Spiked Gauntlets Relic

Is Spiked Gauntlets good in Slay the Spire 2?

Spiked Gauntlets is an ancient relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Gain Energy at the start of each turn. Powers cost 1 more -cost. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 101 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 44.5% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 30.7%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 0.5% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 60.0% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 0.5% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Strike, worth a +13.3% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Defend, worth +10.4% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 33 of a run. Its ancient rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 45 run wins against 56 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 13.9% of them. Read on for Spiked Gauntlets’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Spiked Gauntlets

Spiked Gauntlets is taken in 100.0% of its 100 recorded offers, but with 100 runs picking it and 0 passing, neither side has enough decided runs for a win rate yet.

Taken 100 times out of 100 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 Spiked Gauntlets

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Spiked Gauntlets are Strike (+13.3%), Defend (+10.4%), and Bodyguard (+8.1%).

Strike+13.3%19 runsDefend+10.4%20 runsBodyguard+8.1%19 runsUnleash+8.1%19 runsBloodletting+5.5%16 runsAscender's Bane+4.5%51 runs

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

Spiked Gauntlets Win Rate by Class

Spiked Gauntlets shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (60.0%), Necrobinder (52.2%), and Ironclad (44.0%) by win rate.

The Regent60.0%15 runsThe Necrobinder52.2%23 runsThe Ironclad44.0%25 runsThe Silent33.3%21 runsThe Defect16.7%12 runs

Spiked Gauntlets Details

Spiked Gauntlets is an ancient relic carried in 0.5% of runs and usually picked up around floor 33.

Gain Energy at the start of each turn. Powers cost 1 more -cost.

What Ends Runs with Spiked Gauntlets

Spiked Gauntlets’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (13.9%), Queen Boss (12.9%), and Aeonglass Boss (9.9%).

• Test Subject Boss13.9% of runs
• Queen Boss12.9% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss9.9% of runs
• Construct Menagerie Normal3.0% of runs
• Mecha Knight Elite3.0% of runs

See Also

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