Venerable Tea Set Relic

Is Venerable Tea Set good in Slay the Spire 2?

Venerable Tea Set is a common relic in Slay the Spire 2. While carried, it does the following: Whenever you enter a Rest Site, start the next combat with an additional Energy. It currently underperforms most relics, sitting at D tier in our Slay the Spire 2 relic rankings.

Across 2014 recorded runs, decks carrying it win 37.2% of the time, comfortably clear of the 13.8% average, by 23.4%. It’s a more situational relic, showing up in just 9.6% of runs. The class that gets the most out of it is the Regent, at a 43.8% win rate. Regent players hold onto it in 10.3% of their runs.

It combos especially well with Shame, worth a +49.5% win-rate swing together. Another strong card to run with it is Prophesize, worth +49.5% to its win rate. On average it’s acquired around floor 22 of a run. Its common rarity shapes how frequently you’ll run into it.

It has 743 run wins against 1253 losses in our tracked data. When runs carrying it end, the most frequent culprit is Test Subject Boss, which closes out 5.5% of them. Read on for Venerable Tea Set’s complete card, class, and threat breakdown before you decide to pick it up.

Pick or Skip: Venerable Tea Set

Out of 3262 recorded offers Venerable Tea Set is taken 62.9% of the time, and taking it is worth +9.7% in pick lift — 37.5% for runs that picked it against 27.7% for runs that skipped, across 2027 decided runs.

Taken 2052 times out of 3262 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 Venerable Tea Set

Ranked by win-rate lift, the best cards to run with Venerable Tea Set are Shame (+49.5%), Prophesize (+49.5%), and Volley (+39.3%).

Shame+49.5%15 runsProphesize+49.5%16 runsVolley+39.3%18 runsBury+39.3%17 runsForegone Conclusion+38.8%25 runsMaster of Strategy+37.8%33 runs

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

Venerable Tea Set Win Rate by Class

Venerable Tea Set shows up across 5 classes, led by Regent (43.8%), Silent (39.9%), and Necrobinder (39.0%) by win rate.

The Regent43.8%338 runsThe Silent39.9%507 runsThe Necrobinder39.0%351 runsThe Ironclad35.9%467 runsThe Defect25.7%336 runs

Venerable Tea Set Details

Venerable Tea Set is a common relic carried in 9.6% of runs and usually picked up around floor 22.

Whenever you enter a Rest Site, start the next combat with an additional Energy.

What Ends Runs with Venerable Tea Set

Venerable Tea Set’s most common run-enders are Test Subject Boss (5.5%), Queen Boss (4.7%), and Kaiser Crab Boss (4.6%).

• Test Subject Boss5.5% of runs
• Queen Boss4.7% of runs
• Kaiser Crab Boss4.6% of runs
• Aeonglass Boss4.4% of runs
• Knowledge Demon Boss4.1% of runs

See Also

Compare Venerable Tea Set with the rest of the best Slay the Spire 2 relics, cards, and classes below.