.
  • The decoy bomb distracts enemies, as they will target the decoy instead of Isaac regardless of distance.

Notes

  • All Bomb.pngBomb modifier items will affect Best Friend, with the exception of Collectible Bobby-Bomb icon.pngBobby-Bomb, (except in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Bomber Boy icon.pngBomber Boy, (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Fast Bombs icon.pngFast Bombs, Collectible Mr. Mega icon.pngMr. Mega, and (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Rocket in a Jar icon.pngRocket in a Jar.
  • Bosses such as Boss Chub ingame.pngChub or Boss Carrion Queen ingame.pngCarrion Queen can swallow the decoy bomb just like a regular bomb.
  • Isaac can push the decoy bomb by walking into it or shooting it with his tears just like regular bombs.
  • If Isaac leaves and re-enters a room after placing the decoy bomb, its explosion timer will be set to that of a regular bomb (1.5 seconds).

Synergies

In-game footage

Trivia

  • Edmund McMillen stated that Best Friend would no longer "Die upon touch". This is a reference to a bug in the original The Binding of Isaac where, in many circumstances, Isaac could take glitched hits (often killing Isaac outright).
  • Best Friend works remarkably similar to Pipe Bombs in Left 4 Dead, down to the 5 second timer and not working on bosses.

Gallery

Bugs

Bug Bug! (except in Repentance and Repentance+) Gurgles, Splashers, Boils, Guts, and Sacks are immune to Best Friend's explosion.
Bug Bug! Switch Doubles when Multidimensional Baby passes through it.[citation needed]