Anti-Gravity

**Anti-Gravity** is a passive item.

## Effects

* Holding the fire buttons causes tears to hover in midair. When released, the tears will all shoot in the direction they were originally fired.
	+ If the fire buttons are not released, the tears will fire on their own after 3 seconds.
* -2 tear delay (increased rate of fire)
	+ Since this directly affects tear delay instead of changing the tears stat, it allows Isaac's rate of fire to go over the normal maximum rate.
	+ Tear delay decreases are more noticeable and are a greater increase to DPS when the tears stat is high.
* +1.0 fire rate.

## Notes

* Gravitational effects, such as Mega Fatty's inhalation or a Gaping Maw will pull floating tears toward them.
* The range attribute only affects the lifespan of the tears after they have been released.
* Hovering tears can damage monsters like Knights or Mask of Infamy from the front, even if they don't have the piercing effect.

## Synergies

* : Fetuses stand in place while the fire button is held. They will still home on enemies in this state. Fetuses attacking this way deal more damage.

* The Forgotten: Each swing of his club creates an additional hitbox in front of him that lasts for about a second before proceeding forward and disappearing. The club throw is unaffected.
* : Tears will float in midair, making them easier to feed. Burst tears will also float in midair before moving.
* : The tears will not decrease in size or damage until they start moving, making this excellent against enemies that chase Isaac.
* Tainted Magdalene hug swipes float, allowing for extra hits as the swipe remain mid-air
* : Creates floating laser balls that will all fire simultaneously when the fire button is released.
* : All of the tears fired are connected by electricity, creating a series of electric fences.
* : Tears stay in place until released, they will start to orbit around Isaac when released.
	+ Tears orbit close to Isaac when held, then snap to the edge of the orbit when released.

## Interactions

* Azazel / : A red mist expands and then contracts, doing contact damage to any enemy that touches it. It then fires the original Brimstone shot before disappearing. It allows a new shot to be charged up immediately after firing without interrupting the first shot. It does not increase the range of Azazel's Brimstone beam.
	+ **Brimstone** +  : Fires a single laser instead of a triple laser.
	+ **Brimstone** + : Brimstone continues firing from the position it was fired.
* : Continues to hover in the air while the fire button is pressed after launching it.
* : Overrides Anti-Gravity.
	+ + : Tears are released immediately, despite not charging.
* /  /  / : Burst tears will not hover even if a fire button is held.
* /  /  /  /  /  /  /  / : Only tear delay down applies.
* : No effect; -2 tears delay does not stack.
* : If a needle tear destroys an enemy and the fire button is held, the burst needles will hover until the button is released.
* : When the Kidney Stone effect is activated, the tear barrage will hover until released. The stone will not hover and will travel regardless.
	+ : (**Not recommended**) The anti-gravity effect stays in place for the whole duration of the tear barrage even if the fire button isn't held resulting in a complete loss of control of fire for as long as the barrage is active.
* : Despite the visual increase in size, damage still only increases based on the distance traveled.
	+ Tears no longer increase in size while hovering.
* : Multidimensional Baby will travel the same path as the Anti-Gravity tears, easily doubling any stationary shots. Any moving tears that hit it will produce a normal moving copy, however stationary tears will spawn a copy that will eventually fall to the ground even after the direction is released.
	+ Stationary duplicated tears will release normally.
* : Combines both effects. Tears no longer hover in place; instead, they will weakly home in on Isaac like he is a pivot point, following as he moves. Releasing the attack buttons will launch the tears from their position as usual.
* : Melee attacks will generate a hovering tear in the shape of the swing of the pickaxe.
* : Only tear delay down applies.
	+ Creates floating laser balls that will all fire simultaneously when the fire button is released.

## Trivia

* Isaac's appearance bears a strong resemblance to the character Dr. Manhattan of the graphic novel *Watchmen.*
* After picking up Anti-Gravity, whenever Isaac picks up an item that alters the appearance of his face, his head becomes the same color as  ???'s.
* This item is used in Waka Waka (challenge #17).