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Luck Stat Icon Luck affects a variety of chance-based effects and is represented by a 3-leaf clover.

Effects of luck

Luck influences many different elements:

  • Room drops: For calculating room drops, luck is capped between 0 and 10, with higher luck not only resulting in higher amounts of drops but also higher quality drops such as chests.
    • Room drop rates are otherwise identical in Normal and Hard game modes, but Hard mode removes 65% of heart type drops, replacing them with nothing.
  • Tear effect chance: The chance of shooting tears with status effects becomes more likely as Luck goes up. This scales up to 100% chance per tear in most cases with enough Luck.
    • Most of the status inflicting effects require a very unlikely high number of Luck to activate on every tear.
      • Since these effects persist on the enemies for a set amount of time regardless of the Tears stat, a fast rate of fire is often enough to affect an enemy indefinitely.
    • Other items affected by Luck include:
      • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Broken Modem iconBroken Modem: Higher luck increases the rate of freezing enemies and their shots.
      • Collectible Celtic Cross iconCeltic Cross: The Celtic Cross grants its invulnerability more often with higher Luck, topping out at 100% at 27 Luck.
      • Collectible Gimpy iconGimpy: The Soul Heart/Black Heart drop chance upon taking damage increases with higher Luck, topping out at 50% at 22 Luck.
      • Collectible Midas' Touch iconMidas' Touch: Poops generated by Isaac's actions have a chance to turn into Golden Poop, starting at 10% with 0 Luck up to 100% at 18 Luck.
      • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Mystery Gift iconMystery Gift: Higher luck results in a lower chance of getting Collectible The Poop iconThe Poop or Collectible A Lump of Coal iconA Lump of Coal.
      • Collectible Old Bandage iconOld Bandage: The Red Heart drop chance when you take a hit increases with higher Luck, topping out at 50% at 29 Luck.
      • Collectible Virgo iconVirgo: The shield activation chance increases with Luck, topping out at 100% at 10 Luck.

However, Luck doesn't affect:

Items that affect luck

Activated Items

Passive Items

Trinkets

Other

  • "Luck Up" pills increase luck by 1, and "Luck Down" pills decrease luck by 1.
  • (except in Rebirth) Lucky pennies increase luck by 1.
  • (except in Rebirth) In co-op, Green Baby will occasionally briefly increase luck by 2. Dark Baby will occasionally briefly increase all stats, including luck.


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