False PHD is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
Effects[ | ]
- Identifies all pills upon pickup.
- Grants one Black Heart on pickup.
- Converts all good pills into their bad counterparts, but gives them positive secondary effects.
Pill | Changes Into |
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Stat up pill | Stat down pill |
Bad Gas & Friends Till the End! | Health Down |
I can see forever! & Lemon Party | Amnesia |
Explosive Diarrhea & One makes you larger | Range Down |
Bombs are Key & Infested! | Tears Down |
48 Hour Energy & One makes you small | Speed Down |
Pretty Fly & Infested? | Luck Down |
Balls of Steel, Full Health, & Hematemesis | Bad Trip |
Pheromones | Paralysis |
Telepills | ??? |
I'm Drowsy... | I'm Excited!!! |
Percs! | Addicted! |
Feels Like I'm Walking on Sunshine! | Retro Vision |
Power Pill! | R U A Wizard? |
Something's wrong... | X-Lax |
Gulp! & Vurp! | Horf! |
Experimental Pill | Only grants a stat down |
Gold Pill | Only has negative effects |
Neutral pills | |
I Found Pills | |
Puberty | |
Re-Lax |
- Stat down pills will also grant +0.6 damage. If it is a horse pill, it will grant +1.2 damage.
- Other bad pills will also drop a Black Heart upon use.
Notes[ | ]
- Bad Trip and Health Down pills will turn into I Found Pills when Isaac is at one heart.
- Neutral pills will not have a secondary effect.
- If any stat down pills were taken before picking up the item, a damage increase is given for each pill.
- Telepills will be converted to ??? even if the latter has not yet been unlocked.
- Gulp! and Vurp! will be converted to Horf! even if the latter has not yet been unlocked.
- Pills are only converted while held by a character with False PHD. For example: If playing as Jacob and Esau and Jacob has this item, pills that got converted into 'bad' pills like a Tears Down pill can be given to Esau to convert them back into a Tears Up pill, or whatever the pill was originally.
- Losing the item by either dropping it as Tainted Isaac or re-rolling it via D4, etc., causes the damage buffs given to be removed.
- With Little Baggy and False PHD, the Marked Skull in Depths II will drop a ??? pill, making it much harder to open A Strange Door that run.
Synergies[ | ]
- A Pony/White Pony: Effectively converts all Speed Down pills into Damage Up as long as one of the ponies are being held, since they will always give a minimum of 1.5 speed.
- Black Feather: Counts as an 'evil item, granting a damage up.
- Lucky Foot / PHD / Virgo: Pills can now be both good and bad again. The other effects of False PHD still apply when taking bad pills.
- The Wafer: Using a Bad Trip pill will only deal half a heart of damage and spawn a full Black Heart, resulting in a net gain of health.
- The Wafer + Placebo: Allows for farming infinite health using Bad Trip pills.
Interactions[ | ]
- Libra: The balancing of stats mostly leads to a net decrease between Stat Downs and +0.6 damage up, while Luck Down provides the balanced +0.6 damage and luck -1.0.
In-game Footage[ | ]
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |
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