Soy Milk

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**Soy Milk** is a passive item.

## Effect

* Reduces tear delay by the formula: (delay / 4) - 2
* x0.2 damage multiplier

## Notes

* At base tear rate, Soy Milk sets the player's tear rate to the game's maximum value, 15 tears per second. This is much lower than the normal maximum rate of fire; see the tear delay explanation page.
* At base damage, Soy Milk is a very small DPS up (barely noticeable) if the player hits every single shot. With nearly any tears up at all, Soy Milk becomes a DPS down. The more tears per second before obtaining Soy Milk, the worse of a DPS down it becomes.
* Soy Milk's damage down also significantly decreases tear size.
* File:NoDLC Indicator.png Soy Milk is a special item.

## Synergies

* Due to the high fire rate, items that cause tears to inflict status effects activate more frequently.
* Taking Soy Milk with Mutant Spider, Polyphemus, Eve's Mascara, or Inner Eye is still not recommended, as the DPS up from Soy Milk with these items is still quite low (and in some cases, it becomes DPS neutral) and will still scale very poorly with any tears up.
* 20/20: Essentially doubles tear rate. Also, enemies caught in between the two shots don't get knocked away to the sides.
* A Lump of Coal: Significantly increases tear damage as they get further away. Even with only this synergy, individual tear damage appears to approach starting tear damage when firing over longer distances.
* Blood Clot: +1 damage bonus on Blood Clot tears is unaffected by the damage penalty.
* Chemical Peel: +2 damage bonus on Chemical Peel tears is unaffected by the damage penalty.
* Cricket's Body: Creates high amounts of splash damage.
* Cursed Eye: Reaches full-charge near-instantly, but still fires micro-tears.
* Explosivo: Despite the tiny appearence of the bomb tears, the explosions will deal normal explosion damage. Due to the massive fire rate, many bombs can be applied in extremely quick succession, decimating anything after a short delay.
* Dr. Fetus + Mr. Mega: Allows for incredibly fast firing of medium-damage bombs.
* Guppy: While they will do less damage each, using Soy Milk with the Guppy transformation will generate blue flies at a very high rate.
* File:DLC Indicator.png Head Of The Keeper: Causes many more coins to drop from enemies due to the increased firing speed and decreased damage output.
* Ipecac: The very fast rate of fire fills the screen with explosions.
* Libra: Gives slightly less tears, but significantly increases all other stats.
* Lost Contact: Extremely effective at blocking shots.
* The Ludovico Technique: Tear is smaller and weaker, but rapidly damages enemies.
* Monstro's Lung: Charge time and damage are greatly decreased. Tears also become smaller.
* Mom's Wig: Much higher chance to spawn Blue Spiders.
* The Mulligan: Much higher chance to spawn Blue Flies.
* Mysterious Liquid: Each individual shot creates creep that deals reasonable damage but stacks with every shot, causing hefty damage.
* Parasite Creates huge amounts of splash damage.
* Polyphemus: Significantly increases damage with an insignificant decrease in fire rate.
* Technology: Technology laser fires extremely fast.
* Technology 2: Soy milk tears are replaced by constant laser, but damage down compounds.
* File:DLC Indicator.png Tech X: Laser ring charges incredibly fast, but damage is significantly decreased.
* Tiny Planet: Tears will now shoot out extremely quickly and orbit around you with extremely low damage.

## Interactions

* Chocolate Milk: Shots cannot be charged, but Isaac gains a flat +1 damage up after the Soy Milk penalty.
* Epic Fetus: Damage of missiles will be decreased accordingly, but unlike normal tears, the fire rate will not increase.
* Mom's Knife: The knife can be charged and fired to its maximum range very quickly, but does very little damage.
* Piercing Tears: Causes tears to affect enemy movement less, but also removes the advantage of rapidly knocking back enemies.
* Proptosis: The low-damage tears disappear extremely quickly, greatly reducing range.

## Trivia

* This item is used in Challenge #3 (Head Trauma).

## Seeds

Template:PlatPC CLAT SEVR (treasure chest room left of spawn)
Template:PlatPC J3CA JLHW (treasure room adjacent to spawn)
Template:PlatPC 39EQ E7Q2 (first floor treasure room to right of spawn; treasure room to left of spawn contains Libra for synergy; the pot above the spawn room contains The Quarter) (hard mode only)
Template:PlatPS4 J6QS WYV7 (first floor treasure room)

## External Links

* What is the real damage and potential of Soy Milk? (AKA How to abuse Soy Milk)