Slay the Spire 2

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Practical guides grouped by the job you came here to do.

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01 / Start here

Your first run: what to do at every stop

Choose a character, read the map and make the first combat decisions.

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Characters

01 / Characters

Ironclad: build damage, then make Exhaust work

Early card choices, healing and the cost of shrinking your deck.

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Silent: use discard, Shivs and Poison well

Make Sly trigger correctly and avoid a deck that cannot finish fights.

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Regent: manage Stars and your Sovereign Blade

Budget two resources and build a repeatable Forge plan.

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Necrobinder: keep Osty useful and time Doom

Understand two health bars, Summon and the delayed kill threshold.

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Defect: channel the right Orb at the right time

Plan passive effects, Evokes and Glass before adding more slots.

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Run planning

01 / Run planning

Draft better cards and choose safer routes

A practical decision process for rewards, upgrades, shops and elites.

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Choose Ancient rewards and enchantments

Evaluate act-start offers against the deck you are already playing.

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Bosses

01 / Bosses

Vantom and Kaiser Crab: prepare for their mechanics

Use hit counts against Slippery and facing against Surround.

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Multiplayer

01 / Multiplayer

Play co-op with friends and troubleshoot invites

Party size, platform support and a short connection checklist.

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Updates

01 / Updates

Main or Beta: use the right patch guide

Current branch baselines, important changes and what is still coming.

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Tool

01 / Tool

Draw-odds calculator: will you find the card?

Compare deck size, useful copies and draw count without an account.

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