Fishing Rod Relic

Is Fishing Rod good in Slay the Spire 2?

Fishing Rod is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Every, Upgrade a random card in your Deck. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at F tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 948 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 16.4% of the time, comfortably clear of the 14.3% average, by 2.1%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 3.5% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Defect, at a 17.4% win rate. Defect players hold onto it in 3.4% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Neurosurge, worth a +46.8% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Flak Cannon, worth +43.6% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 1 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 153 run wins against 782 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Kaiser Crab Boss, which closes out 5.1% of them. Read on for Fishing Rod’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Fishing Rod

Fishing Rod is taken in 100.0% of its 945 recorded offers, but with 945 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 945 times out of 945 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 Fishing Rod

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Fishing Rod are Neurosurge (+46.8%), Flak Cannon (+43.6%), and Machine Learning (+38.6%).

Neurosurge+46.8%19 runsFlak Cannon+43.6%15 runsMachine Learning+38.6%20 runsFasten+37.0%15 runsOffering+36.3%19 runsSupercritical+33.6%20 runs

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

Fishing Rod Win Rate by Class

Fishing Rod shows up across 5 classes, led by Defect (17.4%), Necrobinder (17.0%), and Regent (16.1%) by win rate.

The Defect17.4%197 runsThe Necrobinder17.0%150 runsThe Regent16.1%164 runsThe Silent15.9%229 runsThe Ironclad15.2%201 runs

Fishing Rod Details

Fishing Rod is an ancient relic carried in 3.5% of runs and usually picked up around floor 1.

Every, Upgrade a random card in your Deck.

What Ends Runs with Fishing Rod

Fishing Rod’s most common run-enders are Kaiser Crab Boss (5.1%), Aeonglass Boss (4.2%), and Infested Prisms Elite (3.7%).

• Kaiser Crab Boss5.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.2% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite3.7% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss3.4% of runs
• Queen Boss3.4% of runs

See Also

Compare Fishing Rod with the rest of the best Slay the Spire 2 relics, cards, and classes below.