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Friendly Ball item
Friendly Ball is an active item in The Binding of Isaac, added in the Afterbirth DLC.
Description
Grants a throwable ball that will instantly capture any non-boss enemy it hits.
The next time the ball is thrown, it will release the previously captured enemy as a permanently charmed enemy that will follow Isaac between rooms and floors, until it dies.
Walking over the ball after it's been used to capture a monster will instantly recharge it and allow immediate release of the monster.
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
Friendly Ball can be found in the following item pools:
| Name | Weight |
|---|---|
| Treasure Room |
1.0/1.0
|
| Greed Treasure Room |
1.0/1.0
|
| Crane Game |
1.0/1.0
|
Tags
The following tags are applied to this item:
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| offensive | Can appear for  Tainted Lost. |
| nocantrip | Not available as card effects during the Cantripped! challenge. |
Special synergies
The following special synergies and interactions for Friendly Ball have been documented.
| Mod | Item | Synergy |
|---|---|---|
| --- | Book of Virtues | Spawns a wisp whenever a charmed enemy dies. Wisps can be of 4 different variants based on the enemy that died: • Normal: fires normal tears; spawned when a friendly enemy dies, and does not fit the other mentioned criteria. • Homing: fires homing tears; spawns from the death of friendly psychic enemies or friendly enemies that had homing shots. • Explosive: fires tears that have a 33% chance to explode; spawns from the death of friendly enemies that created explosions in some way. • Brimstone: fires  Brimstone lasers that deal a total of 20 damage; spawns from the death of friendly enemies that fired lasers in some way. |
* 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.
Friendly Ball
• Throws a ball that will capture the first regular monster it strikes
• Throw again to release the captured enemy as a permanently friendly monster
• Cannot capture bosses or mini-bosses
• Abyss: x1 charming locust .75x Isaac's damage
• Book of Virtues: x1 middle wisp - 2 hp - 3 damage
• Book of Virtues: Spawn a wisp when permacharmed enemies die
• Book of Virtues: The wisp depends on the type of enemy
External links
- Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.
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