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Tainted Jacob is a character added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance. He is the alternate version of Jacob. Tainted Jacob is unlocked past reaching Home and using the Red Primal, Cracked Key, or Soul of Cain to access a special room in ane of the walls while playing as Jacob & Esau.

Tainted Jacob spawns with 3 red middle containers and Anima Sola in his consumable slot, which freezes the nearest enemy for v seconds. However, he is pursued through the entire game by Dark Esau, who will try to charge into and kill Tainted Jacob. Anima Sola always affects Night Esau if he is on screen.

If Night Esau touches Tainted Jacob, Tainted Jacob "dies" and becomes functionally identical to The Lost merely will non accept Holy Curtain. While in this form, having an Eternal Eye in his terminal heart slot will block the next hit like a Holy Card.

Upon reaching a new floor, Tainted Jacob volition render to his living state.

1 Nighttime Esau
2 Unlockable Items
3 Strategy & Item Notes
- three.1 Dark Esau
  - 3.i.i Defence force
  - 3.1.2 Offense
  - 3.ane.3 Co-Op Mode
iv Item Interactions
- 4.ane Good Items
- iv.2 Poor Items
five Gallery
6 Trivia

Nighttime Esau [ ]

Night Esau is a hostile mini-boss version of Esau.

Dark Esau spawns xx to 40 seconds afterwards Tainted Jacob goes to a new floor, emerging from a crack in the footing and creating a circumvolve of damaging flames around him in his wake.

Dark Esau continuously pursues Tainted Jacob by floating towards him, speeding up when further away and slowing downward to a near standstill when within a fixed altitude. If Tainted Jacob remains within that stock-still distance for a short period of fourth dimension, Nighttime Esau volition perform a peppery charge attack in which he volition pause for a cursory moment with a sound cue before rushing towards him, damaging any enemies in his path.

Anima Sola's targeting always prioritizes Nighttime Esau. When released, Dark Esau immediately charges towards Tainted Jacob's electric current position.

Using Anima Sola when used in a room with no enemies will immediately spawn Nighttime Esau without exhausting the item's charge, bypassing the usual wait menstruum before spawning.

Dark Esau's position at all times is determined by his position relative to the full general layout of the floor, pregnant he persists in the same location even when Tainted Jacob moves through rooms. Entering a new room cancels Esau'due south charge if he was preparing one or frees him if he was leap by Anima Sola.

Dark Esau is impervious to damage and cannot be killed, but tin can block enemy projectiles.

Dark Esau is able to damage enemies as well as Tainted Jacob in the following ways:

Creates 12 rings of 8 flames when spawning, each dealing 6 harm to enemies they hit, dealing anywhere between 6-576 harm depending on how close they are to him. These flames can be blocked past obstacles.
Deals 30 contact damage per tick to enemies and pushes them (60 harm per second).
Deals an extra ten harm per tick to enemies and inflicts Called-for on them when leaving a flame trail while charging at Tainted Jacob (300 damage per 2nd).
- Dark Esau's charge also ignores Dominate Armor.

Unlockable Items [ ]

Strategy & Item Notes [ ]

Throughout the majority of a run, Tainted Jacob is harassed by Dark Esau with no intended way of permanently getting rid of him. Because of this, playing equally Tainted Jacob requires the player to manage both the playable Jacob and his vengeful brother Esau.

Using Anima Sola is key to success for Tainted Jacob, equally it tin help prevent impairment from Dark Esau or turn him into a powerful weapon against enemies.
In the Mines, Tainted Jacob can intentionally run into Dark Esau in lodge to abuse the mechanics of The Lost grade (specifically Flight in an area which normally removes whatever previous sources of flight you may have attained) to quickly and easily acquire the Knife Piece 2 with a rapid and flight assisted escape if you are attempting to reach the Corpse to defeat Mother.
- Typically the escape path would become excessively hard due to both Mother's Shadow and Dark Esau attempting to accuse at you in intervals which are typically out of sync, making it very difficult to escape without taking harm or potentially dying.
- By remaining in The Lost form, this as well allows you bypass the impairment which would normally be required to enter the door in order to accelerate to Mausoleum / Gehenna.
- It is recommended to total clear the floor kickoff, as you will remain in The Lost form until you reach the adjacent floor.
At the stop of each floor with a devil deal spawn, it is possible to intentionally have Dark Esau plow Tainted Jacob into The Lost class in club to receive gratis devil deals.
Items that give you lot Flying (able to contrivance Night Esau easier in rooms with pits and rocks) and spectral tear (Quicker room clears with obstacles plus tin can cheese obstacle mechanics with Dark Esau ) can help quickly clear rooms and avoid the brother attacks

Dark Esau [ ]

Defense [ ]

Nighttime Esau himself should exist respected. Being touched a single time by Dark Esau has a loftier chance of leading to a run's cease by putting Jacob in his fragile Lost country for the residual of a floor.

Dark Esau deals no contact damage to Jacob while chained down with Anima Sola.
Dark Esau'southward bear upon outcome can be avoided while shielded, invulnerable, or otherwise immune to damage (such as with Holy Pall or Gnawed Leaf).
Night Esau keeps a consistent distance from Jacob, and will only charge if he is inside this distance. Nighttime Esau will never really be able to touch Jacob unless he starts his charge animation, charges, or Jacob runs into him.
- Equally such, running from and maintaining enough distance from Dark Esau will prevent him from charging.
- In some cases such as existence next to an obstacle, Nighttime Esau will terminate moving within the prop and will be unable to charge until Jacob moves away from it.
Dark Esau's position at all times is determined by his position relative to the general layout of the floor, meaning he persists in the same location even when Tainted Jacob moves through rooms. Entering a new room cancels Esau'due south charge if he was preparing ane or frees him if he was spring by Anima Sola.
- Caution should exist taken when moving betwixt rooms where Dark Esau is near the doorway, equally this may atomic number 82 to a situation where Tainted Jacob immediately runs into Nighttime Esau.
- Teleporting a great altitude or traveling chop-chop through rooms with the help of special items or a high speed stat makes it harder for Night Esau to grab up to Jacob.
- If Dark Esau is in the process of traveling between rooms, information technology is possible to use Anima Sola to chain him outside of the electric current surface area Tainted Jacob is in.
As Dark Esau takes time to respawn after entering a new floor, the kickoff few seconds on every floor can be used to explore rooms freely.
Dark Esau will not charge at Jacob if he eats a Paralysis Pill.

Law-breaking [ ]

Because the damage Dark Esau tin bargain to enemies and the fact that Anima Sola can be canceled early by using it a second time, Dark Esau can become a powerful, albeit unsafe weapon to use against enemies by positioning Tainted Jacob in means that manipulate him into charging into enemies. This is further compounded, as his accuse assail ignores Boss Armor.

Anima Sola tin be used in an empty room to instantly summon Night Esau in club to use him advantageously.
- Night Esau's accuse is able to single-handedly impale about early bosses in one or two hits. He can likewise be held in identify with Anima Sola to bait chasing enemies, as Jacob can stand up behind Nighttime Esau and crusade them to run into him.
In Greed Style, Anima Sola will e'er be charged at the commencement of a new wave. This tin can be taken advantage of by bounden Night Esau before a new wave begins and then letting him charge into a freshly spawned enemy grouping or a priority enemy like a champion. Since releasing Dark Esau manually does not swallow the item accuse, the item will still be available to restrict him again immediately afterwards.
Dark Esau'southward accuse will extinguish Burn down Places.
Dark Esau cannot impairment friendly enemies.
When Night Esau charges while in fear, he charges away from Tainted Jacob.

Co-Op Way [ ]

The flames Dark Esau creates upon spawning can harm other players, just he otherwise ignores them completely.
- If multiple players are playing Tainted Jacob, then any Tainted Jacob who touches whatsoever Nighttime Esau will even so be turned into a ghost or die. Tainted Jacob players will only be able to use Anima Sola on their own Dark Esau, and if one of the Tainted Jacobs is completely killed, both Night Esaus will brainstorm to target the 1 that is withal living.
- When Tainted Jacob completely dies and is turned into a small ghost infant as a Co-Op partner, Dark Esau will yet follow the ghost of Tainted Jacob if no other Tainted Jacob players are in the match, allowing them to still apply him as a high damage weapon to aid their teammates.
If Tainted Jacob was turned into his ghostly form by Dark Esau, then dying and beingness revived upon completion of the boss will accept him revive every bit his ghostly form.
- If Tainted Jacob is dead at the start of a floor, Dark Esau will still spawn, only will target one of the living players instead. Unless they are too playing Tainted Jacob, he will never hurt them outside his spawning blitheness.
Dark Esau is considered a boss.
- Like every other "boss", Dark Esau tin be spawned with debug commands. However, if playing as someone other than Tainted Jacob, the actor will be allowed to his attacks.
When the panel command "restart 39" is loaded, the histrion will be spawned as a ghostly version of Tainted Jacob. The merely differences is that Nighttime Esau never seems to spawn and that this version of Tainted Jacob has the wellness of The Lost.

Detail Interactions [ ]

Good Items [ ]

Poor Items [ ]

Gallery [ ]

Tainted Jacob'south transition screen portrait.
Nighttime Esau's transition screen portrait. (unused)
Tainted Jacob's ghostly appearance.
Tainted Jacob's locked character icon, depicting a closet doorway wrapped in chains.

Trivia [ ]

Jacob and Esau Unlocks

Tainted Jacob Unlocks

Characters

Rebirth

Afterbirth

Afterbirth †

Repentance

Tainted

Mini-Bosses

Vii Mortiferous Sins

Animalism •

Gluttony •

Greed •

Sloth •

Wrath •

Green-eyed •

Pride

Super Sins

Super Lust •

Super Gluttony •

Super Greed •

Super Sloth •

Super Wrath •

Super Envy •

Super Pride •

Ultra Pride

Devil Room /

Affections Rooms

Krampus •

Uriel •

Gabriel

Repentance

Mother'due south Shadow •

Dark Esau

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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