I was literally playing Slay the Spire when I got this notification. If ice cream doesn’t get SSS tier, I’m sending you a neko arc plushie with a pipe bomb inside.
@@Rasterliger I don't really think any one character is "better" than the others. If I HAD to call one character the best, I'd say The Silent, but she's also extremely boring.
I am watching this to learn relics, and it is stressful. I want to say thank you for saying things like "I only play defect, I have no idea what this relic is or what it does or what it's called " for golden eye. Really makes me laugh a lot and relieves a lot of stress. Thanks again :D
I love Slay the Spire. My fav character is the silent. When i first played her, i did a shiv build and died to the knight on stage 2. Today i got a build with 6 blade dance, 2 accuracy, and infinite blades. It was a lot of fun! I basically needed 0 relics because only pen nib in the last chest helped
Frozen Core went fucking hard in a run I had. I was playing this Fission/All For One deck with 3 Fission+ and the free block and orb generation for Fission was unstoppable. Also, I'd love to see your Hermit content. He's my favorite character by far. Grudge is a fucking broken attack imo and Roundhouse Kick is silly with Necronomicon but I always have a blast when I'm in the zone with a curse deck.
Albino: Frozen Eye S tier because knowing what you will draw in a card game is strong. Also Albino: Golden Eye F because I don't care for scrying, the mechanic that shows me what I will draw AND LET'S ME MANIPULATE THAT DRAW TO MY LIKING! Yeah, scrying is literally one of the most powerful things in this game if used correctly
I mean, I would argue that yes, there is a world of difference between Frozen Eye and Golden Eye. Frozen Eye is a passive item that fulfills it's purpose without any further commitment from the player. Golden Eye requires you have the ability to scry, which usually means cards that take up space in your deck and require energy investment to utilize most of the time. Golden Eye is also restricted to one character for the most part in Watcher, whereas Frozen Eye is universal. Honestly, I think the biggest issue with Golden Eye is that I'd rather be drawing into the cards I'm scrying anyway. The amount of manipulation of odds I get from fixing my draws with scry isn't worth it next to just using cards like sift or backflip to cycle through my deck and get my discarded cards back into play. I'd rather focus on a build that always had access to every card I need rather than be able to foresee when I get them.
@@AlluMan96 First off, it being limited to a single character is not a drawback because the game will never offer it to you on the other characters, so you can't get it as clutter, so that's a non argument. Secondly, the manipulation is not worth it? Yeah, sorry mate but you are BAD at math or your intuition for this. Scrying is the most powerful card draw manipulation in the game bar none. The only mechanic that maybe has it beat is the gambling chip and the card(forgot the name) that does basically the same thing as the gambling chip when you play it. Your description of frozen eye vs scrying is also terribly biased. Scry cards don't just scry, they do other stuff at the same time, the scrying power card being the exception but that one is honestly the weakest scrying card because of that. Pretty much all scrying cards are either very efficient attacks damage wise or very good in whatever else they do. Secondly, the frozen eye comparison is also unfair because frozen eye only shows you the cards, it doesn't let you manipulate them. That is what makes scrying so ridiculously powerful. You don't just get to draw something random. You don't just get to look at what you get and have to strategize around that. You can look at what you get and change it however you want. You can just skip curses/statuses that you would've drawn. You can skip ethereal cards that you wanna save for later. You can skip anything that doesn't fit that specific turn right now. With scrying, you pretty much can never get those turns where you just draw exactly the worst thing for the enemy action you could have drawn. With frozen eye, if a terrible draw is coming up, you just know that you're fucked. With scrying, you can CHANGE that draw and are no longer fucked. TLDR: You are heavily underestimating scrying mate. It is mathmatically the biggest statistic changer in the game. That is just factual, not an opinion.
@@ardynizunia9709 Fair enough. I won't deny that when scry works, it absolutely works. Foresight is a particular highlight for me. When I say the item is limited by the character-limitation, it's because it limits what you can accomplish using it by virtue of what you use it for. Much like a draw-engine, scrying is not a win condition on it's own, but merely a means to those ends. As such, they're only as good as the win cons they facilitate. Now, I don't have the play hours to actually make a constructive criticism of The Watcher and her deck, but from the experience I've had, her deck always felt very cumbersome to use. Even with the ability to manage your draws in the way scry lets you, Watcher's mechanics, be they mantra, stances or marks, feel incredibly swingey and unreliable next to something like Silent's poison or Defect's orbs.
This video made me decide to do a run where I pay more attention to the relics. I beat timelord on Ascention 18 with a spinning top 0 cost deck. I thought for sure my run was dead.
I agree on just about all of them, except the one that moves poison to another enemy when one dies because it works with the card that gives every enemy poison at the beginning of your turn the ability to stack a ton of poison of many enemies that have henchmen and other times there is several enemies.
Frozen orb is also really good. That's 3 frost orbs for free and could be a max of like 12 or 15 if I remember correctly. Having focus with this such as bias cog or defrag and the grasper relic which grants you orb slots per two turns or the runic capacitor or just have capacitor is amazing for early defect which finds it hard to find block
Flame isn't that bad tbh. Flame whirlwind, immolate, etc can save so much hp by ending hallway fights early. Bonus if combined with tea set, chem x or akabeko.
1:28:05 My favourite relic is the slavers collar because it allows you to be more agro on elites in the second stage and i just got my heart broken Lmao
The dude in chat that said Tori-Tungsten order matters is a liar. Tori ALWAYS activates first. Which means if the enemy does 6 damage, Tori activates to check if its 5 or less, its 6 so Tori does nothing. Then Tungsten activates, reduces that to 5, but Tori already checked once, so it won't check again, so you take 5 damage. Tori ALWAYS has the priority in this exact way, no variation. PS: Yes I am aware that later on someone else in chat brings that up and Albino reads it, but I will still leave this comment here because the guy kept defending his headcanon in chat, still claiming it to be true. So In case anyone that read chat was confused now, just know the dude in chat was making that up.
Blue candle + necromicon curse can be really good on iron clad if you have rapture its a strength generator and if you have the card that makes you draw when you exhaust cards you can sacrifice 1 health for 1 draw and if you also have tungsten rod its infinite draw
me: its 4am i pause before intro plays to go get water come back press start i drink water intro starts "YoU DriNkInG wAtEh" me: bit of a laugh, danm you got me
That's some insane bad luck to not often get some better than strikes out of astrolabe, damn. I've rarely been disappointed from it since not much is worst than strikes imo.
black blood makes you such a total fuckin monster in hallways is the big upside to it honestly. like ironclad can reasonably selfharm for 12 every floor and have it be useful but if youre only hurting yourself like 4-5 a turn you can now do that and get a full burning of regen. makes you basically immortal if your deck isnt dogshit
@@SerialBull sustain is not the same as win more, sustain gives you more freedom and time to work on your deck without risking getting fucked as hard by stuff like stabby book or cultist duo with the hex bitch that deal crazy damage and tank your run if you don;'t have your defense core online yet
@@thexenocide6013 that’s true but most other boss relics give you a better power spike and deck direction than black blood which just lets you die slower. An energy relic letting you block for 6 breaks even with black blood. It is pretty good tho if you can offering multiple times per fight
@@SerialBull thats fair, i do usually take energy relics over bb if it isnt plasm or coffee dripper. i think my opinions on black blood are probably lower than they were when i wrote this comment but id rather have black blood than like, mark of pain or pyramid still. but you're fair
Getting shovel early game especially on a character like iron clad is a free win. I have gotten to the point where I've had like 25+ relics with shovel and black star and the fact that you can always get a max of 3 relics each act of you are good at the game then it's broken
You did the flower relic dirty. Its a rare relic so you can simply find it and its op on ironclad. Your default healing increases to 9. If you have the upgraded version it increases it to 18. With that you will never need to rest so you can just upgrade your cards
Okay man now I should ask where are the apologies for dead specimen relic because that thing basically helped you go through the run on yesterday stream.
Surprised you hate astrolabe as a defect main. The defect basically never wants to play a strike after act 1, so literally any other card upgraded is significantly better
Bird faced urn is kinda stupid with a deck with a lot of powers, something that defect can do and actually succeed with since you can do shit like echo form another echo form.
I was literally playing Slay the Spire when I got this notification. If ice cream doesn’t get SSS tier, I’m sending you a neko arc plushie with a pipe bomb inside.
Me
Don't mess with Watcher mains!
We are like 5 and we will instantly die out of our own rage
Incoming 64 × 2*
"Face my wrath!"
@@alexmendez7460 😨😨😨
"Whenever you get this, you are a very happy man.. Or a woman.. or, or a defect" thank you albino
Is defect better than ironclad
I’ve only done 1 run
@@Rasterliger I don't really think any one character is "better" than the others. If I HAD to call one character the best, I'd say The Silent, but she's also extremely boring.
Vampire behavior
@@minimalgrammar1276watcher is op as hell what
Emotion chip S tier
"I have never been touched by my parents"
Bold of Albino to start a video with him trauma dumping his childhood experiences
didnt expect a sequel to the isaac tier list
32:58 "You're a very happy man, or woman... or defect"
damn can't wait to take this out of context
Lmao
L take on Astrolabe. Astrolabe literally saved me and my family from a burning building. Can’t believe you’d spread such vile hatred
Frost Prime × Albino stream when?
Can confirm, I was the building.
I am watching this to learn relics, and it is stressful. I want to say thank you for saying things like "I only play defect, I have no idea what this relic is or what it does or what it's called " for golden eye. Really makes me laugh a lot and relieves a lot of stress. Thanks again :D
Love these tier list videos from Albino even though I never played these games but maybe they'll help one day.
As an ironchad main i will have to disagree strongly with this tier list then again i don't read so i don't know how the hell i am typing this.
I love Slay the Spire. My fav character is the silent. When i first played her, i did a shiv build and died to the knight on stage 2. Today i got a build with 6 blade dance, 2 accuracy, and infinite blades. It was a lot of fun! I basically needed 0 relics because only pen nib in the last chest helped
I know I'm late but
6 blade dances is too many
Thumbnail looks just as scuffed as I saw when it was made on stream today lmao
fun fact, the thumbnail was made live, with the help of a bunch of schizo chatters on twitch (including me sorry lol)
Maybe i should start watching the streams lol
do you even know what schizophrenia is? Doubt it, you sound too dumb for that.
Frozen Core went fucking hard in a run I had. I was playing this Fission/All For One deck with 3 Fission+ and the free block and orb generation for Fission was unstoppable. Also, I'd love to see your Hermit content. He's my favorite character by far. Grudge is a fucking broken attack imo and Roundhouse Kick is silly with Necronomicon but I always have a blast when I'm in the zone with a curse deck.
hermit is the best character from downfall (aside from sneco)
Albino: Frozen Eye S tier because knowing what you will draw in a card game is strong.
Also Albino: Golden Eye F because I don't care for scrying, the mechanic that shows me what I will draw AND LET'S ME MANIPULATE THAT DRAW TO MY LIKING!
Yeah, scrying is literally one of the most powerful things in this game if used correctly
Average Watcher fan
@@laureloneiros1500
Watcher fan or not, denying that scry is a very powerful mechanic just means you fail to understand basic statistics.
I mean, I would argue that yes, there is a world of difference between Frozen Eye and Golden Eye. Frozen Eye is a passive item that fulfills it's purpose without any further commitment from the player. Golden Eye requires you have the ability to scry, which usually means cards that take up space in your deck and require energy investment to utilize most of the time. Golden Eye is also restricted to one character for the most part in Watcher, whereas Frozen Eye is universal. Honestly, I think the biggest issue with Golden Eye is that I'd rather be drawing into the cards I'm scrying anyway. The amount of manipulation of odds I get from fixing my draws with scry isn't worth it next to just using cards like sift or backflip to cycle through my deck and get my discarded cards back into play. I'd rather focus on a build that always had access to every card I need rather than be able to foresee when I get them.
@@AlluMan96
First off, it being limited to a single character is not a drawback because the game will never offer it to you on the other characters, so you can't get it as clutter, so that's a non argument.
Secondly, the manipulation is not worth it? Yeah, sorry mate but you are BAD at math or your intuition for this.
Scrying is the most powerful card draw manipulation in the game bar none.
The only mechanic that maybe has it beat is the gambling chip and the card(forgot the name) that does basically the same thing as the gambling chip when you play it.
Your description of frozen eye vs scrying is also terribly biased.
Scry cards don't just scry, they do other stuff at the same time, the scrying power card being the exception but that one is honestly the weakest scrying card because of that.
Pretty much all scrying cards are either very efficient attacks damage wise or very good in whatever else they do.
Secondly, the frozen eye comparison is also unfair because frozen eye only shows you the cards, it doesn't let you manipulate them. That is what makes scrying so ridiculously powerful.
You don't just get to draw something random. You don't just get to look at what you get and have to strategize around that.
You can look at what you get and change it however you want. You can just skip curses/statuses that you would've drawn.
You can skip ethereal cards that you wanna save for later.
You can skip anything that doesn't fit that specific turn right now.
With scrying, you pretty much can never get those turns where you just draw exactly the worst thing for the enemy action you could have drawn.
With frozen eye, if a terrible draw is coming up, you just know that you're fucked.
With scrying, you can CHANGE that draw and are no longer fucked.
TLDR: You are heavily underestimating scrying mate. It is mathmatically the biggest statistic changer in the game. That is just factual, not an opinion.
@@ardynizunia9709
Fair enough. I won't deny that when scry works, it absolutely works. Foresight is a particular highlight for me. When I say the item is limited by the character-limitation, it's because it limits what you can accomplish using it by virtue of what you use it for. Much like a draw-engine, scrying is not a win condition on it's own, but merely a means to those ends. As such, they're only as good as the win cons they facilitate. Now, I don't have the play hours to actually make a constructive criticism of The Watcher and her deck, but from the experience I've had, her deck always felt very cumbersome to use. Even with the ability to manage your draws in the way scry lets you, Watcher's mechanics, be they mantra, stances or marks, feel incredibly swingey and unreliable next to something like Silent's poison or Defect's orbs.
This video made me decide to do a run where I pay more attention to the relics.
I beat timelord on Ascention 18 with a spinning top 0 cost deck. I thought for sure my run was dead.
Chem X being B tier is a crime, makes X cards actually useful when you have no energy
I agree on just about all of them, except the one that moves poison to another enemy when one dies because it works with the card that gives every enemy poison at the beginning of your turn the ability to stack a ton of poison of many enemies that have henchmen and other times there is several enemies.
>Likes a thin deck
>Likes Membership Card and Courier
>"Nah Smiling Mask doesn't do anything here and now, B-tier"
That's an easy high-A/low-S relic.
I appreciate both the long cool video and the asmr than I'm gonna put on to sleep
Ty bino
love putting this on in the background while working on stuff, there's something about his voice lmao
unfortunately he lied about saying what every relic does so most of the video I just had no context for the discussion
Frozen orb is also really good. That's 3 frost orbs for free and could be a max of like 12 or 15 if I remember correctly. Having focus with this such as bias cog or defrag and the grasper relic which grants you orb slots per two turns or the runic capacitor or just have capacitor is amazing for early defect which finds it hard to find block
Flame isn't that bad tbh. Flame whirlwind, immolate, etc can save so much hp by ending hallway fights early. Bonus if combined with tea set, chem x or akabeko.
1:28:05 My favourite relic is the slavers collar because it allows you to be more agro on elites in the second stage and i just got my heart broken Lmao
The dude in chat that said Tori-Tungsten order matters is a liar.
Tori ALWAYS activates first. Which means if the enemy does 6 damage, Tori activates to check if its 5 or less, its 6 so Tori does nothing.
Then Tungsten activates, reduces that to 5, but Tori already checked once, so it won't check again, so you take 5 damage.
Tori ALWAYS has the priority in this exact way, no variation.
PS: Yes I am aware that later on someone else in chat brings that up and Albino reads it, but I will still leave this comment here because the guy kept defending his headcanon in chat, still claiming it to be true. So In case anyone that read chat was confused now, just know the dude in chat was making that up.
As someone who just started playing slay the spire i found this extremely helpful, now i just have to get good at playing the game itself
Watcher has a lot of token cards with "permanent" and "exhaust", including her very own starting relic. She has great sinergy with the dead branch too
Blue candle + necromicon curse can be really good on iron clad if you have rapture its a strength generator and if you have the card that makes you draw when you exhaust cards you can sacrifice 1 health for 1 draw and if you also have tungsten rod its infinite draw
I don’t think that’s a card, I think you’re thinking of Dead Branch, the relic, that does draw a card for every card you exhaust
Um im 100% sure dark embrace is a card????@@leadman7600
@@leadman7600dark embrace be like:
@@leadman7600Also that's not how dead branch works
It adds a random card to your draw pile if you exhaust a card
This video is shorter than the amount of time he spent on the thumbnail :V
me: its 4am i pause before intro plays to go get water come back press start i drink water intro starts "YoU DriNkInG wAtEh"
me: bit of a laugh, danm you got me
I love how albino doesnt use save & quit strats at all in slay the spire
did I just listen to a near 2 hour video about tier-listing items in a game I'll probably never play? yep. still worth it tho
Colourless card tierlist next.
Hand of Greed S tier. Hard carry card.
The amount of free energy in this video could save the world!
Every video I watch from you: I get better at the game immediately after.
That's some insane bad luck to not often get some better than strikes out of astrolabe, damn. I've rarely been disappointed from it since not much is worst than strikes imo.
Dead Branch is incredibly hilarious with Silent too if you have a dagger build
"you are very happy man, or a woman, or a defect"
Albino
more disturbed than Dahmer
Intangible can indeed protect against the Blasphemy death as Blasphemy is coded as a large hit of damage lol
black blood makes you such a total fuckin monster in hallways is the big upside to it honestly. like ironclad can reasonably selfharm for 12 every floor and have it be useful but if youre only hurting yourself like 4-5 a turn you can now do that and get a full burning of regen. makes you basically immortal if your deck isnt dogshit
Win more = not that good
@@SerialBull sustain is not the same as win more, sustain gives you more freedom and time to work on your deck without risking getting fucked as hard by stuff like stabby book or cultist duo with the hex bitch that deal crazy damage and tank your run if you don;'t have your defense core online yet
@@thexenocide6013 that’s true but most other boss relics give you a better power spike and deck direction than black blood which just lets you die slower. An energy relic letting you block for 6 breaks even with black blood. It is pretty good tho if you can offering multiple times per fight
@@SerialBull thats fair, i do usually take energy relics over bb if it isnt plasm or coffee dripper. i think my opinions on black blood are probably lower than they were when i wrote this comment but id rather have black blood than like, mark of pain or pyramid still. but you're fair
@@thexenocide6013 over pyramid is crazy
I like the sound he uses to censor it, it's better than that fucking beep.
Take a shot each time Albino says “for free”
You know that this guy is good by the fact that I enjoyed the whole video while not even knowing wtf spire is
Ngl I think albino has emotion chip equipped by default
Someone needs to tell albino what the word free actually means
No. Let him cook
Getting shovel early game especially on a character like iron clad is a free win.
I have gotten to the point where I've had like 25+ relics with shovel and black star and the fact that you can always get a max of 3 relics each act of you are good at the game then it's broken
Me: watching this video having never played or understanding spire.
Still good content
ayeee new slay the spire vid :D
damn albino in that sweater makes me feel things
This little trinket lets you murder and devour God
for free (:
You did the flower relic dirty. Its a rare relic so you can simply find it and its op on ironclad. Your default healing increases to 9. If you have the upgraded version it increases it to 18. With that you will never need to rest so you can just upgrade your cards
Only getting +3 hp per fight is only slightly better than a blood vial
I like this version of PewDiePie, it's more sausy.
Data disc - "When you get it you're a very happy man... or woman or defect"
Bless the editors
I really thought projared made a random slay the spire tierlist for a second
Not me watching this even if I haven't played spire in like two years and never got past ascension 1
If you were here during the making of the thumbnail, Gigachad
1:02:21 meal ticket drops in chests
Mark of pain is my favorite relic… WHEN I CAN FREAKING GET FIRE BREATHING!!!📢🫨
Will you ever make noita content again?
Remember when bino was talking about how lame slay the spire seemed when he first started playing it?
Yeah, I do :)
Oh also "when would you want to add a curse?"
my brother in christ you have literally played hermit, curse decks are a thing for him and ironclad
To be fair, the art style sucks nuts, he's still right about that. It looks like someone's first attempt at a graphic novel kinda art.
@@Winasaurus the art style is completely fine tbh
Gambling chip + necko eye: rigged gambling
It is 12 i need to wake up at 5.
Albino uplodes a almonst 2 houer long vid and now im fucked cuz of bad self restreint
blue candle lets you play clash 🗣🔥
fellow block relic enjoyer pog
Cool thumbnail Maggot
Little did we know, they didn't hug him either
I remember the one time I took runic pyramid I then later got pain as a cursed and then killed myself when I had a fantastic run
Blood vial is an A relic disguised as a C relic, because you can trade it to the vampires for free bites
Is that true? As in you don’t lose the max health?
@@tclfan0180 yep, gives you the bites for no hp. Super useful.
missing stone calendar lol. The game has a lot of relics
Day 1 of asking you to collab with FrostPrime_. Hopefully in a 1v1 in Slay the Spire.
Okay man now I should ask where are the apologies for dead specimen relic because that thing basically helped you go through the run on yesterday stream.
hi bino, thoughts on hades 2? hope your doing well
Why is Stone Calendar missing from the relics... what would you rate it?
Hes turning into otz slowly
I feel bad for poor William
bird faced urn being B tier and ornithopter being S tier is a crime
Surprised you hate astrolabe as a defect main. The defect basically never wants to play a strike after act 1, so literally any other card upgraded is significantly better
He absolutely didn't play watcher
Bird faced urn is kinda stupid with a deck with a lot of powers, something that defect can do and actually succeed with since you can do shit like echo form another echo form.
1:14:15 funny miss coordinats in sony vegas 13 moment
Clicked because of the awesome thumbnail #thechinisreal
Ludwig doppelganger
Damn, didn't go with the rainbow border
Slay the Spire: The Movie
If content prisma isnt SSSSS tier I swear
If you have more A then F tier items you know that you are a regular exploiter, lol.
I wonder if there will be more view on this video because of the thumbnail
the only choice I'm really really confused about is black blood, how can it be worse to heal more hp for free
because you're giving up other boss relics for it
Why does Albino look like a zoomer Bond villain?
Isn't nuclear battery just lantern with more upside? How is it lower on the tier?
nuclear battery is a boss relic whereas lantern is a common relic
Astrolabe is def a newb trap.
Good. Now rank every card
slayyyyyy
Stone calendar when?
I always take sozu beacuse i have never once remebered i have potions
Where does that for free clip come from?
I cant see this video on pc or when im not logged in wtf youtube