How to Play THE SILENT | Slay the Spire Guide and Tips

The Silent is a Deadly Huntress who eradicates her foes with daggers, poisons, and incredible swagger.

This class overview and guide is full of tips and viewpoints that can help both new and experienced players learn how to play or evaluate options even better in future playthroughs! This isn't your average card-by-card breakdown of this character, but a look at the class as a whole with emphasis on her most powerful synergies.

0:00 - Beginning
01:09 - Class Introduction
04:07 - Mitigation
05:57 - Damage
07:51 - AoE Response
09:27 - Hand Control
10:47 - Scaling
12:02 - Niche Cards
14:23 - Closing Thoughts

Thanks for checking out our guide all about the Silent, her synergies and weaknesses, and a kit breakdown across 5 general categories. We hope you've learned how to Slay with the Silent just a little bit better, and want to remind you to share an answer to one of the Merchant's questions or just say hi down in the comments!

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[InaBeta]

Hey everyone! Thanks for your continued support on these guides! In case you missed the Merchant's questions during the video, I'd love to hear your answers to:

1) Which Neow Blessing do you often take in the beginning of a run?
2) Which is your favorite "Niche Card" in the Silent's Kit?
3) Which Class Guide should we cover next?!

AND let me know if you feel I missed anything important about The Silent or have any additional questions. <3

[kingrocky]

Man dude, you need to come back and do guides for the other three characters, this video was soo well-made and informative, and it really helped me out as a beginner.

[mikey-dubs]

Hi I know this is 3 years from the video but thank you for doing a break down. I have not played in awhile and all I see are 2 hour long playthroughs of a run labelled "Guide to Silent". I don't want to see your run, I want to see a breakdown and guide on how to play the class.

You delivered! Thank you!

[wolfkillerq]

Immediately after watching this guide I launched up Slay the Spire for the first time in 9 months and beat the game with the silent on my first run. Overall very good and informative video!

[jaredclayton]

The two boons I take at the beginning are typically upgrade (bash)/(neutralize) or boss relic swap for ironclad/silent, and swap/max HP/gold for defect. Swap always on watcher. My favorite niche silent card is after image. Cover watcher next, it's so hard! Hope your awesome channel grows!

[Milkman]

Just got into this game a couple of days ago and The Silent is by far my favourite

[TheRanudo]

I picked up Slay the Spire recently and the Silent is my favorite character. This video was very informative and helped me see more synergies in my builds. Thanks man! I hope you come back and make more videos :D

[mihajlox]

I'm newly addicted to this game, so I was really happy to see your videos pop up. As others have said, your video editing and production quality is incredible. In terms of the content, the Silent is definitely my favorite character (though I appreciate each of their unique qualities, minus the fourth one, whom I'm not too keen about). My favorite silent niche card is A Thousand Cuts. Once upgraded and combined with the multiple shiv cards, it's incredible (especially against multiple enemies with lower HP, such as the dagger boss). Keep up the good work, and hope you have a good 2023!

[curlymelanie]

I just discovered this game and I love your content. I know you've moved on from your comments, but kuddos for making content that is still relevant 2 years later.

[daniel.]

These tips just got me my first win. Seriously loving this game, the poison effects of The Silent are incredibly fun. Catalyst+ my beloved

[sixfootturkey]

These guides are great! I won my first game with The Ironclad after I watched your "Ten things..." video. Oh and I always take the random boss relic from Neow. I like the gamble.

[NiteSaiya]

My most consistent win setup with Silent is a poison/shiv combo. Stacking poison with Envenom is easy when you have 8 Shivs to throw, and sometimes the Shivs are hitting for 12-16 damage each themselves.

[joenelson]

Good video thanks. I find I can either go far or fail fast with the silent. Early deck choice is key and if you don't get a bit of luck, it's easy to fail

[hattie]

I've just got this game and im dumbfounded by how bloody fun it is. Such a brilliant game. Silent is too my fave :)

[keithk]

Thank you for this, subscribed! Took me 15 tries on A8 The Silent before I finally broke down and searched for tips. Your video helped me realize how much I was doing wrong especially not going for card draws to cycle through my deck faster and Footwork for block help. Got some big help from Apotheosis and Bullet Time also. On to A9 now (after Defect and Watcher A8).

[Athacalus]

I'm more of an Ironclad guy what makes playing The Silent challenging. With your explainations I (at last) made it through next ascension. Thank you a lot!

[rajkanishu]

Just wanna say, in my very first run after watching this video (and the general tips one) and overall third one EVER I managed to win, thanks a lot! Altough having played a couple card games in my life I already knew some of these strategies, what really helped me was the confirmation that said strategies are still optimal in this game and knowing which cards are generally good (I made great use of Terror, Choke, Well-Laid Plan, Wraith Form and the two AoE Poison cards), also stumbling upon a random event that upgraded all cards in my deck and picking up a relic that automatically upgraded all Skills I picked up from there definitely had a big impact LOL

Thanks again for the guide! The Silent is my favorite but I will now watch the other guides and play some runs with the other classes

[JuanOrtiz-qmwy]

No joke, but I watched this video yesterday and after 4 attempts I killed the heart with the silent for the first time, I had some notions of this game but this guide really took me to the next level

[kegdoty]

That was so fucking sick syncing the music to the syllables to the title. Big thumbs up

[Jerome]

I love the silent as well, have about 30 hours in but can never last long enough against the heart to finish the game. That 60 damage attack right after a rough boss fight always kills me. Looking forward to your guide. Though I’m not one to use recommended builds as I like to find synergies myself. I’ve tried so many times that I went looking for help and found your video! Thank you for making this