Helical Dart Relic

Is Helical Dart good in Slay the Spire 2?

Helical Dart is a rare relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Whenever you play a Shiv, gain Dexterity this turn. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 66 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 43.1% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 29.2%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.3% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Silent, at a 43.1% win rate. Silent players hold onto it in 1.4% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Footwork, worth a +21.6% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Adrenaline, worth +21.6% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 23 of a run. Its rare rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 28 run wins against 37 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 6.1% of them. Read on for Helical Dart’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Helical Dart

Out of 113 recorded offers Helical Dart is taken 58.4% of the time, and taking it is worth +12.3% in pick lift — 43.1% for runs that picked it against 28.9% for runs that skipped, across 65 decided runs.

Taken 66 times out of 113 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 Helical Dart

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Helical Dart are Footwork (+21.6%), Adrenaline (+21.6%), and Blade of Ink (+15.7%).

Footwork+21.6%18 runsAdrenaline+21.6%18 runsBlade of Ink+15.7%18 runsAnticipate+13.2%16 runsCalculated Gamble+10.3%15 runsBlade Dance+10.3%30 runs

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

Helical Dart Win Rate by Class

So far Helical Dart is carried mainly by the Silent, who win 43.1% of their runs with it across 66 tracked.

The Silentappears in 1.4% of its runs (66 tracked)

Helical Dart Details

Helical Dart is a rare relic carried in 0.3% of runs and usually picked up around floor 23.

Whenever you play a Shiv, gain Dexterity this turn.

What Ends Runs with Helical Dart

Helical Dart’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (6.1%), Infested Prisms Elite (4.5%), and Kaiser Crab Boss (4.5%).

• Test Subject Boss6.1% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite4.5% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss4.5% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.5% of runs
• Queen Boss3.0% of runs

See Also

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