Ghost Pepper

**Ghost Pepper** is a passive item added in *The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †*.

## Effects

* Shooting tears sometimes spawns a fire similar to , damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with.
* Shooting tears sometimes spawns a blue fire similar to , damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with. It lasts on the ground for a limited time and can pass through obstacles.
* Creating farts through items/pills such as Re-Lax, , , and etc. causes fire to shoot out alongside the fart.
	+ The only exception to this is the farts generated by .
* The fire deals 3x to 6x of Isaac's damage, depending on the size of the flame.

## Notes

* The chance of spawning fire is not affected by luck.
* The chance to shoot fires depends on the luck stat, and the formula used to determine the chance is:

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	+ At base luck (0), the chance is 8.33%, maxing out at 50% at 10 luck.
* The fire can destroy Shopkeepers.
* Enemies with fire variants will change to their variants when they get hit with the flame.

## Synergies

* : Changes the activation rate to

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	+ At base luck (0), the chance is 12.5%, maxing out at 100% at 7 luck. Only one type of fire can be spawned at a time, however each flame has an equal chance of being launched.
* : The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
	+ Occasionally emits a flame while the beam is firing.
* , , , : Will spawn fires upon use/activation.
* : Fires can be spawned while firing bombs.
* : Fires can be spawned while moving the crosshair.
* : The familiar has a chance to spawn a flame upon farting.
* : Fires are spawned as normal and can be hit by Ipecac tears, making this especially dangerous with a multi-shot ability.
* : The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
	+ Occasionally spawns a fire when fired.
* : The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
* : Fire will appear behind Isaac.
* : The fires gain a large size and duration increase.
* /: Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing lasers. The lasers will not douse the flames.
* : Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing beams. Fires damage is not reduced.
* : Causes the Urn to emit Ghost Pepper's flames in addition to its regular flames.

## Interactions

* //: Will only spawn one fire.
* : When holding down the fire button, when fire spawns it will be almost immediately put out by the clumps of tears.
* : No effect.
* //: Fires cannot split.
* : No effect. Will not boost the chances of shooting out a fire like with Bird's Eye.
* Homing tears: Flames will not be homing.
* : **Not Recommended.** IBS can trigger farts that automatically release a flame, which detonate the toxic cloud left behind and hurt Isaac, unless he has explosion immunity. While less of a risk than Bird's Eye, the flames spawned by Ghost Pepper can detonate stinky poops held by Isaac when IBS activates
* : Has a chance to make Isaac shoot a fire in a random direction after killing an enemy affected by Contagion.
* Tear-copying Familiars like  /  /: Will not spawn fire by themselves, Isaac will spawn an additional fire instead of the familiar.
* : Feeding tears will quickly douse the flames.
* Lilith: Spawns fire from her mouth.
* : Fires created from Ghost Pepper will destroy the tear and cause it to respawn on Isaac.
	+ Isaac now periodically creates fires that shoot towards the Ludovico Technique tear.
* : Affects normal tears but no effect on fire.
* : Eyeballs tears quickly douse flames.
* : Flames will not lose damage or shrink as they travel.
* : No effect on frequency or damage of flames.
* : The sprinkler will not spawn flames.

## Trivia

* "Ghost pepper" is an alternate name for the bhut jolokia, which is arguably one of the world's hottest peppers.
* After *Repentance*, this item is essentially a  variant of . It was likely reworked instead of the new item since the "ghost" thematic fits blue fires better.