Gnarled Hammer Relic

Is Gnarled Hammer good in Slay the Spire 2?

Gnarled Hammer is a shop relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Upon pickup, Enchant up to Attacks with Sharp. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 228 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 46.0% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 32.2%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 1.1% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 55.2% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 0.9% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Rupture, worth a +34.0% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Hidden Cache, worth +30.4% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 27 of a run. Its shop rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 105 run wins against 123 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Kaiser Crab Boss, which closes out 7.5% of them. Read on for Gnarled Hammer’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Gnarled Hammer

Out of 1334 recorded offers Gnarled Hammer is taken 17.4% of the time, and taking it is worth +17.7% in pick lift — 45.3% for runs that picked it against 26.8% for runs that skipped, across 232 decided runs.

Taken 232 times out of 1334 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 Gnarled Hammer

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Gnarled Hammer are Rupture (+34.0%), Hidden Cache (+30.4%), and Piercing Wail (+23.9%).

Rupture+34.0%15 runsHidden Cache+30.4%17 runsPiercing Wail+23.9%20 runsBully+22.7%16 runsAccuracy+20.6%18 runsConflagration+20.6%15 runs

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

Gnarled Hammer Win Rate by Class

Gnarled Hammer shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (55.2%), Silent (52.3%), and Ironclad (49.4%) by win rate.

The Regent55.2%29 runsThe Silent52.3%44 runsThe Ironclad49.4%77 runsThe Necrobinder42.9%28 runsThe Defect30.6%49 runs

Gnarled Hammer Details

Gnarled Hammer is a shop relic carried in 1.1% of runs and usually picked up around floor 27.

Upon pickup, Enchant up to Attacks with Sharp.

What Ends Runs with Gnarled Hammer

Gnarled Hammer’s most common run-enders are Kaiser Crab Boss (7.5%), Test Subject Boss (5.3%), and Queen Boss (4.8%).

• Kaiser Crab Boss7.5% of runs
• Test Subject Boss5.3% of runs
• Queen Boss4.8% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite3.9% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss3.5% of runs

See Also

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