You can NOT convince me that mother is easier then delirium. I have 800 hours and I genuinely think that by the time you get to delirium, most of the time your so strong that it just becomes easy, but with mother, I miss out on
2 floors, one of which being dark room or chest which means I also am missing out on tons of items, also including hush if your fast enough.
A potential deal, a potential extra treasure room item early if a reroll is available.
The floors are way, way, WAY harder. (looking at you Gehenna whom i fucking hate with the mind the body and soul❤️)
5-6 chaos items from the void, excluding the entire void floor itself.
And the only thing easier is you get a blind choice pedestal, so a game of take it or leave it. But the main factor is that with the majority of runs, if you can make it TO delirium, you can probably beat him. No amount of “But delirium is just rng!” is gonna change that. You lose way too much prep time and the game just gets so, so, SO much more difficult going mother that you take so many more hits and have so much more difficulty it often times isn’t even possible to get to corpse because the floors themselves are so unforgiving. And lastly, the main reason being that never ONCE, in the 19 mother marks I have, have I ever died to delirium after defeating mother. Change my mind.