False PHD

Effects

• Identifies all pills upon pickup.
• Grants one Black Heart on pickup.
• Converts all good pills into their bad counterparts, but gives them positive secondary effects.

| Pill | Changes Into | | --- | --- | | Stat up pill | Stat down pill | | Bad Gas & Friends Till the End! | Health Down | | I can see forever! & Lemon Party | Amnesia | | Explosive Diarrhea & One makes you larger | Range Down | | Bombs are Key & Infested! | Tears Down | | 48 Hour Energy & One makes you small | Speed Down | | Pretty Fly & Infested? | Luck Down | | Balls of Steel, Full Health, & Hematemesis | Bad Trip | | Pheromones | Paralysis | | Telepills | ??? | | I'm Drowsy... | I'm Excited!!! | | Percs! | Addicted! | | Feels Like I'm Walking on Sunshine! | Retro Vision | | Power Pill! | R U A Wizard? | | Something's wrong... | X-Lax | | Gulp! & Vurp! | Horf! | | Experimental Pill | Only grants a stat down | | Gold Pill | Only has negative effects | | Neutral pills | | I Found Pills | | Puberty | | Re-Lax |

• Stat down pills will also grant +0.6 damage. If it is a horse pill, it will grant +1.2 damage.
• Other bad pills will also drop a Black Heart upon use.

Notes

• Bad Trip and Health Down pills will turn into I Found Pills when Isaac is at one heart.
• Neutral pills will not have a secondary effect.
• If any stat down pills were taken before picking up the item, a damage increase is given for each pill.
• Pills are only converted while held by a character with False PHD. For example: If playing as (Jacob and Esau) Jacob and Esau and (Jacob) Jacob has this item, pills that got converted into 'bad' pills like a Tears Down pill can be given to (Esau) Esau to convert them back into a Tears Up pill, or whatever the pill was originally.
• Losing the item by either dropping it as (Tainted Isaac) Tainted Isaac or re-rolling it via D4, etc., causes the damage buffs given to be removed.

Synergies

• A Pony/ White Pony: Effectively converts all Speed Down pills into Damage Up as long as one of the ponies are being held, since they will always give a minimum of 1.5 speed.
• (Black Feather) Black Feather: Counts as an 'evil item, granting a damage up.
• Lucky Foot / PHD / Virgo: Pills can now be both good and bad again. The other effects of False PHD still apply.
• The Wafer: Using a Bad Trip pill will only deal half a heart of damage and spawn a full Black Heart, resulting in a net gain of health.
  • The Wafer + Placebo: Allows for farming infinite health using Bad Trip pills.

Interactions

• Libra: The balancing of stats mostly leads to a net decrease between Stat Downs and +0.6 damage up, while Luck Down provides the balanced +0.6 damage and luck -1.0.