Tough Love

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Tooth shot"
Entity ID	5.100.150
Character Appearance
Tear Appearance
Item Pool	Treasure Room Treasure Room
Quality	3
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 2, column 7, row 5) (page 2, column 7, row 2)

Tough Love is a passive item.

Effects

• Adds a chance to shoot a tooth instead of a tear, which deals x3.2 Isaac's damage.

Notes

• The chance to fire a tooth depends on the luck stat, and the formula used to determine the chance is: $\frac1 { 10 - \left \lfloor \mathit{Luck} \right \rfloor}$
  • At base luck (0), the chance is 10%, maxing out at 100% at 9 luck.

Interactions

• Apple!: With 14 Luck, overrides Tough Love. With 13 Luck, Apple and Tough Love each have about an equal chance to trigger.
• Brimstone: Overridden by Brimstone.
  • Occasionally fires Brimstone beam with damage multiplier of Tough Love.
• Cricket's Body / Compound Fracture: Teeth will split into smaller teeth.
• Dr. Fetus: Bombs explode with the increased blast damage and radius of Mr. Mega.
  • Adds a chance for the bombs to deal increased damage. See the page for the specific damage formula. Bombs that deal the increased damage will have increased explosion size and shake the screen, similar to bombs affected by Mr. Mega.
• Fire Mind: Adds a flaming effect to the teeth, but without the chance of exploding.
• Ipecac: Teeth explode with the increased blast damage of Mr. Mega.
• Mom's Knife: Overridden by Mom's Knife.
  •  : Both damage multipliers apply, combined damage multiplier is x6.4.
• Haemolacria: Tears will not appear as teeth but may still gain the damage multiplier.
• Jawbreaker: Activation rates are individually applied to each tear, effectively allowing for higher amounts of teeth. At 9 Luck, the trinket is no longer needed, as Tough Love will already guarantee that every shot is a tooth.
• The Ludovico Technique: Tear occasionally flicks to being a tooth, which deals 3.2x Isaac's tear damage, before immediately returning to being a normal tear. The frequency at which the tear very briefly transforms into a tooth increases with Luck, permanently becoming a tooth at 9 Luck.
• The Parasite: Split tears will not turn into teeth.
• Spirit Sword: Both the sword and projectiles can deal increased damage.
• Technology: Damage multiplier applies occasionally.

Trivia

The x3.2 damage multiplier is likely a reference to the fact that full set of adult teeth amounts to 32 teeth in total.

References

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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