Overview
This guide will explain why this amazing item known as “Lusty Blood” might be the best passive collectable in all of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.
What does it do?
This item increases your damage a bit when you kill an enemy. However, this damage goes away when you exit the room.
How do you unlock it?
You unlock this godly item when you kill the final boss of Greed Mode, Ultra Greed with Samson. It’s not an incredibly difficult fight, but that’s just my opinion as I have never died to him. Some people have trouble with it, but there are probably guides that have strategies for killing him and if there aren’t any, I will make it my responsibilty to make one. This guide will later have one very simple way of killing him.
What makes it so good?
Well, the reason it is so good is that the 4 hardest things in the game, Boss rush, Hush, Ultra Greed and Mega Satan, all spawn lots of enemies.
Boss Rush
In boss rush you, obviously, have to kill every possible boss that you could have fought up to that point. It can sometimes be challenging, but if you can get to and kill Mom in under 20 minutes then you must be relatively strong. Lusty Blood is amazing here because most bosses spawn their goons, which all count to the bonus damage. The bosses count aswell, so it all adds up.
Hush
Hush is arguably the toughest boss in the game, but in the couple of times I have fought and killed him, he has hit me a bit, but not much. I died 1 time as of 29/11/15 (as Azazel). In his first phase, it’s basically ??? and he spawns flies, which as you should know, adds to the Lusty Blood damage. In his second phase, he spawns the rock-looking flies and also spawns his goons, which ADDS TO YOUR DAMAGE. Basically, don’t get hit too much and you’ll be fine. JUST A TIP: when he does his continuum shots, find somewhere to stand where he doesn’t hit you as he shoots them and stay there.
Ultra Greed
Lusty Blood is exceptionally good against him because he doesn’t scale with the extra damage you get. The trick to kill Ultra Greed with any character except from Samson for the first time is to kill him with Samson first before anyone else to get Lusty Blood. That’s not amazing, but once you have Lusty Blood, kill all the coins he spawns, except for the keys so that he spawns his guys which you kill to get more damage.
Mega Satan
While I haven’t killed Mega Satan since the DLC, I still know that Lusty Blood is amazing against him. He spawns all of the 7 Deadly Sins, the 4 horsemen of the Alocalypse and the Dark Angels which can be killed for more damage. Super Envy is the best one becasue of all the divisions he has.