Lava Lamp Relic

Is Lava Lamp good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Lava Lamp is a shop relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: At the end of combat, Upgrade all card rewards if you took no damage. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at D tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 127 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 37.8%, 24.0% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.6% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Silent, who post a 53.6% win rate with it. Within Silent runs specifically, it’s carried 0.6% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Accuracy, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +28.9% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Mad Science, good for a +24.7% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 23. As a shop relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 48 ended in victory while 79 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Queen Boss, finishing 9.4% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Lava Lamp is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Lava Lamp

Players take Lava Lamp in 9.3% of the 1379 offers it appears in; those runs win 38.3% against 28.9% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +8.7% over 128 decided runs.

Taken 128 times out of 1379 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 Lava Lamp

The cards that gain the most from carrying Lava Lamp are Accuracy (+28.9%), Mad Science (+24.7%), and Blade Dance (+20.1%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Accuracy+28.9%15 runsMad Science+24.7%16 runsBlade Dance+20.1%19 runsSurvivor+15.8%28 runsDefend+14.1%27 runsNeutralize+12.2%26 runs

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

Lava Lamp Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Lava Lamp, it performs best with Silent (53.6%), Ironclad (36.4%), and Necrobinder (34.6%).

The Silent53.6%28 runsThe Ironclad36.4%22 runsThe Necrobinder34.6%26 runsThe Defect33.3%27 runsThe Regent29.2%24 runs

Lava Lamp Details

Carried in 0.6% of runs, Lava Lamp is a shop relic typically acquired near floor 23.

At the end of combat, Upgrade all card rewards if you took no damage.

What Ends Runs with Lava Lamp

Runs carrying Lava Lamp end most often against Queen Boss (9.4%), Kaiser Crab Boss (6.3%), and Aeonglass Boss (6.3%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Queen Boss9.4% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss6.3% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss6.3% of runs
• Entomancer Elite4.7% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite3.9% of runs

See Also

Keep exploring Slay the Spire 2 tier lists and stats below.