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Jacob's Ladder item
Jacob's Ladder is a passive item in The Binding of Isaac, added in the Afterbirth+ DLC.
Description
Isaac's tears fire a short-ranged spark of electricity in a random direction upon hitting an enemy or an obstacle. When an arc strikes an enemy, it will strike another nearby enemy, chaining up to 4 enemies.
Each spark deals half of Isaac's damage, and has spectral and piercing properties.
Enemies can take damage multiple times from sparks of a single chain. If an enemy takes damage from a tear, it does not take any damage from the chain caused by that tear.
The arcing distance is increased on wet floors, such as Downpour, Dross, Flooded Caves, some rooms in Scarred Womb. This also applies after using Flush!.
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
Jacob's Ladder can be found in the following item pools:
| Name | Weight |
|---|---|
| Treasure Room |
1.0/1.0
|
| Battery Bum |
0.1/1.0
|
| Greed Treasure Room |
1.0/1.0
|
| Crane Game |
1.0/1.0
|
Tags
The following tags are applied to this item:
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| summonable | Can be summoned via  Lemegeton. |
| offensive | Can appear for  Tainted Lost. |
Special synergies
The following special synergies and interactions for Jacob's Ladder have been documented.
| Mod | Item | Synergy |
|---|---|---|
| --- | Abyss | Spawns an electrical cyan locust that has a chance to chain-zap enemies similar to the effects of  Jacob's Ladder. Zaps deal 0.1 damage. |
* 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.
Jacob's Ladder
• Electrifies tears, causing them to emit damaging sparks on impact
• Sparks can chain to multiple enemies
• Abyss: x1 shocking locust 1.5x Isaac's damage
External links
- Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.
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