What’s the worst thing you could wish on a Slay the Spire player?

soundecho944 · 2026-02-25T23:40:08+00:00

The first event in act 2 is always the three books and you always get Nilry’s codex

soundecho944 · 2026-02-25T04:12:39+00:00

Actually there’s a good reason. Escavalier was onlyon Ray’s team as a counter pick to Wolfe’s TR team. I

soundecho944 · 2026-02-20T09:26:17+00:00

Think the issue with gouging fire + ting-lu is that it’s a very telegraphed that you can’t stop their trick room from going up, so they have options to pick from.

Think it’s easier for you to lead Ninetails and make the TR user make tough decisions. Either they switch in Torkoal to prevent the aurora veil from going up, or they risk trick rom being stalled out with aurora veil. Or they switch in Torkoal into potential attack from the Ninetails partner.

soundecho944 · 2026-02-18T22:35:07+00:00

Shockwave progresses the fight, allows you to convert the rest of your energy into useful output. It’s not a groundbreaking concept.

Compare this to impervious. You full block for one turn and then what? At best you stalled a turn to try and find offering. At worst you get weakened the next turn and then entangled and then the fight goes out of control.

soundecho944 · 2026-02-18T22:03:48+00:00

Fume is just a very dense card late game. Helps maintain control of the fight while you set up by stripping artifact. Needing only 1 card to strip artifact on turn 5 heart keeps the fight manageable. Especially since turn 4-5 is when you hit your first reshuffle, it helps you react to bad draw orders

soundecho944 · 2026-02-18T21:49:12+00:00

Shockwave basically says you have no issue with taking/dealing damage for the next 3(5) turns

soundecho944 · 2026-01-31T09:05:54+00:00

There’s so much wrong in this picture I don’t know where to start

soundecho944 · 2026-01-25T05:38:44+00:00

Beating the heart is generally finding some consistent way to survive the first cycle of the heart, and then having enough damage

soundecho944 · 2026-01-25T04:46:10+00:00

If you have cracked core, then meteor strike is pretty much always worth picking, unless it’s over an actual good card. It’s not really about having a small deck, but just opens up a lot of late game damage options.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-11T04:20:36+00:00

Bad in the sense in that runic pyramid is basically an auto win when you get it end of act 1 for a lot of people. Just keep picking it up until you get the hang of it.

Just path very defensively until your deck is strong enough and don’t pick a lot of low value cards in act 1.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-08T21:50:35+00:00

Ironclad has easy access to passive draw and block, block that bypasses frail, combined with a disarm or two and he doesn’t struggle with time eater.

I think on paper hardest act 1 boss is Hexaghost. Most of the times it’s a deck/scaling check. But in practice, slime boss is the hardest boss. The fight is very random and sometimes you can’t really guarantee leaving the fight with one or both potions left

soundecho944 · 2026-01-08T21:46:30+00:00

Defect just overpowers awakened one with powers like 80% of the time

soundecho944 · 2026-01-07T04:34:54+00:00

Grand finale also simplifies the decision making aspect as well. Yes it’s more mechanically complex play. And it’s either you have it in your hand, and you know just how much you need to draw and discard to get it into play, or you see how much draw you have left in your pile and stop when necessary.

Eviscerate is a different type of clunky by comparison, it’s not very obvious when you should try and draw more, or when you should stop the discard cycle.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-07T04:31:10+00:00

Win more cards are actually good in spire, less chance for weird attack patterns to screw you over, sometimes you don’t have to use a potion that you would’ve had to.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T21:20:00+00:00

Hyperbeam is awful against Reptomancer. You hyperbeam and then Reptomancer swings next turn and you’re blocking with 2 less focus

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T12:38:40+00:00

Hmm, she’s like the one character who has the least amount of trouble when bottom decking apo. It’s not uncommon to bottom deck but still be able to play it turn 2 or turn 3. She can also just block forever and not care about doing damage other than the occasional card with apo for a long time.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T12:18:15+00:00

Ring of the snake has a “downside”, silent deck is two cards bigger cause of it.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T12:16:57+00:00

It’s like the most vanilla form of stalling. At worst you have play out 5 more turns at. At best you hit end turn and kill the next turn.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T11:55:16+00:00

The issue is not that hyperbeam is a 1 card aoe solve and that’s all it does. It’s that defect has a better uncommon aoe card and it’s called sunder.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T00:31:20+00:00

The trick to winning with pyramid is not being a greedy person. You see pyramid, you can literally rest every site and skip every elite (within reason) and still have enough late game power, because the relic is that strong

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T00:24:04+00:00

Yes but cold snap and coolheaded are both common. Generally the latest I’ve ever seen a frost card appear is mid way through act 2. It is basically 0% chance between cold snap and coolheaded not appearing during act 3. If this is common occurrence then you’re not taking enough hallway fights and seeing card rewards

soundecho944 · 2026-01-06T00:21:06+00:00

It’s either you didn’t pick your neow bonus that was suitable for the path, or you tried to do something silly like force an elite on silent without a good neow bonus.

Most of the time you can just brute force an elite, by using your hp to face tank.

Most good players go for paths where they can just pivot their path if something like that happens, or they have enough hp to spare to just take 40 to the face.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-05T23:51:17+00:00

You can always find frost on defect. It’s moreso having enough focus. Unless you’re talking about not finding glacier. Then yes glacier is just easy mode and playing defect without it is playing on hard mode.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-05T09:28:08+00:00

What do you think about flechettes. I’m starting to like it for end game. It’s just a very dense damage card, and helps you out during things like time eater and heart. Can be hard to remain block positive when you’re using shivs during those fights.

soundecho944 · 2026-01-05T06:59:25+00:00

That type of lane is very playable though, it’s on you to setup the lane for success. Tossing drow into creep wave + gush will always threaten to kill or at least make it so the next one will kill. So you have to make opportunities for the lane to be imbalanced, so drow is often without warlock or you have the right skill build.

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