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Tough Love is a passive item.

Effects

  • Adds a chance to shoot a tooth instead of a tear, which deals x3.2 Isaac's damage.

Notes

  • The chance to fire a tooth depends on the luck stat, and the formula used to determine the chance is: [1]
    • At base luck (0), the chance is 10%, maxing out at 100% at 9 luck.

Interactions

  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Apple! iconApple!: With 14 Luck, overrides Tough Love. With 13 Luck, Apple and Tough Love each have about an equal chance to trigger.
  • (in Rebirth)Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone: Overridden by Brimstone.
    • (except in Rebirth) Occasionally fires Brimstone beam with damage multiplier of Tough Love.
  • Collectible Cricket's Body iconCricket's Body / (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Compound Fracture iconCompound Fracture: Teeth will split into smaller teeth.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Dr. Fetus iconDr. Fetus: Bombs explode with the increased blast damage and radius of Collectible Mr. Mega iconMr. Mega.
    • (in Repentance) Adds a chance for the bombs to deal increased damage. See the page for the specific damage formula.
  • Collectible Fire Mind iconFire Mind: Adds a flaming effect to the teeth, (except in Repentance) but without the chance of exploding.
  • Collectible Ipecac iconIpecac: Teeth explode with the increased blast damage of Collectible Mr. Mega iconMr. Mega.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Mom's Knife iconMom's Knife: Overridden by Mom's Knife.
    • (in Repentance): Both damage multipliers apply, combined damage multiplier is x6.4.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Haemolacria iconHaemolacria: Tears will not appear as teeth but may still gain the damage multiplier.
  • (in Repentance)JawbreakerJawbreaker: Activation rates are individually applied to each tear, effectively allowing for higher amounts of teeth. At 9 Luck, the trinket is no longer needed, as Tough Love will already guarantee that every shot is a tooth.
  • Collectible The Ludovico Technique iconThe Ludovico Technique: Tear occasionally flicks to being a tooth, which deals 3.2x Isaac's tear damage, before immediately returning to being a normal tear. The frequency at which the tear very briefly transforms into a tooth increases with Luck, permanently becoming a tooth at 9 Luck.
  • Collectible The Parasite iconThe Parasite: Split tears will not turn into teeth.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Spirit Sword iconSpirit Sword: Both the sword and projectiles can deal increased damage.
  • Collectible Technology iconTechnology: Damage multiplier applies occasionally.

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Trivia

The x3.2 damage multiplier is likely a reference to the fact that full set of adult teeth amounts to 32 teeth in total.

References


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