Ruined Helmet Relic

Is Ruined Helmet good in Slay the Spire 2?

In Slay the Spire 2, Ruined Helmet is a rare relic you can pick up on your climb. Its effect: The first time you gain Strength each combat, double the amount gained. Performance-wise it’s a steady, unspectacular pick rated C tier overall.

Over 39 tracked runs the win rate of decks holding it sits at 50.0%, 36.0% ahead of the 14.0% all-run baseline. It sees lighter play, carried in only 0.3% of runs. It does its best work in the hands of the Ironclad, who post a 48.6% win rate with it. Within Ironclad runs specifically, it’s carried 1.4% of the time.

Its standout card pairing is Bloodletting, which lifts the relic’s win rate by +18.8% when both are in play. It also works nicely with Tremble, good for a +13.6% win-rate change. It typically enters the deck near floor 23. As a rare relic, how often it’s offered depends on its rarity tier.

Of the runs that carried it, 19 ended in victory while 19 fell to a defeat. Its most common run-ender is Knowledge Demon Boss, finishing 7.7% of the runs it appears in. See the best cards, class split, and threats below for the full read on whether Ruined Helmet is worth grabbing.

Pick or Skip: Ruined Helmet

Players take Ruined Helmet in 53.4% of the 73 offers it appears in; those runs win 50.0% against 17.6% for runs that passed, a pick lift of +25.6% over 38 decided runs.

Taken 39 times out of 73 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 Ruined Helmet

The cards that gain the most from carrying Ruined Helmet are Bloodletting (+18.8%), Tremble (+13.6%), and Molten Fist (+6.3%), each shown with its win-rate swing.

Bloodletting+18.8%16 runsTremble+13.6%22 runsMolten Fist+6.3%16 runsStrike-1.7%30 runsPommel Strike-2.4%21 runsDefend-3.1%33 runs

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

Ruined Helmet Win Rate by Class

Ruined Helmet’s class data comes mostly from the Ironclad, at a 48.6% win rate over 38 runs.

The Ironcladappears in 1.4% of its runs (38 tracked)

Ruined Helmet Details

Carried in 0.3% of runs, Ruined Helmet is a rare relic typically acquired near floor 23.

The first time you gain Strength each combat, double the amount gained.

What Ends Runs with Ruined Helmet

Runs carrying Ruined Helmet end most often against Knowledge Demon Boss (7.7%), Infested Prisms Elite (5.1%), and Ceremonial Beast Boss (5.1%) — the share of its runs each accounts for is shown.

• Knowledge Demon Boss7.7% of runs
• Infested Prisms Elite5.1% of runs
• Ceremonial Beast Boss5.1% of runs
• Test Subject Boss5.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss5.1% of runs

See Also

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