LogFAQs > #961996470

The problem with both evolved and unevolved garlic is that its damage stays terrible forever. It scales far more weakly than everything else naturally, and it can't benefit from the best offensive statistic in the game at all (more projectiles). It's very useful for a lot of specific annoying things in the early to mid game but you can accomplish basically the same thing with bible, which scales way better into lategame.

Also the extra knockback effect makes it basically unusable with magic want if you want to actually kill light bosses. Four magic wand hits when you have a garlic equipped will send bat bosses flying offscreen making it incredibly obnoxious if you're using magic wand as a boss killer.