Sling of Courage Relic

Is Sling of Courage good in Slay the Spire 2?

Sling of Courage is a shop relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Start each Elite combat with Strength. It’s a reliable mid-tier relic, landing at C tier in our rankings.

Across 148 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 50.3% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 36.5%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.7% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 57.1% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 0.8% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Cloak and Dagger, worth a +20.3% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Piercing Wail, worth +20.3% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 26 of a run. Its shop rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 74 run wins against 73 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Queen Boss, which closes out 7.4% of them. Read on for Sling of Courage’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Sling of Courage

Out of 1406 recorded offers Sling of Courage is taken 10.5% of the time, and taking it is worth +21.5% in pick lift — 50.3% for runs that picked it against 27.4% for runs that skipped, across 147 decided runs.

Taken 148 times out of 1406 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 Sling of Courage

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Sling of Courage are Cloak and Dagger (+20.3%), Piercing Wail (+20.3%), and Hidden Cache (+18.4%).

Cloak and Dagger+20.3%17 runsPiercing Wail+20.3%17 runsHidden Cache+18.4%16 runsBlade Dance+16.3%18 runsFootwork+14.4%17 runsWisp+12.2%16 runs

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

Sling of Courage Win Rate by Class

Sling of Courage shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (57.1%), Necrobinder (56.0%), and Silent (55.6%) by win rate.

The Regent57.1%28 runsThe Necrobinder56.0%25 runsThe Silent55.6%36 runsThe Defect42.3%27 runsThe Ironclad41.9%31 runs

Sling of Courage Details

Sling of Courage is a shop relic carried in 0.7% of runs and usually picked up around floor 26.

Start each Elite combat with Strength.

What Ends Runs with Sling of Courage

Sling of Courage’s most common run-enders are Queen Boss (7.4%), Kaiser Crab Boss (6.1%), and Aeonglass Boss (4.1%).

• Queen Boss7.4% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss6.1% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.1% of runs
• Test Subject Boss4.1% of runs
• Entomancer Elite2.7% of runs

See Also

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