Pyromaniac

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"It hurts so good +5 bombs"
Entity ID	5.100.223
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Treasure Room Treasure Room
Quality	4
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 3, column 10, row 2) (page 2, column 20, row 5)

This article is about the explosion immunity item. For the item that grants bombs, see Pyro.

Pyromaniac is a passive item.

Effects

• +5 Bombs.
• All explosions heal Isaac instead of damaging him. If Isaac has no Red Heart containers or full health, no damage is taken.
  • Explosions heal one full Red Heart.
  • Explosions heal one half Red Heart.
• Grants immunity to damage from Fire Places or enemy fires, but does not heal Isaac.
  • It does not protect the player from taking damage from the White Fire Place in Downpour II, making it still possible to acquire Knife Piece 1.
  • Isaac is immune to the lake of fire in the fight against The Beast, but not to her fire inhalation attack.

Notes

• Pyromaniac is a Special Item.
• Makes the player immune to Mom's, Satan's, and other enemies' stomp attacks, making those fights substantially less difficult.
  • Due to the immunity to Mom's stomping attack, Mom's Toenail has improved usefulness.
• Makes the player immune to The Cage's, The Adversary's, Mega Satan's, and Ultra Greedier's rock wave attack.
• The item is unable to produce Soul Hearts, Black Hearts, or Eternal Hearts, making Pyromaniac a little less effective if used with ???, Dark Judas, Tainted Judas, The Lost, Tainted Forgotten, or Tainted Bethany. However, these characters still gain immunity to explosions, with Tainted ??? benefiting the most out of all.
• Makes the player immune to fires left behind by enemies and their hot bombs, as well as projectiles from Red Fire Places and Purple Fire Places, but not the fireplaces themselves.
• Ultra Greedier uses explosive attacks almost exclusively. As a result, Pyromaniac makes characters nearly invulnerable against him.
• One of only two items that grant full immunity to explosive damage, the other being Host Hat.

Synergies

• Blood Bombs: If the player has run out of bombs, they can spend half a heart to drop a bomb and recover it by getting caught in the explosion (it won't work on characters that can't obtain red health)
• Curse of the Tower: Whenever Isaac gets hit, numerous healing troll bombs fill the room, nullifying nearly any red heart damage taken.
• Dr. Fetus / Epic Fetus / Ipecac: Explosions heal Isaac, essentially making him invincible as long as he has more than one red heart container and a decent rate of fire.
• Kamikaze!: Provides an unlimited source of explosions which will heal.
• Bomber Boy: Heals Isaac multiple times per bomb depending on the number of explosions that hit him.

Trivia

• This item is used in Blue Bomber (challenge #23).
• Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires.

Seeds

PC 7HQC 0YH9 (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC PR2N SB6M (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn, Kamikaze! synergy on first floor)

PC 0DJW Y6DB (Pyro + Pyromaniac adjacent to spawn)

PC 0MMV NJKX (First floor Treasure Room)

PC 2CBJ S32P (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC NCCG RAAY (Treasure Room, 2 rooms below spawn)

PC 47SZ RCWR (Treasure Room, 2 rooms right of spawn)

PS4 7BAK S8YD (First floor Treasure Room)

3DS 4L93 XLGW (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

Switch YDRY EDY0 (First Golden Treasure Room) (Curse of the Blind)

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