Shade

Shade is an unlockable passive item added in Afterbirth †.

Effects

 * Grants a shadow familiar that follows Isaac's movements on a 1-second delay and deals 2 contact damage per tick or 30 damage per second to enemies.
 * Shade is absorbed by Isaac after dealing 600 damage.
 * The familiar disappears and turns into friendly dark Chargers, similar to those spawned by.
 * Isaac will now do equal contact damage at the same rate as the Shade used to.
 * will continue to work on Isaac even after absorption, doubling damage dealt.
 * Isaac's contact damage increases when absorbing multiple Shade familiars.

Trivia

 * behaves similarly to Shade before the disappearance, but with a longer delay on following Isaac's movements.
 * If playing as Dark Judas or Tainted Judas, the shade familiar will have red eyes instead of white ones.
 * Shade's pickup quote may be a reference to the horror film "It Follows".

Seeds
39J6 30LZ (Curse Room adjacent to spawn)

Shade