Ranking the BEST Machines in The Binding of Isaac 

WE KNOW ABOUT SAFETY SCISSORS WITH BOMB BUM! I didn't mention it just because it's a pretty rare scenario and we are trying to rank how everything performs on average, and on average you will not have the scissors. Timestamps (0:00) (and extra thoughts / clarifications below) Slot Machine - 0:47 Shell Game - 3:09 Blood Donation - 11:46 Fortune Machine - 14:57 Donation Machine - 17:52 Regular Beggar - 20:34 Devil Beggar - 24:11 Key Master - 28:12 Bomb Bum - 30:36 Battery Bum - 34:34 Rotten Beggar - 37:15 Dressing Table - 49:47 Confessional - 52:18 Crane Game - 57:53 Hell Game - 1:01:41 Restock Machine - 1:04:50 Final Discussion - 1:08:49 Just to clarify the criteria, we don't deduct points for things being rare. It's based on how much expected impact you get each time you see the machine. Machines that are extremely common get a small boost because being able to consistently run into them when you need them is quite useful, and you can sometimes plan around using them before they actually show up. For example, Eve and Samson can plan to find blood donation machine and maybe get IV bag from it. This is a perk that is only possible due to it being extremely common! I forgot to bring up that slot machine has a 2% chance to explode so it's more likely that it just blows up before you get ANY pretty flies. Shell game however stays around for as long as you want him (he leaves when he pays out with skatole, but if he shows it as the payout option, you can just leave the room and come back to reset him). I actually think all I would change personally for this list is crane game above devil beggar (barely), slot machine at the top of Ehh, and rotten beggar at the bottom of mid behind shell game. I do honestly think shell game is just way more consistent than slot machine if you ever need actual consumables (24% chance for slot machine to pay out, but 33% for shell game to pay out, AND shell game gives 2 consumables on a successful payout, so it's way more efficient) and beezlebub isn't too hard to force, I'll usually do it with a fly item I got from item rooms (there are many of them), then jar of flies or hive mind from the shop, and then skatole. Meanwhile every time I play a slot machine I either spend all my money and get nothing back or it blows up before I get anything. So worse early game and needs to high roll to give just a mediocre orbital? I don't get use out of this very often I think. Just some clarifications for the sake of accuracy, devil beggar is 6-7 (usually 6) hits guaranteed for first payout, not all payouts. In a way this could technically be seen as a bad thing but his payout rate for the item is good enough that it feels like you can view the devil beggar as "6 hits and I probably get an item", usually not too many more to actually get the item unless you low roll. And also whenever we talk about bombing beggars for devil chance, it's only once per floor, but it is more than the shopkeeper devil chance buff. It applies to regular beggar, battery bum, and rotten beggar. The 10 coins for donation machine angel chance is only the first 10 coins too.

Slot machine is goated because gambling is based

I usually don't comment on stuff but felt compelled for this one: -Slot Machine: One of the most underwhelming machine in the game IMO. Bombing it is kinda fine, but actually playing it is just a no. I feel like the pretty flies are literally not worth the time of my life playing that machine. Pill will be Tears Down and if you legit play for dollar you might as well go to Vegas to become a millionare. Ehhh tier -Shell game: Belzeebu is fine if you can get it, it can save you if you need pickups but that's about it. Mid tier -Blood Dono: Easy Busted tier Fortune telling: Good for fishing for a decent trinket, can save your ass with soul hearts, can give good cards, etc. Just such a good machine. Lucky foot is completely insane with this one. Rly good tier -Dono: Can give you a way stronger start, and you can technically use for luck. Rly good tier -Regular beggar: This little guy is one of my biased fav machines. Judgment gives you a free pedestal and the super secret layout with him and the blood dono is common enough to be semi-reliable. Even if you can't reroll the item, HP up can be handy a lot of times, the mapping stuff is really strong and it can pay crooked penny. Rly good tier --Evil beggar: Just a really solid beggar, his pool has a few troll items but some really strong ones. I just hate the devil room layout with 3 of them. Rly good tier -Key bum: Ppl on the comments seem to hate him. I feel like keys are the most disposable pickup, and if I can trade them for red/golden chests that's really good. Besides the fact on dark/chest room he's busted. Rly good tier but like at the bottom of it. Bomb beggar: "Bu-But do you know about le scissor??? 🤓🤓🤓🤓" Scam tier batter beggar: Feels like the game breaking scenarios are more specific and rare, usually he's just for bombing. Mid tier Rottem beggar: Man I know the guy in the video is super soy about the devil chance but bro this is literally the most scummy beggar in the game. When I did second and third dead god I was intentionally avoiding unlocking this beggar, because he replaces key bum on a lot of layouts and key bum is significantly more useful. Scam tier Mirror: Tears Down. Health Down. Amnesia. Speed Down. Ehh tier Cofessionary: This machine is literally the only way besides using genesis to get rid of broken hearts, which means it makes Magic Skin even stronger. Asides from that, it's pretty good, does a lot of shit. The item is rare and it will usually be Redemption. Rly good tier Crane Game: The machine where you pay to dream. Has a lot of insanely broken itens on the pool but yeah it can really fuck you over. Honestly one of the funniest machines in the game, just hardcore gambling. Rly good tier. Shell beggar: "Wanna spiders?" Odds for everything are kinda atrocious. Eh tier Re-stock: Ultra giga insane busted. Best machine in the game Greed dono: Fuck this dogshit gamemode tier. Technically busted because you need to donate to it to progress in the game and for Lost to start with Holy mantle.

Fly and battery beggars have a 0.0000001% chance of paying out I SWEAR. Also I've noticed a lot of Manner's arguments are just "trust me bro" LOL

30 seconds in and boss rush is mentioned. i'll never escape it

Cant wait to see you combine all the items from every tier list youve done and rank literally everything

I don't know if you guys take suggestions but a unique tier list would be the tainted characters unlocks from mega satan. (stuff like fools gold, crane game, black sack).

turt is soo right about belzebub from shell. It's the most accessable form of flight. The slots are a one time bomb begger.

You guys have an awesome energy I love putting these on in the background

Hearing the screaming about pretty flies and shaking my head knowing how much power a single item pedestal gives from Shell Game 🙂‍↔️ the reroll or black-rune potential to extract killing power from my coins in the late-game has saved quite a few of my runs 🥊😤🥊 not mention Skatole spins down into stat-ups after Brother Bobby!

i love shell game for pickups, childhood classic machine for me

this is my opinion about ranking and every machines/beggars slot machine: i can get pretty fly with 10 coins with luck 0 so the argument is good for me, ranking it in mid is good ranking cause it doesnt give to much but gives you something better than just pickups, it dont know if it spawn in normal floors.i would rank it the mid of mid shell game: he is so bad i see the item when i want it he gives me enemy fly but when i want pickups he gives me item and he leaves. item he gives is every mid.one thing that he is better than slot machine is he can spawn in womb without arcade which is great when you have money, when he is in arcade i would spend on slot machine then if it explodes then on game shell or bomb him. i would rank him in ehhhhh cause he is annoying but where he can spawn is only good thing about him. blood donation machine: i love blood donation machine it gives you money and it can spawn everywhere. it can give you two items both mid but still two items is better than one. with invicibility you can minmax every easy.some characters are easier with this machine. i would rank him in low busted pearl machine: can give you soul hearts eternal hearts and trinkets. can spawn in super secret room which is good can save you. give you item which is another point. but bombin it is a option when you dont have money at the end of a floor. i would rank it low rly good donation machine:can give you luck angel chance and unlocks. bombin gives you coins and spawns every shop, so when you dont have money for a item in shop bomb it.and if donate you feel good. i would rank him busted beggar:he can spawn everywhere can give you items and pickups. health items and map items.bombin him gives you money and devil chance.i would rank him in top of mid devil beggar: he cost health but when he gives you items he give worst crap he can but atleast he pays out not like others. invicibility gives you free item.bombin it gives you angel chance. i would rank him in ehhhh. key beggar:he cost keys he is special but is it worth? you need 99 keys you to give you an item but you can see him in dark room or chest and when he spawns a chest he gives you a free item but probably you are already busted in the end game so this is just for showcase. i would rank him scam bomb beggar:you cant bomb him. he cost bombs. he does give you crap of items. another scam battery beggar:he cost money can overcharge your active item and he is very useful. you can bomb him but is it worth?i get sad when he give you item and leaves. i would rank him busted rotten beggar: he is just better normal beggar.i would rank him in low rly good mom's dresing table: it is useless until you bomb this.but when you bomb it this give you mother shit items which is only good when you want mom transformation.i would rank this in scam Confessional: it isnt bad it is just worse blood donation but still i would love to use it when i can. it can give you soul hearts and can give you redemption. i would rank him in rly good crane game: it is great and fun. gives decent items but costs much. i would rank him in rly good hell game: it is just worse shell game. scam restock: this is the definition of busted. greed machine: it is the same what normal donation machine. it cant give you money in shop but the unlocks are worth it p.s. sory for less arguments in the last machines i got kinda lazy

Key Masters absolutely never pay out for me (it takes like 8 keys for them to give me a chest of any kind because they just hate me I guess) so rotten beggars replacing them is an upgrade imo. Also rotten beggars are good money sinks for right before you go fight Mother. The flies they give don't do much alone, but getting a whole swarm of them after giving him a full stack of 99 coins is a good amount of free damage at the start of the fight.

Never heard more emotion in a tierlist video this is amazing

i am living for the shell/slot machine debate LMAO

Slot machine vs 3 skull monte is so close it's wild. I use 3 skull if i need a lot of one consumable (hp, bomb, key), and slot if i need a variety in smaller quantities. Otherwise, save the cash for a beggar (or shop if ealrier on).

I love your content bro. A card tier list would be goated FrFr ❤

"Ranking the best machines in Binding of isaac repentance" Begger:Can you spare a coin sir? :D

my main problem with confessionals is that it feels like they never pay out and also they're harder to abuse since most of the times you find it it's on an angel room, meaning you can't go back to pick up health, apart from that based list.

11:26 not counting belzebub is just unfair, i did get it a lot of time thanks to it, even if it's other items, fly utems are pretty common

Normal beggar is good if you have rerolls because its a item pedestal on command for 7+ gold

I swear every time turtier brings up the exact percentage chance for something rare Later always says he always gets it anyway so it has to be higher than that

Literally, as I was watching this video, I got two pretty flies from 7 cents

Rotten beggar has two uses outside of bombing 1. Chance for bone heart for bethany or t. Cain and rotten hearts for t cain

I haven't used a slot machine or shell game (unless you count bombing them as using them) for about 700 runs.

Honestly Bomb beggar is only a scam if you play him when you're not supposed to. He isn't a common play but if you have some excess bombs he actually pays out for me quite frequently. I usually only play him when I have 20-30+ bombs and He pays out within the first 10 almost every time. And this isn't a single instance this has happened literally over a dozen times as I've been going through my 2nd save file recently. Also you didn't mention safety scissors giving you infinite bombs since bomb beggars are a renewable source of trollbombs. Niche interaction sure, but it basically turns 1 trinket into pyro for free a little time at most if you want to count that as a "cost" Honestly I think he goes above rotten beggar and vanity. Rotten beggar is unironically useless. The Devil Chance is neglible, He NEVER fucking shows up to begin with, and when he does I've probably already beaten the boss because outside of corpse he only appears in the SSR and Arcades occasionally. And Guess what, if he's in an arcade there are probably better beggars to blow up for deal chance that don;t also spawn enemies. He also doesn't fucking help at all for mother because she has boss armor, so the flies cuck your DPS until phase 2. 3-4 cents for like 1 blue fly. Absolute fucking scam. I actually feel similarly to the hell game as the bomb beggar. He doesn't pay out quickly I understand that much, but if you find him before womb on a red health character he can give you a couple of black hearts or some resources for the red health on the stage. I don't think he goes above Ehhhh but he's not as bad as people think he is. Just like bomb beggar the scenario's the play them don't arise very often but when they do they are pretty damn good.

I’ve genuinely gotten dollar bill more than beelzebub.

bro, you get 3 pretty flies so much more than beelzubub

The slot machine gives out pretty flies like Kendrick gives out diss tracks...

demon shell game gave me mega blast last game while i was judas so i had pretty good damage, so my biased opinion it’s a S+++ awesome best thing in the game.

Yoooo great vid! Love watching these, since you want ideas; possibly a special room tier list? Quick mention of my opinions; Slot- High Mid. I feel like I sink so many of my coins into these things with fairly ehhh payout. They can provide a spare key or bomb but I feel like its almost always smarter to play a beggar or shop, which are usually easier to find even. (Also ur in fact crazy abt the pretty flies, I only get 1) Shell game- Low mid-high ehhhh. I feel like the fact that these spawn an enemy on not procing makes them slightly tip down for me since it’s actually cost me some health in some of the blindfold challenges. Skatole is also just not super great for the amount of money you typically have to invest to get it. Sure Beelzebub is fine, but I feel like flight is so attainable its not as easy to say its like a guppy part or something. Though OML you got heated abt beelzebub lmaoo Blood dono!!- Mid-High Rlly good! Guaranteed money comes in a fix a grand lot of the time, making it nice when you’re a couple coins short of that champion’s belt sitting in the shop or something of the line. Not to mention the amazing drops from an item payout, especially with the reroll ability of using one of these. Think even when placing it within a secret room through a temperance card, easy secret room item! I’d say it’s not quite busted though simply because there’s a couple machines that are so good that blood dono can’t be in the same tier, also given the whole deal of it being something that damages you making it often unviable on many non-red heart characters as well as early floors. Fortune teller-busted. The ability for what this machine can actually give you is hardcore overlooked sometimes. Trinkets got a gigantic buff in repentance, now there’s so many good ones! I can’t even begin to name the amount of times I’ve rolled cancer or blessed penny from a fortune teller. Not to mention the ability to generate soul hearts and cards is unmatched. I still think this is even better than blood dono because it has a more immediate payout that enables it to be used on all characters as well as give all characters benefits, as opposed to blood donos which have about 7 or 8 characters that don’t mesh with them. Dono machine- High mid. Mostly because I feel like a big cheater when I utilize the bomb on it trick, not to bring feeling into such a ranking though. Though to mention it requires significant investment to actually make worthwhile. Coin Beggar!- Rlly good! Buddy’s great to me. He’s like a better blood donation, where I usually only have to invest about 12 coins for a pedestal item that can be easily rerolled or simply just taken! Usually he drops an HP up, which has saved quite a few runs for me given there’s seemingly loads upon loads of Sheol and cathedral layouts with these boys. Also note the easy spawnability of one of these given all that’s necessary is a judgement card. Demon beggar!- Lower rlly good but still really good! I think this is like a nice way to invest excess health and can honestly pay out with some amazing items! My main gripe is it simply comes with many of the issues that plague damage machines, given the issue of alienating early floor runs and loads of characters. However if spare health is laying around, these are wonderful gambles to make. Key Beggar- Blatant Scam. Buddy consumes the most rare pickup, and has no minimum offerings for items. Not to mention his payouts usually require MORE keys. He’s just so useless, and he’s rare too. At least the other ones come from a common tarot. Bomb Beggar! - Ehhhhh…. I mean he’s FINE. I think my problem with bomby boy is his rarity and the payouts he gives. Honestly he’s saved a couple of my runs by providing keys but I feel as if even compared to key buddy he’s SUPER reluctant to pay out with items. Couple that with his rarity and I think he suffers quite a bit. Still playable though, so not in scam. I would put him very low mid for that, but I think the inability to be bombed for deals is sucky. Charged Beggar!! -High mid or low rlly good! He comes in handy every once in a while, and has a good payout rate. My main thing that holds him back is his reluctance to provide a pedestal as is such with the non demon/normal beggars. He’s alright though! Rotten Beggar- Low Ehhhhh… I just think his payouts are not good enough for his payout rate. Sure I love the bone hearts he provides, but the flies are ehhhh and ill be honest, I think rotten hearts are pretty crap. Not a fan of this guy. At least you can bomb him for deal? He cant even be found easily at all, given he only appears in arcades and a very select few secret room layouts. Mirror-????? Its a thing I guess?!??? Confessional!- High ehhhh…! I REALLY wanna like this thing so bad. Soul heart version of a blood dono fixing my one crucial flaw within it? Sign me up! AND the ability to heal broken hearts? YEAH Aaaaaand its rare as can be. Confessionals have so much USE and I love their premise but they’re just far too rare to even justify putting in mid. This is absolutely the machine ive seen the least in the whole game. Crane Game!!!- BUSTED!!! Oh LORD I love these things. 3 pedestal item potential? I find these impossible NOT to play usually. Their item pool seems to be full of absolutely great items that usually only cost maybe slightly more than a shop item. Sure you need quite a bit of money but the power of a crane game is unmatched. I pivot towards arcades JUST for crane games. They are amazing for transformations, pure offensive power, rerolls, EVERYTHING. Best machine imo. Demon Game! -Low mid. Honestly like confessionals I REALLY wanna like demon games. They have amazing payouts. Black hearts, runes, REVERSE CARDS? I think they just really suffer from being a combination of 2 machines, and getting the negatives of both. The difficulty of use of a demon beggar, and also the fact you have to gambles said health makes these such a difficult sell unless youre running on a serious health surplus. Restock!!- BUSTED! These are SO Good. Need I even explain? The ability to create an instant reroll is absolutely AMAZING. The low cost high effectiveness nature of restocks makes them absolutely peak use most of the time. Not to mention that they’re EXTREMELY common, being in about 30% of shops and even select Treasure Layouts! The ease of access to one as well must be considered, given reverse judgement AND the pay to win trinket. Absolutely amazing! Greed dono machine- This machine caused me so much frustration I won’t dignify it with a ranking Sorry about the novel. LOVED the video!

When I was watching this video i had 250-odd cents and walked into an arcade Dumped 70 coins and got 1 pretty fly and then all 3 slot machines blew up I do think on average you get 2 per arcade that has a slot machine, only if the arcade has multiple slot machines otherwise they blow up most of the time before getting pretty fly That being said, it is infinitely better than Shell Game (most of the time), when I play shell game its usually to reroll Skatole

i love watching you two fight

I dont remember demon shell game being so bad, its pay out feels basically the same as scatole wich isnt that bad. I havent check the actual percentanges but being at the bottom feels crazy. Everything in the video i agree 100%, even when you disagree on one topic i can find myself flip flopping between the arguments the two of you make. Hell game is for me: bottom of mid. Its crazy how so far better than fck rotten begger it is. You are talking about some bs 8% devil chance versus a little bit of time and an actual devil deal. But for a real argument, the black heart payout is the most important one, wasting a couple of hearts for only just 1 black heart is worth it. You can also apply the same arguments of key bum (usuless most of the times but crazy highs), if you have health to spare, like that secret room with tons of hearts this is literally a free devil deal. Sorry for being so agressive, i just like the little demon buddy. He might be a little bit of a scammer but dont compare with the rotten ones or the dirty ones covered in ash, hes better.

i dont think you guys mentioned that beggars are THE GOAT of rigging if you have a reroll. Especially if you have a judgement card and put down a coin beggar in secret room or other good item pool, you pay him like 10 coins, reroll his mid item and you get possibly a really good item. That's why i would bump him up to low rly good, because he's the easiest beggar to pay out and spawn on demand.

I guess random normal beggars are mid, though card spawned and jacobs ladders one are definitely better because of dem rerolls. I think the red arcade should be Ehhhhh though.

Man, I get WAYYYYY more fly friends than skatole, probably a 10:1 rate for me lmao

Idea: ranking bosses by difficulty

I was saying to myself today.. okay i watched half the character buffs im finishing it today and now this appeared

If I’m putting 99 coins in a slot I better be getting 3 pretty flies

Waiting for the ultimate all 716 items tier list

Gonna leave my thoughts here as the video goes Normal slot machine - Pretty bad. You can hit it if you're desperate for a key or have nothing to spend your money on in the late game. Pills are sometimes good. I think the chance of getting pretty fly is pretty low imo? I get like one every other time I dump all my money into them on womb. That's when I'm at close max money or at max money. I think Manner is tripping when he says he gets multiple pretty flies from slot machines, that's literally never happend to me unless I have a pretty fly pill lol. Playing it for a dollar bill is super unrealistic imo. Shell game - mid af, about as good as slot machine. I prefer slots just because they're easier to play and better to bomb. I do think Beezlebub is a legit point in its favor, you should always keep an eye on your transformation progress. It's not unrealistic to see two fly items, see the skull game and be like "oh I could try for beezlebub here". Super practical use cast that honestly I'm going to try to introduce into my runs now. Still, I'd put them both in ehh tho. On average, they're just too low impact on the run. Temperance - Easy S tier. I don't always use them because I don't have the health to spare, but in that case you can bomb them and have a good chance at getting health. Always nice to get, sometimes game breaking, and often super good. also, spindown blood bag into brimstone goes brrrrr Fortune telling machine - also goated imo. I'd put it into S tier. Extra soul hearts can save your ass late game, getting a better trinket is also amazing because you see so few of them. Crystal ball is also a pretty cool active item. Fortune telling machine has saved way too many of my runs. dono machine - tbh I'm actually super conservative with bombing my dono machine but it can give you super strong starts. I think its waaaaaay better than slots or skull guy, you get it every run. The consistency of dono machine makes me want to put it into rlly good honestly. normal beggar - i'd put him into really good just because he has so many uses. Gives you payouts super easily, bombing him for deal chance is goated. I do it every floor if I can Devil beggar - just as good as normal beggar. slightly worse to bomb but has better payouts if you can play him. Also really good. Key beggar - scam, I never play this idiot. I feel like I never have the keys to spare, and he never pays out. I can't remember the last time I had the keys to spare that I didn't just get skeleton key. bomb beggar - for some reason I have better memories of this guy, but I'm probably jsut tripping because of dr fetus runs. looking at the stats for him, he's awful lol. def a scam. Charge beggar - honestly? Maybe goated as well just because of how broken he can be. Literal game breaks with d6, though not having an active item you can abuse off of him every run makes it a lot harder to argue for. Probably just really good tier, but on isaac he's legit S tier. I don't know why you guys are so down on him, on isaac specifically he's always insane rotten beggar, confessional, crane game, hell games - Gonna be super honest here, I don't have dead god yet, so I have no idea how good these are lol. I literally jsut unlocked rotten beggar, but I haven't played enough for me to know how good he is. the others I just don't have. restock machine - easy goated. reverse judgment or whatever it is is such a gamebreak. definately s tier

Confessionals can remove active curses

AB+ reroll and donation machines would be in god tier

Demon shell game is really good, it gives black hearts on better rates than dark bum

Rotten beggar is the definition of scam no questions asked. Playing him is absolute garbage and he actually replaces regular beggars not key beggars so the devil deal chance is irrelevant even if its good. Unlocking him literally makes the save file worse. While I'm at it putting regular beggar bellow charge begger is insane. Fuck the highs if we are giving charge beggar the edge becous of d6 and other op activities why are we ignoring the regular beggar being an extremely easy pedestal spawn for secret room rigging.

The Skatole vs. Pretty Fly argument is crazy haha, who plays the machines for those, I will only play them if Im low on health, keys, or bombs, and I feel like Shell game pays off way more. Otherwise I will save coins for a coin beggar. Also your 3 pretty fly's vs. beelzebub argument was so terrible given how adament you were that it was somehow objectively correct or something lmao, its a 4.3% chance to get >= 3 pretty flies with 99 coins, but again, thats not really the point of the machine. Getting a dollar from bombing it is a better argument.

ngl shell game sucks and never pays out when you want/need it to, and is only ever good if you have a surplus of coins + ran through the other machines on the floor already + searched the shop and don't have more shops ahead of you or have the means to generate more coins easily besides that, shell games is only good when you blow it up for pick ups

Bomb beggar maybe is a scam but have a higher potential then the zombie beggar. If you have the scissors trinket and you bomb him you can farm infinite bombs with him and then trade this bombs. Eventually you will get a item which will make your bombs better + you already have 99 bombs so you can use them on the bosses and do massive damage or at least search for secret and super secret rooms on every floor.

I forgor if the shell game dude gives you a better deal chance % or not?

3 skulls are busted Blood bum busted Magic one is mid, Normal bum is rly good And bomb bum is rly good free money in mid game Claw machine is ehhh Blood 3 skull is scam yep I will change only that

The chance of getting at least 1 pretty fly from 99 Pennys is like 50%, and that’s not accounting four machines paying out with money. I don’t know why your friend is calcing the odds of fly and crystal ball as 1/probility when you stop when you get your rewards

Rotten bumb is scam

I think rotten beggar and bomb bum should be swapped. There is a specific game break that involves safety scissors and bomb bum that 99% of the time gives you 99 coins and unlimited life. I think it is situational, but even potencial of having infinite bombs, coins, hearts, restocks in the shop is WAAAAAAAY better than devil deal chance

Omg turt hiiiiii