Mr. Struggles Relic

Is Mr. Struggles good in Slay the Spire 2?

Mr. Struggles is an event relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: At the start of your turn, deal damage equal to the turn number to ALL enemies. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 360 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 37.0% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 23.2%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 1.7% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 44.6% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 1.7% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Alignment, worth a +29.6% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Death's Door, worth +27.7% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 23 of a run. Its event rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 133 run wins against 226 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 8.9% of them. Read on for Mr. Struggles’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Mr. Struggles

Mr. Struggles is taken in 100.0% of its 360 recorded offers, but with 360 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 360 times out of 360 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 Mr. Struggles

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Mr. Struggles are Alignment (+29.6%), Death's Door (+27.7%), and Orbit (+22.9%).

Alignment+29.6%15 runsDeath's Door+27.7%17 runsOrbit+22.9%15 runsUltimate Defend+22.9%15 runsHidden Daggers+22.9%15 runsCrescent Spear+21.8%17 runs

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

Mr. Struggles Win Rate by Class

Mr. Struggles shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (44.6%), Necrobinder (43.4%), and Silent (40.7%) by win rate.

The Regent44.6%56 runsThe Necrobinder43.4%76 runsThe Silent40.7%81 runsThe Ironclad31.9%70 runsThe Defect26.0%77 runs

Mr. Struggles Details

Mr. Struggles is an event relic carried in 1.7% of runs and usually picked up around floor 23.

At the start of your turn, deal damage equal to the turn number to ALL enemies.

What Ends Runs with Mr. Struggles

Mr. Struggles’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (8.9%), Queen Boss (6.7%), and Aeonglass Boss (6.4%).

• Test Subject Boss8.9% of runs
• Queen Boss6.7% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss6.4% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss6.1% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss5.6% of runs

See Also

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