Delicate Frond Relic

Is Delicate Frond good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Delicate Frond is an ancient relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: At the start of each combat, fill all empty potion slots with random potions. Performance-wise it’s a steady, unspectacular pick rated C tier overall.

Over 147 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 51.7%, 37.9% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.7% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Defect, who post a 64.3% win rate with it. Within Defect runs specifically, it’s carried 0.3% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Piercing Wail, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +13.0% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Battle Trance, good for a +13.0% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 33. As an ancient relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 76 ended in victory while 71 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Queen Boss, finishing 12.2% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Delicate Frond is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Delicate Frond

Across 147 offers Delicate Frond has a 100.0% pick rate; the 147 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 147 times out of 147 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 Delicate Frond

The cards that gain the most from carrying Delicate Frond are Piercing Wail (+13.0%), Battle Trance (+13.0%), and Pommel Strike (+7.1%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Piercing Wail+13.0%17 runsBattle Trance+13.0%17 runsPommel Strike+7.1%17 runsFriendship+7.1%17 runsInvoke+3.9%18 runsBloodletting+2.5%24 runs

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

Delicate Frond Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Delicate Frond, it performs best with Defect (64.3%), Silent (52.9%), and Necrobinder (51.4%).

The Defect64.3%14 runsThe Silent52.9%34 runsThe Necrobinder51.4%35 runsThe Ironclad50.0%40 runsThe Regent45.8%24 runs

Delicate Frond Details

Carried in 0.7% of runs, Delicate Frond is an ancient relic typically acquired near floor 33.

At the start of each combat, fill all empty potion slots with random potions.

What Ends Runs with Delicate Frond

Runs carrying Delicate Frond end most often against Queen Boss (12.2%), Test Subject Boss (11.6%), and Aeonglass Boss (9.5%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Queen Boss12.2% of runs
• Test Subject Boss11.6% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss9.5% of runs
• Doormaker Boss2.7% of runs
• Mecha Knight Elite2.7% of runs

See Also

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