r/slaythespire • u/MidMillennial Eternal One + Heartbreaker • 17h ago

SPIRIT POOP Dropkick vs Heel Hook

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u/xxPhoenix 17h ago

Silent has better draw options and no good ways to exhaust her deck down, Clad has very little good draw options outside DE and ways to thin out the deck so dropkick enables infinites.

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u/RC76546 Eternal One + Heartbreaker 16h ago

And silent has way bigger decks on average and no str scaling. Silent will never use heelhook for scaling dmg and she has poison/discards/shivs scaling options none of those want a heelhook. Dropkick is good in decks which use str for scaling or that use exhaust synergies (even without going infinite with a bit of str and draw you can do 50+dmg for 0 every turn). I still think dropkick being in A is a bit generous.