Fencing Manual Relic

Is Fencing Manual good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Fencing Manual is a common relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: At the start of each combat, Forge. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at D tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 236 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 45.5%, 31.6% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 1.1% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Regent, who post a 45.5% win rate with it. Within Regent runs specifically, it’s carried 7.2% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is GUARDS!!!, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +33.5% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Heirloom Hammer, good for a +27.6% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 23. As a common relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 106 ended in victory while 127 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Test Subject Boss, finishing 5.9% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Fencing Manual is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Fencing Manual

Players take Fencing Manual in 53.8% of the 444 offers it appears in; those runs win 45.5% against 42.6% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +2.8% over 235 decided runs.

Taken 239 times out of 444 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 Fencing Manual

The cards that gain the most from carrying Fencing Manual are GUARDS!!! (+33.5%), Heirloom Hammer (+27.6%), and Mad Science (+25.1%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

GUARDS!!!+33.5%20 runsHeirloom Hammer+27.6%26 runsMad Science+25.1%17 runsDying Star+24.8%37 runsUltimate Strike+23.3%16 runsTyranny+22.7%22 runs

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

Fencing Manual Win Rate by Class

Fencing Manual’s class data comes mostly from the Regent, at a 45.5% win rate over 236 runs.

The Regentappears in 7.2% of its runs (236 tracked)

Fencing Manual Details

Carried in 1.1% of runs, Fencing Manual is a common relic typically acquired near floor 23.

At the start of each combat, Forge.

What Ends Runs with Fencing Manual

Runs carrying Fencing Manual end most often against Test Subject Boss (5.9%), Queen Boss (5.5%), and Aeonglass Boss (5.1%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Test Subject Boss5.9% of runs
• Queen Boss5.5% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.1% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite3.8% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss3.4% of runs

See Also

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