Who's The Strongest Repentance Character?

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The time has come for me to finally weigh in on the Repentance characters! In this video I rank them based on their perceived strength and ability to win runs consistently (although my criteria changes every 5 minutes), check it out and do what everyone does with tier lists -- find something to disagree with!

[@destructiondragon360]

"Gun to my head, if you asked me to choose between Tainted Lost and Tainted Eden I'd just say 'Pull the trigger.'" I died laughing

[@Grizzs]

Same that was gold

[@SrakenKraken]

both are nothing compared to both versions of the twins and tainted lazarus

[@SerpentineSeiđr]

Same, I was listening and drinking hot chocolate, when he said that I nearly spat my drink 😂

[@Cymricus]

t lazarus is fine and just annoying now. the bad opinions of him are from before flip had a ghost item

[@fishdungcollector89]

​@@SrakenKraken lost and tainted lost are the two hardest characters by a long shot, next would be tainted jacob. Tainted laz isn't bad at all, way stronger than most.

[@MoodyBlooze1]

"I see you making typos, you're gonna tell me you play Dark Judas optimally 100% of the time?" what an iconic line

[@baconwithmoreeggs7938]

Tainted Eden is easy, when you get a good run just decide not to get hit ever again

[@mertcanbolat]

Holy shit. I've never thought about that. Thanks man.

[@GiornoGiovannaGangstar]

"don't get hit 4head"

[@flowers3438]

I think tainted is good in the fact that there’s more value in just getting more items. It only takes 3 good items in your random item pool to allow you to survive until you get hit again. But getting hit a couple times can drain your hp.

[@Rislear]

you just gotta play like tainted lost, it's EZ

[@fartnuts8636]

Doesn't the rerolling rotate though? It's not like old rerolling. It's like 3 different inventories you can cycle through by getting hit isn't it?

[@justinlariviere]

The new NL just comes right out and drops the video all the Isaac stans were waiting for. I don’t even know wtf is going on still but I’ve just been watching the Isaac for the banter for like 4 years

[@Mazerwolf]

“Isaac stans” is a very repulsive term

[@justinlariviere]

@@Mazerwolf lol sorry

[@autismo4029]

@@Mazerwolf yeah I puked a little in my mouth

[@SpongeKiller42]

@@autismo4029 I came a little in my pants

[@carboniris]

@@Mazerwolf oh no! anyway

[@colinpaton3304]

‘Ham sandwich’ is a scarily accurate tier ranking to define me as a human being

[@Wewin42]

Funny, Captain America Pre Super Serum was already how I described myself.

[@colinpaton3304]

@@Wewin42 lmao

[@IanZWhite00]

How do you think I feel as someone who intentionally buys light cream cheese products

[@vindetta182]

Pre covid lock down I felt I was a solid low pub nachos tier but I’m definitely a light cream cheese product now

[@Eidenhoek]

@@IanZWhite00 Trash, I believe, is how you feel. GET ON MY LEVEL _dabs furiously_

[@RSmeep13]

I think people undervalue spectral tears. Especially in conjunction with flight. You give me spirit of the night an Eden start and I will give you a won run most of the time. This is what make the losts so much easier than they originally appear. The defensive utility is unmatched.

[@Eroil]

Agreed, spectral by itself is alright but together with flight it's amazing, can cheese so many rooms

[@cyanideytcuriousseadoggo]

Good. If I saw Ded dove in an ultra secret room or a Angel room(same with spirit of the night in devil rooms.)I would be Glad. Same for a Start if picked Eden and I rolled ded dove or spirit of the night that was my random passive.

[@AshleyTheSwift]

I don't think people undervalue it, it's great in many rooms. But there's also plenty of rooms where flight and spectral don't help you at all, and you've just got to not get hit. That's when The Lost sucks.

[@wyattm3241]

yeah but it takes forever most dont like to wait and love tainted cain with the bag of crafting to literally get whatever they want

[@SnowyJop]

NL and chat have such a charged relationship with each other when it comes to Isaac lol

[@DevoBlade]

My god, those tier names are something else.

[@torgor_]

the tier colors hurt me physically, why is pink between green and blue

[@MechWarrior894]

I’m hungry for nachos now

[@mattersofdarkness2674]

Finally, another tier list. My gourd was already brimming with pog. Thank god for this release.

[@ChaoticSatire]

Wow crazy to see tainted Cain is your favourite character in the game, should play him more often

[@armageddongirl612]

read the title, strongest ≠ favourite

[@miguel7888]

@@armageddongirl612 woosh

[@armageddongirl612]

@@miguel7888 oh hey that's the sound that the wind does whenever someone like you makes an untrue, unfunny and unfitting woosh comment like you just did

[@miguel7888]

@@armageddongirl612 damn i got got

[@TheShut1]

@@armageddongirl612 Woosh is cringe and irrelevant but dunking on it still doesn't change the fact that you tried to correct the comment that was clearly a sarcasm.

[@CosmicMcRad]

I could listen to NL rank things in tier lists every day for the rest of my life and I’d be happy about it

[@XxXasparXxX]

Tainted Judas is top tier. He just destroys Hush and Delirium because of their bullet barrage that you can just phase through and do a ton of damage. But that’s just the cherry on top, the active gives you infinite book of shadows effect so you can do a lot of things like: enter and exit curse rooms without taking damage, grab chests that are behind spikes, or any other consumable for that matter, you don’t have to wait for the spikes to go down and press the button to open the door on those puzzle rooms you can phase through straight to the button, obviously you can also dodge shots. The best part about the active is that not only are you invincible but the enemies are also frozen which gives you time to collect yourself.

[@fornax985]

Jesus, at first I thought you were baiting and said "Tainted Jacob"

[@XxXasparXxX]

@@fornax985 I tried to make tainted Jacob work and in theory he has his strengths like in greedier where there’s a lot of mobs that get killed by a dashing Esau and you can time and position him with the active, but in practice this is just hard AF to pull off. Screw tainted Jacob.

[@fornax985]

@@XxXasparXxX That's right, screw him

[@benepic3101]

The fact that NL didn’t unify his tiers as either pop culture characters or food items disturbs me

[@jacobwiggans4470]

Make me think I’m MIGHTY SICK 😬😬😬

[@Aeri_shiro]

It is a tear list after all

[@Johnstuntin]

@@Aeri_shiro oktttllo ini you tt I rayuyyyyyyy

[@DankDimensionMemes]

I mean cheese and ham is there so...

[@dotyuusha]

@@Johnstuntin uuuh what

[@bulldogmicro4279]

Cain with lucky foot was ok but the repentance change where all the pill effects are either good or neutral plus 1 luck just really solidifies the core of the run. I also hate issac's base damage so Cain is a nice pick.

[@Someone.....................]

@Tasty_Tidep0d rerolling overrated, just take the bad item ez.

[@quetzalthegamer]

Cain is the best character in Flash Isaac because you can actually take pills without ruining your run.

[@adar9236]

​@@quetzalthegamer pills aren't as bad as people think they are, the worst affect is a minor tears down that only really matters for like 2 floors at most and can be dealt with easily

[@jbt-qu6lm]

he's insane for putting cain in the ham sandwich tier

[@calebryce3012]

Thanks for being here, nl. Been watching since I was 15 now I have a wife lmao.

[@sebi8647]

It’s me I’m your wife

[@mydrillasanjay5397]

Lel

[@takheer]

Same here. I was watching Nl being an average Russian teenager and eventually I ended up becoming an English teacher and thus thankfully surviving rows of the most a-hole situations in my life. Without him, I wouldn’t have in the slightest. And I also got married as well, heh.

[@SpongeKiller42]

@@takheer Hey Nuriev teacher, Obama!

[@HackionSTx]

Lucky for you. I was a loser 10 years ago and I'm still a loser. At least I'm a wise loser now.

[@joshpower1994]

NL full just went Virgin Dark Arts vs. Chad Berserker “Ooo what if my invincibility runs out and I get hurt?” - Dark Arts “Haha keyboard go brrrr” - Berserker

[@Drekromancer]

based and ragepilled

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

As someone who mains Samson and is desperately trying to get the tainted bertion, i feel like i just got blessed

[@stealth3122]

i dont know if he changes it, but og cain does have a 1.2* damage multiplier which is quite strong, makes all damage ups add 1.2 damage rather than 1 and starts with 4.2 damage rather than 3.5. I think overall he could be in pub nachos tier just at the bottom.

[@thetoastedmarshmallow1606]

Yeah, he starts with great damage, always gives good pills, and gambling pays out more, definitely at least pub nachos

[@Vario69]

I've been saying it for years. Cain is great. Even before the pills buff which now makes him just insanely reliable 😳

[@firstlast-wg2on]

Yes! I love Cain so much! It’s so common that I get high luck simply because of his starting item + pills. Starts with good speed, the one eye means he’s more accurate, high damage. I rate him.

[@firstlast-wg2on]

@Lachy314 right!? I’m so glad someone else is so pumped about it, once you get used to it it actually feels a little weird to have the lack of accuracy on other characters (at least on the early floors). On early floors, especially the spider ones I find myself positioning behind rocks and shooting with one eye to avoid running in and it’s just a great detail

[@fossfox]

Cain is at least more CONSISTENT than Maggy, bottom of Pub Nachos for sure

[@kylerivera3470]

I think Tainted Cain would make a good character for an Isaac race. He's extremely powerful, but you need to take time to become powerful and I think that the judgement of what level of strength will carry you through the run versus what level of strength you would want to spend a bit more time on would make for an interesting dynamic.

[@superpanda305]

"Cain is worse in repentance" cain literally got buffed for repentance

[@dvdroshin]

so did the enemy AI

[@RichardBlaziken]

I think he meant relative to the rest of the game. Whether or not you find that to be true personally, Cain's buffs don't automatically or necessarily make him better in Repentance than in AB+ relatively speaking.

[@stormedrain]

imo cain is the best base character because of his superior stats and no bad pills, but that could be debatable

[@zaooza34]

Cain was my favorite pre repentance and he`s still as strong. I do think regular Isaac is the strongest of them all. Getting an angel item from every angel statue you find, how could anything beat this ?

[@art-cs6us]

Why do people forget about the paperclip. They made golden chests drop more stat items so caim got buffed basically

[@rithing5014]

I feel like Apollyon got worse because items generally got better

[@BlueRiging]

I just found in Afterbirth+ you had to exercise more caution when it came to mediocre items. I would find myself underpowered by the end, and look to see that I only had like 8 items because "I'd rather have the stat upgrades." Well, you need something beside shotspeed ups to keep a run going. Repentance I'm not sure yet about void... we'll see in about 500 hours how I feel about him.

[@armageddongirl612]

true, most items in the game are good and voiding items is useful only if the item you're voiding is a: -good active item -run-ruining passive item -useless for you passive item that's it. the only uses for the item.

[@AshtonTheMelon]

If they made Void like one to two charges shorter, I would just use it more. As it stands, I hold onto charges for the whole floor because I either don't want to lose a good passive or I don't want to absorb something that has a better charge rate.

[@golden_2196]

Void was nerfed to only absorb 1 item it choice item rooms

[@T-stain]

@@BlueRiging how do you feel about him

[@Suekru3]

I like how NL always says sorry to youtube when he has to leave for a bit. Like we can fast forward, twitch cannot. It's much more grueling to wait in chat then hit the right arrow key 5 times.

[@coled82595]

I could listen to NL tier list analysis literally 24/7

[@MrAliFranca]

could you though? i mean, literally?

[@coled82595]

@@MrAliFranca Yes. Literally.

[@Vario69]

Literally? Come on you need some sleep

[@coled82595]

@@Vario69 Yes literally

[@viovenus992]

I'm tilted over Cain, he starts with good pills, free gold chests, and extra damage. He should be higher!!

[@titicaca.]

and extra speed

[@BamassacreGaming]

He’s my favorite character yet he never gets the love he deserves.

[@Bumhole94]

I always thought it would be funny to have clips of NL out of context as sub alerts or gifted alerts or something. I put forward "You pay a heavy cost to get ham sandwich functioning" as a recommendation

[@Revacholiere]

please god don't bring back sub alerts

[@Bumhole94]

@@Revacholiere I've seen streamers have a bunch of possible alerts that can play at random rather than the same one over and over which is better IMO. Also maybe only for like 5+ gifted rather than every sub because I agree they can get in the way of the stream if it's constant

[@Nutman2001]

I miss sub alerts

[@femdomsHMU]

I like that half way through the naming scheme he went from Strong people to Food products

[@rhythmicshooter318]

Loving the tier list names for this, especially with the switch from people for the highest and lowest tiers, to food preferences for the in-between tiers XD

[@nalv0]

Eve: Taking damage to do damage? I disagree. Immediately after Samson: Pub nachos Me: Cereal

[@zacharia4061]

Eve has to be at one heart and you lose the dmg if you gain hp, samson gets more damage and you dont lose the damage until end of floor. You are not limited to the ammount of red hearts you can have too.

[@nalv0]

@@zacharia4061 yeah I definitely think Samson is overall better but I do think there’s a smaller gap between the two than NL gives credit for. The razor blade giving a damage up when used can be really useful to use a couple times on a boss to get down to 1 for a massive damage up. But overall Samson CAN be more powerful but it involves more min maxing with taking damage and getting health and all. And without the IV bag it’s hard to take damage intentionally while also preserving your deal chance

[@sonofhades57]

Yeah, Samson scales a lot better and synergizes with various other items that require you to take damage.

[@colonian83]

A wise man once said “the juice ain’t worth the squeeze”

[@ethangilworth7891]

Eve is a terrible character dud e

[@ESC2016]

People keep in memories old Magdalene, but in Repentance she is top tier. With Angel items stronger than evil one AND the "full health" pill on first sacrifice room cheese is just broken.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Can you explain what you meant by the “full health” pill on the first sacrifice room cheese?

[@ArseAllowance]

​@@anti-ethniccleansing465basically, as Maggy starts with a full health pill after doing a challenge (dont remember which one), and if you get a first floor sac room, you can sac a bunch and abuse yum heart and the full health pill to at get Angel room+Angel item first floor First time i tried it i got sacred heart + god head first floor

[@victorkao1472]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465super duper late, but basically, Maggy starts with a full health pill. So, if you start with 4 hp, you can sac 3 times, use the full health pill, sac 3 times again, yum heart, then sack again That’s a total of 7 times, in which the 6th and 7th time can potentially give you op angel items

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@victorkao1472 Thanks! I don’t recall getting a notification for the response from the previous reply person, which is not surprising because KZbin hates my account for speaking inconvenient truths. I actually just did the challenge recently to get the full health pill for her in Repentence (really sucks having to do all of these challenges over again for Nintendo switch because repentance wasn’t put out on the PS vita which I platinumed this game on during rebirth), so now I know what to do with that pill between you and the last commenter!

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@ArseAllowance Please read my last comment here. Thank you again for your explanation! I appreciate your time!

[@crackedlogic8907]

I feel like once NL has another 300 or so hours with the tainted characters alot of the places will change. Tainted Eve is super easy to stack clots with, since every heart collected past what is needed to be at full health can be turned into *two clots*. Clots act as body sheilds, and if somehow you are at very low health you can just sump them back, and then pump them out again. The 'charge can take longer then the summon' aspect can be annoying... but only if you have one of the very few items that can charge longer then it takes to fire.

[@IanZWhite00]

43:43 genuinely sums up essentially 95% of Isaac twitch chat/commenters and I’ve never seen it so accurately explained

[@ellagage1256]

Is it really that hard to just not take damage in exchange for attack power though?

[@formerlypie8781]

@@ellagage1256 if not taking damage was so easy then this wouldn't really be a game would it

[@ellagage1256]

@@formerlypie8781 I mean it's a little easier when you have a layer of protection surrounding you

[@TheScar3cro]

Tainted Eve is seriously undervalued here. After about 40 hours T-Lost grind, T-Eve was my next character to complete and so far it took me 4 Runs to get All the original marks and I got Perfection on the third floor almost everytime. T-Eve feels really strong so far. Only missing Beast, Mother and Greedier

[@calnithm]

yea genuinely no idea, tainted eve is so strong. sump is so broken its kinda like better incubus

[@stygianskies4776]

The thing about Tainted Eve is, if you can get her past the first ~4 to 5 floors, it's basically unlosable from there. But she is absolutely one of the most inconsistent in the entire roster at getting to that point in the first place. It's hard to even make it out of the basement with her, and if you ever get swarmed by Globins or something before you have a sustainable means of regenerating clots, you're basically at a full restart.

[@TheScar3cro]

@@stygianskies4776 You think so? I consistently got perfection with T-eve at the third floor and since most of her strength comes from the bloodclots, shes relatively independent from Items on the first floors if you can get some heart drops

[@stygianskies4776]

@@TheScar3cro They're really not as good as you're making them out to be. Pulling all the clots you can manage at floor 1, even assuming some heart drops, basically just puts you on the same level as any other generic character, if not a little worse due to the extra difficulty aiming and the hugely low tears that your clots sync back up with every new room. If you get that fatty/lil monstro room or the cellar bomb spider room, it's either over right there or you're gonna spend like 6 entire minutes barely clawing your way out.

[@TheScar3cro]

@@stygianskies4776 I'm just telling you my experience from playing this character. I completed every mark in a maximum of 10 tries, which felt very great after about 500 runs of tainted lost

[@redvelvett22]

I recently just did a Eve run with a new strat that I found in the comments, and my opinion of Eve 100% flipped. God Tier character. I nearly beat Mega Satan with literally NO good items, no damage ups, nothing. The only item I had to my advantage was infestation, which synergized really well. All my damage came from getting hp ups. I would use razor blade for damage up for the floor, get red hearts piled up. After clearing out the floor, get every red heart, go to the boss, remove all my hearts, get 15 damage stat and completely erase the boss w my flies and damage. I did this all the way to Mega Satan. Only reason I didnt win was bad red heart and item drop rng for the Chest. I went in with 1 rotten heart, 2 spirit hearts. Nearly beat him. Eve is disgustingly good.

[@youarentyouwhenurhungry2379]

*screw you satan im gonna give myself a small cut on my hand!*

[@lordmoncef5494]

U still lost tough

[@mangostestes9371]

That's sounds so situational

[@3run3r]

NL did my boy Cain dirty

[@andrewmcreynolds3692]

Good speed, good damage, good pills and more health than judas and a good trinket

[@TheHmuma]

@@andrewmcreynolds3692 one eye tho

[@thetoastedmarshmallow1606]

Magdeline starts with a full health pill, yum heart, and 4 hp, meaning you can always try for an angel item in the first sacrifice room

[@Cymricus]

it’s crazy how powerful t lilith was before gello had value homing and now she’s god tier. hands down most faceroll character

[@joeshmo6249]

Those tier list names are so accurate it’s incredible

[@jimbomcbob7849]

Brother

[@fantafanta2823]

The tier names in this list are heavy Dan Gheesling energy and I high-key love it

[@iksargodzilla]

Tainted Eve is one of the best characters in the game, a bit of health quickly snowballs into a minion army. She only struggles a bit against end bosses with a lot of health since the aoe can eat through your minions quickly. I would put her pub nachos at least depending on what boss you're going to fight. One thing I'll add that people might find interesting: if you find an item that allows you to switch characters like judas' shadow, you can convert all your health into minion than swap characters and you keep all the minions.

[@auroriasolaris]

"I am like a normal person with colegee degree, I do not play Greed Mode" He is speaking language of gods

[@sonofhades57]

I remember when Blue Baby was Pub Nachos-tier. Stupid nerf to invincibility mechanics.

[@armageddongirl612]

wait, when was blue babby EVER good?

[@davidhong1934]

@@armageddongirl612 He used to have the Cursed Skull + Scapular combo, which prevented death at the cost of (the player's) sanity

[@PapaBadDadcumsuckgod]

@@armageddongirl612 Polaroid made the late game a lot easier

[@KZapp1]

Would love to see a Tierlist of all new items, trinkets, cards etc. that Repentance added

[@vibingweirdo9911]

I know this is late but I keep seeing everyone how people think t Apollyons locusts are weak or only mild damage up. The locusts create from abyss deal your damage. Not only do they deal your damage but when they make contact with an enemy they can do up to 3 ticks of your damage per second. Essentially meaning the locusts can at max do 3 times your damage and at worse exactly your damage but most of the time is around 2 to 3 times your damage. Basically the locusts are cracked that scale significantly better from damage ups than you actually do and to top it off they are permanent unlock the lil clot buddies. Abyss being an s tier item and Apollyon being top tier is a mountain I’m willing to die on. With abyss literally any item you don’t want is a permanent massive dps upgrade. Yea abyss doesn’t have a lot of cool synergies which does suck but abyss and t Apollyon are just objectively really strong.

[@creativename2567]

"I don't mind if it's hard to deal damage as long as the damage done is really good" So why is T.Eve in light cream cheese? 🤔

[@thatguyisweird3336]

Northenlion not editing out the dead air is peak egghead

[@EvergreenSilva]

My boi T-Apollyon really climbed some spots right there, happy that he is getting even better in the next update :)

[@Parafusion69]

Big Coney energy on these tier names

[@Khotgor]

I might be wrong, but I think Tainted Apollyon is a lot stronger than you give him credit for; recently I picked up Mega Tears that caused my regular tiers deal around 20+ damage (when it was more like 4-5 damage previously), and the Red Locusts that swarmed around me was pretty much killing every single enemy with one fly. I had around 20ish flies when I battled Hush, and he was just melting (and this was a run where my character's tear firing was around 1.15 speed, so he wasn't firing the tears very fast) The fact that Tainted Apollyon is capable of not only gaining extra damage output with the locusts that is upgraded by your damage itself increasing means that the Red Locusts can synergize with your character in dealing a lot of extra damage towards bosses. With that same build, I almost killed Delirium in about 30 seconds (but I died due to lack of Hearts and bullet spam/teleporting). The fact that he is one of the only characters that are 100% capable of turning any item into damage can make any run with garbage item generation into something always playable. Just focus on picking up damage-uping items and turn the rest into locusts, and Tainted Apollyon can shred pretty much anything you want. I would put Tainted Apollyon around low Pub Nachos, whilst keeping Apollyon in High Light Cream Cheese. Apollyon (Regular Form) is a lot more dependent on Item Generation to actually be good, and is a character that is designed to turn bad passive items into descent/good character upgrades or can turn active items into a massive pool that can cause damage... but that is REALLY dependent on what items spawn in. Tainted Apollyon is generally always going to be stronger in most situations, and unlike Apollyon where Passive Items upgrade 1 or 2 random slots of the character that can be worthless, Tainted always adds damage... damage where the Locusts in question are going to be usually always stronger than your standard Tear Attacks. A Tainted Apollyon run that has the Locust swarms in the double digits is an Apollyon that is going to rip most problems apart, especially if you can get a few passives that increase damage (even if it's the likes of Pentagon and not Mega Tears).

[@o7_matt]

the fact that you can buy active items on sale in the shop for just five cents and then turn them into flies is insane too, with void you just vaccum up the active item instead of getting stats which makes normal apollyon much worse than t. apollyon imo

[@loganxavier]

Really surprised that T. Keeper was put mid-tier. I thought he’d place him at the top.

[@Drekromancer]

I mean, he's arguably the best-designed and most enjoyable character in the game. However, having only 2 coin hearts means that you're as frail as the Lost if you can't harvest coins from your enemies. And a lot of late-game bosses and areas will take long enough to kill that you might get starved out. I typically find that the Chest/Dark Room rooms filled with bosses are hard to survive, because you have to chew through a lot of boss health in order to get your second wind. A lot of the time, it just doesn't come soon enough. So as much as I love T Keeps, I think that's a fair ranking. You could argue for low Pub Nachos, though.

[@F0xy2006k]

​@@Drekromancer that's just skill issue😭

[@babafgc3795]

I will always stand by Lilith in Pub Nachos tier minimum. She’s such a fun character that can easily break the game at any given point.

[@mangostestes9371]

Edmund is triggered

[@x10018ro]

"Cain is worse in Repentance" LITERALLY HOW?? He got a HUGE buff.

[@18rodrigos]

just got outta work and I'm ready for some pog tier list making

[@gwydionml6479]

Omg! The package bit was gold! This egg knows what side of the bread has the butter

[@qualifiedcornstarch6859]

"You pay a heavy cost to get Ham Sandwhich functioning"

[@Lyrical14369]

i actually liked Afterbirth+ keeper, the number of shop items that could help a ton was great, piggy bank, blanket etc. literally all you had to do was buy bombs and blow up some pots until you got swallowed penny and it's a won run

[@gwydionml6479]

That Dark Judas typo comment had me rolling! So fucking true tho!

[@dubl33_27]

54:25 honestly absolutely fucking yes, with how generally good the shops are for t. keeper i'd rather pick him

[@venahtmusic]

My kind of tier list. I'm going to start ranking things on a range of Light Cream Cheese Product to Pub Nachos

[@werewolfking65]

Dude some of these are insane. TAzazel is almost at the top but TEve is near the bottom somehow. Same for Lilith, no clue what’s going through his mind.

[@spectrummike]

I think Tainted Eve is the biggest miss for me. I did lose a lot with her at first, but after learning to utilize things like keeping all containers empty before picking up health ups, not going ALL in on damage, recalling from time to time just not to get splashed for 10 hearts with one bomb etc i just BLITZED through the postit, winning run after run. She surprisingly consistent, has a great floor (despite bad teara you can just shotgun with clots from the start for great damage) and ABSURD celling - clots are virtualy limitless and you are SO good with angel rooms that most of the time i find myself with full health and 20-30 clots, not even needing to go into my health for damage anymore. Yes, charged items are awkward and if you dont pay attention (or dont have muscle memory to recall from time to time just to keep safe). The ability to turn every single red heart into damage /that scales/ is just insane, you melt /everything/ and snowball so hard. Honestly, i find her top Pub Nachos/low Mountain at least

[@spectrummike]

Also clots are familiars so they have some /sick/ item and trinket synergy. Also i like how TEve makes me think different about items, for example making me actively excited to see plain +1hp item insted of going 'meh'. E: recalling also does good damage, to the point in which you can just leave your clots on the other side of the room before spawning a boss in a greed mode and just wreck it by pressing Q a single time xd Abait i dont love TEve for greedier, Ultra Greed is possibly the hardest Boss for her due to all of the brim and explosions - Delirium at least gets a big room to dodge around

[@phrakture1]

Super late reply but also getting every boss challenge room reward becomes trivial. so many advantages

[@mcgoo721]

Can’t believe the wordsmith himself was going to name the highest tier “top tier.”

[@godsfunniestclown]

Bethany’s my strongest character because my save file is bugged and the game gives me free random wisps every time I clear a room lmao

[@Acc_Expired]

Interesting fact: If you have that bug in multiplayer, the other player will get the wisps too

[@DanielKaasing]

Just wanted to compliment the thumbnail. It looks great! Keep it up, boss.

[@kevinekerr7284]

i have never played this game and mostly only watch you. This list is true.

[@squish116]

Im expecting tainted cain to a masterpiece already

[@djgraham1485]

Can’t wait for the 7 hour item ranks

[@miraclePoints]

Some people are iffy on the Eve placement, but as much as I like her I gotta agree she's weak. Eve is kinda frustrating because she used to be SO much better in Afterbirth/AB+ than she is in Repentance due to the meta shift to red hearts and angel rooms. In AB, with Eve all you had to do was stack blue hearts, sell all your red hearts, and you'd coast to an easy victory. In Repentance, devil rooms and items are worse and blue hearts are rarer, so you might just run out of resources and die by attrition, while if you go angel rooms it becomes super fiddly to keep Babylon up.

[@mangostestes9371]

I totally agree with you man

[@ChrizzellJay]

I was so ready for another edit when he went to get his package.

[@avari0292]

Time to rerank all the items now ;)

[@Rolling2Much]

Tainted lost is the easiest then you go tainted Cain if you want something a little harder

[@Tanzklaue]

jacob and esau get a pass for being bad since they also are cool as hell as a concept. they probably need to introduce something to make the character less bad. maybe everytime 1 character picks up an item, the other gets a pill worth of stats? that way, each item would have an effect on both characters.

[@lixore]

Eagerly awaiting part 2

[@MichaelTheDane1]

I love it when you poop on chat, gets m every time

[@blazie42069]

Let's be real, tainted blue baby is a straight upgrade from blue baby, if you do NOT rank him in pub nachos at least I am calling sinvicta. Tainted blue baby can beat hush with base stats with holy poop + creep. You are just bad at him NL. Self inflicted damage is easily avoidable with the right caution. Also creep and holy poop give multipliers, let's be fair, he has no right to be in light cream cheese.

[@Khotgor]

36:00 - I'ma be honest, once I 100% completed Tainted Cain, he was forever dead to me. As one of the first tainted characters unlocked, and I didn't unlock every single new item in Repentence yet, most of the times winging it lead to me getting Breakfest (Milk) all the time. I never cared for him, so I just went to the wiki and found the recipe to finish him... in one playthrough. Except for Super Greed, my Tainted Cain run was over 3.5 hours long. A single run. Now some it was due to getting about 3-5 Steam items and constantly screwing with the Stores all the time after getting infinite items. I pretty much had a playstyle where I got a basic set of items so that I could finish the Chest/Dark Chest/Hush/Boss Rush/Deri/Beast/Mega/Corpse Mom all at once: - Gnaw Leaf - Steam (3-5 times for practically free items) - Restock for infinite Store Items - BFF (To have DLL to more damage per stomp) - Daddy Long Legs multiple times (I think I had like 30ish or so when I finished) - Dad's Key to unlock Mega Satan - Schoolbag to hold two Active Items - Mama Mega! to Unlock ??? and Boss Rush in a SANE matter (since trying to play Tainted Cain legit and rushing to them is suicide/dumb) - R Key, to start the run all over again and keep all the items I just often left the computer after entering a boss room and just grabbed a drink and watched videos. After multiple attempts of trying to play Tainted Cain 'randomly', I had no desire to play him and just wanted to do anything else. I wanted to be done as fast as possible. Definitely my least favourite. After over 3 hours, almost 4 hours, I did all but Super Greed on a single run. Half of those hours were not finishing the stamps, but just dealing with the store over and over again to get any item that was descent. Sure, I COULD have went for more powerful moves and attempted to do it that way... but I honestly never had fun trying him anyways, even through different measures (which I did in Super Greed, I just got Super Mushrooms over and over and before fighting Gold Boy just made different random items after turning the Store into a convoluted mess of different items scattered everywhere, which is the only place where I had any 'fun' with the character). Tainted Cain feels more like a Greed Character than even Keeper/Tainted Keeper does, and as Binding is a game where a playthrough is usually around 20~40 minutes per run, Tainted Cain is just double that amount with how you constantly have to play with the Store and easy items just to get somewhere. The fact that he is the only character where I feel a Wiki is warranted is a character that I just don't care for. If I wanted to play a Store-Based character, I'll play Keeper or his Tainted Form; they are much better characters. If it wasn't for Mama Mega! existing, I probably wouldn't have even bothered trying to 100% the character.

[@boyo7918]

Lilith fans when the enemy moves behind a rock

[@Crystal_959]

Dark Arts is pretty hard to _not_ use optimally. Like, it’s almost a run winner all by itself, all else is icing. Tainted Judas is top tier. If you’re at least a little aware, you’ll almost never get hit

[@mangostestes9371]

It depends on how often you play this character, like skill wise

[@Crystal_959]

@@mangostestes9371 honestly my first few runs with Tainted Judas were all steamrolls. And I generally suck at Isaac, had a -74 win streak with my highest being 4

[@ep1633]

One thing to note with Bethany is that she can stockpile uses on her active, which makes her really good for bossfights

[@beansock]

if you get eraser on her the runs become really fun trying to meet no enemies ever again

[@mushroomcube623]

He also didn't mention that the red heart stockpile works on normal active items as well. Can be very good if you get one that's at all useful.

[@OMalleyTheMaggot]

I wish tainted Isaac started with fewer item slots, maybe even as ridiculously low as 4, but have more ways to increase his item slots than just the 1/500+ chance of getting birthright. Idk how that would be implemented though.

[@angel_of_rust]

8 is fine

[@pearcehubbart3767]

Maggy has given me a sacred heart first floor. Cain just turns a big drop you find almost always good and you can just play using whatever you find.

[@lincon127]

Best tier list for this game, with the possible swap of tainted eden and J&E

[@Sylvia_Corvidev]

"Gravity Falls avatar" Hey NL, that's a Sam & Max avatar...

[@Pax_Mayn3]

Blue baby is the best for bosses imo. You can instakill them with no items. You drop a poop in the room you start in, clear a room, drop off another poop, repeat. Look for a cards against humanity in a big room, etc. Save it for right before the boss fight, and go get all those flies. Blue baby is amazing. Plus you get that item that gives you an extra fly on poops, and it starts to get overpowered really quick. The only thing is you need the teleport mod because going back and forth would be too to tedious otherwise. Bluebaby is just misunderstood. Dead bird is S tier. There are a lot of ways to take damage without actually taking damage. If you do take damage, then you just get to clear the entire room easily and you can just hide. If you see a huge ridiculous room, you can just take the half heart of damage instead of getting hit multiple times. Any regen item or heart producing active just means free bird. Devil deals suck so who cares about that anyway, and you can just force angel rooms so taking damage doesn't matter. It's basically an innate tainted lil haunt which is a top 5 item. I disagree with just about everything in the video.

[@dusteddustin5643]

this video was made before the blue baby buffs

[@AshtonTheMelon]

I love how the tier list he uses says to rate them how fun they are and not how often you can win and he just does the exact opposite. Lmao

[@annaarkless5822]

tainted isaac is the mountain ngl probably one of my highest win rate characters, getting what is basically a free reroll on every single pedestal is so huge that it negates the downside

[@imasnek4233]

Him not knowing that Cain got a DMG multiplier makes me think how is he almost Dead God

[@LovelySoftSnow]

This man hates aqua infants

[@MichaelTheDane1]

45:50 might just be the funniest thing I've heard all week

[@mimi-xx]

eve actually being the victim of a literal robbery

[@nanotako1054]

eden when it starts with sacred heart and death certificate

[@Infinite_Iris007]

We love to seeeee it 🤌🏻💣💥

[@eumeliovazquezjr1630]

I think tainted Eden is the best character. Just play long enough and you become so powerful.

[@Psydent559]

Just waiting for the tier list of I think you should leave season 2

[@Determinabilis]

9:51 thought he was going to light a cigarette

[@notnewshoes1741]

On Tainted Cain, I personally agree with what alot of people say to do with him. Randomize the crafting recipies, so it throws more unpredictability at him. Sometimes you get godhead sacred heart, and sometimes you get tiny planet soy milk. I personally think that would make him much funner then making rock bottom + red stew + soy milk.

[@loganwoods6825]

Does he not now that Cain starts with higher speed and damage

[@dodsbringaren3698]

these tier lists make my life good

[@chipbag7055]

i love how when he first beggined he complained about all the tiers because "then its just ranking them" and then at the end literally ranked them

[@PapaBadDadcumsuckgod]

Pre-repentance loss is definitely at least ham sandwich, but the fat nerf to deals with the devils for him really really hurts

[@mybesttoast9605]

Wake up babe, new nl video dropped. Time to comment for the algorithm