This article is about Dead Onion, not to be confused with The Sad Onion.
Dead Onion is a passive item.
Effects[]
- Grants piercing and spectral tears.
+0.25 range.
-1.5 range.
- -0.4 shot speed.
-0.5 tear falling speed.
Tear size multiplier: 1.5x.
+0.22 tear size.
Notes[]
- Although the description says "Toxic aura tears", the tears do not do toxic/poison damage.
- Using Dead Onion in a Crawl Space will cause tears to fall through the floor.
Synergies[]
Incubus: Does not affect shot speed or tear size, but still gives the piercing effect.
: Shot speed, range, and tear size will be affected.
- Lost Contact: Tears will destroy enemy projectiles without being destroyed in the process.
Interactions[]
- Azazel: Not recommended. Range penalty is the only effect.
- Dr. Fetus: Not recommended. Bombs are slow to fire and will pass through enemies, making it far more difficult to hit them with explosions.
Bombs also deal 2.5x Isaac's damage to enemies when passing through them.
- Epic Fetus: Overrides Dead Onion, although stat effects apply.
- Brimstone: Overrides Dead Onion, although stat effects apply.
- The Ludovico Technique: Not recommended. Tear moves very slowly making it hard to kill mobile enemies.
- Mom's Knife: Overrides Dead Onion.
- Monstro's Lung: Fires a barrage of large tears that disappear at close range. Spectral and piercing effects make it very effective at close range.
- My Reflection: Not recommended. Tears will travel a very short distance before they return to Isaac and eventually disappear.
- Proptosis: Not recommended. While tears do massive damage at short range, it makes it a lot easier to be damaged by explosive enemies or enemies that do contact damage.
- Rubber Cement: Edges of tears retain both piercing and spectral effects; however, the center of the tear will lose them and bounce.
Sulfuric Acid: Not recommended. Acid Tears no longer impact objects and can no longer open Secret Rooms.
Acid Tears can break objects (but still can't open doors or Secret Rooms).
Technology: Laser size is increased.
In-game Footage[]
Trivia[]
- Dead Onion has the most stat downs out of any other item if tear falling speed is counted as a stat.
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