In-game pickup line
“Worse pills + evil up”
Mechanics
What False PHD does
- Grants one Black Heart, identifies pills and converts positive pills into negative ones.
- Stat-down pills add 0.6 Damage, while other bad pills produce a Black Heart.
From the game files
What you receive on pickup
Pickup grants
- Black hearts
- +1
Heart values are shown in whole hearts. Character rules and health limits can affect the result.
In a run
Practical note
Judge whether the permanent Damage or heart reward outweighs a pill's specific downside before swallowing it.
Reference
Game data and sources
The item ID, quality and pool listings, icon, game-file tags, and short pickup line come from the extracted Repentance files. This effect explanation is an editorial summary checked against the references below. Repentance+ can differ. Charge and pickup values shown above also come from the extracted items.xml.
