Mother's Teeth

A gruesome necklace of salvaged fangs that makes the wearer bleed — but punishes anything that dares strike them in melee. Mother's Teeth applies Bleed to the equipped cat on pickup, so you're trading a constant health drain for a powerful deterrent: melee attackers take Thorns damage and also receive Bleed themselves. The result is a death-by-a-thousand-cuts dynamic where aggressive enemies whittle themselves down as they attack. Best suited to high-HP or regenerating cats who can sustain the self-bleed, and devastating on builds that stack Thorns or extend Bleed duration.

Mother's Teeth combines three passives: BleedThorns (reflected damage + Bleed on melee attacker), Thorns (additional reflected physical damage), and Bleed (continuous self-damage). Having both BleedThorns and Thorns means each melee hit triggers two separate damage returns — the Thorns flat reflection and the BleedThorns bleed application. The self-Bleed is the trade-off, adding a continuous HP drain on top of whatever damage the character takes in combat.

The most Thorns-heavy item in the game — the combination of BleedThorns and Thorns together deals more return damage per hit than any single Thorns item. Broken Window (BleedThorns + self-Bleed neck) overlaps in role but occupies the neck slot vs. Mother's Teeth which is also neck. Both cannot be equipped simultaneously, so choose based on which additional property (Thorns stack from Mother's Teeth, or none from Broken Window) better fits the build.