Parrying Shield Relic

Is Parrying Shield good in Slay the Spire 2?

Parrying Shield is an uncommon relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: If you end a turn with at least Block, deal damage to a random enemy. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 1006 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 36.6% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 22.8%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 4.8% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Silent, at a 41.9% win rate. Silent players hold onto it in 4.8% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Bombardment, worth a +39.5% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Tools of the Trade, worth +37.4% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 21 of a run. Its uncommon rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 366 run wins against 633 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 6.6% of them. Read on for Parrying Shield’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Parrying Shield

Out of 1776 recorded offers Parrying Shield is taken 57.8% of the time, and taking it is worth +8.1% in pick lift — 37.0% for runs that picked it against 28.9% for runs that skipped, across 1016 decided runs.

Taken 1026 times out of 1776 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 Parrying Shield

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Parrying Shield are Bombardment (+39.5%), Tools of the Trade (+37.4%), and Maul (+36.7%).

Bombardment+39.5%21 runsTools of the Trade+37.4%28 runsMaul+36.7%15 runsSqueeze+36.7%15 runsProlong+35.6%19 runsFlak Cannon+33.4%20 runs

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

Parrying Shield Win Rate by Class

Parrying Shield shows up across 5 classes, led by Silent (41.9%), Regent (38.5%), and Defect (35.6%) by win rate.

The Silent41.9%224 runsThe Regent38.5%157 runsThe Defect35.6%180 runsThe Ironclad33.7%249 runsThe Necrobinder31.9%186 runs

Parrying Shield Details

Parrying Shield is an uncommon relic carried in 4.8% of runs and usually picked up around floor 21.

If you end a turn with at least Block, deal damage to a random enemy.

What Ends Runs with Parrying Shield

Parrying Shield’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (6.6%), Queen Boss (5.3%), and Kaiser Crab Boss (5.2%).

• Test Subject Boss6.6% of runs
• Queen Boss5.3% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss5.2% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.8% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss3.6% of runs

See Also

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