Pumpkin Candle Relic

Is Pumpkin Candle good in Slay the Spire 2?

Pumpkin Candle is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Gain Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes at the start of Act 3. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 189 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 37.6% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 23.8%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.9% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Necrobinder, at a 45.6% win rate. Necrobinder players hold onto it in 1.6% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Friendship, worth a +31.9% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Mad Science, worth +31.1% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 18 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 70 run wins against 116 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Knowledge Demon Boss, which closes out 7.9% of them. Read on for Pumpkin Candle’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Pumpkin Candle

Pumpkin Candle is taken in 100.0% of its 189 recorded offers, but with 189 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 189 times out of 189 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 Pumpkin Candle

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Pumpkin Candle are Friendship (+31.9%), Mad Science (+31.1%), and Death's Door (+27.1%).

Friendship+31.9%23 runsMad Science+31.1%16 runsDeath's Door+27.1%17 runsPommel Strike+22.4%16 runsFear+22.4%16 runsFetch+22.4%15 runs

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

Pumpkin Candle Win Rate by Class

Pumpkin Candle shows up across 5 classes, led by Necrobinder (45.6%), Ironclad (42.9%), and Regent (33.3%) by win rate.

The Necrobinder45.6%58 runsThe Ironclad42.9%36 runsThe Regent33.3%27 runsThe Defect29.2%24 runsThe Silent27.5%41 runs

Pumpkin Candle Details

Pumpkin Candle is an ancient relic carried in 0.9% of runs and usually picked up around floor 18.

Gain Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes at the start of Act 3.

What Ends Runs with Pumpkin Candle

Pumpkin Candle’s most common run-enders are Knowledge Demon Boss (7.9%), Aeonglass Boss (5.3%), and Queen Boss (4.8%).

• Knowledge Demon Boss7.9% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.3% of runs
• Queen Boss4.8% of runs
• The Insatiable Boss4.2% of runs
• Test Subject Boss4.2% of runs

See Also

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