#6 Solar System

Challenge: #6 Solar System

Description: The Solar System challenge requires you to run to the Womb II and defeat Mom’s Heart, without the ability to shoot tears.

Unlock: This Challenge is unlocked once you receive Transcendence. You unlock Transcendence by defeating Mom’s Heart three times.

Starting Items:

Distant Admiration

Forever Alone

Halo of Flies

Transcendence

Strategy: With this challenge, your only means of damaging enemies will be with Distant Admiration or the Forever Alone fly. Seeing as you have three fly items to start you are automatically given the Lord of the Flies transformation. This turns all standard flies into friendly attack flies as soon as you enter a room, as well as grants the ability of flight, but seeing as you have transcendence, it isn’t noticed. If you are good with keeping your distance and pace with distant admiration, this challenge will be a breeze. You just have to keep an eye on where your orbital flies are, in case the enemy you are attacking has projectiles. If you are having a tougher time dealing damage so directly, you can fly over rocks and other cover floor placements and just wait for the enemies to cross the path of your flies. The most difficult part is going to be once you start getting to the Womb/Utero rooms. With everything being roughly the same shade of red as Distant Admiration it gets to be a little tough keeping track of where you need to place yourself for the damage. Especially in the Mom’s Heart fight with all the projectiles flying around. Health pick ups will be your best friend for this challenge, in case of that accidental damage from an unpredictable enemy.

Completion: Completion of this challenge unlocks the Rune of Perthro.