Claws Relic

Is Claws good in Slay the Spire 2?

Claws is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, Transform up to cards into Maul. It’s a reliable mid-tier relic, landing at C tier in our rankings.

Across 108 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 46.3% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 32.5%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.5% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 68.8% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 0.5% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Defend, worth a +9.7% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Neutralize, worth +8.3% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 34 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 50 run wins against 58 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 9.3% of them. Read on for Claws’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Claws

Claws is taken in 100.0% of its 108 recorded offers, but with 108 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 108 times out of 108 offers.

A win rate is only shown once that side clears the sample floor. Below it you get the run counts and nothing else — a 0% here would be a reporting artefact, not a result.

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 Claws

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Claws are Defend (+9.7%), Neutralize (+8.3%), and Survivor (+5.5%).

Defend+9.7%25 runsNeutralize+8.3%22 runsSurvivor+5.5%27 runsMaul0.0%108 runsAscender's Bane-0.1%52 runsMad Science-5.1%17 runs

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

Claws Win Rate by Class

Claws shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (68.8%), Silent (50.0%), and Necrobinder (45.5%) by win rate.

The Regent68.8%16 runsThe Silent50.0%28 runsThe Necrobinder45.5%11 runsThe Defect40.0%20 runsThe Ironclad36.4%33 runs

Claws Details

Claws is an ancient relic carried in 0.5% of runs and usually picked up around floor 34.

Upon pickup, Transform up to cards into Maul.

What Ends Runs with Claws

Claws’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (9.3%), Queen Boss (8.3%), and Knights Elite (6.5%).

• Test Subject Boss9.3% of runs
• Queen Boss8.3% of runs
• Knights Elite6.5% of runs
• Mecha Knight Elite4.6% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.6% of runs

See Also

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