Tear Effects
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This article is about Isaac's primary weapon. For the attribute of the same name that governs the rate of fire, see Tears. For debuffs that can be inflicted on monsters, see Status Effects.
Tear Effects modify Isaac's primary weapon — tears. A few of the most common tear effects are listed below.
Effects
Effect | Appearance | Description |
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Homing | ![]() |
Completely diverts from their original path to seek nearby enemies. The distance homing tears can travel is determined by the range stat.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Piercing | ![]() |
Can travel through enemies (but not obstacles) without breaking on impact. Once a single target or a segment of an enemy has been hit by a piercing tear, it can no longer take damage from that tear.![]() |
Spectral | ![]() |
Can travel through obstacles (but not enemies) without breaking on impact. Spectral tears can be used to safely dispatch most types of monsters from behind obstacles, or over them in combination with flying. Allows tears to pass through both enemies and obstacles if combined with Piercing. |
Bouncing | ![]() |
Makes tears bounce off walls, enemies and environmental objects. Tears that bounce off of enemies bounce in random directions, whereas tears that bounce off of walls and other objects bounce directly back. When tears bounce from enemies, they become able to hit the same enemy again should they bounce off of another enemy or obstacle. |
Homing
Activated Items that grant homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Telepathy For Dummies | 5.100.192 | ![]() |
Temporary psychic shot | Gives homing tears for the current room. ![]() |
1 |
Passive Items that grant homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Godhead | 5.100.331 | ![]() |
God tears | ![]() ![]() |
4 |
Sacred Heart | 5.100.182 | ![]() |
Homing shots + DMG up | ![]() ![]() |
4 |
Spoon Bender | 5.100.3 | ![]() |
Homing shots | Grants Isaac homing tears. | 3 |
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5.100.651 | ![]() |
Follow the light | Spawns a star familiar that slowly travels towards the ![]() |
3 |
Trinkets that grant homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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5.350.98 | ![]() |
Seems magic... | Chance to fire a homing booger that sticks to enemies and deals damage over time. |
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5.350.96 | ![]() |
Foop foop! | Tears travel in a large spiral pattern and gain spectral, with a small chance to gain homing. ![]() |
Cards that grant homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Message | Description |
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I - The Magician | 5.300.2 | ![]() |
May you never miss your goal | ![]() ![]() |
Familiars that fire homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Little Steven | 5.100.100 | ![]() |
Psychic friend | Spawns a familiar who follows Isaac around and fires homing tears. | 2 |
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5.100.390 | ![]() |
Sworn friend | Spawns an angel familiar who follows Isaac and fires homing tears which deal 10 damage and have 75% shot speed. | 3 |
Trinkets that grant familiars with homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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???'s Soul | 5.350.57 | ![]() |
Imaginary Friend | Spawns a familiar that floats slowly around the room on a zig-zag pattern similar to ![]() |
Umbilical Cord | 5.350.33 | ![]() |
Fetal Protection | When brought down to only a ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Trinkets that grant familiars homing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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5.350.127 | ![]() |
Feed them magic! | Grants Isaac's familiars homing shots. |
Other Sources of Homing
Standing near a
White Poop or White Dip will grant homing.
Piercing
Passive Items that grant piercing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Brimstone | 5.100.118 | ![]() |
Blood laser barrage | Tears are replaced with a blood laser beam that pierces through all enemies and obstacles in its path and deals high damage. Can only be fired after a short charge-up period. | 4 |
Cupid's Arrow | 5.100.48 | ![]() |
Piercing shots | Grants Isaac triangular piercing tears that travel through enemies (but not obstacles) instead of breaking on impact with them. | ![]() ![]() |
Dead Onion | 5.100.336 | ![]() |
Toxic aura tears | Grants piercing and spectral tears. Increases tear size (without increasing damage) while greatly reducing range and shot speed. | ![]() ![]() |
Death's Touch | 5.100.237 | ![]() |
Piercing shots + DMG up | +1.5 damage, -0.3 tears. Tears are replaced with large piercing scythes. | 3 |
Sagittarius | 5.100.306 | ![]() |
Piercing shots + speed up | Increases speed by +0.2 and grants piercing tears. | 3 |
Technology | 5.100.68 | ![]() |
Laser tears | Replaces tears with a piercing laser with unlimited range. | 3 |
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5.100.533 | ![]() |
Smite thy enemy | Tears are replaced with piercing white blasts of light that deal less damage but can damage the same enemy multiple times. | 3 |
Familiars that fire piercing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Lil Brimstone | 5.100.275 | ![]() |
Evil friend | Grants a familiar that charges a thin ![]() |
2 |
Robo-Baby | 5.100.95 | ![]() |
Friends 'till the bbbbzzzt | Spawns a familiar that shoots ![]() |
1 |
Robo-Baby 2.0 | 5.100.267 | ![]() |
We worked out all the kinks | Spawns a familiar that fires lasers at any enemy in its line of sight and moves based on the direction Isaac is firing tears. | 1 |
Trinkets that grant familiars with piercing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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Isaac's Head | 5.350.54 | ![]() |
Dead friend | Spawns Isaac's severed head as a tear-firing familiar. Fires piercing tears. |
Trinkets that grant piercing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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Push Pin | 5.350.31 | ![]() |
Piercing shots | Adds a 10% chance to shoot a piercing and spectral tear. |
Spectral
Passive Items that grant spectral tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Dead Dove | 5.100.185 | ![]() |
Flight + spectral tears | Grants spectral tears and flight. | 3 |
Dead Onion | 5.100.336 | ![]() |
Toxic aura tears | Grants piercing and spectral tears. Increases tear size (without increasing damage) while greatly reducing range and shot speed. | ![]() ![]() |
Ouija Board | 5.100.115 | ![]() |
Spectral tears + tears up | Grants spectral tears that travel through obstacles (but not enemies). ![]() |
2 |
Spirit of the Night | 5.100.159 | ![]() |
Scary | Grants spectral tears and flight. | 3 |
Tiny Planet | 5.100.233 | ![]() |
Orbiting tears + range up | Massively increases Range and grants spectral tears. Tears orbit around Isaac at a fixed distance until they hit the ground. | 0 |
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5.100.369 | ![]() |
Transcendent tears | Grants spectral tears and increases range. Tears travel through walls and appear at the opposite side of the room. | 2 |
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5.100.379 | ![]() |
Wide shot | Gives Isaac spectral tears and gives his tears a wide arc shape, increasing their size. | 2 |
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5.100.358 | ![]() |
Double wiz shot! | Grants spectral tears. Tears simultaneously fire out of both eyes diagonally, similar to the effect of the R U a Wizard? pill. | 0 |
Familiars that fire spectral tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Ghost Baby | 5.100.163 | ![]() |
Spectral buddy | Spawns a familiar that follows Isaac around and fires spectral tears. | 1 |
Robo-Baby | 5.100.95 | ![]() |
Friends 'till the bbbbzzzt | Spawns a familiar that shoots ![]() |
1 |
Trinkets that grant familiars with spectral tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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???'s Soul | 5.350.57 | ![]() |
Imaginary Friend | Spawns a familiar that floats slowly around the room on a zig-zag pattern similar to ![]() |
Trinkets that grant spectral tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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Push Pin | 5.350.31 | ![]() |
Piercing shots | Adds a 10% chance to shoot a piercing and spectral tear. |
Ring Worm | 5.350.11 | ![]() |
Woop woop! | Isaac fires in a fast spiraling pattern. ![]() |
Wiggle Worm | 5.350.10 | ![]() |
Wiggle waggle! | Isaac's tears travel in a wave-like pattern. +0.4 Tears up. ![]() |
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5.350.96 | ![]() |
Foop foop! | Tears travel in a large spiral pattern and gain spectral, with a small chance to gain homing. ![]() |
Bouncing
Passive Items that grant bouncing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description | ![]() |
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Rubber Cement | 5.100.221 | ![]() |
Bouncing tears | Tears bounce off walls, enemies, and environmental objects. | 3 |
Trinkets that grant bouncing tears
Name | ID | Icon | Quote | Description |
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5.350.99 | ![]() |
Boing! | Makes tears have a chance to bounce off enemies and obstacles. |
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