Brimstone

Template:ItemTable Brimstone is a Special passive item.

Effects

• Tears are replaced by a charged laser beam that pierces through all enemies and obstacles in its path and deals high damage. Can only be fired after a short charge-up period.

Notes

• Azazel starts the game with a short-ranged, slower charging version of Brimstone. Picking up Brimstone with him will give him the long ranged version. Without the long ranged version, his mini-brimstone will override any homing items.

Interactions

• 20/20: Overridden by Brimstone.
  • Template:Afterbirth Shoots two Brimstone lasers simultaneously without increasing charge time.
• Template:Afterbirth 8 Inch Nails: Brimstone pushes enemies away in the direction the beam is travelling, but not out of the path of the beam.
• A Lump Of Coal: Changes the color, but does not have an effect on damage.
  • Template:Afterbirth Beam will gradually increase in size but rapidly increase damage the farther it travels. The damage effect is much more pronounced than a normal tear being fired at the same range.
• Chocolate Milk: Decreases charge time slightly, but does not increase damage.
• Template:Afterbirth Continuum: Overridden by Brimstone.
• Cursed Eye: Brimstone overrides the burst shot effect but damage is increased. Charge time decreased.
• Dr. Fetus: Overrides Brimstone.
  • Template:Afterbirth Isaac shoots bombs while charging Brimstone.
• Epic Fetus: Overrides Brimstone.
  • Template:Afterbirth After the missile hits the ground, it spawns 8 Brimstone beams similar to the effect given by Sad Bombs.
• Fire Mind: Beam inflicts burning, but cannot cause explosions or leave fires on the ground.
• Flat Worm: No effect.
• Hook Worm: Beam changes angles while firing straight, but also effectively increases the width of the beam.
• Ipecac: The character gains neither the increased damage nor the decreased tears of Ipecac - they only gain the minor poison effect.
• Monstro's Lung: Overridden by Brimstone.
• My Reflection: Overridden by Brimstone.
  • Template:Afterbirth Makes the beam curve when moving. Has the same effect on Azazel's mini-brimstone but doubles the range.
• Mysterious Liquid: Overridden by Brimstone.
  • Template:Afterbirth When Brimstone hits enemies or walls it leaves creep based on how long it hits the enemy
• Ouija Board: Overridden by Brimstone.
• Template:Afterbirth Pupula Duplex: Overridden by Brimstone.
• Template:Afterbirth Rubber Cement: Lasers ricochet off walls.
• Soy Milk: Greatly reduces Brimstone charge time and damage.
• Strange Attractor: Does nothing without Anti-Gravity, in which case enemies will be pulled into the vortex.
• Technology: Overridden by Brimstone.
  • Template:Afterbirth Brimstone beams become surrounded with swiveling Technology laser beams, dealing more damage.
• Technology 2: Overridden by Brimstone. The Technology 2 laser is fired while Brimstone is charging.
• The Parasite: Overridden by Brimstone.
• Wiggle Worm: Makes the beam wavy.

Synergies

• Anti-Gravity - An orb of energy expands, then shrinks while firing the beam after a delay. The orb still hurts enemies if they touch it. Makes it harder to hit enemies with Azazel as the laser does not increase in range. Effectively allows a faster firing rate, since Isaac can start charging a new shot immediately after releasing the fire key without cancelling the first shot.
• Dark Matter - Beam will have a chance to cause fear.
• Guppy - Flies are spawned at a rate of approximately one fly per tick of damage for each enemy it hits. This causes a lot of flies to spawn very quickly. The spawned flies will also move to attack the targeted enemy immediately.
• Loki's Horns - Occasionally causes Isaac to fire the beam in all four cardinal directions, similarly to Head of Krampus's effect.
• The Ludovico Technique - Laser is now a controllable circular beam. Enemies directly inside the circle won't be hurt.
• The Mulligan - Spawns blue flies constantly when hitting an enemy.
• Mom's Eye - Sometimes shoots a laser from the back of Isaac's head.
• Mom's Knife - Adds a small barrage of knives after the main knife is fired. The barrage of knives goes all the way across the screen and increases in quantity the longer the charge.
• Mom's Wig - Holding down a fire button to charge the attack very rapidly rolls the probability to spawn blue spiders, releasing to fire the beam does not however.
• Template:Afterbirth Monstro's Lung - Causes Isaac to fire multiple beams in random directions.
• Mutant Spider - Increases charge time but fires four separate Brimstone beams instead of one. Azazel's beams overlay each other instead of spreading out, causing additional damage.
• Number One - Greatly decreases charge time and turns beam yellow.
• Polyphemus - Significantly increases damage and increases charge duration.
• Proptosis - Damage is doubled with no drop-off at range.
  • Template:Afterbirth Range is unchanged, but damage quickly drops further along the beam. This also affects the beams produced by Tammy's Head.
• Sacred Heart - Increases damage and makes laser home in on enemies.
• Sad Bombs - Changes the tears fired by bombs upon their explosions to Brimstone beams, in a manner identical to its synergy with Tammy's Head.
• Spider Bite - Slow effect persists and turns the beam color to light pink.
• Spoon Bender - Turns beam purple and makes it curve towards enemies similar to The Gate's. Azazel's mini-brimstone charge will become purple, but will not home.
• Strange Attractor - Enemies are sucked towards the beam, increasing damage significantly.
• Tammy's Head - Fires Brimstone beams in every direction.
• Template:Afterbirth Tech X: Brimstone now becomes a large ring that varies in size depending on how long you charge it.
  • Template:Afterbirth Tech X + A Lump of Coal: The Brimstone ring now increases in size and damage the further it travels.
• The Common Cold - Beam turns green and poisons enemies.
• The Inner Eye - Produces 3 beams and greatly increases charge time.
• Tiny Planet - The beam will wrap around the character and shoot straight forward.

Trivia

• The term brimstone (burn stone) comes from the King James Bible in reference to burning sulfur.
• Brimstone's item icon originally comes from the alchemical symbol for sulfur, referred to as the Leviathan Cross. It was later adopted by Anton LaVey in The Satanic Bible to represent hell, and is now often associated with Satanism.
• The ram horns gained from picking up Brimstone were added as a cosmetic item to Team Fortress 2 to promote The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. If the game was purchased before the 10th of December, the item would be in genuine quality

Seeds

Template:PlatPC HM12 QGTW (Curse room adjacent to spawn teleports to devil room) Template:PlatVita LHVK 9NTS (In deal with the devil on second floor) Template:PlatPS4 SSH7 STDS (In deal with the devil on second floor)

Gallery

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  Azazel's version

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  The Ludovico Technique with Brimstone

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  Tiny Planet with Brimstone as Azazel

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  Brimstone with Tiny Planet, Common Cold and Tammy's Head.

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  The Ludovico Technique with Brimstone and Wiggle Worm

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  Brimstone in Team Fortress 2

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  Skatole, tears, Brimstone and Tiny Planet being tested as promo items in Team Fortress 2

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  Brimstone with Tiny Planet, Charm Tears and Quad Shot

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