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Polyphemus is a Special passive item.
Effects
- Greatly increased damage: (Damage + 4) * 2
- Tears down: (Delay * 2.1) + 3
- If a tear kills an enemy, the tear travels on with the leftover damage.
Synergies
20/20: Fires 2 Polyphemus tears instead of one.
Brimstone: Greatly increases damage and charge time.
Chocolate Milk: Greatly increases damage of each shot. Charge time seems unaffected.
Eve's Mascara: Makes tears even larger with increased damage. Fire rate will be extremely low but the large tear can kill most enemies in one shot.- Ipecac: Slightly increases damage, large decrease in fire rate.
- Mom's Knife: Massively increased damage while decreasing charge rate.
- Monstro's Lung: Increases charge time and damage.
- Piercing shots: Tears do not lose strength upon piercing enemies.
- Proptosis: Very large, high-damage tears with a short range.
- Pupula Duplex: Widens tear shots and adds Spectral Tear effect.
- Rotten Baby: Greatly increases flies damage.
- Rubber Cement: Tears bounce off of enemies without losing strength.
- Sacred Heart: Greatly increases the damage and the size of the tear making the tear extremely big.
- Tech.5: Frequently fires a very high damage laser.
- Technology: Greatly increases damage while decreasing rate of fire.
Interactions
- The Inner Eye / Mutant Spider: Fires 3 / 4 Polyphemus tears instead of one. Tear rate is not lowered further, but the effect on damage becomes a flat +5 bonus instead.
- Lost Contact: Isaac's tears will block enemy shots and continue on, but lose 10 damage. If the tear had less than 10 damage left, it disappears.
- A second Polyphemus: No effect.
Ingame Footage
Seeds
Template:PlatPC 01LE JSFZ (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) Template:PlatPC CRCR 2DRH (Treasure room north of spawn) Template:PlatPC Z9EF 3B2H (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) Template:PlatPC KWG7 MXZR (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) Template:PlatPC 4S8J GX6L (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) (Normal mode only) Template:PlatPC NKV1 BPSK (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) (Normal mode only) Template:PlatPC 6DA4 KK71 (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) Template:PlatPS4 0ZT7 0K1A (First floor treasure room) Template:PlatVita YAXZ H2WD (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) Template:Plat3DS WARH B6XF (Treasure room adjacent to spawn) Template:Plat3DS 3KDZ DYK1 (First floor treasure room; Curse of the Blind) Template:Plat3DS 919A H73A (Treasure room adjacent to spawn)
Trivia
- Polyphemus, ancient Greek for "The much vaunted", is a Cyclops. He is the son of Poseidon and the sea nymph Thoosa.
- This item is used in Challenge #15 (Slow Roll).
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