5 BASIC SLAY THE SPIRE TIPS FOR SUCCESS

Having difficulty beating Slay the Spire? Not sure how to improve? With these 5 Basic Tips you'll be a better Slay the Spire player immediately. Have any other tips of your own? Leave them in the comments below to help out other new players!

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[utimatepotato]

1. Keep your deck thin
2. Be aware of archetypes.
3. Defense is better than offense.
4. Know thy enemy.
5. Take. Energy. Relics.

[titan]

Video show a perfected strike deck removing a strike and skipping another.

[xLeopanther]

Please don't say 'the only exception is velvet choker' while taking Runic Dome on the topic of energy relics.
Don't advise players to blindly take a energy relict without considering the consquences.
Not knowing what an enemy is doing (the effect of Runic Dome) - if he's attacking or not, and how much they're attacking for, can easily get you killed. May be fine if you have an OP deck that can reliably block a lot each turn while still dealing enough damage, but in most cases this is not a good relic to take (unless you enjoy the risk of playing blindfolded). The effect can also be a bit mitigated a bit if you know all the enemies and their attack patterns really well (still doesn't help against RNG of what they do each turn, but you can estimate how much damage you may take).
Velvet choker also isn't a 'never take this relic' option (can play max. 6 cards per turn). It is quite limiting, but if you run a deck that never or rarely has the option of playing more than 6 cards a turn - its no downside at all. Look at the costs of your cards, the amount of extra-draw cards or effects you have - make an intelligent decision based on that. And if you do decide to take it, stay aware of the 6 card per turn limit also when deciding on which new cards to add to your deck (meaning 0-cost cards or card-draw are less optimal, depending on what else your deck has).

It's always a weighing of options, be it the decision what card to add (or skipping, which is a valuable option to not clutter the deck with bad cards) or which boss relic to take. What's the downside, what do you gain for it? How much will the relic's downside hurt you, how much does it affect your deck or future possibilities? And what do you gain from it? Is the 1 extra energy really worth it with your deck, or does it maybe already have cards or relics that help with energy? Look at all the relics, what they give you, what their downside is (taking one relic can mean the downside of not gaining what the other relic could have offered you - aside from an obvious tooltip downside). Just try to weigh the options and pick what seems to be the best gain out of them.


(.. actually, I wonder if the game already had Ascension (up to 20) a year ago when the video was made? If the tips are about non-ascension gameplay, then they're fine - pretty much anything can work there or be useful. It's when the difficulty goes up and the enemies hit harder that knowing intents gets more valuable.)

[kevinr]

I'm new at this kind of game, so this is very beneficial and answers a few questions that I had.

[Spot-t]

that deck joke messed me up man haha
- good vid, keep it up :)

[Da_re_mo]

Pyramid and snecko can be a MUCH better choice than energy regularly.

[Femaiden]

the runic dome seems to ne the most terrible pick. . .if you can't see enemy intents, how do you know when to block and when to go all out?

[SpiderHorse]

hey! velvet choker is good for for decks full of cards that cost 2 and 3 energy, with expensive decks you wont be using more than 4 cards a turn anyway.

[jjeoy]

What the hell, I didn't know you could skip card selection. It's barely the first tip and this is already a game changing video.

[Timbrwulf]

Even tho i knew all the tips, it's a very good video for beginner.
Liked&subscribed

[Tatherwood]

Yeah, I'm not taking a relic that won't let me see enemy actions. It'd force me to go to the wiki to search for the pattern of each boss and elite, and wouldn't help cause random mobs would destroy me.
Also, I'm hesitant to prioritize 1 energy over gold, cause the shop WILL have stuff that will help you... but well, that may be me. I am the noob here.
Tbh, I still struggle with keeping the deck thin, so...
I mean, my main problem is that I don't know whether to take a card or not in the first few enemies, when I still don't have any main card that makes me think "ok, let's go for this type of deck".

[RomanowRomanow]

look at my [deck[ my [deck] is amazing... give it a lick... damn you debuffed me!!!

[severngamingnetwork]

Haha, "Contrary to what the girls might tell you, it's better to have a small deck"....I PROPERLY lol'ed at that one!

[moogobIin]

don’t tell new players about archetypes oh god it sets your skill back so hard

guys just learn over time and take good advice about cards that seem like they’d be trash but are broken

[NS_MeatFarm]

Where in the North East you from? You sound local to Well close good video marra!

[lewisrodriguez]

This is a very well made video, I've been playing without any insight and I learned these things the hard way

[Thejudge-es]

ty just got the game two days ago and was only able to make it to the second lv boss.

[glensaccount]

step 1 you can skip cards to get a focused deck - im a fucking idiot, ive been taking something every time.

[herrabanani]

ok so im by no means a pro but i've got 200 hours and just want to give my comments on this video.
general: you are not playing on ascension. this means that the game is very easy for you and you really don't have to be very good to win.

1. this may be true to some extent, you should not be taking cards all the time but focusing too much on a thin deck is not really optimal. going for cards or relics in shops is often better then removing cards, especially early
3. generally agree.
4. agree.
5. mostly agree except snekko eye is basically an energy relic with an upside

[grimreputation]

a strategy I do is to get all 0 energy cards I can get so I can spam them at my enemies.