This article is about Evil Eye, similar in appearance to Cain's Eye and Cain's Other Eye.
Evil Eye is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.
Effect
- Isaac will occasionally fire a slow-moving eye with an infinite range that fires tears identical to Isaac's tears.
- The eyes fire in the direction they are traveling in.
- The eyes fire in the same direction as Isaac.
Notes
- The chance to fire an eye tear depends on the luck stat, and the formula used to determine the chance is:
- At base Luck (0), the chance is 3.33%, maxing out at 10% at 20 Luck.
- The eye has the same rate of fire and damage as Isaac. Its travel speed is also affected by Isaac's shot speed.
- If the eyes are spawned from The Forgotten's melee attack, the eyes will pick up items off the floor in the same way The Forgotten's melee attack does.
- The eyes are not treated as familiars and therefore will not synergize with items like BFFS!.
- Eyes disappear when hitting walls, enemies, and obstacles, even if Isaac has piercing or spectral tears.
Synergies
- Astral Projection: During the time-stop period of Astral Projection, there is a chance that the eyes fired will stop in the air instead of flying in a direction, and will last indefinitely until an enemy bump into it, greatly increase the existing time of evil eyes. Triggering of Astral Projection also greatly increase fire rate, giving a higher possibility to fire eyes.
- Ghost Pepper / Bird's Eye: Eye tears won't shoot fires. Instead, they make Isaac shoots fire more frequently.
- Pause: After using pause, eyes will remain frozen in place even after pause's effect has ran out.
- Homing tears: Eyes will fire homing tears; however, the eye itself will not home in on enemies.
- Mom's Eye / Loki's Horns: Evil Eye has a chance to be shot in the corresponding direction. Eyes shot in other directions will still fire in the direction Isaac is shooting.
- Spirit Sword: Eyes swing a sword with slightly reduced range in the direction Isaac is firing.
- Tear Detonator: All tears generated have a chance to be eyes. Eyes themselves do not detonate into six tears.
- Trisagion: Eyes will fire beams. Occasionally causes Trisagion beams to stay static in the air for a few seconds, dealing damage to enemies that come in contact with them.
Interactions
- 20/20/Cursed Eye/The Inner Eye/Mutant Spider: No effect; the eyes will still fire single tears.
- Angelic Prism: Eyes that hit the prism will be destroyed. Tears that the eyes fire will split if they travel through the prism.
- Azazel/Brimstone/Dr. Fetus/Epic Fetus/The Ludovico Technique/Mom's Knife/Technology/Tech X: Overrides Evil Eye.
- Ball of Bandages/Cube of Meat/Dry Baby: Blocks the Evil Eye, making it hard to use.
- Chocolate Milk: The tears fired by the eyes match Isaac's current charge. The eyes still have continued fire rather than charging shots.
- Continuum: Eyes will still disappear when hitting walls; however, they will fire tears that can travel through walls.
- C Section/ Tainted Azazel: Overrides Evil Eye.
- Eye of the Occult: The eye itself cannot be controlled, but the tears it shoots can be.
- Incubus: Incubus cannot fire eyes.
- Ipecac: Tears fired by eyes can damage Isaac.
- Lead Pencil: Eyes will fire barrages of tears every 15 times they fire their own tears.
- Lil Gurdy: Destroys eyes if it touches them.
- Marked: Tears shot from the eye shoot in the direction that Isaac is moving the marker towards, not at the marker.
- Monstro's Lung: Eyes spawn more often but only fire one tear at a time.
- Pop!: Eyes will fire eyeball tears but cannot be knocked around by them.
- Sprinkler: Sprinkler cannot fire eyes.
- Tech.5/Technology 2: Eyes only fire normal tears and the laser cannot fire eyes.
- Tiny Planet: Eyes travel straight forward, and tears fired by eyes orbit around Isaac.
- Tractor Beam: Neither the eyes nor their shots are affected by Tractor Beam.
In-game Footage
Trivia
- In many different cultures, the evil eye is a curse cast upon someone, usually by a malicious glare, which can cause them injury or misfortune.
- The design is taken from the Nazar Boncuğu (Evil Eye Bead in Turkish). Nazar Boncuğu is a talisman used to ward off evil in Turkey.
- The blue color, milky effect, and name may be a reference to "The Tell-Tale Heart", a poem by famous Gothic poet Edgar Allan Poe.
- Despite having evil in the name, Evil Eye is not considered evil for the damage bonuses of Black Feather.
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