Ghost Pepper

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Flame tears"
Entity ID	5.100.495
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Treasure Room Treasure Room
Quality	2
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 5, column 10, row 1) (page 5, column 11, row 1)

Ghost Pepper is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.

Effects

• Shooting tears sometimes spawns a fire similar to Red Candle, damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with.
• Shooting tears sometimes spawns a blue fire similar to The Candle, damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with. It lasts on the ground for a limited time and can pass through obstacles.
• Creating farts through items/pills such as Re-Lax, The Poop, Butter Bean, and etc. causes fire to shoot out alongside the fart.
  • The only exception to this is the farts generated by Butt Penny.
• The fire deals 3x to 6x of Isaac's damage, depending on the size of the flame.
• The fire can destroy Shopkeepers.
• Enemies with fire variants which change to their variants when they get hit with the flame.

Notes

• The chance of spawning fire is not affected by luck.
• The fire is affected by luck. The activation rate is equal to 1/(12 - Luck). At base luck (0), the chance is 8.33%, maxing out at 100% at 11 luck.

Synergies

• Brimstone: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
  • Occasionally emits a flame while the beam is firing.
• Butter Bean, Mega Bean, The Black Bean, Wait What?: Will spawn fires upon use/activation.
• Dr. Fetus: Fires can be spawned while firing bombs.
• Epic Fetus: Fires can be spawned while moving the crosshair.
• Ipecac: Fires are spawned as normal and can be hit by Ipecac tears, making this especially dangerous with a multi-shot ability.
• Mom's Knife: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
  • Occasionally spawns a fire when fired.
• Monstro's Lung: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
• The Poop: Fire will appear behind Isaac.
• Pupula Duplex: The fires gain a large size and duration increase.
• Technology: Will occasionally spawn a fire. The lasers will not douse the flames.
• Tech X: Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing lasers. Laser rings will not douse the flames.
• Trisagion: Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing beams. Fires damage is not reduced.
• Urn of Souls: Causes the Urn to emit Ghost Pepper's flames in addition to its regular flames.

Interactions

• 20/20/ The Inner Eye/ Mutant Spider: Will only spawn one fire.
• Anti-Gravity: When holding down the fire button, when fire spawns it will be almost immediately put out by the clumps of tears.
• Blood Clot: No effect.
• Compound Fracture/ Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: Fires cannot split.
• Homing tears: Flames will not be homing.
• Incubus/ Twisted Pair/ Gello: Will not spawn fire by themselves, Isaac will spawn an additional fire instead of the familiar.
• Lachryphagy: Feeding tears will quickly douse the flames.
• Lilith: Spawns fire from her mouth.
• The Ludovico Technique: Fires created from Ghost Pepper will destroy the tear and cause it to respawn on Isaac.
  • Isaac now periodically creates fires that shoot towards the Ludovico Technique tear.
• A Lump of Coal: Affects normal tears but no effect on fire.
• Pop!: Eyeballs tears quickly douse flames.
• Proptosis: Flames will not lose damage or shrink as they travel.
• Soy Milk: No effect on frequency or damage of flames.
• Sprinkler: The sprinkler will not spawn flames.

Trivia

• "Ghost pepper" is an alternate name for the bhut jolokia, which is arguably one of the world's hottest peppers.
• After Repentance, this item is essentially a The Candle variant of Bird's Eye. It was likely reworked instead of the new item since the "ghost" thematic fits blue fires better.

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