Once the Damage Stat exceeds 5, tears become blood tears. The higher your damage stat, the larger your tears and more damaging they will be. The Damage stat increases the damage Isaac's tears inflict. Rate of fire can be increased by items such as the Wire Coat Hanger and Tears Up pills. A higher tears stat will allow you to fire much more tears, and make charging up items like Brimstone much faster. Rate Of Fire (Also known as 'Tears') is the rate at which Isaac fires tears.

Speed is increased by Speed Up pills, and some other items, such as The Belt or Roid Rage. A higher speed stat makes it easier to dodge enemy shots and can allow you to travel faster through rooms. However, they will not be visible on the HUD. (Although they can still be used for Deals With The Devil) Due to a bug, Soul Hearts do not follow this rule, and can exceed the limit of 12 Heart Containers. Health caps out at 12 heart containers, meaning that once you hit that cap, picking up any more health up items will be pointless. Health can be increased by various health up items, such as Dinner or <3. More health means more hits that you can withstand. For example, if you have 3 heart containers, that means you have 3 health.

Health is the number of heart containers Isaac has. Read the Stats page on the wiki to learn more. For the sake of simpleness, I will not use the actual stat numbers from the game's code, but I will still try to keep info as accurate as possible. For example, Max's Head does not simply increase damage by 1 unlike what the stat screen tells you, but it also multiplies it by 1.65x. Note: Stats are actually much deeper than what you see on the stats screen. There are 5 different stats, which I will explain below. StatsStats are an integral part of gameplay in The Binding Of Isaac.

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