Big Hat Relic

Is Big Hat good in Slay the Spire 2?

Big Hat is a rare relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: At the start of each combat, add random Ethereal cards into your Hand. It’s a reliable mid-tier relic, landing at C tier in our rankings.

Across 40 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 50.0% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 36.2%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.2% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Necrobinder, at a 50.0% win rate. Necrobinder players hold onto it in 1.1% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Enfeebling Touch, worth a +18.8% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Grave Warden, worth +11.1% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 25 of a run. Its rare rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 20 run wins against 20 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 7.5% of them. Read on for Big Hat’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Big Hat

Out of 82 recorded offers Big Hat is taken 48.8% of the time, and taking it is worth +12.0% in pick lift — 50.0% for runs that picked it against 35.0% for runs that skipped, across 40 decided runs.

Taken 40 times out of 82 offers.

Pick rate when offered counts offers, not runs: out of every time the game put this in front of a player, how often it was taken. It is not the same number as the share of runs that end up containing it.

Pick lift is the sample-adjusted gap between runs that took the option and runs that passed on it. It is the fair way to rank choices, because raw win rates put the smallest samples on top.

Best Cards with Big Hat

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Big Hat are Enfeebling Touch (+18.8%), Grave Warden (+11.1%), and Ascender's Bane (+10.0%).

Enfeebling Touch+18.8%16 runsGrave Warden+11.1%18 runsAscender's Bane+10.0%20 runsInvoke+7.1%21 runsNegative Pulse+6.3%16 runsWisp+2.9%17 runs

Based on small co-occurring samples — treat these as early signals, not final verdicts.

Big Hat Win Rate by Class

So far Big Hat is carried mainly by the Necrobinder, who win 50.0% of their runs with it across 40 tracked.

The Necrobinderappears in 1.1% of its runs (40 tracked)

Big Hat Details

Big Hat is a rare relic carried in 0.2% of runs and usually picked up around floor 25.

At the start of each combat, add random Ethereal cards into your Hand.

What Ends Runs with Big Hat

Big Hat’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (7.5%), Ceremonial Beast Boss (5.0%), and Aeonglass Boss (5.0%).

• Test Subject Boss7.5% of runs
• Ceremonial Beast Boss5.0% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.0% of runs
• Vantom Boss5.0% of runs

See Also

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