Ranking the BEST Cursed Room Items in Isaac Repentance

Guppy's tail is very good a majority of the time, but there is no way you have NEVER had a run where you get it early game and it spawns way more chests than you have keys to open them

You keep saying athama does nothing against bosses... but that's just not trueeeee!!! USE ITTT! If it's any boss that spawns enemies it will die, and that's a lot of bosses in the game. You were mentioning the beast and how thats a hard run so if an item helps that's relevant, athame clears the horsemen. Don't sleep on it!

Goats Head is absolutely S tier, its a run winner anytime before like, depths 2. The fact that it gets worse over time doesnt outweigh how crazy it is. The D6 is still an S tier item, even though it drops off super hard at the depths. Goat head (and eucharist) are both dedinately s tier imo

You scratched my itch for long term commentary isaac I had, keep up the good work spot.

Guppy's tail is super feast or famine. I think its usually worth taking but i think eye is so good. Knowing what bkue fires to blow up for soul hearts is so strong.

"What if you don't have keys?" "What if you don't have bombs." That retort hit harder than a curse room door

The Magic Skin part at the end was hilarious

the guppy's tail v eye debate went crazy, but i agree that the tail is better, I feel like i always end up with like at the VERY least, 20 keys when i get it, but also, i feel MORE than half the time that i get the tail, i get the left hand(?) or w/e its called too, that makes all chests red, so that helps / makes the key debate a moot point

Sometimes Manner has some insane takes but I have to agree with his guppys tail one, I feel like I never have to worry too much about keys with it, and if I absolutely am running low, i’ll just save one or two keys for the item/shop. And if I do end up missing an item room because of guppys tail, then yeah, i dont mind the planetarium chance. Also Tainted Laz is an amazing character i am glad im not alone on that

1:51:20 manner speaking facts, hate when people try to redeem T. Laz

I'll be honest black candle is S for me only because I hate curses so much

Man, some of the things you say about items makes me think you're playing a completely different game. I flat out skip guppy's tail half of the time because it means you have zero keys all run.

Overall, good list, but i really think magic skin #4 should be higher. Just think about it, its so much better than you give it credit

As a professional cursed eye hater I had a run that beat mother with it, but I would rather have restarted the run because of how much hell I went through just trying to not get teleperted

Blood Oath is a very good item for certain charactes. Like Eve, Samson and Maggy it is pretty much an instant take since it pretty much directly synergizes with their main game plans. Also, effects that proc from damaging yourself will have chance to trigger once per half heart (even post chapter 4) so if you have something like Gimpy old bandage or Bozo or other damage dependent effects you're very likely to get a healed a fair bit at the beginning of the floor. With 12 red hearts it gives you a +20 damage up for the floor. I'd put it in A tier personally, maybe even S tier on Samson. I know barely anyone will agree with me on this but Cursed Eye is actually a decent item, though it can be risky for long fights like Hush and Mega Satan. But I'd rank it above items like Curse of Tower and Blood Puppy. Knowing that you only get teleported when you aren't fully charged is immensely helpful knowledge, I think the barrage of tears is almost always helpful, you just need to play carefully to mitigate its downside that being said I probably wouldn't take it if I'm going for hush. but I'd probably put it in D tier (I'd lower blood puppy because I just don't like it randomly attacking me) I don't like false PHD but I can see it being okay if you have shot speed up/down in rotation or health up/down. But I generally use pills a lot in my runs so having an item take away a lot of the pill effects that I like go away. (I also over value the luck stat so I don't like taking luck down pills for damage up) also the attack up is not a lot per pill I'd also take it if I have a Good Pill item like PHD or lucky foot, because then I'd still have my good effects like Gulp or Balls of Steel. I will not use Magic Skin unless I am the lost or I have School bag. Because I don't want my entire run to be centered around it. Heart Break is a dogshit item unless you are the lost. The damage up from the broken heart is neglegable, and it reduces your max HP for the rest of the run. Bad item. Flip is busted but there are scenarios where I'd rath have the D6. Like chapter 4 onwards it really only gets you extra devil deal items since the pedistal has to already be spawned upon entering the room for the first time for it to be beneficial. In the Chest you obviously want the D6 over Flip.

Pretty happy with the list overall, I do think that everything seems to be tier shifted up a little bit. For example I'd normally put regular damage ups in B tier in an all items list. In the secret room list, we put fat odd mushroom in B tier for that reason. But for only the curse room, the damage ups are some of the better items in the pool, so they ended up being in A tier relative to everything else. Part of me does want the tiers for each list to be consistent to the other lists (so you could theoretically put all our placements from the curse room list onto the secret room list and have it still make sense), but on the other hand, this list would look very weird in a vacuum if there was only like 4-5 A tier items, so being more generous with the tiers makes this list work better on it's own. Also I just realised the euthanasia formula on the wiki actually made perfect sense and I'm just stupid lol.

Nah you have a higher chance of losing keys and it's kinda cope to say otherwise

I did a little research and calculation on Guppy's Tail, just to see if it truly does give you more or less keys. First off, 34.8% of the time on average that you use a key to open a gold chest, you get a refund - realistically that means you only have a .956 in 9 chance to need a key for a room drop. There's actually a better chance of getting a key from a room drop. 20% to get a key on regular rewards which are a 4 in 9 on this item, so that's already .8 in 9, along the regular chests you get 1.5 in 9 times having a 29.25% to drop them, bumping it up to a 1.23875 in 9 to get a key on average. That's more keys than you're spending by a good bit, not to mention you can play an arcade if you really need the keys with all the extra money you get, or find a room that lets you exchange bombs for keys, or with the extra bombs from the chests you can find your secret rooms which can have keys in. There's many more ways to potentially get keys but you get the idea. The only bad thing is if you low roll in the early game, but who cares if you skip an item room, it was Butter Bean anyway (trust). You'll get more items from the dozens of golden chests you're opening and it's free planetarium chance. You win in the long run even if you get screwed on keys early. I still agree with the placement after learning this, but I do think the item is a bit better than I usually give it credit for. Also with Guppy's Tail you'll more than likely have enough bombs to just blow up all the fires if you really need to, plus you're already opening all the chests anyway so that makes it easily better than Guppy's eye imo, don't think it's that close.

When I get cursed eye I reset my run

This is the first, and last, video I will watch of you. You're too hung up on your own experiences and you like to cut off your partner.