The Inner Eye

Effects

• Isaac fires a spread of three tears at once.
• (Removed in Repentance) Tears down: (Delay * 2.1) + 3
  • (Added in Repentance) Tears fired per second * 0.51.

Notes

• The maximum amount of tears per volley that can be reached by combining and/or duplicating 20/20, The Inner Eye, Mutant Spider and (Added in Afterbirth) The Wiz is 16, or 20 with (Keeper) Keeper.

Synergies

• (Removed in Repentance) Cursed Eye: At full charge, fires 3 rows of 4 tears, resulting in 12 tears.
  • (Added in Repentance) At full charge, fires 3 rows of 5 tears, resulting in 15 tears.
• Doctor's Remote / Epic Fetus: Replaces the single missile strike with a barrage of three consecutive missiles.
• (Added in Afterbirth / Removed in Repentance) The Inner Eye: Effects stack, resulting in 6 tears being shot with no further decrease in fire rate.
  • (Added in Repentance) Adds an additional tear with no further decrease in fire rate. This can be stacked up to 16 tears.
• The Ludovico Technique: The tear gains two orbiting tears.
• (Removed in Repentance) Polyphemus: Tear rate is not lowered further. Damage is increased by a flat +5 instead of a normal Polyphemus boost.
  • (Added in Repentance) Damage is increased by a flat +5 instead of a normal Polyphemus boost. Decreases fire rate by a little.
• Technology 2: The laser is not affected by The Inner Eye.
• (Added in Afterbirth) Tractor Beam: All tears are fired along the beam, but some may be hard to see as they overlap each other.

Interactions

• (Removed in Afterbirth) 20/20: Overridden by The Inner Eye.
  • (Added in Afterbirth / Removed in Repentance) Shoots 5 tears with no further decrease in fire rate.
  • (Added in Repentance) Removes the fire rate penalty while reducing damage to 75%. Additional copies will add one additional tear with no further change to damage/fire rate.
• Brimstone: Fires 3 beams. Affects Azazel's short-ranged version the same way.
• (Added in Afterbirth †) (The Forgotten) The Forgotten: Triples bones thrown and swung. Significant increase in tear delay.
• (Added in Afterbirth / Removed in Repentance) (Keeper) Keeper: Fires 6 tears with significantly increased tear delay.
  • (Added in Repentance) Fires 4 tears with significantly increased tear delay.
• (Added in Repentance) (Tainted Keeper) Tainted Keeper: Only fires 5 tears in the volley, while still gaining significantly increased tear delay.
• (Added in Afterbirth) Kidney Stone: Increase number of tears in tear barrage; however, only fires one stone.
• (Added in Afterbirth †) Lead Pencil: The barrage will activate as normal but Isaac will sometimes fire red tears.
• Loki's Horns: Only occasionally fires one tear in the other three directions.
• Mom's Eye: Only occasionally fires one tear out of the back of Isaac's head.
• (Removed in Afterbirth) Mutant Spider: Overrides The Inner Eye.
  • (Added in Afterbirth / Removed in Repentance) Shoots 7 tears instead of 3. No further decrease in fire rate.
    • (Added in Repentance) Shoots 5 tears instead of 3. Decreases fire rate by a little.
• Monstro's Lung: Adds 5 tears to barrage with a significant increase in tear delay.
• Sad Bombs: Does not affect the number of tears when bombs explode.
• (Added in Afterbirth †) Varicose Veins: No effect on number of tears when taking damage.