Azazel

Azazel is a character unlocked by making three deals with the Devil in one run. Azazel starts with a short-ranged version of Brimstone which deals damage 13 times in one second 8 times in one second, the ability to fly, 0 - The Fool card, and three Black Hearts without any regular Red Heart containers; however, unlike ??? and Dark Judas / Tainted Judas, Azazel can still obtain Red Heart containers with items.

Notes[]

Azazel suffers from the shortest effective range of all characters; this is balanced with greater maneuverability provided by a flight and a high speed stat, additional power per hit via his Brimstone-like attack, and significant damage to all enemies in the room upon the loss of a Black Heart, killing most lesser enemies.
Due to his flight, Azazel takes damage only when leaving a Curse Room, not when entering, effectively letting him use these rooms at half-price. Additionally, he can use the Fool card he starts with to avoid the cost for one room entirely.
It is possible to slightly increase attack range by taking range-increasing items.
With enough range, acquiring homing tears will make Azazel's Brimstone home in on enemies.

Item Interactions[]

Birthright: Azazel's Brimstone beam doubles in width, like Mega Blast. No effect on damage.

Good Items[]

20/20 doubles lasers without increasing tear delay.
Abaddon Aside from the lack of Angel Rooms, it provides no downside, given Azazel still has no Red Heart containers. As it costs 3 Soul Hearts, it will add 3 Black Hearts to his health bar, increase damage and speed, and give his Brimstone laser a fear effect.
- This is no longer the case, as the amount of black hearts given by Abaddon is now based on the amount of red hearts it removes.
Brimstone gives Azazel the long-range version.
Chocolate Milk reduces charge time.
- His Brimstone laser takes longer to be fully charged but can be released anytime. Width and damage of the laser increases at higher charges. Width scales from 50% at minimum charge to 160% at maximum charge. Damage scales from 25% at minimum charge to 250% at maximum charge. Unlike with normal tears, the tears stat does not directly affect maximum or minimum damage.
Circle of Protection The circle is nearly the same size as Azazel's laser, adding extra damage.
Hook Worm allows the lasers to deal more damage per tick because of the shape it takes on.
The Inner Eye / Mutant Spider shoots multiple mini Brimstone lasers with a massively increased tear delay.
The Ludovico Technique gives a Brimstone ring, whether Azazel has the short or long-ranged version of it, giving him the ability to damage many enemies at a time due to its size and negates Azazel's short-range, but halves Azazel's damage.
Mom's Eye allows Azazel to shoot two beams, one of which is shot behind him.
Monstro's Lung gives several additional Brimstone beams around Azazel.
My Reflection greatly increases the range of Azazel's brimstone.
- Greatly increases the Brimstone laser's range and makes the laser curve as Azazel moves around the room.
  - Greatly increases the Brimstone laser's range and makes the laser double back on itself to land behind Azazel.
Number One slightly decreases Azazel's range but significantly decreases the charge time of Azazel's Brimstone. It also turns Azazel's laser yellow.
Proptosis doubles the Brimstone laser's damage without any downsides.
- The beam will decrease in damage the further it travels, but Proptosis still greatly increases damage at close range.
Rubber Cement allows Azazel's laser to bounce off of walls. Unlike Azazel's normal mini-Brimstone, beams that bounce off of walls have infinite range but deals half of the damage.
- The beam will no longer turn into normal Brimstone upon bouncing off a wall. It will instead turn into his mini-Brimstone.
Sad Bombs shoots 10 short-ranged Brimstone beams around the explosion point, which deals enormous amounts of damage.
Tammy's Head shoots 10 short-ranged Brimstone beams around him, which deal enormous amounts of damage.
Tape Worm greatly increases the Brimstone laser's range.
Technology along with a physical change in the Brimstone, damage is increased.
Technology 2 provides a laser while Brimstone is charging, allowing the player to do damage while the charge occurs. However, this also decreases the damage of Azazel's Brimstone.
Tiny Planet changes the path of Azazel's Brimstone into a circle, giving it an area of effect. The range increase becomes especially powerful if you add a homing tears effect.
Cricket's Body: Adds a scatter of blood tears from Azazel's Brimstone's landing point.
Marked: Azazel's Brimstone is auto-fired in the direction of a controllable target. Press Fire to start and Drop to stop.
Eye of the Occult: Azazel's Brimstone becomes a lasso, auto-fired at a controllable target. Press Fire to start and Drop to stop.
Continuum: The range of Azazel's short Brimstone is increased and wraps around the screen, though without other significant range boosts it doesn't wrap far enough reach into the room.
The Parasite: Creates 2 short lasers upon hitting the first enemy.
Varicose Veins: Causes a short Brimstone explosion around the player upon getting damaged.

Bad Items[]

The Wiz while useful in some situations, enemies such as The Thing or other Creeps will be dangerous.

Cursed Eye has no effect, other than teleports upon taking damage while in the state of charging.

Items that respawn Azazel as a different character, including Ankh, Lazarus' Rags, and Judas' Shadow will remove the ability to fly and the brimstone laser.

Items that break Rocks, like Leo or Thunder Thighs nullify part of the advantage Azazel gains from flight as he will no longer be able to hover over them to avoid enemy projectiles.

Items that give flight will have no real effect, since Azazel has a built-in ability to fly.

Kidney Stone only reduces Azazel's speed and short Brimstone's range.

The following items have their effect nullified with Azazel's short-ranged Brimstone:
- Compound Fracture
- Cupid's Arrow
- Ouija Board
- Pulse Worm
- Pupula Duplex
- Strange Attractor (Until Anti-Gravity is picked up)
- Trisagion
- Tropicamide

Other interactions[]

Mysterious Liquid overridden by Azazel's short Brimstone.
- Creep will spawn at the edge of the laser.

Dead Eye has no effect.

Ipecac The tear delay remains unchanged, and the end of the beam is explosive. No tear is fired.

Lead Pencil overridden by Azazel's short Brimstone
- Azazel will fire a low range Monstro's Lung -like barrage of 12 tears occasionally.
Jacob's Ladder Jacob's Ladder has no effect; sparks do not fly from Azazel's Brimstone when it connects with enemies.
- Sparks appear where the brimstone ends.

The following items override Azazel's short-ranged Brimstone:

Unlockable Achievements[]

The Nail - Complete the Boss Rush as Azazel.

Begotten Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as Lazarus
Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as Azazel.

Daemon's Tail - Defeat Satan as Azazel.

Satanic Bible - Defeat Isaac as Azazel.

Demon Baby - Defeat The Lamb as Azazel.

Abaddon - Defeat ??? as Azazel.

Lilith - Defeat Ultra Greed as Azazel.

Bat Wing - Defeat Ultra Greedier as Azazel.

Maw of the Void - Defeat Hush as Azazel.

Black Baby - Defeat Mega Satan as Azazel.

Dark Prince's Crown - Defeat Delirium as Azazel.

Devil's Crown - Defeat Mother as Azazel.

Lil Abaddon - Defeat The Beast as Azazel.

The Benighted - Use Red Key (etc.) to open the hidden closet in Home as Azazel.

Sucky Baby - Earn all Hard mode Completion Marks as Azazel.

Trivia[]

In the Bible, Azazel is the name given to the goat that was cast into the wild as part of Jewish atonement rituals. However, in certain traditions of Abrahamic religions, Azazel refers to the fallen angel who taught people to make weapons and jewelry and taught women the "sinful art" of painting their faces, as mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Azazel is referenced three times in the Bible; this may be why he spawns with three Black Hearts.
Azazel's starting health is listed as "-1" on the character selection screen.