Infused Core Relic

Is Infused Core good in Slay the Spire 2?

Infused Core is a starter relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: At the start of each combat, Channel Lightning. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at F tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 171 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 22.9% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 9.1%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.8% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Defect, at a 22.9% win rate. Defect players hold onto it in 3.7% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Iteration, worth a +35.9% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Supercritical, worth +33.1% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 18 of a run. Its starter rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 39 run wins against 131 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Kaiser Crab Boss, which closes out 13.5% of them. Read on for Infused Core’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Infused Core

Infused Core is taken in 100.0% of its 171 recorded offers, but with 171 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 171 times out of 171 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 Infused Core

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Infused Core are Iteration (+35.9%), Supercritical (+33.1%), and Fight Through (+24.4%).

Iteration+35.9%17 runsSupercritical+33.1%25 runsFight Through+24.4%19 runsMachine Learning+19.4%26 runsRocket Punch+18.0%22 runsVoltaic+17.8%27 runs

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

Infused Core Win Rate by Class

So far Infused Core is carried mainly by the Defect, who win 22.9% of their runs with it across 171 tracked.

The Defectappears in 3.7% of its runs (171 tracked)

Infused Core Details

Infused Core is a starter relic carried in 0.8% of runs and usually picked up around floor 18.

At the start of each combat, Channel Lightning.

What Ends Runs with Infused Core

Infused Core’s most common run-enders are Kaiser Crab Boss (13.5%), The Insatiable Boss (7.6%), and Test Subject Boss (7.6%).

• Kaiser Crab Boss13.5% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss7.6% of runs
• Test Subject Boss7.6% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss7.0% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss5.8% of runs

See Also

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