Spoon Bender

 

"Homing shots"

Item ID
5.100.3

Character Appearance

Tear Appearance

Item Pool

			Crane Game
			Treasure Room
			Treasure Room

Collection Grid

(page 1, column 3, row 1)

(page 1, column 3, row 1)

Spoon Bender is a passive item.

Effects

• Grants homing tears.

Synergies

• 20/20/ Cursed Eye/ The Inner Eye/ Mutant Spider: All tears home in on enemies.
• Aquarius: No effect.
  • Trail of creep is purple and homes in on enemies.
• Brimstone: The beam curves towards enemies.
  • Azazel: The short-ranged beam can curve with higher range stat.
• Compound Fracture/ Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: Tears and split tears are homing.
• Dr. Fetus: The bombs slide towards enemies.
• Epic Fetus: Cursor slides towards enemies.
• Fate's Reward/ Incubus: Familiars get homing tears as well.
• Haemolacria: Main tears and burst tears home in on enemies.
• Ipecac: Homing explosive shots.
• Lead Pencil/ Monstro's Lung: All tears in tear barrage are homing.
• Marked: Tears will travel in the direction of the cross-hairs until close enough to home in on an enemy.
• Mom's Knife: The knife curves towards enemies.
• Sprinkler: Sprinkler will fire homing tears.
• Strange Attractor: Increases accuracy by drawing enemies towards tears.
• Technology: The laser curves towards enemies.
• Technology 2: The laser and tears home in on enemies.
• Tech X: The laser rings curve towards enemies, resulting in longer contact time and substantial damage increase per ring.

Interactions

• Anti-Gravity: Tears will fly towards enemies that come too close, chasing them until they either hit the enemy or fall to the ground. If the enemy is killed tears fly around like The Peeper until they hit the ground.
• Eye of the Occult: Tears home in on enemies when not being maneuvered.
• The Ludovico Technique: The tear will attempt to home towards a single target, even if it hits a different enemy on its way there, making it difficult to control.
• My Reflection: Tears will home in on enemies if close; otherwise, they will return to Isaac.
• Technology Zero: Tears will home in on enemies but the electricity won't.

Unlockable Achievements

• 

  Baby-Bender - Use I - The Magician or Telepathy for Dummies while already having homing tears.

Trivia

• Spoon Bender is a reference to the common stage magic trick of spoon bending.
  • Possibly a reference to The Matrix.
• This item is used in Computer Savvy (challenge #16).
• According to Tyrone's tweet, the Brimstone + Spoon Bender synergy was modeled after the Plasma Laser, first introduced in Raiden II.

Seeds

PCGEBY 4V1Y - (First floor Treasure Room)

PCKBDW JNXB - (First floor Treasure Room)

PS4FT8W MTXG - (First floor Treasure Room)

VitaYASB CYZV - (First floor Treasure Room)

Vita2VD9 44SW - (First floor Treasure Room)

Switch Z0HQ ER4N (First Golden Treasure Room)