Familiars

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Familiars are small companions, usually generated by passive items, that follow and assist Isaac. Effects of familiars include (but are not limited to) pickup generation, shooting familiars that fire their own tears at enemies, and orbitals that act as projectile shields and/or deal contact damage.

This page is about Familiars added in Retribution. More information about Familiars in general can be found in the vanilla page.

Temporary Familiars

Melitodes Bees

Melitodes Bees are a type of familiar added in Retribution. They orbit around Isaac and rush towards nearby enemies to deal double Isaac's damage and die in the process, identically to File:Blue Fly.png Blue Flies. Unlike Blue Flies, however, Melitodes Bees will target any Pullroot Saplings in the room, killing themselves on contact while pollinating the sapling and immediately causing a Pullroot to spawn.

Mad Melitodes Bee

There is also a red variant of Melitodes Bee known as Mad Melitodes Bee, which deal quadruple Isaac's damage instead of double.

Pullroots

Pullroots are temporary familiars added in Retribution. Pullroots can be spawned by watering Pullroot Saplings in the ground with Isaac's tears. They follow behind Isaac in a queue, and whichever pullroot is at the front of the queue will be thrown in the direction Isaac is shooting, dealing damage to enemies they collide with. There are 14 different types of Pullroots, which each can have a unique effect when attacking an enemy.

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