Lead Pencil is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.
Effects
- After every 15 tears fired, Isaac will fire a low range burst of 12 tears at once, in a similar fashion to
Monstro's Lung.
- Tears in the barrage deal double damage.
- Tears will fire only from Isaac's right eye.
- Fired tears have a 50% chance to be colored red.
Tears in the barrage deal double damage.
Fired tears have a 50% chance to be colored red.Notes
- Lead Pencil gives characters other than Cain the same special properties that he has when it comes to one-eye items like Blood Clot.
- Tears fired from items that cause multiple tears to be fired at once e.g. 20/20, Mutant Spider, etc. are counted.
- Each tear fired from Monstro's Lung still count towards triggering the barrage, but only if Isaac does not have any tear modifying items, such as Technology.
Synergies
- Blood Clot: The tears from the barrage will always have the bonus damage from Blood Clot.
- Compound Fracture/Cricket's Body/The Parasite: All tears from the barrage split.
- Haemolacria: Fires a barrage of Haemolacria tears, all of which will burst.
- Lachryphagy: Tears tend to clump together, becoming one giant tear which splits into 8 large tears. When tears burst, they can also spawn barrages of tears that can be fed.
- Pop!: Causes burst tears to remain in the room for much longer, forming a soft barrier of sorts, which enemies must survive through to reach Isaac.
- Torn Card: Decreases shot requirement by 1. Lead Pencil will fire every 14th shot, with Torn Card quickly following at 15th.
- Trisagion: Fires a barrage of beams.
- The Scooper: All tears benefit from the damage bonus granted by The Scooper.
- Sprinkler: Sprinkler tears count for activation of the Lead Pencil effect. The tear burst may fire from the sprinkler or Isaac.
Interactions
- Brimstone: Overrides Lead Pencil.
- The effect from Lead Pencil fires as separate tears from Brimstone.
- Dr. Fetus: Overrides Lead Pencil.
- The Lead Pencil tears fire alongside the bombs.
- Epic Fetus: Overrides Lead Pencil.
- Lilith: No effect, as Lilith is inherently Blindfolded.
- Firing with Incubus will now activate Lead Pencil.
- Loki's Horns: Lead Pencil can fire in any of the cardinal directions if it fires at the same time as Loki's Horns.
- The Ludovico Technique: The tear blinks red, but the effect is entirely cosmetic.
- Isaac's body will fire the lead pencil shot toward where the controlled tear is located at a regular time interval
- Incubus: Fires red tears like Blood Clot with Cain, but without increased damage.
- Incubus is capable of firing the barrage of tears like Isaac.
- Mom's Knife: Overrides Lead Pencil.
- A barrage of tears is fired alongside Mom's Knife every 15 Knife throws.
- Spirit Sword: The effect from Lead Pencil fires separately to Spirit Sword slashes.
- Sprinkler: No effect.
- Stye: The tears from the barrage will never have the bonus damage from Stye.
- Technology: Overrides Lead Pencil.
- A barrage of tears is fired alongside Technology every 15 shots.
- Technology 2: Overrides Lead Pencil and disables normal tears entirely, even if not playing as Cain.
- Replaces tears with lasers similar to Technology. These are shot from the eye that shoots Technology 2, dealing damage alongside the Technology 2 beam.
- Tech X: Overrides Lead Pencil.
- Every 15th laser ring fired also shoots a cluster of tears.
- Tiny Planet: The burst follows Tiny Planet's circular trajectory with minimal range, hitting the ground almost immediately.
In-game Footage
Trivia
- Though the pencil is in Isaac's right eye, it blocks tears from firing out of his left eye.
 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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