Glass Cannon (Challenge)

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This article is about the challenge. For the item, see Glass Cannon.

Glass Cannon is challenge #11. Start off as Character Judas icon.pngJudas with Collectible Epic Fetus icon.pngEpic Fetus and Collectible Loki's Horns icon.pngLoki's Horns. The goal is to defeat Boss Satan ingame.pngSatan. This challenge is unlocked by unlocking Collectible Epic Fetus icon.pngEpic Fetus, Collectible Loki's Horns icon.pngLoki's Horns, and Character Judas icon.pngJudas; which requires completing The Family Man (challenge #19), defeating Boss Lokii ingame.pngLokii, and defeating Boss Satan ingame.pngSatan respectively.

Difficulty

  • Starting the game with only one heart container. This means that without acquiring additional heart containers, Soul Heart.pngSoul Hearts, or Black Heart.pngBlack Hearts, doing any self-damage will instantly kill Judas.
    • However, with the ability to access all Secret RoomSecret Rooms, Super Secret RoomSuper Secret Rooms, and Crawl SpaceCrawl Spaces on all floors, as well as free access to all the pickups that tinted rocks, urns, mushrooms, skulls, and polyps provide, experienced players can get very easy runs.

Strategy

  • Epic Fetus is an incredibly powerful offensive item, so primarily focus on acquiring health upgrades and defensive items such as Pretty Fly (from a pill or Slot Machine.pngSlot Machine), Collectible Sacrificial Dagger icon.pngSacrificial Dagger, Collectible Cube of Meat icon.pngCube of Meat, and Collectible Ball of Bandages icon.pngBall of Bandages. Collectible Demon Baby icon.pngDemon Baby and Collectible Rotten Baby icon.pngRotten Baby can be helpful as well, as they do not require aiming to do damage.
  • Collectible Pyromaniac icon.pngPyromaniac or (except in Rebirth)Collectible Host Hat icon.pngHost Hat are highly useful as they prevent self-damage.
  • Collectible Strange Attractor icon.pngStrange Attractor is highly effective, because most enemies and some bosses will be pulled towards the missiles instead of targeting the player. However, finding it is extremely unlikely because it is only found in the Treasure Room item pool.
  • Destroying all rocks and destructible objects on every floor, as well as accessing both Secret Rooms on each floor, is a vital aspect to completing the challenge easily.
  • Loki's Horns are difficult to utilize effectively with Epic Fetus. However, the extra crosshairs can move through walls and are always the same distance from the character as the main crosshair, so pretend that they are not there, and just avoid taking damage from the main crosshair.
  • (except in Rebirth) Collectible Brimstone icon.pngBrimstone will make this challenge incredibly easy. It synergizes with Epic Fetus, firing 10 blood lasers. If Loki's horns activate, the 40 lasers will usually cover an entire standard size room. With Collectible 20 20 icon.png20/20 or the (in Afterbirth † and Repentance) BookwormBookworm transformation, the 80 lasers will destroy most bosses in one shot
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Spirit Sword icon.pngSpirit Sword overrides Epic Fetus, arguably making the challenge easier by removing any chance of self harm or need to aim Epic Fetus missiles.

Reward

Trivia

  • A "glass cannon" is a term used for someone or something that deals high damage but can't take much damage.