Skatole

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Fly love"
Entity ID	5.100.9
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Shell Game
Quality	0
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 1, column 9, row 1) (page 1, column 9, row 1)

Skatole is a passive item.

Effects

• This item causes many Fly enemies to alter their behavior toward Isaac.
  • The following flies transform into a neutral normal Fly: Attack Fly, Dart Fly, Eternal Fly, Ring Fly, Army Fly, and Swarm Fly.
  • The following flies move slower but will still deal contact damage: Boom Fly, Red Boom Fly, and Drowned Boom Fly.
  • The following flies move slower and deal no contact damage: Moter, Level 2 Fly, Full Fly, Pooter, Super Pooter, Boom Fly, Red Boom Fly, Drowned Boom Fly, Sucker, Soul Sucker, Spit, Ink, Willo, Level 2 Willo, Dragon Fly, Dragon Fly X, Bone Fly, Sick Boom Fly, Ink, Bulb, Mama Fly, Bloodfly, and Tainted Boom Fly.
    • Pooters will not fire at Isaac, Moters will not split into Attack Flies, and Bulbs will not drain active item charges if touched.
    • Bone Flies will still throw bones at Isaac, and Willos and Level 2 Willos will still shoot.
  • The following flies are completely unaffected, retaining their normal attacks and speed: Large Attack Fly, Swarm Fly, Hush Fly, Sucker, Soul Sucker, Spit, Ultra Famine Fly, and Ultra Pestilence Fly.
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Notes

• This item can only be naturally obtained from the Shell Game in the arcade.
• Beelzebub's effect overrides Skatole.
• Flies spawned by The Husk will not become passive.

Trivia

• Skatole is a mildly toxic white crystalline organic compound that occurs naturally in feces.
• According to Edmund McMillen's First post-Repentance Lore Stream, Skatole's visual was designed first, with McMillen then working backwards to create an appropriate effect to justify an item that puts a poop on Isaac's head.
• Skatole was considered as a cosmetic hat for Team Fortress 2, alongside tears, Brimstone, and Tiny Planet. It was dropped as Valve "... didn't want players running around with a wet piece of poop on their heads."
• This item is used in Scat Man (challenge #36).
• This item is one of the only five that count towards 2 transformations, the other four being Hive Mind, The Bible, Magic Mushroom and Parasitoid.

Bugs

Bug!	Skatole's slowdown effect also affects Tumors and its variants, despite them not being flies.

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