Ripple Basin Relic

Is Ripple Basin good in Slay the Spire 2?

Ripple Basin is an uncommon relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: If you did not play any Attacks during your turn, gain Block. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 868 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 34.2% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 20.4%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 4.2% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Silent, at a 40.1% win rate. Silent players hold onto it in 4.2% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Serpent Form, worth a +47.0% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Tools of the Trade, worth +46.7% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 22 of a run. Its uncommon rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 295 run wins against 567 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 6.1% of them. Read on for Ripple Basin’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Ripple Basin

Out of 1568 recorded offers Ripple Basin is taken 56.6% of the time, and taking it is worth +2.2% in pick lift — 34.2% for runs that picked it against 32.0% for runs that skipped, across 880 decided runs.

Taken 888 times out of 1568 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 Ripple Basin

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Ripple Basin are Serpent Form (+47.0%), Tools of the Trade (+46.7%), and Eradicate (+45.8%).

Serpent Form+47.0%33 runsTools of the Trade+46.7%22 runsEradicate+45.8%15 runsHeirloom Hammer+42.3%17 runsTracking+39.7%24 runsStorm of Steel+37.2%29 runs

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

Ripple Basin Win Rate by Class

Ripple Basin shows up across 5 classes, led by Silent (40.1%), Regent (39.4%), and Necrobinder (38.0%) by win rate.

The Silent40.1%198 runsThe Regent39.4%157 runsThe Necrobinder38.0%171 runsThe Ironclad27.2%164 runsThe Defect25.1%168 runs

Ripple Basin Details

Ripple Basin is an uncommon relic carried in 4.2% of runs and usually picked up around floor 22.

If you did not play any Attacks during your turn, gain Block.

What Ends Runs with Ripple Basin

Ripple Basin’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (6.1%), Aeonglass Boss (5.9%), and Queen Boss (5.4%).

• Test Subject Boss6.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.9% of runs
• Queen Boss5.4% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss5.3% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss4.7% of runs

See Also

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