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Breath of Life item
Breath of Life is an active item in The Binding of Isaac.
Description
Holding down the active item button will gradually deplete this item's charge bar. As it gets close to 0, Isaac turns blue over time. Once it hits 0, Isaac will become invincible to all outside damage sources. After 1 second, Isaac will begin to take damage if the active item button is still held down.
While invincible, Isaac deals 3.5 contact damage to enemies and beams of light will strike down on enemies touching him, dealing 15 damage.
Touching an enemy or blocking a projectile at the exact moment the invincibility takes place will shoot out beams of light in the 4 cardinal directions that deal 12 damage per tick, or a total of 180 damage.
The item will recharge on its own but cannot be used again until fully charged.
Note
This page shows the latest information as of the new Repentance+ (Online Co-op) DLC.
To see information about this item for the previous Repentance version, check this page instead.
Item pools
Breath of Life can be found in the following item pools:
| Name | Weight |
|---|---|
| Angel Room |
1.0/1.0
|
| Greed Angel Room |
1.0/1.0
|
Tags
The following tags are applied to this item:
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| nolostbr | Unavailable for  The Lost after obtaining  Birthright. |
| nocantrip | Not available as card effects during the Cantripped! challenge. |
Special synergies
The following special synergies and interactions for Breath of Life have been documented.
| Mod | Item | Synergy |
|---|---|---|
| --- | Book of Virtues | Spawns 4 wisps in the inner right when the 4-way beam is created. Only 4 of them can exist at a time. No wisps are created otherwise. |
| --- | The Book of Belial combined with Judas' Birthright | Leaves a damaging flame trail while the invincibility is active instead of creating beams of light. Blocking damage at the perfect moment will activate  The Necronomicon effect, dealing 40 damage to all enemies in the room. |
| --- | Abyss | Spawns a cyan locust that has a 30% chance to destroy enemy projectiles upon contact. |
* Note that not all possible synergies and interactions are listed here.
Internal item description
Below is the Internal Item Description as shown in-game.
Note that some stat changes are not displayed here. Please see the main description for the full effects.
Breath of Life
• Holding use depletes the charge bar
• Isaac becomes invincible when the charge bar is empty
• Touching enemies while invincible summons light beams
• Touching an enemy at the same time the charge bar is empty fires a 4-way beam
• Holding use after the charge bar is empty causes continual damage to Isaac
• Abyss: x1 shield locust .75x Isaac's damage
• Book of Virtues: x4 middle wisps - 2 hp - 3 damage
• Book of Virtues: Wisps only spawn during the 4-way beam attack
External links
- Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.
Isaac's Tears 
Undefined 
Scissors 
The Polaroid 
The Negative 
The Ludovico Technique