Honestly Judas having the Left Hand as an unlock shouldn't count. Yes, it's *technically* his unlock, but 99% of people will unlock it from killing Ultra Pride instead of Judas.
Glyph of Balance is really strong in Repentance. It was buffed to change room drops as well as champion drops, so it's way more impactful. It's one of the few guarenteed Soul Heart generators now, since it will always top you off when you're low.
Fr I had a run where was cooking up something and ignored soul hearts, and Every. Single. Room. It gave me a soul heart 💀 The sacrifice room was plentiful
also generally hard for me to say an item with a down payment of 2 soul hearts on pickup is anything other than quite good, considering most angel rooms can just have something like that, getting that plus an additional effect is huge imo
I'd honestly rather have the penny. Bombs are 5 cents under normal circumstances so you're basically spending 5 cents to get 5 cents. Bombs are also more versatile than money anyway.
Ive come back to this video so many times to decide what to unlock next. So much easier in comparison to digging through the wiki to find each character's unlocks. ty man for making this video, saved me loads of time :D
I find it funny how Azazel’s unlocks being 4-2-2-2-4 perfectly mirrors how people feel about him, and how he is. He’s pretty divided upon, but being my impatient self, I love him!
@@Jessepigman69 guessing it's probably because azazel is all in on the early game with short range high dmg, he can fall off really hard on the later floors without the right items, and if you're a decent player you can probably manage the early floors pretty easily without brimstone and flight given to you
@ToadStool125 see I understand that. He's not my favourite character by any means but "hate" is a very strong word. Not sure what there is to hate. He's probably the easiest character to get deadgod
I think the locusts are actually really good, specifically war, pestilence, and conquest. The war explosion was changed to be smaller but is still big enough to mess up a couple enemies without you also getting caught in the crossfire
Yea i def agree to an extent, I think in my mind trinket unlocks are not worth it most of the time compared to other better items you could get, but yea I don't think I should've thrown them as low as I did since they obviously can help a bit on any kind of run!
In defense of Esau Jr: It is the only permanent passive Flight item in the entirety of the Treasure Room pool. That is to say, you activate it once to turn into Esau Jr. and gain his Flight and Damage Up, and then you *put it back where you found it and never touch it again.* You get to stay as Esau Jr. even if you put the item down and never pick it back up, and honestly it's the best possible outcome for using the damn thing.
One issue, every time I find Esau Jr. I'm already having a good run and Esau Jr's items are worse. I really wanna use it, but it's never been useful for me the few times I found it.
Esau Jr. can be OP item. I used it a lot of times. You can reroll your build and can get DMG up. If you dont like Esau'build - you need 1 room to recharge. Its a very good item.
No, eye of Greed, deep pockets and rib of greed - very interesting unlocks. Eye of Greed can be very annoying, but its a money generator anyway. You dont need money for use it. Deep pockets is item, which gives you profit in money from "empty" rooms. Rib of greed can be very useful in mid-game, when you have a lot of money and you need shops.
Putting sumptorium in mild tier pained me. I agreed with most but it seems like most defensive items got ignored. Regardless of individual items though, the tier list looks pretty correct
Huh, today I learned sumptorium may be better than I thought lol. There were a few other comments about that item too, maybe I'll need to give it a better chance next time! Sorry for the pain caused lmao
The M trinket is actually amazing and among the best in the game, you can just keep rolling your active item until you get something good and then you can just drop M afterwards.
Every time I find 'M, I end up with R Key or Spindown. If you have items that give extra charge like 9 volt and charged baby, you're guaranteed to break the game.
That is true, but if you get a terrible item you can just drop it for a harmless spacebar item - Mr. Boom, Converter or whatever - which aren't hard to come by. So I really think M is incredibly strong and rarely ever gets you stuck with a spacebar item
Oh i'm aware lmao I had like 2 videos dedicated to finding that item lmao. It's on my hated items list now because of it but I do agree it is very good, but I wouldn't call it as good as dead cat just because it doesn't give you guppy transformation tbh
@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac that's completely fair for both. I feel the same way with glitches crown, i know it's objectively a good item but I've got a skill issue when grabbing items and it breakfasts too fast for me to ever want to pick it up
Only thing I manage to disagree with significantly is that Sworn Protector and Hungry Soul are Mild items, while they certainly aren't god tier they're still really good, main part of Sworn is that it counts towards both Seraphim and Conjoined while also being an orbital which can drop health if it blocks enough. Hungry soul is just a good room clear item with the only downside is that it scales off of your damage, which is only an issue with soy/almond milk runs
I feel like you Underated Maggy. Eucharist is usually a guaranteed insane run, unless it’s super late. Relic is a fumble proof defensive item that allows sac room abuse, and both the damage and tear aura of purity are insanely powerful DPS buffs that can carry run. I’d argue Bethany has the same amount of mediocre angel items. I feel she’s lukewarm at the very least
I think the biggest disagreement i have here is Tainted Eve being so low. This could just be bais towards the character but lil clot is effectively a mini incubus in a trinket. If you find the gold one somehow that IS twisted pair. Sumptorium has great uses for those runs where you just wanna have 40000 projectoles on screen. To me both of those are god items so i would have put her in mild unlocks at the very least Edit. Not to mention heartbreak has alot of power on the lost too. And in general boosts the power of already good items like magic skin
I agree with you. Very agree. Heartbreak - item, which should already put t.Eve in the mild category. Sumptorium and lil clot is no commentary. ITS A GOD-TIER UNLOCKS! T.Eve should be in "Pretty good", and its a minimum.
You know what's funny? Doing a detailed list like this is gonna spark a lot of discussion :D I really enjoyed listening to your thoughts. Since most players aim towards rarely, if ever having Red Hearts i think Brittle Bones - giving you the option to take an automatic +3.0 tears up above the tears cap whenever you want is just broken as fuck, people really do overlook that fact. For Esau Jr - look at it like a reversible reroll + flying. You can turn back and drop the item the very next room if you don't like the reroll. Oh yea: Empty Vessel is probably in my top20 items as well. You rarely want to have red hearts in strong runs anyways since you've got enough power at that point. So that's a god item for me - flying + a chance for a long shield every 20 seconds + almost a free take since it gives 2 black hearts. That's an automatic take here. Those are probably the three items I disagree the most with you. Good luck on your 3rd file journey :)
Appreciate all the feedback man! Yea there have been a lot more comments than I was expecting lmao Yea I think i'll take your side there on brittle bones, probably should be higher on the list tbh. I would only assume I put it where it is because its kind of useless on a few characters, but that shouldn't affect it since its really good on most others so i'll take the L on that lmao Esau Jr. just feels like a meme item to me lmao I'll see if I can unlock it early to actually be able to use it in runs lol
5:55 Hold up I gotta give some credit to the cracked dice. This trinket combined with a few on-hit pickup-spawning items can rig the living shit out of this game in a matter of a few minutes. Imo it deserves AT LEAST the mild rank.
Issac's heart being called the worst item in the game just hurts me. It's busted on tainted Maggy and no matter what anyone says... A run winner is a run winner. If it were me i'd put it on bad for being Amazing on 1 character. Good video either way!
its funny that they even after repetance, with a new and better co-op mode, they still add co-op babys in fact, no one plays co-op with those babys (also, thanks for showing me the best items to unlock first)
Yeaaa lmao they could've replaced those unlocks with any of the new stuff they added but oh well. You can at least see them in buddy in a box though so maybe they are worth unlocking lol And no problem man! Glad I could help
Great video, definitely never seen a ranking based on unlocks like this. Good job keeping it concise too, I feel like it easily could've been another hour long and I like that it wasn't
Issue is it’s an active, and any active that isn’t absolutely top tier is automatically mid since you’re never gonna touch it once you have something good.
Loved this video!!!! Also loved that you weren’t super negative about stuff like other TH-camrs I’ve seen, I love it when people appreciate different aspects of a character and the things they unlock and stuff :)
I'm not exactly a /player/ of isaac (skill issue + only owns rebirth) but i like watching content about it/gaining knowledge so i can be a human wiki page, so i really liked this video. looking forward to checking out your other stuff!
Ok first of all, I will praise you for the video idea and I am glad you made extra effort with unlock sheets. Good job. Here is some criticism: I feel like some placements were inconsistent and you were not taking all unlocks as whole for character, usually only judging by "oh, this character has this 1 good item, so I rank him higher than a character with in sum average quality items, despite that 1 item being the only good unlock and the rest is dog water." And overall some weird placing in some parts, like Tainted Eve being below Tainted ??? and overrating/underrating of certain items. One additional nitpick: Eden can counts as both boy and girl so referring to them as "her" is just weird, i'd say this is rare case where "they/them" pronounce are indeed justified. But overall cool video, good luck with third save file.
Good video bro, I just hopped into repentance 2 days ago… seeing all the unlocks and how they are ranked to a dead god player helps me get my priorities straight
@derpymule7977 I actually like dull razor sometimes, if you have panic button it is basically a poor man's mantle or you can use it to get in/out of curse rooms
Lil clot being only mild hurts me, It's basically a trinket incubus. Yes I know it can die but it can also respawn, so it's good tier at least, perhaps even god tier if gulped. Also I don't care what everyone says, TMTRAINER is god item. It radiates pure "F00k it we ball" energy
hey man i just want ya to know that ive began using your tier list as an unlock encyclopedia in order to unlock the absolute best ( aka the GOD and good unlocks ) in the game so that i can breeze through dead god and have a fun experience with modded characters , the only thing that its misswritten is the bethany unlocks ( the unlocks for satan/lamb and isaac/??? are twisted around ) other than that tho good yjob on the list man :)
Ay glad I could help! And shit yea you right lol I'm surprised that was the only thing I got wrong lmao, I'll have to fix that document when I get the chance!
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac yeah haha dont worry about it it happens glad thats the only mistake tho , and thanks to your guide im already around 40% to dead god in like 3 weeks since i started my new file
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac yeah ive gotten most of the best consumables like tainted cards and souls and i only have the best unlocks from the tainted characters left , but even so i still havent unlocked the lost xD
Metronome isnt that bad. A random item every two rooms is decent, and it ranges from the poop to damocles or soul of eden! Its rng, but not a terrible active I believe it only fails to replicate certain actives that do specific things like void, blank card/rune, placebo and abyss
Have to ask how is isaacs heart bad it can turn basic runs into real good runs it completely changed the outcome of a tainted isaac run and increased my dps immensity
Just wanted to comment that I think Keeper's Sack is one of the best items in the game. You enter a shop, buy a soul heart, and leave with like +0.7dmg. Better yet if you have cash and restock or some way to buy a lot of things because even if they are shit and you're not gonna use them, you still get a lot of stat ups.
seriously appreciate this video yo, just started playing this game on a new save after like 4 years and stuff like this is fantastic for easily remembering what i should focus on and go after. if you take suggestions, id love to see a quick guide of sorts that shows how to unlock each unlockable boss in the game, as nobody else has made a video like that for Repentance and constantly looking at the wiki every 5 seconds gets super tedious for people like me. keep up the dope content bro
Yo man don't know if you intend to update the spreadsheet but if you do I want to let you know that you switched places with Bethany's unlocks. In the spreadsheet it says that her Isaac(boss) unlock is urn of souls but that's actually her satan's unlock.
as a lost and tainted lost player, I think dull razor is a really good item. triggering on-hit effects as characters that can't afford to be hit while also not taking damage with a 1 room cooldown (If I remember correctly) is really really strong. Like swallowed penny, fanny pack, piggy bank, and habit are all completely useless on the lost characters without dull razor. That being said, because it only works on 2 characters, I do have to agree that it is kinda shit. 2/34 characters making use out of an item is not a good ratio to have
Honestly Meconium is a heavily underrated trinket, at least early-game. Just think about it - free room wide damage, confusion, and also pretty consistent black heart spawns (which are almost universally useful across all characters). Also, it can replace red poops, which, yknow, can be a deal-breaker if you're in Womb at like one heart left and a very annoying room with red poops, which can lead to actually getting health as well
On tainted Eve, you kind of slept on a lot of her unlocks. Sumptorium is really good imo and can easily net you an army of red clots and let you steam roll the early or even late game. They basically just make your build exponentially stronger and most of the time its not too hard to refill your hearts (it also helps you manipulate your health to proc polaroid). The lil clot trinket is also one of the best trinkets in the game with pretty much no downsides. Its basically the found soul trinket, but you don't need to go to the next floor to get it back if it dies, it just comes back in the next room if you're holding the trinket. (Plus even just touching the trinket and dropping it gives you the clot familiar until it dies which can be several floors if not the rest of the run) Strange Key is also extremely helpful for getting other unlocks, so I think its ideal to get it as early as possible so you have the chance to have a much easier time accessing Hush on some of the slower characters, like T. cain, or T. Laz, J + E, or T. Blue Baby.
Very minor correction but at 13:08 the black rune unlock doesn’t affect blank runes because I’ve had the blank rune void items before I even unlocked the black rune
When you put Azazel’s rage, which gives a free azazel soul effect (which is broken), and in EVERY 4 ROOMS, into “bad” tier, I just broke down laughing. That’s like Pluto being in mild tier
My only excuse is that Sumptorium isn't always the best depending on the situation and also takes up your active item slot, but its probably hovering between mild and good in my head lol. Lil' Clot should've probably been bumped up a tier that lil guy is pretty good. Not sure why I didn't give him the credit he deserves lol
Yea I made an oopsie there where my brain was dumb lol you can pretend those are both a lot higher than they currently are - belly jelly and our boy lil' clot
A find that a good chunk of both regular and tainted maggy/keeper's unlocks to be selfish, considering that they are significantly better suited for themselves than any other characters.
Yea that's kinda what I saw too. Like their items are good for themselves but not really for others, especially keeper. If you're doing keeper only runs then he should be bumped up but no sane person should be doing that lmao
Blue key is a really good trinket imo. It allows you to open rooms for free, and you get at least two extra rooms per floor to charge your active or to get a random pickup from.
How is magic skin in god tier? Yes it gives items for the price of a broken heart, jut also prevents picking up any other active items due to it replacing future items if not held. For the lost it's just a random free item wich is the only good thing about it.
WAIT, THERE IS ANOTHER MATT PLAYING ISAAC? WHO IS ALSO ON THE THIRD GOD FILE? that is a ground breaking discovery, and now both matts need to make a race to see who gets it firtst (it doesnt matter that the lazier variant already started, just don't skill issue)
Rate bosses by loot and how to get them?! Love this video as a new player it helps insanely well, probably the best on TH-cam, for some reason it seems all the "path to dead god" videos are gatekeeping, its like why make a video about it if your leaving out crucial information, a mechanic definitely isn't a spoiler
Am I the only one that finds TMTRAINER really funny and take it every chance I get. That shit can get either absurdly OP or end runs instantly and I like the gamble of it
please explain to me how magic skin is good. I really really want to know how you make that item good. For me, I just can't bare walking around an entire run with a fully charged active item, only popping it once or twice.
Only 1 reason: the dopamine hit when you use it in the secret room and find rock bottom. But for real lol I agree it isn't always the best to take, but can be really good most of the time! Imagine if you had any kind of restock machine or reroll, using magic skin maybe 3 or 4 times then rolling it will almost guarantee a broken run.. most of the time lol
It's all about finding that reroll machine in the secret room and win. I really didn't understand magic skin at first too, specially when I didn't know that you have to keep it so magic skin doesn't appear again. But it basically boils down into using it only in secret rooms. Having 6 or more items in the secret rooms is pretty much a run won when you get one of the great ones. But I have to say that I only started using magic skin after getting dead god. So I imagine the secret pool room without spindown, dinfinity, death certificate, mega mush, rockbottom, etc. is pretty garbage. Other good uses are getting Guppy by using it in curse rooms or a way to get a few extra planetariums, but these uses aren't really great compared to the secret room strat.
how are you saying lusty blood and bloody gust are okay? lusty blood makes room clears so much easier and bloody gust gives fire rate up, which is super useful vs boss armour
I didn't understand how to use Esau Jr either before one of my more recent runs. If you get it early (I got it as my first item), it is basically a free swap to a character without unlock penalties who has flight and +2 dmg. This made me just stay in that form and never use the item again, gaining flight and dmg but risking my health to be only 3 dark hearts at the beginning. What I basically got was a free curved horn and more, it is really good. If you do get it later, it is always worth it to check what kind of build esau jr gives to you and decide if you want to stick with it. There's really no harm since you can swap back after charging it ONCE. Honestly a pretty good item, I'd put it in good for the potential it has to win you the run.
calling magic skin a god tier item is absolutely insane to me. If it wouldnt replace future items with itself and instead would only create an item for a broken heart id say its good, but with its huge downside im not even gonna consider it in the majority of runs.
As a relative Isaac noob who's still not that great, I appreciate the guide! Might use it to determine what to unlock next 👀 (tho I think Eden is they, not she)
12:06 you did the Keeper extremely dirty. Keeper's Sack is a god item for all characters. You're buying items all the time, and getting permanent stats is amazing. And no actual way you called Deep Pockets shit. Increasing your coin cap by 900 is actually insane, and can lead to major game breaking runs. It pairs with items like Options?, restock, $$$=power. It's a great item
Imo you underrated keeper. Keeper holds wooden nickel is very good, karma can be good sometimes, deep pockets is great, rib of greed can be good if you dont get it too late, eye of greed can be annoying but still pretty solid and keepers box is good because it can give you stuff like birthright and keepers sack.
"I might put Samson higher later if I feel bad for him" *2 minutes later* "OK, I feel bad, I'll put him at the bottom of starting to look a little shitty" (two tiers higher than he was originally)
putting blank card which can literaly rig your run with one good reverse card, and is one of the ways to survive by taintes lost is crazy controversial
I think corrupted data is a cool unlock! I mean, you can get glitched items naturally, and they are chaotic and (usually) not horrible in groups of 1-3.
Keeper being that far down when keepers sack is in the game is a little harsh But most of keepers unlocks make him a better more powerful character instead of unlocking items for the whole game
I personally think M' (that trinket from Eden) is actually way more useful than 'Mild'. There are so many useless spacebar items that being able to roll through them and drop the trinket to choose when to keep one is a lifesaver some bad runs.
9:46 Blank card is S tier. Get a judgement and secret room abuse as never been easier 10:53 Dad lost coin is mild. +1 cent and 1 luck is good 13:26 Void is mild. There is a mod thar allows you to choose if you want to suck itens or use the actives that makes void good.
"Its basically incubus but stupider" is the perfect way to describe cains other eye.
bc its a floating eye
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@@joshgaming1585Neither did you....
Nor did I
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Putting belly jelly, an item that gives you a 50% chance to eliminate contact/projectile damage, into "mild" tier is genuinely hilarious to me
I have no excuse, you right. I had an L take lol
The fact that a lot of genuinely bad items were ranked above co-op babies which are harmless also shocked me
coop babies are put in shit tier because they aren't taken into consideration
@@travismoore4411… because if you wanna play co-op you just play true co-op…
@@travismoore4411 co-op baby are literally useless. and the worst part its hard to unlock them
Honestly Judas having the Left Hand as an unlock shouldn't count. Yes, it's *technically* his unlock, but 99% of people will unlock it from killing Ultra Pride instead of Judas.
Lmao i was confused when he said the left hand was judas unlock since I've unlocked him from ultra pride without acknowledging that
The best part of unlocking the forgotten is getting bone hearts too
you're actually so right, that wasn't even on my list lol
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac to be fair I don’t believe many characters have an unlock with their character🤷🏻♂️
i don't know how but i'm sure i had them unlocked without unlocking the forgotten...
@@JDvb23 at least in repentance + mod tainted versions do have
@@Arsenicum maybe afterbirth had a different unlock requirement, I stopped during rebirth and came back around a month or two ago
Glyph of Balance is really strong in Repentance. It was buffed to change room drops as well as champion drops, so it's way more impactful. It's one of the few guarenteed Soul Heart generators now, since it will always top you off when you're low.
Fr I had a run where was cooking up something and ignored soul hearts, and Every. Single. Room. It gave me a soul heart 💀
The sacrifice room was plentiful
also generally hard for me to say an item with a down payment of 2 soul hearts on pickup is anything other than quite good, considering most angel rooms can just have something like that, getting that plus an additional effect is huge imo
Best trinket generator!
The best part about sticky nickels is that Edmund confirmed on Twitter that they were bugged *8 years ago,* and still no one has fixed it.
Yeah! They were supposed to replace pennies so they’d be an actual unlock, but since they replace nickels they’re a pure downgrade.
Probably became a feature over time lol
I'd honestly rather have the penny. Bombs are 5 cents under normal circumstances so you're basically spending 5 cents to get 5 cents. Bombs are also more versatile than money anyway.
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Ive come back to this video so many times to decide what to unlock next. So much easier in comparison to digging through the wiki to find each character's unlocks. ty man for making this video, saved me loads of time :D
I find it funny how Azazel’s unlocks being 4-2-2-2-4 perfectly mirrors how people feel about him, and how he is. He’s pretty divided upon, but being my impatient self, I love him!
I hate azazel big time lmao
@@Scare_Hivewhy’s that?
@@Jessepigman69 guessing it's probably because azazel is all in on the early game with short range high dmg, he can fall off really hard on the later floors without the right items, and if you're a decent player you can probably manage the early floors pretty easily without brimstone and flight given to you
@ToadStool125 see I understand that. He's not my favourite character by any means but "hate" is a very strong word. Not sure what there is to hate. He's probably the easiest character to get deadgod
@@Jessepigman69 Simple answer...range...aka.
FOR F@CK SAKE I CAN'T GET CLOSE TO EXPLODING ENEMY F@CK
I think the locusts are actually really good, specifically war, pestilence, and conquest. The war explosion was changed to be smaller but is still big enough to mess up a couple enemies without you also getting caught in the crossfire
Yea i def agree to an extent, I think in my mind trinket unlocks are not worth it most of the time compared to other better items you could get, but yea I don't think I should've thrown them as low as I did since they obviously can help a bit on any kind of run!
In defense of Esau Jr: It is the only permanent passive Flight item in the entirety of the Treasure Room pool.
That is to say, you activate it once to turn into Esau Jr. and gain his Flight and Damage Up, and then you *put it back where you found it and never touch it again.* You get to stay as Esau Jr. even if you put the item down and never pick it back up, and honestly it's the best possible outcome for using the damn thing.
One issue, every time I find Esau Jr. I'm already having a good run and Esau Jr's items are worse. I really wanna use it, but it's never been useful for me the few times I found it.
PASSIVE, "ONLY", is he even on the treasure pool?
Esau Jr. can be OP item. I used it a lot of times. You can reroll your build and can get DMG up.
If you dont like Esau'build - you need 1 room to recharge.
Its a very good item.
it's STILL completely gobsmacking how like, half of the Keeper's unlocks solely exist to make playing as him actually bearable,
And you still die to a room filled with brimstone enemies-_-
No, eye of Greed, deep pockets and rib of greed - very interesting unlocks.
Eye of Greed can be very annoying, but its a money generator anyway. You dont need money for use it.
Deep pockets is item, which gives you profit in money from "empty" rooms.
Rib of greed can be very useful in mid-game, when you have a lot of money and you need shops.
I like him.
@@SHIRKOVCHIK_lolthe only scenarios where deep pockets is useful is either restock, greeds gullet, or tainted keeper.
. Deep Pockets also makes it so you get 3 pennies when you would get nothing as a room rewars
This isnt lazy matt man this is active mattman, on a serious note, keep it up any isaac yter is underrated, fucking love the grind
LMAO hey appreciate it man!
Putting sumptorium in mild tier pained me. I agreed with most but it seems like most defensive items got ignored. Regardless of individual items though, the tier list looks pretty correct
Huh, today I learned sumptorium may be better than I thought lol. There were a few other comments about that item too, maybe I'll need to give it a better chance next time! Sorry for the pain caused lmao
The M trinket is actually amazing and among the best in the game, you can just keep rolling your active item until you get something good and then you can just drop M afterwards.
I agree it is very fun, but I wouldn't say it's always the best to get tbh, but I see your point! Probably can bump that up tbh
Every time I find 'M, I end up with R Key or Spindown. If you have items that give extra charge like 9 volt and charged baby, you're guaranteed to break the game.
Ima be honest i feel like every time I get it I get Plan C lmao where's my free death cert >:(
That is true, but if you get a terrible item you can just drop it for a harmless spacebar item - Mr. Boom, Converter or whatever - which aren't hard to come by. So I really think M is incredibly strong and rarely ever gets you stuck with a spacebar item
friend finder is actually crazy powerful if you get a good run for it, you basically become a summoner build
also heartbreak is like dead cat + a damage up, it's an item i always take if i can
I'm sure you're not wrong, but not gonna lie once enough things spawn it is so fucking loud lmao. For my sanity it is a meh tier lol
Oh i'm aware lmao I had like 2 videos dedicated to finding that item lmao. It's on my hated items list now because of it but I do agree it is very good, but I wouldn't call it as good as dead cat just because it doesn't give you guppy transformation tbh
@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac that's completely fair for both. I feel the same way with glitches crown, i know it's objectively a good item but I've got a skill issue when grabbing items and it breakfasts too fast for me to ever want to pick it up
@@jacemerlindid you try pause trick? It's really easy to get items you want with it
Only thing I manage to disagree with significantly is that Sworn Protector and Hungry Soul are Mild items, while they certainly aren't god tier they're still really good, main part of Sworn is that it counts towards both Seraphim and Conjoined while also being an orbital which can drop health if it blocks enough. Hungry soul is just a good room clear item with the only downside is that it scales off of your damage, which is only an issue with soy/almond milk runs
I feel like you Underated Maggy. Eucharist is usually a guaranteed insane run, unless it’s super late. Relic is a fumble proof defensive item that allows sac room abuse, and both the damage and tear aura of purity are insanely powerful DPS buffs that can carry run. I’d argue Bethany has the same amount of mediocre angel items. I feel she’s lukewarm at the very least
Plus Candy Heart can be pretty strong if you're able to generate red hearts often enough
Putting ??? In the penultimate tier just for 2 good unlocks and putting Maggy in one of the worst for effectively the same spread was. A choice
laz should be bumped up a tier just cause he unlocks bethany
You're not wrong lol I didn't take that into account tbh
also haunted chests can sometimes be reached behind obstacles because they are thrown at you
@@siwwisiwwithe one redeeming quality of polties is that
@@siwwisiwwithey also replace regular spiked chests :)
@derpestcake9669 and why kaz should be s is because he unlocks bethany then bethany unlocks t bethany
haunted chest actually replace trap and mimic chests, so they are an upgrade
I actually did not know this, that is good to know!
My dumbass forgetting haunted chests even existed my very next tainted lost run would like to disagree with your statement
Same with sticky knuckles only replacing pennies. Still kinda meh, because it can still screw you out of a coin, but not as bad as people say
@@MysticMicrowave sticky nickels are bugged, they really only replace nickles, nos pennies
I think the biggest disagreement i have here is Tainted Eve being so low. This could just be bais towards the character but lil clot is effectively a mini incubus in a trinket. If you find the gold one somehow that IS twisted pair. Sumptorium has great uses for those runs where you just wanna have 40000 projectoles on screen.
To me both of those are god items so i would have put her in mild unlocks at the very least
Edit. Not to mention heartbreak has alot of power on the lost too. And in general boosts the power of already good items like magic skin
Yea sumptorium is actually a goatee item
Ngl the thing that bothers me about tainted Eve’s placement was how the majority of her items were “mild” yet she wasn’t placed in the mild tier 😭
I agree with you. Very agree.
Heartbreak - item, which should already put t.Eve in the mild category.
Sumptorium and lil clot is no commentary. ITS A GOD-TIER UNLOCKS!
T.Eve should be in "Pretty good", and its a minimum.
You know what's funny? Doing a detailed list like this is gonna spark a lot of discussion :D I really enjoyed listening to your thoughts.
Since most players aim towards rarely, if ever having Red Hearts i think Brittle Bones - giving you the option to take an automatic +3.0 tears up above the tears cap whenever you want is just broken as fuck, people really do overlook that fact.
For Esau Jr - look at it like a reversible reroll + flying. You can turn back and drop the item the very next room if you don't like the reroll.
Oh yea: Empty Vessel is probably in my top20 items as well. You rarely want to have red hearts in strong runs anyways since you've got enough power at that point. So that's a god item for me - flying + a chance for a long shield every 20 seconds + almost a free take since it gives 2 black hearts. That's an automatic take here.
Those are probably the three items I disagree the most with you.
Good luck on your 3rd file journey :)
Appreciate all the feedback man! Yea there have been a lot more comments than I was expecting lmao
Yea I think i'll take your side there on brittle bones, probably should be higher on the list tbh. I would only assume I put it where it is because its kind of useless on a few characters, but that shouldn't affect it since its really good on most others so i'll take the L on that lmao
Esau Jr. just feels like a meme item to me lmao I'll see if I can unlock it early to actually be able to use it in runs lol
"since most players aim towards rarely, if ever having red hearts"
yeah id like to see these most players
5:55 Hold up I gotta give some credit to the cracked dice. This trinket combined with a few on-hit pickup-spawning items can rig the living shit out of this game in a matter of a few minutes. Imo it deserves AT LEAST the mild rank.
You do have a point, yea that can probably go to mild tbh. I never really use cracked dice but I've seen what it can do lol
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac yeah. It goes pretty dang crazy in certain situations
Issac's heart being called the worst item in the game just hurts me. It's busted on tainted Maggy and no matter what anyone says... A run winner is a run winner. If it were me i'd put it on bad for being Amazing on 1 character. Good video either way!
Ay I appreciate the feedback man!
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac No problem! Is Isaacs heart genuinely that bad though? I play for fun, and every time I've got it, I always had a blast.
@tthreefivefiveseventy it can be good ngl, but I know I will get hit 100% of the time lmao so it's a skill issue on my end
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac, free curse rooms, free spike passing and free hush, megasatan win tho
its funny that they even after repetance, with a new and better co-op mode, they still add co-op babys
in fact, no one plays co-op with those babys
(also, thanks for showing me the best items to unlock first)
Yeaaa lmao they could've replaced those unlocks with any of the new stuff they added but oh well. You can at least see them in buddy in a box though so maybe they are worth unlocking lol
And no problem man! Glad I could help
Great video, definitely never seen a ranking based on unlocks like this. Good job keeping it concise too, I feel like it easily could've been another hour long and I like that it wasn't
Ay thanks! Yea I looked up a bunch of stuff before hand I couldn't find any list like this, at least on TH-cam lol. Thanks for the feedback man!
I'm going through my second save file currently, this is super helpful! Watch through all your videos and I really like what you're making.
I appreciate it man! Good luck on that second save file lol
"I love taking Guppy's Eyes so I will put that thing on the Pedestal." - AnotherMatt
I stand by my statement 😤
I had been looking for a video like this with no avail , and now that its out, I had just finished getting my last completion mark yesterday
Well I guess its a perfect time to start a new file then lmao
Just started my second save file
This is really helpful cause i forgot all of this lol
Keep it up
Ay thanks man! I'm gonna be using this for my third file so we'll be in the same boat pretty much lol
T.lilith should be bumped up a tier because gello is genuinely just a 1 room incubus which is very powerful, saved a couple of my runs
Issue is it’s an active, and any active that isn’t absolutely top tier is automatically mid since you’re never gonna touch it once you have something good.
even if you dont look at the fact its a 2 room recharge it still can practically double DPS, top tier active item to me
Gello is a top 10 greed active item tbh
Gello + 4.5 Volt beats every other active imo. Low charge +100% DPS is absurd.
Edit: even without 4.5 Volt, I love Gello.
Gello is a nearly guaranteed win for the ascent imo
Using conflicting colors for tier list and right side unlocks is some serious smooth brain moment my dude
Loved this video!!!! Also loved that you weren’t super negative about stuff like other TH-camrs I’ve seen, I love it when people appreciate different aspects of a character and the things they unlock and stuff :)
Ay appreciate the kind words man! Glad you liked it!
I'm not exactly a /player/ of isaac (skill issue + only owns rebirth) but i like watching content about it/gaining knowledge so i can be a human wiki page, so i really liked this video. looking forward to checking out your other stuff!
Ay appreciate it man! If you ever get repentance you'll be ready for everything lmao
I’ve been looking for a new Isaac channel to watch and you are so underrated man, love it.
Ayy thanks man! Appreciate it :) more to come!
Ok first of all, I will praise you for the video idea and I am glad you made extra effort with unlock sheets. Good job. Here is some criticism: I feel like some placements were inconsistent and you were not taking all unlocks as whole for character, usually only judging by "oh, this character has this 1 good item, so I rank him higher than a character with in sum average quality items, despite that 1 item being the only good unlock and the rest is dog water." And overall some weird placing in some parts, like Tainted Eve being below Tainted ??? and overrating/underrating of certain items. One additional nitpick: Eden can counts as both boy and girl so referring to them as "her" is just weird, i'd say this is rare case where "they/them" pronounce are indeed justified. But overall cool video, good luck with third save file.
Good video bro, I just hopped into repentance 2 days ago… seeing all the unlocks and how they are ranked to a dead god player helps me get my priorities straight
“Samson arguably-- could go into actual shit” 😂😂 I died
Ay glad I could help man! Hope you have fun with the Jacob and Esau unlocks 💀
This is literally one of the most informative isaacs videos that I ever seen, ty so much my man
tbh i think dull razor and razor blade can be absolutely amazing items when taken on the right run
Yeah but if you get them without a perfect setup they’re dead items
@derpymule7977 I actually like dull razor sometimes, if you have panic button it is basically a poor man's mantle or you can use it to get in/out of curse rooms
Lil clot being only mild hurts me, It's basically a trinket incubus. Yes I know it can die but it can also respawn, so it's good tier at least, perhaps even god tier if gulped.
Also I don't care what everyone says, TMTRAINER is god item. It radiates pure "F00k it we ball" energy
"RISE TMTRAINER ENJOYERS, WE WILL SHOW-
*100 homing giga bombs spawn in the room*
-shit."
@@dlp6567S AND FLIES!??!
hey man i just want ya to know that ive began using your tier list as an unlock encyclopedia in order to unlock the absolute best ( aka the GOD and good unlocks ) in the game so that i can breeze through dead god and have a fun experience with modded characters , the only thing that its misswritten is the bethany unlocks ( the unlocks for satan/lamb and isaac/??? are twisted around ) other than that tho good yjob on the list man :)
Ay glad I could help! And shit yea you right lol I'm surprised that was the only thing I got wrong lmao, I'll have to fix that document when I get the chance!
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac yeah haha dont worry about it it happens glad thats the only mistake tho , and thanks to your guide im already around 40% to dead god in like 3 weeks since i started my new file
@georgeotiman4336 dang your moving fast! I've always been super slow with my unlocks lol
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac yeah ive gotten most of the best consumables like tainted cards and souls and i only have the best unlocks from the tainted characters left , but even so i still havent unlocked the lost xD
Tainted azazel needs his own tier just called tainted azazel
LMAO both him and keeper need their own tiers
Yes
@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac I think keeper has good unlocks but that's only because I like playing him
@ismellshrimp yea the unlocks ain't bad if you strictly play keeper but sticky nickels just haunt me so I'm biased lmao
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac I heard sticky nickels are meant to replace single cent coin drops but due to a bug they replace nickels instead
I was literally looking for a video like this two days ago and couldn't find anything. Thanks for making this. 👌
No problem! But actually same tbh lol I couldn't find anything that goes over the unlocks for characters.
Glad you liked the vid :)
Metronome isnt that bad. A random item every two rooms is decent, and it ranges from the poop to damocles or soul of eden!
Its rng, but not a terrible active
I believe it only fails to replicate certain actives that do specific things like void, blank card/rune, placebo and abyss
just wanna say thanks for making this vid, I've been coming back to it almost every run for my tainted character unlocks!
Have to ask how is isaacs heart bad it can turn basic runs into real good runs it completely changed the outcome of a tainted isaac run and increased my dps immensity
Please say sike rn lmao
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac Isaac’s heart is clearly god tier unlock same level as god head!
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac na man the fact enemies target you instead of the heart and you do contact damage is amazing
Duuuude this is an insanely nice tier list! Subbed
Ay appreciate it man :)
Fun video, and it helps me learn more unlocks I need! Thanks a bunch man
Ay glad I could help man! Thanks for the support :)
this was a great video and the document is super helpful for when i start my 2nd file, thank you!
Ay glad I could help out!
Just wanted to comment that I think Keeper's Sack is one of the best items in the game.
You enter a shop, buy a soul heart, and leave with like +0.7dmg. Better yet if you have cash and restock or some way to buy a lot of things because even if they are shit and you're not gonna use them, you still get a lot of stat ups.
Calling blank card mild is crazy. Probably one of the most versatile actives in the game even giving you 2 uses of some cards is insane.
i dont know why but i really like this video and im excited to watch more
Ayyy thanks man! More to come :)
seriously appreciate this video yo, just started playing this game on a new save after like 4 years and stuff like this is fantastic for easily remembering what i should focus on and go after.
if you take suggestions, id love to see a quick guide of sorts that shows how to unlock each unlockable boss in the game, as nobody else has made a video like that for Repentance and constantly looking at the wiki every 5 seconds gets super tedious for people like me. keep up the dope content bro
It took me so much longer that it needed to be for me to realize that the title isn't the "ranking by the looks" that iIthought I read
lmao Isaac HOTNESS tierlist coming up next
Yo man don't know if you intend to update the spreadsheet but if you do I want to let you know that you switched places with Bethany's unlocks.
In the spreadsheet it says that her Isaac(boss) unlock is urn of souls but that's actually her satan's unlock.
Will make note , thanks!
the bottom of isaac’s unlocks list looks like a burger
😭oh god
as a lost and tainted lost player, I think dull razor is a really good item. triggering on-hit effects as characters that can't afford to be hit while also not taking damage with a 1 room cooldown (If I remember correctly) is really really strong. Like swallowed penny, fanny pack, piggy bank, and habit are all completely useless on the lost characters without dull razor. That being said, because it only works on 2 characters, I do have to agree that it is kinda shit. 2/34 characters making use out of an item is not a good ratio to have
Honestly Meconium is a heavily underrated trinket, at least early-game. Just think about it - free room wide damage, confusion, and also pretty consistent black heart spawns (which are almost universally useful across all characters). Also, it can replace red poops, which, yknow, can be a deal-breaker if you're in Womb at like one heart left and a very annoying room with red poops, which can lead to actually getting health as well
missing poster is a pretty god tier item when you realize its one of the very few ways tainted lost can gain an extra life
As a new tboi player i really appreciate this vid!
Glad it could help out! Have fun with your journey into the game lol
The video was fun to watch! Cant wait to see u grow :)
Thanks for the kind words :) given me all the butterflies inside
I feel like co-op babies should have been left out or put in a different “useless” rank for a better overview
Yea I def agree, it kind of floods the numbers a bunch so I see your point!
@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac still a good and helpful ranking though I agree with most of it!
On tainted Eve, you kind of slept on a lot of her unlocks. Sumptorium is really good imo and can easily net you an army of red clots and let you steam roll the early or even late game. They basically just make your build exponentially stronger and most of the time its not too hard to refill your hearts (it also helps you manipulate your health to proc polaroid). The lil clot trinket is also one of the best trinkets in the game with pretty much no downsides. Its basically the found soul trinket, but you don't need to go to the next floor to get it back if it dies, it just comes back in the next room if you're holding the trinket. (Plus even just touching the trinket and dropping it gives you the clot familiar until it dies which can be several floors if not the rest of the run) Strange Key is also extremely helpful for getting other unlocks, so I think its ideal to get it as early as possible so you have the chance to have a much easier time accessing Hush on some of the slower characters, like T. cain, or T. Laz, J + E, or T. Blue Baby.
Very minor correction but at 13:08 the black rune unlock doesn’t affect blank runes because I’ve had the blank rune void items before I even unlocked the black rune
When you put Azazel’s rage, which gives a free azazel soul effect (which is broken), and in EVERY 4 ROOMS, into “bad” tier, I just broke down laughing. That’s like Pluto being in mild tier
Placing Sumptorium and Lil' Clot as mild when they act just like Incubus??
My only excuse is that Sumptorium isn't always the best depending on the situation and also takes up your active item slot, but its probably hovering between mild and good in my head lol.
Lil' Clot should've probably been bumped up a tier that lil guy is pretty good. Not sure why I didn't give him the credit he deserves lol
poor t-maggie. Mother’s kiss is OP on both of the keepers, and belly jelly is just no damage 50% of the time.
also, lil’clot on tainted eve is just a worse incubus, and cain’s other eye was rated amazing for being a worse incubus D:
Yea I made an oopsie there where my brain was dumb lol you can pretend those are both a lot higher than they currently are - belly jelly and our boy lil' clot
A find that a good chunk of both regular and tainted maggy/keeper's unlocks to be selfish, considering that they are significantly better suited for themselves than any other characters.
Yea that's kinda what I saw too. Like their items are good for themselves but not really for others, especially keeper. If you're doing keeper only runs then he should be bumped up but no sane person should be doing that lmao
cracked dice is incredibly broken, it definitely doesn't deserve the bad tier
so is m' what the hell your taste in trinkets is pretty bad
Blue key is a really good trinket imo. It allows you to open rooms for free, and you get at least two extra rooms per floor to charge your active or to get a random pickup from.
Purity is an amazing item, to me that gives Maggy 2 incredible items, but yeah the rest is pretty bad
How is magic skin in god tier?
Yes it gives items for the price of a broken heart, jut also prevents picking up any other active items due to it replacing future items if not held.
For the lost it's just a random free item wich is the only good thing about it.
WAIT, THERE IS ANOTHER MATT PLAYING ISAAC? WHO IS ALSO ON THE THIRD GOD FILE? that is a ground breaking discovery, and now both matts need to make a race to see who gets it firtst (it doesnt matter that the lazier variant already started, just don't skill issue)
lmaooo there are dozens of us probably. I've been going so slow I still have no unlocks on my third file rn lmao I'm about to get skill gapped
Rate bosses by loot and how to get them?! Love this video as a new player it helps insanely well, probably the best on TH-cam, for some reason it seems all the "path to dead god" videos are gatekeeping, its like why make a video about it if your leaving out crucial information, a mechanic definitely isn't a spoiler
Amazing guide for unlocks
Am I the only one that finds TMTRAINER really funny and take it every chance I get. That shit can get either absurdly OP or end runs instantly and I like the gamble of it
Isaac's heart has carried me with mega satan so many times because my pure laziness
please explain to me how magic skin is good.
I really really want to know how you make that item good.
For me, I just can't bare walking around an entire run with a fully charged active item, only popping it once or twice.
Only 1 reason: the dopamine hit when you use it in the secret room and find rock bottom.
But for real lol I agree it isn't always the best to take, but can be really good most of the time! Imagine if you had any kind of restock machine or reroll, using magic skin maybe 3 or 4 times then rolling it will almost guarantee a broken run.. most of the time lol
It's all about finding that reroll machine in the secret room and win.
I really didn't understand magic skin at first too, specially when I didn't know that you have to keep it so magic skin doesn't appear again.
But it basically boils down into using it only in secret rooms. Having 6 or more items in the secret rooms is pretty much a run won when you get one of the great ones. But I have to say that I only started using magic skin after getting dead god. So I imagine the secret pool room without
spindown, dinfinity, death certificate, mega mush, rockbottom, etc. is pretty garbage.
Other good uses are getting Guppy by using it in curse rooms or a way to get a few extra planetariums, but these uses aren't really great compared to the secret room strat.
I see, that makes sense.
Guess I'll just have to pick it up more often to really see if I've been completely wrong.
I think that azazel should be bump one for the lilth unlock
You know what you're not wrong lol
I don’t know why but Eve having the razor twice is so fucking funny too me
how are you saying lusty blood and bloody gust are okay? lusty blood makes room clears so much easier and bloody gust gives fire rate up, which is super useful vs boss armour
im basically binge watching all your videos u are awesome dude!
I didn't understand how to use Esau Jr either before one of my more recent runs. If you get it early (I got it as my first item), it is basically a free swap to a character without unlock penalties who has flight and +2 dmg. This made me just stay in that form and never use the item again, gaining flight and dmg but risking my health to be only 3 dark hearts at the beginning. What I basically got was a free curved horn and more, it is really good. If you do get it later, it is always worth it to check what kind of build esau jr gives to you and decide if you want to stick with it. There's really no harm since you can swap back after charging it ONCE. Honestly a pretty good item, I'd put it in good for the potential it has to win you the run.
calling magic skin a god tier item is absolutely insane to me. If it wouldnt replace future items with itself and instead would only create an item for a broken heart id say its good, but with its huge downside im not even gonna consider it in the majority of runs.
Keepers kin + golden bomb tho 😳
As a relative Isaac noob who's still not that great, I appreciate the guide! Might use it to determine what to unlock next 👀 (tho I think Eden is they, not she)
I open his video so often to check what unlocks I want to rush next. Good reference point!
Blank Card beibg rated as Mild hurts me. Yes it got nerfed by not being able to activate runes anymore, but it's still cracked.
12:06 you did the Keeper extremely dirty. Keeper's Sack is a god item for all characters. You're buying items all the time, and getting permanent stats is amazing.
And no actual way you called Deep Pockets shit. Increasing your coin cap by 900 is actually insane, and can lead to major game breaking runs. It pairs with items like Options?, restock, $$$=power. It's a great item
Currently working on getting second dead god with a friend and this was very helpful, thank you
Imo you underrated keeper. Keeper holds wooden nickel is very good, karma can be good sometimes, deep pockets is great, rib of greed can be good if you dont get it too late, eye of greed can be annoying but still pretty solid and keepers box is good because it can give you stuff like birthright and keepers sack.
"I might put Samson higher later if I feel bad for him" *2 minutes later* "OK, I feel bad, I'll put him at the bottom of starting to look a little shitty" (two tiers higher than he was originally)
You should make a Boss tier list and great tier list
I'll be throwing that in my ideas folder lmao thanks!
No problem
putting blank card which can literaly rig your run with one good reverse card, and is one of the ways to survive by taintes lost is crazy controversial
jacob and isaw having the best unlocks is just to balance how hard they are
yeaaa i'm sure thats why they did it tbh it makes sense
I think corrupted data is a cool unlock! I mean, you can get glitched items naturally, and they are chaotic and (usually) not horrible in groups of 1-3.
Keeper being that far down when keepers sack is in the game is a little harsh
But most of keepers unlocks make him a better more powerful character instead of unlocking items for the whole game
Technically Lazarus beating Moms heart/it lives is a god tier because it also unlocks a character
I personally think M' (that trinket from Eden) is actually way more useful than 'Mild'. There are so many useless spacebar items that being able to roll through them and drop the trinket to choose when to keep one is a lifesaver some bad runs.
9:46
Blank card is S tier.
Get a judgement and secret room abuse as never been easier
10:53
Dad lost coin is mild.
+1 cent and 1 luck is good
13:26
Void is mild.
There is a mod thar allows you to choose if you want to suck itens or use the actives that makes void good.
Anyways thanks for this, ive been looking through to see what I should unlock to have the best chance at ultra hard being bearable so this is helpful