Polyphemus

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Mega tears"
Entity ID	5.100.169
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Treasure Room Treasure Room
Quality	4
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 2, column 6, row 7) (page 2, column 6, row 3)

Polyphemus is a passive item.

Effects

• Greatly increased damage: ${\textstyle {(Damage + 4) \times 2}}$
• Tears down: ${\textstyle {(Delay \times 2.1) + 3}}$
• Tears fired per second * 0.42.
• If a tear kills an enemy and has left over damage, the tear travels on with the remaining damage.

Notes

• Polyphemus is a special item.

Synergies

• Abyss: When Polyphemus is picked up instead of being converted into a locust, it grants all of Abyss's locusts the high damage up without suffering the tears down allowing Isaac to increase his damage rate substantially the more items he uses Abyss on.
• Dr. Fetus: Increases tear delay, and after the first bomb explodes, a second bomb appears where the first one exploded, doing roughly half the damage of the first.
• The Inner Eye/Mutant Spider/C Section: The tear rate is not lowered further, but the effect on damage becomes a flat +5 bonus instead.
• The Forgotten: The Forgotten's bone club becomes massive. It deals very high damage but has a very low swing rate. The size of the bone club becomes big enough to shake the screen.
• Rock Bottom: Allows Isaac to keep his previous fire rate in addition to the massive damage boost.
• Shard of Glass: The rapidly spawning red tears do full damage.

Interactions

• Haemolacria: The main tear retains the semi-piercing ability and may not burst when hitting a weaker enemy. Split tears do not semi-pierce.
• Lachryphagy: Greatly increases how big the fed tear can grow.
• Lost Contact: Isaac's tears will block enemy shots and continue, but lose 10 damage. If the tear had less than 10 damage left, it disappears.
• Piercing tears: Semi-piercing is replaced by proper piercing, with no loss of damage on any enemy contact.
• Polyphemus: No further effect when multiple copies are acquired.

Trivia

• Much like other eye-altering passive items, Polyphemus has a unique appearance on The Forgotten, appearing as an empty eye socket.
• Polyphemus, ancient Greek for "The much vaunted", is a Cyclops. He is the son of Poseidon and the sea nymph Thoosa. This item is a reference to the cyclops named Polyphemus from the poem by Homer called "The Odyssey"
• This item is used in Slow Roll (challenge #15).

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