Roujin wrote:

Watch this Face if you want to see some great dead branch shenanigans, with Rouj smashing it.

Btw that blue rope relic can be tasty. It fires your rightmost orb twice per turn. Never had that before.

I’ve gone sour on Outmanoeuvre over time, it cuts into your turn and unless you’ve pulled Well Laid Plans early enough it feels a bit dead in your hand.

I think your deck is a bit unwieldy too? I dunno how your games went but 3x Bouncing Flask seems like too many especially if you not got an energy relic.

2x Grand Finale seems like a nightmare to use most of the time - take it they were pandora pickups? I’m actually surprised you managed to get through on that little block though, that’s real impressive.

Block is super powerful as the Silent, I think she has the most block generation synergy of all the characters, the danger with her is that you don’t balance that with damage, it’s a tough game.

More bouncing flasks. They're better than standard poison and cost the same.

Oh yeah.

From what I know:

Neutralise is amazing, often priority upgrade as it helps against two of the act one elites and two of the bosses (the two it is bad against are Sentries and Slime Boss for obvious reasons)

Die Die Die and Dagger Spray are priority pickups, they’re your best front loaded AoE. Noxious Funes is your scaling AoE and in general just a ridiculous card for 1 Energy, especially with poison relics. Backstab is also very good for early damage, the innate property makes it very strong.

The core of any Silent run seems to be about diversifying your output whilst blocking well. For that, certain block cards are unreal - dodge and roll and blur are incredible for their cost, though the latter is sort of contingent on you being good with your block already. Cloak and Dagger is incredible, especially upgraded (block and attack for 1 energy) and is hard to recommend against taking in great quantities.

A lot of silent play is about drawing what you need and to do that, Backflip is king as it lets you block and mill your deck simultaneous. Well Laid Plans is amazing, especially if you can get it upgraded easily, as it lets you save key cards like Malaise and Piercing Wail for the turns you need them. Other good Powers are Caltrops and Dexterity, the former wrecking Birds and Book of Stabbing, the latter making your block game even stronger.

There are powerful rare cards like Bullet Time and Nightmare but be wary of taking them unless you can make them work,

Adrenaline is an auto pick most times, but be wary of cards that sound good on paper but might not add much, like Outmaneuver, Well Prepared, Grand Finale, Tools of the Trade, Accuracy, etc Try and and think about what they are adding and when theya add it. There’s a card that lets you draw three and discard one, that’s very good later in the game but dead weight in Act 1.

She has insane relic synergy with stuff like Kunai and Shuriken because Blade Dance and Cloak and Daggeer guarantee three attacks without asking much in terms of energy or card play.

Don’t be afraid of cards like Dash and Glass Knife that seem to be a bit one trick, sometimes you just need to be able to hit hard and poison and shivs don’t always do it.

Be aware that despite all of this I still have a terrible win rate with her. I still think all of this is more useful info that talking about Poison/Shiv decks.

Cheers Tempy. I’m doing a run now and trying to mix up my deck a bit. I can be a bit stubborn sometimes where I think my plan will work if on RNG blesses me. But then I ignore cards I think have little value. Gaining insight into why using certain cards is good is always useful.

There’s a good JoINrbs video on card and their jobs which tries to break down why certain cards are worse or better than they seem, but the best thing about this game is there is nearly always a scenario where a card will work.

Wow, two rows of relics! @Boris.

Got my first silent win. Feel like I slightly cheated as I started the act 2 boss Friday and I didn't have the best start, but abandoned it early to catch a movie. Continued the run today and got my first win against the Time Eater too.


Only Ironclad left for a victory.

Thanks to Temps' advice. Bare shiv build, doing between 9 and 21 damage per shiv once the build got going. Soemtimes having 8-11 shivs at once:

Its hilarious when it gets going. I got good RNG on the card draws though, it was touch and go with Donu and Deca

Ascension 3 Defect Claw run finally. Been trying several times to get a claw deck. Surprising how much All For One came around even though I only had one card.



Going for the heart before I progress to 4

Yeah the reviews are now up.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/01/23/slay-the-spire-review/

Just had my favourite ever run. Feed, Spot Weakness, Bloodletting+, Reaper, Inflame and 6 x Anger+

Absolutely fucking destroyed everything. Anger is a card I've avoided but fuck me when you get a few its genuinely ridiculous.



Fucking lol: