Pollinous Core Relic

Is Pollinous Core good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Pollinous Core is an event relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: Every turns, draw additional cards. The data marks it as a weaker relic, settling at D tier — rarely a run-defining grab.

Over 192 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 44.8%, 30.9% ahead of the 13.8% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.9% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Silent, who post a 49.0% win rate with it. Within Silent runs specifically, it’s carried 1.0% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Mad Science, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +25.8% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Leading Strike, good for a +16.1% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 23. As an event relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 86 ended in victory while 106 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is The Insatiable Boss, finishing 5.7% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Pollinous Core is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Pollinous Core

Across 192 offers Pollinous Core has a 100.0% pick rate; the 192 runs that took it and 0 that left it are still below the sample floor, so no win rate is shown.

Taken 192 times out of 192 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 Pollinous Core

The cards that gain the most from carrying Pollinous Core are Mad Science (+25.8%), Leading Strike (+16.1%), and Battle Trance (+15.2%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Mad Science+25.8%17 runsLeading Strike+16.1%23 runsBattle Trance+15.2%15 runsTaunt+14.0%17 runsDeflect+11.7%23 runsAcrobatics+11.5%16 runs

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

Pollinous Core Win Rate by Class

Of the 5 classes that carry Pollinous Core, it performs best with Silent (49.0%), Defect (48.3%), and Ironclad (45.5%).

The Silent49.0%49 runsThe Defect48.3%29 runsThe Ironclad45.5%44 runsThe Necrobinder42.4%33 runsThe Regent36.1%36 runs

Pollinous Core Details

Carried in 0.9% of runs, Pollinous Core is an event relic typically acquired near floor 23.

Every turns, draw additional cards.

What Ends Runs with Pollinous Core

Runs carrying Pollinous Core end most often against The Insatiable Boss (5.7%), Aeonglass Boss (5.7%), and Decimillipede Elite (5.7%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• The Insatiable Boss5.7% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.7% of runs
• Decimillipede Elite5.7% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss5.2% of runs
• Queen Boss5.2% of runs

See Also

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