Character guides

One page each — kit, what to hunt for, what to refuse, the cheese that still works on 1.7.9, and what each one needs for its marks. Open with the tracker's save on this device and the ones you still owe marks on come first.

IsaacTreat the D6 as a look-generator, not a jackpot button. Rerolling drains the pool; once a pool is exhausted it falls bac…MagdaleneHer speed, not her health, is the thing that kills her. Take the first speed item you see (The Belt alone is +0.3 speed)…CainTake and swallow every pill you find. With Lucky Foot there is no such thing as a bad pill for Cain, so unknown pills ar…JudasOne container means one mistake. On floors 1-2, health ups outrank damage ups; you already carry a 1.35x multiplier that…???Soul hearts are his only resource and nothing except more soul hearts refills them. Play with a three-hit buffer mentali…EveHer real stat line is 1.00x damage plus +1.5 damage and +0.3 speed, and she only has it at one red heart or less. Anythi…SamsonBloody Lust resets on every new floor, so the six hits have to be re-earned each time. Take them early in a safe room, n…AzazelCharge the beam in the previous room and walk into the next room already loaded. This single habit is the biggest skill …LazarusDying is a resource. Each death is a permanent +0.5 damage and swaps you into the 1.40x form for the rest of that floor.EdenRead the whole start before you move: the active's charge cost, the passive, the trinket or pill or card, and the stat b…The LostThe Eternal D6 is his real starting item. It rerolls every pedestal in the room with a 25% chance to delete each one, wh…LilithBox of Friends duplicates every familiar for the current room only. Fire it as you enter a boss room, not in a room you …KeeperTreat loose pennies as parked health. Deliberately leave one or two coins on the floor in every cleared room and walk ba…ApollyonApollyon converts bad luck into stats, so his floor plan is different: clear the whole floor, leave every junk pedestal …The ForgottenMelee is your damage. The throw is for reaching what you cannot walk to, and for builds where the ranged form is genuine…BethanyShe sees more Angel Rooms than anyone, but her deal chance is fragile because she has no soul heart buffer to absorb a h…Jacob and EsauTheir real power is doubled item pickups. In rooms where taking one item removes the others - alt-path Treasure Rooms in…Tainted IsaacFirst thing on every floor: decide which 8 items you actually want and park the white box on the worst one, so a surpris…Tainted MagdaleneCharge groups of weak enemies on purpose. You take contact damage but you gain invincibility frames from it, and during …Tainted CainDo not craft the moment the bag fills. The bag previews what your 8 pickups will make, so cycle the contents with the sw…Tainted JudasThe correct habit is to time Dark Arts to pass through the ORIGIN of a bullet nova as it spawns, so you eat the whole bu…Tainted ???The thing that kills newcomers is hoarding poops. He generates them constantly by dealing damage, especially in boss fig…Tainted EveTap-fire, do not hold. Holding for 2 seconds is what spawns a clot, so tapping lets you shoot without bleeding, at no co…Tainted SamsonBerserk is a resource with a clock, so treat it as a route: enter a room, kill as much as possible, and push straight in…Tainted AzazelThe gimmick in plain language: you have two attacks that only work together. The sneeze marks; the beam kills marked thi…Tainted LazarusThe gimmick in plain language: you are running two half-built characters that trade places every time you finish a room.…Tainted EdenThe gimmick in plain language: your build is a slot machine that pulls every time something touches you. You are not ass…Tainted LostThe gimmick in plain language: you get exactly one shield and the game actively refuses to hand you a second one. Every …Tainted LilithThe gimmick in plain language: this is a whip, not a gun. Tap fire to punch Gello out for triple damage, release to snap…Tainted KeeperThe gimmick in plain language: money is health, money is progression, and money evaporates in about two seconds. You are…Tainted ApollyonThe gimmick in plain language: you convert items into permanent damage. Every pedestal is a decision - is this item wort…Tainted ForgottenThe gimmick in plain language: you play a bomb and the courier who has to carry it. Forgotten is the weapon and is untou…Tainted BethanyThe gimmick in plain language: you are permanently worse at stats than every other character, and you make up for it by …Tainted JacobThe gimmick in plain language: an unkillable stalker follows you all game, and your pocket item is a chain that both pro…