Isaac (The Binding of Isaac) Discussion: BibleThump [Early Access Squirt]

Isaac

Developer: Edward McMillen, Florian Himsl, Nicalis Inc (Rebirth Only)
Publisher: Nicalis Inc (Rebirth Only) and Edward McMillen
Relevance to Nintendo: Recently, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth has been ported over to the New Nintendo 3DS and WiiU, giving Isaac ties to Nintendo after a long time of persistence and asking by McMillen and the team of Nicalis. The aspects of the game are very Zelda-esque, with heavy emphasis on dungeon crawling, finding secrets, and boss battles that are very reminiscent of the top down Zelda games.

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Stats:
Weight: 73 (According to this chart)
Dash Speed: 1.3 (According to this chart)
Falling Speed: 1.35 (According to this chart)
Height: Same as Olimar
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Playstyle: Isaac relies heavily on zoning and fighting from a distance. While he lacks the maneuverability to actually camp, his projectile game can heavily frustrate his opponents, especially those that have a hard time approaching. Isaac's heavy reliance on long range fighting, combined with his poor maneuverability, gives him a very poor approach and combo game, as his close range attacks are slow and don't reliably combo into other moves. Isaac's range, combined with his above average recovery move, gives a fairly decent edgeguard game, allowing him to go deep to secure a kill and still come back, or remain on stage and snipe out the opponent from afar. Isaac's great recovery in his Up Special allows him to make deep recoveries from below or from a far distance horizontally. Unfortunately, his recovery is fairly slow and if the opponent reads Isaac's recovery and hits him while he's performing his Up Special, he wont be able to perform Up Special again until he hits the ground, grabs the ledge, or plummets to his death.

Isaac's attacks are based off the items obtained within The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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Normals, Aerials, and Tilts:

Jab/Combo: Isaac's Fork: Isaac stabs forward with Isaac's Fork. (Deals 4% damage; Disjointed Hitbox; Low knockback [Useful for Jab Resets {if applicable in Crusade})
Origin: Isaac's Fork is a trinket item that is a random drop in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. While the trinket itself dealt no damage and had no effect on Isaac's damage output, the move itself has been "Sakurai'd" to become an actual attack.

Forward Tilt: Death's Touch: Isaac swings a very small scythe horizontally in front of him (Deals 7% damage; Dijointed Hitbox (albeit small) Low knockback and slight lag at the end of the attack)
Origin: Death's Touch is a passive item from The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth that could be found in Devil Rooms or Treasure Rooms. The item itself gave Isaac piercing tears, while also increasing the size of the tears and changing the tears themselves aesthetically to look like scythes. The attack has been modified into a physical attack as opposed to a projectile and the lag after the attack is akin to Isaac's tears stat dropping 0.3, which decreases his fire rate.

Up Tilt: Cat-O-Nine-Tails: Isaac swings the cat-o-nine-tails whip overhead. The attack is a multi-hit move that deals medium damage along with high hitstun, but terrible ending lag given Isaac's strength or lack thereof. Useful for anti-airing opponents.
Origin: The Cat-O-Nine_Tails is an in-game item that increased the damage and shot speed stats of Isaac (or other character). It has been adapted into a tilt attack with high hitstun and medium damage because of how painful the whip is and is offset by its ending lag.

Down Tilt: Bomb: Isaac sets a bomb near his feet, which explodes after 2 seconds. The bomb has projectile properties, so it can be reflected, but not since it isn't energy based, PSI Magnet can't absorb it. Game & Watch's Oil Panic does not work on the bomb either. The bomb deals damage to everyone including Isaac. (Deals 10% Damage and medium knockback).
Origin: At the start of every run, Isaac always starts with one bomb. No other character in The Binding of Isaac or Rebirth shares this property.

Dash Attack: Description Pending

Neutral Aerial: Butter Bean: Description Pending

Forward Aerial: Description Pending

Back Aerial: Description Pending

Up Aerial: Description Pending

Down Aerial: Description Pending

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Smash Attacks

Forward Smash: Monstro's Lung: Description Pending

Up Smash: Crack The Sky: Description Pending

Down Smash: Guppy's Hair Ball: Isaac swings Guppy's Hair Ball around him twice. With each connecting hit, the hair ball grows slightly in size, giving it a larger hitbox, dealing more damage, and dishing out more knockback. The hair ball has 4 stages of size:
Tiny:
Small:
Medium:
Large:
Origin: Guppy's Hair Ball is an item that appears in The Binding of Isaac as a part of the Guppy Item Collection (with collecting 3 allowing Isaac to achieve the Guppy transformation). Isaac would have to move around to swing Guppy's Hair Ball. The ball got bigger as it killed enemies.
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Grabs and Throws

Pummel: Description Pending

Forward Throw: Description Pending

Back Throw: Description Pending

Up Throw: Description Pending

Down Throw: Description Pending

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Specials and Final Smash

Neutral Special: Tears: Isaac fires a watery ball projectile from his eye that he fires in continued succession as the special input is held. While holding the special input, Isaac can move about on the ground and perform a single hop. Isaac's tears are affected by not just gravity like with Link's arrows, but also by physics;
-Standing still will have Isaac fire his tears normally, travelling half the distance of Final Destination, getting affected by gravity at half the traveled distance.
-Backing away causes Isaac to fire tears at the same distance and at the same rate, but less condensed.
-Moving forward causes Isaac to fire at the same rate and causes the fired tears to become more condensed.
-Firing the tears while in the air causes the tears to cover more distance while having them fall to the ground much faster and being fired at different heights.

A single tear fired by Isaac doesn't deal much damage, but the more condensed the tears are while firing, the more potential damage they can output, however it is risky as Isaac is literally running towards his opponent. Isaac's tears allow him to control the pace of the fight, allowing him to space out the opponent, keeping them at bay so he doesn't get hit.

Origin: Nearly Every character in The Binding of Isaac (with the exception of Azazel, Lilith, and The Keeper fire regular tears; balls of water shot from the eyes of the character. This is the main option of attacking in the game. The tears themselves are affected by gravity and physics depending on Isaac's movement. While Isaac can't exactly jump or fire tears while jumping, it has been Sakurai'd and made so he can and made to a degree of what it would be like if he could.

Side Special: The D6: Description Pending

Up Special: The Bible: Description Pending

Down Special: Isaac's Tears: Isaac fires 8 tear shots around himself. Isaac's Tears have a charge set by Isaac's neutral special: as Isaac uses his neutral special, it charges up the ability to use his down special.

Final Smash: Boss Mode Isaac: Description Pending
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Other
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