Shade

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"It follows"
Entity ID	5.100.468
Item Pool	Baby Shop Curse Room Devil Room Curse Room Devil Room
Quality	0
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 4, column 3, row 6) (page 4, column 4, row 6)
Unlock Method	Defeat Delirium as Judas

Shade is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.

Effects

• Grants a shadow familiar that follows Isaac's movements on a 1-second delay 0.66-second delay and deals 2 contact damage per tick or 30 damage per second to enemies.
• Shade is absorbed by Isaac after dealing over 600 damage over 666 damage.
  • The familiar disappears and turns into friendly dark Chargers, similar to those spawned by My Shadow.
  • Isaac will now do equal contact damage at the same rate as the Shade used to.
    • BFFS! will continue to work on Isaac even after absorption, doubling damage dealt.
    • Isaac's contact damage increases when absorbing multiple Shade familiars.

Notes

• If other familiars that move with a similar pattern such as Multidimensional Baby have been collected before the Shade, it will follow them instead with further delay.
• If Isaac gains a method of flight, Shade will gain wings.
• Cannot be removed with Sacrificial Altar.

Trivia

• Obsessed Fan behaves similarly to Shade before the disappearance, but with a longer delay on following Isaac's movements.
• If playing as Dark Judas or Tainted Judas, the shade familiar will have red eyes instead of white ones.
• Shade's pickup quote may be a reference to the horror film "It Follows".

Seeds

PC 39J6 30LZ (Curse Room adjacent to spawn)

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