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Great game, I've made a weird challenge thingy. Not balanced in anyway, vague & none of the achievements are suggestions for actual achievements if they are ever to be added. Feel free to do whatever you want with this weird thing i've created.

D is mostly good no matter when you get them but have an okay ability, having a 4th pill is good no matter when you're in the game but isn't good enough to be B

Simply because I don't use it over cube of meat or Tooth & Nail because of the synergies being the focus. Sharp plug, Frosty Mint & Sanguine Bond are all broken as fuck. I don't even use BFF neither, I usually am fine without stuff like BFF or Snowball. But I agree I can't say any of the babies I don't use are bad, none of them are, they're just not for me. 

Shit I should point out I love using Paschal candle, double damage plus small aoe is amazing to me, I don't really care about space efficiency too much because it doesn't impact me usually.

I don't like how harlequin shoots and crispy is lower because using other towers special effects + paschal candle feels better.

Brain worms goes for its lane then other lanes, little stevens gang up on enemies going for the closest in their 3-2 range. 

Brother bobby is all you need for damaging babies in basement on literally any loop, actually for that matter honestly you can use default kit for basement. It's really not that hard.

I use bob's brain earlier on a round to greed more lil chads and to tank mulibooms and sperm whales.

I just don't like the price of dry baby, i prefer tooth & nail & cube of meat because defensive item synergies are OP and they are the cheapest of the defensive babies.

That's fair, I don't use it that often but I also just don't care about mums hands, usually they for the back most row and chads are only 2 hearts also I have mega ptsd from doing Challenge 5 on 0.1.4

I haven't used demon baby since the 2nd day the game came out, so I chucked it niche. I don't really like its way of attacking, it's like deserter but shoots both ways, has slightly longer range column wise and doesn't infinitely piece 

Exactly but my point was that Brother b belongs with mongo according to the tier list

For sure in IRULE, isaac not my favourite let alone that good. If it showed when it was coming back before it did that'd be kinda nice but otherwise you just take accidental damage more often

Had to finish of the tier list trio haha.

I've got many differing opinions than this but...

Why is Mongo - Identical to Brother B. besides costing 25/half a heart more and copies the babies behind its (if it shoots straight forward) shots the lowest? Even if your only damage is Mongo its literally Brother B. 

Ah for brown ritual I just had one of the mask guys stand in-front on a Meat Cube and since they don't walk away until their mask is broken you have all the time in the world to use poop

It shows the '?' baby option (secret option) before selecting any option (by default the game briefly shows the ? option  after selecting any of the babies).

Yeah mainly this, maybe overall champ belt does more harm that good but it makes the game more challenging too. Plus if you're looping on hardmode +1 flag doesn't really mean much.

I get that but when other actives can instantly kill hordes or otherwise can gain back control of the board (moving box, snow globe, glowing hour glass, breathe of life, etc.) I just feel it pales in comparison. Many of the A or S tier actives can be used to make a poor-decent run winnable

Yeah that's fair enough

Same as the active item one but with more than twice the amount to rank. A ton more subjective too. Updated to 0.1.7.1 

Some nice facts about items

Poke Go - Gives you a random monster as an extra slot for towers (babies), you get get almost any monster and they're usually pretty tanky.

Dr. Medical - Not about the item but defensive babies (Meat Cube, Tooth & Nail, etc) already have this effect meaning this item is only useful for 'healing' your squisher units.

Blanket - Tanks a gun shot from mega plum. Haven't tested it on RagDolls or Middle Horns Insta kills (Ragdolls purple skull OR Middle Horns ice hyper beam) but I assume it works.

Isaac's Fork - Still counts as not using heart producing babies, use Spike Baby + Sanguine Bond & Defensive babies for an easier time on Chapters 1-3 on Mines and Ark.

Mystery Gift - Can you give Imp, Imp is a unit that has 2-3 range, does the same damage as Brother B. but is FREE to place. Super useful for placing in-front of early spawned Mulibooms, Sperm Whales or for tanking units in general.

I've used most of these, some I haven't but going off their ability (not taking into account of the cooldown of said item) I put them where they are. I wanna see others opinions through discussion or maybe even their own tier lists too!

 I recommend on general runs (aka these don't need synergies) Deserter, Fiend Friend, Frozen Baby, Imp, & Tooth & Nail

Most of the unlocked babies power creep their competition so I use them. Unlocked ones I like are Tooth & Nail, Paschal Candle,  Psychic Baby, Fiend Baby, Deserter (Ofc, it's op af I know, I'll explain why if needed), Dry Baby & Parasitoid. 

In terms of babies which come without being unlocked include B, Bobby, Cube of Meat, Bob's Brain, Frozen baby. Mongo Baby, Multidemensional Baby, Spider Baby,  Spike Baby, Imp (from Mystery Gift item) & Little Steven . 

 What I use depends on what else I'm using, like I use Paschal Candle with Brother B. (if I don't have any other lane shooter) or with Psychic Baby.

Some things like tank (referred to as defensive babies in the game) babies are amazing with Frosty Mint and/or Sanguine Bond.

To be fair, not all babies are made equal and loki definitely is on the lower spectrum of power. It does standard damage while costing 3 hearts and having a unique shot mechanic that rarely comes into play. So you're essentially using brother bobby at mines 3 Loop 1 hardmode.

 Loki is no star fruit. 

 I mainly used spike baby + fork, the fork makes enemies who died to spikey babies to drop 25 hp/half a heart. Unless you mean how do you get it then complete every chapter without placing down lil' chad. 

There's already a fan made wiki, it was listed on the on I.Rule page, here is the link https://i-rule.fandom.com/wiki/I_RULE_Wiki .

Forgot to post the run which I unlocked it on. Mainly used Spike baby + fork